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NY Governor says he WILL give Feds access to state DMV records if Trump reverses ban on 175,000 New Yorkers accessing trusted traveler schemes
So Cuomo will do something for Trump if Trump does something for Cuomo. Hey, isn't that like one of those quid pro quo thingies? I hear you can get in trouble for that.
Fox Business Network says its report that US President Donald Trump announced a conditional decision for a peace deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan is wrong.https://t.co/Js0yS9YvnK
[KhaamaPress] The U.S. President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... has conditionally approved a peace deal with the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group, more than a year after Washington entered into direct peace negotiations with the Taliban politicians.
Afghan and American officials privy of the development have told The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... that deal will only be signed if Taliban prove their commitment to a durable reduction of violence.
The officials further added that Taliban group will have to prove its commitment over a test period of about seven days later this month in a bid to pave the way for the signing of the deal.
The deal, if signed, will result in gradual withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan and the subsequent launch of direct negotiations between Taliban and Afghan leaders.
A senior Taliban leader has also confirmed to Times that were positive movements during the latest round of negotiations with the U.S. representatives.
This comes as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday apprised Chief Executive 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... about the developments in U.S.-Taliban peace talks focused on reduction of violence.
The Office of Chief Executive said in a statement that Secretary Pompeo apprised Chief Executive Abdullah about the developments during a telephone conversation.
The statement further added that Secretary Pompeo expressed hopes that the recent developments would pave the way for the signing of a bilateral agreement, launch of intra-Afghan talks and attainment of eternal peace in Afghanistan, the statement added.
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At least Fox issued a correction. More than you can say for their Shitshow peers.
In a attempt to save the Turkish lira, #Erdogan has requested the #GNA to depots 1.5 billion dollars in Turkish banks by next week. The money transfer will come through #libyan accounts in the #UK ,#France ,#Italy Via financial officer
Contracts found of mercenary #Chadian rebels fighting with the #GNA 1) the amount of 3000 LYD or 2070 USD per month each 2) the mercenaries not having military numbers or ranks 3) the contracts is done on a group of 30 not as individuals 4) Contact party GNA officer#Libyapic.twitter.com/8LWa8V7BQj
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Notice that while the info appears in Arabic, in the sheet to the left there are paragraphs that begin with western numbers (1,2,3, etc.) rather than arabic numbers. Very strange.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Saudi cleric Sheikh Adel al-Kalbani, former Imam of the Mecca Grand Mosque, said that a cleric can make mistakes just as politician could, when asked about changing or retracting fatwas (edicts), the latest changes and reforms in Saudi Arabia and the beliefs of some of its clerics. Pope Francis: "You're telling me?"
“A cleric can make a mistake just like a politician could. He can be convinced of something and advocates for it, and after a while he can retract it because his convictions have changed,” al-Kalbani said on Sunday in an interview on Saudi channel Rotana.
“A cleric who finds the (Islamic) Sharia-based evidence which convinces him of an idea, is not at fault,” al-Kalbani added, who was once a part of the Sahwa movement.
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced three years ago during a panel discussion held in the first annual Future Investment Conference in October 2017, that the Kingdom will witness many changes and reforms.
He vowed to lead the Kingdom to return to moderate Islam and to reject the “destructive ideas” which infiltrated Saudi Arabia when the Sahwa (Awakening) movement gained momentum in 1979 coinciding with the Iranian revolution.
WOMEN RIGHTS Some of the major social changes seen in Saudi Arabia include the lifting of the ban on women being allowed to drive, no longer needing permission of their male guardians to travel and encouraging them to enter the work force.
Al-Kalbani, however, said: “A woman can go out to work making sure to preserve her dignity, but she is not fit for every job.”
He also refused allowing girls and boys to attend the same schools, saying: “Don’t put fuel next to the fire.”
His comments, specifically about refusing to apologize for old fatwas regarding women’s issues, received some backlash, as Saudi women took to social media to express their anger.
A Twitter user named Jawharah replied to a clip of his interview on the social media platform saying: “They wasted our lives with their cursed fatwas and our time are still wasted because of them..”
Another user with the handle @00freee00 replied: “You were part of Sahwa which was a main cause of our suffering.. We will not forgive you until judgement day.. If you had any decency you would compensate the women who you were the cause of their suffering..”
A chicken shop worker convicted of planning terror attacks in London drafted a “to-do list” of what he would do when he got to heaven, including choosing a palace, consummating his relationship with 72 wives and meeting God. See the full list here: https://t.co/BrBKZjMHMk
A chicken shop worker convicted of planning terror attacks in London drafted a “to-do list” for what he was going to do when he got to heaven, according to a document published by the BBC.
Top of his list was to choose his main palace, consummate his relationship with 72 wives, feast and meet God.
Entitled: “Plans for Jannah (Heaven in Arabic)” the list details:
• Tour entire property in Jannah and choose main palace
• Meet all wives and name and choose main 2
• Decorate main palace
• Meet all family and feast
• Meet all friends and feast
• Meet all Ambiya [prophets] and Sahaba [companions of prophet Mohammed]
• Meet Allah [God]
• Visit Jannah market
• Spend time with wives
• Choose quests to embark upon
• New form of entertainments
The list is surrounded by verses from the Quran, sayings from Islam’s Prophet Mohammed and a scarcely legible definition of heaven.
Mohiussunnath Chowdhury, a 28-year-old former Uber driver, was convicted of preparation for an act of terrorism, collecting information useful to someone preparing an act of terrorism and disseminating terrorist publications after an undercover police operation that lasted five months.
He prepared for “martyrdom” by planning for attacks on Madame Tussauds wax museum in London, a Gay Pride parade and an open-top tour bus.
Sneha Chowdhury, his sister, was also convicted of failing to disclose information about acts of terrorism.
It's wish fulfillment from a low-status man who has nothing in life.
If he had something to strive towards, something to work for, something to worry about, he never would have taken up terrorism as a hobby. But he's got nothing. A meaningless life, full of emptiness. The abyss stared into him.
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BBC on "right wing" manifesto: "Experts describe the gunman's writings, replete with words sometimes used by NAZIS, as 'likely to induce involuntary goosestepping in an ignorant, unwary public,' but, trust us, IT'S FULL OF SWASTIKAS!"
On left wing manifesto: "A troubled young idealist who had long struggled with mental illness, his writings reveal an intense concern for the plight of blah blah blah."
On Muslim manifesto: Verbatim reprint of dingbat's take on what awaits pious martyrs in Muslim Vegas heaven.
Didn’t Pakistan once have female pilots? Perhaps they would be better served letting the girls take over.
[DAWN] A Pakistain Air Force (PAF) trainer aircraft crashed on Wednesday while on a routine training mission near Takht Bhai in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Mardan district, the PAF said in a statement.
A spokesperson for the PAF added that the pilot ejected safely before the crash
"A board of inquiry has been ordered by Air Headquarters to determine the cause of [the] accident," the blurb said.
This is the third PAF training aircraft to have crashed while on a routine training mission in less than two months. If they crash so often, it's good the pilots have crash training
Last Friday, a PAF Mirage aircraft, which was on a routine operational training mission, had crashed near the Lahore-Multan ...Home of the Multan Sultans... Motorway. The pilot had managed to eject safely in that incident as well.
Earlier in January, a PAF aircraft had crashed while on a training mission near Mianwali. Both pilots, Squadron Leader Haris bin Khalid and Flying Officer Ibaadur Rehman, aboard the PAF FT-7 aircraft had bit the dust in the crash.
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Unfortunate. The survival part, that is.
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[IsraelTimes] Database was four years in the making; Israelis vow to fight ’anti-Semitic’ list, while Paleostinians hail ’victory for international law’.
Nearly four years in the making, the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... High Commissioner for Human Rights on Wednesday unexpectedly published a list of more than 100 companies that conduct business in Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Israeli reacted angrily to the publication of the blacklist, denouncing the UN body responsible for compiling it and vowing to protect Israeli financial interests. The Paleostinians, meanwhile, celebrated a "victory for international law."
Most of the 112 companies on the list are Israeli, including all major banks, state-owned transportation companies Egged and Israel Railways Corporation, and telecommunications giants Bezeq, HOT and Cellcom. It also lists medium-size companies such as restaurant chain Café Café and Angel bakeries.
The blacklist also names 18 international enterprises, such as Motorola, Airbnb, Trip Advisor, Expedia and General Mills (all from the US), Alstom (from La Belle France) and Greenkote (from the UK).
Businesses may ask to be delisted if they can prove that they no longer provide material support to Israeli settlements, the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet of Chile, said Wednesday. The list will be updated annually.
Paleostinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki, welcomed the list.
"The publication of this list of companies and parties working in the settlements is a victory for international law," he said in a statement posted on the ministry’s Facebook page. He also urged member states of the UN Human Rights Council to study the list and recommend and instruct the companies cited on it to terminate their operations in the settlements.
In March 2016, the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva passed a resolution requesting the compilation of a database listing "activities that raised particular human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. concerns" in the Paleostinian territories. Such activities were defined as providing material and services that would support the expansion of, or help "maintain," Israel settlements.
Other activities that got companies on the list include the use of the West Bank’s natural resources "in particular water and land," the pollution of Paleostinian villages and "captivity of the Paleostinian financial and economic markets, as well as practices that disadvantage Paleostinian enterprises, including through restrictions on movement, administrative and legal constraints."
Israel, the US and the UK for years tried to block the publication of the blacklist. It was unclear why it was published this week.
"I am conscious this issue has been, and will continue to be, highly contentious," said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Bachelet.
"However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... after an extensive and meticulous review process, we are satisfied this fact-based report reflects the serious consideration that has been given to this unprecedented and highly complex mandate, and that it responds appropriately to the Human Rights Council’s request contained in resolution 31/36," Bachelet said, referring to the council resolution that asked for the report.
The database’s publication this week marks a major setback for Israel’s settlement movement, coming only three months after the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Court of Justice ruled that the labeling regime for Israeli products from the West Bank is legally binding.
#3
48 hours from now: Trump announces that he will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the CEO's of each company and will add HRA to the list of terrorist organizations. (The Don's pretty good at keeping score, too.)
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"UN Human Rights agency"...
Agency that tries to prop up dictators, get money for kid sex and kill jews.
#5
As a Marine recruit in 1966 I saw billboards proclaiming "Get the U.S. out of the UN." I didn't really understand. I've seen the light. Throw that dirty trash into the East River. Chop chop!
[JPost] - The IDF will be establishing a new Iran Command as one of the top priorities of Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi’s multiyear Momentum Plan, which aims to obtain a considerable military advantage over Israel’s foes.
The new Iran Command will be led by a major general and will be dedicated to and focused on analyzing threats posed by Iran and planning Israel’s campaign against the Islamic Republic.
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[Jerusalem Post] The new Drone Dome C-UAS system of Israeli defense company Rafael, which uses laser technology to intercept maneuvering targets, performed successfully in all scenarios upon recent testing.
The system managed to use target detection, identification, and interception with a high-power laser beam, proving to be a solution for securing air space from hostile drones.
The new infrastructure is modular and is made up of electronic jammers and sensors which allow for total neutralization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The system is now fully operational and deployed globally.
[Jpost] Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", cyber-cells used Trump's plan and Soleimani's liquidation to target PA officials.
The Boston-based company revealed several cyber-warfare operations targeting organizations and individuals in the West Bank and 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 ‐ including Paleostinian Authority officials ‐ in a report from its Nocturnus Research Group titled "New Cyber Espionage Campaigns Targeting Paleostinians."
According to Cybereason, having identified the targets, the Hamas unit would hack into the victims' mobile phones, gaining access to their microphones and cameras as well as files and information stored on the devices.
Cybereason says it monitored the attacks, discovering they were carried out in a similar way to previous attacks the unit committed against Israeli strategic assets. The unit, says the company, is a politically-motivated cell that has acted against various targets across the Middle East since 2012.
The cell reportedly used new malware called Pierogi first discovered in December 2019 by Cybereason, resembling patterns of action used in the past by MoleRATs.
The Israeli researchers discovered confirmation that Pierogi made use of the Ukrainian language, having reason to believe it was created by Ukrainian-speakers, falling into the hands of the pro-Hamas cyber cell through the dark web.
"These tools allow their users to spy on their victims and control their devices, leaking information, stealing content and files," says a source from the Nocturnus Research Groups. "In the last years, we have been witnessing an increase in the level of abilities and overall sophistication among the cells operating in the Middle East."
The source added that the attacks carried out by the cells "are not yet as sophisticated as those sponsored by world powers, but it is clearly visible that there is learning and acquisition of advance cyberwarfare abilities."
Cybereason was founded by Lior Div (CEO), Yossi Naar (CVO) and Yonatan Shitrit Amit (CTO) in 2012. The company develops systems that gather information from all servers and stations in an organization, analyzing their behavior in real time. Using that information, the product identifies malicious activity, revealing the timeline of the attempted cyberattack. The company's clients include individuals, international banks and corporations, including ones included in Fortune 500. The company has raised $400 million from SoftBank, Lockheed Martin and other investors. The corporation's offices are located in Tel Aviv, Boston, London, Sydney, Tokio and other cities.
According to the report, a Hamas cyber-warfare unit working under the names "The Gaza Cybergang" and "MoleRATs" targeted Paleostinian officials using content related to US President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... 's "Deal of the Century" and the liquidation of IRGC Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani alongside other topics relating to the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict.
[Jpost] An estimated 10,000 children are trained in Gazook terrorist camps each year, while at least 160 have died digging terror tunnels into Israel.
A coalition of non-governmental organizations is urging the public to help stop the use of Paleostinian children as soldiers and war resources by their leaders and terror groups in the region.
There are an estimated 300,000 child soldiers across 20 countries world-wide, including any person under 18 who is either recruited or used by an armed force or gang in any capacity, according to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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[Jpost] Two reports highlight how extremism and anti-Jewish hatred is taught to youth in the Middle East; Saudis show improvement since last report.
Paleostinian textbooks delegitimize the State of Israel, demonize Israel and the Jews, and call for a violent struggle for the liberation of Paleostine, according to the latest report by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israeli Intelligence Heritage and Commemoration Center.
The study, written by Arnon Groiss and initiated by the Center for Near East Policy Research, was published this week. It is the last in a series of studies done in the framework of a project that began in 2015 to examine the attitude of the Paleostinian Authority’s curriculum to the Jewish-Israeli "other" within the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict. In this final report, the study checks this attitude as reflected in teachers’ guides issued by the PA’s Ministry of Education.
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[AnNahar] Indonesia has said it will not bring home nearly 700 hundred nationals who joined 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 in the Middle East over security fears, but added it would still consider repatriating young children.
The issue sharply divided the world's biggest Moslem majority nation with its president saying this week that he was not in favour of bringing back suspected bully boyz and their families who went to Syria and other countries to fight for the group's now crumbled caliphate.
Security affairs minister Mahfud MD said that some 689 Indonesians -- including women and kiddies -- in Syria would not be allowed to return home due to security concerns in a country that suffered repeated attacks by IS-loyal groups.
"We've decided that the government has to provide security assurance to 267 million Indonesian citizens," the minister said Tuesday, after a meeting with President Joko Widodo near Jakarta.
"If these foreign terrorist fighters return home they could become a dangerous new virus," he added.
The government would consider repatriating children 10 years old or younger on a "case by case basis", he added, without elaborating.
Critics of the plan said it was better to bring imported muscle home and rehabilitate them instead of risking that they could be further radicalised abroad.
Except that it’s already been established that most of the time de-radicalization and rehabilitation do not occur.
"If they're not managed well by the government, there is a possibility they'll be used as proxies by powerful groups that could threaten Indonesia and other countries," said terrorism expert Taufik Andrie.
Indonesia has long struggled with Islamist militancy and the country hosts dozens of murderous Moslem groups loyal to IS and its violent ideology.
In 2018, family jacket wallahs from an IS-linked group detonated explosives in several churches in the country's second-largest city Surabaya, killing more than a dozen people.
Last year, two bully boyz also linked to IS unsuccessfully tried to assassinate Indonesia's chief security minister, while in November a suicide bomber went kaboom! at a busy cop shoppe, killing himself and injuring at least a dozen people.
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And yet the left is walloping the UK for not accepting the terrorist bride. If Muslim countries know better than to do something foolish like this, then how is it wrong?
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...because for the Left, their enemy is the same as IS's, Western Civilization.
Iran will respond forcefully to any Israeli action against its interests in the region, says Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi, according to Mehr news agency.https://t.co/IDT8Yhlxtl
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Mousavi might be taken seriously except for the fact that over the past few years Israel has been taking out Iran's agents and even Iran's own troops regularly with airstrikes. Probably at least once or twice a month.
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"Then what exactly are Iran's interests in the region?"
Another evidence that Hezbollah, although it has killed much more Sunnis than Jews, is committed to the entire annihilation of Israel. Behind the scenes, Hezbollah is also committed to promote the Iranian expansionist drive in the Middle East https://t.co/Fwqr0zTq9V
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...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...
[DAWN] A Pakistain Air Force (PAF) trainer aircraft crashed on Wednesday while on a routine training mission near Takht Bhai in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Mardan district, the PAF said in a statement.
...Home of the Multan Sultans...
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
The potential for civilian C-UAS applications appear to be virtually endless. 
...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 
