June 7, 2018
By Mushtaq Yusufzai and Sophora Smith
Peshawar, Pakistan — The Afghan Taliban announced a three-day cease-fire Saturday in an unprecedented move to put fighting on hold during the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of Ramadan.
The announcement came days after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani announced that government troops would observe a week-long cease-fire with the militant group beginning on 27 Ramadan, or June 12 on the Western calendar, and lasting through June 19. A statement from the president's office said the cease-fire does not include al Qaeda or the Islamic State.
Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Taliban commanders have directed their fighters to refrain from attacking the Afghan security forces for three days, but said foreign forces remained a target.
The group warned that if they come under attack they would retaliate, a Taliban military commander told NBC News. The commander spoke on the condition of anonymity because he is not allowed to speak to the media....
The ceasefire was to last until June 19, 2018. The USA broke the cease fire and the men killed in drone strikes were not al Qaeda or Daesh. The men killed were Taliban. The Taliban were in talks with the Afghan government.
The domestic problems in the USA should not deter from realizing illegal military actions on foreign soil. I do believe in breaking the ceasefire the USA has illegally killed others. Who ordered this?
Peace does not have a chance with the continued USA presence in Afghanistan.
June 15, 2018
By Iftikhar Firdous
The elusive chief of outlawed (click here) Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has reportedly been killed in a US drone strike in northeastern Afghanistan, according to security and intelligence sources.
Maulana Fazlullah, who was named TTP chief after the death of Hakimullah Mehsud in a drone strike in November 2013, is said to have been killed in the drone strike in Kunar province of Afghanistan.
The drone strike that took place in the Nur Gul Kalay village of Dangam district on June 13 also killed four other TTP commanders who have been identified as Abu Bakar, Umar, Imran and Sajid....
Maulana Fazlullah was a very bad man, but, if he was alive before the decision of a ceasefire that then commenced he should have been alive at the end of the ceasefire. The USA is exhibiting lack of restraint and unable to abide by an official ceasefire invoked by the country inviting the USA military, namely Afghanistan. These are high holy days and the trust between the USA military and Afghanistan should never be in jeopardy as it is today.
November 11, 2013
By Nicholas Schmidle
...Fazlullah (click here) was an inspired choice, by the Taliban’s warped standards. He is young and ruthless, and has taken responsibility for a panoply of barbaric acts over the years: floggings, suicide bombings, even the attempted assassination of Malala Yousafzai, a teen-age girl who survived gunshots to the head and neck, and who has become an even more driven advocate for girls’ education. (She recently addressed the United Nations and appeared on “The Daily Show.”) Last summer, his men kidnapped and beheaded seventeen Pakistani soldiers....
There are lots of bad men in the Taliban. But, Afghanistan has engaged them for some time now. This is a ceasefire that could have been accomplished. Now, there will be less trust rather than more. Do evil men stand trial after a peace is achieved? Of course, they do. There is no excuse for this.
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Trump and Sessions are stuck with the fact children are meaningless to a family. The circumstances are getting worse.
THE BIBLE DOES NOT CONDONE GENOCIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the fascism of White Supremacists. Make no mistake, this level of cruelty and mental distress of children are the hallmarks of White Supremacists that divide themselves away from THE OTHER. They don't see a face other than Caucasian as a person.
This is wrong, it is cruelty and torture and it has to be stopped now. This is escalating out of control and the next question is, "Where did those children go that came here from Mexico?"
June 14, 2018
By Adam Edelman
Attorney General Jeff Sessions (click here) on Thursday offered a full-throated defense of the Trump administration's policy of separating children from their parents at the border, saying that having kids does not give migrants immunity from prosecution — and found justification for his policies in the Bible.
Sessions — who last month announced a "zero tolerance policy" to criminally prosecute people crossing the border illegally — made his latest remarks in a speech to law enforcement officers in Fort Wayne, Indiana, telling the group that the migrant families were to blame for their own break-ups and that his department's separation of families was not "unusual or unjustified."...
God does not make law in the United States of America. For Americans that practice religion, god is found in worship, not the US Congress.
This is simply more of the White Supremacist agenda.
April 20, 2017
“This is not normal,” (click here) James B. Comey said this last week after President Trump threatened him with jail. (click here)
If I had a nickel for every time somebody said that, I could repay the national debt. There is so much abnormality from this president that we’re numb.
I’d like to pause, therefore, to reflect on just one thing the president did this last week that, amid Russian hookers and his assaults on truth, law and decency, got little attention: his talk of immigrants “breeding” in America’s sanctuary cities.
“There is a Revolution going on in California. Soooo many Sanctuary areas want OUT of this ridiculous, crime infested & breeding concept,” the president tweeted on Tuesday.
What could he mean? Immigrants are breeding thoroughbred horses? Prize- winning cattle?
Or perhaps Trump was using “breeding” in the sense now popular among white supremacists?
Hmm. I wonder . . .
The image of Latinos breeding makes them not quite human, parasites among a host people, an enemy within given sanctuary when they should be cast out. The aliens among us are not like us, but, unfairly protected, they breed and bring danger.
Where have I heard this before? Maybe it was 1919: “Through thousands of years of the closest kind of inbreeding, Jews in general have maintained their race. . . . Thus comes the fact that there lives amongst us a non-German, alien race which neither wishes nor is able to sacrifice its racial character or to deny its feeling, thinking and striving. Nevertheless, it possesses all the political rights we do.”
Adolf Hitler continued, recommending “elimination of the privileges of the Jews” and eventually “the irrevocable removal of the Jews in general. For both these ends a government of national strength, not of national weakness, is necessary.”
The notion later became a staple of Nazi propaganda. From 1944 : “Jewry is the product of the inbreeding of asocial, criminal, sick, degenerate, and rejected elements. . . . [It] leads a rootless, parasitic life at the expense of the host peoples. Its current homeland is largely the criminal neighborhoods of the great cities of the world.”...
...Trump appointee Carl Higbie resigned after the publishing of his earlier complaints that black women think “breeding is a form of government employment.”
This is the fascism of White Supremacists. Make no mistake, this level of cruelty and mental distress of children are the hallmarks of White Supremacists that divide themselves away from THE OTHER. They don't see a face other than Caucasian as a person.
This is wrong, it is cruelty and torture and it has to be stopped now. This is escalating out of control and the next question is, "Where did those children go that came here from Mexico?"
June 14, 2018
By Adam Edelman
Attorney General Jeff Sessions (click here) on Thursday offered a full-throated defense of the Trump administration's policy of separating children from their parents at the border, saying that having kids does not give migrants immunity from prosecution — and found justification for his policies in the Bible.
Sessions — who last month announced a "zero tolerance policy" to criminally prosecute people crossing the border illegally — made his latest remarks in a speech to law enforcement officers in Fort Wayne, Indiana, telling the group that the migrant families were to blame for their own break-ups and that his department's separation of families was not "unusual or unjustified."...
God does not make law in the United States of America. For Americans that practice religion, god is found in worship, not the US Congress.
This is simply more of the White Supremacist agenda.
April 20, 2017
“This is not normal,” (click here) James B. Comey said this last week after President Trump threatened him with jail. (click here)
If I had a nickel for every time somebody said that, I could repay the national debt. There is so much abnormality from this president that we’re numb.
I’d like to pause, therefore, to reflect on just one thing the president did this last week that, amid Russian hookers and his assaults on truth, law and decency, got little attention: his talk of immigrants “breeding” in America’s sanctuary cities.
“There is a Revolution going on in California. Soooo many Sanctuary areas want OUT of this ridiculous, crime infested & breeding concept,” the president tweeted on Tuesday.
What could he mean? Immigrants are breeding thoroughbred horses? Prize- winning cattle?
Or perhaps Trump was using “breeding” in the sense now popular among white supremacists?
Hmm. I wonder . . .
The image of Latinos breeding makes them not quite human, parasites among a host people, an enemy within given sanctuary when they should be cast out. The aliens among us are not like us, but, unfairly protected, they breed and bring danger.
Where have I heard this before? Maybe it was 1919: “Through thousands of years of the closest kind of inbreeding, Jews in general have maintained their race. . . . Thus comes the fact that there lives amongst us a non-German, alien race which neither wishes nor is able to sacrifice its racial character or to deny its feeling, thinking and striving. Nevertheless, it possesses all the political rights we do.”
Adolf Hitler continued, recommending “elimination of the privileges of the Jews” and eventually “the irrevocable removal of the Jews in general. For both these ends a government of national strength, not of national weakness, is necessary.”
The notion later became a staple of Nazi propaganda. From 1944 : “Jewry is the product of the inbreeding of asocial, criminal, sick, degenerate, and rejected elements. . . . [It] leads a rootless, parasitic life at the expense of the host peoples. Its current homeland is largely the criminal neighborhoods of the great cities of the world.”...
...Trump appointee Carl Higbie resigned after the publishing of his earlier complaints that black women think “breeding is a form of government employment.”
Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) has spoken of immigration policy as “allowing any kind of vagrant, or animal . . . to come in.”
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), a Trump ally, described the screening of immigrants: “You get the pick of the litter and you got yourself a pretty good bird dog.
Dan Stein, the president of the anti- immigrant Federation for American Immigration Reform, famously said immigrants are conducting “competitive breeding” to dilute the white majority.
White nationalist Richard Spencer’s National Policy Institute frets about white “displacement by the subject race through differential fertility rates and interracial breeding.”
Alex Jones’s Infowars, which Trump has also celebrated, has published headlines saying things such as “Top Imam: Muslim Migrants Should Breed With Europeans to ‘Conquer Their Countries.’ ”
Dan Stein, the president of the anti- immigrant Federation for American Immigration Reform, famously said immigrants are conducting “competitive breeding” to dilute the white majority.
White nationalist Richard Spencer’s National Policy Institute frets about white “displacement by the subject race through differential fertility rates and interracial breeding.”
Alex Jones’s Infowars, which Trump has also celebrated, has published headlines saying things such as “Top Imam: Muslim Migrants Should Breed With Europeans to ‘Conquer Their Countries.’ ”
After Russia built the coffin and Trump asked Russia to find emails, Comey placed the last nail.
By Emily L. Judd
In his upcoming book, (click here) former FBI director James Comey publicly apologized to Secretary Hillary Clinton and her supporters for how he handled the FBI's investigation of her email use. Clinton’s 2016 campaign chair, John Podesta, speaking at a Poynter lecture on April 12, rejected the apology.
In an excerpt obtained by ABC News Comey wrote, “I'm sorry that I couldn't do a better job explaining to her [Hillary Clinton] and her supporters why I made the decisions I made.” Just days before the 2016 election, Comey publicly disclosed the FBI had reopened the probe into Clinton’s email use as secretary of state. It was a decision Clinton and her campaign staff believe contributed to the Trump victory.
Podesta said he doesn’t accept Comey’s apology and that he believes Comey put his reputation first and the reputation of the FBI second, and both of these before policy. He discussed how Comey’s actions affected the election during a talk at William L. Harkness Hall.
“We went into election night feeling not overconfident, but we thought we were going to prevail. The course of the previous week was tumultuous. Comey’s decision to reopen the email investigation to us was a profound error of judgment,” Podesta said.
After Comey’s announcement, the Clinton campaign watched the margin between the candidates in the polls become closer, according to Podesta. However the campaign’s first indication of a potential loss was during election night when results came in from the state of Florida....
The defaming of Secretary Hillary Clinton by James Comey, is not about the FBI or it's practices and policies; it is about insubordination and we already knew that. This report from Justice only proves those that realized what happened, including John Podesta, were right all along.
Comey violated Justice Department protocol. He undermined the Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch when seeking insight to the path of the Clinton investigation regarding Anthony Weiner's laptop. Comey refused the counsel of AG Lynch and acted outside of department policy.
I have never seen a candidate work so hard in a campaign. The exception could be US Senator Sanders and his wife. But, I can honestly say, Hillary Clinton never worked so hard to keep up with lies and half truths. She had already sat in a congressional meeting room and was the sole person answering questions to a hostile Republican committee. I think it was 8 hours, yes? (click here)
The misogyny that occurred during her 2018 campaign was daunting. Senator Sanders never had to deal with misogyny. It was truly astounding to realize the Former Secretary Clinton had enormously high approval ratings coming out of the White House after one term in office. Then to see it hacked away at with far less than truthful accusations and anti-woman sentiment meant there were powers at work far greater than FOX News. However, I am confident FOX News carried messages taken from the internet and designed by Russians. Whether or not anyone at FOX was in contact with Russians is a questioned yet to be answered.
When Former Director Comey made the announcement about Anthony Weiner's laptop there was a precipitous drop in momentum for the Democrats and not just Hillary Clinton. The Down Ballot was effected and I knew Secretary Clinton would not make it into the White House. When the shift for some candidates in the down ballot changed, it was a reflection of the sentiment of that electorate. The numbers weren't adding up.
I do not believe Former Director Comey was playing power politics from the office in the FBI. I would like to understand why he did what he did after being counseled by the AG with Justice Department protocol staring him in the face. Loretta Lynch did not play favorites, but, Director Comey was influenced by a duty alien to most agents and administration in the department. Basically, I don't get it. Who pressured him into reporting the Weiner laptop? Nothing I reason makes sense.
With this report, both Former Director Comey and the department know there is a reason for what occurred and it was wrong!
June 14, 2018
By Matt Apuzzo, Nicholas Fandos and Charlie Savage
Washington - The former F.B.I. director James B. Comey (click here) was “insubordinate” in his handling of the investigation of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election, a critical Justice Department report concluded on Thursday.
But the report, by the department’s inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, does not challenge the decision not to prosecute Mrs. Clinton. Nor does it conclude that political bias at the F.B.I. influenced that decision, the officials said.
“We found no evidence that the conclusions by department prosecutors were affected by bias or other improper considerations,” the report said. “Rather, we concluded that they were based on the prosecutor’s assessment of facts, the law, and past department practice.”...
Paul Ryan must immediately request the evidence that came to this decision by the New York Attorney General and file impeachment proceedings.
THIS IS ABOUT THE COUNTRY and the rule of law. There is no exception or oversight needed, this is a filing by a State and must be honored.
The words are PERSISTENTLY ILLEGAL. This was not an oops.
The words are PERSISTENTLY ILLEGAL. This was not an oops.
By Lachlan Markay
Barbara Underwood, the state's acting attorney general, alleged a widespread campaign of misuse of charitable resources in the service of Trump’s political efforts in a complaint filed in New York’s supreme court on Thursday. Her office is now seeking $2.8 million in penalties, which Trump said on Wednesday he would refuse to pay....
June 6, 2017
By Dan Alexander
Like Autumn Leaves; (click here) sponsored Cadillacs, Ferraris and Maseratis descend on the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, New York, in September for the Eric Trump Foundation golf invitational. Year after year, the formula is consistent: 18 holes of perfectly trimmed fairways with a dose of Trumpian tackiness, including Hooters waitresses and cigar spreads, followed by a clubhouse dinner, dates encouraged. The crowd leans toward real estate insiders, family friends and C-list celebrities, such as former baseball slugger Darryl Strawberry and reality housewife (and bankruptcy-fraud felon) Teresa Giudice....
The public and large money donors were deceived in regard to the monies raised to fight childhood cancer. At the very least it is called fraud.
If the US House and it's Republican majority do not impeach, they are supporting corruption and violating the law itself.
I understand there is growing evidence to support the Emoluments Clause (click here) as well.
June 29, 2017
By Dan Alexander
...Katrina Kaupp, (click here) who served on the board of directors at the Eric Trump Foundation in 2010 and 2011, also remembers Donald Trump insisting the charity start paying its own way, despite Eric's public claims to the contrary. "We did have to cover the expenses," she says. "The charity had grown so much that the Trump Organization couldn't absorb all of those costs anymore." The Trump Organization declined to answer detailed questions about the payments. But it seems that for the future president, who Forbes estimates is worth $3.5 billion, a freebie to help his son directly fight kids' cancer took a backseat to revenue.
June 6, 2017
By Dan Alexander
Like Autumn Leaves; (click here) sponsored Cadillacs, Ferraris and Maseratis descend on the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, New York, in September for the Eric Trump Foundation golf invitational. Year after year, the formula is consistent: 18 holes of perfectly trimmed fairways with a dose of Trumpian tackiness, including Hooters waitresses and cigar spreads, followed by a clubhouse dinner, dates encouraged. The crowd leans toward real estate insiders, family friends and C-list celebrities, such as former baseball slugger Darryl Strawberry and reality housewife (and bankruptcy-fraud felon) Teresa Giudice....
The public and large money donors were deceived in regard to the monies raised to fight childhood cancer. At the very least it is called fraud.
If the US House and it's Republican majority do not impeach, they are supporting corruption and violating the law itself.
I understand there is growing evidence to support the Emoluments Clause (click here) as well.
June 29, 2017
By Dan Alexander
...Katrina Kaupp, (click here) who served on the board of directors at the Eric Trump Foundation in 2010 and 2011, also remembers Donald Trump insisting the charity start paying its own way, despite Eric's public claims to the contrary. "We did have to cover the expenses," she says. "The charity had grown so much that the Trump Organization couldn't absorb all of those costs anymore." The Trump Organization declined to answer detailed questions about the payments. But it seems that for the future president, who Forbes estimates is worth $3.5 billion, a freebie to help his son directly fight kids' cancer took a backseat to revenue.
"I saw that Eric was getting billed," Gillule adds. "I would always say, 'I can't believe that his dad is billing him for a charitable outing.' But that's what they wanted."
It's also very consistent. The Donald J. Trump Foundation famously acted like an arm of the overall business, using the charity's money to settle a Trump business lawsuit, make a political donation and even purchase expensive portraits of its namesake. Meanwhile, Trump businesses billed the Trump campaign, fueled by small outside donors, more than $11 million to use his properties, chefs and private aircraft....
Profound words from President Moon Jae-in.
...“There have been many analyses on the outcome of the summit but I think what’s most important was that the people of the world, including those in the United States, Japan and Koreans, have all been able to escape the threat of war, nuclear weapons and missiles,” Moon told US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ahead of a meeting between the two in Seoul....
He is correct. Not since the USA detonated two nuclear bombs in war have the weapons ever been used again.
I think that says something about the nature of leaders of nations. They don't want to kill in a way that can annihilate generations of families and destroy the promise the future has to offer with all nations of people surviving.
The words of President Jae-in reflects the strength of peace and every reason to pursue it.
He is correct. Not since the USA detonated two nuclear bombs in war have the weapons ever been used again.
I think that says something about the nature of leaders of nations. They don't want to kill in a way that can annihilate generations of families and destroy the promise the future has to offer with all nations of people surviving.
The words of President Jae-in reflects the strength of peace and every reason to pursue it.
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