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Canada’s Bombardier to finance Iran’s commercial plane order
TEHRAN, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) — Canadian planemaker Bombardier is ready to finance 80 percent of Iran’s order to buy 10 commercial aircrafts, Financial Tribune daily reported on Tuesday.
Bombardier has obtained the license from the U.S. Treasury’s Office for Foreign Assets Control to sell 10 brand-new CRJ-900 NextGen regional jets to Iran and is ready to finance 80 percent of the order, the CEO and Chairman of Qeshm Investment and Development Company told the daily.
“The remaining 20 percent would be funded by Iran’s Qeshm Free Area,” Reza Baqerinejad said without providing further details about the total value of the contract.
The planemaker has submitted a draft contract to Iran’s Qeshm Free Area Organization for the review, Baqerinejad said, adding that his company will review the draft to finalize the deal.
The final contract will be officially unveiled within a month, Baqerinejad was quoted as saying.
Deliveries are expected to begin ten months after the deal is unveiled, Baqerinejad said. “Bombardier is expected to deliver two planes every three months,” he added.
The contract marks Bombardier’s first foray into the Iranian market as no Iranian airline has ever operated planes manufactured by the Canadian company.
The order is part of the Iran’s Qeshm Free Area Organization plan to launch a new airline called Fly Qeshm to promote tourism in the southern Qeshm Island.
Boeing, Airbus and ATR have been given the go-ahead with their contracts with Iran Air. The flag carrier has so far received 11 planes, 3 Airbus jets in addition to 8 ATR turboprops.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-01/16/c_136900355.htm
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Iran’s Deal With Bombardier Nears Conclusion
[…]The contract makes Bombardier the fourth planemaker that has granted permission from the US Treasury to sell aircraft to Iranian airlines, at a time when US President Donald Trump’s hostile approach toward the 2016 nuclear agreement has been raising concerns about the fate of aircraft orders.
Boeing, Airbus and ATR have been given the go-ahead with their contracts with Iran Air. The flag carrier has so far received 11 planes, 3 Airbus jets in addition to 8 ATR turboprops.
Meanwhile, Iran Aseman Airlines’ contract with Boeing to purchase 30+30 Boeing 737max jets is still pending OFAC licenses.
https://financialtribune.com/articles/economy-domestic-economy/80089/irans-deal-with-bombardier-nears-conclusion
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Iran to buy 10 passenger planes from Canada
[…]Once the deal is signed, the plane-maker will hand over 10 planes to Iran in a two aircraft per each three months schedule, he said.
The purchased planes will join to the fleet of a new airline, namely “Fly Qeshm”, which will be launch by Qeshm Free Zone Organization, the official added.
It was earlier announced that the airline will start operation as of February 2018.
Iran was negotiating to purchase 25 aircrafts from Canada, but due to financial resources limitations the deal will be limited to 10 aircrafts for the time being.
https://www.azernews.az/region/125569.html
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Ottawa to Finance Iran’s Bombardier Order
Canada will provide $100 million in finance for a deal between Montreal-based multinational aerospace and transportation company, Bombardier Inc., and Iran’s Qeshm Free Zone Organization for purchasing 10 passenger planes, the FTZ’s chief executive, Hamidreza Momeni, has said.
The free zone is planning to launch a new airline called Fly Qeshm.
“Our talks with Canada’s Bombardier are almost final,” he was quoted as saying by Iran’s Tinn News on Tuesday.
Momeni said the $100-million finance will cover 80% of the deal, which entails the supply of the 104-seat planes.
“We are doing our best to receive these planes before the end of the current year (March 20, 2018),” he said.
He was quoted earlier as saying by Iran newspaper that the FTZ will receive permits to launch the new airline by July 29, adding that the airline will start operation as of February 11, 2018.
The organization’s talks with Bombardier to purchase passenger planes were publicized for the first time in April 2016, when Pierre Beaudoin, the executive chairman of Bombardier, led a delegation to Iran.
https://www.fliegerfaust.com/ottawa-to-finance-irans-bombardier-order-2461509681.html
Does this explain Trudeau’s behavior? Did he curry favouritism from Iran to bolster Bombardier sales? What is his reward if true?
The answer to you first two questions, probably.
The Third he will say increased employment and more money into the Canadian economy. Of course this all depends on Canada getting all of the money from the sale, with Iran you never know.
Saudi Arabia recruits Yemenis to fight on border (memo, Jan 17, 2018)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180117-saudi-arabia-recruits-yemenis-to-fight-on-border/
“Saudi Arabia is “forcibly” recruiting Yemeni civilians who are illegally residing on its territory to fight on its borders with Yemen against Houthis, The Euro-Mediterranean Observatory for Human Rights revealed yesterday…”
Pakistani police: Suicide bomber targets officer in Karachi (abcnews, Jan 17, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pakistani-police-suicide-bomber-targets-officer-karachi-52398093
“Pakistani police say a senior officer known for leading raids on militant hideouts escaped assassination when a suicide bomber riding on a motorcycle blew himself up near his vehicle in the port city of Karachi.
The police say the officer, Rao Anwar, was unhurt in the attack, which took place late on Tuesday. The bomber had an unknown number of accomplices who opened fire at Anwar’s car after the explosion. His guards returned fire, killing two of the gunmen.
The police have mounted a hunt for the rest of the attackers.
On Wednesday, Pakistani Taliban spokesman Mohammad Khurasani claimed responsibility for the attack.
The Taliban have been waging a war on the Pakistani government for years, a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people over the last decade.”
Optimism in Iraq fuels revived interest in vintage cars (abcnews, Jan 17, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/optimism-iraq-fuels-revived-interest-vintage-cars-52397885
“Members of a small Iraqi community of vintage car aficionados are hoping to rekindle their passion now that the war against the Islamic State group is over.
For many, the cars remind them of happier times in Iraq, before decades of war and chaos.
The vintage cars date back to the period between the discovery of oil in the 1920s and the booming 1970s, when Iraq was awash in petroleum wealth and boasted some of the finest roads in the region.
Much of that infrastructure was destroyed in the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s and the 1990 Gulf War. In the chaotic years after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, many collectors kept their cars hidden or locked up.
Now, as the violence subsides, some feel more comfortable showing off their treasures.”
http://a.abcnews.com/images/Lifestyle/WireAP_264112d5eb6549648977a60e107de724_12x5_992.jpg
In this Sunday, Jan. 7, 2018 photo, a collection of luxury vintage cars used by the Hashemite monarchy from 1921 until 1958, including a 1936 Mercedes Benz, foreground, that was a gift from Adolf Hitler and others that belonged to Uday, the notoriously brutal playboy son of Saddam Hussein, are stored in a garage for safe-keeping in Baghdad, Iraq. The promise of better days after Iraq’s victory against the Islamic State group is rekindling interest in vintage cars. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
Some links on the false missile alarm in Hawaii
http://khon2.com/2018/01/15/amid-panic-kualoa-ranch-took-action-to-protect-visitors-and-community/
https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g29222-i37-k11168130-Kualoa_Ranch_Got_It_Right-Oahu_Hawaii.html Ranch employees quickly rounded up visitors and bused them to a bunker on property as a false missile strike alert went out early Saturday morning.
https://twitter.com/CivilBeat/status/953127542050795520 This is [not quite] the screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Saturday. The operator clicked the PACOM (CDW) State Only link. The drill link is the one that was supposed to be clicked.
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/37279882/yes-that-is-a-password-stuck-to-a-screen-at-hawaiis-emergency-management-hq
Turley: Clinton campaign deserves full probe just like Trump
Bill Clinton denies accusation foundation paid for Chelsea’s wedding
Bitcoin investors targeted by North Korean hackers
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Amazon’s creepy plan to put a camera and microphone in every BEDROOM with launch of its £120 Echo Spot ‘smart alarm’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5273947/Amazon-s-Echo-Spot-coming-UK-later-month.html#ixzz54S2AJEX6
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Amazon wants to put a camera and microphone in your bedroom with the UK launch of its latest Echo home device.
The camera on the £119.99 ($129) Echo Spot, which doubles up as a ‘smart alarm’, will probably be facing directly at the user’s bed.
The device, which is already available in the US has such sophisticated microphones it can hear people talking from across the room – even if music is playing.
However, there remain privacy concerns over using such a device in the home.
Amazon devices have previously activated when they’re not wanted meaning this small device could turn into a potential spy.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5273947/Amazon-s-Echo-Spot-coming-UK-later-month.html#ixzz54S2HG5JD
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$260 billion ‘cryptocalypse’ as cryptos plunge 30 per cent amid fresh China, South Korea fears
BITCOIN, ethereum, ripple and other virtual currencies have been smashed overnight in a bloodbath of Titanic proportions.
THE cryptocurrency market has lost $US206 billion overnight in what traders are describing as a “cryptocalypse”, with bitcoin heading back towards its $US10,000 milestone first reached last November.
But it was smaller currencies including ripple, ethereum and bitcoin cash that were the hardest hit in the latest sell-off, which was sparked by fresh fears of a crackdown on virtual currencies by governments in South Korea and China.
At the time of writing, ripple was down nearly 50 per cent on the previous day, ethereum had lost nearly 34 per cent of its value, bitcoin cash was down nearly 37 per cent and bitcoin was down 27 per cent to just under $US10,200.
The market capitalisation of more than 1300 cryptocurrencies has dropped by around 30 per cent over the past 24 hours, down from $US702 billion to $US496 billion, according to Coinmarketcap.
http://www.news.com.au/finance/money/investing/260-billion-cryptocalypse-as-cryptos-plunge-30-per-cent-amid-fresh-china-south-korea-fears/news-story/3775fe60f78da3c9bd53cedf3ef0f23b
Barred from election, Navalny vows to fight ’emperor’ Putin
The Kremlin’s top critic Alexei Navalny has slammed Russia’s March presidential election, in which he is barred from running, as a sham meant to “re-appoint” Vladimir Putin on his way to becoming “emperor for life”.
With two months to go before Russians vote in polls that are all but guaranteed to hand Putin a historic fourth term, the 41-year-old opposition leader and anti-corruption campaigner spoke to AFP Tuesday in his campaign headquarters.
“This is not an election and my role will consist of explaining to people that this procedure, which they call an election, in fact is only held to re-appoint Putin,” he said.
“We will prove this and convince people that it’s impossible to recognise either these polls or this regime.”
Navalny last year mounted a national campaign, meeting thousands of people in cities across Russia, but in December the Central Election Commission said he could not take part due to a controversial embezzlement conviction which the opposition leader calls fabricated.
He is now ready to channel the force of his campaign into persuading Russian
https://www.afp.com/en/news/15/barred-election-navalny-vows-fight-emperor-putin-doc-ww2q71
How drug lords make billions smuggling gold to Miami for your jewelry and phones
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article194187699.html#storylink=cpy
When Juan Granda ventured into Peru’s Amazon rainforest to score another illicit load of gold, he boasted that he felt like legendary Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
“I’m like Pablo coming … to get the coke,” he told two co-workers in a text message in 2014.
A 36-year-old Florida State University graduate who once sold subprime loans, Granda was no cartel kingpin. But his offhand comparison was apt: Gold has become the secret ingredient in the criminal alchemy of Latin American narco-traffickers who make billions turning cocaine into clean cash by exporting the metal to Miami.
The previous year, Granda’s employer, NTR Metals, a South Florida precious-metals trading company, had bought nearly $1 billion worth of Peruvian gold supplied by narcos — and Granda and NTR needed more.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article194187699.html#storylink=cpy
Counterfeit Cash Making Its Way Around New York City, Cops Say
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — There’s something funny about the money making its way around town, but it’s no laughing matter.
Police say phony bills are finding their way into wallets and cash registers across the city. Inside Iggy’s on the Upper East Side, the word ‘FAKE’ is clearly written across a counterfeit 20 dollar bill, but the bar manager wishes it was always that easy to spot one.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/01/15/counterfeit-cash-making-its-way-around-new-york-city-cops-say/
Tech Giants Set to Testify Before Congress on Extremist Content
January 16, 2018
OAN Newsroom
Tech giant officials are returning to the nation’s capital to testify about their efforts in cracking down on extremist content online.
The head’s of Global Public Policy for Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are set to appear before the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday.
During the hearing, each representative is expected to discuss how they are handling extremist propaganda on social media platforms.
Additionall. they will cover how they are preventing the spread of those posts.
The meeting comes just months after the companies faced speculation surrounding alleged Russian purchases of advertisements during the 2016 presidential election
http://www.oann.com/tech-giants-set-to-testify-before-congress-on-extremist-content/
Pentagon, FDA to Expedite Battlefield Medical Devices
January 16, 2018
OAN Newsroom
The Department of Defense is working with the FDA to speed up the approval process for military medical devices.
The Pentagon and FDA announced new procedures on Tuesday aimed at accelerating the production and release of medical devices and drugs needed on the battlefield.
A bill Congress passed last year will allow the DOD to prioritize certain products for FDA approval after a failed push to give the Pentagon power to approve products for battlefield use.
This comes after the DOD accused the FDA of slowing down the approval process of certain treatments that could be used to save troops injured in combat.
http://www.oann.com/pentagon-fda-to-expedite-battlefield-medical-devices/
Nations to consider more North Korea sanctions, U.S. warns on military option
VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Twenty nations agreed on Tuesday to consider tougher sanctions to press North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned Pyongyang it could trigger a military response if it did not choose negotiations.
A U.S.-hosted meeting of countries that backed South Korea during the 1950-53 Korea War also vowed to support renewed dialogue between the two Koreas “in hopes that it leads to sustained easing of tensions” and agreed that a diplomatic solution to the crisis was both essential and possible.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has refused to give up development of nuclear missiles capable of hitting the United States in spite of increasingly severe U.N. sanctions, raising fears of a new war on the Korean peninsula.
The United States and Canada co-hosted the day-long meeting in Vancouver to discuss ways to increase pressure on Kim.
U.S. officials have reported a debate within the Trump administration over whether to give more active consideration to military options, such as a pre-emptive strike on a North Korean nuclear or missile site.
http://www.oann.com/u-s-led-meeting-says-sanctions-pressure-on-north-korea-must-been-maintained/
Myanmar police shoot dead seven protesters in troubled Rakhine
YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar police shot dead seven demonstrators, while 12 were injured in troubled Rakhine State, after a local gathering celebrating an ancient Buddhist Arakan kingdom turned violent.
The demonstrators gathered late on Tuesday in Mrauk U township in the northern part of Rakhine to mark the end of the Arakan kingdom, the secretary of the Rakhine state government, Tin Maung Swe, told Reuters.
The violent demonstration underscores the challenges facing Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a country where dozens of ethnic groups have been clamoring for autonomy since independence from Britain in 1947.
Some 4,000 people surrounded a government building after the annual ceremony marking the demise of the Arakan kingdom over 200 years ago, Tin Maung Swe said. Organizers did not seek approval from local authorities for the gathering, he said.
“The police used rubber bullets initially but the crowd didn’t leave. Finally the security members had to shoot. The conflict happened when some people tried to seize guns from the police,” he said.
Tun Ther Sein, regional MP from Mrauk U, said some of the critically injured protesters were taken to the state capital of Sittwe, a three-hour drive south of the ancient town studded with Buddhist temples.
http://www.oann.com/myanmar-police-shoot-dead-seven-protesters-in-troubled-rakhine/
As Catalan parliament meets, some call for fugitive ex-leader to rule by Skype
BARCELONA (Reuters) – Catalonia’s parliament met on Wednesday in a first step toward forming a new government dominated by the question of whether sacked former leader Carles Puigdemont can return as president and continue his push for independence from Spain.
Puigdemont’s supporters have suggested the former journalist could rule the wealthy region via video link from self-imposed exile in Brussels, to where he fled in October to avoid arrest for charges including sedition and treason.
The Spanish government had imposed direct rule on the region, whose economy is bigger than that of Portugal, after the previous Catalan administration led by Puigdemont made a unilateral declaration of independence.
However, a regional election in December returned a slim majority to secessionist parties in terms of seats.
In a sign of strength for the parties seeking a split from Spain, Catalan lawmakers on Wednesday elected pro-independence politician Roger Torrent as speaker of the regional parliament.
http://www.oann.com/future-of-catalonia-unclear-as-its-parliament-meets-for-first-time-since-election/
10 YEAR OLD TRANSGENDER BOY IS STARTING A DATING WEBSITE FOR TRANS CHILDREN –
Desmond Napoles, aka “Desmond is Amazing,” is launching the new website that aims to “encourage” kids to switch genders in an “online drag club.”
The “Haus of Amazing” site will be a “no-parent zone” designed to invite “gender-fluid,” and “trans-curious” minors into an “encouraging and safe online community for drag kids to connect with each other.
According to a promotional flyer for the new site, it has been “established exclusively for kids who are doing amazing drag.”
The site’s admin will approve all applicants manually and block access from parents or children who sign up using their “offensive” born gender to ensure the “drag kids” feel “safe to express themselves.”
Desmond Napoles has been dressing in drag since he was a toddler after his mother declared him “gender neutral” as a baby, a Daily Mail report said.
https://thecitizenpress.com/10-year-old-transgender-boy-is-starting-a-dating-website-for-trans-children/
Here is a perfect example of the way the Democrats/Labor always act, everything bad is their opponents fault and everything good is because of their actions. They say this all the time and well over 90% of the time the bad is their fault and the good is because of their opponents actions.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/01/16/cartoon-day-no-bamanomics-oh-no-didnt/
Question of the Day: How much whiteness is ‘appropriate’?
By Howard Portnoy January 17, 2018
Answers to this and related questions are provided in a course being offered this semester at Hampshire College in Massachusetts. The school made headlines when it canceled a concert back in 2013 because the band selected to perform was deemed “not black enough.” Apparently, appropriateness in shades of skin coloration looms large in the minds of the faculty and students at Hampshire.
The course, titled “White Supremacy and Appropriate Whiteness in the Age of Trump,” will be taught by visiting Women’s Study Assistant Professor Loretta Ross, co-founder and national coordinator from 2005 to 2012 of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective.
Ross’s bio further notes she “is an expert on women’s issues, hate groups, racism and intolerance, human rights, and violence against women. Her work focuses on the intersectionality of social justice issues and how this affects social change and service delivery in all movements.”
Ross is indeed an expert on hate and intolerance. Per Campus Reform, after Trump’s inauguration she offered up this comment in a tweet that linked to an article at The Root:
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/01/17/question-day-much-whiteness-appropriate/
The left still thinks they can win a race war, this is one of the biggest mistakes they have ever made and they have made some real big mistakes.
Tech company founder says Middle America too ‘violent, stupid and racist’ for new jobs
By LU Staff January 16, 2018
One Silicon Valley executive had a few choice words to describe Americans living in the heart of the nation, and they were not flattering.
Melinda Byerley, MBA and founder of Timeshare CMO, a Silicon Valley-based tech start-up, tweeted out Saturday afternoon her recipe for what middle America could do to “get more jobs in their area.”
Byerley says that the first thing those in middle America need to realize is that “no educated person wants to live in a sh*thole with stupid people.” Particularly, in a “sh*thole” filled with people who are “violent, racist, and/or misogynistic.” In Byerley’s opinion, “big corporations,” do not consider moving to the heart of America because “those towns have nothing going for them.”
The towns have “no infrastructure, just a few bars and a terrible school system.”
The MBA claims that “we,” the educated people, like herself, “would like to live a more rural lifestyle,” but “won’t sacrifice tolerance or diversity to do so.” Especially, these folks do not want to live in “states where the majority of residents are voting for things against their own interests,” solely, because these voters “don’t want brown people to thrive.”
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/01/16/tech-company-founder-says-middle-america-violent-stupid-racist-new-jobs/
Not just fear of the other but hatred of the other. Arrogance like this are what has destroyed the liberal controlled states and is driving people to conservative states to find jobs.
The best way to help refugees? Keep them in the Middle East.
So why are they being brought to the West instead?
R E P L A C E M E N T
For every 1 refugee brought to the west you could have helped 10 in the Middle East:
https://gab.ai/PNN
House report: Awans logged on as Dem House Members, stored data offsite, stole server
By LU Staff January 16, 2018
House investigators concluded that Democratic IT aides made unauthorized access to congressional servers in 2016, allegedly accessing the data of members for whom they did not work, logging in as members of Congress themselves, and covering their tracks, according to a presentation summarizing the findings of a four-month internal probe.
Their behavior mirrored a “classic method for insiders to exfiltrate data from an organization,” and they continued even after orders to stop, the briefing materials allege. There are indications that numerous members’ data may have been secretly residing not on their designated servers, but instead aggregated onto one server, according to the briefing and other sources. Authorities said that the entire server was then physically stolen.
When acting on the findings, Democratic leadership appear to have misrepresented the issue to their own members as solely a matter of theft, a comparison of the investigators’ findings with Democrats’ recollections and a committee’s public statement shows, leading 44 Democrats to not conduct protective measures typically taken after a breach — including informing constituents whose personal information may have been exposed. (A list of the involved members is below.)
The presentation, written by the House’s Office of the Inspector General, reported under the bold heading “UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS” that “5 shared employee system administrators have collectively logged into 15 member offices and the Democratic Caucus although they were not employed by the offices they accessed.”
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/01/16/house-report-awans-logged-dem-house-members-stored-data-offsite-stole-server/
German, Polish police bust people smuggling ring (abcnews, Jan 17, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/german-polish-police-bust-people-smuggling-ring-52401176
“German and Polish police have carried out raids against suspected people-smugglers who helped Syrians travel to Germany illegally.
German federal police said Wednesday that about 170 officers searched premises in Berlin and elsewhere across the country, and arrested two people.
They said simultaneous raids were conducted in Poland by Polish police. It wasn’t immediately clear if any arrests were made in Poland.
Federal police described the suspects as a family of Polish citizens of Syrian origin.
They are alleged to have fraudulently obtained Polish tourist visas for Syrians living in Gulf states that allowed them to fly to Poland and travel overland to Germany to apply for asylum.
The gang is alleged to have demanded 8,000 euros ($9,784) per person and earned more than 300,000 euros in total.”
Turkey to extend state of emergency amid freedom concerns (abcnews, Jan 17, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkey-set-extend-state-emergency-amid-concerns-52400706
“Turkey is set to extend a state of emergency for the sixth time since it was imposed following failed 2016 coup attempt, worrying government opponents and allies who fear the special powers are thrusting Turkey toward an increasingly authoritarian direction.
The state of emergency, declared five days after the July 15, 2016 coup, has allowed a massive government crackdown aimed at suspected supporters of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Turkey says was behind the coup attempt. Gulen denies any involvement.
The state of emergency has also paved the way for the arrest of other government opponents, including activists, journalists and politicians and the closure of media and non-governmental organizations over alleged links to extremist groups.
Most crucially, it has allowed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to rule through decrees, often bypassing parliament which he has long accused of slowing down his government’s ability to perform.
Among the more than 30 decrees issued since the coup, some have regulated the use of winter tires, obliged detainees accused of links to extremism to wear uniforms in court and gave full-employment rights to temporary workers. One vaguely-worded decree granting legal immunity to civilians who helped thwart the coup sparked an outcry and fears that it would encourage vigilante groups.
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of Turkey’s pro-secular main opposition party, this week accused Erdogan of taking advantage of the failed military coup to trample on democracy and lead a “civilian coup” of his own through his emergency powers…”
Families of captive French jihadis sue to bring them home (abcnews, Jan 17, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/families-captive-french-jihadis-sue-bring-home-52400405
“Six families of French jihadis captured during Islamic State’s retreat filed a complaint Wednesday demanding that the government bring them home, a week after a video of two notorious European extremists renewed the debate over how hundreds of foreign Islamic State fighters should be handled.
The complaint, filed by families of French women and children held by Kurdish militias, condemned what it called “deliberate inertia” by French authorities, saying it had left mothers and children — including infants — vulnerable to the risks of living in a war zone.
Yet in an interview in Monday’s Liberation newspaper, France’s military chief Florence Parly said she sees no reason to bring French jihadis home for trial. She says only 20 returned to France last year, while Belgium’s top security official has said only five of the country’s foreign fighters returned in 2017…”
Saudi Arabia to transfer $2 billion after urgent Yemen plea (abcnews, Jan 17, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/saudi-arabia-transfer-billion-urgent-yemen-plea-52399571
“Saudi Arabia’s King Salman ordered the transfer of $2 billion to Yemen on Wednesday, a day after Yemen’s Saudi-backed prime minister made an urgent appeal on the kingdom and its allies to save the local currency from “complete collapse.”..”
Syrian Kurds appeal to UN as Turkey prepares to attack (abcnews, Jan 17, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/syria-kurdish-party-appeals-world-turkish-threats-52398999
“Syria’s dominant Kurdish party on Wednesday called on the U.N. Security Council to act quickly to ensure the safety of Kurdish-controlled territories in the country’s north, including an enclave that Turkey has threatened to attack.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he will launch a military offensive in the coming days against territories controlled by the dominant Syrian Kurdish militia in northwestern and eastern Syria, and in particular the enclave of Afrin, where an estimated 1 million people live…”
Slovenia police find 20 migrants after van crashes (abcnews, Jan 17, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/slovenia-police-find-20-migrants-van-crashes-52399793
Bulgarian court opens trial for 2012 bus bombing (abcnews, Jan 17, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/bulgarian-court-opens-trial-2012-bus-bombing-52405851
“A Bulgarian court has opened the trial of two men charged with terrorism for their alleged involvement in a 2012 suicide bombing that killed five Israeli tourists and their bus driver and injured 35.
Meliad Farah, a dual Lebanese-Australian national, and Hassan El Hajj Hassan, a dual Lebanese-Canadian national, will face trial in absentia as their whereabouts are unknown, the specialized criminal court announced Wednesday.
On July 18, 2012, Mohamad Hassan El-Husseini, a French-Lebanese national, blew himself up on a tourist bus at the airport in the Black Sea resort of Burgas.
The two men on trial are alleged to have provided the explosive device and logistical support to the bomber.
An investigation found that the attack was the work of the military wing of Hezbollah, leading the European Union to declare it a terrorist organization.
The trial will continue on Feb. 6.”
African migrants fight in a camp in Italy
euronews – Is Trump’s colourful language on migrants changing our political discourse?
Katie Hopkins: The Truth About ‘Sh*thole’ Countries
DHS SECRETARY UNDER OATH: TRUMP DIDN´T SAY “SH*THOLE”
Algerian Historian: Arab Society Remains Tribal, Therefore Cannot Achieve True Renaissance
Algerian historian Dr. Nasser Al-Din Saidouni said that the Arab peoples, still in a “tribal” stage, have not been able to obtain the “internal stimuli” necessary to create a true renaissance, but instead “borrow European enterprises, imagining that they would save us and make us more progressive.”
Speaking in an Al-Arabiya TV interview on October 26, Dr. Saidouni said that “cultural stagnation” of the Arab and Islamic societies began in the 13th century, when they drew into a cocoon in an effort of self-preservation
This historian keeps harping on the devastation to the ummah wrought by the Mongol Horde and the Crusaders.
– – Sure, THAT’s what did them in,
boo hoo. They lost their confidence, retreated into “slumber” for 800 years.What about BEFORE then?
Moh cobbled his pirates’ creed together from scraps of preexisting pagan cultic worship, Judaism, and Christianity. He codified techniques to foster in-group cohesion that progressively deviated from his sources, always becoming more brutal, more vicious. Whatever suited greed and lust became
kosherhalal.Tards boast of accomplishments that were entirely derivative, incidental to their marauding. Theirs has always been a mission of appropriation and destruction.
Sheik Yer Mami puts it into a nutshell:
‘Islamic Civilization’ – The Biggest Lie Known To Mankind
http://sheikyermami.com/2014/06/islamic-civilization-the-biggest-lie-known-to-mankind/#more-155530
Aircraft engineer, 25, who drunkenly smashed his £22,500 Mercedes into a crowded Indian takeaway then raced off avoids jail – after apologising for bringing ‘shame’ on his Muslim family (dailymail, Jan 17, 2018)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5278327/Aircraft-engineer-25-smashed-Mercedes-takeaway.html
Try that on those vintage Nazi cars in Baghdad, described above.
‘Evil’ builder, 33, ‘raped his niece, 20, then slit her throat and hid her body in a freezer he installed in a client’s home two days earlier – after he and a friend, 28, kidnapped two women and took them to the £1.5m house’ (dailymail, Jan 17, 2018)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5279011/Builder-raped-woman-hid-body-freezer.html
“An ‘utterly wicked and obsessed’ builder raped his niece before slitting her throat and hiding her body in a padlocked freezer, a court heard today.
Builder Mujahid Arshid, 33, and his employee Vincent Tappu, 28, allegedly kidnapped Celine Dookhran, 20, and another victim on July 19 last year…”
College says displaying a sign ‘color-coded pink for girls and blue for boys’ is a ‘bias incident’
A Massachusetts college has created a list of bias-incident examples — and one infraction just might get your rethinking your magic marker choices.
Williams College declares that “displaying a sign that is color-coded pink for girls and blue for boys” is among 21 bias-incident scenarios folks can report to school authorities.
How does the school define a bias incident?
The college defines bias incidents as “acts of conduct, speech, or expression that target individuals and groups based on race, religion, ethnic/national origin, gender, gender identity/expression, age, ability, or sexual orientation.”
But the Speak Up website — managed by the offices of the Dean of the College and the Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Equity — notes that bias incidents “do not meet the necessary elements required to prove a crime.”
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/01/16/college-says-displaying-a-sign-color-coded-pink-for-girls-and-blue-for-boys-is-a-bias-incident
Armed Federal Agents Seize ‘Massive Store’ Of Rebuilding Materials Kept From Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Victims
Puerto Rico electricity provider was “hoarding” critical items needed to restore electricity to the island.
Months after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, nearly half the island’s residents are still without power. Despite the Federal Emergency Management Agency sending hundreds of workers to the area to help restore the electrical grid, they’ve been at a loss as to where critical construction items, shipped to the island as part of the recovery effort, have gone.
Now, armed federal agents are reportedly taking the situation into their own hands. Over the weekend, FEMA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began raiding warehouses, where the Puerto Rican Electric Power Authority has been “hoarding” these “critical materials” out of reach of aide workers.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/25935/armed-federal-agents-seize-massive-store-emily-zanotti?utm_source=cnemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=011718-news&utm_campaign=position1
FBI Investigation of Clinton Foundation Expands to Australia
Retired Australian police detective has accumulated evidence of millions of dollars mishandled…
(Mark Tapscott, Lifezette) An Australian investigative journalist who is a retired police detective said Tuesday he has been asked to provide the FBI with details about multiple allegations of mishandling millions of dollars contributed to the Clinton Foundation by the Aussie government.
“I have been asked to provide the FBI with further and better particulars about allegations regarding improper donations to the CF funded by Australian taxpayers,” Michael Smith told LifeZette.
At the center of Smith’s complaints are former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, and multiple Australian government officials, including senior diplomat Alexander Downer, that government’s high commissioner to the United Kingdom.
https://www.libertyheadlines.com/fbi-investigation-clinton-foundation-expands-australia/?AID=7236
FBI Investigation of Clinton Foundation Expands to Australia
This seems to indicate that Monica Lewinsky was merely one of many to “go down under”.
LOL
Ohio State course reprimands white heterosexual masculinity
Masculinity simultaneously harms yet privileges men, syllabus states
A class taught this spring at Ohio State University will review a parade of reasons why white heterosexual masculinity is allegedly problematic, tackling the topic from the constructs of racial issues, bullying, pop culture, societal expectations and much more, according to its syllabus.
The course, “Be a Man! Masculinities, Race and Nation,” includes a variety of readings to that end, including its required textbook “Dude, You’re a Fag!” by C.J. Pascoe, which analyzes masculinity as not only a gendered process, but sexual one, its Amazon description states.
Other assigned reading excerpts include: “Masculinity as Homophobia” by Michael Kimmel; “Advertising and the Construction of Violent White Masculinity” by Jackson Katz; “Dude Sex: Dudes Who Have Sex with Dudes” by Jane Ward; “Looking for My Penis” by Richard Fung; “Sodomy in the New World” by Jonathan Goldberg; and “Teaching Men’s Anal Pleasure” by Susan Stiritz.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/40991/
Europe’s Betrayal of the Iranian People
by Guy Millière
January 17, 2018 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11750/europe-iran-betrayal
It is hard to know exactly the current situation in Iran, but the uprising seems to be fading . The mullahs’ regime might survive a little longer.
The overthrow of a totalitarian regime takes place when the security forces — which ensure the survival of a regime that has been ruling through repression and fear — begin to falter, or else when the number of angry people becomes so big that a tidal wave sweeps away all in its path.
This time, Iranian security forces remained loyal to the regime and angry people were too few. The regime could manage the situation by killing a few dozen protesters, arresting four thousand
more, torturing and murdering some of them, and cutting off access to digital networks. It is a defeat not only for the Iranian people, but for all who defend freedom.
The defeat, however, is temporary.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11750/europe-iran-betrayal
Nearly eight decades ago, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier went to Munich and came back with an agreement they professed would bring “peace in our time”. Winston Churchill famously warned at the time: “You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war. ”
Leaders of Western Europe have again chosen dishonor. They are betraying the values they claim to embody — and again increasing the chances of war.
The last two paragraphs in the article, the peace at any cost crowd are in control of Europe and are trying to regain control in the US, the coming war caused by their refusal to live in the real world will be much worse then WWI and WWII combined. They will also do their best to blame the people who have been warning of the coming war for the war.
Europe’s Betrayal of the Iranian People
This “betrayal” is easily traced back to France’s harboring of Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini in the late 1970s. Few people seem willing to admit that the IRG (Iranian Revolutionary Guard) death toll imposed upon Iranians has far exceeded that of Shah Reza Pahlavi’s brutal SAVAK secret police. Even fewer can bring themselves to recognize that Iran’s mullahocracy has raped out that nation’s economy to such depraved extremes whereby they make the Shah look like a Boy Scout.
A more recent European betrayal of Middle Eastern Muslims would be the French providing residency for Suha Arafat and helping to shelter her billions of skimmed “Palestinian” foreign aid. Suha can only be described as Islam’s “Imelda Marcos”, and deserves to be dumped naked in the Gaza Strip during one of their regular food shortages.
That would be cruel and unsual punishment of the Palestinians.
Beyond the Iran Nuclear Deal
by John R. Bolton
January 17, 2018 at 4:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11756/beyond-iran-nuclear-deal
President Trump seemingly served notice Friday that the days are dwindling for Barack Obama’s Iran agreement. Although deal proponents also gained time to pursue “fixes,” this is a forlorn option. No fix will remedy the diplomatic Waterloo Mr. Obama negotiated. Democrats will reject anything that endangers his prized international contrivance, and the Europeans are more interested in trade with Tehran than a stronger agreement.
There is an even more fundamental obstacle: Iran. Negotiating with Congress and Europe will not modify the actual deal’s terms, which Iran (buttressed by Russia and China) has no interest in changing. Increased inspections, for example, is a nonstarter for Tehran. Mr. Obama gave the ayatollahs what they wanted; they will not give it back.
Most important, there is no evidence Iran’s intention to obtain deliverable nuclear weapons has wavered. None of the proposed “fixes” change this basic, unanswerable reality.
Spending the next 120 days negotiating with ourselves will leave the West mired in stasis. Mr. Trump correctly sees Mr. Obama’s deal as a massive strategic blunder, but his advisers have inexplicably persuaded him not to withdraw. Last fall, deciding whether to reimpose sanctions and decertify the deal under the Corker-Cardin legislation, the administration also opted to keep the door open to “fixes” — a punt on third down. Let’s hope Friday’s decision is not another punt.
“…Mr. Trump correctly sees Mr. Obama’s deal as a massive strategic blunder…”
Whereas 0bama most likely views it as one of his greatest diplomatic triumphs.
Just this single contrast tells almost the entire story of why Trump can scrape more value to the American people from beneath his little toenail than 0bama will ever manage to produce in his entire lifetime.
Since Obama is looking at the deal as doing good for Iran and Trump as doing harm to America both are right.
Yep.
Sanctuary City Politicians May Be Prosecuted
DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen says the Justice Department is on the case.
January 17, 2018
Matthew Vadum
Federal prosecutors are considering filing criminal charges against elected officials harboring illegal aliens in so-called sanctuary cities, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told lawmakers at a hearing dominated by Democrats hectoring her over whether President Trump used profanity during a closed-door negotiating session about immigration reform.
Jailing the leaders of sanctuary jurisdictions is long overdue.
The sanctuary movement gave illegal aliens permission to rob, rape, and murder Americans by, among other things, stigmatizing immigration enforcement. Some left-wingers use the dreadful euphemism “civil liberties safe zones” to describe sanctuary jurisdictions. The phrase blurs the distinction between citizens and non-citizens by implying illegal aliens somehow possess a civil right to be present in the U.S.
These sanctuary cities really ought to be called traitor cities because they are in open rebellion against the United States. They may as well be flying the Confederate battle flag at city hall in their modern-day campaign of massive resistance against federal immigration authorities.
Nielsen’s comments came in response to a question from Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday. Harris noted that Thomas D. Homan, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an agency within DHS, told Fox News on Jan. 4 this year that the U.S. Department of Justice had been asked to “look into criminal charges for elected officials with sanctuary policies as they are harboring illegal aliens.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269048/sanctuary-city-politicians-may-be-prosecuted-matthew-vadum
Celebs Give Up Protesting Homophobic Islamist Hotel
January 17, 2018
Daniel Greenfield
The surprising thing isn’t that they stopped so quickly. It’s that they ever did it at all.
That’s Islam for you. Usually lefties go with it. This time they put up a token struggle of virtue signaling.
Of course.https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/269054/celebs-give-protesting-homophobic-islamist-hotel-daniel-greenfield
“Worst Case Scenario” Hits California Train to Nowhere
January 17, 2018
Daniel Greenfield
It’s not an actual worst case scenario.
The worst case scenario would be that that the train gets built on time and on schedule. And then gets extended to Mexico and begins delivering illegal aliens directly to polling places. Or, if you’re a lefty, a light rail trail full of illegal gang members crashes into another train full of environment experts. And no one blames Trump.
But the train that is always in trouble… is in trouble again.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/269052/worst-case-scenario-hits-california-train-nowhere-daniel-greenfield
Vox’s “Weighter”, Matthew Yglesias, Accuses Trump of Letting Terrorists Attack US to Win Election
January 17, 2018
Daniel Greenfield
So slowly that hardly anyone noticed, Vox became a Truther site. Before long, they’ll be voxsplaining the temperature at which steel melts.
Vox’s Matthew Yglesias had already come forward as a “Weighter”, accusing Dr. Ronny Jackson of lying about Trump’s weight. Now he’s tiptoeing into full Truther territory.
“Donald Trump’s terrifying plan to win the 2018 midterms,” is the Vox headline.
What’s this terrifying plan? To let terrorists successfully attack America.
“Is Donald Trump hoping foreign terrorists attack the United States?” Matthew Yglesias is just asking the question. Does Matthew want ISIS to take over America so he can watch his political opponents beheaded on television while he marries 5 child brides?
I’m just asking the question here. Not coming to any conclusions.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/269056/voxs-weighter-matthew-yglesias-accuses-trump-daniel-greenfield
Obama Inc.Freed Illegal Aliens, Didn’t Check Terror Ties
January 17, 2018
Daniel Greenfield
The left thinks that stopping illegal aliens and terrorists is racist. So it’s no surprise that Obama Inc. didn’t want to do its job.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/269055/obama-incfreed-illegal-aliens-didnt-check-terror-daniel-greenfield
3 Out of 4 Convicted of Terrorism are Immigrants
January 16, 2018
Daniel Greenfield
The left is scrambling to attack these numbers because they undermine its open borders agenda. But, facts are facts.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/269046/3-out-4-convicted-terrorism-are-immigrants-daniel-greenfield
Iran’s supreme leader: Saudis betrayed Muslim world
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/iran-supreme-leader-saudis-betrayed-muslim-world-180117084331188.html