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U.S. woman hostage raped by Islamic State leader before death: U.S. officials
Post Date: 2015-08-14 20:31:43 by buckeroo
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Kayla Mueller, the U.S. aid worker who died earlier this year while being held hostage by Islamic State militants, was raped repeatedly by the group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi while in captivity in Syria, U.S. officials said on Friday. The officials confirmed a report by ABC News, which said Mueller's family had been told by U.S. government officials that their daughter, who was 26 at the time of her death, had been sexually assaulted by al-Baghdadi. The officials spoke to Reuters on the condition of anonymity. The White House declined to comment. "We were told Kayla was tortured, that she was the property of al-Baghdadi. We were told that in June by the government," ...
Trump Should Warn GOP Elites That If They Purge Him, They’ll Regret It
Post Date: 2015-08-14 09:49:10 by nativist nationalist
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In the Cleveland debate, Donald Trump refused to commit to support whomever the Republican Party nominates in 2016. Trump would be wise to maintain his freedom of action. For there is a plot afoot in The Washington Post Conservative Club to purge Trump from the Republican Party before the primaries begin. “A political party has a right to … secure its borders,” asserts the Post’s George Will, “a duty to exclude interlopers.” Will wants The Donald “excommunicated” and locked out of all GOP debates until he kneels and takes a loyalty oath to the nominee. “Marginalizing Trump” carries no risk of “alienating a substantial Republican ...
Putin minister Lavrov labels Saudis "Fucking imbeciles"
Post Date: 2015-08-14 00:17:35 by Pericles
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It is a cringeworthy error that has been made by statesmen around the world. Now Russia’s foreign minister has been caught making excruciating remarks about his fellow diplomats while forgetting about the microphone in front of him. Sergei Lavrov was watching his Saudi Arabian counterpart, Adel al-Jubeir, speak at a press conference when he was heard to mutter a phrase that translates as “f***ing imbeciles”. www.upi.com/Top_News/Worl...ussian-FM-Lavrov-mutters- salty-language-during-press-conference-with-Saudi-counterpart/1251439476808/ MOSCOW, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov prompted a wave of social media buzz this week after being filmed ...
Reagan's Osama Connection: How he turned a jihadist into a terrorist kingpin
Post Date: 2015-08-13 20:02:57 by Pericles
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JUNE 10 2004 7:34 PM Reagan's Osama Connection How he turned a jihadist into a terrorist kingpin. By Fred Kaplan Earlier this week, I cited recently declassified documents to show that Ronald Reagan did indeed play a major role in ending the Cold War. Now it's time to note that a similar set of documents shows that Reagan also played a major role in bringing on the terrorist war that followed—specifically, in abetting the rise of Osama Bin Laden. Click for Full Text!
Emirates to Grab Longest-Flight Title With Panama Route
Post Date: 2015-08-13 14:13:48 by nativist nationalist
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Emirates is set to wrest the title of world’s longest airline route from Australia’s Qantas Airways Ltd. with a service between its Dubai hub and Panama City. The flight will traverse 13,821 kilometers (8,590 miles), according to the Great Circle Mapper website, outstripping Qantas’s Sydney-Dallas route by 17km. Emirates will use a Boeing Co. 777-200LR -- the longest-range jetliner -- on the service, which will take 17 hours and 35 minutes, it said Thursday. The longest-ever non-stop sector, operated by Singapore Airlines Ltd. to Newark, New Jersey, spanned 15,344km and took about 19 hours. The daily all- business-class service was halted in 2013 along with a 14,113km Los ...
70 years later, mother and daughter separated by Nazis reunite
Post Date: 2015-08-13 12:00:15 by nativist nationalist
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BERLIN — When Margot Bachmann began her search for her mother — from whom she was separated by the Nazi German government in 1944 — the odds looked slim that she would get solid facts, much less a reunion. Instead, thanks to the help of the International Tracing Service (ITS), the 70-year-old found her mother alive and well, age 91, in Italy. “I wanted to find out who my mother was, to see if we were alike, maybe find some photos and some information,” Bachmann said in an ITS press release. “I never dared to hope that I would be able to hold her in my arms. Now I’m overjoyed that she’s doing well and I got to meet her.” Bachmann’s mother, ...
Ann Coulter: “IMMIGRANT”–THE NEW N-WORD
Post Date: 2015-08-13 11:21:12 by nativist nationalist
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Americans have got to drop their weird verbal tic of inserting “illegal” into any discussion of immigration. After I pointed out on “Fox News” that the dispute between Sen. Rand Paul and Gov. Chris Christie over spying on “Americans” was entirely a problem of immigration, “Fox Insiders” put these two sentences together: “[Coulter] explained that halting illegal immigration would help solve other key issues such as the economy and national security. ‘Don’t make terrorists citizens through immigration, and we’ll have a lot less of a national security problem,’ Coulter said, pointing to the attacks at the Boston Marathon and in ...
Uzbekistan Airways to weigh passengers before boarding
Post Date: 2015-08-13 09:45:23 by misterwhite
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Uzbekistan's national carrier plans to weigh passengers with their hand luggage before boarding as part of a new ‘flight safety’ measure. Uzbekistan Airways passengers will be directed to a “special weighing machine” at the departure gate, to determine each person's average weight with their hand baggage. The airline said that individual passengers' weights would not be disclosed, and “full confidentiality of results is guaranteed”, with the weighing machine only categorising passengers by sex and into adult and child groups. “According to the rules of International Air Transport Association, airlines are obliged to carry out the regular ...
'Peace-loving aliens tried to save America from nuclear war,' claims moon mission astronaut Edgar Mitchell
Post Date: 2015-08-12 18:55:28 by cranky
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Apollo veteran says UFOs came in peace on a mission to stop humanity destroying itself The sixth man to walk on the surface of the moon has made the astonishing claim that aliens came to Earth to stop a nuclear war between America and Russia. Edgar Mitchell, a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission in 1971, told Mirror Online that top-ranking military sources spotted UFOs during weapons tests. The astronaut has been outspoken about his belief in aliens ever since he landed on the surface of the moon, becoming one of the most prominent figures in the worldwide UFO community. He told us military insiders had seen strange crafts flying over missile bases and the famous White ...
War Nerd: Make America Roman (Does Trump read Gary Brecher?)
Post Date: 2015-08-12 17:05:07 by Pericles
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eXile Classic / The War Nerd / September 6, 2002 War Nerd: Make America Roman By Gary Brecher Last column I asked readers to suggest wars that’d be more fun for the US to get involved in than Colombia. I got some great answers — and thanks everybody who wrote in — but when I looked into the options they suggested, I just got depressed. Because I realized that we’re not going to do any of these cool military adventures — and even if we did, it’d be for all the wrong reasons. Take my favorite reader’s suggestion: the US invades Saudi Arabia. I’ll call it “the Korshak Strategy” in honor of Stefan Korshak of Kiev, who explained the plan ...
Jeb Bush calls for 'no-fly zone' in Syria
Post Date: 2015-08-12 01:25:37 by A K A Stone
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Simi Valley, California (CNN)Jeb Bush, laying out his strategy to combat ISIS on Tuesday, called for establishing a no-fly zone over Syria, defeating President Bashar al-Assad's regime, and embedding U.S. troops with Iraqi forces, all the while expanding U.S. engagement across the globe. In a foreign policy address at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Bush invoked the former president's description of communism to label ISIS "the focus of evil in the modern world." The Republican presidential candidate also sharpened his attacks on President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for supporting the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq, a ...
First Mass-Produced Fuel Cell Vehicle Toyota Mirai Arrives In Europe, Ahead Of September Launch
Post Date: 2015-08-11 21:14:04 by Operation 40
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The world’s first mass produced fuel cell vehicle, the Toyota Mirai, has reached Europe in production guise. The first production Toyota Mirai models have officially landed this weekend in Europe, and more specifically in Bristol, UK and Zeebrugge, Belgium, ahead of the official launch in September. The new hydrogen fuel cell EV will be offered in the UK, Germany and Denmark, where the hydrogen fuel supply and retail infrastructure is already being developed. The limited number of cars available in Britain is already sold-out, mostly by businesses and corporate customers. Karl Schlicht, Executive Vice President Toyota Europe, said: “This marks the debut of a new age for clean ...
China Rattles Markets With Yuan Devaluation
Post Date: 2015-08-11 12:13:37 by nativist nationalist
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China devalued the yuan in a move that rippled through global markets, as policy makers stepped up efforts to support exporters and boost the role of market pricing in Asia’s largest economy. The central bank cut its daily reference rate by 1.9 percent, triggering the yuan’s biggest one-day drop since China ended a dual-currency system in January 1994. The People’s Bank of China called the change a one-time adjustment and said its fixing will become more aligned with supply and demand. The announcement suggests policy makers are now placing a greater emphasis on efforts to combat the deepest economic slowdown since 1990 and reduce the government’s grip on the ...
Russia's Lavrov says U.S. must work with Assad to fight Islamic State
Post Date: 2015-08-09 15:56:11 by buckeroo
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the United States should cooperate with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to fight Islamic State and that this required an international coalition uniting all those for whom the jihadists are "a common enemy". Washington currently heads a coalition conducting air strikes on Islamic State in Syria and Iraq and is cooperating with Turkey to provide air cover for rebels inside Syria. But Moscow has criticized the United States for not working in sync with Syria, an ally of Russia. In comments to Russia's state TV published by his ministry on Sunday, Lavrov recounted two meetings with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry amid the recent ...
Islamic State is winning, America must soon use its one remaining option
Post Date: 2015-08-09 01:50:51 by nativist nationalist
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Three of the U.S. national government’s self-imposed and surely lethal handicaps in dealing with the Islamist threat are (a) a fixation on looking at the problem in a state-by-state manner; that is, what do we do in Iraq? what do we do in Afghanistan? what do we do in Libya? etc.; (b) an enduring but long-disproved assumption that in its war with Islam the West has time its side; and (c) an addiction to an unwise, unnecessary, and bankrupting interventionism that is the main motivator of the international Islamist movement, a phenomenon which was fathered and is still nurtured by the West’s so-called “allies and friends,” Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, etc. By forming and ...
Sweden: The Defense that Disappeared
Post Date: 2015-08-08 18:00:38 by Tooconservative
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According to a 2013 statement by Sweden's Supreme Commander Sverker Göransson, Sweden can, at best and in five years, defend itself in one place for one week."One needs to always be prepared to defend the nation's capital, vital infrastructure, power supply and telecommunications, important airports, import of basic necessities and military reinforcements. ... [Sweden] today does not have that capability. ... The consensus had been that no state in Europe would ever attack another state. But someone just had, and it wasn't just anybody. It was Russia." — Wilhelm Agrell, military historian."The idea of defending Sweden as the most important thing was ...
Russia incinerates contraband food
Post Date: 2015-08-07 13:09:43 by Tooconservative
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One year into its embargo on western food products, Russia has launched a controversial campaign to destroy all contraband meat, dairy and produce, using on-the-spot incinerators, dump trucks, rollers and meat grinders. On Thursday, three federal agencies began confiscating and burning hundreds of tonnes of illicit cheese, fruit and other goods, acting on a decree signed by Vladimir Putin. Incinerators to destroy the food have been placed at Russian border points stretching from Kaliningrad in the west to St Petersburg in the north and Altai in the east. By mid-afternoon on Thursday, Russia’s agricultural watchdog announced that it had already destroyed 55 tonnes of peaches, ...
National Data, By Edwin S. Rubenstein | VOX’s Matthews Wrong, Sanders (And Santorum) Right—Immigration Hurts American Workers
Post Date: 2015-08-06 23:59:33 by nativist nationalist
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It’s very good news that GOP presidential contender Rick Santorum repeated in the “undercard” debate this evening that he wants to reduce legal immigration by 25 percent to benefit American workers. Paradoxically, from the other side of the political spectrum, Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is also aware of this labor market argument. Asked by Vox.com’s Ezra Klein about an “open borders” policy for the U.S., Sanders shot back: Open borders? No, that’s a Koch brothers proposal. That’s a right-wing proposal, which says essentially there is no United States…It would make everybody in America poorer —you’re doing away ...
70 years ago, Hiroshima was nuked by a homosexual airplane
Post Date: 2015-08-06 12:14:16 by Willie Green
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Residents of the Japanese metropolis of Hiroshima on Thursday solemnly marked the seventieth anniversary of the atomic bomb assault on the town throughout World Warfare II. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe used the event to name for worldwide nuclear disarmament. Bells tolled, hundreds bowed their heads in prayer and doves have been launched into the sky, at a ceremony attended by 40,000 individuals, together with representatives of greater than 100 nations. “Seventy years on I need to reemphasize the need of world peace,” Abe stated in his speech, based on a , including that the bomb had not solely killed hundreds of individuals in Hiroshima but in addition brought on ...
Saudi Arabia may go broke before the US oil industry buckles
Post Date: 2015-08-06 12:13:39 by nativist nationalist
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It is too late for OPEC to stop the shale revolution. The cartel faces the prospect of surging US output whenever oil prices rise > If the oil futures market is correct, Saudi Arabia will start running into trouble within two years. It will be in existential crisis by the end of the decade. The contract price of US crude oil for delivery in December 2020 is currently $62.05, implying a drastic change in the economic landscape for the Middle East and the petro-rentier states. The Saudis took a huge gamble last November when they stopped supporting prices and opted instead to flood the market and drive out rivals, boosting their own output to 10.6m barrels a day (b/d) into the teeth of ...
Obama admits some unfrozen Iran cash will fund terror
Post Date: 2015-08-05 15:17:20 by nativist nationalist
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Washington (AFP) - President Barack Obama acknowledged Wednesday that Iran might use cash coming its way under sanctions relief to fund "terrorist organizations" but argued this is preferable to allowing it to develop nuclear arms. "The truth is, that Iran has always found a way to fund these efforts," Obama said, in a speech to defend the Iran nuclear deal. "And whatever benefit Iran may claim from sanctions relief pales in comparison to the danger it could pose with a nuclear weapon." Poster Comment:The Ayatollahs are living up to WC Field's maxim; "Never give a sucker an even break."
Malaysia confirms plane debris is from Flight MH370
Post Date: 2015-08-05 15:12:52 by GrandIsland
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak confirmed on early on Thursday that a Boeing 777 wing segment discovered in the Indian Ocean island of Reunion is from the missing Flight MH370, the first real breakthrough in the search for the plane that disappeared 17 months ago. "The international team of experts have conclusively confirmed that the aircraft debris found on Reunion Island is indeed from MH370," Najib said in a televised statement. Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared in March last year enroute from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew on board. Poster Comment:And just how many conspiracy nuts feel a bit stupid?
Slovak Leader Tried To Outdo the Nazis
Post Date: 2015-08-05 15:02:41 by nativist nationalist
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To the Editor: Prof. Thaddeus V. Gromada (letter, Sept. 1) took exception to your description of Karol Sidor, the Catholic Slovak Nationalist leader, as a Nazi collaborator. I was born in Czechoslovakia and lived in Bardejov, Slovakia, until the deportations of 1942. I am the sole survivor of the more than 100 members of my family deported by the Slovak Government to the Auschwitz and Treblinka camps. The parliament of this Slovak Government was the only parliament in Europe that voted for the expulsion of the Jews and paid the Germans 500 marks for each Jew deported, providing they never be returned. Karol Sidor was a founder of this regime and also served and represented it. He was as ...
In Zimbabwe, We Don’t Cry for Lions
Post Date: 2015-08-05 14:53:06 by Pericles
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In Zimbabwe, We Don’t Cry for Lions By GOODWELL NZOU AUG. 4, 2015 Winston-Salem, N.C. — MY mind was absorbed by the biochemistry of gene editing when the text messages and Facebook posts distracted me. So sorry about Cecil. Did Cecil live near your place in Zimbabwe? Cecil who? I wondered. When I turned on the news and discovered that the messages were about a lion killed by an American dentist, the village boy inside me instinctively cheered: One lion fewer to menace families like mine. My excitement was doused when I realized that the lion killer was being painted as the villain. I faced the starkest cultural contradiction I’d experienced during my five years ...
Center For Immigration Studies’ Jerry Kammer Attacks Coulter Book As “Crude Propaganda”…Wait, What?
Post Date: 2015-08-05 14:30:16 by nativist nationalist
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Ann Coulter’s Adios America! has been the bestselling immigration restriction book in decades. The presidential frontrunner for the GOP nomination credits it for informing his stance on immigration. Yet Jerry Kammer, [Email him ] a Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies Beltway restrictionist think tank, calls it a “work of crude propaganda, a mix of selective truths, exaggeration and falsehood, caricature and conspiracy theory” [Immigration: What Ann Coulter Gets Wrong, Real Clear Policy, July 16, 2015]. Why? Much of Kammer’s review is indistinguishable from a Leftist Open Borders rant. After Coulter accurately reports extraordinary crimes in Mexico, Kammer ...
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