The seaside cypress believed to have inspired the fanciful Truffula trees of Dr. Seuss’ classic 1971 children’s tale "The Lorax" has toppled in Southern California.
The Monterey cypress stood 80 to 100 years in Ellen Browning Scripps Park in San Diego’s La Jolla community before it fell Thursday, city officials said Monday.
"It’s an iconic tree, a beloved tree," said Timothy W. Graham, a San Diego city spokesman.
La Jolla was home to Dr. Seuss, author and illustrator Theodor Seuss Geisel, for more than 40 years, from 1948 until his death in 1991 at 87. In Geisel’s hands, the cypress with its long, sinewy trunk and densely clumped canopy became the cotton candy-hued Truffula. The trees’ existence, threatened by logging, finds a protector in The Lorax, whose "I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees" became an environmentalist and pop-culture battle cry.
As detailed in the website LaJolla.com, an environmentally conscious Geisel rankled at development he said threatened his community. That frustration found life in the tale’s villain, the Once-ler, who in the site’s words, "builds a huge, thriving business at the expense of the Truffula trees and the creatures who depend on them."
News of the toppled icon spread over the weekend even as San Diego officials said arborists were trying to understand what happened.
"We’re trying to figure out why the tree fell over," Graham said Monday.
The tree was alive and appeared to be in good health, save for termites, he said. San Diego’s weather was seasonably mild last week. Graham on Monday said that much of the tree has since been removed and that the city is "looking to salvage it somehow."
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Sez the Lorax, "This gig has been sweet,
But don't worry, I'll land on my feet,
Cuz they'll pay me to preach screech
And keep kids off the beach
Just a couple of blocks down the street!"
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Thank Gaia it fell now. My staff is helping on a new Comfort Station (Restroom) adjacent in the same park and we would've surely been blamed for its' demise
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"We’re trying to figure out why the tree fell over," Graham said Monday.
The tree was alive and appeared to be in good health, save for termites,
A 100 year old, termite-infested tree falls over. Right when Donald Trump is President. Coincidence? I think not!
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To me, it doesn't seem that population dynamics like this would weigh heavily on the MM's minds. Either way, suppose they get what they want. Then what? Forty years later they would lose it. Not worth it.
Personally, I think they have such a warped view of reality that they are tilting at windmills.
[FoxNews] A Supreme Court ruling in the case of an Alabama man who pleaded guilty to a gun charge could have major implications for the unrelated white-collar case against former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort in New York -- by keeping him exposed to another set of charges, even if he ultimately wins a presidential pardon.
At issue in the Alabama dispute was whether the "dual sovereignty doctrine" -- which allows a person to face both state and federal charges for the same offense -- violates the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause. On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled it does not.
"Although the dual-sovereignty rule is often dubbed an 'exception' to the double jeopardy right, it is not an exception at all," Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the opinion. "On the contrary, it follows from the text that defines that right in the first place."
This clears a path for prosecutors in New York to continue their case against Manafort, who already has been convicted of federal crimes that include bank and tax fraud. Had the court ruled the other way in Monday's case, Gamble v. United States, and eliminated the dual sovereignty doctrine, a pardon from President Trump would have left Manafort free and clear.
But with the doctrine still in place, the New York case complicates matters since presidential pardons only affect federal cases, not state ones.
"No one is beyond the law in New York," Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance said in a statement when the indictment was announced. Manafort is facing 16 counts in that indictment, including conspiracy, residential mortgage fraud, and falsifying business records. The charges are based on allegations similar to ones related to his federal convictions.
Earlier this month, a judge agreed to have Manafort transferred from his federal prison in Pennsylvania to New York's notorious Rikers Island as he awaits trial.
The Gamble case, meanwhile, involved a man who was first convicted of a state gun possession charge following a guilty plea, then indicted in federal court for the same possession. He pleaded guilty in that case too, only to appeal with the argument that the federal charge violated double jeopardy.
Alito explained that the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits multiple prosecutions for the same "offence," but "an 'offence' is defined by a law, and each law is defined by a sovereign." Therefore, Alito said, "where there are two sovereigns, there are two laws, and two 'offences.'"
Alito's opinion was joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Brett Kavanaugh, as well as Chief Justice John Roberts.
Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Neil Gorsuch each wrote dissenting opinions, marking the latest case that saw Gorsuch and Kavanaugh -- both Trump nominees -- on opposing sides. Ginsburg viewed the Double Jeopardy Clause as barring "successive prosecutions by parts of the whole USA," noting that the United States and the individual states "compose one people, bound by an overriding Federal Constitution."
Gorsuch pointed to historical interpretations, including those from when the Fifth Amendment was adopted in 1791, which "suggested that a prosecution in any court, so long as the court had jurisdiction over the offense, was enough to bar future re-prosecution in another court."
The conservative justice railed against the idea that a person in the United States should be allowed to be charged for the same thing in two separate cases.
"A free society does not allow its government to try the same individual for the same crime until it’s happy with the result," he said. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Neil Gorsuch each wrote dissenting opinions. From a common-sense, layman's view, it would seem to me that Gorsuch and Bader are correct. Suppose a person has business interests in many States. Many States have laws that parallel Federal law. Suppose, the criminal infraction carries a 1-2 year sentence in the Federal system and a similar penalty in the various States. It doesn't stand to reason that some relatively minor criminal infraction, could be compounded serially across many States and a person could end up spending the rest of his life in prison. 6:20PST Moved to Non WOT
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DA Cyrus Vance (a chip off the old block, former SofS Vance) sent a concrete testing company owner to prison on sketchy charges, which were later overturned by an appeals court that ridiculed the prosecution. While in prison, Vance's victim tried to commit suicide.
I'm sure he can do the same to Manafort.
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""No one is beyond the law in New York," Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance said in a statement when the indictment was announced."
And, he added under his breath "Especially Republicans and Trump supporters"
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[History Today - 2014 Memory Hole] At midnight on June 30th, 1997 Hong Kong reverted from British control back to China. Looking back, did Britain fail the people of Hong Kong?
To answer this question it is important to understand the relative balance of power between China and the United Kingdom. During the 19th century Britain was in its heyday. The Royal Navy could project her power to any seaport in the world. Britain was able to coerce China into signing the treaties that acquired Hong Kong and leased the New Territories for 99 years. By the late 1970s, those days were long gone. Delicate negotiation, rather than gunboat diplomacy, was Britain’s best hope of keeping control of Hong Kong.
Much has been made of Prime Minister Thatcher’s visit to Hong Kong in September 1982. Images of her tripping on the steps at the Great Hall of the People and reports of Deng Xiaoping’s irritation at her proposal of keeping a British presence in Hong Kong, have been well documented and criticised. However before Margaret Thatcher even arrived in Beijing, the British had encountered Deng’s ire over Hong Kong. Deng had made clear his intention to re-acquire Hong Kong and the New Territories to Hong Kong Governor Sir Murray Maclehose in 1979.
Deng hated the treaties that gave control of Hong Kong over to Britain and saw them as invalid. Deng made it clear that the People’s Liberation Army could walk into Hong Kong any time it liked and there was little the British could do about it. Deng felt so sure that he held all the cards; he told the Prime Minister in 1982 that if an agreement was not reached within the next two years, China would take unilateral action.
Margaret Thatcher left Beijing chastened and the whole world knew it. Within ten days of Thatcher’s trip to Beijing, the Hong Kong stock market had lost 25 per cent of its value.
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At it's height, British rule brought unparalleled levels of civility and efforts to gain prosperity to all its colonial territories. Now, Britain is intent on importing the worst of what they once fought to control in faraway lands, all in the name of white shame. May the good people of the UK push out the hair shirt crowd. Burn them alive if you must.
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Earlier "failures" can be seen at this Kroonstad concentration camp cemetery. Lord Kitchener's solutions of circa 1903 still paying dividends.
I believe there were nearly 30 such camps. A large portion of the dead were infants and children.
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I'm always reminded of what a character in one Conrad novel said when asked about bad behavior: "[That stuff is done] by the worst kind of (n-word) we've got around here..."
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Yeah let's not pretend the British were the good guys. They deliberately prolonged the potato famine, among other great crimes. They invented the concentration camp and used it against the Boers when they couldn't win with their army. The entire reason for the Boer War was to seize control of the diamond mines, which they thought of as unsuitable in the hands of a nation of farmers.
China is at fault here, not Britain. Shit on the media for blaming the wrong target.
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There wasn't much the British could have done back then.
Well, maybe one thing. Giving Hong Hong true democracy in time could have helped.
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Giving Hong Hong true democracy in time could have helped.
Truly. But they were too busy ruling and playing pukka sahib to do the critical things necessary to prepare the locals for self rule. And the locals were too busy making money to demand it.
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In the decade or so prior to the turn-over Britain and Australia should have found some chunk of rock on the uninhabited side of Australia and got some of those Hong Kong billionaires and Hong Kong based companies that moved to Vancouver and elsewhere to invest in New Hong Kong. Then in the month before turn-over gotten a massive flotilla together to move anyone and everyone willing to move. Hopefully leaving China with a rock.
[France24] Mohammed Morsi, Egypt's first democratically-elected president who was ousted by the military in 2013, died Monday after collapsing in court.
Egypt's public broadcaster said the 67-year-old former president was attending a session in his trial on espionage charges when he blacked out and then died.
"He was speaking before the judge for 20 minutes then became very animated and fainted. He was quickly rushed to the hospital where he later died," a judicial source told AFP.
The Broadway production of a play about Bill and Hillary Clinton talking frankly about her 2008 presidential campaign will close a month ahead of schedule, due to low ticket sales.
Starring Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow, Hillary and Clinton was set to close on July 21 but will instead close June 23. It cost $4.2 million to produce.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, "Hillary and Clinton is not based on the real Clintons, but instead characters with the same name in an alternate universe," and its early closing is linked to "underwhelming ticket sales." Set in a New Hampshire hotel room during that state's 2008 Democratic primary, it touches on marriage and sexism in politics.
A New York Times review mournfully noted that Lucas Hnath's 90-minute play was "asking us to see the world through the eyes of a woman who ostensibly has all the right stuff to be president and yet is never allowed to win."
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About her 2008 campaign? You mean, even THAT failure is somehow relevant today?
Was Barry Obama consulted by the Broadway production staff? And, I wonder how was the part where they offer Hillary the job of Sec of State. Scintillating!
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In recent news, Gibson's Bakery announced an end to their much derided "Chase and Detain" policy for shoplifting. They have partnered with a Chinese firm specializing in organ transplants to help supplement their new police of "Kill it, Harvest it, and loot it." They now say any shoplifters will be shot, harvested for their organs and then their pockets rifled through in search of any extra cash.
When asked if the new policy was 'insensitive' to minorities or college student, Gibson's representative proudly stated that it sensitive to everyone's needs. People in need get the desperately required organs, their "Shoplift Servicing Agents" get whatever spare change and a 5% cut of any organ sales and the store gets a nifty new pyramid of skulls to display in the front window. When pressed about the shoplifters, the Gibson's Rep merely laughed and says, "They should be proud to be used in such an environmentally friendly action. We're recycling in a new frontier. Besides, it's not as if they were humans. They're just non-viable tissue masses."
[REUTERS] 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... said on Monday it had exposed a large cyber espionage network it alleged was run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and that several U.S. spies had been arrested in different countries as the result of this action.
U.S.-Iran tensions are growing following accusations by U.S. President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... ’s administration that Tehran last Thursday attacked two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, a vital oil shipping route. Iran denies having any role.
The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, said on Monday: "One of the most complicated CIA cyber espionage networks that had an important role in the CIA’s operations in different countries was exposed by the Iranian intelligence agencies a while ago and was dismantled."
"We shared the information about the exposed network with our allies that led to the identification and arrest of CIA intelligence agents," Shamkhani was quoted as saying by the state broadcaster IRIB.
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No third countries were noted, and everybody said: "Huh?"
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Or maybe they simply read the list off of Clinton's server.
[Al Jazeera] Sudan's former President 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. has appeared in public for the first time since his overthrow by the military following months of mass protests against his 30-year-long autocratic rule.
Dressed in a white robe and turban, the toppled leader was seen on Sunday as he was escorted under heavy guard from a maximum security prison in Sudan's capital Khartoum to the prosecutor's office.
There, prosecutors informed him he faced charges of "possessing foreign currency and acquiring suspicious and illicit wealth", according to the official SUNA news agency.
He was given one week to raise objections, questioned on additional unspecified corruption charges, and taken back to Kobar prison.
If al-Bashir does not appeal, he could appear in court as early as next week, Sudan's acting Chief Prosecutor Alwaleed Sayed Ahmed said on Saturday.
In Khartoum, the moves against the 75-year-old former president triggered derision and scepticism from critics who dismissed it as an attempt by Sudan's new military rulers to deflect attention from a recent bloody crackdown on protesters, as well as its reluctance to cede power to a civilian-led transitional administration.
They also questioned the likelihood of al-Bashir receiving a fair trial in Sudan or being held accountable for the most egregious of charges against him.
The former leader, who came to power in a coup in 1989, is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of crimes against humanity and genocide relating to abuses by Sudanese forces in the country's Darfur region between 2003 and 2008.
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[Al Jazeera] A human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... group says the Egyptian government bears responsibility for the death of former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, amid pressing international demands for a fair and transparent investigation into the circumstances surrounding his final hours.
According to authorities, the first democratically elected president in Egypt's modern history died on Monday after collapsing in a court in Cairo while on trial on espionage charges. The Egyptian public prosecutor said a medical report showed no apparent recent injuries on Morsi's body.
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Egypt's Ex-Muslim Brotherhood leader Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh said that Tuesday that Islamist groups do not practice real democracy. They do not grasp the concept of Islamic "shura" (consulting) complained Abul-Fotouh during an interview with Al-Arabeya Channel.
The former Brotherhood leader further criticised President Mohamed Morsi, saying he lacked transparency and accusing him of allowing local and foreign forces to interference in Egypt's state affairs, refering to the Muslim Brotherhood organisation. Morsi should not be following such forces when he is an elected president, he added.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Sixteen 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.... bandidosbully boyz were killed Monday in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... by the U.S.-led international coalition on a terrorist hotbed in Nineveh province, federal police said.
In a blurb carried by Alsumaria News TV channel, the Security Media Cell said that 16 Islamic State bad boyz were potted inside a tunnel that was targeted by warplanes of the U.S.-led international coalition in al Kosb valley in Nineveh.
"The military operation was carried out based on intelligence information," the statement read, without giving further details.
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As usual, the Daily Mail has an entire collection of interesting photos that are no doubt very informative to the educated eye.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Pentagon release new images it says were taken from an MH-60R Navy surveillance helicopter of the aftermath of alleged Iranian attack on tankers in the Gulf of Oman
Acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan announces 1,000 more troops will go to the Middle East for 'defensive purposes' and says deployment is to 'protect our national interests'
Sources say 1,000 more troops are being sent to the Middle East although timing of deployment is unclear
Separately Iran said it was about to surpass the limit on uranium stockpiles it had accepted under the nuclear deal which Donald Trump quit Queerly enough, it is my understanding that the IAEA has not yet looked into the additional sites Israel gleaned from that archive warehouse Israel emptied just ahead of its Iranian guards. So the IAEA actually has no idea whatsoever whether Iran actually currently is below or above that limit, regardless what Iran might claim.
The White House's National Security Council said: 'President Trump has made it clear he will never allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons.'
Color pictures were revealed after allies said they wanted more proof than grainy black and white surveillance pictures Pentagon put out last week
U.S. military says pictures show an Iranian Revolutionary Guards armed fast patrol vessel alongside the M/T Kokuku Courageous removing an unexploded limpet mine after another one went off on the other side
'Iran is responsible for the attack based on video evidence and the resources and proficiency needed to quickly remove the unexploded limpet mine,' Central Command said in a statement
Among the pictures is one showing what is said to be the remnants of the removed limpet mine and another one which shows what the military say is a handprint left by one of the Revolutionary Guards
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Japan and Norway had their vessels attacked. Why aren't they leading the charge to war? They're the offended parties here.
Yes but under the neocon, innocent murdering attitude, we need to start a war even if there is nothing here.
Villains. Look at what's happened to you. At what point do you say, "my God, what have I done?"
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Pipsqueak Macro redux
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The triumph of neocon villains:
To kill all the wimmen and chilluns
Who'll blow in the wind
From Edirne to Sindh
Like a billion freewheelin' Bob Dylans!
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aftermath of alleged Iranian attack on tankers
The cheek. When the pentagon and Israel are saying the same thing, that it was Iran, why the 'alleged' by the Brit news ? Don't they want future intel ?
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Herb, you want the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force to sail around to Iran in full combat mode ? Well, it may gladden your heart to know even they're not convinced it was Iran. They want 'concrete' proof.
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So Herby Baby I recommend you go right over their and try to talk some sense into those Muellahs, but I doubt they will let come back home in one piece...
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aftermath of alleged Iranian attack on tankers
Queerly enough, over on NPR they firmly believe that Iran dunnit in order to make real the threat to President Trump that if he doesn't back off his current course Iran will go after the ships traversing the gulf.
(IraqiNews) 12 non-combatants were killed in a rocket shelling conducted by a jihadi group on a village in the Syrian province of Aleppo, SANA reported on Monday.
The Syrian Arab News Agency reported that gunnies from a Jihadi group carried out a rocket attack on the residential area in Wadehi Village, in the southern countryside of Aleppo.
The shelling resulted in the killing of 12 civilians, in addition to injuring 15 others with serious injuries, SANA added. The corpse count included five children.
Furthermore, it explained that Jihadist group targeted the village, without mentioning that 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... (formally Nusra Front) is one of these groups.
SANA also published photos of the injured people in one of the hospitals, including a child, with bandages on his face and stomach, and another one with shrapnel on his right leg.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham is controlling large parts of Idlib and parts of the provinces of Hama, Aleppo and neighboring Latakia. Other less powerful Islamist factions are also deployed in the region. This region is also witnessing a military escalation since April 2019.
[New York Magazine] "Wednesday night, get your head right," they shout. "Why settle for a beer when the nutcracker’s here?"
The candy-colored drinks are such a staple of summer in the city that "nutcracker" has become an umbrella term for any sweet, boozy drink that’s sold illegally on the street, out of barber shops or bodegas, and, increasingly, online. Instagram teems with dozens of sellers, with handles like thenutcracker_jacker, nutcrackers_nemos, and kerbyscups, each offering free delivery and video testimonials: "This shit is fire!" says a devotee of brooklyn_nutcrackers. He takes a swig as the cameraman makes the rat-a-tat noise of a machine gun.
While police and community organizers once went to war with nutcrackers, the drinks remain largely unregulated. Now, John Cori, president of the Rockaway Civic Association, watches helplessly as sellers work in teams and reload from cars parked on side streets. "They’re definitely a menace," Cori says, bemoaning lost alcohol sales suffered by concessionaires on the boardwalk. Cops admit they tend to turn a blind eye to nutcrackers, as a spokesperson wrote in a terse email: "This is not something that is tracked by the NYPD."
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If Deblasio has his way "This is not something that is tracked by the NYPD." Will become true of murder as it already is with larceny and assault.
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My point in putting up the article. The gummint can't really effectively regulate anything. Prohibition never worked. The war on drugs never worked. The war on firearms is going to get them something that makes the other failures look tame.
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[DAILYWIRE] In a new man-on-the-street video, Campus Reform's Cabot Phillips asks a few pro-Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... college students to guess which presidential candidate ‐ Donald Trump ...Oh, noze!... or Biden ‐ was the source of some racially charged quotes, all of which were infamously stated by Biden. Phillips finds that even though some of the lines have been widely reported, the students all guess Trump for each quote. When they are informed that in fact Biden said all of the "pretty racist" comments, the students express genuine surprise and say the revelation will likely impact their support for the former vice president.
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They will just rationalize it as "Trump made Biden sound bad..."
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Well, age is the least of our problems. Younger politicians? I give you AOC and mayor Butt-gig. Established politicians? Looking at you, Amy K. and Kamala-ala-ding-dong. Old? that speaks for itself.
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Fifteenth Amendment: Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
The 15th A doesn't say anything about not regulating boneheads contaminating the voting process. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 probably does speak to testing the voters for qualifying knowledge to vote. When does this come up for renewal again?
[KhaamaPress] The political chief of Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar has visited China ahead of the 7th round of talks with the United States.
A former Taliban front man Abdul Hai Mutmayen has told Arab News that Mullah Baradar is leading a delegation of Taliban leaders during the visit to Beijing.
Mutmayen further added "It seems that Taliban leaders are making efforts to hold consultations and exchange their views with key stakeholders ahead of the next round. The visit is an indication that the seventh round is important."
This comes as China has offered to host intra-Afghan talks in a bid to help end the ongoing conflict in the country.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck reached for the green sauce... the Taliban leaders have said the group could accept China as a guarantor if they reach a peace deal with the United States.
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Abdul Ghani Baradar was arrested twice and released by Pakistain (the last release was in 2013) for terrorism.
Baradar helped Mullah Omar as his second, in founding the Taliban movement in Afghanistan in 1994. He served in several key positions when the Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. He fled to Pakistan after the US invasion in 2001 and was arrested in 2010 in an operation that was used to show Pak's cooperation against terror to get more dough out of the IMF.
He totally re-invented himself through effective PR through the CIA under Obama who once called Baradar's appointment "a startling change ... that bodes very well for peace". Today he is a 'revered' figure in Taliban circles, and Pak military officers stand up when his name's mentioned. When the US finally leaves Af, they will be leaving it all to him. When China acquires land in Af to consolidate their control on their precious BRI, this is the man they must negotiate with. Also, they've begun combing for Lithium mines already according to some sources.
In May 2017, Afghan officials attended the massive Belt and Road Forum in China, and in October Afghanistan joined the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which funds BRI projects. This was just a formality however, insurance in case the taliban didn't win Af.
Interestingly, China's negotiations with the Taliban had begun way earlier. In the 1990s China maintained good relations with the then Taliban government in order to prevent Afghanistan from becoming a haven for ETIM(East Turkistan Islamic Movement) militants. It was thought that they feared the chaos from Af would spill over into their Xinjiang hovels and Pakistain, endangering China's prospects of controlling S.E. Asia.
Back in 2001, we discovered Huawei Inc. (Yupp!) supplying surveillance and communications equipment to the Taliban from Bangalore, India. Indian MI suggested the requisite Home departments to arrest 178 chinese Huawei engineers working in coordination with, aiding and servicing the Afghan terror group. With inputs from the US intelligence, a case was made and foolishly (Indian Standard Protocol) the intel was sent back to China seeking a reply. Of course they were 'outraged'. The Shenzen corporation was under heavy surveillance by America so supplied them from out of India. Bangalore, which boasts more than 40 Salafi mosques is also considered the IT hub of India, also is fast becoming the entry point of legal islamism in India.
Anyway, the words of a chinese foreign minister from last year best describe the intent on China in it's own two-faced way.
"Who will protect the Afghan government and provide financial support to it after the US troops’ pullout? The most important thing is the Afghan people’s interests, but the Americans ignore them and want to protect their own."
Let's see what happens. The Taliban leaders have said the group could accept China as a guarantor if they reach a peace deal with the United States.
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Thank you, my dear. My memory is sadly porous, else I’d have remembered the name — though never with that much detail. I’ll add a search link in the article for those who want to see the numerous articles he’s appeared in since Fred set up this site on 9/11.
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Ref #1: He totally re-invented himself through effective PR through the CIA under Obama who once called Baradar's appointment "a startling change ... that bodes very well for peace".
Yes, we've know about Afghanistan's resource richness for a while. The unfortunate nature of India's inward gazing policies and our shit-for-brains bureaucracy has enriched our quick footed neighbours too many times. Why, we're losing even Nepal, Bhutan and Srilanka to Chinese influence.
You'll notice that the writer of the article is no other than a Charles Q Choi.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Air Force carried out multiple Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in Takhar province killing at least 7 Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters.
The informed military sources said Monday that the airstrikes were carried out in Ishkamish district.
The sources further added that the airstrikes also maimed 2 Taliban fighters.
The Talibs have not commented regarding the airstrikes so far.
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So, by my count on the 'burg. 65 Talibs killed yesterday. Maybe the same as yesterday or the day before. Sounds like Walter Cronkite giving us BS on the Nightly News.
Just sayin'.
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Mohammedan casualties mountin':
Afghanistan, hotties on Downton!
Run some numbers, please, Raj,
To the round mega-Taj,
But they'll never be done... and who's countin'?
Bleh. Baiting Herb (and of course my own grotesquely enlarged bleeding heart) like a crazy person overfeeding pigeons. Oughtta stop, probably... but can I? Sigh.
[RADIOSHABELLE] Somali turbans killed eight Kenyan police with a roadside kaboom near the border between the two countries on Saturday, officials said, while another eight died in a bombing the same group carried out in the Somali capital.
Both attacks were claimed by Somali Islamist hard boys, who also kidnapped three Kenyan police reservists on Friday from the same area, in Wajir district in northeast Kenya.
Kenyan military forces have occupied part of southern Somalia along the border since 2011. The Kenyans, along with allied Somali militia, wrested control of the territory from al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... jihadists after a spate of kidnappings on Kenyan soil.
Al-Shabaab is fighting the weak, U.N.-backed Somali government and its international allies in a quest to impose strict Islamic law.
The vehicle that was hit by the roadside kaboom was carrying 11 coppers, police front man Charles Owino told Rooters. A local official said eight were killed.
"Eight bodies were found and taken to Wajir. Two were rescued, but they are at death's door," said Muhumed Ali Gedi, a member of the local community security team from Wajir who witnessed the rescue mission.
In Mogadishu, al-Shabaab detonated two bombs. Police said the first blast, at a busy junction known as K4, was a boom-mobile intercepted by security services that caused no casualties.
The other blast killed eight people and injured 16, said Abdikadir Abdirahman, the director of Aamin ambulance service.
Abdiasis Abu Musab, al-Shabaab’s front man for military operations, said the group was responsible for the blast in Kenya and the two in Mogadishu.
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[BREITBART] The Green party in Germany said it will ban industrial farming to reduce global warming if it comes to power.
The measure was proposed by Katrin Goering-Eckardt, the party’s leader in the Germany parliament, as part of a massive €100 billion project to finance climate initiatives.
For several years, climate change doomsayers have turned their attention to cattle, as a series of reports demonstrated that "livestock emissions" are more dangerous for the environment than automobiles.
A 2016 article at EcoWatch declared that greenhouse gas emissions from livestock account for a higher percentage of total global emissions than the world’s 1.2 billion automobiles.
Whereas the entire transportation sector accounts for only some 14 percent of global emissions, cows produce a remarkable 14.5 to 18 percent of the global total, the article noted.
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You people do know where food comes from, right? And that before modern farming, pretty much everyone worked on a farm from sunup to sundown?
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Cattle being ruminant animals are the only animals that can efficiently convert grass into protein, a large percentage of agricultural land is best or only suited for grassland.Ruminant animals have always been part of our environmental makeup.
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Not beef farmers Steve. Dairy, yes.
Having grown up with and worked the later I can only observe, industrial feedlots are one fucked up way to treat - raise animals. Not forgetting close proximity diseases making constant overuse of antibiotics highly necessary. Neither of which you should have in your food supply.
I understand there are large tracks of 'pristine' land in Siberia. Maybe whoever follows Merkel can make a trade with Putin before the Chinese take it.
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Somehow all this discussion of Trump's comments seem to have forgotten Khan's unprovoked attacks on Trump before and during his visit and the Trump balloon.
It seems Khan can dish out idiotic criticism but cannot take it.
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Yes Daniel, because he's a professional victim devout islamic.
China will continue to need more oil, so anything that increases supply will protect the buyers they compete with for supply, especially so long as Iran is in bad odor.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ The Iraqi Ministry of Finance and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed an agreement on Sunday, under which the Japanese agency will offer Iraq a loan of 110 billion Japanese Yen (nearly USD one billion) to upgrade the Basra oil refinery.
The deal was inked by Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs and Minister of Finance Fuad Mohammad Hussein and Ambassador of Japan to Iraq Naofumi Hashimoto, according to KUNA.
The loan, considered to be one of the largest amount provided by the government of Japan for one project in the Middle East and North Africa, is refundable over 40 years with a ten-year grace period and 0.02 percent interest rate, according to a statement from the Iraqi Ministry of Finance.
The project aims to increase Iraq’s oil refining capacity by constructing a new plant (fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) complex) at al-Basra refinery, south Iraq, and introducing light gas oil hydrodesulfurization (HDS) technology.
[FOXNEWS] The State Department revealed Monday that it has identified "multiple security incidents" involving current or former employees' handling of Crooked Hillary Clinton's ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away... emails, and that 23 "violations" and seven "infractions" have been issued as part of the department's ongoing investigation.
The information came in a letter to Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, who is responsible for overseeing the security review.
"To this point, the Department has assessed culpability to 15 individuals, some of whom were culpable in multiple security incidents," Mary Elizabeth Taylor, the State Department's Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Legislative Affairs, wrote to Grassley. "DS has issued 23 violations and 7 infractions incidents. ... This number will likely change as the review progresses."
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I think she should be in a cell next to Mr. Manning, the young man whose alter ego is also her daughter's namesake.
Consistent with longstanding policy, the Department does not release the names of current or
former employees participating in the security incident program.
Translate, "nah nah na nah nah".
Fire the festering turd yesterday. Then charge her with 23 counts of obstruction!
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A plume, boredom, foredoom, Profumo:
"No 'who, what, where, when, and to whom!'
Oh, I'd much rather die
Than inquire as to 'why'
Or do something so dire
As pursue smoke to fire
Or consume low amusement. Ewww, sumo!
Call me kooky, Yuki, but I like kabuki."
"Except he's a Tory."
"Ahem. Well. Woohoo, what a story!"
Enter the Donald, stomping (it was kind of a weird dream).
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Over 1,000 internally-displaced people have returned to their homes in al-Qa’im and al-Karma districts in Anbar province, the Iraqi ministry of migration said on Monday.
"The repatriated people, totaling 1,072, were residing at camps in Amiriya Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... Bzebez and the Tourist City in Anbar," Alsumaria News TV channel quoted the director of the ministry’s office in Anbar, Mostafa Hamed Sarhan, as saying.
"Of all the returnees, 623 people came from the Habbaniyah Tourist City camp, 367 from the Bzebez camp and 82 from the Ameriat al-Fallujah camp," Sarhan added.
He pointed out that coordination is maintained with the Ministry of Transport and Anbar Operations Command to facilitate the arrival of the repatriated people to their houses.
[KhaamaPress] The security forces killed at least 55 Talibs during the operations in past three days in Kandahar province.
The Police Chief of Kandahar Gen. Tadin Khan Achakzai said the security forces killed the turbans in Takhta Pul, Shahwali Kot, Arghistan, Mianshin and Maiwand districts.
Gen. Tadin Khan further added that several foreign turbans mainly hailing from Pakistain were also among those killed.
Oh? Is it summer vacation at the madrassahs aleady?
He also added that the turbans have shifted the dead bodies of some of their comrades to the other side of Durand Line while some are still left in the battlefield.
The Talibs have not commented in this regard so far.
Well, sure. They’re too busy hauling corpses to stop and chat.
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Says colonel to adjutant, sniffin',
"One craves conversation at tiffin,
Though fraternisation
On such an occasion
Won't answer! But do bring that stiff in."
[KhaamaPress] An Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... by the Afghan Air Force killed 30 Talibs in Faryab province.
The informed military sources said Monday that the Air Forces carried out the airstrike in Gurziwan district.
"The Afghan Air Force conducted an air strike in Gurziwan district killing 30 Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters," the sources said.
The Talibs have not commented regarding the airstrike so far.
This comes as the security situation in some districts of Faryab has tanked during the recent years.
Talibs are active in some districts of the province and often conduct terrorist related activities.
Meanwhile, ...back at the fist fight, Jake ducked another roundhouse, then parried with his left, then with his right, finally with his chin... the Afghan forces conduct regular counter-terrorism operations against the anti-government gangs in this province.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan cops killed six Talibs during the 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.
The 207th Zafar Corps in a statement said the soldiers of the 2nd Brigade conducted an operation in Posht-e-Rod district and killed 3 Talibs.
The statement further added that the security forces also killed a prominent Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... commander Mullah Musamim during the operation.
The 207th Zafar Corps also added that the security forces maimed 7 Talibs during the operation.
The security forces also destroyed a mortar launcher belonging to Talibs.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hanging, Butch continued with his last words, trying not to repeat himself too often...... a clash broke out between security forces and Talibs in Pashtun Zarghoon district of Herat province. The security forces killed 3 Talibs during the clash.
The 207th Zafar Corps also added that the security forces also maimed two Talibs during the clash and discovered and destroyed an explosives depot of the murderous Moslems.
The Talibs have not commented regarding the operations so far.
Baghdad (IraqiNews) Iraqi Security Media Cell announced, on Monday, foiling a terrorist attack south of Baghdad, Alsumaria News reported on Monday.
Spokesperson for the cell, Yahia Rasul, said that forces from the National Security Services foiled the so-called "Ramadan Invasion", after dismantling a terrorist network, south of Baghdad.
Rasul added, in a statement obtained by Sumaria News that the National Security Service succeeded in foiling a terrorist attack. The so-called "Ramadan Invasion" was carried out 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.
"During the military operation, security forces dismantled a terrorist network, which was deployed in the north, west and Sahara of southern Baghdad," Rasul explained.
It is noteworthy that security forces managed to apprehend all terrorists.
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[AlAhram] Egypt has signed a $500 million settlement with state-owned Israel Electric Corp over a defunct natural gas deal, the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) and Egyptian Natural Gas (EGAS) said in a statement on Sunday.
The statement said under the agreement signed on Sunday, Egypt will pay the amount over a period of 8-1/2 years in exchange for the Israeli company dropping all other claims resulting from a 2015 arbitration decision.
How fortunate that President Sisi’s government has brought Egypt's economy under control, so they can afford the additional expense.
The International Chamber of Commerce in 2015 ordered Egypt to pay Israel Electric about $1.8 billion in compensation after a deal to export gas to Israel via pipeline collapsed in 2012 after attacks by bully boyz in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula.
Egypt appealed the decision and began discussions on a settlement. The EGPC and EGAS statement said the agreement was reached with government support and as part of efforts to ensure a "conducive investment environment".
Israel’s Delek Drilling and its partner Noble Energy signed a landmark deal early last year to export $15 billion in natural gas from Israeli offshore fields Tamar and Leviathan to a customer in Egypt.
Turnabout being fair play. That’ll support Egypt’s improving economy until their new natural gas fields start delivering.
A Delek Drilling executive said on June 2 that the company hopes to begin commercial sales of natural gas to Egypt by the end of this month. Israeli officials called it the most significant deal to emerge since the neighbours made peace in 1979.
[KhaamaPress] The security forces killed 10 Talibs during the operations in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... and Farah provinces.
The Afghan forces also destroyed 40 roadside kabooms during the same operations.
Goodness. Somebody has been busy.
The informed military sources said Monday that the soldiers of 215th Corps killed a Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighter in Garm Ser and Nawah-ye Barakzai districts of Helmand killing 1 Taliban bully boy.
The sources further added that the security forces also destroyed 40 roadside kabooms during the same operation.
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!... the Afghan Special Forces killed 9 Taliban fighters in Bala Boluk district of Farah province.
The sources also added that the Special Forces arrested two Taliban fighters during the same operation.
The anti-government armed Lions of Islam including Taliban have not commented regarding the operations so far.
[REALCLEARPOLITICS] I’m not going to be buying Ace Newshound Jim Acosta ...CNN's showboating White House correspondent... ’s new book. I’ve already been snookered by a slick carnival barker once, back when I was a young man at the Feast of San Gennaro. No need to pay money twice for the same old sleight of hand.
The grifter’s trick is to show you one thing while making you think you’re seeing another. Acosta is pitching a book called "The Enemy of the People" and he wants you to think he is "the people." He isn’t. Is he "The Enemy of the People"? That’s giving him too much credit, but he is the enemy of the truth.
I’ve already written about Acosta numerous times, and included in my book "The Media Matrix" an essay titled "Jim Acosta and the Hubris of Celebrity Journalism" that first appeared at RealClearPolitics. The premise is simple ‐ that news hounds like Acosta have an entitlement mentality. In other words, they have made the mistake of reading their own positive press and thinking they are indispensable. Actually they are just insufferable.
That was on full display in the excerpt CNN published from Acosta’s book last week. What you get is one part self-righteousness, one part self-serving quotes from anonymous sources, one part presumption of Trump’s guilt, and one part hysteria.
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On a last-place network who mainly courts airport hostages travelers
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Never trust a guy whose eyebrows look like caterpillars moving around at random on his forehead.
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Why would anyone keep an idiot like him around?
[AnNahar] Iraqi authorities have removed nearly 30 kilometres of concrete blast walls across Baghdad in the last six months, mostly around the capital's high-security Green Zone, a bigwig told AFP.
Since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, T-walls -- thick barriers about six metres tall and one metre wide -- have surrounded potential targets of boom-mobiles or other attacks.
When premier Adel Abdel Mahdi came to power last year, he promised to remove barriers, checkpoints and other security measures to make Baghdad easier to navigate.
"Over the last six months, we removed 18,000 T-walls in Baghdad, including 14,000 in the Green Zone alone," said Staff Lieutenant General Mohammed al-Bayati, the PM's top military advisor.
Hundreds of the security checkpoints that contributed to Baghdad's notorious traffic jams have also been removed.
And according to the Baghdad municipality, 600 streets that had been closed off to public access have been opened in the last six months.
Among them are key routes crossing through Baghdad's Green Zone, the enclave where government buildings, UN agencies and embassies including the U.S. and UK missions are based.
It was long inaccessible to most Iraqis until an order from Abdel Mahdi last year, and families can now be seen picking their way across its manicured parks for sunset pictures.
Iraq is living a rare period of calm after consecutive decades of violence, which for Baghdad peaked during the sectarian battles from 2006 to 2008.
It was followed, in 2014, 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's sweep across a third of the country and a three-year battle to oust the jihadists from their urban strongholds.
The group still wages hit-and-run attacks against Iraqi security forces and government targets, and Baghdad's authorities are on high alert.
Thousands of the removed T-walls have been placed on Baghdad's outskirts to prevent infiltration by IS sleeper cells, according to Bayati.
[AnNahar] Thirty people were killed late Sunday in a triple suicide kaboom in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , emergency services reported, in an attack bearing the hallmarks of the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... jihadist group.
Three bombers detonated their explosives outside a hall in Konduga, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from the Borno state capital Maiduguri, where football fans were watching a match on TV.
"The corpse count from the attack has so far increased to 30. We have over 40 people injured," Usman Kachalla, head of operations at the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), said on Monday.
An earlier toll from the blasts, the bloodiest in months, gave 17 dead and 17 maimed.
The attack happened around 9:00 pm (1800 GMT), Ali Hassan, the leader of a self-defence group in the town, said. The owner of hall prevented one of the bombers from entering the packed venue.
"There was a heated argument between the operator and the bomber who went kaboom!," Hassan said by phone.
Two other bombers who had mingled among the crowd at a tea stall nearby also detonated their boom jackets.
Hassan said most of the victims were from outside the soccer viewing center.
"Nine people went titzup, including the operator, and 48 were maimed," Hassan said.
Kachala said the high number of fatalities was because emergency responders had been unable to reach the site of the blast quickly. Nor were they equipped to deal with large numbers of maimed.
"Lack of an appropriate health facility to handle such huge emergency situation and the delay in obtaining security clearance to enable us deploy from Maiduguri in good time led to the high corpse count," he said.
Witnesses also said inadequate facilities and lack of drugs contributed to the high corpse count.
"The people that are currently dying is because of lack of hospital: because some have passed the night bleeding.... even the doctors are complaining that there is no drug," said witness Garba Abdullahi.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the attack bore the imprint of Boko Haram, which has led a decade-long campaign to establish a hardline Islamic state in northeast Nigeria.
The last suicide kaboom was in April this year when twojacket wallah'> exploding trollop female suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the garrison town of Monguno, killing a soldier and a vigilante and injuring another soldier.
Konduga has been repeatedly targeted by suicide bombers from a Boko Haram faction loyal to longtime leader Abubakar Shekau ... the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down ... The faction typically carries out suicide attacks against soft civilian targets such as mosques, markets and bus stations, often using young women and girls as bombers. The jihadists are believed to sneak into the town from the group's haven in nearby Sambisa forest.
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Best possible use of these people. Every State should do this. They only "reap" from death row. Falun Gong is another pointless heathen cult that deserves no protection or encouragement. A lot of navel gazing and incense, driving people to inactivity and unproductive theology. Soon a religion is formed, and then they want legislation and a say in the State. China doesn't work that way. It can't afford to allow religions and cults to undo what has been built on thousands of corpses and the rubble of churches, mosques and temples. In a way it is only prudent, albeit cruel. By the way, UN hearts bleed for Falun Gong not even knowing or caring WhateverTF it is.
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On the plus side ... it probably would not be a horrible way to die, if you are in a situation where they are going to kill you anyway. I had a friend back in Norfolk that harvested organs from organ donors, and they only did it if the patient died a controlled, non-violent death (DNR, etc.), usually under a doctor's supervision. From traumatic deaths like car crashes, they would often just collect bone and skin: they definitely would not harvest organs after a firing squad.
So, if your number comes up, pray that they need organs, not bones and skin.
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It's kind of the same rules as road kill. Do a search on Alaska and Road Kill. You'll find they harvest the meat, of a car killed Moose, for example, IF the body cavity has not been ruptured, which would poison everything with nasty stuff from livers, kidneys, intestines, etc.
[IsraelTimes] New pipe could up the amount of water Israel sends into the enclave, if its poorly maintained infrastructure can handle it.
Humanitarian, and also gives Israel another lever of control short of violence.
Israel’s national water company Mekorot has begun work on an upgraded pipeline 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... that will increase the flow of drinkable water into the blockaded enclave.
The new pipeline will enter Gaza at its center, crossing over from the Eshkol Regional Council in Israel to connect to the Strip’s water system, the Ynet news site reported Monday.
There are three pipelines currently carrying freshwater from Israel into Gaza at three sites along the border. In agreements with the Paleostinians, Israel committed to transferring 10 million cubic meters (2.6 billion gallons) of water each year to Gaza, but in practice transfers a bit more, roughly 11.5 million cubic meters (3 billion gallons).
The new pipeline will be the largest yet, and will run alongside one of the old pipes and work in tandem with it.
Construction work began in recent days, and is being conducted under heavy military guard out of fear that Gazook terror groups will open fire on the crews as the pipeline-laying work nears the border.
"Water is a basic thing. There’s an entire population in Gaza that doesn’t want war with Israel, and that population is the majority that is being controlled by Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,," one unidentified employee on the pipeline crew told Ynet.
"It’s a shame that’s the situation. Most of the people in Gaza are thirsty for water, but also hunger for a normal life and a better future for their children. They’re our neighbors, despite everything, and we can’t ignore what’s happening there."
It is not immediately clear how much more water Israel can actually pump into Gaza, as the water infrastructure in the Strip itself has not been maintained by the territory’s Hamas rulers, and may collapse under the strain of a significant increase in the volume of water passing through it.
Israel and Hamas are said to be engaged in informal talks via third parties on rehabilitating some of the territory’s water and sewage infrastructure, which international organizations have warned have reached the point of collapse. Sewage from Gaza is pumped directly into the Mediterranean untreated, and often is simply released into the street, sparking fears of disease spread in the crowded enclave. "The shutoff valves are HUuuuuuge"
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As a current a current Amazon employee, I can assure you that many Amazon Fulfillment center employees show no signs of starvation! If there was there would be no need for an Amazon weight loss challenge,
#5
But he's right Skidmark. You don't have to know ANYTHING about her, but you see her face...
Personally I think something people unconsciously recognize within her eyes that turn's the switch on in the head. Doesn't make it right, or even rational. That's why we're civilized, we control our impulses.
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[IsraelTimes] After weeks of uncertainty, American official says US wants ’focus to be on the economic aspect, not the political’.
The White House confirmed on Monday that Israeli officials and ministers will not participate in an upcoming US-sponsored economic workshop in Bahrain, the first phase of the rollout of the Trump administration’s Israel-Paleostinian conflict.
The announcement ends weeks of uncertainty about whether a Jerusalem delegation will participate in the confab, and comes one day after Finance Minister Israel Katz made an argument for why Israel should have a seat at the table.
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[KhaamaPress] An Afghan soldier broke out of Taliban ...Arabic for students... prison in North of the country, three days after he was kidnapped by bandidosforces of Evil from Faryab-Jawzjan highway.
The 209th Shaheen Corps in a statement said the soldier, Gul Rahman, is a soldier of the 6th Infantry Unit of the Afghan Army.
The statement further added that Rahman managed to break out of Taliban prison on Sunday night.
The 209th Shaheen Corps also added that Rahman also took a Taliban fighter with him and handed him over to Andkhoi Intelligence Directorate.
Oh my. Mr. Rahman seems in desperate need of a promotion, or perhaps seconding to a Special Forces unit.
The anti-government armed bandidosforces of Evil have not commented in this regard so far.
[Rudaw] Three Katyusha missiles have hit Taji Military Base, north of Baghdad, where US forces are stationed, Iraq's Security Media Cell has reported - the second such attack on a military base in four days. False flag, Herb?
"A short while ago, three Katyusha missiles fell on Camp Taji," Iraq’s Security Media Cell announced on Monday night.
Camp Taji, about 85 kilometers to the north of the capital Baghdad, hosts US military personnel.
Last Friday, three mortars hit Balad Air Base, which houses F-16 airplanes Iraq has purchased from the US, leading to fire in the dry brush around the camp.
Hoshyar Zebari, senior KDP official and former Iraqi Minister for Foreign Affairs, condemned the "alarming and risky" attacks.
"Rockets & mortars attack #Balad air base hosting Iraqi #F16US fighters, #American technicians & advisors. Today’s mortar attacks on #Taji base also with US & coalition advisors north #Baghdad is alarming & risky game by the perpetrators," Zebari said in a tweet on Monday night.
A May 19 Katyusha rocket struck Iraq’s Green Zone, missing the US embassy by just a mile.
The assailants of the attacks are unknown, but many Iran-affiliated Iraqi Shiite militias are currently active in Iraq and are thought to be responsible.
Good to know.
Tensions between US and 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... continue to simmer following attacks on two ships, one Japanese-owned, the other Norwegian-operated, in the Gulf of Oman. The US has accused Iran of attacking the ships ‐ claims Iran have strongly denied No, no! Certainly not! Iraq has sought a de-escalation of tensions, repeatedly saying that it wishes to avoid being caught in the crossfire of a possible US-Iran conflict.
Camp Taji, northwest of Baghdad is one of four locations used by Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve during the war against ISIS. It is a center of training for the US-led coalition that has been fighting ISIS since 2014. Taji was an important center for US forces and an area where detainees were kept in the past. It is a large military complex, essential for training.
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So, ShotSpotter can track gunfire in American cities, but, the US Military has no idea where mortars and rockets come from?.....
You have got to be kidding.
Maybe they are looking in mirrors TW? Stupid.
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I’m just a simple little civilian housewife, Thimp Clusort2035. I’m afraid I have no idea what can and cannot be known in either environment — no doubt some of our considerably more experienced readers can explain it to both of us.
The other possibility, of course, is that they do know, but have no intention of sharing while they’re hunting. Loose lips, and all that. That's one reason we strongly discourage those who know non-open source things from sharing that kind of information in this wide open environment. So if those who know decide not to answer our curiosity, we’ll have to be understanding.
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So if those who know decide not to answer our curiosity, we’ll have to be understanding.
It was a rhetorical question, burgers all know that, Sensitive One.
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My dear, you know I am indeed a little civilian housewife (slightly less nearly 5’ than I used to be, darn it!) and I am absolutely dreadful without blatant clues like LOL or those cute little winky emoticons. The problem is that verbal subtleties fly over my head — sometimes literally. There was this party when I was in the early years of adulthood, the three tall gentlemen I happened to be conversing with, and the chair I had to stand on so that I wasn’t talking directly to their diaphragms...
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So a quick check finds articles about Kerry meeting with Iranian officials less than two weeks ago.
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Given Tom Clancy's write ups on fire finder radar I would be surprised if they weren't tracked, but, they do have to be in the air a while to get a good reading and the fire spot needs to stay there. So, I can see that it's not like shooting back at the perp in a gun fight.
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Need new glasses. When I first read it I thought it said measles.
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These are unguided rockets. The katyusha, not a missile but a rocket, was always considered a nasty animal. The BM13 platform that fires it can be mounted on a number of truck chassis and is quite modular. Mount the 32 rocket artillery on a fast Isuzu-turbo diesel powered vehicle and equip four (or even 2) extensible stanchions, and you've got a mobile artillery that can send 16 M13 rockets flying within seconds, fold up and get to launch point 2 before the rockets hit.
The rockets themselves are hopelessly inaccurate, but in half dozens can still lay down tonnes of concentrated damage to areas. Weighing around 45 kilos, the rocket is fast and difficult to detect once in the air. The one tell is a singsong of the launch itself, and can be picked up by field acoustic sensors.
The rockets and launchers in question have got to be from Saddam's stockpiles because in the 2003 war these things were heavily used. The rag-heads have made several makeshift launchers for these rockets, including those featuring donkeys ☺, and one which involves four poor bastards holding a steel rail and one unlucky summbitch steadying the rocket itself as it's launched. But all they have to do afterward is hide or run away. Even though hitting anything is pure luck.
Since not many rockets were launched (only 3 were reported ) I think the launch vehicle could be some rag-head variant that allows limited launch capacity and very low signature.
[AnNahar] 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... said Monday it will surpass from June 27 its uranium stockpile limit set under the nuclear deal with world powers, turning up the pressure after the US walked away from the landmark pact last year.
"Today the countdown to pass the 300 kilogrammes reserve of enriched uranium has started and in 10 days time... we will pass this limit," Iran's atomic energy organization front man Behrouz Kamalvandi said at a presser broadcast live.
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So, plenty of warnings online. They can decide who is engaging in "hate speech" but they couldn't clue the cops about this guy? Color me stone cold skeptical. OTOH, they are all in favor of "red flag laws" where almost anybody can tell a judge you are a dangerous person who needs his / her rights summarily taken away without due process. Got it...
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DBC
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Armed with an AR yet inflicted no casualties. Taken out by pistols. Remember that when gun grabbers go after ARs.
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On the front page of the Dallas News, but I couldn't find their article online. A number of articles on-line look like they have identical lead paragraphs.
Unexpectedly.
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Also this attacker was totally stupid in target selection. Each entrance has 6 armed feds standing behind a huge metal detecting apparatus larger than the ones at the airports. That allows for them plenty of protective cover to return fire immediately without having to retreat to cover. I am sure all 6 spayed his ass good.
In the video from the reporter caught in the action you here the responding cops trying to stop the guys leaks as he lay in the parking ĺot say, "There is another one?"
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The half dozen armed guys at the doors running the metal detector machines are almost always 100% African American middle aged guys who probably never thought theyed get to shoot their guns. They are serious about making sure nothing gets past the medal detecting conveyors. A lot of people come through. IRS Customer Service, Social Security Customer Service, Federal Courts are in there and the US Marshal Servïce.
I am going to dread going back in there again. Those middle aged armed metal detector guys are going to be extra coky now that they finaĺly got to shoot someone.
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Check the links online Woodrow, including this one. He was a loser/nutcase, Probably Big Chicken Dinner if before two years enlistment
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That's how I read it. Tortured soul seeking to go out. Yet for his final act, he seeks out not only a hard target but perhaps the most hardened target of all.
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Indeed. A federal courthouse in Texas... I can't imagine anything less than a whole strike force getting in there, and nobody would get out. I wonder if he ever really "meant" to kill anybody at some basic level as opposed to trying to off himself without pulling the trigger.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The UN Security Council condemned the attack by 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... ’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... militia on the Abha airport in southwestern 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... on June 12 "in the strongest terms."
A statement issued Monday by the UN’s most powerful body called for those behind "these reprehensible actions" to be held accountable.
The council statement, issued after a meeting on Yemen, urged the Houthis and the government "to make progress towards a comprehensive political settlement" of the conflict.
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Trump/AOC - all polls are fake news this far out. Something that exists just to fill air time and print column. Something to give the sock puppets of media justification for their existence.
#2
I have plotted Trump's approval numbers from Rasmussen for several months. His approval numbers are trending slowly upwards, since they bottomed out in the summer of 2017.
I believe this poll is performed every day, with 1,000 random phone calls, with the same simple questions asked. All that gives me confidence.
I have a lovely Excel plot of the 31 months of data, if I could figure out how to share it!
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I have plotted Trump's approval numbers from Rasmussen for several months
Bobby, post your email address in the O Club with this offer. We have lots of talented computer jockey types here who’ll be able to turn your data into a postable image.
[Libya Observer] The Libyan House of Representatives (HoR), convening 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... , voted unanimously to remove Libyan Army General Commander position, which was created by the HoR in Tobruk in 2015.
The front man for the HoR Hamouda Sayala said all of the members who attended Monday session agreed to scrap the position.
The creation of the Army General Commander position in 2015 by Tobruk-based HoR was then described as a role designed to fit 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... and his military ambitions as the Libyan Army did not have such a post since its formation in 1951.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his heavily sweating face ... the HoR in Tripoli welcomed the peace initiative proposed by the Head of the Libyan Presidential Council Fayez al-Sarraj, announcing the formation of a contact committee in that regard.
The HoR also said it will elect next week the presidency of the parliament with the majority vote system.
Al-Sarraj proposed in a presser in Tripoli 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.
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[AnNahar] The Internal Security Forces said in a statement on Monday that its agents arrested two Syrian suspects for having links to 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.... terror group and for planning kabooms at religious places.
"As part of preventive security operations carried out by the ISF Information Division in monitoring the activities of terrorist cells, especially those associated with the IS terrorist group, the Division has been able to monitor and identify a resident of south Leb who spreads the ideology of the organization on social media and recruits people for its benefit," said the statement.
The suspect was identified as Z.M. a Syrian living in the Lebanese southern town of Yater, said the statement.
He confessed during investigation to having links to the IS and to having promoted its ideology through a number of online channels and applications.
He said he had links to individuals outside Leb who assisted him in the creation of social networking sites promoting the ideology of the organization.
After a video released of IS leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart... praising the kabooms in Sri Lanka, the suspect said he got a spray can and clandestinely at night sprayed slogans on a wall at the entrance of Yater that said "Grandson of Abu Bakr Baghdadi," and "Islmaic State" at the bottom.
With his partners, he discussed the idea of simulating the Sri Lankan attacks in Leb and targeting churches, hussainia in shiite towns and villages in south Leb including attacks at churches and killing the largest number of worshippers, said the statement.
He said he accessed websites of jihadis and downloaded links that filmed tutorials of how to make improvised bombs for reference.
He had contacts with another Syrian national identified as S.B. (arrested by ISF) whom he recruited for the purpose.
The Internal Security Forces (ISF) says they "tracked down and identified a man in southern Leb who actively publishes IS propaganda on social media networks and recruits new members" for the jihadist group.
The suspect, a 20-year-old Syrian national from the south Leb village of Yater, was in contact with people abroad who helped him set up social networking sites to disseminate IS propaganda, it says in a statement.
He also downloaded a manual compiled by followers of the jihadist group instructing readers on how to build explosives, the statement adds.
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Well, we actually have a written Constitution that says it is, but the government does it anyway. It's all self justifying. No one goes to jail for it.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
[Rudaw] A bomb went kaboom! in Qamishli, a city in Hasakah province in northeastern Syria, on Monday afternoon, according to Internal Security Forces of North and Northeastern Syria (NES), amid conflicting reports of injuries and human casualties.
"A car containing a sticky bomb detonated exactly at 1:47 PM today Monday afternoon, July 17, near the General Headquarters of Asayish Forces in Qamishli city. The damage was solely material, without registering any human losses," according to a statement from the Internal Security Forces media centre.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... earlier reports allege that the earth-shattering kaboom caused both material damage and human casualties.
Hawar News, media close to the ruling Kurdish authority in Rojava, reported that the bomb detonated at 1:30 PM, on the north side of the Sony Roundabout, in the centre of Qamishli.
"Some people" were maimed, and surrounding properties were "severely" damaged. A mine was also diffused near the area of the earth-shattering kaboom, the outlet added.
State news agency SANA reported that there were dead and injured civilians due to the bombing in the Qaddour Bek residential neighborhood in Qamishli, without providing details.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based war monitor, reported that a van driven by a jacket wallah attempted to break into the General Headquarters of the Asayesh (security) Forces in the Sony Roundabout in Qamishli.
The van, failing to break into the headquarters, exploded outside, injuring 7 civilians including women and kiddies.
Qamishli is under the control of the local Kurdish led administration, and is considered the capital of the self-declared autonomous NES region.
Kurdish-held areas of northeast Syria have been hit by a spate of bombings in recent months, many 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.
IS has vowed to carry out Dire Revenge attacks for the six-month offensive by Kurdish-led forces that culminated in March in the jihadists' ouster from their last bastion in Syria.
IS fighters retain a presence in Syria's vast Badia desert and various other hideouts, and still claim deadly attacks in territory held by the Syrian Democratic Forces.
According to the Observatory, hundreds of SDF members have been killed in attacks believed to have been carried out by IS sleeper cells since August.
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I'm sure Allah is taking note of every sticky bomb that goes off in his name and kills infidels. Rewards will be given to the perps in the afterlife because Allah always keeps his promises.
#2
...and more rain yet to come. That’s what happens when Earth is on the cooling side of the climate cycle. Pray God ergot doesn’t get into the grain, causing witchcraft panics again.
#5
Shooting down the drone solves one problem, but tracing the control signals solves a bigger one. It's basically telemetry. Collect it. Use it to find the controllers. Use it in court.
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What's needed is some attention from Rivet Joint. Instead, we get pictures of guys in safety vests standing around a tripod with a microwave projector on it. You either consider interference at a major airfield (civilian or military) a big problem, or you don't. Of course, HM Constabulary considers having to interdict / arrest / prosecute greenies a big problem too.
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Hostis humani generis... Latin for "the enemy of all mankind" and a legal term once applied to pirates. This is threatening, by implication, random mass murder of civilians...
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List them as a terrorist organization and treat them as such. Put leaders on trail for making terrorist threats. Go after finances and bring them in for questioning and generally make it clear to all that certain things cross the line. Even if they don't get a conviction it might scare off little rich terrorist-chic arsehole from joining up
[DAILYWIRE] A new poll from inside socialist Rep. Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez Dem represntative from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details... 's (D-NY) 14th congressional district has found that among registered voters, the far-left congresswoman is deeply unpopular.
The door-to-door poll from Stop The AOC PAC yielded the following key results:
They don’t like her. She has a more than 2:1 ratio of unfavorable (50.88%) to favorable (21.37%) in public opinion.
They don’t trust her. Only 10.75% thought she had their best interests in mind in quashing the Amazon deal – 32.60% said she didn’t.
They don’t want her. 33.44% are ready to vote against her, and only 13.30% would vote for her.
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She’ll be a flash in the pan. Two years and gone.
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Trump/AOC - all polls are fake news this far out. Something that exists just to fill air time and print column. Something to give the sock puppets of media justification for their existence.
#5
she'll try to ride it out the minimum number of years so she can partake of that sweet sweet pension.
And the Dem powers that be will probably offer her this with her promise that she'll go away
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If she continues to piss off the demoncratic machine, she will be gone next election. Otherwise I expect her to stay in power until the republic collapses.
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She'll be tossed out of office for another Demo that didn't vote against Amazon. She'll find success speaking at Democratic fundraisers and spewing nonsense on MSNBC.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Democrats are plotting a new strategy to get witnesses before Congress in their investigation of President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
They will call Trump associates who have never worked in the White House, which would circumvent the president's claim of executive privilege
The new witness list could include Corey Lewandowski, Chris Christie, Paul Manafort, and Rick Gates
All four played prominent roles in both the 2016 Trump campaign and appeared in special counsel Robert Mueller's report
But the White House is arguing executive privilege applies to all Trump advisers and not just those aides who worked in the administration
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Armed Forces General Staff chief Mohammad Bagheri accuses US, allies of being behind the attacks against tankers in Fujayrah last month, and in the Oman Sea last week. If Tehran were behind them, he said, it would announce it "clearly." In Tanker wars of 80's, IRGC also denied
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
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The seaside cypress believed to have inspired the fanciful Truffula trees of Dr. Seuss’ classic 1971 children’s tale "The Lorax" has toppled in Southern California.
...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 
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...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
[DAILYWIRE] In a new man-on-the-street video, Campus Reform's Cabot Phillips asks a few pro-
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...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
[BREITBART] The Green party in Germany said it will ban industrial farming to reduce global warming if it comes to power.
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...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 
...CNN's showboating White House correspondent...
...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 
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
... the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down ...
...Arabic for 
[Rudaw] Three Katyusha missiles have hit Taji Military Base, north of Baghdad, where US forces are stationed, Iraq's Security Media Cell has reported - the second such attack on a military base in four days.
...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 
...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 
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...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...
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
...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 
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...
[Rudaw] A bomb 
Dem represntative from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details...
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
