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-Land of the Free
Department of Justice Threatens to Arrest Oregon Judges Who Try to Keep Immigration Agents From Enforcing the Law
See also this.
[REDSTATE] As we’ve seen for the past three years, vast swaths of the nation’s judiciary are in opposition to the rule of law. In the federal courts, we are seeing judges interject themselves into mundane and banal executive branch actions simply to obstruct the ability of the Trump administration to govern because those judges oppose the policy decisions by the administration. These decisions are routinely overturned on appeal but the net effect is depriving the administration of months or years of potential actions. At the state level, we’re seeing state judges in lockstep with progressive state governments in trying to hamstring the ability of federal agencies to perform their duties. The chief target is Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) which has the responsibility for enforcing immigration laws within the interior of the United States.

ICE has discovered...despite propaganda asserting that illegals are more law-abiding than any other demographic group...that the best place to round up illegals is at courthouses. Routinely, agents scan the docket, identify illegals, and have agents in the courtroom ready to take them into custody when their legal affairs are concluded. This has led the chief justice of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,’s Supreme Court, Tani Cantil-Sakauye, to write a letter to the Attorney General and the head of DHS demanding that courtrooms be considered some kind of sacred space for illegals. And it isn’t just in California.

Last year, a Massachusetts judge, Shelley Richmond Joseph, connived with one of her staff, a guy named Wesley MacGregor, to slip an illegal out of the courthouse via the judge’s private entrance because she knew that ICE agents were waiting to pick up the defendant once his case was adjudicated. At that point, the Department of Justice decided it was tired of playing silly games, so she was indicted on felony charges and is currently awaiting trial.

Posted by: Fred || 11/19/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Arrest them, they aren't above the law. Give them the judgement they would lecel on others.
Posted by: chris || 11/19/2019 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Hoo boy.

This could help replace so many leftist plants in the judiciary.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/19/2019 5:43 Comments || Top||

#3  These folks seem to be confused: The concept is jury nullification, not jurist nullification.
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/19/2019 9:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Do it. They have been breaking the law for decades and could also be considered in insurrection.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/19/2019 16:21 Comments || Top||


Africa North
UN envoy: Involvement of mercenaries from foreign private military companies in Libya is growing
[Libya Observer] The UN envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame has briefed the Security Council on the latest developments in the country saying he was angry and sad to report that on Monday there was another mass civilian casualty event, referring to the baby milk biscuit factory in the Wadi Rabea in southern 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...
Salame said that regardless of whether the attack, which was carried out by Khalifa Haftar
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
's warplanes, deliberately targeted the factory or was an indiscriminate attack, it may constitute a war crime.

"The frontlines in Southern Tripoli are highly fluid. The dangers and direct consequences of foreign interference are increasingly evident. To fill gaps in manpower, there is growing involvement of mercenaries and fighters from foreign private military companies. The insertion of these experienced fighters has naturally led to an intensification in the violence. I am gravely worried by the expansion of artillery fire northwards into the city. Over the past days, the number of civilians killed and injured has been rising and many families are leaving the areas impacted by the shelling. A further escalation of ground fighting in these densely populated areas would lead to disastrous humanitarian consequences." Salame explained to Security Council member states.

He added that the use of air power and precision technology has become a dominant feature of an otherwise low intensity conflict.

"UNSMIL estimates the total number of dronezaps in support of Libyan National Army forces at well above 800 since the beginning of the conflict. The total number of dronezaps in support of the Government of National Accord is estimated at around 240. It is our judgment that the drone infrastructure and operations are facilitated by external parties to the conflict. There were also several incidents of precision Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s conducted by unknown aircraft between September and November. In addition, the increasing use of unguided bombs in airstrikes conducted by Khalifa Haftar's forces in populated areas of Tripoli caused an increase in the number of civilian casualties." Salame remarked.

He added that reports indicate that everything from spare parts for fighter aircraft to tanks, from bullets to precision missiles, are being brought into Libya in support of different groups involved in the fighting.

Salame said Mitiga Airport remains closed and that it has been more than two and a half months now that this key outlet for the civilian population of Tripoli and Western Libya has been forced to shut due to indiscriminate shelling and airstrikes.

"Mitiga Airport needs to reopen as soon as possible. Together with the GNA Ministers of Interior and Transportation, I am working on a number of practical steps to achieve this goal, including the clear delineation between the civilian and military sections of the airport, as well as the establishment of a dedicated UN terminal." Salame said.
Posted by: Fred || 11/19/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  who gives a shit, thin the herd
Posted by: chris || 11/19/2019 0:23 Comments || Top||


Europe
Muslim AK-47s and Bombings Turn Sweden Into War Zone
[Front Page] This isn’t terrorism. It’s a war. And it’s going on every day in Sweden.

Sweden is reeling from a wave of shootings and bombings with 268 shootings just this year so far. And that's in a country of 10 million people which has crime numbers on par with some American cities.

"Sweden may have the answer to America's gun problem," Vox declared in 2016. Or maybe not.

These shootings aren't being carried out with handguns, but with AK-47s. The weapon so often used as a boogeyman by gun control advocates, but rarely featured in everyday gun violence, is a staple of Sweden’s gang war scene. Along with hand grenades and other explosives rarely seen in America.

A call by the police last year asking gang members to turn in their grenades worked as well as expected.

There have been 187 bomb attacks this year. In just 1 week in August, there were three major bombings. Much of the violence is concentrated in Malmo which experienced 58 bombings in 2017.

Malmo has a sizable immigrant and Muslim population. And it’s a center of gang violence.
In fact, the Muslim immigrant population pretty much is the gang violence problem. Will it be Iraqis, Kurds, Syrians or another Muslim nationality that gets to harvest this lucrative field?
Swedish authorities and its media rarely discuss or name the perpetrators, but the latest shooting left Jaffar Ibrahim, a 15-year-old boy, dead. Jaffar was shot in a Malmo pizzeria and had been part of a family of Syrian refugees who migrated to Sweden in 2016. Services for him were held in a mosque.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/19/2019 06:55 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Can I say “kill them all?”
Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442 || 11/19/2019 7:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Getting what they voted for - good and hard.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/19/2019 7:22 Comments || Top||

#3  But we don't have to vote for it, guys. The Black Robes will decide what we get.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/19/2019 7:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Are they having similar problems in Switzerland? If not, what is so different? /rhet question
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/19/2019 7:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Jesus Christ. The richest countries. The smallest, most manageable populations. The most homogeneous demographics. The most liberal cultures. The most magniloquent constitutions.

Not an ounce of fucking sense.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/19/2019 10:14 Comments || Top||

#6 
My great grandfather left Sweden in 1879, but it's still shocking to see what has become of the country.

Agree with #5. If any country should have had everything going for it, it was Sweden. To throw all that away for some passing fashion is just incomprehensible.
Posted by: Tom || 11/19/2019 10:44 Comments || Top||

#7  ..when you throw away God and make yourself your own god, things have a tendency to 'go down hill'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/19/2019 11:15 Comments || Top||

#8  not all the gangs in Sweden are moslem but moslem gangs are the ones that are best armed

there is a big Turkish sunni gang and a Syrian sunni gang and an Iraq/Iran shia gang -- a lot of the shooting and bombing is intragang

ethnic self identification in gangs is similar to what happens in the US
Posted by: lord garth || 11/19/2019 12:38 Comments || Top||

#9  #5 Loss of civilizational self-confidence leads to self-hatred. Ends in cultural suicide.
Posted by: Lex || 11/19/2019 12:40 Comments || Top||

#10  The foolish idea -- a mad dream, actually -- of multiculturalism infused by identity politics accounts for most of this.
Posted by: Lex || 11/19/2019 12:41 Comments || Top||

#11  I call BS. You can't have assault weapons in a gun-free zone! Who ever heard of that?
Posted by: Spot || 11/19/2019 16:10 Comments || Top||

#12  #10 Runaway Virtue Signaling.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/19/2019 16:44 Comments || Top||

#13  They're not a danger, they're in danger! Just peaceful goatherders!
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/19/2019 19:02 Comments || Top||

#14  BINASH.
Posted by: gorb || 11/19/2019 22:10 Comments || Top||


Austrian city bans public funds for antisemitic BDS and political Islam
[Jpost] The central city of Graz in Austria on Thursday outlawed public space and institutional support for the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, as well as for political Islam.

According to the legislation reviewed by The Jerusalem Post, the city council of Graz announced that "Municipal services are not allowed to support group events that pursue or promote the goals of the BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) and political Islam."

The law added that "Space and institutions that are under the city administration must not be made available to organizations that express themselves in antisemitic terms or question Israel’s right to exist."

The measure was passed with votes from a wide range of political parties, including the conservatives, the Greens and social democrats. The communist faction of the city council voted against the anti-BDS law.

The anti-BDS law in Graz is significant because the city is the second largest municipality after Vienna. Graz is the capital city of the state of Styria, with a population of nearly 300,000. Elie Rosen, the head of the Jewish community in Graz, welcomed the city council’s action to ban BDS. Graz’s mayor Siegfried Nagl also supported the anti-BDS measure.

The law said the city of Graz "condemns every form of antisemitism and anti-Zionism." The capital of Austria, Vienna, passed an anti-BDS resolution in 2018, which unanimously proscribed the organization as antisemitic and banned support for "events that advertise for BDS."

In September, the Post reported leading Austrian politicians have vowed they will declare the BDS campaign targeting Israel as antisemitic during the next legislative session. Austria has not yet formed a new government.

"We hope that words will be followed by deeds and that... there will soon be a parliamentary resolution," wrote the organization Jewish-Austrian Students, which hosted the politicians at its event in Vienna earlier this month.

In response to a question at the event from college student Noah Scheer, who asked if the Austrian parliament will replicate the May decision of the German Bundestag to classify BDS as antisemitic, the MPs pledged to do so.

Sibylle Hamann from the Green Party compared BDS to the Nazi-era "Don’t buy from Jews" campaign. She said the Nazi slogan "resonates" with the BDS campaign.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/19/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:


Shock Poll Has Sweden Nationalists More Emboldened Than Ever
When everyone else refuses even to acknowledge there is a Moslem colonist problem, whoever does will get ever more votes.
[NEWS.YAHOO] The leader of a party once shunned for its ties to far-right extremism is now riding a wave of popularity that he says may pave the way to a century of political dominance in Sweden.

Jimmie Akesson, the 40-year-old head of the Sweden Democrats, woke up on Friday to news that his party was now polling as the country’s biggest. At 24%, it’s a few percentage points ahead of the ruling Social Democrats that have towered over Sweden’s political landscape for most of the postwar era.

"We want to be part of shaping this country over the next 100 years, just as the Social Democrats have been doing for 100 years," Akesson said in an interview at the Swedish parliament in Stockholm. "We want political influence, and we want a significant influence."

The kind of influence Akesson is talking about would mark an historic break with the balance of power in Sweden, where the political establishment once vowed to keep the Sweden Democrats out of any coalition. The more established groups on the right and left have pointed to the party’s past ties to neo-Nazi
...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both....
s and white supremacists in defense of their efforts to isolate the group.

But that stance seems increasingly out of step with what voters in Sweden want. A separate poll from Sifo also out on Friday put support for the Sweden Democrats at 23%, the highest level ever registered by that pollster. While still trailing the Social Democrats, Sifo said the difference between the two parties was not statistically significant.

Posted by: Fred || 11/19/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  The other parties are all oikophobic.

All thye needed to do is not be oikophobic, and they can't do that as they're all globalist puppets.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/19/2019 3:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Time to relaunch the dragon ships.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/19/2019 8:11 Comments || Top||

#3  See the story two stories above about AK-47s turning Sweden into a war zone.
Posted by: Tom || 11/19/2019 10:45 Comments || Top||

#4  They are also tired of being taxed out the behind. A few years ago there was a story about middle class professionals having to brown bag their lunches because they had less spending money that the poorest black in Mississippi due to high taxation. Now they get to watch that money going to freeloading Muslims.
Posted by: Gomez Flugum6633 || 11/19/2019 13:41 Comments || Top||

#5  If the "respectables" won't fight the destruction of the West, people will turn to those who will (or who will promise to).

And if it turns out to be awful people who pick up the gauntlet and take advantage of the circumstances, then the "respectables" will have no one to blame but themselves.
Posted by: charger || 11/19/2019 20:12 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Top Armenian official in Diyarbakir slams Turkish gov't for endangering his community’s survival
[Rudaw] A senior Armenian official in Diyarbakir says his community is under threat because a curfew imposed on his home district of Sur some three and a half years ago amid festivities between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Ottoman Turkish military has not been lifted, leaving the predominantly Christian ethnic minority unable to carry out religious ceremonies at its church.

Ghafur Turkay, head of the Armenian Religious Council in Diyarbakir, spoke of the plight of his community in the Kurdish majority province during Rudaw’s Breakfast with Friends program earlier this week.

"Our church is located in [Sur], which is now a prohibited zone. Since 2016, we have not been able to return there and visit our church. It has been three years and a half now since we have been able to perform our religious ceremonies or hold our feasts. On important days, we have to perform our duties at restaurants or a public place."
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Posted by: trailing wife || 11/19/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Turkey requests Germany extradite SDF commander
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
has requested that Germany extradite the commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday.

"We quickly asked for the arrest and extradition of the so-called commander of the YPG [People’s Protection Units, a military wing of the SDF], a PKK [Kurdistan Worker’s Party] member terrorist, Ferhat Abdi Shahin [code-named Mazloum Kobani], from relevant states to our country after media reports that he will travel to the United States and Germany," Cavusoglu said," as quoted by Bas News.

Germany, who is part of the U.S.-led Anti-ISIS Coalition, has worked alongside the Syrian Democratic Forces in Syria, despite Turkey’s insistence that the SDF are ’terrorists’ and an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

The German government has not issued a response to this latest request from the Ottoman Turkish authorities.

Turkey has made similar requests in the past, including their demand that the leader of the PYD, Salih Moslem, be handed over to the Ottoman Turkish authorities.

Posted by: Fred || 11/19/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  fuck off
Posted by: chris || 11/19/2019 0:24 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Pakistan successfully conducted training launch of SSBM Shaheen-1
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 11/19/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1 
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/19/2019 14:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Can they aim it where they want it to go or is it like the rockets fired from Gaza?
Posted by: jpal || 11/19/2019 15:47 Comments || Top||

#3  It's the solid fueled Dong-Feng 11 repainted dung green. They bought 200 missiles, with American aid money back in '96. But they couldn't get in the Erector launch vehicles before the US began to ask for explanations. Now they've concocted a story about how it was 'researched and developed' in the 'Stain.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/19/2019 17:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Meanwhile in India, the Navy is conducting sea trials of a yet to be named ship, for now called by its shipyard designation of VCC1184. Equipped with AESA X and S band radars to support the ABM programme. In March the PDV ABM exo-atmospheric interceptor missile was tested against a satellite. The kill vehicle homed in on the target travelling at 10 km per second hitting it within 10 cm of the center.
Posted by: John Frum || 11/19/2019 17:54 Comments || Top||

#5  10 cm is 4" good enough for better than gubbamint work. Nice
Posted by: Frank G || 11/19/2019 19:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Always good to see you, John Frum!
Posted by: Frank G || 11/19/2019 19:08 Comments || Top||

#7  Thank you, John Frum.

That's the VC11184, awaiting a grandiose name. There's actually an interesting story about how the NTRO misled the chinese into believing it to be an oceanic research vehicle for the first 3 years of the project. A lot of honey traps and disappearances.

And that missile in the pic's the K4, a nuke warhead SLBM, in the 900km range. The PDV Anti-Ballistic thingy is this one - the PAD (Prithvi Air Defence). A supersonic interceptor vehicle wedded to the short range Prithvi missile.

Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/19/2019 19:37 Comments || Top||

#8  PAD has been superceded by the PDV. Suggests cannisterization of the interceptors. The photo is from the actual ASAT test. The video is interesting. You even see the infrared image of the satellite target as the kill vehicle approaches.
Posted by: John Frum || 11/19/2019 19:48 Comments || Top||

#9  Here. Lots of shots of the new PDV. At 3:45 the image from the onboard IR seeker of the kill vehicle is shown. Very cool.
video
Posted by: John Frum || 11/19/2019 19:53 Comments || Top||

#10  In fact, the launch cannister can be seen in the video behind the interceptor missile inside the assembly shed.
Posted by: John Frum || 11/19/2019 20:08 Comments || Top||

#11  Thanks. Yes, the video is interesting. And especially inspiring.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/19/2019 20:23 Comments || Top||

#12  Pakistan is in a real mess economically. In 2019, 33% of all Pakistan Federal government revenue goes to military spending. The other 67% goes to debt repayment. There was even a 4 billion US dollar revenue shortfall this year. All other Federal spending is met by further borrowing. They are unable to repay the Chinese loans on time. They borrowed 6 billion from the IMF because of balance of payments difficulties. Just 8 billion US in foreign reserves.
Posted by: John Frum || 11/19/2019 20:28 Comments || Top||

#13  According to the Pakistan Government's National Nutrition Survey, 33% of all Pakistani children were underweight, nearly 44% were stunted, 15% are wasted, 50% were anemic, and 33% were anemic (iron deficiency). More than 50% of Pakistani households were unable to afford two meals a day. According to the Federal Ministry of Education, 44% of Pakistani children do not go to school. 38% of the Pakistani population is illiterate.
Posted by: John Frum || 11/19/2019 20:34 Comments || Top||

#14  Which is especially reassuring.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/19/2019 20:36 Comments || Top||

#15  Love the info exchange
Posted by: Frank G || 11/19/2019 20:38 Comments || Top||

#16  I meant the comment before that one. Lord, what must you think.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/19/2019 20:38 Comments || Top||

#17  The elusive Pakistani dream of parity with India is evaporating. India's foreign currency reserves alone (445 billion USD) are almost 1.5 times the entire GDP of Pakistan.
Posted by: John Frum || 11/19/2019 20:39 Comments || Top||

#18  Parity ? They were ... dreaming that ? Really ? How sweet.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/19/2019 20:41 Comments || Top||

#19  Then there is Reko Diq. The greed of the Pak military led to them breaking a mining contract for the Reko Diq mine. The physicist Samar Mubarakmand took a vacation from assembling Chinese designed atom bombs and tried his hand at gold extraction from copper ore. Not an ounce of gold priduced, but with an idiot Chief Justice (and son) behind the greedy lot, Pakistan continued to violate the contract. Pakistan got taken to a a World Bank tribunal, the ICSID, who were so incensed at all this, that they imposed a fine on Pakistan of 5.9 billion US dollars. Their 6 billion IMF loan cannot be used to pay the fine and the IMF will not permit its money to be used repaying Chinese debt. The Financial Action Task Force has grey listed them for terrorist financing and money laundering. They are well and truly up the creek. They need to stop testing missiles and stop squealing about Kashmir. The jig is up.
Posted by: John Frum || 11/19/2019 20:46 Comments || Top||

#20  Where will they get funding for the collaborative effort to combat islamophobia, with Malaysia, Indonesia and some others ? Some new broadcast channel. I thought they'd ask Qatar.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/19/2019 21:02 Comments || Top||

#21  China
Posted by: Frank G || 11/19/2019 21:03 Comments || Top||

#22  I have made this thread a Classic, so we can easily reference it in the future. Absolutely fascinating discussion!

John Frum, Dron66046, I just want to confirm that everything said here is acceptable to be publicly available. If not, please say so, either here or in the O Club, and I will spam cop whichever comment(s) are inappropriate for a public forum. Many thanks to you both.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/19/2019 21:58 Comments || Top||

#23  All public domain.
Posted by: John Frum || 11/19/2019 22:21 Comments || Top||

#24  No awful State Secrets here.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/19/2019 22:36 Comments || Top||

#25  Except for the 'Stain's of course. But that's known too.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/19/2019 22:37 Comments || Top||

#26  I adore you both. Thank you!
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/19/2019 22:42 Comments || Top||


Pakistan to host Istanbul Process meeting on countering religious intolerance next year
[DAWN] Pakistain will host the 8th meeting of the Istanbul Process next year with a focus to evolve responses to growing religious intolerance and discrimination based on religion or belief, the Foreign Office (FO) said on Monday.

The announcement in this regard was made by Federal Minister for Education Shafqat Mahmood today at The Hague, Netherlands during his keynote address at the 7th Istanbul Process meeting.

The minister drew the gathering's attention to the "alarming levels of Islamophobia
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
" prevalent in many parts of the world, citing incidents of hate crimes, negative profiling, assaults on hijab-wearing Moslem women and denigration of venerated Moslem personalities and symbols as examples, the FO statement said.

He cautioned politicians against using "incendiary and populist rhetoric" for electoral gains, saying it can serve as a catalyst for hate speech leading to acts of violence, systematic discrimination and in some cases acts of terrorism.

Mahmood underlined the need for upholding the right to self-determination of people under foreign occupation. He called upon the flag-bearers of human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
to "eschew ambivalence and double standards" in the face of grave human rights violations including in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
He also expressed deep concerns over the growing incidents of "systematic discrimination and state-sanctioned violence against Moslems" in India, the FO statement said.

Talking about the importance of upholding fundamental freedoms, the minister stressed that freedom of expression must be exercised with responsibility and the international community should "begin to consider reasonable restrictions in this regard", both online and offline.

Posted by: Fred || 11/19/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Iraq
Iraqi officials say Iran runs ‘shadow government’ in Baghdad
[The National] Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
runs a shadow government in Iraq, which is "no secret" to the public, officials in Baghdad told The National, as leaked intelligence reports detailing how Tehran holds sway over its neighbour were published on Monday.

The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

and The Intercept say they have reviewed over 700 pages of reports written mainly in 2014 and 2015 by Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security that show "how aggressively Tehran has worked to embed itself into Iraqi affairs." It includes paying Iraqi agents working for the United States to switch sides.

"Of course, it is no secret that Iran controls different sectors of the government and parliament," a senior Iraqi official, who chose to remain anonymous, told The National.

"Everyone knows that there is a shadow government run by Qassem Soleimani
that has infiltrated the political, economic and security sectors of the Iraqi state," he said.

General Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force, is Tehran's point man on Iraq and travels there frequently during times of political turmoil.

Demonstrators took the streets of Baghdad and southern cities last month in anger over corruption and the government's close ties to Iran.

The documents showed that Mr Soleimani was seen in Iraq after the protests kicked off.

He chaired various meetings to persuade allies in the Iraqi parliament to help Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi to hold on to his role.

What the leaked documents show is a confirmation of the details and names that the public already knew about, the official said.

In the 16 years since the fall of Saddam, Iran has emerged as a key power broker in Iraqi politics, with arguably greater influence than the US in the Shiite majority country.

The documents "offer a detailed portrait of just how aggressively Tehran has worked to embed itself into Iraqi affairs, and of the unique role of General Soleimani," the two outlets said.

The information in the documents can be "classified as new black points to Iraq's dark history", Hashim Al Hashimi, an Iraqi security expert, told The National.

"Details of the report are not new to those interested in Iraq's political affairs, they will also not renew concerns about the people mentioned in them," he said.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Netanyahu to Gantz: Let's form a unity gov't and 'annex the Jordan Valley'
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video on Tuesday night in which he called on Benny Gantz and Yisrael Beteynu's Avigdor Liberman to join him in a unity government, to "keep Israel safe and annex the Jordan Valley."
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#1  Leaving them to declare where they stand by opening their mouths, or looking furtively into the distance as the seconds pass.

Smart.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/19/2019 20:26 Comments || Top||


Arab MK's hold conf. in Knesset to fight exclusion, no other MKs show up
[j-post] During the Tuesday conference in the Knesset titled "Elected yet Excluded" Joint List MKs, diplomats and Amnesty International activists addressed the situation of Arab-Israelis in politics.

Recently, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed Joint List members and raised doubts about Israel’s abilities to deal with security threats from the Gaza Stripif they would be included in a Blue and White led government or if such a government would have to rely on Joint List support from the benches of the opposition.

Not a single MK from any other party attended the event.
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#1  Elected yet excluded

We must take this further. 'Disenfranchised by Default' should be the next conference title.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/19/2019 22:44 Comments || Top||


West Bank settlements not illegal, Pompeo announces in historic US policy shift
[Jpost] In a historic reversal of US policy, the Trump administration announced on Monday that it does not view Israeli settlements in the West Bank as illegal. The policy change was announced by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington.

"After carefully studying all sides of the legal debate, this administration agrees with President Reagan," Pompeo said in reference to Ronald Reagan’s position that settlements were not inherently illegal. "The establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank is not per se inconsistent with international law," Pompeo said.
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#1  Trump just gave the whole middle east the bird
Posted by: chris || 11/19/2019 0:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Excellent! More please, and faster.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/19/2019 1:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Krav MAGA
Posted by: Lex || 11/19/2019 2:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Israel is spreading diversity.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/19/2019 3:42 Comments || Top||

#5  For #3

Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/19/2019 3:47 Comments || Top||

#6  Thank your frackers!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/19/2019 8:16 Comments || Top||

#7  The Palestinians refused to come to the peace table. Trump just packed up the table and told them and their enablers to fuck off.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/19/2019 10:03 Comments || Top||

#8  Trump just gave the whole middle east the bird

Also told the eurines where to stick it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/19/2019 12:26 Comments || Top||

#9  I wounder if the media will have time to cover this, what with all the impeachment 'news' and all.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/19/2019 14:58 Comments || Top||

#10  no
Posted by: chris || 11/19/2019 19:18 Comments || Top||


Sri Lanka
Symbolic swearing-in for Sri Lanka's new president
[DAWN] Sri Lanka's new president and scourge of the Tamil Tigers Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Monday urged minorities unnerved by his election victory to work with him, as he was sworn in at a ceremony steeped in symbolism for his core supporters.

Having spearheaded the brutal end of the Tamil separatist war a decade ago, Rajapaksa is a divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled...
figure but popular among his own majority Sinhalese-Buddhist community.

His landslide win split the island nation of 21.6 million on religious and ethnic lines as never before, seven months after deadly terrorist attacks.

Unusually, his inauguration was held at a revered Buddhist shrine with an imposing stupa ‐ reputedly built by a Sinhalese king who vanquished invading Tamils over 2,000 years ago.

At the ceremony, Rajapaksa put his success down to the "extraordinary blessings of the Buddhist monks". "The main message of the election is that it was the Sinhala majority vote that allowed me to win the presidency," the 70-year-old retired lieutenant colonel said.

"I knew that I could win with only the votes of the Sinhala majority. But I asked Tamils and Moslems to be a part of my success. Their response was not what I expected. However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
I urge them to join me to build one Sri Lanka," he said.

Rajapaksa was defence chief under his brother Mahinda's 2005-15 presidency, when the military conducted a no-holds-barred campaign to end the 37-year war in which 100,000 people perished.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US to end sanctions waiver related to Iran's Fordow nuclear site: Pompeo
[AlAhram] Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday that the United States is terminating the sanctions wavier related to Iran's Fordow nuclear plant, adding that it is closely monitoring ongoing protests in Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and is deeply concerned by reports of several fatalities.

"The right amount of uranium enrichment for the world's largest state sponsor of terror is zero...There is no legitimate reason for Iran to resume enrichment at this previously clandestine site," Pompeo said at a press briefing about the Fordow site, where the U.N. atomic watchdog says the country has been enriching uranium.

He added the waiver will be ended Dec. 15.
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Iran Breaches Another Nuclear Deal Cap – IAEA Report
[Jpost] Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has breached another limit of its nuclear deal with major powers by accumulating more than 130 tonnes of heavy water, a moderator used in a type of reactor Iran is developing, a report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Monday.

"On 16 November 2019, Iran informed the Agency that its stock of heavy water had exceeded 130 metric tonnes," the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report to member states obtained by Rooters.
"On 17 November 2019, the Agency verified that the Heavy Water Production Plant (HWPP) was in operation and that Iran's stock of heavy water was 131.5 metric tonnes."
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#1  This is my surprised face
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/19/2019 8:18 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
Iran's Quds Forces, outlawed Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood met secretly in 2014 in Turkey: Intercept report
Al Ahram takes a second look at the 700 page leaked trove discussed here and here yesterday. Yesterday’s articles looked at issues in Iraq. Today Al Ahram and the Jerusalem Post look at the team up between the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran’s Quds Force, midwifed by Erdogan’s Turkey.
[AlAhram] According to The Intercept report, Brotherhood delegation in the meeting said that 'one of the most important things the groups shared, was a hatred for 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...
, the common enemy of the Moslem Brüderbund and Iran'.

Three prominent Egyptian representatives of the terrorist-designated Moslem Brüderbund group and Iran's Quds Forces met in 2014 in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
Continued on Page 49
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Muslim Brotherhood and IRGC's dirty dealings revealed in intel leak
A second look at the 700 page leaked trove discussed here and here yesterday. Today Al Ahram and the Jerusalem Post look at the joint plottings of IRGC, Muslim Brotherhood, and Erdogan’s Turkey against Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and America.
[Jpost] Leaked Iranian intelligence documents revealed that the Moslem Brüderbund and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
sought to work together. Like an iron fist in a velvet glove, the IRGC would be the muscle and the Brotherhood could give it cover in the 85 countries it works in, members of the organizations discussed. They convened in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
in 2014 to discuss how they might work together and who to fight against. First target: Soddy Arabia
Continued on Page 49
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