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Breaking The Silence Conference
August 21-24, 2016
“17 Breaking the Silence – Discussion Panel”
(8/23/2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mPvJVpFaX0
Playlist:
“#33 – Update Brazil: Red Jihad and the Communist Strategy”
Terça Livre ~ June 11, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ9wcZqMiNs
Update Brazil Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2wuZQFPMbL8HBud9kY-7PIwMT_1BcLxp
“Enemies of the Catholic Church: Freemasonry, Illuminati, Communism”
John F. McManus ~ December 13, 2015
That was encouraging. Thank-you for posting that.
You are welcome MissPiggy.
Hillary refuses to confirm or deny that a drone strike was planned for Assange to prevent him from releasing info on her. Headline “Clinton manager ‘reticent’ to comment on report Clinton floated drone strike against WikiLeaks”
Link: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/clinton-manager-%e2%80%98reticent%e2%80%99-to-comment-on-report-clinton-floated-drone-strike-against-wikileaks/ar-BBwXRRo?ocid=spartandhp
If there is ever a time you would have wanted to lie, that was probably it. Being wishy-washy about it is basically a tacit admission that they were considering it, or at least she said it. Smart play by Assange since she basically just fucked herself WAY worse than he could have.
Russia builds huge underground shelters in Moscow as it prepares for NUCLEAR WAR with West (express, Oct 4, 2016)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/717295/russia-vladimir-putin-nuclear-way-america-aleppo-west-john-kerry-obama-syria-isis
“RUSSIA has built massive nuclear bunkers capable of providing shelter to Moscow’s 12million people as Vladimir Putin gears up for a devastating nuclear war with the West.
The giant bunkers, which were revealed by Russian officials on Friday, are a response to mounting tensions between the Kremlin and Washington over Russia’s intervention in Syria’s civil war.
The US has accused the former Soviets of launching airstrikes on the Syrian city of Aleppo to prop up President Bashar al-Assad, which have led to the death of thousands of civilians and reduced the city to rubble.
Ruthless Putin has refused to accept responsibility for the airstrikes, which the US has condemned as a violation of international law.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that a US intervention against the Syrian army “will lead to terrible, tectonic consequences not only on the territory of this country but also in the region on the whole”.
Tensions are now at an all-time high as Moscow attracted international condemnation after bombing in eastern Aleppo wiped out one of the city’s largest hospitals in what doctors describe as “deliberate and targeted attacks”.
Ruthless Putin has refused to accept responsibility for the airstrikes, which the US has condemned as a violation of international law.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that a US intervention against the Syrian army “will lead to terrible, tectonic consequences not only on the territory of this country but also in the region on the whole”.
Tensions are now at an all-time high as Moscow attracted international condemnation after bombing in eastern Aleppo wiped out one of the city’s largest hospitals in what doctors describe as “deliberate and targeted attacks”.
Andrew S Weiss, former White House expert of Russia, said: “Cooperation over Syria was the Obama administration’s last and best shot for arresting the downward spiral in the bilateral relationship with Russia.”
He added: “The mistrust and hostility toward the United States by the Russian leadership is real and growing. It is going to be the driving force behind Russian external behaviour for many years to come.”
A war between the US and Russia could prove catastrophic as Russia has more nuclear weapons than the US, with 8,400 warheads, compared to America’s stockpile of 7,500.
Last month, Putin allegedly ordered a 400-square mile facility to be carved into a secluded region of the Ural mountains, from which he could direct the nuclear conflict.”
Ignore the propaganda of the left, Russia never bought into the idea of mutually assured destruction and kept building shelters throughout the entire Cold War. They are just continuing that policy.
MI5 spy nearly BEHEADED in London by twisted Islamic State fighters (express, Oct 4, 2016)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/717310/isis-mi5-spy-beheaded-london-islamic-state-secret-spy-terrorism-mi6-murder
“A FORMER MI5 spy has detailed how he was nearly beheaded by Islamic State militants who lined a flat with plastic sheeting and set up a video camera to record his bloody murder.
The spy had been working on an operation to monitor ISIS jihadis in the UK but did not realise the militants were using counter surveillance to track him.
In new book Soldier Spy, the MI5 agent, who writes under the pen name Tom Marcus, revealed how the jihadis lured him to a dark alleyway as part of a plan to hold him in a north London flat where he was to be brutally butchered.
Marcus claims he foiled the plan in the nick of time and that the flat was raided.
The search found the jihadis had lined the floor with plastic sheeting, and that a black flag, three butchers’ knives and a video camera were found, leading Mr Marcus to deduce that ISIS fighters planned to broadcast his killing…”
Is he FINALLY dead? ISIS mastermind Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ‘POISONED by mystery assassin’ (express, Oct 3, 2016)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/717285/isis-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-poisoned-terrorist-assassin-islamic-state-killing
“ISLAMIC State linchpin Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is reportedly suffering from “severe poisoning” after his food was tainted by a mystery assassin.
The ISIS leader was poisoned alongside three of his commanders after all four consumed spiked meals in the Be’aaj district, southwest of Mosul in Iraq, according to Iraqi news agency WAA.
Al-Baghdadi, who is often credited with creating ISIS, has been rushed to “an unknown location under strict measures” along with his henchmen.
The depraved jihadi group is said to have arrested several suspects who it believes are undermining the self-proclaimed caliphate…”
“ISLAMIC State linchpin Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is reportedly suffering from “severe poisoning” after his food was tainted by a mystery assassin.”
Meh. Food poisoning, (high velocity) lead poisoning, Hellfire enema … whatever it takes.
“The depraved jihadi group is said to have arrested several suspects who it believes are undermining the self-proclaimed caliphate…”
I’m telling yez, this is just the sort of windfall that makes it such an inviting strategy to bump off these jihadist scumsuckers . First there are the internal purges that liquidate (preferably after extended, agonizing torture) those of even slightly questionable loyalty.
Next comes the proverbial “hot-buttered-popcorn” phase, where we all get to sit back and watch various contenders for the throne gleefully exterminate each other as they vie for the crown. Talk about a classic “two-fer”!
Crunch all you want … we’ll make more.
HAVE THAT! Top jihadi ANNIHILATED by US airstrike just hours after blitzing of ISIS chief (express, Oct 4, 2016)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/717299/Sheikh-Abu-al-Faraj-al-Masri-Nusra-Front-al-Qaeda-US-drone-strike-Alepo-Syria-Killed
“A TOP Nusra Front leader has been wiped out by a US drone attack, the warped terror group as confirmed.
Sheikh Abu al Faraj al Masri, who became a prominent member of al-Qaeda’s Syrian offshoot, was killed when the vehicle he was travelling in was hit in Idlib, in the northwest of Syria.
Masri spent years in prison in his native Egypt after plotting with Islamist fanatics but later left for Afghanistan.
Jihadi Abu Mohammad al Shami said: “May God accept him as a martyr who was killed in a Crusader raid.”…”
“Sheikh Abu al Faraj al Masri, who became a prominent member of al-Qaeda’s Syrian offshoot, was killed when the vehicle he was travelling in was hit in Idlib, in the northwest of Syria.”
Not to “drone on” (so to speak … er, type) but it sounds like a classic Hellfire enema to me.
See my above reply for further elucidation.
Meanwhile, to quote my imaginary drill sergeant, “Son, mah heart pumps piss.”
“The Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain said those born into the religion are often frightened of speaking out – and those that do are in danger of attack.”
“It said one former Muslim said she was warned by her mother that she would be killed if she said she no longer believed in Allah
A Government inquiry is under way into sharia councils, courts attached to mosques that adjudicate family disputes according to Islamic law among those who accept their authority. The inquiry was launched by Theresa May when she was at the Home Office. She said at the time that ‘a number of women have reportedly been victims of what appear to be discriminatory decisions’.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3820690/Young-Muslims-quit-faith-live-fear-violent-revenge-Support-group-says-warned-killed-abandon-religion.html
North Korean missile advances expose Japan in two-decade arms race
TOKYO (Reuters) – Successful rocket tests have propelled North Korea ahead in a two-decade long arms race with Japan, leaving Tokyo unsure it could fend off a missile strike by the Pyongyang regime without U.S. help, military sources told Reuters.
Under young leader Kim Jong Un, North Korea has test fired 21 ballistic missiles since the start of the year, an unprecedented burst of activity that has rattled its neighbors and the international community.
“Their progress has been faster than anticipated,” a senior Japanese military commander said. “There is a limit to what our current ballistic missile defense system can achieve,” he added, asking not to be identified because he isn’t authorized to speak to the media.
Planned upgrades to Japan’s ballistic missile defense (BMD) are not due to begin until April at the earliest, while the deployment of new systems designed to destroy incoming warheads could take years to complete.
Constrained by production schedules and tight budgets that limit its ability to accelerate those plans, Japan may instead have to lean more heavily on its U.S. ally to guard against attacks, the sources said.
http://www.oann.com/north-korean-missile-advances-expose-japan-in-two-decade-arms-race-sources/
Philippine leader tells Obama ‘go to hell’, says can buy arms from Russia, China
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday told U.S. President Barack Obama to “go to hell” and said the United States had refused to sell some weapons to his country but he did not care because Russia and China were willing suppliers.
In his latest salvo, Duterte said he was realigning his foreign policy because the United States had failed the Philippines and added that at some point, “I will break up with America”. It was not clear what he meant by “break up”.
During three tangential and fiercely worded speeches in Manila, Duterte said the United States did not want to sell missiles and other weapons, but Russia and China had told him they could provide them easily.
“Although it may sound shit to you, it is my sacred duty to keep the integrity of this republic and the people healthy,” Duterte said.
http://www.oann.com/philippine-leader-tells-obama-go-to-hell-says-can-buy-arms-from-russia-china/
Britain shouldn’t expect to pre-negotiate on Brexit: Merkel ally
BERLIN (Reuters) – Britain should not expect to hold any “pre-negotiations” with the European Union on its exit from the bloc, Germany’s deputy finance minister said, adding that London must keep its borders open if it wants to retain access to the EU’s single market.
Jens Spahn, who is also a senior member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU), welcomed British Prime Minister Theresa May’s announcement on Sunday that by the end of March she would trigger the two-year process to leave the EU.
“First of all, it is good that we have a timetable, so that everyone knows how things will proceed. Everyone knows this will be the mother of all negotiations,” Spahn told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday.
But he played down the prospect of Britain making progress on the outlines of an agreement in any negotiations before the formal exit process is triggered using Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty.
“It is good, where there is any doubt, to talk about timetables and processes,” Spahn said. “But I honestly can’t imagine any pre-negotiations on substance.”
http://www.oann.com/britain-should-not-expect-to-pre-negotiate-on-brexit-german-deputy-finance-minister/
“Britain shouldn’t expect to pre-negotiate on Brexit: Merkel ally”
Is there nothing that this woman can’t do (to accelerate the looming EU catastrophe, that is)?
The surreality involved makes Salvador Dali look like one of those Photorealist painters.
Merkel and her merry band of toxic multicultural apparatchiks need to perform a bit of rope dancing. It is ironic testimony to the EU’s political trajectory that German reunification unquestionably has been the most productive event since the end of WWII. While so many feared a resurgence of Hitlerian attitudes, in fact, much of Germany’s political landscape has been devoted to the abject neutering of that nation’s population (menfolk especially).
Anyone who doubts this should do a search on *sitzpinklers*. Or see: “German men told they can no longer stand and deliver” (http://tinyurl.com/sitzpinklers). A tausend thanks to toxically testosterone-laden Teutons that taunted their tormentors through titillating toons.
But enough of alliteration. Please see: http://tinyurl.com/Bitte-im-Sitzen-pinkeln
Better yet is this uproarious editorial cartoon: http://tinyurl.com/sitzpinklerII
Those in doubt may need to review Sweden’s voluntary emasculation of their heraldic lion:
Army castrates heraldic lion
(see: https://www.thelocal.se/20071213/9398)
>Shemp< Had enough!?!
Anyhoo, youse can see that there's no other endpoint than some serious kinda kerfuffles. As always, Islam (and it's Liberal enablers) constantly make this into a binary situation.
So be it.
Strong ties between Britain and EU in U.S. interest: Kerry
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called on Britain on Tuesday to maintain the closest possible links with the European Union as it negotiates to leave the bloc, saying the unity of Europe was paramount for transatlantic relations.
Speaking in Brussels, Kerry sought to made the case for the European Union despite the rise of anti-EU populist parties and Britain’s vote to exit. He said there could be no place for isolationist policies.
“We need the strongest possible EU, the strongest possible UK and a highly integrated, collaborative relationship between them,” Kerry said in a speech.
“We should never take for granted the good achieved by the unity of Europe,” he said, adding that “some people do so too quickly.”
While he said that the West needed to move on from the British referendum result, he asked: “who could credibly argue that each nation, operating in a vacuum, would somehow be more efficient and effective?”
http://www.oann.com/strong-ties-between-britain-and-eu-in-u-s-interest-kerry-2/
Bill Gross of Janus warns financial markets have become ‘a Vegas casino’
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Global central bank policy makers have turned world financial markets into a casino, thanks to their unprecedented monetary policies, warned bond investor Bill Gross of Janus Capital Group on Tuesday.
“Our financial markets have become a Vegas/Macau/Monte Carlo casino, wagering that an unlimited supply of credit generated by central banks can successfully reflate global economies and reinvigorate nominal GDP growth to lower but acceptable norms in today’s highly levered world,” Gross said in his latest Investment Outlook titled “Doubling Down.”
Gross, who oversees the $1.5 billion Janus Global Unconstrained Bond Fund, recommended Bitcoin and gold for investors who are looking for places to preserve capital.
“At some point investors – leery and indeed weary of receiving negative or near zero returns on their money, may at the margin desert the standard financial complex, for higher returning or better yet, less risky alternatives,” Gross said.
Richard: The socialist governments don’t want any currency they can’t manipulate, they think they can play with the money supply and the interest rates and stimulate the economy. This policy has led to the current stagnate economy, which is in much worse shape then the governments admit. Their manipulation of the money supply, changing the way inflation and growth are calculated and now having central banks purchase banks purchase stocks with money that is backed by nothing has created a massive stock bubble that is going to burst someday. personally I am surprised it hasn’t already.
Indian generals eye six-month campaign in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir – report (RT, Oct 4, 2016)
https://www.rt.com/news/361558-india-pakistan-kashmir-campaign/
“Amid rising Pakistani-Indian tensions over the disputed Kashmir region, Indian generals are reportedly calling on the government to approve a sustained six-month campaign to destroy “terrorist infrastructure” on the Pakistani side of the de-facto border.
“We have to look at a sustained campaign. The terror network is on the back foot, but to really achieve something, we have to look at a medium-term plan, a six-month campaign. A one-off event will not deter them,” a top Indian Army official was quoted by Times of India as telling the country’s government.
The suggestion comes at a time of rising tensions over Kashmir, a mountainous border area that India and Pakistan have been disputing for seven decades. Each party controls part of the region, while claiming sovereignty over all of it. Two of the three wars that the two nations have fought were over Kashmir.
Tensions flared two weeks after a militant attack on an Indian camp left 19 border guards dead. The Indian Army reported launching “surgical strikes against terrorists” last Thursday across the Line of Control (LoC), the militarized de-facto border between the two parts of Kashmir. Pakistan denied that the incursion had occurred, claiming that cross-border shelling from India had killed two Pakistani soldiers.
The situation escalated further after India reported yet another attack in Kashmir that targeted the camp of India’s 46 Rashtriya Rifles in Baramulla on Sunday evening, triggered an Indian manhunt for at least six gunmen involved in the raid, who had retreated under cover of darkness, according to Indian reports.
According to the Times of India report, Indian generals say they have an opportunity to destroy 40 militant “launch pads” hosting over 200 troops if they are given the green light for the operation.
“We have the opportunity right now. Everyone is geared up and we have a much stronger hold on LoC than the other side. This is the time to make an actual difference that will deter cross-border terror support,” an Army official reportedly said.”
This is going to either touch off a much larger war or come real close to touching off one.
Iraqi group demands payments for US invasion after ‘Sue the Saudis for 9/11’ bill passes Congress (RT, Oct 4, 2016)
https://www.rt.com/usa/361518-iraq-invasion-compensation-jasta/
“A US bill allowing the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for damages has prompted an Iraqi lobby group to push the parliament for a law seeking compensation for the American invasion of the country, citing “violations by US forces.”
Following Washington’s example, the Arab Project in Iraq lobby group is now seeking to “ask for compensation from the United States over violations by the US forces following the US invasion that saw the toppling of late President Saddam Hussein in 2003,” Al-Arabiya reported Saturday.
The group – the first to take advantage of the precedent set by the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) – has asked the Iraqi parliament to prepare the lawsuit.
JASTA was passed by US Congress last week. It creates an exception to the sovereign immunity law introduced in 1976, allowing Americans to sue foreign countries for acts of terrorism that kill Americans on US soil.
The passage of JASTA took place after a 97-1 vote by the Senate to override a veto by President Barack Obama. The House vote was 348-77.
The White House was against approving the act, stating that such lawsuits would open the door to legal challenges against US officials in other countries.
Following passage of the legislation, a Saudi Foreign Ministry source rejected the act, claiming it weakens the sovereign immunity of the nation. Russia also slammed the legislation as undermining international law…”
Rich nations ‘shirking’ responsibility to refugees – Amnesty (BBC, Oct 4, 2016)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-37549464
“Amnesty International has accused the world’s wealthiest nations of shirking responsibility towards refugees, saying they host the fewest and do the least.
Ten countries which account for just 2.5% of the global GDP are sheltering more than half the world’s 21 million refugees, says a report by the charity.
Salil Shetty, Amnesty’s secretary general, called for wealthier nations to take in many more people.
Mr Shetty called the UK a “sad example” of the failure to take responsibility.
The UK has accepted about 8,000 Syrian refugees since 2011, according to the UN. The US has taken just 12,000.
And according to recent UN refugee agency data, no Syrian refugees have been resettled by China, Russia or any Gulf states.
By comparison, Jordan, which has a GDP just 1.2% the size of the UK’s, hosts nearly 655,000 Syrian refugees.
With more than 2.7 million refugees in total, Jordan is sheltering more than any other nation. Turkey has taken in more than 2.5 million people; Pakistan 1.6 million; Lebanon more than 1.5 million.
“A small number of countries have been left to do far too much just because they are neighbours to a crisis,” said Mr Shetty.
He added: “If we just share this out, say 60 to 90 countries share the responsibility, we could be in a very different situation. It’s a big problem but it’s a very solvable problem.”
The other nations with the largest refugee populations are:..”
Turkey purges 13,000 police officers over failed coup (BBC, Oct 4, 2016)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37551889
“Turkey has suspended almost 13,000 police officers for their alleged links with the US-based Muslim cleric, Fethullah Gulen.
The latest wave adds to the 100,000 or so civil servants dismissed or suspended since July’s failed coup.
Mr Gulen denies the government’s accusation that he or his supporters orchestrated the coup.
The government in turn rejects claims it is using the coup as an excuse to get rid of its opponents.
It insists those without proven links to the coup will be freed.
More than 2,500 officers whose suspensions were announced on Tuesday were police chiefs, said Turkish national police in a statement…”
German comedian escapes prosecution (BBC, Oct 4, 2016)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37554167
“German prosecutors drop investigation into TV comedian accused of insulting Turkey’s President Erdogan
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version…”
Thanks to overbearing government, there are huge double standards when it comes to free speech. Rulings of the National Labor Relations Board force employers to tolerate racist, sexist, and obscene abuse by strikers against non-striking co-workers. By contrast, a conservative college student was recently arrested for offensive expression towards progressive students that was protected by the First Amendment. This ideological double standard is particularly glaring, because the First Amendment does not prevent private employers from regulating the speech of their employees, but it certainly does prevent the government from arresting people for their speech.
In Consolidated Communications v. NLRB (Sept. 13, 2016), Judge Nina Pillard describes some of the abuse that employers have been prevented from punishing by the NLRB, including conduct like exposing one’s private parts:
http://libertyunyielding.com/2016/10/03/government-double-standards-freedom-speech/
Hot war expanding: Iran-backed Yemen rebels attack UAE ship operating in Red Sea
Although there are things we don’t know about this incident, it’s been confirmed by UAE that a ship was involved in an incident off Yemen, and confirmed by Saudi Arabia that personnel were rescued from a ship off Yemen at dawn on 1 October.
We also know the Emirates operates the ship seen in the attack video posted by Houthi rebels on 1 October (below).
So confidence is warranted in the report that the Houthis attacked the vessel with the rockets seen in the video, and left it badly damaged and in flames, in an area of the Red Sea just nort
Everyone (with the possible exception of some of the leftist supporters) know that this war is going to spread, the question is how fast.
Please read the article above and the one posted below, they are explaining what is happening and why it is happening, J.E. Dyer does her normally excellent job of explaining what is happening. She is confident that Russia can reign in the Mullahs when they get too frisky. I am not, at some point they are going to welcome a strike on Iran to fulfill their end times prophecies.
Obama demonstrates geostrategic incomprehension in webcast with Jewish groups
By J.E. Dyer August 30, 2015
There was a lot to reject in the comments made by President Obama on Friday to the leaders of the Jewish Federations of North America, in a webcast sponsored by JFNA. That’s putting it in the mildest possible way.
But we can gain invaluable perspective from focusing on one particular passage in the Q&A session. It illuminates everything else that’s going on, and exposes the brittle emptiness of Obama’s rhetoric – because it betrays the anachronism of his view of the Middle East and Israeli security. It’s as if Obama doesn’t realize it’s not 2009 anymore.
The topic is the security relationship of the U.S. with Israel: how strong it is, and how it can be reenergized. Here’s Michael Siegal, Chairman of Jewish Federations of North America, asking Obama the question (from the White House transcript emailed after the webcast, which the Chicago Sun-Times has here):
http://libertyunyielding.com/2015/08/30/obama-demonstrates-geostrategic-incomprehension-in-webcast-with-jewish-groups/
At times (NOT!), it’s slightly difficult to distinguish between what is utterly pathetic and absolutely hilarious when these lunatic, cannibal Muslims slaughter each other with such gay (in every sense of the word) abandon.
Vicious, brutal, constant, pervasive, internecine, sectarian, barbaric (did I mention “counterproductive”?), horrific, savage (redundant, I know), cruel, rancorous, inhuman, sadistic, callous, violent, heartless, gloating, jubilant, pitiless … did I leave out “Satanic”?
Despite the fact how countless MILLIONS of peaceful, “moderate” Muslims exist … their collective inability (regardless of any laws dictating capital punishment for blasphemy) to purge whatever internal terrorist factions they harbor makes them irrelevant!
When it comes to the Nazi death camps, moderate Germans were irrelevant!
When it comes to the Holodomor and Soviet gulags, moderate Russians were irrelevant!
When it comes to the Great Leap Forward, moderate Chinese were irrelevant!
When it comes to “Coexistence” (vomit), moderate Muslims are irrelevant!
Islam’s incessant death toll clearly shows how irrelevant “moderate Muslims” are.
Wipe away any illusions you may have and make d@mn sure that Islam pays the price for its incessant bloodshed. Anything less is acquiescence to jihadist depredation. Capisce?
I’ll stop now…
TURKEY ISTANBUL – An art exhibition in Istanbul attacked by a group of people shouting: ‘You can’t drink alcohol here!’
In Istanbul’s Tophane area, opening reception of an art exhibition was attacked by a group of people, who have been alleged to be the residents of the town. The attackers raided the site by shouting ‘you cannot drink alcohol here’. […]
http://www.birgun.net/haber-detay/an-art-exhibition-in-istanbul-attacked-by-a-group-of-people-shouting-you-can-t-drink-alcohol-here-130236.html
Erdogan’s supporters attack exhibition in Istanbul for alcohol consumption
http://kurdishdailynews.org/2016/10/04/erdogans-supporters-attack-exhibition-in-istanbul-for-alcohol-consumption/
Germany: AfD politicians’ cars attacked in Stuttgart
Police were investigating attack on three Alternative for Germany (AfD) politicians’ cars in Stuttgart, Tuesday, after their vehicles had been wrecked overnight.
SOT, Eberhard Brett, Alternative for Germany City Councillor (German): “This happened in the night. The police woke me and told me that my car has been destroyed. Meanwhile someone has claimed responsibility in a letter posted online. It does not matter what your political opinion is, destroying the political opponent’s car, is only a small step from attacking people with a hammer. This simply cannot be. It cannot be that such ruthless morals have now come to Germany.”
‘Clintons stole billions from 2010 Haiti earthquake victims, tried to buy my silence’
By Thomas Madison October 3, 2016
A video that has gone viral provides an intensely powerful, stinging rebuke of the Clintons’ corruption that cannot be ignored, although it certainly has been and will be by the official Democrat Party Communications Bureau, aka the mainstream media.
In the video, which follows, Bernard Sansaricq, former Senate president of Haiti, announces — at a pro-Donald Trump event, no less — that “the world trusted the Clintons to help the Haitian people during their most desperate time of need and they were deceived.”
He goes on to state that a reported $6 billion in relief aid, intended as direct assistance to the 2010 Haitian earthquake victims and for which Bill Clinton was responsible, mysteriously vanished, explaining:
http://libertyunyielding.com/2016/10/03/former-haitian-senate-president-clintons-stole-billions-2010-earthquake-victims-tried-buy-silence/
Don’t expect the LSM to pick up on this one.
>The question I want answered is where did those billions go? They aren’t in the Clinton Foundation or in any bank or investment account that the Clinton’s own. Where did they go and was any tax paid on that money?
Serbia: Refugees begin march from Belgrade to Hungarian border
Around 200 refugees set off on a march from the main bus station in Belgrade on Tuesday with the intention of walking to the Hungarian border.
Serbia: Hundreds of migrants march toward Hungary border to demand its opening
Migrants stranded in Serbia set off on foot from Belgrade toward the border with Hungary on Tuesday to protest its closure for most people trying to reach the European Union.
Hundreds of migrants stranded in Serbia set off on foot from Belgrade toward the border with Hungary on Tuesday to protest its closure for most people trying to reach the European Union.
Earlier in the Serbian capital, police intervened after the protesters clashed with other groups of migrants who opposed the march. There were no reported injuries during the scuffles.
More than 6,000 migrants remain stuck in Serbia following Hungary’s introduction this summer strict limits on the number of asylum seekers allowed to cross into the EU-member country and reinforced a razor-wire border fence with heavy patrols.
The so-called Balkan migrant route, used by nearly 1 million people fleeing wars and poverty last year, formally closed in March, forcing migrants to use alternative routes and pay smugglers to get them across.
On Tuesday, some 400 migrants chanted “Open Hungary Borders” and held banners saying “we don’t need food, water or nothing, we want you to open the borders” as they marched north in a long column from Belgrade along a road leading toward the Hungarian border some 200 kilometers (120 miles) away.
Most migrants appeared to be young men and boys who stand little chance of getting into Hungary or other EU nations.
Hankrim from Afghanistan, who gave only his first name, said he has been on the road for six months, sleeping on roads and parks.
“Excuse me please, Hungarian government, please Hungary, open the border,” he said.
Serbia said Tuesday it would not erect a wire border fence, but would deploy its army to seal off the borders with Macedonia and Bulgaria to stop migrants from coming in from those countries.
“We will block the migrants the same way as the countries which did not erect the border fence,” Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said.
Hungary has refused to accept any of the migrants that the EU is trying to relocate from Italy and Greece and on Sunday voters there overwhelmingly rejected any future mandatory quotas for accepting asylum seekers. The referendum was rendered invalid because of low turnout.
http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/migrants-march-toward-hungary-border-to-demand-its-opening-3065331/
( 1 h 18 min )
Pics + videos on these pages :
http://www.alo.rs/migranti-zaustavili-saobracaj-kod-autobuske-stanice/74473
http://www.kurir.rs/vesti/beograd/nezapamcen-protest-kod-autobuske-stanice-migranti-blokirali-saobracaj-u-centru-beograda-clanak-2473593
More pics :
http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/beograd.74.html:628302-Posle-protesta-u-Beogradu-migranti-krenuli-ka-madjarskoj-granici-FOTO
Obama to respond to Assad’s civilian massacre in Syria with ‘tougher talk’
Petty tryant Bashar al-Assad has to be quaking in its boots. Make that “laughing himself into a fit.” The Obama administration as responded to Russia and Syria’s deadly air strikes against civilians by threatening to “tough talk” — literally.
A response to the continuing humanitarian crisis in Syria would “begin at tougher talk,” an administration official told Reuters Thursday. But before that is even an option, another official said the White House would have to “follow through on [Secretary of State John] Kerry’s threat and break off talks with the Russians.”
Obama has remained intransigent on Syria since the crisis began five years ago. Despite Syrian President Assad’s massacring of civilians across the country, two failed attempts at a ceasefire in the last year, Assad’s use of chemical weapons, a letter from 50 U.S. diplomats urging intervention, and the deaths of as many as 400,000 Syrians, the administration insists it has no recourse in Syria.
Obama’s unwillingness to get involved in Syria caused rebel groups, which were once secular, to join forces with radical Islamic terrorist organizations such as Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (JFS), formerly known as the Nusra Front.
http://libertyunyielding.com/2016/10/03/obama-respond-assads-civilian-massacre-syria-tougher-talk/
Australian cleric is attacked with a shoe on live TV for saying women shouldn’t have to wear veils
This is the dramatic moment an Australian imam was attacked with a shoe live on TV while discussing whether Muslim women should wear headscarves.
Mostafa Rashid has caused controversy by saying females should not have to wear the veil and saying drinking alcohol is allowed.
He got into a row with Egyptian lawyer Nabih al-Wahsh who then took off his shoe and beat Rashid round the head with it.
Mr al-Wahsh takes off his right shoe before swinging it at the Australian imam.
Mr Rashid – who was originally from Egypt – then defensively kicks back as members of the production team step in to break the pair up.
After the row had stopped Mr Rashid rushed out of the studio, according to the Middle East Eye.
Both of the pair are believed to be unhurt but a member of the crew was injured in the scuffle.
Presenter Mohammed al-Ghaiti apologised to viewers for the on-air altercation.
He said: “It was a free fight in the middle of the studio. I never expected that something like this could happen on air.”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/australian-cleric-attacked-shoe-live-8976918
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BREITBART – Aussie Imam Beaten With Shoe in TV Row Over Islamic Veils for Women
An Australian imam was attacked and beaten with a shoe live on Egyptian television after he suggested Islamic women should not be forced to wear a veil in public.
Sydney-based Mostafa Rashid was debating the issue of female dress codes under Islam when his opponent, Egyptian lawyer Nabih al-Wahsh, took off his shoe and chased him around the studio, all the while beating him around the head with his footwear.
He has also said that the Quran forbids drunkenness but not the drinking of alcohol, which is considered forbidden by many mainstream and observant Muslims.
It was his his comments on headscarves however that infuriated Mr. al-Wahsh, who removed his shoe and tried to assault Mr Rashid with it. Mr Rashid kicked back in an attempt to defend himself as presenter Mohammed al-Ghaiti and several members of the production team rushed in to separate the two protagonists.
http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2016/10/04/watch-aussie-imam-beaten-with-shoe-in-tv-row-over-islamic-veils-for-women/
Roma pretending to be Syrians in Paris to get money from the naive French:
http://news.bnt.bg/bg/a/rumnski-romi-se-predstavyat-za-siriyski-bezhantsi-v-parizh
original source – France Trois tv.
LOL
Ashura 2016 – Pakistan – some Muslim fanatics seem to be starting early !!!
Iraq –
Karbala –
Tazieh (street theater ) 2015 –
Najaf Iraq – procession –
Voter Fraud Rising
Illegal interference in the battleground states.
There is already evidence that voter fraud is being perpetrated in critical battleground states like Virginia and Colorado a month before Election Day.
Voter fraud is commonplace. Completely eliminating it is impossible. The most policymakers can do is create laws and policies that attempt to minimize it.
Voter fraud is unlawful interference with the electoral process in an effort to bring about a desired result. Voter fraud is also called vote fraud, election fraud, and electoral fraud. It refers to fraudulent voting, impersonation, intimidation, perjury, voter registration fraud, forgery, counterfeiting, bribery, destroying already cast ballots, and a multitude of crimes related to the electoral process.
Reasonable people can disagree over how serious a problem voter fraud is in today’s America, but the evidence it actually exists cannot be ignored.
This is where people on the Right and Left differ. Conservatives think fighting voter fraud is important; liberals and progressives don’t care — and many of them go further, arguing that voter fraud is an imaginary problem.
News of the illegal voting in Virginia and Colorado comes as Republican candidate Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed in campaign speeches that the system, including the electoral system, is “rigged.”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/264393/voter-fraud-rising-matthew-vadum
Discrimination and Segregation
Why the force of government is necessary for racism to flourish.
October 4, 2016
Walter Williams
I was invited, along with several other American professors, to deliver lectures at South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in 1979. Pieter Willem Botha was the prime minister, and apartheid, though becoming a bit relaxed, was the law of the land. Under apartheid, intermarriage between blacks, coloureds and Indians on the one hand and whites was prohibited. There was the Group Areas Act, which determined where different races could live. In addition to many other racially discriminatory laws, there were job reservation laws that determined who could hold what jobs by race. My lecture sought to produce the argument that in free market settings, one is apt to observe less racial discrimination because it is costly to both the discriminated and the discriminator.
So my lecture began with this question: Why doesn’t South Africa have a law against elephants flying? Elephants having no radar and understanding of flight procedures would pose a severe air traffic control problem. The answer to my question is quite simple. There is no need for a law banning elephants from flying because elephants cannot fly. Think about South Africa’s Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act of 1949, which banned marriages between people of different races. What about its job reservation laws, which required that only whites be employed in certain occupations, such as blasting, running elevators, driving engines, supervising boilers and other machinery, supervising people’s shifts, and overseeing mines? A question naturally arises: If white people would not intermarry or if white mine owners would not hire blacks to run mine elevators and other machinery, why in the world would a law banning them from doing so be necessary? The answer is that whenever there is a law on the books, one’s immediate suspicion should be that the law is there because not everyone would behave according to the law’s specifications. In other words, some people would intermarry and some mine owners would hire blacks in those reserved jobs.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/264390/discrimination-and-segregation-walter-williams
California Capital Hate Crimes
Thanks to the Democrats, victims are more fearful and vulnerable than ever.
In California’s capital city of Sacramento, which prides itself on tolerance and diversity, violent criminals are terrorizing Asian immigrants. The city’s Democratic establishment has responded with textbook political correctness, leaving victims fearful and more vulnerable than ever.
Over the past year, according to news reports, a crime wave has swept over a largely Asian portion of south Sacramento. Muggings, robberies and home invasions have victimized 300-400 Chinese immigrants and prompted some to move out of the city. Such is the violence that some even sold their houses below cost for a quick getaway.
Those who remain, as Richard Chang noted in the September 12 Sacramento Bee, have been “terrorized,” and now “are afraid to go out after dark.” In the typical pattern, the attacks come as people exit their cars, at home or in a parking lot.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/264386/california-capital-hate-crimes-lloyd-billingsley
Another group being driven away from the left and into the arms of those who love liberty. Armed patrols are exactly what they need but are forbidden by California law to enact.
Hillary linked to MURDER plot?!?
WikiLeaks founder and self-styled citizen journalist Julian Assange is a controversial figure. Vice President Joe Biden once called him a terrorist, while others have praised his efforts for international transparency.
How does Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton feel about the infamous whistle blower?
Apparently she had no moral qualms about murdering him in cold blood — and even tried to get others on board.
In 2010, Clinton tried to order Assange’s assassination by drone strike, according to a story that was first published by True Pundit and was subsequently distributed by WikiLeaks itself.
Senior government officials reportedly laughed off the suggestion at first, feeling that Clinton couldn’t possibly be serious about murdering a private citizen (and a famous one at that). But they soon learned she wasn’t joking at all, as Clinton allegedly continued to push for the assassination.
https://thehornnews.com/revealed-clinton-wants-julian-assange-dead/
It looks like Assauge is going for the death of a thousand cuts, also known as slow torture. He will keep releasing things that are more and more damaging with the real nasty info coming out less then a week before the election when it will have maximum impact.
To me it looks like Clinton got to him. Everyone has someone or something they care about deeply. If I were Clinton, I would find out what that was for Julian and make sure he knew I knew.
He specifically said he had material damaging to the Clinton campaign, and seriously damaging. Now it looks like it will be the exact reverse. He is contradicting himself like the director of the FBI did in his testimony to congress as well as his press conference.
I think its a classic symptom of future Clinton victims to talk like that. Tell the truth at one level while denying it at the level of actual practice.
The US is now a Mob state. A Cleptocracy.
You may be, probably are right about Assage my comment is in the lines of a prayer rather then really thinking he is going to do anything.
Yes we are a Kleptocracy this election is our best hope of restoring freedom without starting a new nation. Sadly no matter who wins the election there will be a civil war, the left will ensure this.
Last week I was talking to a former police officer (sniper on the local SWAT team) (he quite the force to make more money at the post office) I told him about what is happening that isn’t making the major news. His answer was “I have my ammo purchased, let it come.”
http://btvnovinite.bg/article/bulgaria/obvinenijat-v-terorizam-ivan-zahariev-ostava-v-aresta.html
An Australian national discovered Allah and started preparing to kill. He found out he was under surveillance in Australia, so he moved to Bulgaria and tried to change his name. Here he was also spotted by the secret services and was detained.
The man was initially pronounced “mentally ill”.
The medical expertise shows he is perfectly sane. Moreover, his intellectual level is above the average.
(the news is in Bulgarian)
Russia’s Defence Ministry gives press conference on Syria
RT – Aleppo reduced to rubble amid battle to recapture rebel-held areas
Pentagon to Track Installations of S-300 Defense Systems by Russia in Syria
According to the US Department of Defense spokesperson, the US will carefully track installation of S-300 air defense systems in Syria.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The US military will carefully track installation of S-300 air defense systems by Russia in Syria, US Department of Defense spokesperson Peter Cook told reporters on Tuesday.
“We are certainly aware of their announcement that they plan to install a system in Syria, and obviously we will carefully tack military developments and installations in Syria, particularly as they affect the coalition operations,” Cook stated in a briefing.
At the same time, the United States hopes to continue to maintain deconfliction in Syria with Russia through the existing Memorandum of Understanding, Peter Cook added.
“So far we have been able to deconflict operations over Syria through the Memorandum of Understanding in the midst of our disagreements with Russia that has successfully been able to avoid misunderstanding and miscalculation, and we certainly would expect that we continue to avoid any misunderstanding or miscalculation,” Cook stated.
Cook added that the United States continues to do everything it can to ensure the safety of its coalition’s aircraft.
“We will continue to do so. And those air cruise as well, I should point out, have right to self-defense,” Cook added.
On October 3, State Department deputy spokesperson John Kirby announced in a press release that the United States is cutting off participation in bilateral channels with Russia on sustaining a ceasefire agreement in Syria.
The United States and Russia signed the bilateral MOU in October 2015 to ensure flight safety during combat missions over Syria.
The US-led coalition of more than 60 nations has been carrying out airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria since September 2014, but without the permission of the legitimate government of Syrian President Bashar Assad or the UN Security Council.
https://sputniknews.com/us/20161004/1045999259/s300-pentagon-syria-russia.html
US considers more weapons for Syrian rebels
Russia: US ‘not able or did not even intend’ to implement Syria ceasefire – Pushkov
Head of the State Duma’s Foreign Affairs Committee Alexei Pushkov stated in Moscow, Tuesday, that “[US Secretary of State] John Kerry is not in a position to make accusations towards Russia” over the failure of the Russian-US peace process in Syria.
“It is well known that the United States have bombed, and many people think they bombed on purpose, the military positions of the Syrian Army,” said Pushkov. He added that the US were supporting the armed opposition Syria with weapons, which were brought in “via their satellites or even directly.” Pushkov said the attempts of the US secretary of state to accuse Russia of failing to uphold the peace process, reflect “a desire just to put the blame on the Russian and the Syrian side in the conditions when the United States were not able or did not even intend to fulfil the conditions of the ceasefire.”
Wa Po – Obama administration considering strikes on Assad, again
U.S. military strikes against the Assad regime will be back on the table Wednesday at the White House, when top national security officials in the Obama administration are set to discuss options for the way forward in Syria. But there’s little prospect President Obama will ultimately approve them.
Inside the national security agencies, meetings have been going on for weeks to consider new options to recommend to the president to address the ongoing crisis in Aleppo, where Syrian and Russian aircraft continue to perpetrate the deadliest bombing campaign the city has seen since the five-year-old civil war began. A meeting of the Principals Committee, which includes Cabinet-level officials, is scheduled for Wednesday. A meeting of the National Security Council, which could include the president, could come as early as this weekend.
Last Wednesday, at a Deputies Committee meeting at the White House, officials from the State Department, the CIA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff discussed limited military strikes against the regime as a means of forcing Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to pay a cost for his violations of the cease-fire, disrupt his ability to continue committing war crimes against civilians in Aleppo, and raise the pressure on the regime to come back to the negotiating table in a serious way.
The options under consideration, which remain classified, include bombing Syrian air force runways using cruise missiles and other long-range weapons fired from coalition planes and ships, an administration official who is part of the discussions told me. One proposed way to get around the White House’s long-standing objection to striking the Assad regime without a U.N. Security Council resolution would be to carry out the strikes covertly and without public acknowledgment, the official said.
The CIA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, represented in the Deputies Committee meeting by Vice Chairman Gen. Paul Selva, expressed support for such “kinetic” options, the official said. That marked an increase of support for striking Assad compared with the last time such options were considered.
“There’s an increased mood in support of kinetic actions against the regime,” one senior administration official said. “The CIA and the Joint Staff have said that the fall of Aleppo would undermine America’s counterterrorism goals in Syria.”
There’s still great skepticism, however, that the White House will approve military action. Other administration officials told The Post this week that Obama is no more willing to commit U.S. military force inside Syria than he was previously and that each of the military options being discussed have negative risks or consequences.
The State Department announced Monday that it was suspending bilateral channels of communication with Russia related to the failed cease-fire deal struck last month. The United States will now bring back all of the personnel from Geneva who have been waiting for weeks to begin a new project of military and intelligence cooperation with the Russians that was to accompany the cease-fire if it had held.
Two administration officials told me that the suspension was set to be announced last Friday, but Secretary of State John F. Kerry asked for a delay after speaking on the phone with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Kerry wanted more time to work out an extension of the cease-fire but failed, leaving the administration without a clear path forward.
Last week, Kerry was caught on tape telling a group of Syrian activists that he had argued for military strikes against the regime but that he “lost the argument.” Kerry had supported limited strikes against the regime in 2013 as punishment for Assad using chemical weapons against his own people. But while Congress was deliberating an authorization, the president withdrew his request and decided to strike a deal with Moscow instead.
This time around, Kerry has not favored using U.S. military force against the Assad regime, two administration officials said. He now prefers continued diplomacy with Russia, even in the face of what he says is Moscow’s willingness to “turn a blind eye” to, if not participate directly, in war crimes in Aleppo.
Kerry does support increasing pressure on the Assad regime, officials said.
The National Security Council’s senior coordinator for the Middle East, Rob Malley, and the president’s special envoy to the coalition for the fight against the Islamic State, Brett McGurk, are also said to be against any military escalation against the Assad regime, officials said. There’s no consensus on what options should be sent to the president’s desk. Other options include increased weapons for some Syrian rebel groups and an increase in the quality of such weapons, to allow rebels to defend Aleppo’s civilians.
If Obama does not approve greater support for the Syrian rebels or increased coalition pressure on the Assad regime, the only option left is to wait out the siege of Aleppo and reengage the Russians if and when Aleppo falls, albeit in a weaker position.
Former State Department Syria official Frederic Hof wrote Monday that any policy going forward that hinges on the assumption that Russia is looking for a near-term diplomatic solution in Syria is destined for failure.
“Whatever excuses the administration offers for leaving Syrians defenseless against mass murder, the continued search for common ground with Vladimir Putin should not be one of them,” he wrote. “If nothing else, John Kerry’s exhaustive diplomatic due diligence should retire that illusion permanently.”
Kerry’s deputy, Antony Blinken, testified last week that the U.S. leverage in Russia comes from the notion that Russia will eventually become weary of the cost of its military intervention in Syria. “The leverage is the consequences for Russia of being stuck in a quagmire that is going to have a number of profoundly negative effects,” Blinken told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The argument against more U.S. military intervention in Syria, including strikes against the regime, is based on risks that should be taken seriously but that are ultimately hypothetical. The effects of continuing the current policy are not hypothetical. They include more of what we are seeing now: Russia and the Assad regime committing war crimes against civilians with impunity and destroying Syria’s largest city.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2016/10/04/obama-administration-considering-strikes-on-assad-again/
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Under U.S. Proxy Attack Russia Readies For Full War In Syria
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2016/10/after-us-proxy-attack-russia-ready-for-war-in-syria.html
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Obama DOJ drops charges against alleged provider of Libyan weapons
Arms dealer had threatened to expose Hillary Clinton’s talks about arming anti-Qadhafi rebels.
The Obama administration is moving to dismiss charges against an arms dealer it had accused of selling weapons that were destined for Libyan rebels.
Lawyers for the Justice Department on Monday filed a motion in federal court in Phoenix to drop the case against the arms dealer, an American named Marc Turi, whose lawyers also signed the motion.
The deal averts a trial that threatened to cast additional scrutiny on Hillary Clinton’s private emails as Secretary of State, and to expose reported Central Intelligence Agency attempts to arm rebels fighting Libyan leader Moammar Qadhafi.
Government lawyers were facing a Wednesday deadline to produce documents to Turi’s legal team, and the trial was officially set to begin on Election Day, although it likely would have been delayed by protracted disputes about classified information in the case.
A Turi associate asserted that the government dropped the case because the proceedings could have embarrassed Clinton and President Barack Obama by calling attention to the reported role of their administration in supplying weapons that fell into the hands of Islamic extremist militants.
“They don’t want this stuff to come out because it will look really bad for Obama and Clinton just before the election,” said the associate.
In the dismissal motion, prosecutors say “discovery rulings” from U.S. District Court Judge David Campbell contributed to the decision to drop the case. The joint motion asks the judge to accept a confidential agreement to resolve the case through a civil settlement between the State Department and the arms broker.
“Our position from the outset has been that this case never should have been brought and we’re glad it’s over,” said Jean-Jacques Cabou, a Perkins Coie partner serving as court-appointed defense counsel in the case. “Mr Turi didn’t break the law….We’re very glad the charges are being dismissed.”
Under the deal, Turi admits no guilt in the transactions he participated in, but he agreed to refrain from U.S.-regulated arms dealing for four years. A $200,000 civil penalty will be waived if Turi abides by the agreement.
A State Department official confirmed the outlines of the agreement.
“Mr. Turi cooperated with the Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls in its review and proposed administrative settlement of the alleged violations,” said the official, who asked not be named. “Based on a compliance review, DDTC alleged that Mr. Turi…engaged in brokering activities for the proposed transfer of defense articles to Libya, a proscribed destination under [arms trade regulations,] despite the Department’s denial of…requests for the required prior approval of such activities.”
Turi adviser Robert Stryk of the government relations and consulting firm SPG accused the government of trying to scapegoat Turi to cover up Clinton’s mishandling of Libya.
“The U.S. government spent millions of dollars, went all over the world to bankrupt him, and destroyed his life — all to protect Hillary Clinton’s crimes,” he said, alluding to the deadly Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Republicans hold Clinton responsible for mishandling the circumstances around that attack. And Stryk said that Turi was now weighing book and movie deals to tell his story, and to weigh in on the Benghazi attack.
Representatives of the Justice Department, the White House and Clinton’s presidential campaign either declined to comment or did not respond to requests for comment on the case or the settlement.
Turi was indicted in 2014 on four felony counts: two of arms dealing in violation of the Arms Export Control Act and two of lying to the State Department in official applications. The charges accused Turi of claiming that the weapons involved were destined for Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, when the arms were actually intended to reach Libya.
Turi’s lawyers argued that the shipments were part of a U.S. government-authorized effort to arm Libyan rebels.
It’s unclear if any of the weapons made it to Libya, and there’s no evidence linking weapons provided by the U.S. government to the Benghazi attacks.
“The proposal did not result in an actual transfer of defense articles to Libya,” the State Department official told POLITICO on Tuesday.
But questions about U.S. efforts to arm Libyan rebels have been mounting, since weapons have reportedly made their way from Libya to Syria, where a civil war is raging between the Syrian Government and ISIL-aligned fighters.
During 2013 Senate hearings on the 2012 Benghazi attack, Clinton, under questioning from Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), said she had no knowledge of weapons moving from Libya into Turkey.
Wikileaks head Julian Assange in July suggested that he had emails proving that Clinton “pushed” the “flows” of weapons “going over to Syria.”
Additionally, Turi’s case had delved into emails sent to and from the controversial private account that Clinton used as Secretary of State, which the defense planned to harness at any trial.
At a court hearing in 2015, Cabou said emails between Clinton and her top aides indicated that efforts to arm the rebels were — at a minimum — under discussion at the highest levels of the government.
“We’re entitled to tell the jury, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the Secretary of State and her highest staff members were actively contemplating providing exactly the type of military assistance that Mr. Turi is here to answer for,” the defense attorney said, according to a transcript.
Turi’s defense was pressing for more documents about the alleged rebel-arming effort and for testimony from officials who worked on the issue the State Department and the CIA. The defense said it planned to argue that Turi believed he had official permission to work on arms transfers to Libya
“If we armed the rebels, as publicly reported in many, many sources and as we strongly believe happened and as we believe at least one witness told the grand jury, then documents about that process relate to that effort,” Cabou told Campbell at the same hearing last year.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/marc-turi-libyan-rebels-hillary-clinton-229115
Tax Expert: All Journalists Proved About Donald Trump’s 1995 Return Was Their Own Ignorance
Tax preparer and Forbes contributor Ryan Ellis writes that “professional” journalists’ hot takes about Donald Trump’s 1995 tax return show how little they know about taxes and business.
From Forbes:
To state the obvious, political reporters don’t know a damned thing about taxes. I know this–believe me (to channel my inner Donald). Part of what I do for a living is prepare people’s taxes in the Washington, DC area. As an Enrolled Agent, I run into all sorts of clients. The most political (that is, horse race/hot take) clients compete with performing artists for the least amount of knowledge when it comes to taxes. I’ve even had some of them forget to bring their W-2s to a tax session.
That ignorance was on display in vivid colors over the weekend. We were told that this tricky NOL was some sort of “loophole” that only super-rich bad guys like Donald Trump got to use. We were told that this relieved him of having to pay taxes for 18 years, a laughably arbitrary, made up number that is the tautological output of simple arithmetic and wild assumptions.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/10/03/tax-expert-journalists-proved-donald-trumps-returns-ignorance/
Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for US intelligence – sources
Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter.
The company complied with a classified U.S. government directive, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI, said two former employees and a third person apprised of the events.
Some surveillance experts said this represents the first case to surface of a U.S. Internet company agreeing to a spy agency’s demand by searching all arriving messages, as opposed to examining stored messages or scanning a small number of accounts in real time.
It is not known what information intelligence officials were looking for, only that they wanted Yahoo to search for a set of characters. That could mean a phrase in an email or an attachment, said the sources, who did not want to be identified.
Reuters was unable to determine what data Yahoo may have handed over, if any, and if intelligence officials had approached other email providers besides Yahoo with this kind of request.
According to the two former employees, Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer’s decision to obey the directive roiled some senior executives and led to the June 2015 departure of Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos, who now holds the top security job at Facebook Inc.”Yahoo is a law abiding company, and complies with the laws of the United States,” the company said in a brief statement in response to Reuters questions about the demand. Yahoo declined any further comment.
Through a Facebook spokesman, Stamos declined a request for an interview.
The NSA referred questions to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which declined to comment.
The demand to search Yahoo Mail accounts came in the form of a classified directive sent to the company’s legal team, according to the three people familiar with the matter.
U.S. phone and Internet companies are known to have handed over bulk customer data to intelligence agencies. But some former government officials and private surveillance experts said they had not previously seen either such a broad directive for real-time Web collection or one that required the creation of a new computer program.
“I’ve never seen that, a wiretap in real time on a ‘selector,'” said Albert Gidari, a lawyer who represented phone and Internet companies on surveillance issues for 20 years before moving to Stanford University this year. A selector refers to a type of search term used to zero in on specific information.
“It would be really difficult for a provider to do that,” he added.
Experts said it was likely that the NSA or FBI had approached other Internet companies with the same demand, since they evidently did not know what email accounts were being used by the target. The NSA usually makes requests for domestic surveillance through the FBI, so it is hard to know which agency is seeking the information.
Reuters was unable to confirm whether the 2015 demand went to other companies, or if any complied.
Alphabet Inc’s Google and Microsoft Corp, two major U.S. email service providers, did not respond to requests for comment.
CHALLENGING THE NSA
Under laws including the 2008 amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, intelligence agencies can ask U.S. phone and Internet companies to provide customer data to aid foreign intelligence-gathering efforts for a variety of reasons, including prevention of terrorist attacks.
Disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and others have exposed the extent of electronic surveillance and led U.S. authorities to modestly scale back some of the programs, in part to protect privacy rights.
Companies including Yahoo have challenged some classified surveillance before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, a secret tribunal.
Some FISA experts said Yahoo could have tried to fight last year’s directive on at least two grounds: the breadth of the demand and the necessity of writing a special program to search all customers’ emails in transit.
Apple Inc made a similar argument earlier this year when it refused to create a special program to break into an encrypted iPhone used in the 2015 San Bernardino massacre. The FBI dropped the case after it unlocked the phone with the help of a third party, so no precedent was set.
Other FISA experts defended Yahoo’s decision to comply, saying nothing prohibited the surveillance court from ordering a search for a specific term instead of a specific account. So-called “upstream” bulk collection from phone carriers based on content was found to be legal, they said, and the same logic could apply to Web companies’ mail.
As tech companies become better at encrypting data, they are likely to face more such requests from spy agencies.
Former NSA General Counsel Stewart Baker said email providers “have the power to encrypt it all, and with that comes added responsibility to do some of the work that had been done by the intelligence agencies.”
SECRET SIPHONING PROGRAM
Mayer and other executives ultimately decided to comply with the directive last year rather than fight it, in part because they thought they would lose, said the people familiar with the matter.
Yahoo in 2007 had fought a FISA demand that it conduct searches on specific email accounts without a court-approved warrant. Details of the case remain sealed, but a partially redacted published opinion showed Yahoo’s challenge was unsuccessful.
Some Yahoo employees were upset about the decision not to contest the more recent directive and thought the company could have prevailed, the sources said.
They were also upset that Mayer and Yahoo General Counsel Ron Bell did not involve the company’s security team in the process, instead asking Yahoo’s email engineers to write a program to siphon off messages containing the character string the spies sought and store them for remote retrieval, according to the sources.
The sources said the program was discovered by Yahoo’s security team in May 2015, within weeks of its installation. The security team initially thought hackers had broken in.
When Stamos found out that Mayer had authorized the program, he resigned as chief information security officer and told his subordinates that he had been left out of a decision that hurt users’ security, the sources said. Due to a programming flaw, he told them hackers could have accessed the stored emails.
Stamos’s announcement in June 2015 that he had joined Facebook did not mention any problems with Yahoo.
In a separate incident, Yahoo last month said “state-sponsored” hackers had gained access to 500 million customer accounts in 2014. The revelations have brought new scrutiny to Yahoo’s security practices as the company tries to complete a deal to sell its core business to Verizon Communications Inc for $4.8 billion.
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/yahoo-secretly-scanned-customer-emails-us-intelligence-sources-170638369–finance.html
I guess we should treat anything “free” as meaning “assume it’s being read by the Feds.” Where I used to work was this Russian guy, now a US citizen, who was using some free email account that had a “.ru” suffix. I joked he had a direct link to the CIA and he said: “Yeah, I know.” Everything that is networked appears to have been penetrated by governments everywhere. Private agencies read your license plate and create data bases. The US post office keeps a copy of the front of everything mailed. The difference between paranoia and prudence is a thin one, I’d say.
the blaze : See how people react when fake reporter convinces them Clinton dropped out of the race
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/10/03/see-how-people-react-when-fake-reporter-convinces-them-clinton-dropped-out-of-the-race/
Aborting the Trump Revolution
By Pat Buchanan
October 4, 2016, 6:00 am
In taking that $915 million loss in 1995, and carrying it forward to shelter future income, Donald Trump did nothing wrong. By both his family and his business, he did everything right.
In a famous 1947 dissent, Judge Learned Hand wrote:
“[T]here is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. … Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.”
This writer’s father spent his career as a tax accountant who studied tax codes and utilized every permissible deduction to keep his clients’ tax bills as low as legally possible.
That was his business, as it is the business of every accountant, including those who prepare the returns of the politicians and journalists piling on Trump as some sort of scofflaw tax cheat who has evaded his moral obligations to the state.
One needs a machete to cut through this hypocrisy.
Hillary Clinton benefited from a $700,000 loss on her 2015 income taxes. In the days of poverty in Arkansas, she took a $2 deduction for a contribution to charity of Bill’s old underpants.
Five weeks before Election Day, Trump’s taxes have displaced the former Miss Universe as the critical issue, as determined by the anti-Trump media.
http://freedomsback.com/pat-buchanan/aborting-the-trump-revolution/
BREITBART – Iraqi Transportation Minister: Iraqis ‘Launched Spaceships 7,000 Years Ago’
At the inauguration of a new airport in southern Dhi Qar, Iraqi transportation minister Kadhem Finjan al-Hamami asserted that Sumerians, the members of an ancient Iraqi civilization, built “the first airports” and “Sumerian spaceships used to launch from here towards the other planets” 7,000 years ago.
“It’s a long story, maybe you don’t know about it. Maybe even people from Dhi Qar don’t know – the first airports that were built on planet Earth were built in the 5th Century BC in Dhi Qar,” al-Hamami said, in an Al Jazeera translation. “There were Sumerians who launched spaceships [from Dhi Qar] and headed to other worlds,” he added, arguing that all the world’s angels “were Sumerian” and suggesting that Sumerians had discovered a new planet during their time.
more :
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/10/03/iraqi-minister-iraqis-launched-spaceships/
UK -Bacon ‘thrown at worshippers’ inside mosque in suspected religious hate crime attack
WORSHIPPERS have described being subjected to a “religious hatred attack” in which two men allegedly threw pieces of bacon at them while they prayed at a mosque in Somers Town.
Two men, described as wearing dark coloured uniforms, allegedly entered the Al Rahman Mosque and Community Centre in Crowndale Road on Sunday night and began placing pieces of pork – which is considered “haram” or forbidden in the Islamic faith – inside shoes left on a rack near the entrance.
When confronted, the two men, who were both described as white, with short hair and beards, threw pieces of meat towards worshippers.
Helal Ahmed, who was praying at the mosque when the attack took place at around 7:30pm, told the New Journal: “Two people came inside, both were acting strange. I saw one person was filming, but I didn’t see what they were doing at this point.
“What they were wearing looked like police [uniforms], I thought they were police at first. They had black trousers and black jackets, like the heavy coats that police wear in winter.
“When he saw me he threw a piece of pork meat, but luckily it dropped one-and-a-half feet [in front of me].”
The men fled the scene without saying a word, Mr Ahmed said, adding: “They opened the door and went. I switched on all the lights to see what happened. I looked at my shoe and they put some pieces of pork meat in another brother’s shoe. But he left it, I gave him a spare sandal. He can’t use that shoe, it’s not halal.”
Describing his reaction to the attack, which another member of the mosque described as a “disgusting and heinous attack on a peaceful place”, Mr Ahmed said: “I couldn’t accept it. My throat is dry. I can’t even explain it. It’s kind of senseless.”
He added: “It’s unbelievable. I’ve been going to the mosque for about eight years and it’s the first time this happened in this mosque.”
Mr Ahmed said the police, who arrived shortly after being called, had been “unbelievably helpful”. He said: “They cleaned up, took the pieces of meat. They spent all night here and even in the morning at 6 o clock they were still on guard.”
Scotland Yard said two men were later arrested near the scene on suspicion of inciting racial hatred.
A Met spokesman said: “Local officers remain in the area carrying out reassurance patrols.”
http://www.camdennewjournal.com/mosque-bacon-attack
Parade float shows Trump executing Hillary in an Electric Chair
Trey Gowdy: ‘If This Conduct Doesn’t Warrant Prosecution, What Does?!’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2g7sLMZfh0&feature=youtu.beTrey Gowdy:
TRUMPAPHOBIA! It is a Mental illness and Sign of Immaturity says Doctor
It is confirmed. The majority, if not all Democrats suffer from Trumpaphobia — an irrational hatred, fear, or dislike of Donald Trump which manifests itself outwardly by prejudice or violence towards Mr. Trump and his supporters.
Dr. Cecil Kwak, writing for the North American Journal of Psychoanalysis writes, “This explains the riots, I, I, mean protests, during Trump rallies this past summer. Folks with this phobia had attacked Trump enthusiasts at different times and places. Whether they were young or old, male or female, white, black or Hispanic.”
http://constitution.com/trumpaphobia-mental-illness-sign-immaturity-says-doctor/
http://hirtv.hu/ahirtvhirei/orban-viktor-negy-ponton-modositana-alaptorvenyt-1364777
http://hirtv.hu/ahirtvhirei/november-kozepen-lephet-ervenybe-orban-alaptorveny-modositasi-javaslata-1364741
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RT -Hungary: Orban insists no collective refugee settlement will take place
“We will prohibit collective settlement,” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stated in Budapest on Tuesday, following the country’s refugee referendum.
More than 98 percent of those who went to the polls voted against refugees being settled in Hungary, albeit only 40 percent of eligible voters took part in the referendum, rendering it invalid. Nonetheless Orban announced that the EU needs to respect the sovereignty of the country and insisted that Hungary’s decision regarding refugees has “nothing to do” with Brussels.
The European Union intends to resettle 160,000 asylum seekers among its member states and Hungary is supposed to accommodate 1,294 people. A total of 3.30 million Hungarians voted against the EU resttlement plans, while 55,000 backed them in the referendum.
SOT, Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister (Hungarian): “We have a constitutional identity. The European Union cannot make a decision that can change the constitutional identity of a nation against its will. Form of government, territorial unit or population: these are questions, with which Brussels has nothing to do. This is constitutional identity.”
SOT, Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister (Hungarian): “There are 3.3 million people in Hungary who decided not to let anyone else make the decisions about the questions of settlements and migrants, which they find vital. It is not extreme to conclude that those 3.3 million people agree, that we have to take the help where the trouble is, ergo we don’t need to bring the trouble here. So I think they did not vote against the migrants, but for the proper response to this modern-day exodus.”
SOT, Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister (Hungarian): “We will prohibit collective settlements. We have to be clear, that this is a question of sovereignty. And there is no decision in Brussels, that can question the territorial unit and the rights of the population.”
Judge Napolitano: Clinton Approved Arms for Terrorist Enemies of the United States
Iraqi PM vows liberation in Mosul
PBS – To drive ISIS from Mosul, a complicated coalition joins forces
Number of newborn children to foreign mothers on the rise (DW, Oct 4, 2016)
http://www.dw.com/en/number-of-newborn-children-to-foreign-mothers-on-the-rise/av-35954131
“Every fifth baby born in Germany in 2015 had a mother holding foreign citizenship. The mass immigration has become a challenge for German hospitals, mostly due to interpreter costs and bureaucratic hurdles…”
Pub brawl leaves three in hospital (thelocal, Oct 4, 2016)
https://www.thelocal.at/20161004/pub-brawl-leaves-three-in-hospital-bosnian-bosniak
“Three people have been hospitalised after a brawl erupted between Bosnian migrants who used knives and a gas pistol to settle a pub fight…”
Egypt court gives preliminary death sentence to two people for joining ‘militant organization’ (ahram, Oct 4, 2016)
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/245180/Egypt/Politics-/Egypt-court-gives-preliminary-death-sentence-to-tw.aspx
“A Cairo criminal court issued a preliminary death sentence on Tuesday to two people for “joining a militant organization” in a trial known in the media as “The returnees from Libya.”
The court has sent its decision to the country’s grand mufti, a senior Muslim cleric, for a consultative review as required by Egyptian law. A final verdict is set for 5 November, for the two defendants as well as 14 other defendants in the same trial…”