CLG: US, Saudi Arabia to grant 9, 000 ISIS fighters free passage from Iraqi Mosul to Syria - source

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17 October 2016 - Part 2

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US, Saudi Arabia to grant 9,000 ISIS fighters free passage from Iraqi Mosul to Syria - source | 13 Oct 2016 | The US and Saudi Arabia have agreed to grant free passage to thousands of Islamic State militants before the Iraqi city of Mosul is stormed. The jihadists will be redeployed to fight against the government in Syria, a military-diplomatic source told RIA Novosti. "More than 9,000 Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS, ISIL [but still I-CIA-SIS) militants will be redeployed from Mosul to the eastern regions of Syria to carry out a major offensive operation, which involves capturing Deir ez-Zor and Palmyra," the source said...The leadership of Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence Directorate will be the mediators and guarantors of the agreement on safe passage for the jihadists from Mosul, he claimed.

 

Iraqi Forces Attack Mosul, Seeking to Dislodge Islamic State | 16 Oct 2016 | Mosul’s residents are hoarding food and furtively scrawling resistance slogans on walls, while the city's Islamic State rulers have feverishly expanded their underground tunnel network and tried to dodge American drones. After months of maneuvering, the Iraqi government’s battle to reclaim Mosul, the sprawling city whose million-plus population lent the most credence to the Islamic State's claim to rule a fledgling nation, has finally begun. In the early hours Monday, an announcement by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi of the campaign's opening was accompanied by artillery barrages and a rush of armored vehicles toward the front a few miles from the city’s limits.

 

Twitter as panopticon: U.K. Lawmakers Urge Twitter, Labour to Fight Antisemitism --Panel urges Twitter to address 'pernicious' problem online | 15 Oct 2016 | Twitter Inc. and the U.K. Labour Party need to do more to stamp out antisemitism, a cross-party panel of British lawmakers said. Twitter came in for the sharpest criticism from the Home Affairs Committee, which expressed shock at the "viscerally antisemitic nature and volume of tweets directed specifically at members of Parliament." ..."We believe that his [Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's] lack of consistent leadership on this issue, and his reluctance to separate antisemitism from other forms of racism, has created what some have referred to as a 'safe space' for those with vile attitudes towards Jewish people," the committee said.

 

Nuclear power plants are terrorist bait, need extra protection - ex-IAEA chief | 11 Oct 2016 | Nuclear power plants are one of the best protected facilities in the world, but they still remain likely targets for terrorists and therefore require extra protection, Hans Blix, former IAEA chief, told RT. "One has to be very careful, of course, about installations like nuclear power plants and enrichment plants," said Blix, who headed the International Atomic Energy Agency between 1981 and 1997. He recalled the hack at Iran's uranium enrichment facility at Natanz back in 2010 "where a malware called 'Stuxnet' was smuggled in and managed to stop several hundred enrichment centrifuges."

 

France approves creation of National Guard to combat terrorism threat | 12 Oct 2016 | France has approved legislation to create a National Guard as the government struggles to battle the terrorist threat. The guard is expected to include up to 85,000 service personnel by 2018. The law was approved by the Council of Ministers, a powerful executive body composed of senior officials, on Wednesday. Those who apply for the National Guard will be able to choose between army activities, serving in the gendarmerie (the police force that is part of the French Army), or working in the French police.

 

Three Kansas men charged with bomb plot against Somalians | 14 Oct 2016 | Three men were arrested on Friday and charged with plotting to bomb an apartment complex in western Kansas where 120 people lived, including Muslim immigrants from Somalia who also used one apartment as a mosque, federal officials said. The three men, Curtis Allen, 49, Gavin Wright, 49 and Patrick Eugene Stein, 47, were each charged with one count of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction in Garden City, Kansas, Tom Beall, acting U.S. attorney for the District of Kansas, said at a news conference in Wichita. Officials said they were members of militia groups.

 

Pat McCrory: Firebombing 'an attack on democracy' | 16 Oct 2016 | Gov. Pat McCrory Sunday called the weekend firebombing of a North Carolina Republican headquarters "an attack on our democracy," while one GOP official called it an act of "political terrorism." In a tweet, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump blamed "Animals representing Hillary Clinton and Dems in North Carolina." Hillsborough police said somebody threw a bottle of flammable liquid through the window of Orange County's GOP headquarters, setting campaign signs, supplies and furniture ablaze before burning itself out.

 

Local GOP office in North Carolina firebombed | 16 Oct 2016 | A GOP office in Hillsborough, North Carolina, was firebombed overnight, with a swastika and the words "Nazi Republicans get out of town or else" spray painted on an adjacent building, according to local officials. "The flammable substance appears to have ignited inside the building, burned some furniture and damaged the building's interior before going out. The substance was housed in a bottle thrown through one of the building's front windows," according to a statement by the town of Hillsborough. A bottle of flammable liquid was thrown through the Orange County Republican headquarters, police said.

 

Qatar gave Bill Clinton $1MILLION for his family's foundation as a birthday present in 2012, WikiLeaks reveals | 13 Oct 2016 | Qatar, an Islamist state [run by Sharia sociopaths] in the Persian gulf, gave former President Bill Clinton 1million for his birthday in 2012, according to emails released by WikiLeaks. According to a message that was released in the leak of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's emails this week, Ami Desai, director of foreign policy for the Clinton Foundation, told several other staffers about the check. '[Qatar] Would like to see WJC "for five minutes" in NYC, to present 1 million check that Qatar promised for WJC's birthday in 2011,' Desai wrote.

 

WikiLeaks Reveals How Wall Street Built the Obama Cabinet | 14 Oct 2016 | Perhaps the most startling discovery of the WikiLeaks dumps so far [is] from 2008, when John Podesta served as co-chair of President-elect Barack Obama's transition team. The email came from Michael Froman, a former Citibank executive, who single-handedly built the entire cabinet of what was supposed to be the "main street" President. The email in question was even sent from Froman's Citibank email address and includes "A list of African American, Latino and Asian American candidates, broken down by Cabinet/Deputy and Under/Assistant/Deputy Assistant level, plus a list of Native American, Arab/Muslim American and Disabled American candidates." Apparently Obama wasn't as worried about placing women in senior-level positions but Froman decided to offer up some suggestions anyway.

 

Police on lookout for vandals who spray-painted cars outside Trump rally in Bangor | 16 Oct 2016 | Police said on Sunday that no one has been charged in connection with an act of vandalism that left several cars marked with white spray paint outside Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's Saturday rally in Bangor. The investigation was ongoing Sunday and new information likely won't be released until Monday, Sgt. Wade Betters of the Bangor Police Department said. In a statement released Saturday, a Bangor police spokesman said that officers were "seeking witnesses and reviewing video" in the criminal mischief case at the New York City businessman's us-against-them speech blasting "a rigged system" at the Cross Insurance Center.

 

Trump's Ohio Campaign Director Severs Ties With State GOP Chairman Matt Borges | 15 Oct 2016 | Donald Trump's campaign announced a split Saturday with the chairman of the Republican party in the key battleground state of Ohio. The GOP presidential nominee's Ohio campaign director said the break was a result of what Trump himself considers Ohio Republican Party chairman [corporatist scum-bag] Matt Borges's "duplicity." "I spoke with Mr. Trump on Thursday and he is very disappointed in Matt's duplicity," Trump Ohio Director Bob Paduchik wrote in a letter to members of the state GOP central committee, which elects the chairman...Paduchik goes on to accuse Borges of having "conducted a self-promotional media tour with state and national outlets to criticize our party's nominee," and alleges the chairman "has been promoting himself for an all but declared campaign for Republican National Committee Chairman."

 

Judge gives Florida voters more time to register after hurricane | 12 Oct 2016 | Residents of Florida were given six extra days to register to vote in the Nov. 8 election by a U.S. judge on Wednesday following the disruption caused by powerful Hurricane Matthew in the state last week. U.S. District Judge Mark Walker in Tallahassee extended the registration deadline to Oct. 18, after the Florida Democratic Party filed a lawsuit seeking more time, court records showed. The original deadline to register had been Tuesday, before Walker ordered a one-day reprieve to allow for a hearing on the matter on Wednesday.

 

Citing Shield Law, Judge Dismisses Sandy Hook Families' Suit Against Gun Manufacturer | 17 Oct 2016 | A Connecticut judge threw out a lawsuit by families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, a major victory for the gun industry and in particular Remington Arms Co., maker of the assault weapon used in the massacre of 20 children and six educators. Judge Barbara Bellis dismissed the case Friday in state court in Bridgeport, ruling the company is protected by a 2005 federal law that shields gun manufacturers from such lawsuits. Under the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, or PLCAA, gun companies can't be held liable for crimes committed with their products.

 

More Than 1 Million in Obamacare to Lose Plans as Insurers Quit | 15 Oct 2016 | A growing number of people in Obamacare are finding out their health insurance plans will disappear from the program next year, forcing them to find new coverage even as options shrink and prices rise. At least 1.4 million people in 32 states will lose the Obamacare plan they have now, according to state officials contacted by Bloomberg. That's largely caused by Aetna, UnitedHealth Group and some state or regional insurers quitting the law's markets for individual coverage.

 

University of Florida offers counseling for students troubled by 'offensive' Halloween costumes --UF said a counselor would be available 24/7 to help 'impacted' students --College also said it would 'educate [?] those who were involved' --University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse similarly planned a seminar this week titled 'Is Your Costume Racist?' | 14 Oct 2016 | The University of Florida is offering counseling services for students who are offended by costumes this Halloween. A memo released by UF on Monday encouraged students to think about their 'choices of costumes and themes'. 'Some Halloween costumes reinforce stereotypes of particular races, genders, cultures, or religions,' the statement read. 'Regardless of intent, these costumes can perpetuate negative stereotypes, causing harm and offense to groups of people.'

 

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