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Assailants attack several protest camps in north and south Lebanon
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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Hundreds of undocumented migrants flock to New York DMV offices to take advantage of new law that allows them to get valid driving permit
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The Driver's License Access and Privacy Act was passed on June 17, 2019

  • On Monday, hundreds lined up in New York to apply for driver's license under law

  • Law allows those aged 16 and older to apply for the license 'regardless of their citizenship or lawful status' in the US, according to the law

  • License applicants without a valid Social Security number can submit multiple alternative forms of ID that includes valid passports issued in foreign countries

  • It's hoped the law will make day-to-day lives easier for undocumented migrants
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/18/2019 01:34 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Do they then have them register to vote under the motor voter law?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 12/18/2019 11:23 Comments || Top||

#2  ..are you suppose to put a /sarc on that?

And, expect auto insurance to go up for residents. You deserve it, good and hard.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/18/2019 11:46 Comments || Top||

#3  I'd have had every ICE agent in the Northeast stacked up arond the corner.
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/18/2019 13:23 Comments || Top||

#4  even the DM spins these illegal migrants as undocumented.

Wonder when they'll do the same with drug dealers/ undocumented psychiatrists.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/18/2019 14:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Quack = unlicensed practitioner
Car thief = untitled possessor
Rapist = unpermissioned partner
Posted by: Lex || 12/18/2019 17:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Don't forget home invader = uninvited houseguest
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/18/2019 18:44 Comments || Top||

#7  NJ, too (Vox link):

"New Jersey has joined 14 other states in passing a law allowing unauthorized [hmmm] immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses — meaning that nearly half of the estimated 10.6 million [riiight] unauthorized immigrants currently in the US now live in states with such laws."
Posted by: Maggie Peacock9944 || 12/18/2019 21:31 Comments || Top||

#8  Per MIT & Yake sociologists' detailed, thorough analysis the real figure is about 22 million illegal aliens in this country.

That's their midpoint estimate. 22 MILLION.
Posted by: Lex || 12/18/2019 22:01 Comments || Top||

#9  *Yale
Posted by: Lex || 12/18/2019 22:02 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Somali PM Meets With Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan In Geneva
[RADIOSHABELLE] Somali Prime Minister, Hassan Ali Khaire held talks with 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...
in Geneva on Monday.

Key Cabinet members from both sides attended the high-level meeting in the Swiss capital.

The two discussed ways to enhance bilateral diplomatic engagement and boost trade, economic cooperation between the two friendly states to improve Somalia’s growing economy.

Prime Minister Kheyre and President Erdogan joined other world leaders in Geneva for Global Refugee Forum.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
hosts more than 3.6 million Syrian refugees that fled the civil war in their country while Somalia hosts over 35,000 refugees and asylum seekers mainly from war-torn 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...
There are approximately 25 million refugees worldwide according to the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).

Posted by: Fred || 12/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Africa North
Egypt, USAID ink a second phase of North Sinai development initiative agreement worth $6 mln
Trying to give the locals reasons to not support the local jihadis — formerly Ansar Bayt al Maqdis, most recently ISIS in the Sinai Province.
[AlAhram] The agreement was signed by Egypt's Minister of Investment and International Cooperation and the USAID Mission Director in Egypt

Egypt and the USAID signed on Tuesday an agreement for an additional $6 million for the North Sinai development initiative, bringing the total in the bilateral assistance programme to the governorate to $56 million.

The agreement was signed by Egypt's Minister of Investment and International Cooperation Sahar Nasr and the USAID Mission Director in Egypt Sherry Carlin, in attendance of the US Ambassador in Egypt Jonathan Cohen.

Nasr said that the agreement aims at achieving major social and developmental improvement for citizens in North Sinai through providing safe drinking water and sanitation services for around 100,000 residents, in addition to upgrading the infrastructure in order to attract investments.

"The ties between Egypt and the USA are strategic. The current economic cooperation reflects the economic partnership between the two countries in the developmental sectors of top national priority, in line with the social and economic reform programme that Egypt is undertaking," according to Nasr.

The minister said that the Egyptian government’s priorities include the empowerment of young people and women, supporting SMEs, improving drinking water and sanitation, and expanding social protection programmes through implementing development projects in all sectors, especially in infrastructure, new road networks, social housing, healthcare, and education.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ..and then there is East St. Louis.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/18/2019 7:12 Comments || Top||

#2  I imagine the dollars will be spent in and around the prosperous Port Fuad and not much farther east in the Sinai.
Posted by: b || 12/18/2019 8:34 Comments || Top||


#Turkish parliamentary committee approves security and military agreement with #Libya
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 12/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Spokesperson of warlord Haftar claimed Monday that their forces will destroy Turkish navy ships entering #Libya territorial waters
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 12/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  please do
Posted by: chris || 12/18/2019 15:34 Comments || Top||

#2  That's quite the laser-stare. Un homme serieux.
Posted by: Lex || 12/18/2019 17:13 Comments || Top||

#3  You sure it's the right pic - the guy looks Pakistani not Arab?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/18/2019 17:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Maghreb. Not Arab.
Posted by: Lex || 12/18/2019 17:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Point
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/18/2019 17:30 Comments || Top||


Israel approves gas exports to Egypt
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Israel has approved the export of gas from its offshore reserves to Egypt, a spokeswoman said Tuesday, with a major reservoir expected to begin operations imminently.

The Monday approval by Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz was part of a long process under which Israel will transform from an importer of natural gas from Egypt into an exporter and potential regional energy player.

"Exporting gas to Egypt, from Leviathan and Tamar (fields), is the most significant economic cooperation between Israel and Egypt since the peace treaty was signed between the states," Steinitz said.

It will be the first time Egypt, which in 1979 became the first Arab country to sign a peace accord with Israel, imports gas from its neighbor.

US-based Noble and Israel's Delek, the consortium leading the development of the two offshore reservoirs, struck a $15 billion 10-year deal last year with Egypt’s Dolphinus to supply 64 billion cubic metres (2.26 trillion cubic feet).

Israel had previously bought gas from Egypt, but land sections of the pipeline were targeted multiple times by Sinai jihadists in 2011 and 2012.

Soaring demand also meant Egypt could use its gas domestically.

Tamar, which began production in 2013, has estimated reserves of up to 238 billion cubic metres (8.4 trillion cubic feet). Israel’s neighbor to the east, Jordan, has been purchasing gas from Tamar on a small scale for nearly three years.

Leviathan, discovered in 2010, is estimated to hold 535 billion cubic metres (18.9 trillion cubic feet) of natural gas, along with 34.1 million barrels of condensate.

Leviathan is expected to be operational in "a matter of days", a spokeswoman for Delek told AFP, with exports to Egypt set to begin on January 1.

The large volume of the Egyptian deal would make Israel "an important partner in the regional energy economy," Steinitz said.

"The natural gas revolution has made us an energy superpower and will not only provide huge income to the state but also a significant reduction in air pollution."

Besides being energy independent, Israel hopes its gas reserves will enable it to strengthen strategic ties in the region and help forge new ones, with an eye on the Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an market.

Natural gas is set to replace coal as the fuel generating electricity in Israel's power plants.

Critics note that while less polluting than coal, gas is still far from being a clean source of energy.
Posted by: Fred || 12/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Al-Sisi has warned against attempts ‘to control’ neighboring Libya
[TWITTER]

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Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz receives Greece's Minister of Foreign Affairs
[TWITTER]

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#1 
Posted by: Angens Turkeyneck2026 || 12/18/2019 5:00 Comments || Top||

#2  They have a historical dislike of the Persians too.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/18/2019 7:11 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
PM: Plots of ‘Pakistani-lovers’ will never be successful
[Dhaka Tribune] Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums...
has alerted the countrymen about conspiracies of the anti-liberation forces to turn Bangladesh into a failed state, asserting that the plots of the "Pak-lovers" will never be successful.

"The collaborators of the Pak occupation forces and those who still love Pakistain are out to foil Bangladesh’s hard-earned independence and turn the country into a failed state. But we will not allow their conspiracies to be successful," she said.

The prime minister speaking at a discussion at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre Tuesday afternoon.

Awami League organized the discussion on the occasion of the 49th Victory Day.
Posted by: Fred || 12/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Europe
In blow to Turkey, US Congress ends decades-old arms embargo on Cyprus
[IsraelTimes] Senators who spearheaded bill say they hope move will foster cooperation between the Mediterranean island nation, Greece and Israel.

The US Congress voted Tuesday to lift a decades-old arms embargo on Cyprus, defying The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
by seeking warmer ties at a time of renewed tensions.

The Senate approved the measure as part of a massive defense spending bill that passed 86 to eight and already went through the House of Representatives, with US President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
likely to sign it.

The United States imposed an embargo on the full island in 1987 with an aim to prevent an arms race and encourage a peaceful settlement between the Greek majority and Ottoman Turkish minority.

Critics say the step has been counterproductive by forcing Cyprus to seek other partners while Turkey, a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
member, has stationed forces in northern Cyprus since its invasion in 1974.

Democratic Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Republican Senator Marco Rubio
...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida...
of Florida spearheaded the effort, saying they also wanted to encourage growing cooperation between Cyprus, Greece and Israel.
Move Incirlick's NATO forces to Cyprus
"With Cyprus seeking to deepen its strategic partnership with the United States, it is in our national security and economic interest to lift this outdated decades-long arms restrictions that are no longer helping US security objectives," Menendez said after initial approval of the lifting of the embargo.

While the two Cypriot communities have made progress in improving relations, tensions have spiked over an accord between Turkey and Libya for newly discovered gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean, undercutting claims by Greece and the internationally recognized Republic of Cyprus.

US officials have been concerned that the ban has brought EU member Cyprus closer to Russia, with the island in 2015 signing off on an access deal to its ports.

Under the new act, the United States will still restrict certain sensitive technologies to Cyprus unless the US certifies that the island is denying Russia military vessels port access for refueling and servicing.

In a standoff in 1997, Turkey threatened an attack on Cyprus if it went ahead with installing the advanced S-300 missile defense system from Russia.
Someone left the irony on...
The controversy is now a relic of another time, with Turkey facing the threat of sanctions for buying the S-400 system from Russia despite its NATO membership.

Representatives of Turkey and the self-styled Ottoman Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus had lobbied against the lifting of the embargo, arguing that Congress was giving the green light to an arms race.

Turkey invaded in 1974 in response to a coup engineered by the then military regime in Athens that aimed to unite Cyprus with Greece.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/18/2019 00:41 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


The Grand Turk
Erdogan allowing Hamas to plan attacks on Israel from Turkey
[Arutz 7] - The Turkish government is hosting Hamas terrorists on its soil and permitting them to plan terror attacks on Israeli targets, a report released by The Telegraph Tuesday night claims.

According to the report, transcripts of Israeli police interrogations of terrorists show that senior Hamas terrorists are using Istanbul as a center for the terror group’s operations abroad. Terrorist leaders operating out of Turkey’s largest city direct Hamas activities in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria, the report added, including the a foiled plot to assassinate the mayor of Jerusalem.

Senior Hamas terrorist Zacharia Najib plotted an assassination attack in Jerusalem, pressing 23-year-old terrorist Adham Muselmani, a Jerusalem Arab who had been recruited for the attack, to target either then-Mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat, then-MK Yehuda Glick (Likud), or then-Police Chief Roni Alsheich.

The plot was later foiled after Muselmani returned to Jerusalem and tried to purchase a pistol for the attack, only to be arrested by Israeli authorities.

While Israel has discussed Hamas’ operations on Turkish soil with Turkey’s government, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has refused to crackdown on Hamas terrorists in his country, or even to interfere with their plots against Israel.

Last weekend, Erdogan met with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyah, vowing to continue support for the terror group.

"We will keep on supporting our brothers in Palestine."

Turkey’s tacit support for Hamas violates a 2015 US-brokered deal with Israel, in which Turkey agreed to block Hamas from plotting attacks on Israel from Turkish soil.

"Israel is extremely concerned that Turkey is allowing Hamas terrorists to operate from its territory, in planning and engaging in terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians," the Israeli Foreign Ministry said, according to The Telegraph report.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/18/2019 04:21 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

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Posted by: Angens Turkeyneck2026 || 12/18/2019 4:55 Comments || Top||

#2  This aught to put the JCS in a vice trying to explain the to Orange Man why we have any troops in the place, if true.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/18/2019 6:54 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Joint Chiefs?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/18/2019 8:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Hamas has UN (and other bleeding heart) cash. Erdogan needs it.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/18/2019 8:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Actually, Angens was right at #1. A NATO member conspiring against Israel. I've heard of keeping your enemies closer but this is ridiculous.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/18/2019 8:27 Comments || Top||

#6  For decades Hamas operated freely from the Sudan. Having lost that safe-haven it turns to Turkey, the ever friendly home of the international Muslim Brotherhood. What Trump hopes to gain by continuing to play kissy-face with Erdogan is beyond comprehension.
Posted by: b || 12/18/2019 8:31 Comments || Top||

#7  yes - Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/18/2019 8:49 Comments || Top||

#8  it's past time for this piece of shit too go
Posted by: chris || 12/18/2019 15:34 Comments || Top||

#9  Why are we allied with Turkey against Russia? Shouldn't it be the other way round?
Posted by: Lex || 12/18/2019 17:11 Comments || Top||


Russia and Turkey to discuss Libya military support in January: Kremlin
[AlAhram] Russia's President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
and Ottoman Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will discuss Ankara's offer to provide military support to Libya's internationally recognised government during talks in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
next month, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.

On Saturday, Turkey sent a bilateral accord with the Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
government to its parliament for approval, in a move that brings it closer to potentially sending military aid for the government of Fayez al-Serraj.

Turkey has said that it may send military support to Libya if Serraj's government requested it, but Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Saturday that no such request had been made to Turkey yet.

"Russia... supports any efforts and individual countries in terms of finding solutions to the (Libyan) crisis," said Kremlin front man Dmitry Peskov.

Later on Tuesday, Erdogan and Putin held a phone call where they discussed developments in Libya and Syria, as well as their bilateral ties and other regional issues, the Ottoman Turkish presidency said in a statement. No further details were available.

Libya has been divided since 2014 into rival military and political camps in the capital Tripoli and the east. Turkey has backed Serraj's Tripoli-based government, while forces led by Khalifa Haftar
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
in eastern Libya, the Libyan National Army (LNA), have received support from the Russia, United Arab Emirates and Egypt.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Erdogan urges resettling of one million refugees to ethnically cleanse northern Syria
[THEBAGHDADPOST] Ottoman Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called on Tuesday for the resettlement of 1 million Syrian refugees in a "peace zone" in the northern part of their homeland, on a voluntary basis but in "a very short period of time".

"We need to find formula to allow refugees... who traveled to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
to be resettled in their motherland," Erdogan, whose country hosts 3.7 million Syrian refugees, told the Global Forum on Refugees, being held in Geneva.

Housing and schools could be set up in the zone, where some 371,000 Syrian refugees have already returned since Ottoman Turkish military operations to clear the area of "terrorist organizations", he said, naming Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
and the Kurdish YPG and PKK.
Posted by: Fred || 12/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Doing in a small place what he was attempting to do to all of Europe.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/18/2019 7:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Ankara is nice this time of year.
Posted by: AlanC || 12/18/2019 8:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Ethnic Cleansing? Isn't that a ... what was the term? ... War Crime™? When will the trials in The Hague get started on this?
Posted by: magpie || 12/18/2019 13:50 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Black Hebrew Israelite leader condemns ‘heinous’ Jersey City shooting
[IsraelTimes] Distancing himself from the attack, Rabbi Capers Funnye says his organization isn’t ’some radical fringe group with a false narrative... We are Torah-oriented Jews’.

The leader of a prominent Black Hebrew Israelite organization has condemned last week’s attack on a kosher grocery in New Jersey after media reports emerged that one of the shooters was once a follower of the movement.
This particular leader did, at any rate. But after he became a member of the Black Jewish movement, which is completely unconnected to the rest of Judaism, he undertook a second conversion to normative Conservative Judaism We haven’t heard anything from the rest, who think the murders are just peachy.
Rabbi Capers Funnye, the reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
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India-Pakistan
Pakistan’s Khan says millions of Muslim refugees could flee India
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Pakistain Prime Minister Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer...
said on Tuesday that millions of Moslems could flee India due to the curfew in the disputed territory of Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
and India’s new citizenship law, creating "a refugee crisis that would dwarf other crises."

Khan, addressing the Global Forum on Refugees in Geneva, said: "We are worried there not only could be a refugee crisis, we are worried it could lead to a conflict between two nuclear-armed countries."

"Our country will not be able to accommodate more refugees," he added, urging the world to "step in now."
Posted by: Fred || 12/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  "Our country will not be able to accommodate more refugees,"

The population of Pakistain is 218 million. A few more nutters could hardly make a difference. Of course, it would be a horrible loss of diversity for India.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/18/2019 0:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Of course, it would be a horrible loss of diversity for India.

Snark of the day?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/18/2019 1:38 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Early Fav
Posted by: Frank G || 12/18/2019 6:05 Comments || Top||

#4  looks like yall may be getting lucky dron
Posted by: chris || 12/18/2019 11:27 Comments || Top||

#5  We did get lucky, Chris. Only in that now we have a list of so many more exposed Leftists and islamists. Enemies and traitors became so much easier to identify now. But nobody's fleeing India.

Indian muslims enjoy liberties even muslims in Saudi Arabia are not allowed. No one flees India, ever in fact. Except for fugitives of course. Imran is just playing on the ignorance of the west about realities in Asia. Trying to drum up a response to the words 'crisis' and 'refugees' before an audience where such things work.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/18/2019 11:50 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Shitshow East
Posted by: Lex || 12/18/2019 11:54 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ A downright fecal fantasia, Lex. With mustachioed, overacting sopranistas an' all.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/18/2019 12:10 Comments || Top||

#8  Core element of The SS = the ridiculous posturing. The virtue-signaling / play-acting is the tell.
Posted by: Lex || 12/18/2019 12:34 Comments || Top||

#9  so in other words dron, he's looking for aid too help said refugees?
Posted by: chris || 12/18/2019 15:36 Comments || Top||

#10  While I'm posting enemy links (New Yorker, 2 Dec.)

Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India: The Prime Minister’s Hindu-nationalist government has cast two hundred million Muslims as internal enemies.

Long read, full of annoying omissions and insinuations (but what isn't?); offered as confirmation rather than contradiction of local opinion.
Posted by: Maggie Peacock9944 || 12/18/2019 21:58 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IDF has identified remaining Hezbollah tunnels
[TWITTER]

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#1  Israel’s Eyes in the North: The Woman Who Watches Hezbollah (Tablet, Dec. 16)
Posted by: Maggie Peacock9944 || 12/18/2019 22:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Good find, Maggie Peacock9944! I was actually pondering posting that, but you beat me to it — suggesting I was on the right track. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/18/2019 22:12 Comments || Top||


Iran arrests evangelical Christians before Christmas holiday
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET]

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Government
Congress nixes Trump’s $175m. peace plan fund, gives $150m. aid to Palestinians
Dire headline, not-dire story. Enjoy the maneuvering, dear Reader.
[IsraelTimes] $1.4 trillion spending bill leaves out White House-requested Diplomatic Progress Fund to boost peace efforts, inserts funding for Paleostinian security and humanitarian assistance.

A White House request to include $175 million in funding that would help pay for Israeli-Paleostinian peace efforts was left off a final 2020 Appropriations Bill set to pass Tuesday.

The Trump administration’s request to Congress earlier this year had included a so-called Diplomatic Progress Fund to respond to diplomatic breakthroughs, while slashing aid to the Paleostinians to zero.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 12/18/2019 08:31 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  More money for Erdogan
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/18/2019 11:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Use it to build a wall to keep the Israelis out.
Posted by: gorb || 12/18/2019 16:40 Comments || Top||

#3  This story buries the lede. Why on Earth are we giving $3.3 billion in aid to a developed, First World nation? They are quite wealthy and do not need any aid.

"herp derp they buy US weapons with it" it's still a subsidy to a wealthy country. How about we just keep the money and cut out the middleman. Who wants to enrich the already rich military industrial complex?
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 12/18/2019 21:33 Comments || Top||


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Jersey City official refers to Jewish ‘brutes,' asks if residents are ‘brave enough' to explore shooters' message
h/t Instapundit
[JTA] - A Board of Education member in Jersey City has sparked controversy with social media comments following the shooting last week at a kosher market there.

"Where was all this faith and hope when Black homeowners were being threatened, intimidated and harassed by I WANT TO BUY YOUR HOUSE brutes of the jewish community? (sic) They brazenly came on the property of Ward F Black homeowners and waved bags of money," Joan Terrell wrote on Facebook, according to a screenshot circulating on social media.

Terrell was commenting on an article about an event attended by faith leaders and community representatives in Jersey City following the Dec. 10 attack in which two shooters killed two Orthodox Jews and a non-Jewish worker at the JC Kosher Supermarket, as well as a police officer at a nearby cemetery.

A screenshot of her comments started circulating Monday on social media. Terrell wrote that she was "speaking as a private citizen not as an elected member of the Jersey City Board of Education."
And the reason I put it into WoT Politix and not "Seedy Politicians" is because?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/18/2019 02:08 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And the reason I put it into WoT Politix and not "Seedy Politicians" is because?

I saw her pic, the Joan lady. Believe me it's a terror.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/18/2019 5:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Mayor and Governor say this POS should resign
Posted by: Frank G || 12/18/2019 6:43 Comments || Top||

#3  The Little Richard pencil mustache just seems so weird on that one.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/18/2019 6:53 Comments || Top||

#4  the reason I put it into WoT Politix

Because if you listen carefully to what she's saying - it's mutatis mutandis very similar to the Palestinian Legend.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/18/2019 8:11 Comments || Top||

#5  "I'll give you money" == "Die,die, kosher invader!"
Posted by: Fred || 12/18/2019 10:02 Comments || Top||

#6  Why is the left such a cesspit of bigotry and hatred?
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/18/2019 10:03 Comments || Top||

#7  God forbid someone offers too buy your house. But but, I thought black ppl couldn't be racist.
Posted by: chris || 12/18/2019 11:14 Comments || Top||

#8 
#6 Because fifty percent of everyone is below average.
Posted by: Fred || 12/18/2019 18:38 Comments || Top||

#9  I know half of me is...unfortunately, below the waist
Posted by: Frank G || 12/18/2019 20:35 Comments || Top||

#10  Sometimes I think half of me unfortunately is the waist Frank.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/18/2019 20:46 Comments || Top||



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