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Motorised shed hits 100mph to break speed record at Pendine Sands
Words fail me.
Our First Shed in Space
Mankind’s Hobby-Place
Its inner works will find a face
To save the Human Race.
Muslims swirl a Cave-of-One
Marxists insult A Cavern
Jesus beheld these Mountains gone
When sheds get into Heaven.
Brilliant, Perfectchild! Excellent modulation of scale through sheds, caves, caverns, and mountains.
Lol!
Speaking of sheds…
Just think! Back in the 70s, the crew of Monty Python predicted CNN in the 21st century!
It is strange how the left is using dystopian novels and old comedy sketches as instruction manuals.
Lively times at Pendine Sands:
Wallace and Gromit makers set record on Pendine Sands
Now that’s more like it!
Simulated moon dust leads to cell death and DNA alternation, study says
It looks like astronauts hoping for extended stays on the moon are going to be disappointed a new study suggests that moon dust can be harmful when inhaled, according to Gizmodo. Although scientists have long suggested that moon dust can be problematic to health, the new study is the first to suggest that it can cause cell death and damage DNA.
The new data stems from an experiment that grew both human and mouse cells in the laboratory and exposed them to simulated lunar dust. The results revealed that in both cases, moon dust can destroy the cells or damage their DNA.
“Very small particles in the breathable range or smaller can interact directly with cells,” said Bruce Demple, a professor at the Stony Brook University School of Medicine and senior author on the study.
Although the research is limited because it examines simulated moon dust, it supports older research that suggests that moon dust can pose dangers to health.
The team hopes that the recent data will help them get their hands on the real lunar dust that NASA has from the Apollo missions to determine its safety before astronauts head back to the moon.
It doesn’t help that the very surface layer (i.e., regolith)—the one that gets tracked into the habitat—is loaded with tritium. Why do you think the Communist Chinese are so interested in setting up a base on the moon’s farside?
It sure as hell isn’t for growing orchids! Imagine how difficult it would be to securely monitor their activities on the lunar farside. Now, imagine the danger of China being able to harvest tons of tritium. Fusion ignition, H-bomb triggers, watch dials, gun sights, you name it. None of it is good.
Which is why we have to have more then one moon base to monitor them from. The dust problem can be solved, technology doesn’t stand still it advances and solves problems. Creates new ones but solves the old ones.
“The dust problem can be solved…”
The lunar regolith contains noticeable quantities of dust. The definition of “dust” can cut off anywhere between 50 ?m–10 ?m in diameter. Those sort of particle sizes can be extremely difficult to manage. I know this from my work in semiconductor clean rooms.
A combination of air shower, electrostatic repulsion cleaning, and (possibly) some sort of sonic or ultrasonic scanning to cause surface agitation (i.e., scrubbing) could possibly do the job. Before and after laser particle scans would help to quantify process efficacy.
The circumstances could even require a double airlock system such that their was an intermediate gowning area where suits and boots were donned or doffed. Anything that comes in contact with the lunar soil may not enter the living quarters.
This gowning area would be separated from the actual habitat by a second complete electrostatic air shower. Belt and suspenders, if you will.
That’s “between 50–10 microns (Macrons?) in diameter.”
LIke I said it can be solved.
Sounds strange; I can’t find any reference to any tritium sink that anyone could mine. Do mean Helium 3?
https://www.quora.com/Does-the-Moon-have-quantities-of-deuterium-tritium
Tritium and Argon Radioactivties in Lunar Material
have they given up wearing spacesuits?
Not if they want to live.
Moon dust must be like some superfine uber-talcum powder, since basically it would be micro-meteorites blowing themselves upon impact on the moon. I see ambulance chaser ads on Chicago TV looking for clients concerning cancer and talcum powder. I recall Dr. Edward Anders at the University of Chicago making studies on the moon rocks when they came back from the Apollo missions.
“have they given up wearing spacesuits?”
Not yet. Nevertheless, spacesuits are a great way of vectoring whatever is outside of your habitat straight into your living quarters. Unless you are proposing something so ridiculous as having the astronauts continuously live inside their spacesuits (not possible), then there has to be a decontamination process.
See my above description of what such a decontamination facility might look like.
Problems are meant to be solved, not used as an excuse to stop all progress.
Right.
We call them “challenges” and get to work.
I remember the Moon Program when just about everyone thought that if we worked hard we could do just about anything. I prefer that to the attitude that the challenges are too large and must be ignored.
Meanwhile, back at the prom…
Lady, just ignore the imported Chinese SJWs and wear exactly what you like. Stop apologizing for your American attitudes; replicating and adapting existing stuff is the very center of innovation.
Tell your critics to F-off.
“Tell your critics to F-off.”
Too right, Joe! Watch the video and you will see that (at the end) she basically does this in a Social Media post. I like the gal’s moxie.
China’s schooling Trump on the art of the delay
China may have a winning strategy for any trade war with the U.S.: simply waiting it out.
Beijing’s plan of action following this week’s trade talks with the U.S. is likely to be to take advantage of divergent opinions and mixed messages within the Trump administration, longtime China observers and trade experts say. China hopes that by playing the long game against the U.S., it will be able to gain better concessions on tariffs and trade policies in the future.
Over two days of trade meetings in China that ended Friday, Chinese officials stood firm against demands from some of President Donald Trump’s top economic advisers and laid out strict requests of their own. The result was that the U.S. delegation headed home having made little progress on intractable issues — an outcome that may play right into China’s interests.
“The Chinese are just unbelievably great at playing rope-a-dope,” said Rob Atkinson, the president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. “Everything they’re going to do is going to be a stall tactic, because the more they can stall, they can string us along.”
The U.S., for its part, is demanding stringent action by the Chinese government to curb what it sees as abuses and undercutting of fair trade principles.
Top administration officials laid out insistent demands calling on China to slash its trade surplus with the United States by more than half. They also pushed Beijing to stop all state subsidization of advanced manufacturing industries — steep asks that China is likely to reject outright.
Beijing, in turn, asked Washington to treat it like a market-driven economy and to drop all punitive measures aimed at combating China’s intellectual property practices. Already, the U.S. has slapped tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum, and officials are threatening tariffs on as much as $150 billion in exports over IP and technology issues.
The tone from the outset of the negotiations does not augur well for a quick resolution, and China’s state-run Xinhua media outlet acknowledged “considerable differences” remaining and called for “continued hard work” from both parties. With neither side yet willing to budge on any major issues, the most significant accomplishment so far is that the two countries have agreed to keep talking.
Some hope continued dialogue will help avert a possible trade war between the two economic giants — but the concern is that it could also lead simply to prolonged discussions and little action, exactly as China intended.
“The real question,” Atkinson said, “is whether the Trump team is savvy enough to just call out the B.S. and say, ‘Stop right now.’”
The challenge for the Trump administration is to decide whether to continue working cordially with the Chinese to try to strike a deal or whether, in the interim before a second round of talks, to proceed with its threatened actions to impose tariffs on up to $150 billion on Chinese goods or somehow restrict the country’s investment in sectors of the U.S. economy.
Doing so could dash any goodwill remaining between the countries, but refraining could also make the administration look like it was backing down from its proposed course of action without having notched anything concrete from the Chinese in return.
A handful of business groups had urged the administration officials before their trip to focus on setting firm deadlines with the Chinese to make changes — while outlining concrete punishments they would face if they did not adhere to them.
The best way forward would be to set “measurable, commercially meaningful guidelines with timelines of implementation,” said Erin Ennis, senior vice president of the U.S.-China Business Council.
The Business Roundtable offered similar guidance, adding: “Negotiations that focus on temporarily reducing the trade deficit would make this a wasted effort.”
But as meetings wrapped up Friday evening and members of the delegation — which also included U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and White House trade adviser Peter Navarro — headed home, there were no indications that such a timeline had been nailed down. There was also no sign that there was a second meeting scheduled.
In a four-paragraph statement released by the White House, the administration said there was consensus that the U.S.-China relationship needs “immediate attention,” but it made no mention of the way forward except to say that the delegation was returning home “to brief the president and seek his decision on next steps.”
Chinese officials had already begun to float the idea before this week’s meetings that they would travel to Washington around the end of this month for further talks, but there was no official word on whether, or when, that would take place.
The talks could stretch for many months or even years, given how much trade is at stake. The U.S. imports more goods from China than anywhere else, and changing those policies will not happen over a few high-level chats.
In the meantime, savvy Chinese negotiators could persuade Trump to delay ratcheting up the tension until after he meets with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, for example.
Another stalling tactic is that Beijing officials could push him to wait until after November’s midterm elections by convincing Trump that he doesn’t want to disrupt his relationship with one of the U.S.’ largest trading partners just before voters go to the polls.
Administration officials have “got to focus if they want to match the rhetoric of the president, and that means they probably have to identify a couple of high-value targets that they’re interested in negotiating specifics on,” said one source who has advised Lighthizer and Navarro on China trade issues.
The process could hark back to the 1980s, when the U.S. countered the rise of Japan through various agreements — some stemming from the threat of the same Section 301 law being used now against China. That included an agreement on semiconductors in which Japan guaranteed access for U.S. chip-makers, although the source was quick to note that Japan in the 1980s pales in comparison to China today.
“Almost every approach with China over the years has been asking them to play by the rules and to do better without any metric or in some ways specifics about what success would look like,” the source said. “I think they have to go back to that approach of having specific yardsticks by which you can measure whether or what kind of changes are occurring in the Chinese market.”
Trump, for his part, offered his standard praise for Chinese President Xi Jinping and noted that the U.S. was being “so nice” to China. Despite his tough talk on trade, Trump has been publicly chummy with Xi, particularly ahead of his upcoming summit with Kim.
But Trump pledged once again Friday that the administration would take action to rebalance the trading relationship.
“We will be doing something, one way or the other, with respect to what’s happening in China,” he told reporters. “We have to bring fairness into trade between the U.S. and China. And we’ll do it.”
“Another stalling tactic is that Beijing officials could push him to wait until after November’s midterm elections by convincing Trump that he doesn’t want to disrupt his relationship with one of the U.S.’ largest trading partners just before voters go to the polls.”
This is particularly evil crap because immediately successful trade negotiations with the Chicoms could be a yuge feather in the GOP’s cap during their run-up to the Midterm elections. Plus, you’d better believe that North Korea would ride along on Bejing’s coattails all the way past November, too.
They can try but I don’t think it will work.
I wouldn’t be so sure. All Beijing needs right now is another GOP sweep this November. They’d love nothing more than to be dealing with the Clintons again (in whatever form). If the Chicoms can jam a stick in Trump’s spokes, you know they’ll give it a try.
I sincerely hope that Trump has some contingency plans in place to deal with Communist Chinese foot-dragging.
As I said earlier I don’t see him setting still, he is too good a businessman to not have several aces in reserve.
Stonewall Jackson: Don’t take counsel of your fears.
“There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.” – George S. Patton
Right now is the time to ignore them, we have to take risks to win. Trump has more info then we do (or should) and knows what is at risk.
This tactic assumes that Trump will set still and not do anything in return, that isn’t his style.
Trump warned Kim that not to try stalling tactics, that same warning needs to be applied to China.
Paris knife attack: Killer was born in Russia’s Chechnya (express, May 13, 2018)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/958972/paris-attack-opera-district-knifeman-identity-france-isis-terror-russia-Chechnya
“THE PARIS attacker who was shot dead by police officers during his killing spree on Saturday evening was born in the Russian republic of Chechnya and was considered a threat to national security, sources said…”
Police Name Slain Paris Terrorist Suspect ‘Born In Chechnya’
French authorities have identified the slain suspect in a deadly Paris knife attack as Khamzat Azimov, a naturalized French citizen who was born in Russia’s Chechnya region in 1997.
Government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux said on May 13 that Azimov attained French citizenship in 2010 “following his mother.”
Griveaux also said Azimov had been registered in a Paris police database in 2016 as a person “with propensity for radical actions.”
Azimov, who reportedly moved to Strasbourg with his parents after arriving from Chechnya, was shot dead by police after killing a 29-year-old man and injuring four others on May 12 in a neighborhood near the Opera Garnier.
Strasbourg, in eastern France, is home to a large community of refugees from the Muslim Russian republic of Chechnya, where Moscow waged two wars against separatists following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
Both his father and mother were taken into custody on May 13 for questioning as part of a terrorism investigation into the attack.
Meanwhile, French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb was holding a special security meeting on May 13 to address the attack.
The Islamic State (IS) militant group on May 12 claimed through its Amaq news agency that the suspect was one of its “soldiers.”
Police initially said two of the injured were “seriously wounded,” while the other two were “slightly” hurt. Hospital officials said on May 13 that none of the wounded victims’ injuries were life threatening.
China’s Xinhua news agency reported that a Chinese citizen was among the injured, citing the Chinese Embassy in Paris.
After the attack, French President Emmanuel Macron said that “France once again pays the price of blood” and that the country would not cede to “enemies of freedom.”
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said counterterrorism authorities were investing the attack, adding that witnesses had reported the suspect shouted “Allahu Akbar” or “God is Greatest” in Arabic.
French cities have been targeted in recent years by a series of terror-related attacks — from mass-killings to smaller, but deadly attacks.
https://www.rferl.org/a/paris-knife-attack-multiple-people-killed-france/29223250.html
Knifeman in Paris terror attack was flagged as potential threat
The terrorist behind the deadly Paris knife attack was a French citizen born in Russia’s Chechnya who was on the police’s radar for radicalism, authorities said Sunday.
Police identified Khamzat Azimov, 20, as the man who shouted “Allahu akbar” – God is greatest – before killing one person and slashing four others in the City of Light’s lively Opera district Saturday night, AFP reported.
He was shot dead by police, who first tried to stop him using a stun gun.
ISIS called the attacker one of its “soldiers.”
French government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux said the assailant has been categorized as “fiche S” since 2016 – meaning officials had flagged him as being a possible threat to national security on a nationwide database of thousands of people suspected of links to radicalism.
Griveaux rejected criticism that the government was not doing enough to stop terrorist attacks in the country saying, “Zero risk does not exist.”
Azimov was born in the largely Muslim Russian republic of Chechnya but grew up in Strasbourg and became French when his mother obtained citizenship in 2010. Authorities were speaking to his parents Sunday and looking into whether he had any accomplices.
The man had no arrests on his records and didn’t know any of his victims, Interior Ministry spokesman Frederic de Lanouvelle told the Associated Press.
A photo verified by officials to Reuters show Azimov clad in black sweatpants with brown hair and a beard, laying bare-chested and bloodied in the street after being shot.
Witnesses of the attack described him as looking crazed./strong>
“I was working in the restaurant and suddenly I heard a woman screaming … he came and attacked her,” said Jonathan, a waiter working nearby who wouldn’t give his last name. “That’s when the panic started, everyone started screaming and trying to reach our restaurant. … The attacker just kept walking around with his knife in his bloodied hands.”
“Police were quickly on the scene, in less than five minutes. They encircled him and he tried to attack them with a knife but they shot him down,” he told reporters.
When police arrived, officials said the man charged at them shouting, “I’m going to kill you, I’m going to kill you!”
The man he killed was a 29-years-old from Luxembourg and those wounded included two men in their 30s, one 26-year-old woman and one 54-year-old woman, who was gravely hurt, according to AFP.
French President Emmanuel Macron expressed his condolences to the victim’s families.
“France has once again paid the price of blood but will not give an inch to the enemies of freedom,” he tweeted.
Since January 2015, 240 people have been killed in terrorist attacks in France, keeping the country on high alert.
The deadliest of the incidents took place in November 2015, when 130 people were killed in a series of coordinated attacks.
This is the first time an assailant of Chechen origin has carried out a terrorist attack in France, the BBC reported.
Jihadist groups, including ISIS, have long operated in Chechnya and are actively recruiting fighters there to send to Syria and elsewhere.
Ramzan Kadyrov, who was nominated for the Chechen presidency by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2007 has tried to squash ISIS recruitment but human rights activists say his brutal measures actually help radicalization.
https://nypost.com/2018/05/13/knifeman-in-paris-terror-attack-was-flagged-as-potential-threat/
London gang violence threatens to spread to every UK town (express, May 13, 2018)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/958954/london-gang-violence-county-lines-children-sell-drugs-police
“AS London’s armed gangs branch out of the capital and take over drug running, human trafficking and child exploitation, police warn that they are preparing for a massacre of the middle classes.
City gangs flooding suburban towns with class A drugs felt the full force of the law last week as the menace of London gang violence threatens to spread to every UK town.
Middle-class havens like Cambridge are seeing Yardie-style gangsters threatening rivals with guns and acid attacks to seize control of trade.
Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield has said that youngsters from every midsized town could get sucked into drug dealing. She warned about the menace of “county lines” where gangs set up drug-dealing operations away from their usual areas.
Mrs Longfield said: “It is now something is a problem throughout the country and for most towns of substantial sizes. If they have not been targeted already they will be targeted. There are increased instances of middle class children being involved.”
Det Insp Billy Bremner of Cambridgeshire Police, said: “County lines is a massive scourge on society. It involves human trafficking, child exploitation and grooming.” But police forces and the justice system have stepped up the response with a series of raids, arrests and convictions.
Last week Norfolk police released pictures of its 10 most wanted county lines suspects, pictured above, resulting in two arrests. As part of the clampdown, the results saw:
– A man and woman from London arrested in connection with the suspected county lines-linked attempted murder of a 26-yearold man shot in the face at a flat in Cardiff
– Three men from London jailed at Lincoln Crown Court for a total of eight years eight months after pleading guilty to selling heroin and crack cocaine across Lincolnshire
– Three men charged with selling crack cocaine after an operation involving Cambridgeshire and West Midlands police
– Two men and two women county lines suspects charged with selling class A drugs after a raid in Basingstoke, Hampshire
– Three men, a woman and a boy, who were part of Liverpool county lines in Mold, Flintshire, jailed for a total of more than 13 years at Caernarfon Crown Court after being convicted of selling class A drugs
– A 21-year-old county lines dealer jailed for two years at Norwich Crown Court after he admitted supplying drugs in Great Yarmouth
– Three London men who took over a drug addict’s flat in Exeter, Devon, jailed for a total of more than eight years
– A 20-year-old county lines dealer jailed for four years at Worcester Crown Court in February had his sentence upped to six years nine months at the High Court after police argued it was too lenient
Last month, the Sunday Express told how a surge in crack cocaine across southern England had led to county lines from London and other cities moving into meet demand.
Gangs from London travel as far as Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, where there have been at least 12 overdose deaths since December, one of the highest UK rates.
Home Office statistics reveal knife crime in London has risen by 20 per cent since 2014, but there has been a 180 per cent increase in Warwickshire, 150 per cent in Hertfordshire and 102 per cent in Hampshire. Forces have had to work closely to tackle the menace.
Det Insp Bremner has told how about 40 per cent of county line dealers travel into his area by train and said: “They are predominantly black males of Somali or Afro-Caribbean origin aged 14 upwards.”
One dealer identified in Cambridgeshire was one of the Met Police’s Operation Trident “top 10” gang members – a 6ft 2in violent 16-year-old boy. He said: “A local dealer was beaten to a pulp with a hammer and machete, a strike away from a murder, which has not happened yet, but it’s going to.”
Detectives discovered “out of town” dealthat ers around 2002, and historically police forces dealt with them independently, but the past two years has seen an influx. Now, much of the planning to combat the gangs is dealt with by regional organised crime units which report to the National Crime Agency.
Last May Hassiem Baqir, 21, of Thornton Heath, south London, was jailed for 20 years after being found guilty at Norwich of murdering drug user Steve Stannard, outside his flat that Baqir’s gang had taken over.
Detective Chief Inspector David Coleman, of Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate, said: “Criminals involved in the sale of class A drugs are ruthless and often commit other serious offences against drug-users, rival dealers or innocent members of the public with knives and other weapons.””
Terror as bombs EXPLODE at THREE Indonesian churches causing MULTIPLE FATALITIES (express, May 13, 2018)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/958906/indonesia-church-terror-bomb-explosion-dead-surabaya-city-east-java
“SUICIDE bombings have caused a number of fatalities at three churches in Indonesia’s Surabaya City, Java. The attacks are believed to have been carried out by the Islamic state-inspired group, Jemaah Ansharut Daulah.
Indonesian police have secured a fourth unexploded bomb.
Media reports said at one church, a woman with a younger child and a teenager was being questioned by security when the bomb exploded.
Police have confirmed the explosions all occurred within 10 minutes of each other.
The first bombing happened at around 7.30am local time.
Police have only given details of one attack on Santa Maria Catholic Church and there have not yet been any claims of responsibility.
Frans Barung Mangera, East Java police spokesman said: “The victims are being identified.”
He added: “We have confirmed one died at the scene, one died at the hospital, two police officers were injured and there are some civilians injured.
“In total 13 people are being treated at the hospital.”
The number of fatalities is expected to rise…”
At least eight dead after bomb attacks hit three Surabaya churches
Lone Wolves.
“Lone Wolves.”
An entire pack of them. Thank goodness they chlorinated their own gene pool.
Migrant Arrested for Suspected Terrorism Is Accused of Financing Further Crimes (breitbart, May 13, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/05/13/migrant-arrested-suspected-terrorism-accused-financing-crimes/
“A 29-year-old from Uzbekistan was arrested in Sweden last week along with two other migrants for allegedly preparing for a terrorist attack, and now prosecutors claim he has been involved in other crimes as well…”
“A 29-year-old from Uzbekistan was arrested in Sweden last week along with two other migrants for allegedly preparing for a terrorist attack…”
I im der Svedeesh terrurist
mekeeng suore-a yuour meetbells ire-a helel
und ill ouff yuour vumee-a ire-a cufered, bork, bork, bork.
Study: Young Men in Sweden Twice As Likely To Be Killed in Shootings Compared to Rest of Europe (breitbart, May 13, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/05/13/study-young-swedish-men-twice-likely-killed-shootings-rest-europe/
“A new study has claimed young men in Sweden are twice as likely as their European counterparts to be victims of a deadly shooting as gang violence across the country has continued to grow.
The study, which was published in the European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research this week, compared Sweden to twelve other European countries, finding young men aged 15 to 29 were ten times more likely to be fatally shot than young men in Germany and six times more likely to be shot than young men in Britain, Dagens Nyheter reports.
Over the past ten years, the researchers claim that gun violence in Sweden has dramatically increased, but criminologist Manne Gerell, one of the researchers who authored the paper, said that this did not fully explain the results of the study.
Gerell said that more research was needed to explain why Sweden had such different results from other European countries.
“We have gone from younger men being shot a little more often than older men until now they are shot much more often,” Gerell said.
Gerell added that the number of shootings in areas that many label no-go zones are much more numerous than other areas of major Swedish cities. “In Malmö half of the shooting takes place in ten areas, but that means half takes place somewhere else, even though it happens less often there,” Gerell noted.
The researcher also noted that despite the fact Sweden has a relatively high rate of legal firearms ownership, most of the fatal shootings in the country were carried out with weapons smuggled in from other countries. Earlier this year, Bosnian prosecutor Goran Glamocanin claimed that Sweden had become the largest market in Europe for weapons trafficked from the Balkans.
The Swedish Crime Prevention Council (Brå) released statistics earlier this year that conform to the findings of the report, stating that deadly violence in Sweden last year was the highest the organisation had logged since it started recording the statistics in 2002.
In some areas of Sweden, shootings have dramatically increased. In 2017, the city of Helsingborg saw a 300 per cent increase in shootings compared to the previous year, with most victims being young men in their 20s.”
Gerell said that more research was needed to explain why…
Yep, that’s what Sweden needs. More counting noses and better graphical interface for more academic publications. More conferences to analyze the findings.
That’ll do it.
Iran sentences 8 to death over Islamic State attacks (abcnews, May 13, 2018)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/iran-sentences-death-islamic-state-attacks-55127067
“Iran has sentenced eight people to death over attacks claimed by the Islamic State group last year.
Mousa Ghazanfarabadi, the head of the Tehran Revolutionary Courts, told state TV Sunday that they were found guilty of aiding the five militants who attacked parliament and a shrine to Iran’s revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
The attacks last June killed 18 people and wounded more than 50. Security forces killed all the attackers.
Ghazanfarabadi says 18 other people face trial over the attacks. Those convicted have 20 days to appeal. The trials began last month.”
Justice leaders wary to try ISIS fighters in US, as prosecutors push for case
WASHINGTON – Justice Department leaders are reluctant to recommend U.S.-based criminal trials for two Islamic State militants captured and detained in Syria, according to American officials who said that, even though federal prosecutors believe they can win in court, it is unclear whether there is sufficient evidence to secure convictions and lengthy prison terms.
At the same time, senior Trump administration officials are adamant that Britain bears responsibility to prosecute the men, Alexanda Kotey, 34, and El Shafee Elsheikh, 29, whose British citizenships were revoked over their alleged affiliation with an ISIS cell suspected of murdering Westerners.
Further complicating matters, Attorney General Jeff Sessions would prefer that Kotey and Elsheikh be sent to the U.S. military detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, though he has recognized the success of federal terrorism prosecutions.
State Department officials are wary of undermining the U.S. government’s position that terrorist fighters captured overseas should be returned to their countries of origin.
https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Justice-leaders-wary-to-try-ISIS-fighters-in-US-12910015.php
Why return them to ‘country of origin’?
Let them be tried wherever they are alleged to have committed the crimes.
Throw them to Assad or Putin or the Twisted Ragheads – whoever claims sovereignty in any given sector of that monstrous hellhole.
Let Jimmy Carter, MSF, and Amnasty Intern’tl observe the trials.
Then pretend they’re legitimate countries and invite them to the UN.
Blast Kills at Least 6, Injures up to 20 in Afghanistan’s Jalalabad – Reports (sputniknews, May 13, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201805131064408663-explosion-afghanistan-jalalabad/
“At least six people were killed and 20 more injured as a result of an explosion near a customs finance department in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, TOLO broadcaster reported citing the Health Department.
The attack took place on Sunday afternoon when a suicide attacker detonated a bomb near a building, the TOLO broadcaster reported. Following the explosion, several gunmen opened fire and engaged in clashes with the security forces near the government facility.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far…”
Police find large weapons cache in Waikiki raid prompted by disturbing online posts
WAIKIKI (HawaiiNewsNow) –
The FBI and Honolulu police are investigating after finding a large cache of loaded weapons during a raid of a Waikiki hotel room that sources say was prompted by disturbing posts on social media.
The arsenal included a high-powered rifle, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and an assortment of other weapons.
But the man staying in the room wasn’t arrested.
The FBI notified Honolulu police Thursday about a guest in room 803 at the Equus Hotel, saying he was claiming to be a federal agent in disturbing posts on social media.
The 38-year old claimed his mission was to hunt terrorist cells.
When police arrived at the Equus on Ala Moana Boulevard, sources say, they found an arsenal:
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/38173826/police-find-large-weapons-cache-in-waikiki-raid-prompted-by-disturbing-online-posts
“When police arrived at the Equus on Ala Moana Boulevard, sources say, they found an arsenal:”
Big Island … big cache.
[ba dum bum]
In Texas they would call that a small collection.
With Pain At The Pump, Thieves Are Throwing Back To Siphoning Gas
NEWPORT BEACH (CBSLA) — With gas prices soaring, thieves are doing their best to get a fill-up without going to the pump.
Gas siphoning is back.
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As KCAL9’s Stacey Butler reports, people in Newport Beach are waking up to a new reality.
“From inside of my house, I could see something was on the asphalt,” says one man, who didn’t want to be identified. “I went over, check it, my gas cap was wide open. I went over, and noticed they siphoned about a quarter tank of my gas.”
The homeowner says he was targeted twice by gas thieves in front of his home in a two-day period.
He never thought his 1990 Chevy Blazer would catch the attention of thieves. But later model cars without locking gas caps make for easy targets.
He posted a warning to his neighbors on the NextDoor app and was overwhelmed by the number of responses.
losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/05/11/with-pain-at-the-pump-thieves-are-throwing-back-to-siphoning-gas/
As Venezuela exodus swells, more migrants face removal
CUCUTA, Colombia (AP) — When Colombian police caught Victor Colmenares selling coffee without a work permit on the dusty streets of Cucuta, they ordered him to get inside a truck filled with Venezuelan migrants being quietly removed from the country.
The 20-year-old construction worker trembled as the unmarked truck approached Colombia’s border, thinking about his pregnant wife still in Cucuta and the dangers he might face back in the country he’d fled.
“I was incredibly afraid to go back to Venezuela,” Colmenares said. “People are robbed there. People are killed. I cannot go back.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/venezuela-exodus-swells-more-migrants-face-removal-170224915.html
Russia warships stalk US aircraft carrier in ‘cat and mouse chase’
RUSSIAN warships have been stalking a US aircraft carrier and its strike group in a “cat and mouse” chase in the Mediterranean amid fears of war over Syria.
USS Harry S. Truman has been pursued around the Med by a group of Russian frigates led by warship Yaroslav Mudry.
Video of the incident shows a Russian vessel in the distance shadowing the carrier and its destroyer escort.
Footage was shared by ITV as a team of news reporters visited the US warship.
The vessel is the US’s main weapon against ISIS as it launches strikes on their positions in Syria.
War tensions have flared however after the US, France and Britain launched airstrikes against Vladimir Putin’s pal Bashar al-Assad.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/702241/russia-war-us-syria-warship-aircraft-carrier-uss-harry-s-truman-putin-mediterranen
US Air Force jets intercept 2 Russian bombers off Alaska coast
A pair of U.S. Air Force stealth fighter jets intercepted two Russian nuclear-capable bombers Friday morning off the coast of Alaska, a spokesman for NORAD (North American Aeorospace Defense Command) told Fox News.
The approach by the two Tupolev Tu-95 Russian “Bear” aircraft marked the first time in just over a year that Russian bombers had flown that close to U.S. territory.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/05/12/us-air-force-jets-intercept-2-russian-bombers-off-alaska-coast.html
Family of IS-inspired suicide bombers attack Indonesian churches, at least 13 dead
SURABAYA, Indonesia (Reuters) – A family of six launched suicide attacks on Christians attending Sunday services at three churches in Indonesia’s second-largest city of Surabaya, killing at least 13 people and wounding 40, officials said.
Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, has seen a recent resurgence in homegrown militancy and police said the family who carried out Sunday’s attacks were among 500 Islamic State sympathizers who had returned from Syria.
“The husband drove the car, an Avanza, that contained explosives and rammed it into the gate in front of that church,” East Java police spokesman Frans Barung Mangera told reporters at the regional police headquarters in Surabaya.
The wife and two daughters were involved in an attack on a second church and at the third church “two other children rode the motorbike and had the bomb across their laps”, Mangera said.
The two daughters were aged 12 and 9 while the other two, thought to be the man’s sons, were 18 and 16, police said.
http://www.oann.com/suicide-bombers-attack-churches-in-indonesia-at-least-six-dead/
Erdogan’s ‘crazy’ canal alarms villagers and environmentalists
SAZLIBOSNA, Turkey (Reuters) – When residents of Sazlibosna, a village near Istanbul, tried to attend a public meeting about the Turkish government’s plan to dig a 400 metre-wide canal through their farmlands, they were stopped by police.
The 45 km (28 mile) Kanal Istanbul will link the seas north and south of Istanbul and ease traffic on the Bosphorus strait, a major global shipping lane. It will also redraw the map of one of Europe’s biggest cities, turning its western side into an island.
Critics, including the national architects association, have questioned the need for the canal and warned it will destroy an 8,500-year-old archaeological site near Istanbul and cause widespread environmental damage.
The experience of the Sazlibosna villagers illustrates how the government has shut them out of an enterprise that could displace thousands. Estimated to cost around $16 billion, the canal is one of the most ambitious of President Tayyip Erdogan’s infrastructure mega-schemes. He has publicly referred to it as his “crazy project”.
http://www.oann.com/erdogans-crazy-canal-alarms-villagers-and-environmentalists/
Stalinist projects.
Erdo has got to be stopped.
“Erdo has got to be stopped.”
Preferably, cold.
He will be as soon as Uncle Vlad is tired of his BS, until then it is probably up to Israel to remove his permit to live.
Italy’s nascent government has tough economic circles to square
ROME (Reuters) – The Italian coalition taking shape 10 weeks after March’s inconclusive election has made economic promises that seem incompatible with Europe’s fiscal rules and will be hard, if not impossible, to keep.
These include slashing taxes for companies and individuals, boosting welfare provision, cancelling a scheduled increase in sales tax and dismantling a 2011 pension reform which sharply raised the retirement age.
The marriage being sealed between the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and the far-right League was seen as an unlikely and worrying prospect by most analysts before the March 4 election ended in a hung parliament.
The pre-election adversaries have spent the last few days trying to fuse their very different programs into a “contract” of mutually acceptable policy commitments. What they have in common is that they are extremely expensive.
On the face of it their plans, which they say may also include a form of parallel currency, could push the budget deficit far above targets agreed with the EU, setting up a clash with the European Commission and Italy’s partners.
http://www.oann.com/italys-nascent-government-has-tough-economic-circles-to-square/
Richard: Hogg thinks we are as stupid as he is.
Now David Hogg wants health warning labels to be placed on guns
By Joe Newby May 12, 2018
It seems that David Hogg, the foul-mouthed teenage demagogue recently dubbed the “king of the snowflakes,” is now a health expert. Early Friday morning, he issued a tweet to the Centers for Disease Control, suggesting that guns have warning labels just like cigarettes.
“@CDCgov,” he tweeted, y’all should look into having health warning labels on guns like they have on cigarettes and also being able to fund research into gun violance [sic] would be nice. Thanks.”
So how, exactly, would Hogg like the warning label to read?
More generally, I would submit that anyone who needs a warning label telling him that guns, if used improperly, can and will cause bodily harm and possibly death probably shouldn’t be anywhere near a firearm.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/05/12/now-david-hogg-wants-health-warning-labels-on-gun/
Has Iran threatened to ‘out’ names of ‘Western officials’ who took bribes to pass nuke deal?
By Howard Portnoy May 13, 2018
The story, which may turn out to be nothing more than a tantalizing conspiracy theory, centers on the claim that Hossein Jaberi Ansari, a spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, recently issued the following ultimatum to “Western officials”: Bring pressure to bear on the Trump administration following its pull-out from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (aka, nuke deal with Iran), or we’ll leak the names of all Western officials who accepted bribes to pass the deal.
The sources of the claim are Raman Ghavami, a Middle East analyst and writer for the “Jerusalem Post,” and an Iranian-American journalist living in Brooklyn named Banafsheh Pour’Zand, who tweeted respectively:
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/05/13/has-iran-threatened-to-out-names-of-western-officials-who-took-bribes-to-pass-nuke-deal/
Our Side is getting some licks in. It should be fun.
If I can just relax; fake news from our arsenal is good, even essential.Last month Senator Ted Cruz hired Omri Ceren as his media chief. Ceren was my favorite Twitter humorist.
He picked up stories about the Mideast trending on social media, absurdities promoted by the Omniscient Twitterati. Sent them to experts in the relevant fields, then retweeted the devastating take-downs.
Over a couple years he taught me a lot about how it’s done. Example after example, techniques, source keys.
A master at info and disinfo, he does both. I miss him, but he’s a rascal we’ll see – and not see – here, there, and everywhere.
He’s also an expert on the issues around the Iran Deal. He helped prepare our teams and structure complicated technical material for Congressional testimony. He’s a frequent contributor to Tablet and The Tower.
I searched his background, found only a generic website, “The Israel Project”. Basically nothing. All I know is that people I respect pay attention to what he says. For example, “Jennifer” – J.E. Dyer – was active in threads he started.
Now he seems to have gone “straight”, communications director for a Senator. Writes his speeches, his tweets.
…but then there are hoaxes like this one. Must be a joke. Right?
Hi , Eeyore and readers of Vladtepesblog,
Theresa May wants the worst of both worlds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLZFFdhcvls
Thank You.
Hi, Eeyore and readers of Vladtepesblog,
Is France Really an Ally of the United States?
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12292/france-ally-united-states
Thank You.
CBC – Fighting Fake News in the Classroom
USA TODAY – Oprah Winfrey takes aim at fake news in grad speech
…during her speech to the graduating class of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
UK: One injured as Kurds clash with police ahead of Erdogan visit
Pro-Kurdish protesters clashed with police outside the Wokefield Estate near Reading in Berkshire, where Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was scheduled to attend a business event on Sunday afternoon.
A teenager suffered head and back injuries in the violence, according to local reports.
Anti-Erdogan protesters threw bottles and also tried to break through the police lines to stop cars from entering.
The Turkish President started his three day visit to the United Kingdom by attending a lunch organised by the British Turkish Tatlidil forum, while later on this week he will be meeting Prime Minister Theresa May and Queen Elizabeth II.
Thousands of Muslims perform prayer at Hagia Sophia Museum
Over 2,500 Muslims were at ?stanbul’s Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya) Museum in ?stanbul early Saturday morning to perfom prayer, Greek Kathimerini newspaper reported.
Thousands worshippers gathered at the UNESCO world heritage site which Turks have increasingly been calling for to be turned back into a mosque – at 4 a.m., the site said.
Once Christianity’s greatest cathedral, the Ayasofya was built in the 6th century under order of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian and stands across the iconic Blue Mosque. The status of the structure, which has been a museum since 1935, has been an ongoing topic of debate , particularly between Greece and Turkey.
Muslim prayer services have been held inside the Hagia Sophia over the years have raised reactions outside Turkey, mainly in Greece.
In the 2016, the Turkish Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) held a daily televised reading of the Quran in the Hagia Sophia throughout the Muslim holy month of Ramadan which caused anger from Greece.
In March of this year, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an lead prayers at the Hagia Sophia in what was believed to be a message to his religious base.
https://ahvalnews.com/greece-turkey/thousands-muslims-perform-prayer-hagia-sophia-museum-daily
France: Anti-Macron rally in Paris marks one year since inauguration
Belgium – Antwerp – sidewalk kebab restaurant – brawl
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Vader en zoon afgevoerd naar ziekenhuis na stevige vechtpartij op Rooseveltplaats
https://www.gva.be/cnt/dmf20180512_03509790/vader-en-zoon-afgevoerd-naar-ziekenhuis-na-stevige-vechtpartij-op-rooseveltplaats
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Belgium: Elderly man beaten up for drinking alcohol on terrace of Kebab shop
[…]The incident happened at the “Rooseveltplaats” in Antwerp. According to Belgian newspaper HLN, the elderly man was drinking alcohol together with his son on the terrace of a Kebab shop.
Because the owner of the place doesn’t sell alcohol, he approached the father and the son to tell them he disagreed with their behaviour.
The situation escalated and a large fight started. The guests were brutally beaten and one of them even broke his leg. Both were taken to hospital.
https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.ca/2018/05/belgium-elderly-man-beaten-up-for.html
Turkey in Syria: Ruling Kurdish Afrin by Sharia Law, Ethnic Cleansing
by Sirwan Kajjo
May 13, 2018 at 4:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12269/turkey-syria-afrin-sharia
After little more than a month since capturing the Kurdish city of Afrin in northwestern Syria, the Turkish government and its jihadist allies are discussing plans to rule the city by Islamic sharia law.
A meeting recently took place between Turkish authorities and rebel leaders of the al-Rahman Legion to decide how to build an Islamic police force, sharia courts and other religious centers.
Al-Rahman Legion is one of the largest Islamist rebel groups that was in control of the eastern Ghouta, the last rebel-held area in Damascus. The group was recently expelled from the area after a Turkish- and Russian-brokered deal between the Syrian regime and groups rebelling against it, such as Al-Rahman. It has since resettled in the city of Afrin, along with hundreds of families from the Damascus suburban area.
Since 2012, Afrin had been run by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), a U.S.-backed group that had a secular system of governance which rejected political Islam and promoted relatively liberal ideals.
Mueller Indicted A Russian Company That Didn’t Even Exist, Court Transcripts Say
This week, one of the Russian companies accused by Special Counsel Robert Mueller of funding a conspiracy to meddle in the 2016 U.S. presidential election was revealed in court to not have existed during the time period alleged by Mueller’s team of prosecutors, according to a lawyer representing the defendant.
U.S. Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey asked Eric Dubelier, one of two lawyers representing the accused Russian company, Concord Management and Consulting LLC, if he was representing a third company listed in Mueller’s indictment.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/30556/disaster-mueller-indicted-russian-company-didnt-ryan-saavedra
Britain is Becoming Airstrip One
Hate speech laws are thought control laws, if you can’t talk about some issues you will soon stop thinking about them.
Jack Keane reacts after Russian bombers intercepted by US
WSJ op-ed: The endless Clinton campaign
5 Cures For Nihilism
Israel: Netanyahu praises Trump for ‘making history’ with embassy, JCPOA
PM Netanyahu’s Remarks at Reception for US Delegation
The Truth About Freedom of Speech: Trends and Demographics
Deutsche Welle – Fighting Orban’s right-wing populism in Hungary
Former CIA interrogator responds to Whoopi Goldberg
Poland – Today in Europe, freedom is in the East, as the Norwegian Silje Garmo did prove it by seeking asylum in Poland.
Will Poland grant asylum to the Norwegian Silje Garmo and her 16 months old daughter Eira who flee the social services of their country? The Minister of Foreign Affairs Jacek Czaputowicz has got on his desk since already some months a favourable opinion from the Polish Immigration Office about the application for asylum of the Norwegian woman. After investigation and examination of the file, the Immigration Office has confirmed that the fundamental rights of Mrs. Garmo were threatened in Norway, insofar as her elder daughter Frøya, today almost 13 years old, was already taken away from her without respecting her rights to a fair defense and insofar the Norwegian Child Welfare Services (Barnevernet) seeks to take away her younger daughter from her without any legitimate reason. However, for getting asylum in Poland, the favourable opinion of the Immigration Office is not sufficient and it is the Minister of Foreign Affairs – thus the government – who decides as a last resort. The decision of Mr. Czaputowicz might have fallen in February, but the Norwegian mother who seek refuge with her second child near Warsaw was informed of an extension of the deadline until the mid of April and then the end of May. However, the reputation of Barnevernet is not to be done any more in Poland as well as in the other former Eastern countries that have a diaspora in the rich Scandinavian oil monarchy. Does the government of Mateusz Morawiecki fear that granting asylum to Norwegian citizens who deserve it might have an impact on the future supply of Norwegian gas for Poland? On the other hand, the case of this Norwegian and the practices of Barnevernet are very publicised in Poland and exposing Silje Garmo to be deported and separated from her daughter by the Norwegian authorities while the Polish paediatricians and psychiatrists did confirm that there were no reason to take away her child from this mother, might have disastrous consequences for the image of PiS with its voters who usually attach great importance to the rights of families.
https://visegradpost.com/en/2018/05/13/when-a-norvegian-woman-asks-for-asylum-in-poland/
Note: Very badly written article on something extremely important. The best I can figure out, Norwegian authorities are systematically taking children from Christian homes because they consider teaching children Christianity to be child abuse.
OK – off topic, but hope some of you take advantage of this offer of free Kindle download of all the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky:
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Police are investigating after multiple people were hurt after a stabbing on Mothers’ Day in the city’s east end.
The investigation is underway in the 3000 block of Kentucky Lane in the Navan area.
Paramedics say a 58-year old man suffered multiple wounds and is in serious but stable condition.
http://www.iheartradio.ca/580-cfra/news/multiple-people-hurt-after-stabbing-on-mothers-day-1.3816442
“Police are investigating after multiple people were hurt after a stabbing on Mothers’ Day in the city’s east end.”
After all, nothing says, “Lubs ya, Mum”, better than a shiv in the ribs.
Two teenagers have been spared jail over a homophobic attack on a London tube, in which they put a man in a headlock and made him say sorry for being gay.
The boys, aged 16 and 17, from Newham in East London, appeared before Bexley Youth Court charged with the attack last week, reports News Shopper. ?
Will Mayrick, 19, was abused on a Jubilee Line train between West Ham and North Greenwich in October 2017.
The victim, who was in fancy dress on the way to a Halloween party, was verbally abused, placed in a headlock and forced to apologise for being gay by two men, the court heard.
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/05/13/teenagers-who-forced-man-to-apologise-for-being-gay-spared-jail/
Bedbugs lead to legal woes for Syrian refugee families
Twelve refugee families are embroiled in two separate battles stemming from their time living in a Hamilton highrise.
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Klein said management for the apartment has contracts with provincially licensed pest control companies. “Unfortunately, the refugees did not comply with proper preparation requirements” and did not always allow the technicians into their units to do the service, he said.
“There is a protocol used by all pest control companies,” Klein said, adding there was also a language barrier and they did their best to translate the instructions into Arabic.
The families, meanwhile, said on at least one occasion they made preparations and the technicians didn’t show up.
According to the tenants’ complaints, a caseworker from Wesley Urban Ministries notified the landlord’s property management as early as Feb. 23, 2016, about the bedbug issue. A month later, a supervisor from Wesley requested all of the clients’ units be treated for bedbugs. Between April and September 2016, the landlord made attempts to treat the problem, according to the tenants’ complaints. However, they said the treatments were ineffective in getting rid of the bugs.
“Even if (the tenants) refused entry on a few occasions due to cultural or religious reasons, it does not eliminate the landlord’s ongoing responsibility in adequately eradicating the infestation,” Naraghi said.
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https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/05/12/syrian-refugees-who-fled-bedbug-infested-apartments-face-lawsuit-by-landlord.html
Note: sorry if repeat, is from Thursday, but I did not notice it till now:\
BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) – A package left at the front door of a Southeast Texas church exploded, causing minor damage and marking the second time in two weeks that a device has been found in the city of Beaumont.
The overnight blast broke windows and caused other damage to St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Beaumont’s West End, the Rev. Steven Balke told KFDM-TV on Thursday.
No one was injured in the explosion. Bishop C. Andrew Doyle, Episcopal Bishop of Texas, said in a statement that the church and the All Saints Episcopal School next door were evacuated and will remain closed until further notice.
http://www.kxan.com/news/texas/southeast-texas-church-damaged-by-package-explosion/1172556828
“A package left at the front door of a Southeast Texas church exploded, causing minor damage and marking the second time in two weeks that a device has been found in the city of Beaumont.”
It’s because of all the bells and loud singing.
GAZA BORDER — The Israeli military is gearing up for fierce “March of Return” protests along the Gaza security fence on Monday, with more than 100,000 Palestinians expected to take part, and dire warnings from the IDF that hundreds plan to try breach the fence and carry out a “massacre” of Israeli civilians.
The protests are now set for Monday, to coincide with the move of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and not on Tuesday’s Nakba Day, as was originally expected.
The Israel Defense Forces expects over 100,000 Palestinians to take part in the mass demonstrations and potentially as many as 200,000, something that would indicate a major victory for the Hamas terrorist group, which rules Gaza and has co-opted for its own ends what were originally slated to be weeks of nonviolent protests.
The army’s primary fear during the expected riots is that dozens or hundreds of Palestinians, including Hamas members, will manage to break through the Gaza security fence and wreak havoc in one of the Israeli communities on the other side, attacking residents, starting fires, and destroying buildings.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-gears-up-for-mass-gaza-riots-warning-hamas-plans-to-massacre-israelis/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
BOMBSHELL: Corrupt CDC diverted $3 million in taxpayer money to radical left-wing causes having NOTHING to do with science
(Natural News) A Republican running for office in California’s 37th congressional district is sounding the alarm about some shocking information he recently uncovered concerning the gross misuse of taxpayer dollars by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Ron Bassilian, an information technology (IT) guru who specializes in Microsoft’s Exchange enterprise email solution software, has offered up solid proof that the CDC knowingly diverted at least $3 million in taxpayer funding to leftist groups that have nothing to do with science.
Back in 2014, Representative Karen Bass, a Democratic congresswoman from California, was seen handing over a giant $3 million check to a local group known as the South Los Angeles Healthcare Organizing Project that claims to advocate for improving the health of the poor. And emblazoned on the check as the payer was none other than the CDC.
But what, exactly, is the South Los Angeles Healthcare Organizing Project, and is it really centered around improving public health? According to Bassilian, it’s actually a political advocacy group that functions as just another of many thinly-veiled Democratic campaign-pushing liberal causes – almost none of which have to do with public health.
Also known as the “Community Coalition,” this recipient of that infamous $3 million check from the CDC is not only not focused on improving the health of poor people as its primary agenda, but is actually pushing completely unrelated causes like gun control and racial divide throughout the United States.
https://archive.is/9t3er#selection-483.1-519.187