[RedState] Outside of that issue though, there are other questions involving the original whistle-blower (reported to be Eric Ciaramella). We know he was not legally privy to anything on the telephone call between Trump and Zelensky, which has formed the genesis of this matter. That means that whoever gave him the contents was illegally leaking classified information. Perhaps the whistle-blower himself is protected by statute for simply passing that information along, but whoever gave it to him certainly isn’t it for their original crime.
That leads us to Alexander Vindman. He’s become a central figure in these discussions after he marched up to Capitol Hill, proclaiming himself a patriot, and shared all his deep concerns about Donald Trump. He accused the President of "subverting" U.S. foreign policy, which gives you a window into the perverted minds of some of these bureaucrats that assume it is they who actually run things.
It’s been suspected that Vindman was the one who leaked to the whistle-blower and now that his testimony has been released, it seems fairly certain. Check out these excerpts and see what you notice.
...In these transcripts, we see Jim Jordan pressing Vindman on who outside of the chain of command he talked to about the call. Then we see Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell jump in and stop him from answering. But it’s what they say when they stop Vindman that gives the entire thing away.
"Mr. Chairman, I want to object that the question calls to reveal the whistleblower, and if there’s no other ‐ (interruption)
Then Schiff says this to follow up.
"Mr. Jordan, the minority may not care about protecting the whistleblower, but we in the majority do."
The problem is that Jordan never asked about the whistle-blower. This means that both Schiff and Swalwell accidentally confirmed here that Vindman is indeed the source for the ICIG complaint. In short, if Vindman answering the question about who he talked to would give up the whistle-blower’s identity, that means Vindman was the source.
Ooops.
Last I checked, it’s a crime to share classified information with people not legally able to receive that information. We’ve been told from the beginning of this ordeal that the whistle-blower himself did not have the proper clearance to access the phone call. Something sufficient to lock him up & throw away the key?
[BBC] Once, if you wanted to assess how well someone might do climbing the career ladder, you might have considered asking them to take an IQ test. For years, it was thought that the intelligence quotient (IQ) test ‐ which measures memory, analytical thinking and mathematical ability ‐ was one of the best ways to predict our future job prospects.
More recently, there has been increased attention on emotional intelligence (EQ), broadly characterised as a set of interpersonal, self-regulation and communication skills. EQ is now widely seen as a tool kit that plays an important role in helping us succeed in multiple aspects of life.
Both IQ and EQ are considered important to our career success. But today, as technology redefines how we work, the skills we need to thrive in the job market are evolving too. Enter adaptability quotient, or AQ, a subjective set of qualities loosely defined as the ability to pivot and flourish in an environment of fast and frequent change.
"IQ is the minimum you need to get a job, but AQ is how you will be successful over time," says Natalie Fratto, a New York-based vice-president at Goldman Sachs who became interested in AQ when she was investing in tech start-ups. She has subsequently presented a popular TED talk on the subject.
Fratto says AQ is not just the capacity to absorb new information,but the ability to work out what is relevant, to unlearn obsolete knowledge, overcome challenges, and to make a conscious effort to change. AQ involves flexibility, curiosity, courage, resilience and problem-solving skills too.
As society changes, could AQ be more crucial to career success than IQ? If so, how do you identify it ‐ and is there a way to hone AQ to future-proof your career?
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I used to have an old Pepper... & Salt cartoon from WSJ at my desk. Two guys in suits walking down the street. The caption: "I don't want to learn to manage my anger, I want to franchise it."
I couldn't get away with that today.
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...that appears to be the motto of the Donks Socialists.
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One reason that we have such a shitty political and media exec class is that our elite colleges in the affirmative action era have elevated "personal" characteristics to the top of their admissions criteria. This ranking of traits like "warmth," "sparkle," and other BS made-up attributes allow Harvard, Yale, etc to admit brown-nosing, academically-inferior characters over truly brilliant, academically-superior kids.
This is how we end up with shallow, smarmy self-promoting masters of perception management like Zero, Cory Booker, KamalHo, and their shitty white counterparts such as the Clintons and all the Pajama Boys and Girlz shitting around Washington, the media & entertainment industry corporate suites, left-wing big-city governments and Silicon Valley.
You can see the gory details of this wretched bargain -- it's a kind of political reputation-laundering by the Ivy Keagues' admissions process-- in the ludicrous and incompetent judicial opinion handed down in the Asian Americans ("Students for Fair Admission") v. Harvard discrimination case.
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Misleading or ill-researched article by the BBC. AQ is actually 'Adversity Quotient' and has been a favorite of anti-white psychologists and diversity lobbyists, for some time now.
Modern psychiatry invented a theory for employers to accommodate non-tech, arts and humanities people into all sorts of roles. Because those classified with more 'EQ' gained increasing traction in HR departments, advertising and PR, they helped others from academic fields and humanities gain employment with companies.
The dissection of the psyche into several 'types of intelligence' was done in the late 90s. Basic, Social, Emotional, etc. The one thing that everyone overlooked before applying systems theory to the human mind, is that intelligence cannot be divided like a machine.
The classical psychologists were right in defining 'quotients' for how the subject fares in different kinds of interactions. There's intellectual, emotional, spiritual, physical, creative, and adversity quotients. The Emotional Quotient was just a measure of the emotional aspect of intelligence. Now, an EQ score is said to reflect the emotional intelligence divorced from actual intelligence. In the late 90s and especially through the Obama era, lickspittle academics greatly stressed on the Adversity Quotient (AQ). This is not the EQ, or the IQ. It is the individual's ability to adapt and make use of adverse situations and overcome difficulties to solve problems. When classifying a subject as well adjusted and capable, modern shrinks began to take the AQ into the formulae to determine intelligence.
This is erroneous. It is what I call devious typification and ends up classifying individuals like; 'this one's emotionally intelligent but not with much basic IQ' - the EQ raises his score. In that sense, you may have a retard or an idiot savant with a greater EQ or AQ score than an IQ. Or a psychopath with a high AQ working in a school and spreading falsehoods true only to her.
Which is what most universities must have in their admins to have the kind of mess you have today. It's how gainfully employed people can turn out to be Antifa or anti-nationalist diversity lovers and opinionated weed smokers out to hit people.
What the article purposely leaves out is the theory calls for a suitable SQ, or spiritual quotient - to keep the intelligence grounded in purposes adhering to morality, empathy and a sense of good and evil. It is regarded to be the most important quotient of intelligence, without which the psyche is usually aberrant and ill-adjusted. While it may be colored by an individual's own culture or religion, it is an essential part of the intelligence. Modern shrinks however have carefully extricated themselves from questions of morality and believe this adjustment can apply to all.
Funny how, before our top university admissions committees began applying this AQ/EQ nonsense, those universities not only attracted the preppie spawn but also turned out brilliant grads like TS Eliot, EO Wilson, James Watson, Richard Feynman (though even Columbia denied admission to Feynman precisely because he wasn't "well-adjusted" or "nice" i.e. sufficiently preppie-goy).
None of these individuals was "collegial." None of them spouted PC nonsense-- in fact, Eliot was an anti-Semite, Watson a chauvinist skirt-chaser, Feynman a rebel, and all of them in one way or another publicly scorned, even shat upon, "diversity" nonsense.
Unlikely that even one of these brilliant men would have been admitted to any top university that practices "holistic admissions" today.
It's no wonder our culture is so barren of brilliance and replete with shit.
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It's a good thing that China are also mentally crippling their academics in the name of a different kind of correctness. The papers coming out of there while numerous are not of very good quality. They lack the intellectual heft that you see in a work done by a mind with untrammeled momentum. It's mostly copy and paste and replace words with synonyms, and modern statistical cooking these days. They're beating their heads over there to produce an original work.
[Reuters] Will retiring baby boomers bring down the stock market? Why do some investors view the baby boomer generation’s retirement plans as a potential negative for stocks? Can the stock market or capitalism itself be pulled down by a large generational shift? Some fear that this large group, born in the post-WWII baby boom between 1946 and 1964, will all retire around the same time, and therefore pull all of their money out of the stock market to invest in bonds or hold as cash. And not only will they yank a load of money out of the stock market, but subsequent generations’ Social Security contributions will not be able to support such a large group’s payouts‐leading to the downfall of the entire program.
How valid is this fear? It is true many baby boomers are recently retired or soon to retire. It is also true there are a lot of baby boomers‐about 72.5 million![i] However, you shouldn’t be overly worried about how their retirement will affect markets. Markets are efficient at pricing in widely known information. This means massive surprises can certainly impact the market, but well-known events, especially those known years in advance, don’t typically drive price movement. The market has long known baby boomers exist and will eventually retire. There is no secret cabal of baby boomers coordinating their efforts to sell out of stocks and take down the markets on one surprise, specific unknown day. Folks have been worried about baby boomers’ retirement for some time, and will continue to worry about it. This doesn’t mean demographic shifts don’t have importance or potential financial consequences. Markets care more about what is not known rather than what is already known.
But is there any validity to fearing what will happen if the baby boomers, or any other generation, withdraw large amounts from stock investments to put into cash or bonds around the same time? Couldn’t that have an impact on the stock market? First, consider that baby boomers aren’t all the exact same age, and even the same-aged boomers don’t all have the exact same plans. Not every 65-year old will choose to retire at the same time. Some will retire early, some late, and some may not even retire at all. Some boomers have younger spouses or children to support, some boomers will invest to leave a charitable legacy and some boomers aren’t even invested in the stock market at all! Don’t overlook another critical factor‐longevity. Lifespans are generally increasing. Many people retiring today can look forward to a 20- or 30-year long retirement‐or longer! To support that longer investment time horizon, many investors will need to have some growth in their portfolios, meaning that they’re unlikely to dump all of their stocks at once.
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Oh NOES! What a load of crap. Bonds aren't paying and investing in muni bonds (when they are floating them to pay for unfunded pensions vs infrastructure) is just stoopid
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Here is the basic math that will destroy the stock market: economy is ~20 trillion. It grows about 2% per year or 400 billion per year. Our yearly deficit the last 10 years is~1 trillion a year. Even with record low interest rates and record unemployment borrowing a trillion to get 400 billion eventually will breakdown..... not sure when but eventually it will blow up.
[The Guardian via Rolling Stone] Fresh evidence has also emerged of attempts by the Kremlin to infiltrate the Conservatives by a senior Russian diplomat suspected of espionage, who spent five years in London cultivating leading Tories including Johnson himself....
The committee’s report is based on analysis from Britain’s intelligence agencies, as well as third-party experts such as the former MI6 officer Christopher Steele....
Christopher Steele became famous in the United States as the author of a "dossier" that claimed Russians had been "cultivating, supporting, and assisting" Donald Trump "for at least 5 years."
Now Steele is back, claiming that the Russians have been cultivating the Tories and Boris Johnson for . . . five years.
You can’t make this stuff up. The only thing comparable would be Iraqi defector Ahmed Chalabi lobbying for a sequel invasion after the WMD hunt came up empty, and having the same humiliated media figures and politicians reach for pompoms all over again.
Steele first appeared in connection with the Trump story as a "well-placed Western intelligence source" in a 2016 Yahoo News article by Michael Isikoff. The piece claimed a Trump aide named Carter Page was discussing the lifting of sanctions with Igor Sechin, chief of the major Russian oil company Rosneft.
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I don't know why States are so hesitant to just kill off major troublemakers and opportunists like these. It doesn't matter to anyone living in the following week anyway, news of their passing becomes another 'what if' for the tabloids. I think Steele just avoided the polonium tea with this. The UK gummint will go to any length to protect him now.
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Only five years? The Russians have been cultivating Labour since the 1930s, almost a century earlier, and the same for the Democrats. In Barack Obama’s circle, for instance, the question is whether it was your parents or your grandparents who were the first to meet at a Communist Party meeting.
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The committee’s report is based on analysis from Britain’s intelligence agencies, as well as third-party experts such as the former MI6 officer Christopher Steele
Seriously? Anyone who quotes Mr. Steele throws away all credibility. Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, after all.
[IsraelTimes] FBI says man sent confidential documents to 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... while working at a Michigan company that serves the auto and aerospace industries.
Federal prosecutors in bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... have charged an engineer with sending corporate trade secrets to a brother in Iran.
According to NPR, officials said his brother worked at companies linked to Iran’s military programs, including one that "contributes to Iran’s proliferation-sensitive nuclear activities."
Amin Hasanzadeh of Ypsilanti is also accused of lying on immigration forms by failing to disclose his service in the Iranian military. He has permanent resident status in the US, commonly referred to as a green card.
The FBI says the 42-year-old Hasanzadeh sent confidential documents to Iran while working at a Michigan company that serves the auto and aerospace industries. The government says his responsibilities included work on a supercomputer that had aerospace applications. The alleged scheme occurred in 2015 and 2016.
Hasanzadeh appeared in court Wednesday and asked for an attorney. He said he works at the University of Michigan.
He was denied bond in a hearing on Friday, the Detroit News reported.
Federal officials say that before applying for a visa in 2010 and coming to the U.S., the electrical engineer served in the Iranian military and, according to the criminal complaint, worked at a company linked to "the Iranian government's Cruise Division of Air & Space Organization."
In 2011, Hasanzadeh started working as a defense contractor in Florida, focusing on "developing power electronics computer designs," according to the complaint. He did similar work in Maryland before getting a job in Michigan working for the unnamed "victim company" in January 2015.
Even though he was not allowed to take work home or share it over his personal email account, he allegedly started sending his brother confidential documents just six days into his employment.
Federal officials say his brother, Sina Hasanzadeh, worked at multiple companies linked to Iran's military programs, including one that "contributes to Iran's proliferation-sensitive nuclear activities."
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Even though he was not allowed to take work home or share it over his personal email account, he allegedly started sending his brother confidential documents just six days into his employment.
Obviously his first report was due within one week.
[NeonNettle] Another former Snopes employee, Kim LaCapria, recently left the company over its partnership with Facebook, accusing it of focusing only on the “appearance of trying to prevent damage without actually doing anything,” and expressing distaste with the fact that Snopes was being paid by Facebook.
LaCapria said she was particularly upset to learn that Facebook was paying Snopes: “That felt really gross … Facebook has one mission and fact-checking websites should have a completely different mission.”
Aside from allegedly being paid by Facebook, Snopes also generates revenue by filling its website with advertisements from Google Adsense, asking for donations from readers via PayPal, and has an active GoFundMe campaign to "Save Snopes" which has so far generated over $850,000 of its $2 million goal.
[Page6] Gone are Russell Crowe’s "Gladiator" days.
Crowe, 55, was photographed inside the Sydney airport in Australia Thursday with his assistant looking a tad worse for wear.
The Oscar-winning actor was caught sticking his hands down the back of his track pants while waiting at restaurant Bar Roma.
Crowe reportedly was heading to his farm at Nana Glen in northern New South Wales.
It’s unclear if Crowe’s weight gain is for a role. He is, however, currently filming "The Georgetown Project," according to IMDb and is in post-production of "Unhinged."
Crowe was photographed on the set of "Unhinged" over the summer looking different than usual, as he had lost weight after playing Roger Ailes in "The Loudest Voice," but many speculated the appearance to be the result of a fat suit.
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A few good years to establish a reputation, then it's motion-capture suits and computer graphic facial replacement. Better hope your lawyer locked in the royalties and residuals.
[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... will start sending foreign jihadists back to their home countries next week, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu told state news agency Anadolu on Friday.
"Now we are telling you that we are going to send them back to you. We are starting this on Monday," Soylu said, referring to members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (IS).
Earlier this week, Soylu said Turkey had nearly 1,200 foreign members of IS in jug, and had captured 287 during its recent operation in northern Syria.
Turkey has criticised Western countries for refusing to repatriate their citizens who left to join IS in Syria and Iraq, and stripping some of them of their citizenship.
It remains unclear whether Turkey will be able to repatriate those who have lost their citizenship.
Although under the New York Convention of 1961, it is illegal to leave someone stateless, several countries, including Britannia and La Belle France, have not ratified it, and recent cases have triggered prolonged legal battles.
Britannia has stripped more than 100 people of their citizenship for allegedly joining jihadist groups abroad.
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The logistics will be interesting. Going to fly them in on Turkish military aircraft? On regularly scheduled commercial flights? Or just smuggle them back home?
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[IsraelTimes] IDF armored vehicle hit by Molotov cocktail, no injuries reported; soldiers respond with tear gas, live fire.
Some 6,000 Paleostinians protested on the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip border with Israel on Friday, with several hundred rioting, throwing rocks, Molotov cocktails and explosives at Israel Defense Force troops
In one instance an IDF armored vehicle was hit by a Molotov cocktail, but there were no injuries. Rioters also tried to damage the security fence.
The soldiers responded with tear gas and occasional live fire. The Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,-run Gaza health ministry said 69 protesters were hurt, including 29 by live fire.
Also Friday, Hamas security forces in Gaza foiled an attempt by three suspected jihadists to sneak into Egypt and arrested them after an exchange of fire, the terror group said.
The forces "foiled a dawn attempt to infiltrate Egypt by way of the southern Gaza Strip border," according to the interior ministry of the Hamas-ruled coastal territory.
After shots were fired "the three button men were arrested," it said, without reporting casualties on either side.
A Gaza security source told AFP that the three men were Paleostinian members of "an Death Eater Salafist group," a term used to refer to backers of foreign jihadist movements.
[PJ] At NewsBusters, Curtis Houck writes, "On Friday afternoon, Megyn Kelly continued her return to the news business in a bombshell interview with Ashley Bianco, the former ABC News producer who was fired after only four days at CBS News for allegedly being behind the tape of ABC’s Amy Robach admitting that the network quashed her reporting about alleged serial pedophile Jeffrey Epstein."
After Kelly recapped what's transpired thus far in the media's handling of the Epstein case and his alleged suicide, Kelly introduced Bianco by asking if she was the person who leaked the tape.
Bianco repeatedly denied being the person who shared the Robach tape and, later in the interview, added that she had never even heard of the James O’Keefe-led group until this week:
KELLY: Did you leak the tape?
BIANCO: I did not.
KELLY: Not to anyone?
Bianco explained that, on August 19, she watched Robach’s comments live from her desk and that, according to a colleague, Robach knew her comments were not only broadcasted in-house, but also to "all the affiliates," so there could be any number of possible suspects.
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Former prosecutor Acosta was quoted as being asked during discussions of the lenient sentence in the first Epstein trial that he was told to go lightly because there was an intelligence connection to Epstein. Ours or a friends? Whomever it was, it might explain the obvious murder coverup.
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Ref #3: Former prosecutor Acosta was quoted as being asked during discussions of the lenient sentence in the first Epstein trial that he was told to go lightly because there was an intelligence connection to Epstein.
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Epstein was a man of several takents, having mastered the arts of:
1) persuading (with the help of Ghislaine La Procuress) cash-strapped, powerless young girls on both sides of the Atlantic to do tricks for treats;
2) persuading wealthy and powerful men on both sides of the Atlantic to give him many millions of dollars to "manage";
3) moving the funds accrued via Talent #2 around multiple offshore shell companies, bank accounts, and other legal-but-shady vehicles across, again, both sides of the Atlantic.
See a theme? The intelligence connection is likely a transatlantic one.
A reasonable surmise is that MI6 was running this guy, with help from a few Deep Staters in Langley.
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A reasonable surmise is that MI6 was running this guy, with help from a few Deep Staters in Langley.
The seemingly vaporized Ghislaine Maxwell is the giveaway. Her 'green' non-for-profit money laundering firm in Salisbury (conveniently located near a couple of sensitive MoD facilities), shuttered the day Epstein was found dead.
I believe the correct term is 'bilateral intelligence arrangement.'
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So that golden domed pleasure palace with the cute blue and white stripes on Little St. James Island was really a honey pot? Sounds like the makings of a great James Bond movie. I can't wait for it to come to a theater near me.
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I believe Ashley Bianco did not. More like ABC pressured CBS to fire her because she refused to sleep with the upper management.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... has launched a new phase of its operation against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in eastern regions of the country, the Interior Ministry announced on Friday, as it continues to squeeze the group in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq.
The fifth phase of Operation Kiran, meaning "breaker," targets PKK in the eastern provinces of Diyarbakir, Bingol and Mus. The operation was launched on August 17 in the southeastern provinces of Van, Hakkari, and Sirnak, and was followed by campaigns throughout the mainly Kurdish areas.
More than 2,500 personnel are taking part in the latest phase, the ministry stated, as reported by state-owned Anadolu Agency.
Turkey is simultaneously conducting operations against the PKK across the border in the Kurdistan Region where the Interior Ministry claimed they have "neutralized" over 400 PKK fighters in the last four months. The Ottoman Turkish army uses "neutralized" when referring to fighters who were killed, captured, or who have surrendered. This Operation Claw was launched on May 27 and is now in the third phase, focused on Sinat and Haftanin in Duhok province.
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[Federalist] The Mexican ambassador to the United States responded to Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley’s call to sanction Mexico for the recent escalation of violence from the nation’s ruling drug cartels by blaming the American public’s demand for black-market drugs.
"My government categorically rejects your recent mischaracterization on Mexico not actively combating transnational organized crime and suggesting to impose sanctions on Mexican officials," Ambassador Martha Barcena wrote to Hawley, adding in a handwritten note at the end of the letter that she hopes to address the matter with the senator personally to discuss how to "reduce drug demand in the U.S."
The letter from the Mexican government insinuating American demand for illicit substances is a key driver for cartel violence comes a day after Hawley called on Congress to impose sanctions on Mexico following an ambush that killed nine Americans on Monday.
"With Mexico, enough is enough," Hawley declared. "US government should impose sanctions on Mexican officials, including freezing assets, who won’t confront cartels. Cartels are flooding MO w/ meth, trafficking children, & openly slaughtering American citizens. And Mexico looks the other way."
Earlier this week, an ambush launched by a Mexican drug cartel killed six children and three women with ties to Utah living in the La Mora Mormon community in the Sonora state located in northern Mexico. According to reports, several victims burned to death, including a pair of infant twins, when one of the cars exploded at the scene.
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Fine, total closure of the border, any attempted crossing taken under immediate interdiction fire. No cash transfers allowed to mexico at all and we will stop selling their government weapons. Any mexican national in this country gets 6 months to leave, after that, summary execution. No US support for their oil industry which will collapse fast. In 5 years, we offer the northern states of mexico the chance to be US territories and eventually states. Eat it once piece at a time.
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I subscribe to the early Roman method of expansion. Make it clear being part of Rome is better than not. Make them Romans. Then you don't need to oppress people.
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Yes but when you kill the suppliers and flog the users in the public square, demand won't be so great. Oh and require drug testing for EVERY profession, constantly:) I have to get tested for my job, I see no reason why other people shouldn't as well.
But every stage of drug production, transportation and selling should carry a death sentence. End users get the whip and public shaming. If we are going to have a 'war on drugs' lets have an actual war.
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You guys are delusional. People will always demand drugs, food, and sex. The people of the USA have through their representatives decided that exchanging money for many drugs and most sex is illegal.
So all that stuff is going to be supplied by Mexico or Canada. For example, we pushed all the meth manufacturing out of the US to Mexico by limiting the availability of sudafed. That choice is preventing American first responders from having to deal with chemical burns. Which is good. Yet we complain that the Mexicans build big meth factories and ship the stuff in to the USA.
If we bombed all their factories and secured the border, then we would get domestic meth production again and put our first responders back into hazard.
We need to think carefully about how we manage supply and demand here. We could test all the sanitary sewers for drugs, find the users and kill them. Or we could decriminalize drug use and production. Or some intermediate approach. But please take a moment to think about the second order effects. These second order effects are what repealed prohibition; so, be more thoughtful about this very real problem.
[Rudaw] Nearly half a million people in northern Syria may soon be without clean drinking water as a key piece of infrastructure, damaged by Ottoman Turkish bombs, remains out of service, the International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) warned on Friday.
Alouk water pumping station is located east of Sari Kani (Ras al-Ain) and provides clean water for the surrounding area including Hasaka city, Areesha camp, and al-Hol camp. It was damaged in a Ottoman Turkish bombardment on October 11.
The facility was damaged a second time on October 29 and fighting in the area prevented repair crews from accessing the site. Syrian state media SANA accused Ottoman Turkish-backed militias of preventing specialized teams from reaching Alouk.
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If Turkey wants too be the big kid on the block, let them pay too fix it. Because this is the usual call that goes out before they start asking the US for money too "fix" shit.
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Let them drink diesel fuel push on towards Israel!
[Right Scoop] This is dumb. Lars Larson was scolded today by Fox News host Harris Faulkner for something he didn’t even do, and this was after he said the name of the whistleblower which Fox News forbids:
The topic is Senator Kennedy calling Nancy Pelosi dumb, which Leslie Marshall called sexist.
In defense of Kennedy, Larson said "It’s not sexist. I know dumb men and I know dumb women. And I will probably meet some dumb people with pronoun names too. It’s not a sexist term." Lars then went on to name the ’whistleblower’ in commentary about Pelosi.
The good thing is he didn’t get scolded for mentioning the whistleblower’s name. Faulkner just ignore that. But what she did scold him for was this: "So this conversation devolved too. We don’t put down people who use different pronouns on this network and on this show especially."
Seriously? Lars didn’t put down anyone with or without pronouns. He was just pointing out that ’dumb’ isn’t a sexist term and was covering his bases with "all" genders.
Fox News is much more annoying than the used to be with this nonsense.
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My pronouns are 'Your Grace', if you need refer to me in the third person, 'His Grace', and the utilitarian 'Magnifico' is suitable in all situations.
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My pronoun is "Your Imperial Majesty, EVIL Overlord of the Universe, I am unworthy to exist in your presence as I am vermin." Failure to use this will result in beheading by dull spoon.
BAGHDAD (AP) ‐ A barrage of Katyusha rockets targeted an Iraqi air base that houses American troops south of the city of Mosul on Friday, officials said. No members of the U.S.-led coalition were injured.
The rocket fire appears to have originated in Mosul and struck the Iraqi army base in Qayyara, about 60 kilometers (38 miles) south of Mosul, where coalition forces are helping the Iraqis battle remnants of the Islamic State group, Iraqi security officials said. They spoke to The Associated Press did so on condition of anonymity under regulations.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility nor was it clear if any of the rockets struck the base.
Iraqi officials did not immediately say whether there were any casualties, though a coalition spokeswoman later said no coalition troops had been injured.
"Coalition forces are in Iraq at the invitation of the Government of Iraq to defeat ISIS remnants," U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Marisa Roberts said, using a popular acronym for the Islamic State group. "We will not be deterred by these attacks and maintain the right to defend ourselves."
Supreme Court Gives Ayodhya Land to Hindus in Historic Verdict.
This is a big deal. It is a blow to the islamists and leftist diversity lovers within India. It is the equivalent of the Temple Mount to the hindus, and a muslim bugbear since the 90s.
In '92 the hindu right-wingers attacked and partly destroyed a masjid built by the mughals over an ancient temple to lord Ram, the primary hindu deity. Ayodhya, said to be the birth place of Ram since then became a place of considerably militant religious fervor. A large muslim community lived around the Babri Masjid and had to scatter in the riots that followed. The event began the decade long litigation which embarrassingly dragged the purview of modern day jurists into questions of myth, historicity and even the tracing of lineages of deities and their progeny. We are immensely glad that one - the muslims are further dis-empowered and two - the SC can go back to doing actual work that affects actual living people. Not that this verdict wasn't a piece of work, but the credit for this only goes to PM Modi and his merry band, for consolidating an iron hold on every source and conduit of power from the legislatures to mainstream media. The basically right-wing govt has built an atmosphere of secular strictures and non-tolerance of islamist thuggery. Which is a good thing, if you ask the right people.
Ayodhya Verdict Live Updates: Bringing down curtains on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid issue, one of the longest running title disputes in India, the Supreme Court has given the entire disputed 2.77-acre land to the Hindu parties with a trust to be formed by the Centre within three months to monitor the construction of a Ram Temple. The Sunni Waqf Board will be given 5 acres of alternate land, a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court ruled in the unanimous verdict. The Nirmohi Akhara also suffered some setback with the court. The CJI Ranjan Gogoi-led bench of Justices SA Bobde, DY Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and S Abdul Nazeer, said the Akhara's suit was barred by limitation.
The Ayodhya title suit verdict comes nine years after the 2:1 judgment of the Allahabad High Court that ordered a three-way division of the disputed 2.77 acres of land between the three parties - Ram Lalla, Sunni Waqf Board and the Nirmohi Akhara. The Lucknow Bench of the High Court, on September 30, 2010, held that Hindus and Muslims as joint title holders of the disputed land.
Crux of the Ayodhya Verdict
The disputed land in Ayodhya goes to the Hindus in its entirety for the construction of Ram Mandir. The Sunni Waqf Board will get five acres of alternate land, which will be accorded either by the state or the Centre.
Centre will hand over the disputed site to the Board of trustees and a suitable alternative plot of land measuring five acres at Ayodhya will be given to Sunni Waqf Board.
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I hope these things, colored as they are by local inanities, are also educational in a sense. I hope people can look past the silly and understand the practical value of an indigenous, militantly religious corps. A strong, rustic religious element - even if they're unwashed masses of ideologues. As long as they're non-muslim. This is what every country needs to keep those islamic hordes in check.
America did not stay rooted in the bible. They laughed at the 'holy rollers' and the inarticulate non-elites who chose to stay rooted in their faith. And aggressively opinionated 'scientists' and academics replaced the Man in the Sky. This is why there are Obamas, Omars and Rashidas practically ruling in the US.
Of course, rustic hindus are really only slightly better than muslims, and they don't have a real Man in the Sky. America had so much more, like Israel. Which is why I believe, if American families and individuals begin approaching God to save their country and return to the Truth, America can have a new lease of life. And islamists will flee from you.
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Dron, my ignorance of India is so profound that I'm not sure even you can make a dent in it, but your posts are consistently interesting and offer a perspective we haven't had here before.
I can't speak for the US as a whole, but within two miles of my house there are two Catholic churches, a Greek Orthodox Cathedral, a Korean Presbyterian Church, a Coptic Orthodox Church, a Baptist Church, and an Episcopal Church. So we ain't exactly heathen.
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Thank you, Matt.
I can't speak for the US as a whole
And I thank God for that, Matt. Not heathens no, but I know there is an endemic fascination for atheism and the idolatry of charismatics and celebrities throughout the US. Coupled with increasing liberals' demand to do away with icons and articles of the christian faith from American life altogether if possible. Indeed it's everywhere, not just the US. But I have faith that God's not done with America, which is why the Trump is here.
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And you're right that it's not gone down the drain yet. There's actual bible believing folks in all of America, white and colored and asian etc, who are propping up the standard. They may not have grand spires or kiss the Pope's pinkie every year but Gawd listens to them.
[Rudaw] Iraqi security forces killed at least six protesters in the capital Baghdad and four more in the southern oil-hub city of Basra on Thursday, Rooters reported as protests continue amid regular internet blackouts.
Security forces used live rounds against protesters near the central Shuhada Bridge close to Baghdad’s Tahrir Square, the main base for demonstrators.
Brutal force was also used against those blocking Umm Qasr port, a key source of revenue for the Iraqi economy, which has been closed multiple times this week as demonstrators remain defiant.
Rooters also reported "scores" of protesters injured over the weekend.
Despite the deaths, Iraqi state media quoted Baghdad Operations Command commander Staff Lt. Gen. Qaes al-Mohammadawi as saying that traffic on Shuhada Bridge, where the deaths occurred, was moving as normal after it was reopened on Thursday.
Iraqis have been out on the streets since October 1, 2019, demanding an end to corruption, more employment opportunities, and an end to nepotism.
After entering a brief hiatus on October 8 to observe the Shiite pilgrimage of Arbaeen, protests erupted once again on October 25, with more radical demands calling for the overthrow of the government and electoral and constitutional reforms.
Protesters are fighting to surpass security forces holding numerous strategic bridges leading to the capital’s fortified Green Zone- home to politicians, foreign embassies, government offices.
The Jumhurya, Sinak and Ahrar bridges are some of the current hotspots.
Iraqi Security forces in the Green Zone have set up multiple levels of barricades to prevent protesters from breaking into the area. Protesters have now started using green lasers beams to block their vision, and have also seized control of the "Ottoman Turkish Restaurant" building in Tahrir Square, a bombed-out Baghdad tower restaurant that has now has become a symbol of the protests.
Iraq’s most important port, Umm Qasr in Basra has also been closed due to the protests.
Umm Qasr has been subject to several closures- and re-openings- in the past week as protesters and security forces continue to clash. In the early hours of Thursday, the Iraqi army regained control of the port before it was shut by protesters just hours later.
According to Major General Abdul-Karim Khalaf, spokesperson for Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi, the closure of the port and the surrounding roads have cost Iraq $6 billion.
More than 260 Iraqis have been killed and 10,000 maimed since the protests first started on October 1.
Among the worst cases of violence against protesters has been the usage of military-grade tear gas, with canisters piercing the skulls of protesters.
Despite the frustration, Iraqis continue to take to the streets. Internet blackouts have become regular for Iraqis.
Telegram channels that support the protests have not posted since Thursday, a sign that the Internet is still down. This internet blackout continues despite an announcement by Iraqi state media that internet was back on "throughout the country" on Thursday.
Curfews were also imposed throughout the city and across several Iraqi provinces. Those in the capital, however, have now been lifted permanently, according to al-Mohammadawi.
[Rudaw] As Ottoman Turkish forces invaded northern Syria in early October, supporters of the offensive launched a different kind of campaign ‐ online.
Dozens of images claiming to show The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... ’s soldiers cuddling babies, feeding hungry toddlers and carrying elderly women spread across Twitter and Instagram where they were liked, retweeted and viewed thousands of times thanks also to popular hashtags.
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[KhaamaPress] The AC-130J Ghostriders, the U.S. military’s newest gunships help the Afghan forces both on the battlefield and psychologically, according to U.S. military officials.
The new plane reportedly begun operations in Afghanistan in the month of June and since then has flown hundreds of sorties.
Col. Terence Taylor, commander of Combined Joint Special Operations Air Component‐Afghanistan told the Stars and Stripes "Every night, the AC-130J is flying. The people they are supporting, are requesting them every single night."
This amounts to 218 sorties and 1,380 hours in the skies over Afghanistan, Col. Taylor added.
Chief Master Sgt. Edward Fry, enlisted leader alongside Taylor at the air component command told the Stars and Stripes "The Ghostriders have saved lives."
The Ghostrider’s ability to unleash hell, including from its 105 mm howitzer and 30 mm autocannon, have helped Afghan forces both on the battlefield and psychologically, Fry said, adding that "Them hearing the sound of the gunship overhead, that in many ways serves to embolden them."
This comes as the Afghan and U.S. forces have stepped up ground operations and Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against the bad boy groups during the recent months, specifically after the U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... called off peace talks with Taliban ...Arabic for students... in September.
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DAMN! This one was supposed to have the battle laser!
https://www.military.com/defensetech/2018/04/11/air-force-special-ops-short-funding-ac-130-gunship-laser.html
[ToloNews] Farah city residents expressed happiness over the improvement in security after this summer’s heavy festivities between Afghan cops and the Taliban ...Arabic for students... on the city’s outskirts.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... they asked that security forces step up their efforts to improve the situation in other parts of the province, where, according to them, threats still exist.
"The security situation in the city of Farah has improved over the past few months. The security forces made a lot of effort. We want more efforts to ensure the security of the whole province," said Naqibullah, a Farah resident.
"The security situation in the city of Farah has improved. There were lots of liquidation cases, there were festivities, but now the situation is better," said Abdul Sattar, a Farah resident.
Security officials said the outskirts of the city of Farah have been cleared of gunnies and their hideouts have been destroyed.
"We defused 116 different types of mines from different parts of the city of Farah over the past two months," said Mohibullah Mohib, a front man for the Farah police.
According to local officials, many investors left the province after an increase of threats and security incidents in the province began two years ago.
But the NDS chief in Farah, Samad Shams, said investors should remain within Farah because their safety will be ensured by Afghan forces who are attempting to fully clear the province of murderous Moslems.
"They should not transfer their capital to other provinces. We are fully committed to ensuring their safety," Shams said.
A member of the provincial council, Dadullah, also called for more military operations in the villages and districts of the province, not just in Farah city.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan forces defused a remote-controlled bomb in Kabul city earlier today, the Kabul Police Headquarters said.
According to a statement released by Kabul Police, the faceless myrmidons had planted the bomb close to Bot Khak roundabout in the 12th district of the city.
The statement further added that the the police forces defused the bomb with the help of Explosives Ordinance Disposal team of the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... Talibs and other groups often use improvised bombs as the weapon of their choice to target the security personnel and government officials.
However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... such attacks normally inflict casualties on ordinary civilians.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces ...established in 2007 with the intent of taking one conventional infantry kandak (battalion) from each of the regional ANA corps, giving them special training and equipment, and reorganizing based on the U.S. Army Rangers. Each battalion is assigned to one of the six regional corps. The commandos comprise 7% of the Afghan National Security Forces but conduct 70% to 80% of the fighting... killed 11 Talibs and destroyed multiple caches of weapons during the operations in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , Uruzgan and Nimroz provinces.
The Special Forces killed 5 of the forces of Evil and destroyed a cache of weapons in Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province, the military officials said earlier today.
The officials further added that the Special Forces killed 6 Talibs, arrested another bully boy and destroyed a cache of weapons in Tarin Kot district of Uruzgan.
The Special Forces confiscated a large amount of narcotics belonging to Taliban ...Arabic for students... in Khash Rod district of Nimroz, the officials said, adding that the Special Forces destroyed a cache of weapons during a patrol in Tarin Kot district of Uruzgan.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the operations so far.
[KhaamaPress] A series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s killed 33 snuffies of Taliban ...Arabic for students... and ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... Khurasan groups in 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.. , Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... and Kandahar provinces in the past 24 hours.
The military officials said Friday an airstrike killed 11 snuffies of ISIS Khurasan group in Deh Bala district of Nangarhar province.
The officials further added a similar airstrike in Deh Bala district of Nangarhar killed 11 Talibs while another airstrike in Sherzad district of the province destroyed a boom-mobile of ISIS Khurasan group.
An airstrike in Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand killed 3 Talibs and destroyed a small cache of weapons, the officials said, adding that airstrikes in Lashkargah district of the province killed 5 more Talibs.
The officials also added that an airstrike in Registan district of Kandahar killed 3 Talibs.
I live in SC and I plan on voting for Senator Mitt Romney in the Democrat primary March 2020!
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“...pay a wealth tax to grow opportunities for others. “
We interpret that to mean that YOU give US money to spend on 40s of malt liquor and some righteous bud so we can hone our on-line gaming skills. Did we mention that high-speed internet access is a human right?
Remember @AP on Oct 30th: “Iranian Gen. Qassim Soleimani flew into Baghdad late at night and took a helicopter to the heavily fortified Green Zone, where he surprised a group of top security officials by chairing a meeting in place of the prime minister” https://t.co/B0yRSIkHpF
@AP: “We in Iran know how to deal with protests,” Soleimani told the Iraqi officials, according to two senior officials familiar with the meeting who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the secret gathering. “This happened in Iran and we got it under control.”
@AP: The day after Soleimani’s visit, the clashes between the protesters & security forces in Iraq became far more violent, with the death toll soaring past 100 as unidentified snipers shot demonstrators in the head & chest. Nearly 150 protesters were killed in less than a week.
If you don’t call that “foreign hands” meddling in another countries affairs, I don’t know what is.
Also please note one of the main issues for the protesters is to stop Iranian meddling in the country. Such Iranian meddling that is now resulting in hundreds of Iraqis killed.
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“We in Iran know how to deal with protests,” Soleimani told the Iraqi officials, [said the leakers]. “This happened in Iran and we got it under control.”
You just need a little Stalin-Style repression.
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[Reason] The Eighth Amendment prohibition against excessive fines and fees applies to states as well, SCOTUS rules, opening a new way to challenge outlandish forfeitures.
States are bound by the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against excessive fines and fees when they seek to seize property or other assets from individuals charged or convicted of a crime, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Wednesday.
It's a decision that hands a major victory to critics of civil asset forfeiture, and it opens another avenue to legal challenges against that widely used (and often abused) practice by which states and local governments can seize cars, cash, homes, and pretty much anything else that is suspected of being used to commit a crime.
The case before the Supreme Court, Timbs v. Indiana, involved the seizure of a $42,000 Land Rover SUV from Tyson Timbs, who was arrested in 2015 for selling heroin to undercover police officers. He pleaded guilty to his crimes and was sentenced to one year of house arrest and five years of probation. On top of that, the state of Indiana seized his 2012 Land Rover—which he had purchased with money received from his late father's life insurance payout, not with the proceeds of drug sales—on the ground that it had been used to commit a crime.
Timbs challenged that seizure, arguing that taking his vehicle amounted to an additional fine on top of the sentence he had already received. The Indiana Supreme Court rejected that argument, solely because the U.S. Supreme Court had never explicitly stated that the Eighth Amendment applied to the states.
On Wednesday, the high court did exactly that.
"For good reason, the protection against excessive fines has been a constant shield throughout Anglo-American history," wrote Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the opinion. "Excessive fines can be used, for example, to retaliate against or chill the speech of political enemies," she wrote, or can become sources of revenue disconnected from the criminal justice system.
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But what about asset forfeiture that does not involve a criminal charge and thus cannot be considered a fine?
"Civil asset forfeiture proceedings charge the property itself with involvement in a crime. This means that police can seize your car, home, money, or valuables without ever having to charge you with a crime." (Heritage Foundation)
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"For good reason, the protection against excessive fines has been a constant shield throughout Anglo-American history," wrote Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the opinion.
She sort of skips over that rationale when it comes to the right of Christians to practice their religion free from government interference. You know that First Amendment thingy.
[SPUTNIKNEWS] Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who served as the president of Brazil between 2003-2010, was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2018 for money laundering and corruption. He maintains significant support in the country and was a favoured candidate to win in the 2018 election, despite being in jail.
Brazilian Twitter erupted in response to an announcement that the former president of Brazil, Lula Da Silva, had been released from prison on Friday following an order by a federal judge.
Online users, including Lula, reacted to the news with celebration, as Brazilians await his release from prison.
Lula's lawyers requested his release following an order from the top court of Brazil, which voted to overturn a rule that a person can be imprisoned only after all appeals to the courts have been exhausted.
Despite being imprisoned during an ongoing corruption investigation, he was a favourite to win the 2018 presidential election, which saw the election of pro-US leader Jair Bolsonaro.
[UNZ] America is "a society that is and always has been multiethnic and polyglot," burbled David Frum, in a 2016 exposition. It's a refrain repeated by centrists like Frum and French (also David), by all lefties and by well-trained faux rightists.
Such dissembling about America having always been multicultural are no more than post hoc justifications for turning the country into a veritable Tower of Babel.
Early America's colonies were founded by Englishmen in periwigs, speaking different English dialects. They were joined by Irish, Scottish, French, Dutch, German and Swedish Christians, who quickly adopted English as lingua franca.
Not even the woke Wikipedia denies that, "Nearly all colonies and, later, states in the United States, were settled by migration from" one colony to another, with "foreign immigration" generally playing "a minor role after the first initial settlements."
In other words, population growth was organic, a result of the settlers themselves multiplying and being fruitful, not of a flood of immigrants.
This so-called "multiethnic" dispensation saw early Americans publicly debate and come to a broad agreement on some highly complex, abstract matters of political philosophy, an impossibility today. The colonial community had to be pretty tight to arrive at the Articles of Confederation, followed by the Constitution.
Try as he might, not even the sainted Barack Obama got away with claiming, as he did, that, "Islam had been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding."
Beyond their heavy involvement in the slave trade and in the Barbary wars‐and contrary to Obama's modern myth-making‐Muslims were most certainly not enmeshed in America from its inception.
Moreover, and almost to a man, the learned Founding Father, as chronicled by Laura Rubenfeld of PJ Media, held a dismal view of Islam and its vampiric prophet.
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Monoculturalism is the answer to most of the world's current troubles. Economies of different cultures must compete, collaborate and trade. Tolerance should be respected, but the territory you are in must dictate your practices.
Multiculturalism, diversity, etc are all terms insinuated into polspeak mainly to accommodate a wildly hostile and dangerous cult of islam - salafism, in otherwise secular and liberal democracies. While islam itself is militantly monocultural. No State is morally obligated nor should they feel so, to gratify this element in the name of tolerance or freedom of religion. Islam may be given a sequestered place with periodic inspection of literature and scrutiny of doctrines, entrenched spies and reportage; but to give it the same pedestal as a conventional religion is not just cultural suicide. It is literal as well.
One of the basic tenets of the fucking thing is to supplant, deceive and enslave the host country ! Anyone who advocates for its inclusion into a list of common religions is either an idiot unfit for legislative responsibility, or an agent of the enemies of a state. And since there are more idiots and assholes in the world than smart people, we have today a list of religions in which islam is the second from top. If humanity is to have a future, that list shall have to change drastically in just a few decades.
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Notice how the same people who promote 'multiculturalism' also envy Scandinavian socialism, ignoring the fact that they're 98 percent white with an inherit Lutheran culture.
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Islam is an ideology created using the level of logic prevalent under Nomadic culture. In other words its structure, constraints in internal logic was created using the value and norms of human behavior dictated by pre-agrarian, pre-industrial and pre-information age interpretations of how the world operates. These ages are different because human interpretations were different. Differences between eras were not because of what happened in those ages, but how the human mind was different.
Where today’s interpretation fails lies in knowing what the DIFFERENCE is between Nomadic values were and the three major ages/cultures that followed. Knowing what constitutes nomadic culture is not sufficient in understanding Islam and WHY its unsuitable and incompatible with the other three cultures that followed. So....what are the differences in Nomadic culture and why is Islam nomadic age based?
Nomadic culture existed far longer than agrarian, industrial and information ages. Each subsequent age lasted for a shorter period than the previous ages. Change not only changes, it accelerates when it changes. Today we say ist due to technology, but it isn’t. IT due to how the human mind understand and reacts to its environment. Technology is inert. It doesn’t have self determination.
Nomadic culture of following animals around for sustenance, procreation and power existed for 50 thousand years, give or take. Agrarian culture for 10,000, Industrial for 500 years and todays information for less than 100 years.
Nomadic culture emphasizes the use of FORCE over other forms of life rather than the use of logical arguments to change another’s mind. Hit the animal to make it do your bidding. One doesn’t discuss matter with the animal. Whether that be the sheep, goat or wife or child. Muscular strength is the key to success, hence the male is placed at the top of the pyramid, human females are secondary due to the ability to procreate another human male, followed by lactating domesticated animals (sheep, goats, camels, cows, etc) third. All other life forms allocated far lower. Not surprising that dogs in Islam are relegated a very low stature as they impose a direct threat to a man’s ownership of sheep or goats that provide food and stature. Only when we discovered agrarian processes did the dog change from enemy to being man’s best friend. Why.....will be explained later.
Islam is inherently wildly intolerant because it is the lowest form of how a human comes to terms with something that is different or outside of one’s understanding. It is instinctually based. It is the actionable form of “fight or flight”. DNA based not reasoned. You either kill something that appears to be a threat or you run away from it. Nomadic culture doesn’t even know about “understanding” something that is “other”. Explanation doesn’t form a part of how a nomadic culture functions. Hence the totally zero tolerance and omnipresent violent reactions to drawing an image of Mohammed. It’s baked into the logic. Hence the prevalent use of violence to resolve issues. In fact its the go to method for relating to most issues whatever they be. Notice the prevalent inability to logically debate Islamic issues in public forums, the commonly seen raging mad male Muslims in public squares, and the unyielding claim that the Koran is infallible and therefore can’t even be questioned.
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^ Ospan - sounds logical, but how did the Arabs get beyond their nomadic faith and attain such a high standard of abstract reasoning, scientific and math excellence and culture generally in the period after 900?
Not an Islamiphile or multi-culti softie; an just genuinely curious to hear how you reconcile this historical aberration with your thesis.
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Islamic culture only provided the repository for Western ideas stored on paper. Yes it is true that there was some additional advancement on these ideas that came from the “Arab” locations. Essentially the Levant and Mesopotamia regions. Not all territorial regions added to these ideas. Think....the Alexandria library.
The sudden advancement today’s westerner sees occurring in the Islamic world is not a product of their modifications to western technologies, but simply the purchase of article of western production. The facade of wealth is not an indication of the ability for generating future wealth. Think of the sudden wealth syndrome of a person winning the lottery. A person of poverty can suddenly move in next door to the partner of the hedge fund. Both families appearing to have the same wealth on paper. But which would you invest in for future growth of your funds? The Hedge fund manager or the newbie lottery winner.
Don’t be fooled by oil wealth. It only appeared in the Islamic world due to geological formation located within specific geographical territory. Notice how even then some tribes do better than others. Coastal cultures like the UAE handle wealth better than the more nomadic cultures like Saudi.
Again apparent wealth is not a leading indicator of how well that Islamic culture will be able to handle future income. How well a particular culture responded to change using its logic and reasoning ability s a better indicator as to how well it will adjust to future income streams.
I have to go now. Glad to respond to these questions. Please disregard my spelling mistakes.
[CNSNEWS] In his new book and in the periodical he founded, La Repubblica, Eugenio Scalfari, a long-time friend of Pope Francis and frequent papal interviewer, claims that the Pope told him that Jesus Christ did not rise bodily from the dead but "in the semblance of a spirit."
This notion is a contradiction of Church teaching and the Gospels.
In the Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 645, it states, " By means of touch and the sharing of a meal, the risen Jesus establishes direct contact with his disciples. He invites them in this way to recognize that he is not a ghost and above all to verify that the risen body in which he appears to them is the same body that had been tortured and crucified, for it still bears the traces of his Passion."
"Yet at the same time this authentic, real body possesses the new properties of a glorious body: not limited by space and time but able to be present how and when he wills; for Christ's humanity can no longer be confined to earth, and belongs henceforth only to the Father's divine realm," states the Catechism. "For this reason too the risen Jesus enjoys the sovereign freedom of appearing as he wishes: in the guise of a gardener or in other forms familiar to his disciples, precisely to awaken their faith."
In the Gospel of John (20:24-29) it says that after the resurrection, "Jesus came and stood among them and said, 'Peace be with you!' Then he said to Thomas, 'Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.'
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Of what possible USE could Christ rising from the Tomb as a spirit and not a BODY be to common ordinary REAL Human beings? He EITHER rose from the Dead or HE didn't. He rose as a body like the human being will have to do...OR he is USELESS to human beings. One or the other. If HE didn't rise as a BODY HE is useless to Human Beings.
The Church has always taught:
Jesus is both God and man.
He has both a divine and human nature but that He is one person.
He always exists as God the Son, that He is equal to God the Father.
He was begotten of the Father; He is not a created being.
He was born as a human.
He died and rose again.
He ascended into heaven.
He will come again in glory to render His divine judgment.
.Different , Yes. New and improved, Yes. But NOT like all of us when we rise.?
No.Not Bodily Resurrection= Useless to humans.As a Spirit? The Heresy has a Name. Monophysitism: Denied Jesus had a true human natureOR Will... and acknowledged only Jesus' divine nature. Screw that.
[WSJ] UKIAH, Calif.‐On the fourth morning without power, Carolyn Summers lay as still as possible in bed, trying to delay the moment when she ran out of oxygen.
Her power generator, which she had hoped would run her oxygen compressor, wouldn’t start. The local hospital said it couldn’t give her an extra tank.
"I guess if you run out, you just die?" Ms. Summers wrote on Facebook. Then the 62-year-old lay still again, conserving energy and hoping for a miracle.
Rampant wildfires‐and the precautionary blackouts that utilities including PG&E Corp. have instituted to try to prevent them‐are reshaping life across the Golden State and transforming the state’s reputation.
Long known as the home of easy living, with its beaches and year-round sunshine, California is increasingly seen as a difficult place, where the government and corporate institutions can’t reliably offer basic services. Some residents are questioning whether they should leave as a result.
California has the highest gas prices in the country. Housing prices are the second-highest in the nation, triggering a statewide lack of affordable housing.
Homelessness is surging in the state’s major cities, despite billions spent by state and local governments to combat the problem. A drought, which gripped the state for more than seven years, left some towns without clean water.
Now, more than two million people have lost their power in Northern and Southern California in the past month and hundreds of thousands have evacuated their homes to avoid fire danger, a number likely to grow before the year ends.
Many of those hardest hit live in poorer rural and exurban areas like Ukiah that haven’t benefited as much from the economic boom as cities like San Francisco that, due to denser housing, are also safer from wildfires. Ukiah’s median household income is about $43,000 a year.
"It’s like living in a third-world country," said Marilyn Dalton, 78, a resident of Potter Valley, near Ukiah.
A city of 16,000 located two hours north of San Francisco, Ukiah exemplifies the new reality facing millions of Californians this autumn’s fire season and, experts predict, for many to come.
Although Ukiah escaped the first of PG&E’s intentional blackouts, the second and third ones rolled into each other here, with no break in between. Wildfires have come dangerously close, forcing residents just outside town to evacuate. Cell signals have faded; gas lines have been hourslong; and heat has cut out on freezing nights.
Two years ago, Ms. Dalton and thousands of others were forced to flee as a wildfire swept through Mendocino County, killing nine people. Last year, school was closed here for a week because of smoke from a fire 150 miles away. During the blackout last week, Ms. Dalton’s toilet, which runs on electricity, stopped flushing.
"If I wasn’t as old as I am, I would pack up and get the hell out," she said.
[SPUTNIKNEWS] The Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union can no longer rely on "soft power" to assert its values globally and needs to learn the "language of power", European Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen said Friday.
First step: make sure your army has enough bullets and spare parts to get where it needs to go and defend itself against aggressors once it gets there.
In her "State of Europe" address in Berlin, the former German defence chief reminded the audience that "soft power" was a way of spreading a nation’s influence through culture, something she said was a "costly" project.
"Soft power alone is now not enough. If we Europeans want to assert ourselves in the world Europe must also learn the language of power".
Von der Leyen said Europe needed to "grow our own muscle where we have long relied on others, for example in security policy."
Secondly, Europe needs to use the force it had for "targeted engagement" where it best served European interests. She cited China as a country where the EU was in a position to influence bilateral trade.
Von der Leyen ‐ a Brussels-born German politician and a mother of seven ‐ was expected to assume office on 1 November, but the start date was pushed back by a month after the European Parliament rejected several of her nominees.
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"Europe must also learn the language of power".
Messrs. Hobbes, Machiavelli, Bonaparte, Von Clausewitz, De Maistre, Nietzsche, Ulyanov, and Orwell would be surprised to hear that Europeans did not understand or speak the language of power.
Maybe Europeans need to spend a bit more time appreciating their cultural heritage instead of wishing it away in favor of multi-culti globalist transgendered postmodern bullshit.
[SPUTNIKNEWS] Even though the US Air Force’s F-117 Nighthawk stealth aircraft was retired from active service in April 2008, it’s still being spotted in action. Most recently, two of the stealth aircraft were captured on camera flying at the Tonopah Test Range military installation in Nevada last month.
Videos of the aircraft post-retirement first appeared in 2014. At the time, the Air Force revealed that the Nighthawk was maintained in a "Type 1000" storage at the Tonopah Test Range. According to Air Force Magazine, Type 1000 storage means that "an aircraft will be maintained in a condition where it can be recalled to duty and fly again."
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[SPUTNIKNEWS] Checking illegal cross-border activities and preventing cattle smuggling has been a challenge for Indian security forces. The use of drones is seen as vital to countering this menace, media reports said.
India's paramilitary Border Security Force (BSF) has confirmed the acquisition of Israeli-made equipment to curb such incidents on the country’s 4,156km-long (2,582-mile-long) border with Bangladesh.
These include tethered drones, thermal imaging cameras, Electro Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) sensors (used for military or law enforcement applications) underwater and underground sensors, as well as pan‐tilt‐zoom (PTZ) cameras.
The Indo-Bangladesh border is the fifth longest in the world and spans five Indian states ‐ Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura, and West Bengal.
The Israeli-tethered drones, each worth about $52,000, are equipped with day and night vision cameras that capture images over a two-kilometre distance and from a height of 150 metres.
They are used to capture images of cattle smugglers crossing the border between both countries.
Having aerial surveillance from a sufficient height offers a distinct advantage, as they are not affected by high winds and also get continuous power supply, a BSF officer said.
He further stated that patrolling the Indo-Bangladesh border at some points is difficult because of the vast sand bars (submerged or partly exposed ridges of sand or coarse sediment created by water) and several river channels, especially during the monsoon season.
The objective is to send out a message of deterrence, even though smugglers are aware that they are under constant watch, the officer said.
To counter the aggressive surveillance mounted by border forces, smugglers have adopted strategies like blending in with the local population, deploying Indian villagers to carry out smuggling operations, and paying people to act as lookouts.
In the recent past, smugglers have been arrested while sneaking cattle through culverts located under border roads and tying the animals on plantain trunks and setting them afloat on rivers and streams.
Using hollow papaya stems as snorkels to breathe underwater, they also guide cattle across the border.
Last year, the Indian government launched a smart-fencing Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System (CIBMS) project along the Indo-Bangladesh border in the Dhubri district of Assam State.
The project, inspired by Israeli technology, entails installing technical and electronic systems along the unfenced riverine area of Lower Assam.
A data network of the riverine border separating both countries is generated and managed by microwave communication, optical fibre cables, digital mobile radio (DMR) communication, day and night surveillance cameras and border protection radar systems.
Seized cattle are offered up for public auction under strict scrutiny to stop cattle smugglers from reclaiming them.
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Cowthieves and Indians. You have to hand it to thieves though. All this trouble to steal cattle.
"¡Madre de Dios! Imposiblé ! Err, Senora please state your name... ?"
“More billionaires seeking more political power surely isn't the change America needs," campaign manager for Sen. Sanders tells @NBCNews when asked about news of Bloomberg consider a presidential run - @GaryGrumbach
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Yeah, because we want only pathetic career politicians who have never done an honest day's work in their lives instead of astute businessmen who understand how things actually work.
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[Judicial Watch] Logs Also Show DNC Contractor Who Allegedly Worked with Ukraine to Investigate Trump/Manafort Visited Obama White House 27 times
Judicial Watch announced today analysis of Obama-era White House visitor logs that detail meetings of controversial CIA employee Eric Ciaramella, who had been assigned to the White House. Ciaramella reportedly was detailed to the Obama White House in 2015 and returned to the CIA during the Trump administration in 2017. The logs also reveal Alexandra Chalupa, a contractor hired by the DNC during the 2016 election who coordinated with Ukrainians to investigate President Trump and his former campaign manager Paul Manafort, visited the White House 27 times.
The White House visitor logs revealed the following individuals met with Eric Ciaramella while he was detailed to the Obama White House:
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You say Chalupa,
I say Cha-mella
You spell "C-H-A,"
I spell "C-I-A"
Chalupa ... Cha'mella... Cha'mella... Chalupa:
Let's call the democracy thing off
Russian statistics are always suspect. But we are certainly past the point where the children of perestroika r having children. The slight recovery this past decade was the last good news the Russians will have on the population front… Ever. https://t.co/HgwU0g09xG
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Fall in Babies not being born is a sign of lack of confidence in the present and future. Only confident couples HAVE babies.
If I am not mistaken EUroweenies AND Russians don't prove Competent in having babies...for some reason.
I think it would be better for all of us if Russia is inhabited by Russians instead of becoming a vacuum to be filled by people who are hostile to Western Civilization.
The Twentieth Century was catastrophic for Russia. They experienced two of the bloodiest wars in history and communism which was all the legacy of an incompetent and corrupt royal dynasty and aristocracy that oppressed them for centuries. It's a wonder any of them survived. I wish them well and pray for their eventual recovery.
Putin is a ruthless dictator and he is not our friend. But the argument can be made that he is the best those poor people can do. Our government should be more understanding and less antagonistic. We should not forget that, without them, our war with NAZI Germany might have gone a lot differently. Today there are still many areas of mutual interest in which we could cooperate with them in spite of our differences.
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[Breitbart] Facebook is removing any mention of the potential whistleblower’s name and is cracking down against Facebook publishers that mention any allegation of the potential whistleblower’s name, claiming they are violating Facebook’s Community Standards and Policies. His name may be Anonymous, but we know what he is.
For example, on Wednesday evening, Facebook removed Breitbart posts reporting on on the fact that other respected news outlets have reported that the identity of the alleged whistleblower is Eric Ciaramella. Any Facebook user who attempts to click on that article on Facebook is now given a message that says, “this content isn’t available at the moment.”
To be clear, Breitbart did not “out” the alleged whistleblower but did provide additional relevant reporting about him; he is, after all, a public figure, having served on the National Security Council. Moreover, his name has been used in the Mueller report (p283) and Ambassador Bill Taylor’s testimony.
Administrators of Breitbart News’ Facebook page began receiving notifications on Wednesday evening stating that Breitbart’s page is “at risk of being unpublished” but were not given any details as to why, or even which posts were allegedly at issue.
Yesterday afternoon, however, in response to questions from Breitbart, a Facebook spokesman issued the following statement:
Any mention of the potential whistleblower’s name violates our coordinating harm policy, which prohibits content “outing of witness, informant, or activist.” We are removing any and all mentions of the potential whistleblower’s name and will revisit this decision should their name be widely published in the media or used by public figures in debate.
Breitbart News is currently the 68th-most visited site in the United States according to Alexa, and the 13th most-engaged Facebook publisher in the world according to NewsWhip.
Multiple other publishers have named the alleged whistleblower or reported on outlets naming him, including Heavy.com, the Washington Examiner, The Federalist, and the Western Journal. Saagar Enjeti, Chief Washington Correspondent for The Hill, also tweeted the alleged whistleblower’s name.
Radio hosts Mark Levin and Glenn Beck, Students for Trump co-chair Ryan Fournier, former Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka, bestselling author Dinesh D’Souza, One America News host Jack Posobiec, and TownHall.com senior columnist Kurt Schlichter are among the other public figures and major media personalities who have also named the alleged whistleblower.
It isn’t only conservatives reporting on Ciaramella. New York Magazine and HuffPost contributor Yashar Ali identified Ciaramella as the alleged whistleblower in a since-deleted tweet. Ali claimed to have confirmed the identity with three sources. Facebook’s requirement to revise its policy on Ciaramella appears to already have been met.
Other publishers that have named the alleged whistleblower on Facebook have reported that their posts have been taken down as well.
#Tunisia: 19 people from sub-Saharan African countries planning to illegally cross maritime borders to #Italy, including a baby, a child and 7 women intercepted off #Sfax coasts, @interieurTn said in a statement Friday. #TAP_En
[IsraelTimes] Swedish Jews suffered 280 attacks in 2018; overall, number of racist assaults in country jumps 69% since 2016. Sven and Ole getting aggressive? What else could it be.....?
[ProjectVeritas] PV Editors Note: Project Veritas is publishing the writing below at the request of the ABC news insider who gave us the Amy Robach tape.
This was submitted to us in light of the actions taken against those wrongfully identified as involved in the leaking of the tape and the reactions of ABC news to their spiking of the story on Jeffrey Epstein.
By Ignotus,
To my fellow man:
I came forward with this information bearing no motives other than to have this information public. I did not and do not seek any personal gain from this information whether it be financial or otherwise and will always decline. When I became aware of this moment, I had the same reaction as many of you did. Anger, confusion and sadness. I care not about petty political quarrels and only hope for the best in all of us.
To my fellow ABC News employees:
I’ve walked the halls experiencing similar feelings we are all having right now. All of you regardless of your own personal differences in one form or another do an outstanding job. I sincerely enjoy working with each and every one of you and will continue to do so throughout our careers.
To those wrongfully accused:
It is terrible that you have been lashed out at by the company. I know some may put the burden of guilt on me, but my conscience is clear. The actions of the company towards you are the result of their own and not anyone else. The public outcry, from coast to coast, of all people, creeds, and political affiliations, is clear. I have not one doubt that there will always be support for you, and you will have prosperous careers. For neither you, nor I, have done anything wrong.
To Amy Robach:
You are the only person deserving of an apology. I am most certainly sorry. Not for my actions or for this to center around you, but for what is clear to have happened. When I first stumbled across this, my initial reaction was outrage. But this soon turned towards empathy. I can not imagine doing all the hard work to only have it shelved. If the past few years have taught us anything, it is the truth that some of us have endured many hardships in this industry. From the spiking of stories regarding prominent and powerful people in this world, and to yours. I believe you are an outstanding reporter and have done such tremendous work in the community as well.
To ABC News:
I sit right here with you all in complete shock. I, like many, are at a loss for words on how this has been handled. Instead of addressing this head-on like the company has in the past, it has spun into a mission of seek-and-destroy. Innocent people that have absolutely nothing to do with this are being hunted down as if we are all a sport. I challenge all of you to actually look inwards and remember why this company engages in journalism. We all hold the First Amendment at the foundation of this company, yet forget its history, its purpose, and its reasoning for even coming into existence to begin with. How lost we are… yearning to be found. I went to Project Veritas for the sole reason that any other media outlet else would have probably shelved this as well. I thank all of them, and James, for seeking truth.
We are all human and mortal, creatures of mistakes and redemption.
The road to redemption favors no soul.
Sincerely,
Ignotus
An apology is also due to Emmy award-winning producer Ashley Bianco, fired yesterday by CBS after ABC informed them that she’d accessed the tape. But the firing would have been after Ignotus wrote the letter.
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I’ve walked the halls experiencing similar feelings we are all having right now. All of you regardless of your own personal differences in one form or another do an outstanding job. I sincerely enjoy working with each and every one of you and will continue to do so throughout our careers.
I can understand the temptation that an aspiring journalist must feel when offered a job by an organization like ABC News. But the aspiring journalist must know, or will soon learn, that this organization and many others are dishonest and corrupt. They must know, or will soon learn, that they too will be corrupted by their association with such an organization. I have no sympathy for them. They wanted a lucrative career and they got it. But they lost their integrity.
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[Bangkok Post] Fifteen people manning a security checkpoint were killed when it was attacked by gunmen on Tuesday night in Yala province. The victims' weapons were stolen. Authorities said there were at least ten attackers.
The militants approached on foot through a rubber plantation to attack the defense volunteer booth in tambon Lam Phaya of Muang district about 11:20pm.
Eleven local residents and officials, mainly defense volunteers on duty, were gunned down during the attack. Four wounded colleagues later succumbed to their injuries. Three other wounded people were being treated at the hospital. Two defense volunteers survived the onslaught unscathed.
The dead included present and former assistant village and sub-district heads, a former sub-district head, a health official, and a police captain supervising southern border investigations. Officials said the attackers stole an assault rifle, two shotguns and five pistols from the checkpoint victims.
The rebels scattered road spikes, set fire to tires, felled a tree and bombed a power pole to obstruct pursuit. It also hindered emergency services rushing to the scene of the attack. Three rescue vehicles were disabled.
About the same time, another checkpoint was attacked. No casualties were reported there.
Police in Thailand on Friday blamed the worst attack in years in the country's restive south on the region's main Muslim insurgent group, the Barisan Revolusi Nasional.
Fifteen people, including a police officer and many village defence volunteers, were killed on late on Tuesday when suspected separatists stormed a security checkpoint in Yala.
It was the worst single attack in years in a restive region where a long-running Muslim insurgency has killed thousands of people in a fight against central government rule in overwhelmingly Buddhist Thailand.
There has been no immediate claim of responsibility, as is common with such attacks in the region.
"We have evidence indicating that it was the BRN," said Ronnasilp Pusara, a police commander in the south, referring to the Barisan Revolusi Nasional, the main insurgent group operating in the south.
"We have captured one suspect, who is now being interrogated. He also belongs to the BRN," he said.
Reuters could not immediately reach a representative of the BRN for comment.
The separatist insurgency in Thailand's largely ethnic Malay-Muslim provinces of Yala, Pattani, and Narathiwat has killed nearly 7,000 people since 2004, says Deep South Watch, a group that monitors the violence.
In August, the BRN told Reuters it had held a secret preliminary meeting with the government, but any step towards a peace process appeared to wither after the deputy prime minister rejected a key demand for the release of prisoners.
[THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE] Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is suffering significant “psychological torture” and abuse in the London prison where he is being held, and his life is now “at risk,” according to an independent UN rights expert. A senior member of his legal team believes Assange may not live until the end of the extradition process.
Assange mumbled, stuttered, and struggled to say his own name and date of birth when he appeared in court on October 21. The Wikileaks founder is being subjected to long drawn-out “psychological torture” as he battles to prevent his extradition to the United States where he faces a slew of espionage charges, warns Nils Melzer, the UN special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment.
“Unless the UK urgently changes course and alleviates his inhumane situation, Mr. Assange’s continued exposure to arbitrariness and abuse may soon end up costing his life,” Melzer said in a statement on Friday.
“His physical appearance was not as shocking as his mental deterioration,” writes former British ambassador Craig Murray, who was present at the October hearing. “When asked to give his name and date of birth, he struggled visibly over several seconds to recall both… his difficulty in making it was very evident; it was a real struggle for him to articulate the words and focus his train of thought… Until yesterday I had always been quietly skeptical of those who claimed that Julian’s treatment amounted to torture… and skeptical of those who suggested he may be subject to debilitating drug treatments. But having attended the trials in Uzbekistan of several victims of extreme torture, and having worked with survivors from Sierra Leone and elsewhere, I can tell you that … Julian exhibited exactly the symptoms of a torture victim brought blinking into the light, particularly in terms of disorientation, confusion, and the real struggle to assert free will through the fog of learned helplessness.”
“One of the greatest journalists and most important dissidents of our times is being tortured to death by the state, before our eyes. To see my friend, the most articulate man, the fastest thinker, I have ever known, reduced to that shambling and incoherent wreck, was unbearable,” writes Murray. Situations like this are why we very properly have two separate criminal justice tracks. Run-of-the-mill knuckle dragger criminals can be tossed into the clink and left to rot for a few years with no harm done. Sensitive, articulate members of the non-short bus Special Class shouldn't be imprisoned longer than overnight because of the Loss to the World® when their delicate psyches are damaged.
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I guess he found out he was about to be found to
have strangled himself to death with his bedsheet in his solitary cell with broken cameras and sleeping guards.
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Someone doesn't know what a dead man switch is.
Assange has to periodically reset the timer. If he's not around to do so, the information will be automatically released. Has nothing to do with him dying in prison.
Which he will certainly do. If he survives British prison he's going to get a kangaroo court trial and then ADX Florence Supermax, where the US government keeps its personal enemies.
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I was hoping Trump would have him freed, and make some sort of deal with him. Through indirect means of course. What we, the right, need is a network of unconnected but cause-oriented high net worth individuals and lawfare financiers. Even if the Trump wants, he can't give him assist in this time of scrutiny.
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Deadman Switches, eh?
Compare and contrast the 'Old Man of the Mountains', the head of the Assassins and Julian Assange. Both use illegal means to get what they want and hardly care who gets trampled in the process. Let. Him. Rot.
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Most of the docs look like nothing and the file count is nowhere near the numbers claimed.
If its a faked dump that is fine.
If its a real dump it is lame.
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Harsh words for a man whose only crime was telling us the truth of how corrupt and criminal our own government was.
Remember Clapper swearing before Congress that the NSA wasn't spying on Americans illegally? You know how we know he was lying? We were told the truth.
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It's a rare occurrence, but I agree completely with Herb. Julian Assange's "crimes" amount to exposing the bad behavior of the governments and elites all around the Western world, and their connections with many shady organizations. I don't care if he broke laws that protect the government and criminalize informing citizens of what their governments were up to. Those laws carry no moral weight.
Also, the Old Man on the Mountain metaphor is ridiculous. Assange hasn't killed anybody, much less wracked up the extremely impressive kill count of the Assassins. The closest one could come to making such a claim is that he might have recklessly endangered his sources. Which indicates little more than the evil he was working against.
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Have y’all forgotten the Afghan war documents dump in July 2010? Wikileaks did not black out the names and contact info of local Afghans, nor of American troops. People were murdered over ther, families were threatened at home... and the release to major news organizations was arranged to do the most harm possible. Not the actions of merely mischievous chaotic-good sprites.
[NATIONALREVIEW] If one were searching for a moment that best captured Beto O’Rourke’s ill-fated bid for the White House, it might have been his March campaign stop at Penn State University. O’Rourke appeared on stage surrounded by a mostly friendly crowd of twentysomethings who appeared eager to hear the young, allegedly impressive, candidate from Texas speak. In his grating and pretentious cadence, Beto rattled off a series of slogans to the audience:
“This campaign cannot be about tearing people down!”
[SPUTNIKNEWS] Pakistain Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... had said on 1 November that Indians visiting the historic Kartarpur Sahib Gurudwara would not require passports. He had also waived the $20 fee per pilgrim, for the inaugural day on 9 November.
A day ahead of the inauguration of the historic religious corridor, Pakistain told India on Friday that it will charge each Indian pilgrim visiting the Kartarpur Gurudwara a $20 fee.
The development came a day after the Pakistain army overruled Prime Minister Khan’s decision to allow pilgrims to visit the Sikh shrine located in Narowal district of Pakistain passport-free.
On Wednesday, Pakistain military spokesperson Major General Asif Ghafoor said Islamabad would not show any leniency towards those using the agreed corridor.
The Pakistain prime minister had promised to waive visa fees on the day of the inauguration which coincides with the commemoration of the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak, the founder of the Sikh religion.
As per the agreement signed between the two countries on 24 October, Indians were required to carry valid passports and pay $20 for each visit.
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Aventura Technologies allegedly made millions by selling Chinese-made surveillance equipment to the US military, falsely claiming it was US-made
The scheme 'exposed the federal government and branches of the military to profound cybersecurity risks, such as hacks from foreign governments'
Seven current and former employees of Aventura were charged in relation to the purported plot just hours after federal agents raided their Long Island offices
Prosecutors say Jack Cabasso masterminded the plot, going to extreme lengths to conceal the multi-million dollar scheme with the help of Chinese businesses
Cabasso, his wife Frances , and two others, Jonathan Lasker and Christine Lazarus, were also accused of falsely claiming the company was run by Frances
Cabasso has a lengthy criminal record which includes convictions for wire fraud, grand larceny, mail fraud and conspiring to influence a juror
[SPUTNIKNEWS] Several fixed-wing and rotary drones were engaged and taken down in a recent inaugural test of Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Test High Energy Asset (ATHENA) anti-drone laser system by the US Air Force.
US defense contractor Lockheed Martin announced Thursday that it recently wrapped a demonstration of the prototype ATHENA system in a "fully-netted engagement environment" with the US Air Force.
Despite this being the Air Force’s first experience with the anti-drone, defense weapon, airmen were able to operate ATHENA under the guidance of government command and control (C2) system and radar technology.
According to the release, ATHENA’s test run was successful and validated the system’s reported "full kill-chain performance" by taking down "multiple fixed-wing and rotary drones" at a government test range at Fort Sill in Oklahoma.
"The ATHENA high-energy laser system is transportable and therefore enables the Air Force to emplace it anywhere they need to defend bases and high-value assets," the defense contractor explained.
The Air Force’s test marks the first major announcement concerning the anti-drone system since the August 2017 demonstration for the US Army at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Footage released from that event in the month following showed ATHENA swiveling and rotating horizontally before striking a target with a magnified, 60-kilowatt spectral laser beam.
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#UPDATE: Former Iranian diplomat @AmirMousawi7 to Mayadeen reports preliminary indications are that the drone (shot down by Iranian air defences earlier) was an Israeli drone that took off from Bahrain.
US-led coalition: “At approx 7:45pm several rockets impacted the Iraqi’s Qayyarah base. No Coalition troops were injured. We appreciate the Iraqi Security Forces immediate response&investigation...We will not be deterred by these attacks & maintain the right to defend ourselves.”
#UPDATE: Three militants killed after search by Iraqi security forces for cell that carried out rocket attack near US base in Iraq https://t.co/VsbuZKi4CZ
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Benjamin Schreiber, 66, filed for post-conviction relief from his sentence in Iowa
He was sentenced to life for beating a man to death with an ax handle in 1996
But claimed that his sentence had been served when his heart stopped in 2015
Appeals court judge dismissed his claim as 'unpersuasive and without merit'
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This will be interesting in a legal sense because one of my buddies was reading more about this last night and the inmate had a 'do not resuscitate' order on himself and they did so anyway.
[Genesius Times - Satire, Herb] A volunteer for the New York Metro Suicide Hotline service was shocked when she received a call from former Secretary Hillary Clinton. She was even more shocked when Clinton tried to order a suicide from the service like a pizza.
"She was very cordial," the volunteer who declined to be identified said. "She said, ‘I'd like to order a suicide.'
"I told her, ‘That's not how it works, ma'am,' but she refused to take a no for an answer. She kept saying, ‘Do you know who I am? I'm Hillary f**king Clinton. I'm the President of the United States. Are you trying to tell me that you're going to deny me my Constitutional right of accommodation?'"
The volunteer was highly skeptical but she took down Clinton's "order" and delivered it to the NYPD.
Rumors have circulated about the Clintons having something to do with the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein, but those have been debunked since Epstein confessed to killing himself on August 10 in a New York jail.
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Here's more footage of MIT's Mini Cheetahs cavorting, frolicking, back-flipping, playing soccer and generally acting fun and cute, courtesy of the Biomimetic Robotics Lab @MITMechE#robots#roboticspic.twitter.com/8ZQzDvCDVW
#Tunisia: 19 people from sub-Saharan African countries planning to illegally cross maritime borders to #Italy, including a baby, a child and 7 women intercepted off #Sfax coasts, @interieurTn said in a statement Friday. #TAP_En
[SPECTATOR.US] Everything about Liz Warren is phony ‐ not just her bogus claims that she’s authentically Native American. She posts crap videos of herself drinking beer at home like a regular girl. She tells voters she’s Wall Street’s worst nightmare, then tells bankers she’ll work with them. She’s a populist firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... only for rich people. The best hope for actual left-wingers is that she’s just pretending to be fake to get past the establishment machine.
The bad news for Trump’s enemies is that Warren may indeed be the most eligible Democrat. Sanders, a more authentic and likable radical, is 78 and recovering from a heart attack. His campaign is a shadow of his near-successful 2016 effort. Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
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And now there's Bloomberg. And Hillary is ready to step in and help.
[SPUTNIKNEWS] Chile has been engulfed in protests since early October after authorities increased subway fares. What started as peaceful public demonstrations concerning domestic social and welfare policies later turned into violent discontent following the heavy-handed police response.
Chilean President Sebastian Pinera said earlier this week that his government has developed a package of economic measures aimed at responding to nationwide protests that will, according to his administration, gradually satisfy all of the nation's grievances.
Unrest continues to hit the streets of the Latin American nation, however, for the second month, with many violent rallies reportedly occurring in the capital city of Santiago.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Reuters] Will retiring baby boomers bring down the stock market? Why do some investors view the baby boomer generation’s retirement plans as a potential negative for stocks? Can the stock market or capitalism itself be pulled down by a large generational shift? Some fear that this large group, born in the post-WWII baby boom between 1946 and 1964, will all retire around the same time, and therefore pull all of their money out of the stock market to invest in bonds or hold as cash. And not only will they yank a load of money out of the stock market, but subsequent generations’ Social Security contributions will not be able to support such a large group’s payouts‐leading to the downfall of the entire program.
[The Guardian via Rolling Stone] Fresh evidence has also emerged of attempts by the Kremlin to infiltrate the Conservatives by a senior Russian diplomat suspected of espionage, who spent five years in London cultivating leading Tories including Johnson himself....
...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 
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[IsraelTimes] IDF armored vehicle hit by Molotov cocktail, no injuries reported; soldiers respond with tear gas, live fire.
A blooming business opportunity if quickly exploited. 
[PJ] At NewsBusters, Curtis Houck writes, "On Friday afternoon, Megyn Kelly continued her return to the news business in a bombshell interview with Ashley Bianco, the former ABC News producer who was fired after only four days at CBS News for allegedly being behind the tape of ABC’s Amy Robach admitting that the network quashed her reporting about alleged serial pedophile Jeffrey Epstein."
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
[Federalist] The Mexican ambassador to the United States responded to Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley’s call to sanction Mexico for the recent escalation of violence from the nation’s ruling drug cartels by blaming the American public’s demand for black-market drugs.
BAGHDAD (AP) ‐ A barrage of Katyusha rockets targeted an Iraqi air base that houses American troops south of the city of Mosul on Friday, officials said. No members of the U.S.-led coalition were injured.
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[Reason] The Eighth Amendment prohibition against excessive fines and fees applies to states as well, SCOTUS rules, opening a new way to challenge outlandish forfeitures.
[CNSNEWS] In his new book and in the periodical he founded, La Repubblica, Eugenio Scalfari, a long-time friend of Pope Francis and frequent papal interviewer, claims that the Pope told him that Jesus Christ did not rise bodily from the dead but "in the semblance of a spirit." 
[WSJ] UKIAH, Calif.‐On the fourth morning without power, Carolyn Summers lay as still as possible in bed, trying to delay the moment when she ran out of oxygen.
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
Facebook is removing any mention of the potential whistleblower’s name and is cracking down against Facebook publishers that mention any allegation of the potential whistleblower’s name, claiming they are violating Facebook’s Community Standards and Policies.
[Bangkok Post] Fifteen people manning a security checkpoint were killed when it was attacked by gunmen on Tuesday night in Yala province. The victims' weapons were stolen. Authorities said there were at least ten attackers. 
[THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE] Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is suffering significant “psychological torture” and abuse in the London prison where he is being held, and his life is now “at risk,” according to an independent UN rights expert. A senior member of his legal team believes Assange may not live until the end of the extradition process.
[NATIONALREVIEW] If one were searching for a moment that best captured Beto O’Rourke’s ill-fated bid for the White House, it might have been his March campaign stop at Penn State University. O’Rourke appeared on stage surrounded by a mostly friendly crowd of twentysomethings who appeared eager to hear the young, allegedly impressive, candidate from Texas speak. In his grating and pretentious cadence, Beto rattled off a series of slogans to the audience:
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[SPUTNIKNEWS] Several fixed-wing and rotary drones were engaged and taken down in a recent inaugural test of Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Test High Energy Asset (ATHENA) anti-drone laser system by the US Air Force.
[Genesius Times - Satire, Herb] A volunteer for the New York Metro Suicide Hotline service was shocked when she received a call from former Secretary Hillary Clinton. She was even more shocked when Clinton tried to order a suicide from the service like a pizza.
[SPECTATOR.US] Everything about Liz Warren is phony ‐ not just her bogus claims that she’s authentically Native American. She posts crap videos of herself drinking beer at home like a regular girl. She tells voters she’s Wall Street’s worst nightmare, then tells bankers she’ll work with them. She’s a populist 
