Russian tipped to take over Interpol in Kremlin victory. This is absolutely astonishing, but not without precedent. Nazi Germany took over Interpol in the 1930’s. http://t.co/Z7R9m0Wvst
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"Nazi Germany took over Interpol in the 1930’s"
Not quite (but almost). It took over its predecessor, the Internationale Kriminalpolizeiliche Kommission (IKPK) in 1938. Presidents were Heydrich, then Kaltenbrunner. The Wannsee Conference took place in a building used by the IKPK.
The IKPK was dissolved in 1945 and reestablished in 1946 with new statutes.
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Thank you for that bit of history, liebe European Conservative. Now we know.
Takeaway: Clinton was treated in the van, not medically evacuated to a care facility. The cause of the emergency was already known by the Secret Service.
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That Euro Army(tm) he proposed is going to cost big time even if they go back to a draft. Guess who's going to pay for it? You can have a wartime budget or a social welfare budget. You can't have both (unless you are the US which has now absorbed a multi-TRILLION dollar debt. See - indentured generations).
[National Review] A mob of protesters associated with the radical left-wing group Antifa swarmed the private residence of Fox News host Tucker Carlson on the night of November 7. They yelled, "Tucker Carlson, we will fight! We know where you sleep at night!" The mob’s apparent aim was to catch Carlson’s family inside and so terrify them that he might temper his conservative views. Carlson’s wife was home alone at the time. She locked herself in a pantry and called police.
During the Supreme Court nomination hearings for Brett Kavanaugh, demonstrators disrupted the proceedings and stalked senators. Later, a mob broke through police barricades to pound on the doors of the Supreme Court while Kavanaugh was preparing to be sworn in. Their agenda apparently was to create such confusion and disorder that the nomination might be postponed.
Hollywood celebrities habitually boast of wanting to shoot, blow up, or decapitate President Donald Trump. Apparently their furor is meant to lower the bar of violence so that Trump fears for his personal safety and therefore might silence or change his views.
Few of these protesters fear any legal consequences when they violate the law. Nor do those who disrupt public officials at restaurants, stalk them on their way to work, or post their private information on the Internet.
Yet most Americans are tired of hearing the lame excuses that the protesters’ supposedly noble ends justify their unethical or illegal means.
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Nice concept, but the Hippocratic oath is something doctors believe in, not something they have to pledge. Even if it was a pledge they'd lie and get a slap on the write by other elites.
[CNBC] Prepare your calculators. The Internal Revenue Service has updated its tax brackets for 2019.
This year marks the first under the new Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, an overhaul of the tax code that resulted in lower individual income tax rates, a doubled standard deduction and the elimination of personal exemptions.
For the new year, the IRS has bumped up the individual income tax brackets, adjusting them for inflation.
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Instead of 2019 tax brackets, try working on the important shit like the 2018 forms and getting those out instead, dickheads. As of this morning they have published precisely zero 2018 forms, draft or otherwise. This fucking circle jerk happens every other year and holds me up for a couple of weeks.
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As of this morning they have published preciq
And yet I have had to file 3 quarterly estimated tax payments already, with penalties if I guess wrong on what I will owe.
[Washington Examiner] The federal and state judges charged with making crucial decisions in the vote recount efforts in Florida and Georgia all have ties to the Democratic party.
There are currently a handful of recounts going on in Florida and Georgia, including gubernatorial, Senate, and statewide races. Arguably, the most crucial decisions in these recounts are being overseen by judges that were either appointed by a former Democratic president, or, at the very least, have loose ties to the Democratic party.
In Florida, U.S. District Judge Mark Walker and Leon County Circuit Court Judge Karen Gievers are the judges in question. Both judges made consequential rulings this week that extended the weekslong recount efforts that have drawn ire from Florida Republicans and President Trump.
Walker is overseeing the recount of the state's Senate election, featuring Florida Gov. Rick Scott, R-Fla., and incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. Walker was appointed by former President Barack Obama in 2012. His wife previously made small campaign contributions to Nelson.
The judge is best known for a previous battle with Scott, where he stopped the governor's campaign against instating felons' voting rights. The case has caused some to question whether he is the best-suited judge to oversee this particular case.
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...The good news now is that it don't matter - both states have ended their agony and it's over till next time.
Mike
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Hopefully, the corruptacrats have been squelched in FL and GA. Better take a healthy look at AZ as the numbers don't add up. Better look also at House races that are close where possibilities exist for election fraud. Foxes watching the hen house is not good!
[Military] All the F-22 Raptors that were left behind at Tyndall Air Force Base during Hurricane Michael have moved on to the bases where they will be housed until the Air Force determines their final future destination, the service's top civilian said Thursday.
"All of the F-22s have been flown out now," Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said during the annual Defense One summit in Washington, D.C. "All of the damage to them was minor ... They were repaired and flown out."
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[Townhall] Looking out the window on icy snow this cold, gray mid-November morning, it is hard not to make the comparison. Minneapolis is looking more and more like Moscow on the Mississippi. Predictions by global warming enthusiasts not withstanding, the weather is not the only similarity.
A grayness hovers over Minnesota like a fog. It is a heaviness. It feels oppressive. The gray funk resulting from the reality that the Left has strengthened its grip on this state and its government. The Governor-elect wasted little time announcing that we should brace for the jolt of a hefty tax increase on gasoline. While some peasants who voted for him ask, "where did that come from?" Others who didn’t vote for him have resigned themselves to the reality that this is a precursor of additional "revenue enhancements" to come. Of course, that means higher taxes, especially on upper income Minnesotans. They are told that they shouldn’t complain. They can afford it. And we all know that government can spend and invest their money so much better than they can themselves. No need to donate to church or charity.
We must first raise our gas tax. We desperately need more roundabouts. Especially in locations where stop signs have worked well for 100 years. A handful of noisy Minnesotans are also demanding more bike lanes for the two dozen folks who use them...three months a year. Once the mass transit interests get an oversized slice, there will be some left for more legitimate transportation needs like roads and bridges. Higher gas taxes are the only answer.
The peasants will just have to pay it. They will deal with the new taxes, just as they deal with the bitter winter winds. They might grumble, but they will hunker down. We have been promised by our new Governor that we are on our way to becoming a Sanctuary State. He will need more money to cover additional welfare and crime related costs. The weight of the wagon gets ever heavier.
[Wash Times] A high school in northwestern England is banning students from wearing expensive coats in an effort to be more "inclusive" of those who come from low-income backgrounds.
The Woodchurch High School in Birkenhead this month reportedly informed students that they would no longer be permitted to wear Canada Goose and Moncler coats on campus when they return from the Christmas break.
"These coats cause a lot of inequality between our pupils," headteacher Rebekah Phillips told CNN. "They stigmatize students and parents who are less well off and struggle financially."
The blacklisted coats sell for as much as $1,200, CNN reported.
"There has been feedback from children, who say ’Gosh, that is our rent for the month,’ " Ms. Phillips added.
She said the ban is part of a larger effort to "poverty-proof" the school, which included mandating a cost-effective backpack for all the students and cutting back on non-uniform days to once a year so students don’t feel left out for their fashion choices.
Poverty-proofing schools is a growing trend across the U.K., according to CNN. Similar initiatives have reportedly included banning expensive pencil cases and discouraging teachers from asking students what they did on the weekend.
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You can hear a live version of Zappa performing his song about conformity called Brown Shoes. When the crowd cheers his announcement of the song, FZ replies "Everyone in this room is wearing a uniform and don't forget it..."
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Logically that would mean they need to go full nudist.
[AnNahar] Israeli forces have tried on Saturday to kidnap a shepherd from the neighborhood of Jabal al-Sadana in the Shebaa town who managed to escape the attempt, LBCI TV station said on Twitter.
The patrol confiscated 50 lovers goats belonging to the shepherd. Nice harem
The Lebanese army began contacts with UNIFIL to find out what had happened and if there was a breach of the withdrawal line, said LBCI.
We see these stories occasionally, and they never make sense. What on earth would the IDF do with a lonely, well-armed herdsman (it never seems to be a goat-girl or shepherdess) never mind an active and unhappy herd of ruminents?
[AnNahar] Militants have killed five Filipino soldiers and maimed 23 others in a major ambush by members of a notorious Islamist kidnap-for-ransom group, the Philippine military said Saturday.
The soldiers were searching for hostages taken by the Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... group when the button men attacked them on the southern Philippine island of Jolo on Friday, regional military front man Lieutenant Colonel Gerry Besana told news hounds.
"The effort is part of our mission to rescue the remaining hostages," Besana said.
The Abu Sayyaf is a loose alliance of several hundred armed gunnies formed in the 1990s with seed money from the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse... 's al-Qaeda network.
Friday's clash was one of the deadliest since an Abu Sayyaf faction joined other foreign and Filipino gunnies in seizing the southern Philippine city of Marawi last year, leading to a five-month battle that claimed more than 1,100 lives.
The Abu Sayyaf is now believed to hold "less than 10" hostages, Besana said.
The group is based in the strife-torn southern islands but its members began in 2016 to kidnap sailors in the waters between Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.
The gunnies have also raided and taken hostages from resorts in the southern Philippines and neighbouring Malaysia.
Most of the hostages have been ransomed off for huge amounts of money and several had their heads chopped off, including two Canadian tourists in 2016. A Dutch birdwatcher kidnapped on a nearby island in 2012 is believed to be among those still in Abu Sayyaf's hands.
The Dutchman's Swiss colleague escaped in 2014 after grabbing a kidnapper's machete and killing him.
The soldiers who survived Friday's ambush did not see any hostages during the 90-minute clash near the town of Patikul, Besana said.
[AlAhram] Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday Iran and Iraq could raise annual bilateral trade to $20 billion from the current level of $12 billion, in remarks carried live by state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
"Today, the economic relations between the two countries reach about $12 billion (per year) and, through bilateral efforts, we can raise this figure to $20 billion," Rouhani told visiting Iraqi President Barham Salih.
Hoping Iraq will defy President Trump’s sanctions.
As dear Angela Merkel demonstrated, if you invite them, they will come — and in numbers beyond your imagining.
[AlAhram] Canada is on track to receive its highest number of refugee claims since record-keeping began nearly three decades ago, the latest data shows, as the government’s handling of immigration comes under scrutiny ahead of next year’s federal election.
Despite cooler weather, the number of refugee claimants jumped past 6,000 in October, the highest monthly tally this year, the data released on Thursday showed.
That takes total claims in the first 10 months of 2018 to 46,245, putting the country on track to surpass last year’s record even as the quasi-judicial body that adjudicates claims struggles to work through a 64,000-person backlog.
The Immigration and Refugee Board started tracking refugee claimant data in 1989.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government faces a widely held belief that Canada has been overwhelmed by immigrants colonists pressing asylum claims, even though it receives far fewer than many other countries. The government has struggled to balance Canada’s reputation as a haven for those fleeing persecution with warnings that filing refugee claims is no "free ticket" to remain in the country.
The governing Liberals have come under fire for their handling of the more than 37,000 people who have walked across the Canada-U.S. border seeking asylum since January 2017 ‐ many of whom told Rooters they did not feel safe in President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s United States.
The poor darlings were fleeing from the idea that after dcades their temporary refuge was not to be permanent.
About 1,400 crossed the frontier in October, down from 1,600 the month before. But most refugee claimants enter the country by other means, and their numbers are growing.
"There are 65 million refugees in the world, and there are many desperate people trying to find safety and refuge in western countries," said Toronto-based lawyer Lorne Waldman. "I think we’re going to see 50,000-plus (refugee claims annually) for the foreseeable future."
Unless you rescind that invitation, coupled with actively expelling those whose applications have been rejected.
A front man for Immigration and Refugees Minister Ahmed Hussen noted that this year’s budget included an additional C$74 million ($56 million) for the Immigration and Refugee Board "to speed up the processing of asylum claims." The hiring of 248 new staff "is under way," front man Mathieu Genest wrote in an email.
About 56 percent of refugee claims finalized in the first three quarters of 2018 were accepted, according to the Immigration and Refugee Board, with lower acceptance rates for border-crossers.
Border-crossers from Nigeria and Haiti, who made up the largest groups of border-crossers, had relatively low acceptance rates compared with other nationalities, at 29.3 percent and 11.6 percent, respectively.
Canada’s government is trying to hasten the deportations of border-crossers whose refugee claims are not successful, classifying them with criminals as a top deportation priority.
Yes, yes. But how many have actually been escorted out of the country?
The government should also prioritize integration of successful applicants, said Canadian Council for Refugees head Janet Dench, and ensure that tens of thousands of people are not left waiting years for permanent resident status.
"The longer you keep people in this limbo state, the longer before they can contribute fully to Canadian society."
[Weekly Standard] A conspiracy theory involving lasers, the government, and California wildfires began circulating on social media this week in the wake of the catastrophic Camp Fire in California.
One YouTuber suggested that the fires were started by a "Directed Energy Weapon" (e.g. a laser) in order to distract us from the mass killing in Las Vegas last year (he also posited that the 2017 Gerard Butler movie Geostorm was "mostly outer space reinforcement propaganda").
"The government is starting these fires," one Facebook user said. "Marinate on this ..."
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The Deep State™ has already turned back the efforts of Representative Dennis Kucinich's H.R.2977 - Space Preservation Act of 2001 to keep "mind controlling lasers" and other evil, no doubt fascist and imperialist as well!, weapons from space. Obviously this is a Dark Conspiracy™ to cover up a botched weapons test. (Do I need the /sarc tag?)
[Breitbart] Customers and employees brawled inside a Louisiana McDonalds, throwing punches in several different directions, according to a video posted Friday.
The video showed multiple customers and staffers involved in a nasty brawl inside the fast-food chain, while two others began wrestling on the hood of a car outside the restaurant.
One person had his pants down and his buttocks exposed while he appeared to be fighting another person on the hood of the vehicle, according to the video.
It is unclear how the brawl began or whether law enforcement was involved, but at least one employee tried to stop the brawl by pulling a co-worker off of a crowd of people.
The video, which racked up more than 152,000 views as of Saturday evening, comes as several other brawls involving customers and employees inside McDonalds have gone viral in recent weeks.
In the past week alone, a video showed a McDonalds customer in California beating and choking a McDonalds manager because she was dissatisfied with the amount of ketchup she received with her order.
[Breitbart] The University of Houston-Clear Lake is blaming "toxic masculinity" for a variety of social issues.
According to a report from Campus Reform, the University of Houston-Clear Lake is playing a documentary called The Mask You Live In about the effect of "toxic masculinity" on society. For the uninitiated, "toxic masculinity" refers to the belief that Western men have been conditioned into a set of beliefs about acceptable expressions of masculinity. Proponents argue that failure to "be a man" causes men to crumble and lash out at others, particularly women.
The film argues that "toxic masculinity" is the reason why boys are more likely than girls to commit suicide, crime, and fail out of school. It’s an irresponsible reduction of the complex issues that young men face. Of course it is an issue that some men are conditioned to feel that they can’t be sensitive. Or that they can’t engage in more feminine activities and expressions. However, it is a wild assumption to connect this to all of this issues that men face.
In a statement, the university’s diversity administrators said that the diversity will help students think critically about gender. "UHCL’s Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion hosts numerous programs and activities on challenging topics including the evolving perceptions of masculinity," the school official said. "By considering different points of view, students gain the skills necessary to become better leaders and critical thinkers."
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Why are taxpayers supporting these institutions? Lease the infrastructure to them, but cut any further financial underpinnings. Let the market decide.
[Boston Herald] "Fox News is not what it was three years ago," he said. "It’s different people running the operation." Perhaps that could explain why the cable news network made headlines yesterday announcing it’s filing an amicus brief in court challenging the Trump administration’s decision to bar controversial CNN reporter Jim Acosta from its daily White House press briefings.
"The Acosta thing isn’t about freedom of the press, it’s about how you behave as a reporter. It was obvious to anyone that Jim Acosta was not trying to get information to the viewers of CNN he was trying to provoke confrontation," said the former cable news king who left Fox News under a sexual harassment cloud.
"If CNN wants him to be a commentator give him a prime time show. They could use the ratings help," he added. "But he’s a reporter and reporters are not supposed to bait the president of the United States and not supposed to insult him, which is what Acosta does."
O’Reilly pointed out that the White House can suspend Acosta’s press access but they haven’t suspended CNN’s access thereby debunking the fallacy the administration is restricting free speech or freedom of the press when over 50 CNN reporters continue to have White House press credentials.
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Stopped watching and paying for FauxNews a couple years ago. Like not watching the NFL one can still expect to hear about their most egregious moments on other media outlets.
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Shep Smith and Chris Wallace, both moving more openly leftward, and just watched Sunday Moring "News" programming at 10, with Leland Vitter and Gillian, and they were both antagonistically argumentative with guests and she in particular was insistent on the issue of the Acting Attorney General being an inappropriate pick because of "perceptions of bias" against the Mueller fiasco. Drifting is becoming more apparent aside from prime time lineup.
[Jpost] Post-Pittsburgh, Jewish communities are talking to NY’s top Homeland Security commissioner Roger Parrino, but will they change?
Long and thought-provoking, it makes the Pittsburgh rabbi hiding in a closet to call the police on his cell phone after sending his congregants into hiding look much better than I originally thought.
[Ynet] Nour Baraka, who oversaw Khan Yunis for Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,, grew suspicious when he spotted the undercover Israelis in a van near his home. He went to investigate and was killed in the firefight that ensued on Sunday night.
Even the neighbors of Nour el-Deen Baraka didn't know what he really did. He completed his master's degree in comparative Sharia law only this year after a period of intense study and memorization of the Koran. The group of uniformed men that generally accompanied him might have given his neighbors a clue of his other, more valuable role.
Nour Baraka, 37, married with four children, was known for keeping a low profile. He lived in the family house in Bani Suheila, east of Khan Yunis‐not far from where Hamas leaders Muhammad Dahlan and Yahya Sinwar were raised.
Nour Baraka was the commander of the Khan Yunis Brigade of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, and was also put in charge of the Khan Yunis tunnels.
But the most famous of the Baraka family is actually his brother, Dr. Suleiman Baraka, a space scientist and astronomer, who studied in Egypt and Leb, moved to the United States to complete his doctorate, worked for NASA and won prestigious prizes in Gay Paree and Washington. In 2008, after his 11 year-old son was killed in an Israeli operation in Gazoo, Dr. Baraka stopped his work and returned to Gazoo.
Recently, Suleiman gave a speech at a Paleostinian TED event and received loud applause from the Gazook audience as he recounted his life-story in the Arab world. He described how in Syria he was suspected of being a Paleostinian spy, how they were sure that he was a Zionist spy in Leb after seeing an Israeli stamp on his passport, how he had not managed to reach Australia and how he had almost settled in despair in Libya. "But in the end, like my brother Nour, I belong to the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades," he said.
On the day of the incident, Nour returned from a "work tour" in the north of Khan Yunis and entered his house. According to reports in Gazoo, he identified "something suspicious" when he spotted a Volkswagen outside his window. He questioned the Israeli passengers, was not satisfied with their answers, and then the weapons were drawn and the shooting began.
According to reports on social media and news outlets in Gazoo, two Israelis from the Volkswagen dressed in women's clothing were the ones who shot up Nour Baraka.
Al-Jazeera ... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS... TV correspondent Wa'il Dahdouh air images on Monday of what was left of the Volkswagen used by the Israelis before they fled. "This is far beyond killing or taking captive a Paleostinian, the Israelis planned something much bigger here, and did not succeed," he said.
[The Other McCain] Public education in America is a disaster. If taxpayers had any idea what was being done to children in these government indoctrination centers, they would be outraged. However, the bureaucrats who run the system are trained in methods of suppressing the sordid secrets of what goes on, and it is only when disaster strikes ‐ e.g., the Parkland massacre ‐ that the public gets a glimpse of the corruption and incompetence that prevails even in allegedly "good" suburban schools. Parents who think it is safe to send their children to public school generally have no inkling of actual conditions inside their child’s school. Consider what’s happening at Harlandale High School in San Antonio, Texas:
A 9th grader and her family fear for their safety after the Harlandale High School student was jumped just minutes after the last bell rang.
Melissa Serna said when she was on her way to pick up her daughter from school, she got a text saying her daughter had been attacked.
"My thing was just going to the hospital to make sure my daughter was fine," Serna said. "Because she had suffered from a concussion, she passed out when she was getting the kicks and punches to her head."
Serna said surveillance and cell phone video captured the assault, showing two female students beating her daughter on school grounds while others watched. Serna said school staff was still on campus but claim they did not see the fight until the students fled.
"I mean every person, my family, that’s seen the video has cried watching it," Serna said. "She had two teachers who cried with her."
The two students were suspended for three days, but are now back on campus. Serna said additional video surfacing on social media shows one of the students shooting a gun out of a moving car.
Serna said her daughter is still being bullied and taunted at school every day.
Harlandale ISD released this statement Wednesday regarding the incident:
"The Harlandale Police Department is investigating this incident and has filed charges with the District Attorney’s office. The students will follow due process to the fullest extent of the law and will be disciplined according to the Harlandale ISD Student Code of Conduct and School Board Policy. The safety of our students is always our top priority and the Harlandale ISD takes all potential threats to students’ safety very seriously."
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Long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, I believe it was Indianapolis, karma struck. Seems the local school was failing to report assaults. Parents got no where. Next election they banded together to support a particular candidate for the area prosecutor. He won. Formed a grand jury. Brought in charges on the principal and his two assistance for obstruction. They pleaded and surrendered their licenses. Message received (for at least a decade).
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Public edjimication complex is an iron rice bowl. If they could figure out how to spend all that tax money without dealing with kids you can bet they'd be on it right quick...
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[The Federalist] I grew up in California’s Ventura County and have family in both southern and northern California. Right now, the most deadly fire in California’s history is racing across northern California. The Camp Fire has already killed at least 56 people, burned down 7,700 homes, and destroyed the entire town of Paradise. A brush fire is also wreaking havoc on southern California. The Woolsey Fire has destroyed 98,362 acres, killed two people, and damaged several Hollywood landmarks such as the set of "MASH" and the Reagan Ranch.
Article after article blames two things for California’s frequent fires: global warming and human action. For example, a BuzzFeed article is titled, "How A Booming Population And Climate Change Made California’s Wildfires Worse Than Ever." While dry conditions make fires more likely and people often start them, this misses the big picture. President Trump summed it up on Nov 10. He wrote, "There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor ... Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!"
Trump is right. Mismanagement and overregulation deserve most of the blame, but he should keep in mind that the federal government owns 57 percent of California forest land. This mismanagement is also not a result of a lack of care. Believe me, Californians care.
Growing up, we spend almost as much time talking about fire safety as we do hiding under our desks practicing for earthquakes. We see just as much of Smokey the Bear as we do of Mickey Mouse. California and federal agencies have mismanaged forests, not because they don’t care, but because they chose the agenda of environmentalists over commonsense forest management. The result has been deadly.
The federal government owns 45.8 percent of California’s land, while 4 percent is owned by the state and 51 percent is privately owned. CAL FIRE manages both state and private land. Part of the reason it is so difficult to manage California forests is the bureaucratic milieu. The Forest Service manages 193 million acres of land, has 28,000 employees, and has an annual outlay of $7 billion a year, according to a 2017 Analytical Perspective from the budget of the U.S. government.
For decades, environmental protection schemes have usurped common sense. For example, most fire ecologists say that the surest way of preventing massive forest fires is to use prescribed burns. The California Environmental Protection Agency states that "prescribed burning is the intentional use of fire to reduce wildfire hazards, clear downed trees, control plant diseases, improve rangeland and wildlife habitats, and restore natural ecosystems."
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The electric company was supposed to maintain under the power lines, they didn't. I believe the state was supposed to maintain elsewhere. Instead the money went to the illegals.
[Breitbart] Nearly 3,300 additional Central American caravan migrants arrived at the Mexican northern border city of Tijuana on Saturday, authorities in Mexico stated.
Approximately 3,292 migrants are expected to arrive in the border city of Tijuana today according to the El Instituto Nacional de Migración known as INM according to local media reports. These are in addition to those previously reported arrivals.
The migrant caravan with approximately 3,300 migrants was expected to arrive in Tijuana this morning according to the Mexican government agency tasked with tracking human migration (INM). The caravan reportedly traveled north through the state of Sinaloa yesterday toward the northern border state of Sonora. The group took nearly the same route as previous caravan groups, officials stated.
According to the INM, there are a total of 2,779 migrants in Tijuana not including Saturday’s 3292 scheduled arrivals. There are an additional 657 in the city of Mexicali which borders the U.S. city of Calexico, California. Another group of migrants in the central Mexican state of Queretaro consists of 3,036 migrants. All these migrants are part of the original group that crossed into Mexico approximately one month ago which then consisted of 9,664 ‐ a majority from the country of Honduras.
The Honduran ambassador to Mexico, Alden Rivera has been monitoring the caravan’s travels through Mexico and said that approximately 5,500 were from his country. He advised that several of his countrymen were suffering from respiratory infections. The ambassador announced that a mobile consulate would be set up in order to provide official documents at no cost and to ensure that Mexican authorities were providing proper humanitarian aid.
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And they're probably waving their home country's flag and causing all kinds of problems. Like peaceful asylum seekers always do. Picking and choosing which country that emigrate to.
The two-minute trailer can be watched at the link.
[Rudaw] A group of children giggle as they play in a dusty, barren landscape near their home in northern Syria, but this is no ordinary game of catch, for their ball is a live bomb.
The macabre game of chicken is one of the most blood-chilling scenes in "Of Fathers and Sons," filmmaker Talal Derki's disturbing new expose on the grip of Islamism in his native Syria.
"This is the scene that broke my heart," Derki told AFP in an interview in Los Angeles this week, recalling the blood-chilling episode.
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[Jpost] Israel’s security cabinet’s decision Tuesday afternoon to walk away from the war Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", initiated Monday and to accept a "ceasefire" is frustrating and infuriating. Hamas shot nearly 500 projectiles into Israel in under 24 hours. It blew up a bus with a Kornet anti-tank missile. Sixty Israelis were maimed, several critically. One civilian was killed. Numerous homes were destroyed.
Israel has never experienced any rocket onslaught from Gazoo remotely as intense as what Hamas and Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... shot off on Monday and Tuesday. And yet, rather than respond with equal ‐ or better yet ‐ far greater force and teach Hamas and Islamic Jihad a lesson they would long remember, the security cabinet sufficed with a couple hundred pinpoint air attacks, and then accepted the IDF’s advice and opted for the ceasefire. In so doing, they left the residents of southern Israel virtual hostages of Hamas and Islamic Jihad who have retained the capacity to attack them at will.
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[Al Jazeera] Two former presidents of Madagascar, Andry Rajoelina and Marc Ravalomanana, have topped polls in the country's latest election, results have shown, and are set to compete in a run-off next month.
Neither won the 50 percent of votes required for a first-round victory, with Rajoelina on 39.19 percent and Ravalomanana on 35.29 percent, according to final results from the country's CENI election commission released on Saturday.
The run-off was scheduled for December 19.
Hery Rajaonarimampianina, who was running to hold onto power, secured only 8.84 percent of the vote, the commission said, before adding that the turnout at last week's election was 54.3 percent.
All three candidates, of a total 36, have alleged fraud and malpractice by election authorities, and the result will be subject to fierce legal appeals.
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[Al Jazeera] The United States government has not reached a final conclusion over Khashoggi's killing, the US State Department has said.
"Recent reports indicating that the US government has made a final conclusion are inaccurate," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement on Saturday.
The statement followed reports in the US media that the CIA had held Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of 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... as of 2016.... responsible for the October 2 killing.
"There remain numerous unanswered questions with respect to the murder of Mr Khashoggi," Nauert said in her statement.
"The State Department will continue to seek all relevant facts. In the meantime, we will continue to consult Congress, and work with other nations to hold accountable those involved in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi."
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Wise decision. Big development from Papadoupolis Twitter: (SMOM) Joseph Mifsud is tied directly to Christopher Steele and Alexander Downer’s former chief of staff. He was also on Jamal Khashoogi’s payroll.
Perhaps Khashoggi was killed to keep him from testifying about Mifsud, who is clearly the central element tying all of this together. MBS has been instrumental on taking down terrorist financing in the region, straining 'family' ties.
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Am I right to think that the CIA finding that MBS was responsible for JK's death was leaked to the press? Strange, trying to keep the pressure on something. What? Seems the deep state is alive and well, just further underground.
WASHINGTON (AP) ‐ President Donald Trump says extraditing a Turkish-born Muslim cleric blamed by Turkey for engineering a 2016 military coup attempt is "not under consideration."
Fethullah Gulen (FEH’-too-lah goo-LEN’) has lived for nearly 20 years in self-exile at an Islamic retreat in the Pocono Mountains. He denies the allegations made by the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (REH’-jehp TY’-ihp UR’-doh-wahn). The U.S. has told Turkey it must present convincing evidence for any extradition proceeding to go forward.
Trump tells reporters that "we are always looking at whatever we can do for Turkey," and he says the U.S. is "having a very good moment" with Turkey following Turkey’s recent release of a detained American pastor.
Trump is praising Erdogan as "a strong man," ″a tough man" and "a smart man."
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So, yesterday's postings were another round of FAKE NEWS from our Legacy Infortainment Enterprises?
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So, yesterday's postings were another round of FAKE NEWS from our Legacy Infortainment Enterprises?
There appears to be no remission from the "telling of stories they think want to be heard"
Compulsive vs. Pathological Liars
Out-of-control lying is known as compulsive or pathological lying. Definitions are fluid, experts say.
Compulsive liars have a need to embellish and exaggerate, says Paul Ekman, PhD, a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California in San Francisco and the author of Telling Lies, among other books. "They tell the stories they think want to be heard," he says. When you ask a compulsive liar for an opinion on an important issue, says Dr. Ekman, they’re likely to say something like this: "You know, you made a really wise choice in asking my opinion. Many people do. I've actually been asked by the governor of California to comment on this."
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*SIGH* These people seem to have a problem distinguishing between "feasibility studies" and "organizing to implement plans". One is a gedankenexperiment, German for "thought experiment" and the other is the Last stage before giving the troops the "Ready!Set!Go!" order.
...Or maybe they don't and are just fabulists stirring up crap for personal gain.
[DAWN] A civil judge (judicial magistrate) narrowly escaped an armed attack near Chakri Interchange on Friday night while travelling with his family from Lahore to Islamabad.
SLearned Elders of Islamn Badar, the judicial magistrate posted in Islamabad, came under attack on the Motorway at about 9.15pm. However, ars longa, vita brevis... he survived the attack.
When contacted, he told Dawn that he along with his family was heading towards Islamabad when another car in which three persons were travelling crossed his vehicle and opened fire on it.
"The car riders opened straight fire on my car, but luckily we survived," the civil judge said.
He further said that soon after the incident, he called the Motorway police and gave them the registration plate number of the attackers’ car, but they were unable to trace that car. The judicial magistrate said that he could not identify the attackers who were three in number ‐ two occupying the front seats while their accomplice was on the back seat.
Later, personnel of the Rawalpindi police reached the scene of the crime and launched an investigation.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Arab Coalition has confirmed that forces have intercepted and destroyed three ballistic missiles launched by the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias on Marib.
Eyewitnesses said that the sound of violent kabooms shook some neighborhoods of the city as defense forces intercepted the missiles launched by the Houthi coup militias targeting residential neighborhoods in the city of Marib.
The coalition's air defenses last week intercepted two ballistic missiles fired by the militias toward the coalition headquarters in the same province.
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Peaceful Domestically Produced Ballistic Shiite Missiles™
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[DAWN] The names of Taji Khokhar and his son Farrukh Khokhar have been added to the Fourth Schedule of the Anti-Terrorism Act. With the new addition, the number of people on the list from Islamabad is now 23, including a man who died a few years ago.
After the father and son were released from prison on bail, the interior ministry placed them on the Fourth Schedule, which has been conveyed to the National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta).
"Most of the people on the Fourth Schedule are from religious segments or nationalists as they incite people against the state or spread violence. The Khokhars were put on the list because they are prominent land grabbers. Taji Khokhar uses henchmen to keep the locals, mostly in the rural areas, under his influence," an official of the interior ministry said.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... has unveiled its new developmental phase via several paths that run in parallel with the government’s war on extremism and spreading of a culture of moderation and coexistence among various sects and religions.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Authorities in eastern India have ordered for complete demolition of a three-storey building where at least 34 girls were gang-raped during their stay there.
The building which functions as the Child care home is located in Muzaffarpur district town of Bihar, some 80 km north of capital city of Patna. As many 70 girls were lodged in the child care home and their medical examination has now found that at least 34 of them were gang-raped by the care home officials or outsiders. The state-funded care home was being run by a non-governmental organization.
Officials say the entire building has been constructed in complete disregard of the building by-laws by its owner Brajesh Thakur, now shifted to a high-security jail outside Bihar for his alleged political connections on the directive of the Supreme Court now monitoring the sex abuse case. According to them, the state government had approved the map for construction of G+1 building but he constructed the G+3 building.
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[Rudaw] The armed wing of the PKK accused The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... of deliberately trying to frighten the people after three villagers were killed in a Ottoman TurkishArclight airstrike on Wednesday night.
Turkey has suffered many casualties from recent PKK activity, "therefore they conducted heavy airstrikes against civilians’ houses," the People’s Defense Forces (HPG) said in a statement on Friday.
Turkey "expresses its enmity against the Kurdish nation in this way and wants to take Dire Revenge on our people," the HPG added.
Ramazan Ahmed, Dilovan Salih, and Ismael Hassan were killed Wednesday night when they were out checking their beehives in the Amedi area of Duhok province.
Turkey frequently carries out cross-border airstrikes against alleged PKK positions in the Kurdistan Region. Locals, however, say this was the first time the area where the three were killed was targeted. They describe the region as a touristy place, popular with hikers.
The HPG said their forces were not in the area recently.
The PKK has actually decreased its activities in Duhok province since the US put multi-million dollar bounties on the heads of three the group’s leaders, according to a local official.
The HPG has vowed it will retaliate.
Relatives of the three victims have called for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to work with Turkey to end the airstrikes.
The KRG has not yet publicly commented on the incident.
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[NYPOST] U.S. authorities seized about 18.5 tons of cocaine with a street value of $500 million in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Friday.
The cocaine was taken off the Coast Guard cutter James in the Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday after it was confiscated from 15 drug smuggling vessels in the international waters, the Coast Guard said.
Multiple U.S. Coast Guard cutters helped seize the drugs of Mexico, Central and South America, it said.
Some 49 suspects were also tossed in the slammer Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! and will be prosecuted in southern Florida, the Miami Herald reported.
Cocaine remains one of the most popular illegal drugs in the United States, where most of the world’s cocaine is consumed, according to federal officials.
"There are troubling early signs that cocaine use and availability is on the rise in the United States for the first time in nearly a decade," the U.S. State Department said in a global narcotics trade report in 2017.
Potential global cocaine output reached 1,410 tons in 2016, the highest level ever estimated, the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... said in a report on drugs and crime in 2018.
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Potential global cocaine output reached 1,410 tons in 2016,
[Al Jazeera] More than 40 people have been killed and dozens maimed in Central African Republic (CAR), in an attack on a Catholic mission sheltering 20,000 refugees, according to a regional politician.
The violence in the town of Alindao, some 300km east of the capital, Bangui, began on Thursday when Christian Death Eaters known as "Anti-balaka" killed Moslems, prompting Dire Revenge attacks.
A church was burned, forcing "thousands" of people to flee, the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... ' peacekeeping mission in the CAR (MINUSCA) said.
"We have counted 42 bodies so far, but we are still searching for others. The camp has been burned to the ground and people fled into the bush and to other IDP (internally displaced person) camps in the city," Etienne Godenaha, Alindao politician, told the Rooters news agency on Saturday.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Syrian regime forces Saturday took back control of ISIS Lion of Islam group’s last holdout in southern Syria after months of fighting, a war monitor said.
Regime forces retook Tulul al-Safa, between the provinces of Damascus and Sweida, "after ISIS fighters withdrew from it and headed east into the Badia desert", the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Regime forces have been fighting the Death Eaters in the area since a deadly July attack on the Druze minority in Sweida province.
In recent weeks, air strikes on the Tulul al-Safa pocket had increased and hundreds of regime fighters were sent as reinforcements, the Observatory said.
The Lion of Islams’ withdrawal was likely "under a deal with the regime forces" after weeks of encirclement and air raids, Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.
State news agency SANA reported regime forces had made "a great advance in Tulul al-Safa" and said they were combing the area for any remaining Lion of Islams.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least twenty five Talibs were killed or maimed during the Arclight airstrikes conducted in southeastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan, the Afghan Military said Saturday.
The 203rd Thunder Corps of the Afghan Military in the Southeast in a statement said the Afghan Air Force carried out airstrikes against the Talibs in Moshaki and Jarkano area of Qarabagha district, leaving at least 21 Death Eaters dead.
The statement further added that the airstrikes also left at least four Death Eaters maimed.
In the meantime, the Afghan armed forces discovered and defused two improvised bombs during Thunder-6 operations, the 203rd Thunder Corps said, adding that a suspected murderous Moslem was also placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! during the same operation.
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[DAWN] Ottoman Turkish police on Friday detained over a dozen people including academics from two Istanbul universities linked with an association led by imprisoned human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... activist Osman Kavala, a state-run news agency ...and if you can't trust the state-run news agency who can you believe?... reported.
Police issued arrest warrants for 20 people as part of an investigation into Anadolu Kultur (Anatolian Culture) whose chairman Kavala has been locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! for more than a year but not formally charged, Anadolu news agency said.
Twelve had been rounded up so far in simultaneous raids at several addresses early on Friday, it added.
Professor Betul Tanbay of the prestigious Bogazici University and Professor Turgut Tarhanli, deputy dean of the private Bilgi University, were among the detainees.
The academics were linked to Anadolu Kultur.
The operation also targeted Anadolu Kultur executives including deputy chairman Yigit Ekmekci, as well as board member Ali Hakan Altinay, coordinator Asena Gunal and consultants Cigdem Mater and Meltem Aslan, the agency said. It was not immediately clear what charges the detainees face.
Opposition CHP party MP Sezgin Tanrikulu criticised the detentions on Twitter.
"Again a Friday, again detentions... Those who expect normalisation from this regime should continue to dream," he said referring to President 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... ’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
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[DAWN] The investigation team probing the murder of Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... -S leader Maulana Samiul Haq ...the Godfather of the Taliban, leader of his own faction of the JUI. Known as Mullah Sandwich for his habit of having two young boys at a time... has approached Additional District and Sessions Judge, Nowshera, with a request that they be allowed to exhume the dear departed leader's remains and conduct a post-mortem, police officials said.
The request was filed in the court of ADSJ Hidayatullah Khan by Sub-Inspector Jameel of the homicide unit at Rawalpindi's airport cop shoppe.
The application asserts that a post-mortem examination is necessary to investigate the murder and to fulfil the requirements laid down by the law for a murder investigation.
An influential religious scholar and former senator, Maulana Samiul Haq was assassinated at his residence in Rawalpindi on November 2. He was buried in his hometown of Akora Khattak in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
Samples have already been taken from his house by the police, including hair of three lengths, a bed sheet with blood on it, three glasses, fingerprints of three separate individuals and a bloodstained kurta. In all, more than 25 different samples collected from the scene of the murder have been sent to the laboratory.
Police experts from the IT department are working on retrieving the data of incoming and outgoing phone calls on the maulana's phone. Police have also been questioning people who had been in telephonic contact with Haq during the last month, or if they had been called by the JUI-S chief himself.
A sessions judge in Rawalpindi had allowed the police to hand over the body of Maulana Samiul Haq to his family, which contended that "Sharia does not allow the post-mortem of a Moslem’s body".
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"?Yep. He's still dead, and ewwwww"
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That’s what she said at a presser in Atlanta on Friday. "This is not a speech of concession," she told supporters and news hounds, "because concession means an action is right, true, or proper. As a woman of conscience and faith, I cannot concede that."
But the former Georgia state representative and Democratic nominee for governor did essentially end her campaign and recognize that her opponent, Brian Kemp, the GOP nominee and former state secretary of state, will officially win the election. "I acknowledge that Brian Kemp will be certified as the victor in the 2018 gubernatorial election," Abrams said. "But to watch an elected official who claims to represent the people in this state baldly pin his hopes for election on the suppression of the people’s democratic right to vote has been truly appalling."
In the immediate term, the specifics don’t matter much. This is, for all intents and purposes, legal and otherwise, a concession speech, regardless of Abrams’s statement. Kemp will win. Abrams will lose. But in her speech, Abrams also announced that she will continue her fight against Kemp as a private citizen. And that fight could have significant consequences for Georgia, for Abrams’s career, and for the Democratic Party nationwide.
Kemp, who stepped down as Georgia secretary of state last week‐after he administered the most important parts of his own election‐cast Abrams’s speech as a full concession, and beseeched her and Georgians to turn the page."Moments ago, Stacey Abrams conceded the race and officially ended her campaign for governor," his campaign said in a statement. "I appreciate her passion, hard work, and commitment to public service. The election is over and hardworking Georgians are ready to move forward. We can no longer dwell on the divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... politics of the past but must focus on Georgia’s bright and promising future."
That outcome doesn’t seem likely. In her news conference, Abrams announced that she’d be initiating a "major federal lawsuit" against alleged mismanagement of the election under Kemp, through an initiative called "Fair Fight Georgia," which she said will push for major changes to election law in the state.
The existing allegations against Kemp and his old office are manifold. Kemp was the architect of a massive voter-purge campaign and an "exact match" policy requiring registrations to be identical to personal identifications, which moved more than 50,000 registrations‐90 percent of them belonging to minorities‐to "pending" status before a federal court enjoined it. There were long lines on Election Day, several precincts that were underprepared or featured near-comic mishaps with voting machines, and huge spikes in the number of provisional ballots some precincts offered to voters, especially students.
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Sick to death of the "voter suppression" narrative. Go try to buy cigarettes, alcohol, plane tickets or ammonium nitrate fertilizer without a valid ID.
No more early voting, late voting or shaky voting. While in the hospital recently, an attorney came to my room. If you need an absentee ballot, an affidavit of critical need should be the minimum to get it and chain of custody should be enforced on the ballot.
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I believe there should be an actual Election Day, period. That day you vote, everybody that's going to for better or worse. An absentee ballot is for somebody demonstrably working out of town and otherwise physically unavailable to cast a ballot. Of course that last part refers only to the living. Further the news can't cover the election until the next day. It isn't some college football game, it's serious. Enough antics.
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Further the news can't cover the election until the next day. It isn't some college football game, it's serious. Enough antics.
I remember in 2000 when Dan Rather reported that Al Gore won the presidential election before I even had a chance to go to the polls in California. I could have accepted his report and not bothered to vote. After all, Dan Rather wouldn't lie...would he? I voted anyway.
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Abu -living in a blue state I still vote even though a dead D vote exists for each of us living Rs.
[Al Jazeera] Since August, Cubans have been gathering in thousands of government-organised meetings taking place across the island.
They came together in hospitals, schools and parks to discuss a new draft constitution, which, if passed, would mark the most significant political change in Cuba for more than four decades.
Proposals include opening the door for same-sex marriage, recognising private ownership and scrapping the goal of building a communist society, but rights groups and analysts say the new legislation is more of a nod to a changing world, than an upending of the status quo on the Caribbean island.
The public consultation period came to an end on Thursday, and the work of National Assembly to sift through the comments and suggestions now begins.
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....Pull the other one.
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Since August, Cubans have been gathering in thousands of government-organised meetings taking place across the island.
Which would be at the wrong end of a gun if I had to guess why it happened.
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#2 Since August, Cubans have been gathering in thousands of government-organised meetings taking place across the island.
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I can picture that - people being marched at gunpoint to discuss the terms of their freedom.
Remember that had Hilary won, she would be giving the store away to these people the same as Obama did for the Iranians.
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*Bah! Humbug!* The USSR had a Constitution that had all sorts of rights and privileges for the citizens -- at the same time they had Lubyanka and the Gulags.
So many controversies have bedeviled Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes ‐ culminating in her office’s troubles in the aftermath of Florida’s chaotic 2018 elections ‐ that her days in office are now numbered, insiders and politicians say.
She’s losing support from fellow Democrats and faces the increasing likelihood of an embarrassing suspension from office at the hands of either Gov. Rick Scott or his likely successor, Ron DeSantis.
Suspending Snipes from office would put a final exclamation point on one of the most contested midterms in recent Florida history, which has resulted in three statewide recounts ‐ for U.S. Senate, governor and agriculture commissioner ‐ as well as recounts in three local legislative races. Removal proceedings in the GOP-led Florida Senate could also cause a possible rift among Florida state Senate Democrats if the black caucus rallies around Snipes in the same way it did around her predecessor, who was also African-American, more than a decade ago.
[THEGUARDIAN] A top elections official in Florida who endured national humiliation after missing a midterms recount deadline by two minutes has told the Guardian that racism is "probably" a factor in the backlash against her.
Brenda Snipes, elections supervisor of Broward county, was condemned by Republicans and Democrats after failing to submit tallies in the US Senate race between Rick Scott and Bill Nelson on schedule.
On Friday, with a hand count of votes under way, about two dozen protesters continued their vigil in a car park outside Snipes’s headquarters. Some claimed without evidence that she had missed the deadline deliberately because the results she oversaw boosted Scott’s overall lead.
In a short interview, Snipes, 75, said: "You know, the protesters have been claiming stuff all week so whatever they’re doing, that’s what they’re doing. That’s what they feel like they need to do."
Asked if she felt it was racially motivated, the supervisor replied: "Probably. Probably." She declined to elaborate.
Snipes had promised "100%" in a CNN interview earlier this week that Broward county, a Democratic stronghold, would complete its machine recount on time. It appeared to do so with just under 15 minutes to spare before Thursday’s 3pm deadline. The recount showed Scott, currently the Republican governor of Florida, down 606 votes from the first count and Nelson down 1,385 ‐ a net gain for Scott of 779 votes.
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If there was any real justice, she would be hanged from the nearest lamp post.
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Worse than hanging, the old dear will spend the rest of her life known as the woman who lost Florida by two minutes. Nobody will remember that she just happened to miss the deadline after the machine recount turned her original win for the Democrats into a solid loss, and therefore needed to prevented from becoming official. It will be interesting to see how the hand count turns out.
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...She's already claiming 'racism' for her problems. Sadly though, I don't think the state will have the cojones to go after her or really investigate - way too many apple carts to be upset, even though the only way for this to end is for people to be marched off to jail for a few years.
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Broward is going to keep their turd of a Sheriff and also elect someone who makes Snipes look good. Silly to think otherwise...
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Who was it that said, "Elections have consequences"?
Which, I suppose, is why some try so hard to unravel them.
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'Incompetence' is an equal opportunity employer regardless or race, color, or gender(s).
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Snipes needs to be removed, she is both corrupt and incompetent. Thank goodness for the incompetent part; otherwise the corrupt part might have been worse.
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Who appointed Snipes? Unless some laws with teeth that ensure multiple oversight at every step of custody chain and the counting process and storage are put into place, the next liberal corrupt administration will appoint another like her.
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She resigned: Just hours after finishing a tumultuous election recount, Broward Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes submitted her resignation, ending a 15-year tenure full of botched elections, legal disputes and blistering criticism.
[DECIDER] John Travolta’s much-maligned Gotti currently has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Zero. To put that in perspective, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo has a 9% Tomatometer score. When I read that this critically-reviled crime drama about notorious gangster John Gotti was heading to Prime Video, I wondered if the film was “so bad it’s actually good” bad, or “so bad that it’s very, very, very, very bad” bad. It’s the latter. Oh my Gotti, it’s the latter. I don’t wanna kick a movie when it’s down, but my TYDT review of Gotti is “Buzz, your girlfriend. Woof.”
Directed by Kevin Connolly and starring John Travolta, Kelly Preston, and a cacophonous train wreck of atrocious accents, Gotti is… technically a movie. What separates this project from other films is that it bravely decided to forgo anything even remotely resembling a coherent narrative. Respect, man. Respect. Watching it is kinda like your five-year-old nephew coming up to you and being like, “I drew this! And this! And this! And here’s a picture of skunk!” I never, not for one single solitary second, understood what was happening. I kinda got it in an abstract way? Attempting to comprehend Gotti is like staring at a Magic Eye picture for an hour only to be like, “Wait a minute. This isn’t a Magic Eye at all; it’s an atlas of the city of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.”
Only with more wigs and cursing.
Is Gotti so bad it’s worth hate-watching? No. Not really. Other than some truly astonishing wig and accent work, you’re not missing much. The whole thing is more puzzling than entertaining. I found myself saying “wait, what?” at almost every turn and was routinely left wondering if the entire movie was a parody or some form of advanced irony I was too dumb to understand. Gotti is either a very bad film or a work of next-level art my primitive brain can’t fully comprehend. Maybe in 2,000 years Gotti will be the new Mona Lisa? Who knows. All bets are off when it comes to this movie.
We did have some good times, Gotti and I. At one point, the film just scampers off to have a private conversation with itself, prattling on about characters that have yet to be introduced. Or maybe they were? I honestly have no idea. There’s like 1,000 gangsters in this movie. This section is either immensely poor storytelling or incredibly esoteric performance art. Either way, it lasts somewhere between thirty seconds and an hour. Time is a tugboat when it comes to Gotti. Sure, that expression doesn’t make sense, but neither does ANYTHING ELSE IN THIS MOVIE.
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[WND] 'Both on record as appearing to oppose Israel's right to exist'
It’s an old joke: How can you tell a politician is lying? His lips are moving.
It seems that may be the case for the first two Muslim women elected to the U.S. Congress. An analyst at the Gatestone Institute presented evidence that Ilhan Abdullahi Omar
...Somali immigrant, Democratic politician, married her brother to get him a green card while still married to the father of her children, Joo-hater. Congresswoman Omar is listed in the Rantburg archives simply as Ilhan Omar...
of Minnesota and Rashida Harbi Tlaib
...American-born Muslim from a West Bank family, member of the Democratic Socialists of America, BDS babe, so of course she represents Detroit in Congress. In our archives as simply Rashida Tlaib, she appears to be considerably more anti-Israel than her cousins in the Old Country...
of Michigan lied to voters.
The charge comes from Soeren Kern, a senior fellow at the institute, who who wrote that most of the media coverage since their election Nov. 6 "has been effusive in praise of their Muslim identity and personal history."
"Less known is that both women deceived voters about their positions on Israel. Both women, at some point during their rise in electoral politics, led voters ‐ especially Jewish voters ‐ to believe that they held moderate views on Israel. After being elected, both women reversed their positions and now say they are committed to sanctioning the Jewish state."
Kern noted that both of the new Congress members support the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions, or BDS, movement.
"Both are also explicitly or implicitly opposed to continuing military aid to Israel, as well as to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ‐ an outcome that would establish a Palestinian state alongside Israel. Instead, they favor a one-state solution ‐ an outcome that many analysts believe would, due to demographics over time, replace the Jewish state with a unitary Palestinian state."
Kern explains Omar, who replaced the first Muslim ever elected to Congress, Rep. Keith Ellison, in Minnesota’s 5th congressional district, made her claims after controversy arose during her campaign.
There was a "disturbing report" she had married her own brother in 2009 for fraudulent purposes, "as well as a tweet from May 2018 in which she refers to Israel as an ’apartheid regime,’ and another tweet from November 2012, in which she stated: ’Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel,'" he explained.
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and Taqiyya: Does Islam permit Muslims to lie?
"Muslim scholars teach that Muslims should generally be truthful to each other, unless the purpose of lying is to 'smooth over differences or gain the upper-hand over an enemy.'"
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All the "outside money" poured into campaigns like Gillum's in Florida and O'Yuck's in Texas is a problem the GOP has to solve or these "close ones" will routinely go to the dems...
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Air strikes by the US-led coalition Saturday killed 43 people, mostly civilians, in a holdout of the ISIS holy warrior group in eastern Syria, a Britannia-based monitor said.
Seventeen children were among 36 ISIS family members
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killed in Abu Husn village of Deir Ezzor province near the Iraqi border, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Another seven victims had not yet been identified as either civilians or ISIS fighters, it said.
The US-led coalition has been backing a Kurdish-Arab alliance called the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighting to expel the holy warrior from the pocket around Abu Husn.
"It’s the highest corpse count in coalition air strikes since the SDF launched its attack against the ISIS pocket" in September, Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.
The coalition has repeatedly said it does its utmost to prevent civilian casualties.
"The avoidance of civilian casualties is our highest priority when conducting strikes against legitimate military targets with precision munitions," front man Sean Ryan told AFP this week.
ISIS overran large swathes of Syria and neighboring Iraq in 2014, proclaiming a "caliphate" in land it controlled.
But the holy warrior group has since lost most of it to various offensives in both countries.
In Syria, the group has seen its presence reduced to parts of the vast Badia desert and the pocket in Deir Ezzor.
The coalition has since 2014 acknowledged direct responsibility for over 1,100 civilian deaths in Syria and Iraq, but rights groups put the number killed much higher.
In another military development, Russia has threatened the Syrian opposition forces after they failed to meet a deadline set up by Russian and Ottoman Turkish troops to enforce a new demilitarized zone in the city of Idlib.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... coup militias in Sanaa stormed on Saturday, the houses of Othman Mujali, the Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation in the Yemeni legitimate government.
Mujali who is also a member of the negotiating delegation in all rounds of consultations held since the start of the Yemeni war, told Al Arabiya English that: "The armed elements of the Houthi militias stormed on Saturday his houses in Sanaa and broke and looted their contents."
The minister said the raid is a clear message from the militias- as a member of the government’s negotiating delegation- that the pro-Iranian militias pay no attention to peace endeavors and political solutions.
In addition, Mujali linked the continuous defeats of the Houthi militias on various military fronts, with the hysteria they are experiencing, and is expressed by the arrests against the population in Hodeidah port city and by the storming of its opponents’ houses in Sanaa, and the attacks on property and economic facilities.
On Friday night, the Houthi militias targeted a number of facilities in Yemen's Hodeidah.
In a major breakthrough and during a special session on Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... at the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Security Council, Martin Griffiths, the UN Special envoy said that the Yemeni legitimate government and the Houthis have shown a "renewed commitment" to work on a political solution and have given "firm assurances" that they will attend the Sweden talks.
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[Al Jazeera] Maldivian President Ibrahim Mohammed Solih has taken the oath of office before thousands of people and hundreds of foreign dignitaries, vowing to end systematic corruption and investigate alleged human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. abuses under his predecessor, Abdulla Yameen.
Solih received a 21-gun salute after being sworn in on Saturday as the Indian Ocean island nation's seventh president at a special parliamentary assembly at the national football stadium in the capital, Male.
Addressing the crowd of 12,000 people, the 54-year-old pledged to see through his promises to establish justice and equality, as well as "eradicate corruption and theft".
"We need to focus on moving ahead, to take back the rights we have been denied, and save our nation from its dismal condition," he said.
Solih is expected to appoint a 19-member cabinet and name the attorney general later on Saturday.
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[DAWN] Trade activities at the Torkham border remained paralysed on the second consecutive day on Friday as negotiations between the protesting custom clearing agents and officials of the custom department ended without any breakthrough.
A local clearing agent, Naseeb Khan, told this correspondent that hundreds of trucks loaded with a variety of trade goods remained stranded on both sides of the border as the customs officials could not convince the protesting clearing agents and transporters on ending their strike.
He said that the official team assured the delegation of clearing agents that their immediate grievances regarding bottlenecks in goods clearance would be removed at local level while other demands related to the federal government would be taken up with the concerned officials in Islamabad.
Mr Naseeb said that the clearing agents and transporters insisted on acceptance of all their three demands, claiming that they had incurred big losses due to unprofessional attitude of both the custom officials and staff of the National Logistics Cell.
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[DAWN] SpaceX got the green light this week from US authorities to put a constellation of nearly 12,000 satellites into orbit in order to boost cheap, wireless internet access by the 2020s.
The SpaceX network would vastly multiply the number of satellites around Earth.
Since the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik, was launched in 1957, humanity has sent just over 8,000 objects into space, according to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Office for Outer Space Affairs.
Between one quarter and one half of those are believed to still be operational.
On Thursday the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced it had authorized SpaceX to launch 7,518 satellites, adding to 4,425 satellites it has already approved. None of the satellites has launched yet.
Elon Musk’s company has six years to put half in orbit, and nine years to complete the satellite network, according to FCC rules.
SpaceX wants most of the satellites to fly in low Earth orbit, about 208 to 215 miles (335 to 346 kilometres) high.
That would put them below the International Space Station, which orbits about 250 miles (400 kilometres) above Earth.
SpaceX’s interest in such a low orbit is to shorten the communication time between internet users on Earth and space-faring satellites, speeding up surfing speeds.
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The troubling bit is every time Musk tweets all his rockets are going to be designed built and used differently and he recently purged the top staff of his sat building shop in Redmond because "ex-Microsoft executives just can't respond, build change and test fast enough." Maybe he should have put his sat plant in Beverton Oregon and hired ex-Linux and ex-Intel executives?
Two months after he unveiled a revised design for SpaceX’s next-generation launch system, Elon Musk suggested that the company is making more changes to the design.
In a series of tweets Nov. 17, Musk said that SpaceX was no longer pursuing an upgrade to its existing Falcon 9 vehicle that would make the vehicle’s second stage reusable. The company’s focus, he said, would instead be on speeding up work on SpaceX’s heavy-lift reusable launch vehicle formally known as Big Falcon Rocket, or BFR.
“Accelerating BFR instead,” Musk said. “New design is very exciting! Delightfully counter-intuitive.”
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Asked by another Twitter user if he was referring to the company’s latest design, released in September, or other changes, Musk responded, “Radical change,” without elaboration.
The latest version of the BFR, unveiled by Musk at a Sept. 17 event at SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California, featured a number of design tweaks to the vehicle’s “spaceship” upper stage. Those changes included using the same version of the company’s Raptor engine under development as on the lower booster stage, increasing volume of the spaceship’s cabin and changing the vehicle’s tail fin design.
At the time, Musk said those changes would be among the last for the BFR, as the company prepares to begin testing of the spaceship with “hopper” test flights as soon as late 2019 at SpaceX’s future South Texas launch site. “I feel like this is the final iteration in terms of broad architectural decisions” for BFR, he said at the September event.
Musk’s comments come 10 days after he said the company was planning to modify a Falcon 9 second stage to perform tests related to the BFR. “Falcon 9 second stage will be upgraded to be like a mini-BFR Ship,” he announced on Twitter. That design, he said, would allow SpaceX to test technologies like the vehicle’s heat shield and control surfaces during reentry from orbit that can’t otherwise be tested.
The company didn’t disclose additional details about those efforts since, including whether this would be a one-off test or a potential operational, reusable upper stage. Musk had indicated earlier in the year that the company was collecting data on how to recover the Falcon 9’s upper stage. “I’m actually quite confident that we’ll be able to achieve full reusability of the upper stage,” he said during a May press conference.
Musk, in his latest tweets, said no major changes to the Falcon 9 were now on the table. “Yes, no upgrades planned for F9,” he wrote. “Minor tweaks to improve reliability only, provided NASA & USAF are supportive.”
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Special Forces of the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), conducted raids on five compounds of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-k) in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
The provincial government media office in a statement said the raids were conducted in Achin district late on Thursday night.
The statement further added at least 20 ISIS forces of Evil were killed during the raids and all five compounds of the terror group were destroyed.
According to Nangarhar governor’s office, a commander of the terror group and orchestrator of ISIS attacks was also among those killed.
The forces of Evil were involved in planning and coordinating attacks in Jalalabad city and other parts of Nangarhar province using the five compounds which were destroyed during the operation.
The NDS Special Forces and local residents did not suffer casualties during the operations, the provincial government added in its statement.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least two Talibs were killed and another hard boy was maimed in an kaboom in northeastern Kapisa province of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East in a statement said the incident took place in Tagab district of the province.
The statement further added that the incident took place while three Talibs who were attempting to plant an Improvised Explosive Device on a roadside.
The Talibs and other murderous Moslems including ISIS often use improvised bomb as the weapon of their choice to target the security forces and government officials.
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[Rudaw] More than 7,000 Kurds holding British citizenship are having difficulty renewing their passports because they changed their names, protesters claim. Some have even had their passport confiscated.
The bulk of them had sought asylum in the UK for political reasons and ‐ to protect their identities ‐ had changed their names. Now that they want to renew their passports, the UK Home Office is creating problems.
Saddam Hussein is gone, as is ISIS. Do they still need political asylum, or do they just not want to go home?
Angered by a lack of support from the Home Office and MPs, a contingent of Kurds protested in London’s Parliament square on Saturday.
"I have been living in this country for 19 years now. Due to changing my name, my passport has been confiscated since March. Neither the Home Office nor MPs answer us," protester Ahmed Ali told Rudaw.
That was 1999. Saddam Hussein cannot harm you now, Mr. Ali.
"This government would like to make us angry and force us to return to our own country," he added.
Or nit angry. Geh mit Gott, as the Germans say, aber geh.
Jamal Mustafa, another protester, said: "I am from Kirkuk. During the Baathist era no one dared say his real name. At the time [of arriving in Britannia] we gave our name and address mistakenly not knowing we would face this problem today."
Again, the Baathists are long gone, so there is no reason for you to stay away, Mr. Mustafa. And the country you fled desperately needs trained, English-speaking, internationally connected workers to help rebuild after the twin ravages of the Baathists and ISIS.
Joining the protesters, Ross Greer, a member of the Scottish Parliament, accused the British government of racism.
There is no official data on the number of Kurds living in the UK, as they are classified as Iraqis. Unofficial estimates put their number at around 200,000.
[DAWN] A former deputy inspector general of police was bumped off by person or persons unknown in Quetta on Saturday evening, police said.
Muhammad Naeem Kakar was walking after offering prayers at a mosque when unknown attackers opened fire on him in Junior Assistant Colony area, DIG Quetta Abdul Razzaq Cheema told DawnNewsTV.
Kakar was critically injured in the firing and breathed his last at the Combined Military Hospital.
Cheema said the assailants escaped unhurt from the site.
Police and personnel of other law enforcement agencies were quick at the spot. An investigation has been ordered into the incident.
"At this point of time, I cannot say whether it was a assassination or not," DIG Cheema said. No group has grabbed credit for the attack so far.
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[Rudaw] A Peshmerga seized by unknown persons earlier this month in Kirkuk province has been sprung, a local official confirmed.
"Farhan Mohammed, a Peshmerga, was kidnapped by some armed persons on November 2 in the village of Taqtaq, near Dubiz town. He was freed on November 16," Jasim Abdul-Rahman, head of Dubiz Council told Rudaw.
The council head did not yet have further details.
Mohammed, previously reported as named Sarhan Mohammed, was kidnapped along with a civilian, Fahmi Salih, by uniformed gunnies who attacked Taqtaq village.
Salih’s body was found the next day.
Disputes between Kurds and Arabs in Kirkuk have swelled over the past year, since the Peshmerga left and Iraqi forces took control of the disputed province. Kurds have accused the acting Arab governor of resuming the policy of Arabization and failing to control militia groups of the Hashd al-Shaabi.
ISIS has also taken advantage of security gaps between the Peshmerga and Iraqi forces in the area. Militants carry out frequent attacks on villages, especially at night.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ‐ A New Mexico woman who was brought back to life is suing the hospital for violating her rights.
The Albuquerque Journal reports lawyers for Jamie Sams filed a lawsuit this week in New Mexico state district court against Santa Fe’s Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center.
The lawsuit filed on behalf Sams, a writer known for books on spirituality, says the hospital and a doctor who was treating her are to blame for her going into cardiac arrest. The lawsuit says Sams was given a painkiller even after she told staff she was allergic to it.
Court documents say the negligence was compounded when hospital personnel resuscitated her ‐ something she did not want. Christus spokesman Arturo Delgado declined to comment. Sams is seeking an unspecified amount in damages.
[TAMPABAY] CLEARWATER ‐ A dying fish was flopping on a hot deck. An animal activist called throwing it back in the water an act of kindness. The state called it theft.
The value of St. Petersburg’s most internet famous flying fish? About $6.
Now, Michael Leaming will have to pay a $500 fine and court costs after a judge found him guilty of depriving Robert Hope of his dinner by launching a tilapia into Crescent Lake in July 2017.
A video of the exchange in Crescent Lake Park went viral and was reposted to various social media platforms around the world, racking up millions of views.
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If these do good TURDS really want to do good? go into the swamps and grab you some piglets when the sow isn't present and hurry out of the swamp. The're squealing will be music to your do good ears. YOU CAN save them. Take them home with you?
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I predict pols there won't get too stoned to waste more of the taxpayers' money...
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I always find the leftist Doublethink to be fascinating: Second-Hand Tobacco Smoke is DoublePlus Bad, Vaping is addictive -- so also bad, while Marijuana is DoublePlus Good... Puzzling.
[POLITICO] Sen. Bill Nelson has run out of time, run out of favorable court rulings and is about to officially run out of votes.
After losing to Gov. Rick Scott on Election Day, losing after an automatic recount and appearing to not make up the gap following a manual recount Friday, Nelson’s campaign was dealt a mortal blow later that evening by U.S. District Judge Mark E. Walker, who crushed the Democrat’s last major hope by upholding a Florida law that forbids county election offices from counting vote-by-mail ballots received after 7 p.m. Election Day.
"It’s done. But it was done before today. This was a total Hail Mary," said a top Democrat involved in Nelson’s campaign who didn’t want to speak publicly before the Democratic Party icon conceded defeat to one of the party's most-hated rivals.
The night before, Walker had rejected yet another Nelson lawsuit concerning standards for divining voter intent in manual recounts, and he refused to extend the deadlines of the recount.
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[LATIMES] Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for adult film actress Stormy Daniels, lost a last-ditch appeal Friday to block the eviction of his law practice from its Newport Beach offices.
In a brief hearing at Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana, Judge Robert J. Moss affirmed his Oct. 22nd order that Avenatti and his staff vacate their ocean-view suite in a building across from the Fashion Island mall. He ordered them to leave by Monday.
Avenatti’s longtime law firm, Eagan Avenatti, skipped $213,254 in rent payments due over four months, leading the landlord, the Irvine Co., to sue for eviction.
After the landlord won the case last month at a one-hour trial that Avenatti skipped, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office posted a notice at the law office ordering the firm to vacate the premises by 6 a.m. on Nov. 1.
Avenatti requested a reprieve that won him a delay until Friday’s hearing, which he also did not attend.
Moss asked Mark Kompa, the landlord’s attorney, if he had heard from Avenatti. Kompa said he spoke to the celebrity lawyer on Tuesday.
"There were other events that transpired so I haven’t heard from him since then," Kompa said.
Avenatti was incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! Wednesday in Los Angeles on suspicion of domestic violence, according to police. He was released after posting $50,000 bond and has denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not!
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[NYPOST] The 20-year-old Washington state killer who drugged, raped and murdered a high school student, sending nude photos of her to the teen’s friends during the attack, got less than three years in jail for the heinous crime, sparking outcry from the victim’s family.
"You might as well let him walk free with that kind of time," said Rachelle Palmer, the aunt of 18-year-old victim Alyssa Noceda, after a judge issued the wrist-slap sentence on Thursday.
Brian Varela fed Noceda a fatal cocktail of painkillers and raped her as she lay dying from the overdose at a party in the Seattle suburb of Lynnwood in February.
Instead of calling for help, he posted, "LOL, I think she od’d, still breathing," and took pictures of Noceda, texting them to her friends.
Judge Linda Krese said she was "surprised, even outraged," that laws prevented her from giving Varela no more than two years and 10 months in jail for the killing. "I’m not sure the legislature really contemplated something like this."
She was handcuffed because Varela is a first-time offender and pleaded guilty to the reduced charges of second-degree manslaughter, third-degree rape, and unlawful disposal of remains as part of a deal.
In court Thursday, Varela said only, "I’m sorry for my foolish actions. Whatever I get is what I deserve."
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I understand David Faustino Flores needs a new cellmate.
Why would the prosecution agree to such an outrageous deal?
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Judge Linda Krese said she was "surprised, even outraged," that laws prevented her from giving Varela no more than two years and 10 months in jail for the killing.
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
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[Washington Examiner] The federal and state judges charged with making crucial decisions in the vote recount efforts in Florida and Georgia all have ties to the Democratic party.
[Military] All the F-22 Raptors that were left behind at Tyndall Air Force Base during Hurricane Michael have moved on to the bases where they will be housed until the Air Force determines their final future destination, the service's top civilian said Thursday.
[Breitbart] Customers and employees brawled inside a Louisiana McDonalds, throwing punches in several different directions, according to a video posted Friday.
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[The Other McCain] Public education in America is a disaster. If taxpayers had any idea what was being done to children in these government indoctrination centers, they would be outraged. However, the bureaucrats who run the system are trained in methods of suppressing the sordid secrets of what goes on, and it is only when disaster strikes ‐ e.g., the Parkland massacre ‐ that the public gets a glimpse of the corruption and incompetence that prevails even in allegedly "good" suburban schools. Parents who think it is safe to send their children to public school generally have no inkling of actual conditions inside their child’s school. Consider what’s happening at Harlandale High School in San Antonio, Texas:
[The Federalist] I grew up in California’s Ventura County and have family in both southern and northern California. Right now, the most deadly fire in California’s history is racing across northern California. The Camp Fire has already killed at least 56 people, burned down 7,700 homes, and destroyed the entire town of Paradise. A brush fire is also wreaking havoc on southern California. The Woolsey Fire has destroyed 98,362 acres, killed two people, and damaged several Hollywood landmarks such as the set of "MASH" and the Reagan Ranch.
[Breitbart] Nearly 3,300 additional Central American caravan migrants arrived at the Mexican northern border city of Tijuana on Saturday, authorities in Mexico stated.
[Jpost] Israel’s security cabinet’s decision Tuesday afternoon to walk away from the war 
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WASHINGTON (AP) ‐ President Donald Trump says extraditing a Turkish-born Muslim cleric blamed by Turkey for engineering a 2016 military coup attempt is "not under consideration."
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Authorities in eastern India have ordered for complete demolition of a three-storey building where at least 34 girls were gang-raped during their stay there.
[Al Jazeera] More than 40 people have been killed and dozens 
... 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...
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So many controversies have bedeviled Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes ‐ culminating in her office’s troubles in the aftermath of Florida’s chaotic 2018 elections ‐ that her days in office are now numbered, insiders and 
[THEGUARDIAN] A top elections official in Florida who endured national humiliation after missing a midterms recount deadline by two minutes has told the Guardian that racism is "probably" a factor in the backlash against her.
[DECIDER] John Travolta’s much-maligned Gotti currently has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Zero. To put that in perspective, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo has a 9% Tomatometer score. When I read that this critically-reviled crime drama about notorious gangster John Gotti was heading to Prime Video, I wondered if the film was “so bad it’s actually good” bad, or “so bad that it’s very, very, very, very bad” bad. It’s the latter. Oh my Gotti, it’s the latter. I don’t wanna kick a movie when it’s down, but my TYDT review of Gotti is “Buzz, your girlfriend. Woof.”
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ‐ A New Mexico woman who was brought back to life is suing the hospital for violating her rights.
[POLITICO] Sen. Bill Nelson has run out of time, run out of favorable court rulings and is about to officially run out of votes.
[LATIMES] Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for adult film actress Stormy Daniels, lost a last-ditch appeal Friday to block the eviction of his law practice from its Newport Beach offices.
[NYPOST] The 20-year-old Washington state killer who drugged, raped and murdered a high school student, sending nude photos of her to the teen’s friends during the attack, got less than three years in jail for the heinous crime, sparking outcry from the victim’s family.
