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© Murat Cetinmuhurdar / ReutersTurkey's President Tayyip Erdogan
On Friday, Ankara ordered its troops to pull out of NATO military games in Norway after the incumbent Turkish leader and Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the modern Turkish state, appeared in an "enemy" list. Following the scandal, both NATO and Norway offered their apologies for the incident, saying that the message did not reflect their views.
"There can be no alliance like that," Erdogan said on Friday, adding that even the removal of those names would not change the decision. On Saturday, despite the officials' apologies and affirmations, the insulted leader remained steadfast, saying that NATO cannot easily get away with the incident.
© Suhaib Salem / ReutersMembers of Hashd al-Shaabi celebrate as they cook for displaced and Iraqi troops fighting Islamic State militants in western Mosul, Iraq.
Comment: Escobar is calling them 'People' Mobilization Units, but the more common translation into English is Popular Mobilization Units.
This was a game-changing moment in more ways than one. It was the first detailed interview granted by Muhandis since the fatwa issued by Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani - the immensely respected marja (source of emulation) and top clerical authority in Iraq - in June 2014, when Daesh stormed across the border from Syria. The fatwa, loosely translated, reads, "It is upon every Iraqi capable of carrying guns to volunteer with the Iraqi Armed Forces to defend the sanctities of the nation."
Muhandis took time out of the battlefield especially for the meeting, and then left straight for al-Qaim. He was sure "al-Qaim will be taken in a matter of days" - a reference to the crucial Daesh-held Iraqi border town connecting to Daesh stronghold Abu Kamal in Syria.
Comment: Well done, Iraq. You've been an extraordinary journey through hell since 1990, and have come through it intact.
© Murat Cetinmuhurdar / Presidential Palace / ReutersTurkey's President Tayyip Erdogan
"That's the headline. But what did you do? You paid a lot of dollars to [ISIS]," Erdogan said, as cited by AFP.
It's not the first time Erdogan has called out Washington for enabling terrorists. Last December, the Turkish president caused quite a stir in the media, claiming that Turkey had "confirmed evidence, with pictures, photos and videos," of the US supporting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS, ISIL) and Kurdish militias, outlawed as terrorist in Turkey.
© Agence France-Presse
According to the Verge, "What's new is that Twitter now plans to do at least some monitoring of verified users' offline behavior as well, to determine whether it is consistent with its rules."
"If it isn't, users can lose their [verification] badges. And so a hypothetical verified user who tweeted nothing but pictures of kittens but organized Nazi rallies for a living could now retain his tweeting privileges, but lose his verification badge," they explained.
In their own article, Mashable added that Twitter has "given users until December 18, 2017, when it will then begin enforcing the rule."
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I understand why the conversation inevitably steers in this direction. The nature of consciousness and the question of the soul are topics that have fascinated us as a species for thousands of years, and the advent of robotic consciousness threatens to upend the deeply-held beliefs of billions of people.
Perhaps inevitably, the prophets of the technological singularity have brought this issue directly to the fore by creating their own religion with "a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) developed through computer hardware and software". It's called "Way of the Future" and was founded (with a large degree of MSM fanfare from the usual suspects) by...wait for it...an ex-Google engineer. That's right, after developing our modern-day, real-life Big Brother's self-driving car, this Silicon Valley dropout has started a church for people to worship our coming robot overlords.
You can't make this stuff up.
But, generally speaking, this is not the kind of thing that people researching in the field think about. So what do they think about? Oh, things like "What will the financial world be like when Skynet runs the markets?"
Think that sounds crazy? Well take that up with our good friends over at the shadowy Bank for International Settlements' even shadowier little brother, the Financial Stability Board. They just published a white paper on that very subject.
Well, OK, they don't quite phrase it like that. Their paper has the considerably less snappy title "Artificial intelligence and machine learning in financial services: Market developments and financial stability implications." But come on. These are the minions of the central banksters. It's their job to make even the most incredible things sound eye-wateringly boring.
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Bannon asked Ryun about celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred's involvement in the Roy Moore case, representing a woman who accuses Moore of assaulting her in 1977 when she was 16 years old.
Ryan said Allred is "basically a human vulture when you look back at some of the things she's been involved in."
"Remember the incident with Arnold Schwarzenegger?" Ryun asked. "She brought all these women in front of him, said they're going to sue, they're going to file suit against Schwarzenegger. Guess what? After the election, absolutely nothing happened."
"I think a real turning point was that press conference when they pulled out the yearbook and the signature," he said of Allred's entry into the Moore controversy, referring to an interview with MSNBC's Katy Tur where Allred did not come off well.
Ryun said this interview demonstrated that the best way to respond to sensational allegations is to "just throw facts back at them."
Comment: See also:
- Hannity issues serious warning to Roy Moore, gives ultimatum - Moore responds
- Roy Moore caught up in Hollywood Weinstein Hysteria
- 'It's Just Not True - Any of It': Kayla Moore, wife of Judge Roy Moore, speaks out in response to WaPo political hit piece
- Media Matters defends Democrat Bob Menendez but attacks Republican Roy Moore over same sexual assault allegations
© facebookUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
In his address to reporters on Thursday Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the UN chief had written a letter to the Saudi UN envoy Abdallah al-Mouallimi asking the Saudi authorities to reopen Yemeni land and sea borders, shut down earlier this month over security and arms smuggling concerns.
Guterres and his officials are "heartbroken at the scenes we are seeing from Yemen and the risk of continued suffering of the Yemeni people," Dujarric added. He called the war "man-made", underscoring the unprovoked conflict has caused an enormous death toll of over 12,000 Yemenis since it began in March 2015.
Comment: The death toll is probably closer to 100,000: Having lost the war against Yemen, Saudis try genocide
In his letter to Mouallimi, Guterres demanded that the Saudis allow UN flights to the Yemeni capital Sana as well as Aden, and to end the blockade of the key ports of Hudaydah and Salif. He also spoke in favor more thorough inspections at the Hudaydah port, after Saudi Arabia claimed that ships docking there were smuggling arms into rebellious Houthi-controlled areas.
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© REUTERS/ Erik De Castro
Efforts in Raqqa to return to normal life are being hampered by explosives left behind by Daesh terror group, one of which recently killed a Syrian bomb technician who had been trained by US coalition forces, according to Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State (Daesh) Brett McGurk.
"ISIS [daesh] terrorists planted explosives in nearly every structure downtown, to ensure life cannot return," McGurk stated in a Twitter message on Friday. "Here, at a main hospital, a brave Syrian EOD [Explosive Ordinance Disposal] technician, trained by our coalition, was killed last week. More are still at work throughout the city."
The tweet included a photo of the bullet scarred facade of the four-story hospital cited by McGurk.
Comment: This is no surprise. Russia had to deal with the same problem in Aleppo. So what is your point McGurk?
Comment: See also: ACTUAL international collusion: Nigel Farage exposes massive Soros network of MEPs spreading 'gender theory', open borders and russophobia (VIDEO)