[Fox] An explosive new court filing from Michael Flynn’s legal team alleges that FBI agents manipulated official records of the former national security adviser’s 2017 interview that led to him being charged with lying to investigators. It's Flynn's lawyers latest attempt to get the case thrown out.
Sidney Powell, Flynn’s attorney, filed a 37-page motion on Thursday, outlining several big allegations, once again requesting the government produce all evidence as it relates to Flynn ‐ urging the court to "dismiss the entire prosecution for outrageous government misconduct" and hold the prosecutors in contempt.
The entire case stemmed from that FBI interview where Flynn was asked about his conversations with former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Flynn ultimately pleaded guilty to making false statements regarding those conversations during his interview, as part of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
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One of these IC bigs will "suicide." The bullet entry geometry will be physically impossible. The press will clutch pearls and screech "look what Trump made this poor man do!"
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There is so much criminal crap that went on with this. Everyone needs locked up and preferably sent to the gallows for the abuse of the public trust.
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Flynn's attorney is doing a Colonoscopy of the DS/Obama regime traitors - without anesthetic. He'll have no charges and should be reimbursed. Unfortunately, it's with OUR tax $
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I think Flynn's atty is a she. A real she.
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A She-Wolf, of the Alpha variety.
Finally: a ferocious and ferociously competent lawyer on the side of right. Or what used to be known as Truth Justice and the (non-Shitshow) American Way.
[American Thinker] Phonics is winning, finally, at long last, after 85 stupid years, after 50 million functional illiterates, after one of the most stubborn subversive schemes against common sense ever to brutalize a country. Finally, the one correct way to teach reading is again embraced as the one correct way to teach reading.
Go ahead, shout "OMG." The fix has been in for so many dumbed down decades that many people may have given up hope. You may think this is now crazy optimism on my part. But I will show you some signs that things have suddenly and surely changed.
First, conservatives must note that the New York Times is finally on the right side of a major debate. It was on the wrong side for a long, long time. I don't know what finally woke those people up. Toward the end of 2018, a seminal article appeared: "Why Are We Still Teaching Reading the Wrong Way?" by Emily Hanford.
The subtitle tells it all: "Teacher preparation programs continue to ignore the sound science behind how people become readers."
Hanford concluded, "To become readers, kids need to learn how the words they know how to say connect to print on the page. They need explicit, systematic phonics instruction. There are hundreds of studies that back this up."
Well, you can imagine the shockwaves circling the globe. Thousands of so-called literacy experts have been sent back to school. Two things kept the hoax going all these years. 1) A mountain of dubious research that 2) an army of education professors flogged to control the debate. The professors will have to work much harder now.
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Educational malpractice, indeed.
Buddy of mine has twin girls in elementary school. Kids seemed unable to learn to read. There were suggestions they might be retarded. (laughable if you knew the kids)
Dad called bullshit on the whole mess, started teaching them old-skool phonics. A year later, the kids were reading at grade level.
tl;dr: The Whole Word Method for learning to read is BS. Phonics kicks its ass demonstrably and for multiple reasons.
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Every time I see a "If you can read this, thank a teacher" bumper sticker I want to gag. My uncle, who was a machinist (made nuke sub reactor parts for many years) but also could do pretty much anything taught me to read when I was 4-5 years old. With newspapers.
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Being a voracious reader, but not an "educator," I hold to the rather old-fashioned theory that the best way to teach children the beauty and power of the written word is to read aloud to them.
And that the words that should be read aloud with the old words crafted by the old poets and the other great writers of our culture: Poe, Tennyson, Kipling, Bobby Burns, Frost and Roethke. And perhaps a bit of Eliot or Shakespeare.
Because when humans hear music-in-words, they imbibe a sense of the order and beauty in language: logic and memory and desire, all mixed together in a kind of magic that appeals to the innate sense of grammatical, semantic, logical-emotional structure that all humans have from birth. And that makes poetry, and beautiful language generally, so memorable when it's spoken and heard.
But no, I haven't been trained in the ways of "whose word" or Common Core or Uncommonly Stupid.
[Babylon Bee] What's been in the news lately? We had the tumultuous midterm elections, the wild Mueller investigation and that whole shindig, and whatever Trump last said on camera. Can people even remember what our last conflict in the Middle East was? Yemen, I think. But that was months ago, so I think it's time for another war in the Middle East.
I know. People are always saying, "Shouldn't you finish the wars you already have first?" But there's no excitement in that. Everyone is only interested in these things when they first start up. We get to wring our hands about refugees and worry for a while about international affairs -- it makes us all feel real worldly. But soon those conflicts go to page 17 in the newspapers and all of our conflicts in the Middle East sit around like a bunch of half-finished craft projects.
So I say we get a new war. Get everyone interested again. Where should we have the war? That's hard to say. But that's the great thing about the Middle East. There's a reason to have a war with just about everyone there. Right now, people are really starting to sour on our relationship with Saudi Arabia. That one seems a bit too ambitious right now -- though Trump would have to tweet something pretty crazy to bump that one out of the news. I think a better idea would be Iran; everyone is into ’80s retro stuff right now, so a conflict with Iran should be pretty popular.
So who's in? New war in the Middle East? Unless you're in the military, you don't actually have to do anything. Just give us the thumbs up and watch the fun on the news until you get bored of it or there's a new Marvel movie.
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Besides the neocons and the newly minted war dems, i'd imagine lots of people in the ME are getting worried we might stop spending wasting money and lives there.
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[Right Scoop] DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz has just informed Congress that the redaction process for his report on 2016 FISA abuses is "nearing completion":
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BREAKING: DOJ IG Horowitz sends letter to Congressional leaders. Says report is going through declassification ("nearing completion"), is lengthy, and he anticipates few redactions. Doesn't foresee "a need to prepare and issue separate classified and public versions."
It’s been going through the redaction process for well over a month now so I’m guessing we could see this report before Thanksgiving. That’d be fantastic.
Here’s the full letter, which is short, if you’d like to read it:
[Hot Air] If the title of this article doesn’t make any sense to you, you probably never watched Saturday Night Live in the seventies. When Chevy Chase used to be the "anchor" for their Weekend Update segment, he would frequently invoke the breaking news that Spanish dictator Generalissimo Francisco Franco was "still dead." Today, Spain is scheduled to confirm this news when the brutal dictator’s remains are removed from the mausoleum at the Valley of the Fallen in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain. Descendants of Franco will transfer the coffin to a private cemetery. (Associated Press)
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Why you want to be cremated. No way assholes can desecrate your bones later for the SJW cause o the moment or, if it goes all the way to Hell, muzzizm needs.
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Brings back fond memories of when SNL was funny. I'm unable watch the current version.
[Politico] Governors from several northeastern and mid-Atlantic states may have found a way to reduce pollution from cars and trucks and buck the Trump administration, which is trying to weaken auto emissions standards and gut efforts to curb climate change.
Under a regional cap-and-trade plan that a dozen states still are developing, drivers would pay more at the pump through higher prices for gas and diesel. The revenue would be invested in mass transit, electric-vehicle charging and other transportation infrastructure. Republican and Democratic governors and state lawmakers will have to decide whether to back the plan to address the largest source of carbon emissions ‐ and pass on the costs to consumers in what opponents of the proposal are already calling a gas tax.
The coalition of a dozen states and the District of Columbia is hammering out a draft agreement to cap carbon emissions from gasoline and diesel, charging for the emissions and gradually lowering the limit over roughly a decade. The program is modeled on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which has reduced emissions in the power sector for several of the states mulling the similar program for vehicles.
The states engaged in the plan, called the Transportation and Climate Initiative, are Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, New York, Maine and New Hampshire. Eight are led by Democratic governors; four have Republicans.
As hopes for federal action on climate change remain dim, state officials see the regional approach as a way to have a significant impact in reducing emissions from the transportation sector.
"In the face of continued inaction and all out climate denial from the Trump Administration, regional, cooperative efforts ... are critically important to reduce the pollution that causes climate change and build a robust clean energy economy," said New York Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos in a statement, citing the regional transportation effort, RGGI and the U.S. Climate Alliance.
Not only have we increased our energy production, courtesy of fracking, to the point that we are the world’s pre-eminent energy power, we have, at the same time, reduced our pollution and our CO2 emissions (if you think that matters) more than any other country.
It's not about the environment. It's about power and raping the productive of their well earned income.
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Yes, TW, we are talking about people who think punching a hole in the side of a tank wagon to fill a bucket is a good idea.
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four have Republicans
The Mass. governor is Charlie Baker; with little doubt a Rino / GOPe. Dude's a huge squish; easily rolled by Dem. politicians & lefties (but I repeat myself).
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And while they're waiting for this massive plan to take effect the governors can start the ball rolling by bicycling to work. Rangers lead the way.
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[Naval History and Heritage Command] Battle off Samar: October 25, 1944
Despite its losses in the Sibuyan Sea, the Japanese Center Force steamed to counter the U.S. Allied forces during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. In the early morning of October 25, 1944, four Japanese battleships, eight cruisers, and eleven destroyers surprised the Allies. Leading the U.S. Navy Task Groups, or Taffys, were Rear Admiral Thomas L. Sprague (Taffy 1), Rear Admiral Felix B. Stump (Taffy 2), and Rear Admiral Clifton A.F. Sprague (Taffy 3). Despite the surprise and great show of power from the enemy, the U.S. Navy servicemen fought heroically to defend their carriers though USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73), USS Hoel (DD-533), USS Johnson (DD-557), and USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413) were sunk. For his actions commanding Johnston, Commander Ernest E. Evans was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Despite these losses, the enemy formation suffered fatal damage to three heavy cruisers Choaki, Chikuma, and Suzuya. The Japanese were so disrupted that is commander, Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita, decided to withdraw. During this engagement, Kamikaze suicide planes hit the CVEs and their escorts, sinking USS St. Lo (CVE-63) and damaging others, making their first appearance as a weapon against the U.S. Navy.
Image: 80-G-47038: Battle off Samar, October 25, 1944. Allied fleet is attacked by the Japanese off Leyte, Philippines. Black smoke rising from funnels of the CVEs, naval escorts lay smoke while being shelled. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
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This is great stuff. I was born shortly after WWII ended; but I am grateful to all the brave men who fought and died so that I could grow up not speaking German or Japanese.
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Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, Hornfischer.
Slightly off topic, anyone else apprehensive about the coming Midway movie?
First, don't remake a classic.
Second, whats up with the Call of Duty video game noises and briefing graphics and crap? When Wonder Woman does better period re-enactment than your period re-enactment, flags get thrown mate. I would bet a doughnut that sometime in the movie an overhead view from a then unobtainable altitude will zoom in to a ship's con tower.
I would like to see this battle be made into a movie, but nice and dry like The Great Raid *without the damn love story*. I hate how movie makers think that they have to add tons of machines in a scene and give them flying physics of a free smart phone game. People spends thousands to create ship replicas a la Ben Hur to sail around and shoot ball bearings at each other - hybrid that real world with computer enhancements, not some overpaid dweeb downloading skins from World of Warships and letting marketing try to convince you the new Clash of the Titans is superior to the original.
Washington (CNN)Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday accused the National Basketball Association of acting "like a wholly owned subsidiary of the authoritarian regime" in China, in a speech that also chided Beijing for economic and human rights abuses. Other 'wholly owned subsidiaries' include.....
The closely watched address was seen as a barometer of the US administration's approach to China as President Donald Trump works to complete a partial trade deal within the next few weeks.
Over the summer, Trump ordered the speech delayed around the same time he told Chinese President Xi Jinping in a phone call he would remain quiet on Hong Kong protests as trade talks progressed.
The speech Pence delivered Thursday sought to balance conciliation on trade with a critique of China's human rights crackdowns, including in Hong Kong. His accusation against the NBA, along with the sneaker manufacturer Nike, of ranking business interests over American values stood in contrast to Trump's own willingness to prioritize trade talks over condemning Beijing's actions in Hong Kong.
NAHARAYIM PARK, Israel (AP) ‐ The Naharayim park was established 25 years ago as a symbol of the landmark peace agreement between Israel and Jordan. Now, as the two countries mark a quarter century of official relations, the park and its "Island of Peace" are being shuttered.
It is a fitting reflection of the Israeli-Jordanian relationship ‐ one that began with great promise, but which has been plagued by mistrust, disappointment and missed opportunities. While the peace agreement remains intact, there is a sense on both sides that it should have delivered much bigger dividends.
"I am not certain that we gave it our full attention," said retired Supreme Court Justice Elyakim Rubinstein, who was Israel’s chief negotiator for the peace deal.
Speaking on Israeli public radio, Rubinstein said there were things Israel could do "to lend a better atmosphere" and suggested Israel show more "respect" for its eastern neighbor. He declined to elaborate.
It is a far cry from the heady times of the peace agreement, signed at an emotional ceremony on Oct. 26, 1994, attended by Israel’s then-prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, the late King Hussein and President Bill Clinton.
Following up on a historic interim peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians a year earlier, all three leaders delivered moving speeches promising warm relations and a better future.
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Jordan works with Israel on security issues, but in the end the Jordanians deeply resent Jewish independence and want as little to do with it as possible.
WASHINGTON (AP) ‐ Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is moving Democrats’ climate talk to where the rubber meets the road, proposing a $462 billion trade-in program to get millions of Americans out of climate-damaging gas vehicles and into electric or hybrid cars over the next decade.
Schumer’s rebate proposal late Thursday joins a mix of trillion- and multitrillion-dollar programs that Democratic presidential candidates have outlined to urgently cut oil, gas and coal emissions, as climate change weighs as an issue in the 2020 campaigns.
Schumer said the "proposal to bring clean cars to all of America" would be a key part of climate legislation by Senate Democrats. The injection of government-supported spending for electric cars "could position the U.S. to lead the world in clean auto manufacturing," he said.
The New York Democrat’s plan would give American car buyers thousands of dollars each to trade in gas-burning cars for U.S.-assembled electric, hybrid or hydrogen cell cars. Lower-income households, and buyers of cars with American-made parts, would get extra credits.
About $45 billion would go to boost availability of charging stations and other electric car infrastructure. And $17 billion would help automakers increase their production of electric cars, batteries and parts.
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As I understand it, China uses more coal that the rest of the world combined.
Where does Chuckles the clown think all the parts for all those cars are going to come from.....and what energy will be used...not to mention batteries.
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Senator Schumer has lived most of his life in New York City, where most people never own a private car. So while he represents the entirety of New York state, his natural constituency will be absolutely delighted to cause problems for those that have what they don’t.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and Nigeria have signed a deal for Moscow to supply 12 Mi-35 attack helicopters to Nigeria, a senior official at Russia’s federal military-technical cooperation service said on Wednesday, the RIA news agency reported.
The contract was announced as Russia welcomed dozens of African heads of state to the southern Russian city of Sochi amid a push by Moscow for clout on the continent.
[The Federalist] In 2016, Romanian real estate tycoon Gabriel "Puiu" Popoviciu, who was accused of orchestrating a corrupt land deal, hired Hunter Biden to "advise" him as he aimed to dodge federal prosecution. At the same time, Hunter’s father Joe Biden was claiming to be pushing Romania to clean up political corruption.
NBC News reported Hunter Biden may have simply been used as a prop while Popoviciu was evading prosecution. This is the third questionable relationship between a foreign government, the Obama administration, and the former vice president’s son.
First it was Hunter Biden sitting on the board of a Ukrainian oil company, which he was not qualified to sit on, making some $80,000 per month. Meanwhile, Joe Biden claimed to be fighting corruption in Ukraine by firing the prosecutor who was prosecuting the company on whose board Hunter Biden sat.
Hunter Biden’s potentially very lucrative investments in China have also been scrutinized recently. When given the opportunity to vindicate himself during an exclusive ABC interview this month, Hunter Biden vowed to divest himself from his monetary investments in China and claimed he would not serve on the board of any other foreign entity, like he did in Ukraine, because that appears corrupt.
"Well, this is what becomes a distraction. Because I have to sit here and answer these questions. And so that’s why I’ve committed that I won’t serve on any boards or I won’t work directly for any foreign entities when my dad becomes president," Hunter Biden said. So the lil cokehead punk isn't divesting anything, because Plugs isn't EVER going to be POTUS
Now, the younger Biden has been accused of working and profiting in a third country ‐ Romania ‐ where his father was working to end corruption.
While it is likely Joe Biden will call his poor judgement and alleged corruption a hoax created by the Trump administration, his fellow 2020 candidates frontrunners, namely Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, may try to criticize him as they push what they call anti-corruption plans.
After the allegations against the Biden family garnered national attention, Joe Biden’s polling numbers slipped from approximately 37 percent to his current stature at 27.2 percent. Warren is trailing behind Biden by approximately 5 points, coming in at 21.8 percent.
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#1 Warren is trailing behind Biden by approximately 5 points, coming in at 21.8 percent.
Funny. In a sign of what a complete, well, Shitshow the Dem
POTUS race is, Warren's poll numbers are now tanking and Biden's numbers have rebounded.
Either Democratic voters are so deranged they think anyone whom Trump attacks must necessarily be innocent of the charges, or they're desperate because Warren and Sanders are such idiots.
[American Thinker] Everyone who isn't a Democrat is talking about the coup attempts against Trump; first the fake Russian collusion story and now the fake "whistleblower" story. But the real coup is proceeding apace and has already stolen the freedom guaranteed by the Constitution to we the people.
Starting in the 1930s, politicians began stealthily transferring power from themselves, the elected representatives of we the people, to unelected bureaucrats and judges.
We the people can't get rid of bureaucrats or judges via elections, so they can operate without our consent with impunity. To get rid of them requires a significant majority of honest politicians in Congress, which hasn't been manifest for quite some time.
The politicians say the depredations of the administrators and the dishonest judges are not their, the politicians', fault, so they mislead voters into re-electing the very politicians who refuse to punish administrators and judges who violate their oath of office.
Much has been written about the rise of the administrative state, but the simple reality is that most of the rules and edicts from Washington that we the people have to follow aren't voted on or approved by the people we elect. Rather, they're ushered in by nameless and faceless government employees.
Year after year, politicians have passed laws that gave administrators essentially carte blanche to rule over we the people as they will. For example, the infamous HHS mandate that Obama's administrative state used force Catholic nuns to cooperate in providing abortions was never voted on by Congress. Rather, Congress gave the administrative state the power to work out all the details.
The bureaucrats who wield this power over we the people are paid more than the average American, and they have nearly 100% job security. Look at Lois Lerner. She admitted that people under her authority used the IRS to attack Obama's political opponents. Yet when she finally resigned, she got a great pension and a bonus!
They are a ruling class detached from we the people living in one big enclave, the D.C. bubble, and mingling mostly with their own kind. They neither know or care about what life is like for real Americans who aren't paid exorbitant salaries and who don't enjoy perpetual job security.
Yet they firmly believe that they have not only the wisdom, but the right to rule over us. No matter how bad the consequences of their actions are, they go unpunished, so there is absolutely no reason for them to actually care about what we the people want.
The power they have has been given to them by politicians so the politicians can't be blamed for what is done to we the people.
As far as anyone can tell, this administrative state, also known as the swamp, isn't constrained by anything since even the Supreme Court has ruled that courts should defer to the rulings of the administrators because those administrators supposedly have arcane wisdom denied to judges.
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Back at the dawn of civilization when I was getting out of school, the deal was that if you wanted a lot of money and were willing to take risks, you went to NYC or one of the other money centers; but if you were risk averse and were willing to take less money, but wanted some power, you went to DC or one of the state capitals. Now it's one stop shopping: If you want lots of power and lots of money you go to DC.
Put a little differently, I get panhandled a lot because I've got "Sucker" tattooed on my forehead. Everybody's got a little story: disabled vet, sick child, etc. I never know whether the stories are true. But what I do know about the ragged guy asking me for money is that he was never a Senator or a member of the Senior Executive Service. A lifetime of public service just pays too well.
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I get panhandled a lot because I've got "Sucker" tattooed on my forehead.
You're not alone. Every time I realize I've been had, I take comfort in that at least I did what was written. Sometimes you know as you're being defrauded that the person is lying, but you're helpless before the compulsion to please the Man Upstairs.
'Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.' - GawD
[The Hill] Former NBA player Charles Barkley said that Vice President Mike Pence "needs to shut the hell up" in response to Pence’s comments blasting the NBA for being accommodating to China.
"First of all, Vice President Pence needs to shut the hell up," Barkley said during an NBA pregame on TNT. "All American companies are doing business in China."
The former NBA player added that he thought it was "unfair" that politicians were attempting "to make the NBA and our players look bad" after President Trump has started a trade war against China. "We can do it ourselves. We don't need help"
"But I don’t understand why these holier than thou politicians ‐ if they’re so worried about China, then why don’t they stop all transactions with China?" Barkley said.
Barkley continued that he thought the judgements against Commissioner Adam Silver and LeBron James were "unfair," and that Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey is free to say what he wants but has to realize "there are consequences" to his comments.
The NBA became involved in controversy when Morey tweeted his support of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, which the association later called "regrettable." The tweet sparked backlash in China, causing companies to cut ties with the Houston Rockets.
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Charles and his third grade education is the lefts new expert? Next thing we know the press secretary for Crips will be quoted on Trumps performance...
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I think it is a good time for the IRS to audit Mr. Barkley's finances.
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The Preeners playing in the NBA want attention when they are fighting for "Civil Rights" but only a certain kind. Subjugated citizens where more money can be made are ignored.
Don't Preen and you won't be held accountable for double standards.
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If anyone said Charles needs to shut up that would be rayciss
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Honestly, Barkley tells it like it is and has for years whether it's republican thinking or democrat thinking. He has a right too his opinion like the rest of us.
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Honestly, Barkley tells it like it is and has for years whether it's republican thinking or democrat thinking. He has a right too his opinion like the rest of us.
Agreed. He's an interesting individual who generally goes his own way. And most "reporting" is just cherry-picking hearsay. If I cared, I'd do a little digging to find out what he said in its entirety and in what context, but I ceased to care about the NBA when Michael retired.
[Breitbart] The Department of Justice’s sweeping review into the origins of its Trump-Russia probe has evolved into a criminal investigation, according to the New York Times.
The launch of a criminal probe allows U.S. Attorney John Durham, the prosecutor tapped by Attorney General William Barr to lead the review, to subpoena witnesses for testimony and documents. The move also authorizes Durham to impanel a grand jury and file charges.
"If true, this shows Bill Barr is doing EXACTLY his job: following the facts Those who damaged America and broke the law to spread this hoax are about to face accountability," Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) tweeted in response to the Times’ report.
The development comes after an NBC report revealed Barr recently expanded his agency’s review, noting that Durham has "found something significant and critics should be careful." As part of the inquiry, Durham has sought interviews with CIA analysts who assessed Russia’s activities during the 2016 presidential election, prompting some of them to hire lawyers, NBC News stated.
Durham has been tasked with determining whether the Justice Department, FBI and intelligence authorities improperly surveilled the 2016 Trump campaign as part of their investigation into now-debunked coordination with Russia during the last presidential election. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation found insufficient evidence of a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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But you don't understand. They were justified in cratering our entire system to stop Trump. It was OK what they did because it was in their own best interests. We deplorables don't deserve to be able to vote for a government that represents us.
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This is about finding a weak link. If someone decides to talk, the dam will burst.
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I woke up hearing this reported on the television. But of course we already have an article up — thank you, Besoeker, for being on top of this for us. Set as today’s headline.
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investigation intonow-debunkedcoordination with Russia during the last presidential election.
Wow. So The NY Times finally, against their will and buried deep inside a different article, admits that their big "narrative" for over two years was "debunked," nonsense, a hoax. A f---ing lie.
This indicates that the Times' sources know that they're in deep shit, are preparing to rat on Brennan et al. and have told Dean Baquet of the Times that the jig's up.
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Pelosi's gambit was to drag the impeachment thingy through most of the election cycle. The Trunk Senate leadership put her on notice that will not happen. Now, its time to play the same game on them. Let it drag, let it leak, let it play through the election cycle. It's your playbook.
[American Thinker] After Democrats' breakneck-speed impeachment of President Trump, conducted in secrecy in some dank Capitol basement with only selective leaks intended to shape public opinion, Republicans finally called the gig up and stormed the barricades.
Led by Rep. Matt Gaetz, they startled and surprised the Democrats with a very un-Republican storming of the secret hearings, busting their way in to be allowed in and calling for transparency, not just for themselves, but in the name of the voters.
Republicans knew nobody was going to get arrested if they just charged in because Congress is already a law unto itself. Impeachment is being conducted the sneaky way Democrats like, with no courts to appeal to, and that's emboldened them to make up rules as they go along, ignoring transparency, respect for the voters, and precedent. It's just a Schiff-show now, and with all that power, but just slightly more than half the representation, they've had it good.
Yet what they didn't calculate for is Republicans using the Democrats' own tactics against them this time. Democrats set the rules; now Republicans are using them. Storming the joint, after all, is so Code Pink, so leftist, yet these guys did it. So long as rules or fairness no longer matter anymore, why not blow into the joint without an invitation? What are they going to do ‐ start yelling about manners? As if manners had ever mattered to them in the past, given the monsters they've evolved into.
Gaetz and Co. recognized this, and that's why what he's done is so praiseworthy.
To what can we attribute this newfound gutsiness from the Republicans? Probably President Trump himself, actually. He's the ultimate disruptor. He's rude, he's boorish, he's bombastic, everything that makes the lefty establishment scream. But that's precisely why he was elected. As one well known pundit (name escapes me) has observed: if he were presidential, he wouldn't be president. In 2016, voters elected him to be the junkyard dog to dig out all the corruption of the utterly comfortable monopoly leftist establishment. More specifically, he fights. The fact that Trump is a fighter is why voters broke for him, even against a talented GOP field of competition in 2016. He sees the rigging, he calls it out, and he busts through.
h/t Instapundit
A Texas judge ruled on Thursday that Jeff Younger is entitled to a say in his seven-year-old son James’s gender-transition process.
Judge Kim Cooks awarded Younger joint conservatorship over his son with mother Anne Georgulas, according to Life Site News.
Georgulas had previously insisted on pursuing James’s gender transition, and was backed by counselors and therapists who testified on her behalf that he is transgender.
A jury had previously ruled Younger could not prevent Georgulas from allowing their son to change genders.
Younger and Georgulas separated several years ago, and Georgulas retained exclusive rights and duties over the couple’s two children, while Younger was given limited custody. Scared by the Governor's announced probe?
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Although prescription pain medication is commonly blamed for the "opioid epidemic," such drugs play a small and shrinking role in deaths involving this category of psychoactive substances. A recent study of opioid-related deaths in Massachusetts underlines this crucial point, finding that prescription analgesics were detected without heroin or fentanyl in less than 17 percent of the cases. Furthermore, decedents had prescriptions for the opioids that showed up in toxicology tests just 1.3 percent of the time.
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Opioid-related overdoses are commonly attributed to prescription opioids. We examined data on opioid-related overdose decedents in Massachusetts. For each decedent, we determined which opioid medications had been prescribed and dispensed and which opioids were detected in postmortem medical examiner toxicology specimens.
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Among opioid-related overdose decedents in Massachusetts during 2013-2015, we analyzed individually linked postmortem opioid toxicology reports and prescription drug monitoring program records to determine instances of overdose in which a decedent had a prescription active on the date of death for the opioid(s) detected in the toxicology report. We also calculated the proportion of overdoses for which prescribed opioid medications were not detected in decedents’ toxicology reports.
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Of 2916 decedents with complete toxicology reports, 1789 (61.4%) had heroin and 1322 (45.3%) had fentanyl detected in postmortem toxicology reports. Of the 491 (16.8%) decedents with ≥1 opioid prescription active on the date of death, prescribed opioids were commonly not detected in toxicology reports, specifically: buprenorphine (56 of 97; 57.7%), oxycodone (93 of 176; 52.8%), and methadone prescribed for opioid use disorder (36 of 112; 32.1%). Only 39 (1.3%) decedents had an active prescription for each opioid detected in toxicology reports on the date of death.
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Self protecting study. For example, I hurt my knee. The docs give me an opioid drug for the pain. I get hooked on them. The knee heals and I no longer have the script for opioids. So I go out and find them on the street. The pills are pricey and hard to find so I shift to heroin or fentanyl. Eventually I OD. This is bull.....
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But Herb says if the gummint doesn't stop you from od-ing it's all good.
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All this is helpful in directing resources where they can do the most good. But how do we stop the heroin and fentanyl overdoses? That's been a question for most of my lifetime, and I don't see any good answers. I wish someone could.
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Some of these OD's are like Gump's box of chocolate. Never can tell what's in the juice until it's too late.
[AnNahar] Two members of a Lebanese family suspected of trafficking Syrians on flights to Germany and the Netherlands were arrested in a series of raids in Germany on Thursday, authorities said.
Police said that 29 properties in four German states were raided as part of an investigation launched at the end of last year. Most were in Rhineland-Palatinate, in the southwest, and in North Rhine-Westphalia, its northern neighbor and Germany's most populous state.
The Syrians, who had paid "large sums of money," were flown largely from Beirut to Frankfurt, Duesseldorf, Munich and Amsterdam, using forged visas to get through passport checks in the Lebanese capital, prosecutor Peter Fritzen said. They applied for asylum on arrival.
Investigators are looking into 26 attempts at trafficking people, 10 of which were prevented when authorities intercepted the forged visas and people were turned back in Beirut.
The suspects arrested Thursday were two members of a Lebanese family that has lived for years in the German town of Bitburg. Authorities were trying to track down two other suspects, and were also investigating other alleged offenses including theft.
Germany’s Deutsche Welle reports there may be as many as 10,000 people working for the clans in North Rhine-Westphalia alone, and that the groups are involved in people trafficking, prostitution, and other organised crime. Speaking Thursday, Berlin Attorney General Sjors Kamstra said the wealth and power of the gangs made them difficult to prosecute because they could bribe or intimidate witnesses into silence.
That goes as far as intimidating the police themselves, with Arab clans accused of spreading sexual rumours about officers. As the clans control prostitution rackets in the city, witnesses claiming to have slept with officers are easily produced.
The raids came after Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an politicians expressed their disgust at the deaths of 39 in the back of a refrigerated truck that had come to the United Kingdom from mainland Europe on Wednesday. It remains likely that the route of the truck from Bulgaria to the UK would have taken it through Germany itself, and German police are assisting the British with their investigations.
German-Lebanese academic Ralph Ghadban has blamed the German government’s policy of encouraging multiculturalism for the formation and power of the crime clans in the country. In remarks reported by Breitbart London in March, Ghadban said: "dangerous areas, so-called no-go areas, in which Arab clans have the upper hand" were the result of multiculturalism which encouraged people from different backgrounds to live apart, not assimilate.
In 2016, it was even said that Berlin’s criminal underworld had been "lost to Arab clans" who recruited young, fit migrants colonists arriving during the Europe Migrant Crisis of that year to do dirty work for the gangs. By contrast, German media today reported police insisting their raids against the clans were now being felt and having an impact.
[HindustanTimes] The allegation, made by external affairs ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar during a weekly news briefing, came against the backdrop of heightened tensions between the two sides over the 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.... issue and reports of Pakistain’s involvement in organising anti-India protests in Western capitals.
India on Thursday accused Pakistain of setting up "Kashmir cells" in its missions around the world that posed the threat of radicalising people in other countries through "false propaganda".
The allegation, made by external affairs ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar during a weekly news briefing, came against the backdrop of heightened tensions between the two sides over the Kashmir issue and reports of Pakistain’s involvement in organising anti-India protests in Western capitals.
Kumar also dismissed as "drama" Pakistain’s decision to take diplomats to areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir, where the Indian Army said it had recently targeted terrorist camps. "In the past too, Pakistain has done similar naked propaganda. When they take diplomats on such visits, they try to project a different type of reality," he said in response to questions.
Kumar further said: "We are all aware the government of Pakistain has set up Kashmir cells across all their missions in the world. The main objective of these cells is to incite the local population...The objective also is to radicalise them through false propaganda."
He added, "We hope countries where these Kashmir cells have been opened, they do realise that it is very dangerous for such cells which are openly inciting violence. (They) should be closed and all countries should take appropriate action against such cells operating from their soil."
Referring to the Indian Army’s recent actions, Kumar said it was public knowledge that there were terrorist launch pads near the LoC in Pakistain and Pakistain-Indian Kashmire that are used to infiltrate turbans into India.
"If Pakistain is serious and wants to project a positive image to the world, they should take diplomats and show them how terrorist infrastructure is being destroyed...and how credible, irreversible and verifiable action is being taken against this infrastructure instead of this drama," he said.
Kumar reiterated India’s position that comments by the leadership of Malaysia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... on the Kashmir issue are "unacceptable" and "not factually accurate". He said Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s remarks on Tuesday defending his criticism of India’s handling of the Kashmir issue were "unacceptable and not in keeping with the facts".
Asked about reports that Indian importers had decided to stop buying palm oil from Malaysia, Kumar said a decision to "import any commodity is the prerogative of importing companies but at the same time they are not impervious to the state of affairs between any two countries".
It seems fair — time for them to devote attention to problems closer to home, not to mention restocking bullets and a large variety of long-needed spare parts.
[DW] The German parliament on Thursday voted to end the Bundeswehr's anti-"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.... " (IS) mission in Syria and Iraq after March 31, 2020.
The Christian Democrats (CDU) and Social Democrats (SPD) have been in a tussle over extending the mission's mandate, with the SPD demanding the German military end its role in the international coalition.
The SPD has opposed extending the military mission, arguing that former Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen had promised parliament to terminate the anti-IS mandate.
The mandate was set to expire at the end of October and would normally have been extended by a year.
Germany has four Tornado reconnaissance jets, an AWAC aircraft and an in-flight refueling tanker based in Jordan carrying out missions as part of a US-led international coalition.
Lawmakers also voted to extend the Bundeswehr's military training mission in Iraq for one year.
The decision to end Germany's participation the anti-IS mission comes as Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has suggested the creation of an international security zone in northeast Syria.
The United States has urged Germany to continue its participation in the anti-IS mission.
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[DW] The bill was fast-tracked amid concerns imprisoned IS fighters may escape during a Ottoman Turkish offensive against Syrian Kurdish forces.
Denmark's parliament approved legislation on Thursday that allows people with dual citizenship who fought for 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.... " (IS) group in Syria and Iraq to be stripped of their Danish nationality.
Lawmakers fast-tracked the bill amid concerns that IS fighters imprisoned by Syrian Kurdish forces could escape amid fighting with the Ottoman Turkish military and its proxy rebel force.
"There is a risk that the Kurdish-controlled IS camps in the border area will collapse, and that imported muscle with Danish citizenship will seek to return to Denmark," Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said last week. "These are people who have turned their backs on Denmark and fought with violence against our democracy and freedom. They pose a threat to our security."
The legislation allows the minister for immigration and integration to revoke the Danish citizenship of dual national IS fighters without a trial. Individuals stripped of their citizenship will have four weeks to appeal against the decision.
A majority of parties in parliament backed the bill after it was amended to include a "sunset clause," meaning it would expire in July 2021 unless parliament decided otherwise.
Syrian Kurds flee their homes, fearing Islamic krazed killers
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Around one-fifth of the 10,000 IS fighters imprisoned by Syrian Kurdish forces in northeast Syria are Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an.
Danish authorities estimate at least 158 people from Denmark traveled to Iraq or Syria to join IS since 2012. About 27 are believed to still be in the conflict zone and 12 imprisoned. It is unclear how many are dual nationals.
Other European states have said they intend to strip dual nationals of citizenship despite the United States pressuring them to repatriate their citizens who joined IS.
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Oh, I'm going to enjoy roasting them for Islamophobia. They so easily fling epithets at others.
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When you pledge yourselves to ISIS you voided any claim on citizenship to any other country. I know that concept is a bit too dense for many (particularly those in robes).
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Countries should just issue jihad passports and be done with it. Once you are out, you are O U T.
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Hold on there, Kemo Sabe:
A majority of parties in parliament backed the bill after it was amended to include a "sunset clause," meaning it would expire in July 2021 unless parliament decided otherwise.
So the jihadis just need to bide their time still they come back to Denmark and resume head-hacking. Nice.
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So the jihadis just need to bide their time still they come back to Denmark and resume head-hacking.
I read that as anyone they don’t strip of citizenship immediately probably will get to keep it, not that those stripped will get it back. So Al Nusra, et al members are safe.
[Jpost] The IDF, Shin Bet, Border Police and Israel Police in the West Bank arrested 13 Paleostinians suspected of involvement in terror activities, popular terror and violent disturbances against civilians and security forces on Wednesday night.
During searches, IDF soldiers found four illegal firearms and a Carlo sub-machine gun. The weapons were passed on to security forces.
[Jpost] The IDF demolished the house of the Abu Hamid family in the al-Am'ari Refugee Camp near the West Bank city of al-Bireh north of Jerusalem for a second time after demolishing the home last year, according to the Paleostinian Quds news agency.
The house was demolished last year after Islam Yusuf Abu Hamid killed St.-Sgt. Ronen Lubarsky, a commando in the elite counterterrorism Duvdevan unity, by dropping a marble slab on his head during an arrest operation.
The second demolition was done to "prevent the reconstruction of destroyed houses," according to Quds.
Abu Hamid's brother was killed by Duvdevan soldiers in 1994, according to Quds.
[Jpost] On October 3, a police employee stabbed five colleagues at the Prefecture of Police on the Île de la Cité in central Gay Paree, killing four coppers as well as seriously injuring a woman.
The attacker, 45-year-old Mickaël Harpon, an IT specialist who had done administrative work at the station since 2003, held top-secret security clearance that gave him access to all computers in the police directorate of intelligence, known as the DRPP.
The perpetrator converted to Islam a decade ago, stopped wearing Western clothes and stopped talking to women. Ties between Harpon and a hard-line Salafist imam were also confirmed. Colleagues had reported Harpon in 2015 for voicing support for the attack on the Charlie Hebdo
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A major tenet of Islam from what I gather is kill unbelievers wherever you find them. That's the military wing granted but the civilian wing just sit there and watch nodding their heads.
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Why let that Mohammedan bite 'em?
Peut-etre they thought to exploit him.
Might lambs who were tryin'
To rotate a lion,
Get burned? "Mmmm, an edible item!"
[Jpost] Decades of crippling US sanctions against 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... have made the rough terrain along the Iraq-Iran border an active smuggling scene. Now, as still more American restrictions are imposed on the Islamic Theocratic Republic, trafficking in illegal goods remains a brisk business.
The Media Line’s Middle East bureau chief, Mohammad al-Kassim, travelled from the city of Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan toward the village of Tawalla, near the border with Iran, and came back with this video report.
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[Jpost] NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... member The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... has sent hundreds of far-right holy warriors that it recruited under the banner of the Syrian National Army to fight in Syria. It has used them as both shock troops and canon fodder to fight mostly Kurdish forces along the border, but as a ceasefire began last week these units turned to looting attacking civilians and mutilating corpses, according to videos they posted online. The US says human rights
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I wrote out a rant. Then deleted it. What's the point ? Gawd is watching.
[IsraelTimes] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... and Kurdish-led SDF also fighting despite truce; festivities underscore risk of spiraling violence as multiple armies jostle for position in volatile border region.
Ottoman Turkish forces and their allies attacked Syrian government troops in northeastern Syria on Thursday, killing some of them, and they also clashed with Kurdish-led fighters, the state news agency in Damascus and a war monitoring group said.
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Fight back. That's what you do.
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[DAWN] Just days after Pakistain escaped being blacklisted by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the government has disclosed that as part of the global watchdog’s action plan, more than 700 under-investigation suspected terror financing cases are near adjudication.
Addressing a news conference on Wednesday, Minister for Economic Affairs Hammad Azhar, who was the chief negotiator on behalf of the country at the Gay Paree-based FATF last week, eulogised the success of his government in dealing with terror financing and money laundering issues. "We have initiated these terror financing cases in the last six months," he said, claiming that Islamabad’s efforts on that account were highly appreciated at the meeting. But the minister did not elaborate the number of cases nearing "conviction".
The FATF demand from Pakistain’s executive, according to Mr Azhar, is to investigate cases of terror financing and gather information. "Prosecution and conviction is the domain of the judiciary," he said, adding that he did not want to comment on it as the "judiciary is independent" in Pakistain. "The ball is now in the judiciary’s court," he said.
The minister, however, believed the government would improve its prosecution in the coming days.
He set June 2020 as an indicative target for compliance with all 27 actions plan to come out of the grey list. Pakistain will submit its report to the International Cooperation Review Group (ICRG) of the FATF in January 2020, which will include all actions being taken since September 2019.
The minister said that on average the countries placed on grey list took two and a half years to three years to come out of grey list.
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I don't know why the FATF bothers with this facade.
India should be shutting off their water supply from our rivers by Dec. We expect a lot of hot air from the UN over that. Watch them play the 'Paki children are thirsty during Christmas' gimmick then.
[APNEWS] Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren ...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless... ’s presidential campaign says its headquarters in Manchester, New Hampshire, was broken into, along with other offices in the same building.
Andrew Taverrite, Warren’s New Hampshire communications director, says in a statement that the break-in occurred Wednesday night and "we have no reason to believe this was targeted to the campaign or is anything further than a regular break-in."
A Manchester Police Department electronic log shows a burglary reported shortly after 9 a.m. Thursday. The campaign says it is "working with authorities."
Warren is campaigning in New Hampshire and has an afternoon town hall scheduled at Dartmouth in Hanover, about 75 miles northwest of Manchester.
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I'd love to know where her office is - anything within a mile of City Hall on Elm Street (Elm & Hanover St's, more precisely) is now more or less bum / junkie central and ripe for the B & E by druggies just looking to score. I saw all this shit coming back in the late 1980's, when I finally moved out of that fucking shithole city, and good f'n riddance - that was the best decision I ever made.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] England's historic University of Oxford has instituted a ban on clapping during "Student Council meetings and other official SU events,"citing the potential anxiety-triggering nature of the loud sound of applause.
An official statement from the Student Council at Oxford announced the intention to request that students opt for the British Sign Language "silent jazz hands" instead of loud clapping as it may not be an "inclusive" behavior. The statement noted that applause could cause discomfort for students at the university that were dealing with "anxiety disorders, sensory sensitivity, and/or those who use hearing impairment aids." "UP Twinkles!"
Oxford, which has been in continual operation as an institute of higher learning since at least AD 1096, became the second major university in England to reject clapping in favor of jazz hands. The University of Manchester adopted the same rule in 2018, an act the Oxford student union praised in their statement. The Student Union says they will mandate that Sabbatical Officers of the school encourage the use of jazz hands and further requests that the SOs "lobby the University" to enact jazz hands at all school functions.
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At Oxford, all people of sense
Are thought to be dangerous, hence,
We request they not clap,
Chant, set fires, or throw crap,
Lest some communist kook take offense.
Or a thalidomide kid raised in a cave... by abusive mutes! What about them? Have you no heart? Seriously, I sympathise intensely with the handful of older people in a given auditorium who might have hearing aid issues, but I don't believe for a second that this foolishness is about them.
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actually the sign for "finish", "quit it", and "stop it" in ASL.
Sure, but in Oxford they only know British sign language, the poor, monolingual gits. American Sign Language is based on the French version, because back in the day the inventor of BSL refused to share with that upstart American who wanted to know.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An agreement has been reached between the 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... i government and the Southern Transitional Council, Asharq al-Awsat newspaper reported citing sources.
The pan-Arab newspaper said that the deal between the two Yemeni sides ‐ dubbed the Riyadh Agreement ‐ includes the establishment of a joint commission to be led by the Arab Coalition to enforce the treaty.
The agreement stipulates the creation of a government made up of 24 ministers to be shared between the north and south of Yemen.
Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... has hosted indirect talks between the Yemeni government and the STC to rebuild the coalition fighting against the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... movement that expelled Hadi’s government from the capital Sanaa five years ago.
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Use dummies with endomorphic, 'large' women as standard, keeping the mass and joint strength the same as the earlier dummies, and this problem goes away forever.
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Ah, poor babies. Did you know that the greatest fatalities in auto accidents occur in the front passenger seat? Maybe all you have to do is move to another location in the car, preferably before impact.
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There were similar problems with medical research in the 1980s, including drug testing which was almost exclusively done with undergrad male subjects. When a researcher at Duke identified key issues with drug effectiveness in the presence of estrogen, massive redo's were required and uncovered some serious problems.
[NBCNEWS] In the final year of the B.O. regime, an American lawyer traveled to Romania to meet with a businessman accused of orchestrating a corrupt land deal.
The businessman was Gabriel "Puiu" Popoviciu, a wealthy Romanian real estate tycoon. The lawyer brought in to advise him was Hunter Biden, the son of then-Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... , according to two people familiar with the matter.
Hunter Biden’s work for Popoviciu in 2016 went unreported at the time, but Joe Biden’s involvement in Romania was very much public. The vice president was among the leading voices pushing the government to crack down on corruption.
There’s no evidence that Hunter or his father acted improperly or violated any laws. But the arrangement, government ethics experts say, raises concerns that Hunter Biden was used as a prop in Popoviciu’s effort to dodge criminal prosecution.
"We don’t know what [Hunter Biden] was paid or what he was paid for but it does raise questions of whether this Romanian individual facing criminal charges was actually paying for a connection to the American vice president," said Kathleen Clark, a Washington University law professor who specializes in government ethics.
[DAILYWIRE] Socialist Rep. Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez Dem represntative from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details... (D-NY) and other Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee were slammed online on Wednesday over their "arrogant," "inaccurate," and "embarrassing" attacks on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Zuckerberg appeared before the committee for over six hours to answer questions about Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency, Libra.
"Anybody who believes the Democrats are angry at Facebook because they want more free speech should take a look at this," Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro commented on the hearing. "Democrats are angry at Facebook because they want less free speech. They simply want more Democratic control of the means of informational distribution."
Rep. Al Green (D-TX) pressed Zuckerberg about the representation that certain intersectional groups have within the company’s Libra project.
After asking how many women and how many minorities worked on the project, Green asked Zuckerberg: "Are there any members of the LGBTQ+ community associated with this association, Mr. Zuckerberg?"
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Silly Con Valley has a tradition of canceling projects that were once considered the very future of the company, even if hundreds of millions, (or even billions as Microsoft did when they gave up on their Nokia purchase) have been spent. If a couple big tech houses decide being all in for democrats is not working out, lots of dems will need to refresh their bartending and fry cook chops.
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"Are there any members of the LGBTQ+ community associated with this association, Mr. Zuckerberg?"
So Green thinks Zuckerberg ought to keep a list of LGBT employees?
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Shitshow Part 151
This is nothing but shitty and moronic virtue signaling -- like Kamala Harris idiotic performance during Gina Gaspell's confirmation hearings when she tried to use global warming to attack her
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Katie Hill, 32, has been seen in a series of shocking photographs obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com
Hill was pictured kissing and brushing her young female staffer's hair, who DailyMail.com can identify as Morgan Desjardins from Santa Clarita, California
The then 22-year-old began a throuple relationship with Hill and her husband Kenny Heslep shortly after she started working for Hill in 2017
Texts and photos between Hill, Heslep and Desjardins reveal their throuple was steamy at first, but ended with Hill leaving them 'high and dry'
The congresswoman was also seen posing naked while smoking a bong on 9/11 in 2017, as a tattoo of a Nazi-era Iron Cross on her bikini line is on full display
The tattoo could open the congresswoman to accusations of hypocrisy, after she criticized racist Facebook posts that included a similar-looking cross
Sources revealed Hill and Heslep also posted Hill's naked photos online in 2016 under a thread called 'WouldYouF**kMyWife' and 'wifesharing'
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...Remember the late Lewis Grizzard's explanation of the difference between 'naked' and 'nude':
"If yer naked, you ain't got no clothes on. If yer nude...yer up to somethin'."
Mike
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But remember, since Billy Jeff Cigarwrangler, sex is a "compartmentalized" thing that hass no effect on a person's judgement otherwise. Unless #metoo.
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Wasn't this bitch canine fem one of the Dems' attack dogs in the Kavanaugh slander?
When the hell will these animals face prosecution for defaming someone with projected accusations of their own shitty behavior?
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How many of ya'll remember back in the '60s the Surfer Crosses? That's what it looks like to me. My marksmanship badge looks like an Iron Cross, too. I've been asked if that's what it is.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A ceasefire in northeast Syria seems to be holding "by and large," as major powers gather in Geneva ahead of the first meeting of Syria’s Constitutional Committee next week, the UN Special Envoy told Rooters on Thursday.Geir Pedersen said that envoys from seven Arab and Western states backing the opposition, known as the "small group", which includes the United States, are due to meet in the Swiss city on Friday.
Senior officials from the so-called Astana three ‐ Russia, Iran, and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... ‐ were expected in the coming days, but he awaited confirmation.
The major powers would not participate directly in the "Syrian-owned, Syrian-led" constitutional effort, or the opening public ceremony, but they supported the process, he said.
Talks are on track despite Turkey’s cross-border offensive launched on October 9 after President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... ordered US forces out of northeast Syria. Turkey and Russia, the Assad government’s main ally, have agreed on a peace plan calling for Kurdish forces to withdraw more than 30 km from the Ottoman Turkish border.
"It seems that by and large that the ceasefire is holding. That of course doesn’t mean that there will not be challenges," Pedersen said in an interview in his UN office.
He had reports that some of the 160,000 people who fled the incursion are starting to return to their homes.
Convening the Constitutional Committee, the first tangible progress since the Norwegian diplomat took up the UN job in January, is seen as key to paving the way for political reforms and new elections in the country wracked by eight years of war that have killed hundreds of thousands and forced millions to flee.
"No one believes that the Constitutional Committee in itself will solve the conflict. But if it is understood as part of a broader political process, it could be a door-opener and a very important of course symbolic beginning of a political process," Pedersen said.
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[BIZPACREVIEW] Fox News host Tucker Carlson scoffed in disbelief when a longtime advisor of failed 2016 Democrat presidential nominee Crooked Hillary Clinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away... claimed Wednesday that her final decision regarding the upcoming 2020 race hinges only on whether or not she feels that she boasts the "the best odds" of beating President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... "She ran for president [last time] because she thought she would be the best president," political consultant Philippe Reines said to the FNC host.
"If she still thought that now, if she thought she had the best odds of beating Donald Trump, I think she would think about it long and hard."
Reines’ history with Clinton starts as early as 2002 when he reportedly served as the then-New York senator’s press secretary and runs up until at least 2016 when he reportedly helped her prepare to debate then-GOP nominee Trump.
Unconvinced by Reines’ claim, Carlson then asked him whether she might be purposefully avoiding the 2020 race because she thinks she wouldn’t survive the Democrat primary given how far to the left that the party now leans.
"[H]as the Democratic Party changed so much in the last three years that it would be possible for Hillary Clinton to get the nomination? ... Maybe she is too right-wing?" he asked.
While the question might sound silly, even former President Barack Hussein Obama has been criticized by some Democrats for allegedly being too far to the "right."
Reines replied by claiming that Clinton’s reasoning for not entering the race has nothing to do with any "anxiety" over participating in the field.
"She’s not running because she has any anxiety about the Democratic field," he said. "She really likes a lot of the people running. She knows them well. She thought about some of them for her vice presidency. But there might be a reason that she would be the best person, not only to beat Donald Trump but to govern after Donald Trump."
New report details 166 cases of sexual abuse at the hands of priests in Colorado
As many as 43 Roman Catholic priests in the state abused children since 1950
The Archdiocese of Denver was accused of 'fostering a culture of secrecy' that placed the reputations of clergy and church leaders over the welfare of children
Father Harold White was named 'most prolific known clergy' abuser in Colorado
He allegedly abused at least 63 children over 21 years before he died in 2006
Denver Archbishop Samuel Aquila apologized to victims after report published
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Sayyed Qtub decided western culture is decadent while living in Colorado.
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Looks like theses were almost all in the 1960s and 1970s, and covered up in the 1980s. Right when the liberals started talking hold of the church with left wing philosophy and hippie-fying the mass. People Like the current Pope.
[Metro.UK] Hitman hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman who tells police.
Five hitmen have been jailed for attempted murder after each one avoided carrying out the contract themselves so they could make a profit.
Chinese businessman Tan Youhui was looking for a hitman to take out a competitor, Wei Mou, and was willing to pay 2 million yuan (£218,000) to get the job done.
The hitman that Mr Youhui hired decided to offer the job to another hitman for half the original price.
The second hitman then subcontracted to another hitman, who then subcontracted to a fourth, who gave the job to a fifth.
However, hitman number five was so incensed at how much the value of the contract had fallen, that he told the target to fake his own death, which eventually led to the police finding out about the plot, Beijing News reported.
The businessman and the hapless assassins were all convicted of attempted murder by the court in Nanning, Guangxi, following a trial that lasted three years.
The original dispute occurred in 2013, when Wei decided to sue real estate developer Youhui.
Tan, who hired the original hitman, was jailed for five years, while Xi, the first hitman, was sentenced to three years and six months.
Yang Kangsheng and Yang Guangsheng were sentenced to three years and three months, Mo was sentenced to three years, and Ling was sentenced to two years and seven months.
[Jpost] The closure of three Protestant churches in the Muslim-majority North African country of Algeria coincided with arrests of Protestant worshipers in mid-October. While Algerians in western nations can safely worship Ba'al in the several mosques and islamic centers afforded them, thank you.
The US-based International Christian Concern (ICC) advocacy director Matias Perttula said that "Reports of rising levels of religious intolerance in Algeria are once again causing a great level of concern for ICC and our partners. These church closures are completely baseless and clear indicators of persecution and harassment of Algeria’s Christians, who represent a significant religious minority. ICC plans to raise this issue with our partners as well as members of Congress on Capitol Hill to make them aware of these human rights violations."
The Morning Star News, a Christian media outlet, reported on October 14 that protestant Christians protested the closure of two churches. Pastor Salah Chalah, head of the Protestant Church of Algeria umbrella group l’Église Protestante d’Algérie (EPA), said the authorities retaliated against the Protestant Church of the Full Gospel of Tizi Ouzou because of a sit-in that Christians organized at the Bejaia Province headquarters on October 9.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Nine people have been killed in southern Mexico in a shootout between two groups using high-powered weapons, authorities said Thursday.
Several organized crime groups dedicated to trafficking drugs operate in the area and often clash over control of supply routes.
The confrontation occurred Wednesday on a highway in a rural area in the state of Guerrero, the local attorney’s office said in a statement.
"The dear departed are close to Zenen Nava Sanchez, leader of the criminal group Los Rojos," it said, adding an investigation had been launched into the incident.
A long-running dispute for territory between Los Rojos and a rival gang has left more than a thousand people dead and centered on a town some ten kilometers from where the firefight took place, according to local media.
Experts at the site retrieved 50 bullets used in high-caliber weapons like the AK-47 assault rifle. Last month, 15 people including a soldier were killed in the same state after button men attacked security forces.
The violence underlined the struggles of leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to rein in crime since he took office last December.
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Mexico = failed state.
Why the hell is anyone more concerned with Syria than with the failed state on our southern border?
Does this make any f---ing sense?
Our political class and our media elites are deranged fools.
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Agreed Alex. The ambush referenced in the article occurred in the state of Michoacan, just north of the state of Guerrero. When viewed in addition to the battle in Culiacan in the State of Sinaloa, which the local cartel won, the whole Pacific coast of Mexico is in chaos.
As are the southeastern border states adjoining Guatemala. Basically everywhere outside of the center, Monterrey and the colonial heartland are in a shambles.
"Lexophile"describes those that have a love for words, such as "you can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish", "To write with a broken pencil is pointless."
An annual competition is held by the New York Times to see who can create the best original lexophile.
This year's submissions:
I changed my iPod's name to Titanic. It's syncing now.
England has no kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool.
Haunted French pancakes give me the crepes.
This girl today said she recognized me from the Vegetarians Club, but I'd swear I've never met herbivore.
I know a guy who's addicted to drinking brake fluid, but he says he can stop any time.
A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.
When the smog lifts in Los Angeles U.C.L.A.
I got some batteries that were given out free of charge.
A dentist and a manicurist married. They fought tooth and nail.
A will is a dead giveaway.
With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.
Police were summoned to a daycare center where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
Did you hear about the fellow whose entire left side was cut off? He's all right now.
A bicycle can't stand alone; it's just two tired.
The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine last week is now fully recovered.
He had a photographic memory but it was never fully developed.
When she saw her first strands of gray hair she thought she'd dye.
Acupuncture is a jab well done. That's the point of it.
I didn't like my beard at first. Then it grew on me.
Did you hear about the crossed-eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn't control her pupils?
When you get a bladder infection, urine trouble.
When chemists die, they barium.
I stayed up all night to see where the sun went, and then it dawned on me.
I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. I just can't put it down.
Agreed, Chris. Lost in all the noise & shitstorm is the origin of Trump's rise in 2016: he focused on one issue that the uniparty was/is desperate to ignore, i.e. the complete and utter wreckage that is our Mexico policy.
True to form, he zeroed in on the most vivid, immediate, relatable facet of this debacle - the illegal immigration Shitshow and related Orwellian nonsense about "sanctuary cities" -- but he has ever since focused on the substantive, underlying issue. Mexico is a shitty failed state whose elites are as cowardly as they are corrupt and cynical.
They more than anyone we are the blame for 20+ million desperate Mexican peasants being pushed out of Mexico by lack of opportunity and massive corruption into America, here to generate hard currency, send it back to Mexico, and keep the regime's economy afloat.
Trump called the Mexican elite - and the Uniparty elite i.e. the Koch-head open borders GOP/libertarian fools + the Dem grifters - on their BS. And now it's getting results.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Dozens of Iraqi protesters shouting slogans against the head of Iran’s Quds Force have been making their way toward Baghdad's iconic Tahrir Square, Al Arabiya’s correspondent reported.
It is expected that Friday will witness demonstrations in a number of Iraqi cities against the economic conditions being faced by citizens in the country.
The official front man of Iraq’s Ministry of Interior said in a statement that security forces would be placed on high alert ahead of planned protesters to provide the "means for citizens’ movement and the protection of public property."
Late on Thursday, the governor of the Diyala province in Iraq said an overnight curfew would be imposed due to security situations, according to the Iraqi News Agency.
Iraq witnessed widespread protests earlier this month with civilian deaths being blamed on excessive force, according to the government's report into the protests released on Tuesday.
[BREITBART] The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... on Wednesday published what would have been a major story on White House National Security Council (NSC) aide Kash Patel‐if only it had been true.
The story, which relies on leaks from Democrats conducting the "impeachment inquiry" into President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... of testimony by one witness who had no firsthand knowledge of the allegations she was making, claims Patel had provided President Trump with documents on Ukraine and met with the president about them.
Citing as its sources "people briefed on the matter," the Times’ Julian Barnes, Adam Goldman, and Nicholas Fandos wrote that Patel was referred to by President Trump as "one of his top Ukraine policy specialists" and that President Trump "wanted to discuss related documents with him." The Times news hounds claimed that Patel’s NSC and White House colleagues "grew alarmed" over all this.
Later in the Times piece, it became clear where exactly this allegation came from‐Fiona Hill, a former Trump administration Russia hand, whom the Democrats have been relying on for testimony in the impeachment inquiry. Hill testified earlier this month in the secret room in the basement of the Capitol building from which Democrats have been running their private impeachment proceedings.
These buffoons are so confused, they can't even get their conspiracy charges straight. First they told us Team Hillary's collusion with foreign agents to try to throw an election, and then stage a palace coup after they lost that election, was actually a conspiracy on OrangeMan's part.
Now they're telling us that Trump's inquiries into Hillary and Biden's corrupt actions with Ukrainians are actually evidence of ... another OrangeMan conspiracy.
F--- these morons. This isn't funny any more. We see their lies and their bullshit.
[DAWN] A special court in Islamabad adjourned the hearing of a high treason case against former president retired Gen Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... till November 19, after the absconder's counsel requested the court to do so.
Earlier this month, the court had declared that it would hear the case on a daily basis with effect from October 24 (today). In a previous hearing in September, the court had also passed the same order saying the proceedings in the treason trial would resume on a daily basis from October 8.
While hearing the case today, a three-member bench headed by Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth summoned the interior secretary in the next hearing.
At the onset of the hearing, an application was submitted on behalf of Musharraf's counsel Raza Bashir for the deferment of the hearing due to his health. According to the plea, Bashir was unable to appear in the court because of dengue fever. The plea was granted.
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[DAWN] The interior ministry on Thursday issued a notification announcing a ban on the "militant wing" of the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... -Fazl (JUI-F).
The proscription of Ansar-ul-Islam, which the ministry referred to as a "private militia/Razakar Force" of the JUI-F, comes days before the Maulana Fazlur Rehman ...Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty... -led party is slated to lead an anti-government 'Azadi March'.
According to the notification, the federal government had "reasons to believe that Ansar-ul-Islam is capable of functioning as a military organization, in violation of the prohibition contained in Article 256 of the Constitution".
The ban was imposed after approval by the federal government and obtaining the consent from all four provincial governments under Article 146(1) of the Constitution, which allows the federal government to delegate any of its powers to the provinces, conditionally or unconditionally, with the consent of the provincial governments.
Through the notification, the federal government through the Ministry of Interior has "entrust[ed] the provincial governments the power to take appropriate actions under Section 2 of the Private Military Organisations (Abolition and Prohibition) Act, 1974, against Ansar-ul-Islam".
The authority will include, among others, "the power to abolish/ban the said organization and take further steps against them on ground" in order to complete the action, the notice said.
A summary seeking a ban on Ansar-ul-Islam was approved by the federal cabinet earlier this week, sources in the cabinet division had said.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two high-tech replicas of iconic Assyrian statues destroyed by ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... in northern Iraq were unveiled on Thursday at the University of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... The real "lamassu" -- massive statues of winged bulls with human faces -- had adorned a royal throne room in the ancient city of Nimrud for centuries, and one was later exhibited in the Mosul Museum.
But ISIS murderous Moslems destroyed the originals after they swept across northern Iraq in 2014, blowing up Nimrud and filming themselves taking hammers to pre-Islamic artifacts they deemed heretical.
Iraqi troops recaptured Mosul in mid-2017, but the museum has remained shuttered and the lamassu in ruins.
Using 3D recordings of lamassu fragments, the Spanish Factum Foundation created copies, erected this week outside the student library at the University of Mosul.
"This gift is a message of hope that Mosul has returned to normal and its people must build their city," Spanish Ambassador Juan Jose Escobar said at the statues' unveiling.
Ahmad Qassem, a professor of history at the University of Mosul, said the lamassu's hybrid figure is highly symbolic.
"The head symbolizes wisdom, the wings speed, and the body -- a mix of a bull and a lion -- represent strength," he told AFP.
And Factum founder Adam Lowe told AFP the replicas now had their own meaning.
"We want them to be here as a symbol, a demonstration of what's possible with technology when people work together to share cultural heritage, share understanding, and share our historical culture that links us all together," he said.
"Now they're sitting in front of the entrance to the student building and I hope they'll guard everyone for many years to come," said Lowe.
University student Ilaf Muhannad said she was elated to see her university house them.
"I'm so happy today to see the lamassu statues placed here, because it represents the civilization and heritage of Mosul. We demand the Iraqi government work on returning everything stolen from Mosul," she said.
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Proof that technology is eeeevil. If you are a 7th century throwback hysteric.
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"What a fuckin' waste." -Robocop II (1990) I think...
[DAWN] A court in Bangladesh sentenced 16 people to death on Thursday over the murder of a 19-year-old female student burnt alive in April that provoked outrage across the country.
Nusrat Jahan Rafi was doused in kerosene and set on fire after refusing to withdraw a sexual harassment complaint against the head teacher of the seminary she attended.
"The verdict proves that nobody will get away with murder in Bangladesh. We have the rule of law," prosecutor Hafez Ahmed told news hounds after the verdict in a crowded courtroom.
Rafi was lured to the rooftop of the seminary where her attackers pressed her to withdraw the complaint she had filed with police.
When she refused, she was tied up, doused in kerosene and set on fire.
She suffered burns to 80 per cent of her body and died in hospital five days later on April 10. Her death fired up the rubes and also highlighted an alarming rise in sexual harassment cases in the South Asian country of 165 million people.
Protesters in the capital Dhaka staged days of demonstrations seeking "exemplary punishment" for the killers. Bangladeshi Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums... had promised to prosecute all those involved.
'NO BIG DEAL'
Rafi had gone to police in late March to report the sexual harassment, and a leaked video shows the local cop shoppe chief registering her complaint but dismissing it as "not a big deal".
At the time police had said that one of the 18 people initially arrested had accused the school's principal of ordering the attack.
The teacher "told them to put pressure on Rafi to withdraw the case or kill her if she refused", senior police superintendent Mohammad Iqbal, who led the investigation, had told AFP.
Iqbal had also said that some of those arrested were Rafi's classmates and that they had tied her up with a scarf before setting her on fire.
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[Daily Mail, where American gets its news] Track down the train ride of your life! From Australia to Siberia via the USA, here are six of the world’s greatest rail journeys.
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Re #3. Thanks for the link. I went there to see if the site had a picture of the railroad bridge in the town where I grew up, and it did. It brought back pleasant memories, particularly of the courage it took to jump off of it into the river below. Mom would have killed me if she'd found out.
[DAWN] JUI-F head Maulana Fazlur Rehman ...Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty... on Thursday told the government's negotiation committee ‐ due to hold talks with the opposition tomorrow on its anti-government protest ‐ to "bring the prime minister's resignation letter" with them when they come.
Rehman said that his anti-government protest ‐ dubbed by the party as 'Azadi March' ‐ is on schedule for October 31 and no change is on the cards. "A decision to take it back will only be made, if at all, by the Rehbar Committee," he said, addressing a presser in Sukkur after a meeting between JUI-F members.
He, however, downplayed the possibility of such an outcome, expressing complete confidence that the march will take place with full participation and endorsement by the nation.
The JUI-F chief reiterated the opposition's plans of showing solidarity with Kashmiris on October 27 ‐ observed across the world by Kashmiris as Black Day. "Special programmes will be held throughout the country and a large gathering will be held in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... on the occasion," he said.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Five Turkish military personnel were wounded around the Syrian border town of Ras al Ain in an attack carried out by the Kurdish YPG militia, the Turkish defense ministry said on Thursday, after the militia accused Ankara of attacking the area.
The attack was conducted using drones, mortars and light weapons, the ministry said in a statement, adding that Turkish forces had retaliated the attacks in self-defense.
Maurice 'Mo' Robinson, 25, held on suspicion of murdering 39 Chinese nationals frozen inside lorry in Essex
Police have raided his Armagh home - and the home he shared with his parents - who have flown to England
Robinson travelled by ferry from Dublin to Holyhead on Saturday and was waiting for the container yesterday
He moved lorry to a nearby industrial estate to check his paperwork and found the 31 men and 8 women dead
Friend told MailOnline: 'Mo is from the nicest family - he wouldn't have known those people were in the back'
Police in Belgium say container arrived at Zeebrugge on Tuesday before ferry to Purfleet, Essex, hours later
Bodies are being moved from Tilbury docks to the mortuary in Chelmsford for post-mortem examinations
Police probing whether the victims were being trafficked by criminal gangs in the UK who sell them as slaves to work in nail bars, brothels, massage parlours and restaurants
SMUGGLERS PUT ON 'MINI BUS SERVICE' TO DEAL WITH DEMAND IN PURFLEET
Last night it was revealed that the Thames port where the migrants were found 'comes alive at night' with new arrivals.
A former security guard told The Times that smuggling is so well organised in the area that mini buses meet the migrants and take them away.
Gary Lilley had previously worked at the port for around six weeks as a security guard.
He held the position seven years ago and said he once found out that 15-passports from foreigners had been dumped in a local lay-by.
He said: 'The port comes alive at around 2am. I've seen groups of migrants walking out the front door of the port with carrier bags.
'When there's a group of them a few security guards on minimum wage aren't going to stop them. They are all ages, babes in arms and five-year-old girls.
'Minibuses wait there at night for them to arrive. Last summer during the heatwave I gave water bottles to two five-year-old girls as they looked desperate.'
The 61-year-old said he had been upset when he learnt about the 39 deaths, but said that he hadn't been surprised by the tragedy.
He said he previously found some Albanian passports. He notified police, but he claims they hadn't been interested in them, so he threw them in the bin.
He also claimed that British authorities 'didn't know' what to do with those coming in illegally from other countries.
[Daily Mail] All those who died came from Fujian province in south-eastern China, situated opposite the island of Taiwan.
Fujian is also the ‘home’ of the notorious Snakeheads, an off-shoot of the Triads.
The Snakeheads, who specialise in people smuggling, are so-called because those who wish to get out of China illegally need guidance as they ‘twist and turn’ to find ways around border controls — ‘a sophisticated travel service in human misery,’ they have been labelled.
Back in the 1990s, their activities were focused on Hong Kong, providing black market labour mostly to the kitchens of restaurants run by Hong Kong’s long-established Chinese community.
In the intervening years, the Snakeheads have branched out supplying young women, who are often kidnapped and forced into the sex trade in Britain.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Banks in Leb will remain closed until stability is restored out of safety concerns, the banking association said on Thursday, as protests raged demanding the government resigns.
President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... said he was ready for dialogue with protesters, who blame the political elite for economic hardship and corruption. He suggested a government reshuffle was possible.
The rallies have gone on for a week despite the government announcing reforms to try and defuse them and win over Western donors.
Banks have shut their doors for six working days.
In a statement, carried on the state news agency, Leb’s Association of Banks said they would remain closed on Friday to protect customers, employees and properties.
It urged a political solution to the crisis and "reassured citizens that the banks are ready to resume their work as soon as the situation stabilizes." Bank operations will be limited to providing month-end wages via ATMs, the statement added.
The emergency reform plans announced this week include halving ministers’ salaries and long-delayed steps to fix the finances of the state drowning in debt.
This has so far failed to appease discontent or prod Western donors to go ahead with pledged financing.
Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri also said the banking sector would shell out 5.1 trillion Lebanese pounds ($3.4 billion) to help cut the 2020 budget deficit, including through a tax hike on profits.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Leb’s President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... refused to step down ...Hell no! The money's too good!... and said on Thursday that sectarianism and corruption had destroyed the country, in his first address to the nation since the outbreak of nationwide anti-government demonstrations last week.
"I heard many calls for the change of government; government cannot be changed overnight. It must happen through constitutional reforms," said Aoun, who blamed corruption across all political parties and sectarianism for the "destroying" the country.
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri ...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.... said he welcomed Aoun's call for the need to review the current government through existing constitutional mechanisms in a tweet on Thursday.
Lebanese Druze leader Walid Wally Jumblat ...Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... said on Thursday in a tweet that the best solution out of mass protests triggered by an economic crisis is to speed up a government reshuffle as proposed by Aoun.
"I have taken Leb to a place of safety and stability," claimed Aoun, after saying that "sectarianism and corruption have destroyed the country."
Aoun pointed to corruption across all the political parties as causing the crisis.
"Politicians must return embezzled funds. The corruption has no religion or sect ... Let’s expose the corrupt and leave the matter in hands of judiciary," says Lebanese President Michel Aoun, addressing Leb after a week of anti-government protests.
"All political parties are responsible for protecting public funds from being stolen," he added.
Aoun pointed to the reforms proposed by the government under Prime Minister Saad Hariri as the solution to the crisis.
"The reforms that have been passed are the first step to saving Leb," he said, listing a number of reforms including a bill which would remove political immunity from parliamentarians and government officials.
Aoun linked the reforms’ success to the Lebanese people, saying "freedom of expression is a right respected and cherished by all people," and calling on citizens to monitor the reforms to ensure their success.
The Lebanese president ended his speech by refusing to step down and instead calling for dialogue as the solution. "Let’s initiate a constructive dialogue where practical measures are taken to reach the best results. Dialogue is the best way to solution," he stated.
"I am ready to meet your representatives ... to hear your demands."
Crowds gathered in Jal El Deeb Square to watch the speech on a giant screen, reported Leb's National News Agency (NNA).
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[DAWN] PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz was sent back to Kot Lakhpat jail early on Thursday morning, hours after she was admitted to Services Hospital Lahore, said PML-N leaders.Condemning the move, PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb said that Maryam was sent back to the jail at 5am, adding that the PML-N vice president was unwell at the time when she was sent to Kot Lakhpat jail.
On Wednesday night, Maryam was admitted to the hospital after a meeting with her ailing father. According to a document, issued by the Services Hospital Lahore Accident and Emergency Services, Maryam was admitted at 10:03pm in VVIP II.
She met her father, former prime minister 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... , at the same hospital after the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... government accepted her request in this respect. Nawaz was admitted to the hospital late on Monday night after his personal physician, Dr Adnan Khan, had raised an alarm about his critical condition in the National Accountability Bureau's (NAB) custody.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... and its Syrian rebel allies had launched a large land offensive targeting three villages on Thursday despite a truce and urged the US to intervene immediately to stop the attack.
In a statement, the SDF said the attack by Ottoman Turkish forces on the villages "outside the area of the ceasefire" had forced thousands of civilians to flee. "Our forces are still clashing," it said.
The SDF held Turkey responsible for "deterioration of the ceasefire process," it added.
"Despite our forces’ commitment to the ceasefire decision and the withdrawal of our forces from the entire ceasefire area, the Ottoman Turkish state and the terrorist factions allied to it are still violating the ceasefire process," it said.
Separately, SDF official Mustafa Bali said in a tweet that the SDF would exercise its legitimate right to self-defense.
[DAWN] A special anti-terrorism court in Lahore on Thursday acquitted all suspects in the Sahiwal encounter case giving them the benefit of doubt.
The court announced the verdict after the suspects' lawyers completed a cross-questioning of the testimonies of government witnesses.
ATC-I Judge Arshad Hussain Bhutta heard the case.
During hearings of the case, the court had recorded statements of 49 witnesses, including close relatives of a victim Zeeshan and another victim Mohammad Khalil. During the proceedings, all the suspects appeared before the court.
The injured witnesses [children of Khalil who were accompanying the victim when he was targeted] had not identified the suspects nor were the suspects identified during photogrammetric tests. The court added that the official who had provided the suspects with the weapons said he was returned all the weapons and bullets.
In January, Mohammad Khalil, his wife and their three children were travelling in a car, with their neighbour Zeeshan behind the steering wheel, when Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) personnel stopped the vehicle and opened fire on the passengers suspecting them to be terrorists. Khalil’s two children Umair and Muneeba had survived the attack.
The suspects said that they had information that Zeeshan had links with a terrorist outfit. They also claimed that all the victims were killed in an 'encounter' which turned out to be false after the two minor children narrated facts of the incident to the public.
Initially, the trial was conducted in Sahiwal, however, the Lahore High Court on June 17 shifted the proceedings to Lahore allowing an application filed by the victims' family. The petitioners contended that they had been facing problems while attending trial proceedings in Sahiwal. They also cited security reasons and asked the court to shift the trial proceedings from Sahiwal to Lahore.
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[Politico] Governors from several northeastern and mid-Atlantic states may have found a way to reduce pollution from cars and trucks and buck the Trump administration, which is trying to weaken auto emissions standards and gut efforts to curb climate change.
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Washington (CNN)Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday accused the National Basketball Association of acting "like a wholly owned subsidiary of the authoritarian regime" in China, in a speech that also chided Beijing for economic and human rights abuses.
WASHINGTON (AP) ‐ Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is moving Democrats’ climate talk to where the rubber meets the road, proposing a $462 billion trade-in program to get millions of Americans out of climate-damaging gas vehicles and into electric or hybrid cars over the next decade.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and Nigeria have signed a deal for Moscow to supply 12 Mi-35 attack helicopters to Nigeria, a senior official at Russia’s federal military-technical cooperation service said on Wednesday, the RIA news agency reported.
[The Federalist] In 2016, Romanian real estate tycoon Gabriel "Puiu" Popoviciu, who was accused of orchestrating a corrupt land deal, hired Hunter Biden to "advise" him as he aimed to dodge federal prosecution. At the same time, Hunter’s father Joe Biden was claiming to be pushing Romania to clean up political corruption.
[The Hill] Former NBA player Charles Barkley said that Vice President Mike Pence "needs to shut the hell up" in response to Pence’s comments blasting the NBA for being accommodating to China. 
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