[Breitbart] It started out with a small group of Navy SEALs back in Mosul, Iraq, in the summer of 2017.
First they complained he stole someone’s Red Bull energy drinks, that he ate half of someone’s cookie butter from a care package, and that he didn’t pay someone back for a haircut.
Two complainants did have more serious concerns ‐ they thought he was too aggressive in his tactics, which they felt put their lives at unnecessary risk.
But those allegations were nothing like those he faced months after the Navy SEAL platoon returned home.
The allegations turned from stealing cookie butter into cold-blooded murder ‐ that he stabbed a wounded teenage ISIS captive to death and mowed down a young girl and old man from a sniper’s roost.
Soon, what started as petty rumors morphed into murder charges against a decorated Navy SEAL in a case that has captured the nation’s ‐ and the president’s ‐ attention.
Those fighting for 40-year-old Chief Special Warfare Operator Eddie Gallagher’s innocence believe he will ultimately be found not guilty when his trial convenes on June 17.
[PJ] When Donald Trump told George Stephanopoulos he (Donald) might listen to "oppo" research coming from a foreign source and that he might not tell the FBI about it, the mainstream media, as is so often the case, deliberately missed or misstated what he meant, went into one of their usual hissy fits, and attacked the president, even calling him treasonous.
Besides the obvious hypocrisy, pointed out with characteristic aplomb by Andrew McCarthy, something else, likely more important, was at play.
The media (and the Democrats, of course) deliberately missed the point because you would have to be seriously intellectually challenged not to get why Trump might have been hesitant or ambivalent about going to the FBI. These days only a total dimwit would unquestioningly trust the supposed "world's greatest law enforcement agency." The FBI is under a dark cloud.
The litany of personages who have recently left or been expelled from that organization is long and getting longer. As is well known, it's under investigation for its practices during and before the Mueller probe, via the inspector general and recently-appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham, who is famed for prosecuting FBI agents with ties to the Boston mob. All this is being supervised by AG William Barr.
[Free Beacon] In an aggressive attempt to enforce immigration law, Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law banning sanctuary cities in the state. The law requires state agencies and law enforcement entities to support federal law enforcement when addressing illegal immigration in the state.
Sanctuary cities restrict cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, meaning that they can serve as safe havens for illegal immigrants looking to avoid deportation. Over the course of his tenure, the Trump administration has targeted sanctuary cities with funding cuts for refusing to work with federal agencies such as Immigration Customs and Enforcement.
There are currently no sanctuary cities in Florida, meaning the law bans any future defiance of federal immigration law from Florida's municipalities.
The law was one of the Republican governor's major campaign promises, the Miami Herald reported. It will go into effect in October.
State Sen. David Simmons (R.), co-sponsor of the law, addressed concerns that the law would damage relations between illegal immigrants and law enforcement, according to Spectrum News 13. He stressed that the legislation only pertains to cooperation with the federal government after an individual has been arrested for a crime.
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Iblis, I would expect that within days, if not hours, someone will file suit against the law, since it is supposed to be a Federal responsibility to enforce immigration laws. The states aren't supposed to do that.
IIRC, that is one of the reasons Sheriff Joe got into trouble for trying to enforce federal laws.
So, someone will file suit, probably in Hawaii, to block enforcement of the Florida law.
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Like many of these laws, it has no teeth. Such cities should be held to be in a state of insurrection against the Federal government and the military sent in to restore order and remove the rebellious governments.
[American Thinker] César Chávez once declared, "History will judge societies and governments -- and their institutions -- not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless."
This quote got me thinking. How will history judge Martin Luther King Jr.?
The Troubling Legacy of Martin Luther King, a recent essay published by widely respected historian David Garrow in Standpoint, a widely respected British magazine, sparked fierce debate among historians. Within the press, however, Garrow’s essay was met with a reaction somewhere between ambivalence and outright refutation.
Remember, this is David Garrow, author of King’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography. This is an author of real merit.
According to Garrow, King engaged in orgies, solicited prostitutes, and "looked on and laughed" as a rape took place before his very eyes.
Again, this report comes from a senior advisor to Eyes on the Prize, an award-winning series documenting the Civil Rights movement. Garrow is very much a liberal's liberal. He’s certainly no friend of the right, and he’s certainly no enemy of King's. In fact, Garrow is, in many ways, a former idolator.
The allegations against Dr. King are as shocking as they are unfathomable. How could this man, an activist and orator like no other, act in such a monstrous manner? In King’s famous "I have a dream" speech, the self-professed pacifist eloquently expressed the hope that someday his children would be able to live in a nation "where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Well, Dr. King, your wish has been granted, because here we are, all these years later, judging the content of your character.
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What's unfathomable to me is how an entire nation can allow itself to be brought to it's knees at the altar of guilt, citing inaccurate historical depictions and blatant panhandling for 'respect' by openly un-American communities.
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...Am I the only one who remembers hearing about this twenty-something years ago?
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I never hero-worshipped him.
He was at best a flawed human who did some good things while having socialistic views, and who was drifting even further left before his assassination.
He would have been like Jesse Jackson or John L. Lewis (but more sonorously articulate) had he lived.
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Agreed, charger. He did advocate having the father in the household and doing your best at what you do, so there's that.
Don't know if he would have gone 'Full Grifter' like one of the other two you mention (not John L.).
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Mike: No, I remember it too. I think though it was just rumors then. Nobody with pull had come forward claiming to have heard the tapes by the FBI. That's the difference now. This also might have been planned as "soft" release since the tapes are supposed to be declassified in... what, 2024?
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[News24] A man has died after he was castrated, allegedly by an angry mob from Ivory Park, east of Johannesburg, on Saturday night.
According to Gauteng police spokesperson Colonel Lungelo Dlamini, the incident comes after two girls aged 14 and 18 were allegedly gang raped.
"Allegations are that two girls who were walking to Lindokuhle informal settlement were confronted by suspects armed with a knife and a firearm. The suspects then raped them repeatedly," said Dlamini.
He said police were also following leads to arrest two other suspects who managed to escape from the community members who tried to apprehend them at the scene of the alleged gang rape.
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The Johannesburg Conservation officials hesitantly informed the media that an object found yesterday in Lindokuhle that was hitherto believed to be a variety of rare giant black slug (Limax negrus. maximus) was actually... uhh, something else.
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Vigilante justice only works if they get the guilty party. Teenage girls never lie about this sort of thing/the Scottsboro boys remain unavailable for comment.
[Free Beacon] Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee ......the clownish U.S. Representative-for-life for Texas's 18th congressional district, serving since 1995. The district includes most of inner-city Houston. She is noted for her lack of tact and intellect. She is a member of the Democratic Party, and almost its epitome...... (D., Texas) on Saturday called the disgraced former congressman John Conyers (D., Mich.) "honorable" while she discussed his push for a commission on reparations.
Jackson Lee appeared on MSNBC's PoliticsNation to discuss reparations when she made the comment about Conyers. Host civil rights hustler Al Sharpton ...Tawana Brawley's spiritual advisor... mentioned how Jackson Lee is the new sponsor of House Resolution 40, which was first proposed by Conyers in 1989 to study reparations.
"You are starting an inquiry in Congress. What will happen Wednesday and where do you want to see this go?" Sharpton asked.
"This commission‐and I'm delighted to have this bill and to push it into a 21st century‐was first introduced in 1989 by my friend and colleague, the honorable John Conyers," Jackson Lee said.
She went on to say she wants the call for reparations to be a "constructive dialogue" on the issue of discrimination and the impact of slavery and its aftermath.
Conyers was pressured to resign in December 2017 after multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, including a $27,000 settlement Conyers reached with a former employee. He was one of various political figures felled by the MeToo movement to expose sexual misconduct by powerful people, such as former Sen. Al Franken (D., Minn.) and former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
Initially, Jackson Lee dodged a question on whether Conyers should resign, saying the decision should be left up to him, calling him a "patriot." She would later anger members of the Congressional Black Caucus after she persuaded Conyers not to announce retirement yet, causing the controversy to make headlines for another five days.
[The Monitor] Attorneys representing seven migrants from Central America allege U.S. Customs and Border Protection is holding them in overcrowded facilities while denying them access to legal counsel.
The plaintiffs include Jairo Alexander Gonzalez Recinos, of El Salvador; Gerardo Henrique Herrera Rivera, of El Salvador; Kevin Eduardo Rizzo Ruano, of Guatemala; Jonathan Fernando Beltran Rizzo, of Guatemala; Enerly Melitza Ramos, of Guatemala; Karen Vanessa Borjas Zuniga, of Honduras; and Julia Elizabeth Molina Lopez, of Honduras.
The lawsuit targets several Department of Homeland Security officials and seeks the immediate release of the migrants on bond, as well as any others who are similarly situated.
"Petitioners were apprehended in mid-May at or near the U.S. Border with Mexico and subsequently detained. Once apprehended, such persons are often detained for extended periods of time ‐ on information and belief, up to six weeks ‐ in overcrowded holding cells, with inadequate food, water, and sanitation facilities, where attorneys are not allowed to visit. The conditions in these holding cells are dangerous and inhumane," the lawsuit stated.
The litigation follows a report from a DHS internal watchdog that revealed "dangerous overcrowding" at an El Paso Border Patrol processing facility ‐ a facility designed to hold 125 detainees that held approximately 900 people during a two-day span in early May.
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Yupp. The judge's been shopped. No judge should even allow for such litigation to be filed.
Another article even goes on to link the outbreak of measles in America to infection spreading from these migrants to CBP agents coming back home to infect their families.
Border Patrol agents are doing everything they can to weed out illegal aliens who are sick but they're not properly trained to evaluate for communicable diseases, a whistleblower previously told Townhall. The agents don't have medical training so they're having to guess which aliens are sick and which ones aren't. Illegal aliens who are sick slip through the cracks and are being flown and bussed to other Border Patrol stations throughout the country to be processed. It's why measles, mumps and chicken pox outbreaks are becoming more prevalent. The illegal aliens disperse throughout the United States, agents at other stations get sick, they bring it home to their families and it spreads.
So, open the borders, let the Gonzalez and Lopez and Borjas run free and the measles will go away too.
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The article doesn't say where the suit was filed. Logically, the suit would be filed where the plaintiffs are located, the Southern District of Texas; however, logic seldom dictates suits like this. Hopefully, the case is in Texas and we will get to see what a Texas federal judge and the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals do with the claims.
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They should be considered foreign invaders and shot out of hand for crossing our border and their home nations properly chastised with a few arc light strikes and Mavericks through whatever their tyrants are called windows. Enough of this stupid insanity. Anyone demanding open borders should immediately be shot as a traitor.
[France24] Nearly two decades after France phased out conscription for men, some 2,000 teenagers on Sunday began a pilot programme for a new national civic service, a pet project of French President Emmanuel Macron.
For a fortnight, the 15- and 16-year-olds will leave home for training in first aid and other basic skills, followed later by another two weeks of volunteering.
Macron caused surprise on the campaign trail in 2017 by promising to introduce a month-long compulsory national service, saying he wanted to give girls and boys "a direct experience of military life".
The proposal got a cool response from the army, which baulked at the prospect of having to put millions of teens through their paces, prompting the government to come back with proposals for a compulsory civic service instead.
Some 2,000 youngsters, including 50 disabled teens, were chosen out of 4,000 volunteers for the first part of the trial, which started Sunday at boarding schools, holiday villages and university campuses around the country.
The group includes high school students, drop-outs, apprentices and vocational school trainees.
Each volunteer will leave home for another region for the two weeks, during which time they will be required to wear navy uniforms and sing the "Marseillaise", France's national anthem, every morning.
Described as an "integration phase", teens will be taught first aid, map reading, emergency response for different scenarios and other skills.
Imbued with a military ethos, the national service centres, managed by a "chief of brigade", will each feature five houses of 10 young people, Gabriel Attal, secretary of state to the minister of national education told Le Parisien. Although each house will have an adult supervisor, the teens will be responsible for dividing up tasks and taking care of the houses.
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Corvée: is a form of unpaid, unfree labour, which is intermittent in nature and which lasts limited periods of time, typically only a certain number of days' work each year.
...In France the corvée existed until August 4, 1789, shortly after the beginning of the French Revolution, when it was abolished along with a number of other feudal privileges of the French landlords.
Everything old is new again! Socialism is so Progressive...!
Of course the French are a paradox unto themselves. My mother was French, so I understand.
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Well, in France, you exist to serve the state. We have some of that disease around here too, but so far something, something, something keeps it at bay.
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Possibly they are looking at is as a way to Frenchify the immigrant population while gathering biometric information and charting the connections of those who they may need to become more familiar with later. Also introduce them to the bourgeoise behaviours that will allow them to better succeed in school and work, should they choose to adopt them.
Two sessions of two weeks is not exactly a great imposition. When America had a military draft it was what — three years? And that with a reasonable chance of being killed, unlike a brief stint picking up trash along the highway or scrubbing graffiti off gravestones.
[Washington Examiner] The woman who pretended to be black while heading an NAACP chapter marked Pride Month by coming out as bisexual Sunday. So now she identifies as bisexual?
"I am in absolutely no rush to explore a new relationship, but it still matters to stay visible. I am bisexual," Rachel Dolezal tweeted, telling people her first kiss was with a woman, though she had also been married to a man. (I bolded the operative statement here)
Dolezal insisted she is not confused and not "almost" gay and encouraged people not to "ignore or delegitimize the 'B' In LGBTI...It's a real identity."
[BBC] An Indian magician, who attempted to recreate Harry Houdini's famed trick by jumping shackled into a river, is feared dead.
Chanchal Lahiri was meant to escape and swim to safety but did not emerge from the Hooghly river in West Bengal state.
Spectators who had gathered to watch him take the plunge on Sunday informed the police, who say they are searching for him.
Mr Lahiri, also known as Mandrake, was lowered into the river from a boat.
He was shackled with six locks and a chain as spectators on two boats watched him. Several people had also gathered by the shore and some stood on the landmark Howrah Bridge in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta).
Police and a team of divers canvassed the area but as of Sunday evening local time, they had been unable to find the magician. One officer told the Hindustan Times newspaper that Mr Lahiri could not be declared dead until the body was found.
Jayant Shaw, a photographer with a local newspaper, witnessed Mr Lahiri attempting the trick. He told the BBC that he spoke to him before the magician started his act.
INDIAN MAGICIAN BEATS HOUDINI - SLIPS INTO PARALLEL DIMENSION
Mr. Lahiri, calling himself Mandrake (out of irony or spite against Lee Falk), dressed up as an oriental Sacha Baron Cohen (for some reason) and entered the Hooghly river never to be seen again. While Houdini had done the trick in relatively calmer current and emerged 200-250 ft away after a minute or so; Mandrake's been gone for quite a while now. So he may turn up in the Bay of Bengal.
PS: Actually this belongs in a section called Irony, Fails and Pitfalls.
[Guns America Digest] The Sig MPX made a significant splash in the Pistol Caliber Carbine (PCC) competition world when it was first released in 2015. Several top shooters adopted it over the 9mm AR-15 conversions and dedicated AR platform guns being used. Both the AR style guns and the MPX were tweaked and upgraded by the shooters to gain an edge in the Practical Shooting arena where performance is measured down to the hundredth of a second.
[Jpost] Israel has close to 100 nuclear weapons, a new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute has found.
While Israel has a long-standing policy of not commenting on its nuclear arsenal, according to the report there are approximately 30 that are gravity bombs, which can be delivered by fighter jets ‐ some of which are believed to be equipped for nuclear weapon delivery ‐ and approximately 50 warheads that can be delivered by land-based ballistic missiles such as the Jericho III intermediate-range ballistic missile ‐ which, according to foreign reports, has a range of 5,500 km.
The report also mentioned the numerous unconfirmed reports that Israel has modified its fleet of German-built Dolphin class submarines to carry nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missiles, giving it a sea-based second-strike capability.
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[Ynet] 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... i envoy to 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... , Muhammad al-Emadi, entered the Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,-controlled enclave late Sunday to deliver $15 million in aid to the officials in the Strip.
Qatari envoy to Gaza, Muhammad al-Emadi, entered the Hamas-controlled enclave late Sunday to deliver $15 million in aid to the officials in the Strip.
[RADIOSHABELLE] Heavily armed fighters from the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... have launched a planned attack in Kenya’s northeastern region, near the mostly non-existent border with Somalia.
Al-Shabaab said in a statement posted on its affiliated media outlets that the bandidosgunnies seized control of Kontonka village located in the outskirts of Wajir town during the attack.
The statement added that several Kenyan Police officers were taken hostage and confiscated two cycle of violences as well as military equipment.
Al-Shabaab vowed to continue attacks in Kenya, in Dire Revenge for its military involvement in Somalia, where 22,000 AU soldiers are battling the group for a decade.
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[Al Jazeera] Bangladeshi authorities have arrested a senior policeman accused of sharing on social media the recording of an official complaint of sexual harassment made by a teenage girl who was later burned to death.
Moazzem Hossain, who is suspended from duty, had been in hiding since late May, when the Cyber Tribunal court warrant was issued against him over sharing the complaint by Nusrat Jahan Rafi.
A police front man said on Sunday he had been arrested after a tip-off and "will be soon produced to the court", where he will face charges of violating digital security laws.
The killing of Rafi in April sparked protests across the South Asian nation, with the prime minister promising to prosecute all those involved.
At least 16 people - including the teacher - have been charged in connection with the killing and could face the death penalty if convicted.
Rafi was lured to the rooftop of an Islamic seminary she attended where her attackers asked her to withdraw a sexual harassment complaint filed with police against the head teacher.
When she refused, she was doused in kerosene and set on fire. Rafi suffered burns to 80 percent of her body and died five days later, her death highlighted an alarming rise in sexual harassment cases in Bangladesh.
She recorded a video before her death, repeating her allegations against the teacher.
An investigation by authorities later found Moazzem Hossain, the police chief of the town where Rafi was killed, had not properly dealt with the complaint the teenager made.
Rafi went to the police in late March to make allegations of sexual harassment against the head teacher. A leaked video showed Hossain registering her complaint, but dismissing it as "not a big deal".
Hossain was accused of illegally filming the video, which was later circulated on social media platforms.
Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums... met Rafi's family and assured that her killers would be punished.
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[ToloNews] Iran’s Ambassador to Afghanistan, Mohammad Reza Bahrami, says that Tehran wants a role for the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... in Afghanistan’s government, but that role should not be dominant.
Taliban has publicly said that the group is not seeking power and that it wants an equal role for all Afghans in the future government.
"We agree on the participation of the Taliban in power, but we do not agree with a dominant role for them," Bahrami told TOLOnews. "Our position is very clear. We want to say there is a structure present where the Taliban can participate."
Bahrami said that the picture of peace remains vague, adding those who lead the grinding of the peace processor are responsible for the uncertainty, indirectly hinting at the role of the US Special Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, the Afghan government, and former President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...Former president of Aghanistan, part of the problem not part of the solution... in the process.
"I want to clarify this issue that we are not blamed for the uncertainty about the future. Instead, those who have pushed the legitimization of the Taliban to an irreversible situation and those who are leading the [peace] process should be blamed [for this]. Those who have weakened the official institutions through their approach and those who have created a negative rivalry for their contact with the Taliban should be blamed," Bahrami explained.
Back in January, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that it is impossible to have a future Afghan government without a role for the Taliban.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... he said the group should not have a dominant role in a future Afghan government ‐ which will be formed after a possible peace deal between the Kabul government and the holy warrior group.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... the Speaker of the Senate, Fazl Hadi Moslemyar, says he is not in favor of the way the peace talks with the Taliban are moving forward while the Afghan people remain unaware about it.
"Our expectation from [Zalmay] Khalilzad is that your mission is for Afghanistan, for peace in Afghanistan... You are making conspiracy for us, you are not making it for others," Moslemyar said.
The US and the Taliban officials will attend the seven round of talks in Doha in the coming days.
RISING VIOLENCE
Violence has dramatically increased in the country despite the past seven months of diplomatic efforts at the regional and international levels.
The deputy head of the High Peace Council, Attaullah Rahman, who addressed a gathering in Kabul on Sunday, said the presence of Taliban’s deputy leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar did not help in the reduction of violence as it was expected.
"They [Taliban negotiators in Doha] read one or two texts and then say they do not have more authority [to decide]," Rahman said.
"I want to emphasize that we do not want a peace which comes in two or three days and again there is a war in three months," said Rula Ghani, Afghanistan’s First Lady.
Figures by Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission show that more than 75,000 Afghan civilians have been killed and maimed over the past ten years and it would be difficult to reach to peace without justice.
"From the start of 1388 [2009] until the end of 1397 [2018], more than 75,316 of innocent civilians were either killed or maimed due to the ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan," said Ayoub Azizi, a member of the commission.
[ToloNews] The police chief of Kandahar, Gen. Tadeen Khan, says that the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... attacks on security forces in the south of Afghanistan have increased amid the start of summer holidays in Pak madrassas which according to him is training "extremism and terrorism" to its students.
Khan said that lack of religious schools in the country is questioning and it pushes the Afghan youth to go to Pakistain and there, they get "training on terrorism and extremism".
"It is the summer and it is a war season because madrassas in Pakistain are off and they [the students of the madrassas] are sent to Afghanistan in the name of Jihad," the police chief said.
Khan said that while peace efforts are underway, the Taliban are intensifying the war in the south so they can "get privileges" during the talks.
"We are prepared and we will respond to every attack by the Taliban," Khan said.
A study by Afghanistan Institute of Strategic Studies in 2017 found that the number of unregistered madrassas in Afghanistan has dramatically increased.
Almost 300 people were interviewed at 50 unregistered madrassas in ten provinces of Afghanistan with the main focus on suicide kabooms, the study shows.
"Afghan students should be trained inside the country in order to prepare their mindset in favor of their country, but when they receive training on use of weapons and extremism in other countries," said Fida Mohammad, member of Kandahar Provincial Council.
"We have Islamic education sections within the education directorate but it is marred by corruption. We will be able to prevent the seasonal conflicts if we send a limited number of students to proper Islamic studies centers outside the country," said Hekmatullah, a civil society activist in Kandahar.
Ghorak, Shorabak, Shah Wali Kot and Maiwand districts in Kandahar province recently witnessed a rise in Taliban attacks, targeting government forces.
Khan said that most of the attacks have been push back by the security forces.
#BREAKING: Ceasefire violation by Pakistan in Poonch Sector of J&K. Today at about 1930hrs, Pak initiated Unprovoked Ceasefire Violation starting with Firing of Small Arms followed by Shelling with Mortars along LoC in Poonch Sector(J&K). Indian Army is retaliating beffitingly.
[KhaamaPress] The security forces conducted operations in Pashtun-infested Logar and Ghazni province killing at least 7 Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters.
The informed military sources said Sunday that the security forces also arrested 10 Taliban fighters during the operations.
The sources further added that the Afghan Special Forces arrested 10 Taliban fighters during an operation in Pul-e-Alam district of Pashtun-infested Logar.
Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Yellow Wolf clutched at his chest and fell from his horse... the security forces conducted three Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in Andar district of Ghazni and killed 7 Taliban fighters.
The Talibs have not commented regarding the operations so far.
[BALTIMORE.CBSLOCAL] Mayor Jack Young signed a bill that would allow all single occupancy restrooms to be used by anyone, male or female.
This is in an effort to provide a safe space for all citizens regardless of their gender identity.
"All of your elected officials believe in equality, we believe in everyone treated the same way," Baltimore Council President Brandon Scott said.
The new law will open up all single occupancy bathrooms with gender-inclusive signage to male and female. This will allow members of the transgender community to use any restroom they feel comfortable with.
Councilman Zeke Cohen introduced the bill and it received unanimous approval from the Baltimore City Council.
"We know that in the city and across the country, restrooms are a space of fear and anxiety for a trans and gender non-binary communities," Cohen said.
Bathroom laws have been a hot button issue across the country.
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And they can put a question mark sign on the door so people know what it's for.
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Congratulation, girls. Men have again taken back the loos. Posing as lipsticked, sashaying oddities they've turned back your hard won victory over public places that once forced you to either hold it in or pee in gutters. A convention that was only for the safety of women and children from predators has been done away with. Ultimately men will use these new laws related to protecting transgender people as ways to attack women and children.
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This was one of the warnings the cause the Equal Rights Amendment to stall and fail. The promoters laughed at those who claimed that outcome. Of course, Ms Ginsburg and her wing of the court have been implementing the ERA bit by bit regardless of its Constitutional failure and the illogical results that simply empower one vocal group at the expense of the vast majority (which is counter to the whole concept of a republic).
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People will probably just p!ss and sh!t in the streets as in San Francisco. They might use these bathrooms for hooking up but I doubt they will be safer as claimed by the Baltimore officials.
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I saw universal restrooms in a state park in Missouri several years ago. The were much larger than port-a-potties, but not much cleaner.
I've noticed newer facilities in north Texas are 'universal'. Still have men and women, but they (men's room anyways) are set up for handicapped access and have no urinals, so could easily become first-come, first-served, any-gender-at-all. Women will have to get used to messy seats.
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Is this really the most pressing issue facing Baltimore city government?
Small things attract light minds.
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Ok with me. Ill still pee without lifting up the seat.
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Is this part of the city's 'Data Ransom' payoff?
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Did you all even read the part where this would apply to single occupancy bathrooms? The ones originally intended for handicapped people with a wide space in the middle with only a single toilet and a lock on the door. As far as I'm concerned, they basically are gender neutral already. Why shouldn't they be if only one person goes inside at a time? As a side note, the gas station I previously worked at had two of them, one for men and one for women, and if one was occupied, I assure you, people would just use the other one, regardless of the sign. There were no issues there.
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This is so much of a dumb issue. Here in AZ they have this. Single bathrooms. Either can use it, so what. He is just pandering. If he made the multi stall bathroom gender neutral, that would cause a stir. This is just pandering.
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Ill still pee without lifting up the seat.
My favourite park in Cincinnati has a long row of lockable, single-occupant bathrooms instead of a gents’ and a ladies’. The stainless steel toilets don’t actually have proper seats, which Ebboluns Shong6204 will find a relief; a few of the bathrooms at the ends are double width and marked for handicapped use, and park staff arrange for additional port-a-potties when they expect crowds,
This kind of thing has been going on for a while, as 49 Pan points out; Mayor Young is just taking the opportunity to shut down the fussing — nearly cost-free since the single use jobbies are already there, and much safer for all involved than integrating traditional ladies’ rooms.
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Agree re single-occupancy. Doubt this'll make any visible difference (from the male point of view, anyway), but if the funk surpasses a certain point, well, that's why God made sinks, newspapers and plastic bags, right? But the "liberation" of multi-stall, multi-sink restrooms in stores or gov't buildings? Yoiks. First encountered that, completely unawares, on a trip to Rajistan. Scarred for life, probably...
Words fail me. The voice is disloyal
To the scene I beheld. Grisly. Goyal. Brazil: Village Anthill
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In Dot Target Toilet, by Breughel.
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One of the few nice things about spending a lot of time lurking around hospitals, those big roomy bathrooms. I could get almost nostalgic... almost.
[DAWN] A polio case has surfaced for the first time in the last two decades in Shangla district after the virus was detected in an 18-month-old boy, who lives in Dedal Kamach area along the bank of the Indus.
Dedal Kamach is connected to Buner and Torghar districts and is a border region of Shangla district.
According to the district coordinator for the Extended Programme for Immunisation (EPI), Dr Wajid Ali Khan, the case was reported by the locals and was later confirmed by the EPI team.
He said it was the first case reported in the district in the last two decades. The victim was identified as Ali Sher, son of Mayeen Khan.
When contacted District Health Officer Dr Mohammad Riaz Khan told Dawn that the child had not been vaccinated in the routine drives and a committee had been formed to probe the matter.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's knife out of his hand...... a jirga was held at Nawy Kaly Dedal Kamach of Nusrat Khel union council. Local notables from various villages and police officials participated in the jirga.
While addressing the jirga, the elders said that there was no resistance to polio vaccine in the community and every citizen was willing to inoculate his/her child. Despite that, they said, a case had surfaced.
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) ‐ The Iraqi army launched on Sunday a military operation in the northern district of Diyala to track down 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.... murderous Moslems.
"The Iraqi army, backed by federal police and paramilitary Popular Mobilization Forces, launched a wide-scale military operation to purse Islamic State cells in Hamrin Basin, 55 kilometers northeast of Baqubah," Diyala Police Chief Major General Faisal al-Abadi told Baghdad Today news agency.
"The three-axis operation is aimed at combing the area between al-Adhim and Qarah Tapah districts in the province to destroy any Islamic State hotbeds there," Abadi added.
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[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian media says some 20 IDF commandos tried to enter Strip near Khan Younis, but forced to retreat; no confirmation or details on incident from IDF.
Paleostinian media reported that a force belonging to the Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede, military wing opened fire on an IDF special forces unit near the southern 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 city of Khan Younis early Monday, forcing them to retreat.
The reports said there were no injuries or casualties on either side.
The reports said that an IDF force of some 20 soldiers entered the Strip and moved some 100 meters (yards) inside before Hamas button men opened fire on them with small arms fire.
There were no further details and no immediate confirmation or comment from the IDF.
The report came as Israel and Hamas, the terror group that rules the Strip and seeks to destroy the Jewish state, are trying to balance a fragile calm along the border amidst sporadic flare-ups of violence.
Hamas has sometimes opened fire on Israeli engineering forces laying barbed wire on the Gaza side of the border.
[DAWN] A boom-mobilewent kaboom! near the Somali parliament on Saturday, killing eight people, emergency workers said, hours after militia executed nine civilians from a clan with suspected links to the Al-Shabaab ...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them... .
"We have confirmed eight people killed and 16 others maimed in the blast," the private Aamin Ambulance service said.
A second blast on a key road leading to the airport of the Somali capital Mogadishu did not cause any casualties.
The Al-Shabaab group grabbed credit for the attacks saying "they were targeting two checkpoints, one of them along the airport road and (the other) along the road that leads to house of politicians."According to security sources the second explosives-laden car a Toyota Noah, was spotted by security forces at a checkpoint. They opened fire and killed a man in the car, which then went kaboom!. No one was injured in the blast.
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[DAILYWIRE] After a leading question from CNN host Chris Cuomo, fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said now is "absolutely" the time to start impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze!... McCabe made the statement after being asked by Cuomo, "Do you believe that an impeachment inquiry is warranted based on what you understand and what has come out of the Mueller report?"
McCabe, who wrote a memoir trashing Trump and defending the FBI, immediately agreed with Cuomo, saying, "absolutely."
The Hill reported that McCabe insisted Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s final report provided enough evidence to impeach Trump, even though the report found no evidence of collusion and made no determinations regarding obstruction of justice. Democrats have fixated on the obstruction claims, even though Mueller’s investigation was supposed to be a counterintelligence investigation, which is done on behalf of the president and therefore cannot be obstructed by the president. Further, since there was no underlying crime, only partisans can argue that Trump was obstructing rather than protesting the false accusations against him.
"I think we are clearly there with the results of the special counsel team," McCabe said regarding impeachment. "There are so many witnesses who could provide important, essential testimony to Congress that can only be done in the scope of an impeachment inquiry."
McCabe added that "Action should be taken immediately," and that it didn’t matter whether such an inquiry led to an actual impeachment.
McCabe was fired 26 hours before he was set to retire from the FBI and collect his full pension. His firing came as the result of an inspector general investigation that found he had leaked information to the media regarding the special counsel investigation and then lied, repeatedly, to Sherlocks about doing so.
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The realization is fully dawning that the demoncrats have no chance in hell to win in 2020. Get rid of him now before we get our asses kicked, is the thought process.
Does this count as propaganda or as attempted PsyOps? Either way, given all the training Kurdish forces have received from America, Germany, and now supposedly Israel, they should be nigh on unbeatable.
[Jpost] The Kurdish forces have been allegedly sent to Iraq, awaiting transport by Israeli authorities to a base stationed in the West Bank for "espionage" training.
Multiple units of U.S.-backed Kurdish forces are currently being trained by Israeli Mossad agents to "carry out espionage operations against the regional states," according to the semi-official Iranian Fars News Agency.
Fars claims that the Arabic news website Khabour, which is affiliated with snuffies in Syria, quoted a source saying that close to 20 members of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party have been sent to the "Israeli-occupied regions in Paleostine to be trained by Mossad."
The source claims that the training operation is named "Kurdistani Mossad" and that the focus is to train regional operatives in order to gather information for the Jewish state.
"A military convoy comprising 70 trucks carrying military and logistic equipment [made in the US and Israel] has been dispatched by the US-led coalition from Iraq to Syria," London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed, according to Fars.
The Kurdish forces have been allegedly sent to Iraq, awaiting transport by Israeli authorities to a base stationed in the West Bank for "espionage" training.
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This began in 2011 actually, but had to be buried because the BBC and Arab media had blown it all up to Knesset shaking proportion. It was IDF training them then I think. Yupp. They must be pretty formidable by now, the peshmerga.
[FOXNEWS] Sen. Bernie Sanders ...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being a socialist... I-Vt., is in full force with his push for democratic socialism as he looks to increase support for his 2020 presidential campaign, and is calling for a "political revolution" in the United States.
Days after an address at George Washington University in which he rolled out his platform, Sanders brought his message of income equality to "Fox News Sunday."
"If we're going to bring about real change in this country ... we need fundamental change. We need a political revolution," Sanders told host Chris Wallace.
Sanders pointed to the growth seen by the wealthy, in contrast to a decline for those less fortunate.
"In the last thirty years, the top 1 percent has seen an increase in their wealth of $21 trillion, while the bottom half of America has seen an actual decline in their wealth of some $800 billion," Sanders said.
During his GWU speech, in which he rolled out his democratic socialist platform, Sanders promoted the idea of a "21st Century Economic Bill of Rights." He said he was looking to fulfill the vision that President Franklin Roosevelt had in 1944, a year before he died. Sanders' Bill of Rights includes rights to a job with a living wage, secure retirement, health care, education, affordable housing and a clean environment.
The only way to achieve the goals of his democratic socialist agenda is for millions of people to work together.
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FDRs social security is a Ponzi scheme that helped the wealthy become more wealthy. Some poor laborer pays into social security his entire working life and dies a few months or year after he begins collecting his Ponzi scheme returns. Warren Buffett, T Boone Pickens... just sit back and collect for decades.
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The Beatles had a song about people who say they want a revolution... Lyrics.
Bernie Sanders economic bill of rights is almost a verbatim copy of Joe Stalin's Soviet constitution circa 1937.
And there it is. Kipling wrote about dogs returning to their vomit — the honourable Senator Bernie from whichever New England state he carpetbags from has been a Johnny One Note all his life.
[RADIOSHABELLE] Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... State security forces have launched an operation in the southern parts of Galkayo town following the murder of 9 civilians on Friday night.
The mass shooting drew local and international condemnations as Somali government vows credible investigation into the tragic incident.
Galkayo has seen increasing attacks, killings and rape in the past few months as the local authorities are trying to handle the security which could undermine the ongoing efforts.
The killing of the nine people hailing from the southern regions came following the liquidation of a local security official that was claimed by al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... .
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Now they can argue with Allah about whether they should go to Paradise or Hell.
[KhaamaPress] An explosion in Ghazni province inflicting casualties on three Talibs who were planting an improvised bomb.
The 203rd Thunder Corps in a statement said the incident took place in Bakawal area of Ghazni city.
The statement further added that the gunnies were planting an improvised explosive when it went off prematurely killing one Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... fighter.
The 203rd Thunder Corps also added that the earth-shattering kaboommaimed two other Talibs.
Not War on Terror, as the article refers only to bandits rather than Boko Haram, Boko Haram-linked Fulani herders, or the Shia troublemakers led by a former Sunni Al Qaeda ally who got religion. It seems that up in the Muslim part of Nigeria they all are doing their very best to reduce surplus population using any excuse that comes to hand.
[AlAhram] An armed gang killed at least 34 people in attacks on villages in northwest Nigeria, police said on Sunday, part of a wave of violence the government has blamed on bandidos.
Hundreds of people have died in the northwest region this year, adding to security problems in a country already struggling with Islamist insurgencies in the northeast and a brutal conflict between farmers and herders in central states.
The armed gang came to unprotected villages in the northwestern state of Zamfara on Friday night, killing 34 people, said Muhammed Shehu, police front man for the state.
People from the village told Rooters the attackers escaped.
"We heard gunshots and saw people running for shelter, chased by men on cycle of violences," said Shehu Shinkafi.
"We immediately took cover in a house nearby, and after the bandidos were done with their killing spree they moved to a nearby village," he said, adding he counted 12 bodies in his village alone.
The gang left without any resistance as there were no security agents in the area, and it was only after the massacre that police arrived hours later, Shinkafi and two other witnesses said.
[IsraelTimes] Testimony from Norwegian-owned Front Altair’s staff will be important in determining who is blamed for attack, as US points to Tehran.
Crew members from a Norwegian-owned oil tanker apparently attacked in the Gulf of Oman landed Saturday in Dubai after two days in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... as the other tanker targeted in the assault limped into anchorage off the eastern coast of the United Arab Emirates.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Kenyan officials say at least 10 coppers are dead after their vehicle struck an improvised bomb near the Somali border.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to share the information, said those killed Saturday in Wajir County were among 13 officers who were pursuing fighters who had kidnapped police reservists.
Police on Friday said an unknown number of button men stormed Konton centre in Wajir East and kidnapped three reservists.
There was no claim of responsibility for the latest attack.
The Somalia-based al-Shabaab ...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them... gang often targets Kenyan security forces, vowing retribution after Kenya deployed troops to Somalia in 2011 to combat the fighters.
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[KhaamaPress] The Afghan cops repulsed twin Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... attacks in Kandahar province.
The Police Chief of Kandahar Gen. Tadin Khan Achakzai said a group of Talibs attacked a security check post in Takhta Pul district.
Gen. Tadin Khan further added that the security forces killed three Talibs during the clash.
The security forces also confiscated three motorycles following the clash, Gen. Tadin Khan added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other leg...... the Talibs attacked police forces on Kandahar-Tarinkot highway which was also repelled by security forces.
According to Gen. Tadin, the security forces killed five Talibs during the same clash.
He also added that the dead bodies of three them were left in the area following the clash.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi security forces arrested on Wednesday an 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.... terrorist wearing an boom belt in Diyala province.
"Acting upon intelligence information, a force from the Diyala Operations Command arrested an Islamic State terrorist in Diyala province," the privately-owned al-Madar news website quoted the Security Media Cell as saying in a press statement.
The terrorist was wearing an boom belt when he was arrested, the statement read, adding that weapons and ammunition were also found in his possession.
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The US has been fighting foreign wars since 1917 ...
Protect the borders first ..
Deport all illegal aliens with extreme prejudice ... immediately And lots of problems will sort themselves out ..
Let the Arabs and Persians fight their own war ... like they have done since 550 BC when Cyrus "the Great" swept south ...
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Give that Iran is responsible for hundreds of Americans killed in the Iraqi operation for which two previous administrations took a blind eye to, doesn't mean payback isn't due now or later.
[Libya Observer] The Head of the Libyan Presidential Council, Fayez al-Sarraj, has proposed an initiative of seven points that aims to end the current crisis in the country.
Al-Sarraj proposed in a presser on Sunday in 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... holding a Libyan Gathering "Multaqa" that will be sponsored by and coordinated with the UNSMIL, in order to gather all Libyan parties that advocate for peace, democracy and stability, excluding those who advocate for dictatorship and have had Libyan blood on their hands.
Al-Sarraj said the initiative comes despite the fact that the Libyan Army forces and the Operation Volcano of Rage forces are defeating the attacking forces of Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... on the outskirts of Tripoli.
"The gathering should see Libyan parties agreeing on a roadmap for the upcoming phase along with the constitutional basis so Libyans can hold elections for their parliament and president before the end of 2019." al-Sarraj remarked.
He also announced forming a committee specialized in law in order to enact the needed laws for the agreed upon points in the upcoming gathering, adding that there will be joint committees formed with the UN to work in different areas in Libya to ensure all necessary equipment for elections and constitution events are delivered to people.
"There will be different committees as part of the initiative, including those who ensure transparency, advocate for comprehensive national reconciliation, punishment of war criminals and other matters." al-Sarraj further added.
He hailed the sacrifices of the fighters on the frontlines who have been able to hold back and defeat Haftar's attacking forces who wish to establish military and totalitarian rule in the country.
"I hereby talk to the Libyan people in eastern Libya and ask them to be careful because history is writing down our stances, so they should make public their rejection to tyranny and aggressions. I tell the silent majority of them "enough killing of our young people; enough funerals." al-Sarraj indicated.
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[DAWN] Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of 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... as of 2016.... accused arch-rival 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... of attacks on oil tankers in a vital Gulf shipping channel, adding he "won't hesitate" to tackle any threats to the kingdom, according to an interview published on Sunday.
Two tankers were struck by explosions on Thursday in the Gulf of Oman, the second attack in a month in the strategic shipping lane amid a tense United States-Iran standoff, sparking fears of a regional conflagration and sending oil prices soaring.
"We do not want a war in the region... But we won't hesitate to deal with any threat to our people, our illusory sovereignty, our territorial integrity and our vital interests," Prince Mohammed told pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat, in his first public comments since the attacks.
"The Iranian regime did not respect the presence of the Japanese prime minister as a guest in Tehran and responded to his (diplomatic) efforts by attacking two tankers, one of which was Japanese."
The prince also accused "Iran and its proxies" over May 12 attacks on four tankers anchored in the Gulf of Oman off the United Arab Emirates port of Fujairah.
Thursday's attack on two tankers ‐ the Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous that was carrying highly flammable methanol when it was rocked by explosions and the Norwegian-operated Front Altair ‐ came around the time Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was meeting with Iranian leaders in Tehran.
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[KhaamaPress] A series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s killed 7 Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province in South of Afghanistan.
The Afghan Special Forces arrested 3 Taliban fighters during a separate operation in this province.
The informed military officials said Sunday that the Special Forces arrested the Taliban fighters in Nahr-e-Saraj district.
The Special Forces also destroyed 30 kilograms of illegal narcotics.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the gondola was dangling by a single thread of rope.
Jack! Cynthia cried. I just realized I'm afraid of heights! I don't even like high heels!... an airstrike killed 2 Taliban fighters in Nahr-e-Saraj district of Helmand province.
The officials also added that a similar airstrike killed 5 Taliban fighters in Sangin disrrict of the province.
The Talibs have not commented regarding the operations so far.
[KhaamaPress] The Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said 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... instigated the May 31st boom-mobileing in Kabul city.
Speaking to news hounds in Washington last Thursday, Pompeo talked about a series of attacks which took place from 22nd of April to 14th of June in strait of Hormuz, Baghdad and Kabul.
He said "On May 31st, a boom-mobile in Afghanistan maimed four U.S. service members, killed four Afghan civilians, and maimed bystanders."
Pompeo further added "Taken as a whole, these unprovoked attacks present a clear threat to international peace and security, a blatant assault on the freedom of navigation, and an unacceptable campaign of escalating tension by Iran."
He also added that Iran should meet diplomacy with diplomacy, not with terror, bloodshed, and extortion.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, another bullet hole appeared in Butch's hat...... Secretary Pompeo said "The United States will defend its forces, interests, and stand with our partners and allies to safeguard global commerce and regional stability. And we call upon all nations threatened by Iran’s provocative acts to join us in that endeavor."
If Turkey didn’t have a manned observation post within Syria’s borders, annoying as sand in an oyster, Syria would not be fighting to get rid of it...
[AnNahar] One of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor... 's observation posts was hit by shelling from an area controlled by Syrian government forces in northwestern Syria, the Ottoman Turkish defense ministry said on Sunday.
There were no casualties but the ministry said equipment was damaged in the assault while Ottoman Turkish forces "immediately retaliated with heavy weapons."
Shelling and mortar fire "understood to be deliberate" fired from Tall Bazan region held by Syrian regime forces hit the post in Murak region, the ministry said in a statement.
The assault comes less than four days after three Ottoman Turkish soldiers were hit in another attack Turkey said was "deliberate" on another observation post on Thursday.
Two Ottoman Turkish soldiers were hurt in May in a similar attack blamed on Damascus.
Turkey has 12 military observation posts in Idlib, northwestern Syria, the last bastion of jihadist forces, in a bid to prevent a large-scale offensive in the region.
Ankara fears such an assault would push hundreds of thousands of refugees into Turkey.
Ottoman Turkish officials made representations to Russia about the latest attack, the ministry said. Moscow provides support to the Syrian regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... Despite being on opposing sides in the war, Moscow and Ankara, which backs rebels, have worked closely to seek a political solution and in September agreed a buffer zone deal.
The deal was meant to protect Idlib from a major regime assault but was never fully implemented, as jihadists refused to withdraw from the planned demilitarized zone.
Damascus and Moscow have upped their bombardment in the region since late April, killing over 360 civilians, according to UK-based monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Russia announced a ceasefire in the province on Wednesday but Turkey said a complete ceasefire had not yet been secured.
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[NATIONALREVIEW] First, while the facts of the case were egregious, they were not unique. In the Oberlin case, students accused the plaintiffs ‐ owners of Gibson’s Food Market and Bakery ‐ of racism and racial profiling after police arrested three students for attempting to steal wine and then physically attacking an employee who tried to stop the theft. The students later pled guilty to multiple criminal counts.
Students immediately launched protests of the bakery and created and disseminated flyers declaring the bakery "a RACIST establishment with a LONG ACCOUNT of RACIAL PROFILING and DISCRIMINATION," and that a member of the Oberlin community "was assaulted" by its owner. These claims were false. The evidence at trial showed that employees and administrators helped publish and distribute the false flyer, including by disseminating it to the media. The college also suspended its business relationship with the bakery.
Anyone who’s spent any time dealing with campus controversies knows that activist administrators often help, support, and even direct the activities of radical students. Some administrators seem to view campus activism as part of the educational process itself, a rite of passage that helps prepare them for a lifetime of political engagement. In my litigation days, I’ve seen multiple instances where administrators help activists formulate messages, plan protests, and provide university resources to favored activists.
When activists are engaged in constitutionally protected speech, there is absolutely no legal problem with this kind of university engagement. When, however, student activists are spreading outright lies and violating the law, university engagement becomes extraordinarily risky.
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Second, the size of the jury award will create a legal market for litigation. There’s a relatively simple reason why campus free-speech codes proliferated well before there was a concerted legal counterattack ‐ money. It takes money to sue universities, and First Amendment cases simply don’t yield eye-popping jury awards. It took the creation of large networks of nonprofit, pro-bono lawyers to turn the free-speech tide on campus.
Common-law torts are different. Plaintiffs can receive real compensation, and universities have deep pockets. In a radio interview yesterday, I compared the verdict to the kind of sound that causes prairie dogs to stand alert ‐ suddenly, lawyers are paying attention:
It is true that vexatious defamation suits can be used to punish lawful speakers, but many states have erected statutory guardrails to protect defendants against frivolous litigation. In addition, the First Amendment properly provides extremely robust protection for speech directed at public figures such as politicians, celebrities, and journalists. The fact remains, however, that outrage campaigns are often built on lies, and that when adults irresponsibly or maliciously spread those lies, the law has long provided a remedy.
Critics are already decrying the "chilling effect" of the Oberlin verdict. To the extent that the verdict causes activist administrators to pause and consider the underlying veracity and merit of the public campaigns they’re asked to join, then this is one chilling effect that may well do some good.
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large networks of nonprofit, pro-bono lawyers to turn the free-speech tide on campus
Thank God for these wonderful people. It was a much needed reprieve after the depressing way courts handled the Jussie "wolf wolf !" Smollet case. One good blow to the 'implied racism' blackmail industry and the African-American Shoplifters Cooperative.
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Deep pockets are what tort attorneys live for. If the "higher learning" mills imagine they are sacred and immune in some way, they are in for a rude awakening.
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Wonder how long before those TV and radio commercials appear in 'college towns'. Thar's gold in them thar hills!
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I think (according to some of the notes I was reading on Legal Insurrection, which I may have interpreted wrong), that the college was being held directly responsible for the actions of the individuals (who were actually named in the lawsuit) because they were acting in their official capacity while they were doing it.
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Overall the tide seems to be turning. The SC overturned the gay cake debacle. SO there seems to be a little progress when we start to fight back.
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...technically they sent it back to the state court to 'reconsider' in light of SCOTUS' Colorado decision. If they choose poorly, I suspect it will be overturned setting an even clearer precedent to read the 1st Amendment as having the overriding say on the issue.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan cops backed by coalition air power conducted separate operations in Farah and Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... provinces inflicting heavy casualties on Talibs.
The 207th Zafar Corps in a statement said the Special Forces conducted an operation in Shinwan Village of Bala Bolok district.
The statement further added that the Special Forces killed 9 Talibs and detained two others.
The Special Forces also destroyed a captured Humvee vehicle during the same operation.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... the 207th Zafar Corps said the security forces conducted a similar operation in Pashtun Zarghoon district of Herat and killed 6 Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... fighters.
The security forces also maimed 6 more Taliban fighters during the same operation.
[Libya Observer] One person was killed and nine others were maimed - including a child and two women - in Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s carried out by Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... 's forces on Tajoura, eastern 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... Eyewitnesses said Saturday that the airstrikes nearby the National Heart Center in Tajoura caused considerable damage to civilian houses, and car accidents on the road due to the panic caused by the bombing.
Mayor of Tajoura Hussein bin Attiyah said Haftar's Air Force raids targeted a densely-populated area in the center of Tajoura.
He said several houses were damaged and four copperswere maimed, adding that the airstrikes hit also a police training institution, a clinic, and a mosque.
In the meantime, the head of emergency and crisis committee of the Health Ministry Fauzi Awnis denounced the airstrikes and rendered them as violations of local and international laws.
Awnis said the windows of the National Heart Center in Tajoura were shattered and some of its compartments were damaged due to the airstrikes.
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[DAWN] Fallen Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. was Sunday seen in public for the first time since being ousted, as he was driven in an armed convoy to the prosecutor's office.
The former strongman, who ruled his east African nation with an iron fist for three decades, was toppled on April 11 after weeks of protests against his reign.
Dressed in a white traditional robe and turban, Bashir rode in a heavily-armed convoy from the notorious Kober prison in the Sudanese capital Khartoum to be quizzed by prosecutors for alleged corruption.
Prosecutor Alaeddin Dafallah told news hounds after Bashir left the office that the ousted president had been informed that he was facing charges of "possessing foreign currency, corruption and receiving gifts illegally."
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard... a top general from the country's new ruling military council vowed that those who carried out a deadly crackdown on an iconic protest site that left dozens dead earlier this month would face the death penalty
"We are working hard to take those who did this to the gallows," Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, deputy chief of the ruling military council said in a speech broadcast live on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
"Whoever committed any fault" will be held accountable, Dagalo added.
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[AnNahar] Fires engulfing vital wheat fields across Syria's northeast have killed at least 10 people, a war monitor said Sunday, as Kurdish authorities claim the blazes were set deliberately.
Kurdish authorities and the Damascus regime are competing to buy up this year's harvest as fires -- some claimed by the 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.... group -- continue to scorch crops in the country's breadbasket.
The victims included civilians and members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces who died while trying to extinguish the blazes since Saturday, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The fires in the Kurdish-majority province of Hasakeh also maimed another five people, according to a front man for the Kurdish Red Islamic Thingy.
"The victims were trying to douse the blaze but they were trapped by the fire," Kamal Derbas said.
Kurdish officials have called on the US-led coalition to help extinguish blazes in the cereal and oil-rich region under their control.
"The largest fires have ravaged up to 350,000 hectares of land," head of the Kurdish agriculture authority Salman Baroudo told AFP.
He claimed the fires were "deliberate", saying they serve to "stir up strife between area residents and undermine the Kurdish administration" in the country's northeast.
He did not specify who he believed was behind the blazes.
The official state news agency SANA on Saturday blamed the field fires in Hasakeh on Kurdish-led forces.
It said they deliberately sparked a blaze to prevent local farmers from selling their crops to the government.
Analysts say wheat will be key to ensuring affordable bread prices and keeping the peace in various parts of the country in the coming period.
Farmers have separately blamed the fires on Dire Revenge attacks, sparks from low-quality fuel, and even carelessness.
SANA said Saturday that other field fires in the northwestern countryside of Hama province were sparked by jihadist artillery attacks.
Clashes in the area on Saturday between government forces and bandidosDeath Eaters left dozens of combatants dead, including 26 pro-regime fighters, the Observatory said.
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They should taper off now. Tactically sound to retreat. If they have Lam replaced, who knows what could take her place. China is going nowhere, it will be back. It just has too many problems of its own right now.
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They're not going to taper off. This is going to end one of two ways: China finally kills its golden goose (which is what I think is most likely) or China decides to back off and pretend to respect its treaty obligations for another couple of years while it tries to find its footing and maybe wait out Trump's trade war.
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If China destroys Hong Kong's prosperous trade zone right now, while the rest of their economy is spiraling into the toilet, look for more protests and a loss of civil control throughout the rest of the nation. They need the money generated here, even though I don't think they appreciate just how much they need it.
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Agreed they will have to find a way out of this without destroying HK's economic impact. It might go away for a year or two, but China will be back. I expect to see selected targeting of the organizers of this event. They will all disappear as they have embarrassed the Chinese government, a sin worse than war. Once the organizers are gone, they will move back in to control HK. Like the scorpion and the frog, China cant help itself...
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Hattip Instapundit. Here’s the beginning — go read the entire, very long thing.
[ForeignPolicy] In recent years, Hezbollah has stepped up its activities beyond Leb’s borders. This uptick has been clearest in the Middle East‐in Iraq, 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... , and especially Syria‐but plots have also been thwarted in South America, Asia, Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... , and now, possibly, the United States.
Reports of Hezbollah activity in North America are not new, though such reporting tends to focus on the group’s fundraising, money laundering, procurement, or other logistical activities from Vancouver to Miami. But last month, the criminal prosecution and conviction in New York of the Hezbollah operative Ali Kourani revealed disturbing new information about the extent of Hezbollah’s operations and activities in the United States and Canada.
Taken together, the arrests in 2017 of Kourani and another Hezbollah operative, Samer el-Debek, led the U.S. intelligence community to revisit its longstanding assessment that Hezbollah would be unlikely to attack the U.S. homeland unless the group perceived Washington to be taking action threatening its existence or that of its patron‐Iran. Following Kourani and Debek’s arrests, the director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center said in October 2017, "It’s our assessment that Hezbollah is determined to give itself a potential homeland option as a critical component of its terrorism playbook."
At the time, little of the underlying information leading to this new assessment had been made public, but on May 16, a New York jury returned guilty verdicts on all counts in the indictment against Kourani, including terrorist charges related to his surveillance of FBI and U.S. Secret Service offices, as well as a U.S. Army armory, all in New York City. (Debek has yet to stand trial.)
Kourani carried out other operational activities as a long-term sleeper agent, acting on behalf of Hezbollah’s external attack-planning component, the Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... Organization (IJO), such as identifying Israelis in New York who could be targeted by Hezbollah and finding people from whom he could procure arms that Hezbollah could stockpile in the area.
Most of his activities occurred in the United States, but Hezbollah also sent Kourani to China, where the group had previously procured chemicals used to make bombs of the kind the group built in Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Thailand. The 2012 bombing in Burgas, Bulgaria, left seven people dead including the bomber and 32 maimed, and bomb-making chemicals of the same type were found in Thailand in 2012 and in Cyprus in 2012 and 2015, when plots were thwarted there. Hezbollah also sent Kourani on operational assignments to Canada. Kourani described himself in interviews with FBI agents as being part of a "sleeper cell."
"While living in the United States, Kourani served as an operative of Hezbollah in order to help the foreign terrorist organization prepare for potential future attacks against the United States," said U.S. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers. These included buildings housing the FBI and U.S. Secret Service in Manhattan, as well as New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and a U.S. Army armory.
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Prosecutors concluded Kourani and his handler saw distinct advantages to Kourani having ties to Canada “so he could travel back and forth to Canada to conduct operations.”Prosecutors concluded Kourani and his handler saw distinct advantages to Kourani having ties to Canada “so he could travel back and forth to Canada to conduct operations.”
"Distinct advantages" to third country contacts. How very original. Steele, Ohr, McCain... might all agree.
Like Trump in the U.S., the Israeli deep state loathes Bibi Netanyahu, and has been hounding him and his wife through the courts on numerous pretexts for years. I think this is the first one that was not eventually thrown out as nonsense. See the Jerusalem Post article for what some would like to see as sordid details.
[DAWN] An Israeli court Sunday convicted the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of fraudulently using state funds for meals, under a plea bargain which dropped more severe charges.
While the ruling cut short a high-profile trial, the Netanyahu family's legal woes are far from over: the veteran premier himself faces possible indictment for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in the coming months.
In a deal approved by judge Avital Chen at Jerusalem magistrates' court, Sara Netanyahu was found guilty of using the errors of government accounting staff to bypass spending restrictions.
She was fined 10,000 shekels ($2,800) and ordered to reimburse the state a further 45,000 shekels.
[Jpost] There were so many "gates:" Bottlegate, Furniture Gate, the Father Homecare Affair, Electrician Gate ‐ and the list goes on.
How on earth did those seven potential cases against Sara Netanyahu get reduced to a conviction for a crime that barely sounds like a crime ‐ exploiting someone else’s mistaken misuse of state funds ‐ and a meager NIS 55,000?
As with many misunderstandings about the cases against the Netanyahu family ‐ misunderstandings both on the Right and the Left ‐ much of the answer comes from separating the law from politics.
From a political perspective, every one of the affairs had the stench of an empress and her husband, the emperor, who are so used to being in office and for so long, that she or they start to feel entitled and start dropping barriers between their money/needs and the state’s money/needs.
"Bottlegate" was maybe the worst example of this.
It referred to allegations that Sara Netanyahu may have improperly turned in deposit bottles in exchange for NIS 4,000 cash, though the bottles were bought with state funds.
Using state funds to buy bottles and then turning them in to make a profit is about as cheap as you can get, and just comes off horribly politically.
But already back in 2015, The Jerusalem Post had surveyed a range of experts, none of whom believed Bottlegate could possibly carry criminal charges ‐ because Jacob Weinroth, who was part of Netanyahu’s legal team until his death in 2018, was the first to raise the defense that it can be irrelevant who bought the bottles, since both the bottle buyer and the collector who turns them in are legally entitled to receipt of funds.
Meaning Netanyahu was due the money since she "collected" the bottles.
Shmuel Saadia, a lawyer, author and expert in criminal law dealing with public officials, said that, "there is no obligation for individuals to return" the bottles in the first place, so there can be no crime related to who or how they are returned.
In the worst case scenario, he said that even if someone made "an absurd interpretation" of the law to try to ensnare Netanyahu, she could claim to have "made a good-faith mistake."
And Bottlegate was only over NIS 4,000, which would never had led to an indictment because the amount was so small.
"Furniture Gate" refers to accusations of purchasing furniture with state funds for the prime minister’s private residence in Caesarea.
According to the allegations, the furniture was nominally purchased for the official public residence, but then Mrs. Netanyahu moved the new items to the couple’s private Caesarea residence, while replacing them at the public residence with older ones.
Eventually, all or most of the furniture was returned, and the details of what was moved when ‐ and to what extent she knew that this was illegal as opposed to merely being tacky ‐ made the case very blurry.
In the "Father Homecare Affair," Netanyahu allegedly misused state funds to cover homecare for her father.
Once again, the amounts at stake were tiny, the circumstances were confusing ‐ and who really wanted to prosecute her for taking care of her father, who died not long after the homecare he was given?
At the end of the day, the only case which Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit believed met the high standard of being able to convict her beyond a reasonable doubt was the "Prepared Food Affair."
There, NIS 359,000 was at stake and Netanyahu had allegedly ordered other senior and junior prime minister’s office officials to falsify documents to cover-up the misuses of state funds.
There was significant documentary evidence, and Netanyahu could be portrayed as poisoning the public servants around her.
So how come the state did not go the distance and get a much larger fine and a conviction for fraud?
First, NIS 55,000 is not the only relevant number. There is also NIS 175,000 that the state can still sue her for in civil court as part of the plea deal.
In civil court, the standard of proof is much lower. That means that if the number is down to NIS 175,000, then the NIS 359,000 was inflated ‐ and that in criminal court, the real number the state could prove would probably have been somewhere between NIS 175,000 and NIS 55,000.
What was the state’s problem in terms of evidence?
Many of the documents related to state functions where foreign visitors were hosted. While Netanyahu may have broken a regulation by using both the Prime Minister’s Office chef and ordering prepared food, if the beneficiaries were foreign dignitaries, that is hardly criminal.
And there was Meni Naftali, her house manager for part of the time period she was accused of fraud.
Naftali was a key witness for the state and this was a problem, because he was an unstable witness who had admitted that he himself abused state funds.
So Netanyahu could drop at least some of the abuse of state funds on him.
State witnesses are often problematic, because they are often involved in the crime, which is why they are able to reveal the crime’s details.
But there are state witnesses who can be relied on to keep their story straight and stay on message in court, and Naftali was not one of those.
Once the NIS 175,000 was reduced further and the defense did its best to present a narrative of Netanyahu being confused about what was hers and what was the state’s, the chances were that she would not be getting jail time. As it was, Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court president Avital Chen bizarrely split the NIS 55,000 into 11 payments, showing that he had sympathy for her position.
If she was not getting jail time, what was the point of a long, expensive and hold-no-prisoners trial? Just to get a fine that would still fall far short of NIS 175,000 ‐ when that money could be gone after in civil court?
So the prosecution’s only option was to deal.
With a defendant like Sara Netanyahu, who took four years to even admit to the lowest of crimes, the deal the state ended up getting really might be the best it could have gotten.
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[Libya Observer] The Head of the Libyan Presidential Council Fayez al-Sarraj has approved a new phase of the tactics that aim at repelling the attack on 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... by Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... 's forces.
This came in a meeting on Saturday in the presence of Chief of Staff Mohammed al-Sharif, Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha and other officials.
The meeting saw discussions about the ongoing fighting in and around Tripoli as well as the nearby districts with elaborations on the coordination among Tripoli military operations room and other security and military units.
Al-Sarraj called for providing all necessary support for the fighting units under Presidential Council's command on the frontlines, calling for continued backup from the central military zone to be joining the fighting axes in southern Tripoli.
In the meantime, the media office of Volcano of Rage Operation said the backup arrived in the assigned positions for the forces on the frontlines and the next phase will soon kick off.
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Volcano of Rage Operation
D*mn, they come up with some clever names....
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Better than Curly Toed Slippers operation I guess.
We’ve seen reports like this before — I seem to recall an incident when they were transporting the money in trash bags, there was so much wandered off with.
[KhaamaPress] A bigwig has confirmed up to 5 billion U.S. Dollars were smuggled to 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... from Afghanistan during the year 2018.
The official speaking on the condition of anonymity has told BBC’s Afghanistan service that the U.S. Dollars are being smuggled through official channels.
The official further added that the authorities have received credible financial information in this regard.
This comes as the issue of the smuggling of U.S. Dollars to Iran from Afghanistan has became a hot topic following the revival of U.S. sanctions on Iran.
According to reports, billions of U.S. Dollars are being smuggled to Iran each year which helps the Iranian regime maintain a financial balance against the imposed sanctions.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck reached for the green sauce... two Iranian educational institutes are operational in the country which according to reports receive payments in U.S. Dollars or Euros only.
The bordering regions between Afghanistan and Iran has long been used for the smuggling of human and drugs but the smugglers have also resorted to smuggling of Dollars during the recent years.
This comes as the Afghan government prohibits the transportation of cash amounting more than 10 thousand U.S. Dollars and demand trade documents for amounts exceeding $10 thousand.
Reports regarding the smuggling of U.S. Dollars emerge as the rate of Afghanis against each U.S. Dollar has reached to 80 in open markets which is considered historical for the past 20 years.
[Jpost] A group of popular Twitter accounts that tweet about open source intelligence (OSINT) and generally try to highlight developing and breaking news stories were suspended on Saturday night for unspecified reasons. They join a growing list of account suspensions -sometimes for political reasons, but also for more arbitrary reasons that have alarmed users of the popular social media platform. As of 12.30 Sunday, INTELLIPUS was back up. ELINT News is still down. Intel Crab is still up, blames suspensions on India.
Users feared that censorship or targeted complaints by a foreign government had resulted in the suspension. Steve Lookneer, a News Anchor at Agenda Free TV pointed out that an account called Beep Delete was suspended on Saturday night. An account named Intel Doge (@Inteldoge) wrote "welcome to Twitter, report on things that people don’t like, get mass reported, get banned."
Yesterday I had a short conversation with @ELINTNews before his account was suspended, if I'm not mistaken @IntelCrab@intellipus and me will be the next accounts to receive the "violation of Indian law" message from Twitterhttps://t.co/wSXYhvDIK6
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Can information over Twitter be considered intelligence ? Though some analysts do use data generated from running patterns and language in posts through algorithms for intelligence, the reliability rating of that too is mostly E4.
The sources themselves could collaborate and have an independent portal to share stuff anonymously. Isn't Twitter like a "come-and-arrest-me" invite ?
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Can information over Twitter be considered intelligence ?
Interesting question from a 'justification' to shut down for national security sort of angle. Censorship is censorship. The only question is who is doing it, not whether its ethical or not.
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No, no. I'm totally for sharing intel, whistle-blowing and all. Hell, I even cheered for Snowden when his email dump buried Clinton's campaign.
I meant that sources should differ from the usual twitter riff-raff and have a separate platform, something whose credibility can be defined from the ground up. If I expose my NSA sealed files on twitter tomorrow, I look like another conspiracy nut looking for attention. So the credibility starts at a low number from the get go, even if my intel's good, no ? It gives the deniers and gaggers more leverage against me.
In next two years, US capacity for LNG exports is set to double. The momentum towards "carbon lock-in" around the shale-fracking-complex is daunting. https://t.co/Ddae52Lkckpic.twitter.com/DkUMVqQHLS
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On 1 April 2013, Dominion filed an application with the FERC for expansion of the Cove Point facilities for gas liquefaction and export. It was to cost $3.4 billion to $3.8 billion. The export project is completed and the facility is bi- directional (capable of import and export of LNG). The export facility will have capacity to handle 1.8 Bcf/d of natural gas. Thus, exports will likely double in the next two years.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi Shiite militias thwarted on Sunday a plot by 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.... murderous Moslems to sneak into Samarra city in Salahuddin province, where they planned to carry out terrorist attacks.
In a statement carried by Alsumaria News TV channel, the Samarra Operations Command of the Shiite Saraya al-Salam said that "it received intelligence information on a plot by IS faceless myrmidons to infiltrate into al-Madarat city in Samarra on board six boats."
The militiamen, according to the statement, shot up the IS faceless myrmidons and forced them to retreat.
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Golly. A bunch of thinkers tossing ideas around back in 2012, when Barack Obama, who loved his deal with Iran, was president. Not exactly a smoking gun.
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This low IQ fokker is being allowed to promote extremely false conspiracy theories about the current administration through comments and posts like this.
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Our young men and women in the military serving in the Strait of Hormuz, putting their lives in danger are being mischarachterized and trashed by this cockroach at Rantburg?????
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The crank of an engine. Then... clink, clank.
Eyes fixed on the fog barely blink. Blank
Looks all around
As the source of the sound
Is revealed as... a Washington think tank.
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This isn't news -- it's a seven year old video.
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But Herb is living in the anti-Neocons! No blood for oil! Nutcase era
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In my country tanks aren't used for thinking.
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From think tanks to various money losing publications supported by left or faux non-left billionaires, every time I hear some dimwhit like Boofay mumble that "the proles' taxes are not high enough," I wonder: What if that wasted money was re-directed to something worthwhile?
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06/17/2019 7:39
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#8
Considering this is the Washington Institute... I'll file this where it belongs. In the outside trash with my dog's shit.
#9
False Flags operations do occur. Most regular folks think of them pejoratively. There is something about people being duped that they just don't like.
#11
Sitting around and thinking all day every day sounds like an easy way to make a good living. I mean, it's not like there's any real work involved. Just kick back in a nice, comfortable chair and think about...stuff. Where do I apply?
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06/17/2019 10:45
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The Iranians were supplying terrorists in Iraq while we were there. We've also never scraped them off the map for 1979. We don't need a reason or an excuse. As for Iran being stupid enough to attack the tankers, nothing I've seen in almost 50 years tells me they really aren't that stupid.
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"Our young men and women in the military serving in the Strait of Hormuz, putting their lives in danger are being mischarachterized and trashed by this cockroach at Rantburg?????"
Who said this? This is a DC think tank.
Frank G back on the bottom of the pyramid of debate with name calling instead of arguments.
"We've also never scraped them off the map for 1979."
Uhm, Jimmy Carter met with Ayatollah Khomeini and approved the revolution. Khomeini pinky swore not to be hostile to the USA afterwards. Did we not know this? Mr. Human Rights Carter didn't like the Shah, a staunch US ally. Boy, do you people seriously not know this?
This video just goes to show DC elites have been chomping at the bit for a war with Iran for a long time. Obama did a deal with them instead of a war, the neocons had to be pissed.
It's the ease with which they throw around these ideas, really. You'd expect using a false flag attack as a casus belli to start a war with Iran to be utterly repugnant, or if not then top secret, not bantered around casually.
A false flag incident to start a war with Iran has been within the Overton Window of DC for years. PNAC called for starting a war with Saddam in 1996, Albright in 1998. Did we not know this either? Things don't happen overnight.
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06/17/2019 13:42
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A better story about US support for Ayatollah Khomeini overthrowing the Shah.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36431160
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06/17/2019 13:57
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Obama gave a craven bow to the Mullahs, just as you'd do
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06/17/2019 14:17
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Carter was a pansy and 0bumhole was passive-aggressive. Neither knew how to negotiate properly.
War will come when one or the other side decide the time has come, not because of any false flag operation or overreaction to or intentional misinterpretation of an event.
You apparently saw 1979 and let your mind go someplace weird. I said we never scraped them off the map FOR 1979, when they invaded our Embassy, committing to what had been the standard up to that point, an act of war. To my mind, since the first foot crossed the threshhold of our embassy, we have been at war with Iran. We haven't been bothered to exterminate them yet, but at whatever point we choose to do so, the reason has already been given.
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Meh. This war came in 1979 and never left — we just haven’t yet started fighting back. In fact, Jimmy Carter tried to surrender when he was president, and Barack Obama was actively on the enemy’s side. If there were to be a false flag operation — though if we did such a thing it would be against our own equipment, not that of various powerless third parties — it would only mark the beginning of what should have been done in 1980 or 1983 or any time since 2003... or a number of other occasions in between.
But Iran’s Mad Mullah’s continue to be generous im providing the real thing. It was only a few years ago, on January 12, 2016 that Iran stopped two American boats in the Gulf, detaining ten sailors — a casus belli wrapped up in a pretty bow. Any discussion in 2012 would have had the reality of President Obama’s craven response in mind — and we have it all in our archives starting here.
A pity that Allah did not allow a repeat performance the other day, but if we are patient and good Iran will provide a perfectly legitimate excuse to rain hell down upon them soon enough.
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"In this very ornately carved crate
Awaits a great hater in state,
Entombed by a troll,
Herb McCoy," sez the scroll,
"In his pyramid of high school debate."
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"As Americans, it is our God-given right to mispronounce, misspell, f*ck, fight or kill anything we come across. That's why the French hate us."
-- I forget who
#25
What I don't understand is there has been at least two times when the people were in the streets of Iran, seemingly against the government, and we apparently did nothing. I'm not sure what we could have done but it would seem to have been better to help the people than some false flag idiocy that McCoy is on about.
[DAWN] At least 10 civilians and 35 combatants, mostly pro-regime forces, were killed on Saturday in festivities and air strikes that erupted at dawn in northwestern Syria, a war monitor said.
The flare-up came as Russian-backed regime forces tried to retake two villages seized by jihadists and allied rebels earlier this month, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"Since this morning, the Syrian regime and allied fighters have launched five failed attempts to regain control of Jibine and Tal Maleh in northwestern Hama province," said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.
Syrian regime air strikes killed nine jihadists and rebel fighters, the war monitor said.
Ensuing festivities in the north of Hama province left 26 pro-regime forces dead, including eight who were killed in a mine explosion, the Observatory said.
In neighbouring Idlib, regime air strikes killed 10 civilians, including three children, the Observatory said.
The strikes hit the towns of Maaret al-Numan and al-Bara as well as the village of al-Ftira, according to the war monitor.
The Idlib region of some three million people is supposed to be protected from a massive regime offensive by a buffer zone deal that Russia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... signed in September.
But it was never fully implemented, as jihadists refused to withdraw from a planned demilitarised zone.
In January, the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... alliance led by Syria’s former Al Qaeda affiliate extended its administrative control over the region, which includes most of Idlib province as well as adjacent slivers of Latakia, Hama and Aleppo provinces.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Gunmen have rubbed out nine people in Galkayo on Friday night in what is being described as "Dire Revenge" attack.
Another person who is believed to be a security official was killed in a separate incident in the southern city.
Somali Information minister, Mohammed Hayir Mareye has condemned the act.
Security agencies were conducting an investigation and expected to give details of what caused the killings.
Citizens and politicians alike have taken to the social media in their strong condemnation of the heinous attack.
Former Somali President, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, has called upon security agencies to bring to book those responsible for the attack.
"It is very sad to hear the death of ten people in Galkacyo in one night, I strongly condemn the heinous act and send my heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of the victims, " he said.
"I call upon the Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... authorities and Galkayo residents to cooperate in the arrest and prosecution of the perpetrators." He added.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Somalia police confirmed the arrest of a suspect following a vehicle-borne improvised bomb (VBIED) attack in Mogadishu on Saturday.
Zakia Hussein, deputy police commander confirmed that no one was injured in the attack. The VBIED went off near the security checkpoint at KM4 junction.
"The driver of the VBIED has been apprehended and there were no casualties resulting from the blast," Hussein said in a statement.
She said another separate VBIED went off near Sayid Junction, and promised to provide more details concerning the attack, the latest in the restive capital, Mogadishu.
No group has grabbed credit for the two latest attacks in Mogadishu but krazed killer group, al-Shabaab ...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them... which is fighting to overthrow the government, usually stages such deadly attacks in the Horn of Africa nation.
The move comes while Mogadishu is on high alert as police forces blocked the main roads of the capital to prevent possible attacks by the Death Eaters.
Somali National Army (SNA) backed by African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission in Somalia have driven al-Shabaab Death Eaters out of Mogadishu, but the terror group is still capable of conducting attacks, targeting government installations, hotels, restaurants and public places.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A weaponized arm of the Deep State, always has been. Protecting the nation from domestic terrorism... not so much. 
......the clownish U.S. Representative-for-life for Texas's 18th congressional district, serving since 1995. The district includes most of inner-city Houston. She is noted for her lack of tact and intellect. She is a member of the Democratic Party, and almost its epitome......
[The Monitor] Attorneys representing seven migrants from Central America allege U.S. Customs and Border Protection is holding them in overcrowded facilities while denying them access to legal counsel.
...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...
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
[Al Jazeera] Bangladeshi authorities have arrested a senior policeman accused of sharing on social media the recording of an official complaint of sexual harassment made by a teenage girl who was later burned to death.
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
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[BALTIMORE.CBSLOCAL] Mayor Jack Young signed a bill that would allow all single occupancy restrooms to be used by anyone, male or female.
[DAWN] A polio case has surfaced for the first time in the last two decades in Shangla district after the virus was detected in an 18-month-old boy, who lives in Dedal Kamach area along the bank of the Indus.
...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 
...Oh, noze!...
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them...
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...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 
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
Crown Prince of 
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...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 
...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor...
[NATIONALREVIEW] First, while the facts of the case were egregious, they were not unique. In the Oberlin case, students accused the plaintiffs ‐ owners of Gibson’s Food Market and Bakery ‐ of racism and racial profiling after police arrested three students for attempting to steal wine and then physically attacking an employee who tried to stop the theft. The students later pled guilty to multiple criminal counts.
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...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 
...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 
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
