Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki described on Tuesday President Donald Trump's decision to halt US funding for the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA as an attack on international law.
Trump's decision has left UNRWA trying to cover a $200 million shortfall from Gulf and European donors, and has further strained tensions between Washington and the Palestinian leadership.
[AlMasdar] (3:10 P.M.) – Rebel positions and gatherings in northern Hama came under heavy bombardment by the Syrian air force as part of a full-scale offensive on northern Syria.
More than 50 airstrikes rocked the towns of Lataminah, Zakat and Kafr Zita where the FSA-affiliated Jaish Izza is basically located.
The heavy aerial bombardment comes to pave the way for the government troops to break through the insurgent-held areas.
[AlMasdar] (3:35 P.M.) – A top military commander of Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... group was killed by Syrian Army fire in northern Hama countryside as the government forces prepare for massive assault.
Abu Walid Karnaz was killed along with three of his companions when their vehicle was hit by an artillery shell fired by the Syrian forces on the outskirts of Kurkat town in far north-west Hama countryside.
The notorious jihadists was behind the recent bloody rocket attack that hit Al-Suqaylabiyah city.
The Syrian Army was capably of pinpointing his exact location with help of the Russian surveillance drones.
[AlMasdar] (8:25 P.M.) – The jihadist rebels in the northern countryside of the Hama Governorate launched a powerful assault on the military airport this evening.
According to a military source in the Hama Governorate, the jihadist rebels fired several grad missiles towards the military airport in response to the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) ongoing attack on their installations along the Idlib provincial border.
The jihadist rebels would follow up this strike by targeting the Syrian Arab Army’s positions at the towns of Ma’an and Arzeh; this would result in a number of explosions that could be heard from as far as Hama city.
The Syrian Arab Army is now heavily targeting the jihadist rebel trenches near the towns of Al-Lataminah and Kafr Zita.
[AlMasdar] (9:30 P.M.) – For the first time this year, the jihadist rebels have struck the provincial capital of the Hama Governorate from their positions at the Idlib axis.
According to a military source in the Hama Governorate, the jihadist rebels fired an artillery shell towards the Sharia District, hitting a residential neighborhood in the process.
No one was harmed by the attack, the source added.
The Syrian Arab Army has since responded with a barrage of missiles and artillery shells on the jihadist positions in the northern countryside of the Hama Governorate.
[AlMasdar] At least 226 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.... bully boyz have been killed so far in battles with the Syrian forces in east Swaida pocket, a monitor group says.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported that up to 95 Syrian Army soldiers and pro-government fighters have been reported dead in the same offensive.
The Syrian casualties also include members of the Lebanese resistance Hezbollah group.
Fierce festivities are currently taking place in Safa Hilltops; the last ISIS bastion in the area.
The terror group is making use of the rocky cliffs surrounding the Safa Hilltops in order to fortify themselves and make it harder for the government troops to advance.
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[AlMasdar] (2:10 P.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) continued their trolling campaign against the jihadist rebels in northern Syria, today, after releasing another video from behind enemy lines.
This time around, the Syrian Arab Army released a video from the southern countryside of the Aleppo Governorate, where there is a large presence of jihadist rebels near the Idlib provincial axis.
In this latest video that was released by the Tiger Forces branch of the Syrian military, the spy can be seen filming from the trenches raised by the jihadist rebels near the front-lines at Khan Touman.
As shown in the video below, the Syrian Army spy goes undetected in the jihadist trenches, despite Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham’s ongoing security operation to identify and arrest government spies.
Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham has detained dozens of people accused of working for the Syrian government in northwestern Syria recently; however, these wide-scale arrests have failed to put an end to these videos from the military.
[AlMasdar] (4:30 P.M.) – Troops from the Syrian Army have arrived at Tal Rifat in northern Aleppo in response to threats made by the Turkish military to storm the city.
The city was seized by the Syrian and Russian forces after the Kurdish militia’s withdrawal as per an agreement.
The deal was made after the Syrian rebels, backed by the Turkish army, took over Afrin region last March.
The fresh reinforcements come as a response to latest threats issued by Turkey that it might attack Tal Rifat and Menagh airbase.
[AlMasdar] (8:30 P.M.) – For the last two weeks, the Syrian and Turkish armies have been building up their forces near the strategic town of Tal Rifa’at in northern Aleppo.
According to a military source in Aleppo city, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) made the decision to buildup their troops around Tal Rifa’at after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to retake the town from the Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG).
The military source said that the Syrian Army’s High Command is committed to keeping the Turkish forces from taking this imperative hilltop town in northern Aleppo because it would give them access to the Mennagh Airbase.
Turkey has already captured the Afrin region in northwest Aleppo; however, they have been unable to advance to Tal Rifa’at because of the Russian and Syrian forces at the nearby town of Deir Jamal.
As shown in the video below, the Syrian Arab Army has sent another large military convoy to Deir Jamal, as they prepare for a potential confrontation with the Turkish forces.
[AlMasdar] The battle for northwest Syria began last weekend, when the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and their allies began the heavy bombardment of the Idlib and Hama governorates.
Since launching their attack, the Syrian Arab Army has focused most of their efforts on targeting jihadist installations and trenches along the Hama-Idlib axis.
While the attack has been limited to just shelling and missile strikes, the Syrian Arab Army is expected to storm the area in the coming days.
What is holding up the Syrian Arab Army’s large-scale ground assault is the ongoing peace talks between the Iranian, Turkish, and Russian governments.
Russia and Iran have already informed Turkey that they will not accept any jihadist factions inside of Idlib; however, the latter is attempting to convince Moscow and Tehran to avoid carrying out the attack in favor of Ankara clearing these groups.
[AlMasdar] (7:45 P.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) intensified their assault across the Idlib-Hama axis, today, targeting a number jihadist installations and trenches in this region of northwest Syria.
Led by their Tiger Forces, the Syrian Arab Army began their assault on Monday by targeting several jihadist trenches that stretched across the northern Hama towns of Zakat and Al-Lataminah.
The Syrian Army would then follow up these strikes by attacking a number of sites controlled by the jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham near the historical town of Qala’at Al-Madiq in northwest Hama.
The Syrian Arab Army’s attack on Monday was captured by local field journalists and released via the Tiger Forces’ official media channel on Facebook.
While their attack has been limited to missile and artillery strikes, the Syrian Arab Army is planning on making their first push on the ground in the coming days.
However, due to ongoing negotiations between Iran, Turkey, and Russia, the offensive has remained limited thus far.
[The Hill} Pollster Emily Ekins said on Friday that, based solely on the state of the economy, President Trump is underperforming in polls. "What’s surprising about this is that the economy is actually doing pretty well. So he’s actually been underperforming what we would expect him to be doing, given the economy."
Ekins was referring to the latest American Barometer poll, in which 47 percent of voters said they approved of Trump's performance as president.
Election and polling analyst Henry Olsen told Simmons that Trump's poll numbers are not higher because people dislike him personally.
"We all know President Trump's personality, we all know his character, and there are people who find that offensive and find that distasteful, regardless of what's going on around them," said Olsen.
"They may have great lives. They may be seeing larger paychecks. They may be living in peace and prosperity, but that man in the White House drives them nuts." Certainly the case in my house. My wife can't even mention the President without ranting about what a disgusting, vile person he is. I don't think she's gone lefty on me, either.
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He is a disgusting, vile person who gets things done.
That's how I look at it.
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Getting things done is disgusting and vile - a spit in the faces of all the people who can only talk.
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It doesn't appear that these people know many senior business executives. This is what they are like. They are not pleasant people (except for the official apparances, of course.) But that is one of the ways that they do get things done.
I worked at levels high enough to see my share of CFOs and CEOs in my day, and this is what they are like. Trump doesn't surprise me in the least. Bonus point: He is a New Yorker--people often noted for being rather direct and forceful.
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A lot of people like me never ever participate in polls, since you become the product for their list sales business, and its none of their business. Yes Trump is a pri*k and coarse, and I don't care! He isn't marrying my daughter, he is doing what needs doing and is long past due. I wonder how far off these polls will be come November?
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Polls these days are designed to be opinion drivers, not accurate measurements. Most people won't even talk to pollsters, so there is a self-selection bias built in. Personally, echoing NoMoreBS, I would never talk to any alleged pollster, because there's no way to know if they're legit or an operative making a target list (or both).
[Twitchy] LGBT student group argues that gulags were good, anti-trans bigots literally kill and must be re-educated.
This is one of those crazy threads that just comes out of nowhere and you have to double-check to make sure it’s not a parody account and you’re not being had. If it’s any consolation to our American readers, Goldsmiths University of London and its LGBTQ+ organization are in England, so the crazy is on the other side of the pond on this one.
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Lenin, Pol Pot and Mao did exactly that, Darth.
Maybe kept a couple around until their 'usefulness' wore out.
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Yes, the True Believers (useful idiots) have to be eliminated because they are the first to become disillusioned. The go from useful idiot to useless impediment.
The old "careful what you wish for".
[Breitbart] An email chain among senior Google executives from the day after the 2016 presidential election reveals the company tried to influence the 2016 United States presidential election on behalf of one candidate, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton.
In the emails, a Google executive describes efforts to pay for free rides for a certain sect of the population to the polls‐a get-out-the-vote for Hispanic voters operation‐and how these efforts were because she thought it would help Hillary Clinton win the general election in 2016. She also used the term "silent donation" to describe Google’s contribution to the effort to elect Clinton president.
The main email, headlined, "Election results and the Latino vote," was sent on Nov. 9, 2016‐the day after Clinton’s loss to Trump in the 2016 presidential election‐by Eliana Murillo, Google’s Multicultural Marketing department head.
The four page email begins with Murillo claiming she and others at Google were engaged in non-partisan activities not designed to help any one candidate or another‐only to undercut her own commentary in later passages in the emails by openly admitting the entire effort to boost Latino turnout using Google products with official company resources was to elect Clinton over Trump.
The critical miscalculation, Murillo wrote in a stunning admission in the email, was that Latino voters backed Trump by higher margins than any experts had forecast in the lead-up to the election. Trump’s 29 percent among Hispanics nationally blew prognosticators away, and he hit even higher numbers‐about 31 percent‐in the key battleground state of Florida, Murillo admitted. Sad when your serfs wander off your lands, huh? Full details at link.
In Law, “discovery” is the exchange of legal information and known facts of a case. Think of discovery as obtaining and disclosing the evidence and position of each side of a case so that all parties involved can decide what their best options are – move forward toward trial or negotiate an early settlement.
Parties in a case are required to participate in the discovery process, meaning they must hand over information and evidence about a claim so all participants can know what they are facing at trial.
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The Lightbringer was a source of significant delay.
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They belong in Guantanamo prison as spies, according to the Geneva Conventions, not on American soil getting tried as if they had the same rights as civilians, including a presumption of innocence, The only “trial” they deserve is an examination by military intelligence — and possibly the CIA — after which the prison governor or his designated officers should decide how to dispose of them.
So the fact that they’ve waited this long for their time in court doesn’t bother me in the least.
"We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them. "
George W. Bush, September 11th 2001
"These demands are not open to negotiation or discussion. The Taliban must act, and act immediately. They will hand over the terrorists, or they will share in their fate."
George W. Bush, Statement To Joint Session Of Congress September 20th 2001
"In remarks endorsed by the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, Gen Musharraf said any post-Taliban government in Kabul should be "broad-based" and "multi-ethnic". It could include the "former king Zahir Shah, political leaders, moderate Taliban leaders, elements from the Northern Alliance, tribal leaders and Afghans living outside their country", he added. "
The Guardian, October 17th 2001
The Western political class has never been serious about 9/11 and this is one of the consequences of this political decision.
At present, a trial would endanger both Western appeasement of the Taliban and relations with the Saudis.
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Would have been all over had we gone full Mongol. Our 'friends' would hate us (as they do behind our back anyway), but no one would dare screw with us as so many have since. We wouldn't be stuck in Central Asia other than cleaning up green glass.
[Navy Times] The redcoats are coming, the redcoats are coming ‐ to fight at a bar near you.
Watering holes everywhere in the vicinity of Naval Station Mayport experienced a major boon in business this week after British sailors from the Royal Navy’s prized new carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth arrived in the northeast Florida port of Jacksonville Beach.
Hundreds of sailors rambled off the ship Wednesday following a weeks-long journey that marked the 65,000-ton vessel’s first transatlantic voyage. And as is tradition with navies around the world, a pressing matter had to be attended to immediately upon exiting the hulking ship ‐ the ancient mariner rite of drinking to the point of annihilation.
CAIRO (Reuters) - A U.N. agency that supports Palestinian refugees will target additional funding from Gulf states and European partners as it seeks to make up a $200 million shortfall caused by a U.S. aid cutoff, the agency’s head said on Monday.
Nothing personal, it's the donor fatigue. You've been around for thousands of years before us. Please find a way to feed your own people.
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I'm sure the pledges will come faster than the checks. Not quite the violent solution as was Sri Lanka seemingly never ending problem, but it a good start.
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Were it up to me, any country we give aid to that is found donating to "Palestine" would be shorted 3x whatever they donated. The rest would have to deal with 3x tariffs.
[Reuters] The United States has issued a fresh warning to airlines to exercise caution when operating in Iran’s airspace, citing concerns over military activity including an unnamed U.S. civil operator being intercepted by fighter jets in December 2017.
The updated guidance from the Federal Aviation Administration to U.S. operators, issued on Sunday at the expiry of the prior year’s advisory, said there were also military activities emanating from or transiting through Iran’s airspace associated with the conflict in Syria.
Tensions ramped up between Iran and the United States after President Donald Trump pulled out of a landmark nuclear deal with Iran in May and reimposed sanctions on the Islamic Republic last month.
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That's a nice plane you have there. It would be a shame if something were to happen to it because of one of Iran's awesome new missiles and all. Just sayin'.
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In a world of linguistic incompetence,
Illiterate doom looming, ominous,
Where smarties get punked
If they use the subjunctive...
Meet gorb and his guineas from Providence!
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I don't think Providence has guinea pigs, so I'm guessing it's gonna take me a while to figure that out. But I do know that now that I have an original ZF limerick that mentions me, I must have hit the big time! :-)
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Please don't feel too bad, gorb! Today it's the heavy-hearted hummingbird of happenstance dropping by with a pollen-golden present, tomorrow it's sure to be the bluebird of... that other stuff.
TW's right, as always. Just goofing on your extortionist being so tough he's comfortable using correct grammar. Or maybe he's just a lace-curtain goombah (they got those?)? I don't always think these things out completely. Heh. I mean, what's the point? Those sneaky preps and cons twist everything I try to say.
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Oh, and re wordsmithing... don't, please. You're kind to say that, and I thank you on behalf of my parents' genes, but I'd give just about anything (except, of course, years of self-discipline and hard work) to be as casually clear, concise, and commonsensical as any number of posters here.
[The Federalist] Abortion’s prominence in the American left’s thought directly reflects its prominence in Marxist thought, which today enjoys a deep influence in this country.
The American left’s panic over the Supreme Court possibly overturning Roe v. Wade goes beyond the stated fear of government controlling sexuality. Abortion’s prominence in the American left’s thought directly reflects its prominence in Marxist thought, which today enjoys a deep influence in this country.
Re-branded as "critical theory" from the Frankfurt School of philosophy, Marxism now permeates the academy. Re-branded as "democratic socialism," Marxism now permeates the Democratic Party.
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The Left's Attachment To Abortion reflects deep held conviction by its members (thank you 70es) that a women should not have to worry about consequences. It's not really marxism, it's hedonism (for women only) in marxist dressing.
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“Women were then given two dismal alternatives,” Reed wrote. “They could either seek a husband as provider and be penned up thereafter as housewives in city tenements or apartments to raise the next generation of wage slaves. Or the poorest and most unfortunate could go as marginal workers into the mills and factories (along with the children) and be sweated as the most downtrodden and underpaid section of the labor force”
Somehow, I think a number of women avoided that simplistic choice, including my wife and daughter.
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g(r)omgoru, I believe you are correct when it comes you the younger ladies, but I believe the old Democrats enjoy the original rational for Planned Parenthood (aka it trims down number of blacks).
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Somehow, I think a number of women avoided that simplistic choice
Both working class and middle class girls could go into service — though the latter were pretty much restricted to being governesses and lady’s companions. Some taught in girls’ schools. But for the working class there were positions as housemaids, dairymaids, lady’s maids, nursemaids, cooks, laundresses, seamstresses and embroiderers, shop clerks, and so many other paid positions that required neitber marriage nor a factory. But factory work was easier and paid better than most service jobs. That’s why so many chose that over the traditional options.
[The Federalist] "How hard can that be? Saying that Nazis are bad," former President Barack Obama asked a crowd in Illinois over the weekend. Well, probably no harder than saying the words "radical Islam," I imagine. Or maybe it’s slightly less difficult than not sending billions of dollars to Holocaust-denying terror regimes that have both the means and intent to murder Jews‐in 2018, not 1942. And it’s definitely a lot easier than not meeting, posing, then smiling for a picture with Louis Farrakhan. But thanks for the lecture.
Obama may well find the presence of a few hundred pathetic white supremacists more perilous than a deadly worldwide ideological movement with millions of adherents. But just as Obama’s sins do not excuse President Trump’s inexplicable answer to the Charlottesville riot, Trump’s words don’t excuse the most divisive modern president, a man whose unilateralism and contempt for the process and the Constitution helped create the environment America now find itself in.
While Obama’s self-reverential speech was crammed with revisionism, the most jaw-dropping contention from the former president was probably a defense of his record on free speech: "I complained plenty about Fox News," the scandal-ridden Obama explained, "but you never heard me threaten to shut them down, or call them ’enemies of the people.’"
That’s the thing. We often hear Trump’s hyperbolic, and sometimes destructive, attacks on the press. Thankfully, as of yet the president hasn’t applied the power of the state to inhibit anyone’s free expression. And this is no thanks to liberals’ eight-year efforts to empower the executive branch when that was useful to them.
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"How hard can it be..." to speak with a person that demands you accede to whatever tortured definition of words they favor? In this case a "Nazi" is any person that disagrees with them...
[The Hill] Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch sat down during the national anthem before the team’s season opener against the Los Angeles Rams on Monday night.
He then went on to score a touchdown shortly after the start of the game.
The Associated Press noted that Lynch sat down during "The Star-Spangled Banner" all of last season but has never given a reason for his move.
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Saw something on the news last night that the NFL is hoping to expand into foreign countries, and their foot dragging on this issue might help them with that. Something like $27B in overseas revenues over the next few years or something like that.
[Breitbart] The pro-mass immigration, GOP megadonor, billionaire Koch brothers are forming a new super PAC ahead of the 2018 midterm elections to back politicians who support their agenda of open borders, amnesty, and endless free trade.
The Kochs’ network of PACs and organizations will join together to elect candidates that fit their economic libertarian agenda, which stands in stark opposition to President Trump’s protective tariffs, border wall, and agenda to raise U.S. wages by reducing legal immigration levels.
The Americans for Prosperity (AFP) Action PAC will join forces with the Kochs’ amnesty-pushing Libre Action PAC and Concerned Veterans for America Action to promote the billionaires’ agenda.
Before and during Trump’s presidency, the billionaire Koch brothers have been threatening GOP lawmakers who support the populist-nationalist agenda of the president. In July, during a conference of billionaire donors, Koch organization leaders said they would oppose Republicans that do not fall in line with their economic libertarian worldview.
Days before the Koch donor conference, Daniel Garza, the president of the Kochs’ amnesty arm known as Libre Initiative, told the media that reducing any legal immigration to the U.S. ‐ where more than 1.5 million foreign nationals are admitted every year ‐ is "unacceptable" and that the organization would not support lawmakers who seek immigration controls.
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I'm not sure free speech should cover arguing for the dissolution of civilization. If the Kochs are so enamored of the third world, it is easier -- and safer for the rest of us -- for them to move to it than to bring it to the US.
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Koch owns Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States
I'm thinking some targeted ICE raids might be enlightening
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The Democrat's favorite evil pair, the Koch brothers?
Is there no organization (excepting maybe the NRA) that supports Trump?
h/t Instapundit
[AIER] It was once unthinkable. In the country long considered the model of the social-democratic welfare state, along with its egalitarian ethos, the nationalist and populist far right has made huge political gains, all in just a few years. This is despite unrelenting attacks on the "Sweden Democrats" by the mainstream press. Many voters disagreed with what they were supposed to do and instead embraced a form of politics once unknown in this country.
Sweden now joins many other countries in Europe ‐ Italy, Hungary, Poland, France, Germany, and, of course, the UK ‐ in experiencing political upheaval in the wake of the refugee crisis. Sweden took in more refugees than any other country, and now this vote is being widely interpreted as an anti-immigrant backlash.
...The fundamental political dynamic at play concerns economics and its intersection with culture. To understand, you can do a deep dive into the academic literature on the subject to discover a large literature that goes unreported. Or you can rely on an intuitive grasp of the redistributionist nation state and the demographic and cultural presumptions behind it. Either way, there is a deeper path to understanding what is really happening in Sweden, Europe, and the US today.
...To translate these findings: people will tolerate large, invasive, redistributionist states so long as they think people more or less like themselves are benefiting; that is, provided that the public sector is perceived as an overlord of a large family.
However, when conditions change, and the population loses its collective demographic characteristics, people don’t like their tax dollars funneled to people too much unlike themselves. They will fight that one of two ways: dismantling the welfare state or kicking out those perceived to be interlopers.
In short, all data indicate that the mix of the two ‐ high diversity and high welfare ‐ is not politically sustainable. Again, this is not my opinion much less my wish; it is what all the available literature indicate. This is a gigantic if largely unmentioned problem for social democratic ideology, perhaps its largest single failing. I wonder if people like Cory Booker and Colin Kaepernick are aware of this fact?
...Making this thesis most famous, and presenting the most dire prediction, has been Harvard University's Robert Putnam. He made a splash a decade ago (while dreading to release his research) for arguing that, "The effect of diversity is worse than had been imagined. And it's not just that we don't trust people who are not like us. In diverse communities, we don't trust people who do look like us." The Economist sums up his research "Diversity or the Welfare State: Choose One." Trump, IMO, is the one who tries to prevent the rise of Nazism in USA
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[NYPost] ...In a widely shared moment late last week, Sen. Kamala Harris asked Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, "Can you think of any laws that give government the power to make decisions about the male body?"
The question was in the midst of Harris’ extensive grandstanding so Kavanaugh didn’t have an immediate answer. But there’s an obvious one: Selective Service.
Every American male 18-25 has to register with the Selective Service System, which maintains their information in the case of military conscription. If America is ever again in a war and needs to reinstate the draft, those male bodies will be the ones to go.
...It’s not just theoretical wars that men fight in if drafted. In Operation Enduring Freedom, the name for America’s ongoing engagement fighting global terrorism, 98 percent of the 2,346 military deaths as of April 2017 were men.
And it’s not just combat deaths. Men have a far higher rate of workplace death than women. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says men represent 92 percent of all workplace-related fatalities. The 10 industries with the most workplace-related deaths are almost entirely stocked with men: truck drivers, steel workers, refuse collectors, loggers, fishers. Men take the dangerous, hard, smelly jobs that most women wouldn’t consider. Given the current college admission policies, one wonders if feminist goal is restricting all white-collar jobs to womyn.
Also, at the risk of being very repetitive, I would point out that the baby is NOT the woman's body. It is the baby's body.
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^ Hard to believe today that there was once a brief period when sets were as trendy (and as well-taught, at least in the relatively conservative schools I attended) as sex.
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"Can you think of any laws that give government the power to make decisions about the male body?"
Clean shaven, I think.
A slap is OK, a punch is not.
Public screaming and tears of frustration are OK, raising one's voice is threatening.
No couches in the men's room, I remember.
Belly tumors are acceptable, hard-ons are not.
Monthly intervals of hostility in the workplace is not OK, from men.
[Front Page] Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism.
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing was the beginning of the Democrat 2020 primaries, and the winner was the Senate Democrat who yelled the worst possible thing.
That was Senator Cory Booker.
Unlike some Senate Dems, Booker didn’t just confine his attack to Brett Kavanaugh, a mild-mannered man widely beloved by both the Democrats and Republicans who worked with him, he went for broke.
The Founding Fathers were racist geniuses, Booker insisted. Their constitution was flawed. Originalism, interpreting the Constitution as it was written, rather than whatever social justice activist the Dems had managed to plant on the bench, is going to be racist and sexist, because its authors were deplorables.
“Native Americans were referred to as savages, women weren’t referred to at all, African Americans were referred to as fractions of human beings. As one civil-rights activist used to say ‘constitutu, constitu, I can only say three-fifths of the word,’” Booker bloviated.
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Cory Booker needs some acting lessons so he can properly stand and orate in the Mussolini Persona... So far he just looks like a wild-eye crackpot -- no gravitas.
Much have I travell'd in the realms of brass,
And many coastal states and boroughs seen;
Round many longish islands have I been,
Which bards and politicians hold first class.
Oft of one grey expanse had I been told
Where Satchmo slept serene beneath the green,
But never knew its queen, well-spoken, clean,
Till spoke out Alexandria loud and bold:
Then felt I like some connoisseur of lies
When new dissembler spins into his ken,
A wise barista, say, with crazy eyes
Who makes one minute chatting seem like ten,
Her face uplifted toward a distant prize
Or braying on the stump in Darien.
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It was Western civilization that came to reject slavery as an institution.
It was Western cultural imperialism and intolerance that greatly reduced the global practice of slavery in the 19th century.
The 0.6 compromise was the result of the political rejection of slavery by a large faction of the Western populace.
This trivial historical insight is probably beyond a "civil rights leader" who changed his name to honor failed, corrupt, totalitarian sh*thole despots, who btw, as despots did claim ownership to their subjects.
h/t Gates of Vienna
[ZeroHedge] We may never know why Rahm Emanuel decided to drop out of the Chicago mayoral race. But the media is certainly giving him a pass. They say he simply dropped out for fear of losing. But there’s a far more likely reason than that.
Emanuel is smart, and the smart reason for leaving is glaring: He doesn’t want to risk becoming "mayor bankruptcy." Chicago is a ticking time bomb and Emanuel is jumping ship just in case it goes off.
Don’t dismiss that scenario too quickly. Despite his lofty intentions when he first took office, Emanuel has failed miserably to reform the city’s finances. Now the risk of insolvency is rising.
Chicago’s financials are dire and the city has no plan and no reserves to survive an inevitable recession. In fact, the city has barely kept its head above the water despite a decade of national economic growth. Chicago Public Schools was already at the brink of bankruptcy just one year ago.
Rahm knows the risks of collapse are rising. He’s passed property tax hikes, emptied the reserves and employed every budget trick he can to make the numbers "better." He’s even sold off public assets ‐ the city’s future sales tax revenues ‐ to "shore up" the city’s finances, and yet Chicago is still junk rated by Moody’s.
CPS is in even deeper junk territory ‐ far lower than even Detroit. And that’s after the state poured more money in as the result of a new funding formula.
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Karen Lewis recently retired due to 'health' reasons, 3dc.
Jesse Sharkey, an avowed socialist (a prominent member of the International Socialist Organization - ISO), is the new CTU head (with an associated salary north of $200K)
Although he is repeatedly bailed out of his financial/legal issues by his multi-millionaire father-in-law.
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Despite his lofty intentions when he first took office, Emanuel has failed miserably to reform the city’s finances.
h/t Gates of Vienna
House Republicans on Monday released plans for a second round of tax cuts, which follow comprehensive tax legislation enacted in December, just two months ahead of the midterms. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) on Monday unveiled the package of three bills touted as a sequel to the 2017 GOP tax law.
...The three pieces of legislation proposed by Republicans on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee would make permanent lower individual rates, eliminate the maximum age for some contributions to retirement accounts and allow new businesses to write off more start-up costs, among other provisions Reuters reported.
[AlMasdar] The Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) elite 4th Armored Division has reportedly positioned themselves to launch their long-awaited offensive in the northern countryside of the Latakia Governorate.
Led by the 42nd Brigade (Ghiath Forces) of the 4th Armored Division, the Syrian Arab Army has moved their newly manufactured Golan missiles in position to attack the jihadist rebels in the Jabal al-Akrad and Jabal Turkmen regions.
Furthermore, thousands of soldiers from the 4th Armored Division and Elite Republican Guard have moved to the front-lines in northern Latakia, as they prepare to storm several areas controlled by the jihadist rebels.
Among the areas that will be targeted in the upcoming offensive is the strategic town of Kabbani, which is situation along the eastern slope of Jabal al-Akrad.
Kabbani has become the main stronghold for Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and their allies in the northern countryside of Latakia.
The Syrian Arab Army has attempted to capture Kabbani on several occasions in the past; however, their attacks have often fallen short of their main objective.
According to a military source in Latakia, the Syrian Arab Army is expected to kickoff this offensive in the next five days, as they look to expel the remaining jihadists from this coastal province.
[AlMasdar] The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), backed by the US-led coalition, launched a new offensive aimed at capturing the town of Hajin in eastern Syria which is now under 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.... control.
The US coalition initiated the offensive by conducting heavy Arclight airstrikes against the jihadists while the SDF ground forces were stationed outside the town.
The predominantly-Kurdish militia has failed twice to storm the town despite the heavy aerial support provided by the US air force.
ISIS faceless myrmidons have shown unprecedented resistance which has so far kept the town invincible.
The town bear a strategic importance since it serves as the main hub for the terror group in eastern Syria.
According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Hajin hosts more than 100 of ISIS top commanders; mostly Iraqis and foreign jihadists who have fled the battles in Iraq.
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[AlMasdar] Over 100 US Marines were sent as reinforcements to the military base in al-Tanf, Syria after Russia allegedly revealed intentions of launching precision strikes on an area under the US-led coalition’s control, Task & Purpose reported.
While the official statement by the Pentagon did not mention that the reinforcements had been sent as a precautionary measure to the alleged threats, chief Central Command front man, Captain William Urban, said that the troops flown to the area would conduct multiday drills using live ammunition.
"Our forces will demonstrate the capability to deploy rapidly, assault a target with integrated air and ground forces and conduct rapid exfiltration," Task & Purpose cited him as saying.
According to the report, US officials tackling the Syria issue have recently claimed that "the administration is now resolved to stay in Syria longer than President Trump previously indicated," purportedly referring to POTUS’s March speech, when he suggested that the United States would leave the war-torn country "very soon."
The news came on the heels of a CNN report about Moscow’ s alleged warnings of an impending attack on forces of Evil in the area protected by US troops.
The media outlet’s report also claimed that US Defense Secretary James Mattis and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford were aware of the latest intelligence, adding that US troops in Syria "have the right of self-defense if they are attacked and would not need to ask permission from higher levels of the government before acting."
"The United States does not seek to fight the Russians, the government of Syria or any groups that may be providing support to Syria in the Syrian civil war. However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... the United States will not hesitate to use necessary and proportionate force to defend US, coalition or partner forces," CNN quoted an anonymous insider.
The Russian Ministry of Defense hasn’t commented on the claims so far.
Slightly over a week ago, Syrian government forces captured two forces of Evil near Palmyra, claiming that they were members of the Lions of the East group, the Russian Defense Ministry announced. They also confessed that they had been trained and armed by American instructors in a camp near the al-Tanf military base.
Following the statement, Sputnik reached out to a spokesperson for Operation Inherent Resolve who dismissed the aforementioned allegations as "malign propaganda."
"There is no terrorist camp within the al-Tanf de-confliction zone, which runs in a 55k diameter around the Coalition’s al-Tanf Garrison."
The US-led coalition has been carrying out Arclight airstrikes against what it referred to as ISIS* targets in Syria without either a UN mandate or Damascus’ authorization. Currently, some 2,000 US troops are said to be deployed in the war-ravaged country. The Syrian government considers their presence illegal.
Syrian authorities, meanwhile, officially asked Russia to assist the country’s forces in fighting terrorist groups operating on the territory of the Mideast country.
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"The United States does not seek to fight the Russians, the government of Syria or any groups that may be providing support to Syria in the Syrian civil war
...except the Iranians. We'll kill them gladly"
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Don’t forget the several hundred now-dead Russian mercenaries who were supposed scare us off, Frank G. As I recall, they were warned, with tears in our eyes, not to force us to defend ourselves, but they did not listen.
[IsraelTimes] Thousands rally near northern sea border. Rioters hurl rocks and bomb at troops, who respond with tear gas, live fire; navy pushes back flotilla’s attempt to break through blockade
The Israeli Navy fired warning shots towards Paleostinians at a beach in the northern Gazoo Strip Monday evening, as thousands demonstrated near the coastal border with Israel, and some attempted to sail makeshift rafts with burning tires towards Israel.
At least 2,000 Paleostinians gathered at Gazoo’s northern beaches to demonstrate, according to local reports. Protesters burned tires and hurled rocks at Israeli troops near the border, and several threw a makeshift bomb at the soldiers, the army said.
Troops near the border fence used tear gas and other less lethal means against protesters, as well as live fire in certain cases in accordance with open-fire regulations, according to the military. Paleostinians reported several injuries, though the specific number was not immediately clear.
Earlier several dozen boats took part in a protest flotilla trying break Israel’s naval blockade off Gazoo’s coast, in what has become a common occurrence in recent weeks. The Navy fired warning shots towards the boats and they moved back, according o the army.
Organizers have said the flotillas are part of the "March of Return" protests along Israel’s border, and are meant to highlight the importance of lifting the blockade on the Strip.
[KhaamaPress] The local officials in northern Jawzjan confirm the Talibs have overrun the Khamab district after hours of heavy shootout.
Provincial police chief Faqir Mohammad Jawzjani confirmed that the district was overrun at around 4am local time today.
Jawzjani further added that both the Talibs and the national defense and security forces personnel have suffered casualties during the festivities.
However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... he said the exact number regarding the casualties inflicted on the security personnel and the Talibs have not been ascertained so far.
In the meantime, the security director of Jawzjan security commandment Abdul Hafiz Khashi said at least eight security personnel have bit the dust during the festivities and 3 others have sustained injuries.
He said the anti-government armed holy warriors have also sustained heavy casualties during the festivities but the exact number is not known yet as heavy festivities are still underway in the district.
Jawzjan has been among the relatively calm provinces in North of Afghanistan but the security situation of the province has tanked during the recent years.
Both the Taliban ...Arabic for students... and ISIS loyalists operate in some districts of the province and often carry out terrorist related activities.
Ismael, the district police chief said, “Fifty security force members have been surrounded by Taliban and if government does not send reinforcements, the security forces will be killed in the clashes,” adding that “so far ten security force members have been killed in the ongoing clashes.”
“Seven security force members have been captured by the Taliban and seven uprising forces joined the Taliban,” he added.
The Taliban have also confirmed the attack and claimed that “the district was completely captured” by Taliban fighters.
[KhaamaPress] More than one hundred people have been arrested in connection to the aerial firings in Kabul city as the country marks the Week of Martyrs coinciding with the death of the former Mujahideen leader Ahmad Shah Massoud.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) in a statement said at least one hundred and ten people have been arrested by the security forces in connection to the aerial firings in various parts of the city.
The statement further added that the security forces have also confiscated ten weapons and at least twenty five vehicles during the same operations.
This comes as the Ministry of Public Health had earlier said at least thirteen people have sustained injuries due to the aerial firings in the capital.
In another incident, at least seven people were killed and at least twenty four others sustained injuries after a suicide bomber targeted a convoy of the supporters of late Ahmad Shah Massoud who were marching in the streets of the city.
The Ministry of Interior said the incident took place at around 3pm local time in Taimani area in the vicinity of the 4th police district of the city.
No individual or group has so far claimed responsibility behind the incident but the Kabul Garrison Command had earlier warned regarding the possible attacks during the Week of Martyrs in the city.
[KhaamaPress] The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) offshoot in Afghanistan, ISIS Khurasan, has claimed the suicide attack on a convoy of the supporters of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul city.
The group issued a statement claiming that the attack was carried out by one of the suicide bombers of ISIS Khurasan Talha Khurasani.
The statement further added that the attack has inflicted casualties on at least 55 people.
However, the officials said late on Sunday that the attack has left at least 7 dead and while 24 others sustained injuries.
The Kabul police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai said the attack was carried out at around 3pm local time by a suicide bomber riding a motorcycle.
The convoy was targeted in the vicinity of the 4th police district of the city in Taimani area as they were marching to mark the death of the former Mujahideen leader Ahmad Shah Massoud.
The Ministry of Interior in a statement confirmed that the suicide attack left at least 7 people dead and at least 24 others sustained injuries in the attack.
Another security source had earlier said at least 9 people have been killed and nearly 20 others have sustained injuries.
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[KhaamaPress] At least twelve civilians, all members of a single family, were killed or maimed in a mortar attack in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province of Afghanistan.
Provincial governor’s front man Omar Zwak confirmed the incident and said six non-combatants were killed in the attack.
Zwak further added that the incident took place at around 9pm local time in the restive Greshk district.
According to Zwak, a mortar round landed on a residential house in the vicinity of Yakhchal area, leaving at least six dead and six others maimed.
He also added that the women and kiddies are among those killed or maimed and all victims belong to the same family.
No individual or group has so far grabbed credit behind the attack.
Helmand is among the relatively volatile provinces in South of Afghanistan where the anti-government armed hard boys, particularly the Talibs are actively operating in some of its districts and often carry out attacks against the government and security forces.
[ToloNews] Afghan security forces have suffered a heavy casualty toll as fresh waves of violence grips several regions in Sar-e-Pul, Kunduz, Jawzjan and Samangan provinces, local officials said.
Officials reported that the Taliban also suffered a heavy casualty toll.
Local officials in northern Jawzjan province have confirmed that the center of Kham Aab district of the province has fallen to the Taliban.
Ismael, the district police chief confirmed the center had collapsed after the Taliban stormed the district at about 4:15am local time early Monday morning.
According to Kunduz provincial council, over 30 bodies so far have been transferred to the provincial hospital. The bodies were recovered following battles in Dasht-e-Archi district of the province.
“Unfortunately, once again over 30 security force members have been killed and wounded in Dasht-e-Archi district. Now I am at the zonal hospital in Kunduz where I saw about 8 to 9 members of the Afghan Local Police who were wounded and martyred. There are reports that over 40 members of the police force and local police were either killed or wounded,” said Amruddin Wali, a member of Kunduz provincial council.
“The armed opponents launched a coordinated attack from multiple fronts on Dasht-e-Archi district, the attack was launched last night at around 12:30am on the check points of the security forces, but they faced a strong retaliation from the security forces; massive casualties were inflicted to the enemy. The enemy suffered 12 deaths and 16 injuries, unfortunately, two of the security force members were also martyred and four others were slightly wounded. The situation is currently under the control of the security forces and the enemy has escaped the area,” said Imamuddin Rahmani, Kunduz police spokesman.
The solidiers who were wounded in the battles have said that the lack of reinforcements was one of the key factors of the high casualty toll.
The Taliban also attacked the center of northern Sar-e-Pul province on Sunday night and heavy clashes are still ongoing, local officials confirmed.
The clashes started on Sunday night after the Taliban attacked the center of the province from three directions, a spokesman for the provincial governor Zabihullah Amani confirmed. He warned that “if government does not send reinforcements, the center will collapse to the Taliban.”
“Seventeen members of the security and defense forces have been martyred in Sar-e-Pul, three others wounded,” said Zahir Wahdat, Sar-e-Pul governor.
“Eight security force members were martyred and three others were wounded,” said Abdul Hafiz Khashi, head of the security department of Jawzjan police department.
[KhaamaPress] An Afghan asylum seeker was tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! for life for brutally murdering a fellow asylum seeker in Germany.
The 30-year-old convict whose identity was disclosed by the authorities was awarded a life term by a court in the town of Traunstein earlier this year.
He had murdered a 38-year-old woman and a mother-of-four, in front of two of her children outside a supermarket in the southern city of Prien am Chiemsee last April. She was stabbed 16 times.
Prosecutors told the court in the town of Traunstein that the accused was furious because she had turned her back on the Islamic faith, according to AFP.
And by Sharia law he was required to kill her, so what right have the kufr of Germany to complain?
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“Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs." - Charles James Napier
The sentence virtually excludes the possibility of a release on probation after 15 years.
Still my expectation is that he will be released and deported to Afghanistan free to return to Germany using another identity after well under 15 years of prison time.
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That's what I'm talking about. Don't sell yourself short, as mydad would say. Funny expression, come to think of it, given his background. Picturing his dad picking it up from previously prosperous pals in the CCC.
[KhaamaPress] Heavy clashes are underway between the Afghan National Defense and security Forces and the Taliban militants in the outskirts of Sar Pul city in North of Afghanistan.
The local officials confirm the clashes are underway between the two sides since last night.
Provincial governor’s spokesman Zabiullah Amani said the clashes erupted late on Sunday night and the two sides are still engaged in heavy gun battle.
He said both the Taliban and the Afghan forces have sustained casualties during the clashes but did not elaborate further regarding the exact number.
Security sources are saying that a military base has also collapsed into the hands of the Taliban militants but the local officials have not commented regarding the report so far.
This comes as the security situation has sharply deteriorated in northern Sar Pul province during the recent years amid rampant insurgency led by the Taliban and ISIS loyalists in Afghanistan.
Numerous infighting among the Taliban and ISIS loyalists have also been reported in Sar Pul and other northern provinces besides sporadic clashes between the Afghan forces and the anti-government armed militants.
The clashes started on Sunday night after the Taliban attacked the center of the province from three directions, a spokesman for the provincial governor Zabihullah Amani confirmed. He warned that “if the government does not send reinforcements, the center will collapse to the Taliban.”
“Both sides have casualties but here is no exact information,” Amani said.
In the meantime, security sources said that a military base has fall to the Taliban in Balghali village in the center of the province, adding that “the Taliban attacked the capital of the province from Sayad district, and the west and northern parts of the city and are two kilometers far from the city.”
However, officials have not confirmed the fall of the military base but appealed for air support.
The officials have also confirmed that Sar-e-Pul – Jawzjan highway is closed to traffic and the Taliban created check posts.
This comes after the center of Kham Aab district of Jawzjan also fell to the Taliban early Monday after heavy clashes started on Sunday night.
Ismael, the district police chief said that “we have been surrounded with 50 security forces members and if the government does not send reinforcement, the security forces will be killed in the clashes.”
The Taliban have also confirmed the attack and claimed that “the district was completely captured” by Taliban fighters.
[Rudaw] Iranian troops have crossed the border into the Kurdistan Region amid a build up of forces along the frontier, say Iranian Kurdish parties. A local mayor, however, said Iranian forces have not yet stepped into Kurdistan Region territory.
"IRGC forces entered Iraqi Kurdistan territory," tweeted the Kurdistan Democratic Party-Iran (KDP-I) Monday afternoon.
The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) confirmed the development and reported Iranian forces amassing at the border.
"The Islamic Theocratic Republic has made preparations on the border areas sending 150, 300, and 400 member teams," PDKI leadership member Khalid Wanawsha told Rudaw, adding that troop deployments are ongoing.
Iran fired seven surface-to-surface missiles over the border on Saturday, hitting the headquarters of PDKI and KDP-I, killing 17 and wounding more than 40, including members of the leadership who had gathered for meetings.
The missiles followed a week of artillery shelling by Iran that forced hundreds of villagers to flee their homes and sparked fires that burned hundreds of acres of farmlands.
"According to information we have obtained, an armed force was moved towards the heights of Kalishin and behind Sidakan," Wanawsha said, adding troops were sent in 15 groups.
Kalishin is located on the Kurdistan Region side of the border, 115km northeast of Erbil.
The Iranian forces are backed by helicopters and "brought with them a large amount of advanced weapons like missiles and katyusha," said Wanawsha.
The forces have "stationed missiles in some areas," Fuad Khaki, head of KDP-I's public relations department, told Rudaw.
"The amassing of this huge force is to fortify the borders and prevent any military operation by the East [Iranian] Kurdistan political parties," he added.
There have not yet been any reported festivities between in the infiltrating forces and Kurdish opposition parties or Kurdistan Region Peshmerga and Sidakan mayor Ihsan Chalabi said the Iranians have not crossed the border.
Wanawsha slammed the Iranian troop movement as "an outright violation of the illusory sovereignty of the Kurdistan Region."
He appealed to the KRG and regional countries to intervene with the Iranian government and pressure Tehran to end its aggression against the Kurdish parties.
Kurdish parties have resumed their armed struggle against the Islamic Theocratic Republic in recent years. They are seeking greater political and cultural rights for Kurds in Iran.
[Rudaw] Four kidnapped Kurds were killed and decapitated in Khanaqin on Monday, including a Peshmerga amid deteriorating conditions in the city.
"At 1:30 a.m. on Monday four Kurds from Khanaqin, after they had been kidnapped, were found decapitated," said Maj. Haider Wala, a member of Khanaqin’s security committee.
The four Kurds were kidnapped late Sunday night by gunnies in the city near the border with Iran, about 30 kilometers south of Kalar. Khanaqin’s police, the Iraqi Federal Police and Hashd al-Shaabi all followed up on the matter, only to find the four decapitated and thrown into a gorge, explained Wala.
"The killed are Kurds and are from Khanaqin ... among them is a Peshmerga," added Wala.
ISIS has not claimed the beheadings, but the method is reminiscent of the group’s tactics used against those who oppose their murderous Moslem ideology.
Also on the same night a bomb targeted a poultry house in Maydan village (about 42 kilometers southwest of Halabja), injuring an individual named Kamaran.
The deterioration of Khanaqin's security has been denounced by the residents, who have staged work strikes, closing down shops and staying at home, demanding the return of Kurdistan’s Peshmerga and other security apparatus.
[SPUTNIKNEWS] Although China has provided political support to Damascus and is widely expected to play an important role in Syria’s post-war reconstruction, Beijing has so far shied away from offering direct military support to the Syrian Army.
Chinese Ambassador to Syria Qi Qianjin has suggested Beijing could soon deploy forces to assist the Syrian Army in its upcoming Idlib offensive, in addition to anti-terrorist operations in other parts of the country.
Speaking to Syria’s al-Watan newspaper on Thursday, the Chinese diplomat said they are monitoring the conflict, adding that the Chinese military "is willing to participate in some way alongside the Syrian Army that is fighting the snuffies in Idlib and in any other part of Syria."
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Appears a Biblical a catastrophic prophecy is about to be fulfilled regarding Damascus, Syria.
[Breitbart] Author Bob Woodward disputed denials from White House chief of staff Gen. John Kelly and Defense Secretary Gen. Jim Mattis about his book’s reporting surrounding their disparaging comments about President Donald Trump.
"They are not telling the truth," Woodward said in an interview with NBC anchor Savannah Guthrie. "These are political statements to protect their jobs, totally understandable."
Woodward resisted Guthrie’s attempts to verify his sourcing for his book about Trump, warning Americans that the president was putting the country in grave danger.
When Guthrie asked Woodward if he had a source for the book that later lied about the information they have him, he resisted.
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...Would this be the same Bob Woodward who - nearly forty years ago - claimed to have snuck past several layers of security and medical personnel to get Bob Casey (Reagan's CIA director)to snap out of a coma just long enough to implicate Reagan in Iran Contra? That Bob Woodward?
Mike
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Enough of Woodward's treasonous accusations and treachery. He wouldn't make a pimple on the arse of either of these two men.
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"These are political statements to protect their my jobs, totally understandable."
A Freudian-slip confession?
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Leaving aside the issue of whether Woodward could recognize the truth were it to land on him Warner Bros cartoon style, this is a man who quotes Gen Kelly as utilizing the term 'crazy-town'.
A man would have better results facing due west and waiting upon the sunrise than waiting for a Marine 4 star to go all fluttering Mugatu and say that. In the event Gen Kelly was moved to so publicly lose his verbal composure the result would have been masculine, memorable, and definitive.
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"Fake, but Accurate?" Bob Woodward learned his lesson after his first book on Bush's War Administration: Slime any Republican President or you will be a Pariah to the Coastal Elite. Since then he spares no effort...
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I'd bet my money on Mattis and Kelly telling the truth over Woodward. Woodward's book suffers from the same sourcing problem that the NYTs anonymous op ed hit piece suffers from.
[YAHOO] Venezuela's government announced it would hold a massive march Tuesday against US meddling after reports that US officials met secretly with Venezuelan military officers to discuss plans to oust President Nicolas Maduro.
The United States "acknowledges having met at least three times with military coup leaders to carry out a coup," said Diosdado Cabello, speaker of the ruling Constituent Assembly that runs the country.
At an event by the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Cabello also drew a direct connection with the drone kabooms on August 4 at a military parade Maduro was leading.
"The presidential liquidation that was stopped was led by the United States. Is there anyone who has any doubt?" Cabello asked.
US officials decided against taking action after the meetings, according to The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... . The newspaper did not, however, link these discussion to the exploding drones case.
On Twitter, Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said it was "absolutely unacceptable and unjustifiable that US government officials participate in meetings to encourage and promote violent actions of Lion of Islams."
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[CNN Philippines] The Philippine National Police said murder charges were filed against suspects in a car bomb explosion in Lamitan, Basilan that killed ten people in July. Police Chief Oscar Albayalde said Monday 18 suspects behind the attack were charged with two separate cases of murder and multiple frustrated murder.
Eight of the suspects are now in police custody while ten remain at large and are the subject of manhunts, Albayalde said.
Police also said the group behind the attack was led by Furuji Indama, a top Abu Sayyaf militant. Indama's group is known for conducting kidnappings and other terrorist activities.
The blast near the Citizen Armed Force Geographical Unit detachment in Sitio Maganda in Lamitan on July 31 killed one soldier, four government militiamen, four relatives of CAFGU members, and the van driver. Six scout rangers and one CAFGU member were injured.
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[DailyMail] Over the past three years three out of five asylum seekers whose age was checked after they claimed to be under 18 were found to be adults.
The Home Office statistics revealed 2,336 cases where the claims to be a child were disputed and then checked. Of these, 1,403 turned out to be over 18.
More than seven out of ten unaccompanied Vietnamese child asylum seekers whose ages were investigated – around 100 in all – were actually adults. A similar percentage of child claimants from Iran and Iraq whose cases were checked were also discovered to be adults.
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I love how the lead with the Vietnamese before admitting "a similar percentage" of Muslims are pulling the same stunt. I suspect the percentage is similar but the numbers are much, much different.
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One man was killed and four others wounded in a shooting early Sunday in Auburn. Home of the Tigers, Plainsmen, and War Eagles.
Auburn police officers responded to a call at 2:24 a.m. Sunday to a report of shots fired in the 200 block of West Magnolia Avenue, according to an Auburn Police statement. According to the Opelika-Auburn News police had cordoned off an area in front of the McDonald's restaurant, which is just down the block from Toomer's Corner. I was there when the McDonalds was built. Several homes were demolished to make room for it. Someone threw a brick through a window with a note reading, "You deserve a brick today".
Officers were already in the immediate vicinity of the call dispersing a large crowd and confirmed shots were being fired and located several victims, according to the statement. Toomer's Corner is usually a madhouse after a win.
Evan Mikale Wilson, 20, of Tuskegee, was identified by the Lee County coroner as the man killed in the shooting. Wilson was pronounced dead at the scene. No ethnicity of anyone is mentioned.
"Additionally, four other individuals were found to be injured from the gunfire. Three victims were transported to East Alabama Medical Center by ambulance with non-life threatening injuries," according to the statement.
Those injured are a 17 year-old male and 19 year-old female, both from Opelika, (pronounced O-puh-like-uh)
21 year-old male Auburn University student from Hilton Head, SC. One 16 year-old male from Opelika was also flown to Piedmont Columbus Regional Medical Center by air ambulance with serious injuries, police stated.
"Preliminarily, information has been obtained that an altercation occurred just prior to an exchange of gunfire that resulted in the injuries," according to the police statement.
According to the statement the incident is not believed to be a random shooting.
The shooting occurred down the block from Toomer's Corner, a frequent gathering place for Auburn University fans to gather after football games. Auburn defeated Alabama State University 63-9 Saturday night.
The shooting remains under investigation and no further details are being released at this time, police stated.
Anyone with information related to this case is urged to contact the Auburn Police Division.
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Witnesses cited by French media said a group of men playing boules threw heavy metal balls that are used in the popular game at the attacker, with one hitting him on the head and stalling him.
If you’ve ever played boules – I have, many times – you’ll appreciate how this strike might have stalled Afghan Stabby.
Thierry, a witness quoted on BFM TV, said a group of people then assailed the attacker.
"Someone with a wooden stick smashed him across the knees and he fell to the ground," he said. "Loads of people arrived, some were saying 'kill him' but one guy who was pinning him down said 'no, the last thing we must do is kill him.'"
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Embarrassed but harassed, they say,
By parasites paralysé,
"It's cruel we must school
This young fool with les boules!"
But when harried, they parried. Hooray.
[OpsLens] Long before the invention of Twitter, celebrities have been using their bully pulpits to influence the political and social opinions of the masses with their own. Despite the constant soapboxing, one thing that I’ve noticed is that actors and rappers are a lot like politicians in the sense that they’ll sell out to the other side if the money is right faster than a kid at fat camp with a Snickers bar dangling in front of his face. Apparently, the road to green goes through blue and yellow with this bunch. Without further ado, here are the top cop hating celebrities happy to play the Benedict Arnold of their misguided side for money and fame.
[Defence-Blog] The Philippines and Bangladesh have put in an order for 100 Kaplan medium tanks which are co-produced by Turkish defense contractor FNSS and Indonesia’s PT Pindad, said Windu Paramata, the head of the medium tank project at Pindad.
That was reported by the Anadolu Agency.
Paramata said the two countries had expressed willingness to buy 40 to 50 units each.
“In October, we will be demonstrating medium tanks there, as a condition for the procurement of defense equipment in their countries,” Paramata told Anadolu Agency on Friday.
Paramata said the Indonesian Ministry of Defense also mulled purchasing the Kaplan tanks but the ministry was still evaluating the number of units to be procured.
Paramata said the Indonesian Army’s Research and Development Agency had certified the medium tank earlier this year. Also, Paramata praised the Turkish-Indonesian battle tank as featuring the most recent technology in the global defense industry.
Poland followed suit in producing a similar tank, Paramata said, adding, however, that the country was still at the concept stage.
Paramata said the medium tank is suitable for use in countries with only two seasons in Southeast Asia, such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines as well as in four-season countries as it can operate at a maximum temperature of 50 degrees Celsius, and at a minimum temperature of – 30 degrees Celsius.
The Kaplan MT tank’s prototype was first exhibited at the 13th International Defense Industry Fair held last May. A CMI Cockerill 3105 tower — equipped to fire high-pressured 105mm shells — provides the tank’s firepower.
Diesel-engine powered, the tank has a full automatic transmission and is able to carry three crew members — a driver, shooter and commander. With a maximum speed of 70 kilometers per hour (43.4 miles per hour) the vehicle’s range is 450 kilometers (280 miles).
Ballistic guards protect the tank’s body and the vehicle has add-on armor. In addition, the tank’s belly is guarded against mines. It also has a secondary weapon in the shape of a 7.62mm coaxial machine gun.
The question was asked the other day about the size of the civilian population at risk in the current battle space. Herewith is the answer.
[Rudaw] Idlib, the last rebel held enclave in Syria, faces "the worst humanitarian catastrophe" of the century, the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... warned on Monday. More than 30,000 civilians have already been displaced since fresh bombing raids began last week.
"There needs to be ways of dealing with this problem that doesn’t turn the next few months in Idlib into the worst humanitarian catastrophe with the biggest loss of life in the 21st century," the UN’s new humanitarian chief, Mark Lowcock, told news hounds in Geneva, AFP reports.
On Saturday, the "most violent" Russian air strikes in weeks hit southern and southeastern areas of Idlib, leaving four civilians dead according to the UK-based war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
"We are extremely alarmed at the situation, because of the number of the people and the vulnerability of the people," Lowcock said, warning that "civilians are severely at risk".
The population of Idlib has swelled over the years of conflict with the arrival of hundreds of thousands of internally displaced Syrians.
There are currently around three million people in the province, according to UN estimates.
"As of September 9, 30,542 people have been displaced from northwest Syria, moving to different areas across Idlib," David Swanson, front man for the UN office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), told Rooters.
Damascus, which is backed by its allies Iran and Russia, is preparing a major offensive on Idlib and other areas of northwest Syria to bring them under regime control.
The offensive could lead to a humanitarian nightmare as there are no more opposition areas left in Syria for people to flee to and borders are mostly closed to refugees.
UN humanitarian chief Lowcock said the UN and other aid agencies already have measures in place provide immediate assistance to fleeing civilians.
"We are very actively preparing for the possibility that civilians move in huge numbers in multiple directions," he said.
Lowcock said the UN is doing "very detailed planning" to reach up to 800,000 displaced civilians and expects around 100,000 people to flee into government controlled areas with the remaining 700,000 initially fleeing attacks to other areas of Idlib.
The UN’s World Food Program has already prepared stocks of food for some 850,000 displaced people, he said.
"It is a very major preoccupation for us," Lowcock added.
Having retaken the suburbs of Damascus from the armed opposition, and regained control over Daraa ‐ the cradle of the 2011 uprising that morphed into Syria’s seven-year civil war ‐ Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... has now set his sights on the country’s northern provinces.
Idlib, which straddles the Ottoman Turkish border, is mostly under the control of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) ‐ a battle-hardened umbrella group of jihadists led by al-Qaeda’s former Syrian affiliate. Pockets of the province remain under ISIS control.
Complicating matters, the Ottoman Turkish armed forces also have several outposts in Idlib in support of rebel groups. Moves by Assad risk pitting Russian-backed Syrian forces against Ottoman Turkish soldiers.
[Townhall] Well, well, well‐what do we have here; FBI officials discussing a media leak strategy during the Trump-Russia investigation, specifically when key developments are about to be revealed to the public. The new batch of texts was released by Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), where disgraced former FBI Agent Peter Strzok and lawyer Lisa Page communicate about a possible media leak strategy between FBI and DOJ officials between April 10 and 12 of 2017. The Daily Caller has more:
Sort of began at the top with director Comey and the NY Times did it not? By his (Comey's) own admission, and nothing has come of it.
[ARABNEWS] Baghdad on Sunday denounced Iranian missile strikes that have killed at least 15 people in the northern Iraq.
"Iraq protects the security of its neighbors and does not allow its territory to be used to threaten these countries," Foreign Ministry front man Ahmed Mahjoub said after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards admitted firing seven missiles targeting a dissident Iranian Kurdish group.
About 30 others were maimed when the short-range surface-to-surface missiles struck a meeting on Saturday of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) at their headquarters in Koy Sanjaq, about 60km east of Irbil, capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region.
The group’s secretary-general, Mustafa Hijri, and his predecessor, Abdullah Hasanzadeh, were among those injured.
"Iraq categorically rejects the violation of its territorial illusory sovereignty by strikes against targets on its territory," Mahjoub said.
The KDPI is Iran’s oldest Kurdish movement. Tehran designates it a terrorist group and has assassinated several of its leaders. The group had recently clashed with Iranian Revolutionary Guards forces in the towns of Marivan and Kamyaran in Iran’s Kurdistan region.
Armed Iranian Kurdish groups operate in remote and mountainous Iran-Iraq border regions. Despite festivities with Iranian forces, there is little security coordination between Iran and Iraq.
The missile attack was followed on Sunday by a renewed bout of military saber-rattling from Tehran, as the regime faces mounting pressure from the collapse of the 2015 deal to curb its nuclear program and the renewal of punishing US economic sanctions.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a rallying cry to Iran’s armed forces. "Increase your power as much as you can, because your power scares off the enemy and forces it to retreat," Khamenei said at a graduation ceremony for military cadets in the Caspian port city of Nowshahr.
"Iran and the land of the Medes and the Persians have resisted America and proven that, if a nation is not afraid of threats by bullies and relies on its own capabilities, it can force the superpowers to retreat and defeat them."
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Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a rallying cry to Iran’s armed forces. "Increase your power as much as you can, because your power scares off the enemy and forces it to retreat," Khamenei said at a graduation ceremony for military cadets in the Caspian port city of Nowshahr.
Yes, if you're the supreme leader of an islamic state bent on overthrowing everything, you might want to really push warfare for your benefit.
This is a popular escape for failing dictatorships that has happened many times in the last century (generally in a non-religious context, the Iran instance is unique), notably in Asia, Cuba, Nicaragua and now Valenzuela. However the populace of both Iran and Iraq might disagree, as they might not want to be pulled further into a religious battle for an odd ideology.
[Bangkok Post] A fire broke out in front of a motorcycle repair shop in Songkhla province early Sunday morning after a bomb blast damaged six motorcycles and the shop front. Police believe the fire was started by an incendiary bomb that went off in front of the motorcycle repair shop in Chana district at about 5am.
A team of administrative officials and defense volunteers, led by assistant district chief Chalermchai Wisuthichanon, rushed to the scene on being informed of the incident. While the team was about 500 meters from the shop, a roadside bomb exploded, but nobody was hurt.
[FOXNEWS] Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... has approved a gas attack in the Idlib province, which is the country’s last rebel stronghold, a report on Sunday said.
Reports of Assad's approval comes about a week after President Trump warned the strongman and his allies not to "recklessly attack" the province. Trump called any gas attack a potential "grave humanitarian mistake."
The Wall Street Journal, citing U.S. officials, was first to report on Assad.
U.N. officials believe an offensive on Idlib would trigger a wave of displacement that could uproot an estimated 800,000 people and discourage refugees from returning home. The U.S. and La Belle France have warned an Idlib offensive would trigger a humanitarian crisis and warned that a chemical attack in Idlib would prompt a western retaliation.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the international pressure did little to sway Assad, who benefits from support from Russia and Iran. The report said Assad has approved the use of chlorine gas.
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"He approved a (future) Gas Attack..." Really? After the sterling 100% Accuracy our intrepid Sooper-Dooper Spooks have been achieving lately you must understand my hesitancy in getting excited.
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+1 Up Vote for (#2)! Not a Snark of the Day candidate, but that is the sort of (Bizarre) AgitProp the Soviets Russians have been peddling ...
*Sigh* After the Paliwood/Green-Helmet Guy™ episodes I find it hard to believe anybody talking about the region. They all have an Agenda and Truth isn't part of that...
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...I remember reading about Tito *supposedly* having a policy of conducting raids in area pacified by the Germans. He could blow stuff up for propaganda, the locals would be blamed for it (their hostages shot!), and the locals would join the Resistance by vendetta raiding. Win-Win-Win, for Tito at least. Consider how many factions there are in the area the thought that one of them would poison another to blame the Syrians -- not implausible at all...
[Southfront.org] YouTube has banned a number of Syrian state-run and pro-government channels, including ones belonging to the Syrian Presidency, the Syrian Defense Ministry and the news agency SANA. The reason provided was that these accounts allegedly violate “YouTube’s Terms of Service”.
This move can be considered as another attempt to suppress non-mainstream reporting on the ongoing conflict. Some Syrian experts even claimed that these were another sign of preparations for a staged chemical attack in Idlib and then a US-led military strike on Syrian government forces. More at the link
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[Breitbart] ABC’s broadcast of Sunday night’s Miss America pageant capped a ceremony rife with politicization, leading to an all-time low in TV ratings.
The Wrap reports that Sunday night’s Miss America pageant was "down 36 percent in the key demo and off 19 percent among overall audience members" compared to last year.
The abysmal broadcast ratings come as Sunday night’s competition featured no swimsuit competition as it did for decades. However, the competition did feature several political messages.
During Thursday’s program, Miss Virginia Emili McPhail commented on NFL players kneeling during the national anthem, saying that it is "a right you have."
"But it’s also not about kneeling; it is absolutely about police brutality," she also said.
On Friday, Contestant Miss West Virginia Madeline Collins said that President Trump is "the biggest issue facing our country today."
"Unfortunately he has caused a lot of divide in our country, and until we can trust in him and the choices that he makes for our country, we cannot become united," she said.
This year’s winner was Nia Imani Franklin who was also Miss New York.
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Guessing ratings decline was due more to no bathing suit than political; every year there is some sort of 'save the gay unborn whales while making the place a better straw-free world' or some other blather.....
missed the show; had to rotate the air in my tires.
[The Mail] Two Russians accused of launching a nerve agent attack on Britain may already be dead, a leading Vladimir Putin critic has claimed.
Andrei Piontkovsky believes that men - named by British police as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov - could have been executed to hide traces of the alleged crime.
He compared the case to that of Andrey Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun, the men accused by Britain of poisoning Alexander Litvinenko with polonium in 2006.
Lugovoy and Kovtun went public to deny the claims soon after being accused, meaning the Russian authorities then protected them, said Piontkovsky.
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Or never existed in the first place.
What the Hell is going on with the British:
Letting Korananimals act out their worst instincts.
Sabotaging Brexit.
Trying to sabotage US/Russia relations.
#3
How lucky for us that discussions
Not had with these two defunct Russians
Who handled the vial
Should involve no denial
To unnerve our American cousins.
[Townhall] The current economic boom has nothing to do with President Obama, White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett suggested Monday in the briefing room. In a speech last week at the University of Illinois, Obama claimed credit for the improved economic outlook. It was his policies, he noted that paved the way for the current rate.
"Don't forget when the recovery started," he told the audience.
"You don't have to reach far" for an explanation as to why the economy is looking up, Hassett said. Trump deregulated the economy, oversaw massive tax cuts, and cut corporate tax rates, all which have resulted in business returning to the U.S. and creating jobs. He had several charts to prove it.
Quick, Nurse — her green pills! She’s frothing at the mouth and twitching again!
[AmericanMirror] Mad Maxine Waters is obsessed with President Trump.
The California Congresswoman went after the president while accepting an award from the Stonewall Young Democrats on Saturday in Los Angeles.
At one point in the 20-minute speech, she bragged about threatening Trump supporters.
Speaking about Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s apology to Judge Brett Kavanaugh for the dozens of people interrupting his confirmation hearing this week, Waters said, "We don’t ask permission to protest. We protest," triggering cheers.
"When we understand that we have to make America hear us and see us, and understand that we all have something to say," she said, before adding she was going to give Feinstein a piece of her mind.
Waters went on to boast about when she urged her supporters to find Trump administration officials and harass them.
"There are those who said we lacked civility when I got up and talked about the President’s Cabinet, and I said if you see them anywhere, if you see them at a restaurant, if you see them in a department store, even at a gasoline station, just tell them you’re not welcome here or anywhere," she said to wild cheers.
"And so, it frightened a lot of people, and of course the lying president said that I had threatened all of his constituents," Waters said.
"I did not threaten his constituents, his supporters. I do that all the time, but I didn’t do it that time," she said.
Speaking about the Stonewall group, Waters said, "When I compare what you’re doing with what we have in Washington, D.C., in the highest office in the land, I wake up in the middle of the night and all I can think about is I’m gonna get him.
"I’m gonna get him. I’m gonna get him," she repeated.
"I’m in this fight and I’m not gonna move," she told the crowd. "And, as you know, there’s a difference in how some of our leadership talk about how we should handle all of this.
"They say, ’Maxine, please don’t say impeachment anymore.’
"And when they say that, I say impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment," she said to applause.
Waters told the crowd she won’t stop with Trump.
"I had a conversation here today with someone asked, ’Well, what about Pence? If you are able to impeach, Pence will be worse,'" she recollected.
"Well, I said, ’Look, one at a time.’
"You knock one down, one at a time," she said.
"You knock one down, and we’ll be ready for Pence. We’ll get him, too," she vowed.
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Remember the calls for "Civility" and "Bipartisanship"? No? At least 'Mad Max' is honest in what she wants: Power, power to crush the opposition into impotence.
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If Mad Max is so obsessed with impeachment, maybe we should impeach her. I think if one follows the money, there are in her background impeachable offenses. She has a $4.3 mil mansion on a $174,000/yr salary.
[IsraelTimes] Ali Akbar Salehi says Tehran mulling withdrawal from nuclear deal, warns ’everyone will suffer’ if 2015 accord collapses entirely
Iranian nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi told state media on Sunday that a facility to produce advanced centrifuges at the Natanz nuclear plant has been completed.
Salehi, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, told the official IRNA news agency that [supreme leader Ayatollah] "Khamenei ordered us to set up and complete a very advanced hall for the construction of modern centrifuges, and this hall has now been fully equipped and set up," according to Rooters.
Salehi said Khamenei had also instructed to begin development of nuclear-powered ships, and that project would take 10-15 years to complete.
Though he said the nuclear-powered ships and new centrifuges would operate within the limits of the nuclear deal Iran signed with world powers, Salehi warned that Tehran was considering abandoning the accord in the wake of the US withdrawal earlier this year.
Salehi suggested Iran "might... suspend some of the limitations within the nuclear agreement, for example on the volume and level of enrichment."
"And the final scenario can be a complete exit from the nuclear accord, which I hope will never happen, with the help of [the remaining signatories], because everyone would suffer," he was quoted as saying.
Under the 2015 deal ‐ which limits Iran’s nuclear program in return for sanctions relief ‐ Tehran is allowed to build and test parts for advanced centrifuges with certain restrictions on quantity.
Following the withdrawal of the United States in May, the other parties ‐ Britannia, La Belle France, Germany, China, Russia and the EU ‐ have vowed to provide Iran with enough economic benefits to keep the agreement alive.
But Tehran is increasingly skeptical that those countries can counter the effects of renewed US sanctions, which have already battered Iran’s economy.
Iran has repeatedly said it will resume high-level uranium enrichment if the agreement falls apart.
Just an excerpt from a much longer piece. [AMGREATNESS] The op-ed is the latest cartoon of Trump, the Road Runner, finally, at last, and for sure driven off the cliff by the Resistance That'd be the Hezbullies, but in the U.S. it's used by anti-Trumplings... as Wile E. Coyote‐infuriated by yet another Road Runner beep-beep. There were earlier and serial Looney Tunes efforts to nullify the Electoral College, to sue about election machines, to boycott the Inauguration, to introduce articles of impeachment, to invoke the 25th Amendment, to try out the Emoluments Clause and the Logan Act, to sue by cherry picking liberal federal judges, to harass officials in public places and restaurants, to warp the FISA courts, to fund a foreign spy to do opposition research, and to weaponize even further the FBI, NSA, and Justice Department‐along with the now-boring celebrity liquidation chic rhetoric of blowing up, stabbing, shooting, burning, hanging, smashing, and decapitating Donald J. Trump.
[Rudaw] A week of bombardments on the Kurdistan Region’s borders by Iran has forced some 200 Kurdish families in the Balakayati area of Erbil to abandon their homes, and they have torched of hundreds of acres of farmland.
"We flee due to artillery and planes. We are tired of going to Sidakan and coming back," said Karim Mahmood, a villager in Barbazin area of Bradost.
The areas that came under the intense bombings are the mountains in Bradost and Balakayati.
In the Barbazin area of Bradost alone, nearly a hundred acres of pastures, groves, and orchards have been reduced to ashes.
Iran has set up an artillery base at Maidan Valley off-and-on targeting Kurdish farm land near the border, under the pretext of the presence of armed Kurdish opposition parties holed up in the Kurdistan Region.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) fired seven surface-to-surface missiles on Saturday, striking the Kurdistan Region refugee camps and headquarters of two Iranian-Kurdish parties, the PDKI and the KDP-I, while they were holding leadership meetings.
Seventeen people died, including several politicians, and 46 were maimed in the attack, according to figures from the health department. Since 1992, due to Iranian and Ottoman Turkish border bombardments, an estimated 650 villages have been emptied in Erbil and Duhok.
Kirmanj Izzat, the mayor of Soran said due to the Iranian and Ottoman Turkish attacks, "250 civilians have died since 1992."
He warned that "the Arclight airstrikes and artillery shelling are on the rise," leading to what he estimates as millions of dollars in damage to the areas.
Fearing growing uncertainty, villagers from 109 villages are afraid of rebuilding. Over the past three days, 11 villages were emptied, according to data from the Soran Municipality.
To be highly amusing for all involved except the named gentlemen and their supporters...
[MEDIAITE] President Trump is expected to declassify, as early as this week, documents covering the U.S. government’s surveillance of Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and the investigative activities of senior Justice Department lawyer Bruce Ohr, according to allies of the president.
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It does seem like Trump is very much aware of it and is slowly releasing things that make the left look like the crooked body it is.
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] A famed Broadway actress is joining Hollywood’s crusade against President Trump ‐ by asking for president-assassinator John Wilkes Booth.
On Sunday, TMZ asked 94-year-old television and Broadway actress Carole Cook (Sixteen Candles, 42nd Street) about President Trump and a recent performance of Frozen. During the musical’s curtain call, one actor grabbed and threw away a "Trump 2020" banner from an audience member. While Cook hadn’t heard of the incident, she responded, "Where is John Wilkes Booth when you need him?"
Her husband, Tom Troupe, explained who Booth was: "He killed presidents," or, more particularly, he shot President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. He’s just a few years too late to hunt Trump. "He killed presidents?" Plural? Did he get Garfield and McKinley, too?
"Don’t say that," Cook joked back at Troupe. "They’ll get me for that." A few seconds later, she checked, "Will I be on an enemies list? My God, I hope so." If there really was one, she wouldn't be so insouciant.
"Just keep me out of jail," she concluded. "Or maybe not."
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...Such a famed Broadway actress that I've never heard of her and neither had anyone else I've run across.
Quite famous, though, and Trump Bad.
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....94-year-old television and Broadway actress Carole Cook
At least we'll not be having to listen to that POS much longer.
The Secret Service wants to hear from the veteran TV star who thinks it would be a good idea for someone to "John Wilkes Booth" President Trump.
Sources connected with the Agency tell TMZ, Carole Cook's comments to our photog when she left Craig's restaurant Sunday night were enough to trigger an official inquiry.
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Waterboard her. She's 94 and thinks she's got nothing to lose for being a pretension attention-whore asshole. Remind her how "95 looks pretty good". Any any of her posse that put her up to this.
"You were born in 1926. You've seen incredible evil. Don't go out as a joke or stupid"
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Jesus, couldn't you just take away her sucralose or something? Okay, I just watched the clip... never mind. Feel kinda bad for her, though. Imagine the poison she's been steeped in for the past fifty-plus years... McCain, if he'd never come home, like.
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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[AlMasdar] At least 226 
[The Hill} Pollster Emily Ekins said on Friday that, based solely on the state of the economy, President Trump is underperforming in polls. "What’s surprising about this is that the economy is actually doing pretty well. So he’s actually been underperforming what we would expect him to be doing, given the economy." 
[Twitchy] LGBT student group argues that gulags were good, anti-trans bigots literally kill and must be re-educated.
[The Federalist] "How hard can that be? Saying that Nazis are bad," former President Barack Obama asked a crowd in Illinois over the weekend. Well, probably no harder than saying the words "radical Islam," I imagine. Or maybe it’s slightly less difficult than not sending billions of dollars to Holocaust-denying terror regimes that have both the means and intent to murder Jews‐in 2018, not 1942. And it’s definitely a lot easier than not meeting, posing, then smiling for a picture with Louis Farrakhan. But thanks for the lecture.
[KhaamaPress] The local officials in northern Jawzjan confirm the Talibs have overrun the Khamab district after hours of heavy 
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[Townhall] The current economic boom has nothing to do with President Obama, White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett suggested Monday in the briefing room. In a speech last week at the University of Illinois, Obama claimed credit for the improved economic outlook. It was his policies, he noted that paved the way for the current rate.
[AMGREATNESS] The op-ed is the latest cartoon of Trump, the Road Runner, finally, at last, and for sure driven off the cliff by 
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] A famed Broadway actress is joining Hollywood’s crusade against President Trump ‐ by asking for president-assassinator John Wilkes Booth.
