BLUF: [PJ Media] "These new documents show that the Obama IRS scandal is also an Obama DOJ and FBI scandal," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "The FBI and Justice Department worked with Lois Lerner and the IRS to concoct some reason to put President Obama's opponents in jail before his reelection. And this abuse resulted in the FBI's illegally obtaining confidential taxpayer information. How can the Justice Department and FBI investigate the very scandal in which they are implicated?" Appears Lerner was indeed a 'Focal Point.' An amazing capability used to shape events and outcomes. A capability likely not limited to elections or the agencies as listed.
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You have to give the progressives credit for one thing; they stick together. No one folded yet or turned states evidence. Not sure who they could turn to if they wanted tell the truth; mainstream media and congress are part of the gang.
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Of course they did, the only real surprise is that they put something like that down on paper. I assumed it was simply informal discussions over a few glasses of wine by a few middle management types in each organization.
So now we'll probably find it was directed form above but there will be no proof connecting it to the White House. And if such proof appears it will be claimed as fabricated and racist.
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Last paragraph of the Gettyburg address states: It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people has been made a sham. Instead, the power of the government is used to prosecute the people? This will eventually result in the destruction of the Republic.
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Put Nixon/Democrats for Obama/Conservatives, and you'd have the press with charging the gates, calling for impeachment.
That's the problem - it isnt and so the mass of people are not informed, or worse they are informed completely opposite fo what is happening.
A democracy depends on a well informed populace, and this one is being actively and deliberately maliciously misinformed. Politicians are weasels and expected to go crooked. In the design of this republic, the press is not supposed to be an organ of the state of of a specific party or movement. Yet is has become just such a thing, even more surely than Pravda and Isvestia ever were, because the US press has voluntarily put on the yoke and the blinders.
When the republic falls, I hope the press are the first ones hung from trees, by their own entrails preferably - publishers and editors first.
[AP] SAN FRANCISCO - The gun used in the seemingly random slaying of a woman on a San Francisco pier belonged to a federal agent, a law enforcement official briefed on the matter said Tuesday.
The official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the case and spoke on condition of anonymity, said a police check of the weapon's serial number shows it belonged to a federal agent. The official declined to elaborate further.
The San Francisco Police Department, which is investigating the case, declined to comment.
The revelation was the latest dramatic twist in a tragic case that has become a new flashpoint in the country's debate over immigration policies.
The suspected gunman, Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez, has been deported to his native Mexico five times and is suspected of living in the United States illegally when Kathryn Steinle, 32, was gunned down last week while on an evening stroll with her father along San Francisco's popular waterfront area.
Federal officials transferred Sanchez to San Francisco's jail in March to face a 20-year-old marijuana charge after Sanchez completed his latest prison term for illegally entering the country.
The San Francisco sheriff, citing the city's "sanctuary city" policy, released Sanchez in April after prosecutors dropped the drug charge, despite an Immigration and Customs Enforcement request to hold him for federal authorities so deportation proceedings could begin.
Sanchez pleaded not guilty Tuesday to first-degree murder. A very interesting twist, which might explain the notable absence of regime anti-gun rhetoric that usually accompanies such shootings. Sanchez currently in good health is he ?
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Always vigilant JohnQC,
this has quite a few narrative no nos.
illegal not-white name hispanic mexican held and released from custody dreamer acquires federal agent's firearm and shoots daddy's girl in the back three times in sanctuary city gun free San Francisco.
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I wouldn't jam that tin-foil hat on too tightly.
It's a Progressive-run city. With Progressive-initiated, touted, and enforced policies - like "immigration sanctuaries." The shooter was released, thanks to those policies.
The shooting happened in a well-known and well-patronized tourist area. A significant percentage of the Progressive-run city's revenue is from tourism.
And now we have a murder weapon that "belonged to a Federal agent," in a Progressive-run city.
You need any other reasons for media and government silence?
China needs to develop a long-range strategic bomber to strike adversaries farther away from its coast in the event of conflict, state media reported Tuesday, quoting defense experts.
The meeting agreed that a long-range strategic bomber would enable the air force to attack farther out into the Pacific Ocean, the paper quoted Kanwa Defense Review as reporting, as far as the "second island chain."
A capacity to strike the second island chain would hinder foreign militaries from intervening in "an emergency or conflict," the China Daily said, citing the report.
In May, China's State Council, or cabinet, said in a white paper that the country would project its military power further beyond its sea borders and more assertively in the air.
The Chinese military defines a long-range strategic bomber as one that can carry more than 10 tonnes of air-to-ground munitions and with a minimum range of 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles) without refueling, the China Daily said.
Chinese defense technology magazine Aerospace Knowledge said in a series of articles last month that China needs a long-range stealth bomber, China Daily said.
"A medium-range bomber can't essentially fix the PLA air force's shortcomings in terms of strategic strike and strategic deterrence," it cited one of the reports as saying. "Thus the air force does need an intercontinental strategic bomber capable of penetrating an enemy's air defenses."
But the China Daily quoted the publication's deputy editor-in-chief Wang Yanan as saying such an aircraft would require "a state-of-the-art structure and aerodynamic configuration as well as a high-performance turbofan engine."
"All of these are major problems facing the Chinese aviation industry," he added. "I don't think these difficulties can be resolved within a short period of time."
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To clarify, ARTIC = the PLA = PLAAF needs a new LR strategic bomber capable of reaching the SEcond Island Chain, i.e. GUAM-CNMI-WESTPAC + CAROLINES [CENTPAC].
Sniff, sniff, IS THERE NO END TO THE THREAT TO GUAM'S CAMEL ROCK???
Personally, IMO the Chinese andor Islamic threat to GUAM-CNMI-WESTPAC, etal. is lessor to the threat agz same from Anti-US US OWG Globalist + aligned, espec vee US-N-Only-US unilateral or self "Retreat/Fallback is OWG + World Peace", where the US-N-Only-The-US must give up "Sole" Superpower Authority-n-Influence, etc. to OWG Co-Superpower-hood while somehow simultan NOT BEING EXISTENTIALLY THREATENED = ATTACKED BY ANYONE.
Besides SSSSHHH ...PCCCCCC helping future Co-SUperpower Siblings CHINA, PUTINIST RUSSIA, + IRAN, OTHER? to MilPol/Geopol rise to the detriment of the US' = US-West/Allies' own interests , the fact that the ISIS had repeatedly threatened to attack + destroy America = Amerika has absolutely positively categorically undeniably .... .... nothing to do wid anything.
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At last check, CHINA is snubbing the UNCLOS Arbitration panel, whilst the PHILIPPINES on its part is claiming the integrity of the UN + UNCLOS is at stake iff the latter fails to invalidate China's claims to nearly all of the SCS.
OTOH, CHINA = is offering to sit down wid the Philippines to discuss the matter outside of the UNCLOS.
* WORLD NEWS > [Business Insider] PHILIPINES WILL SPEND US$20.0BILYUHN ON ITS MILITARY TO GAIN "COMPLETE COVERAGE OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA".
Artic read, AFP "COVERAGE/MONITORING", BUT NOT NECESSARILY TO STOP CHINA???
* CHINA DAILY FORUM [old = repost] RUSSIAN MISSLE CRUISER "MOSKVA" [Ex-KIROV Battlecruiser?] IN SOUTH CHINA SEA FOR LIVE-FIRE DRILL AHEAD OF PUTIN'S VISIT TO BEIJING.
[ChinaDaily] China has developed and commissioned a fixed-wing, anti-submarine patrol aircraft, which will significantly boost the Chinese navy's operational capability, experts said.
The four-engine Gaoxin-6, which was developed and manufactured by Aviation Industry Corp of China based on the Y-8 transport plane, has been delivered to the Beihai - or North Sea - Fleet of the People's Liberation Army navy, about three years after the type was first revealed in late 2011, according to a recent report in IHS Jane's Defense Weekly, a United Kingdom-based weapon technology publication.
The aircraft can easily be distinguished from other Y-8 variants by its large sea-search radar, mounted below the cockpit, and the magnetic anomaly detector boom that looks like a metal tail.
It is China's first large aircraft specifically designed for anti-submarine warfare, making the country the sixth nation that has the development capability for such a sophisticated plane. The others are the United States, Russia, Japan, the UK and France.
The most-deployed anti-submarine aircraft is the US' Lockheed P-3C Orion, which often appears in naval confrontations between the US and China. Almost all US allies have P-3Cs as the backbone of their anti-submarine forces.
Earlier reports by Chinese media said the Gaoxin-6, with a crew of up to 10, is capable of flying 6,000 kilometers or staying in the air for more than eight hours. More @ link.
Possibly this will turn out to be War on Terror related, but at this point there is no information about the miscreants, who may merely be safecrackers.
[AnNahar] At least 150 detonators and a stock of plastic explosives have been stolen from a military base in La Belle France, triggering immediate probes into a theft that has authorities on high alert.
Thieves broke into the vast army logistics base in Miramas near Marseille in southern La Belle France on Sunday night after cutting through a wire fence.
The facility, which houses some 200 soldiers, is used to stockpile weapons for foreign missions, such as those in Africa.
In a statement, the defense ministry said it had launched an internal probe into "the protection of all military sites stocking munitions" following the theft.
Another probe has been launched to determine whether anyone was responsible for security breaches, it added.
According to Europe 1 radio, around 40 grenades have also been stolen.
It said the base occupied an area measuring some 250 hectares and was surrounded by two rows of wire fencing, but had no security cameras.
La Belle France has been on high alert since a jihadist killing spree six months ago in Gay Paree that left 17 people dead, including 12 people bumped off in the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... The country is high on the hit list of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
In the most recent attack, a 35-year-old found to have links to an IS fighter in Syria beheaded his boss at a gas factory in the southeastern city of Lyon and tried to blow up the premises.
It was as yet unclear what was behind the theft in Miramas, but this is not the first time that a large quantity of explosives has been stolen in La Belle France.
In July 2008, thieves took 28 kilos of explosives from a bomb disposal unit just outside Lyon.
Then interior minister Michele Alliot-Marie had blamed "faults in the site's security."
[DAWN] MULTAN: Two nephews of PML-N MNA Abdul Ghaffar Dogar allegedly ransacked the office of a sub-divisional officer (SDO) of the Multan Electric Power Company (Mepco) and manhandled its staff on Monday.
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... the family members of the MNA, who is in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... for Umrah these days, denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! saying the SDO had misbehaved with the consumers as well the MNA's nephews.
Mumtazabad EXEN Ghulam Husain Gujjar told Dawn a consumer went to the office of SDO Salman Wains and asked him to talk to Abid Dogar, the nephew of Mr Dogar, while dialing his number. The call got disconnected and the consumer left the office; however, after sometime he returned and again asked the SDO to talk to Abid Dogar.
During the call, the EXEN alleged, Abid Dogar started abusing the SDO and issued him threats of violence. He said Abid Dogar and his brother Amir Dogar, along their 25 supporters, came to the office and ransacked it while forcing the SDO to take shelter in the bathroom.
The EXEN said an FIR had been lodged with Mumtazabad police against both the brothers.
Abdul Jabbar Dogar, a family member of the MNA, said people contacted them often for resolving their issues as the Mepco authorities were least interested in resolving their problems without a reference.
He said Abid Dogar called the SDO to resolve the issue of a consumer who had got an inflated electricity bill, however, instead of resolving the issue, the SDO misbehaved with Abid on phone. He said to avoid any tension Amir, instead of Abid, went to the office of the SDO where only an exchange of harsh words took place.
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He said Abid Dogar called the SDO to resolve the issue of a consumer who had got an inflated electricity bill, however, instead of resolving the issue, the SDO misbehaved with Abid on phone
/Abu Bart Simpson:
"Moe's Tavern. Can I speak to a Homer? Homer...Sexual.....?
Is your refigerator running?"
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[DAWN] RAWALPINDI: A four-year-old boy who had been kidnapped for a ransom of Rs100 million was recovered by the police on Monday and reunited with his parents after a 65-day ordeal.
The kidnappers had reportedly taken the boy to Afghanistan and demanded that police release some members of their family in police custody, in exchange for the child's release.
City Police Officer Israr Ahmed Abbasi told Dawn the boy was in Afghanistan and had been recovered. He said that no ransom was paid to the kidnappers and no accused had to be released by the police.
No further information was shared by the officer who said that the boy and his parents were on their way to Rawalpindi on Monday night, accompanied by a police party, led by Inspector Nadeem Zafar of Banni police.
He did reveal that Afghan law enforcement agencies helped the Pak police in recovering the boy and arresting the kidnappers.
"We also used informal channels to ensure the boy's return," he said.
Four-year-old Hashir Jawad was kidnapped on May 2, 2015 from his home in Asghar Mall, when five men broke into the house, held the family members hostage and took the boy with them. Later, the kidnappers contacted the family and demanded a ransom of Rs100 million.
The local police locked away Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! three people, including a woman, from Rawalpindi for their involvement in the kidnapping. The police claimed that the gang involved did not have links with Taliban or other holy warrior groups and were operating on their own.
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Surprised he wasn't festooned with kaboom-stuff. Hope he recovers from his ordeal quickly and completely.
[DAWN] KARACHI: Traders decided on Monday to gradually withdraw their savings from banks as a mark of protest against the recently imposed 0.6 per cent adjustable advance income tax on bank transactions, calling it exorbitant and an unjustified move by the government to bring non-filers into the tax net. Possibly the worst idea I've ever heard of, to include those that start with "hold my beer."
A key organization of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... traders took the decision after a series of different moves in recent weeks which saw closure of different markets and commercial centres for a day one after another in protest against the tax.
"This is not acceptable in any way," said Ateeq Mir of Karachi Tajir Ittehad -- a platform for nearly 300 markets and traders' associations.
"We held a lengthy meeting today [Monday] and finally decided to ask our members to withdraw their savings from banks gradually in instalments of Rs50,000 which is not taxable. It's a kind of protest we lodge against a 0.6pc tax."
He claimed that over the past couple of weeks traders had lost millions of rupees only on that account. He said banks charged each truncation of over Rs50,000 at the rate of 0.6pc and many traders were unaware of this new tax.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory, Igor and Oleg were discussing what the quickest way might be to deal with the monster... the Gujrat Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Pakistain Electric Fan Manufacturers Association, All Pakistain Pottery Manufacturers Association and other trade and industry organizations in 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.... as well as the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Chamber of Commerce and Industry and other trade bodies in KP have also rejected the 0.6pc tax on bank transactions.
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The government discovers it can piggyback ATM charges, but on over counter transactions. If it can be measured, it can be taxed.
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: Officials of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Tuesday submitted a report containing details of 150 mega corruption cases before the Supreme Court of Pakistain.
A three-member bench, headed by Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja, was hearing a case filed by Manzoor Ahmed Ghauri against chairman NAB and other officials. The case, initiated earlier this year, pertains to scrutiny of the anti-corruption body.
The list include cases against high profile figures, including incumbent Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... , his brother and Chief Minister 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.... Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... , former premiers, ministers and top babus bureaucrats.
The document also lists 50 cases each of monitory irregularities, misuse of powers and land scams.
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[DAWN] Pakistain and Norway signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for construction of three solar power plants to generate a total of 150MW of electricity, said a statement issued on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... and Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg witnessed the signing ceremony of a MoU between Scatec Solar of Norway and Nizam Energy of Pakistain to jointly develop the solar power plants on a build-own-operate basis.
The construction of three solar power plants to generate a total of 150 MW of electricity is expected to start in the first quarter of 2016.
The project would be completed in a year's time and will be located in Sindh province, with an initial investment of $300 million.
An additional 150 MW is planned to be developed in the second stage, bringing the total investment to nearly $600 million.
Adviser on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... and other members of the Pak delegation were also present on the occasion.
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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
dominated Mexico for six years.
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.
A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
