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Iraqi Air Force bombed ISIS terrorist hideouts on the border between Diyala and Salah al-Din
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-War on Police-
Breonna Taylor grand jury audio: Officers testified they knocked before entering
[FOXNEWS] Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron on Friday released the much-anticipated recordings of the grand jury proceedings in the deadly shooting of Breonna Taylor involving three Louisville coppers earlier this year.

The audio, which officials estimated to be 20 hours long, was ordered to be released by noon ET Friday, after Cameron requested a delay earlier this week so his office could have more time to redact people’s names and other personal information before it was made public.

It includes officers' testimony that they knocked on Taylor's door multiple times and announced the police presence before entering, according to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Haven't personally gotten a chance to punch anyone for the "say her name" bullsh*t, but I have high hopes...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 1:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Say her name - "Dope whore..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 1:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Floyd: killed self; 4x the lethal dose of fentanyl in his blood per the medical examiner's testimony to Minn. DA

Breonna: moll to a gangster who fired first at cops lawfully pursuing him with a lawful warrant

What's is name in Kenosha: violent felon with a knife, yet again attacking his girlfriend and threatening to abscond with her kids using car & keys he scratched from her

Lies. A movement built on a mountain of wretched lies.
Posted by: Angomotle Lumumba2599 || 10/03/2020 2:28 Comments || Top||

#4  and Ben Crump: "mastermind" of a fake girlfriend in the Trayvon fraud case
Posted by: Frank G || 10/03/2020 7:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Floyd told the officers on the scene he'd been "hooping." AKA taking drugs via anal insertion. Yum.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 10:30 Comments || Top||

#6  You mean, there may be more to this story? I know six months is not a long time...

It did seem strange that the 'boyfriend' first thought was to come out shooting, something usually reserved for mega redneck white supremacist narratives.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/03/2020 10:47 Comments || Top||

#7 
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 12:12 Comments || Top||

#8  Dunno, Someone knocks on my door in the middle of the night, you'd better give me more than 45 seconds to wake up and decide you don't need a hosing.
Posted by: Uleger Flart6593 || 10/03/2020 12:49 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ Totally agree. But if you know someone is out to get you...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 13:21 Comments || Top||

#10  Cool the slurs, MM
Posted by: Frank G || 10/03/2020 14:06 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
BLM group, Proud Boys stand together at Salt Lake City press conference
Worst racists evah!
[KUTV] A Salt Lake chapter of the Proud Boys gathered at Washington Square Wednesday night to try and change the narrative that they’re racist.

They appeared with Jacarri Kelley, the leader of Black Lives Matter, Northern Utah. It’s a chapter that’s unaffiliated with Black Lives Matter Utah, headed by Alexis Scott.
First they’re independent, then they start thinking for themselves, and then you see things like this. Heretics!
"I don’t care what color your skin is, we’re all Americans and we need to find a way to come together instead of divide," said the local Proud Boys president, a man named Seth who declined to offer his last name.

It’s a line seemingly at odds with an organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League say is a hate group.
That’s because the SPLC and ADL are scare mongering fundraising machines for the left, not research groups calmly sifting actual evidence. They used to be that, two or three generations ago, but propaganda is more fun, considerably less work, and lets them discriminate within their ranks with no feeling of guilt.
"We are in no way, shape or form white supremacists," said Thad, the group’s chief, who also declined to provide his last name.

The men said their safety is threatened when people believe they are white supremacists.

What they claim to be is "western chauvinists." What does that mean?

"It means that the west is the best — western civilization is the best. That’s our opinion," Thad said.

Seth added that chauvinism should be understood as patriotism.

Proud Boys was founded by a Gavin McInnes, someone Thad and Seth acknowledge is an instigator. He can be found online doing Nazi salutes and using the N-word. Seth and Thad dismiss McInnes as simply a provocateur — someone who does outlandish things for clickbait.

Why would they want to be associated with someone like that?

"He’s gone, he’s not part of the organization anymore," both men said.

The Salt Lake chapter of the group says they’ll continue to link arms with Black Lives Matter, Northern Utah.

"Meeting and talking and having that understanding allowed us to move forward with working together on police reform," Seth said.

Kelley, who first met the Proud Boys at a protest in Cottonwood Heights, says the partnership is real.

"We do need to be able to reach across the aisle and have these tough conversations," she said.
America: where the locals work together to solve local problems, ignoring immaterial differences like national politics.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM


Africa North
Ghannouchi calls for unity amid crisis in Tunisia
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


Arabia
Iranian terror in Bahrain to rise to stop deal with Israel – intel center
[Jpost] The Islamic Theocratic Republic has always wanted to "flip" Bahrain into being another Shi’ite dominated country, hoping to use the Shi’ite majority to its benefit.

Iranian-sponsored terrorism in Bahrain is expected to increase to capsize the normalization trend with Israel, a new intelligence report obtained first by The Jerusalem Post said Thursday.

"Our estimate is that the deal could increase the motivation of Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and of terror organizations in Bahrain, which it sponsors, to try to increase the public threat level, including to attack Bahrain’s rulers and to thwart implementation of the deal," the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center report said.

The process of normalization with Israel could effectively spell the end of a relatively quiet three-year hiatus from problems between Bahrain’s Sunni minority rulers and the disempowered Shi’ite majority, it said.

Noting Bahrain’s September 20 announcement of busting a major terrorist cell, the Meir Amit Center said the spike in threats from Iran-affiliated terrorist groups may already be here.

Only days after Bahrain signed a declaration with Israel on September 15, signaling its intent to move toward full normalization, Manama said the terrorist cell had planned to attack Bahraini officials, security installations and economic centers.

Iran and its proxies were said to be carrying out these attacks to avenge the US’s January liquidation of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani.

Though Bahrain’s statement did not mention the US, significant American military forces stationed in Bahrain are one of many Iranian complaints with the country’s Sunni monarchy.

The terrorist groups arrested by the Bahraini government likely had been tracked for an extended period of time, the report said.

Though the timing of announcing the arrests likely was connected to the September 15 signing ceremony with Israel, the terrorist plots, tracking them and maybe even the arrests themselves might have occurred significantly earlier, it said.

If so, the timing of the announcement would be a sign from Bahrain’s rulers to try to show they have control of the country and to deter Iran and its proxies, the report said.

The first round of conflict between Bahrain and Iran and its proxies was in 1981, after Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979.

The Islamic Theocratic Republic has always wanted to "flip" Bahrain into being another Shi’ite-dominated country, hoping to use the Shi’ite majority to its benefit.

From 2011-2017, there was extended conflict within Bahrain, with Shi’ite terrorist groups working with Iran and Hezbollah to carry out a large number of attacks.

By 2018, Bahrain, with the help of the Saudis, had crushed most of the violent mostly peaceful opposition, using both force and cracking down on aspects of political opposition in the country.

Another major turning point, the report noted, was April 2019, when 139 anti-regime activists were given extended prison sentences.

Unlike the United Arab Emirates, where the public and social media have been supportive of the new deal with Israel, there have been significant public protests and social-media criticism within Bahrain of the move to normalize ties.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Azerbaijan has not requested assistance in Nagorno-Karabakh, but Turkey will help if asked – FM Cavusoglu
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Europe
France warns against 'internationalisation' of Karabakh conflict
[Al Ahram] La Belle France warned Friday against the risks of an "internationalisation" and "out of control" escalation in the conflict over Nagorny Karabakh, as fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia shows no sign of abating.

Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told his Azerbaijani and Armenian counterparts in a telephone call that a failure to halt the fighting would "bring the risk of an out of control escalation," his office said.

He also warned them "over the risk that an internationalisation of the conflict" would represent, after President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that fighters in Syria had travelled to Azerbaijan via The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
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Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


The Grand Turk
Erdogan's Syria ambitions dwindle
[Al Ahram] "Mr Macron, you’re going to have problems with me personally," warned Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
two weeks ago after the French president advised European leaders to be "clear and firm, not with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
as a nation and people, but with the government of President Erdogan, which has taken unacceptable actions."
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Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


‘Jerusalem is our city,' Turkey's Erdogan declares
Making friends and influencing people.
[Times of Israel] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday implied that Jerusalem belongs to Turkey, referring to the Ottoman Empire’s control over the city for much of the modern era.
By that logic, Istanbul — and all of Turkey — belongs to Italy as the descendant of the Roman empire that built it, and Jerusalem belongs to the Jews, who took it from the Arabs by conquest after being granted it by democratic vote in the United Nations. The fact that Turkey cannot even defeat the Kurds suggests they would not fare well in an attempt to conquer Israel. What an idiot.
"In this city that we had to leave in tears during the First World War, it is still possible to come across traces of the Ottoman resistance.
A failed resistance, which is why the League of Nations took it away from the Turks, giving it to Britain to administer until the Jews were up to speed.
So Jerusalem is our city, a city from us," he told Turkish lawmakers during a major policy speech in Ankara. "Our first qibla [direction of prayer in Islam] al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem are the symbolic mosques of our faith. In addition, this city is home to the holy places of Christianity and Judaism."
What a whiney baby he is, to be sure.
During a lengthy speech at the opening of the Turkish parliament’s new legislative session, Erdogan spent several minutes lamenting the fate of Jerusalem and the Palestinians’ plight.
Boooooring.
"Another crisis that our country and our nation carefully follow is the oppression of Israel against the Palestinians and the indifferent practices that disregard the privacy of Jerusalem," he said toward the end of his address.

"The issue of Jerusalem is not an ordinary geopolitical problem for us.
That and five bucks will get you coffee and a pastry at Starbucks.
First of all, the current physical appearance of the Old City, which is the heart of Jerusalem, was built by Suleiman the Magnificent, with its walls, bazaar, and many buildings. Our ancestors showed their respect for centuries by keeping this city in high esteem."
Some of it, anyway, added to and built over the work of the Christians, the Jews, and the Canaanites. And your ancestors are the reason the place needed so much work when the Jews took over.
The Palestinian people have been living in Jerusalem "for thousands of years," but they were occupied and had their rights violated, the Turkish leader went on.
This is an example of the “One, two, many” style of counting used by primitives who lack all knowledge of numbers higher than they can reach when they take off their shoes.
Posted by: Uloter Ebbomolet9368 || 10/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  MBGA ! Make Byzantium Greek Again!
Posted by: magpie || 10/03/2020 1:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Come take it.
Posted by: gorb || 10/03/2020 9:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Ergogan is taking lessons from our Dem's and our media. One emotional outburst after another.
Posted by: Dale || 10/03/2020 11:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Just the "ally" NATO needs.
Posted by: Clem || 10/03/2020 11:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Reconquer Constantinople!
Posted by: Dacama || 10/03/2020 15:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Count Belisarius, your legions await their orders
Posted by: Zebulon Ebbatch3233 || 10/03/2020 18:36 Comments || Top||


Great White North
Canda PM said an investigation has been launched into alleged use of Canadian military technologies in Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Canada's arms industry consists of a minority partnership in an Energizer AAA battery factory...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 10:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Canadians thought Azeris buy military equipment in preparation for peaceful purposes?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/03/2020 14:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes. clubbing baby seals and other peaceful stuff like that.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 15:58 Comments || Top||


Iraq
UN representative in Iraq stands with an element in the Iranian-backed IMIS nicknamed ''Al-Khal''
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Deputy Hamas head infected with coronavirus after round of int'l meetings
[Jpost] Saleh al-Arouri, deputy head of Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",'s political bureau, was confirmed as infected with the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
on Thursday, Hamas announced in an official statement. Arouri entered quarantine after he was diagnosed.

The Hamas official headed a delegation that met with Fatah officials in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
last week to discuss ending disputes between the two parties and holding elections. Arouri also met with Hezbollah Secretary-General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
as part of a delegation led by Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
in recent weeks.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Nobody is calling for him to resign.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 11:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Just his head infected?
No problem: he wasn't using that part of his anatomy anyway
Posted by: Jiggs Slaigum2887 || 10/03/2020 18:34 Comments || Top||



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Sat 2020-10-03
  Iraqi Air Force bombed ISIS terrorist hideouts on the border between Diyala and Salah al-Din
Fri 2020-10-02
  Trump confirms he and Melania test Positive for Covid-Virus
Thu 2020-10-01
  France arrests 29 in anti-terror Syria financing sting
Wed 2020-09-30
  First debate shambles, Chris Wallace loses bigly
Tue 2020-09-29
  US moves its embassy from Baghdad to Erbil
Mon 2020-09-28
  U.S. Plans 'Full Withdrawal' From Iraqi Embassy
Sun 2020-09-27
  Azerbaijan launched a missile and aerial attack against Artsakh and Stepanakert Armenia
Sat 2020-09-26
  BLM protester in Los Angeles who shut down the road with a large mob got hit by a truck
Fri 2020-09-25
  LNA Kills ISIS 'Emir' in Southern Libya
Thu 2020-09-24
  Louisville: Two police officers shot
Wed 2020-09-23
  Canadian woman charged for sending ricin to President Trump & law enforcement agencies in Texas was previously deported
Tue 2020-09-22
  Twenty-Five Afghan policemen dead after attempt to break Taliban siege in Uruzgan
Mon 2020-09-21
  Justice Dept. brands NYC an ‘anarchist jurisdiction,'
targets federal funds
Sun 2020-09-20
  Concentrated, Deadly Ricin Sent to White House, Addressed to President Trump
Sat 2020-09-19
  Notorious RBG dead at 87


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