About Eeyore

Canadian artist and counter-jihad and freedom of speech activist as well as devout Schrödinger's catholic

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  1. UAE pays $10m compensation after Sheikh tortures US citizen (memo,Jul 15, 2017)
    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170715-uae-pays-10m-after-sheikh-tortures-us-citizen/

    “A US citizen received $10 million compensation after US State Department telegrams proved his claim that senior members of the ruling family in the UAE had detained and tortured him.

    According to the Intercept, the settlement was completed and the compensation was paid secretly in 2013, according to documents leaked from the hacked email account of the UAE Ambassador to the United States, Yousef Al-Otaiba.

    Khalid Hassan’s case against three senior members of the UAE ruling family, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE President Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan and retired Brigadier General Saeed Hilal Al-Darmaki, was brought before the Federal Court in Los Angeles.

    It dated back to 1984, when Hassan was an arms consultant for a member of the royal family. Hassan pointed out that Mohammed Bin Zayed personally oversaw his torture.

    The American citizen claimed that he was held in a prison cell which was ten feet wide and that he was beaten and deprived of air conditioning for days during the hot summer.

    He added that his hands and feet were bound for several hours and he was given rotten liquids which made him sick and caused him to hallucinate.

    At that time, the State Department was working to locate Hassan and visit him, according to the ministry’s telegrams.

    The lawsuit was filed in 2009, a few weeks after the administration of former US President Barack Obama took office.

    While the judge warned that the lawsuit may be rejected because the defendants were in the UAE, lawyers argued that the ambassador of the United Arab Emirates was in the US and the judge to accept the case.

    Hassan’s lawyers cited the State Department’s telegrams, which were published in 2006, that highlight attempts by the US embassy to locate and secure his release.

    One of the telegrams, dating back to 1984, included the entry: “One of the private security agents said that Hassan was being held in Abu Dhabi under high level government supervision.”

    After initially denying the charges, the UAE admitted that Hassan was being held by a state security agency under high level government supervision.

    Although US courts normally only hear trials in cases where due process has been exhausted in the country where the crimes where committed, Hassan argued that judiciary in the UAE is run and governed by the same people who tortured him and therefore the trial would not be independent.

    During the case, Al-Otaiba worked behind the scenes to protect members of the ruling family. The president’s name was removed from the case for diplomatic reasons.

    In 2011, UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan thanked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the US Department of Justice for granting immunity to the president.

    After the case, Al-Otaiba held several meetings with an American legal team, according to the documents. He tried to have the case dropped citing diplomatic immunity.

    The UAE’s attempts failed and Mohammed Bin Zayed remained a defendant in the case. After the appointment of John Kerry as Secretary of State, Bin Zayed tried once again to have the case dropped.

    In 2013, Kerry sent him a message saying: “I was pleased to see you in Abu Dhabi, and I thank you for your message on Hassan’s case against Sheikh Khalifa Al Nahyan and others.”

    He then met with lawyers from the Office of the Legal Council at the Ministry of Interior and with the law firm defending the UAE, who told him that the United States filed a request for immunity on behalf of Mohammed Bin Zayed.

    By May 2013, a $10 million reparation package had been signed for the closure of the case and for details of it not to be made public.”

  3. *Erdogan threatens to ‘chop off’ traitors’ heads in coup anniversary speech (france24, Jul 15, 2017):*

    “Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday threatened to “chop off the heads” of traitors, in a speech marking the first anniversary of the failed coup bid that aimed to oust him from power.

    “First of all we will chop off the heads of those traitors,” Erdogan told a rally in Istanbul, prompting cries from the crowds that capital punishment should be restored in Turkey.

    Reaffirming previous comments, he vowed to sign any bill passed by parliament to restore capital punishment in Turkey, a move that would effectively end Ankara’s European Union membership ambitions…”

      • Defiant Erdogan attacks EU, promises to bring back death penalty (reuters, Jul 16, 2017)
        http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-turkey-security-anniversary-idUKKBN1A10EM

        “A defiant President Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday stepped up his attack on the European Union, saying Turkey had to go its own way and vowing to bring back the death penalty if parliament passes it.

        Erdogan, who was at the opening ceremony for a memorial dedicated to the roughly 250 people who died during last year’s failed coup, accused Brussels of “messing about” with Turkey’s decades-long bid to join the bloc.

        The speech, in front of the presidential palace in Ankara in the early hours of Sunday, wound up a marathon session of public appearances by Erdogan in both the capital and Istanbul to mark the anniversary of last year’s failed coup.

        “The stance of the European Union is clear to see… 54 years have passed and they are still messing us about,” he said, citing what he said was Brussels’ failure to keep promises on everything from a visa deal to aid for Syrian migrants.

        “We will sort things out for ourselves, there’s no other option.”…”

        • “Defiant Erdogan attacks EU, promises to bring back death penalty”

          Poor widdle Muslims. They just can’t restrain their blood lust. Erdogan’s reinstatement of the death penalty will be a total deal breaker for Turkey’s admission into the EU.

          If Erdogan could just wait for ten years, he’d probably be able to impose the death penalty all across Europe. Muslims are like spoiled brats who have to have everything RIGHT NOW.

          Small wonder that Islam has to play such a (deadly serious) long game. All Muslims do in the short run is step on their own schlongs.

          • If freedom of speech, FGM and sharia law is not a del breaker for the EU, why the hell would this be?

            • “If freedom of speech, FGM and sharia law is not a deal breaker for the EU, why the hell would this be?”

              For whatever odd reason (if only to be staunchly anti-American), capital punishment is that rare line in the sand on the syringe that EU wankers will not tolerate.

              I think it has something to do with the way that so many of them would instantly qualify for summary execution were the death penalty reinstated.

              Tragically, it is this same unwillingness to impose capital punishment that’ll enable Muslim thugs to keep on blithely ignoring the bulk of EU penal codes.

              Once these amateur jihadis started getting frequent dates with Mr. Needle, the lot of them might finally sit down and learn to enjoy a tall, cold, foamy glass of STFU.

              • The European socialist will never accept the return of Capital Punishment. Which is going to make the civil wars necessary to remove the Islamic invaders.

  5. British jihadi bids to be leader of Islamic State (express, Jul 16, 2017)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/829100/ISIS-news-UK-latest-leader-dead-Islamic-State-new-leadership

    “A FRONTRUNNER to be the new leader of Islamic State is a British jihadi linked to the murder of soldier Lee Rigby.

    Abdul Qadir Mumin, who is believed to be one of the radical Islamists who inspired Drummer Rigby’s murderer Michael Adebolajo and a friend of “Jihadi John”, declared a new IS caliphate in Somalia last year.

    Now experts have warned that the warlord, described as “eloquent and persuasive”, is using the death of IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to become leader of all of Islamic State.

    With IS already beaten in Iraq, and its days numbered in Syria, it is feared he wants Somalia to become the new heartland from which to infiltrate migrant smuggling routes and launch terror attacks in Europe.

    Terror expert Professor Candyce Kelshall said yesterday: “Over the past few days Abdul Mumin has been making a big effort with media messages through IS recruiting networks to push the message across that Somalia is the new Caliphate…”

  6. New kidnappings, jailbreak hit restive Philippine island (abcnews, Jul 16, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/kidnappings-jailbreak-hit-restive-philippine-island-48664106

    “Suspected Abu Sayyaf gunmen abducted four workers in a school in a southern Philippine province where President Rodrigo Duterte visited troops waging an offensive against the militants, officials said Sunday.

    About 20 militants barged into a grade school compound in Sulu province’s Patikul town shortly after midnight Saturday and seized six painters and carpenters, one of whom managed to escape and alerted the police. Army troops later rescued another worker.

    Duterte pinned medals on wounded troops during a brief visit late Saturday to Sulu, a predominantly Muslim province about 950 kilometers (590 miles) south of Manila. The tough-talking president has ordered government forces to destroy the ransom-seeking militants, who still hold about 25 foreign and Filipino hostages in Sulu’s jungles.

    Meanwhile, 14 inmates, including suspected Abu Sayyaf fighters and drug dealers, escaped early Sunday from a jail in a new building that also houses the police headquarters in a government compound in Sulu’s main town of Jolo, police said.

    Three of those who escaped were gunned down by police and another was shot and captured. Army troops were helping police track down the rest with the use of military drones and sniffer dogs, a police statement said.

    The new kidnappings and jailbreak reflect the diverse security challenges confronting Duterte’s administration in the south, where thousands of troops have been separately battling militants aligned with the Islamic State group who laid siege to the city of Marawi on May 23.

    After nearly two months of fighting, more than 530 people, including 405 militants and 95 soldiers and police, have died in the violence in the lakeside city, a center of Islamic faith in the southern third of the largely Roman Catholic country.

    Backed by airstrikes, troops are fighting about 60 to 70 remaining militants, who are holding an unspecified number of civilian hostages in four Marawi communities in an offensive that Duterte said last week was winding down. He said the offensive won’t stop until the last militant is killed.

    Duterte, however, has said he would likely extend the martial law he imposed in the south because the situation in Marawi remains critical. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said he gave the president his recommendation on the question of extending or ending martial rule last week.

    Nearly 400,000 people, including most of Marawi’s 200,000 residents, have been displaced by the crisis and many have yearned to return home amid the misery in overcrowded evacuation centers.

    Duterte’s spokesman, Ernesto Abella, however, said Marawi remains fraught with danger, especially for children and women…”

  7. Pakistan launches military operation near Afghan border (abcnews, Jul 16, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pakistan-launches-military-operation-afghan-border-48664845

    “Pakistan says it has launched a new military operation near the Afghan border to combat militants.

    Maj. Gen. Asif Ghafoor, an army spokesman, says an infantry division backed by air force and artillery will clear the Rajgal Valley in the Khyber tribal region.

    He says Pakistan has informed Afghan authorities and urged them to take similar measures on their side of the border.

    Afghanistan and Pakistan have long accused each other of turning a blind eye to militants operating along their porous border. Pakistan’s construction of a fence along part of the frontier has also caused tensions, as Afghanistan does not recognize the colonial-era line as an international border.”

  8. China unveils gene technology to create SUPERHUMANS with hyper-muscular test-tube dogs
    ARMIES of SUPER-SOLDIERS were a step closer to reality today after China announced it was genetically engineering hyper-muscular SUPER-DOGS.

    The dogs, which are test tube bred in a lab, have twice the muscle mass of their natural counterparts and are considerably stronger and faster.

    The canine genome has been especially difficult to engineer and replicate – but its close similarity to the human genome means it has long been the prize of geneticists.

    Now the Chinese success has led to fears the same technology could be used to create weaponised super-humans – typifed in Marvel Comics by Captain America and his foes.

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/828981/China-genetic-engineering-super-soldiers-dogs

    Richard: We are living in the time when science fiction is becoming reality, depending on which novels and series you read this is either going to be good or bad. I don’t see much good doming from this as long as we are stuck on earth. If we have the ability to modify people to live on alien planets that is a different matter. Personally I don’t want it.

  9. Report: Kim Jong-un has stepped up production of plutonium
    By LU Staff July 16, 2017

    If you live on the West Coast, be afraid. Be very afraid.

    Thermal images of North Korea’s nuclear research center indicates increased production of nuclear material for Kim Jong-un’s nuclear weapons stockpile, a U.S.-based think tank reports.

    Scans of the Radiochemical Laboratory at the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center reveal marked increases in thermal activity, hinting at plutonium production, 38 North, a Washington-based North Korea monitoring project, reported. Researchers also detected increased thermal activity, possibly the result of centrifuge operations, at another facility dedicated to uranium enrichment.

    North Korea ramped up uranium enrichment in September, leading experts to conclude that the North could produce six nuclear bombs per year, and the International Atomic Energy Association reported in March that North Korea has more than doubled the size of its uranium enrichment facility in recent years, pushing nuclear material production into a “new phase.”

    Observers also noticed possible activity at the Experimental Light Water Reactor, which could be “cause for concern.”

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/07/16/report-kim-jong-un-stepped-production-plutonium/

    Richard: This is the second article on this subject, prior to the increase in production they are estimated to have between 12 and 30 nuclear weapons. They were suppose to be able to produce 6 nuclear weapons a year but doubling the plant size probable at the minimum doubles that number. This new information says that we can’t wait much longer to remove Kim and his nuclear program. I don’t see how we can do anything but move in ,some mime this year and experience has proven that fighting a winter war in Korea is a very nasty business. We can do it but we really want to attack in the summer.

  10. The dead-end street of righteous indignation about Trump
    By J.E. Dyer July 16, 2017

    This post is addressed to conservatives and other Republicans who are made angry and uncomfortable by the media’s unending onslaught of “bad news” about Donald Trump.

    There is no point in addressing progressive leftists and other Democrats. For them, there is no dead-end proposition. Undermining the sitting president, to such an extent that nothing can be done about the chokehold of progressive special interests on Washington, D.C., is actually their goal. They don’t share any objectives in common with the voters who elected Trump in 2016 – which is the reason there is no compromising with them. Trump voters want less government. Progressives aren’t satisfied with even the extraordinary size of government we have now. They want more.

    Trump stands in their way. He is the only effective figure now standing in their way. That’s why they are so determined to take a few pieces of innuendo about Trump, and flog them repeatedly until everyone who isn’t just ignoring them is dazed and speechless. The demented frenzy of their quest is evident in a number of ways, from their expletive-filled verbal incontinence to their chronic lying and incessant misrepresentations. They are lending themselves without compunction to repeated violations of federal law and breaches of national security in the form of intelligence leaks

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/07/16/dead-end-street-righteous-indignation-trump/

    • J.E. Nails it again, Trump is our last hope of defeating the far left totalitarians through peaceful means, We The People know this and are supporting him even when he and his family does some things that show their naviete towards the left and the elites on the right. His Presidency is the only alternative to a violent revolution. He wasn’t the first choice of many of his supporters but he is our last hope fo winning peaceful, we know what war is like and don’t want one. We don’t want a war but are prepared to fight one to the end using all of the skill we have been painfully taught. We know that some of our friends and comrades in arms will decide to fight on the other side and we don;t want to have to fight and kill them, we don’t want to but we will.

      This should be the warning phrase of all of the resistance movements, We Don’t Want To, But We Will.

  13. Egypt: 1 killed in clashes with police in Cairo

    Egypt’s Health Ministry says one person has been killed and 19 injured in clashes between police and residents of a Nile river island in Cairo.

    Sunday’s clashes began when police attempted to remove illegal buildings on state land on al-Waraq island on Cairo’s northern fringes.

    Earlier, the Interior Ministry said 31 policemen were injured in the clashes. It said residents attacked the police with birdshot guns and rocks and the police responded with tear gas.

    President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is spearheading a nationwide campaign to end illegal use of state land. Police and army troops have for weeks been daily demolishing buildings or commercial facilities illegally built or operating without a license.

    Egypt’s Interior Ministry says 31 policemen have been injured in clashes with residents of a Nile river island in Cairo.

    A ministry statement said Sunday’s clashes began when police attempted to remove illegal buildings on state land on al-Waraq island on Cairo’s southern fringes.

    It said residents attacked the police with birdshots guns and rocks. The police responded with tear gas.

    Illegal use of state land is widely common in Egypt, as well as building on agrarian land in violation of the law.

    President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is spearheading a nationwide campaign to end illegal use of state land, with police and army troops have for weeks been daily demolishing buildings or commercial facilities illegally built or operating without license.

    https://apnews.com/234dec3a32d5441fb0282f9b64600e6e