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-Lurid Crime Tales-
76 injured, 14 killed by gunfire this week as NYC shootings skyrocket
[NYPOST] New York City’s latest bloody week of gunfire saw 76 people injured, including 14 murdered — with almost two-and-a-half times more shootings than the same week last year, according to police sources.As of 7 a.m., the previous week saw 62 separate shootings — a dramatic rise over the 26 during the same week last year, sources said.

Among the 76 hurt in the latest surge of gunplay, there were 14 murders — again more than the 10 for the same period in 2019, the sources said.

The latest fatalities included a man who was rubbed out just after 2 a.m. at the entrance of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, NYPD sources said.

Photos showed a distraught woman comforting a man dressed all in white who appeared to have collapsed in grief as others soon gathered around a body being carried off in a stretcher.

It continued a particularly bloody weekend that had already seen at least 11 people shot overnight from Friday until Saturday morning, with four fatalities — including 28-year-old city Correction Officer John Jeff who was bumped off at a party in Queens.



Posted by: Fred || 08/17/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Those are Chicago numbers. The old pre-Beetlejuice Chicago.
Posted by: Jack Choluck6836 || 08/17/2020 2:38 Comments || Top||

#2  64 shot, 5 fatally, across Chicago this weekend
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/17/2020 9:31 Comments || Top||

#3  The shooters are getting more accurate - must be all the practice they are getting these days.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/17/2020 10:24 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
It's good to be a "king".
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 08/17/2020 02:31 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  A reminder that the average US politician is a piker.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/17/2020 7:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Money shot "... and managed them well". So, it's all good.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 08/17/2020 9:54 Comments || Top||

#3  I note he takes his in cash.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/17/2020 11:20 Comments || Top||


CCP order to go underground
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 08/17/2020 02:22 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Their 'blood' brothers, our Red Guard, are out in the streets of Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Minneapolis, et al
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/17/2020 11:05 Comments || Top||

#2  This is exciting.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/17/2020 11:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Underground? Isn't, that where they've been for a long time, (see stories about Feinstein's Chinese driver of some 20 years).
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/17/2020 12:55 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Democratic convention starts today: Michelle Obama will make keynote address urging people to vote for Joe Biden in first-ever virtual party event - with Republican 2016 candidate John Kasich pleading with his party to dump Trump
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/17/2020 09:52 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:



#3  "his party" hardly.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/17/2020 11:00 Comments || Top||

#4  I thought Mike was stuck home with a case of the blues. Too bad.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/17/2020 12:05 Comments || Top||

#5  The DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION SCHEDULE has been released.

Monday, August 17, 2020
1:30 PM

Free lunch, free medical marijuana, and free bus ride to the Convention. Food Stamp enrollment forms available.

2:00 PM

Group Voter Registration for undocumented Immigrants and any deceased citizens.

3:30 PM

Opening Flag Burning Ceremony Sponsored by CNN – Don Lemon

4:00 PM
Address on "Being the Real You" Rachel Dolezal, former Head of the Seattle NAACP and Caitlyn Jenner

4:30 PM

"How to Bank $200 Million as a Public Servant and Claim to be Broke"
Hillary Clinton

5:00 PM

“How to have a successful career without ever having a job, and still avoid paying taxes.” A Seminar Moderated by Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson

5:30 PM

Medal of Freedom presentation to transgender Army deserter Bo Berghdal

6:00 PM
Invitation-only Autograph Session-Souvenir photographs of Elizabeth Warren dressed in Native American clothing

6:30 PM

Seminar on the Coronavirus: How to keep the public in submission and government dependent

7:00 PM

General vote on praising looters and rioters, and on using the terminology "Alternative Shoppers"

7:30 PM

The White House "Semantics Committee" Meeting General vote on re-branding "Muslim Terrorism" as "Countering Islamophobia"

8:00 PM

“Liberal Bias in Media – How we can make it work for you” Tutorial sponsored by CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times

8:30 PM

Tribute Film to the Brave Freedom Fighters still incarcerated at GITMO by Michael Moore

9:00 PM

Personal Finance Seminar - "Businesses Don't Create Jobs" Hosted by Barack Obama

9:30 PM

Seminar: How to strip US citizens of their 2nd Amendment Rights hosted by Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke

9:45 PM – Extended Seminar by Beto…How to Pander and pretend you’re Hispanic

10:00 PM

Ceremonial “We Surrender ! ” Waving of the White Flag

10:30 PM

Short film, "Setting Up Your Own Illegal Email Server While Serving in A Cabinet Post and How to Pretend It's No Big Deal" Hosted by Hillary Clinton

11:00 PM

Official Nomination of Kamala Harris as VP led by Bill Maher and Chris Matthews

11:30 PM

Closing Remarks: “You Should Feel Guilty for Being Old and White” led by Bernie Sanders and the head of Black Lives Matter
Posted by: Clem || 08/17/2020 12:13 Comments || Top||

#6  Good stuff Clem. Seems to reflect the Party accurately.

Might try to find a slot for:

"Peaceful Protests and Anarchy by Antifa and BLM (if anyone can break away from their busy schedule).

An endorsement by Kasich for a Dem is a plus for Trump.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/17/2020 13:06 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm still waiting to see if Milwaukee will get hit by the anarchists.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/17/2020 13:15 Comments || Top||

#8  Will that one sound a Wookie makes be covered by copyright, or will there be an "exception?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/17/2020 13:25 Comments || Top||

#9  Kay-sick
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/17/2020 13:33 Comments || Top||

#10  Kasich...what a putz.
Posted by: Clem || 08/17/2020 13:43 Comments || Top||

#11  with Republican 2016 candidate John Kasich pleading with his party to dump Trump

Another proud moment for the Republican party. Guess Mitt couldn't make it.
Posted by: Iblis || 08/17/2020 14:07 Comments || Top||

#12  I think John Kasich took Jeffery Epstein’s speaking spot.
Posted by: Airandee || 08/17/2020 14:49 Comments || Top||

#13  So the theme is 'Gender Reveal'?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/17/2020 14:58 Comments || Top||

#14  After John "Reporting For Duty" Kerry set the minimum...
Posted by: magpie || 08/17/2020 16:11 Comments || Top||

#15  Kat Timpf is gross.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/17/2020 16:50 Comments || Top||

#16  I don't know if Kat is gross and would consider letting her eat crackers in bed (as opposed to, say, Donna Brazile), but I might have to tape her mouth shut.
Posted by: Clem || 08/17/2020 18:34 Comments || Top||

#17  Note that thru Michelle Obama's speech there was not one word about Harris...not one.

Posted by: crazyhorse || 08/17/2020 23:55 Comments || Top||


Pelosi calls members back to Capitol Hill to consider USPS legislation, calls post office 'Election Central'
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/17/2020 09:47 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:



#3  My postman is a nice guy. I'd beat him anyway...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/17/2020 10:44 Comments || Top||


#5  The Big Fix
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 08/17/2020 14:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Gee she didnt call congress back for COVID aid. Priorities.
Posted by: Angeater Lumumba5176 || 08/17/2020 14:36 Comments || Top||

#7  USPS flashback: Obama administration removed thousands of mailboxes
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/17/2020 15:55 Comments || Top||


Puerto Rico governor calling for the island to be made a US state LOSES bid to lead her party in chaotic primary election that saw delayed and missing ballots
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/17/2020 08:57 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Construction of Soetoro's new Oahu mansion progresses with easement loopholes and waivers
[MAIL] The beachfront compound in Hawaii where former President Barack Obama reportedly plans to someday retire used a planning loophole to retain a seawall that is likely causing beach erosion, according to a new report.

State officials and community members confirmed to ProPublica that Obama plans to reside in the compound on Oahu, which was purchased for $8.7 million by his close friend Marty Nesbitt in 2015.

After tearing down the site's mansion made famous as the house from Magnum PI, developers are building three homes, two pools and a security perimeter on the three-acre beachfront parcel, permits show.

However, the century-old seawall on the property is set to remain, despite state policies designed to preserve Hawaii’s natural coastlines and environmental experts who say such structures cause coastal damage and beach erosion.

Posted by: Besoeker || 08/17/2020 07:10 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  After tearing down the site's mansion made famous as the house from Magnum PI

Like I needed another reason to despise Bath House Barry.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/17/2020 7:34 Comments || Top||

#2  He didn't build that.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/17/2020 7:42 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't want to hear one f*cking thing about Warren Buffet's secretary's taxes or teachers having to buy pencils out of their own pockets.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/17/2020 8:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Retire from what? Has he ever had a real job?
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/17/2020 8:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Thought he recently bought an expensive place in the northeast along the beach. He made $400,000/yr as Potus. Writing books appears to be good money-laundering scheme for buying expensive houses.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/17/2020 9:21 Comments || Top||

#6  $65 Mil for a Failure to Produce book
Posted by: Frank G || 08/17/2020 9:29 Comments || Top||


#8  Even ghey Higgins would kick Barry's sorry ass.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/17/2020 10:49 Comments || Top||

#9  I thought this is what the Rantburg article entitled "It's good to be a 'king'." was about.

My mistake.
Posted by: charger || 08/17/2020 14:37 Comments || Top||

#10  I hope the new house is set way back from the water, what with global warming and rising sea levels and all.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/17/2020 14:41 Comments || Top||

#11  Enough choom n blow.
Write your book, you lazy SOB
Posted by: Slats Elmereque8770 || 08/17/2020 16:56 Comments || Top||

#12  Believes the oceans will rise.

Moves into $10million beachfront property.

Three homes - Barry, Michelle, Reggie? Sounds like a knock-off of The Bachelor.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/17/2020 17:21 Comments || Top||

#13  Love Oahu, Waikiki beach is paradise, Dukes restaurant is amazing. Been twice, a very enchanting place.



Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 08/17/2020 18:22 Comments || Top||

#14  I guess it's too much to hope for a specific oops from the volcanoes to solve this for us. Be funny for it to get built and then covered in basalt.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/17/2020 18:41 Comments || Top||


Biden leads Trump by 9 points in national poll
How fortunate that we still elect our presidents via the Electoral College, so national counts don’t matter. Tell me former president Biden will get a majority there, then I’ll consider worrying.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/17/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Uh, yeah! Right!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 08/17/2020 1:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Given how wrong the polls have been in the past, I'll take Trump in a landslide.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/17/2020 4:46 Comments || Top||

#3  My theory: They're using stupid poll numbers to try to soften people up to accept a massive amount of voter fraud as the real thing.
Posted by: gorb || 08/17/2020 7:18 Comments || Top||

#4  In a CBS News poll of one eyed l3sbians in Greenwich Village...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/17/2020 7:41 Comments || Top||

#5  #3, yes it's battlespace prep.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/17/2020 7:42 Comments || Top||

#6  The Dems have a Hobson's choice--basically no choice at all. You vote for what is placed before you or not at all.

Biden and Harris are not a very attractive ticket. for Dems or the country. The polls are basically suppression polls. The Dems will have to do a lot of rigging to push this couple over the finish line.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/17/2020 8:54 Comments || Top||

#7  Polls showed Carter and Reagan neck and neck until the final day or two.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/17/2020 9:06 Comments || Top||


#9  Not Real News: A look at false claims around Kamala Harris
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/17/2020 9:21 Comments || Top||

#10  The fury when "the papers said" doesn't play out...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/17/2020 9:28 Comments || Top||


#12  Was that taken among the other people in the basement?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/17/2020 15:49 Comments || Top||

#13  They can report any number they want. There is no way to verify until we vote. So for now this is all push polling to discourage the 'enemy'. A few days before the election the numbers will change dramatically so that the pollsters can brag about how 'accurate' they were.
Posted by: Iblis || 08/17/2020 19:09 Comments || Top||


Maxine Waters: Use 25th Amendment to Remove Trump from Office
Rep. Waters is no Stacey Abrams, bless her heart.
[BREITBART] Saturday on MSNBC, Rep. The Ageless and Downright Brilliant Comrade Maxine Impeach 45! Waters
...U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 28.71112 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in the United States Congress, and a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 43.70906 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was a little brighter she'd be a Communist...
(D-CA) called on President Donald Trump
...the Nailer of NAFTA...
to be removed from office by applying the 25th Amendment.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 08/17/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Near sighted Mad Maxine can't tell the difference between the vigorous Trump and the vegetable Biden. It's because they're both white, isn't it?
Posted by: Jack Choluck6836 || 08/17/2020 2:06 Comments || Top||

#2  The world will be a better place without Maxine and it cannot come soon enough.
Posted by: Dacama || 08/17/2020 7:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Joe Collins would be a good candidate to replace Mad Max. He is running on the Pub ticket. Joe Collins.

CA-43 might have a chance at getting representation after many years without.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/17/2020 9:11 Comments || Top||


Michigan Rejects 846 Mailed Ballots 'Because the Voter Was Dead'
[BREITBART] Michigan clerks rejected 10,694 mailed ballots during the August 4 primary.Of those, 846 ballots were not accepted "because the voter was dead," the bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
News reported.

Further, 2,225 ballots were denied because there was no voter signature on the envelope, and 1,111 votes were discarded because the voter moved to a new address after submitting the ballot. The state claimed the dead voters died between the time they submitted the ballot and when it was counted.

Michigan’s largest city, Detroit, received 820 ballots that were ultimately rejected, according to the paper.

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is demanding the legislature pass a bill requiring city and township clerks to call voters who have obvious flaws with their ballot, such as a missing signature.
If you can't follow simple instructions, you're too stupid to vote
"With turnout and absentee ballot numbers expected to double or even triple in November, we could be looking at tens of thousands of Michigan citizens disenfranchised if the legislature again fails to act," she said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase...
more than 223,000 ballots were "undeliverable" in Clark County, Nevada, the Review-Journal reported.

The state opted for an all-mail election and "Clark County mailed ballots to all — not just active — voters, in part because of legal pressure from state and national Democrats," according to the paper.

Clark County mailed 1,325,934 ballots, and nearly as many were undeliverable as returned: 223,469 and 305,000, respectively.

The Review-Journal noted 58 percent of the undeliverable ballots "belonged to inactive voters."

"According to county records, 92,337 of the undeliverable ballots belonged to Democrats, 53,129 came from Republicans and 78,003 were identified as nonpartisan or third party," the outlet reported.

In April, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) estimated 28 million mail ballots "went missing" over the last decade.

"Putting the election in the hands of the United States Postal Service would be a catastrophe. Over the recent decade, there were 28 million missing and misdirected ballots," PILF President and General Counsel J. Christian Adams said.



Posted by: Fred || 08/17/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But are they Detroit Dead™?
Posted by: Jack Choluck6836 || 08/17/2020 2:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Got a friend who was at Mather AFB (CA) in the mid sixties. Hasn't spent much time in CA since, except for coming and going to SEA. Been in the midwest the last half century, more or less. Got a CA ballot mailed to him.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 08/17/2020 7:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Got a CA ballot mailed to him.

To his Midwest address?
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2020 7:59 Comments || Top||

#4  That many? Imagine how much that hurt someone's ass...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/17/2020 8:44 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 I was writing code to look for bad zip codes in DBase II in 1980.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/17/2020 8:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Harvard Graphics!
Posted by: Clem || 08/17/2020 8:53 Comments || Top||

#7  Used that too. Good times.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/17/2020 9:03 Comments || Top||

#8  Imagine a contest to see how fast an AI engine could reject bad zip codes and mailings to dead people.

Yeah, science fiction all the way...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/17/2020 9:05 Comments || Top||

#9 

Here’s why Democrats want mail-in voting.
So all of the dead people can vote again.

At least 847 dead people tried to vote in Michigan’s August Primary. Over 10,000 votes were rejected. (GP)
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/17/2020 10:41 Comments || Top||

#10  But can you prove they're dead?
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/17/2020 15:35 Comments || Top||

#11  Dead Lives Matter!
Posted by: European Conservative || 08/17/2020 19:06 Comments || Top||


New York Democrats angered after NYPD union endorses Trump
[FOXNEWS] The New York Police Department (NYPD) union faced blowback from local Democrats after it endorsed President Trump’s reelection amid budget cuts and tensions between police and city politicians.On Friday night, Trump spoke to members of the New York City Police Benevolent Association (PBA), an organization that represents 24,000 officers, at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J. Trump was formally endorsed by the group.

PBA President Pat Lynch said it was the first time he could recall the group ever endorsing a president.

"I have 36 years on this job, 21 as the president of this fine organization. I cannot remember when we’ve ever endorsed for Office of the President of the United States, until now. That's how important this is," Lynch said.



Posted by: Fred || 08/17/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gee, you stab them in the back and expect them to grovel at your feet?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/17/2020 7:16 Comments || Top||

#2  It's not like they have anything to lose.
Posted by: gorb || 08/17/2020 7:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Biden is running a Corbyn style campaign...

Trump by a parsec.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/17/2020 7:55 Comments || Top||


#5  "#1 Gee, you stab them in the back and expect them to grovel at your feet?"

Well, it's worked remarkably well so far...
Posted by: Tom || 08/17/2020 12:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Can't have the tribes running off the reservation. It might give others ideas.

I'd be more worried about the postal workers endorsing Biden. If you are counting (heh) on vote by mail, the last thing you want is to give people yet another reason to suspect the process.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/17/2020 13:02 Comments || Top||

#7  Will the folks left behind in NY vote Democrat?
Will the rich folks that fled NY vote Democrat?

The interesting thing is even if only rioters are left the number of electoral votes stays the same.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/17/2020 13:23 Comments || Top||

#8  Although those rich folks that fled are probably still registered to vote in NY, and they can't be thrilled with Democrats.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/17/2020 13:23 Comments || Top||

#9  The New York Police Department (NYPD) union faced blowback from local Democrats after it endorsed President Trump’s reelection amid budget cuts and tensions between police and city politicians.


Fox Butterfield says "You almost got it!"
Posted by: charger || 08/17/2020 14:40 Comments || Top||

#10  #7 Will the folks left behind in NY vote Democrat?
Will the rich folks that fled NY vote Democrat?


Yes.

Yes.
Posted by: charger || 08/17/2020 14:40 Comments || Top||


New York shampoo assistant bill is dripping with special interests
[NYPOST] A state bureaucrat wants to mandate 500 hours of training for anyone who shampoos hair at a beauty salon or barbershop — but something about her push for the bizarre new requirement just doesn’t wash.

That’s because she is also a beauty school owner, The Post has found, as is a second member of the state board that licenses salon workers.

A third person on the panel runs a membership and lobbying group for the cosmetology school industry.

That’s out of four total board members.

If their training-before-shampooing mandate passes, hair washers would have to spend an average of $13,354 on beauty school each to secure a "shampoo assistant" license.
Posted by: Fred || 08/17/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How much to get a “conditioner assistant” certificate? And can I was dogs or cats or just dirty people of New York”?
Posted by: Airandee || 08/17/2020 7:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Really? Let's see your course material.
Posted by: gorb || 08/17/2020 7:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Where would this nation be without beauty school owners and cosmetology industry lobbyists?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/17/2020 7:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Yet another example of our "free-market capitalism"...NOT. Regulations = barriers to entry.
Posted by: Clem || 08/17/2020 8:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Yes. "She made all my (remaining) hair fall out!"

"What else were you expecting, bucko?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/17/2020 8:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Them? They are Mrs. Brennen's personal diamond couriers shampoo assistants.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/17/2020 15:52 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2020-08-17
  Syrian presidency reveals conditions for direct talks with US
Sun 2020-08-16
  Erdogan accused Greece of state terrorism against Turkish/Muslim minority
Sat 2020-08-15
  Recently released ISIS terrorist beheaded his mother, father, sister & two nephews in Ain Zara Tripoli
Fri 2020-08-14
  Oman and Bahrain to follow UAE in normalizing Israel ties
Thu 2020-08-13
  Diplomatic relations between Israel and UAE
Wed 2020-08-12
  Turkish strike kills Iraqi border guards, Iraqi military says
Tue 2020-08-11
  Seattle police chief to resign following department cuts
Mon 2020-08-10
  Lebanese Prime Minister announces resignation of government
Sun 2020-08-09
  Lebanese Army evacuates protestors from government buildings
Sat 2020-08-08
  Portland mayor unleashes police on violent demonstrations
Fri 2020-08-07
  Pakistain Borrows $1 Billion from Chinese Peter To Pay Back $1 Billion Saudi Paul
Thu 2020-08-06
  DOJ Atty reveals 300 domestic terrorists investigations have been opened since May 28th
Wed 2020-08-05
  Death toll from Beirut blast reaches 100 but is expected to rise even further
Tue 2020-08-04
  Beruit goes BOOM!
Mon 2020-08-03
  Israel army says it has foiled a terror attack at the border with Syria


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