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Greece: Golden Dawn rallies outside Athens’ Turkish embassy over Greek soldiers’ detention
Supporters of the far-right Golden Dawn party rallied outside the Turkish embassy in Athens, Monday, to demonstrate against Turkey’s arrest of two Greek soldiers.
When…
The Enemy of my Enemy…
is also my Enemy.
The Enemy of my Enemy is my Enemies Enemy, nothing more.
Report: Key source in Russia probe has Clinton connection
Colleges embrace the “diverse, post-human robotic future” of an AI prsemce with trans and Afican American creators.
http://adanewmedia.org/blog/2016/05/01/issue9-greene/
google bina48 collegep
Typically, ignoring the Jewish creator and white male innovators who have already demonstrated the illusion of intelligent conversation with the Eliza script generator. MIT, decades ago.
See wikipedia and http://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/psych101/Eliza.htm
I just spent a productive 15 min. with Eliza.
She gets a bookmark.
Tell me more about bookmarks.
(To quote the Eliza therapist model.)
I love her.
No one really pays such close attention to me.
Every Tuesday is execution day in Egypt, with 23 killed since December (abc, Mar 6, 2018)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-06/tuesday-is-execution-day-in-egypt/9512570
“Every Tuesday is execution day in Egypt, a trend established late last year with 23 men killed since the end of December…
In 2017, 49 “political prisoners” were hanged in Egypt, more than double the number executed in 2016.
Most were convicted on terror-related charges or for attempts to overthrow the state. Towards the end of February, a court sentenced 21 suspected extremists to death for planning terror attacks.
According to Amnesty International, Egypt is ranked sixth globally in the number of people executed, joining China, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia.
Last month, the United Nations expressed “deep shock” at the rate of executions that began late last year and were particularly concerned about the lack of due process in military and civilian trials.
Human rights activists have also been unable to explain the timing of the executions.
“The number of deaths is unprecedented in every way,” says Islam El Rabie, a researcher with Cairo-based human rights group Adalah who examines the executions in the report, In The Name of the People.
Egypt’s civilian and military courts sentenced more than 330 people to death last year alone, with many trials often held in secret without public access for media or human rights groups…”
Whither Egypt’s Democracy?
• Since his election as Egypt’s president in 2014, Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has continued to fight against the Muslim Brotherhood and extremist Islamic organizations, such as ISIS. El-Sisi is doing his utmost to keep Egypt governing under a secular regime – even if it comes at the expense of civil rights.
• At the same time, el-Sisi has deepened his security relationship with Israel to bolster his battle for control of the Sinai.
• What can Egypt, or the rest of the world, expect, from upcoming presidential elections, which present the incumbent president with little or no opposition?
http://jcpa.org/whither-egypts-democracy/
This is where the cultural differences play a major role, the Arabicized culture in the Middle East is heavily weighted to a brutal strong man leading the nations. The modern useful idiots are so indoctrinated in the idea that all cultures are equal and that all are pretty much the same look at what is done in Egypt and condemn the governments actions. Then when they replace a brutal man who is working to suppress the terrorist ideology with a man who supports terrorism they deny that what happened was easily foreseeable.
Sri Lanka declares state of emergency after Buddhist-Muslim clashes (abc, Mar 6, 2018)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-06/sri-lanka-declares-state-of-emergency/9520118
“Sri Lanka has declared a state of emergency for 10 days to rein in the spread of communal violence, according to a government spokesman, after clashes erupted between majority Buddhists and members of the minority Muslim community.
Tension has been growing between the two communities in Sri Lanka over the past year, with some hardline Buddhist groups accusing Muslims of forcing people to convert to Islam and vandalising Buddhist archaeological sites.
Some Buddhist nationalist have also protested against the presence in Sri Lanka of Muslim Rohingya asylum seekers from mostly Buddhist Myanmar, where Buddhist nationalism has also been on the rise.
He said some people were instigating violence through Facebook and warned of tough action against them.
The unrest in the Indian Ocean island’s central district of Kandy began on Sunday after the funeral of a truck driver from the majority Sinhalese Buddhist community, who died days after he was involved in an altercation with four Muslims, the Government has said.
It was not clear why the initial altercation occurred, but on Monday a Sinhalese mob attacked Muslim shops, police said.
They said the body of a Muslim youth was found in a burnt-out house early on Tuesday.
Muslims make up about 9 per cent of Sri Lanka’s 21 million people. Buddhists make up about 70 per cent and ethnic Tamils, most of whom are Hindus, about 13 per cent.
The Government sent troops and elite police to the area on Monday and imposed a curfew. A curfew was reimposed in two districts of Kandy on Tuesday, police said.
The Government ended a 26-year civil war in 2009 with the defeat of Tamil separatist rebels.
Muslim communities were occasionally caught up in that violence but on the whole, Muslims managed to stay out of the war.”
euronews – Sri Lanka declares state of emergency as mobs attack Muslim communities
A curfew is put in place and a state of emergency declared in the country after Muslim-owned businesses and houses are set on fire by groups of hardline Buddhists. …
Sri Lanka: Army rolls in as state of emergency declared after unrest
Sri Lanka declared a nationwide state of emergency after days of violent unrest between Sinhalese and Muslim communities, as shown in footage filmed in Kandy on Tuesday.
The special measures permitting soldiers to be deployed in civilian areas will initially apply for ten days, at which point the deployment would need to be ratified by parliament
Arson attacks and riots have hit the central district of Kandy in recent days and there was similar violence in late February when mobs set fire to Muslim-owned businesses and a mosque in the east.
The violence in Kandy is understood to have been sparked when a group of Muslim men in Digana town were accused of killing a man belonging to the majority Sinhala Buddhist community, who make up about 75 percent of the population.
Muslim-owned shops were set alight in response and the violence spiralled out of control after monks from hardline Buddhist groups Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) travelled to the town to negotiate the release of the accused men.
Tensions between Muslims, who make up about ten percent of the population, and the majority Sinhala Buddhist community have existed for decades but have become more acute since the end of the civil war.
They have enough problems with 8% Muslim pop.
Anybody care how the Hindus are treated in Bangladesh?
Buddhists in Pakistan?
What’s all this selective solicitude?
Yikes!
9% now!
There’s not a UN agency to aid the Hindus who were “displaced” when Bangladesh separated?
What’s all this selective solicitude?
Typiocal leftist behavior, they choose one group to support and then demonize all of the rest.
Italy: Tensions run high in Florence as protesters rally against African vendor’s killing
Protesters overturned bins and damaged property in Florence, Monday, to denounce the killing of an African street vendor who was shot to death in the city centre earlier in the day.
Migrants march angrily in Florence after Italian kills street vendor (reuters, Mar 6, 2018)
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-europe-migrants-italy-protests/migrants-march-angrily-in-florence-after-italian-kills-street-vendor-idUKKCN1GI1D0?rpc=401&
“African immigrants marched through the streets of central Florence late on Monday chanting “no more racism” after an Italian man shot dead a Senegalese street vendor earlier in the day.
Police said Roberto Pirrone had fired six pistol shots at close range, killing Idy Dienec as he sold leather bags, umbrellas and trinkets on a bridge in the Tuscan city, one of Italy’s most popular tourist destinations.
Later, dozens of immigrants marched through the historic centre of Florence, knocking over trash bins, motor scooters and large flower pots.
The shooting came a day after a parliamentary election in which politicians often portrayed migrants as criminals and called for mass deportations.
Police told Reuters on Tuesday that the murder was not racially motivated, citing testimony Pirrone gave to investigators after his arrest. Pirrone, who had a licence to carry a weapon for sport, was suicidal and lashed out in a state of confusion, investigators said.
But the timing of the attack raised suspicions among Florence’s large Senegalese community.
In the election, the anti-immigrant League became the second-biggest party in parliament.
“The fact that the elections went the way they did shows the kind of mood the country is in,” said Pape Diaw, a representative of the Senegalese community, before the march. “Italy has become a country where blacks are shot on the street.”
Last month a man with neo-Nazi sympathies and ties to the League opened fire on African migrants in the city of Macerata, wounding six before he was captured.
Dienec, the 54-year-old victim of Monday’s attack, had legally lived in Italy for many years, police said. But more than 600,000 boat migrants have arrived on Italian shores in the past four years, making immigration a top concern for voters during the campaign.
The League and the 5-Star Movement, which emerged as the largest party in the vote, both have promised to ramp up deportations of irregular migrants.
Monday’s shooting is not the first targeting African vendors in Florence. Six years ago, an Italian right-wing extremist shot dead two street sellers and wounded three others in a racist rampage.”
I’m sure it will all calm down when the Muslims start acting like decent humans. Anyone know how long that takes?
So far this happened in recorded history, at a rough guess at lease another 2,000 years maybe more.
UK – Umar Haque, teacher who groomed boys for Isis-inspired terror, searched for transgender prostitutes
A teacher who groomed young children to join him on an Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack had been searching online for transgender prostitutes.
Umar Haque, 25, who infiltrated the school system, was convicted on Friday of preparing terrorist acts with targets including Tower Bridge and Big Ben in central London.
Haque had told police that gay clubs were also among the targets he was considering and said that he did not like Britain because of “mass fornication, mass illicit behaviour”.
The police investigation discovered that he had been searching online for transgender prostitutes but the jury at the Old Bailey was unaware of his hypocrisy. A listening device, planted in his car by MI5, had also picked up him discussing marrying young girls.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c6ffc106-2094-11e8-a25c-0a92182647c9
Muslims revealing perverse sexual tastes
Is common in lives that Religion wastes
Perfection for never making mistakes
Gets straight to the verse that Nature fakes.
I’m humbled.
~~ It scans perfectly ~~
DAILY MAIL – [ Muslim ] passenger stripped naked and watched PORN on his laptop before attacking a stewardess during a flight from Malaysia
Bangladeshi, 20, took clothes off and started to watch porn shortly after take-off
But the man – a student at a Malaysian university – put his clothes on when asked
He later reportedly attacked a stewardess who refused his attempts at hugging
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5462937/Passenger-stripped-naked-watched-PORN-flight.html
Israeli Digital Forensics Firm Can Now Hack Into Almost Any Cellphone, Tablet
http://nocamels.com/2018/02/cellebrite-hack-phone-tablet/
……
h/t Mossad.il – Checking porn-surfing habits of terrorist enemies
Israel To Publish Porn Surfing Habits Of Hezbollah, Hamas Leaders
“Many don’t realize that we developed most, if not all, of the fixes out there that are marketed or portrayed as methods to defeat tracking, precisely as a method of conducting that tracking.”
http://www.preoccupiedterritory.com/israel-to-publish-porn-surfing-habits-of-hezbollah-hamas-leaders/
FRANCE –Man attacked with machete in front of shocked diners at Paris restaurant
A man was attacked with a machete and reportedly “scalped” as he ate dinner with his wife at an Indian restaurant in Paris on Monday night.
Diners at an Indian restaurant in the 10th arrondissement of the French capital witnessed the shocking scene on Monday night when a man, who was also eating at the restaurant, was attacked and reportedly scalped at his table.
The incident, which took place at a restaurant 8.30pm on Rue Cail, a street well known for its curry restaurants, saw two men whose faces were covered by hoods burst into the restaurant armed with a sword and a machete, according to French press reports.
The two men then attacked the man who was having dinner with his wife.
According to reports, the victim — a Sri Lankan man aged 35 — received several wounds to the head, elbow and wrist, suffering very serious injuries before he was taken to the nearest hospital. The victim remains in a critical state.
Meanwhile, the perpetrators managed to escape.
“He was scalped and had his arm and wrist severely cut,” a source close to the case told the French press.
It is believed that this terrible aggression could be part of a settling of scores in the Sri Lankan community and an investigation is underway.
https://www.thelocal.fr/20180306/diner-attacked-with-machete-in-front-of-shocked-restaurant-customers-in-paris
http://www.rtl.fr/actu/justice-faits-divers/paris-armes-de-sabre-et-machette-ils-scalpent-un-homme-dans-un-restaurant-7792513744
VATICAN – Keys to understanding special situation of Jerusalem
Haley: ‘Jerusalem was, is, and will always be the capital of Israel’
What’s going on here?
• Tawriya: concealing, creative lying
• Kitman: telling only part of the truth
• Muruna: flexibility blend in w the enemy
==>Lügenpresse
Maybe the pope got a taste for Soviet disinfo in his youth..
and/or:
Eurabia has been al-Jazeera-ed. This is filthy, toxic stuff.
Nah. He’s shopping for a better tax deal.
Sup with Devil, use a looooong spoon!
Rohingya crisis: UN envoy says refugees facing ‘forced starvation’ (BBC, Mar 6, 2018)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43298382
“Myanmar has not stopped its ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people in Rakhine state, a United Nations human rights official said on Tuesday.
The UN envoy’s assessment of a continued “campaign of terror and forced starvation” comes six months after a military crackdown caused a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims.
Some 700,000 people have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh since August.
They have since told of murder, rape and arson by soldiers and vigilantes.
Myanmar’s military says it is fighting Rohingya militants and denies targeting civilians in Rakhine state…”
Syria war: ‘Chlorine attack’ on besieged Eastern Ghouta (BBC, Mar 6, 2018)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-43300293
“Medics in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area of Syria say they have been treating people with breathing problems after a suspected chlorine attack.
The reports follow government air strikes and shelling just hours after the last UN aid envoy left the enclave following a supposed five-hour truce.
Syria has previously been accused of chlorine attacks on Eastern Ghouta – a charge it strongly denies.
Russia meanwhile has offered rebels safe passage out of the area.
The latest suspected chemical attack targeted the town of Hammoria and led to the evacuation of dozens of civilians, according to the Syrian Civil Defence, whose volunteer rescue workers are widely known as the White Helmets…”
The BBC is still promoting the notorious White Helmets?!
23 migrants likely dead on trip from Libya to Italy, IOM says (reuters, Mar 6, 2018)
https://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKCN1GI1CX-OZATP
“Twenty-one migrants were missing and probably drowned after a rubber dinghy and a wooden boat set off from Libya for Italy and had to be rescued, the International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday.
The 21 people missing were all among the 51 on the wooden boat, and two dead infants had reportedly been discovered on board, bringing the likely death toll to 23, IOM spokesman Joel Millman told a regular U.N. briefing in Geneva. All 132 people on the rubber dinghy were rescued, he said.
Both incidents happened on Saturday, but survivors had only just reached the port of Pozzallo in Italy, Millman said. Other survivors were shipped back to Libya.
The probable deaths marked the largest incident in over a month on the central Mediterranean migrant route between Libya and Italy, usually the most lethal route, with only one body washed ashore in Libya since Feb. 2…”
Is this supposed to make you sad for the loss of the devils followers?
North Korea Is Willing to Discuss Giving Up Nuclear Weapons, South Says
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, has told South Korean envoys that his country is willing to begin negotiations with the United States on abandoning its nuclear weapons and that it would suspend all nuclear and missile tests while it is engaged in such talks, South Korean officials said on Tuesday.
During the envoys’ two-day visit to Pyongyang, the North’s capital, which ended on Tuesday, the two Koreas also agreed to hold a summit meeting between Mr. Kim and President Moon Jae-in of South Korea on the countries’ border in late April, Mr. Moon’s office said in a statement.
“The North Korean side clearly stated its willingness to denuclearize,” the statement said. “It made it clear that it would have no reason to keep nuclear weapons if the military threat to the North was eliminated and its security guaranteed.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/world/asia/north-korea-south-nuclear-weapons.html
Timing: Sanctions-busters are about to be revealed. May become more difficult to operate in the shadows.
– but who’s gonna trust them?
[…]
Egypt has purchased North Korean weapons and allowed North Korean diplomats to use their Cairo embassy as a base for military sales across the region, American and United Nations officials say. Those transactions earned vital hard cash for North Korea, but they violated international sanctions and drew the ire of Egypt’s main military patron, the United States, which cut or suspended $291 million in military aid in August.
Tensions may bubble up again in the coming weeks with the publication of a United Nations report that contains new information about the cargo of a rusty North Korean freighter intercepted off the coast of Egypt in 2016. The ship was carrying 30,000 rocket-propelled grenades worth an estimated $26 million.
……
It’s a huge, sophisticated arms brokerage that covers Singapore, the Philippines, embargoed hellholes across Africa.
Some more info:
Need a North Korean Missile? Call the Cairo Embassy
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/world/middleeast/egypt-north-korea-sanctions-arms-dealing.html
Flippy the Burger Flipping Robot Is Now Cooking at the CaliBurger Fast Food Chain
A robot named Flippy is now in the kitchen at a fast food restaurant called CaliBurger in Pasadena. We were there for a preview event where Flippy made us some lunch.
http://ktla.com/2018/03/05/flippy-the-burger-flipping-robot-is-now-cooking-at-the-caliburger-fast-food-chain/
Richard: $15 per hour minimum wage strikes again, assuming a 24 hour a day place it took the place of a minimum of 3 kids learning how to be responsible employees.
Humans slapped and shouted at robot cars in two of six DMV crash reports this year
Russ Mitchell
By Russ Mitchell
Mar 05, 2018 | 2:15 PM
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The human response to possible takeover by robot overlords is off to a troubling start.
Of six crash reports involving robot cars filed in California so far this year, two involved a human approaching the car and attacking it.
http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-human-attacks-robot-cars-20180305-story.html
First generation Apple laptops feel their pain.
There were numerous articles in early Mac newsletters about “shaken baby syndrome” affecting abused little Macs.
Your AppleCare warranty might be invalidated with evidence of shaking or slapping.
They use to sell foam rubber ball bats to hit your computer or monitor with.
You’re joking, right?
Makes my little machine nervous-
Kurdish-allied Arab militias move fighters to Afrin from IS frontlines – spokesman (reuters, Mar 6, 2018)
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-mideast-crisis-syria-turkey-sdf/kurdish-allied-arab-militias-move-fighters-to-afrin-from-is-frontlines-spokesman-idUKKCN1GI1JC?rpc=401&
“Kurdish-allied Syrian Arab militias are redeploying 1,700 fighters from frontlines with Islamic State to the Afrin region to help fend off a Turkish offensive against the northwestern region, their spokesperson told Reuters on Tuesday.
“We have taken out 1,700 fighters … to defend Afrin against terrorism,” said Abu Omar al-Edilbi, the spokesman for the militias that have been fighting Islamic State in eastern Syria as part of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces.
Speaking to Reuters in Raqqa after announcing the redeployment, he said that 700 of the fighters had already moved to Afrin.”
US-backed Syria force to redeploy 1,700 from IS fight to Afrin
Pentagon: Operations against ISIS in eastern Syria ‘paused’
https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/2018/03/05/pentagon-operations-against-isis-in-eastern-syria-paused/
Manbij would be a huge prize for the Kurds. They’re not going to go quietly. This article from Feb. 25:
Great powers trade Kurds and territory in Syria’s splintering conflict
A three-way deal has seemingly been reached in the complex web of Syrian politics.
BEIRUT – A three-way deal has seemingly been reached in the complex web of Syrian politics, allowing the Turkish Army to possibly move into Manbij, west of the Euphrates River, side by side with US forces, in exchange for letting the Syrian Army or allied military groups enter Afrin instead of Kurdish militias.
Implicitly, the Russians see this as a green light to march on the last remaining enclave of the armed opposition in Ghouta, the agricultural belt around Damascus, which they started doing — raising international outcry — on February 20.
There is nothing Syrian about the agreement, reached on their behalf by the Russians, Americans and Turks. Apart from that, all sides seem satisfied with it, with the exception, of course, of the Syrian opposition.
The Manbij deal was hammered out by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu during the former’s visit to Ankara. It allows the Turks to march on Manbij, a multiethnic city overrun by the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2014 and liberated by the nearly all-Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in 2016.
[more]
https://thearabweekly.com/great-powers-trade-kurds-and-territory-syrias-splintering-conflict
Fighting the rise of the machines
Mary Wareham wants to be clear: This isn’t about the Terminator.
At the same time, she knows a flashy name will get more attention: Hence, the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.
“This is about framing a future threat. One way in which we’re trying to do that is not by using images of the Terminator and talking about far-off depictions of military application of artificial intelligence,” Wareham said in a recent interview with The Hill. “We’ve been more interested in looking at existing weapons systems today because there are many now that have got some autonomy in them.”
Wareham is the global coordinator for the group, which since 2013 has brought together several nongovernmental organizations with the goal of pre-emptively banning fully autonomous weapons and ensuring humans retain control over critical functions of weapons systems and the decision to launch an attack.
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/lobbyist-profiles/376851-fighting-the-rise-of-the-machines
AI reconstructs whatever you see just by reading a brain scan
AI can pluck images directly from a person’s brain. Given an fMRI scan of someone looking at a picture, an algorithm can reconstruct the original picture from the scan. Though the results aren’t yet perfect, they are still often recognisable and hint at what may be possible in the future.
Guohua Shen at Japan’s Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute and his colleagues experimented with three types of images: “natural” pictures of things like bats, snowmobiles and stained …
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2162862-ai-reconstructs-whatever-you-see-just-by-reading-a-brain-scan/
Russian plane crash in Syria ‘kills 32’ (BBC, Mar 6, 2018)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43305835
“A Russian transport plane has crashed in Syria killing all 26 passengers and six crew members believed to have been on board, the defence ministry says.
The An-26 plane crashed during landing at Khmeimim air base, near the Syrian coastal city of Latakia, the ministry is quoted as saying by Russian media.
The plane was not fired upon, Russia says, and preliminary data suggests a technical malfunction could have caused the crash.
An investigation is now under way…”
China’s Tiangong-1 space station will crash to Earth within weeks
Experts say it is impossible to plot where module will re-enter the atmosphere, but the chance is higher in parts of Europe, US, Australia and New Zealand
China’s first space station is expected to come crashing down to Earth within weeks, but scientists have not been able to predict where the 8.5-tonne module will hit.
The US-funded Aerospace Corporation estimates Tiangong-1 will re-enter the atmosphere during the first week of April, give or take a week. The European Space Agency says the module will come down between 24 March and 19 April.
In 2016 China admitted it had lost control of Tiangong-1 and would be unable to perform a controlled re-entry.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/06/chinas-tiangong-1-space-station-will-crash-to-earth-within-weeks
CNN Travels to Thailand to Speak with Prostitute Who Claims to Have Dirt on Trump
CNN is dispatching reporters around the world to help dig up clues and finally get to the bottom of the Trump campaign’s Russia ties. Last month the network infamously sent a reporter to St. Petersburg, where he literally dug around a dumpster looking for leads.
https://news.grabien.com/story-cnn-travels-thailand-speak-prostitute-who-claims-have-dirt-t
Australian diplomat whose tip prompted FBI’s Russia-probe has tie to Clintons
The Australian diplomat whose tip in 2016 prompted the Russia-Trump investigation previously arranged one of the largest foreign donations to Bill and Hillary Clinton’s charitable efforts, documents show.
Former Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer’s role in securing $25 million in aid from his country to help the Clinton Foundation fight AIDS is chronicled in decade-old government memos archived on the Australian foreign ministry’s website.
Downer and former President Clinton jointly signed a Memorandum of Understanding in February 2006 that spread out the grant money over four years for a project to provide screening and drug treatment to AIDS patients in Asia.
http://thehill.com/376858-australian-diplomat-whose-tip-prompted-fbis-russia-probe-has-tie-to-clintons
If Andrew McCabe lied, could he be charged like Michael Flynn?
By Jonathan Turley, opinion contributor — 03/05/18 04:00 PM EST
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The Justice Department’s inspector general is reportedly close to releasing a report on its investigation into the handling of the Clinton Foundation. FBI Director Christopher Wray reportedly asked deputy director Andrew McCabe to step down in light of some of the findings of the inspector general.
One aspect of the reported findings, however, stands out. According to these reports, investigators believed that McCabe misled them about his approval of a leak to the media on the Clinton investigation. An alleged false or misleading statement by McCabe could rekindle questions about how the Justice Department addresses alleged false statements within its own ranks.
http://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/376788-if-andrew-mccabe-lied-could-he-be-charged-like-michael-flynn
U.S. primaries start with Democratic push in Texas
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – The 2018 U.S. primary elections kick off on Tuesday in Texas, where Democrats hope record-high levels of early voter midterm turnout and anger over President Donald Trump’s policies will help them flip congressional seats from Republican control.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-primaries-start-democratic-push-texas-110439494.html
Since most recent assault on NRA began, interest in membership has surged 4900%
By Thomas Madison March 6, 2018
Liberals could tear up an anvil with a banana! Everything they attempt to do blows up in their faces like a gag cigar.
The Left figured it could launch an all-out offensive on the NRA, making it the villain in the Parkland, Fla. school massacre, even though its law-abiding members had nary a thing to do with the tragedy. It plays well with the mouthbreathers who are actually stupid enough to listen to them, so why not?
Guess who benefited most from the Left’s attacks on the NRA. The NRA! Since the events of the latest mass shooting unfolded, membership interest has skyrocketed.
As can be seen in the graph below, Google searches for “NRA membership” have increased 4900% since the week before the tragic shooting at the Parkland, Florida high school.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/03/06/since-recent-war-nra-began-interest-membership-surged-4900/
Poetic: High-dollar HQ of Elizabeth Warren’s CFPB brainchild is overrun with rats
By LU Staff March 6, 2018
Rats — actual rodents — are infesting the newly renovated Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s headquarters, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
Hundreds of the agency’s employees moved into their beautiful $124 million headquarters across the street from the White House in October as construction was still underway. Upon entering, they discovered rats also were making it their home, according to two sources who spoke to TheDCNF on the condition of anonymity.
The $124,000,000 price tag was double the original $55 million estimate and 25 percent over the $99 million estimate approved by Richard Cordray, the bureau’s first director. White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney has temporarily taken over the reins of the troubled bureau.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/03/06/poetic-high-dollar-hq-elizabeth-warrens-cfpb-brainchild-overrun-rats/
Richard: Remember China never reports all of its military spending so this reported increase is probably low, maybe massively low.
China defends hike in military spending as proportionate and low
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s increase in military spending for 2018, the biggest rise in three years, was proportionate and low, and Beijing had not been goaded into an arms race with the United States, state media said on Tuesday.
China on Monday unveiled an 8.1 percent rise in defense spending at the opening of parliament, fuelling an ambitious military modernization program and making its neighbors, particularly Japan and self-ruled Taiwan, nervous.
In an editorial, the official China Daily said the figure had prompted “finger-pointing from the usual suspects”.
“China’s defense budget is neither the largest in size – it accounts for just one-fourth of the military spending of the United States – nor does it have the fastest growth rate,” the English-language newspaper said.
“And if calculated in per capita terms, China’s military lags well behind other major countries.”
The defense spending figure is closely watched worldwide for clues to China’s strategic intentions as it develops new military capabilities, including stealth fighters, aircraft carriers and anti-satellite missiles.
http://www.oann.com/china-defends-hike-in-military-spending-as-proportionate-and-low/
Merkel has more sense than Trudeau…sad, so sad…
Merkel rejects plea to make national anthem gender-neutral
Reuters Staff
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Angela Merkel does not want Germany’s national anthem to be changed, her spokesman said after a member of the chancellor’s Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partner said words such as “fatherland” and “brotherland” should be made gender neutral.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-anthem/merkel-rejects-plea-to-make-national-anthem-gender-neutral-idUSKBN1GH26M
Is anyone going to sing Socks anthem? “Sons” will be my loudest part of it when the opportunity arises.
A federal judge ruled Monday that President Trump’s phaseout of the Obama-era DACA program is legal, adding heft to the administration’s defense but doing little to solve the ongoing court quagmire.
The ruling does not overturn two other federal courts, who had previously blocked the phaseout, which was supposed to take effect Monday. But it does offer a needed boost as the Justice Department appeals those other two rulings.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/5/trump-daca-phaseout-legal-judge-rules/
Tomas Åberg, project manager for Näthatsgranskaren, or “Network Examiner” an internet-based group who report Swedes to authorities if they are caught posting “hate speech” online, has been nominated for the “Swedish Hero” award by one of the country’s major newspapers.
According to Åberg, he has managed to find some 750 cases of hate speech emanating from Swedish social media accounts and reported them to the police.
For his work campaigning against Swedish citizens making disparaging remarks online, Åberg is in the running for newspaper Aftonbladet’s award which celebrates “everyday heroes who demonstrated courage, civil courage and humanity,” Aftonbladet reports.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/03/06/social-media-hate-speech-reporting-group-nominated-swedish-hero-award/
Go Sweden go! Try not to block the toilet as you make your way to your final rest.
BUDAPEST — Just weeks before Hungary’s parliamentary election, a court is expected to rule on a case that has come to symbolize Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s anti-migrant agenda for both his supporters and opponents.
The court in the southern city of Szeged is due to give its verdict in the retrial of a Syrian man convicted of terrorism and jailed for 10 years for his role in a confrontation between police and asylum-seekers on the border with Serbia in 2015.
Orbán’s government has repeatedly held up the case as an example of the Hungarian state’s hard line on asylum-seekers and staunch defense of its borders — and of its battles with the European Union over the rule of law and democracy.
https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-syrian-terrorism-trial-election-spotlight/
Breakthrough: North Korea Ready To Denuclearize “If Regime Safety Is Guaranteed”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-06/north-korea-ready-denuclearize-if-regime-safety-assured
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/world/asia/north-korea-south-nuclear-weapons.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/03/06/north-korea-promises-no-nuclear-weapons-use-against-south-hold-talks-with-us.html
Folks outside the Jordan Peterson talk at Queen’s University protesting by screaming and breaking glass. Hearing the professor live has been wonderful, even while trying to drown out the noise.
https://np.reddit.com/r/JordanPeterson/comments/82a5iu/folks_outside_the_jordan_peterson_talk_at_queens/
Sri Lanka declares emergency after Buddhist-Muslim clashes in Kandy
https://newsstand.google.com/articles/CAIiEKUMNtIZ1VE0OVTAHsTjQM8qGQgEKhAIACoHCAowot7cCjD8xM4BMKbNhgI
US: Muslim Calls for Murder Increasing
by Judith Bergman
March 6, 2018 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11987/us-mosques-muslims-incitement
In December 2017, four imams — at mosques in North Carolina, New Jersey and Texas — called for killing Jews. Two of the imams quoted from a hadith that says:
Two other imams, respectively, asked Allah “to destroy the Zionists and their allies, and those who assist them” and “to wreak vengeance upon the plundering oppressors”.
Prior to these December calls, in July 2017, two imams in California (Riverside and Davis) also called for killing Jews. One imam quoted the hadith above. He later apologized, claiming that “The last thing that I would do is intentionally hurt anyone, Muslim, Jewish or otherwise. It is not in my heart”.
It may not be in his heart, but it was in his mouth, and it is in the Quran and the hadiths, which are filled[1] with supremacist and violent references not only to Jews, but to all non-Muslims.
FBI agent Peter Strzok was told of possible breach into Clinton’s server but didn’t follow up
Read more at 1776coalition : http://www.1776coalition.com/rise-up-2/fbi-agent-peter-strzok-was-told-of-possible-breach-into-clintons-server-but-didnt-follow-up/#ixzz58zCaKJLN
During the final months of the Clinton email investigation, FBI agent Peter Strzok was advised of an irregularity in the metadata of Hillary Clinton’s server that suggested a possible breach, but there was no significant follow up, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.
Sources told Fox News that Strzok, who sent anti-Trump text messages that got him removed from the ongoing Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, was told about the metadata anomaly in 2016, but Strzok did not support a formal damage assessment.
Read more at 1776coalition : http://www.1776coalition.com/rise-up-2/fbi-agent-peter-strzok-was-told-of-possible-breach-into-clintons-server-but-didnt-follow-up/#ixzz58zCh9A2T
Is this true?
https://i.imgur.com/OFArlVv.jpg
Anyone? Xanthippa did you find that at T_D?
VIDEO and PHOTOS: Communists Rally in NYC, Scream at Real Workers That They’re Victims of “Corporate Greed”
SEIU – Service Employees International Union
THE top outside spender on Democrat campaigns. YUGE.
Profile for 2016 Election Cycle
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?cycle=2016&type=P&id=D000000077
Eager to deport migrants, German AfD scouts out Syria situation (reuters, Mar 6, 2018)
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-germany-politics-afd/eager-to-deport-migrants-german-afd-scouts-out-syria-situation-idUKKCN1GI27L?rpc=401&
“Lawmakers from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) are on a fact-finding trip to Syria, said members of the anti-immigrant group, which wants Syria to be classified a safe country of origin in a move that would make it easier to deport failed asylum seekers.
Syrians make up the biggest single group of asylum seekers among the more than a million migrants fleeing war and poverty who have arrived in Europe’s largest economy since mid-2015.
The migrant influx, facilitated by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s 2015 decision to open Germany’s borders, was a boon for the anti-immigrant AfD. It won 12.6 percent in September’s election, becoming the biggest opposition party and the first far-right group to sit in the German parliament since the 1960s.
A statement by the lawmakers posted on the Facebook page of Christian Blex, an AfD parliamentarian in the regional assembly of the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, said that he and six other AfD members – some of them lawmakers in the national parliament – were on a private visit to Syria from March 5.
“The experiences the MPs gain will enable them to rationally evaluate the situation in Syria regarding continuing discussions about classifying it as a safe country of origin, which would also affect the decision about halting deportations of rejected asylum seekers,” the statement said.
The AfD regularly lambasts the media as unreliable and the statement said they did not trust German coverage of Syria, and so the lawmakers would seek to find out first-hand about life in liberated areas of Syria and the government’s efforts to provide services for returning refugees.
The AfD in November proposed repatriating half a million Syrian refugees, saying the war was nearly over and that President Bashar al-Assad had urged refugees to return home.
However, fighting is continuing in many areas, the United Nations says, in a complex civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people since 2011 and forced millions to flee in the worst refugee crisis since World War Two.
Germany has not deported anyone to Syria since 2012 and in December extended that policy until the end of 2018.
The German upper and lower houses of parliament decide which countries go on the list of safe countries of origin.
Blex posted photos of busy roads, a swimming pool and buildings along with a caption which said they had arrived in Damascus and added: “You hardly see any military. There are adverts for mobile phones and televisions. Normal daily life.”
Blex said in a separate Facebook posts that the delegation had spoken to representatives of the Syrian parliament and met Syria’s Grand Mufti Ahmed Badr al-Din Hassoun, who Blex said called upon all Syrian refugees to return home. The lawmakers said they also plan to visit education facilities.
The visit takes place as Russia has offered Syrian rebels safe passage out of the Damascus enclave of eastern Ghouta, setting out a deal by which the opposition would surrender its last major stronghold near Damascus to Assad.”
Brotherhood Supreme Guide “dying slowly” in Egypt, says his daughter (memo, Mar 6, 2018)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180306-brotherhood-supreme-guide-dying-slowly-in-egypt-says-his-daughter/
“The daughter of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide wrote on her Facebook page yesterday that her father is suffering from illnesses contracted inside the Egyptian prison where he is being incarcerated and doesn’t have any blankets or soap.
Duha Mohamed Badie said that her father is “dying slowly” in Tora prison.
“Blankets have been taken away [from my father’s prison cell]. He has been sleeping on the floor for more than a year now, and without blankets. The only chair in the cell has been taken away,” she wrote.
Since a 2013 military coup that ousted President Mohamed Morsi, who hails from the Brotherhood, the group’s leaders and members have been subjected to an unprecedented crackdown. A series of arrest campaigns has left hundreds behind bars.
Many members of the Brotherhood, like Badie, are facing multiple trials in multiple court cases and are serving prison sentences or being held in pre-trial detention.
The Egyptian government has banned the Muslim Brotherhood and accuses members of perpetrating violence and terrorism, which they have repeatedly denied.
Mohamed Badie, 74, is suffering from several health problems: “He cannot sit on the floor or get up without leaning on that chair, and he cannot prostrate or even kneel [during the Muslim prayer]. He used to pray [sitting] on that chair.”
Duha Badie also complained that her father is not even allowed to use the washroom in privacy. Officers “storm cells at any time,” violating Badie’s privacy, she wrote.
Duha Badie asked, “How can [this happen to] an old man who has been denied [family] visits for a year and a half, and has been held in solitary confinement for nearly five years?””
Video: CAIR-OK Hosts 4th Oklahoma Muslim Day at the Capitol
FSB bust ISIS cell in Dagestan, 5 recruiters detained
Russia’s FSB (Federal Security Service) detained five Muslims who were allegedly recruiting people for Islamic State in the city of Makhachkala in the Russian Republic of Dagestan on Monday.
British national detained without charge for 6 months in UAE (memo, Mar 6, 2018)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180306-british-national-detained-without-charge-for-6-months-in-uae/
“A British National, Christian Wilke, has been detained without charge for almost six months in the UAE.
Wilke, a dual British and German national, had been working as an IT teacher at a local school before he was detained by UAE authorities.
His mother has launched an online petition, calling for her son’s immediate release, which states that he was denied access to a lawyer for 52 days after his detention and contact with family was limited to a surveilled 5-minute phone call…”
Elephants kill 10 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh: UN
GENEVA (AFP) – Elephants searching for food have trampled 10 Rohingya refugees to death in multiple incidents, the UN said on Tuesday (March 6), announcing a new plan to foster “safe coexistence” between animals and sprawling refugee settlements.
Some 700,000 people from Myanmar’s Rohingya community have fled over the border to Bangladesh since August, following an army crackdown that the UN has said amounts to an ongoing campaign of “ethnic cleansing”.
Refugee camps have shot up in Bangladesh’s border area of Cox’s Bazar, including Kutupalong which is now the largest refugee camp in the world.
Living conditions for refugees remain extremely difficult despite a growing international response, but the United Nations refugee agency said the threat from elephants had emerged as a new concern.
“The area now occupied by the Kutupalong refugee settlement has long been an important habitat for Asian Elephants. There are about 40 elephants in the area and they move between Bangladesh and Myanmar in search of food,” the Geneva-based agency said in a statement.
“When wild elephants attempt to pass through the camp they inevitably come into contact with people, which is where the danger arises.
“Tragically 10 refugees have been killed by frightened elephants inside the settlements. Other people have been injured and lost the little property they had,” the statement further said.
UNHCR announced it had formed a partnership with International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which has experience in Bangladesh helping people live alongside wild elephants.
The plan includes trainers who can teach refugees how to respond when an elephant approaches, including by detering it from entering the camp.
Myanmar and Bangladesh have announced provisional plans for the Rohingya – a mostly Muslim ethnic group – to return home to Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state.
But rights groups and the UN have warned that conditions for their return are not close to being in place.
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/elephants-kill-10-rohingya-refugees-in-bangladesh-un
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The Dan Bongino Show March 06, 2018 Full (EP.670)
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Podcast host: I bought my first gun because of CNN town hall