[PJMedia] Just when you thought it would be impossible to top the return of 4chan's "He Will Not Divide Us" live-action game of capture the flag with Shia LaBeouf, they've found a new hobby: Reporting tax fraud by THOTs to the IRS.
For the newspeak uninitiated, THOT is an acronym for "That Ho Over There," usually used to refer to loose women. The Urban Dictionary has a more detailed definition.
(Noun) An individual with a number of concurrent sex partners that is well above the established cultural norm. These individuals have coitus for the purpose of sexual pleasure, approval, or to fullfill an emotional void. These individuals may or may not have sexually transmitted infections however this term is still applies to whores with safe sex practices. These acts are not for the exchange for illicit narcotics or monetary/ economic gain as observed in prostitutes, crackheads, junkies, or gold diggers. (It is important to note that ones sexual indiscretions must be well known within the community in order for ones "thot" status to be identifiable).
It seems that THOTs on Snapchat and other platforms are using PayPal to charge men to see "premium snaps," which are nudes or pornography. It's also possible that these ladies of social media are not reporting their earnings to the IRS. In an effort that can only be described as hilarious, the anons at 4chan have launched a full-scale war on THOTs across all platforms. Women who fish for lonely and susceptible beta boys are the bane of many gamers, whose platforms are being taken over by the sex trollers. These women solicit in male-dominated platforms and many of the men who use the platforms are sick of it. Lots of links and video hilarity at link.
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Good. It’s time they stopped putting up with that nonsense where they are seriously playing. If they want pr0stitues, they can go find them, just like anyone else.
A new paper in the Nov. 21 Science Robotics sheds new light on how robots could take a more human approach in the future.
Chemical engineer and Stanford professor Zhenan Bao and her team at Bao Labs have developed an electronic glove with sensors designed to give robotic hands a sense of touch -- theoretically enabling a human degree of coordination and pressure sensitivity.
"This technology puts us on a path to one day giving robots the sort of sensing capabilities found in human skin," Bao said in a statement.
The gloves achieve this effect by simultaneously measuring the intensity and direction of pressure -- and demonstrated a capability of touching and handling berries and pingpong balls without destroying them.
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Scrambling out the door, or I might drone on for a quite a while about how much I like this, and why (mostly seems to involve my own weaknesses and limitations, and wanting to work within them, whether reading or writing, for good or ill). In any case... instant favorite here, notwithstanding I scarcely drink, and am more of a hostel person. Thanks.
[Intellectual Froglegs] Joe Dan Gorman was born in Dallas, Texas, and raised in the hills of Eastern Kentucky, both of which contribute to his southern sense of independence and humor.
Gorman prospered as a real estate broker, investor, and private consultant, serving as vice president of the one-time largest real estate investment entity in Southern Arizona.
And then the unthinkable happened: the booming real estate market collapsed in 2007, leaving Joe Dan’s holdings in tatters.
Concurrently, Gorman was fighting a multi-year battle for custody of his son.
Within three months Joe Dan’s business was shuttered, his son was taken from him, and his father died.
Joe Dan learned first hand something akin to the lessons of Job: he went from material success and a beautiful home, to living in his Aunt Jean’s basement. He searched for work everywhere to no avail, not even burger joints were hiring.
Somehow Gorman summoned his Lone Star State grit and reinvented himself and did something completely out of the box: he created a video on his laptop.
That video entitled “I Will Follow Him,” depicting the media and Hollywood adoration of newly elected Barack Hussein Obama, went viral and set the foundation for a future in political humor via videos: Web Site
[Politico] Historians trying to trace the collapse of Germany’s Social Democrats would do well to look at the neighborhood of Haidhausen in central Munich.
For centuries, the area was known as the "poorhouse" of the Bavarian capital; after post-war reconstruction, it became a dilapidated workers’ quarter, described as a "district of broken glass" for its rundown condition. "About half of all apartments had no bathroom and no hot water," the magazine Der Spiegel wrote in 1980. Even fewer had access to central heating.
Over the past few decades, however, the neighborhood has flourished ‐ thanks in no small part to a large-scale redevelopment plan initiated by the SPD-led city government in the early 1970s. Gentrification has taken hold. Residents are younger and rents are higher than the Munich average. Trendy cafes, expensive bicycles and organic shops cluster around the district’s picturesque squares.
Given Haidhausen’s history, it’s no surprise that the Social Democrats were the dominant party in this area for decades ‐ at least until recently. In Bavaria’s state election in October, the SPD suffered a colossal defeat in the Munich-Mitte constituency to which Haidhausen belongs, its vote share shrinking by two-thirds. Instead, the constituency’s residents flocked to the Greens, handing the former protest party a near-majority with 42.5 percent of the votes.
In an election that saw the SPD fall below 10 percent in Bavaria for the first time since 1893, Haidhausen’s shift of allegiance is the latest example of what analysts say is a broad realignment of the political landscape in Germany and in Europe.
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Why? It'll just be a lecture to us ignorant Americans.
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Far left melons (green veneer on red) AKA Oikohphobic socialists are the natural evolution of the national socialists and will probably get even more people killed.
[France24] When al Shabaab’s deputy leader Mukhtar Robow defected from the jihadist group, it was hailed as a major step for peace hopes in Somalia. But now that he’s running for a December 5 regional election, some think it’s a step too far.
At a crowded meeting hall in the southern Somali city of Baidoa last month, Mukhtar Robow faced a gathering of local politicians and reporters squeezed into the room as a crowd of supporters and curious onlookers gathered outside the premises.
Robow, also known as Abu Mansour, is no stranger to the media spotlight. As one of the founding members of al Shabaab -- the al Qaeda-linked Somali terrorist group -- Robow once served as the jihadist group’s deputy leader and spokesman.
For many years, he was the public face of the organisation, appearing in al Shabaab propaganda videos, granting interviews to local journalists and addressing press conferences in the Somali wilds. As an al Shabaab military commander with battlefield experience and training in Afghanistan, Robow was considered a dangerous man. The US slapped a $5 million bounty on his head and the Treasury Department imposed sanctions on him as a "specially designated global terrorist".
That was before he fell out with al Shabaab’s leader, Ahmed Abdi Godane, in a power struggle. In 2013, he quit the jihadist group, publicly denounced al Shabaab, and retreated to his village in southwestern Somalia, where he was protected by his militiamen and the community.
[Victory Girls] At least that’s what the frothing-at-the-mouth news media and outraged parents would have you believe. "White House Turns Away Foreign Students on Tour With Class," screamed headlines in the New York Post, with the story picked up verbatim by the Daily Mail Fail, and others. I realize that expecting the news media to be objective when it comes to this President is like expecting a freebie from a hooker, but really? This?
What transpired on November 15th was a massive FAIL on the part of the school administrators and parents ‐ not EEEEEEVIL Trump or the EEEEEEvil Trump Secret Service.
A group of seventh-graders from Henry Hudson Regional School in Highlands braved a snowstorm on Nov. 15 for a long-awaited bus trip to Washington DC.
The bad weather and treacherous road conditions added hours to the drive and left no time for anything but their visit to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Even lunch on the White House lawn was canceled.
But the snafus didn’t stop there. Months in advance, the school had to send the White House visitors office a list of all students and adults expected to take the tour.
After making it through an initial checkpoint, Secret Service agents stopped three Henry Hudson students who didn’t have their passports or other identification required for non-US citizens.
Note the following in this report:
‐ Students "braved" a snowstorm (in a bus ‐ probably a heated one). They did so in treacherous conditions ‐ oh such heroes (as a parent, I would have questioned the wisdom of not rescheduling the trip, given the road hazards, but OK ‐ beside the point).
‐ It was a "long-awaited" trip to Washington DC, because we must whip up sympathy for these kids.
‐ A longtime security policy at the White House is now portrayed as a "snafu" without explaining whose screw-up it really was.
‐ Secret Service officers are portrayed as anti-immigrant for doing their job.
Guess what, critters! That’s not how any of this works, and no matter how hard you try to paint Trump, his Administration, and the officers who are tasked with protecting the President and his family, as evil anti-immigrant ogres, the facts don’t support your bias.
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The traffic signal not working is maybe due to some DuPont Circle characters jury-rigging USB chargers into the system instead of going 100% solar or something.
Years ago while visiting, used to play a game with the kids for guessing genders there. Extra points were given for 'I don't know'.
Now of course for many, that's the 'correct' response.
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[The Hill] The business community is bracing for Democratic proposals to raise the corporate tax rate to pay for infrastructure spending and other priorities.
Infrastructure is seen as one of the rare areas where Democrats and President Trump might be able to come to a deal, since both sides have called for improvements to the nation’s roads, railways and bridges.
The problem is how to pay for the new spending.
Many in Washington expect Democrats to push for a hike in the corporate tax rate, which was slashed under the tax law championed by Trump.
"I have no doubt that it will be considered," said Marcia Hale, president of the infrastructure advocacy group Building America’s Future.
That’s a non-starter for business groups, and likely will be for Trump and most congressional Republicans as well.
"Talk of repealing any part of the tax reform bill is a non-starter," Ed Mortimer, U.S. Chamber vice president of transportation and infrastructure, said in a statement to The Hill.
The GOP tax law cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent as part of an effort to make the U.S. more in line with other countries.
Many Democrats also thought the corporate tax rate was too high at 35 percent, but view the GOP cut as too large. Congressional Democrats also voted unanimously against the tax law, arguing that it disproportionately benefited businesses and wealthy individuals.
Democrats have already released some proposals to roll back the corporate tax cut and other aspects of the GOP tax law in order to pay for infrastructure.
Last year, top Senate Democrats proposed raising the corporate rate to 25 percent, and rolling back parts of the tax law that benefit the wealthy, to fund $1 trillion in infrastructure investments. The Democrats said that the corporate-tax increase would raise $359 billion over 10 years.
Outgoing Rep. John Delaney (D-Md.), who is running for president, has floated increasing the corporate tax rate to 23 percent to raise about $200 billion for infrastructure.
"This small change to the new tax law would be more than worth it, because smart infrastructure investment helps businesses compete and grow," Delaney said in a letter to Trump earlier this year.
Henry Connelly, a spokesman for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the favorite to become Speaker next year, said "Democrats are looking at a variety of options to pay for bold infrastructure investments in the next Congress."
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All of this is for naught. The Trump revolution, as such, will be on hold until a Republican house is brought back because the ultimate goal of such a revolution isn't raising/lowering taxes, it's eliminating public sector paychecks in droves.
And since Democratic party politicians have as their #1 job acting as mercenaries to protect every single one of those (mostly) unneeded government paychecks, at any cost to the U.S. at large, we are at a pause.
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Unless they can get it through the Senate, this is DOA.
Our current boom in GPA and jobs comes from those tax cuts. Which means the demoncrats hate it as it makes the workers and businessmen dependent on themselves instead of the government.
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The Trump revolution, as such, will be on hold until a Republican house is brought back because the ultimate goal of such a revolution isn't raising/lowering taxes, it's eliminating public sector paychecks in droves.
President Trump can continue quietly downsizing the government payroll in the meantime through his various secretaries and department heads.
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This initiative should be DOA. I know the Republican Senate is next to worthless, but Trump isn't going to sign away the gains he made in his first 2 years.
[AlAhram] A dronezap probably carried by the United States killed five suspected al-Qaeda jihadists, including a local commander, in central Yemen's Bayda province Sunday, an official said.
The US military is the only force known to operate armed drones over Yemen.
An official in Bayda province said the five suspects were armed and in a car when the drone targeted them, and included a local jihadist leader known as "Dahab", gold in Arabic. He gave no further details.
The United States considers the Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... (AQAP) to be the radical group's most dangerous branch.
Drone attacks against AQAP intensified after US 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... took office in January 2017.
AQAP has flourished in the chaos of the impoverished country's civil war,which pits the Saudi-backed government against Shia Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... rebels.
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[IsraelTimes] In Jerusalem, Idriss Déby hails ’historic’ visit, but says Paleostinian issue can’t be ignored; Netanyahu signals upcoming visits to Arab states following secret Oman trip.
In an unprecedented visit to Israel, Chadian President Idriss Déby on Sunday told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin that he wishes to restore diplomatic relations with the Jewish state, 46 years after ties between the two countries were severed.
Netanyahu, meanwhile, hinted that he intends to travel to additional Arab countries in the near future, following his surprise visit to Oman in October for the first trip to the country by an Israeli prime minister in over 20 years.
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[AnNahar] A Saudi-led military coalition resumed air strikes against rebel supply lines around Hodeida on Sunday two days after a U.N. envoy visited the lifeline Yemeni port city, pro-government military officials said.
The air strikes targeted convoys of rebel reinforcements at the northern entrance to Hodeida and south of the city, which is held by Iran-aligned Huthi hard boys, the officials told AFP.
The raids came alongside sporadic firefights on the eastern and southern edges of the port city, a resident told AFP.
The renewed violence came after U.N. envoy Martin Griffiths visited Hodeida on Friday to assess the humanitarian situation ahead of peace talks between Yemen's coalition-backed government and the rebels set to take place in Sweden in December.
Rebel front man Mohammed Abdessalam said on Twitter there had been "35 air raids over the last 12 hours on Hodeida, accompanied by artillery bombardments". "They're kicking our asses!"
No reports of casualties were immediately available for the air raids and the fighting.
Under heavy international pressure, the Yemeni government and the coalition had until Sunday largely suspended a five-month offensive against the port city.
Fighting had intensified in early November as Yemeni forces backed by the coalition attempted to enter Hodeida, but calm returned after Griffiths arrived in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... on Wednesday.
After visiting Hodeida on Friday, Griffiths on Saturday met Mohammed Ali al-Huthi, head of the Houthis' Higher Revolutionary Committee, in the hard boy-held capital Sanaa.
The U.N. envoy is due to hold talks with Yemen's internationally recognized government in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Monday, according to a U.N. source.
U.N. agencies say up to 14 million Yemenis are at risk of starvation if fighting closes the city's port, from which nearly all imports and humanitarian aid pass.
According to U.N. figures, nearly 10,000 people have been killed since the coalition joined the conflict in 2015 to reinforce the government, triggering what the U.N. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
[DAWN] The Sindh government has invoked the 1960 Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) law to detain 156 leaders and workers of Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistain (TLP) for 30 days.
The MPO was promulgated by the governor of the then West Pakistain on Dec 2, 1960, during the martial law of Gen Ayub Khan. Since then this controversial law has regularly been used and misused by the successive governments.
According to police officials and documents obtained by Dawn on Sunday, the detainees were held after accusing them that they were in the 'habit' of creating an adverse law and order situation by blocking main roads and causing immense inconveniences to the citizens.
Most of them were tossed in the clink Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! on Friday night over staging protest sit-ins 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... and other parts of Sindh soon after the arrest of their leader, Khadim Hussain Rizvi in Lahore.
Sindh government has issued orders to this effect on the request of police authorities.
The officials said that Sindh Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dr Syed Kaleem Imam on Saturday had written a letter to Sindh Home Secretary Abdul Kabir Kazi, requesting him to issue detention orders under Section 3 of Maintenance of Public Order, 1960.
Two deputy inspector generals (DIGs) of Karachi’s West and East Zone and four DIGs of Hyderabad, Sukkur, Shaheed Benazirabad, and Mirpurkhas, respectively, had submitted their reports to the Sindh IGP, suggesting that TLP workers be detained under the relevant law to avoid any mishap and untoward incident.
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[DAWN] Leaders of Pakistain Sunni Tehrik ...formed in Karachi in 1992 under by Muhammad Saleem Qadri. It quickly fell to trading fisticuffs and assassinations with the MQM and the Sipah-e-Sahaba, with at least a half dozen of its major leaders rubbed out. Sunni Tehreek arose to become the primary opposition to the Deobandi Binori Mosque, headed by Nizamuddin Shamzai, who was eventually bumped off by person or persons unknown. ST's current leadership has heavily criticized the Deobandi Jihadi leaders, accusing them of being sponsored by Indian Intelligence agencies as well as involvement in terrorist activities... (PST) and its allied parties have distanced themselves from Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistan’s (TLP) call for countrywide protest on Nov 25 and said they were never part of TLP.
Speaking at a hurriedly-called presser at the local press club on Saturday, Khalid Hassan Attari, Imran Soharwardi, Allama Jawad Raza Barkati, Allama Muharram Din Qadri and others said that they condemned hate speeches by TLP head Khadim Hussain Rizvi.
They demanded immediate release of activists of Tanzeemat-e-Ahle Sunnat, a conglomerate of various religious parties including Pakistain Sunni Tehrik, Jamaat Ahle Sunnat, Darul Uloom Ahsanul Barkat, Dargah Syedna Sakhi Abdul Wahab Shah Jilani Trust and Paigham-e-Mustafa.
They called for stopping crackdown against their parties and said that around six activists of PST and other parties had been tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! by Rangers and police since Friday night soon after the arrest of TLP chief.
They said that they condemned hate speeches by TLP chief and terrorist attack on Chinese consulate 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... . They had always remained staunch supporters of Mighty Pak Army and never used objectionable language against institutions of the state, they said.
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[IsrqelTimes] Internal report questions why money couldn’t be transferred directly to bank accounts of Gazoo employees
Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... is reportedly considering whether to continue with cash payments to Gazoo, and mulling an alternative method for the transfer of the money, due to internal fears that by paying the salaries of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, members, it could be seen to be supporting terrorism.
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[DAWN] President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday reignited the power struggle that has crippled Sri Lanka’s government for more than a month, vowing never to reappoint arch-rival Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister.
Wickremesinghe’s party has a majority in parliament and Sirisena’s bid to replace him with the country’s former strongman Mahinda Rajapakse has already failed.
But Sirisena choked back tears in a meeting with foreign correspondents as he accused Wickremesinghe, who he sacked on Oct 26, of being "highly corrupt".
"Even if the UNP has the majority I told them not to bring Ranil Wickremesinghe before me, I will not make him prime minister," he said, referring to Wickremesinghe’s United National Party.
"Not in my lifetime," he added in comments that the UNP said showed the president uses Sri Lanka like his own "private coconut estate".
Sirisena dismissed Wickremesinghe following a host of personality and political festivities since they formed a coalition in 2015.
He named Rajapakse as new premier and tried to dissolve parliament but the Supreme Court and politicians blocked the moves.
Wickremesinghe, who continues to occupy the prime minister’s residence, and Rajapakse, who has the premier’s official offices, have both refused to back down.
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[DAWN] District Police Officer (DPO) Abdul Ghaffar Qaisarani has suspended from service Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Tariq Mehmood of Qila Kalarwala police for allegedly dragging three women out of their house with their hair and torturing them for not producing a wanted proclaimed offender (PO) to police.
CCTV footage of the incident went viral on social media and Inspector General of Police (IGP) Amjad Javed Saleemi had taken notice of it.
A police team from Qila Kalarwala cop shoppe in Pasrur tehsil, led by the suspected ASI, raided a house in Dheera Sandha village to arrest the PO, but was unable to find him. The team forced their entry into the house and dragged out three women of a family from their hair, beating and abusing them, while the entire incident was captured by CCTV cameras.
Crimes Investigation Agency Deputy Superintendent of Police Sheikh Shahid Ikram conducted an inquiry and found the suspected police team guilty. The DPO also ordered strict departmental action against the suspended ASI.
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[DAWN] Shadman police has registered a rape case against unidentified employees of Service Hospital for allegedly raping a patient.
According to the first information report filed by the 35-year-old woman, she had gone to the Services Hospital after feeling pain in her lower abdomen. She was admitted to the woman’s surgical ward-II on Nov 23 and taken to the operating theatre for surgery at 7:30am the next morning after being administered with anaesthesia.
She said after the surgery she was discharged the same day at 7pm, but later felt pain and started bleeding from her urinary tract. She said her sister took her to Sheikh Zayed Hospital where she was told that she had been raped.
She lodged a complaint at the Shadman cop shoppe stating that she had been raped by the hospital employees during surgery. Police registered a rape case against the employees of Services Hospital.
Model Town Superintendent of Police Ali Waseem Nasir told Dawn that a medical examination of the woman had been conducted and the samples sent to the forensic science agency. The test report would decide the course of investigation and determine whether the woman had been raped or not.
Talking to the media, the Services Hospital principal said the institute had initiated an inquiry of its own also.
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[Express] UKRAINE’s President has said he will propose his country’s parliament should declare martial law in response to Russia’s seizure of three Ukrainian ships, as tensions between the two countries continue to rapidly rise.
President Petro Poroshenko said he will ask Ukrainian parliament to declare martial law after the Russian military attacked and seized three of the Ukrainian navy’s ships in the black sea. He said they would decide on Monday whether or not to approve martial law. If martial law is approved, then it would restrict civil liberties and give the government more power.
[BBC] Mexico will deport up to 500 migrants colonists who attempted to storm the US border, according to its interior ministry.
The group were rounded up after trying to cross the border "violently" and "illegally" on Sunday, the ministry said in a statement.
Video footage shows dozens of people - including women and kiddies - running towards the fence that separates the two countries near the city of Tijuana.
They were repelled by tear gas used by US border officers.
Mexico's interior ministry said in a statement that a group of "nearly 500 migrants colonists" had "tried to cross the border in a violent way".
Those identified as having taken part in these "violent events" would be deported immediately, it said.
The ministry added that, "far from helping their objectives", the migrants colonists' actions had violated the legal migration framework and could have led to a "serious incident".
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...Well, credit where credit is due, but it took 'em long enough. I'm starting to be hopeful that this isn't turning out the way whoever's paying for this was planning.
Mike
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*cough* Soros *cough*
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Got to give Mexico credit where credit is due, as in 'no due process for you' -
Mexican Constitution
Chapter III
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Article 33. Foreigners are those who do not possess the qualifications set forth in Article 30. They are entitled to the guarantees granted by Chapter I, Title I, of the present Constitution; but the Federal Executive shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the necessity of previous legal action.
Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country.
[Independent] The Catholic Church’s global organisation of nuns has denounced the "culture of silence and secrecy" surrounding sexual abuse in the church.
The International Union of Superiors General, which represents more than 500,000 sisters worldwide, urged nuns who have been abused to report the crimes to police and their superiors.
The group vowed to help nuns who have been abused to find the courage to report it, and pledged to help victims heal and seek justice.
The statement, issued on the eve of the UN-designated International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, was the first from the Rome-based UISG since the abuse scandal erupted anew this year and as the sexual abuse of adult nuns by clergymen has also come to light.
[PJ] Patents recently issued to Google provide a window into their development activities. While it’s no guarantee of a future product, it is a sure indication of what’s of interest to them. What we’ve given up in privacy to Google, Facebook, and others thus far is minuscule compared to what is coming if these companies get their way.
These patents tell us that Google is developing smart-home products that are capable of eavesdropping on us throughout our home in order to learn more about us and better target us with advertising. It goes much further than the current Google Home speaker that’s promoted to answer our questions and provide useful information, and the Google-owned Nest thermostat that measures environmental conditions in our home. What the patents describe are sensors and cameras mounted in every room to follow us and analyze what we’re doing throughout our home.
They describe how the cameras can even recognize the image of a movie star’s image on a resident’s t-shirt, connect it to the person’s browsing history, and send the person an ad for a new movie the star is in.
One patent, No. 10,114,351, reads, "According to embodiments of this disclosure, a smart-home environment may be provided with smart-device environment policies that use smart-devices to monitor activities within a smart-device environment, report on these activities, and/or provide smart-device control based upon these activities."
So clearly they want to monitor us and report back what we are doing.
It goes on to describe an example in the usual patent legalese. But it’s worth providing here the exact description for you to see, in particular, the last sentence:
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This seems eminently hackable. I can foresee misbehaving childbots and all sorts of other stuff polluting gurgle's master plan to monetize everything.
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They will never get my washing machine on mind control........
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Don't say that too loudly, magpie.
'She'll' hear you....even if from the stupid neighbor's house.
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In the late 60's the the science fiction author Mack Reynolds had the dystopian 'Joe Mauser Mercenary' series where society had "share-holders" and common "Citizens". The latter had to carry a government issued communicator in public -- at home it was a common practice to put the listening device communicator in a metal lined Faraday Cage.... Just saying.
[PJ] So here we are, at Thanksgiving, surrounded by a crowd of arrogant, ignorant, self-proclaimed superior people who proclaim, as was once declared about Vietnam, that the only way to save the country is to destroy it. That the European welfare state is the proper model for us, and that our electoral choices are mostly wrong. And evil. The first anti-American president put it bluntly in an interview with with one of his cronies, saying Americans are "confused, blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism, mommy issues."
In Obama’s view, we’re unworthy of him and his ruling class. All 57 states’ worth, I suppose. If we dare vote for candidates they don’t like, they feel entitled to change the results. And it isn’t just the usual suspects in the media and the schools; it includes the sorry case of the chief justice of the Supreme Court, Mr. Roberts, who now suggests that judges are fully empowered to undo the clearly expressed preferences of the American people, and that somehow criticism of them, not their outrageous rulings, was the inappropriate act. It was deliciously satisfying to see him slapped down by Senator Grassley, an Iowa farmer who understands better than most how politicized the judiciary has become. He knows how often our judges have somehow come to believe that we have a lot to learn from foreign laws and judges, an amazing development that would have us turn the obvious lessons of the past 250 years upside-down. Just check out where our judges go during summer vacation, and what they do, and you’ll see it.
From Obama to Roberts, our self-proclaimed ruling class have missed the import of the global revolution ushered in by the American Revolution. Indeed, they seem to think that we never should have broken with Britain, so that the confused, blind, hate-filled, angry racists (I don’t quite understand what "mommy issues" refers to) would never have wrecked the world. They do not tell us if we would speak German or Japanese, or maybe Russian. Sadly, more at the link.
The push for neofeudalism contains two powerful groups - globalists (small in number but control vast amounts of capital) and the public sector clerisy (large in number and have access to vast amounts of state power).
Two threads came out of the end of the Enlightenment/Westphalia century. The founding of the U.S. and the French Revolution. One sought a truly new way and was the delivery of the promise of the Enlightenment and Westphalian nationalism, tempered by Christian principles.
The other was an attempt to hijack concentration of state power and rising scientific knowledge to attempt return to the pharaonic model of a society and world domination if possible - only with a slightly different group of thugs at the top.
The mandarins in Brussels and their Blue State model counterparts here in the U.S. are all people who would have sided with King George III in the 1770s. There is a lot of desire in people who style themselves a ruling class to be, well, rulers. There is a lot of desire by people who join an economically protected public clerisy for a system which will give them what they, as twisted, damaged adolescents and sociopaths desire most - perfect economic security at any cost to their neighbors and nation.
The Democrats and GOPe tap into both of those dynamics.
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Which is why it's so important to fight rent-seeking wherever it occurs.
The more you allow rent-seeking, the more it expands, of course rent-seeking destroys that which sustains it, which means it is either a temporary affair (AKA marxist societies) or done stealthily (billionaire progressivists picked by "security" services).
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We've had anti-american Americans since the Cold War. Probably earlier but they became obvious during the cold war. I sort of understand those paid by the communists but will never get the useful idiots who just believe whatever nonsense they are told.
[Rudaw] The Syrian government and rebels swapped prisoners Saturday in a "first important step" in building trust between the warring sides under a Russia-Iran-The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... -brokered grinding of the peace processor, Turkey's foreign ministry said Saturday.
"Certain individuals" were exchanged simultaneously in northwest of Syria, near the town of al-Bab close to Aleppo, the ministry said, calling it a "pilot project".
While it did not give a precise figure of detainees involved, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on sources in Syria, said 10 prisoners from each side were exchanged.
Russia, Iran and Turkey are working to bring about peace in Syria under what is known as the Astana process.
Each country plays a key role in the conflict that started in March 2011. Russia and Iran have intervened on the side of Syria's government, ensuring its survival, while Turkey supports rebel groups in northern Syria to prevent Syrian Kurds establishing and expanding territory along its border.
All of them say they are fighting Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... fighters and other jihadists in the northern regions.
Turkey of late has become quieter about its initial stated aim of seeing Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... leaving power as it has stepped up cooperation with Russia over Syria.
In September, Turkey and Russia agreed to set up the buffer zone to avert a Syrian regime offensive, but jihadists who hold around 70 percent of the area have refused to withdraw.
The Astana process has gradually come to eclipse a UN-sponsored negotiations framework known as the Geneva process whose participants include the United States and European powers that would be key donors in an international post-conflict reconstruction programme for Syria.
Obstacles to securing Western reconstruction aid include an insistence by the US and EU on a transition that would see Assad go, as well as the presence of Iranian and Iranian-commanded fighters in Syria.
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[IsraelTimes] Ten years after deadly assault left 166 dead, including several Israelis at Chabad house, secretary of state urges Pakistain to bring planners to justice
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday urged Pakistain to take action against those responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks as Washington offered a new reward of $5 million for helping secure their capture.
The announcement came on the eve of the tenth anniversary of the assault, which left 166 people dead and hundreds injured after Islamist murderous Moslems from Pakistain unleashed a wave of violence across India’s financial capital lasting three days.
"It is an affront to the families of the victims that, after 10 years, those who planned the Mumbai attack have still not been convicted for their involvement," Pompeo said in a statement.
"We call upon all countries, particularly Pakistain, to uphold their UN Security Council obligations to implement sanctions against the hard boyz responsible for this atrocity, including Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... and its affiliates."
"We stand with the families and friends of the victims, whose loved ones were lost in this act of barbarism, including six American citizens," he added.
Also among those killed were a number of Israelis during an assault and standoff at a Mumbai Chabad house.
The Department of State’s Rewards for Justice (RFJ) Program meanwhile said it was offering up to $5 million "for information leading to the arrest or conviction in any country of any individual who committed, conspired to commit, or aided or abetted" the execution of the attack.
It is the third such reward offered by the US after the State Department announced bounties of $10 million for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed and $2 million for Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki, another big shot of the group.
Saeed, who is also designated a terrorist by the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... , has denied involvement in terrorism and the Mumbai attacks.
A party linked to the charitable wing of the LeT contested Pakistain’s national elections in July, failing to win any seats but winning more than 435,000 national and regional votes.
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why would you think ppl would help no matter the reward, when you repeatedly leave them out to dry . likd the guy who turned in bin laden. or numerous ppl who turned in cartel members in columbia.
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[Jpost] Last Thursday, the IDF issued an order banning Geith from contacting or meeting with a number of Paleostinian activists and officials.
For the second time in the past month, the Israel Police jugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! the Paleostinian Authority Governor of Jerusalem, Adnan Geith, and the Jerusalem Magistrates Court ordered him remanded into custody for five days.
Geith, a resident of the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan who holds an Israeli identification card, was arrested by the police in his home early Sunday. Geith, a prominent Fatah official, was appointed last August by PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... as PA Governor of Jerusalem.
His arrest comes in the context of Israel’s effort to prevent the PA from carrying out political and security-related activities within the area of Israel, including east Jerusalem. A 1995 law passed by the Knesset bans the PA from carrying out such activities within the area of Israel.
Paleostinian sources said on Sunday that Geith's arrest was apparently linked to the PA's crackdown on east Jerusalem residents suspected of involvement in real estate transactions with Israeli Jews.
Last month, The Jerusalem Post revealed that the PA security forces had arrested a US citizen from east Jerusalem on suspicion he was involved in the sale of a house in the Old City to an Israeli Jewish organization. The man's family has notified the US State Department of the arrest.
After the report, the Israel Police arrested Geith for four days on suspicion he was involved in the arrest of the US citizen. The commander of the PA General Intelligence Service in the Jerusalem area, Jihad Faqeeh, was arrested by the IDF, also for his role in the case.
On Sunday, the Post, quoting Israeli security sources, said that Israeli authorities have stepped up their measures against PA officials who were operating in east Jerusalem in violation of the law.
Last week, Geith was served with an IDF order banning him from meeting with or contacting a number of Paleostinian officials and activists. The move came after another order that banned him from entering the West Bank for six months.
Also last week, the Israel Police summoned PA Minister for Jerusalem Affairs, Adnan Husseini, and handed him an order prohibiting him from leaving the country for six months. Husseini, who is also a resident of east Jerusalem, was requested to deposit his passport wit the police.
In recent weeks, the PA and its security forcers have been waging a campaign against east Jerusalem residents suspected of involvement in the sale of houses to Israeli Jews. The PA government has formed a commission of inquiry into the recent sale of a house belonging to the Joudeh family in the Old City's Moslem Quarter to an Israeli Jewish organization. The Paleostinian religious authorities in the city have also renewed a fatwa (Islamic religious decree) prohibiting the sale of Arab-owned properties to Israeli Jews.
The PA mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein, on Sunday condemned the arrest of Geith and the measures taken against PA officials in the city as "unfair." The Israeli measures, he said, are a "flagrant violation of international and humanitarian laws."
The Fatah Revolutionary Council, of which Geith is a member, also issued a strong condemnation over his arrest and appealed to the international community to denounce the Israeli measures.
[Rudaw] Kazim Oz is a renowned Kurdish cinematographer who is known for pushing the limits of Kurdish film.
A Kurdish filmmaker, director, and photographer was locked away Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! on Saturday for "being a member of a terrorist organization," reported Ottoman Turkish media.
A Diyarbakir court had issued an arrest warrant against Kazim Oz for alleged connections with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and propagandizing for it.
DHA agency reported that the filmmaker was on his way from his hometown Tunceli (Dersim) to Elazig when he was arrested on Saturday.
Minutes before being arrested, he posted on his Facebook and Instagram accounts that he "is being arrested in Pertek [city] gate because of a search warrant."
On July 9, 2017, he posited on Instagram how Selahattin Demirtas could be a terrorist and have more than 1.5 million Twitter followers on a verified account.
Demirtas, the former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has been jugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! since November 2016 on charges which included ties to the PKK ‐ which he denies. The parties also deny any link with each other.
Although The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... officially lifted its state of emergency in July, dissent against the state is not tolerated.
The country has jugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! tens of thousands of people in a crackdown after the attempted coup of July 2016 and in the prolonged conflict with the PKK.
The head of the Tunceli bar association, Kenan Cetin, said there was a case against Oz in 2011 for "being a member of terrorist organization, adding that "it is unclear whether he was officially arrested or they will only take his testimony."
Oz is an acclaimed artist whose work has been awarded in Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and the United States. He has been making films for more than 20 years.
In March, he spoke to Rudaw for an interview about making the fiction film ’Zer’ that traces a Ottoman Turkish-American back to Kurdistan where he learns his true ethnic heritage and shines lite on the Ottoman Turkish government’s systematic murder of an estimated 40,000 ‐ 70,000 Alevi Kurds.
He was asked about the difficulties of making the film in ever-restrictive Turkey.
"By the time Zer was in post-production, political tension was running very, very high. Not only did the Ministry of Culture withdraw its support for Zer, they actively began trying to suppress the film. As far as I know, Zer is the only film in Ottoman Turkish history that was first supported and then suppressed in this manner," he explained.
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[Wash Times] Dems importing voters Rep. Elijah Cummings, ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, said Sunday that caravan migrants seeking asylum should be able to enter the country immediately, challenging President Trump's efforts to keep them in Mexico while their cases are processed.
"That's not the law. They should be allowed to come in, seek asylum. That's the law," Mr. Cummings said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "We need them for 2020"
Asked if he would support changing the law, the Maryland Democrat said, "No."
Mr. Trump is seeking a deal with Mexico in which the thousands of asylum-seeking migrants massing on the southern border would remain there until their applications are approved, insisting he will close the border if necessary.
Mr. Cummings said he disagreed with the effort.
"I think we have a system that has worked for a long time," the Maryland Democrat said. "This president's come in, wants to change it. That's up to him. But now the Congress has got to stand up, and hopefully they will."
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There's an agreement that asylum seekers should claim in the first country.
There should be a law that anyone spouting stupid shit like this while holding a public position immediately loses their speaking privileges for a year.
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Capitalist running dog bourgeoisie like this guy should lose their property and bank accounts in order that the next wave of refugees can be properly taken care of.
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Dred Scot was also The Law™, but that was DoublePlus Bad Law so we don't follow it, right? We only obey laws that are good for the Democratic Party, right?
[Jpost] Concealing the presence of Iranian and Hezbollah fighters in southern Syria could be seen as contravening understandings reached between Israel and Russia.
The Syrian regime naturalized thousands or even tens of thousands of Iranians, including members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and Iran-backed militias like Hezbollah that are deployed in southern Syria along the border with Israel, according to a report by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
The report explained that "systematic action by the regime to settle [them] throughout Syria" served two purposes: concealing the fighter’s presence and changing the country’s demography.
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[Townhall] In the wake of Trump’s announcement this week that his administration would continue to "stand with Saudi Arabia" despite the recent murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, America’s mainstream media elites erupted in their usual paroxysms of despair and condemnation of the president. Although this time the typical "orange man bad" stories tended to omit calls for Trump to be immediately overthrown by the military or his own cabinet, almost every other major trope was preponderant.
This was especially true of Khashoggi’s former place of employment at the Post, where journalists almost universally portrayed Trump as having blood on his hands for his refusal to directly take action against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, now widely believed to have ordered Khashoggi’s murder.
Among the most vituperative critics of Trump in this regard was Post global opinions editor Karen Attiah, Khashoggi’s editor and self-described friend. In a column published on Tuesday entitled "Trump’s Defense of Khashoggi’s Saudi Murderers Will Stain Him (and America) Forever," Attiah told her readers that [emphasis mine]:
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Karen Attiah
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Global Opinions editor, writing on international affairs and social issues
Education: Northwestern University, BA in communication studies, minor in African Studies; Columbia University, master's in international affairs
Karen Attiah is the Global Opinions editor at The Washington Post, where she commissions and edits commentary on global issues from a variety of international writers. She joined The Post in 2014 as a digital producer in the Opinions section. Attiah often writes on issues relating to race, gender and international politics, with a special interest in Africa. Previously, she reported as a freelancer for the Associated Press while based in the Caribbean. Attiah was a Fulbright scholar to Ghana and holds a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University. She received her bachelor's degree in communication studies from Northwestern University.
Honors & Awards:
Fulbright fellow, 2008
Foreign languages spoken: Spanish
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I find myself unable to muster up any sympathy whatsoever for ay Americans killed as an act of war commanded, as is his Constitutional responsibility, by the president of the United States after the future deader joined a jihadi organization. I do not care whether he is an accidental American like Anwar al-Awlaki, a naturalized immigrant like Samir Khan, or a multigeneration American who converted to Islam, then ran off to be a jihadi tourist. As far as I’m concerned, once someone has has gone abroad to join a jihadi organization he (or, too often, she) has thrown away the privileges of treatment as an American citizen instead of as a spy. And spies, according to the Geneva Conventions, can be shot in sight.
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I'm almost afraid to ask, but what exactly does a Global Opinions editor do? (as someone said, if you can't explain what you do in a single declarative sentence, it's not a real job)
As for Kashoggi getting whacked, never have I heard of such a harsh and brutal injustice that I cared so little about. Not since the last time, anyway.
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Khashoggi was just as bad as they were. A friend and supporter of Osama ben Laden, a propagandist for the Moslem Brotherhood and Hamas, an enemy of the United States and Saudi Arabia, the Saudi's had every right to whack him, if we had the right to whack the gentlemen you mention.
Only haters of the USA would like us to go after the most promising Saudi reformer to ever come along, so far.
Or does our treatment of Awlaki et al mean our former President should be banished from dealings with the rest of the human race.
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Khashoggi’s editor and self-described friend
I'm sure Khashoggi wouldn't describe somebody black AND female this way.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Military in the North has reported a progress in the ongoing joint clearance operations being conducted in Dasht Archi district of Kunduz province.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said at least 69 snuffies have been killed since the launch of the operations which kicked off four days ago.
The statement further added that the operations are jointly being conducted by the 10th Kandak of Afghan Special Forces and 09th and 05th Units of the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... Around 54 snuffies have been killed during the operations over the past four days and at least 15 others have sustained injuries, the statement added
At least 13 commanders of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group are also among those killed, the 209th Shaheen Corps said, adding that the Afghan forces have also discovered and defused 33 landmines while two mortars, a Dshk heavy machine gun and two cycle of violences have been destroyed during the Arclight airstrikes.
According to 209th Shaheen Corps, at least 15 compounds of the snuffies and 60 fighting positions have also been destroyed during the operations.
[Daily Caller] New York Democratic Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday compared members of the migrant caravan attempting to enter the United States to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.
Members of the caravan on Sunday rushed the border at the San Ysidro port of entry, which connects Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, California.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol closed the port of entry in response and reportedly used tear gas to disperse the crowd of migrants.
Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter to denounce the treatment of the caravan members.
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Is there any way we can get Mistress Overbite her own TV show? Her words of wisdom should be spread throughout the land, so that we can all decide for ourselves how much ammunition to buy.
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Holy Hyperbole, Batman!
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Of course, Dem hero FDR allowed very few Jews to enter the US during WWII. Forgotten by Libs today.
"The plan was dealt a severe blow when President Franklin D. Roosevelt* told Ickes that he insisted on limiting the number of refugees to 10,000 a year for five years, and with a further restriction that Jews not make up more than 10% of the refugees."
[Dallas News] A Dallas woman who ended up comatose and on life support after trying to get a nose job in Mexico has died, according to a family member.
Laura Avila, 36, died about 8:20 a.m. Saturday, Angie Avila said in a Facebook post in which she called her sister the love of her life.
"My heart aches, and I truly don't know how or if I'll ever overcome this pain," she wrote. "What I do know is that I am beyond lucky to have had the chance to be her sister for 25 wonderful years."
Avila, a real estate agent, had traveled to Ciudad Juarez last month for plastic surgery. Her procedure was less than one-third of the price the Dallas real estate agent could find at home, her family said.
But on Oct. 30, after receiving anesthesia at RinoCenter, it was clear something was wrong, and Avila lapsed into a coma.
"Only after Avila’s family paid the hospital bill in full in Mexico did her doctors grant her transfer to a hospital in El Paso, her family said on GoFundMe. They hired lawyers in Juarez to get Laura’s full medical records."
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[KhaamaPress] The front man of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K) was killed during the operations of the Afghan Special Forces in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East in a statement said the ISIS-K front man Sharafat Shafaq was killed in Deh Bala district last week.
The statement further added that Shafaq was also the head of media wing of the terror group who was also spreading propaganda in favor of ISIS-K group, mainly aimed at recruiting holy warriors for the terror group from the other parts of the country.
The ISIS Khurasan loyalists have not commented regarding the killing of the group’s front man so far.
Nangarhar has been among the relatively calm provinces in East of Afghanistan but the security situation in some of its remote districts has tanked during the recent years.
This comes as the Afghan military in the East said last week that 51 ISIS Khurasan holy warriors have been killed during the operations in Haska Mina district.
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[OpsLens] Traditionally, we trusted police officers. For evidentiary purposes we dash-mounted in-car audio/video cameras (great tool to capture actual footage of sobriety tests and police pursuits). Ferguson, Missouri received plenty of attention and ample second-guessing on police procedure from folks who knew zilch about the subject matter. More cops were second-guessed, their every move picked apart like a rank carcass, until the media-mesmerized buzzards circled elsewhere. From cop to cop they went. Then body-worn audio/video cameras hit the market and law enforcement agencies phased them in (cost prohibitive all at once). Nevertheless, debasing the police profession continued and the out-of-control, media-lit powder-keg continued to spark anti-cop, anti-law and order, anti-respect, and anti-critical thinking skills, automatically defaulting to every cop does everything wrong.
[San Diego Unio-Tribune] A mother who scaled the U.S.-Mexico border fence near the San Ysidro Port of Entry Friday night fell and was impaled by pieces of rebar, Border Patrol said Saturday.
The 26-year-old Guatemalan woman was with her two children, ages 3 and 5, when she crossed illegally, said Border Patrol Agent Tekae Michael. She told agents she was not part of the massive migrant caravan camped out in Tijuana, Michael said.
The mother climbed the fence east of the port of entry, where construction crews have been working to replace decades-old primary fencing with a new barrier. When she fell, pieces of rebar pierced her side and buttocks.
Border Patrol arrived to render medical aid about 8:25 p.m. and requested assistance from the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department. She was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Her children were also evaluated at the hospital for potential fall trauma and, showing no injuries, were released back to Border Patrol custody.
"Entering our country illegally, particularly over our walls is not only dangerous, but also very foolish," San Diego’s Chief Border Patrol Agent Rodney Scott said Saturday. "This woman placed her own life and her children’s lives in peril. She could have easily died if not for the quick response by our agents and EMS."
Authorities said the rebar was part of the ongoing border fence construction and not related to the military’s recent mission to fortify the fence in response to the caravan. The military has primarily been stringing concertina wire across the top of the fence. It was unclear if there was concertina wire where the woman crossed.
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Saw a guy fall onto rebar from about 20' (before they started requiring the mushroom safety caps on rebar). Not a pretty thing, wriggling like a speared fish. They leave the bars in for the trip to the hospital - so you don't bleed out.
That said, nice Darwin, dumbshit
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Take the money for anything like this from remittances.
[KhaamaPress] The protests turned over the arrest of a local uprising commander Alipur amid reports that the protesters have clashed with the police forces in Dasht Barchi of Kabul city.
The security officials have confirmed that one policeman has sustained injuries during the festivities with the protesters.
The officials are also saying that some of the protesters have also opened fire during the demonstration and some security posts were set on fire.
Commander Alipur was reportedly been tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... by the Afghan intelligence forces from the vicinity of the 13th police district of the city.
Eyewitnesses had earlier said that Commander Alipur was detained by the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... forces from Qala Qazi area of the city this morning.
Commander Alipur is also accused of harassing the passengers on highways in central parts of the country and leading irresponsible armed individuals.
BAGHDAD, Iraq ‐ The Iraqi government removed some blast walls around the Green Zone in the capital on Sunday for the first time since it was established following the US-led invasion in 2003.
"It’s been years, every day they say ’tomorrow ... tomorrow’ (to reopen the Green Zone) and nothing. We hope that they would re-open it, now that they have removed some t-walls, but we still don’t know if it’s true or not," Ryad Ahmed, a Baghdad resident, told AFP.
Baghdad’s Green Zone became home to Iraq's parliament and other government offices. Locals are still skeptical of the decision made by new Iraqi PM Adil Abdul-Mahdi.
"I don’t believe it and can’t imagine it (the opening of the Green Zone) because both the US and British embassies are in the Green Zone. So I don’t expect it (the re-opening) but if they do, it would resolve so many issues in the streets," said Mohammed who also from Baghdad.
Abdul-Mahdi made the decision in October, saying he wanted to make the entire country "a Green Zone."
"Instead of going to Khadimiya area, making a big loop, it would take 10 minutes to reach Adan square, the airport or Alawi area," explained Mohammed.
The area is 10-square kilometers and located in the Karkh district of central Baghdad on the Tigris River
"This is good, if they remove the cement blocks and t-walls people won’t be delayed, there are students out there, employees and others who have commitments," said one taxi driver, referring to the three-plus meter ’Bremer barriers’ named after the former US diplomat and administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority of Iraq.
There are daily reports of violence across Iraq. The government has acknowledged ISIS remnants active in provinces just north of the capital.
For now at least, the move remains a symbolic gesture indicating the removal of barriers between Iraq's citizens and the elite.
The separation ‐ particularly between the provinces and the capital ‐ was a prime complaint in the former government of PM Haider al-Abadi who declared ISIS defeated on December 9, 2017.
Filed under P.2: WoT Background because in Egypt the sentence is only an intermediate step, with guaranteed review up to the Supreme Court followed by review by the mufti, Egypt's official interpreter of Islamic law, whose opinion is legally required but not binding. After all that, the final sentence is announced and executed... although sometimes some miscreants are subsequently pardoned during Ramadan or another time when mercy is particularly meritorious. Separately, although the article doesn’t say so, the murder of Mr. Barakat is credited to the so called “Popular Resistance”, one of several militant fronts of the Muslim Brotherhood formed after Mohammed Morsi was driven out, though Ansar Bayt al Maqdis/ISIS in the Sinai was the first to claim it.
[AlAhram] Egypt's Court of Cassation upheld on Sunday death sentences against nine defendants convicted of involvement in the liquidation of prosecutor-general Hisham Barakat in 2015.
Six other defendants in the case had their sentences commuted from death to life in prison.
The court also reduced the sentences of four other defendants from life in prison to 15 years, and one defendant’s sentence was reduced from life in prison to three years.
The court also reduced one defendant’s sentence from life in prison to one year for the illegal possession of firearms, and he was acquitted of all other charges.
The court also acquitted five defendants that had originally been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
In July 2017, a Cairo criminal court sentenced 28 defendants to death for assassinating prosecutor-general Barakat. The court also sentenced 15 defendants to life in prison sentence, eight defendants to 15 years, and 15 defendants to 10 years.
The defendants were charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, the possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition, and the possession of explosives devices.
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[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces clashed with the Talibs in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan with the Afghan military claiming at least 11 gunnies were killed or maimed during the clash.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said the clash broke out in the vicinity of Sar Hawz village in Pashtun Kot district.
The statement further added that four Talibs were killed and at least seven others sutained injuries.
According to 209th Shaheen Corps, two key commanders of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... identified as Qari nabi Mukaram and Mullah Nazir were among those killed.
The anti-government armed Lion of Islam groups including Taliban have not commented regarding the clash so far.
[Rudaw] Arab settlers, protected by Iraqi security forces, have continued to encroach on villages and farmland in western Kirkuk province, driving out Kurdish and Turkmen residents.
In the village of Qutan, just two of the 40 Kurdish families remain a month after Arab settlers arrived.
One family home has been torched. The owner of the other is threatened with eviction or even death.
Both have been given permission to stay on the condition they do not plow their farmland until ownership of the land is established.
Instead of relying on the deeds to the land, Arab settlers are instead using the Arabization orders from the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to stake their claim.
The land was handed over to Arab settlers in the 1970s and 80s. After the fall of the regime, the Kurdish owners were invited back to their land and the Arab settlers compensated.
Since the Iraqi Army and Shiite paramilitias took over Kirkuk in October 2017, these Arab settlers have returned.
[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian man breaches the security fence surrounding the Gazoo Strip and enters Israeli territory before quickly returning back to the coastal enclave, the army says.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, prior to crossing into Israel, the suspect and another man damaged the fence with hand tools.
The military says the incident was monitored by soldiers watching the border through surveillance cameras. Ground troops did not reach the area before the two suspects expeditiously departed at a goodly pace.
Creating a value for Israel beyond guilt and the war against the jihadis...
[IsraelTimes] Energy minister says deal could help moderate Arab influence in Europe the continent seeks to diversify its energy supply; agreement reportedly reached after EU agreed to invest $100 million in a feasibility study.
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part, maybe most, of the $100M will likely go for indirect bribes
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Studies like this include new radar mapping of the proposed routes and a few core drilling soil samples. Easy to burn through 100 mil doing those activates.
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What are they going to do about the continuing occupation of northern Cyprus? About Turkey's territorial claims to the the Eastern Mediterranean and anything else the Grand Caliph of Istanbul casts his covetous eyes upon?
[Townhall] Late Sunday evening, hundreds of illegal aliens attempted to rush the United States-Mexico border, something they talked about a few days ago. What the caravan riders didn't expect, however, was the Border Patrol utilizing tear gas to keep them from successfully crossing into the United States.
Roughly 500 caravan riders rushed past a barricade created by Mexican officials. They then went to rush the border, at which point the Border Patrol deployed tear gas to protect agents.
[Rudaw] Russia launched Arclight airstrikes against Syrian opposition positions in rebel-held Idlib on Sunday, according to Russia’s defense ministry.
The Russian strikes came in response to Saturday's shelling of regime-held Aleppo with suspected chemical munitions.
SANA, Syria’s state news agency, reported "107 cases of breathing difficulties" after the shelling ‐ the first suspected use of chemical weapons on Aleppo in the seven-year war.
Moscow accused Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HST), an alliance led by Syria’s former al-Qaeda affiliate, of firing the shells, thought to contain chlorine. Rebel groups have denied involvement.
Forty-six people ‐ including eight children ‐ have been hospitalized, said Russian Defense Ministry front man Igor Konashenkov, according to TASS news agency.
"The planes of Russia’s Aerospace Defense Forces carried out strikes on the detected artillery positions of bandidossnuffies in the area, from where the shelling of Aleppo civilians with chemical munitions was conducted late on November 24," Konashenkov said.
"As a result of the strikes, all of the rebel fighter targets were destroyed," he added.
Konashenkov said The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , which supports the rebel side in Syria’s civil war, was informed in advance of the airstrikes.
These are the first strikes since Russia and Turkey reached a ceasefire deal in October and established a buffer zone around Idlib ‐ staving off an expected regime offensive.
Three million people are thought to still reside inside Idlib.
Over the course of Syria's civil war, the regime has been accused of using both chlorine and sarin gas against rebel-held areas.
The regime and its Russian sponsor deny the allegations, instead accusing opposition fighters of staging chemical attacks to provoke a Western intervention.
[IsraelTimes] Syrian warplanes attack rebel-held areas in northern Syria for the first time in weeks, as Syrian officials say more than 100 people were treated at hospitals following a suspected poison gas attack by rebels in the northern city of Aleppo.
The latest wave of shelling and Arclight airstrikes in northern Syria is the most serious violation of a truce reached by Russia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey that brought relative calm to the country’s north for the past two months. The rebels, who have denied carrying out any chemical attacks, accuse the government of trying to undermine the cease-fire.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Thiqa News Agency, an activist collective, say government warplanes pounded rebel-held areas west and south of Aleppo city.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[PJMedia] Just when you thought it would be impossible to top the return of 4chan's "He Will Not Divide Us" live-action game of capture the flag with Shia LaBeouf, they've found a new hobby: Reporting tax fraud by THOTs to the IRS.
[Guardian] This cheery tribute to bibulous conviviality also serves up a warm moral.
[Victory Girls] At least that’s what the frothing-at-the-mouth news media and outraged parents would have you believe. "White House Turns Away Foreign Students on Tour With Class," screamed headlines in the New York Post, with the story picked up verbatim by the Daily Mail Fail, and others. I realize that expecting the news media to be objective when it comes to this President is like expecting a freebie from a hooker, but really? This?
[AlAhram] A 
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
[PJ] So here we are, at Thanksgiving, surrounded by a crowd of arrogant, ignorant, self-proclaimed superior people who proclaim, as was once declared about Vietnam, that the only way to save the country is to destroy it. That the European welfare state is the proper model for us, and that our electoral choices are mostly wrong. And evil. The first anti-American president put it bluntly in an interview with with one of his cronies, saying Americans are "confused, blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism, mommy issues."
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
...the 
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[Wash Times]
[Dallas News] A Dallas woman who ended up comatose and on life support after trying to get a nose job in Mexico has died, according to a family member.
