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-War on Police-
Shootings of police skyrocketed this year
[THEHILL] The number of coppers who were shot and killed this year jumped 67 percent compared to 2015, according to the latest data from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.

Sixty coppers died from firearm-related incidents so far in 2016, up from 36 by this point last year. The overall number of police fatalities, including traffic deaths and other causes, increased 18 percent.

The data covers from Jan. 1 to Nov. 25 of 2016 and 2015.

This year has also seen the most assassinations, or ambushes, on police since 1995.

Texas and Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, the largest states in the U.S., saw the most police fatalities, followed by Louisiana.

The data comes nearly a week after a San Antonio cop was shot to death in a traffic stop. Officials have described the attack as an "assassination", similar to the recent police shootings in Dallas and Baton Rouge, La.
Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
ISIS-aligned Boko Haram block aid to thousands of desperate refugees
[ALMASDARNEWS] The United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
has said that ISIS-aligned Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
bully boyz are not allowing humanitarian operations aimed for tens of thousands of Nigerian refugees living in northern Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
Leo Dobbs, a UN front man, said a team had able to pre-register more than 21,000 refugees who had fled Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria.

"It was the first time we have been able to visit these people and there are believed to be many more," he said.

Dobbs said the refugees in northern Cameroon "urgently need assistance."

Dobbs continued by saying that the UNHCR "would like to help and have helped in a little way, but the continuing Boko Haram threat is a hindrance to regular access."

Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram


China-Japan-Koreas
N. Korea-China trade on steady rise despite sanctions
Trade between North Korea and China increased for the third straight month in a row last month, inviting doubts over whether China is effectively taking part in the international community's economic sanctions' on its traditional ally, Chinese trade data showed Friday.

According to monthly data released by China's General Administration of Customs, the two communist countries traded goods worth US$525.24 million in October, up 21.1 percent from $433.73 million a year ago. In the figure, China exported $286.86 million worth of goods to the North, up 16.1 percent on-year, and imported $238.38 million worth from the North, up 27.6 percent from a year before, the data said.

The monthly increase marked the third in a row since August, when the bilateral trade marked a 29.9 percent rise on-year in sharp comparison with a 9.1 percent drop in April following the U.N. Resolution 2270 adopted in March against the North's nuclear test in January. The figure also posted an 8.1 percent decline in May and a 15.7 percent decrease in July, except for a 9.4 percent hike in June.

In particular, China's exports of construction materials and vehicles have been noticeably on the rise, which apparently has something to do with ongoing bilateral infrastructure construction projects in their border areas.
And construction of new nuclear facilities and rocket plants...
Since March, China has been participating in the latest U.N. sanctions which require mandatory inspections of all cargo going in and out of the North and bans its exports of coal, iron and other mineral resources, a key source of hard currency that accounts for nearly half of the economically-devastated country's total exports.

"In fact, trade between the North and China has not been greatly affected by the sanctions as they are not applied in the case of cargo or exports for livelihood purposes," said Lim Eul-chul, a senior researcher at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies in Seoul.

He pointed out that the North's trade with China accounts for more than 90 percent of its total external trade.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/26/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Commies


The Grand Turk
Turkey reinstates over 6,000 teachers suspended after coup
Lots of very annoyed mothers whose children have been running amok without teachers...
[Al Ahram] Turkish authorities have reinstated over 6,000 teachers suspended after the July failed coup accused of terror links, the education ministry said on Friday.

"6,007 personnel suspended over links to terrorist organizations have returned to their jobs," the ministry said on Twitter.

Tens of thousands of teachers were suspended or sacked over links to Kurdish bully boyz and coup plotters since July 15 when a rogue faction tried to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
from power.
Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  The 6,000 large have been, er, "in-ter-viewed" and found yetkili.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 11/26/2016 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Looks like their teachers union is at least as powerful as those in the US...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/26/2016 11:43 Comments || Top||

#3  The problem being: if the teachers aren't on the job, who's going to keep a eye on the kids?
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/26/2016 13:28 Comments || Top||


Turkey slams Austria’s arms embargo
Turkish Defense Minister has condemned Austria’s arms embargo on Turkey, saying that the decision will fuel motivation in Turkish industry to produce indigenous arms.
What arms does Austria make that Turkey might want?
“We have slammed Austria’s embargo. I am sure that such steps will fuel considerable motivation for Turkey’s defense industry to create indigenous arms,” Fikri Işık said on Nov. 25, adding that Turkey overcame a much severe embargo after the 1974 Cyprus Peace Operation.

The National Council of Austria on Nov. 24 unanimously supported a motion for the government to restrict the sale of arms to Turkey, the Austria Press Agency reported.

All six parties to the council backed the nonbinding motion, which urged the government to consider the “threat of armed conflicts” as well as the human rights situation when considering approval of such exports.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/26/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  What arms does Austria make that Turkey might want?

Steyr-Mannlicher: small arms, including a well-known assault rifle.

Glock: handguns.

Noricum: artillery and artillery ordnance.

Steyr-Allradtechnik: all-wheel drive trucks and combat vehicles.
Posted by: Pappy || 11/26/2016 9:58 Comments || Top||


Migrant crisis: Turkey threatens EU with new surge
[BBC] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
has warned that he will let hundreds of thousands of migrants colonists travel on to Europe if pushed by the EU.

He was reacting to a non-binding vote by the European Parliament to freeze talks on EU membership for Turkey.

The MEPs were alarmed by Mr Erdogan's "disproportionate" response to a failed coup attempt in July.

The migrant numbers reaching the Greek islands have dropped since an EU-Turkey deal in March to curb the influx.

Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Threaten Turkey with economic sanctions and closing the borders. I'm sure the Greeks would love being paid to shut down the Turks.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 11/26/2016 10:25 Comments || Top||

#2  New weapon of destruction: "refugees". Pretty simple to stop, but few in Europe have the courage to do so.
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/26/2016 23:11 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
India threatens to cut water to Pakistan
[ALMASDARNEWS] Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that he is "committed" to cutting the water supply to Pakistain because of hostilities in the volatile Kashmire region.

Modi said at the opening of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in the city of Bathinda on Friday that the government was "committed" to getting "farmers their rights."

"Now every drop of this water will be stopped and I will give that to ... Indian farmers. I am committed to this," Modi stated.

He said he also already setup a task force to oversee that "each drop of water" does not reach Pakistain.

Under an internationally mediated agreement between India and Pakistain signed in 1960, named the Indus Waters Treaty, the water of six rivers, namely Beas, Ravi, Sutlej, Indus, Chenab and Jhelum, are to be shared between the two countries.

On November 24, Sartaj PrunefaceAziz
...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...
, Pakistain’s adviser to the prime minister on foreign affairs, said in response to Modi’s decision that the revocation of the Indus Waters Treaty by India where water of the Beas, Ravi, Sutlej, Indus, Chenab and Jhelum rivers, are to be shared between the two countries, "can be taken as an act of war."

Islamabad will "react befittingly" if Modi attempts to violate the Indus Waters Treaty, Aziz warned.

Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Paper gets cut paper covers rock water rusts cutting instrument makes paper soggy and rounds rocks play the damn game the right way what idiots!
Posted by: Goober Wittlesbach5685 || 11/26/2016 6:09 Comments || Top||

#2  From Natl Geographic, October 2011:
Nearly 30 percent of the world's cotton supply comes from India and Pakistan, much of that from the Indus River Valley. On average, about 737 billion gallons are withdrawn from the Indus River annually to grow cotton—enough to provide Delhi residents with household water for more than two years. "Pakistan's entire economy is driven by the textile industry," said Michael Kugelman, a South Asia expert at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. "The problem with Pakistan's economy is that most of the major industries use a ton of water—textiles, sugar, wheat—and there's a tremendous amount of water that's not only used, but wasted."
Posted by: Heriberto Greper9897 || 11/26/2016 9:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Interesting, two of the four elements, fire and water used as instruments of war. Air and earth remain. I wonder if that counts as nuclear winter?
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/26/2016 15:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Dig in Skid air-fuel burst on the way
Posted by: Shipman || 11/26/2016 17:53 Comments || Top||


Kashmir issue will be resolved through indigenous struggle, says Pruneface
[DAWN] Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj PrunefaceAziz
...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...
on Friday told politicians in the National Assembly that the Kashmire issue would only be resolved through indigenous movements within India-held Kashmire led by the younger generation.

Aziz said Pakistain would continue extending political, diplomatic and moral support to the Kashmiri cause on international and bilateral forums.

"We have been taking our diplomatic campaign forward with zeal since Prime Minister Nawaz's speech regarding the Kashmire issue in the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
General Assembly.

"The movement has not lost any of its zeal even after the aggression against it and Pakistain will continue to support it," he reiterated.

Pakistain is willing to hold a dialogue with India on all issues, on the condition that the Kashmire dispute is brought to the table and a resolution sought in accordance with United Nations resolutions, Aziz said.

"Even though we have a policy of neighbourly relations with all neighbouring countries we will stick to this policy on Kashmire issue," he said. "These are the points of our international policy, which has always remained the same, even though there is a shift in its intensity from time to time," he explained.

He added that Pakistain "will respond in kind to any Indian violence as we have the capability to defend our borders."

The adviser's statements come days after Indian troops targeted a passenger bus and ambulance across the Line of Control, and killed three Pakistain Army soldiers and 10 civilians in various incidents of 'unprovoked' firing.

Tension between the two countries is again at a peak following an alleged Indian 'surgical strike', unrest in Kashmire and the Uri army base attack in September.

Since then there have been repeated outbreaks of cross-border firing in Kashmire, with both sides reporting deaths and injuries including of civilians.

Modi stepped up a drive to isolate Pakistain diplomatically after the Uri army base attack in September in which 19 Indian soldiers were killed. Hours after the attack occurred, Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh termed Pakistain a 'terrorist state' and accused Pakistain of involvement.

Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Kashmir is not India's personal property to be inherited, says Farooq Abdullah
[DAWN] Former Jammu and Kashmire chief minister Farooq Abdullah on Friday, while cautioning the Indian government, said that Kashmire is not India's "personal property to be inherited", News18.com reported.

Farooq Abdullah was commenting on the Indian parliament's standing resolution on Kashmire. "Is this your forefathers property?"

He was addressing a gathering in Chenab Valley, in the presence of his son and Omar Abdullah, who has also served as Kashmire's chief minister.

Farooq Abdullah also said that Pakistain is one of the stakeholders of the Kashmire issue which even the government of India has accepted, adding that the India will have no option but to start talks with Pakistain so that the "atrocities through which people of Jammu and Kashmire are undergoing will come to an end."

Kashmire has been divided between rivals India and Pakistain since 1947, but both claim the territory in its entirety.

Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Iraq
Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces in Iran’s game plan
As Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) have been closing in on Tal Afar, a town 33 miles west of Mosul, through the western Mosul axis, the organization’s top commanders have openly discussed their post-Islamic State plans to secure the border with Syria and push into the country. These senior militia commanders are closely affiliated and coordinated with Iran.

The spokesman of Iranian-backed Harakat al Nujaba vowed on Nov. 18 that the PMF, as “one of Iraq’s security institutions,” was ready to pursue the Islamic State into Syria per the request of the Syrian government and the approval of the Iraqi government and parliament.

On Nov. 16, Iranian-backed Badr Organization leader Hadi al Ameri told the press in Baghdad that Damascus had requested the PMF to deploy to Syria following the expulsion of the Islamic State from Iraq, and that the PMF would establish security by the border area, according to statements carried in Al Waght. Iraq’s Prime Minister Hayder al Abadi echoed Ameri on border security on the same day, and had announced to the media earlier that Baghdad and Damascus were coordinated for exerting border control. Abadi, however, did not immediately comment on deployment to Syria.

The PMF is a 120,000-strong army with at least 80,000 fighting under the banners of Iranian-backed militias. It is a valuable pool of manpower and recruits for Iranian-led operations. The PMF’s planned moves to establish presence by the border with Syria and shift into the war there reflect important components of Tehran’s long-term strategies in Iraq and Syria.

In Iraq, the PMF seeks to cement itself as a fabric of the state. The Iraqi Prime Minister’s order this past year to establish the PMF as an independent military institution in an effort to exercise more control already legitimizes their continued existence beyond the 2014 mandate based on the fatwa of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani to drive the Islamic State from Iraq. That threat is pressing as long as the group controls Raqqa and has a presence in Iraq. Unless Iraq can train between 50,000 – 100,000 troops, which it does not appear to have the will nor means to effectively do so, the PMF can make a strong case that its mandate is unfulfilled and that it fills security voids, pushing back against calls from certain quarters for dissolution and disarming.

The PMF’s mentors, the IRGC in Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon, have reinterpreted their respective raison d’etre of guarding the revolution and resisting Israel – both entities have transformed over the course of decades into dominant military institutions with political, economic, and cultural influence. The PMF has similar aspirations to ascend in Iraq, and its key leaders who are beholden to Iran see themselves as part of the “Axis of Resistance” led by the Islamic Republic
Posted by: Pappy || 11/26/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli rabbi says it's OK to break Sabbath and shoot Arab arsonists amid raging wildfires
[RT] It is permissible to break the Sabbath in order to stop, and even shoot, Arab arsonists, according to the municipal chief rabbi of Safed. Another spiritual leader suggested that the wildfires raging in Israel are divine punishment for the delay in legalizing outposts in the West Bank.

"The prime minister described the arson as terrorism ... it’s a miracle that people weren’t burned alive, but we don’t rely on miracles. It’s certainly permitted and required to violate Shabbat to stop the fire and the arsonists. And if necessary, also to shoot them," the rabbi said on Facebook.

Eliyahu believes that if the permission had been introduced earlier, the cities of Beit Me'ir, Carmiel and Haifa "would have been spared from this disaster".

"I hope that the chief of staff and the police commissioner will give clear instructions to soldiers and police officers and citizens drawn from the fact that the fires have not finishes, and it is their responsibility," he added, according to Ynetnews.

As firefighters keep on struggling to bring the wildfires under control, Israeli police have arrested 13 suspected arsonists so far, Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan told reporters.

"The highest likelihood is that the motive is nationalistic," Erdan told Army Radio. He said there were "minorities" among the suspects, apparently referring to Arab Israeli citizens or Palestinians. At least four of those arrested, according to AP, were Palestinians.

Meanwhile, a number of reports emerged in the media saying that young Arabs had been seen celebrating and thanking Allah for punishing Jews. At the same time, Israel Today reports, many of the Arabs living in Israel have been ready to provide shelter for those who had to evacuate from the burning areas.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/26/2016 08:23 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm ok with that.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/26/2016 12:05 Comments || Top||

#2  saving a life takes precedence over shabbat
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/26/2016 12:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Fully agree
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/26/2016 15:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Fires will suck oxygen out of the tunnels, killing any crawlers. The diminished foliage will also make portals and hideaways easier to find. Too bad they weren't controlled.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/26/2016 15:48 Comments || Top||

#5  It is already in Mitzvot. Should not have to even be said.
Posted by: newc || 11/26/2016 22:43 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Duterte urges Abu Sayyaf to stop abductions, begin talks
[Reuters] Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday appealed to the Abu Sayyaf to end their campaign of piracy and kidnapping and begin direct talks with him, offering an olive branch towards a brutal terrorist group he previously vowed to destroy.

Just a few months ago, Duterte said there could be no peaceful solution for dealing with the Abu Sayyaf. But with 10,000 troops in the southern Philippines unable to curtail the hostage-taking and with civilians in the line of fire, he said all-out war is not the answer.

"I can be nasty, I can be a bad boy but I am talking about the nation. I can do it even now. I can bomb the hell out of them...but what would it bring us? You kill 20,000, you wipe out, blast it to kingdom come. Would it bring us peace if I use force? If you want to talk I can go to them anywhere. I can go alone. Let us give our people a chance," Duterte said of destroying the Abu Sayyaf, after visiting soldiers injured while fighting the rebels.

Yesterday, he said talks could happen if the militants stopped their illegal activities. He said, "I will build a hospital in Basilan, don’t kidnap the workers, allow them to work but if you can really stop it for a while, we'll talk."
Posted by: ryuge || 11/26/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Abu Sayyaf


Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar 'turned away by Bangladesh'
Thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar where they have been attacked by security forces are being pushed back by the Bangladeshi authorities, according to Amnesty International. Those that do make it to makeshift camps in the town of Cox’s Bazaar are facing shortages of food and water, and some are suffering from severe malnutrition.

The Rohingya are fleeing military operations in Myanmar in which scores of people have been killed and as many as 30,000 displaced. The attacks are in reprisal for an assault on three border posts last month that left nine Myanmar police officers dead, but the Rohingya have been persecuted in the country for years.

Bangladeshi border guards have detained and forcibly returned hundreds of people, Amnesty said on Friday. The actions were in violation of international law, which prohibits the return of people to a country or place where they are at serious risk, it added.

“The Rohingya are being squeezed by the callous actions of both the Burmese [Myanmar] and Bangladesh authorities,” said Champa Patel, Amnesty’s South Asia director.

“Fleeing collective punishment in Burma, they are being pushed back by the Bangladesh authorities. Trapped between these cruel fates, their desperate need for food, water and medical care is not being addressed.”

She added: “The Bangladeshi government must not add to the suffering of the Rohingya. They should be recognised and protected as refugees fleeing persecution, not punished for who they are.”
As if Bangladesh doesn't have enough problems. Who exactly pays to maintain the refugees?
Earlier this week, a senior UN official, John McKissick, accused Myanmar of seeking to ethnically cleanse the country of its Muslim minority.

Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s de facto leader, has been criticised for not doing more to end the military actions, which – according to witness accounts given to Amnesty – include firing at villagers from helicopter gunships, torching hundreds of homes, carrying out arbitrary arrests and raping women and girls.

The Myanmar government has denied allegations of human rights violations by the military and has accused “Rohingya lobbyists” of disseminating fabricated accounts. Access to the area for aid workers, human rights monitors and independent journalists is effectively barred, said Amnesty.

There are about 1 million Rohingya in Myanmar who are denied citizenship. Hundreds of thousands have fled to Bangladesh, many of whom live in camps in Cox’s Bazaar. The Bangladesh government has refused to grant refugee status to Rohingya arriving from Myanmar since 1992.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/26/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Ahwazi-Arab rights activist calls on Iran ‘to restore Arabistan’
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The head of Ahwaz Human Rights Organization has called for Iranian officials to restore the original name of the country’s southern region of Khuzestan back to the original 600-year-old name of Arabistan.

Dr. Karim Abdian’s statements came during the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
Forum on Minority rights on Friday which focused on ethnic and minority people’s rights around the world.

"Ahwazi-Arabs or Arab minorities in Iran suffer from denial of its identity crises, among other socio-economic crises," Abdian said.

Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


President Aoun hails major operation in Arsal
[ALMASDARNEWS] Lebanese President Michel Aoun
...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
hailed the major operation carried out by the Lebanese Army in the northeastern town of Arsal on Friday in which a senior commander was detained along with other terrorists.

"Such major operations boost stability in the country and put an end to the terrorist plots and disclose their perpetrators," Aoun said, according to the National News Agency, NNA.

The Lebanese Army detained on Friday a senior ISIS commander, Ahmad Youssef Ammoun, along with 11 forces of Evil in a pre-emptive operation in the outskirts of Arsal.

President Aoun meanwhile, ordered to continue investigations with the 11 detained forces of Evil in a bid to disclose more terrorist cell operating in the region, NNA added.

The Lebanese army announced on Friday that his special forces staged a raid in Arsal. In a statement the army said that Ammoun along with 11 forces of Evil were enjugged
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
, noting that the senior ISIS commander was critically maimed during the operation.

Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:


Residents of jihadist-held suburb protest against the war and demand peace
[ALMASDARNEWS] Residents of the al-Tal suburb in west Damascus flooded the streets on Friday to protest against the war between jihadist rebels and Syrian Arab Army (SAA).

The protesters in al-Tal, who are likely anti-government, demanded both sides reconcile and put an end to the war inside this suburb.

Video footage of this demonstration was captured by local residents on Friday afternoon; it shows the protesters chanting for peace inside al-Tal
Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Erdogan, Putin discuss attack on Turkish soldiers in Syria
[Al Ahram] Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
discussed the conflict in Syria and attacks on Turkish troops there in a phone call on Friday, sources in Erdogan's office said.

Three Turkish soldiers were killed and ten maimed near the Syrian city of al-Bab in an air strike thought to have been carried out by Syrian government forces on Thursday, the Turkish military said. Russia is among the main backers of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
Erdogan told Putin that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
respected Syria's territorial integrity and that an incursion launched in August to drive 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....
(IS) snuffies from the border is evidence of Ankara's determination in fighting bully boy groups.

Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Its a start. I for one am more than willing to look the other way
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/26/2016 23:12 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
Hezbollah Leader: Donald Trump Is ‘Racist’
[BREITBART] The number 2 leader of Shiite Iran narco-terrorist proxy Hezbollah, echoing other jihadist groups, has denounced President-elect Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
as "racist."
What on earth does such a word mean to Hizb'allah, predicated as it is on being the master version of the Master Religion, fated to rule all mankind?
In an interview with Iran’s state-run Tasnim News Agency, Sheikh Naim Qassem
... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies...
, Hezbollah’s second-in-command, noted that the protests against Trump show the United States in a "real crisis."

"The demonstrations will change equations in the U.S., and the new president might withdraw from implementation of some of his decisions," he added.

The leader of Hezbollah, based in Leb, argued that Trump’s plans for the United States would spell trouble for everyone.

Trump has vowed to take a stronger stance against Hezbollah’s benefactor Iran and Islamic terrorist organizations.

Qassem suggested that whoever becomes president in Iran, the Islamic Theocratic Republic will continue to provide funding to the terrorist group Hezbollah.

The United States has officially designated the Shiite group a terrorist organization.

Qassem’s accusation that Trump is "racist" is consistent with comments by other radical Islamic terrorist groups, such as al-Qaeda and the Moslem Brüderbund (MB), in response to the results of the U.S. presidential election.

MB, which has been praised by Democrats President Barack Obama
teachable moment...
and presidential nominee Hillary Clinton
... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook...
, denounced "racist" Trump’s victory over the former secretary of state as a "disaster" for the Arab and Moslem world.

Al-Qaeda-linked Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, a jihadist who has nearly 60,000 followers on Twitter, gloated about Trump’s victory over the Democrats, suggesting that it "may be the beginning of America’s fragmentation and the era of its breakup."

He also tweeted that the the election of Trump "reveals the true mentality of the Americans, and their racism toward Moslems and Arabs and everything. He reveals what his predecessors used to conceal. So his victory further exposes America and its appendages."

Moreover, a Yemen-based newspaper affiliated with al-Qaeda, Al Masra, has accused Trump’s choice for White House strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, of being racist.

Bannon is the the former executive chairman of Breitbart News and host of Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125.

"He has already published racist titles against women, Jews, and Moslems. Bannon has changed Breitbart website into far-right forum for Neo-Nazis groups who believes in the white race supremacy and anti-Semitism," reported al-Qaeda’s newspaper, warning that Bannon would bring "white race supremacy" into the White House.

Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  Auditioning for his next job as a "The View" panelist.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 11/26/2016 0:10 Comments || Top||

#2  From the mouths of the M. Brotherhood. And the NAACP and SPLC. All funded by...
Posted by: jvalentour || 11/26/2016 1:42 Comments || Top||

#3  What on earth does such a word mean to Hizb'allah, predicated as it is on being the master version of the Master Religion, fated to rule all mankind?

Experience shows that the word (whatever it means) evokes desirable response in members of Western elites when applied to common enemies.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/26/2016 3:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Wonder how many times he voted too. Appears he's a Democrat.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/26/2016 8:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Why would anyone care what a Muslim thinks in regard to morality? Fuck them.
Posted by: Crusader || 11/26/2016 21:47 Comments || Top||

#6  Wasn't aware "Muslim" was a race...
Posted by: Charles || 11/26/2016 21:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Well, the meaning of Iran is "The Race", so always remember tho the accuser is.
Usually a racist.

Is that A worst sin? Not hardly.
BEARING FALSE WITNESS IS
Posted by: newc || 11/26/2016 23:02 Comments || Top||

#8  Master! The Shia nation of Aryan is calling everyone else racist too.

...
Posted by: newc || 11/26/2016 23:13 Comments || Top||



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