Take a look at Pajama Boy's brother, now all butthurt because Wikileaks isn't taking down Bush & Evil Republicans, but go after the sainted Democrats? IT'S AN OUTRAGE!
WikiLeaks has hit rock bottom. Once dedicated to careful vetting and redaction--sometimes too much redaction--the "whistleblower site" is now gleefully basking in its dump of thousands of emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee--most of which are full of personal, non-newsworthy information--published with the express intent of harming Hillary Clinton’s political campaign. In this latest release, there is no brave whistleblower in sight, just an anonymous hacker believed by the FBI and U.S. intelligence community to be a front for Russian intelligence services. The WikiLeaks project has fallen far from the lofty heights of its founding a decade ago, when Julian Assange promised to "facilitate safety in the ethical leaking movement." Want some cheese with that whine?
I'm reminded of the problems with the uniforms at the last Olympics. We can't do anything right, it seems.
Russian representation may be thin in Rio next month thanks to the country's doping scandal, but those back in Moscow will be able to see the Russian flag on another big delegation.
Ralph Lauren and the United States Olympic Committee unveiled the outfits American athletes will wear in next week's Opening Ceremony on Friday morning and it didn't take long for some to notice they might be better suited for athletes representing another country.
As sports fashion maven Paul Lukas and others pointed out on Twitter, the pattern of the striped t-shirt follows the order of the white, blue and red bars of the Russian flag. When paired with a buttoned-up navy blazer, only three bars are visible and it looks like the Russian flag.
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What, like this was an accident? It's meant to remind everyone of Russia, and the DNC breach. They'll talk about anything but the disgusting contents of the hack, and doing something like this is very helpful. This is what Kulturkampf looks like.
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It won't look so obvious after a dip in the sewage.
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Ugh. It looks like something put together by an intern. Off-the-rack pieces that they didn't bother tailoring to properly fit the athlete models, RL jeans are not designed for muscular glutes and quads, and the group was carefully turned to display the Ralph Lauren logo instead of the American flag.
Let's see if the liberal press is as quick to pounce on this one as they were when he said Russia should give us their copies of Shrillary's "missing" emails.
Donald Trump said Wednesday that Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby, who brought charges against six police officers in the death of black man Freddie Gray, "ought to prosecute herself" after all remaining charges were dropped. The problem is that her track record stinks lately.
"I think she ought to prosecute herself," he said during a press conference at his Florida golf club. "That's my reaction."
"I think it was disgraceful what she did and the way she did it and the news conference that she had," he continued. "And they were guilty before anyone even knew the facts."
Prosecutors dropped the remaining charges against Baltimore police officers in Gray's death, which brought the case to an end without any conviction. However, Mosby defended her prosecutions, which she initially handed down last May. She said she does not believe Gray, who died last year of a spinal cord injury after he rode unsecured in a police transport van, killed himself. Not intentionally.
The decision to drop charges comes after a judge already acquitted three of the six officers charged in the case, including the van driver and the highest-ranking officer of the group.
"And I give a lot of credit to those police officers, who probably could've made a deal," Trump said. "I give a lot of respect and a lot of credit that they stuck it out. And you had victory after victory after victory, and she had no chance. Don't forget, she prosecuted what she thought was her best case first. She should prosecute herself. She should be held accountable."
Trump later said that some police officers do bad things, but this was clearly not the case to prove so.
[LI] The burning of an Israeli flag outside the Democratic National Convention has received a fair amount of press.
There’s a bigger point here, one I have made many, many times before.
The Leftist-Islamist coalition which hates and wants to destroy Israel also hates and wants to destroy the United States.
Israel’s fight is our fight, and vice versa. And by "our" fight I don’t mean just conservatives or Republicans.
We have common enemies -- the anarchists, radical leftists, and Islamists -- not because we chose to hate them, but because they chose to hate us.
The video of the Israeli flag burning provides proof. As the Israeli flag is being burned, one of the leaders of the group is shouting "Death to the USA power" and someone else asked "where’s the American flag":
[Mercury Sports News] A former De La Salle High School quarterback pursuing the same elite level on the military field as his team did on the gridiron fell ill during training and died at a Fort Benning, Georgia, hospital earlier this week, officials said Thursday.
U.S. Army Second Lt. Michael Parros, 21, died at Midtown Medical Center on Wednesday after becoming sick during his first day of training to become a U.S. Army Ranger, Army spokesman John Tongret said.
An ambulance took him there with hyponatremia, a condition that occurs when the body's level of sodium becomes abnormally low. The condition can be caused by factors ranging from an underlying health condition to drinking too much water during an activity, according to the Mayo Clinic.
"This is a tragic loss," said Lt. Col. Matthew Weber, Commander of the 2nd Battalion, 11th Infantry Regiment. "He showed so much potential and was the epitome of the kind of soldier you want to serve with."
Parros' unit, 199th Infantry Brigade, had wrapped up a session of combat training. He began showing symptoms of hyponatremia shortly after eating, and his condition "escalated very quickly," Tongret said.
"When he was admitted, that's what he was suffering from," he said. "It hasn't been determined at this point if that was his cause of death. Unfortunately, there are a lot of questions right now that we just don't have answered, yet."
His family was notified and made the trip from Walnut Creek to be with Parros at his bedside, Tongret said. They were not available for comment.
#1 In the Sonora Desert in summer, with water consumption about 5 gallons per man per day, we got into the habit of carrying around ampules with a mix of 1 teaspoon each of sugar, salt and baking soda.
When added to 1 quart or canteen of water, it would instantly absorb through the stomach, while keeping your blood salts balanced, though it tasted like crap.
It could get bizarre. Constant thirst, even when your stomach was full of water, and because the humidity was 3%, you never felt sweat, but your t-shirt would get covered with salt stains.
And even drinking 5 gallons of water a day, you still had to force yourself to urinate, because otherwise you wouldn't. And your urine would be dark yellow to light brown. Not good.
Heat exhaustion feels a lot like sea sickness.
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I miss Anonymoose. But I saved his comment for personal reference, and this mixture got trailing daughter through a fwo week, 500 mile bike ride from Cincinnati to Niagara Falls, Canada without any ill effects. The other members of her youth group, who relied on water and Gatorade, were not so lucky.
[SANDIEGOUNIONTRIBUNE] Two San Diego police gang-detail officers making a traffic stop in Southcrest late Thursday night were shot several times, one mortally maimed, triggering a massive police search into the daylight hours. One suspect is in jug.
The names and service history of the male officers, both part of the department’s gang suppression unit, were not released.
The slain officer was shot several times, rushed to a hospital in a patrol car but died at a hospital despite life-saving efforts, San Diego Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman said early Friday. The maimed officer underwent surgery early Friday and was expected to survive.
The suspect, who had been shot, was being treated at a hospital, Zimmerman said. His name was not released.
It's not yet clear how the shooting unfolded.
The two officers had pulled over a vehicle about 11 p.m. in the area of Acacia Grove Way and 38th Street, a neighborhood of houses that abuts the Chollas Creek Ravine. Immediately after, they called for emergency cover ‐ more help from all available officers.
Other officers were nearby and arrived swiftly. They found the two officers suffering from gunshot wounds to the upper torso and rushed the critically injured officer to a hospital in a police vehicle.
"Despite heroic efforts by officers on scene and heroic efforts by doctors to save his life, I’m heartbroken to report they were unable to save him, and he is deceased," Zimmerman said outside Scripps Mercy Hospital, where the mood was tense and somber.
At the main entrance, some officers could be seen hugging one another. Others stood stoically, guarding the hospital doors. Zimmerman escorted several people into the hospital.
Zimmerman later said she had gone to the home of the slain officer to tell his wife, two children and extended family members who were at the home that he had been killed.
"It is extremely difficult, but something you have to do," Zimmerman said, joined by other department leaders.
"There's nothing that prepares you to do that."
The wife of the critically injured officer was beside him at UC San Diego Medical Center as he underwent surgery, Zimmerman said.
Because other family members of the two officers had not yet been notified, their names have not yet been released.
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A short walk from where I grew up. You might say it was the wrong side of the tracks. But I doubt if it was political. Sounds like there were some garden variety bad boys in that car who were probably headed for jail if the police stopped them and figured out who they were.
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dirtbag hispanic gangmembers
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Still it offers even more proof, as if we needed it, that police have a dangerous job.
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2nd suspect apparently holed up nearby. SWAT onsite
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Sorry, looong article. You'll have to click the link.
From my non-expert perspective, it seems the fact checker didn't take into account true inflation, in which case Trump's claims seem to be way optimistic.
[Reuters] European suppliers to the oil industry, hit by their customers' spending cutbacks over the past two years, have produced stronger than expected second-quarter earnings and are cautiously pointing to signs of recovery in demand. A couple of oilfield roughnecks sitting on a stack of pipe, enjoying lunch in the late 1930's.
These companies, which encompass oil drillers, engineering groups, oil services providers and seismic surveyors, have had to slash jobs, costs and investments to cope with the fallout from a 60 percent drop in the oil price since 2014.
The tide may be turning now the oil price has stabilized but any recovery for these companies will be uneven because those that find it tough to cut capacity and costs will lag others with more flexible business models.
"The oil price has gradually increased since it bottomed out in January, indicating a turning tide for the oilfield service industry expected in the second half of this year," consultancy Rystad Energy said. 'Boom and Bust - Supply and Demand' are common terms of the industry.
h/t Instapundit
...One reason Conservatives are advised by Conservative leaders to disagree with Trump is his position on Free Trade. The problem for me is that I do not see Free Trade, particularly laissez faire Free Trade, as necessarily Conservative at all,
The advantages of Free Trade are lower prices for stuff. That means they are more cheaply produced. As the economist David Ricardo wrote, there is a principle of comparative advantage that coupled with free trade guarantees maximum profits for when there are no trade restrictions, and impediments to free trade are supposed to be mutually disadvantageous.
But do understand, what is conserved is lower prices. Nor social stability. Not communities. Not family life. Indeed those are often disrupted; it’s part of the economic model. Under free trade theory, it’s better to have free trade than community preservation, better to have ghost towns of people displaced because their jobs have been shipped overseas; better to have Detroit as a wasteland than a thriving dynamic industrial society turning out tail finned Cadillacs and insolent chariots and supporting workers represented by rapacious unions in conflict with pitiless corporate executives.
The theory of free trade includes liquidity: liquidity in capital flow, and liquidity in labor relocation.
What was conserved by turning Detroit into a wasteland? How was that conservative? Wouldn’t it be more conservative to argue that if everyone pays a little more for stuff made here, by people who work here, we are better off than having it made south of the border and inviting our people to go work there at their prevailing wages?
Go further. You don’t have to move. We’ll pay you for not working and you don’t have to move. Of course we’ll have to raise taxes on those who do work to pay those people no longer working, but that’s life. But after unemployment benefits work out ‐ in my days the government would pay you $26 a week for 26 weeks ‐ you’re in trouble. So much so that welfare benefits kept being raised. Food stamps, which became larger and bought more items. Negative income tax. And if you dropped out of the labor force ‐ no longer looking for a job ‐ you are no longer unemployed. The unemployment rate just went down. You stopped looking for a job. Of course you don’t have a job ‐ you are certainly not employed ‐ but you aren’t unemployed and don’t count toward the unemployment rate. I wouldn’t have thought that sort of lying to the people by government officials was a very Conservative thing to do at all.
Would a 15% tariff on cars have saved Detroit? It would mean that I would have had to pay about $5000 more for my 1988 Ford Eddie Bauer V8 Explorer I bought in 1999. I could have afforded that. And I suspect that I’ve paid more in income taxes sent to welfare recipients in Detroit than that. Is paying people not to work more Conservative than trying to keep their jobs ‐ and manufacturing capabilities and potential here, bot dismantling it and leaving its former site to rust away ‐ Conservative?
And is encouraging people not to work ‐ at least making it easier and more possible ‐ building a Conservative nation?
What, precisely, is being conserved here? Also, free trade should be bi-directional. And nobody else in the World is that kind of sucker.
Good article in pointing out that their are more priorities than money that motivate people.
It's not surprising that Marxists reduce everything to money in trying to control people. Proggies (aka Marxists) can't conceive of anyone not being driven by monetary greed so if you don't agree with the left you are obviously too stupid to tie your own shoes and need to be "led".
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It's not Free Trade when it's rigged on both sides to the advantage of castes or special interests groups. That's not just international trade, it's also interstate commerce that obstructs or 'regulates' industries favoring native businesses over national businesses - see dairy and limited liquor distribution, automotive sale businesses etc by state. We're not even talking subsidizes that pols and precipitants are so fond of that alter price levels. Then there are 'partnership' deals, that require someone, group or family, on the inside of the governmental/business entity to get a piece of the action in order to do business in the state or nation. Free Trade has long lost its meaning. Sort of like Mom (but before the sex change operation), the Flag (now made overseas), and Apple Pie (additives with 5% apple content).
Before you bring up Smoot–Hawley as a Bogeyman, I too was taught about the 'evil's of that back in school. However after sitting through 8 years of a de facto depression (using the metrics of 1930s rather than the manipulated metrics of today), that scare is losing its value as we do not have Smoot-Hawley and yet we still have a long term depression running. People's images of the 30s Depression is largely long lines of hungry out of work men in black and white film. However the vast majority of the workforce was employed through that time in a flat economy. IIRC around 75%, less the black community whose numbers were much lower. Sounds familiar? So was Smoot-Hawley the devil or the scapegoat?
Mr. Pournelle is asking the questions that need to be raised. If government exists to serve the people, who really is being served by 'Free Trade'. It ain't free if its rigged to the advantage of a few or others over the many.
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Pournelle is offering a common misunderstanding of free trade as a strawman. Free trade creates wealth. It's that simple. Tariffs are a tax paid by consumers - American citizens. Read your Adam Smith.
And if it's rigged, gamed or otherwise abused, that's not free trade. Another strawman.
Pure free-trade is fine but impossible for several reasons not the least of which is an imperfect knowledge base.
Another narrative derives from the "best for the common good" approach. Pournelle is pointing out that individuals have different definitions of good and you can't aggregate economic wealth creation and declare it best. All you can say is that this maximizes total wealth in the system, whether or not that's good is a whole nother story.
So it's not a straw man at all just a part of a much larger and more complex story having to do with societal organization.
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I get the basic argument on free trade, but I also get that we really don't have "free trade" -- we have "managed trade" with NAFTA, TPP and the other agreements out there.
Mr. Trump is correctly pointing out that in a managed trade situation, America has been a sucker for a long time -- we're transferring a significant amount of wealth (and per Mr. Pournelle, social stability) to other countries, in return for cheap goods. Okay, everyone likes inexpensive stuff, but the question is, what did we give up for that? Trump and Pournelle point out that we've given away too much.
I'm all for "free" trade, but I don't think it exists, and I don't think we can work our way to it. So if it's going to be managed trade, we need to get a better deal.
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Another narrative derives from the "best for the common good" approach.
Ah, but for libertarians, there is no "common good."
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Tariffs are a tax paid by consumers...yes, but non-tariff taxes are paid by the consumer for the welfare system to support those not working and the bureaucracy that goes along with that welfare. Where is the lesser cost and graft to be found?
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Ah, but for libertarians, there is no "common good."
Ah, Pappy, but we're talking about economists and politicians.
When you speak about the aggregate system totals rather than specific transactions than there is a "common" good defined as total aggregate wealth which is used to justify these "free" trade deals and writes off the suffering of Detroit, for example, as just acceptable collateral damage. After all the aggregate is the measurement of success..
This ignores two salient points.
1) is the average issue: On average this is best for everyone. Like the man with one foot in ice and the other in boiling water feels fine, on average.
2) free trade is the sum of all the individual transactions that are made by individuals based on their view of what's best at that moment for them. Therefore, an aggregate, as a measure of worth, is meaningless. Think of college grades if I get an A in physics and an F in sociology I'm a C student, does that mean anything at all?
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Free trade creates wealth that is true...for those who are already wealthy. The rest of us get fucked. Nobody is seeing those sweet profits from manufacturing in Bangladesh and China other than international companies.
If you want to imagine the future, imagine the American worker, being laid off, forever.
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Our 330 million people have 330 million requirements which, can be met by the same 330 million people....'freely trading' with one another.
If those 330 million discover they have a trading surplus, stop production until surplus is exhausted, or ship the surplus overseas. If those 330 million discover they have a trading shortfall, then and only then, should oversees stuff be brought in.
I suppose this is far too simplistic. Probably far too late for such a foggyish old concept.
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The thing about "free trade" as it exists today, with the Mandarinate we have running the country, it amounts to some semblance of a free market for people who run what were once import/export businesses and are now just import businesses, and no economic freedom if you do anything else for a living.
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And if it's rigged, gamed or otherwise abused, that's not free trade. Another strawman.
That statement is a convenient distortion. The discussion by everyone else so far is an illustration of competing fundamental values and attempts to clarify & share them.
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The problem with free trade is that intellectual capital - paid for in one way or another over generations by the citizens of a country - flows in the opposite direction.
You may be able to buy cheap TVs from China, but China gets to know how to make cheap TVs, which is far more valuable.
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By now you’ve no doubt seen the international crisis which was spawned when Donald Trump answered a question about the DNC email hack, saying he hoped that the Russians found the rest of her 30,000 erased emails. Flipping through the cable news networks this morning you’d think that he just offered to sell the nuclear codes to the highest bidder. The reactions have been swift and ominous from all corners.
...Trump is sarcastic. He’s easily exercised. And when he starts in on a subject and the room temperature rises, you get more of that. The media loves to act offended and point to this as a reason why he must not be qualified to lead America. But the fact is that sarcasm and the occasional expletive are part and parcel of how much of the nation actually speaks. This has left the media completely flummoxed, leading to the headlines about how Trump is going to sell out our national security to Russia. IMO, it's a case of drinking their own ink --- since anybody who disagrees with them is a moron, and morons can't use sarcasm... Also, most of them are not particularly bright - constantly suppressing your own thoughts in favor of Pravda will do this to you, even if you didn't start (as most of them did) as a second rater.
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Sarcasm can be a good punch-blocking technique while you set your opponent up for the knockout. If you're already a bit dull, detecting sarcasm can be a challenge. Forget the weasel words. Smartly employed, I have no problem with sarcasm.
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Trump knows how to troll. He is one of the better ones.
That statement about the DNC hack was pure trollness and just brilliant. It made the issue stick in people's minds, reminded them that there are other emails that might be worse and there was no good way for Hillary to respond without looking like a tosser.
The media and DNC will bring out the old weapons that worked against milquetoast Republicans about them being racist, Hitler and out to kill minorities and poor people. The problem is, it won't work against Trump. He just doesn't give a shit and will throw more troll poo over the fence back at the DNC and the media will fall into the trap of putting it on every front page.
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Sure made the MSM look stupid when they showed the clip and you could easily see he was being sarcastic but they couldn't, or at least pretended they couldn't.
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The media were quite prepared to cover over illegality from the preferred candidate!
Yes, but Turkey also knows that Mr. Gulen controlls djinns, so stopping him might be a tad problematic.
Turkey is receiving intelligence that the Muslim scholar it accuses of orchestrating a coup attempt this month could flee his residence in the United States, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ said on July 28.
Bozdağ told broadcaster Habertürk TV that Fethullah Gülen could flee to Australia, Mexico, Canada, South Africa or Egypt, which do not have extradition treaties with Turkey.
Ankara says Gülen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999, is the mastermind behind the failed July 15 coup attempt to overthrow the government.
Canada isn't far: Gulen is in Pennsylvania so it's a short hop to Buffalo, then over the bridge.
Author Ian Johnson wrote a fantastic book entitled 'A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA, and the Muslim Brotherhood in the West', which provides some very interesting insights into the activities of chaps like Mr. Gulen.
The commission will be made up of parliamentarians from all four of Turkey’s main political parties - the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), and the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).
The commission will have the authority to question suspects, including those currently in detention, just as public prosecutors are able to do. The commission is aimed at establishing the facts surrounding the botched attempt to overthrow the government.
Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has warned parliament of the need to take precautions to guard against the “countdown to a new coup attempt.”
Turkey dismisses 88 foreign ministry staff -Foreign Minister
[AlAhram] Turkey has dismissed 88 employees of the foreign ministry, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday, the latest in a series of purges of suspected supporters of a U.S.-based Muslim cleric accused of organising a failed military coup.
Turkey Warns Kyrgyzstan over 'Gulen Coup' Risk
[AnNahar] Turkey on Thursday warned the ex-Soviet state of Kyrgyzstan over the risk of a coup by followers of the U.S.-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, saying they had infiltrated every state institution in the country.
Turkey has sought to cultivate close ties with Turkic-speaking Kyrgyzstan but Bishkek has found itself targeted by angry accusations from Turkish officials that it has not done enough to crack down on Gulen's influence. In a cold statement, Kyrgyzstan's foreign ministry said it would take note of Turkey's warnings on education but reminded Ankara it was an "independent, sovereign state."
"We think at the very least that it is not correct when a foreign minister tells another state to take this or that action and moreover in the language of ultimatums and blackmail," it said.
Let us look forward to the usual glorious restoration... or will Turkey go straight to Kurdish rule?
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is reportedly planning to take direct control of the country’s security forces in a restructure following the recent failed coup attempt by members of the military.
CNN-Turk reports that the changes will affect both the army and the intelligence agencies.
How long before the Peshmerga Grandmothers Reserve Patrol handily beats the entire Turkish army with one hand tied behind their backs and their left feet in a bucket?
[AnNahar] Turkey's top military commanders met Thursday to replace almost half of their generals in a radical shake-up after the failed coup, as authorities shut down dozens of media outlets in a widening crackdown. The hastily-convened meeting came after the government ordered the discharge of 149 generals -- nearly half of the armed forces' entire contingent of 358 -- for alleged complicity in the putsch bid.
In a possible move to pre-empt its decisions, two of Turkey's top ranking generals -- Land Forces Chief of Staff General Ihsan Uyar and Training and Doctrine Command head General Kamil Basoglu -- resigned just before the meeting, the Dogan news agency said.
Lower-ranking officers were expected to be fast-tracked to fill gaps in top positions.
[AlAhram] Here are the facts and figures about the coup and the ensuing legal measures against the alleged plotters and supporters:
According to Interior Minister Efkan Ala on Wednesday, a total of 15,846 people have been detained. These include 10,012 soldiers, 2,901 police and 2,167 judges and prosecutors.
According to Ala, 8,113 of those detained have been placed under arrest. This means a judge has remanded in them in custody ahead of trial. These include 5,266 soldiers, 1,684 judges and prosecutors, and 1,019 police.
Of those detained, around 3,000 have been already released, a Turkish official said, although no precise figures have been issued.
According to the state-run Anadolu news agency, 51,322 people have been dismissed from their jobs in state institutions. Most of these were in the state education sector, where 42,767 people have lost their jobs, evenly split between teachers and administrative staff. In addition, hundreds of jobs have also been lost in every major Turkish ministry.
The government also demanded the resignation of almost 1,600 deans, or faculty heads, from private and state universities.
Some 21,000 people working in private education will have their licences revoked and be banned from teaching in the future.
Eighty-seven land army generals, 30 air force generals, and 32 admirals -- a total of 149 -- have been dishonourably discharged over their complicity, a government decree said. In addition, 1,099 officers and 436 junior officers have received a dishonourable discharge, according to the decree.
At least 178 generals have been detained -- with 151 of them already remanded in custody -- around one half of the 358 generals serving in Turkey. It is likely almost all those discharged have been detained. According to state media, among the most senior generals detained are former air force chief General Akin Ozturk and former Second Army Commander General Adem Huduti.
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Why do I want to call this whole thing the "Chicken Coup"?
...though neither the human rights organizations nor the journalist managed to find any details about damage to the enemy in their rush to hyperventilate. Still, we know it happened, which is something.
[AnNahar] At least 15 non-combatants were killed and dozens maimed in air strikes by a U.S.-led coalition in Syria on Thursday, a monitor sa
The strikes hit a northern town controlled by 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.... jihadist group, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
"Airstrikes by international coalition fighter jets after midnight (Thursday morning) on the town of Ghandoura killed at least 15 civilians and maimed dozens," said the monitoring group's head, Rami Abdel Rahman.
The town lies 23 kilometers (14 miles) northwest of Manbij, a strategic waypoint between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and the jihadist stronghold of Raqa.
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Police have arrested a senior official from Zimbabwe's war veterans' association after it accused President Robert Mugabe of "dictatorial" behaviour in a shock rupture with the 92-year-old leader, lawyers said Thursday.
Veterans of Zimbabwe's 1970s independence war, who had previously been loyal Mugabe supporters, last week issued a statement bitterly denouncing the president, who faces growing signs of opposition.
Douglas Mahiya, spokesman for the War Veterans' Association, was arrested late Wednesday in Harare, according to the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) group.A Mahiya family lawyer confirmed the arrest to AFP, but declined to comment further.
The association's secretary-general, Victor Matemadanda, was also taken from his rural home in Gokwe, north west Zimbabwe, after being summoned for police questioning.
"His whereabouts are currently undetermined, as are the charges or allegations against him," ZLHR said.
Police on Thursday declined to comment on the two cases, a day after the president vowed to punish the unnamed authors of the war veterans' criticisms.
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In 2014 the life expectancy in Zimbabwe increased to 57.50 years. The murdering Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF)... "veterans" who helped bring Mugabe to power in the 1970's are mostly 'sky people' (dood kaffirs) by now. Those who've not gone on, are too old to cause much trouble.
The term 'war veteran' is a oxymoron, a mislabeling and continued attempt to legitimize terrorists.
[WeaselZippers] ILLINOIS -- At least two inmates at the Cook County Jail in Chicago have taken a fellow inmate now, there's value, right there!
hostage inside the facility.
From NBC Chicago: "According to the Cook County Sheriff's office, the two detainees covered the floor of Division 10 Not to be confused with Division Mensa.
with soapy water well, it was white, kind of.
and obscured the fixed cameras within the tier before ripping the cameras down entirely." How, exactly, did they do this unobserved? You think anyone actually watches the camera output?
The hostage takers are reportedly armed with some type of shank. I was totally unaware there were different varieties of shanks! Shivs, otoh... I think it's a "number 7" shank...
There are multiple other inmates in the pod. Division 10 is the maximum security area of the jail. Why do I sense the oncoming cry from Madigan, et al to raise taxes for a "Super-Duper Maximum Security Wing" of the crowbar motel? Naming rights TBD.
Officials said they are working to resolve the incident ’peacefully.’ Hey, O'Shaunessy - send a coupla guys over 'dere and make sure dey bring 'dere "peacekeepers"
No injuries have been reported. Yet...
The situation is ongoing. Now resolved, and even peacefully it seems.
Even the Rooshuns are saying, "Dude, WTF?"
The Yemeni Government confirmed that rebel group Houthis violated the ceasefire truce more than 15000 times as reported by Arabic daily Al Bayan newspaper.
Meanwhile Raj Bady the Yemeni Government spokesperson told Al Bayan that the Houthis and the ousted militia president breached the truce about 15652 times.
About. More or less...
He added that these violations have multiplied its forms between heavy weapons shelling and firing on civilian neighborhoods, government institutions and health centers. He also said that not only those place but also in popular resistance areas the truce was violated that led to killing 381 people, 1446 persons were injured.
On the other hand, Brigadier Samir Al Haj the spokesman of the National Yemeni army told Al Bayan that they have obtained information that Houthis and ousted militia president committed mass executions of prisoners.
He added that currently massive investigation conducted to stand on the facts behind such information and the army leadership is waiting for official confirmation from the organization committees.
Also Aden governor Aidarous Al Zubaidi, emphasized that the Muslim Brotherhood in Yemen is going to be removed like in Egypt.
[The Hindu] 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.... (IS), pushed off more than half the Iraqi territory it seized in 2014, has suffered a near collapse in revenue from oil smuggling, officials say, forcing it to cut fighters' pay, levy new taxes and raise fines for breaking its religious code.
The jihadist group has lost control of a series of oil fields, and is having to sell what production that remains at steep discounts to persuade truck drivers to collect it and run the gauntlet of U.S.-led air strikes. Alongside taxes, ransoms and antiquities trading, oil has been a major fundraiser for IS operations. At one point, it made millions of dollars a month in sales to neighbouring Syria and Iran, or to makeshift local refineries.
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[BREITBART] Shiite Iran’s terror proxy Hezbollah ("The Party of God") has registered as an official political party in Peru’s Abancay province, home to the largest Moslem community in the country, reveals an exclusive report by the Peruvian Latina news agency.
Titled, "Hezbollah: has arrived in Peru and announces the registration of its new political party," the report aired in late June on Latina’s television program Punto Final.
Hezbollah, a terrorist group primarily based in Leb, has reportedly gained followers in the mountainous region of Abancay. The Shiite group has long maintained a presence in Latin America as a proxy of Iran.
"Allahu Akbar," shout the Hezbollah followers featured in the news program.
The phrase, which means "Allah is the greatest," is "the ubiquitous battle cry of Islamic jihadists as they commit mass murder," explains Breitbart News.
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[TIME] The Nusra Front announced its split from al-Qaeda on July 28, with the group renaming itself Jabhat Fatah al-Sham. The move is being seen as a shrewd attempt to hide their krazed killer ideology and protect themselves from a growing international campaign against krazed killer fighters in Syria.
Much like a toddler covering its eyes to make Mommy disappear?
Appearing in a video on Thursday, the Nusra Front’s leader Abu Mohammad al-Julani revealed his face for the first time, saying that the rebrand was "to remove the excuse used by the international community--spearheaded by America and Russia--to bombard and displace Moslems in the Levant: that they are targeting al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front, which is associated with al-Qaeda."
Their break comes with an official blessing from al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri. According to Rooters, the leader told the Nusra Front in an audio message that organizational ties could be broken with the global terror group in order to help it continue its battle for Syria.
...which only proves precisely how real the break up is.
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[US Navy Institute] The Clinton email saga will provide grist for the politicians, pundits, and tabloids for a long time to come. But the immediate impact will be ever-more-shrill charges and countercharges as the election cycle winds down, with pro-Hillary and anti-Hillary camps "spinning" the facts to suit their political beliefs.
From the perspective of some, Mrs. Clinton deliberately set up a private email server to ensure her emails remained private and not a matter of public record and then used this unprotected server to send and receive official messages, some of which were highly classified. Clinton apologists will respond that it was all an innocent mistake and she has admitted that, so let’s move on. There is no proof her computer was hacked, so there is no proof any of the classified emails were compromised. Thus, there is no reason to be concerned over what FBI Director James Comey characterized as Mrs. Clinton's "extremely careless" handling of classified material.
There are, however, a number of reasons to be concerned. Most important, anyone who believes the Russians (and probably others) were not reading the emails of the U.S. Secretary of State is hopelessly naïve. According to the press, some of these emails contained sensitive intelligence, to include identification of sources. If this is true, it is very serious. Lengthy article. Be sure to review the author's credentials.
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Reference Clinton's military aide, this article is well worth reading:
"Is Gen. John Allen in Over His Head?
President Obama’s point man in the fight against the Islamic State faces a ruthless foe. But his detractors at home -- even in the Pentagon -- may be his biggest enemy."
[DefenseTech] The tweet was subsequently cited in an article by Thomas Gibbons-Neff, a reporter for The Washington Post, who reported the weapon is probably being used by American troops to target small reconnaissance drones operated by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS.
The weapon, which the company makes clear isn't authorized by the Federal Communications Commission and thus isn't available for sale in the U.S., uses radio waves to cut the link between the drone and its controller.
As my colleague Matthew Cox reported in January at Military.com, the Army over the past year tested multiple anti-drone products and determined the DroneDefender performed the best: Pix @ link.
One of the old-style anti-tank rifles of the 1920s and 1930s would presumably work well here, with a scope or some sort of electronic aiming.
Russian separatists in Donetsk still use the old Soviet PTRD against APCs and as a sniper rifle. Pulled them right out of the museums and storage. Uses the same cartridge as the Russian KPV, the tank commander's 14.5mm machine gun mounted on the commander's turret.
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At least five US soldiers have sustained injuries during an operation in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, it has been reported.
The US soldiers were reportedly partnering with the Afghan special forces during an operation in Nangarhar.
The top US commander in Afghanistan General John Nicholson has confirmed that five US soldiers were wounded in the last few days. Without providing further information regarding the exact time of the incident, Gen. Nicholson told Reuters “None of these are life-threatening injuries.”
Gen. Nicholson further added that two of the injured service members have returned to duty, while three others were evacuated but are “in good spirits” and are expected to make a full recovery. He said “We will continue to stay after Daesh until they are defeated here in Afghanistan.”
ISIS is concern, but not the Taliban? President Trump will have some decisions to make in January. President Hillary Clinton will no doubt continue as her former boss started, there being no responsibility to protect uninteresting barbarians beyond the range of television cameras.
I suspect the Taliban wants to be moved from the kids' table at Thanksgiving.
To the Beltway mind, the Islamic State can't be negotiated with. With the Taliban, it's possible - if the putative ally Pakistan allows it. Hence, to the Beltway mind. the Islamic State is 'bad' and the Taliban 'bad but reasonable actors'.
This comes as the Afghan commandos launched a major operation against the loyalists of the terror group in Nangarhar on Friday and cleared the restive Kot district from the presence of ISIS militants. The operations were launched amid concerns that the terror group is attempting to expand insurgency activities in the country.
The group claimed responsibility behind a deadly bombing in Kabul that left at least 80 people dead and over 200 others wounded.
At least 8 loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in separate drone strikes in East of Afghanistan.
The provincial police media office in Nangarhar said the drone strikes were carried out in Nazian and Achin district.
At least 6 of the militants were killed in Pekhi Kali area of Achin district and at least 3 others were wounded.
The remaining two ISIS loyalists were killed during another drone strike in Nazian district targeting the militants of the terror group in Milwa Kand area.
The local residents did not suffer any casualties in the airstrikes, the provincial police said.
The loyalists of the terror group have not commented regarding the report so far.
The latest airstrike by US forces comes as the Afghan Special Forces are busy in conducting a major operation against the loyalists of the terror group in Kot district.
The Ministry of Defense has said at least 300 ISIS loyalists have been killed so far and dozens of others were wounded.
The increased raids against the loyalists of the terror group come as there are concerns that the militants of the group are attempting to expand foothold in the country.
The top US general in Afghanistan in his latest remarks has said the loyalists of the terror group has direct links with the main group in Syria and Iraq.
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A 48-year-old man was tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in Bloemfontein in connection with the murder of a 86-year-old woman, Free State police said on Thursday. The butler didn't do it.
Captain Chaka Marope said the elderly woman was found murdered at her house in Gardenia Park and the man, her gardener, was arrested on Wednesday after her neighbour found her body.
"When [the neighbour] peeped through the window, she noticed the victim`s body lying in a pool of blood in a supine position on her bedroom floor. She was also half-naked. The police were immediately alerted," Marope said.
"Upon their arrival they [the police] broke open the door to enter the house. The victim was found having head injuries and it is suspected that she was attacked with a blunt object. The blood stains were scattered all over the walls and the bedrooms were ransacked."
Marope said it was not known what household items were stolen. A case of murder was opened for further investigation.
"The possibility of additional charges of robbery and rape cannot be ruled out as the investigating team is still awaiting the autopsy report to determine whether the victim was sexually assaulted or not."
The man was staying at the backroom of the woman’s house. During the preliminary investigation at the scene, the suspect’s cap and blankets were found with blood stains and the suspect failed to provide the police with satisfactory reasons to that effect, Marope said.
He is expected to appear in the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court on Friday, on charge of murder.
[DAWN] MANSEHRA: A young girl and her alleged paramour were reportedly killed in the name of honour in Ranowali area of Kohistan ...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns.... district recently, and the girl’s body was buried secretly.
However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... the police said they had registered a murder case of a young boy, and didn’t confirm whether or not a girl was also killed in the incident.
Zahid Shah, a police official at Puttan cop shoppe said that a member of the said family killed the young boy and threw his body in Ranowali area of Kohistan. He said that the body was handed over to family after postmortem at civil hospital in Puttan.
The police official said as there was no mention of any murder of a girl in the name of honour in the FIR they couldn’t confirm the killing. However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... he said the police would initiate an inquiry in that regard.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features.
If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!... speaking to media persons, uncle of the victim boy said the alleged murderer first killed his daughter and later rubbed out his (the complainant’s) nephew for having illicit relations.
He made the appeal to the KP inspector general of police to order an inquiry to dig out the facts. He said the killer was still on the lam and should immediately be tossed in the clink Book 'im, Mahmoud! Kohistan district leads in honour related incidents, involving both men and women, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central....
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[DAWN] MUZAFFARABAD: Hundreds of people held a rally for the third consecutive day on Wednesday, urging the international community to take notice of unabated state-sponsored terrorism by Indian forces in held Kashmire.
"Listen India, neither Jammu and Kashmire was yours in the past nor will it ever be yours in future," reads a banner.
On previous two days, women and kiddies staged sit-ins from morning till late afternoon. On Wednesday, they paraded right up to the UN Military Observers office near Domel.
The protest was organised by Pasban-e-Hurriyat, an organization of Kashmiri refugees, and International Forum for Justice and Human Rights (IFJHR), a rights group with its headquarters in Srinagar.
Protesters displayed placards carrying pictures of Indian troops thrashing and firing on unarmed Kashmiris.
Young girls were incensed at Facebook for either deactivating their accounts or taking off pictures posted by them to "highlight the acts of savagery by the occupation forces".
"Facebook was a medium to keep ourselves aware of the happenings and stay in touch with our near and dear ones in India-held Kashmire. But its attitude in the wake of Burhan Wani’s killing is unfathomable," said Shaheen Maqsood, a first year student.
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Patrick Poole at PJ Media has a long post with lots and lots of links. As with most everything else at the Clinton DoS, it was pay-for-play with regard to Boko Haram. Lots of people died, but at least Hillary and the Clinton Foundation did well.
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Devastated by the latest hacking attempt of DNC computers and smart bombs, but mostly smart bombs
(IraqiNews.com) MOSUL – Iraqi Media War Cell announced on Thursday about the death of an ISIS military Wali in an air strike in Qayyarah, south of Mosul.
The cell said in a press statement, said, “The international coalition aviation killed ISIS military Wali of Tigris, Abu Shuaib, in an air strike that targeted an ISIS meeting at Qayyarah. A large number of ISIS leaders were also killed in the strike.”
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At least two Taliban commanders were arrested in separate military operations in southern Helmand province, the National Directorate of Security (NDS) said in a statement.
In addition, one insurgent was killed during the clash.
The operation was conducted in Garemsir district of the province by NDS forces and Sharafuddin and Sayed Wali, key Taliban commanders, were arrested, according to the statement.
"Sharafuddin was involved in attacks on local police outposts in Helmand in which 30 police members were killed," it said.
The forces also seized weapons during the operation, the statement added.
A key local Taliban leader who was involved behind in the killing of at least 30 Afghan Local Police (ALP) forces has been arrested in southern Helmand province.
The Afghan intelligence, National Directorate of Security (NDS), said the Taliban leader has been identified as Sharafuddin son of Abdul Razaq.
Operating under the supervision of Mawlavi Haqyar group, Sharafuddin was involved in a major attack on a ALP check post that left at least 30 policemen dead.
NDS said another key Taliban commander identified Shaista was arrested during a direct encounter with the intelligence operatives in Garamser district.
Another Taliban militant who was accompanying Shaista was also wounded during the encouter, NDS said, adding that the intelligence operatives confiscated a heavy machine, 2 Ak-47 rifles, and a vehicle from the militants.
The Taliban militants group has not commented regarding the report so far.
Helmand is among the volatile provinces in southern Afghanistan where anti-government armed militant groups are actively operating and frequently carry out insurgency activities.
Taliban insurgents launched major attacks in different districts of the province during the recent months.
[USATODAY] A judge dismissed the indictment Thursday against the man charged with killing intern Chandra Levy, after prosecutors asked to drop the case that drew national interest and embroiled a politician in scandal.
Ingmar Guandique, who lived in Washington, was found guilty in 2010 of killing Levy, who disappeared in 2001. Guandique, who has protested his innocence from the start, was granted a new trial last year based on questions about the credibility of a jailhouse informant. Prosecutors now say he will be deported.
Superior Court Judge Robert Morin ordered the case dismissed, based on the request from U.S. Attorney Channing Phillips.
"Mr. Guandique has maintained since the beginning, when he passed an FBI administered lie detector test, that he did not kill Ms. Levy. This dismissal vindicates Mr. Guandique," Lauren Hankins, general counsel for the public defender service that represented him, said in a statement. "Finally, the government has had to concede the flaws in its ill-gotten conviction."
The disappearance of Levy, 24, of Modesto, Calif., while she worked as an intern at the federal Bureau of Prisons, made headlines after she was linked romantically to then-Rep. Gary My wife has no thumbs Condit ... lover but not murderer of Chandra Levy ... , D-Calif. Condit was later ruled out as a suspect.
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... on Thursday offered an amnesty to Death Eaters if they surrender, the official SANA news agency reported.
"Everyone carrying arms... and sought by justice... is excluded from full punishment if they hand themselves in and lay down their weapons," SANA said, quoting a presidential decree on the three-month amnesty offer.
The reprieve also includes any holy warrior who frees a hostage, according to the decree text.
The offer comes as the Syrian army and its allies launch a wide-scale operation to liberate the city of Aleppo from the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorists.
Also on Thursday, Russia said it had launched a large-scale operation with the Syrian government to open humanitarian corridors for civilians and Death Eaters fleeing the northern city.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told Russian news agencies that three humanitarian corridors were being opened "to aid civilians held hostage by turbans and for holy warriorss wishing to lay down their arms" and one more corridor to the north of the city for rebels to flee with their weapons.
Syria's UN envoy Staffan de Mistura said this week he hopes peace talks aimed at ending more than five years of brutal conflict could resume at the end of August.
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Moroccan security authorities revealed yesterday that they launched a coordinated campaign on the 19th of July under the supervision of the prosecution services that targeted 143 people suspected of being affiliated to extremist organisations including ISIS. This campaign is the largest to be launched in the country to combat terrorist threats to the security and stability of it.
The authorities said that of those 143 individuals, 52 people were put on remand in light of terrorist threats that are continually growing at both a regional and international level. According to a statement released by the Ministry of Interior, a copy of which Asharq Al-Awsat received, this pre-emptive operation involved suspects that belonged to various ranks of terrorist organisations and are from different regions of the Kingdom. It added that they are accused of plotting numerous terrorist attacks that they intended to carry out in the near future within the country and abroad. They are also accused of using social networking sites to spread propaganda for ISIS and other terrorist organisations, and corrupting minors in order to plunge them into hotbeds of conflict.
The statement added that as a result of searches carried out at the homes of suspects, many pamphlets and documents relating to how to manufacture explosives, poisons and techniques for remote detonation were seized. Instructions on how to use various firearms in addition to a collection of books that permit suicide attacks and flags with ISIS’ emblem were also found.
According to the same source, firearms, cold weapons, a quantity of live ammunition, cans containing screws and a range of electrical equipment and wires that are used to make improvised explosive devices were also seized.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Syrian army backed with its allies fully controlled Bani Zeid neighborhood in the city of Aleppo on Thursday.
As the new of Bani Zeid liberation emerged, residents took to streets to celebrate the event, with many raising the Syrian flag and chanting for the Syrian army, Syrian news agency, SANA, reported.
The video below shows the Syrian soldiers in Bani Zeid neighborhood.
Earlier on Thursday, military sources told al-Manar that dozens of Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... forces of Evil withdrew the strategic neighborhood, amid collapse within ranks of the terrorists.
Syrian sources said that the bandidos murderous Moslems withdrew Bani Zeid neighborhood as the Syrian army and its allies press ahead with its operation to restore Aleppo.
Bani Zeid lies to the north of Aleppo at the entrance of Aleppo's northern countryside. The area is the last supply route of the gunnies in northern Aleppo and its capture is considered a military achievement since the gunnies used to shell the residential areas in the city from this area.
Photos emerged from Bani Zeid show the gas jars which the Takfiri forces of Evil were using in shelling the residential areas in Aleppo city.
Earlier on Wednesday, the General Command of the Syrian Army announced that the allied forces managed to all supply lines and corridors that gunnies had been using to transfer mercenaries, weapons, and munitions to the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo city.
The General command called on all forces of Evil to turn on their weapons, saying they can remain in Aleppo or leave it.
The Syrian army killed Ammar Shaaban, the military commander of "Nour Eddine al-Zenki" terrorist group in Handarat in Aleppo, according to "Opposition" Sources.
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The Syrian Army and Armed Forces continued on Wednesday targeting terrorist organizations across the country, with the Syrian Air Force targeting ISIS positions and vehicles in Hama and Deir Ezzor provinces.
Hama
A military source told SANA that the Syrian Air Force destroyed ISIS fortified positions north of al-Mufagar and in Hur Benafsoh in the countryside of Hama province.
Deir Ezzor
The Syrian Air Force destroys ISIS positions and vehicles east of al-Jafra, Tharda, and Tal Brouk in Deir Ezzor province, a military source said.
Homs
SANA’s news hound in Homs said that Army and Armed Forces unit killed a number of bandidosfaceless myrmidons in al-Rastan area including Mohammad Yusef al-Deekh, Mohammad Dali, Anwar al-Shamir, sniper Hussein Omar Dali, a sniper known as "Abu Islam" from the so-called "Central Force of Ahrar al-Cham," Fayz Ali, and Abdelaziz Shano.
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[AlArabiya] Two soldiers were killed and one wounded when a roadside bomb detonated by Kurdish militants hit a passing military vehicle in Turkey’s largely Kurdish southeast on Wednesday, security sources said.
The bomb was detonated by remote control as the vehicle passed through a highway near Siirt, in southeast Turkey, the sources said.
Members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has waged a three-decade insurgency against the Turkish state, frequently target military and security force cars and trucks with roadside bombs.
Air-backed operations had been called in to target militants in the region, the sources said. Troop reinforcements and helicopters had been dispatched, they said.
The mainly Kurdish southeast has been scorched by some of the worst fighting since the height of the insurgency in the 1990s, after a ceasefire between the state and the PKK fell apart in July last year.
[EXPRESS.CO.UK] CHANCELLOR Angela Merkel has said Germany is facing a “major” threat from terrorism but that this should not stop refugees being welcomed to Europe.
The German leader, who cut short her summer holiday to speak after a string of Islamist attacks rocked the country, said the entire continent was being “ravaged” by terrorism.
She described recent attacks in Ansbach, Wurzburg and Munich as “horrifying and depressing” but insisted Germany would not turn its back on people fleeing the Middle East.
In the wake of the killings, Mrs Merkel said Germany now needed a better “early warning system” to spot radicalised Muslims among the newly-arrived migrants.
She said the central government would “redouble its efforts” against the threat, increasing staff numbers and resources for security services.
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I wanna say that Merkel is full on bat shit crazy but it'd have to be a pretty scary kinda crazy if she can get to be Chancellor of Germany that way. So either she is on the same level as Hitler or she has some agenda that she refuses to divulge. But either way it is scary.
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She's prolly following an old KGB directive to destroy West Germany, despite there only being one Germany now.
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Great idea, Angela.
Of course, you're going to house 100 or so Middle Eastern "refuge" men in YOUR house, right?
Right?
(And no "vetting" them beforehand; just go to the nearest arab "feel-up" and grab the first 100 you see.)
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#9 She's prolly following an old KGB directive to destroy West Germany, despite there only being one Germany now.
In 1966, East German scientists implant a post-hypnotic suggestion in a young girl to be used as an ideological weapon against the West. But East Germany is gone now, and so are the only people who can stop "The Merkelchurian Candidate". Coming soon to a theater near you!
[SOUTHAFRICATODAY.NET] A grand jury has ruled Mississippi coppers were justified in the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old man whose weapon turned out to be a BB gun.
Biloxi Police Chief John Miller says Wesley Sheppard of Biloxi had shot out a window in a vehicle with children and refused police orders to drop his weapon March 10.
Miller tells The Sun Herald Wednesday that Sheppard was hit by two bullets from about 50 yards as three officers fired.
Miller released details of the shooting after a Harrison County grand jury ruled Monday the officers’ actions were justifiable.
Miller said Sherlocks learned the weapon was a BB gun, though it looked like a long gun to witnesses and responding officers.
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation was called in for an independent probe, a standard police procedure.
[BREITBART] Thursday on Fox News Channel’s "Fox & Friends," in an appearance from the site of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani called the convention "the most anti-police" and "the most anti-law enforcement" he had ever seen.
However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... he also said that according to "high-ranking coppers" in Philadelphia, uniformed law enforcement was not allowed on the floor of the convention.
"This is the most anti-police, anti-law enforcement convention I’ve ever seen in my whole life. There was not a uniformed police officer allowed on the convention floor. I was told that by four high-ranking coppers, two of whom I’ve known for a very long time. And then I walked the floor for very long time and I couldn’t find a single officer. Go look at your footage. You find me a uniform. Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Richelieu ... didn’t want uniformed coppers on the convention floor."
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[AnNahar] A Brazilian man has been enjugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! on terrorism charges just over a week from the Olympics after he posted comments online about 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.... group, his lawyer said Thursday.
Chaer Kalaoun, 28, a Brazilian of Lebanese descent, was "taken overnight to Ary Franco prison in Rio and arrested for having posted comments on Islamic State," lawyer Edson Ferreira told Agence La Belle France-Presse.
Officials gave little detail about the arrest, which comes a week after 12 men were arrested on accusations of forming a cell to discuss potential attacks at the time of the Rio Olympics and swearing loyalty to Islamic State.
"Kalaoun was arrested yesterday evening at his home in Nova Iguacu," in Rio de Janeiro state, a front man for the federal police in Rio said.
The justice department would only say that the arrest was made under anti-terrorism laws and that the indictment remains sealed.
Earlier, Ferreira said the allegations lacked substance. "There is no basic accusation," he told Globo television.
"There's nothing more than suspicions that he put posts on Facebook, that he posted links related to Islamic State, but which have nothing concretely to do with him. He has no link with Islamic State," the lawyer said. "He did not pledge allegiance, he was not recruiting, or bringing people or collaborating or encouraging any projects of the Islamic State."
Ferreira said his client is a Moslem and lived in Leb when he was an adolescent. He works for the family business which has shops in Rio de Janeiro's Saara neighborhood, a historic center for Jewish and Arab immigrants colonists.
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... unconfirmed Brazilian media reports said police suspect Kalaoun of recruiting for terrorist organizations in Brazil. He was also arrested during the 2014 World Cup on charges of illegal firearms possession.
Another known wolf -- but down in Brazil they are not hamstung by PC considerations.
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KHUZDAR: A tribal elder, Mir Bashir Ahmed Bizenjo, was shot dead in Hub town late on Wednesday evening.
Armed men barged into the house of Mr Bizenjo near Asad Chowk and opened fire on him, a police official said.
He suffered multiple bullet injuries and died while being taken to hospital.
He was cousin of former Balochistan Assembly deputy speaker Mir Abdul Qadoos Bizenjo and brother of Awaran District Council Chairman Naseer Ahmed Bizenjo.
The cause of the killing could not be ascertained.
Police have registered a case against unknown armed men and started investigation.
[WASHINGTONPOST] Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... says the gunman’s bullets that killed three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge also targeted the country and "touched the soul of an entire nation."
During a memorial service Thursday at a Baton Rouge church, Biden spoke directly to relatives of the fallen officers. He promised them that a day will come when the memory of their loved ones will "bring a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eye."
An Army veteran from Kansas City, Missouri, killed the officers less than two weeks after protests erupted in Baton Rouge over the death of Alton Sterling, a 29-year-old black man who was shot and killed during a scuffle with two white coppers.
Biden said he heard that Sterling’s aunt embraced the father of one of the slain officers during a chance encounter after the shooting. He said they prayed together because "loss is loss is loss."
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(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – At least six ISIS members were killed in an airstrike carried out by the international coalition avaiation towards west of Ramadi on Thursday, informed Anbar Operations Command.
“Early this mornig, international coalition aviation carried out airstrike west of Ramadi on an ISIS gathering at al-Bakr area in western Heet, killing six of them and destroying six weapon-laden vehicles of the outfit,” informed Anbar Operations Command commander Major Genera Qassim al-Mohamadi.
Mohamadi added, “The destroyed vehicles were equipped with weapons like rocket launchers, cache of weapons and three mortar detachments.”
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – Today, al-Hashd al-Shaabi Command in Anbar Province announced that 17 ISIS members, including seven Chinese, were killed in an air strike carried out by the international coalition that targeted an ISIS parade west of Anbar.
The Intelligence Director of al-Somoud Brigade Captain Nazim al-Jaghifi said, “The international coalition aviation bombed a parade of ISIS in Anna district (170 km west of Anbar) killing 17 ISIS members, which also included 7 Chinese members.”
Jaghifi added, “ISIS tried to use a number of its members who were prepared to attack the security troops to organize the parade. The air strike was carried out based on intelligence information.”
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[AlAhram] The Tunisian army killed two suspected gunnies on Wednesday in the northwest of the country, the Ministry of Defence said Thursday.
"Military units, reinforced by elements of the National Guard... killed two holy warriors during search operations" near the town of Jendouba, the ministry said in a statement.
A soldier was maimed during the fighting, it said.
Two rifles were also seized, along with ammunition, backpacks, clothes, mobile phones and cash.
It said the army and the National Guard would continue to search for gunnies in the region.
Tunisia saw an uptick in hard boy violence following its revolution in 2011, and security forces frequently clash with myrmidon groups in the mountainous west of the country. The gunnies have responded by launching ever more ambitious attacks.
Tunisia has been in a state of emergency since November 24, when a suicide kaboom, claimed by IS group, killed 12 presidential guards in central Tunis.
Several thousand Tunisians have joined myrmidon groups including 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.... group in Syria, Iraq and neighbouring Libya.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – At least two persons were killed and 11 others injured in an IED explosion in northern Baghdad today, informed a source in the Ministry of Interior.
“The explosion took place near shops at al-Hamameiyat village in Taji district,” the source further informed, adding, “Security forces rushed to the area and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital and the dead bodies to the forensic department and cordoned off the area, stopping everybody from approaching it.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Ministry of Interior reported of nine casualties in a bomb blast southwest of Baghdad.
The source informed, “This morning, an improvised explosive device exploded near a popular market in al-Amel area southwest of Baghdad, killing one person and wounding eight others.”
The source added, “Security forces rushed to the area and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital and the dead body to the forensic department.”
[FOXNEWS] Donald Trump is beating Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another William Jennings Bryan ... among white men because guns, gays, and God, according to former House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace... "I think that, so many times, white -- non-college-educated white males have voted Republican. They voted against their own economic interests because of guns, because of gays, and because of God, the three G’s, God being the woman’s right to choose," Pelosi told PBS’s Judy Woodruff in an interview Wednesday.
But, Pelosi contended, that’s changing because of Clinton’s "economic agenda to create jobs, good-paying jobs, increasing paychecks."
The opposition from white males "is softening," she argued.
"Some of those people were never going to be voting Democratic anyway. But I believe that, with the turnout that we expect to have, we will draw some of them in with our message, and enough other people to win the election."
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Well, at least you know what GOD thinks of you. So we do not have to re-hash THAT.
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Whistling past the graveyard, Nan? Some recognition of their problem - if this and that and the other thing, I think we will have enough to win. I believe she's worried.
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An aging globe trotter, Washington political insider for over 30 years with a chronic likability problem and memory loss, partners with former boss and failed anti-American president, struggles with a non-insider business man ?
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Perhaps having a transgendered individual speaking at the DNC might have something to do with the white male thing...just saying there might be a connection
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She has trouble with the white male vote because white males don't vote by skin color or gender. They are all over the place and when there are multiple options available Hillary is found wanting in every possible category.
[KAUMUDIGLOBAL] An IndiGo flight from Dubai to Kozhikode made an emergency landing at the Mumbai airport Thursday morning following alleged unruly behaviour of a passenger.
"An IndiGo flight from Dubai to Kozhikode made an emergency landing at Mumbai airport at 0915 hrs due to unruly behaviour of a passenger," a Mumbai airport official said.
"After offloading them, the flight took off to its scheduled destination at 1050 hrs," he said.
The airport police said one passenger has been detained for questioning.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the official denied reports that the passenger raised pro-ISIS slogans. The details of the detained passenger were awaited.
In a statement, IndiGo airlines confirmed the diversion of its flight (Dubai-Kozhikode) to Mumbai this morning on grounds of unruly behaviour on board.
A little before landing, a passenger seated on 5D (who was accompanied by his brother) suddenly started misbehaving with the crew. He jumped on the forward cart (which is used for food and onboard merchandise) and sat on it. The crew immediately informed the Captain-in-command and the lead crew.
The crew politely requested the passenger to step down from the cart and he obliged. After stepping down from the cart, the passenger suddenly got violent and started physically abusing the co-passenger, IndiGo said.
Taking precautionary measure, the Captain immediately informed the Air Traffic control (ATC) and the ground security staff about the situation onboard.
The flight made the precautionary landing at the Mumbai airport where this passenger was handed over to the CISF for further investigations. The matter is now with the local authorities, the airline further said.
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Use the pliars, drill, and blowtorch.
Even if not terrorism, he was a PITA and needs to pay
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Sadly, this POS will talk after the Presidency with even more abandon than before, just as long as he feels the adulation he has come to expect. When it fades, his petulant behavior will lead him to very bad choices.....
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He's speeches will turn out like this after January.
"And as you graduate, I am reminded of my first steps outside of my dorm, near my Presidential Library, which I highly recommend you visit, which enabled me to appreciate the struggles a black man such as myself went through."
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[Al Jazeera] Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... , the Pak politician and former cricket star, considers the Taliban a "terrorist" group and believes that it is "absolute nonsense" to speculate that he supports "extremism".
In an interview with Al Jazeera's Mehdi Hasan, the host of UpFront, Khan said: "Yes they are [a terrorist group]. Anyone who kills innocent people are terrorists."
The interview will be aired in full on Friday at 19:30 GMT.
Khan was also asked about his alleged relationship with the Pakistain Taliban and whether, as some have speculated, he supports the gang.
"This is absolute nonsense. It's just not true," he said. "All you have to do is look at my statements for the past ten years."
Khan also responded to accusations from Asif Ali Zardari, former president of Pakistain, that his large financial donations to Darul Uloom Haqqania ...an Islamic seminary located in Akora Khattak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The seminary propagates the Deobandi trend of Sunni Islam and is headed by Maulana Samiul Haq, known as the Godfather of the Taliban. It has been dubbed The University of Jihad due to the methods and content of instruction along with the future occupations of its alumni.... , a school known for educating Taliban fighters, was evidence that he supported "extremism".
"This is totally out of context," he said, explaining that the purpose of the funding from his party was "to get the madrassa system into the mainstream".
Khan said "if it was a university for jihad, it should have been shut down" by previous Pak governments.
He said that Zardari's comments were "like so many of the Moslem corrupt rulers, ex-rulers, trying to win Western support by saying how liberal they are and how anti-Taliban they are".
Khan also spoke about Pakistain's controversial blasphemy laws.
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Ahlu Sunna Waljama’a (ASWJ), a moderate Islamist group in central Somalia say it began military operations, hunting down Al Shabaab members in Galgadud region.
And here I was hoping that ASWJ was a private club. I'd buy Besoeker a one year membership for his birthday...
ASWJ fighters in fighting vehicles have been deployed south of Guri’el town, where Al Shabaab leaders are reportedly holding meeting with local elders.
Al Shabaab leaders are discussing with the elders on ways to bring an end to civilian killings by the militants in Galgadud region, central Somalia. The meeting has ended with disagreement, as both sides failed to reach a comprehensive accord on the issue, according to reliable sources.
Because the elders wanted to stop the killing and the Shaboobs didn't...
Al Shabaab has demanded from the elders a another meeting by next month.
You might consider the security arrangements for such a meeting...
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[The Hindu] Pakistain-based terror groups such as the Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT), the Taliban, the Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... (JeM) and the al-Qaeda target India’s interests and goals in Afghanistan, and pursue other objectives such as creating sanctuaries and safe havens for hard boyz in tribal areas between Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... and Islamabad, the Afghan envoy to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... (UN) has said.
"In Afghanistan, regional terrorist groups have cooperated with the Taliban based on their common goals and mutual interests. These groups include Lashkar-e-Taiba, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain, Jaish-e-Mohammad, al-Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Islam ...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It's headed by a former bus driver.... ... These groups pose a strategic threat to the security and stability of Afghanistan," Permanent Afghan Representative Mahmoud Saikal said here on Friday during the open briefing of the Counter-Terrorism Committee on foreign terrorists.
These terror groups, he said, "pursue a few objectives" in Afghanistan, the main among them being "revival of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, targeting India’s interests and goals in Afghanistan" and forming "strategic alliances with international terrorist networks in the region and world." These groups also seek withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan, creating bases and safe havens and using them as a platform for "undermining and toppling" Central Asian "secular" governments, Mr. Saikal said.
They also pursue the objective of creating "sanctuaries and safe havens" in tribal areas between Afghanistan and Pakistain and along the Durand Line, the 2,430-km-long international border between Pakistain and Afghanistan.
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[IBTIMES.CO.IN] Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT) founder and Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... chief Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... has joined hands with 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.... group in Afghanistan, according to a statement released by the Afghan Ministry of Defence (MoD).
The Jamaat-ud-Dawa leader had recently said he was coming to India, or more specifically, Kashmire, which begs the question: Will he bring Isis bandidosforces of Evil there?
According to the Afghan MoD statement, a copy of which is available with International Business Times, India, Saeed had last year pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, which is also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (Isil).
The statement said: "He was a front man for the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) who later pledged allegiance to ISIS terror group." It also said: "He was one of the few senior members of TTP, who joined ISIS when it first emerged in the region a few months ago and was planning to engulf a widened war in the region and play a central role for the terror group." ISIS is the Arabic acronym of Isis, and a name by which it is referred to in the Middle-Eastern countries.
In a series of videos that had surfaced recently, Saeed, who, India says, criminal masterminded the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, was seen saying: "My sister Asiya Andrabi called me over the phone and cried for 15 minutes. She asked me: 'Brother, where are you?' Now, I am telling my sister Asiya, we are coming." Dukhtaran-e-Millat leader Asiya Andrabi is one of the more prominent separatist leaders in Kashmire.
These remarks by Saeed, made at a prominent rally in Lahore, where he roams free despite being a wanted man in the United States and India, coupled with the fact that he is now working with Isis, could mean any new attacks he could be planning in Jammu & Kashmire, or even the rest of India, would be in collaboration with the Islamic State group. This could be a huge challenge for intelligence agencies as well as security forces in India.
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[NATIONALREVIEW] Hillary’s pathetic self-indulgence leads her to moan about her plight even as the media fête her. On Sunday, Hillary complained about her victimhood at the hands of the brutal vast right-wing conspiracy: "I often feel like there’s the Hillary standard, and then there’s the standard for everybody else."
Scott Pelley of CBS News, who was purportedly interviewing her, then followed up by asking, "Why do you put yourself through it?"
Hillary’s answer: " ’Cause I really believe in this country."
Nobody believes that for a heartbeat. Not when she’s dismissing the problems of Americans in order to pander to Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood ...has received federal funding since 1970, when President Richard Nixon signed into law the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act. It is sometimes described as the gynecololgical wing of the Democratic party. or remind Americans of the importance of transgender bathrooms.
Now, Hillary believes that she can succeed by labeling Trump arrogant and self-centered. But Americans already know he’s arrogant and self-centered. They think he’s out to help blue-collar Americans, that he’s ready to protect them from the vicissitudes of the global economy and the evils of crime.
Americans have no idea why Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Foster Dulles ... is running. This they do know: She doesn’t share their priorities.
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Hillary’s answer: " ’Cause I really believe in this country."
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I didn't connect Fred's snippets with the title, so I read the whole thing. Now I understand.
But I'm not so sure it's accidental. Or the narcissist may really believe she will continue to follow his great legacy and make him look even better. He knows that ain't gonna happen if she loses.
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Like the accidental fundamental transformation destruction of America?
ScottPelley of CBS News, who was purportedly interviewing her, then followed up by asking, "Why do you put yourself through it?"
Hillary’s answer: " ’Cause I really believe in this country." For money and ego.
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Asked: "Why do you put yourself through it?"
Saint Hillary's answered: " ’Cause I really believe in this country." (She began to cough as if she had something stuck in her throat.).
The article also stated:
"She’s manipulating, cynical, and nasty. She’s instinctively defensive, brutally cutting, and utterly cold."
One of Bernie's supporters used the "C" word to describe her when interviewed.
[DAILYCALLER] Former Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour is believed to have stolen vast sums of money from the terrorist group’s coffers in an apparent attempt to protect himself while his men were being killed in Afghanistan, according to U.S. Gen. John Nicholson.
The revelations regarding Mansour’s corruption exemplify a larger problem within Taliban ranks as leaders continue to skim money from the organization to live in "sanctuary," Nicholson told news hounds during a briefing over Skype. In Mansour’s case, stealing money did little to save him, as he was killed in a U.S. drone strike May 21.
"We also see evidence that Mansour had misdirected a lot of the Taliban revenues for his own purposes," said Nicholson. "And in fact, since his death, because of his tight control over Taliban finances ... the Taliban are having trouble getting control of their own finances."
Nicholson claimed Mansour’s death has significantly disrupted Taliban operations, despite the group’s claims it has successfully transitioned to a new leader, Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada ...Deputy to Taliban supremo Mullah Akhtar Mansour... . The quick replacement of Mansour, which occurred within a week of his death, was reportedly not inclusive and has "exacerbated" existing tensions previously seen within the group’s leadership.
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Perhaps Mr. Mansour should have set up a charitable foundation instead. I'm sure he could have picked up pointers from someone.
[BREITBART] Jihad Ahmad Diyab, a former Guantánamo Bay detainee who was released to Uruguay as part of a deal between the White House and the socialist government of former President José Mujica, has surfaced in Venezuela after his disappearance a month ago. He is demanding to be flown to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to reunite with his Syrian family.
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reports that Uruguayan officials have confirmed that Diyab has resurfaced at the Uruguayan consulate in Caracas, demanding to be sent anywhere but Uruguay, but preferring Turkey. "He expressed clearly that in no case was he interested in returning to Uruguay, but required the assistance of our country for his proposal," the Uruguayan Foreign Ministry confirmed in a statement.
Uruguay had granted visas to Diyab’s family members to come live with him in the South American country, which will now be revoked, as he refuses to return. Diyab is not wanted by any government and free to travel to Turkey if he so chooses, but does not have the funds to do so and is requesting Uruguay pay for his flight.
The Uruguayan government has refused to pay his flight to Turkey, calling such a move "inappropriate" because of his repeated declarations that he would rather be anywhere else on earth but Uruguay. He is free to return to Uruguay at any point, however.
Diyab had been missing since late June, when he traveled to the Uruguay-Brazil border, allegedly to spend the end of Ramadan there. A report in early July suggested that Diyab had reached Venezuela, though it did not specify where in Venezuela he had arrived or why he chose that nation. Diyab allegedly told Uruguayan consulate workers that he had taken a bus out of Brazil to Venezuela.
Uruguay agreed to take six former Guantánamo Bay detainees in 2014, all of whom at some point in time have participated in protests against Uruguay. Their inability to speak Spanish made finding a job in the nation’s capital extremely difficult, and adjusting to Latin American culture proved a challenge. Some refused to get jobs or take government-provided Spanish lessons. Two of the men endured short-lived marriages, annulled after domestic abuse claims.
One Uruguayan official, shortly following Diyab’s disappearance, was quick to remark that the former jihadi detainee was "Brazil’s problem" now.
Kelly Keiderling, the American ambassador in Montevideo, has expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... with Diyab’s behavior. "Anyone like Diyab concerns us once they have been in Guantánamo," she said, "In the security world, we do everything possible to understand what could be the threats and see if there are ways to mitigate them."
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Their inability to speak Spanish made finding a job in the nation’s capital extremely difficult, and adjusting to Latin American culture proved a challenge
yeah, yeah, they were just busting with eagerness to do legal hard work
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[KAUMUDIGLOBAL] MUMBAI: 26/11 key plotter Abu Jundal and 11 others were Thursday convicted by a special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court in the 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case.
The court acquitted eight others in the case while trial of two accused have been separated.
Special MCOCA Judge Shrikant Anekar delivered the verdict after final arguments in the case concluded recently following a ten-year-long wait.
The court also dropped MCOCA charges in the case, in which 22 people, including Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... operative Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal, were locked away You have the right to remain silent... The court accepted prosecution's case that the aim of the convicted accused was to create terror in the minds of people and to eliminate public leaders like then Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Hindu leader Pravin Togadia.
On May 8, 2006, a Maharashtra ATS team chased a Tata Sumo and an Indica car on Chandwad-Manmad Highway near Aurangabad and arrested three terror suspects and seized 30kg of RDX, 10 AK-47 assault rifles and 3,200 bullets.
The Indica, allegedly driven by Jundal, managed to give police the slip. Jundal, who hails from Beed district of Maharashtra, drove to Malegaon and a few days later he escaped to Bangladesh from where he fled to Pakistain, according to the state police.
He was deported to India from Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... in 2012. Later, charges were framed against the arrested accused in August 2013.
During the trial, the prosecution examined 100 witnesses while defence lawyers examined 16.
The trial was stayed by the Supreme Court for a while after one of the accused challenged constitutional validity of certain provisions of MCOCA. The stay was vacated in 2009.
In August last year, the Bombay High Court directed the lower court to expedite the trial.
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[The Hindu] A top Pak court has allowed the examination of a boat used by the 10 Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT) forces of Evil to reach India for carrying out the 2008 Mumbai attack, overturning an anti-terrorism court verdict which it termed "flawed."
"The Islamabad High Court has set aside the verdict of trial court [Anti-Terrorism Court] in Mumbai case for not allowing sending of a commission to Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... for inspection of Al-Fauz boat used by Mumbai attack terrorists," Chaudhry Azhar, prosecution chief in the Mumbai attack case, said. He said the High Court termed the trial court decision "flawed and not in accordance with law" and allowed examination of the boat in the port city of Karachi.
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The prosecution in May had challenged the trial court’s decision to reject its plea to form a commission to examine the boat ’Al-Fauz’ used by Mumbai attack forces of Evil so that the vessel could be made "case property."
Al-Fauz is in the custody of Pak authorities in Karachi, from where the 10 krazed killers, armed with AK-47 assault rifles and hand grenades, had left for India to carry out the Mumbai attack that claimed 166 lives.
The High Court, however, has not specified in its order whether it is necessary to form a commission comprising prosecution and defence lawyers for the inspection of the boat. "The trial court is likely to send court officials for the inspection of Al-Fauz since it has received no direction of forming a commission for the purpose," another court official said. "The trial court will nominate the official[s] for the inspection of the boat in the September 7 hearing," he said.
The trial court on Wednesday held a hearing in the Mumbai attack case in Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi.
’No reply yet from India on witnesses’
It was informed that Pakistain had not received a reply from India about sending its 24 witnesses here to record their statements in the case. The court adjourned the proceedings in the case till September 7.
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[The Hindu] A Bangladesh court on Thursday upheld the death sentence for six Islamist snuffies convicted over a suicide kaboom in 2005 of a lawyer’s office that killed eight people, a top prosecutor said.
Bangladesh’s judiciary is under pressure to fast track cases involving snuffies as the government faces mounting criticism to crackdown on Islamists over a series of recent deadly killings. A Bench of two High Court judges rejected appeals from the six convicted over the 2005 bombing, claimed by local turban group Jamat-ul- Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
Charges proved beyond doubt
"The court upheld the death orders against the six JMB turbans as the charges against them were proved beyond any doubt," Deputy Attorney-General Sheikh A.K.M. Moniruzzaman told AFP.
JMB has also been blamed for a siege this month by five gunnies on an upscale cafe in Dhaka that killed 20 mostly foreign hostages and two coppers.
Police have rejected 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.... (IS) group’s claim for the July 1 attack. The group posted gruesome images of the carnage before the military stormed the cafe.
Conspired, assisted in the bombing
Mr. Moniruzzaman said the six convicted snuffies had conspired and assisted in the bombing of the lawyer’s office just north of Dhaka, part of JMB’s then deadly campaign against the secular judiciary.
"Of the ten JMB turbans originally sentenced to death by the trial court in 2013, two were acquitted by the High Court and two others were sentenced to life in prison," he added.
The attack was one of a series of blasts the JMB carried out in 2005, then raising fears that the Moslem-majority nation would descend into Afghanistan-style Islamic militancy.
Four lawyers and four litigants died in the attack. The jacket wallah was also killed.
Now, it has regrouped and is stronger
Authorities launched a crack down on the JMB at the time, but it has regrouped in recent years under new leaders. According to experts, it has been actively recruiting young and highly educated young men to its ranks.
Police have blamed the banned group for scores of gruesome murders of religious minorities, as well as of foreigners, since 2013.
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A relatively heavy explosion was heard in Khair Khana area of Kabul city after an improvised explosive device went off in a busy market area.
Security sources have confirmed that the incident took place after an improvised explosive device was being detonated by the police forces.
The sources further added that a policeman sustained injuries in the incident and there are no other casualties.
No group has so far claimed responsibility behind the incident which comes days after a deadly attack took place in the city leaving at least 80 dead and over 200 others wounded.
The incident on Saturday took place as hundreds of thousands of people had gathered in the area to protest against the government for changing the route of a power project from Bamyan to Salang.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group claimed responsibility behind the incident.
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[Express] The Swiss State Secretariat for Migration has made changes to its Civil Rights bill to deal with the increasing issue of terrorism in Europe.
A case was brought before the courts when the government applied to strip a 19-year-old of his dual nationality.
The unnamed man, who joined Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria in 2015, also held Italian nationality
Not a dual national then, but a triple national, if one considers, as the Islamic State must, emigration to ISIS being the necessary step to naturalized citizenship in the Caliphate.
but posted photos of himself with the decapitated head of one of his victims.
Now the jihadi from Winterthur in the canton of Zurich in northern Switzerland is no longer a citizen although he is also believed to be dead.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Yemen's Ansarullah movement and former President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... 's party, on Thursday declared the formation of a presidential council to run the country, in a joint statement reported by Saba news agency.
"Due to the arrogance of Saudi aggression and its allies, their continuing killing of our people and destruction of public and private property on the daily basis before the eyes of the international community and the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... in particular," they said.
"We decide to form a supreme political council from the General People's Congress (Saleh's party) and Ansarullah (Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... group) to run the country in all its affairs of politics, economy, military and security, to confront the Saudi aggression, and map out public policy of Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... in accordance with the constitution," they added.
Yemen has been since March 26, 2015 under brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition.
Thousands have been martyred and injured in the attack, with the vast majority of them are civilians.
Riyadh launched the attack on Yemen in a bid to restore power to runaway ex-president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi who is a close ally to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... .
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[EXPRESS.CO.UK] MOURNERS trying to pay peaceful respects at the Munich shooting memorial were disrupted by a group of men who began shouting 'Allahu Akbar' at the site
The disturbing confrontation unfolded just days after an 18-year-old German-Iranian man opened fire in a crowded Munich shopping mall and a nearby McDonald’s. The attack, which sent shockwaves throughout Germany, left nine people dead and maimed 16 others.
While the country, still shaken by the attack, attempts to reinstate order, a disturbance caught on camera at the makeshift memorial for the shooting saw the mourners dramatically turn on each other.
A group of Moslem men at the memorial shouted, "Allahu Akbar!"
The video exposes the tensions running high throughout the country as both Germany and La Belle France have been hit by several attacks in recent weeks.
During the incident, a group of Moslem men arrived at the memorial and disrupted silent mourners who had gathered together at the scene to pay their respects to the dead.
They repeatedly chanted "Allahu Akbar!", an Islamic phrase that translates to "God is the greatest."
The Italian news outlet Il Fatto Quotidiano released the footage of the confrontation which took place on Sunday evening.
Many reports in the shooting's immediate aftermath assumed the attacker had terrorist intentions but officials are now ruling this out.
The disturbance at the memorial became so fraught that police had to eventually intervene.
In the short video, a well-built man tries to shout down "a group of young Moslem men" who are all chanting "Allahu Akbar".
One of the men in the video can be seen criticising the "unjust world we live in".
Il Fatto Quotidiano reported that the young men had actually lost friends in the attack and had come to mourn.
Which young men -- the ones who were silenty mourning or the ones shouting loudly proclaiming the triumph of Islam?
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"confront" should be "surround and beat the shit out of"
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I hope Police arrived in time and arrested the rioting right-wingers.
(IraqiNews.com) NINEVEH – A local source in Nineveh province announced on Thursday that dozens of detainees, from a ISIS prison in Mosul, fled after the prison was attacked by a youth group of the city.
Sharing details the source said, “A youth group from Mosul attacked one of the ISIS prisons in the city center with Kalashnikov and killed prison guard and helped a dozen of detainees to escape it.”
The source further informed, “Most of the detainees were from Mosul and they were arrested on charges of collaborating with the security forces.”
“This attack came after ISIS demanded exorbitant amount of money as ransoms from the families of the detainees. The demanded amounts ranged from 100,000 to 200,000 Iraqi dinars,” the source added.
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A source in Kirkuk informed that ISIS firing squad executed a youth in central Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk. The dead youth was charged of collaborating with the security forces.
“The deceased was a 20-year-old youth, who was a resident of al-Batoush village in Hawija district,” the source further informed.
It may be mentioned here that even in the past, a number of persons have been executed by ISIS for similar ‘offences’.
(IraqiNews.com) MOSUL – ISIS on Wednesday killed 14 Iraqis, including women and children, who tried to escape towards the liberated villages under the control of Iraqi forces in Qayyarah district, south of Mosul.
Colonel Khaled al-Jawari, from Nineveh Police Command, said,” ISIS executed 14 civilians, including five women and a child, after they tried to escape from areas under ISIS control towards Ahjila village, which is controlled by Iraqi forces in Qayyarah.
Al-Jawari further informed, “ISIS encircled the detainees and carried out the execution operation by firing squad process. Circular firing squad: said to be a US Republican tactic.
[ARA News] ALEPPO – Islamic State’s (ISIS) jihadis on Thursday publicly executed and crucified a man in Syria’s northern Aleppo province, activists and eyewitnesses reported.
Hussein Muhammad, 28, was reportedly arrested by the ISIS-led Islamic Police in al-Bab city in the northern countryside of Aleppo earlier this week.
“The Sharia Court accused Muhammad of apostasy for refusing to join prayers at the mosque,” a media activist told ARA News in al-Bab, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“A Sharia judge decided to execute and crucify the man in public, claiming he was an apostate who refused to perform Sharia duties and violated the basic laws of the Caliphate,” the source reported.
Muhammad was executed by gunfire, and his corpse was crucified on an electricity pole in central al-Bab.
“The victims’ body will remain crucified for three days, and ISIS threatened people that anyone who would try to remove him will be mercilessly punished,” rights activist Ahmed al-Beik told ARA News, adding that hundreds of al-Bab residents gathered on Thursday afternoon to witness the execution.
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The U.S. economy expanded less than forecast in the second quarter after a weaker start to the year than previously estimated as companies slimmed down inventories and remained wary of investing amid shaky global demand.
Gross domestic product rose at a 1.2 percent annualized rate after a 0.8 percent advance the prior quarter, Commerce Department figures showed Friday in Washington. The median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for a 2.5 percent second-quarter increase.
The report raises the risk to the outlook at a time Federal Reserve policy makers are looking for sustained improvement. While consumers were resilient last quarter, businesses were cautious -- cutting back on investment and aggressively reducing stockpiles amid weak global markets, heightened uncertainty and the lingering drag from a stronger dollar.
“We’re just muddling through," said Joseph LaVorgna, chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. in New York, who had forecast a 1 percent gain in second-quarter GDP. “Consumer spending looks good, but the problem is that the rest of the economy is soft. The economy remains vulnerable to downside risks. The Fed is right to be cautious."
Private fixed investment, which includes residential and business spending, dropped at a 3.2 percent pace in the second quarter, the most in seven years.
With Friday’s report, the Commerce Department also issued its annual revisions, updating the data back through 2013.
And the revisions always go in one direction...
The first-quarter’s reading was revised from a previously reported 1.1 percent gain. The new breakdown shows a more pronounced slowdown in the economy heading into 2016. The year-over-year growth rate cooled from 3.3 percent in last year’s first quarter to 1.9 percent in the final three months of 2015, rather than the previous downshift from 2.9 percent to 2 percent.
The easing in growth continued into the first half of this year. The year-over-year pace for the first quarter of 2016 was revised down to 1.6 percent from 2.1 percent, the revisions showed. That revised trajectory has implications for Fed officials, as they’re faced with an expansion that has been steadily losing steam.
Economists’ second-quarter estimates for GDP, or the value of all goods and services produced, ranged from 1 percent to 3.2 percent, according to a Bloomberg survey. The growth estimate is the first of three for the quarter, with the other releases scheduled for August and September when more information becomes available.
Inventories were reduced by $8.1 billion in the second quarter, the most since third quarter of 2011 and subtracting 1.16 percentage points from the economy. At the same time, leaner inventories could set the stage for a pickup in production later this year should demand hold up.
Household consumption, which accounts for about 70 percent of the economy, grew at a 4.2 percent annualized rate, the biggest jump since the end of 2014 and adding 2.83 percentage points to growth. That followed a revised 1.6 percent increase from January through March. The Bloomberg survey median forecast for the second quarter was 4.4 percent.
Corporate spending on equipment, structures and intellectual property, decreased an annualized 2.2 percent after a 3.4 percent fall in the first quarter. Outlays for equipment dropped for the fourth time in the past five quarters. Spending on structures -- everything from factories to shops to oil rigs -- have increased in just one quarter since the end of 2014.
To get a better sense of demand in the U.S., economists look at final sales to domestic purchasers, or GDP excluding inventories and net exports. That measure increased 2.1 percent last quarter after a 1.2 percent gain.
Also holding back economic growth in the second quarter was a decrease in residential investment, which fell at a 6.1 percent pace. That was the most since the third quarter of 2010 and marked the first decrease in two years.
Government spending also shrank last quarter, declining 0.9 percent, the most in more than two years as outlays for the military fell. States and municipalities also cut back.
The GDP report also showed price pressures remain limited. A measure of inflation, which is tied to consumer spending and strips out food and energy costs, climbed at a 1.7 percent annualized pace compared with 2.1 percent in the prior quarter.
Fed policy makers, who left interest rates unchanged this week, said risks to the U.S. outlook have “diminished” and the labor market is getting tighter, suggesting conditions are turning more favorable for an increase in borrowing costs.
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Does anybody believe the Fed under Yellen anymore. It was clear that despite all the abra-kadabra, she wasn't going to raise rates until after the election. This kind of silly rhetoric just confirms how phony the whole charade has been. If you know the boss is going to massively raise the debt, you sure as hell want to limit borrowing costs. Now with the debt service as big (or bigger) than the defense budget, and entitlements (with a 20% fraud rate) untouchable, what will follow is very very scary.
ADEN: A bomb explosion on Wednesday in an open market in Yemen’s oasis city of Marib killed seven people and wounded 18, security and medical sources said.
The blast targeted a market selling qat, the mild narcotic leaf popular in the Arabian Peninsula country, a security official in Marib said.
A medical source at the city’s public hospital confirmed the toll.
Forces loyal to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi control Marib, which is east of Yemen’s rebel-held capital Sanaa.
Marib has seen fierce battles between Hadi loyalists and Shiite Houthi rebels and their allies.
[EXPRESS.CO.UK] Mikaela Kellner was working on her tan in the Rålambshov park in Stockholm when a suspicious man, claiming to be selling magazines for charity, approached them.
When they said they weren’t interested but he wouldn’t leave them alone, Ms Kellner suspected something was wrong, but eventually he took the hint and walked away.
She said: “As soon as he left one of my friends said 'where did my mobile phone go?’
“There was no time, so I ran after him, maybe 15 metres or so. One of my friends is also a police officer, so we got hold of him. He tried to get away so we held onto him harder.
“I just acted on instinct and didn't think about it so much until after we had pinned him down. When I sat there I looked over at our other two friends who are not police officers and realised that it probably looked pretty funny.
“But I would have stepped in no matter my outfit.”
The man had cleverly grabbed the phone by covering his hands with the magazine covers.
Ms Kellner now wants to use her newfound fame to warn others about the threat of such brazen thieves. I like the cut of Mikaela's jib.
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Ooh,ooh. Arrest me!
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[LI] The burning of an Israeli flag outside the Democratic National Convention has received a fair amount of press.
[Mercury Sports News] A former De La Salle High School quarterback pursuing the same elite level on the military field as his team did on the gridiron fell ill during training and died at a Fort Benning, Georgia, hospital earlier this week, officials said Thursday.
[BREITBART] Shiite Iran’s terror proxy Hezbollah ("The Party of God") has registered as an official political party in Peru’s Abancay province, home to the largest 
[TIME] The Nusra Front announced its split from al-Qaeda on July 28, with the group renaming itself Jabhat Fatah al-Sham. The move is being seen as a shrewd attempt to hide their
[DefenseTech] The tweet was subsequently cited in an article by Thomas Gibbons-Neff, a reporter for The Washington Post, who reported the weapon is probably being used by American troops to target small reconnaissance drones operated by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS.
At least 8 loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in separate drone strikes in East of Afghanistan.
A 48-year-old man was 
[DAWN] MUZAFFARABAD: Hundreds of people held a rally for the third consecutive day on Wednesday, urging the international community to take notice of unabated state-sponsored terrorism by Indian forces in held 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The Syrian Army and Armed Forces continued on Wednesday targeting terrorist organizations across the country, with the Syrian Air Force targeting 
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
But, Pelosi contended, that’s changing because of Clinton’s "economic agenda to create jobs, good-paying jobs, increasing paychecks."
You've crossed the line this time Skid. 
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When it fades, his petulant behavior will lead him to very bad choices.....
Mullah Akhtar Mansour is believed to have stolen vast sums of money from the terrorist group’s coffers in an apparent attempt to protect himself while his men were being killed in Afghanistan, according to U.S. Gen. John Nicholson.
[SALON] 
[Express] The Swiss State Secretariat for Migration has made changes to its Civil Rights bill to deal with the increasing issue of terrorism in Europe.
[EXPRESS.CO.UK] Mikaela Kellner was working on her tan in the Rålambshov park in Stockholm when a suspicious man, claiming to be selling magazines for charity, approached them. 
