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Portland: Mayor besieged in his condo
after refusing Trump assistance
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Good morning
Yevgeny Vindman, brother of impeachment
witness, files whistleblower complaint
Saturday August 29th, 2020

andrea_leeds_1600
Three Katyusha rockets hit Baghdad’s Green Zone
Ex cop is arrested over the abduction of 43 students who were turned over to a cartel and massacred in southern Mexico in 2014
Border cop lightly hurt by stone slab hurled at him in East Jerusalem clashes
Teargas fired at burial of hunger striking Istanbul lawyer
Iraq in uphill battle to clear militias from Shingal
US expected to reduce troops in Iraq by a third to about 3,500: Official
Submarine loaded with $18 million worth of cocaine purchased by Jalisco New Generation Cartel is intercepted by Colombian authorities

Posted by: Fred || 08/29/2020 10:16 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And leed me not unto temptation ....
Posted by: gorb || 08/29/2020 13:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Barbiturate much?
Posted by: jpal || 08/29/2020 17:43 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Spanky Phaising9406 || 08/29/2020 21:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Off the pile...

"This won't hurt a bit," coos Doc Brooks
As she gloves up those delicate hooks
And plucks out a heart.
"So, we're done! Did that smart?
You can close. Here's my bill. See ya, schnooks!"
Posted by: Cremp the Obscure2766 || 08/29/2020 21:34 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Landmine Blast Claims Lives of 12 Members of a Family
[KhaamaPress] At least 12 members of a family killed, as a twin blast went off in Loy Karez area of Spin Boldak district, local authorities confirmed.

According to sources, the family were heading for wedding ceremony in the area when their vehicle crashed through the landmine previously planted.

At least two further civilians were maimed.

No group or individual has immediately grabbed credit for the attack.

In recent years, most of the landmines are claimed by the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
group that killed dozens of civilians.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/29/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Ah, Afghanistan. I had Syria or Portland.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/29/2020 1:04 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Protesters Call for International Investigation into Crackdown in Tripoli
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/29/2020 01:33 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


Greek Parliament Ratifies Maritime Deal with Egypt
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/29/2020 01:22 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


GNA’s Presidential Council Suspends Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/29/2020 01:19 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


GNA forces open fire on a number of female protesters in Libyan capital Tripoli
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/29/2020 01:16 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


The Game of Drones - Who did it?
[Twitter-BBC]

GNA
Posted by: 3dc || 08/29/2020 01:01 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Mahmoud Ezzat Muslim Brotherhood's leader in Egypt is arrested.
[Twitter-Reuters]


Egypt arrests acting Supreme Guide of terrorist-designated Brotherhood Mahmoud Ezzat at Cairo hideout

[AlAhram] Ezzat was named the group’s acting leader in August 2013 and has been in hiding ever since; he is also the head of the Brotherhood's international organization.

Egyptian authorities have arrested Mahmoud Ezzat,
... seen as a hardliner within the Muslim Brotherhood...
the acting supreme guide of the terrorist-designated Moslem Brüderbund, at a hideout in eastern Cairo, in the most significant Brotherhood arrest in recent years.

In a statement on Friday, Egypt’s interior ministry said the runaway group leader, who is also the head of the Brotherhood's International Organization, was arrested following intelligence that he was hiding at a flat in New Cairo’s Fifth Settlement neighbourhood.

They said Ezzat had used the apartment as his latest hideout, "despite rumours promoted by the Brotherhood’s leaders about him being abroad, to mislead authorities."

The leader was arrested after a raid carried out per a warrant by the Supreme State Security Prosecution, the statement said, adding that several laptops and mobile phones with open-source software to secure communication with leaders and members of the banned group inside the country and abroad were found.

According to the statement, Ezzat was in charge of forming the Brotherhood’s "armed wing" and the supervisor of major terrorist operations since 30 June 2013 until his arrest.

"Operations supervised by Ezzat include the liquidation of former general prosecutor Hisham Barakat in 2015, policeman Wael Tahoun in 2015, top-ranked army officer Adel Ragei in 2016, and the attempted liquidation of the general prosecutor’s former aide Zakaria Abdel-Azim in 2016," the statement said.

It also charged him with supervising a deadly car blast outside the capital’s main cancer hospital in August 2019 which killed 20 people.

Ezzat was also responsible for "cyber-attacks which manage [spreading] rumours and fake news to stir confusion and divide public opinion," the statement said, adding that he managed the "movement of the group’s funds and funds to activities through the group’s members abroad from suspicious international organizations."

Ezzat, 76, has been in the Brotherhood ranks since the 1960s and was named a member of the group's Guidance Bureau, or its executive board, in 1981. He has previously been detained for several years for his activism and affiliation with the group.

He was named the group’s acting leader in August 2013, after the arrest of Supreme Guide Mohammed Badie, who received a fourth final life sentence in July on violence-related charges, totalling 100 years.

Ezzat’s whereabouts had previously been unclear since that date.

He has been given several sentences in absentia, including life imprisonment terms and the death penalty
, during mass trials of the Brotherhood’s leading members on charges of espionage with Paleostinian group Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", and other violence-related crimes.

Under Egyptian law, in absentia convictions must be re-tried once the defendant is apprehended.
Posted by: 3dc || 08/29/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


Africa Subsaharan
Two Killed, 15 Injured in Jihadist Ambush in Nigeria
[AnNahar] Jihadists have ambushed a civilian convoy in northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
's Borno state, killing two people and injuring 15, militia sources said Friday.

The button men opened fire as the convoy, under military escort, was heading to the town of Gamboru near the border with 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...
late Thursday, they said.

"The forces of Evil killed two civilians and seriously injured 15," militia leader Ibrahim Liman told AFP.

The convoy, comprising mostly traders, was coming from the regional capital Maiduguri, 130 kilometres (80 miles) from the Cameroonian border, when the attack occurred in the village of Mussine.

"The troops returned fire and the attackers retreated, but unfortunately two people were killed among the passengers," said another militia leader, Umar Kachalla.

Travelling on highways in northern Borno has become dangerous as fighters from the so-called 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....
West Africa Province (ISWAP) and rival 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...
set up bogus checkpoints where they kill or abduct passengers.

The situation has prompted the authorities to organise travellers in convoys under military protection but attacks have persisted.

It was not immediately clear which jihadist faction was behind the latest attack as both Boko Haram and ISWAP operate in the area.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/29/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Caribbean-Latin America
Submarine loaded with $18 million worth of cocaine purchased by Jalisco New Generation Cartel is intercepted by Colombian authorities
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/29/2020 08:41 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  Who says Hunter Biden isn't hitting the campaign trail?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/29/2020 11:27 Comments || Top||

#2  What does the white line down the middle of the road mean?

Hunter Biden has a hole in the bottom of his trunk.
Posted by: gorb || 08/29/2020 13:05 Comments || Top||


Ex cop is arrested over the abduction of 43 students who were turned over to a cartel and massacred in southern Mexico in 2014
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Neftalí Pérez was taken into custody Friday by the Mexican authorities

  • Pérez, a former police officer in Iguala, Mexico, was is being investigated for handing over 43 students to the Guerrero Unidos Cartel in September 2014
    Six years later? Better than never, I s’pose.
  • The students were reportedly tortured and killed by the criminal organization

  • Mexico has only identified the remains of two of the 43 missing students
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/29/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


Europe
Malmo Sweden in riots after Dane burns a Koran.
Messing in their own nest — in the American experience, riot damage in ghettos will remain unrepaired for a generation or more. So they’ll feel like they never left the Olde Countrie.
[Twitter]


Posted by: 3dc || 08/29/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Burn more.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 08/29/2020 0:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Beat me to it.

They do love their caves, don't they?
Posted by: gorb || 08/29/2020 3:36 Comments || Top||


#4  We kept a koran in the outhouse of the hunting camp we had in the mountains after 9/11, well for most of a season anyway.
Posted by: Cesare || 08/29/2020 10:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Again, automatic fire would put an end to the rioting.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/29/2020 12:39 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
All the way from Portland, Oregon - the Black Lives Matter Snack Van has gone coast to coast, pulling into downtown Washington, DC
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/29/2020 01:43 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  They're probably supplying drugs and/or other questionable services. There are way better ways to get snacks to rioters. Won't do any good to intercept them en route, I'd surprise them when they would be stocked up or have the most security around them and in full operational swing.
Posted by: gorb || 08/29/2020 3:30 Comments || Top||

#2  "Amateurs study tactics. Professional study logistics."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/29/2020 4:35 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ I remember that from yesterday.
Posted by: Clem || 08/29/2020 7:04 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ If that 'Snack Van' were operating in g(r)om's sector, we know who would be operating it, and live streaming the customers (both audio and video) via satellite to the appropriate law enforcement and IDF entities.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/29/2020 7:40 Comments || Top||

#5  funny they do not protest like this WHITE AND BLACK alike againist crack heroin meth and blow dealers or fight them with their guns burn them out or steal their stuff! they kill their new borns in the womb in strollers in cars with guns drugs knives clubs their hands steal rape and kill thousands! do they all get extra points on the civil service protestor test for sex and ethnic not race background cuz if they are human none of them are protected by any law dig idiots! RACE run idots run!
Posted by: Jiling Gravitch9209 || 08/29/2020 7:51 Comments || Top||

#6  #3 Because it's the same kind of situation. These "protests" are not spontaneous. They are organized & have good logistics. Want to beat them - attack the logistics.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 08/29/2020 9:28 Comments || Top||

#7  ..and follow the money. Obvious interstate and conspiracy charges from the Feds.

Not thinking ahead when they go full mobilization if and when Trump win, that a simple declaration of insurrection makes them POWs not just criminals. Club Gitmo may not be in their mind.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/29/2020 9:40 Comments || Top||

#8  bust the Tides Foundation. violation of IRS prohibition on using 501(c)3 money in support of political campaigning
Posted by: Phiting Ghibelline1900 || 08/29/2020 10:13 Comments || Top||

#9  A little background info on BLM.

Obiden and Dems supported them during the last administration. Foot soldiers for the Dems. Not a nice bunch--linked to cop killers and thugs.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/29/2020 12:15 Comments || Top||

#10  Thinking JeVa is still working through his h/s tauntings.

Has a "Charlie Manson"-like smile, tho.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 08/29/2020 18:22 Comments || Top||


Portland round-up: Someone in @tedwheeler’s condo building annoyed by the rioters below allegedly dumped water from the balcony or window
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]







The other residents who own condos there are really going to love Ted.



Black Olives Matter?
Posted by: Fred || 08/29/2020 01:32 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  It is traditional to pour liquids, preferably boiling, from the ramparts of one's castle onto the heads of the besieging rabble. Think old-school Stand Your Ground.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/29/2020 2:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Condo security, "We can't call 911 from our phones about the water, there is a 9 but not an 11, good night'"
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 08/29/2020 2:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Boiling oil or heated sand is preferred, but boiling water will do in a pinch.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/29/2020 2:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Boiling HCl?
Posted by: gorb || 08/29/2020 3:31 Comments || Top||

#5  And the cops aren't responding to calls to this place.

Good.

Let them enjoy what they have encouraged and forced on the people.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/29/2020 4:23 Comments || Top||

#6  heated steel ball bearings might work.

If they can't stand or walk they're easier targets.
Posted by: AlanC || 08/29/2020 7:15 Comments || Top||

#7  Time to empty the cat box.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/29/2020 7:38 Comments || Top||

#8  Hope the liquid was urine.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/29/2020 7:56 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ live-stream it
Posted by: Bertie Slolugum7468 || 08/29/2020 8:36 Comments || Top||

#10  Ima thinking drop M-80's and quarter sticks instead.
Posted by: Raj || 08/29/2020 10:21 Comments || Top||

#11  save a urine bag or two fer Ted's head
Posted by: Phaitch Smiter of the Antelope5752 || 08/29/2020 10:26 Comments || Top||

#12  Seriously. No condo association on the planet is going to put up with this idiot living there. Odds on some strange condo "clause" throwing him out in the next 3 weeks?
Posted by: 3dc || 08/29/2020 10:44 Comments || Top||

#13  Oh this is so Rich.
And for some strange reason the Police aren't responding.
Perhaps he will follow Chicago's example and ban protests from occuring around his condo.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/29/2020 11:27 Comments || Top||

#14  Odds on some strange condo "clause" throwing him out in the next 3 weeks?

One of my clients is a property management company - that kind of thing is between very difficult and impossible to enforce.
Posted by: Raj || 08/29/2020 11:43 Comments || Top||

#15  For example - about six weeks ago there's this broad that basically stormed into the office yelling and screaming about a fucking set of keys. It's a six or eight unit condo she lives in. My boss called the cops on her and they escorted her out of the office (trespassing) and the cop knew within her first sentence she's a fucking psycho. A few weeks later my boss tells me two people sold their units because she's that bad of a person to be around and the rest of them have little recourse other than to vote with their feet as well.
Posted by: Raj || 08/29/2020 11:49 Comments || Top||

#16  When Wheeler finally breaks down and calls Trump for help we all know how Trump should respond.
Posted by: Airandee || 08/29/2020 20:53 Comments || Top||

#17  ^ knock you down and PISS ON YOU [hurl piss-bags on his woke head]
Posted by: Albert Anguns2845 || 08/29/2020 21:04 Comments || Top||

#18  Way back when I was taking some accounting classes, one professor talked about squatters and people he needed to evict. He started off trying the regular route but that always took time. When he showed up with hired goons though, it was much faster and less fuss.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/29/2020 21:26 Comments || Top||


Felony warrant against Jacob Blake now vacated
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 08/29/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Now Rittenhouse.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/29/2020 0:44 Comments || Top||

#2  How convenient. So the sexual abuse of a minor gets dropped? Protect the criminals, screw the cops. Thanks Democrats.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 08/29/2020 0:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Does he get his knife back too?
Posted by: SteveS || 08/29/2020 1:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Gee, maybe we should start a "peaceful protest" movement and burn some buildings, hurl explosives, beat up some pedestrians, stalk the mayor's and the governor's houses, shake down merchants and ceo's
Posted by: Clem Pholulet1537 || 08/29/2020 1:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Keep feeding his fentanyl habit. He'll have no reason to leave and let him waste away.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 08/29/2020 1:22 Comments || Top||

#6  St. Jacob, descending that ladder
To down where our martyrs now gather,
Felt, oddly, at home
'Neath the glowing red dome
Where Judge Markham presided. [shakes bladder]
Posted by: Cremp the Obscure2766 || 08/29/2020 1:35 Comments || Top||

#7  The warrant is not the same thing as the charges. The charges are still in place. The warrant was dropped because he isn't going anywhere.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/29/2020 2:13 Comments || Top||

#8  Jacob who was fleeing a felony warrant tries to escape in a car with his son and a knife.
If I were a police officer I would not let the a father use his son that way.
Innocent black lives like the son matter.
But bad dad's like Jacob are not near as important.
How many black fathers have killed their children because of marital disputes.
Children matter black or white.
But their wicked fathers only matter in a negative way.
Posted by: boomerc || 08/29/2020 2:51 Comments || Top||

#9  The difference between Kyle Rittenhouse and Jacob Blake?

Kyle will walk
Posted by: Frank G || 08/29/2020 6:12 Comments || Top||

#10  Ahahaha...snort
That's so twisted. Excellent.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/29/2020 9:30 Comments || Top||

#11  Emeril Lagasse level Bam!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/29/2020 10:55 Comments || Top||

#12  Kyle will walk

You bad man, Mr. Frank. But funny!
Posted by: SteveS || 08/29/2020 12:15 Comments || Top||

#13  Hopefully he won't skip bail.
Posted by: gorb || 08/29/2020 13:15 Comments || Top||

#14  Kyle will walk

From the videos I've seen of the first engagement, 2 distinct guns are fired:
#1: 1 shot, Kyle boxed on on 3 sides by cars, turns around sees Rosenbaum a few feet away and about to pounce
#2: Kyle fires 4 shoots, killing Rosenbaum
#1: fires 3 more shots. Who is shooting?
Posted by: Voldemort Platypus2749 || 08/29/2020 17:30 Comments || Top||

#15  Least he can now buy 26 inch gold plated rims for his wheelchair.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 08/29/2020 17:39 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkish warplanes intercepted 6 Greek F-16 jets
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/29/2020 01:14 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  valign=top align=right />
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/29/2020 19:15 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm going with the Greeks on this one with help from Israel.
Posted by: jpal || 08/29/2020 19:23 Comments || Top||

#3  IFF filp
Posted by: Frank G || 08/29/2020 19:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Turks will whip their ass.
Posted by: Clem || 08/29/2020 19:45 Comments || Top||

#5  You're forgetting about La Belle France Clem.
Posted by: jpal || 08/29/2020 20:34 Comments || Top||

#6  Maybe it is the circles I run in, but it seems the most vocal opponent of Erdle the Turtle is France and they have the best force projection in the EU, even if just supporting LNA forces in Libya.

That depending, of course, on their stance with the UN's support of GNA.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/29/2020 21:15 Comments || Top||


Turkey allegedly deployed Syrian fighters to Azerbaijan: ANHA
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Hawar News Agency (ANHA) claimed on Friday that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
is allegedly deploying Syrian fighters from the cities of Afrin and Azaz to Azerbaijan.According to the publication, the Syrian fighters will be assisting Azerbaijan in their long-standing conflict with neighboring Armenia.

"Sources, who did not want to be identified for security reasons, said that dozens of ’National Army’ gangs based in the occupied areas of northern Syria, especially in Afrin and Azaz, crossed into Azerbaijan via Turkey today," the ANHA report said.

The ANHA report said the fighters completed a two-month-long training camp before they were deployed to Azerbaijan.

Furthermore, ANHA alleges that the those who signed an agreement with Turkey will be paid $5,000 (USD) for a three to six month long deployment.

No further details were released by ANHA, nor have the Ottoman Turkish authorities commented on these claims from the Kurdish-language newspaper.

Turkey has sent a large number of Syrian fighters to Libya to aid the 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...
-based Government of National Accord (GNA) against the Libyan National Army (LNA).

This large-scale deployment of Syrian fighters to Libya has given the GNA forces a major boost, as they were able retake several important areas, including the al-Watiyah Airbase and the northern outskirts of Tripoli city.



Posted by: Fred || 08/29/2020 01:06 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Wreckage of Turkish TB2 UCAV shot down by Russia in Idlib Syria.
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 08/29/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Teargas fired at burial of hunger striking Istanbul lawyer
[Rudaw] Istanbul police fired teargas and chased away hundreds of mourners on Friday during the burial of a lawyer who died on the 238th day of a hunger strike she staged to protest her jailing on terror charges.

Timtik was a member of the Contemporary Lawyers' Association (CHD), a group accused of having close ties to the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C), a far-left Marxist organization.
Friends said Ebru Timtik weighed just 30 kilogrammes at the time of her death late Thursday, which drew condemnation from Ottoman Turkish opposition parties, international lawyers associations and the EU.

Police fired teargas as Timtik's friends and supporters approached a cemetery on the northern edge of Istanbul where her body was buried, an AFP team on the ground said.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/29/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Home Front: Politix
Mayor Ted Wheeler refuses federal help again!
[Twitter]

Ted Wheeler

Then INSTANT KARMA GETS TED!


Posted by: 3dc || 08/29/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Won't save your ass from the jacobins, you pathetic little shit. They're coming from you next. When they do, don't ask for help from the cops or the Feds.
Posted by: Punky Schwarzeneggar1928 || 08/29/2020 1:20 Comments || Top||

#2  BLM is a useful idiot stalking horse. Treat it as such when thinking about them.
Posted by: gorb || 08/29/2020 3:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Clear as day. Screw Portland. Feds should quit wasting their time offering to help.
Posted by: Clem || 08/29/2020 7:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Put these shi*hole urban terrorist zones on the US State Department travel warnings list. End all road construction Federal funding. Air Traffic Controllers are Federal Employees, transfer them all to the zipp code of their choice with a healthy relocation bonus.

They want Third World, no problem.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/29/2020 7:21 Comments || Top||

#5  Feds should quit wasting their time offering to help.

But every time it’s offered, everyone is reminded what is still going on, and every time it’s turned down, everyone is reminded who chooses it to happen. Trolling level: Master.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/29/2020 7:41 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Yes, some of the dems (not all) are beginning to awaken to the 'Trolling' strategy. Likely a bit too late for a complete turn-around or return to urban normalcy, however that is defined today.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/29/2020 7:46 Comments || Top||

#7  however that is defined today

Urban dysfunction is nothing new. See: Gangs of New York
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/29/2020 8:22 Comments || Top||

#8  But, but...I'm on your side!
Posted by: Tom || 08/29/2020 8:35 Comments || Top||

#9  BLM & Antifa: the Mr Bean of terrorist movements
Posted by: Grusolet Omeater4064 || 08/29/2020 8:38 Comments || Top||

#10  Aiding and abetting obviously hasn't been briefed to him.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/29/2020 9:42 Comments || Top||

#11  You would think these white kids would realize sooner or later,no one gives a shit about them. I have not heard one peep from BLM about the three that were capped in Wisconsin,cause they don't care. You idiots are expendable. Just being used,until you're not needed anymore,and will be turned on, just like Wheeler and the idiot in Seattle.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 08/29/2020 17:37 Comments || Top||

#12  So even useful idiots have their useful idiots.
Posted by: gorb || 08/29/2020 18:34 Comments || Top||

#13  As Gawd tossed his heavenly crown
To an angel to polish, a frown:
"Abrasive? Ya spastic,
I told ya, that's plastic!"
His world-weary sigh
Raised a breeze from on high:
"Jeez... it's idiots all the way down."

No offense, anyone. Just an idiot's-eye view, wot?
Posted by: Cremp the Obscure2766 || 08/29/2020 21:14 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Three rockets target Baghdad's Green Zone
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/29/2020 01:08 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Three Katyusha rockets hit Baghdad’s Green Zone
[Rudaw] Several rockets landed inside Baghdad's Green Zone late Thursday, according to officials.

"Three Katyusha rockets fell shortly before in one of the empty squares inside the Green Zone in Baghdad, without significant losses, as it was found that they were launched from the al-Baiji area, west of the capital," the Iraqi Security Media Cell tweeted in the early hours of Friday.

US-led coalition spokesperson Col.Myles B Caggins III confirmed the attack, saying the attacks did not cause any Coalition casualties or damages to facilities.

The US has attributed past rocket attacks on sites of international importance in the Green Zone to Iran-backed militias, who it says are looking to further inflame US-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 the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
tensions.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/29/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Incendiary balloons spark 24 fires in southern Israel
[Jpost] Incendiary balloons caused 24 fires in southern Israeli communities surrounding the 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...
Strip, according to Israeli media. Fire fighting forces, including JNF, put out fires in Kissufim and Shokeda, and reported that the fires were small and that they posed no danger, according to Kan News.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/29/2020 01:37 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  So, return 24 rockets.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/29/2020 7:55 Comments || Top||


Border cop lightly hurt by stone slab hurled at him in East Jerusalem clashes
[IsraelTimes] Police say officers targeted with Molotov cocktails, fireworks during operation in Issawiya neighborhood, prompting them to fire several shots; no reports of injuries among locals.

A border cop was lightly injured early Friday by a stone slab thrown at him from a building in East Jerusalem, according to police.

The incident occurred during a special forces operation in the neighborhood of Issawiya.

Police said Molotov cocktails and rocks were thrown at officers and that fireworks were launched directly at them, prompting the cops to fire several shots from their weapons.

There were no reports of injuries among local residents from the gunfire.

Police also said two patrol cars were damaged in the festivities.

A video from the scene showed coppers, including plainclothes officers, walking down a street as shouting is heard in the background. A rock appears to be thrown at one of the undercover cops, who puts his arms over his head for protection before firing several shots in the air from his pistol.

The Haaretz daily quoted Issawiya residents saying that police were seeking to make an arrest, but did not end up doing so.

It was unclear from a police statement whether the stone directly struck the officer.

Two IDF soldiers have been killed in the West Bank since 2018 by large slabs thrown at them from buildings.

Police over the last year have carried out frequent operations in Issawiya, though they have become less frequent in recent months due to the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic.

Community leaders have argued that police unreasonably stepped up their activity in Issawiya and employed excessive force against residents, undermining stability and stoking tensions in the neighborhood.

Police officials, however, pushed back against the charges, asserting that the heightened operations in Issawiya directly correlate with what they describe as increased violence emanating from the neighborhood.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/29/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Big explosion hits Turkish base in northwest Syria
[ALMASDARNEWS] A powerful explosion was reported at a Ottoman Turkish observation post in western Idlib this evening, amid increased tensions in northwestern Syria.

According to preliminary reports, a boom-mobile exploded at a Ottoman Turkish observation post in the town of Silah A-Zahour, which is located near the city of Jisr Al -Shughour in western Idlib.

No information has been released about casualties or the perpetrators of this attack on the Ottoman Turkish observation post.

Over the last few weeks, both a Ottoman Turkish and Russian military patrol have been targeted by the jihadist rebels belonging to Kata’eb Khatab al-Shishani.
Posted by: Fred || 08/29/2020 01:13 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Bus carrying Syrian Army soldiers targeted by terrorists in eastern Homs
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/29/2020 01:12 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra


Saudi soldiers enter northeastern Syria from neighboring Iraq
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/29/2020 01:11 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia


ISIS launches big attack on Syrian Army forces in western Deir Ezzor
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/29/2020 01:10 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Er, didn’t Trump just say ISIS was totally defeated?
Posted by: KBK || 08/29/2020 23:54 Comments || Top||



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