[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The US Justice Department charged an Indonesian Tuesday with violating sanctions on 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... in supplying millions of dollars worth of new and refurbished aircraft parts to Iran’s blacklisted Mahan Air.
Sunakro Kuntjoro, the president-director of PT MS Aero Support, exported US-made aircraft parts to Mahan Air in violation of sanctions between 2011 and 2018, according to an indictment filed in federal court in Washington.
Kuntjoro also shipped aircraft parts to the United States for repair and then reshipped them to Iran, it said.
The indictment charged eight counts of sanctions-breaking, money laundering, and false statements against Kuntjoro, PT MS Aero Support, and two other related Indonesian companies for violating US export laws.
Kuntjoro billed Mahan millions of dollars for getting the parts refurbished in the United States, and hid Iran’s involvement by shipping the parts through Singapore, Hong Kong, and Thailand.
US sanctions and a trade embargo ban the supply of US products to Iran without specific permission from the US Treasury, which administers sanctions.
The Treasury slapped sanctions on Mahan Air in 2011 over its ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The company, one of Iran’s leading airlines, operates several Boeing and other US-made aircraft and has reportedly struggled to keep them flying for lack of parts.
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Too nerdy for this crowd? You cannot possibly be serious, SteveS — there is no kind of nerdiness that at least some Rantburgers have not mastered, as far as I can tell.
"REPORT: 99% of biggest firms pay no federal tax at all..."
You know how to treat any news item by now, don't you? Ask the following question: how are these bastards lying to me now? In this instance, in a few particular ways:
1) Always trust your sources! The authors of this article are: "Jeff Stein and Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post Published 4:11 pm EST, Monday, December 16, 2019 ". Further comment is not necessary.
2) How many of you see an explicit reference to this 99% number? I don't.
3) The closest reference in the report is this sentence:
"The report also found that 91 corporations in the Fortune 500, many worth billions of dollars, paid no federal taxes last year."
2A) 99% of '91 corporations' leaves me with '90(.09) corporations. Is that number referenced anywhere in the article? No, it is not. Convenient, isn't it?
3) So, how do we get around these inconveniences?
"Researchers excluded taxes incurred by corporations under a one-time "repatriation tax" on money they brought back from overseas because of the tax law, according to Matt Gardner, an analyst at ITEP."
Again - any reference at all to this 99% number? Maybe it's under this sofa cushion; lemme go check...
Anyways, the rest of the article reads exactly like you'd expect from WaPo types - mention 'tax breaks' and 'loopholes' a bunch of times, wring your hands about Federal budget deficits and shed crocodile tears that, somehow, corporations are benefiting unjustly / unfairly because they get to use things like 'deductions' (yes, that was actually in there) and 'tax breaks & loopholes' to lower taxable income.
What you're left with is an article whose sole purpose is to make the reader think that the Trump tax cuts were baaaaaad. And that's how you do Fake News', business section.
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There are hints that he's sold it and no longer runs it daily.
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All business taxes are passed along to the customer. Anyone who does not get that is a buffoon.
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All business taxes are passed along to the customer. Anyone who does not get that is a buffoon.
Do economists know about this? Because if it is true, then all the pols talking about punishing those Evil Corporations (Hi, Bernie!) are simply fleecing the rubes.
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Dropped Drudge as increasingly there was far too many clickbait article links and UK tabloid trash links to alien stories. The mix with some genuine news but with a decidedly leftish drift made it obvious someone else was at the helm.
[Babylon Bee] BILLINGS, MT‐A local snowflake is speaking out after learning that snowflakes are being used to describe overprotected college students who are easily distressed by ideas that do not align with their worldview, sources confirmed.
"When I first heard the term ‘Generation Snowflake' I thought it was a compliment," said the feathery ice crystal, in a statement issued from a snowbank just off Route 318.
"Then I learned more about it, and I was appalled. Just because I'm uniquely designed by God, I'm not entitled to go through life never facing hardship or having my beliefs challenged. Where did that idea come from?" Enablers
"I mean, could these young people plummet 10,000 feet in subzero conditions, with style and serenity?" the precipitant went on. "We don't demand safe spaces from kids' scalding hot tongues. We don't ask for trigger warnings every time a dog starts sniffing around. Enough is enough."
"To call them snowflakes is an insult to snowflakes everywhere," it added.
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May 2018 news. [REED - May 2018 article] Bio major Morgan Vague ’18 has isolated and bred three strains of bacteria that consume and degrade polyethylene terephthalate (PET)‐the ubiquitous plastic used in textiles, packaging, and soft-drink containers‐opening up the tantalizing possibility of using microbes to fight pollution.
PET is an environmental nightmare. The plastic is biologically inert, notoriously resilient, and takes years, even centuries, to break down. An estimated 480 billion plastic bottles are manufactured every year, and after they have served their purpose many of them wind up in landfills, rivers, and oceans‐the infamous Pacific trash vortex is currently the size of Texas.
But biologists at Reed have recruited an unlikely ally in the fight against plastic pollution‐bacteria. Certain strains of bacteria produce lipase, a fat-digesting enzyme that can break down plastic molecules and render them palatable‐in theory, anyway.
"The problem for most bacteria is that PET is a big, tough molecule with a lot of weird components," says Morgan, who performed the research for her senior thesis. "Lipase is kind of like marinade on a steak. The bacteria squirts out the lipase and the lipase breaks the plastic into bite-size pieces."
"These are very significant results," says Prof. Jay Mellies, who supervised Morgan’s research. "It points the way towards a biological means of degrading plastic pollution."
At the beginning of her quest, Morgan went hunting for microbes in locations with high levels of petroleum pollution, on the theory that those bacteria were most likely to have evolved biological mechanisms for digesting plastic. She traipsed around refineries in her hometown of Houston, Texas, digging up samples of soil, sand, and water around Galveston Bay. She snuck her samples into a refrigerated bag on her flight back to Portland, hoping that airport security screeners wouldn’t freak out. (They didn’t.)
Then she began the long, laborious process of screening her samples for lipase. Out of roughly 300 separate strains of bacteria, she identified 20 that produced the enzyme; three of these boasted high levels of lipase.
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Years ago I read a book about a chemist that made a bacteria that ate plastic. It got out and destroyed civilization as we know it.
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Another appearance of the "trash vortex" that is never photographed. Purported photographs always turn out to be off a third-world river.
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Years ago I read a book about a chemist that made a bacteria that ate plastic. It got out and destroyed civilization as we know it.
"Mutant 59", maybe.
The interesting bit here is she isolated the bugs, micro-bio-speak for finding them in nature. Said another way, these bacteria naturally break down supposedly inert plastic molecules.
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There were also several stories in the "There will be war" anthologies about Russia releasing a bug that ate gasoline and diesel. They had a counter to it but that failed about 3 months after they released it. So everything back to steam and they could only run the tanks and AFV's on ethanol.
[BBC] General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's former military leader, has been sentenced to death at a special court hearing in Islamabad.
The three-member court sentenced him over a high treason charge that has been pending since 2013.
Gen Musharraf seized power in a military coup in 1999 and served as the country's president from 2001 to 2008.
He is currently in Dubai after being allowed to leave the country for medical treatment in 2016. Time to cash in that return flight ticket, if he's smart
The charge relates to Gen Musharraf's suspension of the constitution in 2007, when he imposed emergency rule in a move intended to extend his tenure.
The 76-year-old issued a video statement from a hospital bed earlier this month, describing the case against him as "baseless".
Gen Musharraf is the first military ruler to ever stand trial in Pakistan for overruling the constitution.
The verdict was announced Tuesday with a 2-1 majority.
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I hope the Paki's initiate a stay. There may be others involved.
[FOX] Rudy Giuliani, a personal attorney for President Trump, said Monday that he played a key role in forcing ex-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch from her post earlier this year, and claimed that he has evidence the Trump impeachment inquiry is a "cover-up" of Democratic malfeasance.
Giuliani, one of Trump's most loyal defenders, told Laura Ingraham on "The Ingraham Angle" that he helped forced out Yovanovitch because she was corrupt and obstructing the investigation into Ukraine and the Bidens.
Giuliani raised eyebrows recently after an interview was published in the New Yorker where he was quoted saying that he needed her "out of the way" because she would make the investigation into the Bidens "difficult for everybody."
He told Ingraham that he needed her out of the way because she was corrupt. Giuliani said he was not the first person to go to the president with concerns about the diplomat.
Yovanovitch, 60, a career diplomat and daughter of immigrants who fled the former Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, claimed that she was ousted from her role due to a smear campaign by Trump allies. Trump's tweets about her were shown during her testimony in front of Congress and she called them "very intimidating."
Yovanovitch “clearly is somebody who’s been a public servant to the United States for decades and I don’t think the president should have done that,” said Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., at the time.
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U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, the same gal that back in the Obama/Biden era gave Ukraine prosecutors a hands-off list of people who were not to be touched?
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Good job, Rudy. It really was fun watching her cry and lie about it during the intel committee hearings. And when it's proven that she really did give a "hands-off" list to the Ukrainian prosecutor she can go to jail for telling Congress that she didn't.
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A. Smear to discredit a whistleblower who spilled on a "made" member of the crew
OR
B. Whistleblower preemptively spead smokescreen when her deeds came under scrutiny
OR
C. All of the above.
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The definition from WIKI:
"Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius." was allegedly spoken by Papal legate and Cistercian abbot Arnaud Amalric prior to the massacre at Béziers, the first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade. A direct translation of the Latin phrase would be "Kill them. For the Lord knows those that are His own.
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Scapegoats have been identified. High paying, think tank or media jobs found for them. The real perps, and their loot protected. Our job here is done!
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I'd like to believe it if Maria says so but history teaches me to believe DV.
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You've broken my heart too many times, Maria.
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Although I agree with all of the posts on this thread so far i do hope they really get all the dirt before they make arrests so that its a slam dunk so we don't hear about them being railroaded or whatever.
[Jpost] Finland will try to repatriate children of Finnish mothers who travelled to Syria to join 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.... "as soon as possible", Prime Minister Sanna Marin said on Monday.
Finland is one of a number of Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union member states facing a decision over whether to bring home citizens with IS links who are trapped at the al-Hol camp displacement camp controlled by Kurds in northeastern Syria.
More than 30 children born to 11 Finnish women are at al-Hol, according to Finnish media, and the fate of the mothers has caused divisions in Finland's five-party coalition government that took office last week.
The Centre Party, a coalition ally of Marin's Social Democrats, opposes letting the wives of IS fighters back into Finland but supports repatriating their children.
The Centre Party is worried by the rise in the polls of the opposition nationalist Finns Party, which says repatriating Islamic State detainees could endanger Finland's security.
Marin said that, in an attempt to resolve the dispute in the coalition, the government had decided each case should be judged on its own merits.
"The aim of the authorities' actions is to protect the interests of the child in all circumstances," Marin said, leaving the door open for the repatriation of some of the mothers with their children.
"There is no obligation to assist adults who went to the region of their own accord," she said.
Repatriating children without their mothers is unlikely to happen as Syrian Kurdish forces, who control the territory that includes al-Hol, oppose separating children from their mothers.
Marin's government faces questioning on the issue in parliament on Tuesday.
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Re-integration through an appropriate Sami Lapp tribe (really) up north, one could hope.
[JPost] - A U.S. judge on Monday flatly rejected a last-ditch effort by President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn to get criminal charges against him dropped based on his accusations of misconduct by prosecutors and the FBI.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered Flynn to appear for sentencing on Jan. 28, concluding that Flynn had failed to prove a "single" violation by the prosecution of withholding evidence that could exonerate him.
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saw another article this am, where the judge said Flynn gave up his Constitutional rights by pleading guilty. Gee I didn't know you could give them up since THEY ARE INALIENABLE. Would think being railroaded into a false confession would have some impact.
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Judge Sullivan relied on the Meuller report that stated there was no bias in the FBI. Grounds for appeal when the Durham report will state the opposite.
FBI’s McCabe Might Have Been Out for Revenge in General Flynn’s Case Sally Yates and James Clapper have never offered any evidence but they’ve utterly destroyed Ret. General Flynn’s reputation. We now find out that the FBI’s Acting Director Andrew McCabe had a serious motive for revenge against the general.
Instead of recusing himself, he’s in charge of the Flynn matter.
Circa News reports that secret memos show Trump adviser roiled the bureau by intervening in an agent’s discrimination case before he was targeted in Russia case.
Two years before the FBI launched their probe against Flynn, he intervened on behalf of a decorated counterterrorism agent who accused now-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and other top officials of sexual discrimination.
Flynn’s intervention on behalf of Supervisory Special Agent Robyn Gritz was highly unusual. He was in effect a hostile witness against McCabe, a rising star.
The FBI, instead of considering Flynn’s views, sought to keep him from becoming a witness in her Equal Employment Opportunity Commission case. Her case is pending.
McCabe has a sketchy role in this. He admitted the FBI opened an internal investigation into Gritz’s personal conduct after learning the agent “had filed or intended to file” a sex discrimination complaint against her supervisors.
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Gen Flynn served his country honorably for years.
However, once he retired he set us a biz, the Flynn Intel Group for himself that was basically lobbying. He wrote an anti Gulan editorial and got lots of money paid indirectly by Erdogan.
This actually has nothing to do with the charge for which he pled guilty (which involves lying about a not particularly significant conversation with the Russian Ambassador) but it shows that Gen Flynn is not worthy of much crying.
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One of the weird things about this case is that even though Flynn plead guilty, the govt has repeatedly requested that sentencing be delayed.
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the Judge wanted Flynn to retract his guilty plea
but Flynn did not do that
perhaps because the process crime to which he pleaded guilty isn't as serious as things he hasn't been charged with
for example, he took in lots of bucks from agents of Turkey between mid 2016 and mid 2017 which would be legal except that he didn't register as a foreign agent until Mar 2017 - this is also a pretty trivial crime, however, he was an official of the US Govt from Jan 20 to Feb 13, 2017 a time when he was also a foreign agent. He may not have been actively working for Turkey those three weeks but then again he may have (per some witneses he delayed one of the anti ISIS ops by the Kurds in order to help Turkey during that time).
I don't think Flynn wants to be prosecuted for that and I don't think the US wants to prosecute him for that as it requires a lot of secret clearance testimony and makes the US look bad.
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Curioser and curioser.
We're not hearing the whole story, methinks
[Ynet] For the first time ever Russia will pay its veterans who live outside of the country's borders a special stipend, starting with the 4,500 veterans living inside Israel's borders.
According to the pension fund of Russia, these veterans will receive a stipend of 100 dollars each month thanks to their military service in the Red Army.
"It's a special presidential decree we managed to secure thanks to our cooperation with our Russian counterparts," said Amos Rosenzweig, the legal adviser to Israel's National Insurance Institute. "We'll publish the instructions for receiving the money in the coming weeks."
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Would not be many such people now. If you assume that a person was 18 in 1945, he would be 92. The life expectancy of a 92-year-old male is 3.5 years.
[Jpost] The most potent non-military threat to Israel’s existence is the opposition to Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem and the Golan Heights by the international community, led by the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union.
The EU is the largest single donor to the Paleostinians ‐ more than a half-billion euros annually. It funds over two dozen anti-Israel propaganda organizations (NGOs) dedicated to demonizing Israel ‐ over €6 million annually. In addition, these NGOs also receive millions from individual European countries. The EU is the largest contributor to UNRWA, which is dedicated to Israel’s demise. The EU supported US president Barack Obama
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The EU is the largest single donor to the Paleostinians ‐ more than a half-billion euros annually.
With all that cash flowing in, you'd think Gaza would be Paradise on Earth by now. Sure, there is corruption and skimming, but you can buy a whole *bleep*load of red binders for a mere quarter-billion.
[Jpost] Israel is ready to stop a potential Hezbollah invasion, including from tunnels that the IDF has not yet destroyed, an IDF commander for fighting Hezbollah's underground warfare in the north said.
Israel is ready to stop a potential Hezbollah invasion, including from tunnels that the IDF has yet to destroy, the head of the IDF's Underground Warfare Department in the North revealed on Monday.
"If there is any [Hezbollah] tunnel near the border, we will know about them," said Lt. Col. Aviv Amir, an Engineering Corps officer who oversees IDF efforts to to detect and destroy tunnels, whether from Leb or the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip.
In late 2018, the IDF destroyed six Hezbollah cross-border tunnels and proclaimed the tunnel threat from Hezbollah vanquished.
In his presentation on Monday, Amir said that in 2018 the IDF also meant to demolish a Hezbollah tunnel near the Israeli town of Misgav Am.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... when the IDF counter-tunnel units found that the tunnel came up to Israel’s border, but did not cross it, the military decided to leave it alone.
Hezbollah is believed to have additional tunnels similar to the one discovered last year near Misgav Am that end close to the Israeli border but do not cross it.
Amir said that Israel has "no plan to get into the Lebanese side," absent Hezbollah starting a new conflict.
At the same time, he said that the IDF knows about tunnels it did not destroy which still exist on the Lebanese side and maintains constant readiness to address any potential Hezbollah invasion.
[AlAhram] A supporter of Iraqi anti-government demonstrators was bumped off in Baghdad, a police source said Sunday, the fourth backer of the protest movement to be killed in two weeks.
Mohammed al-Doujaili, 24, was shot in the back near the Tahrir Square protest hub on Saturday night, the police source said.
Another man who was with him was maimed in the same attack, and al-Doujaili died of his wounds at a Baghdad hospital Sunday morning, relatives said.
Doujaili, who helped distribute food to protesters encamped in Tahrir Square, was buried in Baghdad's Shiite-dominated district of Sadr City.
He is the fourth protester to be killed by person or persons unknown over the past two weeks.
Father of five Ali al-Lami was shot and killed by several bullets to the head earlier this week and prominent civil society activist Fahem al-Tai was killed in a drive-by shooting in Iraq's shrine city of Karbala.
In one particularly gruesome case, the bruised body of 19-year-old Zahra Ali was found on December 2 outside her family home in Baghdad, hours after she had gone missing.
Iraq's capital and its Shiite-majority south have been gripped by more than two months of rallies against corruption, poor public services and a lack of jobs.
Around 460 people have been killed and 25,000 maimed, most of them protesters, since the youth-led rallies erupted on October 1.
Since then demonstrators in the capital and southern cities have disappeared almost daily, in most cases taken from near their homes as they returned from protests.
Protesters accuse pro-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... armed factions of playing a role in the killings and abductions.
Demonstrations once again took place on Sunday in Baghdad and across the south of Iraq, where schools and public administrations remained closed, AFP correspondents said.
[AnNahar] Ottoman Turkish coroners say the British ex-soldier who helped found the Syrian White Helmets rescue group died from a fall, state media reported on Monday.
James Le Mesurier was an ex-British Army officer who set up Mayday Rescue which helped train the White Helmets, a volunteer group responding to bombings by Syrian government forces.
He was found dead on November 11 outside the Istanbul apartment building where he lived.
The autopsy report said he died due to "general body trauma linked to a fall from height," state broadcaster TRT Haber said.
No DNA belonging to another person was found.
The four-page report from the Forensic Medicine Institute said Le Mesurier suffered internal bleeding and broken bones, the private DHA news agency added.
Ottoman Turkish police are believed to be treating the death as suicide.
Local media has claimed he sought help for mental health issues and his wife, Emma Hedvig Christina Winberg, reportedly told police he had had suicidal thoughts two weeks before his death.
[AnNahar] Fresh protests rocked India on Monday as anger grew over new citizenship legislation slammed as anti-Moslem, after six people died in the northeast and up to 200 were maimed in New Delhi.
The law fast-tracks citizenship for non-Moslems from three neighbouring countries. Critics say it is part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist agenda to marginalise the 200-million strong Islamic minority.
Modi on Monday denied this, tweeting that the new law "does not affect any citizen of India of any religion", while accusing "vested interest groups" of stoking the "deeply distressing" unrest.
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A bit of a bother, but all in all a good exercise. The capital too needs purging.
So many anti-nationals and faux-secular commie lovers exposed. Hindus fighting for the right of Rohingyas and bangladeshis to come and rape them, all to please their fav communist college professors. Mercenary lobbyists and twitter attention whores chiming in from bollywood. Weed stoked trust-fund sissies and professional whiners on youtube and outside campuses.
Good to know them all. Good for their parents to be known by the taxman, the administration, the police... and by faceless mobs of ultra-nationalists.
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This guy is a lawyer practicing in the Calcutta High Court. Journalist as well. Very liberal. From his posts he clearly hates Modi and the BJP. Despite this experience he is still espousing his liberal ways. Still....
Sankhadeep Shome
December 13 at 9:31 PM ·
Today is a day unlikely to be ever erased from my memory. It was the first time I found myself in the middle of a full fledged riot and experienced fear. Blood curdling fear.
I'm onboard the 12841 UP Howrah-Chennai Central Coromandel Express. At around 3:20 pm today, the train rolled into Uluberia station on the Howrah-Kharagpur section. A crowd of around 500-700 miscreants emerged from the Jummah Namaz at a mosque adjoining the station and blocked the entire railway line at a level crossing outside the station. A few of them were carrying 'Oppose CAB and NRC' posters. A massive crowd of rioters then descended on the station, young lads barely on the verge of their 20s and some as young as 7 and 8 dressed in kurta pyjamas and skullcaps armed with rods and stones. First, they shattered all the window panes of an empty rake of Humsafar Express. Then they got to our train and started to pelt it with stones. The elderly were traumatized, the children crying. A stone shattered the glass window of the adjacent coupe. My heart pounded as I heard them screaming. I saw them laughing sadistically as they poked the rods through the broken window panes to terrify the passengers. I ducked and stayed dead still. One stray stone, one swing of the rod is all it would take. The district police were nowhere to be seen. After half an hour of this torment, a huge contingent of the RPF arrived from Howrah and pushed back the miscreants with relentless lathi charging and tear gas. After a few broken legs and cracked skulls, the rioters again melted away into the slums by the railway line. When I finally emerged from the compartment after 4 hours of confinement, the station resembled a war zone. The locomotive was severely damaged and the loco pilot injured.
You read about mob violence.You watch it on TV. You even romanticise it. Till the day it happens to you. It is then you realise that every single day is a gift.
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If there was only a Muslim country nearby that these angry people to emigrate too.
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LOL. The Indian NIA are running facial recognition software on video of the riots taken by spooks against the Indian Adhaar biometric database. Some very surprised folk will be getting a morning wakeup call
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Suicidal liberals. Faux-humanists and hypocrite masochists. They won't learn. And we can't wait for them to have these experiences, because by the time they've confronted reality, it'll be too late.
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Made our morning news, which was quite vague about who was causing trouble and why. It was pointed out the Christians can be uppity and ask for preferential treatment.
The morning news does not do anything outside local stories, and even those are painful (interesting to watch an out of state moron weatherman cover sever weather when he can barely navigate outside Wichita or the Interstate System), so this story was phoned in from above and they just read script.
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A crowd of around 500-700 miscreants emerged from the Jummah Namaz at a mosque adjoining the station
Is it time to require all mosques be removed to 500 meters or more from railway stations?
Also, in my ignorance it seems to me that when rocks are thrown and iron rods poked, the rocks should be hurled back and the rods pulled away and poked at their erstwhile wielders. Cowering allows attackers to close the distance at no cost.
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rocks should be hurled back and the rods pulled away and poked at their erstwhile wielders
We are trying to move toward a modality, where every molotov shall be answered by a 125gr FMJ round sometime later. We have our Israeli brethren, all ex-duvdevan tacticians to thank for some very useful lessons too. As I said before, the longer game is to selectively disempower and ultimately domesticate, if not civilize. But 'sshhhh...' on that.
John Frum would put it better, but I'll try to explain the ground reality in my crude way. It's really the same thing as you see in America, with your illegals.
Rationale
It has been seen that truly secular and egalitarian laws cannot be implemented in a nation where the muslims are in a significant number, solely because they do not recognize national constitutions. As they grow, some of them attain to positions where they become benefactors and guardians of their criminal element, which in turn supports them in myriad ways. This criminal element loses much capability if illegal immigration is curbed, as that is a major human resource pool for them. To reduce their influence on your legislation, culture and society you have to take out their capabilities. You cannot go after lawfarers now, but you can the illegals.
The Leftists in every country see muslims as the friendly fodder to send into physical revolution, the frontlines comrades that only need a 'We are with you !' to overwhelm interior agencies and bring govts to a halt. And the leftists tend to do them similar favors. India's eastern state, mainly Bengal is a hub for illegal immigration of bangladeshi muslims. These will then find their way into other states with fake papers provided by islamists within the administration. They will be used for micro actions like social destabilization by drugs and hooch production, prostitution, p0rn and country made arms and explosives. We cannot allow that to happen. The law is nothing new, we were already 'disappearing' those caught in the act.
The north western side ? We all know about that. The 'Stain, 'nuff said.
What's happening
Here, core marxist activists and muslims are exposing themselves in a panic to reverse a law that is in essence mere window dressing. If the gummint hadn't made this such an issue featuring selective treatment, nobody would have cared. In truth very few muslims are let legally into India anyway. Christians have to be salvaged by NGOs and physically brought out by certain agencies or parties. Hindus and sikhs, most of them won't leave for their own reasons. In fact, there is still no way for people to cross safely into India except by illegal means.
Pakistain and Bangladesh cannot let persecuted refugees escape alive for they shall tell a tale of horrors that will shame the entire western world for ever shaking hands with a Paki foreign official or hiring a 'Bangladeshi American' professor. Which is why we seldom see any applications.
What's more, it is easy for paki muslims to imitate christian culture and take up fake names to infiltrate because there, bibles are in urdu and many of the prayers and mannerisms are similar. See, christians in pakistain have to always stay in the 'we are all abrahamic' zone, and most will adopt muslim names too. So it will be hard to check backgrounds. So the gummint can play the angel to the rubes all it wants, but actual implementation of this is still very iffy, and business will be as usual.
The human muslim rights boo hooers are partly right. We see ours as a secular constitution, but for centuries, unequal communal and religious laws have ruled at the grassroots level. Religious law is even recognized in the bloody constitution in places, as part of the rights. Soon, no more. For both hindus and muslims. Uniform Civil Code. The real rioting will begin then, this is just the trailer. The politicals are testing their own limits, trying their luck too soon after one major victory even.
[AnNahar] Austrian authorities have foiled a plot to carry out a series of terror attacks, including bombing one of Vienna's Christmas markets, local media reported Monday.
The plot involved three men, including a 24-year-old ringleader who had been influenced by the ideology of the so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) group, according to the APA news agency.
The main suspect is thought to have hatched a plot to target the Christmas market in front of St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna city center between Christmas and New Year.
Other possible targets are said to have included Salzburg and locations in Germany, La Belle France and Luxembourg.
An anonymous tip-off led to the ringleader, who was already in jail following two attempts to reach Syria and join IS.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the report said he was able to remain in contact with his alleged accomplices via mobile phone -- contrary to prison regulations.
Part of the plot was a plan to help the ringleader escape.
The two other suspects, aged 25 and 31, were taken into custody at the end of last week. All three men are ethnic Chechens.
While Austria has been spared the major terror attacks that have hit other Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an countries including La Belle France, Britannia and Germany in recent years, a relatively high number of Austrians have gone abroad to participate in Islamic extremism.
[Rudaw] The United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Mine Action Service (UNMAS) said Monday that the Netherlands has contributed an additional $3.5 million to clear mines laid 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.... (ISIS) since 2014, particularly in the Shingal district on the Iraqi-Syrian border.
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[Rudaw] Five Iraqi soldiers were killed and two more maimed in separate 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.... (ISIS) attacks in Diyala province on Sunday, according to the Iraqi Defense Ministry.
The ministry’s Security Media Cell said two soldiers from the army’s 5th Division were killed and another maimed when bandidosDeath Eaters fired on their base near the village of Nawfal in the Muqdadiya district of Diyala.
On the same day, ISIS bandidosDeath Eaters launched another attack on the 20th Infantry Brigade of the 5th Division’s Second Regiment in the al-Nada area of Baladroz district, "resulting in the martyrdom of three soldiers and the wounding of one officer".
ISIS has not publicly taken responsibility for the attacks.
Diyala has seen a serious uptick in ISIS activity as bandidosDeath Eaters take shelter in the Hamrin Mountains.
Remnants of the jihadist group have exploited the security vacuum between Iraqi and Peshmerga lines to resurge following their territorial defeat in Iraq in December 2017.
Outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi received a phone call on Monday from US Defense Secretary Mark Esper. They discussed the ongoing fight against ISIS and the security and stability in Iraq.
The Kurdistan Region Security Council (KRSC), which releases monthly data on holy warrior activity, says there were 50 incidents in November alone, concentrated mainly around Baghdad, djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... and Saladin, including bombings, mortar attacks, shootings, and death threats.
Resolving the disputed status of these frontier areas and bolstering security cooperation between Iraqi and Kurdish forces is widely seen as the means of preventing the ISIS resurgence.
The Kurdistan Region’s 2017 independence referendum led to a major dispute between the Iraqi government and the semiautonomous Kurdistan Region over who should control the oil-rich province of Kirkuk and other disputed areas of Diyala and Nineveh.
The dispute escalated into an Iraqi offensive against the Peshmerga. The Kurdish force, which had defended several of these areas from ISIS since 2014, withdrew to the federally recognized Kurdistan Region and some formerly ISIS-controlled areas of Nineveh, Kirkuk, and Diyala.
With both sides keen to avoid direct conflict, but unwilling to cooperation on security, a vast ungoverned space has been left for ISIS to regroup.
Outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi received a phone call on Monday from US Defense Secretary Mark Esper. They discussed the ongoing fight against ISIS and the security and stability in Iraq.
Multiple Peshmerga brigades and Garmiyan Asayesh forces were involved in a raid south of the town of Kolajo, Diyala province on Sunday, arresting ten armed ISIS suspects who had disguised themselves as farmers.
[ToloNews] Two attackers were also killed in clash with security forces in 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... city on Sunday night, officials said.
At least three coppers were killed in a button men attack in Herat city on Sunday night, provincial police chief Gen. Aminullah Amarkhil said on Monday.
The incident happened on Sunday night after a number of button men attacked Herat city’s PD10’s police, Amarkhil said, "two button men were killed in the shooting and a number of them were maimed in the festivities."
"The button menbeat feet from the area, but police have started search operations to find the attackers," he said.
The incident comes three days after a similar attack in Herat killed three and the button men escaped.
[KhaamaPress] A soldier of the Australian Special Operations Forces has reportedly died three years after raising Afghanistan war crime allegations, it has been reported.
The 45-year-old soldier, Sergeant Kevin Frost went public in 2016, admitting his involvement in an alleged war crime in Afghanistan.
"The particular incident that I was involved in resulted in the POW that I had captured actually being executed, murdered," he told ABC during a television interview.
Sergeant Frost further added "I can’t remember if he cut the cuffs off first or if he cut the cuffs off after he shot him. That’s the one point I can’t remember there, cause I wasn’t looking.
"I didn’t want to look. I turned around and the guy was dead. He’d been shot through the forehead," he added.
The family of Sergeant Frost confirmed over the weekend that he tragically passed away after going missing near his Busselton home last week.
The friends of Sergeant Frost described him as ’fearless, proud and witty man’ while paying tribute to him, according to The NEWDAILY.
The death of Sergeant Frost comes as Prime Minister Scott Morrison says his government will consider calling a royal commission next year into veterans’ suicides.
[ToloNews] Qaisari "beat feet from his house" and security forces have started searching the nearby area, officials said.
A clash in Mazar-e-Sharif, Balkh province, started late Saturday night and ended on Sunday night, nearly 20 hours after security forces surrounded the residence of Nizamuddin Qaisari, the former police chief of Faryab’s Qaisar district. The house was in Police District 5 (PD5) of Mazar-e-Sharif.
Gen. Mohammad Ajmal Fayez, the provincial police chief, claimed that "150 illegally-armed" men affiliated with Qaisari had recently "destabilized the security situation in the city" and therefore an arrest warrant was issued.
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[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces ...established in 2007 with the intent of taking one conventional infantry kandak (battalion) from each of the regional ANA corps, giving them special training and equipment, and reorganizing based on the U.S. Army Rangers. Each battalion is assigned to one of the six regional corps. The commandos comprise 7% of the Afghan National Security Forces but conduct 70% to 80% of the fighting... rescued 12 civilians from a Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... prison during a raid in southern Uruzgan province, the Afghan military said Monday.
According to a statement released by Special Operations Corps, the Special Forces conducted the raid in Shaheed Hasas district.
The statement further added that the Special Forces also killed 3 Talibs, arrested 5 others and confiscated 310 kgs of opium and a cycle of violence during the raid.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the operation so far.
Uruzgan is among the volatile provinces in South of Afghanistan where Talibs are actively operating in some of its districts and frequently carry out terrorist related activities.
[American Thinker] Adam Schiff almost could give chutzpah lessons to James Comey. "Shameless" doesn't seem fully adequate to the job of describing his self-righteousness in the face of his phoniness and outright lies. It would be funny if it were not for the grave consequences of his perfidy. Appearing on the Sunday morning talk shows, he fell back on the Sgt Schultz defense ‐ that he just didn't know the facts, but with no apology for acting on false information. That is total BS, as Steve Scalise pointed out on Twitter:
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Censure: The House can discipline and punish its members for "disorderly behavior (censure, expulsion, etc." according to the Constitution. I'd be surprised if the House would do this in the current political climate.
[NYPOST] An incorrigible subway perv racked up his 63rd arrest last week for allegedly groping a female straphanger ‐ just over a month after completing an 11-year prison stint for similar crimes, authorities said Monday.
Freddie Johnson, 61, allegedly ground his groin against a 27-year-old woman’s rear aboard a 5 train rumbling northbound near Lower Manhattan’s Fulton Street on Dec. 11, according to cops.
The skeeved straphanger tried to move elsewhere in the car, but Johnson allegedly followed her, again pressed himself against her and grabbed her rear, police said.
Johnson was busted by cops at Grand Central a short time later, marking his 63rd arrest for a sexual attack against a woman in the subway system ‐ but the first since his Nov. 6 release from custody after serving 11 years for a persistent sexual abuse conviction, according to police sources and prison records.
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"Will you still need me
Will you still heed me
When I'm [busted for number] sixty-four..."
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My guess is that the guy did this on purpose in order to go back to prison.
I note a lot of released long term prisoners cannot function/survive outside of prison and as a result, commit crimes and allow themselves to be send back to prison.
[NYPOST] A New Jersey man has been arrested over a series of disturbing YouTube videos in which he said he wanted to kill blacks, Christians and soldiers ‐ and even burned to death a parakeet, according to authorities.
Mostafa Hussaini, 34, of Totowa, was arrested by federal agents in Florida after Miami cops were alerted to death threats made on his YouTube channel while he appeared to be staying in the Sunshine State, according to court documents.
"Imagine burning a black person, because I don’t like black people," he says in one video posted on Dec. 8, during which he poured gasoline onto an open grill in a public space, according to the documents.
"This gasoline, imagine burning some black soldiers ‐ they are going to look very black," he said in the recording, claiming to be able to "burn thousands, millions of them."
In other footage, Hussaini is seen at a car dealership bragging about how vehicles can be used in mass killings ‐ while another shows him encouraging people to carry firearms "everywhere" in Miami.
"If you have a machine gun, bring your machine gun," he says in the video, according to prosecutors.
"I don’t like blacks, Spanish, some white, but there is no whites in Miami," he added.
In another posted in October, he even burned a parakeet to death ‐ naming it "Jesus" as a symbol of the Christians he wants to kill, according to the documents.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Iraqi intelligence forces, led by the 16th Division, carried out a successful operation to dismantle an Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) cell in the Nineveh Governorate of northwestern Iraq on Monday.
"The military intelligence penetrated and dismantled a terrorist cell and apprehends all its elements in Ayman djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... ," the Ministry of Defense said in their statement.
According to the Ministry of Defense, the intelligence forces were able to penetrate and dismantle the terrorist cell, which consisted of eight Islamic State members.
"The specific operation was carried out based on accurate intelligence information," the Ministry said, pointing out that the Military Intelligence Division detachments of the 16th Division were able to coordinate with the intelligence of the Nineveh Operations Command and the 75th Infantry Intelligence Brigade to penetrate and dismantle a terrorist cell.
"All members of the cell were wanted by the judiciary under fundamental arrest warrants, according to the provisions of Article 4 terrorism," they would add.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Algeria’s constitutional council Monday released final presidential election results, confirming victory for Abdelmadjid Tebboune, albeit on a low turnout.
Tebboune, once a prime minister under Abdelaziz Bouteflika ...10th president-for-life of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and served on his third or four terms. When he announced for the fifth, or maybe it was the sixth, visibly doddering, a grateful nation rose up in its wrath and threw him out... -- who resigned under huge pressure from protests in April -- officially won 58.13 percent in Thursday’s election.
The figure was little changed from the 58.15 percent in the provisional results, which had already negated any need for a second round.
His nearest challenger, Abdelkader Bengrina, won 17.4 percent of the vote.
The turnout was 39.88 percent, according to the constitutional council, the lowest since the advent of pluralism.
Huge demonstrations have continued since Bouteflika stepped down, with protesters staunchly oppposing the poll, which they saw as a ploy by the establishment to shore up its waning power.
All five candidates approved by authorities to run had links to the former president, including another of his former prime ministers, Ali Benflis.
Maghreb expert and historian Karima Direche told AFP at the weekend she believed turnout may have been less than 20 percent.
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[NYPOST] Even teenage Nobel Peace Prize winners get the blues.
Malala Yousafzai ...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She is esteemed as an ambassador of international good will, even though she can't go home lest some fellow in a turban shoots her in the head again... , the youngest Peace Prize winner in history (at 17), education activist, author of "I Am Malala" and founder of the Malala Fund, devoted to raising money for education programs, revealed to Teen Vogue that she has struggled with depression and other mental health issues.
But her internal battles are understandable. After all, the 22-year-old Oxford University sophomore first hit the international spotlight after suffering a near-fatal gunshot to the head delivered by a Taliban ...Arabic for students... terrorist who was upset with her exposing political issues in her home country of Pakistain when she was 14.
"There are so many things in the world; a lot of them are really depressing," Yousafzai told Teen Vogue, adding that she deals with downers by discussing them with friends and her parents. "What we need to do is remain positive because our sadness can’t change the world."
And changing the world is what the social-media firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... is all about. Most prominently, Yousafzai relentlessly campaigns for girls to be properly educated. Besides ranking as a pure and simple human right, she pointed out to Teen Vogue schooling for females makes financial sense as well.
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She's not fooling anybody. The taliban may've shot her but the proper reaction of such a victim would have been to denounce islam. It has been argued that she remains muslim to influence an reform her society from within, and greatly helps the cause of women. But all her talk of the 'right islam' and 'extremist islam' has only helped lawfarers and infiltrators in western society. Her best friends are still hard core muslims and activists and she's been known to speak for paleos and rohingyas. Also see this :
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Her father was a student activist and now works for the groups seeking to bring moderate thinking to Pakistain. A voice of reason really. A lot of the revolutionary zeal required to shrug off the current system can be found in marxist ideas, so the Pakhtun Students' Union and others may use that. Also, he may lean left only because from the Pakistan State's perspective, it is itself a right-wing state. One man's left is another man's right and all that.
She may not be a villain, but whatever force seeks to establish islam as a religion of peace in the public eye, equating its ethic with feminism and modernity, is unwittingly dangerous.
She represents the insane feminist that says 'It's my right to wear a hijab and submit to sharia !'
[ALMASDARNEWS] 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... may acquire the Russian Su-57 stealth fighter jet in the future to bolster their air force’s capabilities and increase their military’s overall strength, a new report from Bulgarian Military News read on Monday.
"Acquiring small numbers of elite fighters, possibly coupled with retiring of multiple older squadrons, could provide the most cost effective means for Iran to modernise its aerial warfare capabilities. Such an approach would be far from unprecedented. Russia and Vietnam both cut the size of their fighter fleets in the Cold War’s aftermath due to budgetary constraints, but invested in small numbers of elite air superiority fighters to provide a qualitative deterrent rather than a quantitative one," the publication said.
The website said the Su-57 could be a possibility at this juncture because Iran is facing heavy financial burdens due to the ongoing sanctions that have been imposed on the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
"Perhaps the only fighter on offer for export which is capable of providing the capabilities Iran will require is the Russian Su-57 next generation air superiority fighter, which entered serial production in July 2019 and is currently being marketed to clients worldwide," they continued.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... according to the publication, if they were to order a full strength squadron, this could set the Iranian government back at least $3 billion, not including the operational costs for maintaining these new warplanes.
In the past few months, several reports have surfaced about Iran’s flirtation with the S-400 system, which is comparable in costs with the Su-57.
"The cost would be similar to that of three S-400 regiments, but the contribution two dozen Su-57 fighters could make to Iran’s defences ‐ equipped with hypersonic air to air missiles and next generation avionics and electric warfare systems ‐ would arguably be greater," the website said.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] In the wake of a series of attacks on US military bases in Iraq that prompted Washington to blame Iran, Baghdad has warned against "an escalation."
On Friday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed in a statement that 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... was providing "lethal aid and support to third parties in Iraq and throughout the region."
The White House, however, has offered no evidence to support its charge against Tehran.
According to a statement from the office of Iraq’s prime minister, US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper on Monday "expressed his concern" over the strikes in a telephone call with outgoing Prime Minister Adel Abdel-Mahdi.
In response, the Iraqi premier "called on everyone to spare no effort to prevent an escalation that will threaten all parties," the statement added.
"Unilateral decisions will trigger negative reactions that will make it more difficult to control the situation and will threaten Iraq’s security, illusory sovereignty and independence," Abdel-Mahdi said.
"If the Iraqi government or state weakens, this will exacerbate escalation and chaos," Abdel Mahdi told Esper.
Two Katyusha rockets targeted a compound near the Baghdad International Airport, which houses US troops, on Thursday. It was the 10th such assault since late October.
Another attack on December 9 on the same base maimed five members of Iraqi counterterrorism forces.
The United States has recently reinforced its security at the embassy in Baghdad, according to an Iraqi security source, who said "a convoy of 15 American vehicles each transporting armored trucks and weapons entered the Green Zone."
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So they attack you, and then warn against "escalation" - sounds familiar.
[PJMEDIA] Yelling and screaming and interrupting people while they eat dinner or try to have an event is the Democrats' favorite activity ‐ until it's used on them.
Adam Schiff ...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation"... (D-Calif.) hosted a town hall event celebrating a bill recognizing the Armenian genocide Saturday. His remarks came to a screeching halt when protesters began to jeer and chant "LIAR" and "you're going to jail!" at him. It was beautiful. Many people in the room seemed confused as to why people were protesting the shampeachment clown show. This is not surprising to anyone who only watches mainstream news, which makes it appear that Americans hate Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... . At least one protester made sure to point out several times that they were not there to protest the Armenian people being recognized but to protest Schiff and the impeachment of the people's president.
The interruption caused people in the crowd to turn on the protesters and members of the crowd attacked. You can see in the video at least one man was physically assaulting the Trump supporters without being retaliated against and the police refused to arrest him. The protesters can be seen and heard on camera asking the crowd to stop hitting and attacking them and stealing their signs and flags. Two elderly men fight over a Trump flag, falling to the ground. At one point, a woman with the protesters holding a camera is attacked by a man in the crowd. It's ugly.
Imagine the outrage there would be in the press if anyone attacked the left-wing protesters who chased Ted Cruz and his wife out of a restaurant or if Tucker Carlson had assaulted protesters outside his house. We would never hear the end of the "violent right" in that scenario. (Example: the massive overreaction to Proud Boys scuffling with Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... in a street brawl. Somehow only the Proud Boys got blamed for the violence when Antifa pulls that crap all the time.) But what do we hear in the mainstream press about this event?
The Los Angeles Times said, "When some in the audience asked them to refrain from yelling, scuffles broke out throughout the room." They did not identify who started the "scuffles" which should tip you off to who did it.
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana-1905)
Keep stoking them fires. The interesting aspect of 'civil wars' is that they are very uncivil. Civility usually returns after large quantities of blood are spilled.
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When you weaponize protest making "Peaceful Petition == Street Riots" you will inevitably reap the whirlwind. There is no way to persuade them to put down the club and the molotov cocktail except "a whiff of grapeshot" ... unfortunately.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Ottoman Turkish authorities must address shortcomings in tackling money laundering and terrorism financing or face being added to a "grey list" of countries with inadequate financial controls, according to a global money laundering watchdog.
In a report issued on Monday, the Gay Paree-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) highlighted gaps in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s efforts to prevent financing of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Out of 11 areas evaluated, Turkey was deemed to require major or fundamental improvements in nine. The report’s findings mean Ankara will be put under observation for a year, and could be added to the grey list if it does not make improvements.
The watchdog said Turkey should make "fundamental improvements in measures for freezing assets linked to terrorism, terrorist organizations and financiers."
Turkey had a low rate of conviction for terrorism financing, the report said, pointing to data it said was provided by authorities showing more than 6,000 people were prosecuted in 2017 but only 115 convicted.
Ankara should also improve efforts to prevent "the raising, moving and using of funds for weapons of mass destruction", the report said, adding that Turkey was slow in following up UN Security Council resolutions relating to Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... Turkey says it abides by all international laws and United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... resolutions.
The report also called on Turkey to strengthen its use of financial intelligence in money laundering cases and develop a national strategy for investigating and prosecuting different types of money laundering.
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A Lebanese architect who graduated from Yale University confirms to Al Arabiya English he is suffering from two broken ribs following an altercation with soldiers during protests in Beirut.https://t.co/jC090uxHZ5
[KLIF] Beto O’Rourke; ...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Beto is a Latino nickname for people whose names end in "erto," like "Roberto" or "Alberto." He is seeking the Dem nomination for President in 2020 because he has nice hair and lots of teeth. He was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of a prep school and Columbia University, which is not in Texas. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after defeating eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. He declined to seek re-election in 2018, instead running for the Senate against Republican Ted Cruz, running a campaign that drew national attention because of his skateboarding skills. A few months after he lost, he announced his campaign for President... isn’t running for Senate again, and Democrats who have unusually high hopes for Texas in 2020 are facing an unsettled landscape. There’s no clear frontrunner among a dozen Democrats challenging Republican incumbent John Cornyn. None have raised big money and most candidates remain widely unknown.
O’Rourke narrowly lost to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz last year and his presidential bid flamed out in November. Democrats urged the former El Paso congressman to run again for Senate, but the deadline to get on the 2020 ballot in Texas came and went this week.
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maybe he's planning on becoming an Instagram star?
Does he still have his skateboard?
Or maybe he'll just live off of his wife's inheritance?
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Or maybe he'll just live off of his wife's inheritance?
Maybe the wife or her parents said no more funding for his vanity project.
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He'll change his mind after a few weeks because, like Hillary!, sooo many people (are alleged to) have 'urged' him to run again. Plus it will keep his name in the spotlight, for whatever fleeting, redeeming value it has to the fake Mexican.
Our reporter: Heavy shelling by Turkish military & affiliated armed groups on Qiz-Ali village, south-west of Tal-Abyad. Gunshots from the Turkish border side targeting village of Gharib, eastern Kobani. pic.twitter.com/W1mypHxvKN
I was looking something up, and came across a report in the archive about the professor who mentored that proud communist at West Point being placed on administrative leave in 2017. Naturally, I wondered what happened to him afterward. Herewith the rest of the story:
Former West Point professor Rasheed Hosein, assistant professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic history and mentor of former Army Ranger and West Point graduate Spenser Rapone, turned his energy to other avenues after being placed on administrative leave for having encouraged Rapone and other select students to develop unhealthy attitudes. Please do not comment on his LinkiedIn page, dear Reader, or in any other way disturb his tranquility — I post this just to close the book on another attempt by the Obama crowd to march through the institutions.
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Assistant professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic History There is more work history, but we don’t really care what he did before he became a West Point professor, dear Reader. And those who do can go look.
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His academic credentials were solid. Hard to do better than U Chicago for Middle Eastern and Islamic History.
As to Rapone, if this nutjob didn't display any commie tendencies prior to being nominated by his Member of Congress and accessing the Academy, then it's really unlikely that anything different could have been done.
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Thought the same thing when I read it. Resume definitely worthy of the Bab Bee. Seriously, who would call attention to this with such a bloated moniker. It's an honorable job so own it and swallow your pride.
[THEFEDERALIST] Robert Powell, the husband of Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, D-Fla., reportedly took $700,000 from a Ukrainian oligarch named Igor Kolomoisky. Mucarsel-Powell sits on the House Judiciary Committee, the committee that drafted two articles of impeachment against 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...... for his alleged abuse of power with regards to Ukraine.
In 2018, the Daily Beast reported that a number of businesses linked to Kolomoisky hired Powell as an attorney. One of those firms paid Powell at least $700,000 over two years, according to public records.
The Miami Herald reported Powell was working for companies tied to Kolomoisky for 10 years. Powell made most of his money in the two years leading up to his wife’s election in 2018.
Kolomoisky has been accused of contract killings and embezzlement in the past. Yet, in 2018 when Mucarsel-Powell was running for her seat, she did not see her husband’s work as relevant to her campaign.
"Debbie Mucrasel-Powell is running for Congress, not her husband. To imply that Debbie has anything to do with her indirect shareholder of a parent company that once employed her husband is an enormous stretch," said Michael Hernandez, senior communications advisor for her campaign in 2018.
While Mucrasel-Powell may have convinced her constituents that her husband’s work is unrelated, it is a clear conflict in the current impeachment of Trump. Mucarsel-Powell voted to impeach Trump.
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Ukraine = Uniparty's Pinata.
Dems, you don't really want this slime to emerge from your impeachment Shitshow, do you?
Can we stop treating Ukraine as a political football and source of wealth for shi!tty politicians, and start taking Russia's security concerns in the region seriously?
One of the great things about the Trumpening is that masks are coming off, facades are being ripped down, and we are getting a glimpse of how the game is played.
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Re #7: The comment "One of the great things about the Trumpening is that masks are coming off" reminds me of a passage from Luke Chapter 2: "a sign that will be spoken against, so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed."
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#7 SteveS One of the great things about the Trumpening is that masks are coming off, facades are being ripped down, and we are getting a glimpse of how the game is played.
Truer words were never spoken.
A rare moment in history when the broader society recognizes that it's being led by corrupt and mendacious morons whose absurd rhetoric has no connection to reality.
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"Sanctuary city" = No sanctuary/safe place from illegal alien thugs and criminals
"Religion of Peace" = Doctrine of terror
"God's children" = devil's spawn
"Diversity makes us strong" = uncontrolled unskilled immigration destroys our working class, our communities, our public schools, our hospitals, our rule of law, our ...
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"Russkies are spying on us and subverting elections!!!" = Comey's/Brennan's/Obama's intel agencies are spying on their opponents and subverting elections
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] India’s foreign ministry said on Monday that 20 of its nationals had been kidnapped from an oil tanker in West African waters. “Our Mission in Abuja has taken up the matter with the Nigerian authorities, as also with the authorities of the neighboring countries,” the ministry said in a statement.
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[Jpost] The donation brings this year's total up to $40 million, to be spent on education and health services. After the Hamasniks dip their beaks
The Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... Fund For Development (QFFD) and the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Relief and Works Agency for Paleostine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) have signed an agreement which will see Qatar contribute $20.7 million toward providing basic services to Paleostinians in Syria.
The amount brings the total contributed by the Qatar Fund up to $40m. this year, representing a 20% drop on last year’s total figure of $50m. The figure made Qatar one of the top ten donors last year, providing materials for 711 UNRWA schools, and reaching 530,000 students.
The agreement was signed by QFFD director-general Khalifa bin Jassim al-Kuwari, and acting UNRWA commissioner-general Christian Saunders.
"The State of Qatar and the Qatar Fund for Development are demonstrating once again their commitment to supporting Paleostine refugees," said Saunders. "This generous donation to the UNRWA operations and activities in Syria comes at a time of intense financial challenge for the Agency. We are truly grateful for this additional funding and look forward to further expanding the cooperation between UNRWA, the QFFD and the State of Qatar in 2020 and beyond."
This year’s funds will once again go toward education for Paleostinians, in particular vocational and technical education and training. It will also fund basic health services for 445,000 Paleostinians in Syria.
Kuwari, said, "This agreement is an affirmation of the steadfast and firm position of the State of Qatar regarding the Paleostinian issue and the State of Qatar’s special interest in the education and health sector, believing in their importance and their role in building a decent life for brothers in Paleostine.
He added: "Furthermore, the leadership of the State of Qatar has exerted significant efforts in development and humanitarian aid sectors in order to serve the Paleostinian people in a sustainable manner. We support the pivotal role played by UNRWA and we are confident that UNRWA will use these resources in the optimally."
Boris Johnson to pass anti-BDS law - “#BDS is antisemitic and should be treated as such," Lord @EricPickles said, explaining that the new law will not allow public bodies to work with those who boycott, divest from or sanction Israel in any way.” https://t.co/izggnesvKK
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Clever Chuckie is assuming the Senate Pubs will vote it down, without a trial. So he can claim, "They wouldn't even give it a fair trial!"
I waver between the Senate 'laughing it out of town' or a three-month long trial. At the moment, because Chuck wants 'a fair trial', I think he should have it.
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I used to be of the opinion that I wanted a trial with witnesses and disclosure. Now I'm of the mindset that I want an acquittal up front followed by investigations. Why?
1. Do the investigations not in the public eye followed by full disclosure (yeah I know...) Don't tie it to impeachment..would just drag it on.
2. A trial is presided over by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court...one John Glover Roberts Jr. and I don't trust him not to screw us over.
Make no mistake: Schumer is hoping for a long trial in which he and his Senate caucus can paralyze the federal government and give left-wing groups the time to agitate against the GOP Senate, much as they unsuccessfully tried to derail the confirmation hearings of current Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
McConnell, the president, and the overwhelming majority of the GOP Senate caucus have already gone on record against impeachment and against the charges brought against the president through impeachment.
They tend to favor a speedy trial in the Senate so that the government can get back to doing the business of the people.
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Consider this. Knowing that they have a monumental loser in the impeachment outcome in the Senate, and that the motive has always been to dirty up Trump with the vague charges anyway, a new strategy is emerging that is the best political outcome from this for a party with terrible candidates for the 2020 presidential contest. What if Schumer’s proposal is an intentional deal breaker, allowing them to pass impeachment in the House but refuse to transmit it to the Senate because of “doubts about GOP integrity “. They have a looming story of a corrupt president for the 2020 election without ever having it considered and exposed for the codswallop it actually is. They get the political value and never get exposed for their seditious intent.
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Any fair minded judge in the land would laugh these bogus charges out of court. Warthog is right. Leave the investigations and court trials to Mr. Barr.
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My opinion is that if the trial goes long Schumer will be begging to have it cut short. An endless procession of 'no quid-pro-quo' followed by actual evidence of what happend is not something the Dems want competing with their primary.
I know it's a bad time of year, but the fund has gone low. It's been four months, and I admit I spent part of it on on non-essentials. Well, I guess hosting is essential, but you know what I mean.
I sincerely thank those of you who make regular monthly donations.
I have a PayPal account set up that's supposed to cover hosting, hardware purchases, and occasionally beer or strong drink. I used to have an Amazon account for those who couldn't stand PayPal, but Amazon long ago decided I wasn't a good cause and dumped me. I've looked at other approaches, but none is quite as convenient (for me, anyway) as Paypal, meaning I'm either too dumb or too impatient to navigate the sign-up process.
The server's been up for 32 days as of tonight, since the last restart. That was associated with securing it. I upgraded from Debian 8 to 9, and most of the time it just loafs along now. It's hard to believe that I haven't laid physical eyes on it since July, 2016. Inevitably it's gonna crash someday, which is going to be a pain. I've moved to Delaware, so I'm not living twenty minutes away anymore. I was replacing hardware every three years, but this one feels more solid than any other one so far. Still, I'm going to buy its successor and start sync'ing it at some point after the new year.
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Thank you for all you do to make Rantburg for us, Fred. My envelope will be in the mail after I wake up today.
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You got it. Merry and Happy to you, Fred!
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Hey Fred, have you ever looked into hosting on an Amazon EC2 instance? They are pretty easy to set up and maintain. That might save you some $ and headaches. Thanks again for all you've done! Merry Christmas!
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Leb’s possible pursuit of assistance from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank is credit positive and reduces the risk of extreme macroeconomic instability, Moody’s said on Monday.
"Without technical and financial support from the IMF, World Bank and international donors, a scenario of extreme macroeconomic instability - in which a debt restructuring occurs with an abrupt destabilization of the currency peg, resulting in very large losses for private investors - is increasingly likely," the ratings agency said in a note.
Caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri ...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.... discussed on Thursday the possibility of technical assistance from the IMF and World Bank in drawing up a plan to rescue the economy from a worsening crisis.
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[Townhall] Clearly Greta Thunberg is being exploited by her cynical puppetmasters, but equally clearly she’s a tiresome, bizarre Marxist scold whose exploitation of the hapless dummies who buy into the climate change hoax is part of what is an increasingly violent plot to undermine capitalism and freedom. Recently, the cretins at TIME, which shockingly still exists in 2019, named her "Person of the Year." That’s appropriate, since 2019 has been a very annoying year.
In 2029, after the world hasn’t ended but her usefulness has, she’ll be a Jeopardy question and probably shacked up with an unemployed performance artist named Björn in an Oslo suburb. Fun fact: "Greta Thunberg" is Swedish for "Cindy Sheenhan."
But today, we’re all supposed to fall over ourselves over Pippi Longnagging ‐ at least that’s what our betters command ‐ yet it’s unclear why. Teenagers are notoriously ignorant, and ones spewing recycled Marxism are the worst of all.
...Trump mocked her and a zillion pearls were clutched. How dare you...criticize the Luddite pest who presumes to tell you how to live, leveraging the full benefit of her nearly 17 years of experience to explain to you how stuff should be. How dare you!
...The other day, this malignant muppet "told cheering protesters ... 'we will make sure we put world leaders against the wall' if they fail to take urgent action on climate change." Now, maybe her English is bad, or maybe she’s just ignorant, but then again the murder of opponents is the Marxist way. Marxist? St. Greta? Well, let’s take a look at what was carved on the tablets she recently brought down from Mount Socialism:
... science demands it," ... the climate crisis is not just about the environment. It is a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of political will. Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fueled it. We need to dismantle them all. Our political leaders can no longer shirk their responsibilities."
Wait, "the science demands" that we "dismantle" all our "[c]olonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression?" Now, what science exactly is that? Is it geology? Physics? Phrenology maybe?
...Everyone who isn’t an idiot knows the climate change hoax was never about "science." That’s a hack lie they use to shut you up when you point out that the ice age, floods, and mass polar bear die-offs they are always promising never, ever seem to happen. It’s a deliberate scam that blends leftism, hysterical hyperbole, and outright fraud into a gooey pudding designed to fill the spiritual void in empty-souled western suckers while providing a tool for our global leftist establishment to steal more of our money and freedom.
...Now, Greta clearly believes all the silliness she is regurgitating, and she will certainly be sad when we ignore it. And that’s too bad. Her feelz are utterly immaterial. In fact, the sadder she gets, the freer we are.
[DAWN] Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa on Monday said that the tragedy of Dhaka's fall provides the lesson that the state should take care of its citizens' rights.
Addressing a ceremony in Islamabad, the outgoing chief justice noted that December 16 reminds the nation of two tragedies ‐ the 1971 secession of then East Pakistain and the 2014 Army Public School attack. "There are some lessons for us in both the tragedies," he remarked.
The chief justice said that the freedom movement of Pakistain had taken roots in West Bengal but later the territory separated itself from the rest of the country because the state failed to take care of the people.
"The fall of Dhaka reflected that the social contract between the state and its citizens was weak."
A state is comprised of the government and the people, and is responsible for ensuring the basic rights of the citizens, the top judge said.
"A lack of provision of basic rights jeopardises the integrity of a state," Justice Khosa emphasised, adding: "The supremacy of the Constitution and the law guarantees the basic rights of citizens."
He noted that governance should be in accordance with the Constitution and the state should ensure that the results of the governance are being delivered to the masses.
Stressing the role of police in the protection of citizens and establishing peace in society, the chief justice said that an impression unfortunately prevailed that police, instead of protecting, violate citizens' rights. "Police are not masters; their duty is to serve the masses," he added, expressing the hope that police reforms will continue.
Talking about the APS tragedy, Justice Khosa said that the National Action Plan (NAP) was devised in the aftermath of the carnage and the entire nation had adopted the plan.
"We can perform the best and achieve best results if we get united on the same agenda," he observed.
The chief justice said that reforms in the criminal justice system were a part of the plan and the judiciary took several measures in this regard.
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[PRESSTV] Fresh violence has broken out in Hong Kong as the Chinese territory’s leader visits the mainland for talks with Beijing leaders on the situation in the financial hub.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam left the city for Beijing on Saturday for a four-day visit to discuss the political and economic situation in the city, which has been rocked by turbulent protests since June.
During a regular duty visit on Monday, Lam met with Prime Minister Li Keqiang, who called for the necessity of stopping chaos and violence in Hong Kong, which according to him is not yet out of its "dilemma."
Li said that Lam’s government "must continue its efforts, end violence and stop the chaos in accordance with the law and restore order."
The two had formerly met in Shanghai in early November when the president said he had "high trust" in Lam.
Xi vows support for Hong Kong leader, police
Lam then sat down for talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, who hailed the Hong Kong leader’s courage to govern the Asian financial hub in these "most difficult" times.
"The situation in Hong Kong in 2019 was the most complex and difficult since its return to the motherland," Xi told local media in brief comments before the closed-door session.
Xi further pledged "unwavering" support for Lam as well as Hong Kong’s law enforcement forces, expressing hope for unity to get the city back on the right path.
Lam had said that the purpose of her visit was to provide Beijing with "a full account of what has happened in Hong Kong over the past year."
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Whoa, she actually made it there alive?? Still has to make it out, then back, but I had a chip on no good horrible car wreck.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... is firing back against the U.S. congress for their recent bill that recognized the 1915 Genocide of Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman authorities.
According to The Independent, Erdogan threatened to recognize the mass killing of Native Americans by Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an settlers as genocide in a tit-for-tat move against the U.S. congress resolution.
Speaking on the pro-government A Haber news channel, he said: "We should oppose [the US] by reciprocating such decisions in parliament. And that is what we will do.
"Can we speak about America without mentioning [Native Americans]? It is a shameful moment in US history."
Erdogan, who has not backed down to U.S. threats of sanctions, has vowed to not remain silent over this recent move by Capitol Hill.
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I suppose you can't be a ruler of Muslims without acquiring megalomania.
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ummmm... somebody should tell him that 98% of Americans have no idea who he is nor care about native Americans, past or present. (...benefits of our educational system and media???)
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Gee Tippy, you seem to have missed this is preached openly in every college and university in America. Do your universities and colleges do the same on the Armenian genocide? /rhet question
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Aleppo Governorate erupted in violence this evening when the jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS) began shelling the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) areas in and around Aleppo city.
According to a local source, the jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham have heavily targeted the predominately Shi’i towns of al-Zahra’a and Nubl in northern Aleppo, along with several sites inside the capital city, including the al-Khalidiyah District.
In response, the Syrian Arab Army and Elite Republican Guard have unleashed their own barrage of missiles and artillery shells on the western countryside of Aleppo, which is predominately under the control of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham.
The two sides are now trading heavy artillery along the western Aleppo front-lines, with some reports saying the Syrian Army and HTS are now trading attacks in the southern countryside of the governorate.
The Aleppo Governorate has recently experienced an increase in violence after the arrival of the Rouse the Believers jihadist coalition, which was reported to have moved their forces from rural Latakia to the Aleppo and Idlib governorates.
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Something for everyone to remember next time someone tries to scare you with the Kuznetsov. Always think about who is speaking, and what their goals are by waving about a frightening apparition.
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You can't practice operations if you never leave port, and if you can't practice operations you're at best a one-shot platform.
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The key difference between China and Russia is that China has the budget to (1) operate the carrier the way it would in combat and (2) make all kinds of modifications to fix the problems in the original design. Russia does not. At $250b, it's likely the Chinese have a higher budget than the US, when salary differences are factored in.
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Oakland is looking for a cruise ship to house homeless; this might be an alternative. Plus a little 'self-help' project to get her cleaned up and livable ( or at least suitable to crap in the passageways)
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Would it be considered cruel to tow to the 12.5 mile line, open a couple of seacocks and tell the inhabitants it is their job to bail (or else). Might learn some job skills....
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Oakland is looking for a cruise ship to house homeless; this might be an alternative. Plus a little 'self-help' project to get her cleaned up and livable ( or at least suitable to crap in the passageways)
Why rent a cruise ship when you can bus them to Newark (NJ), where they can be housed affordably in a vibrant urban environment? That's what NYC is doing. For once, I'm impressed at De Blasio's creativity.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Iraq’s Hashd al-Sha’abi (Popular Mobilization Units) forces are currently engaged in a fierce battle with 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.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) near the city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... in the Ninawa (Nineveh) Governorate.
According to the official media wing of Hashd al-Sha’abi, their forces engaged an Islamic State terrorist contingent after the latter was caught trying to sneak through the al-Khodor Desert south of Mosul.
In a short video released from their official Twitter account, Hashd al-Sha’abi can be seen taking on the Islamic State fighters this evening
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A South African photojournalist was released this week after being kidnapped in northern Syria nearly three-years-ago.
According to reports, the photojournalist, Shiraaz Mohammed, was released in northern Syria after being kidnapped by unknown murderous Moslem group in northern Idlib in 2017.
"Shiraaz Mohammed is FREE. The details are sketchy but we were told that Shiraaz ’escaped’ from captivity and at some point was assisted by "friendly" people, who were very aware of his case, given the huge publicity Gift of the Givers initiated worldwide around Shiraaz’s capture. He has since been handed over to Ottoman Turkish Intelligence," The South African daily reported.
"We have informed Shiraaz’s family, Minister Naledi Pandor and Consular Services at DIRCO. All have acknowledged our messages. We now wait for the South African government to make contact with Ottoman Turkish Intelligence to bring Shiraaz home as soon as practically possible."
According to the publication, Mohammed was working as a photojournalist with the group, Gift of Givers, when he was kidnapped by a terrorist group in the town of Darkush near the Ottoman Turkish border.
"The two drivers that were captured with Mohammed were immediately released, but the South African photojournalist was kept as a bargaining tool," the publication said.
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Shiraaz Mohammed is FREE
Not to be confused with Shiraz Australian box wine which goes for about $15 US.
ATLANTA (AP) ‐ A federal judge is holding a hearing Monday on Georgia’s planned mass purge of its voting rolls, following an emergency request from a voting rights group founded by Democrat Stacey Abrams. Went Judge-shopping for an Obama Appointee
U.S. District Judge Steve Jones had ruled earlier in the day that the purge should be placed on hold until a Thursday hearing, but he later decided to hold the hearing Monday afternoon.
The motion was filed by Fair Fight Action in U.S. District Court, just hours before the secretary of state’s office planned to begin the purge of inactive voter registrations.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in October released a list of over 313,000 voters whose registrations were at risk of being canceled, about 4% of the state’s total registered voters. Notices were mailed in November giving those voters 30 days to respond in order to keep their registration intact. A spokesman for the secretary of state’s office said last week that the purge was set to begin Monday evening.
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A federal judge is allowing Georgia to proceed with a mass purge of its voting rolls planned for Monday evening, but he also scheduled a hearing later in the week to hear more arguments about the matter.
That decision came after a lawyer for the state assured him that if the judge finds later that some people should not have been removed, they can be easily and quickly reinstated.
The United States imposes sanctions on two South Sudanese officials it accused of fomenting conflict, in its latest move to pressure the country's politicians to form a unity government.https://t.co/NoWgesEAHP
Minister of Cabinet Affairs Martin Elia Lomuro and Minister of Defense and Veteran Affairs Kuol Manyang Juuk were blacklisted for their role in perpetuating the conflict by obstructing the peace process, Treasury said in a statement.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A Ottoman Turkish military drone has arrived at a base in northern Cyprus. The drone has been brought in to aid controversial gas exploration near the island.
Ismail Demir, the head of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... ’s Defence Industry Directorate, said the first unarmed Ottoman Turkish drone took off from an airport in Turkey’s western province of Mugla and landed at Gecitkale airport.
The Ottoman Turkish Cypriot cabinet on Friday designated the Gecitkale airport on the island as a base for both unarmed and armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at the request of the Ottoman Turkish government.
Turkey began seeking oil and gas off the coast of Cyprus earlier this year. It has sent two drill ships and an exploration vessel with UAVs escorting them. In response, the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union said the activities were illegal and prepared sanctions against Turkey. Ankara has said the areas in which Greek Cypriot ships are operating are located on its continental shelf or elsewhere in regions where the Ottoman Turkish Cypriot state has rights over any finds.
Cyprus has been divided since 1974. The northern third is run by a Ottoman Turkish Cypriot government and the southern two-thirds by a Greek Cypriot government. There has been debate for years about the ownership of fossil fuels in the eastern Mediterranean, which is thought to be rich in natural gas.
Turkey and Libya signed an agreement last month regarding maritime boundaries in the sea. Greece said Turkey has violated international law as a result of the deal, but Ankara said the deal asserts the country’s rights in the region.
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[Jpost] Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett warned 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... that although it appeared to be establishing a ring of fire around Israel, Syria could be Iran’s Vietnam.
"We need to move from containment to attack," the defense minister said last week.
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Seems far-fetched. Iran uses proxies. Assad is more in control than ever - there's zero chance of his being overthrown. Iran's next door and can easily influence events on the sly and without making huge commitments.
The Iranians hold a lot of cards here. Best to get out entirely.
[PRESSTV] US President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... has threatened former FBI director JamesThe spine of the FBI is the rule of law Comey The disgraced, except in his own mind, former head of the FBI... with "years in jail" over the bureau’s Russia investigation.
The threat came after Comey admitted in an interview with Fox News Sunday that he was "overconfident" when he defended his former agency's use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during a probe into the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.
According to Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s new report, there had been 17 "significant errors and omissions" made by the FBI’s investigative team when applying for a FISA warrant to surveil Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser in 2016.
"He's right, I was wrong," Comey said about how the bureau used the FISA process. "I was overconfident in the procedures that the FBI had built over 20 years. I thought they were robust enough. It’s incredibly hard to get a Fisa and he was right there was real sloppiness. It was not acceptable."
The president followed up by attacking Comey, whom he fired in May 2017, saying he was admitting "because he got caught red-handed."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...a 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 
[Babylon Bee] BILLINGS, MT‐A local snowflake is speaking out after learning that snowflakes are being used to describe overprotected college students who are easily distressed by ideas that do not align with their worldview, sources confirmed.
I hope the Paki's initiate a stay. There may be others involved. 
...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 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...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 
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
[American Thinker] Adam Schiff almost could give chutzpah lessons to James Comey. "Shameless" doesn't seem fully adequate to the job of describing his self-righteousness in the face of his phoniness and outright lies. It would be funny if it were not for the grave consequences of his perfidy. Appearing on the Sunday morning talk shows, he fell back on the Sgt Schultz defense ‐ that he just didn't know the facts, but with no apology for acting on false information. That is total BS, as Steve Scalise pointed out on Twitter:
...10th president-for-life of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and served on his third or four terms. When he announced for the fifth, or maybe it was the sixth, visibly doddering, a grateful nation rose up in its wrath and threw him out...
...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She is esteemed as an ambassador of international good will, even though she can't go home lest some fellow in a turban shoots her in the head again...
...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 
[PJMEDIA] Yelling and screaming and interrupting people while they eat dinner or try to have an event is the Democrats' favorite activity ‐ until it's used on them.
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. 
...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......
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
I know it's a bad time of year, but the fund has gone low. It's been four months, and I admit I spent part of it on on non-essentials. Well, I guess hosting is essential, but you know what I mean.
...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too....
[PRESSTV] Fresh violence has broken out in Hong Kong as the Chinese territory’s leader visits the mainland for talks with Beijing leaders on the situation in the financial hub.
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang 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 
ATLANTA (AP) ‐ A federal judge is holding a hearing Monday on Georgia’s planned mass purge of its voting rolls, following an emergency request from a voting rights group founded by Democrat Stacey Abrams.
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
The disgraced, except in his own mind, former head of the FBI...
