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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-10/is-fighter-mohamed-elomar-guilty-bribing-iraq-minister/8693518
Three Australian men, including the father and uncle of a notorious Islamic State fighter, have pleaded guilty to bribing a foreign official to secure construction contracts.
In a brief hearing in the New South Wales Supreme Court, Mamdouh Elomar, 62, his brother Ibrahim, 60, and businessman John Jousif, 46, pleaded guilty to the charge, which occurred between July 2014 and February 2015.
At a previous hearing at Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court last year, the men faced accusations of paying a $US1 million ($1.3 million) bribe to a foreign official to win contracts for their construction company Lifese in Iraq.
The court heard intercepted phone calls between the Elomars and Jousif indicating the Iraqi Government would not move forward with the contracts without a “payment”.
Mamdouh Elomar is the father of Mohamed Elomar, who was killed fighting with IS in Iraq, however there is no suggestion the charges are linked to his son’s association with the terrorist organisation.
In court today, defence barrister Greg James QC said there was much more work that needed to be completed prior to sentencing.
“[There is] still a great deal to be done in terms of firstly the prospect of an agreed statement of facts,” he said.
“There is the prospect of evidence from Iraq whether in one form or another or whether that will be able to be agreed.”
All three men remain on bail and the matter will return to court next week to allocate a date for sentencing.
This is what happens when you import people from Third World hellholes. You end up importing all of their social maladies as well. In this case, it is one of Islam’s more embedded criminal activities, corruption in the form of bribery and graft. For anyone who doubts that this is an issue, please consider the emergence of FGM in Europe and America.
Aside from Islam and its own coterie of warped and deranged practices, the injection of Western nations with millions of people who regard corruption as a simple fact of life represents a specific malaise that threatens to undermine all modern economies. Look up hawala corruption for a glimpse of how terrorism gets funded.
Combine the Islamic corruption with the corruption that follows Marxism and you have destroyed civilization. Which is what the left wants.
The leftist BBC highlights “Islamophobia” in Australia in this and related articles:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-40552201
These days it seems democracy is Bambi waiting for slaughter. I post this article not from the originator but from Zerohedge as posted to let readers know many will see it. It explains much:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-09/unspeakable-crime-viktor-orban
Bibi and the Knesset tried to pass a similar NGO law – like the US in fact has: How much of the NGO funding is from foreign countries or foreign intel operations?
The NGOs exist solely to defame the State. There was such an uproar from Soros-istas, they had to weaken the proposed measure to the point of nonexistence.
The Times ‘exposé’ on Donald Trump Jr. is a big yawn
The news was delivered by the New York Times in the breathless tones that might announce a cure for cancer or the discovery of life on Mars:
“President Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, according to three advisers to the White House briefed on the meeting and two others with knowledge of it.”
To which a rational response is … who wouldn’t? And also: So what? A third response is unprintable.
http://nypost.com/2017/07/09/the-times-expose-on-donald-trump-jr-is-a-big-yawn/
Russian lawyer who got inside Donald Trump’s inner circle had been denied US visa
By John Solomon and Sara A. Carter
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By her own account, the Russian lawyer that managed to slide her way into Trump Tower last year and meet with President Donald Trump’s eldest son, his campaign manager and son-in-law is a former Moscow prosecutor who had been denied a visa to enter the United States.
Natalia Veselnitskaya filed an affidavit in a federal case in New York describing how she managed to get special permission to enter the United States after the visa denial to help represent a Russian company called Prevezon Holdings owned by the Russian businessman Denis Katsyv in a case brought against it by U.S. prosecutors.
“I represent victims in many criminal cases involving economic crimes. I have been retained by Denis Katsyv and the defendants in this action to assist their attorneys in the United States, Baker & Hostetler LLP to prepare their defense,” she wrote in the January 2016 affidavit filed in court in New York City.
https://www.circa.com/story/2017/07/09/politics/russian-lawyer-who-got-inside-donald-trumps-inner-circle-had-been-denied-us-visa
Trump Begins the Rightward Shift of America’s Courts
Republicans blocked Obama’s nominees for years. Now they’re moving to fill all those seats they kept vacant.
By Paul Barrett
and David Ingold
July 10, 2017, 3:00 AM CDT
Although he’s been thwarted so far on his legislative agenda before Congress, most notably on health care, President Donald Trump has a big opportunity to reshape another branch of government outside his control: the federal judiciary. He has already moved swiftly to fill an unusual, inherited vacancy on the Supreme Court, and now his aides are working their way through a large number of openings on the lower federal courts. Some of his first picks are up for a Senate committee vote this month.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, with only a few months on the high court under his belt, already embodies the kind of influence Trump seeks to have on the third branch. Gorsuch, who replaced the late Antonin Scalia, reestablished the 5-4 advantage conservatives long enjoyed when it came to most hot-button social issues. Gorsuch has
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-07-10/trump-begins-the-rightward-shift-of-america-s-courts
Growing homeless encampments prompt proposal for armed park rangers
Waikiki resident Jen Tema holds her breath as she jogs past the Diamond Head lookouts because most days the stench from the homeless encampments is overwhelming.
“We’re at the beginning of the toilet,” Tema said on a recent Friday as she passed by a garbage pile that spilled over the oceanside cliffs like a waterfall. “When it’s dead wind, you can barely walk by it. It’s a shame because this is one of the most beautiful places in the world.”
She quit jogging at night because she didn’t feel safe due to the security risks and health hazards that have surfaced since the neighborhood’s homeless residents began monopolizing public spaces. Her son doesn’t surf at the lookouts because homeless campers dump buckets of feces into the water there. Her kids wear shoes instead of slippers to the parks to avoid stepping on discarded drug needles and used condoms.
http://www.staradvertiser.com/2017/07/09/hawaii-news/growing-homeless-encampments-prompt-proposal-for-armed-park-rangers/
Richard: This is going to take a big cut our to the tourism industry, the voters who voted for the politicians who created this situation are now paying the price for not vetting their politicians better.
Judges who serve illegal aliens instead of their constituents. Leftist activists – in 0’s Hawaii stomping grounds.
Like the mainland’s 9th Circuit – of hell.
Comey’s private memos on Trump conversations contained classified material
More than half of the memos former FBI chief James Comey wrote as personal recollections of his conversations with President Trump about the Russia investigation have been determined to contain classified information, according to interviews with officials familiar with the documents.
This revelation raises the possibility that Comey broke his own agency’s rules and ignored the same security protocol that he publicly criticized Hillary Clinton for in the waning days of the 2016 presidential election.
Comey testified last month he considered the memos to be personal documents and that he shared at least one of them with a Columbia University lawyer friend. He asked that lawyer to leak information from one memo to the news media in hopes of increasing pressure to get a special prosecutor named in the Russia case after Comey was fired as FBI director.
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/341225-comeys-private-memos-on-trump-conversations-contained-classified?rnd=1499645596
Now we will discover how honet the Special Prosecutor is, if he goes after Comey or excuses himself and lets others go after him he is honest, any other actions shows massive corruption. The latter is what I am expecting.
Comey leak: Did fmr FBI director spill secrets?
Monkeys swarm Ocala man’s property
OCALA, Fla. – An Ocala man said monkeys from Silver Springs State Park have invaded his property.
Brian Pritchard lives four miles away from the park, but over the last few days his game camera has taken hundreds of photos of about 50 rhesus macaques eating from a deer feeder in his backyard.
Silver Springs State Park recently shut down two areas because of an increased monkey presence. A family visiting the state park last week recorded a video of the monkeys aggressively chasing them and showing their teeth.
Pritchard had put out a feeder with a camera to catch photos of deer, but instead, he got monkeys.
http://www.wftv.com/news/local/monkeys-swarm-ocala-mans-property/552589371
A ruger 10/22 and a good aim would take care of that problem.
you betcha~
Shooting in Ohio Kills 1, Injures 8 Others
A shooting at an Ohio woman’s gender reveal party kills one person and an unborn child, and injures eight others, including three children.
Authorities were called to the scene late Saturday night after several gun shots were reported.
They say an adult female was killed, along with an unborn child after its mother was shot in the leg.
Police are searching for one or two possible gunmen involved with the shooting.
Meanwhile, the injured victims were taken to nearby hospitals, where one adult remains in serious condition.
http://www.oann.com/shooting-in-ohio-kills-1-injures-8-others/
I can’t click an article about “gender reveal” – too revolting. Mixed with words like “unborn child”?
Oregon on the cusp of decriminalizing meth, cocaine, and heroin
By LU Staff July 10, 2017
The Oregon legislature passed two bills Thursday decriminalizing small amounts of six hard drugs, including cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and ecstasy.
The first of the two bills now headed to the governor’s desk, HB 2355, decriminalizes possession of the drugs so long as the offender has neither a felony nor more than two prior drug convictions on record, according to the Lund Report. The second, HB 3078, reduces drug-related property crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.
Republican State Sen. Jackie Winters claimed the war on drugs as it currently exists amounts to “institutional racism” due to the far greater incidence of minorities are charged with drug crimes as opposed to whites.
“There is empirical evidence that there are certain things that follow race,” Winters said during a hearing. She added:
http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/07/10/oregon-cusp-decriminalizing-meth-cocaine-heroin/
This whole thing is incredibly Fing stupid, this is going to increase the amount of drug usage and increase the amount of crime as drug users decide to migrate to Oregon and there are more and more break ins and smash/snatch and grab robberies so the druggies can buy more drugs. The idea that decriminalizing drugs doesn’t help the drug addicts but does make the drug dealers richer.
This is a big blow to the left, including the Jewish left, who wish to disparage Hungary and Orban:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/israel-backs-hungary-says-financier-soros-threat-130012739.html
They’ll just hate Mr. Orban more.
More.
https://www.apnews.com/bc89bc8f806545058f4fdd2f8666de3f
For a reminder four days ago it was this B.S..:
https://m.investing.com/news/world-news/hungarian-jews-ask-pm-orban-to-end-'bad-dream'-of-anti-semitism-502867
How Hillary got MSM to run with demonstrably false ’17 intel agencies’ claim for 9 months
By LU Staff July 9, 2017
When Hillary Clinton claimed “17 intelligence agencies” agree on Russian meddling in the third presidential debate, a host of media outlets including The New York Times rated the claim as 100 percent true. Nine months later, those same outlets say the stat is obviously false, and there’s been a “simple” explanation as to why all along.
A closer look at how the claim survived and thrived over those nine months reveals a startling lack of skepticism in the press when it comes to the Russia narrative. The truth is the great majority of the 17 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community had nothing to do with the investigation and made no judgments about the matter.
“The reason the views of only those four intelligence agencies, not all 17, were included in the assessment is simple: They were the ones tracking and analyzing the Russian campaign,” The New York Times now reports. “The rest were doing other work.”
Strange admission for the paper, since its star political reporter recently reiterated the false claim as she was in the middle of writing an article characterizing President Trump as stubbornly foolish.
“The latest presidential tweets were proof to dismayed members of Mr. Trump’s party that he still refuses to acknowledge a basic fact agreed upon by 17 American intelligence agencies that he now oversees: Russia orchestrated the attacks, and did it to help him get elected,” Maggie Haberman wrote. Her story was later corrected to reflect the — basic fact — that only three agencies working under the Director of National Intelligence contributed to the intelligence community’s conclusion.
http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/07/09/hillary-got-msm-run-demonstrably-false-17-intel-agencies-claim-9-months/
Trump will get to make an appointment to the powerful D.C. Appeals Court
By LU Staff July 9, 2017
Judge Janice Rogers Brown will step down from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in the coming months, giving President Donald Trump his first appointment to a court widely considered the second most powerful in the land. It is also one of the most liberal, thanks to the efforts of Barack Obama, though the judge stepping down is conservative and her departure will do little to shift the ideological balance of the court.
The Wall Street Journal first reported Brown’s expected retirement, though it was not immediately clear when she will leave active judicial service. What’s more, it is not yet understood if she will simply retire, which will allow her to participate in cases on a limited basis, or resign her commission altogether.
President George W. Bush appointed Brown the D.C. Circuit in 2003. She emerged as one of the most conservative jurists in the federal courts during her tenure, writing opinions defending the federal government’s prerogatives in the national security context and criticizing rational basis review, a judicial standard that gives economic regulations the presumption of validity.
http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/07/09/trump-will-get-make-appointment-powerful-d-c-appeals-court/
Open borders advocate George Clooney plans to move back to L.A. for … er — ‘health’ reasons
By Howard Portnoy July 9, 2017
Actor George Clooney, who has been living in England with his family, has announced that they will be moving back to Los Angeles. It’s not because life in a seventeenth-century mansion was not up to the film star’s high standards of living. It was rather because of — how to put this delicately? — “health” reasons. As in England has witnessed a spate of terror attacks lately, and Clooney believes that if you want to continue breathing (and he does), you just doesn’t stay there.
It’s not the first time Clooney has had security concerns. According to Life and Style magazine,
http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/07/09/open-borders-advocate-george-clooney-plans-move-back-l-er-health-reasons/
Clooney supports gun control, open borders and massive welfare. but he is running to the nation that doesn’t follow these olicies for protection. He left Iraly because of immigrants, now he is leaving Britan because if immigrants. He will now continue to work for gun control and open borders in the US, if he succeeds where whill he run to?
Austria denies Turkish minister’s visit, Ankara critical (abcnews, Jul 10, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/austria-denies-permission-turkish-minister-visit-48539173
“Burdening already strained bilateral relations, Austria on Monday denied a Turkish government minister’s request to enter the country to mark the anniversary of the failed presidential coup in Turkey — a move Ankara described as anti-democratic.
Austria’s Foreign Ministry said Turkish Economics Minister Nihat Zeybekci is being denied entry because the government believes his sole purpose is to appear publicly in front of his countrymen, which could threaten “public order and security in Austria.”…”
Austria bans Turkish minister from entering the country to mark coup bid anniversary
Austrian authorities say they are banning Turkey’s Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci from entering the country to attend a rally marking the anniversary of last year’s failed coup. However, Zeybekci denies he tried to go to Austria.
This is Stefan Molyneux interviewing Lauren Southern about the situation in Germany in general and the riots over the G20.
Lauren made a big discovery while she was in Germany, she discovered that the lefts is all abut me, me, me it isn’t about helping anyone but themselves. This is something most people never discover, the left talks a good game about helping people but they are really interested in becoming part of the 1% and gaining power to prevent anyone else doing anything to get ahead. The Dems always felt this way but it wasn’t until recently that they were so blatant in their actions that the traditional Dem voters discovered what they are like. European voters know this but hove on chance of voting in people who will change the direction of their nations.
Turkey detains academics for alleged links to cleric Gulen (abcnews, Jul 10, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkey-detains-academics-alleged-links-cleric-gulen-48539586
“Turkey’s official news agency says police have detained 42 people, including academics, for alleged links to a U.S.-based Muslim cleric less than a week before the anniversary of the failed coup.
Anadolu news agency said the operations Monday targeted people working at Turkey’s Bogazici and Medeniyet University. Prominent Bogazici academic and government critic, Koray Caliskan, and 19 professors from Medeniyet’s medical school are among the detained.
Turkey blames cleric Fethullah Gulen for masterminding the July 15 coup attempt and has arrested more than 50,000 people for alleged links to terror groups. Gulen denies the accusations.
Anadolu says the suspects are being investigated for using an encrypted mobile messaging application and communicating with clandestine “imams” in Gulen’s network.
Detention warrants have been issued for 30 more people, according to the agency.”
Bomb kills police chief, 2 others in southwest Pakistan town (abcnews, Jul 10, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/bomb-kills-police-chief-southwest-pakistan-town-48539174
“A suicide bomber riding on a motorcycle struck a vehicle carrying a police chief in the southwestern Pakistani town of Chaman near the Afghan border on Monday, killing the officer, his guard and a civilian, a government official said.
Eleven people were also wounded in the attack that targeted police chief Sajid Khan Mohmand’s vehicle in the main bazaar, said Shahzada Farhat, police spokesman in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province.
The wounded included three police officers and eight passers-by. Kashif Alam, an assistant commissioner in Chaman, said the suicide bombing also damaged nearby shops.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing in Chaman, which is near the Afghan border town of Spin Boldak.
Pakistani Taliban and other militant groups have claimed previous attacks in Chaman…”
Police: Indonesia bomb maker wanted to join Philippine fight (abcnews, Jul 10, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/police-indonesia-bomb-maker-wanted-join-philippine-fight-48539655
“Indonesian police said Monday that a man whose home-made bomb accidentally exploded in the West Java city of Bandung was obsessed with the idea of joining Islamic State group-affiliated militants who’ve occupied parts of a city in the southern Philippines since mid-May.
West Java police spokesman Yusri Yunus said that Agus Wiguna, 21, was arrested following the explosion on Saturday at his rented house and was probably acting alone.
Yunus said a written document found in the house showed Agus’ pledge of allegiance to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. He said that Wiguna learned about IS and how to assemble a bomb from the internet.
The pressure cooker bomb allegedly prepared by Wiguna exploded unintentionally but caused no casualties. It was the second terror-related incident in Bandung since February, when police shot a suspected militant after his bomb exploded in a vacant lot and he fled into a municipal building and set it alight.
Police said Wiguna planned to begin his attack on July 16 at a cafe, then a restaurant and a church, all in Bandung.
He also admitted to wanting to join IS militants fighting in the Philippine city of Marawi after carrying out his planned attacks…”
Syrian Army Liberates 15 Villages in Southern Province of As-Suwayda From Daesh (sputniknews, Jul 10, 2017)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201707101055401401-syrian-army-daesh/
“Syrian government army, supported by the allied forces, have dislodged Daesh terrorists (outlawed in numerous countries) from 15 settlements in the eastern part of the As-Suwayda province in southern Syria, a Syrian military source told Sputnik on Monday…”
Court rules Britain’s arms sales to Saudi Arabia are ‘lawful’, despite destruction of Yemen (RT, Jul 10, 2017)
https://www.rt.com/uk/395838-saudi-arms-court-weapons-yemen/
“London’s High Court has ruled that UK arms sales to the Saudi Arabian regime are “lawful” in response to a judicial review brought by the Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT).
The case hinged on the question of whether the UK failed to suspend sales in line with legal obligations, given the Saudi’s current war in neighboring Yemen, which has been waged in part using British manufactured military equipment.
Documents cited in court showed that civil servants had, in fact, recommended that sales should no longer go ahead, but ministers had ignored the advice.
“This is a very disappointing verdict, and we are pursuing an appeal,” Andrew Smith of Campaign Against Arms Trade said.
“If this verdict is upheld then it will be seen as a green light for government to continue arming and supporting brutal dictatorships and human rights abusers like Saudi Arabia that have shown a blatant disregard for international humanitarian law.”
CAAT’s lawyer, Rosa Curling, said: “Nothing in the open evidence, presented by the UK government to the court, suggests this risk does not exist in relation to arms to Saudi Arabia.
“Indeed, all the evidence we have seen from Yemen suggests the opposite: the risk is very real. You need only look at the devastating reality of the situation there.”
CAAT, who have said they will appeal, had argued that the UK’s continued sales are a breach of international law while the EU’s common council also insists that sales to nations where violations of the law might occur must be halted.
In the last two years, the UK has licensed the sales of £3 billion (US$3.86 billion) worth of arms to the Saudi government, with which Britain is a longstanding ally.
Arm sales have included Typhoon and Tornado jets and the UK has had military personnel embedded in Saudi headquarters throughout the Yemen conflict, which has raged since 2015.
The British government maintains that the personnel are there to support adherence to international law and advice on rules of engagement…”
Trump ‘knowledgeable’ & ‘skillful negotiator’ says Putin’s spokesman after ‘win-win’ G20 talks (RT, Jul 10, 2017)
https://www.rt.com/news/395828-peskov-trump-putin-meeting/
“Vladimir Putin’s press secretary has dismissed claims of Donald Trump’s incompetence as “delusional trash,” and says the Russian president had a “pleasant” meeting with his US counterpart at the G20 summit in Hamburg.
“I can say with certainty that Putin was pleased after the meeting. And while I don’t personally know Donald Trump, my impression was that he was satisfied as well,” said Dmitry Peskov, who pointed out that he wasn’t personally present at the two-hour talks, but was later fully briefed by the Russian leader.
Putin’s spokesman also launched a broadside at Trump’s portrayal in the “hysterical” mainstream media.
“Accusations that Trump is somewhat incompetent or that he is a novice, can be classified as delusional trash,” Peskov told the Russia 1 news channel. “Trump is not some simpleton. He has expert knowledge, he is a very determined negotiator and skillful at using his knowledge to put his position across.”…”
Russia to continue cooperation with US on de-escalation zones in Syria – Lavrov (RT, Jul 10, 2017)
https://www.rt.com/news/395860-russia-us-syria-cooperation/
“Russia will continue cooperation with the US on de-escalation zones in southern Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, adding that although a ceasefire agreement came into force on Sunday, it needs to be consolidated.
“Regarding the perspectives of our cooperation with the Americans, it will continue through the implementation of those deals agreed on the de-escalation zone in Syria’s southwest. The memorandum from June 7… assumes the development of additional details that would secure how this zone would work in practice. And despite the ceasefire coming into force on Sunday at 12:00 [local time], this [ceasefire] should be consolidated,” Lavrov told reporters in Moscow.
A de-escalation zone helps to “disengage” armed opposition from Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), Al-Qaeda, Al-Nusra Front (now known as Jabhat Fateh al-Sham) and other groups recognized as terrorists by the UN Security Council.
A monitoring center in the Jordanian capital, Amman, which oversees the truce in Syria, will work directly with the Syrian opposition and government in Damascus, according to the foreign minister.
“We agreed to use a monitoring center established by Russia, the US and Jordan in Amman to coordinate all the details of functioning of these de-escalation zones,” Lavrov said.
Final agreements on de-escalation zones in the areas near Homs and East Ghouta may be reached very soon, Lavrov said, adding that negotiations on Idlib region are still taking place.
The de-escalation zones initiative helps to “normalize relations” between the armed opposition and government forces, according to Lavrov…”
New advice for British tourists on how to survive terrorist attack (VIDEO) (RT, Jul 10, 2017)
https://www.rt.com/uk/395855-tourist-terror-attack-run/
“British holidaymakers are being urged to watch a new safety video on how to survive a terrorist attack ahead of their summer breaks.
The four-minute clip issued by counterterrorism police adapts the “run, hide, tell” message and depicts a firearms attack unfolding at a hotel…”
EU’s migrant nightmare: Arrivals in Spain rocket as smugglers slash crossing price to £800 (express, Jul 10, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/826766/Migrant-crisis-EU-new-challenge-arrivals-Spain
“THE number of migrants arriving by boat to Spain has rocketed by 60 per cent this year as the EU faces the nightmare prospect of a fresh front opening up in the Mediterranean.
Official figures show that 6,400 people have been rescued making the crossing from Morocco and Algeria after smugglers slashed the price of the sea journey to just £800.
Aid vessels intercepted eight boats carrying 380 people in just five days between last Wednesday and Sunday as the route becomes ever more popular with migrants hoping to avoid war-torn Libya.
The spike in arrivals means the crossing to Spain is now almost as popular as the one to Greece, the country that was the main entry point to Europe until the EU adopted a returns pact with Turkey.
Rescue workers say the number of people attempting the short but perilous sea journey to the southern coast of Spain is the highest registered in years and is continuing to rise at an alarming rate…”
Iraq drills first oil well near Iran border (memo, Jul 10, 2017)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170710-iraq-drills-first-oil-well-near-iran-border/
“Iraq’s oil ministry said Sunday it had begun drilling the first well in the Huwaiza oil field near the Iranian border, which may contain one billion barrels in reserves.
The ministry said in a statement that state-run Maysan Oil Company will oversee the oil and natural gas industry in the region.
Iraq is OPEC’s second largest producer after Saudi Arabia and seeks to increase its production capacity to five million barrels per day at the end of the year from its current production rate of about 4.7 million bpd…”
Former Yemen president incites fight against Saudi Arabia (memo, Jul 10, 2017)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170710-former-yemen-president-incites-fight-against-saudi-arabia/
“Former President of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh has called on people to rise up against the Saudi-led coalition which is strikes targets linked to forces allied to him and the Iranian-backed Houthis, Saba News reported.
Saleh told tribal leaders in Baydah province yesterday that Yemen needs to be steadfast against the Saudi coalition’s attacks which began two years. Saleh encouraged the tribal leaders to continue to fight for the sake of the revolution, republic and unity.
Propaganda campaigns should not impact the Yemeni people’s morale, he added.
The Saudi-led coalition has been striking targets of Saleh and Houthi fighters in an effort to reinstate the internationally backed Yemeni government of President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.”
Egypt to raise Metro prices by 100% (memo, Jul 10, 2017)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170710-egypt-to-raise-metro-prices-by-100/
“Egypt is to increase the price of tickets for the Cairo Metro by 100 per cent in 2018, the Transport Minister, Hisham Arafat, revealed yesterday.
According to AlMasry Alyoum newspaper, the ticket prices will range from two to four Egyptian pounds ($0.11-$0.22) depending on the number of stations travelled.
Ticket prices were increased by 100 per cent in March, rising from one Egyptian pound ($0.06) to two.
The announcement comes days after the government of Prime Minister, Sherif Ismail, raised the price of all petroleum materials as well as electricity and a number of services.
Egypt’s economy has been struggling since a 2011 uprising drove foreign investors and tourists away.””
That was a very, very, very cheap metro. lol
Germany: De Maiziere compares G20 protesters to ‘neo-Nazis and Islamist extremists’
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said that the violence seen during the anti-G20 protests in Hamburg were “incomprehensible and outrageous”, speaking from Berlin, Monday.
“They were not demonstrators; they were criminal anarchists,” said de Maiziere, comparing the protesters to “violent extremists, exactly like neo-Nazis and Islamist extremists.”
SOT, Thomas de Maiziere, German Interior Minister (German): “The brutality, with the extremely violent chaos that has taken place since Thursday in Hamburg is incomprehensible and outrageous.”
SOT, Thomas de Maiziere, German Interior Minister (German): “They were not demonstrators, they were criminal anarchists. Attacks made against people, against items, plundering and arson. Demonstraters from Europe can not claim to be political activists. People who burn cars and plunder supermarkets are not activists or G20 opposers, which is how they are still described in the left-wing political scene. They are contemptuous, violent extremists, exactly like neo-nazis and islamist extremists. Every form of attempt to justify this from the left political spectrum is hollow, in the face of a high number of injured police officers, and in the face of a completely indiscriminate, intentional and huge damaging of property and innocent by-standers.”
SOT, Thomas de Maiziere, German Interior Minister (German): “In total we see a total of around 500 injured police officers. There were 118 injured officers from the Federal Police alone, of which luckily only two are still receiving inpatient treatment. To all those who are still in recovery, I give my very best wishes. What they have experienced they won’t soon forget.”
SOT, Thomas de Maiziere, German Interior Minister (German): “One of the lessons to take from the weekend of violence in the Schanzenquarter of Hamburg is that in future we will be dealing with heavy outbreaks of violence when left extremists come together and claim that they want to demonstrate. The events surrounding the G20 summit is an insight into the violent propensity of the left extremist scene.”
That is what they are.
Germany: Merkel talks G20 security alongside Seehofer at CSU event
Following a series of protests surrounding the G20 summit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended the results of meeting at a CSU event at Banz Abbey in Bad Staffelstein, Monday, speaking alongside Chairman of Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) Horst Seehofer.
Merkel noted, “The G20 meeting has made it clear once again, as described it in the Preamble of the Communique, that we can do more together to achieve a human globalisation than any of us alone.”
Merkel’s CDU and its sister party the CSU have promised some 15,000 additional police officers in their joint election program. Following the heavy clashes in Hamburg, Seehofer reportedly calling for further security improvements.
reuters Hungarian hard-right launches ultra-radical racist movement
When you continually attack one ethnic group and refuse to listen to the moderate people who are complaining you end up having to deal with the unreasonable people,
Hi Eeyore and readers of Vladtepesblog,
Torrent rain pounds Paris leaving Metro stations and roads flooded
https://www.thelocal.fr/20170710/paris-metro-stations-and-roads-flooded-as-downpours-cause-travel-chaos
Thank You.
Up to 15 metro stations across Paris were left flooded after heavy rain, Monday, the incidents following severe weather in the French capital.
A two-hour storm hit Paris late on Sunday, forcing the closure of about 15 stations by Paris metro authorities. National weather service Meteo France have placed 12 departments on a 24-hour “orange alert” for heavy rains and electrical storms.
Sebastian Gorka: National interest must trump charity
Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to President Trump, weighs in on Paris’ evacuation of migrants and President Trump’s visit to Poland.
Iraq: Soldiers parade seized IS flags in Mosul after militants pushed out of city
Raw: Iraqis Celebrate Victory Over Islamic State
Destruction After Mosul Freed, Aid Needed
The Death of Canada. Prepare Yourself Accordingly.
Canada Willing to Take in 10,000 More Syrian Refugees
TORONTO: In addition to the 25,000 refugee who arrived to Canada during the last few months, additional 10,000 Syrian refugees will be taken in, said Immigration Minister John McCallum on Thursday in Germany, where an inflow of refugees has sparked a backlash.
The latter told the Canadian Broadcastinz Corp he was answering to complaints from Canadian groups who want to sponsor Syrian refugees however their applications did not get processed as rapid enough to be among the government’s initial target of 25,000.
In addition to the aforementioned and with a phone call interview with CBC News from Berlin, McCallum said in that they were doing everything they can to accommodate the very welcomed desire on the part of Canadians to sponsor refugees, noting that McCallum has a meeting with the German interior minister in Berlin.
Promising to open the doors infront of more Syrian refugees more quickly than the “previous” Conservative government, the Liberal government won election in October 2015. Which comes in severe contrast with how things are regarding this matter in Europe, where resettlement has sparked an anti-migrant backlash amid security fears.
The resettlement program has been going smoothly, although there have been some interruptions that and delay in finding permanent housing for refugees arriving in Canada, particularly in large cities like Toronto where the housing market is tight. A poll released last month showed Canadians were divided over whether to accept more Syrian refugees.
A total of 26,200 Syrian refugees had arrived in Canada as of March 28, according to the Immigration Department. But nearly 16,000 more applications are in process or have been finalized, even though the refugees have not yet arrived, according to official figures.
McCallum said he has instructed bureaucrats to extend the deadline for submitting sponsorship applications to Thursday from the initial March 1 deadline, which should allow the department to process the backlog.
https://www.albawaba.com/news/canada-willing-take-10000-more-syrian-refugees-994676
Stupdity, and they will probably double down and increase the number.
The numbers will be exponential when ‘family reunification’ efforts kick off. Shameful.
CBC – Does Omar Khadr deserve a multi-million dollar settlement? | Sunday Talk
Women endure most Islamophobia in Australia, study finds (BBC, Jul 10, 2017)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-40552201
“Hanan Merheb was walking along a busy Sydney road listening to music when she was punched in the face in what police said was an Islamophobic attack.
The university student, 19, believes the only reason she was assaulted was because she was wearing a headscarf.
“I felt pretty unsafe,” Ms Merheb told the BBC. “I was pretty angry that this happened to me in my home country.”
A study has found that women wearing head coverings are most at risk of Islamophobic attacks in Australia.
The report has been billed as the nation’s first of its kind.
Intervention rare
The study analysed 243 incidents reported to the Islamophobia Register of Australia between September 2014 and December 2015.
Almost three-quarters of those behind the abuse were male.
The victims were 68% women – four in five of them were wearing a head covering. Of female victims, more than 30% were accompanied by a child at the time.
Despite about half of the incidents taking place in public, bystanders intervened in only 25% of cases.
The authors defined an Islamophobic incident as any act of “abusive hatred, vilification and violence inflicted on Muslims going about their daily lives”.
The Islamophobia in Australia study involved several universities, the Islamic Sciences and Research Academy of Australia and the Diversity Council Australia.
Drawing conclusions
Ms Merheb said although her minor bruising and facial cuts had healed after the May incident, she remained uneasy about wearing a headscarf in public.
“Every person I know who wears it is always wary that something is going to happen,” she said.
Study co-author Dr Mehmet Ozalp, from Charles Sturt University, said Islamophobia was often a reaction to anti-Islam political rhetoric and media coverage of terrorism.
“Over time people associate Islam and Muslims with terrorism and violence – and they lash out in anger at that,” said Dr Ozalp.
“But it is these innocent Muslims – mainly women – that are visible in public.”
Dr Ozalp said that Islamophobia should be better researched and documented around the world.
“I think the first solution is that the problem has to be recognised at all levels including in academia and political circles,” he said.”
Yemen cholera cases pass 300,000 as outbreak spirals – ICRC (BBC, Jul 10, 2017)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40558828
“A cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen is thought to have infected 300,000 people in the past 10 weeks, the International Committee of the Red Cross says.
The situation has continued to “spiral out of control”, with about 7,000 new cases every day, the ICRC warned.
More than 1,700 associated deaths have been reported, according to the UN.
Yemen’s health, water and sanitation systems are collapsing after two years of conflict between pro-government forces and the rebel Houthi movement…”
This is the first of the outbreaks of the old diseases, before the 20s are over we will see many of the killers return to the entire world. This is one of the results of open borders that the left refuses to talk about.
DAILY MAIL – The young British Pakistani women prepared to marry their COUSINS in order to keep their families happy – but risk giving birth to disabled children
BBC Three documentary Should I Marry My Cousin? follows 18-year-old Hiba
She is on a quest to figure out whether she should follow her family tradition
Hiba speaks with her own relatives as well as two sisters on their wedding day
They marry their own cousins in a double ceremony
Hiba looks at research from the ‘Born in Bradford’ study which is a long-term study of 13,500 children born in 2007 whose health is being tracked
Worried over potential genetic issues when having children with a cousin, the research shocks Hiba who chooses not to marry her own relative
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4674136/The-British-Pakistani-women-marrying-COUSINS.html
www(dot)bbc(dot)co(dot)uk/iplayer/episode/p056gvhm/should-i-marry-my-cousin
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U.S. could turn North Korea into an overdone Pop-Tart: Oliver North
CNN hired top al-Qaeda propagandist for award-winning Syria documentary and wants to cover its tracks
Star CNN correspondent Clarissa Ward worked with al-Qaeda “media man” Bilal Abdul Kareem
On June 16, an American media activist living in rebel-held Syrian territory sat down before a camera to vent his frustration with a former employer. Bilal Abdul Kareem described how he and his online outlet, On the Ground News, had been contracted by CNN to film the documentary Undercover in Syria.
“This was with CNN and their correspondent Clarissa Ward, which I have big-time respect for, big-time respect as a journalist, as a person,” Abdul Kareem remarked.
With a sardonic grin, Abdul Kareem described how he was slighted: “This Undercover in Syria, you can Google it — it won the prestigious Peabody Award, and it won the prestigious Overseas Press Club Award, which are basically the highest awards in journalism for international reporting. Now, [CNN] barely mentioned my name! I’m telling you, somehow CNN must have forgotten that I was the one that filmed it, I guess they forgot that.”
Indeed, Abdul Kareem’s name was a mere footnote in the Peabody Awards press release on its honoring of CNN. The organization praised Clarissa Ward for “[going] undercover into northern Syria to document Russian influence on the fighting and to navigate the ongoing devastation,” but credited Abdul Kareem only in small print, despite the fact that he was responsible for providing CNN with its on-the-ground footage.
more :
http://www.salon.com/2017/07/09/cnn-hired-top-al-qaeda-propagandist-for-award-winning-syria-documentary-and-wants-to-cover-its-tracks_partner/
Is Jihad in Syria Obligatory on All Able Muslims? P1 of 2
CNN hires pro-Syrian Al-Qaeda propagandist, erases him from credits
Bilal Abdul Kareem, an American living in regions of Syria controlled by the Al-Nusra Front terrorist group, has been referred as “our media man” by top Al-Qaeda clerics. So why did CNN hire him to work on an undercover documentary project, then erase him from the credits? “They didn’t care and just wanted to further the regime change editorial line,” says author and investigative journalist Max Blumenthal, who joins RT
Those “final messages” from Aleppo Syria look more like a coordinated PR campaign
Greece: Huge fire breaks out in Lesbos refugee camp
A fire ripped through the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday, following reports that some migrants were told they were going to be deported.
Moria refugee camp is made up of makeshift homes which house over 1,000 migrants. Some of the refugees who live there reportedly held a protest saying their applications were not being processed.
Police had allegedly been called to the camp before the fire broke out to respond to a ‘major disturbance’.
The cause of the fire is yet unknown and there have been no immediate reports of arrests or injuries.
Those Greece fires can be hard to put out.
HAMBURG – G20 Erdodan’s motorcade
Macron
Putin
Trump
Putin Looked Trump in the Eye and Lied to Him
by John R. Bolton
July 10, 2017 at 9:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10648/trump-putin-lied
Before Donald Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin at the G20, media speculation approached hysterical levels. Would it be like the Reagan-Gorbachev get-together at Reykjavik in 1986, or Chamberlain meeting Hitler in Munich in 1938?
Of course, it was like neither. Instead, the encounter was primarily for the leaders to take each other’s measure. This was especially important for Trump, given his opponents’ charges, with no evidence to date, that his campaign colluded with Russia to rig the 2016 election.
Rex Tillerson, the Secretary of State, reported afterwards that Trump opened the meeting by expressing “the concerns of Americans” about Russian election interference. Tillerson emphasized that the discussion was “robust and lengthy”, with Trump returning several times to Russia’s meddling.
Although we do not have Trump’s exact words, US critics immediately attacked him for not referring to his concerns about the intrusions. If Trump did speak broadly about Americans’ worries, he struck the right note. The US is essentially unanimous that no foreign intervention in our constitutional process is acceptable.
Hillary Clinton Might “Help” Dems Lose New Election
July 10, 2017
Daniel Greenfield
The worst nightmare of the Democrats is about to come true. Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail. Again.
Same as her previous role? Helping the GOP win.
Clinton has already launched a PAC aimed at helping congressional Democratic candidates in 2018, signaling the former first lady, senator and secretary of State is ready to help her party with fundraising.
The only people the Clintons help are themselves. Hillary didn’t help the Dems fundraising when she was running. The only thing she’s doing now is diverting money. Again.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/267232/hillary-clinton-might-help-dems-lose-new-election-daniel-greenfield
Richard: Pelosi and Hillary both working to help Dems get elected!! I can’t think of a better gift for the Repubs,
Trump’s Warning in Warsaw
Speaking home truths to an audience that got it.
I’m half Polish. Both my father’s parents were from the region called Galicia – my grandmother from a village named Krystynopol, my grandfather from a somewhat larger town called Brody. They were Poles, and spoke Polish, but, back then, there was no Poland. The places they came from were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Other parts of what should have been Poland were in the German and Russian Empires. The Poles were a substantial people with a long history and a great culture, but they had the misfortune of being located between two massive and aggressive military powers.
My father, born and raised in New York and brought up, as was the practice among European immigrants in those days, to be an American, grew into a man who sounded as if he was from Indiana. He spoke perfect American English, with no trace of a Polish accent (or, for that matter, a New York accent). He was a man of immense humor. He loved jokes. The only ethnic jokes he ever told were Polish jokes. Back then, everyone told Polish jokes.
Sample: “How did the Germans conquer Poland so fast? They marched in backwards and the Polish thought they were leaving.” Or: “Why don’t Poles commit suicide? Because you can’t jump out the window of a basement.” Or: “How can you identify the groom at a Polish wedding? He’s the one with a clean bowling shirt.”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267224/trumps-warning-warsaw-bruce-bawer
U.S. could turn North Korea into an overdone Pop-Tart: Oliver North
On the surface these two items aren’t related but both are warnings to people to back off and take a look at their hole cards. Both are warnings that the US has a President who is tired of fighting wars for no reason and who isn’t out to build any nations. He is out to protect the US and our allies and is ready to use the US military the way it was used in WWII. Back then when we kicked butt we and didn’t care about the names as long as the uniform the wore was of one of the bad guy nations.
Now we are facing more then three enemy nations and as in the Cold War we are hampered with enemy infiltrators of at least two of our enemies. The left thought that they had destroyed nationalism/patriotism in the west the Generation Identity movement is proving that they haven’t, just as they are proof of the longing of people to be free to determine their own future. The left and the Moslems thought they had won and now the free people are standing up and showing them they are wrong. The smell of war is strong in the air but so is the scent of freedom and that is a scent that will lead us to victory as re resist the left and Islam. The nay sayers are saying we can’t win in Korea because so many people will die, it is better to die fighting for freedom then live as a slave. The nay sayers say we can’t win in Europe because the people have been brainwashed into non resistance. but all of Eastern Europe is fighting to retain their hard won freedom. The US now has a strong President that loves our nations and who will once again turn the US into the arsenal of democracy to preserve freedom around the world.
We all have ancestors who fought, bled and isn some cases died to give us the freedom that we now enjoy, do we have less courage then them? Are we weaker then them? We are the descendants of those who destroyed entire nations so that we could live in freedom, are we going to pass freedom or slavery on to our descendants?
Waking Up With Sam Harris #85 – Is this the End of Europe? (with Douglas Murray)
With Hungary Cracking Down on Soros, Israeli Lawmaker Pushes His Own ‘Soros Law’
Israeli lawmaker from Netanyahu’s Likud party vows to push bill day after Israel backtracks criticism of Hungarian PM’s campaign against Jewish-American financier George Soros
read more: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.800601
A lawmaker from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party says he will put forward a bill he is calling the “Soros Law” to block donations to left wing organizations enjoying foreign funding.
On Sunday, Haaretz reported that Israel’s foreign ministry issued a statement denouncing U.S. billionaire George Soros, in a move that appeared designed to align Israel more closely with Hungary. Soros, a Hungarian-born Jew who has spent a large part of his fortune funding pro-democracy and human rights groups, has repeatedly been targeted by Hungary’s right-wing government, in particular over his support for more open immigration.
In a press release from Monday, MK Miki Zohar said that within a few days, the so-called “Soros Law” will be brought before the Knesset. Under the legislative proposal, “any person donating to organizations acting against Israel will not be allowed to donate to any organization or nonprofit association in Israel,” his statement said.
read more: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.800601
Been trying to pass that law for YEARS now. Just do it!