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Saturday, July 2, 2016
"Elite K-8 school teaches white students they’re born racist"
NY Post: An elite Manhattan school is teaching white students as young as 6 that they’re born racist and should feel guilty benefiting from “white privilege,” while heaping praise and cupcakes on their black peers.
Administrators at the Bank Street School for Children on the Upper West Side claim it’s a novel approach to fighting discrimination, and that several other private New York schools are doing it, but even liberal parents aren’t buying it.
They complain the K-8 school of 430 kids is separating whites in classes where they’re made to feel awful about their “whiteness,” and all the “kids of color” in other rooms where they’re taught to feel proud about their race and are rewarded with treats and other privileges.
“Ever since Ferguson, the school has been increasing anti-white propaganda in its curriculum,” said a parent who requested anonymity because he has children currently enrolled in the school.
Administrators at the Bank Street School for Children on the Upper West Side claim it’s a novel approach to fighting discrimination, and that several other private New York schools are doing it, but even liberal parents aren’t buying it.
They complain the K-8 school of 430 kids is separating whites in classes where they’re made to feel awful about their “whiteness,” and all the “kids of color” in other rooms where they’re taught to feel proud about their race and are rewarded with treats and other privileges.
“Ever since Ferguson, the school has been increasing anti-white propaganda in its curriculum,” said a parent who requested anonymity because he has children currently enrolled in the school.
"Clinton sought secret info on EU bailout plans as son-in-law's doomed hedge fund gambled on Greece"
Fox News: Hedge fund manager Marc Mezvinsky had friends in high places when he bet big on a Greek economic recovery, but even the keen interest of his mother-in-law, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, wasn't enough to spare him and his investors from financial tragedy.
In 2012, Mezvinski, the husband of Chelsea Clinton, created a $325 million basket of offshore funds under the Eaglevale Partners banner through a special arrangement with investment bank Goldman Sachs. The funds have lost tens of millions of dollars predicting that bailouts of the Greek banking system would pump up the value of the country’s distressed bonds. One fund, exclusively dedicated to Greek debt, suffered near-total losses.
Clinton stepped down as secretary of state in 2013 to run for president. But newly released emails from 2012 show that she and Clinton Foundation consultant, Sidney Blumenthal, shared classified information about how German leadership viewed the prospects for a Greek bailout. Clinton also shared “protected” State Department information about Greek bonds with her husband at the same time that her son-in-law aimed his hedge fund at Greece.
That America’s top diplomat kept a sharp eye on intelligence assessing the chances of a bailout of the Greek central bank is not a problem. However, sharing such sensitive information with friends and family would have been highly improper. Federal regulations prohibit the use of nonpublic information to further private interests or the interests of others. The mere perception of a conflict of interest is unacceptable. (lots more)
In 2012, Mezvinski, the husband of Chelsea Clinton, created a $325 million basket of offshore funds under the Eaglevale Partners banner through a special arrangement with investment bank Goldman Sachs. The funds have lost tens of millions of dollars predicting that bailouts of the Greek banking system would pump up the value of the country’s distressed bonds. One fund, exclusively dedicated to Greek debt, suffered near-total losses.
Clinton stepped down as secretary of state in 2013 to run for president. But newly released emails from 2012 show that she and Clinton Foundation consultant, Sidney Blumenthal, shared classified information about how German leadership viewed the prospects for a Greek bailout. Clinton also shared “protected” State Department information about Greek bonds with her husband at the same time that her son-in-law aimed his hedge fund at Greece.
That America’s top diplomat kept a sharp eye on intelligence assessing the chances of a bailout of the Greek central bank is not a problem. However, sharing such sensitive information with friends and family would have been highly improper. Federal regulations prohibit the use of nonpublic information to further private interests or the interests of others. The mere perception of a conflict of interest is unacceptable. (lots more)
"Court OKs trial for girl who texted boyfriend urging suicide"
AP: A teenager who sent her boyfriend dozens of text messages encouraging him to take his own life and told him to "get back in" a truck filled with carbon monoxide fumes must stand trial for involuntary manslaughter, the state's highest court ruled Friday.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled Friday that a grand jury had probable cause to indict Michelle Carter, then 17, in the 2014 death of Carter Roy III, 18.
Carter's lawyer had argued that her texts were free speech protected by the First Amendment and didn't cause Roy to kill himself.
But the court, in a strongly worded decision, said the grand jury heard evidence suggesting that Carter engaged in a "systematic campaign of coercion" that targeted Roy's insecurities and that her instruction to "get back in" his truck in the final moments of his life was a "direct, causal link" to his death.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled Friday that a grand jury had probable cause to indict Michelle Carter, then 17, in the 2014 death of Carter Roy III, 18.
Carter's lawyer had argued that her texts were free speech protected by the First Amendment and didn't cause Roy to kill himself.
But the court, in a strongly worded decision, said the grand jury heard evidence suggesting that Carter engaged in a "systematic campaign of coercion" that targeted Roy's insecurities and that her instruction to "get back in" his truck in the final moments of his life was a "direct, causal link" to his death.
"In sum, we conclude that there was probable cause to show that the coercive quality of the defendant's verbal conduct overwhelmed whatever willpower the eighteen year old victim had to cope with his depression, and that but for the defendant's admonishments, pressure, and instructions, the victim would not have gotten back into the truck and poisoned himself to death," Justice Robert Cordy wrote for the court in the unanimous ruling.
The case drew national attention after transcripts of text messages Carter sent to Roy were released publicly, showing her urging him to follow through on his plan to kill himself and chastising him when he expressed doubts.
"I thought you wanted to do this. The time is right and you're ready, you just need to do it!" Carter wrote in one message.
"You can't think about it. You just have to do it. You said you were gonna do it. Like I don't get why you aren't," she wrote in another message.
Friday, July 1, 2016
Pop Quiz! O Vocabulary encountered online
It is a small and fun category with only odd words with distressingly high number of duplications meaning the odd words were encountered twice and failed to sink in. Probably because they're worse than useless. Check 'em out and see.
* obamacare gruber buster name: rich weinstein
* obbligato: a persistent but subordinate motif. a part of the score that must be performed without change or omission
* obeisant: 1. A gesture or movement of the body, such as a curtsy, that expresses deference or homage. 2. An attitude of deference or homage.
* obligate: compel: force somebody to do something; "We compel all students to fill out this form”, commit in order to fulfill an obligation; "obligate money”, oblige: bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted; "He's held by a contract"; "I'll hold you by your promise”, restricted to a particular condition of life; "an obligate anaerobe can survive only in the absence of oxygen"
* occlumency: The ability to close off your mind from outsiders so that nobody knows what you're really up to or whose side you're on. Men have to train rigorously for this (Severus Snape and Harry Potter being examples of this), whereas women have it built into them naturally. the reason why most men never see it coming when their girlfriend dumps them.
* Ochlocracy: government by mob or a mass of people, or the intimidation of legitimate authorities. As a pejorative for majoritarianism, it is akin to the Latin phrase mobile vulgus meaning "the fickle crowd", from which the English term "mob" was originally derived in the
* Oderint dum metuant: Let them hate so long as they fear.
* oestrus: applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
* officious: I know this word, I needed it but couldn't recall.
Also martinet. Major Burns M*A*S*H as played by any of the actors, all different officious martinets. interfering: intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an officious ... officiously - in an officious manner; "nothing so fatal as to strive too officiously for an abstract quality like beauty"
officious
* Oft evil will shall evil mar: [often evil intent will harm (intended)evil ]
evil switches from adjective to noun. That's what's confusing about this fucked up Shakespeare quote. Man, what what was that dude's PROBLEM with English anyway? That is, the phrase says that evil people are selfish, petty, and short-sighted, and that this quality in evil individuals often impairs the grander world-embracing schemes of capital-E-Evil. It's ironic, and the context of Wormtongue and the Palantir is a great example of that irony, come back to bite you, it may also mean that one evil person is likely to spoil the plans of another evil person. Such people want everything their own way and don't like to co-operate. If they have opposing ideas then conflict will follow. This is often seen in gang warfare.
* oikophobe: an aversion to home surroundings. It can also be used more generally to mean an abnormal fear of the home, or of the contents of a house ("fear of household appliances, equipment, bathtubs, household chemicals, and other common objects in the home") "the disposition, in any conflict, to side with 'them' against 'us', and the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions that are identifiably 'ours.' " What a perfect description of the pro-mosque left.
* oleaginous: buttery: unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; "soapy compliments”, greasy: containing an unusual amount of grease or oil; "greasy hamburgers"; "oily fried potatoes"; "oleaginous seeds"
* ombre: From a French term for "shaded," ombre is a color effect where the color gradually changes from light to dark over the item of clothing.
* omerta: the categorical prohibition of cooperation with state authorities or reliance on its services, even when one has been victim of a crime.” Even if somebody is convicted for a crime he has not committed, he is supposed to serve the sentence without giving the police any information about the real criminal, even if that criminal has nothing to do with the Mafia himself. Within Mafia culture, breaking omertà is punishable by death.
* omnium consensu capax imperii nisi imperasset: everyone thought he was capable of being emperor, until he became one
* omnium gatherum: a collection of miscellaneous people or things, jumble.
* Omphaloskepsis: contemplation of one's navel as an aid to meditation; also : navel-gazing (the greek statues are funny)
* onanger: horse species, a Roman siege engine, which derived its name from the kicking action of the machine, similar to that of an onager (wild ass), it was created as a simpler, cheaper version of the ballista. The Onager is a type of catapult that uses torsional pressure, generally from twisted rope, to store energy for the shot. The onager consisted of a large frame placed on the ground to whose front end a vertical frame of solid timber was rigidly fixed; through the vertical frame ran an axle, which had a single stout spoke. On the extremity of the spoke was a sling used to launch a projectile. Some onagers, as depicted in ancient drawings used a bowl-shaped bucket instead of a sling to fire the projectile.
* onanism: withdrawal before climax biblical Onan brother to Er., masturbation.
* oneirocritic: pertaining to the interpretation of dreams, equivalent to óneir(os) dream + -o- -o- + kritikós skilled in judgment;
* ontological: the philosophical study of the nature of being, existence or reality as such, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations. Traditionally listed as a part of the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics, ontology deals with questions concerning what entities exist or can be said to exist, and how such entities can be grouped, related within a hierarchy, and subdivided according to similarities and differences.
* ooda loop: John Boyd's decision loop: observe, orient, decide and act. In this OODA Loop, an endless cycle in which each action restarts the observe phase,
* oozlum bird: a legendary creature found in Australian and British folk tales and legends. Some versions have it that, when startled, the bird will take off and fly around in ever-decreasing circles until it manages to fly up itself, disappearing completely, which adds to its rarity.[1] Other sources state that the bird flies backwards so that it can admire its own beautiful tail feathers, or because while it does not know where it is going, it likes to know where it has been
* optimismalso peptobismolso: The quality of being showily optimistic; pollyannaishness; strutting over-confidence.
The lawyer's optimismalso entertained the jurors, who proceeded to convict his obviously guilty client. The admissions committee laughed at the unnecessary optimismalso in the personal statement from the applicant with LSAT score 2 points above the target median.
* oratio obliqua: Latin expression for indirect speech, Hence, a mode of speaking; a kind, manner, style of speech; language
* orchitis: inflammation of one or both testes; characterized by pain and swelling.
* ordure: Excrement; dung, Something morally offensive; filth.
* orthogonal: Greek orthos, meaning "straight", and gonia, meaning "angle". It has somewhat different meanings depending on the context, but most involve the idea of perpendicular, non-overlapping, varying independently, or uncorrelated.
In mathematics, two lines or curves are orthogonal if they are perpendicular at their point of intersection. Two vectors are orthogonal if and only if their dot product is zero. In computer science, orthogonality has to do with the ability of a language, method, or object to vary without side-effects. When two statistics vary independently of each other, they are considered orthogonal
* orthography: a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols, The orthography of a language specifies the correct way of using a specific writing system to write the language. (Where more than one writing system is used for a language, for example for Kurdish, there can be more than one orthography. .
* oubliette: a secret dungeon with an opening only in the ceiling, as in certain old castles.
* Ouroboros: snake eating itself
* Overton window: also known as the window of discourse, is the range of ideas the public will accept. It is used by media pundits. The term is derived from its originator, Joseph P. Overton a former vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy,who in his description of his window claimed that an idea's political viability depends mainly on whether it falls within the window, rather than on politicians' individual preferences.[5] According to Overton's description, his window includes a range of policies considered politically acceptable in the current climate of public opinion, which a politician can recommend without being considered too extreme to gain or keep public office.
* obamacare gruber buster name: rich weinstein
* obbligato: a persistent but subordinate motif. a part of the score that must be performed without change or omission
* obeisant: 1. A gesture or movement of the body, such as a curtsy, that expresses deference or homage. 2. An attitude of deference or homage.
* obligate: compel: force somebody to do something; "We compel all students to fill out this form”, commit in order to fulfill an obligation; "obligate money”, oblige: bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted; "He's held by a contract"; "I'll hold you by your promise”, restricted to a particular condition of life; "an obligate anaerobe can survive only in the absence of oxygen"
* occlumency: The ability to close off your mind from outsiders so that nobody knows what you're really up to or whose side you're on. Men have to train rigorously for this (Severus Snape and Harry Potter being examples of this), whereas women have it built into them naturally. the reason why most men never see it coming when their girlfriend dumps them.
* Ochlocracy: government by mob or a mass of people, or the intimidation of legitimate authorities. As a pejorative for majoritarianism, it is akin to the Latin phrase mobile vulgus meaning "the fickle crowd", from which the English term "mob" was originally derived in the
* Oderint dum metuant: Let them hate so long as they fear.
* oestrus: applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
* officious: I know this word, I needed it but couldn't recall.
Also martinet. Major Burns M*A*S*H as played by any of the actors, all different officious martinets. interfering: intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an officious ... officiously - in an officious manner; "nothing so fatal as to strive too officiously for an abstract quality like beauty"
officious
* Oft evil will shall evil mar: [often evil intent will harm (intended)evil ]
evil switches from adjective to noun. That's what's confusing about this fucked up Shakespeare quote. Man, what what was that dude's PROBLEM with English anyway? That is, the phrase says that evil people are selfish, petty, and short-sighted, and that this quality in evil individuals often impairs the grander world-embracing schemes of capital-E-Evil. It's ironic, and the context of Wormtongue and the Palantir is a great example of that irony, come back to bite you, it may also mean that one evil person is likely to spoil the plans of another evil person. Such people want everything their own way and don't like to co-operate. If they have opposing ideas then conflict will follow. This is often seen in gang warfare.
* oikophobe: an aversion to home surroundings. It can also be used more generally to mean an abnormal fear of the home, or of the contents of a house ("fear of household appliances, equipment, bathtubs, household chemicals, and other common objects in the home") "the disposition, in any conflict, to side with 'them' against 'us', and the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions that are identifiably 'ours.' " What a perfect description of the pro-mosque left.
* oleaginous: buttery: unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; "soapy compliments”, greasy: containing an unusual amount of grease or oil; "greasy hamburgers"; "oily fried potatoes"; "oleaginous seeds"
* ombre: From a French term for "shaded," ombre is a color effect where the color gradually changes from light to dark over the item of clothing.
* omerta: the categorical prohibition of cooperation with state authorities or reliance on its services, even when one has been victim of a crime.” Even if somebody is convicted for a crime he has not committed, he is supposed to serve the sentence without giving the police any information about the real criminal, even if that criminal has nothing to do with the Mafia himself. Within Mafia culture, breaking omertà is punishable by death.
* omnium consensu capax imperii nisi imperasset: everyone thought he was capable of being emperor, until he became one
* omnium gatherum: a collection of miscellaneous people or things, jumble.
* Omphaloskepsis: contemplation of one's navel as an aid to meditation; also : navel-gazing (the greek statues are funny)
* onanger: horse species, a Roman siege engine, which derived its name from the kicking action of the machine, similar to that of an onager (wild ass), it was created as a simpler, cheaper version of the ballista. The Onager is a type of catapult that uses torsional pressure, generally from twisted rope, to store energy for the shot. The onager consisted of a large frame placed on the ground to whose front end a vertical frame of solid timber was rigidly fixed; through the vertical frame ran an axle, which had a single stout spoke. On the extremity of the spoke was a sling used to launch a projectile. Some onagers, as depicted in ancient drawings used a bowl-shaped bucket instead of a sling to fire the projectile.
* onanism: withdrawal before climax biblical Onan brother to Er., masturbation.
* oneirocritic: pertaining to the interpretation of dreams, equivalent to óneir(os) dream + -o- -o- + kritikós skilled in judgment;
* ontological: the philosophical study of the nature of being, existence or reality as such, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations. Traditionally listed as a part of the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics, ontology deals with questions concerning what entities exist or can be said to exist, and how such entities can be grouped, related within a hierarchy, and subdivided according to similarities and differences.
* ooda loop: John Boyd's decision loop: observe, orient, decide and act. In this OODA Loop, an endless cycle in which each action restarts the observe phase,
* oozlum bird: a legendary creature found in Australian and British folk tales and legends. Some versions have it that, when startled, the bird will take off and fly around in ever-decreasing circles until it manages to fly up itself, disappearing completely, which adds to its rarity.[1] Other sources state that the bird flies backwards so that it can admire its own beautiful tail feathers, or because while it does not know where it is going, it likes to know where it has been
* optimismalso peptobismolso: The quality of being showily optimistic; pollyannaishness; strutting over-confidence.
The lawyer's optimismalso entertained the jurors, who proceeded to convict his obviously guilty client. The admissions committee laughed at the unnecessary optimismalso in the personal statement from the applicant with LSAT score 2 points above the target median.
* oratio obliqua: Latin expression for indirect speech, Hence, a mode of speaking; a kind, manner, style of speech; language
* orchitis: inflammation of one or both testes; characterized by pain and swelling.
* ordure: Excrement; dung, Something morally offensive; filth.
* orthogonal: Greek orthos, meaning "straight", and gonia, meaning "angle". It has somewhat different meanings depending on the context, but most involve the idea of perpendicular, non-overlapping, varying independently, or uncorrelated.
In mathematics, two lines or curves are orthogonal if they are perpendicular at their point of intersection. Two vectors are orthogonal if and only if their dot product is zero. In computer science, orthogonality has to do with the ability of a language, method, or object to vary without side-effects. When two statistics vary independently of each other, they are considered orthogonal
* orthography: a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols, The orthography of a language specifies the correct way of using a specific writing system to write the language. (Where more than one writing system is used for a language, for example for Kurdish, there can be more than one orthography. .
* oubliette: a secret dungeon with an opening only in the ceiling, as in certain old castles.
* Ouroboros: snake eating itself
* Overton window: also known as the window of discourse, is the range of ideas the public will accept. It is used by media pundits. The term is derived from its originator, Joseph P. Overton a former vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy,who in his description of his window claimed that an idea's political viability depends mainly on whether it falls within the window, rather than on politicians' individual preferences.[5] According to Overton's description, his window includes a range of policies considered politically acceptable in the current climate of public opinion, which a politician can recommend without being considered too extreme to gain or keep public office.
antiTrump protest, Denver Civic Center
Advertised as a wall put up by four liberal groups protesting a Trump speech and held at the Civic Center to draw protests off from where Donald Trump was speaking at the Convention Center nearby. It didn't work. Protesters wanted to be near Donald Trump, that's where the action was today, not here.
I must characterize the protest a blowout.
Civic Center is only two blocks north. When I got there I saw nothing. No crowd, nothing but people walking purposefully, a few school busses as usual. The green area of the park is closed. I noticed a lot a media trucks at the corner of Colfax and Cherokee, the far corner of the park but outside in the direction of the Convention Center so I headed that way and was intercepted by a thin middle-aged man who approached me directly and said, "I admire your strength."
Jesus, do I look that bad? I said thank you. He latched on. Directed me to the protest. I walked right past it without even noticing it in the distance. He stayed with me to make sure I saw it and arrived safely saying along the way three times he admires my strength and then one last time before departing. (I'm sticking with orange pants this whole weekend. I have three pair. Somehow they compel people to talk to me. I'm certain now it's the orange pants.)
I must characterize the protest a blowout.
Civic Center is only two blocks north. When I got there I saw nothing. No crowd, nothing but people walking purposefully, a few school busses as usual. The green area of the park is closed. I noticed a lot a media trucks at the corner of Colfax and Cherokee, the far corner of the park but outside in the direction of the Convention Center so I headed that way and was intercepted by a thin middle-aged man who approached me directly and said, "I admire your strength."
Jesus, do I look that bad? I said thank you. He latched on. Directed me to the protest. I walked right past it without even noticing it in the distance. He stayed with me to make sure I saw it and arrived safely saying along the way three times he admires my strength and then one last time before departing. (I'm sticking with orange pants this whole weekend. I have three pair. Somehow they compel people to talk to me. I'm certain now it's the orange pants.)
I wanna Bangledesh on your Drum all night!
Most people first heard about Bangledesh when there was that terrible war in 1971 and George Harrison had a concert in the Garden to benefit the refugees. In those days the idea was to help people where they lived instead of importing them to Idaho so they could rape babies. Bangledesh was one of those strange countries like Burma or Indonesia that you didn't know too much about. It was full of Muslims who were busy hating on the Hindus at the time until they switched to hating on Christians and Jews. You know the good old days.
I know a shit pot full of guys from Bangladesh. They have basically taken over the car service and limo and Uber business in Brooklyn. Not exclusively but I would say a good 60% of the drivers are from some mud hut over there. I have texted Omar and the two Hassans and Funny Ronnie and Khan to make sure that their families are ok with what is happening over there. They all seem to be fine and not involved. But they are plenty worried. It hit home to them finally. There is a surprising amount of support for Trump among them. Part of it is the age old immigrant thing. Once they are on the ship they want to pull the ladder up. They know how fucked up their country is and they don't want to bring it here. I can only tell them one thing.
It don't come easy.
"What do you have an extremely strong opinion on that is ultimately unimportant?"
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I hate people who stand right in front of an elevator door waiting to get on.
The fucking locks in the bathroom stalls need to stop misaligning.
If you have worked inside since the year 2000 you should know how to use a God Damned computer. Being computer illiterate at this point in history is the same as being illiterate
People chewing with their mouths open. It brings me to the edge of committing violence.
People who leave cook time on the microwave are the scum of the earth.
Push from the bottom of the toothpaste. Neanderthals.
Canada Parliament shows the world how easy they are to take over
By a Democrat president. How embarrassing.
Canadian Parliament chants 'four more years' at President Obama. I feel overwhelming shame for them.
At that moment of political ecstasy had Obama said, "Let's vote on it!" We'd have ten new states just like that and their parliamentarians fresh American representatives and senators and automatically America would be about 1/6 sillier.
I couldn't watch this when it happened. Well, they love him so. And that's a good thing. Nothing wrong with our president being adored. There is video at this link to telegraph.co.uk. And that's all there is at the telegraph. It's all that they say. No comments either. Just a 23 second video of their parliament standing and clapping and chanting after a 15 second commercial.
Canadian Parliament chants 'four more years' at President Obama. I feel overwhelming shame for them.
At that moment of political ecstasy had Obama said, "Let's vote on it!" We'd have ten new states just like that and their parliamentarians fresh American representatives and senators and automatically America would be about 1/6 sillier.
I couldn't watch this when it happened. Well, they love him so. And that's a good thing. Nothing wrong with our president being adored. There is video at this link to telegraph.co.uk. And that's all there is at the telegraph. It's all that they say. No comments either. Just a 23 second video of their parliament standing and clapping and chanting after a 15 second commercial.
EU granted suspected Istanbul attacker refugee status
RT: A Chechen national suspected of being the mastermind behind the deadly Istanbul airport terrorist attack, earlier received refugee status in Austria, which helped him to repeatedly avoid extradition to Russia on terror charges.
The fatal attack on the Istanbul airport that took lives of 44 people and left more than 230 injured was allegedly organized by Ahmed Chataev, a Russian citizen of Chechen origin, who joined Islamic State (IS, former ISIS/ISIL) in 2015 and now fights in Syria, Turkish media report, citing police sources.
Chataev was assigned a leading role in training extremists that would then commit terrorist attacks in both Russia and Western Europe, the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee Andrey Przhezdomsky said, adding that, in Syria, Chataev also commands a unit consisting “primarily of immigrants from the North Caucasus,” Russia's Kommersant newspaper reported earlier this year.
Chataev turned out to be long wanted by the Russian authorities for terrorism-related offenses but he fled to Europe, where he was granted asylum, and successfully managed to escape extradition to Russia.
Chataev joined Islamist secessionist militants that fought against Russia in the Second Chechen War between 1999 and 2000, where he lost an arm. Later, he was considered to be a representative of Dokka Umarov, once a “terrorist №1” in Russia, in the Western Europe.
The fatal attack on the Istanbul airport that took lives of 44 people and left more than 230 injured was allegedly organized by Ahmed Chataev, a Russian citizen of Chechen origin, who joined Islamic State (IS, former ISIS/ISIL) in 2015 and now fights in Syria, Turkish media report, citing police sources.
Chataev was assigned a leading role in training extremists that would then commit terrorist attacks in both Russia and Western Europe, the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee Andrey Przhezdomsky said, adding that, in Syria, Chataev also commands a unit consisting “primarily of immigrants from the North Caucasus,” Russia's Kommersant newspaper reported earlier this year.
Chataev turned out to be long wanted by the Russian authorities for terrorism-related offenses but he fled to Europe, where he was granted asylum, and successfully managed to escape extradition to Russia.
Chataev joined Islamist secessionist militants that fought against Russia in the Second Chechen War between 1999 and 2000, where he lost an arm. Later, he was considered to be a representative of Dokka Umarov, once a “terrorist №1” in Russia, in the Western Europe.
"Lynch to Accept F.B.I. Recommendations in Clinton Email Inquiry"
NYT: Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch plans to announce on Friday that she will accept whatever recommendation career prosecutors and the F.B.I. director make about whether to bring charges related to Hillary Clinton’s personal email server, a Justice Department official said. Her decision removes the possibility that a political appointee will overrule investigators in the case.
The Justice Department had been moving toward such an arrangement for months — officials said in April that it was being considered — but a private meeting between Ms. Lynch and former President Bill Clinton this week set off a political furor and made the decision all but inevitable.
Republicans said the meeting, which took place at the Phoenix airport, had compromised the independence of the investigation as the F.B.I. was winding it down. Some called for Ms. Lynch to recuse herself, but she did not take herself off the case — one that could influence a presidential election.
Her reassurance that she will not overrule her investigators is significant. When the F.B.I. sought to bring felony charges against David H. Petraeus, the former C.I.A. director, for mishandling classified information and lying about it, Mr. Holder stepped in and reduced the charge to a misdemeanor. That decision created a deep — and public — rift.
The F.B.I. is expected to make a recommendation to the Justice Department in the coming weeks, though agents have yet to interview Mrs. Clinton. While some legal experts said they believed that criminal indictments in the case were unlikely, the investigation continues to cast a shadow over Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign.
The Justice Department had been moving toward such an arrangement for months — officials said in April that it was being considered — but a private meeting between Ms. Lynch and former President Bill Clinton this week set off a political furor and made the decision all but inevitable.
Republicans said the meeting, which took place at the Phoenix airport, had compromised the independence of the investigation as the F.B.I. was winding it down. Some called for Ms. Lynch to recuse herself, but she did not take herself off the case — one that could influence a presidential election.
Her reassurance that she will not overrule her investigators is significant. When the F.B.I. sought to bring felony charges against David H. Petraeus, the former C.I.A. director, for mishandling classified information and lying about it, Mr. Holder stepped in and reduced the charge to a misdemeanor. That decision created a deep — and public — rift.
The F.B.I. is expected to make a recommendation to the Justice Department in the coming weeks, though agents have yet to interview Mrs. Clinton. While some legal experts said they believed that criminal indictments in the case were unlikely, the investigation continues to cast a shadow over Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign.
A Trenchant Warfare Analogy
That's how things looked 100 years ago on the Western Front. The Brit's single entrenchment is shown in red; the German entrenchments are in blue. At 07:30 hours, 100 years ago, the red line advanced against the blue "grid" with horrific consequences. Of course the Reds had no idea how extensively and well-entrenched the Blues were. They had flung a week's worth of soft shrapnel bombs at the Blues, fully expecting that it would devastate the Blue defenses. An equivalent volley from the Blues to the Reds would have utterly destroyed the Red's single line which was mostly an open trench. But the Blues were too well dug-in and fortified.
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