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Europe
Man suspected of pushing a boy onto train tracks in Frankfurt has schizophrenia
[DW] The man accused of killing a boy by pushing him in front of a train has been moved to a mental hospital, German prosecutors said. The 40-year-old had acted out against his family and a neighbor before fleeing Zurich.
The original report of events can be seen here. He is named as Habte Araya, hailed as an example of successful migrant integration into European society here.
German authorities transferred the suspect in the widely publicized Frankfurt murder to a psychiatric hospital after discovering he was mentally ill, prosecutors said on Thursday.

Police had arrested the man on suspicion of pushing an 8-year-old child in front of a moving train last month. He also allegedly pushed the boy's mother onto the track and tried to push another woman off the platform at Frankfurt's central railway station, but the adults both survived the attack.

On Thursday, authorities said the suspect was suffering from "an illness on the schizophrenia spectrum." The 40-year-old is most likely a paranoid schizophrenic, they added.
Good that it wasn’t really Sudden Jihad Syndrome. The problem is that 1500 years of close-cousin marriage in that part of the world means that these populations have a much higher level of genetic mental and physical problems than the general European population, making them both a greater danger and a significantly greater expense per capita.
The case sparked an embittered debate on migration in Germany, as the suspect is an Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
n-born Swiss resident.
Nota bene: somewhere between 36 - 48% of Eritreans are Muslim...
'DANGER TO THE PUBLIC'
Swiss police said the man trapped his wife and three young children in their Zurich apartment before leaving the country. He had also threatened one of his neighbors with a knife and locked the woman up as well.

His symptoms were acute at the time of the Frankfurt attack, German authorities said on Thursday. They assume the suspect had "at least substantially reduced capabilities of understanding and self-control."

They also described the man as a "danger to the public" and said it was likely he would attempt further illegal acts if released. The Eritrean still faces a charge of murder and two accounts of attempted murder in Germany.

The man had been undergoing psychiatric treatment in Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
. However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
despite his acts of violence, German police said that he had not been listed as wanted in international databases and was able to travel freely.

Related from 2010: The Problem of Inbreeding in Islam
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Bullshit. My question is what were the other commuters doing standing around ? He shoulda been lynched right there. A people who can suffer to see their children murdered in front of them, voting bitches like Merkel in again and again, denying the migrant hazard while jesting about the 'Orange Man' on twitter - this is exactly what they deserve.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/01/2019 7:32 Comments || Top||

#2  A society that sets a person like this up to fail in such a catastrophic way, and which does not protect a child from this sort of failure is a failed society.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/01/2019 10:41 Comments || Top||

#3  I've this idea for SF thriller - Germany is run by a secret Nazi cabal working to bring the Reich back.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/01/2019 10:48 Comments || Top||

#4  You won't even have to write most of it, g(r)omgoru. You can copy-paste the larger bits from the MSM articles on Trump, use your mojo for just the sex and violence part.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/01/2019 11:56 Comments || Top||

#5  That I mean, Dron66046, they work to make Nazism popular - hence all the third world emigrants and tolerance toward their behavior.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/01/2019 12:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Coming soon to a town near you!
Posted by: SR-71 || 09/01/2019 14:11 Comments || Top||

#7  what were the other commuters doing standing around ? He shoulda been lynched right there.

As I recall, several men on the platform chased him out and cornered him until the police arrived. They didn’t lynch him because Germans don’t do such things in public yet. But outside public view, there have been repeated Molotov cocktail attacks on refugee homes, and also this item in the Israel Times’ liveblog today: the anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland is surging in elections in the eastern states of Brandenburg (22.5%) and Saxony (27.5%).

When I was a very young adult, I went with Mr. Wife to visit friends in New York City. As we were standing in the subway platform, chatting and looking for the train, one of the men in our group — I don’t remember if it was Mr. Wife himself, another gentlemen — suddenly wrapped his arm around my waist, picked me up, and put me down again ten feet farther from the edge. It only took a moment, but I was naturally indignant about the indignity.

“Didn’t you notice?” he asked, “That druggie was about to push you off, onto the tracks.”

Of course I didn’t notice — situational awareness is not what I do, even when I realize I should. But the point is, such things move that fast.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/01/2019 14:12 Comments || Top||

#8  Yes the AfD. Wonderful, though desperate guys. True, third world angst cannot be expected of everybody.

Not yet anyway.

Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/01/2019 14:28 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Death penalty trial date for men accused of planning 9/11 is finally set
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
mastermind of the 9/11 attacks for Al Qaeda, he is also indicted an outstanding terror indictment for the unsuccessful Bojinka plot to simultaneously take down multiple airliners over the Pacific Ocean in the 1990s...
and four other accomplices charged with plotting attacks that killed 2,976 people will be held at Guantanamo Bay in January 2021.
  • Colonel W. Shane Cohen of the Air Force announced on Friday that the trial is set for January 11, 2021

  • The case will take place at Camp Justice at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba

  • Date announcement was included in a 10-page trial scheduling order that also said that prosecutors had until October 1 to get material to defense teams

  • Cohen's announcement marks the first time that a trial judge in the case actually established a date

  • Prosecutors had tried to get the ball rolling with two previous judges after the 2012 arraignment of the five men

  • The other men also charged include: Walid bin Attash,
    ...also Waleed bin Attash, a Yemeni who allegedly ran an al-Qaeda training camp in Logar, Afghanistan, where two of the 19 hijackers were trained. Bin Attash is believed to have been bin Laden's bodyguard. Authorities say bin Laden selected him as a hijacker, but he was prevented from participating when he was briefly detained in Yemen in early 2001...
    Ramzi bin al-Shibh,
    ...also Ramzi Binalshibh, the unhandsome Yemeni who allegedly helped find flight schools for the hijackers, helped them enter the United States, and assisted with financing the operation. He allegedly was selected to be a hijacker and made a "martyr video" in preparation for the operation, but was unable to get a U.S. visa. He also is believed to be a lead operative for a foiled plot to crash aircraft into London's Heathrow Airport.
    Ammar al-Baluchi
    ...born in Pakistan and reared in Kuwait, KSM’s nephew is also known as Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali. He allegedly helped nine of the hijackers travel to the United States and sent them $120,000 for expenses and flight training. He is believed to have served as a key lieutenant to Mohammed in Pakistan...
    and Mustafa al-Hawsawi
    ...also Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, a Saudi who allegedly helped the hijackers with money, western clothing, traveler's checks and credit cards. Al-Hawsawi testified in the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, saying he had seen Moussaoui at an al-Qaeda guesthouse in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in early 2001, but somehow was never introduced to him or conducted operations with him...

Related: Delayed by Obama, Trial of 9/11 Plotters Finally Set for 2021
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  Why not simply raffle off the opportunity to gut shoot them and throw them to the hogs? Could put quite a dent in the US debt situation.
Posted by: Cesare || 09/01/2019 10:12 Comments || Top||

#2  throw them to the hogs

And spoil all that lovely bacon?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/01/2019 10:50 Comments || Top||

#3  If I remember correctly, Old Black Jack Pershing buried the Moros in pig poop. It seems that prevents a trip to paradise.
Posted by: Ebbuns Borgia3791 || 09/01/2019 11:08 Comments || Top||


U.S. Census Bureau Partners With Controversial Muslim Group - Report
[Jpost] A controversial US Moslem organization is going to cooperate with the US Census Bureau, according to a report by the Investigative Project on Terrorism.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations
... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ...
(CAIR) announced the partnership on Wednesday, highlighting that it is aimed to "ensure American Moslems are fairly and accurately counted in the 2020 Census."
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood

#1  48 hours passed, it's now "Census Bureau abruptly ends just-announced partnership with Muslim advocacy group CAIR".
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 09/01/2019 2:31 Comments || Top||

#2  "CAIR wants to ensure that not only are American Moslem communities being fairly counted ‐ but that their neighborhoods are getting a fair share in federal and state funding,"

Jizzya, anyone?
Posted by: Raj || 09/01/2019 6:56 Comments || Top||

#3  The census bureau had no business 'partnering' with any group. They may call for individual volunteers in a man-power crunch but that should be it.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/01/2019 7:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Vote Harvesting Part Deux
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/01/2019 7:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Now they need to find out whose bright idea this was and fire their ass - EVERYONE who signed off on it
Posted by: Frank G || 09/01/2019 8:18 Comments || Top||

#6  Somebody at the Census Bureau ought to be looking for a new job.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/01/2019 8:26 Comments || Top||

#7  I thought the Census Bureau was not allowed to ask people their religion. Why would CAIR need to be invollved?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 09/01/2019 10:16 Comments || Top||

#8  Hopefully this count is a prelude to total deportation
Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442 || 09/01/2019 10:17 Comments || Top||

#9  This is why intelligent societies do not let muslims achieve economic independence, deny them purchasing power and representation. It may sound inhuman, but you will need to do it to survive. Learn from those societies whose very mainstay is surviving.

What western societies need is organized and state 'approved' inequality. Income, political and social.

We call it 'selective disempowerment'.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/01/2019 12:03 Comments || Top||

#10  Does the Census Bureau have deep-staters left over from the "O" administration? Probably. What "O" did to the government in the way of politicization and weaponization of the Federal government is tragic and very dangerous to the Republic.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/01/2019 12:38 Comments || Top||

#11  Undoubtedly they do.

And progress in draining the swamp seems painfully slow. I'm beginning to think that the only solution is drastic reductions in the federal workforce, period. I can't think that there are that many babies to be thrown out with the bath water.
Posted by: Tom || 09/01/2019 14:23 Comments || Top||

#12  America no longer belongs to you, but you will still be expected to pay and bleed and die for it.

So be good little Troo Conservatives and get on the stick, mkay?
Posted by: charger || 09/01/2019 15:14 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
U-turn: After Imran threat, Pakistan minister says ready for talks
[TimesofIndia]
  • Pakistan foreign minister S M Qureshi said that his country was open to dialogue if India released J&K leaders and allowed him to meet them
  • War was not an option to deal with the issue of Kashmir: Qureshi
  • Just days back, Pak PM Imran Khan in an opinion piece for NYT had threatened that the situation the Valley could lead to a war, if not a nuclear exchange
NEW DELHI: After Pakistain PM Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality disorders...
had ruled out dialogue with India until it reversed the decision to revoke J&K's special status, his foreign minister SM Qureshi in an apparent turnaround on Saturday said that Pakistain was open to dialogue if India released the J&K leaders and allowed him to meet them. This was even as India again underscored its position that talks were possible only in an environment free of terror.

Qureshi was quoted as having said that Pakistain had never said no to dialogue with India. However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
he added that "we cannot see the environment of dialogue being created by India". Some of the conditions for dialogue Qureshi was said to have specified in his interview to BBC included India lifting restrictions in the Valley, releasing the imprisoned Kashmiri leaders and allowing him to meet them.

In his NYT opinion piece, Khan was quoted as having said that dialogue was possible only when India reversed "its illegal annexation 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....
, ends the curfew and lockdown, and withdraws its troops to the barracks''.

While Khan and other Pak leaders have threatened that the situation the Valley could lead to a war, if not a nuclear exchange, Qureshi also said Saturday war was not an option to deal with the issue of Kashmir.

Qureshi's emphasis on dialogue came even as India again underscored its position that talks were possible only if, as the government has repeatedly said, Pakistain took verifiable and irreversible action against cross-border terrorism.

External affairs minister S Jaishankar had said on Friday that India was willing to discuss outstanding issues with Pakistain bilaterally in an atmosphere free of terror and violence. Jaishankar's remarks came after his meeting with Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an Union commissioner Christos Stylianides in Brussels after the latter emphasised the need for India and Pakistain to restart dialogue.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/01/2019 01:41 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  The moment an idiot from our side sits down with them to talk, that moment they'll attack. If India falls for this, we deserve what happens.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/01/2019 3:34 Comments || Top||

#2  "A cobra hisses, a Muslim talks - what's the difference?" h/t Steve Stirling
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/01/2019 11:45 Comments || Top||


Revision of firebrand clerics’ lists ordered
[Dawn] RAW
... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man...
ALPINDI: Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

Minister for Law Raja Mohammad Basharat on Saturday said the government has directed district administrations across the province to revisit the lists of firebrand
...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments...
Learned Elders of Islam and zakireen before imposing a ban on them.

"The old lists included many firebrand speakers who have died and to save the government from embarrassment the lists should be revised. The lists would be issued in a day or two so that religious gatherings would be made accordingly," he told a presser after a meeting of the Punjab Cabinet Subcommittee on Law and Order here.

The minister said there was a demand from all schools of thought to inform them about the ban on religious scholars so that they would make arrangements for the congregations.

The minister said the government had issued a code of conduct for Muharram after consultations with all religious leaders.

He said there was a dire need to start and end the mourning processions on time, adding that the organisers had been requested to implement the timetable. The subcommittee of the provincial cabinet would monitor all arrangements for Muharram, he added.

The minister asked the media not to report any news which would create sectarian violence and should play an effective role to spread the message of love and peace. He said media played a commendable role in the past in this regard.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/01/2019 00:31 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


International-UN-NGOs
Six Countries Block UN Sanctions against Somalia's Al-Shabaab
[AnNahar] Six UN Security Council members on Wednesday blocked a move to include Somali jihadist group al-Shabaab
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
on a list of organizations such as al-Qaeda that are under international sanctions, diplomatic sources said.

Several NGOs and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs recently stepped in to oppose the classification, which would have effectively kept humanitarian aid away from millions of Somalis living in al-Shabaab-controlled areas.

Germany, Belgium, Poland, La Belle France, Kuwait and the United States were the six countries whose votes blocked the implementation of the new sanctions.
WTF??
Kenya, on the other hand, has pushed for tightening sanctions against al-Shabaab since late last year, and especially since an attack by the group at a Nairobi hotel in January left 21 people dead.

The country had wanted an amendment to UN Resolution 1267, which sanctions al-Qaeda, the 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....
group and their affiliates.

A large portion of the population in Somalia relies on international aid after three decades of conflict and economic ruin.

Critics of the defeated sanctions have said including al-Shabaab in the Resolution 1267 designations would have effectively criminalized UN and other assistance to people in Somalia who depend on it.

And Somalia recently told the Security Council that taking actions that could interrupt aid would "play into the Shabaab's narrative and self-image as a de-facto government in areas where state reach is limited."
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)

#1  The need for this arose from the nature of the arrangement humanitarian aid groups have with Al-Shabab. Somalia is already listed as a sanctioned regime - arms embargo, travel ban, assets freeze.

But there is a humanitarian exemption like for the arms embargo, which allows humanitarians in Somalia and their mercs to use protective gear, an 'overheads exemption' that allows them to pay off al-Shabab goons to let them treat and feed the needy and the sick. This exemption was allowed for by the US. The diversions of aid, sale of supplies and 'taxes' levied by the shaboobs are what enables the NGOs to take the aid to the last Godforsaken mile in Somalia.

It is believed that including Al-shabab in the resolution 1267 sanctions will not affect the terrorists much, as their funding is guaranteed by domestic sources and offshore financiers through phone and internet banking. But it will sanction anybody dealing with them, even if it's an NGO that pays them jiziya 'protection money' to stay and work with natives, freezing their assets and disallowing banks and philanthropists from aiding them.

It's a resolution hold though, not a block and they may re-assess the situation differently later.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/01/2019 13:04 Comments || Top||


Iraq
After ISIS: The Sinjar area remains key to securing Iraq
[Jpost] In December 2015, I drove toward the frontlines where Kurdish Peshmerga were in a desperate struggle with ISIS
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
in northern Iraq.

In a largely deserted landscape, we entered the area around Mount Sinjar where 30 mass graves of victims of ISIS crimes would eventually be found.

Disputed between the central government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government, the Sinjar district in Nineveh province is still central to securing Iraq against an ISIS return.

Despite promises of a return to relative stability following ISIS’s territorial defeat, Duraid Hikmat, Nineveh’s director of agriculture, said in July that more than 30,000 hectares (75,000 acres) of crops had been destroyed in recent fires ‐ about a third by criminals and bandidos gunnies and the rest "for natural reasons."

In Sinjar, the blazes have severely harmed the livelihoods of Sunnis and Yazidis who had begun to return after ISIS drove them out in 2014.

Sinjar is also a strategic area that forms a border with Syria, where both US forces and Iran, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
and other regional powers are vying for influence. Four recent explosions of munitions stored at bases of Iranian-backed Shi’ite militias have led to rumors of foreign Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in Iraq, with fears that a new conflict with 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 a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
could develop.

What follows is an excerpt from my new book, After ISIS: America, Iran and the Struggle for the Middle East (Gefen Publishing House, 2019).

From Dohuk in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region there are two roads to Sinjar, where ISIS carried out genocide against Iraq’s Yazidi minority.
Long excerpt — you’ll want a cup of coffee or the equivalent and a comfortable chair for reading this, dear Reader.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Egypt Proposes Long-Term Ceasefire Between Israel And Hamas - Report
More on a subject mentioned here yesterday.
[Jpost] During talks with a Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, delegation, Egyptian intelligence officials proposed a long-term ceasefire between Israel and the Islamic terrorist group controlling the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar reported Friday morning.

According to the report, the Egyptians suggested a long-term ceasefire in exchange for humanitarian and economic improvements for the coastal enclave.

The officials warned the Hamas delegation that, given the tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, Israel would strike a fatal blow to the Strip if there will be a conflict.

During the talks, the Hamas delegation guaranteed that the weekly "March of Return" protests will be restrained this Friday, according to Ynet.

According to the report, if Hamas maintains its promise, Israel will restore the fuel supply to Gaza to its full capacity on Sunday after cutting it by half this week following rocket launches.

Shortly after publication of the report, sources at the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) Unit claimed that six fuel trucks, funded by Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, crossed into Gaza through the Kerem Shalom border crossing.

The Egyptian officials also claimed that if the Gaza border riots will not create any altercations with IDF forces ‐ and as long as rockets will not be fired at Israel ‐ the fuel supply might return to normal.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


IDF Target System Could Allow Soldiers To Eliminate Drones With One Shot
[Jpost] "The need for such a system comes from the place where soldiers in combat need to operate in very tense scenarios and do things very fast and accurately under a tremendous amount of physical and mental pressure," another representative from the company told the Post while demonstrating the system at the range.

"Exactly the same way it locks on a target on the ground, it locks on a target in the air," he said.

With the system, the user selects and locks onto the target, and as soon as the trigger is squeezed, the system calculates the target movement and predicts its next location by means of advanced image processing and algorithms. SMASH 2000 prevents the bullet being fired until the target is precisely in its crosshairs.
Posted by: lord garth || 09/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I spoke to someone about this early today (I am currently in Israel).

The system works really well once you acquire the target. There is still work to be done on target acquisition since drones and arson balloon weapons can be relatively small and can be painted blue to blend in with the sky.
Posted by: lord garth || 09/01/2019 2:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Even better - locate the area of the people launching and bomb them with Thermobaric high explosives
Posted by: Frank G || 09/01/2019 9:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Have fun and stay safe, lord garth.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/01/2019 15:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Ref #1: There is still work to be done on target acquisition

"All Vietnamese are enemy."

~ Unknown Humong mercenary responding to rules of engagement guidance from a US Adviser in the 1960's.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/01/2019 16:20 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
A detailed analysis of the keyhole photo Trump posted.
[SatTrackCam Leiden Holland]
Head to title link for a good read
Posted by: 3dc || 09/01/2019 12:30 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  That was a great read, all right, with a showing of the methodology of determining the the relevant parameters of the image.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 09/01/2019 12:51 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran blames judo chiefs, Israel, as judoka flown to Berlin from Tokyo for asylum
[IsraelTimes] 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 a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
media says head of world Judo Federation conspired with Israel to spirit Saeid Mollaei away; he had been pressured to avoid fighting Israel’s Sagi Muki in world tourney.

The president of the International Judo Federation reportedly helped spirit an Iranian judoka to Germany following an asylum request after he was pressured by Tehran to throw a match at this week’s World Championship in Tokyo to avoid facing an Israeli opponent.

Marius Vizer confirmed to Japanese media on Saturday that Iranian Saeid Mollaei had arrived safely in Berlin, where he is preparing to file a request for asylum.

Vizer told Japanese media that Mollaei had approached him and confided that the Iranian government had pressured him to throw his semifinal battle against Belgium’s Matthias Casse in order to avoid facing Israel’s Sagi Muki in the final. Muki went on to win the championship, becoming the first Israeli man to win a World Championship gold. Vizer said Mollaei had relayed that Tehran had even reached out to members of his family to further pressure the judoka to lose on purpose.

Vizer said the IJF intends on allowing Mollaei to compete in the future as a member of the team for international refugees at the 2020 summer Olympics also in Tokyo.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  At First I thought it said "Judo Chef and I was wondering how that work!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 09/01/2019 2:21 Comments || Top||

#2  A judo chief.

Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/01/2019 7:10 Comments || Top||

#3  A judo chef? Is that like the Samurai Salami slicer from SNL?
Posted by: AlanC || 09/01/2019 7:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, my understanding is that judo doesn't use any bladed weapon, heck doesn't use any weapon. So I image doing a back-flip throw on a tune to get it on the table for the samurai slicer o eork on. Then doing a forward grip and toss a butch of udon noodles into a pot and...
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 09/01/2019 13:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Tune = tuna! Stupid spell check.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 09/01/2019 13:31 Comments || Top||

#6  YJCMTSU!
Posted by: SR-71 || 09/01/2019 18:15 Comments || Top||



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