[USA Today] Domestic violence is a trait often shared by U.S. mass shooters, whose rage can evolve into public manifestations like the horrific scene inside the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas.
Devin Patrick Kelley’s history of domestic violence ‐ including 2012 allegations of assaulting his former wife and infant stepson, and a 2014 case of abusing his now-current wife ‐ is a recognized precursor of lethal ends as batterers fight to maintain control, experts say.
Kelley on Sunday killed 25 people, including a woman who was pregnant, and wounded another 20 at the church in the small, rural community about 30 miles outside San Antonio. His mother-in-law, whom officials say he had sent threatening text messages, had attended the church. She wasn't there that day. Neither was his wife.
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And it comes out now that they had a camera set up to record last Sunday's service for the church's FB page. Just when I thought there wasn't anything more horrible about this -- the massacre was filmed. I feel sorry for the law enforcement techs who had to watch the tape. Hopefully, it will NEVER be released to the public. Probably won't ever have to be, since there is no need for a trial. Link to Daily Mail.
Vocabulary changes always reflect the agendas of a political debate.
The fight over illegal immigration plays out by altering words and their meanings. Take the traditional rubric "illegal alien." The English has been clear and exact for nearly a century: illegal alien (cf. Latin alienus) was a descriptive term for any foreigner who crossed the US border without coming through customs to obtain proper legal sanction.
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If we don't stop it now, peacefully, with a wall and determined enforcement of our immigration laws the outcome really could be a bloody civil war and if we don't win that war Aztlan could become a reality.
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[Al Jazeera] Questions over the Saudi-led coalition's aims in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... are mounting in the wake of reports that the kingdom has placed the Yemeni president under house arrest.
On Tuesday, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named news agency reported that Riyadh had barred the Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, his sons, ministers and military officials from returning home for months.
Yemeni officials told AP that the ban was due to enmity between Hadi and the United Arab Emirates and that Saudi officials rejected Hadi's requests to travel to Yemen, claiming it was unsafe for him to return.
The UAE and 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... entered Yemen's war in 2015 as part of a military coalition.
The two Gulf countries wanted to restore Hadi's government to legitimacy after a civil war broke out between Hadi's supporters and those loyal to the former President former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , who was tossed during popular protests in 2011.
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1. Remind China a war in NKOR will screw them far worse than us. Refugees will head north.
2. Let China also know we will stay in our seats if they decide to assassinate, depose and otherwise launch a coup that will remove Kim Jong Un. Even if it just removes him to Uganda, or Ulaan Bator with an unlimited Amex Card.
3. Let China know we are willing to provide aid to a new government if that new government is non-nuclear, and we might even be persuaded to let the Chinese deliver the aid (graft)
4. Remind China that our best option is to preemptively strike, with tactical nukes, all that NKOR arty that can range Seoul, in addition to taking out command centers, and most importantly missile launch centers. And the mess this makes will be China's problem more than it will be ours in terms of the radiation and fallout.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Lebanese equation is very complicated. A thorny marriage and a forbidden divorce. Some leaders find themselves faced with cups of poison whenever the equation becomes unbalanced due to an external storm or an internal adventure. They clash and each tries to eliminate the other.
You then find yourself forced to live with him in the street, parliament or government. You say that you will not shake the hand that has been tarnished with the blood of your loved ones or allies. The equation however forces you into a handshake that you sought to avoid.
[NPR.ORG] When the American-backed coalition of Kurdish and Arab militias took control 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.... 's de facto capital of Raqqa, Syria, last month, it dealt a major blow to the Lion of Islam organization and its self-declared caliphate.
Counterterrorism experts warn the victory will not mark the end of ISIS, but they believe it will force the group to return to guerrilla activity, which was a feature of its earliest days. Some experts believe the group will become more dangerous as it inspires, and in some cases directs, turbans and lone-wolf holy warriors around the world.
The U.S. Is Beating Back ISIS, So What Comes Next?
Since the fall of Raqqa, the Islamic State's media operation, which was known for its sophistication, has gone almost silent.
ISIS's media output has dropped significantly, according to BBC monitoring, a division of the British media organization that gathers and analyzes communications worldwide.
Mina al-Lami of BBC Monitoring tells Here & Now's Robin Young that the loss of territory does not necessarily spell the end of ISIS's extensive media operation.
"As it's losing territory, [ISIS] actually needs to make sure that that media operation is present and strong because IS is known for two things: for its violence and its sophisticated media operation," she says. "So in order to maintain that brand, in order to maintain followers and actually attract more recruits and be able to kind of instill fear, as it says, it definitely needs to stay alive and alive through that media operation."
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[MEFORUM.ORG] Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. resigned his post as Leb's prime minister, citing an liquidation plot brewing against him, presumably from his former government coalition partner Hezbollah. "Wherever Iran settles," he said in a televised speech, "it sows discord, devastation and destruction, proven by its interference in the internal affairs of Arab countries." Iran's hands in the Middle East, he then said, "will be cut off." He delivered that speech and resignation not from Beirut but from 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... In a sinister statement worthy of Syrian tyrant Bashir al-Assad himself, Lebanese President Michel Aoun
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Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.
Michel Aoun
