[KhaamaPress] The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces killed a prominent Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group during an operation in North-eastern Badakhshan province.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) in a statement said the National Defense and Security Forces ambushed Ataulah, one of the prominent group leaders of Taliban in Baharak district.
The statement further added that the security forces laid the ambush late on Wednesday night in Sarpul Shahr Village of Baharak.
According to MoD, Ataullah was mainly involved in plotting, coordinating and implementing terrorist attacks in Bahrak district of Badakhshan province.
The Taliban group has not commented in this regard so far.
Badakhshan is among the relatively volatile provinces in North-east of Afghanistan.
Talibs are active in some of the remote districts of Badakhshan where they often attempt to carry out terrorist attacks against the security forces and government institutions.
[KhaamaPress] A series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s killed 5 bandidosLions of Islam of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group and the offshoot of ISIS ‐ ISIS Khurasan, in three provinces of Afghanistan in the past 24 hours.
The military officials said Wednesday an airstrike killed 3 Talibs in Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province.
The officials further added a similar airstrike killed a bully boy of ISIS Khurasan (ISIS-K) in Tswoky district of Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... in the East.
Another airstrike killed a Taliban bully boy in Deh Yak district of the restive Ghazni province in South-east of Afghanistan, the officials added.
The anti-government armed bandidosLions of Islam including Taliban and ISIS Khurasan have not commented regarding the airstrikes so far.
Both the Afghan and U.S. forces based in Afghanistan conducted regular counter-terrorism operations and airstrikes against Taliban, ISIS-K and other terrorist groups in the restive parts of the country.
[KhaamaPress] 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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has given anti-aircraft missiles to Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... group amid soaring tensions between Washington and Tehran over regional issues that led to the killing of a top Iranian general in Iraq few weeks ago.
Reports regarding the delivery of anti-aircraft missiles to Taliban by Iran emerge as numerous Afghan and American planes faced crashes, hard-landings and emergency landings in the restive parts of the country.
While no definitive proof exists in this regard, the acting police chief of Uruzgan Sardar Mohammad Haya has told Radio Free Afghanistan "Iran has given the Taliban anti-aircraft missiles so that they can better target our aircrafts."
Hayar further added "Numerous [recent] intelligence reports based on various sources detail this support."
This comes as Washington has repeatedly been accusing Iran of supporting the bully boy groups in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
"Iran provides a range of financial, political, training and material support to groups which would include Hezbollah, Iraqi Shia bully boy groups, the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , some Paleostinian groups, the Taliban and Bahraini Shia bully boys," the Department of Defense said in a statement late in November last year.
[ToloNews] Members of the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... 's office in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... said that the group and the US have reached an agreement in which "5,000 Taliban prisoners from Afghan government prisons will be released, and 1,000 government forces prisoners will be released by the Taliban" before intra-Afghan talks begin.
But in response, a Presidential Palace front man said that the release of Taliban prisoners during the Afghan talks will be one of the most important discussions, but it is not possible to release them before the talks between Afghans.
"When we, as the government of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan, enter into negotiations with the Taliban and demand the release of their prisoners, it will naturally be discussed, and will take into account the laws and interests of our people and will be based on the consensus that will arise at that stage," said Sediq Sediqqi, President Ghani’s front man.
Politicians who have recently met with Zalmay Khalilzad say a meeting regarding the release of prisoners between the Afghan government and the Taliban was set to take place in Geneva within the next few days, but the Afghan government has not wanted to talk to the Taliban before talks begin between Afghans.
"A meeting was scheduled to be held in Geneva about the release, which is not taking place now," said Haji Din Mohammad, leader of the Peace and Development Party.
On the other hand, Mawlana Jalaluddin Shinwari, the former attorney general during the Taliban regime, said that if the process of releasing Taliban prisoners does not begin before the talks between Afghans, the process will face deadlock.
"If prisoners are not released, and the intra-Afghan dialogue is centered on the 'Presidential Palace,' I do not think the talks will begin, said Shinwari.
US Special Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has recently had two meetings with President Ghani, and unlike previous meetings with the US Special Envoy, the Presidential Palace is now accepting a significant reduction in violence preceding intra-Afghan talks, rather than insisting on a ceasefire.
"There is no doubt that the announcement of the election results has created an understanding between the US and the government about the grinding of the peace processor," said Ahmadullah Alizai, a political analyst.
[ToloNews] At least four security force members were killed in a clash with the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... in the northern province of Sar-e-Pul ...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone... on Thursday evening, the provincial governor’s front man Zabihullah Amani said.
He added that the clash happened in Korak Arabiya village on the outskirts of Sar-e-Pul city when a group of Taliban fighters attacked a security outpost.
The clash, which continued for two hours, left 10 security force members maimed, Amani said.
He added that nine Taliban fighters were killed and 13 others were maimed.
Amani said that a Taliban weapons cache was destroyed in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... which was carried out during the clash.
The Taliban has not commented on the reported attack.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli Health Ministry publishes list of places the group visited during February 8-15 trip, calls on anyone who was in close contact with them to self-quarantine.
[AlArabiya] A Berlin court sentenced three men to multi-year jail sentences on Thursday for the spectacular theft of a 100-kilogram (220-lb) gold coin from one of the German capital’s museums.
State court judges locked away You have the right to remain silent... two men aged 23 and 21, who belong to a family of Arab origin notorious for ties to organized crime, for four years and six months each.
A 21-year-old security guard at the museum received a sentence of three years and four months, while a fourth defendant was cleared of all charges.
Police have found no trace of the 100-kilogram (220-pound) Canadian coin since the late-night heist in March 2017 from the Bode Museum, located close to Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... ’s Berlin apartment.
The "Big Maple Leaf," one of five minted in 2007, is considered the world’s second-largest gold coin after the one-ton Australian Kangaroo issued in 2012. Prosecutors assume the nearly pure-gold treasure, which bears a profile image of Queen Elizabeth II, was either cut up, melted down or taken abroad. The coin has a notional value of one million Canadian dollars ($750,000), but the gold itself is worth considerably more.
Police raids in July 2017 on premises in and around Berlin linked to the perpetrators’ Remmo "clan" saw guns, luxury cars and more than 100,000 euros in cash confiscated.
Investigators also used phone taps and GPS devices to track cars and searched more than 50 properties, the defense said at the trial.
Security camera footage of the heist shows three men wearing dark hoodies, scarves and baseball caps making their way to the museum. They broke in through a window, smashed a glass case with an axe and used a rope, wooden beam and a wheelbarrow to lift the coin onto adjacent elevated urban railway tracks before transferring to a car, said prosecutor Martina Lamb.
The Remmo family, whose patriarchs fled war-torn Leb in the 1980s, are considered to be one of Berlin’s most notorious organized crime clans.
Police last year targeted the Remmos with the seizure of 77 properties worth a total of 9.3 million euros, charging that they were purchased with the proceeds of various crimes, including a 2014 bank robbery.
In recent years, so-called "clans" of primarily Middle Eastern origin have become a particular focus for police, politics and media in Berlin.
Your government at work
[Rooters] California, Nebraska and Illinois are the only U.S. states that can currently test for coronavirus, the Association of Public Health Laboratories told Reuters. The CDC last week said some of the testing kits sent to U.S. states and at least 30 countries produced "inconclusive" results due to a flawed component, and the CDC planned to send replacement materials to make the kits work. The CDC has increased testing capacity until new testing kits become available, said Scott Becker, the executive director of APHL, which represents public health laboratories in the United States.
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Can't within certain miles from the border. Take it up with SCOTUS who've allowed BP checkpoints several miles from the border to do just that. BTW, Grayhound or any other vehicle can be disassembled on suspension and BP can toss the owner a wrench to reassemble the thing.
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As a "Public Carrier" driving on "Public Highways" they will Stop... no, to quote Inigo Montoya: "You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means."
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Greyhound says it will STOP Border Patrol agents without warrants from boarding buses to make immigration checks on passengers
Hmmm - stop the bus, no warrant and you're probably in a desert area? Just wait right here while we go get a warrant. It's a three day weekend, could take a while...
Sarah Hoyt. Very long, IMO, worth every second
Hello boys and girls, dragons, minotaurs and tadpoles! There are concepts so obviously and moronically evil, whose proponents use such irrational and ridiculous arguments to defend them, that the only way to comment on them is with gifs. Lots and lots of gifs.
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Sorry, maybe she's a good writer but I got turned off real fast and hard when she'd post on Insty's site and used 'This is my shocked face' every single fucking day for like five months. I just can't take a stupid catchphrase and being beaten over the head with it - it's not funny when you kill it like an overplayed Top 40 song, so she can GFY.
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Raj - she is a Science Fiction adventure writer. Her field has been invaded for about 10 years by the fricking left trying to turn it into an indoctrination arena via controls of publishers and media.
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Yes, writers who need to be understood regarding what going on today would be Solzhenitzen, Orwell, Kafka and Mamet, not some boutique scifi writer.
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Not disagreeing with your list; regular joe is more likely to hit the sci-fi, especially the young'ens who when they hear 1984, they think it is about songs from the oldies music channel.
When the SJWs are willing to fight in the Knitting House biom, everyone is needed.
Russian President Vladimir Putin tells his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan he is “seriously concerned” by the “aggressive actions” of extremists in Syria’s Idlib region.https://t.co/xlbv494jpD
Turkish-backed jihadists took the phone of a killed Syrian Arab Army soldier and called his mother. They mocked her and told that they beheaded her son.https://t.co/49Hh6dZ1GApic.twitter.com/jQmdvwF3Ru
[KSL] Should Utah Sen. Willard Mitt Romney, aka Pierre Delecto ...former governor of Massachussetts, the Publican nominee for president in 2012, now Senator from Utah. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. He is currently a trans Republican and a member in good standing of the Never Trump Party, attempting to assume the mantle of the late John McCain... attempt another shot at the White House ‐ but this time on the independent ticket, with former New York City Mayor Michael Nanny Mike Bloomberg ...former Republican mayor of New York. He tried to take the credit for Rudy Giuliani's actions in the wake of the 9-11 attacks. He was known as Nanny Bloomberg for his war on 32-ounce Slurpees. Nanny is a candidate for the Dem presidential nomination in 2020. He was born on Valentine's day, 1942, which makes him 77.94333 years old, which is pretty ripe. Mike has lots of money, some of which he spends on grass roots organizations pushing for common sense gun laws along the same lines as his common sense Slurpee laws.... as his running mate?
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ahhh yes, Pierre Olmdyar's Never-Trump cuckshed tool, the Bulwark. Paycheck for tools like Jonah Goldberg, Bill Kristol, et al
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Of course the combination of a fascist Nanny state proponent with a doofus would be a perfect ticket for the globalist graft machine.
If elected you can look forward to federal power punishing the people and ever-expanding wars overseas. We will be starved so that they can start trouble that they have no intention of ending.
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No flippin' way Bloomberg would agree to the VP slot. Was he baked when he came up this?
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It would unite us in laughter - that's about it
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"The Bulwark": Oligarch Pierre Omidyar's tool. Meal ticket for 3rd-rate spawn of mid-20c neoconservative publicists (Irving K, Lucianne G).
"The Atlantic": formerly-great long-form journal, now widow-of-Oligarch Steve Jobs's tool and meal ticket for once-admirable, now shilling-for-oligarchs journos.
"The Washington Post": Oligarch Jeff Bezos's tool and meal ticket for 100s of Trump-obsessed journos and corrupt Deep Staters feeding them dezinformatsiya.
"Bloomberg News": Oligarch Mini-Mike B's tool for spreading lies, spin and baksheesh to hournos and congressmen in exchange for endorsements and puff pieces to help him buy the Dem nomination.
Oligarchs 'r' US(A).
What, ultimately, does it mean to say that America today has a "free press"? In what sense?
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More fun with Oligarchs 'r' US(A):
GOOG and FB aren't "platforms"; they're media companies that dominate digital ad spend.
And Time magazine has just been bought by the chief email-spam oligarch Marc Benioff.
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That’s what author, Maryland business executive and former U.S. Senate candidate Neal Simon wrote in his article he shared with Lee Lonsberry on KSL NewsRadio's show Live Mic.
[Epoch Times] Hundreds of Prisoners Test Positive for Coronavirus in China, 11 Officials Sacked
The novel coronavirus has spread to Chinese prisons in at least three provinces, resulting in 11 officials recently being sacked for their failure to contain the disease.
Two hundred prisoners and seven prison wardens tested positive for the virus as of Feb. 20 at Rencheng prison in eastern China’s Shandong Province, reported news portal Sina on Feb. 21, after tests were conducted on 2,077 people relating to the prison.
The test results were announced by the provincial government in Shandong in a press conference Friday morning.
The testing came after one of the prison wardens was isolated after going to a local hospital over a cough on Feb. 12. The warden tested positive for the virus on the following day. On that same day, another warden also tested positive for the virus.
In response to the outbreak at Rencheng Prison, the standing committee of Shandong’s provincial government decided to remove eight officials from their positions, including Xie Weijun, who was party secretary of both Shandong’s prisons bureau and the province’s justice department, and Liu Yishan, who was both the party secretary and the prison chief of Rencheng, China’s state-run media People’s Net reported on Friday.
The eight officials were removed because of “poor prevention work,” according to People’s Net.
In the coastal province of Zhejiang, the local provincial government announced Friday morning on its official Weibo account that there are 27 additional inmates at Shili Feng Prison in the province who had tested positive for the virus.
With the 27 new cases, there are now 34 known cases at the prison.
Two unnamed officials have been removed from their positions in response to the infection cases at Shili Feng, including the prison chief.
At central China’s Hubei province, the epicenter of the outbreak, the provincial government announced on its official website on Friday afternoon that there are 271 confirmed cases in the province’s prisons, including 230 in a women’s prison in the province’s capital of Wuhan.
There are also 41 cases at Sha Yanghan prison in Hubei.
The Hubei announcement said the prison chief at the women’s prison had similarly been removed because of “poor prevention work.”
A warden at Sha Yanghan has also been “severely reprimanded” over a failure to “honestly report” what happened inside the prison.
Full video of failed Syrian Rebels attack on Government forces at village of Nayrab, west of Saraqib. The attack resulted in humiliating defeat, intense Russian airstrikes destroyed most of the rebel forces and their vehicle, including 4 TAF M60 Sabra MBTs that supported the op. pic.twitter.com/l0RMjJMyMz
#UPDATE: President Donald Trump is frustrated that pressure is building too slowly on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and he is still considering military options in the country, including a naval blockade, a senior administration official said. https://t.co/D3VVOagDbK
#UPDATE: President Donald Trump is frustrated that pressure is building too slowly on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and he is still considering military options in the country, including a naval blockade, a senior administration official said. https://t.co/D3VVOagDbK
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As long as those with the guns support him, he'll stay there until Caracas hell freezes over. It's an old socialist motto - Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. Which is why those with guns here are not going to give them up.
The best thing we can do for Venezuela is stay out. They voted themselves in to socialism, and let them enjoy it. Venezuela is a shining example to the whole world of what happens. It's not worth a single US soldier's life.
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Amen, Herb. Nor one single Canadian soldier's life either.
[Dhaka Tribune] A stridently anti-military Thai party was dissolved Friday and its key members banned from politics for a decade over a $6 million loan by its billionaire founder, a withering blow to the kingdom's pro-democracy movement.
The Future Forward Party (FFP), fronted by the charismatic auto-parts scion Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, emerged from nowhere in March last year to become Thailand's third biggest party in the first elections since a 2014 coup.
The party's radical agenda ‐ calling for full democracy, an end to conscription and the removal of the army from politics and business ‐ pitched it against the powerful, conservative military.
But since their strong poll showing, Thanathorn and his 76 politicians have faced relentless rounds of legal cases in Thailand's courts.
On Friday the nine-member constitutional court dissolved FFP, ruling a $6 million loan by Thanathorn breached the law governing political parties.
The loan exceeded the $315,000 limit on donations to parties by an individual, one judge said.
Panya Udchachon told the court that "party executives must have known that a loan of that amount would give influence (to Thanathorn) and he could gain advantage over the party."
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[SPUTNIKNEWS] For the second time in a year, US and Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... leaders are making an attempt at brokering peace in Afghanistan - or are they? One expert told Sputnik Washington is "playing games" with the Taliban in an attempt to blunt the militia group’s attacks, stall its momentum and force its resistance to collapse, as the US never intends to leave the country.
The deal will tentatively be signed by US and Taliban leaders on February 29, provided the week prior sees a "reduction in violence," US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Friday. If the truce lasts, nationwide peace talks would begin within 10 days of the signing - another monumental achievement, since the Taliban has so far refused to talk with the government in Kabul that replaced it when US forces and local allies overthrew the militia group in late 2001. The Taliban would also have to forswear support for terrorist groups in the country, which include the Haqqani Network, Islamic State
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Could be a game called “let’s have a good look at you, buddy”
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[Search domain en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Boyle] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Boyle
Francis Anthony Boyle (born March 25, 1950) is a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He has served as counsel for Bosnia and Herzegovina and has been a staunch supporter of the rights of indigenous peoples and Palestinians.
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Well, the deep state certainly has no intention of leaving Afghanistan. They already spent a trillion dollars of our money and will happily spend a trillion more. Their interests do not overlap with our interests. Who cares how many soldiers die or are horribly hurt? They aren't holding rifles, our servicemen are the deplorables.
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He has served as counsel for Bosnia and Herzegovina and has been a staunch supporter of the rights of indigenous peoples and Palestinians.
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#7 Yes, but even the fact that he's a Harvard grad doesn't conclusively prove he's an idiot.
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Sputnik News / govt of the RF are using this clown to poke a stick at Uncke Sam, nothing more. No different from Voice of America poking a stick at the Soviet Bear back in the day.
[FOXNEWS] A spike in the number of coronavirus cases reported in China on Friday includes hundreds of prisoners who have been infected with the COVID-19 virus. As a result, prison and security officials, as well as others in Hubei, have been fired over failing to disclose information and for allowing the virus to spread.
Justice Ministry official He Ping said more than 500 cases of the novel coronavirus had been confirmed within the country’s prisons. A majority of the 271 cases involving prisoners in the Hubei Province occurred at the Wuhan Women’s Prison, He told news hounds, according to Agence La Belle France-Presse. Another 200 prisoners tested positive for the virus in Shandong Province, and dozens more were confirmed in Shilifen prisoners in Zhejiang Province.
He said that the virus had been imported into prisons and that there were no deaths among infected prisoners, The South China Morning Post reported.
The latest tallies suggest over 76,000 people have been infected with COVID-19, with at least 2,250 deaths, including a 29-year-old doctor who had been working to treat coronavirus patients. Peng Yinjua, a respiratory doctor, died on Thursday.
"The overall situation is trending toward the better, and the outbreak is under control with zero increase in some provinces, Zeng Yixin, vice director of National Health Commission, said, according to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. "In Hubei and Wuhan, however, newly reported deaths remain at a high level. We need to take that seriously."
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The old two fences of razor wires with minefields in between should be popular, after all the Commies liked it, and if they did the current crop of MSM and Democrats should just love it. Don't forget the border between the US and Canada. Moose bites are dangerous.
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But appeals court ruled that law did not apply outside of US territory
Except....United States v. Alvarez-Machain, 504 U.S. 655 (1992), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the fact of respondent's forcible abduction does not prohibit his trial in a United States court for violations of this country's criminal laws. It re-confirmed the Ker-Frisbie Doctrine established in Ker v. Illinois (1886) and Frisbie v. Collins (1952).
Case involved a Mexican doctor who assisted in the torture of a federal agent in Mexico.
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re: #3 "Moose bites are danhgerous". Believe me that you do NOT want to face an angry moose, especially an angry bull moose who thinks you might be competing with him for a lady moose. Been there, ran REALLY fast!
[JPost] As the citizens of Iran flocked to the voting booths, the Iranian economy took a painful hit on Friday at the conclusion of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) plenary, when the organization decided to return Iran to the 'blacklist' of countries involved in bankrolling and financing terror.
The result: More than 200 member nations and territories will comply with FATF sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
The ban will likely end talks between Iran and the European Union about exploiting the INSTEX vehicle for promoting trade in a way that circumvents United States sanctions.
Furthermore, it will more generally widen the expanding chasm between Tehran and the EU, pushing Europe closer to the US in the standoff.
The FATF moved the Islamic Republic from a blacklist to a sort of gray-list in 2016, which meant much greater access to the international banking system, but a ticking clock to come into compliance with anti-terrorism financial measures.
In addition to re-blacklisting Iran, a large number of new countries entered the gray-list of non-compliant countries, from which Iran has just been ousted, including Albania, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nicaragua and Uganda. Trinidad and Tobago was the only country te be taken off of the gray-list without landing in the blacklist.
Pakistan won an extra four months to meet international anti-terrorism financing norms, as the FATF decided to keep it on the gray-list for now despite missing recent deadlines to comply with their own internationally agreed-upon deals.
Until Friday's decision, the only other country on the FATF blacklist was North Korea.
The Israeli delegation to the FATF plenum was led by by Dr. Shlomit Wagman-Ratner and other representatives of the Money Laundering and Terrorist Prohibition Authority in the Ministry of Justice.
[NYPOST] The vagrant whose alleged threats got a homeless outreach nonprofit to flee the transit hub in fear last weekend was holding court ‐ and spewing hate at cops ‐ there Thursday.Eugene Watts was spotted sipping a brown-bag beer in the station one day after The Post reported that embattled nonprofit Bowery Residents Committee up and abandoned its satellite office there because he allegedly threatened to shoot workers.
Watts, who claims to be a former boxer, remained defiant Thursday.
"Mr. Eugene Watts, you have five minutes to leave," one of two passing Amtrak cops on patrol at the busy transit hub was heard telling Watts on Thursday. "There is a warrant out for your arrest."
Watts fired back: "Kiss my black ass. I’d rather go to jail. I can get an apartment." Put him in the Mayor's mansion
The cops simply walked on.
The tasteless tableau was one scene in a chaotic day at the terminal.
On Wednesday, The Post revealed that taxpayer-funded BRC ‐ which was slammed by the state comptroller last year for only dedicating 26 percent of its time to actual outreach ‐ had been "indefinitely" closed because Watts allegedly threatened on Saturday to "come back with a gun and shoot you."
Watts, who denied the gun threat, was among the more than two dozen homeless people back at the station Thursday ‐ many of whom had to be dealt with by police because BRC’s offices were closed and its workers scarce.
BRC is under contract with Amtrak to run the outreach office to help the dozens of homeless people who frequent Penn Station on a regular basis.
Courtesy of Skidmark, the Daily Mail has more here.
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They can get an apartment any time they want. They *like* being like this.
Some homeless just have what we would consider to be extreme views on personal freedom. They want to sit in our public spaces and make us feel bad, because that makes them feel good.
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Under my administration these people would be rounded up in the dead of night, never to be seen again. Same for the situation on the West coast.
[EN.ANNAHAR] An international agency monitoring terrorism funding announced tough new financial scrutiny 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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... on Friday and added seven countries to a watch list.
Pakistain, meanwhile, won a reprieve from the Financial Action Task Force at its meetings in Gay Paree this week. The monitoring body gave Pakistain’s government another four months to crack down on terrorism financing and did not put the country on a damaging "black list."
Iran and North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... are the only two countries currently on the agency’s black list. That means international financial transactions with those countries are closely scrutinized, making it costly and cumbersome to do business with them. International creditors can also place restrictions on lending to black-listed countries.
The FATF decided on Friday to further tighten the screws on Iran ‐ whose economy is already reeling ‐ by imposing extra measures that could require audits on more transactions and make it even harder for foreign investors to do business there.
The group made the decision because Iran failed to fulfill its promises to the FATF despite repeated warnings. In a statement, the organization said that Iran hasn’t done enough to criminalize terrorist financing, require transparency in wire transfers or freeze terrorist assets targeted by U.N. sanctions.
The head of Iran’s central bank, Abdolnasser Hemmati, said the decision will "will create no problem for Iran’s foreign trade and currency."
Iranian Foreign Ministry front man Abbas Mousavi called the decision "politicized" and a result of pressure from the United States, 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... and Israel.
Mousavi said Iran had implemented "all regulations and laws linked to money laundering and financing terrorism in the more than past two years."
[NYPOST] Putting an entirely new spin on the concept of "public campaign finance," Mayor Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly... is ruthlessly exploiting his official powers to get First Lady Chirlane McCray elected as Brooklyn borough president in 2021‐ with a pretty obvious eye on moving the family back into Gracie Mansion eight years later.
Most despicably, the failed ThriveNYC project (which has already cost taxpayers around $1 billion) is a central part of the scam.
McCray’s ThriveNYC mental-health and wellness podcast just launched ‐ in partnership with a Brooklyn-based cultural nonprofit that took in $1.2 million in city funding in 2019.
For the first show, she brought in recent Yale grad Dante de Blasio (no longer employed by Bill de Blasio’s presidential campaign) to serve as guest co-host.
It’s "All in the Family," de Blasio style. Or maybe the Corleones?
As veteran local pol Sal Albanese tweeted, "This is an obscene use of taxpayer $ for blatant political purpose."
It’s also shameless, since Thrive was plainly intended to showcase McCray’s leadership ‐ but wound up showcasing her inability to manage anything.
By all accounts, the mayor is looking to cash in political chits left and right to install McCray as Brooklyn beep. Hey, someone has to support the family after term limits force him off the public payroll on Jan. 1, 2022.
This cynical abuse is of a piece with the $358,000 security bill footed by taxpayers during Bill’s ridiculous presidential bid ‐ which includes the $490 tab for seven cops to tag along as the mayor watched his beloved Boston Red Sox play the Angels while he was in Los Angeles taping a political podcast shortly before he folded his prez campaign.
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hillary thought the same ting
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"We polled 400 of Joe Biden's campaign workers and he underperformed, but still got 47% of the vote, beating the rest of the field"
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I had Bee.
Frank, that's funny.
I don't know who all watched the debate post-game, but there was the required What Do the Kids Think? segment. Set was a relaxed hotel-bar like scene, lady was going about asking the young'ens why they are there and who they support.
Came to one gal and she was like, "I'm here to caucus for one of the candidates."
[NYPOST] A Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, prison inmate confessed in a letter that he beat two child molesters to death with a cane while behind bars just hours after his urgent warning to a counselor that he might become violent was ignored, a newspaper chain reported Thursday.
Jonathan Watson, 41, confessed in the letter to the Bay Area News Group in Northern California that he clubbed both men in the head on Jan. 16 at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran.
Prisoner David Bobb, 48, died that day. Graham De Luis-Conti, 62, died three days later at a hospital. Both were serving life sentences for aggravated sexual assault of a child under 14.
"We can’t comment on an active investigation," Dana Simas, front man for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, wrote in an email.
Watson is serving a life sentence for a 2009 murder conviction.
Days before the attack, he said his security classification was changed and he was transferred from a single-person cell to a lower-security dormitory pod at the Central Valley facility. Watson called the switch a "careless" mistake and said he had protested the decision.
Watson wrote that six days after he arrived at the prison, a child molester moved into the pod. Watson believed the man began taunting other inmates by watching children’s television programming. Watson said in the letter he couldn’t sleep that night "having not done what every instinct told me I should’ve done right then and there."
Two hours before the attacks the next day, Watson told a prison counselor that he urgently needed to be transferred back to higher-level security "before I really (expletive) one of these dudes up," but the counselor "scoffed and dismissed" him.
Watson said he returned to his housing pod.
"I was mulling it all over when along came Molester #1 and he put his TV right on PBS Kids again," he wrote, according to the newspaper chain. "But this time, someone else said something to the effect of ’Is this guy really going to watch this right in front of us?’ and I recall saying, ’I got this.’ And I picked up the cane and went to work on him." Who doesn't appreciate a work ethic and initiative?
Watson said he then left the housin pod to find a guard and turn himself in, but on the way, he saw "a known child trafficker, and I figured I’d just do everybody a favor," Watson wrote. "In for a penny, in for a pound."
Watson said he then told a guard, who didn’t believe him "until he looked around the corner and saw the mess I’d left in the dorm area," Watson wrote.
Watson is in segregated housing while he is under investigation for the killings. He hasn’t been charged yet.
"Being a lifer, I’m in a unique position where I sometimes have access to these people and I have so little to lose," Watson wrote. "And trust me, we get it, these people are every parents’ worst nightmare."
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[NYPOST] Mayor Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly... ’s failed presidential campaign is more than $22,000 in the red because of legal fees related to a federal fundraising probe, new election filings show.
The mayor, who raised $1.4 million during his failed White House run, only has $8,022 left on hand in the federal campaign account ‐ while owing $30,350 to the Washington, DC-based law firm of Trister, Ross, Schadler & Gold for legal services.
The firm billed him for legal work on a Federal Election Commission probe into alleged fundraising violations by his campaign.
Council members Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island) and Robert Holden (D-Queens) said that news of the debt explains why de Blasio didn’t use campaign funds to pay off $358,000 in costs racked up by his NYPD security detail racked on the campaign trail.
Allah clearly deeply disapproves of something the Mad Mullahs are doing.
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#Iran's health ministry: "Based on existing reports, the spread of #coronavirus started in Qom [and] has now reached several cities ... including Tehran, Babol, Arak, Isfahan, Rasht and other cities and it's possible that it exists in all cities in Iran"
The #Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Units militia group appoints Abu Fadak al-Mohammadawi as its new leader, according to several sources, succeeding Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes who was killed in #Iraq last month alongside Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani.https://t.co/stHQ29w3QMpic.twitter.com/DOul0RjXHy
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The State Department views its job as government-to-government relations and despises individual US citizens abroad. Unless you're in the Chamber of Commerce (i.e. fellow elites) you can go die in a fire as far as they care. Or here, in an epidemic.
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Iran's new "358" missile is equipped with TITAN jet engine - made by AMT Netherlands. Take a look at the solenoid from a seized missile and from the manufacturer catalogue. pic.twitter.com/0UzNaFSCZe
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Advanced Micro Turbines founded in the Netherlands in 1991, manufacturs turbines commercially since mid-1994. Managed by Bennie van de Goor, the company founder, and the pilot of the world famous 'Dutch Pulse-Jet' team, AMT Netherlands has more than 20 years experience in the development and flight demonstration of high performance and jet powered aircraft. "Based in Geldrop, near Eindhoven, the company has been growing steadily for 18 years and caters to the increased demand in all markets."
"We believe the signing of the US-Taliban agreement will pave the way for the next step of intra-Afghan negotiations," says Foreign Office https://t.co/jINmJ98XpD
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It's like two psychotic bitch sisters who once they've got their fangs in your life will not let go.
Any 'deal with the taliban' is an ignominious surrender in the eyes of the sasquatch. The better option is to pack up and leave without any explanation, bombarding Af with flyers that say "FUCK THIS !"
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If we leave without a treaty, we need to bomb all the known training camps and winter quarters to rubble on the way out. If we leave with a treaty, but they treat it like a hudna and go back to business as usual as soon as we’re out of sight, we need to come back just to bomb all the known training camps and winter quarters to rubble. If the ones we sign a treaty with actually abide by it, but any of the other groups in theater continue acting up, we need to come back just to bomb all the known training camps and winter quarters to rubble to encourage the signers to keep everyone else in line. And somewhere along the way the ISI needs to have a complete computer meltdown — but only after we’ve copied all their files and shared them with those who would be interested.
[BREITBART] CAVUTO: Let’s leave the words aside, whether you like his style or not, tweets or not, or comments or not, he’s delivered the goods for a lot of African-Americans. Does he not with record-low unemployment levels?… You don’t think that’s something that’s constructive?
REP. CLYBURN: No, because it’s not true. I’m saying that the African American unemployment is not the lowest it’s ever been unless you count slavery… We were fully employed during slavery. So, it all depends how you measure this up. "Thanks to our Democrat Masters"
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..although the benefits of not working and deriving an income for voting themselves other peoples' money is attractive to numerous sectors of the population regardless of color.
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Well, that explains why we have two words there, employment and enslavement. Seems I remember some NBA millionaire saying he was basically a slave...
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So he's basically saying that being a slave wasn't so bad. Idiot!
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..although the benefits of not working and deriving an income for voting themselves other peoples' money is attractive to numerous sectors of the population regardless of color.
Bingo.
Folks on the right who think that Trump will get substantially more of the black vote because "Jobs!", really don't understand how many in that cohort simply don't think in those terms.
Some may even resent Trump, because improved employment numbers mean that your social worker or benefits tech will be saying: "Darnell. There's plenty of jobs out there now. Why are you still unemployed?"
For normies, work may mean a dignified existence.
For people accustomed to gaming the system, it just means less Free Shit, and more hassle.
Far from applauding Trump, many of them may be cursing him for this state of affairs.
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Charger called it. It's not about changing the players, it's about changing the game. Most of those involved in serving the welfare culture don't want that either.
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The opinion polls seem to indicate that among the urban Afr-Amer male population, there are many more normies than was previously assumed. Certainly many more than that arrogant little shit, Mini Mike, believes.
It will not take very many of these normies to double Trump's vote tally among Afr-Amers, which would seal his victory in the swing states this fall.
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Some may curse him yes, but I think far more don't. Trump hasn't arranged government make work jobs the way Obama did, he improved things so that jobs came to those wanting them. Even if its just 30%, it makes a huge difference vote wise. One thing is certain, the amount of people here in the oilfield admitting to supporting anyone but Trump is tiny. Hard to want to vote for someone who plans openly to kill your job.
[FoxNews] Schools were shuttered, churches told worshipers to stay away and some mass gatherings were banned as cases of a new virus swelled Friday in South Korea, the newest front in a widening global outbreak.
The country said two people have died and 204 have been infected with the virus, quadruple the number of cases it had two days earlier, as a crisis centered in China has begun strongly reverberating elsewhere.
The multiplying caseload in South Korea showed the ease with which the illness can spread. Though initial infections were linked to China, new ones have not involved international travel.
“We have entered an emergency phase,” Prime Minister Chung Se-kyun said in televised comments at the start of a government meeting on the health emergency. “Our efforts until now had been focused on blocking the illness from entering the country. But we will now shift the focus on preventing the illness from spreading further in local communities.”
Daegu, a southeastern city of 2.5 million that is the country’s fourth largest, emerged as the focus of government efforts to contain the disease known as COVID-19, and Chung promised support to ease a shortage in hospital beds, medical personnel and equipment. Mayor Kwon Young-jin of Daegu has urged residents to stay inside, even wearing masks at home, to stem further infection.
The first case in Daegu was reported on Tuesday. By Friday, the city and its surrounding areas had 152, including South Korea’s first two fatalities from COVID-19.
Nationwide, the numbers told of a ballooning problem. There were 20 new cases reported Wednesday, 53 on Thursday and 100 on Friday.
The central government declared a “special management zone” around Daegu on Friday, which didn’t restrict movement of residents or supersede local officials’ power but served as official recognition of the problem.
Most of those cases have been linked to a single house of worship, a branch of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, where a woman in her 60s attended two services before testing positive for the virus.
About 1,000 others who attended services with the woman have been isolated in their homes for screening, and health authorities say they’re trying to monitor thousands of other church members.
All 74 sites operated by the Shincheonji Church have been closed and worshipers have been told to instead watch services online for a sect whose leader claims to be an angel of Christ, but who is dismissed by many outsiders as a cult leader. Its teachings revolve largely around the Book of Revelation, a chapter of the New Testament known mostly for its apocalyptic foreshadowing.
Health and city officials say the woman eyed as a potential transmitter at the church had contact with some 1,160 people, both at the church and at a restaurant and a hospital where she was treated for injuries from a car accident. That raised fears that South Korea — which before Wednesday had recorded just 31 cases of the virus — should brace for a further surge.
“I hope South Korea will do everything to contain this outbreak at this early stage,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization.
Usually bustling downtown streets of Daegu were nearly deserted Friday as people wearing face masks lined up at clinics seeking testing. Crowds formed in supermarkets where shelves of ramen and curry were nearly bare. Eight hundred area schools, due to start a new academic year on March 2, delayed their openings by a week.
“Panic is taking hold," said Daegu resident Huh Mi-yeon. “People are scared of any situation where they would run into another person.”
Elsewhere in the country, angst grew too. In the capital of Seoul, major downtown rallies were banned, and fears of the virus led many to avoid shops and restaurants and instead eat at home and order necessities online. Buses and subways were full of mask-clad commuters.
The first three cases in the country’s 600,000-member military also sprung up on separate bases Friday, bringing added concern. A sailor on Jeju Island and an army officer in North Chungcheong province both tested positive. Both had made recent visits to Daegu, officials said. A third infection was reported in an air force officer who is based in Daegu but who had recently traveled to military headquarters in central South Korea, the defense ministry said, prompting the quarantine of 80 soldiers there.
[BREITBART] AUDIENCE MEMBER: President Trump’s Department of Justice recently got involved in the trial of Roger Stone — a close confidant of Trump’s. This led to four of the federal prosecutors to either withdraw from the case or resign from the department altogether. Many see this as a further abuse of presidential power that challenges our very ideas of what the justice system should be. As president, how will you restore the barriers between the Department of Justice and the Oval Office?
JOE BIDEN: First of all, for years and years I was chairman of the [Senate] Judiciary Committee. I have never, never, never — including when I got elected as a kid at 29-years-old when Nixon was president — this is not an exaggeration that no one, no one has abused that office or weaponized it, flat out weaponized it. And he’s made it real clear that whatever you do, it’s almost like the biblical phrase that whatever you do in my name to help me, you will get pardoned. That’s the message being sent. And the idea that Roger Stone… who is convicted of lying to federal prosecutors and a judge said, “whoa, whoa, whoa, I’m not going to listen to what the Justice Department has to say now, I’m sentencing this guy now to 40 months.” Guarantee you, he’s going to be pardoned… what’s the message about? Don’t worry, do anything illegal for me and you’re okay, I will pardon you. No one has ever weaponized it before like this.
Number one, the Justice Department is not the president’s private lawyer, it’s the people’s lawyer and I will never direct the Justice Department to who they should or should not indict and under what circumstances they should or should not. That is an independent judgment to be made. My son — my deceased son — was the Attorney General of the United States and before that, he was a federal prosecutor in one of the largest office’s in the country in Philadelphia.
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Keep him in and rub his senile corrupt face in every pile of shit. He's enjoyed it til now, let him, "Dr. Jill", and his Hoover Snowblower reap ALL the rewards these assholes earned. Make him a historical national laughingstock and hang his rep around Obama's neck. NO sympathy
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#3 rub his senile corrupt face in every pile of shit.
Isn't that what the Dems' nomination process is all about? Giddes' partner: "That's the Shitshow, Jake" Neil Kinnock's imitator: "That's the Shitshow, Hunny"
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
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...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as 
[KSL] Should Utah Sen. 
Hundreds of Prisoners Test Positive for Coronavirus in China, 11 Officials Sacked
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
[FOXNEWS] A spike in the number of coronavirus cases reported in China on Friday includes hundreds of prisoners who have been infected with the COVID-19 virus. As a result, prison and security officials, as well as others in Hubei, have been fired over failing to disclose information and for allowing the virus to spread.
[JPost] As the citizens of Iran flocked to the voting booths, the Iranian economy took a painful hit on Friday at the conclusion of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) plenary, when the organization decided to return Iran to the 'blacklist' of countries involved in bankrolling and financing terror.
[NYPOST] The vagrant whose alleged threats got a homeless outreach nonprofit to flee the transit hub in fear last weekend was holding court ‐ and spewing hate at cops ‐ there Thursday.Eugene Watts was spotted sipping a brown-bag beer in the station one day after The Post reported that embattled nonprofit Bowery Residents Committee up and abandoned its satellite office there because he allegedly threatened to shoot workers.
...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 
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly...
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[BREITBART] AUDIENCE MEMBER: President Trump’s Department of Justice recently got involved in the trial of Roger Stone — a close confidant of Trump’s. This led to four of the federal prosecutors to either withdraw from the case or resign from the department altogether. Many see this as a further abuse of presidential power that challenges our very ideas of what the justice system should be. As president, how will you restore the barriers between the Department of Justice and the Oval Office?
