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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Time to invoke the 1807 Insurrection Act? Sen. Tom Cotton thinks so
[FoxNews] Jun. 01, 2020 - 4:02 - Republican Sen. Tom Cotton reacts to the National Guard being deployed to cities across America in response to the George Floyd riots.

Posted by: Lex || 06/02/2020 09:19 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Antifa

#1  IANAL but I bet the Court will find a problem with it.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/02/2020 16:26 Comments || Top||


Breitbart: SNL Ghostbusters 2016
[Breitbart] Former Saturday Night Live star Leslie Jones says people participating in the nationwide protests in response to the police involved death of George Floyd should focus on voting — saying, “burn down this fucking Constitution’ — rather than burning property.

“I love that you guys are protesting and see how quick you did it. But I’m gonna tell you, to get the fuck what you really want, we’re going to have to change the fucking system. And to change the system, we have to fucking vote,” Jones said, reflecting on her role in the 1992 Los Angeles riots and expressed admiration for protesters. “You want to burn down buildings? Burn down this fucking Constitution. And we do that by fucking lifting our voice, by fucking voting… That’s how we really show them.”
Personally, I'd be fine with "burning" the Constitutional rights of Jones and her cohorts.

And if they complain, just remind them that the Constitution is a living, breathing document. Right?
Posted by: charger || 06/02/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Antifa

#1  Jeebus Christ; she's the size of an NFL free safety.
Posted by: Raj || 06/02/2020 0:48 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm genuinely curious about what's in the Constitution she objects to, or wants to change.

or is throwing 'Constitution' into her rant her way of making it seem she is intelligent?
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 06/02/2020 7:52 Comments || Top||

#3  She's also a moron whose face could stop a clock and whose body could stop a semi.
Posted by: Clem || 06/02/2020 8:16 Comments || Top||

#4  ^^ I'm stealing that one
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/02/2020 9:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Wasn't the constitution that killed George Floyd.

It was a bad cop in a Democrat county in a Democrat state protected by a solidly Democrat police union and dedicated Democrat Attorney Generals that dropped charges against the cop again and again.

You want to fix the problem the answer is simple. What have you got to lose? Start with busting the police union into pieces.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/02/2020 9:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Wow! That's some deep philosophical $#!+ going on here! She's about as deep as the poster behind her. So, correct if I'm wrong but she's a "comedian" because of how many f-bombs she puts in one sentence?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 06/02/2020 11:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Wearing clown makeup does not make one funny.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/02/2020 12:09 Comments || Top||

#8  #1 Jeebus Christ; she's the size of an NFL free safety.

I would say a defensive tackle or at least a DE.
Posted by: charger || 06/02/2020 12:17 Comments || Top||

#9  This dame would put Refrigerator Perry to shame.
Posted by: Clem || 06/02/2020 12:52 Comments || Top||

#10  Any relation to Big Mike?
Posted by: Lex || 06/02/2020 12:54 Comments || Top||

#11  They can both hit a change-up to the opposite field?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/02/2020 17:37 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Taliban Continues to Back Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan: UN
[ToloNews] A UN report released on Friday states that the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
has failed to fulfill one of the core parts of the US-Taliban agreement, namely that it would break ties with al-Qaeda. The agreement was signed in February in Doha, 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...
, after months of negotiations.

Al-Qaeda has 400 to 600 operatives active in 12 Afghan provinces and is running training camps in the east of the country, according to the report.

"The Taliban regularly consulted with al-Qaeda during negotiations with the United States and offered guarantees that it would honor their historical ties," the report states.

Al-Qaeda has 400 to 600 operatives active in 12 Afghan provinces and is running training camps in the east of the country, according to the report.
Al-Qaeda has "reacted positively" to the agreement, with statements from its adherents "celebrating it as a victory for the Taliban’s cause and thus for global militancy," the UN report said.

The US-Taliban agreement stated that the Taliban "will not allow any of its members, other individuals or groups, including al-Qaeda, to use the soil of Afghanistan to threaten the security of the United States and its allies," and would not "cooperate with groups or individuals threatening the security of the United States and its allies" and would prevent such groups "from recruiting, training, and fundraising."

The big shotship of al-Qaeda remains present in Afghanistan, the report says, as well as hundreds of armed operatives, al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, and groups of foreign terrorist fighters aligned with the Taliban.

A number of significant al-Qaeda figures were killed in Afghanistan during the reporting period, the report says.

Relations between the Taliban, especially the Haqqani network
...a branch of the Afghan Taliban, based in Pakistain. The network is a family business founded by the later Jalaluddin Haqqani...
and al-Qaeda "remain close, based on friendship, a history of shared struggle, ideological sympathy and intermarriage," said the report.

The report also highlights ISIS’s subversive activities in the country, saying that the UN monitoring team now estimates that ISIS numbers are as low as 2,200 in Afghanistan.

The report says that ISIS "remains capable of mounting attacks in various parts of the country, including Kabul," but some of those attacks claimed "may have arisen wholly or partly from a tactical accommodation with the Haqqani network."

The authors of the report argue that the Taliban’s credibility as a counter-terrorism partner for the international community will "rest on their success in countering the threat from ISIS’s Khorasan branch," in addition to their handling of any threat posed by al-Qaeda, the report says.

According to the report, the number of foreign terrorist fighters "in search of a purpose and livelihood" in Afghanistan, including "up to 6,500 Paks," will "render this a complex challenge," which will require careful monitoring.

The report come as the Afghan government has expedited its efforts for peace by continuing to release Taliban prisoners from its prisons to move forward towards the intra-Afghan negotiations that Abdullah Abdullah
...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president...
, the head of the High Council for National Reconciliation, said he hopes will begin in the next week.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/02/2020 01:52 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  Duh. Don't care. Get the fuck out of Afghanistan anyway.
Posted by: Jack Bonaparte7513 || 06/02/2020 13:23 Comments || Top||


Taliban Leadership in Disorder in Wake of Coronavirus
Score for the Afghan government for releasing them from prison.
[NewsMax] Coronavirus has crippled the Afghan Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
, sending the organization into flux as members of its big shotship have sought treatment for the condition, according to Foreign Policy.

The illnesses have paved a way for Mullah Mohammad Omar, son of the group's founder, to grab the reins as interim leader, Taliban sources have reported.

The absence of senior Taliban leaders removes key decision-makers from the group during a period when U.S. troops are planning to draw down troops from Afghanistan to honor a bilateral agreement.

Haibatullah Akhundzada
...Former deputy to Taliban supremo Mullah Akhtar Mansour, now The Big Man Himself...
, the Taliban's supreme leader, hasn't attended meetings for several weeks. Sirajuddin Haqqani
...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network....
, his chief deputy of the Haqqani network
...a branch of the Afghan Taliban, based in Pakistain. The network is a family business founded by the later Jalaluddin Haqqani...
, which is affiliated with al-Qaeda, has substituted in his absence.

But Haqqani has been stricken by 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...
, which has caused him to miss out on leadership duties.

"When Sirajuddin got sick he probably infected everyone else as he was deputizing at meetings for Haibatullah," Antonio Giustozzi, an expert on the Taliban at the Royal United Services Institute in London, told Foreign Policy.
...and no hydroxycholoroquine to be found anywhere... Bummer.
An anonymous Kabul intelligence official confirmed some Taliban leaders had contracted coronavirus, including the supreme leader Akhundzada. Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob has now taken the role of "chief of operations."

"Our hero, the son of our great leader, Mullah Yaqoob, is running the entire Taliban operation in Haibatullah’s absence," Maulama Muhammad Ali Jan Ahmad, a senior Taliban commander, told Foreign Policy.

Discord within the top ranks of the Taliban could lead to a violent clash between its rival factions. That infighting could ultimately break off talks between the Taliban and the Kabul government to end their nearly 20-year conflict.

"There are two possible outcomes — Mullah Yaqoob will own his position at the top and Ishakzai will accept him as leader, or Ishakzai will gather his forces and attempt to maintain control in his own hands, and if that happens then things will be very bloody," an unnamed Quetta source said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/02/2020 00:25 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  That's what happen to people who bet on herd immunity.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/02/2020 3:38 Comments || Top||

#2  "Al Dab, Al Dab, my goat is dead !"
Posted by: Thaith Elmeresing6163 || 06/02/2020 10:46 Comments || Top||

#3  and no hydroxycholoroquine to be found anywhere...
Actually, pretty readily available wherever malaria is endemic, and there are plenty of Islamic countries that meet the requirement.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/02/2020 16:28 Comments || Top||

#4  For goodness sake, Glenmore, don’t tell them that! Or tell them it’ll make their peepees shrivel up and fall off, or turn them into Jews.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/02/2020 22:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Mean girl!
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/02/2020 22:44 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Former Muslim Brotherhood Leader Reveals Erdogan’s Plan to Control Libya and North Africa
[ALMARSAD.CO] Salah al-Haddad, who was a member of the Shura Council of the International Network of the Moslem Brüderbund until he left the Islamist group in 2002 , in an interview with the al-Ain News website on Sunday, said that the Moslem Brüderbund terrorist organization outlined a master plan in 2006 to control Libya and North Africa. Erdogan revealed it in 2018 in Istanbul at the Moslem Brüderbund’s 90th anniversary.

He indicated that Erdogan announced his intention then to celebrate the centenary in 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...
, the capital-to-be of the Moslem Brüderbund in North Africa according to their plots.

Then international terrorist plan was, however, fleshed out in detail when the Libyan National Army (LNA) reached the outskirts of the capital, Tripoli. Then, the organization publicly disclosed its international plan and vowed to burn all North Africa. Khaled al-Mishri, the head of the so-called consultative High Council of the State, said that in a television interview on the sidelines of his visit to Moscow on 22 March, 2019, argued al-Haddad.

"The situation of the Libyan Moslem Brüderbund branch is unique because it undertook the realization of the 2028 plan for the Moslem Brüderbund international network. This has made Libya a hotbed for all Brotherhood organizations, leaders, and militias, alongside their allies in regional and western countries all seeking to inaugurate the Moslem Brüderbund as rulers of Libya."

He also argued that the "Neo-Ottomans", led by Erdogan, aspire to establish military bases in Libya to be a springboard for their manoeuvres and those of the terrorist organization to destabilize the countries of the region and undermine their regimes to control the Mediterranean Sea through Libya. "In this way, they aim to besiege Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and strangle Egypt; they have economic and colonial targets and ideological drivers," added al-Haddad.

Posted by: Fred || 06/02/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood

#1  The Carthaginians return!!

So, they're planning the 4th Punic War? Have they finished their invasion of Sicily yet?

Posted by: AlanC || 06/02/2020 7:51 Comments || Top||

#2  IkhwanWeb article, April 3, 2018:
Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan al-Muslimun) Thanks Turkey for Hosting 90th Anniversary’s Gala.
The Muslim Brotherhood expresses sincere thanks and appreciation to the Republic of Turkey, its leadership, its people, and its institutions, for kindly welcoming, supporting, and hosting the Ikhwan's 90th anniversary gala, as they have saved no effort to support the event morally and financially so as to take such great shape in the presence of worldwide Islamic work symbols, who gathered around the platform of the Ikhwan, recalling its steadfastness, tenderness, and the rich experience of its founder and heroes, and who also expressed appreciation and sent greetings to Ikhwan leaders, and the young men and women inside Egypt, behind bars or on the road to homeland liberation. Ikhwan holds accountable all Islamic organizations around the world, which were once nurtured by the thought of the Ikhwan, to continue on the path of this distinguished Call...,until Islam restores its land..., until Islam's values of justice and peace spread all across the World.
Posted by: b || 06/02/2020 8:26 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Two tankers leave #Venezuela for #Iran after delivering fuel
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/02/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Where are pirates when you need them?
Posted by: European Conservative || 06/02/2020 14:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Leaving with what?
Took 2 weeks to pump them off?
Or were these the 'fast' unloaders?
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/02/2020 16:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Gold. And cocaine, I guess.
Posted by: European Conservative || 06/02/2020 21:17 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Chinese state media calls the violent protests ‘retribution’ for the US.
They’d better hope we don’t trace anything back to them.
Posted by: 3dc || 06/02/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  I agree with the ChiComs. The violent protests are a sign that the mayors of our troubled cities have lost the Mandate of Heaven. They should apologize, resign, and report for re-education immediately.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/02/2020 0:38 Comments || Top||

#2  They’d better hope we don’t trace anything back to them

What can be worse than CV19, which traces back to them?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/02/2020 0:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Steve__ I'd prefer they take the Japanese approach - seppuku.
Posted by: Mercutio || 06/02/2020 5:36 Comments || Top||

#4  the chinks probably have a hand in this as does Soros
Posted by: 746 || 06/02/2020 11:54 Comments || Top||

#5  I don't think the Chinese have anything to do with this. I would consider the 'usual suspects' (e.g., DNC, Soros, and associated vermin) first.
Posted by: Clem || 06/02/2020 12:05 Comments || Top||

#6  The Chinese may be sending control signals from time to time, but I don't know if the Leonid Brezhnev Memorial Doomsday Machine acknowledges them or not.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 06/02/2020 19:38 Comments || Top||

#7  Must be a pain to translate from Mandarin characters to Cyrillic alphabet. /sarc
Posted by: Clem || 06/02/2020 20:34 Comments || Top||

#8  ^ Late Snark O' The Day entry
Posted by: Frank G || 06/02/2020 21:07 Comments || Top||


Europe
Thousands Face Homelessness in Greek Refugee Relocation Push
In which, after the Coronavirus pause, normal life resumes with a vengeance.
[AnNahar] The 44-year-old Syrian and his family are among thousands of recognised refugees about to lose the temporary homes they were given under Greece's asylum seeker housing scheme.

As of Monday, authorities will start moving more than 11,200 people out of flats, hotels and camps on the mainland, to make room for other asylum seekers currently living in dismal island camps.

Rahmoun's family has been given until the end of June to vacate his small EU-funded flat in the port of Piraeus. But he has little confidence that they will find alternative accommodation by then.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 06/02/2020 02:08 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


Home Front: WoT
Iran scientist acquitted in US trade secrets case deported
[Rudaw] An Iranian scientist imprisoned in the US after being acquitted in a federal trade secrets case is on his way back to 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...
after being deported, the country’s foreign minister said Tuesday.

Sirous Asgari was in the air on a flight back to Iran, Mohammad Javad Zarif
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/02/2020 01:56 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
PA says pressure won’t cut spigot of payments to prisoners
[IsraelTimes] The families of Paleostinians in Israeli jails will continue to receive salaries despite Israeli measures aimed at cracking down on the policy, Paleostinian Authority Prisoners Affairs Commission chairman Qadri Abu Bakr says.

After an Israeli military edict that criminalized Paleostinian Authority funding for convicted terrorists, several banks closed or froze prisoners’ accounts in the West Bank and Jordan in early May.

Efforts are also being made to create a financial institution directly controlled by the Paleostine Liberation Organization to handle the prisoners’ accounts, rather than placing them in private banks, Abu Bakr says. This measure, Abu Bakr indicates, would allow them to avoid Israeli sanctions.

The Israeli government has long opposed the hundreds of millions of dollars which the PLO pays to Paleostinians convicted of terrorism and their families every year, which Israel says encourages terror.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/02/2020 03:19 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US ambassador lectures #Lebanon on corruption, blames Hezbollah for problems
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/02/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah



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Tue 2020-06-02
  Small groups now canvassing LEOs' neighborhoods,
'threatening to burn down our homes and kill our families'
Mon 2020-06-01
  Son of Minnesota's attorney general: 'I hereby declare, officially, my support for ANTIFA'
Sun 2020-05-31
  As American Cities Burn, Trump Declares 'ANTIFA' a Terrorist Group
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  SpaceX makes history, launches NASA astronauts into space from US soil for the first time since 2011
Fri 2020-05-29
  SpaceX SN-4 BLOWS up at 1:49 PM Local time in Boca Chica Tx
Thu 2020-05-28
  Afghan Nation Calls for Continued
Ceasefire, Violence Down 80 Percent
Wed 2020-05-27
  Palestinian teen dies while working with explosive in Gaza Strip
Tue 2020-05-26
  Three-day ceasefire in Afghanistan to continue for another week
Mon 2020-05-25
  Kurdish policeman found beheaded in Kirkuk
Sun 2020-05-24
  UN committee urges France to prevent execution of convicted jihadists in Iraq
Sat 2020-05-23
  Large cyber attack against Israel conducted from Gaza, Turkey, North Africa
Fri 2020-05-22
  PA refuses UAE aid sent via Israel, won’t be ‘tool for normalization’ – report
Thu 2020-05-21
  Iraq security forces arrest the new ISIS leader
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  Abbas says the PA sees itself free of all agreements with Israel and the U.S. - including on security matters
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  GNA captures al-Watiyah Airbase from the LNA

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