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Good morning
Portland: Solidarity with our @trailblazers and NBA players around the country standing up for justice
Thursday August 27th, 2020

winnie barnes 2ddb7c5
EU Countries to Hold Military Exercise in Eastern Mediterranean
IS Kills 3 Iraqi Policemen near Syrian Border
U.S. service members were injured after an altercation with Russian forces in northeast Syria
US shifts Turkey strategy as it condemns Erdogan-Hamas meeting
US airstrike kills 6 Somali terrorists who ambushed US troops
Revolutionaries of Al-Haboubi Square in Nasiriyah organize a march every day at 8:00 pm
Ohio Medical Board Issues Verdict on Muslim
Doctor Who Boasted She'd Give Jews ‘Wrong Meds'

Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2020 09:48 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Downton Abbey anyone?
Posted by: Warthog || 08/27/2020 9:52 Comments || Top||

#2  flap·per
/ˈflapər/

noun informal (in the 1920s) a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.
Posted by: jpal || 08/27/2020 10:06 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2020 10:49 Comments || Top||

#4  "Hands up!" "Black lives matter, you brute!"
"Oi, wot's all dis stuff in de boot?"
She's straight outta Brixton
Like Baroness Blixen
"Except fi dat diction!" "Don't shoot!"
Posted by: Snolurt Ulereth3315 || 08/27/2020 23:14 Comments || Top||

#5  "Program, madame?"
"Why, thank you, Inspector. How veddy kind of you!"
"Ya cyan tell de vic-tims widdout a program!"
Posted by: Caesar Unereck1317 || 08/27/2020 23:20 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
US airstrike kills 6 Somali terrorists who ambushed US troops
An update of a previous article
[American Military News] A U.S. airstrike killed six members of the Al Shabaab terror group after they attacked U.S. troops on Monday, the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) said.

The airstrike was launched in response to an Al Shabaab ambush on U.S and partner forces in the area, AFRICOM said in an emailed statement to American Military News. The Al Shabaab fighters attacked from a building in the vicinity of Dar as-Salam, Somalia before the airstrike was called. Three more Al Shabaab fighters were also wounded in the airstrike.

The AFRICOM said U.S. forces were in the vicinity of the ambush and were present as part of an effort to advise and assist Somali partner forces. AFRICOM said Al-Shabaab falsely claimed U.S. casualties, but no U.S. forces were injured or killed during the attack.

AFRICOM reported no civilian casualties from the strike.

"Al Shabaab is a dangerous enemy," said U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Bradford Gering, who is the deputy director for operations for AFRICOM. "It is a danger to Africa and the United States. "We will continue to place pressure on the network and impact their ability to plan and execute these acts."
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U.S. Forces have been working with Somali partners, namely the Federal Government of Somalia, to train them to handle the Al Shabaab insurgency and eventually transfer responsibilities to the Somali government.

"As part of an international effort, U.S. Africa Command and U.S. interagency partners continue to help support Somali-led efforts to counter and contain dangerous terrorist organizations from exporting violence more broadly," the AFRICOM statement read.

The news of the Monday strike comes after AFRICOM released information about a Tuesday strike that targeted a senior member of the Somali terror group. At least one Al Shabaab member was killed in the Tuesday strike, but AFRICOM did not confirm their identity as that of the senior Al Shabaab leader.
Posted by: Frank G || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Africa North
Turkish Intelligence in Tripoli Orders Infiltration of Protest Movement
[ALMARSAD.CO] Two official security sources, in addition to a civilian source, confirmed that the Ottoman Turkish Intelligence Division 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...
had directed the infiltration of the spontaneous popular protest movement through loyal elements to call for demands in line with their interests. It also advised them to exploit the existing leadership vacuum to form a leadership for this movement.
Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


GNA announced a 4 days curfew 24/24 to contain the epidemic
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Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


GNA security forces open fire on protesters in Libyan capital Tripoli
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Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


Africa Subsaharan
Congo army says Islamist militia kills 20 in east
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Islamist militants killed at least 20 people during attacks on three villages in eastern Congo, the army and a local administrator said.

The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF),
...an Islamist group that started out in Uganda. They don't appear to be affiliated with al-Qaeda or Islamic State. They just like killing infidels...
a Ugandan armed group operating in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo for more than three decades, have killed more than 1,000 civilians since the start of 2019, according to United Nations figures.

The army and local authorities discovered the victims of the latest massacre on Wednesday in the villages of Mapasana, Mayitike and Sayuni, around 30km north-west of the city of Beni.

The killings come just three days after a similar raid that left 13 dead.

Late last year the Congo army launched a large-scale operation against the ADF, sparking a string of revenge attacks against civilians that the U.N. says may constitute war crimes.
Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Britain
UK police arrest Pro-BDS Palestinian activist on terrorism charge
[Jpost] The paper said that Hijjawi was arrested at Heathrow airport and the 62-year-old's house in the Blackhall area of Edinburgh was searched by Scottish police.

British authorities arrested the chair of the Association of Paleostinian Communities in Scotland on Saturday for allegedly committing preparatory acts of terrorism in connection with the New Irish Republican Army.

Dr Issam Hijjawi was the tenth person to be charged in the joint Police Service of Northern Ireland and MI5 investigation called Operation Arbacia, according to a Tuesday report in The Irish News.

The paper said that Hijjawi was arrested at Heathrow airport and the 62-year-old's house in the Blackhall area of Edinburgh was searched by Scottish police.

The Irish News reported that Hijjawi attended two meeting that were surveilled by MI5—the United Kingdom’s domestic intelligence service.

According to the paper, Hijjawi travelled in 2018 to Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
, and its capital Beirut, along with Kevin Barry Murphy, who was one of the six defendants who appeared in court on Monday.

The six suspects are charged with a number of terrorist related offenses, including directing terrorism, wrote the Irish News.

The paper reported that Hijjawi claims he attended the New Irish Republican Army meeting to provide an update on the affairs of Paleostine.

"What they called my Irish connection, ironically admitting the parallel between the Paleostinian and Irish causes." Hijjawi said during a talk where he had been approached multiple times by on a MI5

"Comrades, be assured that we are on the right side of history," Hijjawi continued. "Whether in Paleostine or Ireland, the nearly century-long struggle for freedom, self-determination, dignity and social justice will prevail, and the imperialist, colonialist powers sooner or later will be defeated, it’s just a matter of time."

The anti-Israel outlet Middle East Eye reported in 2016 that "For Hijjawi, BDS is an important means to make Israel aware that the international community is not going to keep silent while Israel violates international law."

The Jerusalem Post has reported on the interconnections between the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign targeting Israel and terrorism, as well as violence. Germany, Austria and other European countries have permitted the convicted Paleostinian terrorist and plane hijacker, Leila Khaled, to deliver pro-BDS talks. Khaled is a member of the US and EU-designated terrorist entity the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine.

In early August, a Berlin court convicted the BDS activist, Stavit Sinai, in Germany for a violent mostly peaceful assault during a presentation of an Israeli survivor of the Holocaust.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/27/2020 03:33 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: PLO

#1  Perhaps MI5 has been told by Boris to stop trying to meddle in allied countries elections and actually do their job or they get "reformed".

I'd take on the reform job...

Lots of Chris Steele types need to be claiming bennies
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/27/2020 3:52 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Curfew in Twin Cities? After more looting.
[Twitter]


Posted by: 3dc || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Frey finally seeks Guard cuz Biden be peeing in his Depends. Trump gon' win, easily, if riots continue into Sept-Oct
Posted by: Crinert Angump8761 || 08/27/2020 5:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Mayor Frey must've seen the latest poll numbers.
Posted by: Raj || 08/27/2020 7:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Somebody's finally doing something, by asking the rioters to do nothing.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2020 9:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Any excuse for free stuff by black criminals as excuses get very tired and worn to pretend they are not really just the dregs of a broken subculture that hides its hatred and racism as victimhood.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/27/2020 11:58 Comments || Top||

#5  About 89 days too late! Oh, wait, the latest polls are in. These polls are the only moral compass for the Dims.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 08/27/2020 14:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Actually I think only a governor has authority to call for the national guard
Posted by: Lord garth || 08/27/2020 15:32 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ As I understand it as well
Posted by: Frank G || 08/27/2020 15:53 Comments || Top||

#8  Littlerock, Arkansas 1957.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/27/2020 16:37 Comments || Top||


Protests Over JacobBlake Shooting Spread across NYC
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Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  s'il nexistait pas...
Posted by: Jomoger Crong5224 || 08/27/2020 2:30 Comments || Top||

#2  A whiff of grapeshot?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/27/2020 4:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Grapeshot is a bit extreme for the first shot.

Try some bird shot of double ought buck first.
Posted by: AlanC || 08/27/2020 7:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Just shoot something, anything. They'll head back to their parent's basements at a dead run.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2020 7:38 Comments || Top||

#5  ^Some will, the other will become hard core terrorists - like in the 70es.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/27/2020 7:41 Comments || Top||

#6  IMHO....they already fit the definition of "terrorist". Shoot the SOB's and restore some law and order.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2020 7:46 Comments || Top||

#7  No. Right now they're just rioters. I mean bombs, staff like this.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/27/2020 7:48 Comments || Top||

#8  People's Power Assemblies AKA full-bore commie.
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 08/27/2020 7:49 Comments || Top||

#9  Ref #7: Again, our opinions differ.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2020 7:51 Comments || Top||

#10  Riots are spontaneous, local, leaderless outbursts. No politician of either party in recent US history has supported riots or opposed swift and overwhelming state force to quash them.

These acts of violence are deliberate strikes against state authority that are coordinated across state lines, funded by national organizations, abetted and encouraged by one party and its media cheerleaders.

This is a violent, nationwide insurrection. 21st century Weather Underground and Black Liberation Army.
Posted by: Cromotch Cheger3932 || 08/27/2020 9:49 Comments || Top||

#11  They've already resorted to bombs and arson. Just put an end to this crap, and include the officials who won't enforce the law in the round-up.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/27/2020 9:49 Comments || Top||

#12  The problem is that the leaders don't lead from the front. They are well back in the crowd. Any whiff of grapeshot or buckshot would just take out some "poor kid" who just wanted to see what was happening.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 08/27/2020 10:10 Comments || Top||

#13  #9 No they're not. I'm not saying "don't shoot them", I'm saying prepare for stage two.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/27/2020 11:24 Comments || Top||

#14  Can't be a hard core terrorist if you are tits up.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/27/2020 11:37 Comments || Top||

#15  Get inside, destroy from within
Posted by: Chesney Unerenter8918 || 08/27/2020 11:38 Comments || Top||

#16  grom, rioters soon become terrorist
Posted by: Chris || 08/27/2020 11:44 Comments || Top||

#17  What #10 said.

Obviously there is generous nationwide funding and the violence is most certainly organized at a national level. DOJ should pursue the source of the funding and the conspirators and make sure their punishment keeps them out of action for a good long time.

If they're burning and looting they need a whiff of grapeshot. If they're only throwing rocks and bottles they need pepper spray and billy clubs. Any responsible mayor, governor or president would apply sufficient force to put a stop to this nonsense. Those who don't are guilty of malfeasance in office and need to be recalled and then prosecuted by their successors. Citizens who lack the wisdom or gumption to recall bad politicians deserve what they get.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/27/2020 11:54 Comments || Top||

#18  Requires same approach as the one used against al qaeda.

Trace the funding and freeze their accounts. Map the network. Work with foreign intel to sniff out overseas support. Tap their communications, infiltrate cells, disrupt their attacks.

And for fucks sake, arrest Soros
Posted by: Hupoluns Clusoter8908 || 08/27/2020 12:03 Comments || Top||

#19  #15 I understand in 1970es, 2 out of every 3 left wing terrorists were FBI agents.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/27/2020 12:28 Comments || Top||

#20  ^ Good old J. Edgar Hoover.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/27/2020 12:38 Comments || Top||

#21  I almost miss J. Edgar.
Posted by: Clem || 08/27/2020 12:54 Comments || Top||


Portland Catch and Release
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Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM


Kenosha: Rioters chase down a man with a semi-auto rifle. He shoots them
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Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Sorry, probably no fix'n that arm. Bowling and personal hygiene just became a bit more of a challenge.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2020 0:17 Comments || Top||

#2  There IS a fix, but he won't like it.
Posted by: Chuckles Greamp7419 || 08/27/2020 0:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Rittenhouse's gunfire was gunfiery but peaceful.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 08/27/2020 12:08 Comments || Top||

#4  to bad it wasn't his head
Posted by: Chris || 08/27/2020 12:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Play stupid games, Win stupid prizes. Episode 13,203,492
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/27/2020 13:02 Comments || Top||

#6  And then the protesters accepted police assistance. OH, THE IRONY!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 08/27/2020 14:23 Comments || Top||

#7  Sh!t just got real. I wonder how many will be back for more.
Posted by: gorb || 08/27/2020 15:44 Comments || Top||

#8  All 3 shot were convicted violent criminals.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/27/2020 16:40 Comments || Top||

#9  "Half of his upper arm was blown off."

Glass is half empty now, eh, chum?
Posted by: Clem || 08/27/2020 18:02 Comments || Top||

#10  'Child rapist shot dead while defending the honor of child rapist shot dead.'
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/27/2020 18:44 Comments || Top||

#11  Arm blown off guy is now known as Stumpy.
Posted by: H-T-A || 08/27/2020 18:55 Comments || Top||

#12  Raunch-o and Lefty.

'Dying on the road, comrade
is going to make you free to gleam
Now you wear your skin like cheese
And your breath's as gone as your bloodstream..'
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/27/2020 19:07 Comments || Top||


Shielded antifa in Portland are quickly taken down by police in downtown tonight
And I'll bet the police really enjoyed themselves for a change.

Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  They're going to regroup and emerge stronger from this. They need to be infiltrated, disrupted, thrown in prison
Posted by: Pharong Crigum5641 || 08/27/2020 5:57 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ They need to be infiltrated, disrupted.....

A serious effort to eradicate this type of behavior and criminal activity would have certainly included undercover or clandestine efforts. The fact these tactics are apparently NOT being exploiting is telling.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2020 6:01 Comments || Top||

#3  they’re meeting today for...training at a park

Seems like time to surround the park.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2020 9:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Let them practice their shieldwall.

Let us practice marksmenship.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/27/2020 9:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Kind of hard to see thru those wooden shields. And they offer little protection against balistics.
This isn't a 'protest' anymore (if it ever was) but armed insurrection. Steps can be taken about that.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/27/2020 10:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Comments on Shieldwall Failure are gold.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/27/2020 10:33 Comments || Top||

#7  A WP grenade tossed into their ranks would break up that shield wall nicely. Or the cops could borrow a few MK-19's to clear them up.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/27/2020 10:46 Comments || Top||

#8  A competent DA would look at conspiracy to commit arson and allow wholesale mass arrests with a no bail request for a judge who was clearly aware of public scrutiny of his decision in a genuine local news organization. Seeing how each of these systemic processes have been sabotaged by the left explains why civilization on the local level is failing. Cops who see this won’t take career or personal risks anymore. Fix it locally, or watch the barbarians rule. They are inside the wire for those who get what that means.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/27/2020 12:19 Comments || Top||


Kenosha: 17-year-old arrested after two killed at protests over police shooting of Jacob Blake
[WOODTV] A white, 17-year-old police admirer was arrested Wednesday after two people were shot to death during a third straight night of protests in Kenosha over the police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake.

Kyle Rittenhouse, of Antioch, Illinois, was taken into custody in Illinois on suspicion of first-degree intentional homicide. Antioch is about 15 miles from Kenosha.

Two people were killed Tuesday night and a third was wounded in an attack apparently carried out by a young white man who was caught on cellphone video opening fire in the middle of the street with a semi-automatic rifle.

“I just killed somebody,” the gunman could be heard saying at one point during the rampage that erupted just before midnight.

In the wake of the killings, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers authorized the sending of 500 members of the National Guard to Kenosha, doubling the number of troops. The governor’s office said he is working with other states to bring in additional National Guard members and law officers. Authorities also announced a 7 p.m. curfew, an hour earlier than the night before.

“A senseless tragedy like this cannot happen again,” the governor, a Democrat, said in a statement. “I again ask those who choose to exercise their First Amendment rights please do so peacefully and safely, as so many did last night. I also ask the individuals who are not there to exercise those rights to please stay home and let local first responders, law enforcement and members of the Wisconsin National Guard do their jobs.”

In Washington, the Justice Department said it is sending in the FBI and federal marshals in response to the unrest.

The dead were identified only as 26-year-old Silver Lake, Wisconsin, resident and a 36-year-old from Kenosha. The wounded person, a 36-year-old from West Allis, Wisconsin, was expected to survive, police said.

“We were all chanting ‘Black lives matter’ at the gas station and then we heard, boom, boom, and I told my friend, `‘That’s not fireworks,’” 19-year-old protester Devin Scott told the Chicago Tribune. “And then this guy with this huge gun runs by us in the middle of the street and people are yelling, ‘He shot someone! He shot someone!’ And everyone is trying to fight the guy, chasing him and then he started shooting again.”

Scott said he cradled a lifeless victim in his arms, and a woman started performing CPR, but “I don’t think he made it.”

According to witness accounts and video footage, police apparently let the young man responsible for the shootings walk past them with a rifle over his shoulder and his hands in the air as members of the crowd were yelling for him to be arrested because he had shot people.

Rittenhouse was assigned a public defender in Illinois for a hearing Friday on his transfer to Wisconsin. The public defender’s office had no comment. Under Wisconsin law, anyone 17 or older is treated as an adult in the criminal justice system.

Much of Rittenhouse’s Facebook page is devoted to praising law enforcement, with references to Blue Lives Matter, a movement that supports police. He also can be seen holding an assault rifle.

Other photographs include those of badges of various law enforcement agencies, including the Chicago Police Department. All of the badges have a black line across them — something police officers typically do with black tape when an officer is killed in the line of duty.

In a photograph posted by his mother, he is wearing what appears to be a blue law enforcement uniform as well as the kind of brimmed hat that state troopers wear.

The sheriff told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that armed vigilantes had been patrolling Kenosha’s streets in recent nights, but he did not know if the gunman was among them. However, video taken before the shooting shows police tossing bottled water from an armored vehicle to what appear to be armed civilians walking the streets. And one of them appears to be the gunman.

“We appreciate you being here,” an officer is heard saying to the group over a loudspeaker.
Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Called the Antioch (Illinois, not California) chief of police and gave him a piece of my mind today.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 08/27/2020 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Did Rioters Lob Molotov Cocktail at Kenosha Shooter Prior to First Shooting?

In a stunning new video making the rounds on Twitter, it looks as if the Kenosha shooter, 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse of Illinois, was targeted with what could be a Molotov cocktail before the first shooting that took the life of one of the rioters.

VIDEO:
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2020 0:40 Comments || Top||


#4  Molotov Cocktail? Plastic bag w/ something in it.

Warning: Guy chasing Kyle gets shot.
Great video sync of multiple angles of first self defense shooting by #kylerittenhouse. You can clearly see the chase, molotov get thrown, and then the attempted theft of his rifle.
Posted by: Clyde Thraiter7206 || 08/27/2020 2:14 Comments || Top||


#6  Free Kyle. An American hero.
Posted by: Shinemp Hupavirong3673 || 08/27/2020 2:34 Comments || Top||

#7  You literally cannot make this up. It appears that the first person killed in self defense by #KyleRittenhouse was a pedophile.

Also: Here's more information from Arizona State Prison, much of which points to him being a violent person.

He was the highest possible risk level. Level 3: The risk of repeat offense is high. The degree of danger posed to the public is such that a substantial public safety interest is served by active dissemination.
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It seems every other Antifa Commie arrested has prior arrests for pedophilia. The other half are in some stage of a sex change. Sick bastards.
Posted by: Clyde Thraiter7206 || 08/27/2020 3:13 Comments || Top||

#8  “A senseless tragedy like this cannot happen again,” the governor, a Democrat, said

Self defense is never senseless.

It will keep happening as long as you Commie weasles keep allowing your pet thugs to continue to burn down your cities. Just feel lucky that the good guys haven't gone all Robspierre on your buttt.
Posted by: AlanC || 08/27/2020 7:46 Comments || Top||


#10  17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse of Illinois, was targeted with what could be a Molotov cocktail...

I'm sure the media will mistakenly leave out that little tidbit in their editing. Strange how all the media outlets seem to make the same editing mistakes.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/27/2020 11:40 Comments || Top||

#11  And with sportsball jumping in expect more articles like this.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/27/2020 11:49 Comments || Top||

#12  Wisconsin will go for Trump, maybe Minnesota too
Posted by: Maggie Forkbeard7020 || 08/27/2020 11:56 Comments || Top||

#13  I tried to post this info with links, but Rantburg eats my posts when I have more than a couple, so just go to the Wisconsin DOJ About > Executive Profiles page, and then use your favorite search/pedia page for confirmation:


AG Josh Kaul Bio:

His mother was Wisc AG from 2003 to 2007.

His stepfather was a cop.

Kaul clerked for Michael Boudin in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

And who is Michael Boudin?

Boudin was born in New York City, the son of the civil liberties attorney Leonard Boudin and older brother of Weather Underground member Kathy Boudin.

Which of course, makes Judge Boudin the uncle of Chesa Boudin.

Are you getting it yet?

Also, Deputy DA Eric Wilson once worked in Chicago.

Incidentally, I wouldn't know any of this myself, if I hadn't gone down a rabbit hole after looking up the Wisky DOJ > About > Executive Profiles Page.

None of the so-called "conservative" news sites I saw covering this mentioned any of this.

Almost like they just exist to get rage-clicks while avoiding giving any actual info.
Posted by: charger || 08/27/2020 12:53 Comments || Top||

#14  Like your lead Charger.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2020 12:59 Comments || Top||

#15  with links, but Rantburg eats my posts when I have more than a couple,

It’s not just you, charger. One of Fred’s spam control measures is to limit the number of links in a single comment to two. I used to be a multiple linker, too.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/27/2020 14:17 Comments || Top||

#16  Thanks tw, I'll keep that in mind for future posts.
Posted by: charger || 08/27/2020 19:35 Comments || Top||

#17  Thise who came to the aid of the deranged idiot woth the head wound had trouble finding the wound. That does not sound like received a point blank shot from an AR, especially compared to the armed rioter who had his bicep torn off. Are there circumstances which might account for wound discrepency? Something's not adding up.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 08/27/2020 20:01 Comments || Top||

#18  Too much to hope for, probably, but maybe SMN caught one from Wingy or other lefty pistolero?
Posted by: Omusing Bucket9600 || 08/27/2020 23:44 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Four Iraqi soldiers killed in ISIS attack in Kirkuk: Iraqi defense ministry
[Rudaw] Four Iraqi soldiers were killed after 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....
(ISIS) bandidos hard boyz opened fire on a checkpoint belonging to Iraqi security forces in southeastern Kirkuk province on Monday.

The Iraqi Security Media Cell released a statement late Monday confirming the deaths.

"ISIS bully boyz opened fire on a station of the third regiment of the 20th brigade of the fifth division in the Daquq area on the Kirkuk highway," the statement said, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS.

The attack also maimed four other soldiers, according to the statement.

Kirkuk lies in territory disputed between the central government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil.

The latest Pentagon Inspector General report recorded more than 400 ISIS-claimed or suspected attacks in Iraq from April to June of this year, 70 of which took place in Kirkuk province.

ISIS carried 101 attacks in Iraq between July 23 and August 19, according to its weekly propaganda newspaper al-Naba, accessible on its official telegram channel. Of this number, at least 12 attacks were reported in Kirkuk province.

Iraq's defense ministry and the KRG Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs agreed last month to establish three joint coordination rooms with the aim of eliminating ISIS cells active in disputed Diyala, Kirkuk and Nineveh province.

The holy warrior group killed the commander of the 59th Brigade of the Iraqi army, Brigadier General Ali Hameed Ghaydan, after bandidos hard boyz attacked his convoy north of Baghdad last month.

ISIS also grabbed credit for the killing of General Brigadier Ahmed al-Lami, commander of the seventh division of the army's 29th brigade in an ambush in Anbar late last month.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Turkish airstrikes return to Shingal
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
has resumed Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on northern Iraq’s Shingal (Sinjar in Arabic), in the first attacks on the Yezidi heartland since the onset of their latest operation in mid-June.

Khudeda Chuke, mayor of Sinune town, says a vehicle belonging to the Shingal Protection Units (YBS), a Yezidi gang affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) was hit in the vicinity of Bahraviyan village, seven kilometres west of the town of Khanasor.

"Thankfully, there were no casualties in the bombing," Chuke said, adding the airstrike struck the vehicle at a YBS base.

"There were only minor material damages," he noted.

In a statement, the YBS acknowledged the airstrikes, but said they would publish details of the Ottoman Turkish airstrikes at a later time, according to PKK-affiliated Rojnews.

Along with the Kurdistan Region's mountainous areas, Turkey occasionally targets Shingal and its surroundings on the grounds that it is seeking out the PKK in the area. Shingal is a disputed area that is claimed by both Erbil and Baghdad. Since October 2017, Shingal has been in the security portfolio of Iraq, and is controlled by numerous different gangs and security forces
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Roadside explosion injures UN staff member in Nineveh Plains
[Rudaw] A United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
World Food Programme (WFP) convoy was impacted by the detonation of an improvised bomb in the Nineveh Plains on Wednesday, injuring an employee, according to a statement by United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI).

An earlier statement from the Iraqi Security Media Cell had reported that two employees were maimed.

The explosion took place in the village of Shaqoli on the Erbil-djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
road, according to the cell statement, published by Iraqi state media.

The blast was confirmed by Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Iraq, while addressing the Security Council.

"In terms of security, conditions for humanitarian actors are also hazardous in certain areas, as was starkly highlighted today by the IED explosion that impacted a World Food Programme convoy in Ninewa," she said of the security situation in Iraq, not mentioning any injuries or casualties.

Rudaw English has reached out to WFP for comment, but has not received a response by the time of publication.

Several other IED explosions have taken place in Iraq in August, including three against companies which have contracts with the Global Coalition against 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....
(ISIS) in Baghdad, Diwaniya and Dhi Qar provinces - according to separate statements by Iraq’s security cell.

No one has taken credit for the Wednesday’s convoy attack, but ISIS remnants are commonly active in areas disputed between Erbil and Baghdad.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Security forces attack the demonstrators in Babel
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Revolutionaries of Al-Haboubi Square in Nasiriyah organize a march every day at 8:00 pm
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


IS Kills 3 Iraqi Policemen near Syrian Border
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
The attack, which was carried out at around 2:00 am local time (2300 GMT Tuesday), targeted an outpost in al-Obeidi area near the town of al-Qaim, some 450 km west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, a local official said.

The jihadists also wounded two other policemen during the fire exchange, Xinhua cited the mayor of al-Qaim Ahmed al-Dulaimi.
Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Gaza arson balloons spark 33 fires in south while Qatar envoy still in Strip
[IsraelTimes] Two incendiaries land inside communities, one near a playground where children were playing.

Paleostinians in 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...
lofted airborne incendiary devices that sparked 33 fires in southern Israel Wednesday while 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...
’s envoy to the Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,-run coastal enclave was still in the Strip seeking to deescalate ongoing tensions between the terror group and Israel.

Two of the arson balloons landed within the borders of a community in the Eshkol Regional Council, with one falling near a playground where children were playing and another coming down near a home belonging to elderly residents, a front man for the municipality said.

However,
the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach...
most of the brush fires caused were "small and not dangerous," the Israel Fire and Rescue Services said in a statement.

Israeli warplanes and tanks attacked Hamas targets in southern Gaza earlier Wednesday after balloon launchers caused 29 fires near border towns on Tuesday.

The latest fires came as Qatari envoy Mohammed al-Emadi was still in the Gaza Strip, where he arrived late Tuesday night bringing $30 million in cash, seeking to ease the Israel-Hamas tensions that have led to daily arson balloon and rocket attacks on Israel and IDF reprisal strikes.

The money is earmarked to help the territory of two million people, half of whom live under the poverty line, sources close to the envoy told AFP.

Al-Emadi met with Hamas officials later Tuesday night.

His arrival came a day after the London-based Arabic-language daily Asharq al-Awsat reported that the head of the IDF Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Herzi Halevi, visited Qatar this week in a bid to secure a ceasefire agreement with Hamas.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/27/2020 03:21 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  another coming down near a home belonging to elderly residents

....Sobering to think there are people in that home who have never known a time in their lives when they were not marked for extermination.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/27/2020 12:57 Comments || Top||

#2  33 randomly launched fire bombs.
Sounds like 33 randomly fired rockets is a reasonable return.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2020 15:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Each should be answered by a full battery of 155's firing WP at random spots picked by Mossad inside the Gaza strip.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/27/2020 20:19 Comments || Top||


Netanyahu warns Hezbollah says it would be “wise not to test Israel's crushing resolve''
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  Hezbollah, you would be wise to listen to the man.
Posted by: Clem || 08/27/2020 0:13 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
U.S. service members were injured after an altercation with Russian forces in northeast Syria
[Twitter]







Posted by: 3dc || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  No seat belts?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2020 20:56 Comments || Top||



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