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Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino called Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) an “upper-crust, bow tie-wearing, foie gras-eating insider swamp monster” during an appearance on “Fox & Friends” on Thursday.
He made an extended comparison between New York neighborhoods, referring to President Trump as a guy from Queens.
“Yeah you’ve got the Queens guy,” Bongino said. “And then you’ve got this upper-crust, bow tie-wearing, foie gras-eating, insider swamp monster in Mitch McConnell, and he doesn’t understand a builder from Queens.”
http://thehill.com/media/347842-fox-guest-calls-mitch-mcconnell-an-insider-swamp-monster
On a lighter note – Trump retweeted this popular meme:
http://i.imgur.com/b41L1MQ.png
ACLU Apologizes for ‘White Supremacy’ after Tweeting Pic of Toddler Holding U.S. Flag
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/08/23/aclu-apologizes-white-supremacy-tweeting-pic-toddler-holding-u-s-flag/
“It is Our Very Existence That is Unbearable to Jihadists”
by Giulio Meotti
August 24, 2017 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10894/jihadists-europe-spain-finland
In 24 hours, Spain suffered two major terror attacks. A jihadist cell killed 15 people in Barcelona and the seaside resort of Cambrils. In the past year, Germany was the other European country hit hard by armed Islamists. First, a jihadist plowed a large truck through a Christmas market in central Berlin and murdered 12 people. Then a man wielding a knife murdered one person during an attack at a supermarket in Hamburg.
One day after the carnage in Barcelona, another terror attack took place in Turku, Finland. Two women were murdered in the market square of the country’s oldest city. Jihad — in Finland?
Strides in the Struggle for an Independent Kurdistan
by Lawrence A. Franklin
August 24, 2017 at 4:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10871/kurdistan-independence-struggle
On September 25, 2017, the people of Iraqi Kurdistan will vote overwhelmingly in favor of establishing an independent nation-state. All ethnic groups, from Erbil to Zakho — and in other disputed areas claimed by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), such as Kirkuk, Sinjar and Makmoor — are eligible to take part in the referendum.
Although the result of the plebiscite will not be binding, it is likely to enhance existing secessionist sentiment among the populace and increase pressure on KRG officials.
The Kurds’ dream of a separate state is more than a century old. Yet geography and the imperialist designs of outside forces have conspired to render that goal a nightmare. Predictably, the most vehement opposition to the establishment of an independent state for the Kurds comes from the major powers with large Kurdish minorities — including Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria. Apparently fearing that a Kurdish state would heighten irredentist sentiment among the Kurdish minorities within their territories to merge with a “Greater Kurdistan,” the governments of these countries view any form of Kurdish independence as a national-security threat. It is thus quite possible that one or more of the KRG’s neighbors will move militarily to prevent a Kurdish secession from Iraq.
A Marine who provided key evidence in the FBI case against Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s former IT employee said he is appalled by her claim that Islamophobia led U.S. Capitol Police to frame the former staffer.
Also Wednesday, two of Imran Awan’s relatives went on the record to say they think he would do anything for money.
Andre Taggart alerted the FBI to damaged harddrives and a cache of electronics tied to Imran Awan, a former IT specialist for dozens of House Democrats. Awan is the central figure in a criminal investigation of suspected procurement fraud and violations of the congressional IT network, including diverting data to an off-site server.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/24/exclusive-wasserman-schultz-islamophobia-claim-prompts-angered-marine-to-go-public-on-awans/?utm_medium=push&utm_source=daily_caller&utm_campaign=push
Just an imgur, so no live link. But, if this is real, things are about to get interesting:
https://imgur.com/dv3Wx2w
The president of a student Republican club at San Diego State University (SDSU) said he received anonymous threats of violence and calls for his resignation after he penned a letter asking for the school’s Muslim association to condemn the recent terror attack in Barcelona.
The Republican club’s president, Brandon Jones, posted the letter to Facebook on Aug. 17 addressed to the SDSU Muslim Student Association (MSA), calling for its leaders to condemn last week’s terror attack — or resign.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/23/college-republican-says-got-violent-threats-after-asked-muslim-group-to-condemn-terror-attacks.html
Germany – Vacha – Aug 24 2017 – Merkel
The court decision from December last year has been released today.
The High Court found the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) operation in 2011 fell outside the scope of its legislation at that time.
Kim Dotcom, Bram van der Kolk, Matthias Ortmann and Finn Batato are appealing against extradition to the United States to face charges of money laundering and copyright breaches.
The ruling said: “The circumstances of the interceptions of communications are Top Secret, and it has not proved possible to plead to the allegations the plaintiffs have made without revealing information which would jeopardise the national security of New Zealand.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/337996/spy-agency-s-dotcom-surveillance-illegal-court-rules
‘Terrorism is not about mental illness,’ says French psychiatrist (france24, Aug 24, 2017)
http://www.france24.com/en/20170824-france-psychiatrists-terrorists-not-mentally-ill-interior-minister-collomb-radicalisation
“French Interior Minister Gérard Collomb has said that a third of terrorists have “psychological issues”. But some psychiatrists are quick to point out that there is no clear link between mental illness and terrorism.
Addressing the threat France faces from terrorism, Collomb said several times this month that a third of the suspects reported for radicalisation to the Terrorism Prevention and Radicalisation Reporting File (FSPRT) suffer from “psychological issues”. Since its creation in 2015, around 18,550 people have been listed in the FSPRT, according to an article published in French daily Le Figaro.
Collomb has declared that he wants to mobilise psychiatric hospitals and psychiatrists “to identify the kind of personalities that could potentially take [radical] action”. He cited the example of a man who killed one person and injured another in Marseille on Monday after crashing his van into people waiting at bus shelters. “He came out of a psychiatric clinic,” Collomb told TV news channel BFMTV. “He’d previously been in prison and he killed someone. We need to consider this kind of case.”
Several specialists have reacted to Collomb’s statements and have criticised the idea of using psychiatric examinations to try to identify potential terrorists. In an interview with FRANCE 24, Fethi Benslama, a psychoanalyst and a professor at Paris Diderot University, said that a history of mental health problems does not explain why someone would commit a terrorist act…”
Yay!
Score one for the genuine nutters thrown under the bus~
Agreed. I posted something like this once before. This page from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services lacks supportive references, but is a good place to start.
https://www.mentalhealth.gov/basics/myths-facts/index.html
Myth: People with mental health problems are violent and unpredictable.
Fact: The vast majority of people with mental health problems are no more likely to be violent than anyone else. Most people with mental illness are not violent and only 3%-5% of violent acts can be attributed to individuals living with a serious mental illness. In fact, people with severe mental illnesses are over 10 times more likely to be victims of violent crime than the general population. You probably know someone with a mental health problem and don’t even realize it, because many people with mental health problems are highly active and productive members of our communities.