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Syria suicide blast kills 23 rebel fighters near Jordan border
Monitor says another 20 in critical condition after bomber detonates explosive belt at base used by opposition group
— At least 23 rebel fighters were killed Friday and dozens more wounded in a suicide blast in southern Syria near the border with Jordan, a monitoring group said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the bomber detonated an explosive belt at a base used by Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam) near the Nasib border crossing.
“Most of the 23 rebels killed were from Jaish al-Islam. Dozens were wounded, including 20 in critical condition,” said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but jihadists linked to the Islamic State group have attacked rebels in southern Syria.
The Nasib border crossing — known as Jaber on the Jordanian side — lies in Syria’s southern Daraa province and was captured by rebel groups in April 2015.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/syria-suicide-blast-kills-23-rebel-fighters-near-jordan-border/
After I saw an article today about the difficulty a Venezuelan had in attending an international conference, I took the time to look at flight schedules!
http://www.flightstats.com/go/FlightStatus/flightStatusByAirport.do?airportCode=CCS&airportQueryType=1 American Airlines had two flights in the last 12 hours.
http://www.reuters.com/article/venezuela-airlines-united-idUSL1N1J00BG (2017) Airlines from Lufthansa to Air Canada have pulled out of Venezuela in recent years, citing everything from the payment dispute to safety concerns. The largest U.S. carrier in the country, American Airlines , slashed 80 percent of flights in 2014. Two years later, the Fort Worth-based company wrote off $592 million it said was stuck in Venezuela due to the government’s failure to exchange it for hard currency. The International Air Transport Association said last year that $3.78 billion was owed to international airlines by Venezuelan authorities. A handful of airlines including Copa and Avianca – part of the Star Alliance network alongside United – as well as Air France and Iberia, continue to operate in the OPEC nation.
http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-venezuelan-air-travel-paradox (2014) Instead, every fifteen days, they ask the government to convert their revenue, according to the International Air Transport Association (I.A.T.A.), a trade association for airlines. From 2009 to 2012, airlines typically received the dollars within around six months, according to the I.A.T.A., but by the end of 2012 payments were being delayed for as long as a year—and since October, 2013, almost no payments have been approved at all. “We’re not aware of a similar situation anywhere on the globe where airlines have this sort of struggle,” Peter Cerda, vice-president for the Americas at the I.A.T.A., told me. “This is extraordinary and has no precedent.” Now the I.A.T.A. says that the Venezuelan government owes nearly four billion dollars to a group of twenty-four international airlines.
http://www.vocativ.com/world/venezuela-world/nearly-impossible-fly-venezuela-right-now/ (2014)
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“Al Qaeda has drawn a bullseye on a new American target: Subway trains” By Rowan Scarborough – August 11, 2017
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/11/al-qaeda-targets-us-trains/
Germany: AfD pre-election conference met with hundreds of protesters in Koblenz
Around one hundred demonstrators gathered in the German city of Koblenz, Friday, in protest denouncing the right-wing Alternative Fur Deutschland (AfD), where the part held a meeting in a pre-election conference.
France sees 60% rise in ‘radicalized Muslims’ in 2 years (ansamed, Aug 11, 2017)
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/france/2017/08/11/france-sees-60-rise-in-radicalized-muslims-in-2-years_b2e72e81-e44e-46d3-8742-f8f57e9a6871.html
“The number of people suspected of Islamic radicalization in France has risen by 60% in two years, reports Le Figaro.
The daily said that there are currently 18,550 cases within the Fichier des Signalements pour la Prévention et la Radicalisation à Caractère Terroriste (FSPRT), which collects reports from the prefect’s office, the police, gendarmerie and the public. Managed by the interior ministry, the system was set up in March 2015 and during the period of the Paris attacks in the same year there were 11,400 people listed.”
Humanity before security: The human face of the refugee crisis (asiancorrespondent, Aug 11, 2017)
https://asiancorrespondent.com/2017/08/humanity-security-refugee-crisis/#DpCgQX3x8vogzdSz.97
“WE must let humanity prevail over often baseless concerns of national insecurity in our treatment of refugees, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) representative in Malaysia Richard Towle told a crowd at The Refugee Fest in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.
In his opening statement, Towle spoke of society’s choice when it comes to our handling of the refugee community, saying it was a test of our resolve as a civilised species as to whether we choose to treat the vulnerable with compassion and humanity over unsubstantiated national security threats and our inclination to demonise…”
Payout for US Muslim woman whose hijab was removed by police (alaraby, Aug 11, 2017)
https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2017/8/11/payout-for-us-muslim-woman-after-police-removed-hijab
“A California city has agreed to pay $85,000 (72,000 euros) to settle a lawsuit filed by a Muslim woman whose hijab was forcibly removed by the police.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, (CAIR) which announced the settlement on Thursday, had sued the city of Long Beach on behalf of Kirsty Powell, an African-American Muslim, “after police officers forcibly removed her hijab in view of other male officers and dozens of inmates.”
Powell, who wears the head covering “as part of her religious beliefs,” was “forced to spend the entire night exposed in custody and described the experience as deeply traumatising,” the rights group said.
Powell was arrested during a traffic stop in May 2015 on outstanding warrants that were since cleared.
Long Beach voted Tuesday to approve the settlement, CAIR said, adding that nearby communities have already adopted policies protecting religious headwear in detention following similar lawsuits.
Now female officers are required to remove the headscarves of female inmates “when necessary for officer safety,” and away from male officers and inmates, Long Beach assistant city attorney Monte Machit told the Los Angeles Times.
During the arrest officers told Powell that she had to remove her hijab.
Powell was denied requests for a female officer to search her, and was denied requests to wear her hijab in custody.
“I would never want anyone to go through what I felt from this experience,” Powell said when the suit was filed last year, according to CAIR.”
Denmark Hails ‘Hug a Terrorist’ Scheme, Jihadists Given Homes and Jobs (breitbart, Aug 11, 2017)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/08/11/denmark-hails-hug-terrorist-scheme-jihadists-homes-jobs/
“Denmark’s second largest city is attempting to tackle terrorism by offering jihadists “empathy” in a programme dubbed “hug a terrorist”.
Whilst Danes who have fought against Islamic State have been threatened with jail on their return from Syria, terrorists are being offered enormous privileges, including apartments, education, and jobs, to encourage them to rejoin society.
Proponents of the police-run scheme in Aarhus say that jihadists are “isolated” and struggling to integrate, and claim that offering them kindness and forgiveness will deter them from their murderous ideology.
However, Danish politician Naser Khader, a Muslim born in Syria, says it sends the wrong message and rewards terrorists who have effectively made war on the West and its values…”
What could go wrong!? Guess it will stop when one of the huggers gets a knife in the throat.
Or not.
Former MI5 Boss: UK Facing Thirty Years of Islamist Terror Threat (breitbart, Aug 11, 2017)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/08/11/former-mi5-boss-uk-thirty-years-islamist-terror-threat/
“The Britain people should prepare for the threat from Islamist attacks to continue for another three decades, a former MI5 chief has said.
Lord Evans said the scale of the threat was “severe” and a “generational problem” that the UK needed to “persevere” to defeat.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, he warned: “We’re at least 20 years into this. My guess is that we will still be dealing with the long tail in over 20 years’ time.
“I think this is genuinely a generational problem. I think we are going to be facing 20 to 30 years of terrorist threat and therefore we need, absolutely critically, to persevere.”…”
Migrant Crisis Drives Record Rise of Slavery in Europe: ‘Every Town and City’ Affected
The National Crime Agency (NCA) warned slavery in the UK is “far more prevalent than previously thought”, as analysts revealed that mass migration has driven Europe to record the largest increase in slavery of any world region in 2017.
Reporting that the organisation is currently assisting 300 policing operations targeting modern slavery, the NCA said the crime was affecting “every large town and city” in Britain, with victims as young as 12 trafficked in from Europe.
NCA vulnerabilities director Will Kerr said the number of people trafficked and enslaved in the UK is far higher than previously thought, the agency estimating the number of victims lies “likely in the tens of thousands”.
“The more we look for modern slavery the more we find evidence of the widespread abuse of the vulnerable. The growing body of evidence we are collecting points to the scale being far larger than anyone had previously thought,” he said.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/08/11/record-slavery-eu-every-town-city/
Mate, I NEED to screem!
There was a fight going out by my doorsyep where an african black and a a west indian balck had an agrument.
I stood on the door step with my cricket bay, \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\(to yo yanks a cricket bat is heaver if you hit with the thin edge
I am thankful that I live where I can use a 45 instead of trying hand to hand at age 70.
How did they react? That could terribly wrong when their entire neighbourhoods come to join in. I´ve seen several videos like that and read article about this tactic. (5, 10, 15 of them one 1)
It Was a ‘Brennan Operation’
George Neumayr
Even lefty Seymour Hersh agrees that the Russian fable begin in the mind of Obama’s CIA director.
One wouldn’t expect Seymour Hersh, a lefty journalist par excellance, to pop the Trump-Russia propaganda balloon Obama’s CIA director John Brennan released last year. But he has. Hersh has been quoted as saying that the collusion claim is a product of “disinformation” — “a Brennan operation,” as he puts it.
Hersh says that Trump is not the villain but the victim in this story, and that the press has served as a shameful stenographer for Brennan to smear Trump. It has shown no skepticism toward any of his claims or the supposedly nonpartisan reports his cronies and political hacks assembled after the election. Hersh calls Brennan an “asshole” and a “buffoon.”
Indeed, it tells you all you need to know about the rottenness of the ruling class that such an open fraud could rise so high in Washington. Brennan, owing to his treasonous support for the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War (he voted for Gus Hall and supported the Soviet-controlled American Communist Party in the 1970s), should not have been allowed within a hundred-mile radius of Langley. Instead, he was hired and rose to the top of the CIA.
https://spectator.org/it-was-a-brennan-operation/?utm_source=American+Spectator+Emails&utm_campaign=40e3832c8e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-40e3832c8e-104523669
Anti-Trump Fanatic Executes GOP Committeeman with Two Bullets to the Head — While His Wife Was Watching (VIDEO)
Jim Hoft Aug 9th, 2017 7:47 am 1022 Comments
A West Goshen, Pennsylvania man shot his GOP neighbor twice in the head and killed him late Monday night.
Clayton Carter, an unhinged anti-Trump fanatic, shot his neighbor twice in the head on his neighbor’s property.
Clayton Carter has anti-Trump signs sprinkled on his lawn. He has a history of arguments with his neighbors.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/08/anti-trump-fanatic-shoots-neighbor-twice-head-argument-history-unhinged-behavior/
Candidate Set To Be First Female Navy SEAL Quits After A Week Of Training
Hold back your utter shock.
A woman who enlisted to become the first ever female Navy SEAL quit after one week of training, reports Task and Purpose.
“The unidentified female candidate dropped out in early August during a three-week course in San Diego that began July 24. It was the first assessment of potential SEAL officers before they can be sent on to more grueling courses, according to the website, which cited ‘multiple Naval Special Warfare Command sources,'” reports The Washington Examiner.
Before former President Barack Obama’s rule change, which took effect in January of 2016, women were not allowed in United States Military combat roles. “?But there were no female applicants in the 18 months since that historic change until now,” reported CNN at the end of July, referring to the enlistment of the unidentified candidate.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/19610/candidate-set-be-first-female-navy-seal-quits-amanda-prestigiacomo?utm_source=dwemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=081117news&utm_campaign=position3
Japan steps into the U.S.-North Korea fray
If North Korea launches a nuclear attack on Guam, Japan will protect the U.S. territory by shooting down such missiles.
According to Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera during a session of Japan’s parliament on Thursday, the Japan military would activate its Aegis destroyer missile defense system to defend Guam because it would consider any attack against the island an existential threat to Japan. In addition to that, there is a mutual defense agreement with the United States.
Japan lies approximately 620 miles to the east of North Korea, which has conducted numerous missiles tests this year. Most of the weapons have landed in the Sea of Japan, which is located between Japan and the eastern coast of the massive Asian continent. Guam lies about 1,600 miles south of Japan.
http://conservativesunited.com/japan-steps-u-s-north-korea-fray/
http://dennismichaellynch.com/japan-steps-u-s-north-korea-fray-announcement-video/
In March, Onodera led a study that resulted in recommendations for boosting Japan’s missile response capability, The Australian reported. His department also recently issued a 532-page report on proposed defense initiatives.
According to The Australian, Japan is looking to add upgraded ship-to-air interceptors to double its current defense capabilities.
In preparation for a missile attack, Japanese cities have started to stage evacuation drills, and it’s been reported that private sales of nuclear shelters have been booming.
In the past, Japan has said it would shoot down North Korean missiles only if they were directed toward Japan. But last year, Japan enacted a new defense policy which now allows its military to defend U.S. territories and other allies against attack.
North Korea said on Wednesday it was “carefully examining” a plan to shoot missiles toward Guam.
President Trump’s response was to meet any threats from the North Korean government with “fire and fury.”
Pyongyang responded by accusing Trump of “going senile.”
1) The second url is the original report.
2) Japan would rather fight with the US as an ally then not fight now and end up fighting alone. They have good people and good equipment, and may be able to shoot down some of the missiles that Kim says he will launch. If the big rail gun that NR showed us a few days ago is on any of our ships and they are in the right position they may get some of the missiles. Hopefully we won’t have to find out if Japan and the US can shoot down the missiles but I doubt if we will be lucky enough to have Kim back down.
Kim’s family has been playing and winning at brinksmanship for decades. But I don’t think this one has the brains or wisdom/humility to stand down and spin for the win like his father.
I don’t either and I expect to discover that he has fired on Guam and we have struck back. As you know I have been expecting WWIII to start at anytime and it looks like this is going to be the trigger. It is unlikely that either of us will live long enough to see the end of the war.
What Happens When Black People are Accused of Cultural Appropriation?
August 11, 2017
Daniel Greenfield
Welcome to the Glorious Intersectional Utopia that will make our lives better by terrorizing everyone all the time.
Recently, the Intersectional Inquisition began going after “offensive costumes”. By that they mean anyone dressing up in any distinct international costume if it belonged to a recognized minority. In short, don’t wear a sombrero and serape, but no one will mind much if you don a beret and scarf. The hysteria over this turned very ugly at Yale and led to a purge of faculty.
But what happens when a top drawer minority is accused of cultural appropriation from a somewhat lower ranked minority in the Victim Value Index? That’s where the fireworks begin.
Our story begins with Cheyanne, a mixed Native~Ojibwe/Crow lesbian feminist activists who likes to post pictures of herself in Indian clothing. Because this is what lifestyle feminism look like. Like most leftist activists, she had to find someone higher up on the ladder who was better at doing the thing she was doing for intersectionality violations. Because all this leftist twaddle is still Mean Girls warfare.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/267542/what-happens-when-black-people-are-accused-daniel-greenfield
Appeasing North Korea
Susan Rice and fellow Democrats promote failed “strategic patience” doctrine in face of North Korean aggression.
August 11, 2017
Joseph Klein
Former President Barack Obama’s National Security Adviser Susan Rice has some dangerous advice for President Trump on how to deal with the North Korean nuclear threat, which she delivered in the form of a New York Times op-ed on August 10th under the title, “It’s Not Too Late on North Korea.” Now a private citizen, but still possessing a top-secret security clearance for no apparent reason, Ms. Rice recommended what amounts to a policy of appeasement toward the rogue regime, declaring that a nuclear-armed North Korea would not be so terrible. “History shows that we can, if we must, tolerate nuclear weapons in North Korea,” Ms. Rice wrote. In actually, history shows the opposite. When dealing with a megalomaniacal dictator armed to the teeth, a policy built around “peace in our time” does not work.
Ms. Rice is not an innocent observer of current events. She played a prominent role in shaping U.S. foreign policy while serving as the Obama administration’s United Nations ambassador and then as Obama’s national security adviser. She helped to formulate and sell the flawed approach known as “strategic patience” that guided Obama’s feckless foreign policy in North Korea and other trouble spots. This catch phrase is nothing more than a euphemism for kicking the can down the road and letting the next administration worry about the festering problems the Obama administration refused to confront head on. President Trump does not need any advice from one of the key persons responsible for the mess that he has inherited.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267545/appeasing-north-korea-joseph-klein
Dina Habib Powell: McMaster’s Huma Abedin
This is what the swamp looks like.
August 11, 2017
Daniel Greenfield
The media dubbed her the Republican Huma Abedin. She’s been one of the most powerful women in two Republican administrations. She’s friends with Valerie Jarrett. And you’ve never heard her name.
Flash back to the spring of this year.
Cameras flashed as Aya Hijazi sat next to President Trump. Media reports described her as an imprisoned rescue worker who had been released from Egypt after administration intervention.
Aya Hijazi was also the photogenic face of a campaign against the post-Brotherhood Egyptian government. If you believed the stories, Hijazi had learned French and Spanish while in prison. Photos showed her reading Maya Angelou’s ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ behind bars. Snaps from that calculated photoshoot would be used to illustrate countless media sob stories about her plight in prison.
Mohamed Hassanein, her husband, received far less attention. As did the other arrested members of the Belady Foundation which had been accused of using street children in Muslim Brotherhood riots.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267533/dina-habib-powell-mcmasters-huma-abedin-daniel-greenfield
Big Liar
How Theodor Adorno redefined Fascism.
August 11, 2017
Dinesh D’Souza
Fascism and Nazism are both phenomena of the left. This makes ideological sense, because at their core they represent ideologies of the centralized, all-powerful state. Moreover, fascism grew out of Marxism, and fascism’s founder Benito Mussolini, was a Marxist and lifelong socialist. Hitler, too, was a socialist who headed the National Socialist Party and in fact changed the name of the German Workers Party to make it the National Socialist German Workers Party.
How, then, did progressives in America re-define fascism and Nazism as phenomena of the right? This sleight-of-hand occurred after World War II, once fascism and Nazism were discredited with the reputation of Holocaust. Then progressives recognized it was important to cover up the leftist roots of fascism and Nazism and to move them from the left-wing column into the right-wing column.
The man most responsible for the progressive redefinition of fascism is Theodor Adorno, a German Marxist intellectual and a member of the influential Institute for Social Research, otherwise known as the Frankfurt School. The Frankfurt School scholars were leftists and most of them were refugees from Nazi Germany. Some settled in Europe; others like Adorno and Herbert Marcuse came to the United States.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267543/big-liar-dinesh-dsouza