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    • Spotlight Turkey: Hyperinflation and Mass-Migration Crisis InevitableTurkey isn’t close to hyperinflation yet. But the path it’s on is a guaranteed way to get there.

      As Erdogan tightens his grip on finance and the central bank, Investors Fear Turkish Currency Crisis.

      The Turkish lira fell around 4% against the dollar late Monday after Mr. Erdogan appointed his son-in-law as finance minister and put in place measures that could curb the independence of the country’s central bank. Investors also sold Turkish shares and debt, with yields on its dollar bond maturing in October 2028 rising from around 6.8% last week to about 7.15% recently, according to Tradeweb. Yields rise as prices fall.

      “There’s a real risk that this spirals into a full-blown currency crisis,” said Paul McNamara, a portfolio manager at GAM Holding . “It’s got so many red flags that we’ve associated with economic crises…in the past.”

      In such a crisis, a sharp slide in a currency threatens the government and local companies’ ability to pay foreign debt. Turkey has one of the highest levels of external debt for a developing country, at 53.4% of gross domestic product, according to data from the International Monetary Fund. Local companies have raised billions of dollars, leaving them and the wider economy vulnerable to a slide in the lira, which would make paying off that debt more expensive.

      https://www.themaven.net/mishtalk/economics/spotlight-turkey-hyperinflation-and-mass-migration-crisis-inevitable–sf6N9SGI0aaVv7J3RVeiQ/

  4. Philippine army arrests wife of top Islamist militant in south (reuters, Jul 16, 2018)
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-militants/philippine-army-arrests-wife-of-top-islamist-militant-in-south-idUSKBN1K618Z?il=0

    “Philippine soldiers arrested the wife of a top leader of a pro-Islamic State militant group, and killed a suspected bomber in separate raids in a southern city, the army said on Monday.

    Nafisa Pundog, who had been in hiding for two years since her escape from prison, was arrested in General Santos City, said army spokesman Major Ezra Balagtey.

    Her husband Human Abdul Najib, alias Abu Dar, is the new leader of the pro-Islamic State Maute group, which seized the lakeside town of Marawi for five months last year, he added.

    “She did not resist arrest,” Balagtey told reporters, adding that materials to make improvised bombs were seized from her hideout.

    Before the arrest, soldiers killed Najib Pundog, a suspected bomb maker, not far from the hideout. “He chose to shoot it out with soldiers who tracked him down in his safe house,” Balagtey said.

    Both individuals, who are not related, despite a shared surname, were on a list of those President Rodrigo Duterte ordered to be arrested when he imposed martial law on the southern island of Mindanao after the Marawi attack in May 2017.

    More than 1,100 people died in the five-month conflict in Marawi, which ended days after soldiers killed the militant leaders, Omarkhayam Maute and Isnilon Hapilon, the emir of the Southeast Asian militant group.”

    • “Her husband Human Abdul Najib, alias Abu Dar, is the new leader of the pro-Islamic State Maute group, which seized the lakeside town of Marawi for five months last year, he added.

      “She did not resist arrest,” Balagtey told reporters, adding that materials to make improvised bombs were seized from her hideout.”

      What?!? No “caught in the crossfire” announcement? No “work accident”?

      With a last name like, “Pundog”, I’d voluntarily step into the line-of-fire!

        • I opened the window and influenza!

          She was only the refrigerator repairman’s daughter but Kelvinator!

          Then there was the Turkish teenager who didn’t like the way he was being reared at home … but couldn’t bear to leave his little brother’s behind.

          Just a few from memory and, yes, I write my own material and have done standup.

  5. Afghan official: Taliban kill 7 police in eastern province (abcnews, Jul 16, 2018)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/afghan-official-taliban-kill-police-eastern-province-56612257

    “The Taliban stormed a police checkpoint in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province and killed seven policemen, a provincial official said Monday.

    The attack took place the previous night in the district of Ghani Kahil, said the provincial police chief, Ghulam Sanayee Stanikzai. Five Taliban fighters were killed in the attack, he said.

    Stanikzai also said that in Khogyani district, also in Nangarhar province, a government airstrike on Sunday night left 20 Taliban fighters dead.

    There was no statement from the Taliban on either the Ghani Kahil attack or the airstrike…”

  6. Most Australians Demand Immigration Halt as Population Soars (breitbart, Jul 16, 2018)
    https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/16/most-australians-demand-immigration-halt-as-population-soars/

    “Most Australians want an end to mass immigration as the country’s soaring population is set to bounce above the 25 million mark within a month, an opinion poll shows.
    Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott attributes the rise in part to the work of “ethnic activists” in the left-wing opposition Australian Labor Party.

    The Australian Bureau of Statistics estimates one person is being added every one minute and 23 seconds, meaning the 25 million milestone is set to be reached on August 8, less than three years after Australia raced past the 24 million mark.

    With 190,000 moving to Australia every year in recent times, a Newspoll survey showed 72 percent of respondents wanted the net annual immigration pace to be slashed with the population forecast to hit 36 million by 2046.

    The poll of 1,644 voters, published in the Australian, showed 83 per cent of Liberal and National party voters wanted immigration cut, compared with 64 per cent of Labor supporters.

    The result comes just days after a combination of tougher border controls and a determination to only take the best candidates was revealed to have pushed Australia’s migrant numbers to a 10-year low – but now it seems Australains want the number to come down even further.

    Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says he supports scaling back the nation’s permanent migration intake based on tougher entry requirements.

    “We had more applications than ever so how did we achieve that? By being absolutely more fastidious and more scrupulous in ensuring that everyone who comes here is needed and is somebody we want,” Mr Turnbull said.

    Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott belies that is not enough. He weighed in on the debate on Sydney radio station 2GB, urging the government to “get immigration significantly down.”

    “We don’t need to be bringing in a city the size of Canberra every few years through immigration alone,” Mr. Abbott said, adding that the Labor Party was in the “grip of ethnic activists”.

    “If the government wants to say, ‘look, there are these big distinctions between us and the Labor Party … support for a substantial cut in immigration is another area, because it seems that the Labor Party is in the grip of, I suppose, ethnic activists in certain respects, so good on Peter Dutton for administering the system in such a way that we’ve had a modest reduction in the permanent migration numbers,” Mr Abbott told 2GB.”

  7. This was put on youtube in February but it needs to be seen again.

    Europeans Are Waking Up! | How Even Ordinary People Are Beginning to Take Action Against Immigration

  10. Chicago police release body cam video of South Shore police shooting

    http://abc7chicago.com/chicago-police-release-body-cam-video-of-south-shore-police-shooting/3766539/

    CHICAGO (WLS) —
    Chicago police released body camera video on Sunday of the fatal police shooting of 37-year-old Harith Augustus, which sparked a night of protests in the South Shore neighborhood.

    Supt. Eddie Johnson said he made the unprecedented decision to release the video so quickly “because the community needs some answers and they need it now.” He said he wanted to clear up misinformation about the shooting and prevent any future clashes.

    The video shows what appears to show a gun and clip tucked into Augustus’ pants. Moments after police approach him, the video shows Augustus walking into the street and appearing to be reaching for the weapon in his pants.

    CPD released two videos, one in real time and another slowed down. The body cam video that was released does not have audio as there is a 30-second delay when the officer turns the device on.

  11. Police kill man they say shot 3 officers; suspect investigated in UMKC student’s death

    Read more here: https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article214921815.html#storylink=cpy

    Kansas City police on Sunday killed a man they say shot three police officers and had been a person of interest in the off-campus July 6 shooting death of a University of Missouri-Kansas City student.

    All three injured officers are expected to live.

    The harrowing events began just before noon at the Sky-Vu Motel on U.S. 40 and ended an hour later when the man came out of a house at 30th and Topping Avenue. All told, the suspect and police exchanged gunfire three different times.

    Read more here: https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article214921815.html#storylink=cpy

    • Police kill man they say shot 3 officers

      I cannot imagine how gratifying it must be for law enforcement officers when they cap a cop-killer. And you’d better believe that the only reason those three wounded officers weren’t fatalities is only because of how the perp wasn’t putting in enough range time. He was a proto-cop-killer and desperately needed a toe-tag.

    • https://patch.com/district-columbia/washingtondc/massive-metro-strike-authorized-landslide-reports the union and WMATA [DC Metro] failed to come to an agreement on a new contract, two years after the prior one expired. The House of Delegates committed $154 million in dedicated funding earlier this year.
      https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Metros-Largest-Union-Votes-Strike-488238281.html Six-thousand members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 lined up to vote Sunday on whether to authorize a strike. At 9:30 p.m. Sunday, a spokesperson for the union said that 94 percent of workers voted in favor of a strike in “an overwhelming landslide.”

    • Public Union: Public Enemy

      You do realize, of course, that Americans for Prosperity is wholly funded by the Koch brothers?

      I’m no big fan of unions, especially government employee unions (the worst of the very worst), but seeing some of this world’s richest and most underhanded individuals pump money into destabilizing America’s existing employment structure—all the while having ZERO reputation for genuine domestic job creation—is just plain repulsive.

  13. Power to the drones: utilities place bets on robots
    Stephen Jewkes, Christoph Steitz

    8 Min Read

    MILAN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Flying robots that can travel dozens of kilometers without stopping could be the next big thing for power companies.

    Utilities in Europe are looking to long-distance drones to scour thousands of miles of grids for damage and leaks in an attempt to avoid network failures that cost them billions of dollars a year. However the technology faces major safety and regulatory hurdles that are clouding its future in the sector.

    Snam (SRG.MI) and EDF’s (EDF.PA) network subsidiary RTE have tested prototypes of long-distance drones that fly at low altitudes over pipelines and power lines.

    Italy’s Snam, Europe’s biggest gas utility, told Reuters it is trialing one of these machines – known as BVLOS drones because they fly ‘beyond the visual line of sight’ of operators – in the Apennine hills around Genoa. It hopes to have it scouting a 20 km stretch of pipeline soon.

    France’s RTE has also tested a long-distance drone, which flew about 50 km inspecting transmission lines and sent back data that allowed technicians to virtually model a section of the grid. The company said it would invest 4.8 million euros ($5.6 million) on drone technology over the next two years.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-utilities-drones-europe-analysis/power-to-the-drones-utilities-place-bets-on-robots-idUSKBN1K60TS

    • A simple, multiaxis, underslung thermal imaging camera on a drone would (at the very least) detect one of grid power transmission’s biggest loss modes. Poorly spliced cables exhibit resistance that manifests as easily detectable heat (just like any old-fashioned electric heater).

      TECHNICAL NOTE: In the scientific industry, large R&D complexes usually will consolidate their cryogenic, liquefied air supplies (e.g., nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, argon, etc.) in a single facility or “tank farm”. With the hydrogen and oxygen tanks quite well-separated, thankyouverymuch.

      In distributing these low-temperature liquids around any given campus, it is common practice to use Vacuum Barrier Piping. Much like a thermos bottle, Vacuum Barrier Piping is a coaxial tubing arrangement wherein the actual cryogenic liquid flows down the center conduit.

      That core conduit is insulated by a relatively high vacuum outer sheath which sharply reduces absorption of ambient heat, a major source of loss in efficiently managing liquified gasses. This not an inexpensive technology nor is it easy to manage.

      Here’s the punch line: California’s wealth of hydroelectric resources make well-managed grid power transmission a serious issue. According to legend, the staggering expense of replacing existing high-tension cables (i.e., very high voltage lines) with ones protected by Vacuum Barrier Piping would provide a blistering ROI (Return On Investment). To the tune of how project costs might often be exceeded by the billion-dollar-level annual energy losses, just because of these faulty splices.

      To clarify, such grid refurbishment would use a tri-axial (i.e., coaxial triple conduit) cable with a center-core of the electrical conductor itself, jacketed by liquid nitrogen, and then the Vacuum Barrier shell. The reduction in cable resistance alone would yield transmission efficiencies that might even avert the need to construct various new dams, nuclear power plants, and other low-return technologies. Tar sands, anyone?

      A final upshot of such dramatic rewiring is that it will be perfectly poised and totally compatible with super-clean fusion power generation. While not very glamorous, this somewhat pedestrian electrician’s task could bridge over into the fusion era in ways which are so budgetarily sensible that they are simply breathtaking.

      Back on topic; (alla yez cans stop sniggering now, eh?) detecting insulator breakdown, contact leakage, fried Bald Eagles or California Condors marginally shorting out parallel lines, and the occasionally charred corpse of another idjit “scrapper” who answered the siren call of yanking down all of that glistening (sparky) copper cable, makes drone surveillance of grid resources a no-brainer.

      Inexpensive daily (or nightly) flyovers also could provide early-warning regarding remote fires caused by lightning strikes, careless campers, pyromaniacs … whatever. The advent of Peltier-based, thermoelectric cooling enables rapid, high-resolution, infrared camera detection of individual human bodies and large animals. No more lugging along those bulky Dewars (same as the Whisky) of liquid nitrogen.

      Better yet, nearly all major high-tension lines are intentionally sent over unoccupied turf, be it urban, suburban or rural. Which is all very good in case of a wire parting or toppling tower.

      An equally significant upshot is that, due to these “cleared-path” arrangements (exactly like railroads of old), there is absolutely no excuse or legitimate reason to monitor any residents on either side of the drone’s flight path. Roaming individuals may be another thing entirely.

      Last but not least (only if ethically applied, as I’ve described above) such low-cost remote-sensing capabilities eventually will furnish effective border-protection countermeasures against terrorist and intrusive elements.

  15. German Authorities Fail to Track Half of Migrants Set for Deportations – Report (sputniknews, Jul 16, 2018)
    https://sputniknews.com/europe/201807161066396777-germany-migrants-deportations/

    “While deportation orders in Germany are up 17 percent, the number of migrants who have actually been sent to their home countries is down to just four percent, a German newspaper reported.

    More than half of the migrants ordered to be returned to their countries of origin remain in Germany simply because they couldn’t be located, the Welt am Sonntag wrote, citing an internal police report.

    According to the report, only 11,000 of the 24,000 deportations scheduled were completed between January and May. Around 11,000 people were not even found at their registered addresses on the day they were due to be sent back to their home countries.

    An unidentified number have apparently gone into hiding.
    The report also mentions hundreds of cases when deportation orders were not executed due to active or passive resistance by the deportees, most of them from Nigeria and Guinea – more than 60 percent from each country.

    Somalis and Syrians respectively account for 50 and 40 percent of resistant deportees.

    “It creates an enormous amount of work for the federal police that every second person to be deported is ultimately not delivered by the responsible state and local authorities,” Federal Police Union chairman Ernst Walter told the newspaper.

    However, Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil, argues that some of those being deported shouldn’t be. Heil, who is a Social Democratic Party member, is against deportations of well-integrated refugees.

    “I sometimes have the feeling that the wrong people are forced to leave Germany,” the minister said, as quoted by the newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine.

    He added that this was a blow to German companies that have invested money in training their young migrant workers.

    The increasing number of deportations is part of the “Migration Masterplan” launched earlier this month by Interior Minister Horst Seehofer in a bid to toughen border and immigration controls.

    The initiative clashes with the open-door policy pursued by Chancellor Angela Merkel since the start of the 2015 refugee crisis.

    According to the European statistics office Eurostat, Germany took in 325,400 refugees in 2017, accounting for almost 60 percent of the 540,000 migrants resettled last year. The statistics office said that about 33 percent of the migrants were from Syria, followed by Afghanistan, which accounted for 19 percent of the refugees. Refugees from Iraq accounted for 12 percent.”

  16. Police Officer, Bystander Killed In Mass.

    A Massachusetts police officer is killed in the line of duty with his own firearm.

    The incident happened Sunday when officer Michael Chesna was responding to a call of an erratic driver near Boston.

    The suspect identified as Emanuel Lopes, crashed his vehicle and fled the scene and was later found vandalizing a home.

    Chesna then drew his firearm and demanded the suspect to stop.

    That’s when Lopes threw a stone at the 42-year-old officer and shot him multiple times with his own gun.

    http://www.oann.com/police-officer-bystander-killed-in-mass/

  17. Egypt passes law shielding senior military officers from prosecution

    CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s parliament on Monday passed a law that could make senior military officers immune from future prosecution tied to violence which followed the 2013 ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Mursi.

    The law grants President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi the right to name officers who are eligible for rewards that include ministerial benefits and immunity from investigation for any offences committed from July 3, 2013 until June 8, 2014, the period from Mursi’s overthrow to Sisi’s first day as president.

    Hundreds were killed when security forces broke up a sit-in at Cairo’s Rabaa Square in support of Mursi in August 2013, in one of the bloodiest events in Egypt’s recent history.

    http://www.oann.com/egypt-passes-law-shielding-senior-military-officers-from-prosecution/

    • And MbS has preemptively pardoned all soldiers serving in Yemen – in case an NGO gets uppity, alleges war-crimes.

  18. Dancers, pig heads and sweets: Thais thank cave spirits for saving boys

    BANGKOK (Reuters) – As dancers swayed to the beat of traditional music, candles were lit and fruit offerings placed near a cave on Monday in a ceremony to thank benevolent spirits for the rescue of a Thai soccer team.

    The 12 boys of the “Wild Boars” team and their coach are recovering after last week’s dramatic multinational rescue that drew global attention. They are to be discharged on Thursday from a hospital in the northern town of Chiang Rai.

    Pig heads, boiled eggs, fish, sweets and fruits were among the delicacies offered to spirits and deities in Monday’s ceremony to thank them for the safe return of the boys.

    “We are paying respects to the angels who look after the forest and inside the cave,” Nippon Anchai, a traditional practitioner, told Thai media.

    The group also prayed for Samarn Kunan, 38, a former member of Thailand’s elite SEALs unit, who was the only casualty of the operation when he died after taking oxygen tanks into the cave.

    http://www.oann.com/dancers-pig-heads-and-sweets-thais-thank-cave-spirits-for-saving-boys/

  19. Richard: Gowdy is proving he is a swamp critter like Rosenstein and Strozk, he was hard on the latter because he outranks him in the swamp and was upset that he was defying a superior swamp critter. We are lucky he is leaving Congress (prob reads the writing on the wall) but we don’t want him in as a Judge

    Trey Gowdy rules out impeachment effort against Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein
    By J.E. Dyer July 15, 2018

    As chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Representative Trey Gowdy (R-SC) presumably speaks with authority on this matter.

    And on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday morning, Gowdy was categorical. There won’t be a leadership-backed impeachment effort against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in the House.

    “Impeach him for what?” Gowdy said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “No.”

    “I’m not convinced there is a movement,” Gowdy added, citing Politico’s recent report that a group of GOP lawmakers are preparing to impeach Rosenstein.

    Gowdy expanded on that a bit under questioning from CBS’s Margaret Brennan.

    “I’ve had my differences with Rod Rosenstein,” said Gowdy, who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. “I talk to him quite often privately, which again is a lot more constructive than the public hearings we have.” …

    Gowdy on Sunday said Rosenstein is a “Trump appointee” and that if “President Trump is dissatisfied with Rod Rosenstein, he can fire him with a tweet.”>/blockquote>

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/07/15/trey-gowdy-rules-out-impeachment-effort-against-deputy-ag-rod-rosenstein/

    • J.E. is supporting the idea that impeachment is not the right move at this time, first comes a contempt of congress referral to Sessions and then if nothing is done impeachment is called for. Gowdy should have made that clear and given his background as a prosecutor knows this, by not pointing this out as a threat to the swamp critters that are refusing to cooperat with Congress he is saying that he is at best a semi swamp critter and at worst a high ranking swamp critter. In my opinion he is the latter. We are going to have to wait and see what happens to Rosenstien and Strozk, to an extent this will depend on which party controls Congress after the November Elections.

      Politics is the art of the possible, before we make any moves against the swamp we have to have a good chance of succeeding, doing something as a publicity stunt that we know will fail is handing the swamp a cheap victory. A victory that hurts out side.

        • Gowdy raises hell but doesn’t fight for more action, he is a swamp critter who is trying to cover himself from those who are draining the swamp.

          • He raises _verbal_ hell because he’s a showdog: all bark, no bite. When he knows nothing will come of it. That’s the play he plays for Sewer Theatre.

            His flashy interrogation makes us go, “Wow justice will be served!”
            But no. Flash-bang, poof.
            That’s the beginning and the end of it.

  20. Tweet of the Day: The Trump-deranged state of journalism in 2018
    By LU Staff July 15, 2018

    It used to be that there was a rule of “five Ws” to guide journalistic reporting. In compiling facts and composing a story, the journalist was supposed to address the questions: who, what, when, where, and why?

    It was even thought, in that old-fashioned time, that if a story couldn’t address at least two of those questions, it wasn’t ready for publication. A reporter might know of a what — an event — and a where, and have a story worth notifying the public about, even if he had to fill in the blanks later. But fewer than two questions answered wasn’t really a story at all. You didn’t file a story because you drove down the road and saw a house on your left (a solid where). The house had to at least be on fire (a what).

    Apparently, standards are loosening. We regret to put before you the LU Tweet of the Day:

    Click through for the rest:

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/07/15/tweet-of-the-day-the-trump-deranged-state-of-journalism-in-2018/

  21. Civil war: The Democratic Party is now a house divided against itself
    By Jeff Dunetz July 15, 2018

    The Democrat Party has been lurching left for years now, but since the end of the Clinton era, they’ve been shifting left at speeds which defy the laws of physics. Aided by eight years of an extreme leftist in the White House, the Democrat Party has become dominated by radical progressives and socialists. The fight to nominate a new Supreme Court Justice is causing some of the more moderate Democrats to fight back against their party cohorts to save their political careers.

    When socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated a mainstream leadership Democrat, the entire Democrat world (except for others in establishment leadership) cheered. The media, the Democrats’ base, the punditry – it was as if the victory of a socialist in a primary had energized them all somehow. But they missed the real story. There was more than one socialist winner.

    Because of the rumored blue wave, one would think that the Democrats would be circling the wagons and helping to defend every Senate, and house seat they could … but one would be wrong.

    Instead, a war has been declared between the typical left-of-center Democrats and the extreme leftists who now dominate the Democratic party.

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/07/15/civil-war-the-democratic-party-is-now-a-house-divided-against-itself/

  22. Although announced in April of 2018, this remains both a critical review of Iran and a demonstration of Mossad’s skill (in embarrassing the shorts off of Tehran’s mullahs).

    Papers stolen in a daring Israeli raid on Tehran archive reveal the extent of Iran’s past weapons research

    Israeli intelligence officials said they learned in early 2017 that Iran had begun systematically gathering records on the country’s past nuclear weapons research and relocating them to a single repository in southern Tehran’s Shorabad district. The building, in a row of industrial warehouses, had no visible security presence or other features that might have tipped off an observer that it contained something unusual. Only a small number of Iranians apparently even knew of its existence, said an Israeli intelligence officer briefed on the details.

    “We wanted to know: What are they hiding, and what for?” the officer said. “Once we learned where the records were going, we prepared an operations team to acquire them.”

    Mossad agents were able learn the internal layout of the building, including the location and general contents of 32 safes that contained paper records, photos and computer-storage files from “Project Amad,” the code name for Iran’s nuclear project. The spies studied the building’s security features and tracked the movements and schedules of the workers who maintained the archive. Eventually they settled on a date — Jan. 31 — and a time window of exactly six hours, 29 minutes, in which they believed they could breach the facility, open the safes and remove half a ton of documents without being detected.

    Stolen documents shed new light on Iran weapons technology: reports

    New details on stolen Iranian nuclear documents obtained by Israeli spies earlier this year shed light on Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and show that Iran more than two decades ago had assembled the materials it needed to produce a nuclear bomb, according to multiple media reports.

    The details expanded on those provided by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in April, first in a private briefing with President Trump and later in an open presentation.

    The information came from a trove of documents stolen from a storage facility in Tehran by agents for the Israeli agency Mossad. Journalists from The New York Times, The Washington Post and others were invited by the Israeli government to view key documents obtained in the raid.

    Cracking a number of safes in less than seven hour’s time? This wasn’t any amateur team. Not to mention removing half a ton of documents…

    Once again, Mossad proves to its Islamic enemies that their Muslim butts are in a sling, even if they don’t know it. If you are unfamiliar with this operation, read through the first link. This bit of spy-craft should chill the blood of any covert operations specialists planning to harm Israel. Brilliant op, Mossad!

    • WashPoo tries to undercut the damage of 0’s “Deal” – whining, ‘yeah, but now we can’t monitor the program.’
      They’re so crooked, so used to getting away with – no hyperbole – murder, they think then can twist everything into their pretzel-shaped logic.
      …..
      More hints of details are coming out.
      For instance, 30% of Iran’s current pop is Azeri. Azerbaijan is great friends with Israel. There’s the usual embassy, trade ties, etc. AND an IAF air strip plus listening station.
      Was the archive smuggled through Azerbaijan?

      • “Azerbaijan is great friends with Israel.”

        How in Hades is that supposed to jibe with Christian Armenia? (Currently in a long term, low-intensity war with Azerbaijan.)

        I’m tellin’ yez, that region’s entire political terrain is so twisted to where they can use a corkscrew for a straightedge.

        • Yeah, well…

          The Armenian Church still teaches that Jews are Christ-killers. Like the Greek Orthodox Church, which is credited with the invention of the blood libel, around the 4th century. Greek neo-Nazis have gone to fight for the Assad family in every war against Israel. Heil-Hitler.

          Egyptian Copts’ hatred for the yahud far exceeds that of their tardish compatriots. It’s always been so virulent, the latter are appalled. (They explained it to me: It’s Coptic “addiction” to pig.)

          Syrian Christians never lost their infatuation with Nazis, welcomed war-criminals sought by the Allies. Only some converted to Islam; others comprise a significant proportion of the urban Christian community there today.

          Not much boo-hoo from me on their behalf.

          Many Lebanese Christians were Falange. Some friendly, more not so much. The Communist-secular, Arab Christian PFLP was one of the very worst anti-Israel terrorist groups, responsible for horrific atrocities.

          Palestinian Christians are only now discovering the side on which their bread is buttered. By no means all, despite their persecution in the rabid tardish communities in which they were the indigenes.

          The Middle East is complicated.

  23. “Hillary Rodham Clinton Receives AFT Women’s Rights Award”
    AFTHQ – July 13, 2018

    • Half court? The Edmonton Grads ~ 1915 ~ 1940

      The National Film Board of Canada documentary about the Edmonton Grads. The team compiled a record of 502 wins and 20 losses between 1915 and 1940. In 1923 the Grads defeated the Cleveland Favorite Knits 53-33 in a two-game tournament. They successfully defended the title until 1940 until the trophy was declared their permanent possession.
      At the Olympic games of 1924, 1928, 1932 and 1936, the Edmonton Grads represented Canada in the demonstration basketball tournaments. In all of their 27 matches they were victorious.

      Shooting Stars – Part 1

    • Finland: ‘Getting along with Russia is a good thing’ – Trump to Putin

      Russian President Vladimir Putin met with US President Donald Trump for the bilateral talks in Helsinki on Monday.

      Putin and Trump are expected to discuss a range of international issues and bilateral relations, in particular, the alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US elections, Syria, Ukraine, NATO and US economic sanctions.

      This is the third meeting between Putin and Trump; the leaders’ first meeting was in July 2017 on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg and in November they met at the APEC summit in Da Nang, Vietnam.

    • BBC – Trump-Putin Summit: Journalist dragged out of conference room

      A man was just bundled out of the room by security, waving a stack of paper.

      Our reporter in the room identified him as a journalist working for The Nation (from the US) – and apparently the US Secret Service took part in his removal.

      Not yet clear why.

    • the gateway pundit – PUTIN DROPS BOMB AT HELSINKI PRESSER: Says Russian Critic Bill Browder Gave $400,000,000 to HILLARY CLINTON!! (VIDEO)

      MORE on Bill Browder… Browder is an American-born British financier. He is the CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management, an investment fund that at one time was the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia.

      The Russian government put Browder on the Interpol most wanted list in 2017.

      more :

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/07/putin-blows-apart-russia-collusion-probe-says-russian-group-gave-400000000-to-hillary-clinton-video/

      • Fox News – Browder: Putin a killer, would love to get rid of me

        President Trump prepares for a summit with President Putin; Bill Browder speaks out about Putin on ‘The Story.’

    • Putin: „Soros mischt sich überall ein“

      https://de.sputniknews.com/politik/20180716321581616-putin-treffen-trump-soros/

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      twitter

      zero hedge PUTIN SAYS SOROS INTERFERING EVERYWHERE

      https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1018886515223678976

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      twitter :

      the gateway pundit HOLY CRAP…… RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN JUST ATTACKED GEORGE SOROS! OMG! Liberals are going to RIOT tonight!

      https://twitter.com/gatewaypundit/status/1018889027548860416

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    • Hundreds Protesting Helsinki Summit

      Hundreds of people marched through Helsinki Monday, demonstrating against Trump and Putin’s presence in Finland and their highly-anticipated summit. Many held up placards and banners defending human rights and denouncing racism and fascism.

    • JOHN BRENNAN: TRUMP’S PRESS CONFERENCE AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE, ‘TREASONOUS’

      The Obama Administration’s CIA director, John Brennan, charged that President Trump’s post-summit press conference with Russia President Vladimir Putin was an act of treason.

      “Donald Trump’s press performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of ‘high crimes and misdemeanors,'” Brennan tweeted. “It was nothing short of treasonous. Not only were Trump’s comments imbecilic, he is wholly in the pocket of Putin. Republican Patriots: Where are you???”

      https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan/status/1018885971104985093

      Moments after tweeting, Brennan appeared on MSNBC and demanded Trump cabinet officials resign in protest.

      Here’s a transcript of his exchange with Brian Williams:

      WILLIAMS: “We just read what you said on Twitter. Your reaction to what you’ve just seen?”

      BRENNAN: “Well, Brian, I thought that there was nothing Donald Trump could say that would shock me, but I was wrong. I was just totally shocked at the performance of Donald Trump in Helsinki at a press conference with Vladimir Putin. I just found that it was outrageous. And even when the press — and thank goodness the press asked the right questions — even when the press gave him an opportunity to hold Russia accountable for anything, he chose to talk about Hillary Clinton, about his election, about servers. He criticized American citizens, Secretary Clinton and others as opposed to really taking advantage of a world stage, with all the world’s eyes upon them, to point out how unacceptable Russia’s behavior and interference in our election and the elections of other democratic countries around the globe is. But he just shirked those responsibilities. I cannot understand how the national security team can continue to abide by this and how Pompeo and Bolton and Kelly can continue in their jobs. This, I think, rises to the point of good American patriots resigning in objection to that performance by Donald Trump. I’m at a loss of words to describe just how outrageous his words, his statements, his behavior has been. And one can only conclude that he fears Vladimir Putin. And that one-on-one discussion, who knows what was discussed there. And how Mr. Putin now is the master puppeteer of Donald Trump, the person who is in our Oval Office. Outrageous.”

      WILLIAMS: “I just saw a picture of Huntsman and Pompeo while the President was speaking, looking a bit stricken. But to your point about patriots, to your point about resignations, what do you think the practical impact, just say by the end of business today, tomorrow, will be?”

      BRENNAN: “I don’t know. That’s why I said in my tweet Republican patriots all over the country, including in the Congress, where are you? When are you going to speak out and roundly condemn what Donald Trump is doing? And all of those good Americans who voted for Mr. Trump believing that he was going to protect this country, I think you have now his demonstrated unwillingness, maybe inability, to protect this country’s interests. I think this is a time for all Americans to rally and to say, ‘Mr. Trump, you are not doing what is necessary in order to keep this country strong and safe.’ And Mr. Putin must be now, with his team, just rejoicing in what has happened in Helsinki.”

      In the past, Brennan has likened America under Trump to passing a “large and painful kidney stone.” Addressing his frequently hyperbolic tweets against President Trump, Brennan has said he has a “responsibility as an American citizen to speak up.”

      https://news.grabien.com/story-john-brennan-trumps-press-conference-impeachable-offense-tre

  27. NYT – President Trump: Don’t Be Putin’s Puppet

    A Ukrainian activist in exile warns President Trump about the “modern Russian czar.”

    • Another young arrogant know it all, her statements that she knows Trump doesn’t care because he is will to play real politik shows how ignorant of the real world she is.

  29. UK: Non-EU Migration ‘Highest in 13 Years’, EU Migration ‘Possibly Undercounted by 500,000’ (breitbart, Jul 16, 2018)
    https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/07/16/non-eu-migration-highest-13-years-eu-migration-possibly-undercounted-500000/

    “The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show non-EU net migration is at its highest for 13 years, according to Migration Watch UK, which also claims EU net migration may have been undercounted by half a million since 2004.

    The ONS bulletin notes that non-EU net immigration, at +227,000, was twice the level of EU net migration at +101,000 — meaning that even if immigration from the EU was eliminated entirely, the Tories would be nowhere near achieving their 2010, 2015, and 2017 manifesto pledges to bring net immigration down to “the tens of thousands”.

    With new Home Secretary Sajid Javid relaxing immigration controls, it is unlikely the target will ever be met — lending further credence to former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne’s claims that the Tories never seriously intended to bring immigration down.

    Commenting, Chairman of Migration Watch UK Lord Green of Deddington said: “These are very disappointing figures. Migration from the EU is still adding 100,000 a year to our population and non-EU net migration is the highest level in a calendar year for 13 years. It’s time for the Government to get serious about reducing immigration instead of caving into every demand of the immigration lobby.”

    Claims of a supposed ‘Brexodus’ of EU migrants from the United Kingdom since the people voted to Leave the European Union in June 2016 are common in the mainstream media, but as the ONS itself notes: “Much has been written about EU citizens leaving the UK, but the fact is there are still more people coming to the country from the EU than leaving it. In fact, the last quarter shows that around 100,000 more EU citizens are coming to the UK than leaving.”

    In fact, Migration Watch believes the true figures for EU immigration could actually be far higher than the ONS figures — based on traveller surveys which some critics have derided as “little more than guesswork” — as there is a significant discrepancy between immigration estimates and population growth estimates.

    Migration Watch co-chairman Alp Mehmet said the difference worked out at around 508,000 – roughly equivalent to the population of Sheffield, Britain’s fourth-largest city.

    “Our paper suggests that Brexit could be an even more effective means of reducing immigration than previously thought,” he added hopefully.

    “This underlines the importance of taking a firm line, so far absent, on lower-skilled migration from the EU.””

  30. Iran: Jerusalem ‘will stay capital of Palestine’ – Khamenei

    Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared that al-Quds [Jerusalem] will remain the capital of Palestine, during a meeting with organisers and officials of Iran’s Hajj organisation in Teheran on Monday.

    “The satanic and filthy policy that the US has adopted regarding Palestine, and termed the ‘deal of the century’, but they should know that this ‘deal of the century’ they have imagined will, by the Divine Grace, never come true,” said Ayatollah Khamenei.

    The Iranian leader then dismissed the decision to make Jerusalem the official capital of Israel, and instead said: “contrary to the expectations of US officials, who are all over the place to do something about the Palestine issue, the issue of Palestine will not be forgotten and the holy city of al-Quds will stay as the capital of Palestine.”

    • 35-year-old Afghan “cried hesitantly” – escaped expulsion (googletranslate)
      https://bit.ly/2utgO8F

      “DOMESTIC. On Saturday, a 35-year-old Afghan would be expelled to Kabul. But the expulsion was stopped after the man had panic attacks and started crying hesitantly, reports the day.

      It was on Saturday that 35-year-old Hossein Muhammadin from Afghanistan would be expelled from Sweden for the second time.

      But it did not work as planned.

      According to his own statement, Muhammadin is converted to Christianity, but the Swedish Migration Board has rejected his asylum application because the authority does not believe the conversion is genuine, but it’s really just about a way to stay in the country.

      Muhammadin, who is said to be a member of the Lidköping Pentecostal Assembly, would have been expelled to his native country in April.

      However, the expulsion was stopped at the last minute. And so did it also the second expulsion that would have taken place on Saturday.

      This after the 35-year-old got anxiety and started crying.

      Planet never left the field.

      “We think it was a panic attack that he hit on the planet. He cried relentlessly and shouted so they had to lift him off, “said friend Rolf Wernersson, member of the Pentecostal Society, until the day.

      Hossein Muhammadin is now again in the custody of the Migration Board in Kållared and Lidköping Pentecostal Assembly saying he will do everything possible for him to stay permanently. According to the Christian newspaper, the assembly plans to use the “bad man” of the 35-year-old Afghan as the new condition for his residence permit.”

  35. Gunmen kill 14 civilians in northeast Mali village (reuters, Jul 16, 2018)
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mali-security/gunmen-kill-14-civilians-in-northeast-mali-village-idUSKBN1K61V1

    “Gunmen shot dead 14 civilians in an attack on a village in northeastern Mali, a local official said on Monday, amid a spate of killings by rival ethnic groups and jihadist militants that threatens to derail a presidential election later this month.

    Nanou Kotia, the mayor of the regional hub of Menaka, said the attack had occurred on Sunday in a remote village 55 km (30 miles) away, near the border with Niger.

    “The assailants came and opened fire on people. According to our information, there were 14 people killed, all civilians, and one truck and three other vehicles were burned,” he told Reuters by telephone.

    The mayor did not say who he believed was responsible for the attack. Previous killings have been carried out by Islamist militants active in the area as well as by fighters from ethnic militia…”

  36. Solana says NATO must apologize to Mr. Erdogan (mehrnews, Jul 16, 2018)
    https://en.mehrnews.com/news/135770/Solana-says-NATO-must-apologize-to-Mr-Erdogan

    “Former European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana posted two messages on his Twitter account saying that NATO was aware of the intended coup in July 2016.

    In a controversial move, former European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana announced, through posting a message on his Twitter account on Monday, that NATO was informed about the failed coup of July 15, 2016, but did not inform the Turkish government.

    “I want to make a confession! We knew that the coup was going to take place on July 15th. But we haven’t to help Turkey. That is why NATO must apologize to Mr. Erdogan.”

    “The imperialist invasion attempt made on July 15, 2016 the Republic of Turkey and I condemn once again on this occasion I curse. Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Turkish nation would celebrate the great victory. You cannot divide this nation, you cannot break [them] apart.””

  37. Twitterstorm as UKIP Leader Alleges Rape Gangs Follow ‘Cult’ of Prophet Mohammad

    On July 14, supporters of the co-founder of the right-wing English Defense League, Tommy Robinson, took to the streets of London, demanding that he be released from prison and contending that he had been unfairly convicted for reporting on “Muslim grooming gangs.”

    Speaking at a London rally in support of the jailed right-wing activist Tommy Robinson, UK Independence Party leader strong>Gerard Batten told demonstrators that the rape gang members were inspired by the “cult of Mohamed.”

    “The great British media do not want to talk about the group identity of the rapists, or the ideology that inspires them. The rape gang members are predominantly followers of the cult of Mohamed [prophet Mohammad]. They can justify their crimes to themselves because their ideology tells them that non-cult followers are lesser human beings,” he said, according to the copy of the speech, obtained by The Independent.

    He further said that “the founder of their cult was himself a pedophile who kept sex slaves.”

    “And he is held up to be a perfect model for them to follow for all the time. But we, the infidels and kaffirs, are not supposed to talk about it. And people who do face possibly criminal prosecution under our so-called ‘hate laws’.”

    His controversial remarks sparked a wave of reactions on social media, with many condemning his “vile comments about Muslims”:

    […]

    Earlier this year, Batten, who served as interim leader of the UKIP party since February before being officially elected in April, defended his previous remark that Islam was a “death cult” in wake of the Westminster terror attack in March 2017, which killed 6 people.

    “What I wrote there [on his personal blog] about Islam is factually and historically true, and anybody that cares to look at the history of Islam over the last 1,400 years will see that that is true. It was propagated by invasion, by violence and intimidation. It glorifies death,” he said in his first interview after becoming interim leader in February 2018.

    Tommy Robinson was initially accused of breaching the peace and arrested in late May while broadcasting a Facebook live video outside of a court in Leeds, where a gang rape trial was being held. Later in the day, he admitted to the contempt of court charge and was sentenced to 13 months in jail – his lawyers are set to appeal the sentence on July 18.

    https://sputniknews.com/europe/201807151066364149-ukip-leader-rape-gangs-mohamed-cult/

  38. Iran Arrests 46 In Fresh Crackdowns On Instagram Models (radiofarda, Jul 16, 2018)
    https://en.radiofarda.com/a/iran-arrests-46-in-fresh-crackdowns-on-instagram-models/29368324.html

    “Iranian authorities have arrested dozens of people in fresh crackdowns on models and associated colleagues posting “immoral images” online.

    The official IRNA news agency reported Monday that officials in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, some 1250 kilometers, or 630 miles, south of the capital Tehran, arrested eight women and 36 other people in the photography, beauty salons and wedding businesses who used Instagram to share what they considered indecent images and clips.

    Police said they were “damaging public virtue through the organized spreading of anti-cultural” activities.

    Iran conducts regular similar crackdowns to combat western cultural influence which draws the ire of the Islamic Republic’s hard-liners.”

  39. the daily caller – SOROS-LINKED GROUP WILL SPEND MILLIONS TO STOP KAVANAUGH

    Progressives have formed a new political outfit to mobilize left-wing energy on judicial confirmations, including Judge Kavanaugh

    The group, Demand Justice, is financed and administratively supported by the Sixteen Thirty Fund

    George Soros’ advocacy network has given millions to the Sixteen Thirty Fund in recent years

    A new political advocacy group that vowed to put $5 million behind an effort to stop Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court has significant ties to the liberal financier George Soros.

    A Daily Caller News Foundation review has found that the group’s primary financial supporter is a nonprofit to whom Soros has given millions.

    The group, Demand Justice (DJ), is organized and financed by a 501(c)(4) called the Sixteen Thirty Fund, which collected some $2.2 million in contributions from the Open Society Policy Center (OSPC), one of Soros’ primary donation vehicles, between 2012 and 2016.

    The Soros Connection

    The Fund is largely financed by a handful of donors. Financial statements filed with state oversight officials in 2014 show just three contributors accounted for 70 percent — or some $11.5 million — of the Fund’s total donations and grant revenue. Disclosure forms filed with the same agency in 2016 present similar facts. Fewer than five donors gave $13.3 million to the Fund, representing 63 percent of their donations.

    One of those donors is the OSPC. The Center’s tax forms show the Soros group gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Fund each year between 2012 and 2016, the last year in which records are publicly accessible. The Center gave the Fund $350,000 in 2012, $772,000 in 2013, $125,000 in 2014, $550,000 in 2015, and $481,483 in 2016.

    OSPC is practically indistinct from the Open Society Foundations (OSF), Soros’ philanthropic and grant-giving network. OSPC has no employees of its own, according to the Center’s 2016 tax forms. Rather, Foundations employees are compensated for any work done for the Center. Said compensation is determined by the OSF, and documented in OSF’s internal records.

    “OSPC has no employees,” the form reads. “Employees of Open Society [Foundations], a related section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, perform services for OSPC. OSPC advances funds to Open Society [Foundations] for their services based on the time they spend on OSPC matters. Their compensation is determined by Open Society [Foundations], and is based on market comparability data and is documented in Open Society [Foundations’] records.”

    A New Shadow Group

    Demand Justice was formed in the spring of 2018 as the progressive counterpart to a constellation of conservative advocacy groups which advertise and organize around judicial confirmations. Republicans have significantly outpaced Democrats in this space in recent years, given conservative voters’ sustained interest in the federal courts.

    Executive director Brian Fallon told The New York Times that DJ hopes to “sensitize rank-and-file progressives to think of the courts as a venue for their activism and a way to advance the progressive agenda.”

    Its ranks are staffed by alums of the Obama administration and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign: Fallon, the former Clinton campaign press secretary, serves as executive director and longtime Obama aide Christopher Kang is chief counsel. Other Clinton veterans involved with the group include Gabrielle McCaffrey and Diana Bowen, according to LinkedIn.

    The Fund serves as Demand Justice’s fiscal sponsor. As such, DJ does not have to submit its own tax returns or disclose its supporters. The Fund registered the trade name “Demand Justice” with the Washington D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory affairs on May 2.

    The National Council of Nonprofits says that fiscal sponsors provide “fiduciary oversight, financial management, and other administrative services” for its dependents, like Demand Justice. As such, many grants or donations DJ receives are awarded by way of the Fund. Both organizations are based out of the same Washington, D.C., address.

    Supporters can also give to DJ through ActBlue Civics, a major fundraising platform for leftwing causes.

    Given this structure, it is difficult to know how much money individual donors like Soros have channeled to Demand Justice.

    The nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court presents the first significant political conflict since DJ was founded in the spring of 2018. The outfit vowed to put $5 million dollars behind a multi-platform effort to stop Kavanaugh’s confirmation. The campaign will feature television spots promoting embattled Democratic Senate incumbents in West Virginia, Indiana, and North Dakota, who face competitive Republican challengers this November.

    They will also run ads in Maine and Alaska, urging GOP Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski to oppose the nomination. Collins and Murkowski are pro choice moderates who have broken with their party on Obamacare repeal and federal funding for Planned Parenthood. The spots urge the senators to protect abortion access by withholding support for nominees who oppose the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

    http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/15/demand-justice-george-soros/

  40. Anti-Trump FBI Agent Told A Huge Lie That Could Land Him In Prison

    Fireworks erupted when disgraced anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok testified before a joint Congressional committee.

    The media hailed Strzok as a hero.

    But Strzok told a huge lie that could come back to bite him.

    A major focus of Strzok’s appearance was an August 8th, 2016 text message to then FBI agent Lisa Page where he responded to Page’s concerns that Trump could win the election with “No. No, he’s not. We’ll stop it.”

    Considering Strzok had just signed off the Russia investigation on July 31st, this looked like clear evidence Strzok intended to leverage the investigation to derail Trump’s campaign.

    But – unbelievably – Strzok claimed he couldn’t remember writing the text and claimed that it must have been his reaction to Trump’s media generated feud with gold star father Khizr Khan that ensued toward the end of the 2016 Democrat Convention.

    Strzok testified “I don’t recall writing that text,”

    click through for the rest.

    http://www.americanpatriotdaily.com/featured/anti-trump-fbi-agent-told-a-huge-lie-that-could-land-him-in-prison/

    • There’s a quote from Richard Pipes (z”l), who recently passed away.
      I was very fond of the elegant old Professor.
      The cohort of Benzion Netanyahu and Bernard Lewis, all now of blessed memory. I’m grateful for their work and their progeny.

      Daniel Pipes wrote this obit of his Dad:
      “He Has Lived”: Richard Pipes, 1923-2018
      http://www.danielpipes.org/18366/he-has-lived-richard-pipes-1923-to-2018

      Prof. Pipes was tough on commies, a Neocon of the highest order. (The tag “neocon” has become an ethnic slur, I’m afraid. In fact some of the finest people – like the stellar Charles Krauthammer [z”l] – were the essence of fine, American neoconservatism.)

      Here’s more about the great Richard Pipes and Neoconservatives:

      The Center for Grassroots Oversight, Profile: Richard Pipes
      http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=richard_pipes

      • Thanks Yucki. I read Daniel Pipes “He Has Lived,” back in June. It was a wonderful account of his father’s life.
        Neocon, neoconservative etc. mean nothing to me. I have to look up the changing definitions and still I can’t keep them straight.

        Horizontal thinking: left wing, right wing – stuck in the nest.
        Vertical thinking: spread your wings and fly.

        I think of those that favor a totalitarian system. Bring on the revolution, they say. I think of Nancy Pelosi. What does she think would happen if she and her fellow travelers get their way? What would happen to their families? Would they be safe? Or would they have the same fate as the Romanovs. This is what I think about. Idiots. So silly. So dangerous.

        • It once described healthy conservatives who were firmly anti-USSR, pro-Reagan.

          “neocon” has become short-hand for joozz who run the world for joozz’s interests.

          “banksters”, “rothschilds”, warmongers, freemasons, 9/11, the Fed.
          They use the symbol ((( ))) and malaprop “goy” and “talmud”.
          Nonsense.
          ….
          That’s a trend that’s growing among conservative dummies. It’s ugly and twisted.

  43. Migrants Disembark in Sicily According to EU Sharing Plan (breitbart, Jul 16, 2018)
    https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/07/16/migrants-disembark-in-sicily-according-to-eu-sharing-plan/

    “About 400 migrants aboard two border patrol ships disembarked in a Sicilian port Monday after a half-dozen European countries promised to take some of them in rather than leave Italy alone to process their asylum claims.

    Italy’s hard-line, anti-migrant government had kept the two military ships from docking at Pozzallo for two days until other countries stepped up in the latest standoff over migrant rescues.

    Early Monday, the ships came into port and disembarked their passengers, who were seen being screened at dawn. The women and children had already come ashore.

    Doctors at the scene said one of the men was hospitalized in critical condition with pneumonia, while the others were in generally good health but suffering from scabies.

    On Sunday, Germany, Spain and Portugal each agreed to respectively accept 50 of the migrants, following similar offers by France and Malta. They were responding to a request by the Italian premier, who sent individual letters to each EU member asking for a firm gesture of solidarity.

    But not everyone agreed. The Czech Republic rebuffed the appeal and called the distribution plan a “road to hell” that would just encourage more human traffickers.

    Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who has spearheaded Italy’s tough line on migration, said the redistribution deal was just a temporary solution and that the ultimate goal is for Libya to be considered a safe enough haven for migrants to be returned. Italy is also pushing for the EU to fund “hotspots” in migrants’ home countries where asylum bids can be processed.

    Salvini said the EU has a “bipolar” relationship with Libya, providing training and boats to beef up its coast guard, but then refusing to consider it a safe port where migrants can be brought back.

    “What is prohibited today can be normalized tomorrow,” he said of Libya’s status as a safe haven. “The European Union should convince itself that this is the only way to get out of this problem.”

    International law requires those rescued at sea to be brought to a safe port; humanitarian groups say Libya hardly constitutes that, given widespread torture and abuse reported by migrants in Libyan detention centers.

    Asked about the issue Monday, European Commission spokeswoman Natasha Bertaud repeated that no European ship participating in a rescue mission can return migrants to Libya “because we don’t consider it a secure country.”

    The European Commission welcomed the fact that the two ships had disembarked their passengers and that six EU countries had stepped forward, but said such “ad hoc solutions cannot be sustainable in the long term,” a spokesman said…”

  44. Most Brits Say Police Have Lost Control, Blame Political Correctness (breitbart, Jul 16, 2018)
    https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/07/16/most-brits-say-police-have-lost-control-blame-political-correctness/

    “Over half of people in the United Kingdom believe the police have lost control of the streets, a shock poll commissioned by a national newspaper has revealed.

    The survey shows that 57 percent of respondents think the control of whole areas has been surrendered by officers to criminals who have lost the fear of being brought to justice.

    And as a crime wave sweeps the nation, most dramatically in London, almost a quarter of people asked in the Daily Mail poll do not feel safe to walk around their neighbourhood at night, the poll revealed.

    It also showed that 51 percent of people questioned who had been a victim of crime in the past two years claim officers did not bother visiting their home and 30 percent were told to find evidence themselves.

    Furthermore, 57 percent of respondents felt officers now do not treat crimes such as burglary with the seriousness they deserve and more than three quarters want to see more officers on the streets.

    And a majority of people – 54 percent – said political correctness was contributing to the sharply rising murder rate in large towns and cities…”

  45. British Victim of Pakistani Rape Gang Trafficked to Morocco for Prostitution (breitbart, Jul 16, 2018)
    https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/07/16/british-victim-of-pakistani-rape-gang-trafficked-to-morocco-for-prostitution/

    “A victim of a Pakistani rape gang has said that at one point during her abuse, she was trafficked to the North African country of Morocco where she was prostituted and repeatedly raped.

    Writing in her book No Way Out, ‘Kate Elysia’ — a pseudonym — also revealed that she was sexually abused by more than 70 men from Birmingham and the West Midlands for years, but only two rapists were ever convicted, reports BirminghamLive.

    Kate wrote that she had been living in sheltered accommodation and studying for her A-Levels (final school examinations) when she was first raped by ‘Farooq’ (also a pseudonym).

    “I was 18 the first time I was raped. I was 18 when I was serially gang-raped. I was 18 when I was trafficked all over England and given to many men, sometimes as many as ten in one night,” she said.

    In her novel, Kate revealed she once had been trafficked to Morocco where she was kept in an apartment in Marrakesh — encountering another girl trafficked for sex “not more than 15” — and was raped by multiple men…”

  46. City reviews ‘no cotton’ rule barring Muslim kids from pools (abcnews, Jul 16, 2018)
    https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/city-reviews-cotton-rule-barring-muslim-kids-pools-56622544

    “Delaware’s biggest city is reviewing its rules after Muslim children were told to stay out of a municipal pool because of their clothing.

    The News Journal reports that officials with the Wilmington mayor’s office and parks and recreation department will meet Monday to discuss how to avoid similar situations in the future.

    Mayor Mike Purzycki said in a statement Saturday that the city was wrong to use a vaguely-worded policy to bar Muslim kids wearing cotton shirts, shorts and headscarves from the pool.

    City officials justified the exclusion citing a rule against wearing cotton in the water, saying it’s a safety risk and strains filtration systems.

    But Tahsiyn Ismaa’eel, who brought Muslim campers to the pool, said no such rule was posted, and it was enforced in a discriminatory way.”

      • I mean the pool can have them
        I honestly didn’t do the thing about cotton, until I got asked to leave a pool
        Cotton messes up the filters and reduces the effectiveness of chlorine

        • I know.
          I thought it was common knowledge. Some people wanted to swim with a T-shirt as protection against the sun. They were always stopped. There are signs everywhere.

  48. The Forgotten II: The Strange Case of the Missing Russians
    By Andrew Thomas

    In the 2004 science fiction movie, “The Forgotten”, a planeload of children is kidnapped in midair by evil aliens. The aliens, in league with US intelligence agencies, make everyone forget the children ever existed. This works on all except for one mother, played by Julianne Moore, who desperately tries to find out what is happening.

    Now we switch to the sequel, The Strange Case of the Missing Russians. Try to remember, if you can, that there once were thirteen alleged Russian trolls and three Russian companies, headed by Concord Management and Consulting, LLC, that were indicted by the Mueller investigation team for conspiring to wage “information warfare” on the US presidential election in 2016.

    Wait a minute, you might say. Aren’t those guys the same as the twelve Russian officials that Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein just announced have been indicted for hacking into Clinton campaign servers? Nope. It’s a confusion any low information casual observer (i.e., most of the US population) might have. In this hand we have thirteen Russian trolls, and poof, they’re gone. In the other hand, twelve Russian hackers magically appear in their place.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/07/the_forgotten_ii_the_strange_case_of_the_missing_russians.html