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Dear allies of ebony kittens,
One purchase -- it costs but a pittance! --
Will render you harmless
While working towards armless:
Please signal your virtue with mittens.
Also... the "one" finger figures prominently in "monkey's bunghole tat" meme. "Two" suggests not just peace, but the pacifying scissors of castration. Yoiks! "Palm" equals paper, specifically the Constitution that enables and enforces systematic oppression. "Fist" sounds just like "kissed." "Satan hand" obviously depicts a white rabbit. It's almost like the whole world is pregnant (EEEEK!) with symbolism.
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I picked up a book on "Guide to Travelers on Hand Gestures", sort of quick and dirty guide to things you shouldn't do when you leave your own culture. Compared to their "invisible dog whistles" there are many, many gestures that can get you killed overseas...
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When I'm out on bike rides, sitting at a stop sign (south Dorchester / upper Milton near Blue Hills parkway) I've flashed many fake gang signs to 'low-riders' in their Honda 4-bangers with the glass-pack mufflers. Nothing but laughs between us.
[Zednet] US authorities put together four years worth of malware samples, domain names, email and social media accounts to track down one of the Lazarus Group hackers.
On September 6, the US Department of Justice formally charged a North Korean programmer for some of the biggest cyber-attacks in recent years.
According to a 179-page DOJ indictment, the US believes that Park Jin Hyok, a 34-year-old North Korean, is one of the many individuals behind a long string of malware attacks and intrusions, such as:
- The WannaCry ransomware outbreak of 2017;
- Attempts of hacking US defense contractor Lockheed Martin in 2016;
- The 2016 Bangladesh Central Bank cyber-heist;
- The breach at Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2014;
- Breaches at US movie theatre chains AMC Theatres and Mammoth Screen in 2014;
- A long string of hacks of South Korean news media organizations, banks, and military entities across several years, and;
- Hacks of banks all over the world from 2015 through 2018.
Also: Free, easy to use, and available to anyone: The powerful malware hiding in plain sight on the open web
The DOJ says Park was an active member of a government-sponsored hacking team known in the private cyber-security sector as the Lazarus Group.
But in reality, officials say, he was also a government employee working for a government-owned company named Chosun Expo Joint Venture (Chosun Expo hereinafter).
Investigators say that Chosun Expo was founded as a joint venture between the South and North Korean governments, and was meant to be an e-commerce and lottery website.
South Korean officials pulled out of the deal, but the North Korean government continued to manage the company through various individuals, branching out in different online services, such as online gaming and gambling. The company had offices in North Korea and China, and Park was sent to work for many years in the company's Chinese office in the city of Dalian.
There, investigators said he worked under titles of "developer" and "online game developer," listing the ability to code in Java, JSP, PHP, Flash, but also Visual C++, the language in which most Lazarus Group malware was written in.
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Thing is, life in a federal joint is likely on par or better than life in NK. (At least, you're less likely to shot with an anti-aircraft gun.)
I realize he's a "special" guy and all that, but the wind shifts fast over there.
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I wouldn't be surprised if after the season the NFL loses another 13% in viewership after the protests and the new shitty rules in effect.
Football isn't fun to watch anymore and people are reacting accordingly.
Next step, full streaming of all games and those that complain about how the NFL is run being called racists and white supremacists. NFL loses another 25% viewership for the next year.
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Pro football has got to be losing a lot of money because of so-called SJWs. Are they trying to get rid of pro football? Have these players looked around? 70% of the players in pro football are black. Viewers of the game and sponsors have created a large number of millionaires in pro ball who are African Americans.
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Attack of the "2's": Season is too long, games are too long with all of the Replay Officials, Too many commercial breaks, Too much social commentary by the color commentators, and Too much color commentary in the game ("it is not radio, shut up every so often!"). Too much crewing with the Official Rules by the Competition Committee every single year...
Any one or two could be ignored but the sum of all of theses is approaching a Perfect Storm.
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The Spanos's moved my SD Chargers team of 50+ years to become a renter in LA. F*ck them in the ear for the rest of their ownership. I did enjoy getting a Fantasy Football email update from ESPN - listing Keenan Allen of the San Diego Chargers
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[Ynet] Israeli jets struck an incendiary balloon squad in northern Gaza on Friday morning after terrorists were seen launching flaming balloons and kites into Israeli territory. Using a laptop to squash flies?
h/t Instapundit
Ohio State University employs nearly 90 diversity-related administrative employees, which costs taxpayers in the Buckeye State about $7.3 million in salaries and benefits annually, according to an analysis by The College Fix.
The 88 administrators receive an estimated $7.3 million in total compensation, which includes $5.38 million in salaries and an estimated $1.89 million in fringe benefits. And they all need to produce results to justify their paychecks.
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OSU, a place I'm familiar with but most major universities have created far too many diversity positions. One might think universities get federal money for these positions.
[TEXAS Senate Race]
The campaign team rented a VFW Hall for a rally & insisted the veterans take down their American flags before the rally
Bob O'Rourke, Ted Cruz's Irish-American opponent who has culturally appropriated the name Beto to sound hispanic, has been in full defense of protestors taking a knee to the national anthem. Now he's going directly after the American flag.
O'Rourke rented out a Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall in Navasota, TX to hold a campaign rally. According to VFW Post 4006 Commander Carl Dry, O'Rourke's campaign insisted the VFW Hall take down its American flags.
“I do not normally attend rental events, but I attended Saturday to make sure things ran smoothly,” said Dry, who noted there were only two requests he could not allow at the VFW Post. “They wanted to open the doors (to the Flight Deck Lounge) and I couldn’t allow that and they wanted to take the flags down, I didn’t only say no, I said hell no, you don’t take the flags off the wall. I can’t believe any American would ask us to do that and I don’t know why he wanted them down or what he was going to put up instead.”
This seems to be a pattern with O'Rourke. He supports protesting the national anthem, he wants to take people's guns away, and his campaign team sees no problem asking a group of veterans to take down their American flags so he can have an American flag free rally.
This is an instinct thing, folks. When your campaign staff does that, it is a reflection of the candidate himself. It is more and more clear that Bob O'Rourke is not just okay with protesting our flag and national anthem, but he's okay with getting rid of them altogether.
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What's next? Make them execute white membership?
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At this point it looks like Beto is throwing the election to Cruz. I mean he is trying to be elected to represent Texas and not just Austin. He probably knows he'll lose so he's decided to virtue signal as the ship sinks.
[Bloomberg] Children are still being forced to join armed groups in South Sudan, even as others are released and warring sides make steps toward ending the five-year civil war, a United Nations envoy said.
"We are not seeing any progression," Virginia Gamba, the UN special representative for children and armed conflict, told reporters Friday in the capital, Juba. She said about 1,200 minors were recruited by unspecified groups last year and such activity is continuing in 2018, although about 900 have been freed.
Both South Sudanese rebels and pro-government fighters have forced more than 19,000 children to take up arms since the conflict began in December 2013, according to the UN Children’s Fund. The UN has repeatedly accused both sides of committing atrocities. The main warring parties signed a series of peace deals over the past month.
[NR] His Senate seat hinges on whom Garden State voters hate more: him or Trump.
This election is a tale of two chambers. In the House, Democrats are primed to make large gains, sweeping into a majority thanks to suburban voters who are sick of President Donald Trump’s antics. In the Senate, on the other hand, the Republicans appear to be in good shape, thanks to a highly favorable map that includes such GOP pickup opportunities as North Dakota, Missouri, Florida, and New Jersey.
Wait . . . New Jersey?
No, that is not a typo, nor is it a fever dream of a conservative deeply invested in the idea of keeping Chuck Schumer in the minority. New Jersey may very well be in play this year because the Democrats have renominated Senator Robert Menendez, easily the most crooked member of the upper chamber today, and one who must rank in the top tier through its whole history (which is really saying something!).
Last year, Menendez went on trial for corruption over his cozy relationship with Dr. Salomon Melgen, a Florida ophthalmologist who is himself serving a lengthy sentence for defrauding Medicare to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. The specifics of Menendez’s alleged crimes are too unseemly to be detailed on the e-pages of what is a family magazine. Suffice to say that he was accused of doing favors in government for Melgen in exchange for personal luxuries and kickbacks.
Menendez managed to escape the slammer thanks to a hung jury in his trial, and more generally the inevitable problem that prosecutors face when they take corruption cases to court: What is an innocent friendship in politics, and what is a quid pro quo? Menendez’s fellow senators, mind you, were not so epistemologically hamstrung. They can tell a crook when they see one, which is why he was "severely admonished" by the bipartisan Senate Ethics Committee and ordered to pay back the cash value of some of the gifts he accepted.
Even by the standards of New Jersey ‐ hardly the most ethical of state political systems ‐ Menendez’s defalcations are pretty eye-popping. If he were running for reelection in virtually any other state or any other cycle, he’d be deep in the hole. But this is New Jersey, where crooked pols go hand in hand with Springsteen anthems. And it is 2018, when voters appear to be less than enthusiastic about electing Republicans.
[ABC] Authorities have identified the gunman who allegedly killed three people and wounded two others at a bank in downtown Cincinnati as a 29-year-old Ohio resident.
Omar Perez, 29, acted alone when he opened fire at the headquarters for the Fifth Third Bank near the Fountain Square, Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac said in a press conference Thursday afternoon.
Officers responded to a 911 call around 9:10 a.m. local time about an "active shooter" at the bank, Isaac said.
Perez. of Northbend, Ohio, is not a former or current employee of the bank, Isaac said. It is unclear how he got to Fountain Square, but he entered multiple businesses before going to the bank, according to the police chief.
The suspect had opened fire in the building's loading dock before continuing into the lobby area and firing more shots, Isaac told reporters at a press conference Thursday morning.
Police said they believe Santa Perez has been in Cincinnati since at least 2015.
Santa Perez's family was shocked at his actions. A former colleague remembers a quiet worker who never showed anger. His neighbors saw a man that was becoming increasingly bitter after struggling to keep a job.
Santa Perez is a U.S. citizen born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, family members said.
Yudy Martinez Perez broke down crying on the kitchen floor of her Forest Park home Thursday afternoon when she learned that her nephew was the shooter who took three lives at the Fifth Third Center.
Santa Perez, 29, used to live in the basement of his aunt's house. Martinez said she was his godmother; her sister is Santa Perez's mother.
Social media indicates he may have attended Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, but school officials could not be reached to confirm this.
Records show he lived all over the country. There's a trail of activity in South Carolina, Florida and Ohio. He most recently lived in North Bend locally.
North Bend is a suburb of Cincinnati.
Santa Perez's aunt said her nephew held various jobs and was currently working, though his aunt and her family did not know where.
“He was very quiet,” said Martinez, who speaks only limited English. “I do not know why. I do not know why.”
His record is a smattering of low-level offenses: entering or refusing to leave the premises in Greenville, South Carolina; marijuana possession in Palm Beach, Florida; traffic offenses in Lake Worth, Florida; traffic offenses in Deerfield Beach, Florida; disorderly conduct in Coconut Creek, Florida. He also has a traffic violation in Cincinnati in 2015 for driving with an expired license plate.
In North Bend, police searched an apartment complex where Santa Perez reportedly lived.
Santa Perez also has hopped from job to job. Records show he's been let go from companies at least twice.
Santa Perez filed a lawsuit in 2017 against CNBC Universal Media LLC and TD Ameritrade Holding Corp., alleging that the companies uncovered his identity and published private details about his life after extensive investigation of his personal devices.
On June 25, 2018, Federal Magistrate Karen Litkovitz in her recommendation to dismiss the case wrote that Santa Perez's allegations were "rambling, difficult to decipher and borders on delusional."
Several residents here gave similar accounts of their interactions with Santa Perez, describing an increasingly bitter and reclusive man.
He moved in about six months ago, according to Steve Conner, but never returned Conner’s pleasantries.
Conner often saw Perez “walking down the street, looking pissed off at everybody.”
Christina Fischer, another resident at the apartment building, said Perez rarely talked to anyone.
“He kind of would hide when you’d come up the stairs,” Fischer said. “He didn’t want anybody near him.”
Multiple residents said Perez’s green Subaru had broken down months ago, and he’d occasionally make a three-mile trek on foot into the nearby village of Addyston, where there’s a bus stop into Cincinnati.
Why is she in Ohio, then? We've made it too easy to create parallel societies that never assimilate. Anyone receiving government assistance should be required to learn -- and eventually be proficient in -- standard American English.
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Easiest way to ensure people work with existing society is to ensure they are a productive part of society.
[MAIL] The perfume bottle full of Novichok used to target Sergei and Yulia Skripal contained enough of the nerve agent to kill 4,000 people, it was claimed today.
A security official said the two Russian agents accused of carrying out the Salisbury attack had brought enough Novichok to cause 'significant loss of life'.
The UK's envoy to the UN yesterday accused Moscow of 'playing dice' with British lives after the finger was pointed at Vladimir Putin and the GRU.
The attack left the Skripals critically ill and led to the death of British mother Dawn Sturgess, but the nerve agent could have cost thousands more lives, The Times reported.
And security sources have also claimed the police and secret service are probing whether the novichok hidden in a high-tech perfume bottle entered Britain in a diplomatic bag then smuggled into the Russian embassy in London.
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You have the method, but you don't have the means. The manner of delivery is the critical part. The bottle couldn't distribute its contents in a manner to take out 4K.
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You don't have to convince a student of Israeli history that Her Majesty's Government are pathological liars - but, IMO, this is too much even for them.
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The names Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirovs appeared on the passports but are thought to be aliases. We don't know who these two really are and we don't know for certain they are Russian--it is a suspicion at this time based on travel patterns. As P2K said "You have the method, but you don't have the means. The manner of delivery is the critical part." It would seem that the delivery is uncertain at this time. It is thought it was put on the doorknob. Did anyone see these two putting Novichok on the doorknob? Any video surveillance video? It would seem that there would be some risk to Petrov and Boshirovs without some minimal protection to handle the stuff and apply it without killing yourself in the process. I'd say we still have bupkis at this point in time. I've always been suspicious of this story and it hasn't gotten any better with time.
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One of the guys has "ADIC" on his hat. That didn't yield much. Some possibilities:
ADIC Advanced Digital Information Corporation
ADIC Abu Dhabi Investment Company
ADIC Assistant Director in Charge (US FBI)
ADIC Australian Dairy Industry Council
ADIC Aerospace Defense Intelligence Center
ADIC Air Defense Intelligence Center
ADIC AFSCF Development Integration Committee
#5
A simple carpenter's hammer, theoretically, could be used to kill 4K people, albeit one at a time. Call me suspicious, but this really sound like a "Fake But Accurate/Too Good To Be False" type of tidbit.
[Rolling Stone] Jeffrey Winder was found guilty of misdemeanor assault in February for punching white-nationalist organizer Jason Kessler in August 2017. On Tuesday, a jury ruled that his punishment will be a whopping $1 fine.
Kessler attempted to hold a press conference in Charlottesville, Virginia, the day after Heather Heyer was killed by a white supremacist who drove his car into a group of people protesting the white nationalist rally organized by Kessler’s "Unite the Right" group. Winder was among the protesters who showed up to stop Kessler from making a statement, punching him in the back of the head as others booed and shouted over him.
Winder faced a maximum possible sentence of a year in jail and a $2,500 fine for the punch, which was caught on tape by the local NBC affiliate. He appealed his misdemeanor assault conviction, and while the jury upheld the guilty verdict, they determined that he should serve no jail time and should only be fined $1, sending a clear message that Winder was justified in lashing out at Kessler.
Winder’s attorney, James Abrenio, argued that Kessler brought the punch on himself by holding a press conference while the city was reeling from the so-recent death of Heyer, arguing that he was "going out of his way" to "profit off tragedy"
[IsraelTimes] Announcement of Erez’s shuttering appears mostly symbolic, as a general closure is at any rate expected in West Bank, Gazoo for most of the coming week due to Rosh Hashanah.
[IsraelTimes] In call to mark Rosh Hashanah, president also says Iranians have ‘lost their mojo’ since he quit the nuclear deal, and are now ‘fighting for their own survival’.
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Of course, the billboard is racist. Diamonds are made out of carbon. Carbon is black. What else is black? Black people! So selling diamonds is like selling black people. QED, h8ters!
Rhetorical question: Have we reached Peak Stupidity yet?
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Wait until the Don is reelected in 2020.--g(r)omgoru
Wait until we see what sort of gibbering Leftists that the Democratic Party runs as candidates. *Sigh* I am already expecting that it will be another election where I "hold my nose and pull the lever" for whoever the (R)'s finally pick because the (D) stands for (D)emented...
"Like most American Jews, I was raised with the delusion that Israel was a safe haven for me," Julia Salazar wrote on Mondoweiss, an anti-Semitic hate site, while denouncing the Jewish State.
Salazar’s rant had appeared on a racist site whose creator had complained that his publication had been banned from DailyKos because of "my repeated insistence on talking about the large Jewish presence in the American establishment and the importance of Jewish money in the political process" and one of whose editors had declared, "I do not consider myself an anti-Semite, but I can understand why some are."
In reality, Salazar had been baptized as a Catholic, her uncle was a Jesuit priest, and her brother made it clear that no one in the family was Jewish. The Jewish part of her past was as fake as the rest.
And it was this biography that the Democratic Socialists of America candidate was running on. Because as a Jew she can get extra points by attacking Israel? Would it really balance the points she'll lose from "Afro American", "Hispanic", and "educated" voters?
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Sorry. Despite the occasional fake news story about how they are "wising up," the majority of American Jews would vote for Eichmann if he was running as a democrat.
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A "Democrat socialist" is a socialist. The word democrat does not modify the word socialist. Instead democrat and socialist have come to mean the same thing.
[Toenhall] The campaign to overturn the 2016 election and bring down President Trump shifted into high gear this week.
Inspiration came Saturday morning from the altar of the National Cathedral where our establishment came to pay homage to John McCain.
Gathered there were all the presidents from 1993 to 2017, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Vice Presidents Al Gore and Dick Cheney, Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Henry Kissinger, the leaders of both houses of Congress, and too many generals and admirals to list.
Striding into the pulpit, Obama delivered a searing indictment of the man undoing his legacy:
"So much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse can seem small and mean and petty, trafficking in bombast and insult and phony controversies and manufactured outrage. ... It's a politics that pretends to be brave and tough but in fact is born of fear." The fear of the "deplorables" who see themselves slowly, but surely, becoming second class citizens - while still expected to maintain their betters standards of living?
Speakers praised McCain's willingness to cross party lines, but Democrats took away a new determination: From here on out, confrontation!
Tuesday morning, as Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court began, Democrats disrupted the proceedings and demanded immediate adjournment, as scores of protesters shouted and screamed to halt the hearings.
...Wednesday came leaks in The Washington Post from Bob Woodward's new book, attributing to Chief of Staff John Kelly and Gen. James Mattis crude remarks on the president's intelligence, character and maturity, and describing the Trump White House as a "crazytown" led by a fifth- or sixth-grader.
Kelly and Mattis both denied making the comments.
Thursday came an op-ed in The New York Times by an anonymous "senior official" claiming to be a member of the "resistance ... working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his (Trump's) agenda."
...For what is afoot here is something America specializes in -- regime change. Only the regime our establishment and media mean to change is the government of the United States. What is afoot is the overthrow of America's democratically elected head of state.
...The methodology is familiar. After a years-long assault on the White House and president by a special prosecutor's office, the House takes up impeachment, while a collaborationist press plays its traditional supporting role.
Presidents are wounded, disabled or overthrown, and Pulitzers all around.
No one suggests Richard Nixon was without sin in trying to cover up the Watergate break-in. But no one should delude himself into believing that the overthrow of that president, not two years after he won the greatest landslide in U.S. history, was not an act of vengeance by a hate-filled city that ran a sword through Nixon for offenses it had covered up or brushed under the rug in the Roosevelt, Kennedy and Johnson years.
...So, where are we headed?
...2019 looks to be the year of bellum omnium contra omnes, the war of all against all. Entertaining, for sure, but how many more of these coups d'etat can the Republic sustain before a new generation says enough of all this?
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act of vengeance by a hate-filled city that ran a sword through Nixon for offenses it had covered up or brushed under the rug in the Roosevelt, Kennedy and Johnson years.
The Watergate break in involve an outside team trying to spy on the Donks. The entire Obama WH directed effort involved using the offices of the government to spy upon an opposition candidate. And still are.
[AnNahar] 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... shot down a ballistic missile fired by Yemen's Houthis on Wednesday, with shrapnel leaving 26 people maimed, a Riyadh-led coalition fighting the Death Eaters said.
Two children were among the maimed from the missile that was intercepted over the southern Saudi city of Najran a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen. It is the capital of Najran Province and a favored target of Houthirocket forces.... , said a coalition statement published by the Saudi state media.
The Iran-backed Huthis have in recent months ramped up missile attacks against Saudi Arabia, which Riyadh usually says it intercepts.
The Huthis' al-Masirah TV said Wednesday's strike was targeted at a Saudi National Guard camp in the border city.
The attack brings the tally to more than 185 rebel missiles launched since 2015, according to the coalition, which that year joined the Yemeni government's fight against Houthis.
[AnNahar] Scheduled peace talks in Geneva between Yemen's government and Houthis hung in the balance Thursday as the two sides traded ultimatums and a U.N. envoy scrambled to mediate.
The rebel delegation, still in Sanaa, insisted the U.N. meets three demands before it travels to Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... , prompting government representatives already in Geneva to give the Huthis a 24-hour deadline or threatening to leave.
U.N. envoy Martin Griffiths, who earlier said the planned meeting offered a "flickering signal of hope" for an end to the years-long conflict, had to postpone the start of the talks.
The Geneva talks are meant to be the first since 2016, when 108 days of negotiations between the government of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi and rebels failed to yield a deal.
The Huthis control the capital Sanaa and much of northern Yemen, while a Saudi-led coalition which backs Hadi's government controls the country's airspace.
Led by Foreign Minister Khaled al-Yamani, a Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... government delegation arrived in Switzerland on Wednesday.
But on what was meant to be the opening day of talks, the rebels issued an ultimatum from Sanaa, saying they would not join until the U.N. meets three conditions that it had already agreed to.
They want the transportation of maimed rebels to Oman for medical care, the repatriation of rebels who have already received treatment there, and a guarantee that the Huthi delegation will be allowed to return to Sanaa after the Geneva talks.
The government delegation said Thursday it would wait only until midday (1000 GMT) on Friday.
"We have this scheduled meeting since two months ago ... Today we are alone," delegation member Hamza Alkamali told journalists in Geneva, and claimed the rebels clearly "don't want peace."
Clearance for a flight carrying rebel delegates and maimed was "issued three days ago," he insisted.
"We want them to come, and we are pushing them to come," Alkamali said. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... "we will leave, if they don’t come... in the next 24 hours.
Griffiths had told journalists he would begin informal consultations with the government team while the rebels make their way to Switzerland.
If and when the two parties do eventually meet, he said, there would be no "formal negotiations", merely exploratory talks on how best to get everyone around a negotiating table.
All previous attempts to resolve the Yemen war have failed.
Griffiths is the U.N.'s third Yemen envoy since 2014, when Huthis overran the capital and drove Hadi's government into exile.
The following year, 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... and its allies formed a powerful regional military coalition to back Hadi.
The conflict has left nearly 10,000 people dead and pushed the Arab world's most impoverished country to the brink of famine.
On Thursday, the Saudi-led coalition acknowledged there may have been "collateral damage" from August 23 strikes the U.N. said killed 26 children south of the port of Hodeida.
On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia shot down a ballistic missile fired by Houthis, with shrapnel wounding 26 people including two children, the coalition said.
[WND] Monomaniacal Westerners ‐ they have one thing on their minds: it begins with an "R" ‐ have come to think and speak of apartheid as a theory of white supremacy.
It was not.
The South African policy of "separate development," as it was admittedly euphemized, was not a theory of racial supremacy, but a strategy for survival.
But first: To perceive the fundamental way in which the Afrikaner and American creeds differed early on we must first examine the former’s ideas of what a nation and a state were, respectively.
America, being a rib from the British ribcage, was built on liberal individualism; Afrikaner culture was first and foremost grounded in the survival of the Volk. See 'Battle of Blood River.'
This is not to say that Afrikaners were not fiercely individualistic; they were, even more so than early Americans.
For the Boers, however, the nation encompassed "the land, the culture, the terrain, the people." The state, on the other hand, had no such prestige for the Boers, who regarded it as just "the coercive apparatus of bureaucrats and politicians." Against this apparatus, above all, the Boer rebelled.
The 19th century found him still resisting majority rule, by which time Americans had thoroughly submitted to it. Although the Boer’s outlook remained passionately political, his preference was for parochial self-rule.
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Well, IMO, if Afrikaners want so survive, they'll have to do so in exile - like the Jews. And, like the Jews, they'll have to wait in exile until the enemy destroys itself*.
*The 20th century resurgence of Arabs was due solely to oil - now, with fracking etc..., they're going down - hence all the wars in ME
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The big difference between the US and Afrikaans experience is the the Boars faced massive immigration from a single culture instead of a trickle from a dozen or more similar cultures. Assimilation was impossible. Doom was baked into the Afrikaans future from the start.
[Hot Air] So says South Korean president Moon Jae-in, anyway, who has a big investment in pushing forward on the peace process with Kim Jong-un. After Donald Trump canceled a visit by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Pyongyang, the assumption was that the peace process started by the nearly impromptu summit between the two leaders had failed. Not so, says Moon, who claims that Kim has recommitted to denuclearization ‐ and to complete it in the next two years:
h/t Instapundit
[WSJ] Lord Jonathan Sacks isn’t known to throw around accusations. So when the Commonwealth’s former chief rabbi weighed in on Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party, people took notice.
Rabbi Sacks last week described Mr. Corbyn as "an anti-Semite" who has "given support to racists, terrorists and dealers of hate." He called one Corbyn comment "the most offensive statement made by a senior British politician since Enoch Powell’s 1968 ’Rivers of Blood’ speech," a vicious anti-immigration diatribe. Rabbi Sacks was referring to Mr. Corbyn’s 2013 description of British "Zionists": "They don’t want to study history and . . . they don’t understand English irony either." On Sunday Rabbi Sacks doubled down, telling the BBC that the prospect of Mr. Corbyn as prime minister was a "danger" to British Jewry.
...For his part, Mr. Corbyn claimed in an interview: "I’m not an anti-Semite in any way, never have been, never will be."
His actions and words tell a very different story. He was long associated‐unwittingly, he says, with Holocaust denier Paul Eisen. In 2012 he approved of a mural that grotesquely depicted Jewish bankers, and he did not reverse himself until earlier this year. He was long a member in Facebook groups that featured anti-Jewish conspiracies.
His worst blind spot, though, is his failure to distinguish between criticism of Israeli policies and an irrational and thoroughly bigoted hatred of Israel itself. It’s an obsession that has led him to align with those who oppose the idea of Jewish self-determination in the Levant, as well as those who have made their purpose to seek Israel’s destruction, and even those who have murdered or championed the murder of Israelis and their supporters.
In 2010 Mr. Corbyn hosted an event on Holocaust Memorial Day in which the Israeli government was compared to the Nazis. In 2012 he appeared on Iranian television to celebrate the release of Palestinian terrorists by Israel in a painful prisoner exchange with Hamas. He referred to the returning convicts as "brothers."
[Federalist] Americans are having fewer babies. In 2018, age-controlled fertility may fall to near the lowest level in our history. We aren’t alone in this: fertility rates have fallen across much of the western world, despite widespread economic expansion.
The main reasons for this are sociological: declining marriage, rising cost of childbearing, and related factors that amount to cultural norms and practices.
Recently, scientists have raised a different alarm bell: human biology may be changing. For decades, some scientists have been arguing that men are producing less sperm than they used to, but these studies were plagued by small sample size, non-randomly selected men, or other methodological problems.
Last summer, however, a research team in Israel (the country at the forefront of reproductive technology) assembled a massive dataset, combining hundreds of prior studies, creating a sample of tens of thousands of men across decades. They found that male sperm counts are indeed in decline.
While their findings aren’t universally accepted, they have succeeded in persuading a large number of former skeptics. The sample sizes are sufficiently large, the extra checks for possible counterarguments sufficiently robust, and the findings sufficiently clear in the data that it’s time to take seriously that men really may be losing some degree of their biological fertility.
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Isn’t it more reasonable to assume the curve will be asymptotic? And that the trend can be reversed simply by increasing male competitive physical activity? Nobody suggests that professional athletes lack virility.
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The BPA used to line cans and in many flexible plastics was developed in the 1800s to be like an estrogen. We really should get rid of that. I wonder why we haven't.
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...U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will meet with state attorneys general later this month to discuss concerns that tech companies "may be hurting competition and intentionally stifling the free exchange of ideas on their platforms," the Department of Justice said in a statement Wednesday.
The proposed meeting between the country's top prosecutor and state officials is the first major signal of potential antitrust action against Silicon Valley and follows recent claims by President Donald Trump of political bias and censorship by major social media firms.
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Probably the only thing Sessions can do to hold off the current conservative lynch mob.
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Classify them as a common carrier. Subject them to existing regulations. They get to censor as much as the phone company can censor. Pardon me, I have to answer another robo-call even though I'm on the 'Do Not Call' list with the state and feds.
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A lot of people are turning on the phones only if the are going to make a call. If they leave their phone on and don't recognize the number they don't answer. The are telling people if they want to contact them use Email. The industry is killing their golden goose.
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Here's a solution: make the officers and directors of google personally libel for politically partisan acts of censorship.
They will of course insist on getting insurance to cover this, and the underwriters of that insurance will demand steps, such as bipartisan agreement before censorship or firing of those underlings who misbehave, and no such details need be dealt with by the government.
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[JP] Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas threatened to sever ties with Israel if the state makes an agreement with Hamas, Palestinian sources told Al Hayat, a London based newspaper on Friday.
According to the report, the sources said that Abbas's position caused Egypt to place the internal Palestinian reconciliation at the top of its list of priorities and to reject the "calm first" option.
Abbas said that he had met with Shin Bet director Nadav Argaman in early September. Argaman had tried to persuade Abbas not to sabotage the efforts to arrange a settlement between Israel and Hamas and to ensure a Palestinian reconciliation, according to an Israeli source on Monday. According to the report, Argaman told Abu Mazen that this is a historic opportunity and it would be a shame to waste it.
Because of this change in priories, Hamas might be forced to seek alternatives other than direct talks with Israel towards a calm agreement, including possibly reaching a truce with Israel but having PLO delegate Azzam al-Ahmad sign the agreement.
[Breitbart] Federal prosecutors reportedly impaneled a grand jury several months ago as part of an investigation into whether former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe intentionally misled investigators about improperly leaking information to a reporter.
According to The Washington Post, at least one witness was summoned to testify by the grand jury, in what is believed to be a sign that the probe has "intensified" in recent months.
"The presence of the grand jury shows prosecutors are treating the matter seriously, locking in the accounts of witnesses who might later have to testify at a trial. But such panels are sometimes used only as investigative tools, and it remains unclear if McCabe will ultimately be charged," writes author Matt Zapotosky.
Neither McCabe’s spokesperson or a representative for U.S. attorney’s office in D.C. would comment on the matter.
[Breitbart] American construction workers are seeing their wages rise in the blue collar industry as President Trump’s "Buy American, Hire American" tightened labor market forces business to find and employ disenfranchised U.S. workers, rather than importing foreign workers.
A recent report by the Miami Herald chronicled the rise in wages and business having to adapt to an economy with a tight labor market as immigration enforcement has been increased and unemployment has hit record lows.
As admitted in the Miami Herald by industry insiders, the tight labor market has secured jobs for Americans willing to do the blue collar work and won them higher wages in the process.
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BTW, you notice the trades like those are not subject to diverse gender impact law suits? Sort of like the lack of significant applicants for the combat arms in the armed services when they removed gender restrictions.
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It's like there's some relationship between supply demand and price...
When you realise low wage migration is effectively subsidised by taxpayers, and you realise who is actually picking up that subsidy you realise how selfish the "open" borders lot are.
[NR] Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms signed an executive order on Thursday requiring that all Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees be transferred out of city custody immediately.
"Atlanta will no longer be complicit in a policy that intentionally inflicts misery on a vulnerable population without giving any thought to the horrific fallout," Bottoms said at a City Hall news conference, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution. "As the birthplace of the civil-rights movement we are called to be better than this."
The announcement comes roughly two months after a previous executive order ‐ issued in the wake of the Trump administration’s adoption of a "zero tolerance" immigration-enforcement policy ‐ declared that city jails would not accept any new ICE detainees.
The number of ICE detainees in Atlanta jails has fallen from 205 in June, when the initial executive order was issued, to just five as of Wednesday. Of the 200 detainees removed from Atlanta jails in the interim, some have been released, some have been deported, and some have been transferred to various nearby detention centers.
Georgia secretary of state Brian Kemp, the state’s Republican gubernatorial nominee, issued a harshly critical statement in response to the order.
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Hat tip to Mayor Keisha. This should easily put Brian over the top for the upcoming gubernatorial. Plenty of bunk space over at United States 'Federal' Penitentiary, Atlanta.
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The idea that illegals mostly take jobs from African Americans (I go by Keisha) doesn't seems to penetrate. Or, does it - anybody ever did a breakdown of voting by African Americans along the lines employed in private sector vs. employed in public sector/unemployed?
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In my own State I have heard the local law enforcement complaining that both the State And the Fed's like to park inmates in local City/County Jails to await further processing. It is cheaper for them when, an most importantly If!, they ever get around to reimbursing the locals for the expenses of that service.
[Ynet] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised on Thursday the activities carried out by the Shin Bet, who he said "deter and thwart, every day and every hour, those who seek to kill us."
"There is no day on which something is not thwarted. There is no day on which some action does not prevent (attacks)," the prime minister said at an event marking the new year with security organizations. Which reminded me of something discussed here in recent days - Yitzhak Rabin was 10 times the war hero your McCain was. And so was Marshal Pétain.
[AP via SF Chronicle] HORNSTRANDIR, Iceland ‐ The passenger boat arrives at the bottom of Veidileysufjordur, a short inlet with a long name, to drop off backpackers for a multi-day trek. A weather-beaten group that's completed the trip waits to board, eager to get back to a part of Iceland where they can reconnect with the world via Wi-Fi.
By boat, that will take about a half-hour. No roads lead to the Nordic country's northernmost peninsula, a rugged glacial horn that reaches for the Arctic Circle. Making a phone call requires walking up a mountain for a cell signal so weak, clouds seem capable of blocking it.
But internet service soon could be reaching the Hornstrandir Nature Reserve, one of the last digital-free frontiers in what might be the world's most-wired nation. The possibility has most hikers, park rangers and summer residents worried that email, news and social media will destroy a way of life that depends on the absence of all three.
"We see a growing appreciation for the lack of online connection," Environment Agency of Iceland ranger Vesteinn Runarsson, who patrols the peninsula's southern end on his own. "Looking to the future, we want to keep Hornstrandir special in that way."
The area has long resisted cell towers, but commercial initiatives could take the decision out of Icelanders' hands and push Hornstrandir across the digital divide.
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Parts of Michigan's UP are 'digitally challenged', too.
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Thought there was someplace in West Virginia that was digital free also. Oh yeah, Green Bank. People go there who are highly sensitive to electric fields, like Michael McKeen's character on "Better call Saul."
[Townhall] On NBC’s Thursday morning broadcast of the "Today" show, former CIA director John Brennan repeatedly praised the unknown author of the New York Times’s recent anti-Trump op-ed as a supreme example of "courageous" American patriotism. While admitting that the anonymous writer was committing "active insubordination" with the piece, Brennan justified his or her actions by claiming that because Trump is too "unfit" to be President, the writer is admirably trying to "prevent disasters" in the future.
"I think there are two major takeaways," Brennan told "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie in relation to the op-ed. "One is, what the author wrote is wholly consistent with all the reports that we have seen over the last year, the reports within Bob Woodward’s book, and other things about just how unfit, reckless, irresponsible Donald Trump is. But secondly, it shows the depth of concern within the administration, within the senior ranks of the administration, about what is happening and the extraordinary steps that individuals are willing to take, such as this op-ed, to prevent disasters."
At this point, the former CIA director openly admitted that the op-ed author’s actions constituted "active insubordination." However, Brennan then immediately praised the "insubordination" as being "born out of loyalty to the country, not to Donald Trump."
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Of course Brennan would praise this hit piece. It wouldn't surprise me if Brennan had something to do with this NYTs piece. Maybe the article should have been over in the reviews of fiction rather than the op-ed section.
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Looks like with McCain out of the picture, Brennan has become the Deep State's point man.
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#1 Betcha it was written by one of NYT staff writers. -g(r)omgoru
Multiple conversations over martinis with multiple staffers all presented as a "single anonymous source" in the best tradition of story-tellers like Peter "Tailwind" Arnett?
[PJ] Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner decided in late July he won’t be giving any more money to millionaire Chicago mayoral candidate Willie Wilson’s charitable foundation, and the African-American businessman decided he’s tired of white people telling him how to spend his money.
"I was raised in the South Jim Crow days," Wilson said. "I’m just tired of white people telling me what to do. It was with my own money, all right, I didn’t use taxpayer dollars."
Wilson, who owns several McDonald’s franchises in the Chicago area, along with the Omar Medical Supplies company, also produces a nationally syndicated gospel music TV program, Singsation.
Wilson, a Democrat, is running for mayor of Chicago for the second time. Wilson ran against Mayor Rahm Emanuel in 2015, and lost. Wilson ran for president in 2016 as a Democrat and was the first presidential candidate, Democrat or Republican, to buy ads in Iowa for that election.
Rauner is running for re-election against J.B. Pritzker, and the race is much tighter than the Republican would like it to be. A June Capitol Fax/We Ask America poll showed Pritzker leading Rauner by nine points. Another 26 percent of the voters surveyed said they’d just as soon vote for an unnamed third-party candidate. Another 11 percent were undecided. So the last thing the Rauner campaign needs is this kind of aggravation.
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Skip the black white bit, why was Rauner giving money to a DEMOCRAT? Rauner keeps telling the states voters he is their REPUBLICAN gov. Which is it?
[American Thinker] The New York Times published an anonymous op-ed, purportedly penned by a "senior White House official" in the Trump administration.
Read the missive, and note that there are several clear "tells" in the piece ‐ clues that indicate the motivations and leanings of the author, whoever the coward is. And I will use that word, as someone with the character and fortitude claimed by the author would never write an anonymous piece, nor would he remain employed within an administration he so clearly despises. The Times has called the author "he," so I will assume a male is the person responsible
This first clue tells me that it is a member of the swamp, coming from the position that government is an entitlement belonging to an elite, never meant to be sullied by the hands of an "outsider."
He is also among those who oppose Trump's use of tariffs and opposed his taking NATO and the E.U. to task for their looting of our goodwill.
He grudgingly admits that good things have happened but immediately assigns credit to himself, not to the man who drove the initiatives, which is the hallmark of the committed "NeverTrump" and the spurned Obama holdover.
He further reveals himself by the use of such bromides as "rising above politics, reaching across the aisle and resolving to shed the labels," along with petty and unsubstantiated shots at the president, apparently claiming psychic abilities, as he claims to know that Trump "fears such honorable men as McCain."
He ascribes to himself an admirable stoicism, never missing an opportunity to inform the reader of the terrible sacrifice he is making to save us all from our evil natures, as personified in the hulking frame of Donald Trump, whom we foolishly elected, knowing not what we do ‐ a position echoed endlessly by the self-righteous Obama apparatchiks tossed unceremoniously by the will of the people last November.
"So we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until ‐ one way or another ‐ it's over."
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I agree with Elmerert Hupens2660 but would confirming someones paranoia (Trump blames the deep state for slowing the implementation of his plans) really lead to more paranoia? I wouldn't think so.
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Falsely confirming a suspicion could trigger a witch hunt within the Trump administration.
Different factions who would be fundamentally loyal to the admin's policy objectives would start to distrust each other needlessly.
Alternatively this really could be a plant by Trump. His adversaries have now acknowledged the existence of a permanent bureaucracy that has been operating outside the framework of the US constitution, probably for many decades.
Even Democrats who agree with this "Deep State's" opposition to Trump cannot defend this outfit's legitimacy.
Hence Warren's call for invoking the 25th Amendment. This would be a legitimate act by dissenters in the administration, while playing "Deep State" isn't.
Warren is actually disowning the resistance within the executive branch.
Well have to wait and see who has been assigned the roles of Mundt, Fiedler and Leamas in this story, and by whom.
[Free Beacon] The State Department confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon there was a mortar attack near the United States embassy in Iraq on Thursday.
A video captured a series of sixteen explosions which can be seen lighting up the night sky.
U.S. officials confirmed a series of explosions near the U.S. embassy in the Green Zone in Baghdad.
"We are closely following reports of possible explosions outside of the Green Zone in Baghdad," a State Department official said on background.
The embassy has not been impacted and U.S. staff are taking appropriate safety precautions and prioritizing the safety of Americans on the ground.
"The security and safety of Americans are among our highest priorities," the official said. "Host nation security and U.S. embassy security officials will take appropriate measures to safeguard personnel and visitors."
Sources say the attack came from Baghdad Area Zayoona which is well known for control of Asae'b Ahlil Al Haq, an Iraqi Shi'a paramilitary group backed by Iran. The group was active during the Iraqi insurgency and in the Syrian Civil War.
From the group’s lengthy Wikipedia entry: “Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq (AAH; Aṣayib Ahl al-Haq, "League of Righteous People"), also known as the Khazali Network, is an Iraqi Shi'a paramilitary group active in the Iraqi insurgency and Syrian Civil War. During the Iraq War it was known as Iraq's largest "Special Group" (the Americans' term for Iran-backed Shia paramilitaries in Iraq), and claimed responsibility for over 6,000 attacks on American and Coalition forces. The group is currently fighting against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant as part of the Popular Moblization Forces. The group is funded and trained by Iran's Quds Force. In 2017, AAH created a party with the same name.”
The mortars used in the attack are identified as 120mm which are considered heavy mortars and could cause extensive damage.
Sources believe the Iranian-backed group is responsible for the attack.
Iranian-backed forces have long been operating in Iraq and have obtained U.S. arms. Iran continues to solidify its presence in Iraq, which it considers a key strategic location.
The Russian Air Force continued their heavy bombardment of the Idlib Governorate, today, after taking a short hiatus overnight to concentrate on the Hama province.
Russian Sukhoi jets reportedly unleashed several airstrikes along the Turkish border this afternoon, hitting a number of jihadist targets inside the strategic district of Jisr Al-Shughour.
According to a military source in western Syria, the Russian Air Force primarily targeted areas that had a large presence of jihadist rebels from the terrorist group known as the Turkestan Islamic Party.
...also known as Turkistan Islamic Movement (TIM) and formerly as the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) and other names, it is an Islamic extremist terrorist organization founded by Uyghur jihadists in western China. Its long term goal is to establish an independent state called "East Turkestan" in China’s Xinjiang province, but in the meantime it is based in North Waziristan and practices on the playing fields of Syria, where it is allied with Al Nusra and has some support from the Turkish govrenment of neo-Ottoman Sultan Recep Tqyyip Erdogan I, the much beloved.
Due to the large presence of jihadists in this district, the Russian Air Force has concentrated their efforts on disrupting Turkestan Islamic Party’s main supply route in military bases.
With the Syrian Arab army preparing offensive northwestern Syria the Russian Air Force has intensified their aerial campaign against the jihadist rebels.
On Tuesday, the Russian Air Force carried out a large number of airstrikes against the jihadist rebels in the Northwestern provinces of Syria.
Using their Sukhoi jets, the Russian Air Force hammered the jihadist rebels with airstrike after airstrike in order to weaken their resolve in northwestern Syria.
In response to the Russian attack, the jihadist rebels unleashed flurry of missiles towards the Syrian government stronghold of Joureen in the Al-Ghaab Plain this evening.
According to a military source, the jihadist missiles that targeted Joureen missed the Syrian army’s positions and hit the surrounding farms.
The Syrian Army then retaliated by firing several ground to ground missiles at the jihadist defenses in the area.
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[AlMasdar] The Syrian Arab Army continue their operations inside the southern region of Syria on Thursday, targeting several areas controlled by the so-called 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.... in the Al -Sweida province.
Led by their 3rd and 10th divisions, the Syrian Army stormed the Islamic State’s remaining hideouts inside the al-Safa area of southern Syria.
According to a military source in southern Syria, the Syrian Army managed to liberate more than 2 kilometers of territory occupied by the terrorist forces after a series of intense festivities this afternoon.
The Syrian Army is now raining missiles on this large volcanic region in southern Syria in order to clear the trenches raised by the Islamic State forces in the al-Safa area.
With only a small pocket left under the Islamic State’s control, the Syrian Army is poised to conclude their operations in southern Syria before the start of their northwestern offensives.
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1.6 miles...big deal
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Map at link. I find it a bit difficult to read, but likely your map-reading skills are better than mine, dear Reader.
[AlMasdar] The battle for northwestern Syria is set to commence in the coming days as troops from the Syrian Arab Army continue to pour into the area.
Led by their Tiger forces fourth armored division, and Republican guard, the Syrian Army is expected to launch their large-scale assault from several axes inside the Latakia, Hama, and Idlib provinces.
In addition to the Syrian Army units, thousands of other soldiers are expected to participate in this upcoming offensive.
Among these groups include the Paleostinian led Jerusalem Brigade (Liwaa al-Quds ...the Jerusalem Brigade is a Paleostinian-Syrian pro-Government group that operates in Aleppo, formed in 2013. The group is composed of predominately Sunni Paleostinians from the al-Nayrab district as well as the former refugee camp Handarat. It is believed to be the largest Assadist auxilliary force operating in storied Aleppo... ), the National Defense Forces (NDF), the Syrian Marines and a plethora of divisions from Syrian Arab Army.
The Russian and Syrian air forces have already begun their heavy bombardment of northwestern Syria; they are expected to intensify this attack in the next 48 to 72 hours at the offense of draws near.
[AlMasdar] Houthi forces announced that they targeted a Saudi municipal airport inside the Gulf nation’s southern region.
According to the official media wing of the Houthi forces, their rocket battalion fired a Qasser-1 medium-range ballistic missile towards the Abha Municipal Airport.
While the fate of the missile is unknown, the Houthi forces did add that the attack resulted in the disruption of flights at this airport.
The Saudi Ministry of Defense has yet to issue a statement regarding this latest attack on their soil.
This latest missile attack marks the first time this month that Houthi forces have targeted a Saudi airport.
[AlMasdar] The Houthi forces announced this evening that they targeted another Saudi airport in the southern part of the Gulf kingdom.
According to the official media wing of the Houthi forces, their rocket battalion fired two ballistic missiles at the Jizan Municipal Airport, scoring a direct hit on the installation.
As a result of this attack Saudi authorities allegedly closed the Jizan Airport halted all flights to and from the area.
However, the Saudi authorities have yet to confirm these claims by the Houthi forces.
The Houthi forces reportedly used their Badr-1 ballistic missile to attack this airport tonight.
[AlMasdar] Angry protesters in the Iraqi city of Basra reportedly set fire to the Kataeb Hezbollah headquarters this evening, local activists posted via social media.
This move comes as a large wave of protesters demonstrated across Iraq over a number of economic issues.
No one was reportedly harmed after the Kataeb Hezbollah building was set on fire, the local activists said.
Kataeb Hezbollah was one of the major Iraqi units that fought against the so-called 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.... during the three-year long war from 2014-2017.
The Iraqi group also participated in the Syrian conflict on the side of the government; they would help seal the Iraqi-Syrian border earlier this year.
[Breitbart] Another anonymous senior official in Donald Trump’s administration confirmed the existence of the "deep state" resistance in the presidency.
"I find the reaction to the NYT op-ed fascinating ‐ that people seem so shocked that there is a resistance from the inside," an anonymous senior official told Axios, admitting that some of them wished they had written the piece.
"I hope he knows ‐ maybe he does? ‐ that there are dozens and dozens of us," the source continued.
Trump wrote on Thursday that his success was driving his enemies crazy.
"The Deep State and the Left, and their vehicle, the Fake News Media, are going Crazy ‐ and they don’t know what to do," he wrote on Twitter.
Trump added that he would continue to "drain the swamp" despite their resistance to his important changes.
"I’m draining the Swamp, and the Swamp is trying to fight back," he wrote on Wednesday night. "Don’t worry, we will win!"
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There are dozens and dozens of us. However, there has been a slow whittling away of the swamp (Maybe not so slow but not as fast as many would like). Maybe there will be an October surprise.
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Anyone found disobeying and sabotaging should be fired and lose their pension at the very minimum. If they are involved in security issues they should be charged with treason.
They are there to serve the US as led by the elected President, not their own whims and false gods.
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No, they want to be rebels, treat them as rebels. Declare a state of emergency, track them down, put them on trial and anyone assisting them, and when they are found guilty, put them against the wall or dangle them from a tree. They have admitted to attempting to overthrow the legal government of the United States.
[US Customs] JACKSONVILLE, Fla. ‐ U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO) aircrews with interagency partners detected a vessel loaded down with over 2,880 pounds of cocaine‐a combined street value of $37.5 million‐in international waters off the coast of Acapulco, Mexico.
CBP Air and Marine Operations P-3 aircrews based at the National Air Security Operations Center ‐ Jacksonville use sophisticated maritime surveillance equipment throughout the year to detect drug-smuggling ventures as part of international operations with Joint Interagency Task Force-South (JIATF-South). JIATF-South targets illicit smuggling operations in coastal waters off the Central American isthmus.
[KhaamaPress] The Taliban militants group in Afghanistan has rejected involvement in last evening’s coordinated attack in Kabul city that left scores of people dead or wounded.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid in a statement said the group has no links with the recent attack in Kabul city, claiming that Taliban strongly condemns attack on ordinary civilians.
[KhaamaPress] The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K), the offshoot of ISIL terror group in Afghanistan, has claimed responsibility behind the deadly bombings in Kabul that left scores of people dead or wounded.
The group in a statement said the first attack was carried out by a suicide bomber named Sabir al-Khurasani while the second attack was carried out using a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device targeting the gathering of people, including journalists.
The group also claims that the attack has left more than 150 people dead or wounded.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Military says an operation has been launched in Khak Jabar district of Kabul province to suppress the anti-government armed militants.
The 111th Division of the Afghan National Army in Kabul said the operations, Tufan-2,were launched earlier today.
A statement by 111th Division of the Afghan Army said the Afghan forces have destroyed a vehicle and a motorcycle belonging to the militants since the launch of the operations.
The statement further added that an improvised explosive device planted by the militants was also discovered and defused during the operations.
[KhaamaPress] The death toll from a coordinated suicide attack in capital Kabul has climbed to at least 26 people, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) officials confirmed.
Deputy spokesman for the Ministry of Interior Nusrat Rahimi said at least 91 people have also sustained injuries in the two back to back suicide attacks.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K), the offshoot of ISIL terror group in Afghanistan, has claimed responsibility behind the deadly bombings in Kabul that left scores of people dead or wounded.
The group in a statement said the first attack was carried out by a suicide bomber named Sabir al-Khurasani while the second attack was carried out using a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device targeting the gathering of people, including journalists.
The first explosion took place at around 6pm local time after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives inside a wrestling club.
The second blast took place almost 40 minutes after people had gathered in the area to help the victims.
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[FoxNews] A bungling burglar in Minnesota was nabbed after his pickup got stuck in a large pile of foul-smelling manure during the getaway.
Matthew Bloomquist, 29, of Hawick, Minn., was found standing on the side of the road, smoking a cigarette, covered in manure from his waist to his feet when deputies arrived to investigate Wednesday morning, according to Stearns County Sheriff Don Gudmundson.
"He was wearing jean shorts over long underwear and no shoes, which the deputies assumed were somewhere in the manure pile," Gudmundson said Friday in an incident report titled, "Something doesn't smell right."
"The trip to the jail was made with the windows open," Gudmundson said, adding that the patrol vehicle still reeked as of Thursday.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) A security personnel was killed, while four others, including women, were maimed as a landmine went kaboom!, west of Anbar, a security source said on Thursday.
"A landmine from the remnants of war against 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.... , was placed on the side of a road that leads to Khazraj region, located between al-Baghdadi and Hit, west of the province, while a vehicle was passing. The kaboom left a conscript with al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) killed, another personnel and three women were maimed. They were transferred to hospital for treatment," the
"The vehicle was transferring a woman, who was in labor, to Hit public hospital," the source added. "Security troops blocked the roads and carried out campaign in search for other explosives."
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Seven people were killed and injured in an armed attack, northeast of Baquba, Diyala province, a security source said on Thursday.
"Unidentified button men opened fire against a vehicle carrying seven people on Baquba-Muqdadiya road," the source told Baghdad Today website.
"Two people were immediately killed, while five others were seriously injured," the source said adding that the button men fled toward unknown destination.
The injured were taken to hospital for treatment, while the victims were transferred to forensic medicine department, according to the source, who preferred anonymity.
[KhaamaPress] An Arclight airstrike was carried out on Taliban ...Arabic for students... leader’s compound in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan, leaving several holy warriors dead or maimed.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North said the airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Sayad Koh area in Sherin Tagab district.
A statement by 209th Shaheen Corps said at least 13 holy warriors were killed in the airstrike and four others sustained injuries.
The compound used by the Taliban leader Qari Rahmatullah was also destroyed in the airstrike, the statement by 209th Shaheen Corps added.
The 209th Shaheen Corps said at least 7 holy warriors were killed and 3 others sustained injuries during a separate clash in Zoryan area of Qaisar district.
At least two Afghan soldiers also sustained injuries during the festivities with the Talibs, the statement added.
The anti-government armed krazed killer groups including Talibs have not commented regarding the report so far.
The security situation in northern Faryab province has tanked during the recent years amid ongoing efforts by the anti-government armed holy warriors to expand their insurgency activities in key northern provinces.
[RT] The hearings for Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court have been mired by raucous protests and disruptions and now the emergence of photos from the scene has prompted some to ask if the protestors are paid actors.
Amid prolonged chaos and a reported 70 arrests in the first two days of hearings, rumors began circulating online that activist groups were handing out cash to protesters who would then storm the courtroom to cause as much disruption as possible with a view to getting arrested.
One such alleged paid-for actor was Vickie Lampron, who can be seen in this arrest video from inside the courtroom, shared by the Center for Popular Democracy, which is involved in the demonstrations. She was arrested shortly afterwards.
In the below photo, shared by Adam Schindler, the Director of Online Strategy for Central, Lampron can be seen outside the courtroom speaking with Vinay Krishnan, a writer for SLAM magazine and an attorney, handing what appears to be money to Lampron outside the courthouse.
Schindler later added that he spoke to the protest’s organizer who confirmed that they were handing out cash which the protesters were using to pay fines they received for breaking the law.
Winnie Wong, senior adviser to the Women's March, along with co-founders Linda Sarsour and Bob Bland were all arrested Monday for their part in disrupting the confirmation hearings.
"This is well-organized and scripted. This isn't chaos,” Wong told CNN. "It's exercising your constitutional rights.”
Wong confirmed to CNN that The Women's March had been fundraising for the planned protests via the group's email list and was paying protesters the $35 to $50 bail.
RT.com has contacted Vickie Lampron, the Women’s March and the Center for Popular Democracy for comment on what is taking place in the photo but it has yet to receive responses. It has been unable to reach Krishnan.
#9
Probably a few True Believers™ and the rest are the Professional Protest Mercenaries™ that we have seen develop over the last decade. Provide them with a stipend and a place to sleep and they will go from one (quote) Spontaneous Grass Roots Protest™ (un-quote) to the next. It is an open question how sincere they are.
[Fortune] As president and CEO of a values-driven company that's known the world over as a pioneer of the American West and one of the great symbols of American freedom, I take the responsibility of speaking up on the important issues of our day very seriously. We can't take on every issue. But as business leaders with power in the public and political arenas, we simply cannot stand by silently when it comes to the issues that threaten the very fabric of the communities where we live and work. While taking a stand can be unpopular with some, doing nothing is no longer an option.
That's why Levi Strauss & Co. is stepping up our support for gun violence prevention. You may wonder why a company that doesn't manufacture or sell guns is wading into this issue, but for us, it's simple. Americans shouldn't have to live in fear of gun violence. It's an issue that affects all of us‐all generations and all walks of life.
The stakes could not be higher. On an average day, 96 Americans are killed by guns, and hundreds more are wounded. Most are suicides or unintentional shootings. Our nation's gun homicide rate is more than 25 times the average rate of other high-income countries. Some shootings make the headlines; some you never hear of; but each one is a tragedy.
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#1
F you and your slave collars. Thanks for outing yourself as supporting slavery and your hatred for this nation and its people. I will ensure I do not buy anything produced by your company.
#6
Then young black guys in Chicago wouldn't get their asses shot off by other young black guys.
But only if they pull their pants up past their knees...
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I'm not here to suggest we repeal the Second Amendment or to suggest that gun owners aren't responsible.
I've come to bury Caesar not the praise him.
In fact, as a former U.S. Army officer, I took a solemn oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
BTW, you be amazed how many 'officers' don't know the Constitution. There's never a test to evaluate their knowledge on that subject. For them it's like millions of button clicking for Terms of Usage that pop up everyday for Accept or Don't Accept. How many actually read those through?
#8
I quit Levi's when they dropped the Boy Scouts (a lot of good that did). Since then, they produce over seas so I could car less about them, liked the product back then though.
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I worked there for a few years in the early 2000's. Not a bad place at the time and they did do a lot of good community work but that's when they actually had a CEO who was business focused and not a SJW. Berg is comfortable with his own team - as they say and you can tell that by their commercials.
Their product never fit women well - as Mrs. Warthog can attest. At this point I mourn the loss of a true icon on the sword of PC bullshit.
#11
Go woke go broke. Good luck Levi. You might try to parse this as even handed but once you joined up with Bloomberg you showed your colors.
Should have:
(1) Allied with the NRA for gun safety classes (2) Paid for a national awareness campaign about securing weapons so that thieves and or your own kids on meds can't steal them. (3) Pushed for legislation that puts some kind of accountability on anyone that does a half-assed background check that allows known offenders and to purchase weapons and on mental health professionals that don't follow up on those they prescribe certain medicines known to cause a handful of folks to go bloody crazed.
#12
Businesses doing charity work is ok. When the CEO goes directly after our constitution, it is unacceptable. Big business does not get to spend their capitol om changing our constitution. Big business cant be allowed to breach this.
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I would guess it's a marketing campaign appealing to the uber-leftists.
[Guardian] Burt Reynolds, the star of Deliverance, The Longest Yard and Boogie Nights, has died aged 82. His manager, Erik Kritzer, confirmed the news on Thursday that Reynolds had died that morning at Jupiter medical center in Florida. The star had undergone a quintuple heart bypass in February 2010 but had been working until recently; he was filming Quentin Tarantino’s movie about the Charles Manson murders, Once Upon A Time in Hollywood.
Reynolds, who famously turned down the roles of James Bond and Han Solo, nevertheless forged a film career that marked him out as a singular talent.
A Michigan native transplanted to Florida, he was an American football player in his youth, but switched to acting after a knee injury was aggravated by a car accident. Discouraged, Reynolds started part-time lessons at Palm Beach Junior College, where his acting talent was spotted by Watson B Duncan III, an English teacher who liked the way he read Shakespeare. Reynolds would later say that Duncan was the most important influence on his life.
#5
"I always wanted to experience everything and go down swinging," he wrote in the final paragraph of his memoir. "Well, so far, so good. I know I'm old, but I feel young. And there's one thing they can never take away: Nobody had more fun than I did." Not a bad epitaph. RIP
During the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Booker threatened to release confidential documents relating to Kavanaugh's service as a lawyer in the George W. Bush administration.
"I understand the penalty comes with potential ousting from the Senate," Booker said before releasing Kavanaugh's old emails, adding, "This is about the closest I'll probably ever have in my life to an ’I am Spartacus' moment."
After the display, however, the Washington Post reported that the "confidential" emails were already cleared for public release before Booker's dare, citing both Democratic and Republican aides on the judiciary committee. 'dis Guy:
"We cleared the documents last night shortly after Senator Booker's staff asked us to," confirmed Bill Burck, Bush's presidential records representative. "We were surprised to learn about Senator Booker's histrionics this morning because we had already told him he could use the documents publicly. In fact, we have said yes to every request made by the Senate Democrats to make documents public."
When Wall Street Journal reporter Byron Tau asked Booker whether his actions during the morning session were a stunt, the senator accused him of violating the U.S. Constitution.
It is not entirely clear what Booker was referring to, but the Speech or Debate Clause of the Constitution does state that members of Congress cannot be arrested on their way to session and "in going to and from [session] ... shall not be questioned in any other Place." The prohibition against "questioning" lawmakers on their way to session, however, has generally been interpreted to apply to law enforcement, not reporters.
#2
For the Left the Constitution is what ever they want it to be. It's a historical and cultural relic from which all power flows. To the Right, its a contract between the people and its government to be enforced as written. Thus the hysterics on the Left faced with possibility that power will be denied them.
#3
The guy used the Senate hearing to grandstand. Harris, Booker and a couple of others are testing the waters for 2020. Both come across as not ready for prime time (and doofuses). What are there, 40-50 Donks who have expressed an interest in running in 2020? What is their platform "Giving away everything, increased taxation, total control, and running the debt up to Clower and Pivens levels?"
#4
If a passing grade on a community college level Civics 101 and Econ 101 was a requirement to be seated after election, both houses of Congress would permanently lack a quorum.
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Congress should be forced to watch an episode of Schoolhouse Rock every week. Just the ones on government. Attendance mandatory. Repeat once they've been viewed so that the message sinks in with repetition.
#3
Four thousand plus years of survival techniques chucked for the snowflakes. A society and culture that seeks to accommodate the lowest common denominator will soon not be a society or culture.
#5
These are the people who think they can just get on a horse and cowboy, when the horses they ride are trail horses who have been taking dumbass tourists on the same worn path for 10 years and are cared for by professional horse people.
If these people had children, they would see at first ball practice who has and who has not caught a ball, or thrown a ball, ran at full speed any distance.
One problem is the coyboys did not learn those things themselves, and cannot teach those skills even if mama let the kids out of the bubble wrap. So when their kids come across other kids whose parents did play wrestle, who did teach them how to hammer real nails at age five, they got all butthurt and lobbied to ban physical activities at schools, safe in the thought that their kids received their liberal upbringings and would excel in the classroom. They forgot physical activity focuses the mind, and they started losing there too. So now they want dumb schools with no physical activity and beta-child hate snitches.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Two civilians were maimed in a bomb kaboom, south of Baghdad, a security source was quoted saying on Thursday.
Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said "a bomb, placed inside a vehicle, went off, this evening, while passing at al-Bayyaa region, south of Baghdad."
The kaboom, according to the source, "left two civilians seriously maimed."
[LongviewNewsJournal] A ranting man repeatedly rammed his pickup into the Fox television affiliate’s building in downtown Dallas on Wednesday in an apparent attempt to draw attention to the fatal shooting of an acquaintance by a sheriff’s deputy in 2012, authorities said.
During the episode, Fry also scattered papers that had information about an officer-involved shooting. Police Major Max Geron reported on social media that Fry had “mental issues” and wanted to bring media attention to the 2012 fatal shooting of an acquaintance, Roberto Hernandez, by a sheriff’s deputy in Denton County, northwest of Dallas. Authorities say the deputy shot and killed Hernandez after he rammed a patrol vehicle, and that Fry was in the car with Hernandez at the time.
One of the scattered papers shows handwritten notes on an article about the 2012 shooting. Part of the notes said “They tryed (sic) to kill me. And they missed. And hit him.”
Fry was evaluated at a hospital Wednesday before being booked into the Dallas County jail on a criminal mischief charge. While being escorted into the jail, he told WFAA that he was “mentally challenged” and had been “running for (his) life” since the shooting.
Denton County records show Fry has been booked into jail more than two dozen times since 2003 on a variety of charges, including public intoxication and arson.
[KhaamaPress] The Talibs have set on fire the dead bodies of at least eight coppers who were killed in an attack on a check post in northeastern Takhar province
Provincial police front man Asir confirmed the incident and said the coppers were killed after the bully boy attacked their check post in Khwaja Ghar district.
Asir further added that the incident took place late on Wednesday night in the vicinity of Kandahar Qeshlaq area of the district.
According to Asir, the Talibs carried out the attack with the support of one of the coppers who had links with the bully boys.
He also added that the Talibs beat feet from the area after attacking the killing the coppers and snatching the coppers arms.
The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group front man Zabiullah Mujahid confirmed the attack and claims that nine coppers were killed in the attack.
Takhar has been among the relatively calm provinces in northeastern parts of Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban regime.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... the security situation of the province has tanked during the recent years amid ongoing efforts by the anti-government armed Death Eaters to expand their activities in northern and northeastern parts of the country.
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
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[NR] His Senate seat hinges on whom Garden State voters hate more: him or Trump.
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...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...
[Townhall] On NBC’s Thursday morning broadcast of the "Today" show, former CIA director John Brennan repeatedly praised the unknown author of the New York Times’s recent anti-Trump op-ed as a supreme example of "courageous" American patriotism. While admitting that the anonymous writer was committing "active insubordination" with the piece, Brennan justified his or her actions by claiming that because Trump is too "unfit" to be President, the writer is admirably trying to "prevent disasters" in the future.
[PJ] Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner decided in late July he won’t be giving any more money to millionaire Chicago mayoral candidate Willie Wilson’s charitable foundation, and the African-American businessman decided he’s tired of white people telling him how to spend his money.
[American Thinker] The New York Times published an anonymous op-ed, purportedly penned by a "senior White House official" in the Trump administration.
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