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Wikipedia has a page on Islamic jihad in Mozambique, linked from their War on Terror master page. According to them, the Cabo Delgado province is jihad central for the country. The original miscreant group is Ansar al-Sunna (Supporters of the tradition), known formally as “Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jamo" (adepts of the prophetic tradition) and informally by the locals as Al Shabaab. Appearing in Mozambique in 2015, this particular Ansar al Sunna were originally followers of the radical Kenyan cleric Aboud Rogo, who was killed in 2012. As far as I can tell, they’re your standard takfiris, happily enforcing their Salafist rules on the surrounding populace. Apparently they hired members of Somali Al Shabaab to train them in the current skills of jihad, then split into various cells, Ansar al-Sunna funds itself through heroin, contraband and ivory trade.
ISIS appeared on the scene in 2019, claiming their first attack in June. It is possible they are just one of the Ansar al Sunnah cells, tarted up with a sexy name for marketing purposes.
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ISIS is welcome to all the towns in Mozambique they like as as far as I'm concerned. Mozambique should've taken preventative measures like bulldozing mosques into rubble.
Thanks to all the veterans and to those veterans here on Rantburg. Thank you very much for your service and all of your sacrifices while serving our great country. You are true patriots. Thanks to veterans' families as well because they also share in the sacrifices.
[Jpost] A 22-year-old Paleostinian was killed in a clash with IDF forces at the Al aroub refugee camp, north of Hebron, according to Paleostinian media reports.
According to the reports, the clash began when several Paleostinians threw rocks at an IDF post at the entrance to the refugee camp.
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So they lost the family station wagon, but kept the full-sized luxury car? Hum... actually, I might do that to since, as the Capri got an astounding-for-the-time 21 MPG and could do zero to sixty in 22 seconds. (Dad's got to entertain himself some how while recovering!)
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Her daddy couldn’t continue to do the job he had before the heart attack, but he found other ways to earn a paycheck. The honourable senator’s mother was not entirely on her own supporting the family of six on a minimum wage job — hers was the supplementary income. From Wikipedia:
Warren was born Elizabeth Ann Herring in Oklahoma City on June 22, 1949,[3][4][5][6] the fourth child of middle-class parents Pauline (née Reed, 1912–1995) and Donald Jones Herring (1911–1997). Warren has described her family as teetering "on the ragged edge of the middle class" and "kind of hanging on at the edges by our fingernails".[7][8] She had three older brothers and was raised Methodist.[9][10]
Warren lived in Norman, Oklahoma, until she was 11 years old, when her family moved back to Oklahoma City.[8] When she was 12, her father, a salesman at Montgomery Ward,[8] had a heart attack, which led to many medical bills as well as a pay cut because he could not do his previous work.[5] After leaving his sales job, he worked as a maintenance man for an apartment building.[11] Eventually, the family's car was repossessed because they failed to make loan payments. To help the family finances, her mother found work in the catalog order department at Sears.[5] When she was 13, Warren started waiting tables at her aunt's restaurant.[12][13]
There goes the SpaceX Falcon 9 loaded with Starlink satellites to provide internet service in the US next year. Will u switch to SpaceX internet? #starlink#internetpic.twitter.com/v5yDYsapnv
[RT] At half the cost of their human counterparts, sex worker robots at a Swiss brothel are becoming the choice of hard-up punters. One expert claims sex with a robo-doll is a fetish among men, just like a preference for leather.
The beautiful and civilized Swiss city of Lucerne is renowned for its setting below snow-capped mountain peaks on the banks of Lake Lucerne, with its medieval architecture, picturesque Altstadt (Old Town) and brothel full of sex robots instead of real hookers.
That’s right, the nation that brought us cuckoo clocks and Toblerone chocolate has gone hi-tech in the sex industry with Lucerne brothel, Arsenal 51 (I don’t know either), introducing 90 Swiss francs ($90) an hour sessions with their sort-of real-looking love mannequins for those punters who fancy a little less conversation, a little more action, as Elvis would put it.
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Every one of these sexbot articles is filled with creepy looking sex dolls. If you take a creepy looking sex doll and give it anima you just have a moving creepy looking sex doll. Maybe if they add tentacles and deploy them in Japan they won't mind but pretty much everyone else is going to stay away.
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They’ll have to add another item to health class: don’t share combs and brushes, lest you pass on head lice, and don’t share your robot, lest you catch something worse.
Because unless the things are sterilized between sessions... ick.
[FoxNews] Data from a defunct neo-Nazi website leaked online last week, potentially revealing the personal information of hundreds of extremists, some of whom have been linked to acts of terrorism, according to reports.
The data, which comprised the contents of the former website “Iron March,” was posted by the user “anti-data” on archive.org.
Contents of the leak made it possible to obtain match usernames with registered emails, IP addresses, forum posts and direct messages, according to the open-source journalism website Bellingcat, which first flagged the leak.
“Iron March” was founded in 2011 by Russian nationalist Alexander “Slavros” Mukhitdinov. It has been used by an organizational tool by multiple extremist groups, including Atomwaffen Division (AWD), a U.S.-based group that has been tied to at least half a dozen murders and multiple acts of violence over the past few years.
Chats from the leak suggested that the website attracted users from around the world who shared material and offered support to each other.
Its users were closely affiliated with the ideas and publications of James Mason, an American neo-Nazi who has been involved in white-supremacy movements since the 1960s, The Guardian reported.
[Bellingcat] Last month, leading anti-kleptocracy voices in the U.S., Ukraine, Russia, and elsewhere sounded the alarm about a massive donation that Len Blavatnik, a Soviet-born businessman with close ties to sanctioned Russian figures, made to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Blavatnik’s donation was, as one expert said, a clear instance of the “soft enabling of kleptocracy,” and fit firmly in Blavatnik’s history of using his funds for “image launder[ing].”
As new documents show, Blavatnik’s financial offer to CFR wasn’t the only substantial donation he’s made recently.
According to new filings with the Federal Election Commission, Blavatnik — who is estimated to be worth approximately $19 billion, and who has U.S. citizenship — has been offering record-breaking donations to American politicians and political committees on both sides of the aisle. Thus far, it appears that Democrats and Republicans alike are willing to take his money, despite major concerns from those who’ve followed Blavatnik’s career and/or those who work in the sphere of anti-kleptocracy.
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Blavatnik's money is no more tainted than Soros's.
The latter actually attacked the treasury and nearly destroyed the currency of Britain. The former angled himself a piece of the post-Soviet pie in the 1990s. Since then, he's engaged in exactly the same kinds of legal, high-risk corporate buccaneering-- cf Lyondell Basel's restructuring-- that every other major American private equity or hedge fund billionaire has been engaged in. This last phase of Blavatnik's career- the last 20 years or so-- puts him in the same category as Carl Icahn or Boone Pickens.
If there is a moral difference between Soros and Blavatnik, its to be found in how they spend their billions.
Blavatnik has given his money to great and noble institutions like Harvard and IIRC London's wonderful Courtauld Institute and IIRC Slade School of Art. He supports great scholars and fine artists.
Soros supports advocates of fraud, cop-killing, and sedition.
[Bellingcat] What betrayed all the efforts at hiding the president’s inability to deliver an unedited ten-minute-and-forty-two-seconds speech was the president himself. More specifically, his hands.
While he is sitting behind his desk, the location of his hands and fingers around the desk pad varies within a split second almost every time the camera cuts to a new angle, and without him making that transitional movement.
This is an impossible scenario for a single take, and instead suggests heavy editing: splicing from various takes and combining them for the best possible effort to project a continuous speech. This abrupt, unexplained change in hand location happened eight times out of ten camera changes — not counting the return to the original angle — and therefore suggests the possibility of using different versions of the recorded speech at varying intervals, ranging from nine seconds to three minutes and 42 seconds, or the need to edit out intermediate passages.
[Bellingcat] Over the course of 2019, the website “8chan” has directly inspired four acts of terrorism around the world, killing 76 people and wounding 80. The mass shootings in Christchurch, Poway, and El Paso are well-known. The mass shooting in Halle, Germany, which killed two and injured two more, received less attention. Since 8chan was dropped by its service providers and taken offline after the El Paso attack, the Halle shooter was unable to announce his killing spree there. Yet the connection was still obvious: the shooter’s attack was livestreamed, like the Christchurch shooting. He identified himself as “anon”, a general term for chan users.
The most direct connection between the Halle shooter and 8chan was hidden in the killer’s manifesto, in a joking reference he made to someone named Mark Mann. The shooter claimed Mann helped fund the attack. There is no evidence of this. But Mark Mann is an employee of NT Technology, an internet service provider owned by Jim Watkins, who also owns 8chan. Mann is Jewish, and the Halle shooter’s reference to him was almost certainly a cruel joke. The fact that Mann was referenced at all suggests the shooter was deeply familiar with the infamous image board.
8chan’s ability to continue inspiring attacks after its dissolution is disturbing. More worrying still is the fact that, over the last several months, Jim Watkins has waged a slow, grinding battle to bring the site back online. A number of volunteers, including 8chan’s former founder and the co-author of this article, Fredrick Brennan, have fought tooth and nail to stop him. But early in November the site, rebranded as “8kun”, came back online.
As I write this, 8kun has gone up and down for the past several days. It was dropped from its most recent host, a Russian ISP located two hours from North Korea, on November 3, 2019. It will come back online. If not via the normal web, than through peer-to-peer means like Tor. There was, however, a point at which the resurrection of 8chan could’ve been stopped — perhaps even forever. This is the story of why that did not happen.
THE STAKES INVOLVED
A discerning reader might ask: if the Halle shooting happened while 8chan was offline, does it really matter if it comes back up again? Will keeping it down reduce the number of shootings it helps to spawn?
There is no certain answer here, but there is evidence to suggest that yes, keeping 8chan offline is better for public safety. While the Halle shooting happened with 8chan offline, the shooter had presumably been a regular user of the image board for quite some time. It is reasonable to assume he was radicalized there. Since he went out of his way to copy several of the Christchurch shooter’s tactics, we can assume that manifesto had a significant impact on him.
In the wake of the Christchurch and Poway shootings, anons went out of their way to declare the killers “saints” and share their manifestos to every corner of the Internet. The Christchurch manifesto was even printed and sold on the streets of Ukraine. With 8chan down, there has been no similar concerted effort to spread the Halle shooter’s manifesto, nor the home-built firearm instructions he sought to make viral. 8chan’s /pol board was unique within the fascist media ecosystem; no comparable community of a similar size exists.
Outside of /pol, 8chan was also the host of the Q Research Board. It was the only place where the mysterious individual(s) known as “Q” could post and confirm his identity to his followers. With 8chan down, there were no Q drops for three months. During the brief time when “8kun” was online and functional, Q made four new drops, breathing life into the dangerous cult that exists around the conspiracy theories Q pushes. Qanon has already inspired a murder and a number of non-lethal attacks, including one on the Hoover Dam. In August of 2019, the FBI warned that conspiracy theories like Qanon encourage, “…the targeting of specific people, places and organizations, thereby increasing the risk of extremist violence against such targets.”
THE FIGHT TO KEEP 8CHAN OFFLINE
A number of journalists and activists, including me, have fought to keep 8chan in its grave. No one has put in more work than Fredrick Brennan. Since he is the man who founded and coded the website back in 2013, this is probably appropriate. The public face of this fight has been a social media campaign to name and shame the companies hosting and providing registration services to 8chan. This stopped the site from coming back online, but as long as Jim Watkins and his businesses own the servers 8chan’s data was stored on, they can continue their efforts to bring the site back, perhaps indefinitely.
Reporting by Mashable on August 5, 2019 identified Centauri Communications as the company that provided internet access to 8chan’s physical servers. In early September, 2019, Fredrick Brennan verified that Centauri’s servers were the second to last step on the traceroute for N.T. Technology, Jim Watkins’s company. Without Centauri, his business would not be online.
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My wife is a psychotherapist for Kaiser
I can tell you that everything the Kaiser spokeshole said was pure crap
Kaiser want to eliminate pensions for retiree psychologists and cut their benefits package
The backlog of patients awaiting access to a therapist is 6 to 8 weeks after waiting 4 to 6 weeks to get an initial intake appointment
The latest contract proposal from Kaiser does not even match cost of living and contains no provisions for periodic cost of living increases
[National Review] The early Trump administration batted down warnings from career U.S. diplomats who warned that some hardline immigration policies could have dangerous national security consequences, according to diplomatic cables released by Senate Democrats Thursday. We need these people for the garden and the silver.
Some diplomats, including those at the U.S. Embassies in El Salvador, Honduras and Haiti, were concerned that the administration’s plan to end the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program for undocumented immigrants would cause a spike in transnational crime and illegal immigration, and would damage the relationship between the U.S. and Latin America and the Caribbean.
"A sudden termination of TPS for El Salvador would undermine additional cooperation to tackle the root causes of illegal migration and overwhelm the country’s ability to absorb the refugees," then-U.S. Ambassador Jean Elizabeth Manes wrote to Washington, D.C. in July, 2017.
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Thomas Shannon objected even more strenuously to ending the program for the three countries.
[National Review] During her testimony, former National Security Council staffer Fiona Hill revealed that she had a three-year working relationship with Christopher Steele, the former British spy contracted by opposition-research firm Fusion GPS to produce the infamous Steele Dossier, but doubted the accuracy of his dossier, according to a transcript published Friday.
"He was my counterpart when I was the director, the national intelligence officer," Hill told Representative Jim Jordan (R., Ohio). "When I had to do liaison meetings with the U.K., he was the person I had to meet with." Hill said she worked directly with Steele from 2006 to 2009.
Hill’s comments confirmed a Politico profile on Hill from September 30, which described her relationship with Steele. "She had a high opinion of Steele, and thought he was very smart," a foreign-policy veteran, and one of Hill’s close friends, told Politico.
Hill confirmed that she had met with Steele during the 2016 election, which was included in the Politico story.
“That was prior to the time that I had any knowledge about the dossier,” she stated. “He was constantly trying to drum up business, and he had contacted me because he wanted to see if I could give him a contact to some other individual, who actually I don’t even recall now, who he could approach about some business issues.”
Hill also discussed Steele’s dossier in the testimony, saying that upon reading it, she had had “misgivings and concern that [Steele] could have been played,” because “the Russians would have an ax to grind against him given the job that he had previously.”
“I don’t believe it’s appropriate for him to have been hired to do this,” Hill said of Steele’s contract with Fusion GPS. “I almost fell over when I discovered that he was doing this report.”
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“He was constantly trying to drum up business...."
Apparently he was quite successful. A close friend of hers was he? Blaming the Russians does follow a familiar theme. Yes, Steele is obviously the victim. Little wonder she is no longer on the team.
[Red State]...NSA Robert O’Brien says Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a top witness in the House impeachment inquiry, will be removed from his post at the White House National Security Council.
...Honestly, getting removed from the NSC is the least of Vindman’s worries. When he’s done being a pawn for Adam Schiff, he’s almost certainly going to bear scrutiny under the UCMJ and/or by the DOJ for his illegal leaking. What he shared with the whistle-blower was top secret information and Vindman has no special immunity to go outside of the chain of command with his complaints.
On the other hand, I would cheerfully be recalled from retirement to sit on his court martial if it ever happened.
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As an Idaho transplant from Kaliphornia to a town near Boise, I can absolutely vouch for the patriotism of the citizens. Except for the North End. Friggin hippies and their lefty ways metastasize the first chance they get.
Kurt Schlichter
Name the Democrat who is super-excited to have Michael Bloomberg barge into the Dem primaries like some nutty ex-girlfriend who gave you crabs popping in at your wedding. Where is the groundswell of support behind this pint-sized presidential aspirant? Perhaps the Democratic consultants who didn’t sign up with one of the other goofy candidates are happy. The micro-zillionaire may not have charisma or a vision or actual human support, but he’s got endless bucks to squander on electoral parasites.
So, those jerks will love him getting in. And so will us Republicans ‐ Trump already has a nickname laid upon the numismatic gnome, "Little Michael."
Real talk: the guy is delusional. Can you hear the excitement about the Verne Troyer of American politics bubbling over in the Midwest where this election’s going to be won?"
"Hey Lou, good news. That Bloomberg guy is in the race. I’ve been lookin’ for a miniature Manhattan finance snob who wants to ban Cokes, take our deer rifles, and who makes the New York Times happy."
"Yeah Phil, I’m sure getting tired of all this great economic good news and my kids not coming home in boxes from Whocaresistan."
"We need a guy who’s thinks he’s smarter and better than us and isn’t afraid to tell us how to live our lives!"
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Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer, a couple of delusional billionaires, detached from reality. Kinda sad, really.
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11/11/2019 11:09
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Left coast and right coast billionaires unite to spend money on virtue signally ads to make themselves feel more important than all the folks between the coasts that won’t vote for them.
[Townhall] Ever since its citizens liked Ike in ’52 (other than one brief hiccup in 1964 when Johnson trounced Goldwater almost everywhere), the Commonwealth of Virginia had voted reliably Republican, until 2008. That year, in a wave election, Democrat Barack Obama won several states Republicans typically win, like Florida, North Carolina and Arizona. One could have been forgiven, then, for thinking Virginia would come back to the fold after the hipness wore off and the cold, hard reality of quasi-socialist governance became all-too-real. After all, this is Old Dominion we’re talking about, the land of Monticello and Williamsburg, of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and more prominent founding Americans than anywhere else. From Nathaniel Bacon to George Mason to Patrick Henry and countless more, freedom and resistance to tyranny have been an indelible part of that great state’s heritage.
But sadly, the blue never wore off. It only grew deeper and more dominant, until last week, when the tiniest tint of red faded into the darkness like the last sunset of a dying man, never to return.
That’s right, folks. With a Democratic governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, both United States senators, seven of 11 representatives, and now both State houses, the Commonwealth of Virginia is now officially a blue state on par with the socialistic dystopias of California, New York, and New England. It’s been a long time coming, albeit a slow, gradual march to the abyss, but the land of the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and "sic semper tyrannis" has now become the land of the snowflakes and social justice warriors.
Which leaves many wondering, how on earth did this happen? Fox News host Laura Ingraham’s Wednesday night analysis may have gotten the attention of Media Matters, but that doesn’t mean it’s any less true. To Ingraham, the "road to Democratic dominance" in the formerly right-of-center state was paved with demographic changes that began taking place long before Trump’s 2015 trip down that New York City escalator.
"Virginia's foreign-born population nearly doubled from 2000 and 2017," said Ingraham, "and these immigrants are mostly concentrated in Northern Virginia. Fairfax County, Loudoun County, Prince William County, outside of D.C., and they are altering the demographic makeup of the state - and, as The Washington Post and others have pointed out, the electorate."
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I think it's wonderful that the people who will need to be starved out first when the SHTF are all congregating in one place with their backs to the sea.
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[Houston Chronicle] NEW YORK - Two of President Donald Trump's senior advisers undermined and ignored him in what they claimed was an effort to "save the country," former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley claims in a new memoir.
Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly sought to recruit her to work around and subvert Trump, but she refused, Haley writes in a new book, "With All Due Respect," which also describes Tillerson as "exhausting" and imperious and Kelly as suspicious of her access to Trump.
"Kelly and Tillerson confided in me that when they resisted the president, they weren't being insubordinate, they were trying to save the country," Haley wrote.
"It was their decisions, not the president's, that were in the best interests of America, they said. The president didn't know what he was doing," Haley wrote of the views the two men held.
Tillerson also told her that people would die if Trump was unchecked, Haley wrote.
Tillerson did not respond to a request for comment. Kelly declined to comment in detail, but said that if providing the president "with the best and most open, legal and ethical staffing advice from across the (government) so he could make an informed decision is 'working against Trump,' then guilty as charged."
In the book, which was obtained by The Washington Post ahead of its release Tuesday, Haley offers only glancing critiques of her former boss, saying she and others who worked for Trump had an obligation to carry out his wishes since he was the one elected by voters.
The former South Carolina governor, widely viewed by Republicans as a top potential presidential candidate, has repeatedly sought to minimize differences with Trump while distancing herself from his excesses. Haley, 47, writes that she backed most of the foreign policy decisions by Trump that others tried to block or slow down, including withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate accord and the relocation of the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
In a New York interview with The Post coinciding with the book release, Haley also dismissed efforts by House Democrats to impeach Trump. She said she opposes Trump's efforts to seek foreign help for political investigations in a call with Ukraine's president, but that the actions are not impeachable.
[Babylon Bee] NEW YORK, NY‐In a special PSA at the end of a news segment this morning, ABC News asked the station's viewers to send in any evidence on Jeffrey Epstein and his possible connections among the rich and powerful, so that they could destroy said evidence and then murder the person who sent it in.
"If you have anything that would help us uncover how deep this thing goes, please, we beg you: send it to our tipline so we can immediately bury it," one on-air personality pleaded with the audience. "It's important that we find out how many connections Epstein had among the political elite, so we can shield those elites from any damaging accusations."
ABC News has provided a form on its website for you to send in evidence on the Epstein scandal and fill in your name and address. You must accept the station's terms of service, which include allowing them to send agents to your house to scrub you from existence.
"You might think this is a bad thing, getting killed for sending us evidence---but keeping our elite friends out of jail is far more important than your personal safety," the anchor concluded. "Remember, the needs of the rich and powerful outweigh the needs of the you."
[Hot Air] We’ve covered plenty of disturbing news coming out of the City by the Bay over the past couple of years, but I’ll confess I didn’t see this one coming. Then again, perhaps it’s the most natural fit in the world. The event in question is the soon to be completed project of painting a gigantic mural of child climate activist Greta Thunberg on the side of a San Francisco building. Exact dimensions aren’t given, but judging by the pictures it’s in the range of sixty feet high and forty feet wide. And that’s not weird at all... (The Guardian)
San Francisco, a city that prides itself on its eco-consciousness, will soon have a giant likeness of Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg gazing upon its downtown, reminding residents to respect the planet.
The Argentine muralist Andres Iglesias, who signs his art with the pseudonym Cobre, is expected to complete the project in the central Union Square neighborhood by next week, SFGate reported. Cobre also painted a revered mural of the comedian Robin Williams that has since been demolished.
"Climate change is real," Cobre told SFGate. "This girl Greta is awesome and she knows what she’s doing. I hope with this mural people will realize we have to take care of the world."
The artist is apparently somewhat famous in circles where people enjoy, er... huge murals on buildings. And now, everyone passing that neighborhood in San Francisco will have the image of the child who now apparently runs the climate alarmist movement scornfully gazing down on them. How lovely. Of course, this is the same city where they painted over a large mural of George Washington (on the 4th of July, no less) only to have this mural draw public applause. That probably should tell us something.
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The no-talent shithead & shit-slinging provocateur who calls himself "Banksy" has pocketed MILLIONS from his garbage that trashes neighborhoods and ruins buildings.
[The Federalist] Adam Schiff acted as everyone with a pulse believed he would. Late on Saturday he deep-sixed the rights of the accused. He trampled on the right of one to face their accuser. He hacksawed the fundamental rights of fairness, and again portrayed himself as some sort of omniscient being with final say.
So it was just Adam Schiff being himself.
The embarrassingly laughable ego-maniac that started this #fauxpeachment farce to begin with.
In releasing the letter to the ranking member of the House intel Committee he alerted the world that he would "disallow" witnesses such as Hunter Biden (you know, the guy named in the phone call at the center of this proceeding) and the "anonymous whistleblower" (the guy Schiff coordinated with to launch this circus).
There is zero reason to deny the minority party access to either witness. For if everything that Schiff is doing is on the up and up such testimony would add to the "transparent case," The case being that the president committed such heinously criminal acts that violate the conscience of the people who elected him that the only remedy remaining is to regretfully remove him from office.
Hearing from the witnesses‐if the case was legitimate‐would bolster majority party claims and truly set in play a test in the Senate for a Constitutional crisis of duty.
Of course the monkey-grinder dance routine from Schiff is perhaps the least legitimate undertaking in the people’s House in perhaps the history of the nation.
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They can only subpoena those Schiff allows to be subpoenaed.
And charger's right - many Repubs also want Trump gone and will use any excuse they can find, as long as it is 'good enough' to keep them from getting primaried out.
KIMBERLEY, South Africa (Reuters) - The first South African project to bring illegal miners into the formal fold has been plagued by violence in diamond capital Kimberley, dealing a major blow to national efforts to stem a booming illicit trade. Die Groot Hole (The Big Hole) and town of Kimberley in the background. The mine was closed around the WW1 time frame and has not reopened. It is surrounded by a modern fence, warning signs, sensors and cams. 'Room with a View' - Protea Hotel by Marriott Kimberley
The project was launched 18 months ago in Kimberley, the site of a 19th-century diamond rush that lured fortune-seekers from the world over. Mine owners granted more than 800 unlicensed, or informal, small-scale miners the right to legally mine around 1,500 acres of diamond-rich waste fields.
The aim of the government-backed scheme was to curb illegal mining and black-market trade of diamonds, and serve as a blueprint for future attempts elsewhere in the country, not only in the diamond sector, but also potentially manganese, gold and chrome.
However the project has been hit by violence, with informal miners not included in the scheme attacking infrastructure and even members of the newly licensed cooperative, according to mine owner Ekapa Minerals which is running the initiative.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong police shot and wounded one protester who hospital officials said was in critical condition on Monday as the Chinese-ruled territory spiraled into rare weekday violence in the 24th straight week of pro-democracy unrest.
[AlAhram] Iran's state TV is reporting that construction has begun on a second nuclear power reactor at its Bushehr plant amid heightened tensions over Tehran's collapsing nuclear deal with world powers.
Authorities began pouring concrete for the base of the reactor on Sunday in the presence of journalists in Bushehr, some 700 kilometers (440 miles) south from Iran's capital, Tehran.
Bushehr relies on 4.5% enriched uranium, which 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... is producing in violation of its 2015 nuclear deal. That violation and others come after President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... unilaterally withdrew America from the accord over a year ago.
Bushehr's first reactor came online in 2011 with the help of Russia. This new reactor similarly will be built with Russian help.
[AlAhram] US troop levels in northern Syria will probably stabilize around 500, a top American military leader said Sunday, weeks after President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... had announced a complete withdrawal.
"There will be less than 1,000, for sure," General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on ABC's "This Week." "Probably in the 500ish frame, maybe six."
Trump's abrupt announcement last month that he had ordered a full troop withdrawal drew angry rebukes at home and abroad, with critics saying it could allow a resurgence of the Islamic State ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group while leaving US-allied Kurdish fighters in Syria vulnerable to a Ottoman Turkish invasion.
The US president later relented in part, saying he would leave some troops in the region to protect valuable oil fields.
...in order to deliver the income to the SDF, since which people have stopped claiming he deserted the Kurds.
Milley, who has commanded troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, told ABC that it was important for US troops to remain in Syria so long as IS has a presence there.
"There are still ISIS fighters in the region," he said, using an alternate term for IS. "Unless pressure is maintained, unless attention is maintained on that group, there's a very real possibility there could be a re-emergence of ISIS."
Asked about the killing Oct. 26 of IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi by a US special forces unit, Milley said it would have a "significant disruptive effect on the organization."
...if not the killing of the man himself and nearby Numbers 2 and 3, then certainly by the capture of one or more prisoners and all those files and electronic devices revealing personnel and plans. I very much look forward to future reports of raids resulting from the information gleaned therefrom... and the interesting conversations President Trump will, or will not, be having with President Erdogan Recep Tayip, wannabe sultan of the neo-Ottoman caliphate.
He said the US had "a considerable amount of information on his successor," Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi.
"Where opportunities arise," Milley said, "we'll go after him."
Trump has said he wants to wind down US military entanglements abroad where possible, but Milley predicted that American troops, already in Afghanistan for 18 years, would remain there "for several more years."
He was also asked whether he knew Alexander Vindman, the army lieutenant colonel and White House Ukraine expert who has testified about his concerns over a controversial phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Milley declined to comment "on a witness to an active investigation" -- the House of Representatives' impeachment inquiry into Trump.
Nikki Haley made the allegations in her new book, With All Due Respect
She claimed that Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly approached her with a plan to subvert Trump
'Kelly and Tillerson confided in me that when they resisted the president, they weren't being insubordinate, they were trying to save the country,' Haley wrote
'It was their decisions, not the president's, that were in the best interests of America, they said. The president didn't know what he was doing,' she added
Haley said Tillerson told her that 'people would die' if Trump went unchecked
Trump took to Twitter on Sunday evening to wish Haley luck with her book
[AlAhram] Air strikes by Syrian regime ally Russia on Sunday killed seven civilians, including three children, in an anti-government bastion in northwestern Syria, a war monitor reported.
Eight others were maimed in the raids and some of them are in a "critical" condition, said Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor.
The air strikes -- the third wave by Russian aircraft in eight days on northwestern Syria -- struck the village of Kafr Ruma in the jihadist-run enclave of Idlib, the Observatory said.
The Idlib region, which is home to some three million people including many displaced by Syria's eight-year civil war, is controlled by the country's former al-Qaeda affiliate.
Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... 's forces launched a blistering military campaign against Idlib in April, killing around 1,000 civilians and displacing more than 400,000 people from their homes.
A ceasefire announced by Russia has largely held since late August, although the Observatory says dozens of civilians have been killed in sporadic bombardment since then.
Last month Assad said Idlib was standing in the way of an end to the civil war that has ravaged his country through most of the current decade.
Syria's war has killed 370,000 people and displaced millions from their homes since beginning in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-Assad protests.
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Hah! Given dead civilians in the headline, I figured "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights" would appear in the article. It's like I'm developing psychotic powers or something!
[THEBAGHDADPOST] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... ’s Defense Ministry says a boom-mobile has killed at least eight civilians in northeast Syria near the Ottoman Turkish-held town of Tal Abyad.
The ministry said Sunday that 20 people were also injured in the attack in the village of Salik Atik, south of Tal Abyad. It blamed the attack on Syrian Kurdish-led fighters.
Turkey invaded northeast Syria last month to push out Syrian Kurdish-led fighters near the border.
Ankara considers the Kurdish-led forces to be holy warriors because of their links to Kurdish Death Eaters fighting inside Turkey.
The Kurdish groups have called in Syrian government forces to halt Turkey’s advance.
Syrian government forces have since clashed with Ottoman Turkish troops and Turkey-backed opposition fighters, despite a shaky truce brokered by Russia.
The village of Suluk, where Sunday's explosion took place, is around 10 km south of the border. A small truck exploded outside a bakery there, an emergency worker said.
[ToloNews] Waisuddin, a "Taliban ...Arabic for students... commander," was killed in an "Afghan forces Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... "in central Pashtun-infested Logar province, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement on Sunday.
The airstrike took place in Mohammad Agha district of the province Saturday night, the MoD said in the statement.
"Waisuddin was involved in the killing of three judges three days ago when their vehicle was ambushed, " the statement read, adding that the incident occurred in the Baqi Abad area of Mohammad Agha district as the judges were returning home from weekly holiday.
The statement did not provide further details about the airstrike.
[Breitbart] Appearing Saturday on CNN’s Axe Files, Cindy McCain reacted to recent happenings in Washington, D.C., saying the United States needs her late husband, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), "more than ever."
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I used to admire Senator McCain. His refusing to be released as a POW until the men captured before him was heroic. I voted for him in 2008.
However since then, I have lost all respect for him.
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We need John McStain like we need full communism.
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Resorting to pulling out the widows? Really??? He was probably honorable at one time in his life, but he dies a bitter hating old man who cared more about his hate than he did our nation. To be giving on this day I'll blame it on senility..
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Your spell check interference thing is retarded like you!
That's really the crux of it. He did some heroic sh1t back in the day. Hell, just being a naval aviator qualifies you for that. But there is something to be said for going out on top...
We need another John McCain like we need another carrier flight deck fire.....
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Re the remarks about the flight deck fire: Despite some rumors to the contrary, the USS Forrestal fire was NOT his fault.He was there, and barely escaped with his life - he was struck by fragments from an exploding bomb. 134 men did die in the fire.
As I said, I used to support him. But there is enough to complain about without additional snarky remarks.
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Rambler, I did not mean to imply that; Agree that he did not cause it, but if you watch the Forrestal fire video, you can see him escaping his A-4.
Haing experienced the 1988 fire on the Nimitz, I stand by my comment regarding the 'need for another f/d fire' ( we don't)
[Seattle Times] More than a year ago, Seattle City Councilmember Lisa Herbold teared up as she voted to repeal a per-employee tax on high-grossing businesses that would have raised money for homeless housing and services.
"This is not a winnable battle at this time," Herbold said, referring to a referendum on the so-called head tax bankrolled by Amazon and other large companies. "The opposition has unlimited resources" to spend on turning voters against the tax.
Fast forward to this year’s council elections, and that picture may have changed. An attempt by the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce to remake the council and ensure policies like the head tax would never return has been soundly rejected by a progressive-minded electorate, despite Amazon pouring nearly $1.5 million into seven district races through the chamber’s no-limit political-action committee (PAC).
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$1.5 million? So how much to relocate to a business friendly city?
[MITPressJournals] Does leadership decapitation lead to the demise of terrorist organizations? Can the United States undermine or destroy terrorist organizations such as al-Qaida by arresting or killing their leaders? What explains organizational resilience to leadership targeting? Leadership decapitation, or the killing or capturing of the leaders of terrorist organizations, has become a core feature of U.S. counterterrorism policy. Many scholars and analysts claim that it weakens terrorist organizations and reduces the threat they pose. Unsurprisingly, they saw the killing of Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011, in Abbottabad, Pakistan, as a major tactical victory for President Barack Obama and for the broader war on terrorism. Despite the success of this operation and subsequent attacks on al-Qaida leaders, decapitation is unlikely to diminish the ability of al-Qaida to continue its activities in the long run. Rather, it may have counterproductive consequences, emboldening or strengthening the organization.
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States has killed or captured many al-Qaida leaders as part of a general campaign to decapitate the organization. It has employed a variety of military operations to achieve this objective, including raids by Special Operations forces. Both bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, were killed as a result of such raids. On October 5, 2012, U.S. forces captured Abu Anas al-Libi, an al-Qaida leader, in a raid in Libya. The United States has also relied heavily on drone strikes to target al-Qaida leaders and other militants in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen.
In June 2012, Abu Yahya al-Libi, then al-Qaida’s deputy leader, was killed in Pakistan in a drone strike coordinated by the Central Intelligence Agency. Highly experienced, al-Libi served an important operational function within the organization. Scholars and policymakers saw his death as a significant blow to an already weakened al-Qaida.2 Nine months earlier, a Hellfire missile fired from a U.S. drone killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a Yemeni-American cleric linked to a number of terrorist plots in the West. On August 22, 2011, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, believed to be the organization’s second-highest leader, was reportedly killed in a drone strike in Pakistan.3 Rahman served an important communicative function between bin Laden and lower-level operatives. Ilyas Kashmiri, reputed to be a senior member of al-Qaida and the operational commander for Harakat-ul-Jihad al-Islami, was killed in a drone attack in South Waziristan on June 3, 2011.4 These examples illustrate the frequency with which the United States has targeted al-Qaida leaders and operatives over the past few years, speciªcally through the use of drone strikes.5
Despite these and other instances of successful targeting, al-Qaida remains a resilient terrorist organization. Applying a theory of organizational resilience, I examine why targeting al-Qaida’s leadership is not an effective counterterrorism strategy and, indeed, is likely counterproductive. A terrorist group’s ability to withstand attacks is a function of two factors: bureaucratization and communal support. Analyzing both when and why certain terrorist groups are able to survive leadership attacks, this article differs from existing work by providing a more nuanced lens through which to evaluate the effectiveness of counterterrorism policy. The center of gravity of Islamic terrorism is their grievance that we occupy their countries and kill their people. Stop doing this and their grievance disappears. Attacking their leaders or footsoldiers will never, ever win the war.
The center of gravity of Islamic terrorism is that we have not surrendered and converted to their faith — that’s what their term for the non-Muslim world, Dar al-Harb, the House of War, means. There is only one way, from their perspective, for their grievance to disappear, and that is for us to become members of the Borg. But killing lots of them will discourage the jihadi faction for a while.
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“The Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire” - Voltaire.
I get tired of people sloppily conflating "specific group 'X' " with "all copycat organizations claiming to be 'X' " and "the doctrine of organization 'X' ". It is very hard to destroy an idea, though you can convince a generation or so that following through Is a Very Bad Idea™. This is a different situation from the tenuous argument that "these groups are unkillable".
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I do not remember reading about any Sturmabteilung rising from the ashes of Dresden.
The success of 'endless wars' and long-term enemy sustainment, depends upon remembering to save some yeast. As the author surmises, fighting a war via a 'Joint Personnel Effects List' (JPEL - massive wanted list) will NOT win the conflict or produce victory.
BTW, the US Army does not or did not author or prioritize the JPEL. Other folks did that.
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In fact, we have several stories about the Ismailis in our archives. Here is one, showing the lasting effects of being defeated properly. Hulagu Khan destroyed the Alamut fortress of the Nizari Ismailis, popularly known as the Assassins or Hashashin, in 1256 A.D.
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Gee, Herb ask the Germans or Japanese. When we finally get around to fighting WAR rather than some intellectual and moral substitute, we might find out.
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until we have the stones to actually define the enemy (islam), there is no use even trying to ask the question.
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Does whacking one guy (and his goat-herder friends) end a movement? Of course not. No more than putting a mouse trap under the sink puts an end to all the mice in the county. But it *is* part of a program of integrated pest management. Yet another instance of "Perfect is the enemy of good".
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Once we have orbital beam weapons and when so called terrorist leader simply explodes from a healthy dose of weaponized microwave radiation, I suspect it'll be far more effective. Especially if you this while someone is leading a "Death to America" chant that's being recorded.
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Your optimism is good, Silentbrick. One can develop weaponry to the point that you enter the name of a person and they disappear. What will still matter the most is our level of intent.
I'm afraid we have just let idle philosophies of reformative justice fester into a condition where the enemy just has to 'sit out the fight' for a few years, but the status quo is perpetual war.
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We've tried killing them for 18 years. It doesn't work. If it was going to work, it would have worked by now. Time for a new plan.
Al-Qaeda never begun until we put US troops in the sacred soil of Saudi Arabia. Now we don't need their oil any more. Withdraw the troops and the War on Terrorism will end. Let tbe camel fuckers keep their worthless oil and stew in their own misery while we develop solar and wind.
I won't settle for an endless draw when victory is at hand.
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Tough to destroy movements or even nations sometimes.
Rome had to have 3 wars with the Samnites, then 3 with the Carthaginians, then 3 with Greece.
and they used force a lot more broadly than we did against Al Q
with some terror groups the most effective tactic has been to take out the layer of innovative leadership and technical expertise but this requires constant work
Given that there are nearly a dozen Islamic terror groups it is likely that the rise of Al Q or something like that was inevitable given the rebirth of Islamic identity
a tactic the Romans used was to bribe tribes to fight other tribes and we are probably doing something like this already
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Shorter Herb: "You're gonna get raped. Lie back and enjoy it"
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Some perspective: Technically, we’ve been fighting the militantly expansionist, totalitarian faith of Islam since the 7th century A.D. The only choices are to surrender or keep fighting. There have been cases where Islam has been driven back — Spain, the southern reaches of Europe in Italy, France, and Greece — but this is a fight that will go on until either Islam has given up trying to expand or the entire world is Muslim.
Eighteen years is nothing compared to the 1300+ years this war has been going on. That’s like talking about the Michael Mann hockeystick graph of global warming without looking at the pattern since the end of the last ice age.
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There is some merit to the question and we have seen the negative results in some areas. For example when they killed Pablo he had an iron fist of control over the narco terrorist organizations. With him dead, they slid into smaller and more violent organizations that fought amongst themselves. Just because there is opportunity for this to happen when we kill someone like UBL, it does not justify letting him live. Killing UBL set AQ back years, and as TW so politely explained, this war has been in effect going on for 1300 years. Sometimes setting them back a generation or two is a good thing. The Islamic fundamentalist will never stop until every Christian is dead or enslaved, their religion mandates it. So until we kill all of Islam off, we will be at war with them. We must contain them, keep them in their own little box fighting over sand.
The bigger fight, and the one we need to get moving on, is their funding. If we cut their funding, we cut their reach and capability, thus keeping them in their sand box. We know who funded them, besides Obama and our tax dollars, and if we go after the money and stop the funding we will hold them in place. A good example of this was the IRA. American had a romantic affair with the IRA, funding jars were all over Boston bars. They took in most of their funding from America. 9/11 happened right after a string of IRA bombings at funerals. Then 9/11 hit and Americans did not have the stomach for funding an organization that attacks funerals. As well as Americans focused internal and money got tight. The point is, without the funding the IRA dried up. There is always more to every story, but the funding played a big piece of the IRA drying up. That and I'm sure they did not want it getting out that the IRA taught AQ how to do road side bombs.
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A bit of historical perspective:
The Battle of Vienna took place at Kahlenberg Mountain near Vienna on 12 September 1683 after the imperial city had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months. The battle is often seen as a turning point in history, after which "the Ottoman Turks ceased to be a menace to the Christian world".
I understood Osama bin Laden picked the 09/11/2001 date to 'pick up' from the Battle of Vienna on 09/11/1683 - the day before the Muslims retreated. I'm sure he didn't like infidels on Saudi soil, but he chose to continue the battle from 1683.
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Or....the date could be a coincidence.
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with some terror groups the most effective tactic has been to take out the layer of innovative leadership and technical expertise but this requires constant work
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Yes, and ever since the 16th century AD the West has had a decisive advantage against Islam. Sigh. They ceased to be a threat at that time.
This study is literally saying killing them doesn't work, based on evidence. And yet here are any number of denialists contradicting what the data tells us.
The center of gravity of Islamic terrorism is their grievance that we occupy their countries and kill their people. Let's win this war, not pass it down to our grandchildren.
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The center of gravity of Islamic terrorism is their grievance that we occupy their countries and kill their people
You really need to get out more.
This study is literally saying killing them doesn't work, based on evidence
No, it says that killing their leaders alone won't win. Something I think is obvious to most of us here. People get hung up on THE SOLUTION or THE CAUSE. The real world is more complicated than that.
[FOXNEWS] A large flock of aggressive wild turkeys appears to be exacting some Thanksgiving Dire Revenge, having swooped down out of nowhere on a once-tranquil New Jersey 55-and-over community that is now being terrorized by the unwelcome invaders.
No one appears to be happy that the mean birds ‐ as many as 60 of them ‐ have muscled in on Holiday City in Toms River and become a gobbling nuisance, according to reports.
"The turkeys are taking over," one resident told News 12 New Jersey. "It’s like an infestation."
The woman said people think it’s a laughing matter but it’s serious.
"When I can’t get out of my house to get in the car because they won’t go away and you can’t get them to go away and they go to bite you, yes, it’s a problem," she told the station.
The station reported that the turkeys have broken windows in Holiday City while WABC-TV reported being told by another resident Donna Scala that the turkeys were up on roofs, pecking away.
"Our brand-new vehicles? They're pecking at our vehicles," she told the station. "All I'm looking for is that they be moved. Put them in a big property, hundreds of acres of property."
That might be easier said than done.
Despite fielding a number of complaints, the local animal control office can't do anything about the turkeys due to state regulations.
"It's nuisance wildlife we are not licensed to trap, relocate, or as they use the word, harass the turkeys or any wildlife, for that matter, that's a nuisance," Toms River Animal Control’s Richard Barbosa told WABC.
News 12 reported being told that state wildlife officials were aware of the situation but that was all they said.
The wild turkeys weigh between 16 and 24 pounds and can run up to 20 miles per hour.
[AlAhram] Security forces fired tear gas at anti-government protesters in Baghdad on Sunday injuring at least 22 people, police and medical sources said, a day after they pushed demonstrations back towards one main square in the Iraqi capital.
One person died in hospital of wounds sustained in festivities the previous day, the sources said. Security forces on Saturday pushed protesters back from bridges they had sought to control during the week.
"The situation is the same, they're still firing at people, maimed are coming in," said Hayder Ghareeb, a volunteer medical worker at a makeshift clinic in Tahrir Square, now the main gathering point for demonstrators in Baghdad.
Some of those hurt had choked on tear gas and been taken to hospital, medical sources said.
No deaths were immediately reported on Sunday, however, making it one of the calmer days in weeks of unrest that erupted in Baghdad with protests over lack of jobs and services and have spread across much of southern Iraq.
Security forces have used live ammunition, tear gas and stun grenades against mostly young, unarmed protesters, killing more than 280 people, according to a Rooters tally based on medical and police sources.
Iraqi leaders agreed at a meeting in Baghdad on Sunday that imminent electoral reform should give a greater chance for youth to participate in politics and break a monopoly on power by political parties that have dominated state institutions since 2003, state media reported.
The current protests are free of sectarian rhetoric: directed by mostly Shi'ite protesters against a government dominated by Shi'ite politicians and powerful allies of Iran.
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[NYPOST] Amazon has pulled an offensive shirt emblazoned with "Daddy’s Little Slut," thanks to some good old-fashioned Twitter shaming ‐ but allowed its third party seller to continue hawking other off-color items.
The original $18 shirt sold by OnlyBabyCare started going viral Friday morning, as images of the shocking slogan circulated Twitter. It’s been available on Amazon since June, with a description claiming it was "suitable" for "playing outside, birthday party, baby shower, baptism," among other family friendly activities.
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[SBSNews] Far-right party Vox has made big gains in Spain's latest election, and is predicted to win 53 seats in a hung parliament.
Far-right Vox is projected to become the third-largest party in Spain's parliament after Sunday’s national election.
It made its debut in parliament as recently as April, marking the first time a far-right party won more than one seat since the country’s return to democracy in the 1970s.
An opinion poll published shortly after mainland voting ended pegged Vox at 56-59 seats in the 350-seat house, up from 24 in the previous election in April. The actual results could still be different as such early surveys are not always accurate, though most other recent ones had projected a similar outcome.
Founded in 2013 by former members of the mainstream conservative People's Party, Vox is anti-muslim, nationalist, anti-feminist, Eurosceptical, socially conservative, economically liberal, and staunchly pro-Spanish unity. The global Left is... appalled ! The BBC ran a docu on them, their 'vile politics' and the 'defective mass psychology' behind their appeal. The name 'Trump' was used a lot.
It got its first foothold in office last December, winning 12 parliamentary seats in a regional election in Andalusia.
Vox is aligned with the broader populist movement that has also risen swiftly in other European countries, notably Italy, Austria, Germany, Denmark and France.
Economically, Vox’s manifesto has been ultra-liberal: halving the highest income tax rate to 15 per cent, reducing corporate tax, and abolishing wealth and inheritance taxes. It also proposes to partially privatize Spain’s pension system. More at SBS News.
Vox Party, which evokes images of medieval war between Christians and invading Moslems, more than doubles seats and ensures stalemate between left and right continues.
After a fourth national ballot in as many years and the second in less than seven months, the left-wing Socialists held on as the leading power in the national parliament. With 99.9% of the votes counted, the Socialists captured 120 seats, down three seats from the last election in April and still far from the absolute majority of 176 needed to form a government alone.
The far-right party led by 43-year-old Santiago Abascal, who speaks of "reconquering" Spain in terms that echo the medieval wars between Christian and Moorish forces, rocketed from 24 to 52 seats. That will make Vox the third leading party in the Congress of Deputies, giving it much more leverage in forming a government and crafting legislation.
With Sunday’s outcome, the mainstream conservative Popular Party rebounded from its previous debacle in the April vote to 88 seats from 66, a historic low. The far-left United We Can, which had rejected an offer to help the Socialists form a left-wing government over the summer, lost some ground to get 35 seats.
The night’s undisputed loser was the center-right Citizens party, which collapsed to 10 seats from 57 in April after its leader Albert Rivera refused to help the Socialists form a government and tried to copy some of Vox’s hard-line positions.
Sánchez’s chances of staying in power still hinges on ultimately winning over the United We Can party and several regional parties, a complicated maneuver that he has failed to pull off in recent months.
The Socialists took a hit in the country’s Senate, losing their absolute majority of 133 seats in the upper parliamentary chamber amid the significant conservative inroads.
The three Catalan separatist parties won a combined 23 seats on Sunday.
[Al Jazeera] Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... 's rebels will have a role in their country's future, a minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has said, voicing optimism that a recent peace deal between the government and southern separatists could lead to a wider political solution to years of war.
The comments on Sunday were the latest conciliatory move in the long-running Yemen conflict after the Iran-aligned Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s offered in September to halt attacks on Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... Anwar Gargash, minister of state for foreign affairs in the UAE - a key member in the Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen's government against the Houthi rebels - urged all sides to maintain momentum for a political resolution.
"Such an agreement must take account of the legitimate aspirations of all parts of Yemeni society. That includes the Houthis," Gargash said at a political conference in Abu Dhabi.
"Houthi militias have wreaked havoc on the country, but they are a part of Yemeni society and they will have a role in its future."
'BUILD ON MOMENTUM' The Houthi rebels have been fighting the internationally recognised government and its allies for more than four years in a war that has pushed the country to the brink of famine.
But Gargash said he was hopeful a power-sharing deal between the government and the secessionist Southern Transitional Council, signed in Riyadh last week, could pave the way for a wider peace deal.
"The agreement solidifies the anti-Houthi coalition and provides a more robust basis for reaching a political solution," he said. "Now we need to build on the momentum this has given us."
The so-called Riyadh agreement would see Yemen's government return to Aden - the interim capital seized by separatists in August - and place the forces from both sides under the authority of the defence and interior ministries.
Gargash's comments came after a rally organised by the Houthis to mark the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad on Saturday drew hundreds of thousands in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, a much larger crowd than last year.
[MYSANANTONIO] Over 840,000 of the car crashes that occur on U.S. roadways each year can be traced back to a problem area with which all drivers have experience: the blind spots caused by the A-frame of a car's structure.
Despite over a century of constant improvements to automobile, there's still no perfect fix for blind spots that the auto industry has uniformly accepted. But that might be about to change thanks to an ingenious solution from an unlikely engineering hero who can't even drive.
Alaina Gassler, 14, of West Grove, Pennsylvania, has designed a technology that makes the A-frame pillars of a car "see-through" by using projectors that cast images of what's really behind them onto their surfaces.
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Smart kid. Integrate it with a HUD, bring in a "less ethnic" partner, and this could be a runaway hit with the Mohammedan market.
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Things obscured by the A-pillar can hit you ? I bet you have to be yakking away to passengers or high to do that. Has anybody here suffered this kind of accident ?
This tech can be useful for pillboxes, shooter hides and bunkers. And tanks. Why not tanks.
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A-Frame refers to front suspension parts; really kind of hard to steer if you are down there, bouncing off the pavement; A-Piller, B-Piller, ect are the norms for referrting to the structural piese that keep the roof up off the belt line..... ( later stated in the pice, sort of)
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That's exactly what happened to me last week. I'm passing on the right and at the precise moment when my front bumper was even with her rear door, when she decides to switch into my lane without using her blinkers (natch). I must have missed her car (or she missing my car) by 1/2 an inch.
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Even if we didn't have high tech solutions, it would seem to me that the ceiling supports could be made far thinner with stronger materials if this was a serious problem, or even move the supports forward so that they don't have issues with the coverage of the side-view mirrors.
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I use a panoramic mirror for rear view, since I can't turn my head very much. Works nicely for me. But I do like the idea of seeing through the pillar. It looks neat.
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[WashingtonExaminer] A woman born in New Jersey, who fled the United States to join 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.... five years ago, said she "regrets every single thing" and has fought to return home despite the loss of her citizenship.
Hoda Muthana, 25, left her family home in Alabama in 2014 after making contact with ISIS fighters through social media. Muthana had gained a large following on Twitter and expressed anti-Western ideology consistent with that of ISIS, or ISIS, including encouraging jihadis to "go on drivebys, and spill all of their blood."
Muthana was born to a Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i diplomat
...that’s proud dad Ahmed Ali Muthana, who in February sued the U.S. government to make them bring his little girl home. He is represented by the Constitutional Law Center for Muslims in America (CLCMA), funded by the Muslim Legal Fund of America...
in 1994 and was issued an American passport despite some confusion about when her father's diplomatic post officially came to end. The U.S. government argues that Muthana's status as a U.S. citizen was issued in error because her father was in the country as a foreign official at the time of her birth.
This was one of the bright ideas of President Obama’s clever boys and girls back at the beginning of 2016. They even sent her parents a letter informing them that their daughter had never been a citizen. President Trump is just executing his predecessor’s decision.
Muthana's lawyers and family claim that she was born after her father's post ended when the family had been issued refugee status due to unrest in Yemen.
Upon arriving in Syria to join ISIS in 2014, Muthana burned her U.S. passport and declared herself a part of the caliphate. She married an Australian-born ISIS fighter who was killed in 2015 and subsequently married a Tunisian fighter who was also killed, but with whom she had a son. Muthana married one more fighter, whom she divorced.
As the ISIS enclave in Syria collapsed, Muthana surrendered to coalition forces in January 2019 and asked to come back to the U.S. in February. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, through the instruction of President Trump, publicly denied reentry to Muthana and her two-year-old son. "Ms. Hoda Muthana is not a U.S. citizen and will not be admitted into the United States," Pompeo said. "She’s a terrorist."
Muthana claimed she no longer espoused the views and values she readily shared when she fled the U.S. for Syria in 2014. Having said she "regrets every single thing," Muthana said to NBC News that the refugee camps she was forced to live in after her surrender felt increasingly unsafe for her and her young child. She also claimed it was "hard to get up in the morning."
Muthana said that, if allowed to return to the U.S., she would be open to facing justice for her actions. "They can watch over me 24/7, I’d be OK with that," she said. "I want my son to be around my family, I want to go to school, I want to have a job and I want to have my own car."
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She encouraged muslims in America to shoot innocents in drive-bys. And now wants to come to America and have her own car. I'm trying to imagine the kind of stupid it would take to even consider her request.
[Al Jazeera] Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak will find out on Monday whether he has to enter his defence to charges he siphoned millions of ringgit into his personal bank accounts, in the first of a series of trials related to the multibillion dollar corruption scandal at state fund 1MDB.
Judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali, an Oxford graduate who was once the legal counsel at Malaysia’s biggest bank, will start delivering his decision at 10am (02G). If the judge decides the prosecution has established a prima facie case, 66-year-old Najib will need to enter his defence. If not, he will walk free.
[Breitbart] A "tidal wave" of mass immigration has "tilt(ed) the field toward the Democrats" in the state of Virginia, the New York Times admits.
Last week, Democrats took control of Virginia’s House of Delegates and the State Senate. Now, the Democrats hold power over the state’s legislature, the governor’s seat and the lieutenant governor’s seat ‐ the first time since 1993 that this has occurred.
The New York Times now admits that four to five decades of mass immigration ‐ where about 1.2 million legal immigrants are admitted to the United States every year ‐ has shifted Virginia into a blue state:
Not long ago, this rolling green stretch of Northern Virginia was farmland. Most people who could vote had grown up here. And when they did, they usually chose Republicans.
The fields of Loudoun County are disappearing. In their place is row upon row of cookie-cutter townhouses, clipped lawns and cul-de-sacs ‐ a suburban landscape for as far as the eye can see. Unlike three decades ago, the residents are often from other places, like India and Korea. And when they vote, it is often for Democrats.
"It’s a totally different world," said Charles Poland, 85, a retired history professor whose family has lived in Loudoun County for four generations. His family farm is now dotted with subdivisions filled with four and five-bedroom homes that sell for $750,000. The family legacy is a road named Poland. "If my parents came back today, they wouldn’t recognize the place. The changes came like a tidal wave."
As Breitbart News analyzed, Virginia’s foreign-born population has boomed over the last few decades. In 1990, Virginia was home to less than 312,000 foreign-born residents. Today, there are close to 1.1 million, almost four times what the population was three decades before.
In 2019, 1-in-10 Virginia residents are foreign-born. In 1990, only about 1-in-28 residents were born outside the U.S.
[ToloNews] A quarterly report by the United States Special Inspector to Afghanistan, or SIGAR, released on Oct. 30, reveals that the US provided up to $7.9 billion to support and develop the Afghan Air Force, or AFF, between 2010 to 2019.
The report says $1.7 billion of the total amount was allocated for fiscal year 2019, which is $71.9 million less than what SIGAR reported last quarter.
The report says the funds allocated to the Afghan Air Force in 2019 was $295.4 million more than the money allocated to other elements of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces, or ANDSF.
But former Air Force officials said the US fund to the AFF is not sufficient and that any fundamental work has not been done in this sector.
"This is not an air force. It is a little better than zero. I mean that they have neither proper combat aircraft nor transportation aircraft or combat and intelligence helicopters. The United States assistance has been insufficient and is not worth mentioning," said Gen. Atiqullah Amarkhail (Ret.), a military analyst and former commander of the Afghan Air Force.
"Used aircraft have been sent to Afghanistan. You witnessed how many helicopters crash-landed recently... Therefore, our Air Force is ’very weak’," said Mohammad Hashim Alokozai, a member of the Afghan Senate’s Defense Committee.
The AAF’s current in-country inventory, as of October 1, 2019, includes 183 aircraft (158 of which are operational).
The SIGAR report shows that as in previous years, a large portion of the AAF’s fiscal year 2019 funds has been designated for AAF sustainment costs ($842.1 million, or 51%).
These funds, the report says, are primarily used to pay for contractor-provided maintenance, major and minor repairs, and procurement of parts and supplies for the AAF’s in-country inventory of seven air platforms: UH-60, MD-530, and Mi-17 helicopters; A-29, C-208, and AC-208 fixed-wing aircraft; and C-130 transport aircraft.
Moreover, the report shows that the US Defense Department allocated $531.5 million (32%) of the AAF’s FY 2019 funds for equipment and transportation costs.
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I would much rather the aid go too Irael than afghanistan.
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What a fucking waste.
Could have just distributed that among veterans shuffling to and fro VA hospitals and those trying for loans, the homeless and unemployed. Just handed it out with the medals.
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Don't you need people who are capable of becoming pilots before you can have an air force?
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So like we invaded Afghanistan because terrorists trained from and coordinated in Afghanistan an attack with planes with no bombs or bullets used only box cutters and took out part of the Pentagon incinerated skyscrapers and killed more people than the maps and now we our spending money for training them to fly planes with bullets and bombs like wow it is all so worth it or is it worthless?
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In 2017, the Afghan Air Force conducted roughly 2,000 airstrike sorties, about 40 a week. The AAF had a record high in October with more than 80 missions in a single week. By March 2018, the AAF had 12 A-29s in service. On 22 March 2018, the Afghan Air Force deployed a GBU-58 Paveway II bomb from an A-29 Super Tucano in combat, marking the first time the Afghan military has dropped a laser-guided weapon against the Taliban.
You military types tell me if I've read between the lines here. Basically, the AAF's job is to put down insurgents using those nifty little Brazilian single-prop ground attack planes, and land special forces units in helicopters. Which it's doing, and which it's okay at. But Gen. Amarkhail & company want a hanger full of MiG-35's so they look more baddass to the Pakistanis, Iranians, and Indians... and we didn't get them any. Does that sound right?
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Basically, the AAF's job is to put down insurgents using those nifty little Brazilian single-prop ground attack planes,
I ask about this here at the 'Burg awhile back when it seemed like the AAF was waxing jihadis left and right. I forget who suggested that the pilots were all contractors and not native Afghanis. And yeah, those little Super Tucanos are sweet!
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a large portion of the AAF’s fiscal year 2019 funds has been designated for AAF sustainment costs ($842.1 million, or 51%). These funds, the report says, are primarily used to pay for contractor-provided maintenance, major and minor repairs, and procurement of parts and supplies
Contractors are making out like bandits. Seems the way to go is to simplify and reduce the number of platforms (no Blackhawks, no C-130s, mre COTS) so the Afghans can take the lead on maintenance and sustainment.
This asteroid could be the most valuable thing in our entire Solar System. It's valued at $700 quintillion -- that's many billion times more valuable than all of the money in the world today pic.twitter.com/Ky6ENK0udL
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Getting there will be a bit of work, but after that, it should be super easy, barely an inconvenience. It's all down hill, gravitationally speaking.
"Deer sirs I am nigerian prince who has access to an asterioid capturing rockit.
I was able to hide this rockit with my banc.
I need help getting it out my country.
I trust you can help send the sum of 100 dollars so we can share 700 Quntillion"
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So you're saying there's a chance that a "plausible" one-in-a-billion shot at realising the thing's value might -- if I've got the zeros right (which I probably haven't) -- be worth something close to US total debt? Oughtta make for some interesting hijinks down here, at least.
#Tunisia: National Guard patrol in #BenGuerdane on Saturday arrested 13 people from African countries who illegally crossed the Tunisian-Libyan land borders, @interieurTn said in a statement Sunday. #TAP_En
[KhaamaPress] The security forces killed the shadow district judge of Taliban ...Arabic for students... and the Red Unit commander of the group during a clash in northern Faryab province.
According to a statement released by 209th Shaheen Corps, the security forces Mawlavi Mohammad Rahim, the shadow judge of Taliban for Andkhoi and Fida Mohammad alias Farzand-e Ata, the Red Unit commander of Taliban for Qarghan district.
The statement further added that the security forces clashed with the bandidosDeath Eaters in Andkhoi district on Saturday.
The security forces also killed 7 other bandidosDeath Eaters during the clash including two bandidosDeath Eaters hailing from Uzbekistan, the statement added.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the clash so far.
Oleg Sokolov, a 63-year-old history lecturer who received La Belle France's Legion d'Honneur in 2003, was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of murder after he was hauled out of the icy Moika River with a backpack containing a woman's arms. "He had a disarming personality"
"He has admitted his guilt," Sokolov's lawyer Alexander Pochuev said, adding he regretted what he had done and was now cooperating with police.
Sokolov was reportedly drunk and fell in as he tried to dispose of body parts.
After getting rid of the body, he reportedly planned to commit suicide at the Peter and Paul Fortress, one of the former imperial capital's most famous landmarks, dressed as Napoleon.
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"... the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce"
#Breaking North-Press reporter: Clashes in Dardara village in Tal Tamr between Syrian government forces and Turkey-backed armed opposition groups TFSA bombarding with heavy weapons on Dardara and surrounding farms pic.twitter.com/tYLopNl4oC
This opens so many questions.
What about all the conferences live or recorded on youtube?
What about public events?
What about streamed meetings?
What about all the repair your car whatever videos?
What about people posting news or scenery stuff?
What about free education or science video?
.. stuff like This?
LiveStreams like these SpaceX windows? HERE
What about ....?
Is Google Photos next?
Maybe Google Docs?
Is Google a safe place to put anything?
Is Google in money trouble?
Is Google's stock entering a questionable state?
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Stop whining about their platform and build your own.
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This has to be fake news or partially true news as it would kill YouTube almost instantly. More likely they are creating a non-commercial version with a new name and will force a migration of those that don't make money.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] Amnesia Amnesty International on Sunday called on the Iraqi government to "rein in security forces" after reports of more deaths amid ongoing nationwide protests in Baghdad and other provinces.
Iraqi media quoted medical sources on Sunday who said seven people were killed and nearly 100 injured when demonstrators tried to reach the fortified Green Zone in the capital of Baghdad.
According to Iraq’s High Commission for Human Rights, since they began in early October, widespread protests in Iraq have resulted in the deaths of at least 300, while some 12,000 have been injured.
Heba Morayef, Amnesia Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Director, called on Iraqi authorities to "immediately order an end" to the use of "excessive force" against demonstrators.
"There have now been at least 264 protester deaths across the country in little over a month," Morayef added. "This is turning into nothing short of a bloodbath‐all government promises of reforms or investigations ring hollow while security forces continue to shoot and kill protesters."
The Amnesty director urged the Iraqi government to protect its citizens, who are exercising their right "to gather and express their views."
"This bloodbath must stop now, and those responsible for it must be brought to justice."
The protests over the past month reflect widespread dissatisfaction with the economy, including high levels of unemployment, the dismal state of public services, and widespread government corruption.
Demonstrators are calling for radical change in Iraq’s political system, which they say fails to address their needs, but, rather, serves the interests of a small governing elite.
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[THEBAGHDADPOST] Sources within the intelligence of the crisis cell revealed 9 names of leaders plotted a scheme to end demonstrations in Baghdad, Basra, Dhi Qar and Karbala before November 11th.
The scheme was based on the following 7 items:
1 -A large-scale attack on institutions by masked followers of Iraqi National Security.
2. Cutting off Internet Services
3 - Publishing videos fabricated by security official Fadel Abu Raghif and his team to distort the image of peaceful demonstrations.
4 ‐ Publishing confessions by prisoners claiming to be at the Ottoman Turkish Restaurant, carrying knives, drugs, and wine. Some of them admit practicing sodomy to defame the demonstrators.
5 ‐ Arresting 1300 young people in Baghdad, Basra, and Dhi Qar and releasing them on bail after abusing them.
6 - Pursuing all those who donated to the protesters and arrested them then released on bail.
7 - Pushing 100 members of Quick reaction force, carrying knives and medical scalpels who injured demonstrators at different times when the campaign began.
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Oboy — lots more oil at a time when the world is awash in the stuff... and Iran is being hemmed in by ever-tighter sanctions. Maybe you should work out how to eat the stuff, guys.
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Will Biden's and Clinton's children be on the boards and get monthly payments? Will the Republican crooks fight with them over whose cronies get the back room payoffs stayed tuned to network news!
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Questions: 1) Is it true. 2) Do they have the people and equipment get a find out of the ground. 3) Will the IDF let the pipe lines and refineries alone ?
[THEBAGHDADPOST] An bombexploded in northern Iraq on Sunday as a vehicle carrying Italian special forces drove nearby, injuring five soldiers, three of them seriously, the Italian military said on Sunday.
The attack happened near the city of Kirkuk. The maimed men were evacuated by U.S. helicopters to a military hospital in Baghdad, where one had to have a leg amputated, a military official told state broadcaster RAI.
"Our men were training Iraqi security forces engaged in fighting ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... ," Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said, referring to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... holy warrior group.
"I am following the situation with sorrow and apprehension," he wrote on Twitter.
The blast happened three days before the 16th anniversary of a suicide kaboom in the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya, which killed 18 Italian servicemen, an Italian civilian and nine Iraqi civilians.
According to a statement from Italian Foreign Minister Luigi di Maio, the soldiers had been training Iraqi security forces "engaged in the fight against ISIS." Italian forces regularly participate in international efforts to train the Iraqi security forces tasked with preventing a resurgence of the murderous Moslem group in Iraq.
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[NPASYRIA] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... has faced great criticism after the death of the leader of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
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[Breitbart] An instructor at UC Berkeley argued that "rural Americans" are "bad people" who have made "bad life decisions" in a tweet that he has since deleted.
UC Berkeley instructor Jackson Kernion said that "rural Americans" are "bad people" in a tweet last week. Kernion, a graduate student studying philosophy, has taught ten courses at UC Berkeley over the past few years. The tweet, which was highlighted this week by Campus Reform, was deleted after it sparked criticism from other Twitter users.
"I unironically embrace the bashing of rural Americans. they, as a group, are bad people who have made bad life decisions. Some, I assume, are good people," Kernion wrote in the deleted tweet. "But this nostalgia for some imagined pastoral way of life is stupid and we should shame people who aren’t pro-city."
"It should be uncomfortable to live in rural America. It should be uncomfortable to not move," Kernion wrote in a follow-up tweet.
Kernion’s tweet inspired significant criticism from other Twitter users. "Thank you for raising awareness of the phenomenon that you can get a PhD in philosophy from a great school like Berkeley and still be a mediocre thinker," one user wrote. "Not surprising to be an asshole, but notable to be not that smart."
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I was talking to one of those "rural people" that I had just paid to spend 3 hours clearing brush with a tractor on my property. He remarked about the horrors of living in a small town where they don't bother to lock their front doors or cars...
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I believe it's possible that by not charging the value of land-title (and taxing income instead) you over concentrate people causing city like behaviour.
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Maybe the 'Bad People' should give up farming and energy production, better to keep mother nature in its 'normal' state.
Richard Fernandez sums up the perspective -
In 1926 the French sociologist Lucien Levy-Bruhl wrote: "The primitive mind does not differentiate the supernatural from reality, but rather uses 'mystical participation' to manipulate the world. According to Levy-Bruhl, moreover, the primitive mind doesn't address contradictions." Except for the wizards we are, most of us, primitives now.
In an ironic sort of way, the more technologically advanced a society becomes the more medieval and superstitious its governance can become. Then we will truly become pre-modern, supplanting nuclear power plants with windmills and electricity with candles. Perhaps the biggest problem of the 21st century will not be income, but knowledge inequality.
In other words, its all magic to them that the wall switch turns on the lights and the store shelves fill with food.
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P2K, wasn't it Arthur C Clarke who said "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"?
Today, to many people, the electricity in their houses, food at the grocery store, gasoline in the pumps, everything, is essentially magic.
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..at least people around the Gulf Coast know when the winds blow very hard, the magic disappears.
Thank you for raising awareness of the phenomenon that you can get a PhD in philosophy from a great school like Berkeley and still be a mediocre thinker. Not surprising to be an asshole, but notable to be not that smart.
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Wizard of Oz: Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.
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They consider Americans as The Other. They hate our guts.
Way to punch down! Speak truth to the powerless!
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"the horrors of living in a small town where they don't bother to lock their front doors or cars... " yeah it really does suck to not have to worry about being ripped off all the time
[NPASYRIA] North-Press has obtained photographs of two Lebanese and German families belong to the Islamic State ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... (IS) who fled Ein Issa refugee camp, when members of the Ottoman Turkish-backed opposition groups launched an attack in the middle of last month and smuggled some families.
During their fleeing, the Lebanese and German families, were maimed by land mines planted by the Ottoman Turkish forces between the cities of Manbij and Jarablus, especially children.
The Syrian Democratic Forces ( SDF) moved the families to al-Hol camp in Hasakah countryside, and they are now in safe and monitored conditions.
On the 15th of last month, Ein Issa camp was in a chaos situation as a result of a fire in the camp, and an attack by the Ottoman Turkish forces and its affiliated gangs. In addition to smuggling some IS families from the camp, while the remaining families fled towards the city of Ein Issa.
It is noteworthy that many members of the Islamic State (IS), managed to escape from northern Syria and arrived in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , and they are now under the protection and mandate of Turkey, including dangerous women of Russian origin from the families of the terrorist group, who managed to escape from the camp of Ein Issa and reached Turkey.
The Center for Documentation of Violations in northern Syria revealed information and names of leaders and fighters of the terrorist group of (IS) fighting now within the ranks of the Ottoman Turkish-backed gangs in northern Syria.
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[NPASYRIA] The director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Rami Abdul Rahman stated that they have documented with absolute evidence that at least eight members of the terrorist group of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) are involved with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... 's backed Syrian National Army, an umbrella of several Islamist militias, who are currently fighting in the so-called Ottoman Turkish Peace Spring Operation.
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Next, they'll demand that NATO support the daesh. And some shall even debate the feasibility.
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It is recalled that Al Qaeda and ISIL are radical modern offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood. It is also recalled that the present seat of the International Muslim Brotherhood is Turkey and receives the support of Erdogan. When this Syrian thing is over, Turkey will exist as the nexus for the re-formation of the radical Islamist movement. Count on it.
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I see there's a Pakistain for everyone in three continents now. Mexico for the Americas, the 'Stain for Asia and Turkey for Europe. Are they getting their EU membership soon ?
[Rudaw] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... called Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... ’an Islamist fanatic’ in an interview to be released on Monday.
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Pencilneck (Sorry, the ORIGINAL Pencilneck) got it right.
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...isn’t the Syrian National Army Turkey’s paramilitary umbrella, made up of various Turkmen Moslem Brotherhood types plus ISIS remnants unwilling to give up the fight?
closed, on Saturday, a crossing linking Afrin areas of Aleppo northern countryside to Idlib and western Aleppo areas, which are controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), while clashes and shelling continue in the de-escalation zones.
Activists have told North-Press that "the National Army of the Syrian Interim Government in Aleppo northern countryside closed the crossing of al-Ghazawiya village in Afrin area, near the city of Darat Azza west of Aleppo, permanently to travelers, traders and fuel tanks, pointing out that hundreds of cars carrying passengers and goods, especially fuel tanks are still stuck on both ends of the crossing."
A military source quoted activists that the reason for the closure of the crossing, is due to harassment which military members of the "National Army" are exposed to, as they go to areas south of Idlib and western Hama.
Our reporter: Artillery and mortar shelling by Turkish military & affiliated armed groups hit villages of Um al-Kaif & Qasimiya in Tal Tamr countryside Overflights of Turkish and U.S. war-planes in airspace of the region pic.twitter.com/Try8TMPi3a
Our reporter: Turkish forces & affiliated armed opposition groups shelling villages of Qasimiya, Rihaniya, Mahmudiya and Daoudia in northern countryside of Tal Tamr with artillery shells and drone airstrike pic.twitter.com/jC094TfLc4
#Tunisia: @EnnahdhaParty Shura Council announced at its meeting held over the week-end the bid of party's president Rached Ghannouchi for parliament speaker, stressing commitment to its right to form and head the government, said Council president. https://t.co/QXwuSv2jprpic.twitter.com/z8UEc2oxBS
[FoxNews] President Trump announced Friday he will select the winners in the months’ old #MAGACHALLENGE as he retweeted a video posted by a supporter who rapped his love for the president and challenged others to do likewise.
Trump supporters got to work right away. Below are some samples.
Go to the link to see delightful videos of admittedly varying quality, including one that’s flat-out country (or western — I’m not clear on the difference) I had no idea this was going on, but kudos to all the happy warriors.
[Powerline] I take it as a given that Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma paid the Biden family a $3 million bribe. That follows from the facts that 1) Hunter Biden doesn’t speak Ukrainian or have any experience in Ukrainian business, 2) Hunter Biden has no experience in the natural gas industry, 3) Burisma nevertheless paid Biden more than $83,000 a month (!) for three years to serve on its board of directors, a role that usually is only nominally compensated, and 4) Joe Biden at the time was responsible for Ukraine policy in the Obama administration. But there may be even more to the scandal than that.
John Solomon has been an indispensable source here, in part because of his own Freedom of Information Act requests. His most recent revelations concern Burisma’s relationship with the U.S. Agency for International Development, an arm of the State Department:
A State Department official who served in the U.S. embassy in Kiev told Congress that the Obama administration tried in 2016 to partner with the Ukrainian gas firm that employed Hunter Biden but the project was blocked over corruption concerns.
George Kent, the former charge d’affair at the Kiev embassy, said in testimony released Thursday that the State Department’s main foreign aid agency, known as USAID, planned to co-sponsor a clean energy project with Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian gas firm that employed Hunter Biden as a board member.
At the time of the proposed project, Burisma was under investigation in Ukraine for alleged corruption. ...
Kent testified he personally intervened in mid-2016 to stop USAID’s joint project with Burisma because American officials believed the corruption allegations against the gas firm raised concern.
The time line is important here. Hunter Biden started getting money from Burisma in 2014. In February 2016, Burisma’s top-shelf international lobbying firm used Hunter’s name to fast-track an appointment with a senior State Department official to deny reports of corruption involving Burisma:
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How come every country that the war mongers I mean the peaceful Democrat liberals invaded for Russia I mean invaded are all now falling under Russian control buying their weapon systems.etc and the U.S. Military is still guarding Russian energy projects in iraq? Seems like it is just another in last being added back to russia! Hey we are down approximately.7 states in country and were not invited to Ukraine peace talks so what is the real story? Serbia New Knesset coming at ya!
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.
[National Review] During her testimony, former National Security Council staffer Fiona Hill revealed that she had a three-year working relationship with Christopher Steele, the former British spy contracted by opposition-research firm Fusion GPS to produce the infamous Steele Dossier, but doubted the accuracy of his dossier, according to a transcript published Friday.
[Red State]...NSA Robert O’Brien says Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a top witness in the House impeachment inquiry, will be removed from his post at the White House National Security Council.
[Townhall] Ever since its citizens liked Ike in ’52 (other than one brief hiccup in 1964 when Johnson trounced Goldwater almost everywhere), the Commonwealth of Virginia had voted reliably Republican, until 2008. That year, in a wave election, Democrat Barack Obama won several states Republicans typically win, like Florida, North Carolina and Arizona. One could have been forgiven, then, for thinking Virginia would come back to the fold after the hipness wore off and the cold, hard reality of quasi-socialist governance became all-too-real. After all, this is Old Dominion we’re talking about, the land of Monticello and Williamsburg, of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and more prominent founding Americans than anywhere else. From Nathaniel Bacon to George Mason to Patrick Henry and countless more, freedom and resistance to tyranny have been an indelible part of that great state’s heritage.
[Houston Chronicle] NEW YORK - Two of President Donald Trump's senior advisers undermined and ignored him in what they claimed was an effort to "save the country," former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley claims in a new memoir.
[Babylon Bee] NEW YORK, NY‐In a special PSA at the end of a news segment this morning, ABC News asked the station's viewers to send in any evidence on Jeffrey Epstein and his possible connections among the rich and powerful, so that they could destroy said evidence and then murder the person who sent it in.
...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 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
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[Breitbart] Appearing Saturday on CNN’s Axe Files, Cindy McCain reacted to recent happenings in Washington, D.C., saying the United States needs her late husband, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), "more than ever."
[MITPressJournals] Does leadership decapitation lead to the demise of terrorist organizations? Can the United States undermine or destroy terrorist organizations such as al-Qaida by arresting or killing their leaders? What explains organizational resilience to leadership targeting? Leadership decapitation, or the killing or capturing of the leaders of terrorist organizations, has become a core feature of U.S. counterterrorism policy. Many scholars and analysts claim that it weakens terrorist organizations and reduces the threat they pose. Unsurprisingly, they saw the killing of Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011, in Abbottabad, Pakistan, as a major tactical victory for President Barack Obama and for the broader war on terrorism. Despite the success of this operation and subsequent attacks on al-Qaida leaders, decapitation is unlikely to diminish the ability of al-Qaida to continue its activities in the long run. Rather, it may have counterproductive consequences, emboldening or strengthening the organization.
I do not remember reading about any Sturmabteilung rising from the ashes of Dresden.
[FOXNEWS] A large flock of aggressive wild turkeys appears to be exacting some Thanksgiving 
[NYPOST] Amazon has pulled an offensive shirt emblazoned with "Daddy’s Little Slut," thanks to some good old-fashioned Twitter shaming ‐ but allowed its third party seller to continue hawking other off-color items.
[SBSNews] Far-right party Vox has made big gains in Spain's latest election, and is predicted to win 53 seats in a hung parliament.
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
[MYSANANTONIO] Over 840,000 of the car crashes that occur on U.S. roadways each year can be traced back to a problem area with which all drivers have experience: the blind spots caused by the A-frame of a car's structure.
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...Arabic for 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...formerly 
[NPASYRIA] North-Press has obtained photographs of two Lebanese and German families belong to the 
[Powerline] I take it as a given that Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma paid the Biden family a $3 million bribe. That follows from the facts that 1) Hunter Biden doesn’t speak Ukrainian or have any experience in Ukrainian business, 2) Hunter Biden has no experience in the natural gas industry, 3) Burisma nevertheless paid Biden more than $83,000 a month (!) for three years to serve on its board of directors, a role that usually is only nominally compensated, and 4) Joe Biden at the time was responsible for Ukraine policy in the Obama administration. But there may be even more to the scandal than that.
