[Huffpoo] WASHINGTON ― Paul Manafort, onetime campaign chairman to President Donald Trump, and former business associate Rick Gates have been told to surrender to federal authorities, multiple news outlets reported on Monday. Manafort was spotted by reporters leaving his condo in Virginia early on Monday.
Manafort and Gates are expected to be charged in an intensifying investigation into Russian meddling in the United States’ 2016 presidential election.
The office of special counsel Robert Mueller, which is conducting the probe, is expected to serve the indictment on Monday. The apparent forthcoming arrests come three days after news broke that a federal grand jury in Washington had filed the first charges stemming from Mueller’s investigation.
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1. Does Manafort have anything on Trump he can make a deal with? That is clearly the goal.
2. If not, would he make something up? His history suggests he would.
From the beginning the Deep State knew it had to get rid of Trump, and Manafort might give them a plausible charge for Impeachment - operative word is 'plausible.' With both parties wanting him out, all they need is an excuse, not a legitimate criminal conviction.
[SA People News] South Africans are standing up ‐ in black ‐ to crime... as seen in these photos and videos from #BlackMonday, as citizens mourn together ‐ wearing black ‐ in memory of all those who have died in violent crimes, including farmers. The suggestion to wear black today was made by a devastated farm manager on Tuesday after Joubert Conradie was murdered on his farm near Stellenbosch in the latest spate of farm murder attacks to haunt the country. 70 people have died in farm attacks since the start of the year. Every day an average of 52 people are murdered. South Africans have had enough...
[NYTIMES] WASHINGTON — Navy criminal authorities are investigating whether two members of the elite SEAL Team 6 strangled an Army Green Beret in June while they were in Mali on a secret assignment, military officials say.
Staff Sgt. Logan J. Melgar, a 34-year-old veteran of two tours in Afghanistan, was found dead on June 4 in the embassy housing he shared in the Malian capital, Bamako, with a few other Special Operations forces assigned to the West African nation to help with training and counterterrorism missions.
The Navy SEALs’ potential involvement also raised the prospect of a highly unusual killing of an American soldier by fellow troops, and threatened to stain SEAL Team 6, the famed counterterrorism unit that carried out the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
Sergeant Melgar’s superiors in Stuttgart, Germany, almost immediately suspected foul play, and dispatched an investigating officer to the scene within 24 hours, military officials said. Agents from the Army’s Criminal Investigation Command arrived soon after and spent months on the case before handing it off last month to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
No one has been charged in Sergeant Melgar’s death, which a military medical examiner ruled to be “a homicide by asphyxiation,” or strangulation, said three military officials briefed on the autopsy results. The two Navy SEALs, who have not been identified, were flown out of Mali shortly after the episode and were placed on administrative leave.
According to military officials, Sergeant Melgar was part of a small team in Bamako assigned to help provide intelligence about Islamic militancies in Mali to the United States ambassador there, Paul A. Folmsbee, to protect American personnel against attacks. The sergeant also helped assess which Malian Army troops might be trained and equipped to build a counterterrorism force.
Sergeant Melgar, a native of Lubbock, Tex., was about four months into what military officials said was a six-month tour in Mali, and was living with three other American Special Operations troops in a house provided by the American Embassy.
Two of those housemates were members of the Navy’s SEAL Team 6, which has over the past decade carried out kill-or-capture missions in Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia, as well as the one that killed bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in 2011.
According to two senior American military officials, the two SEAL commandos were in Mali with the approval of Mr. Folmsbee in a previously undisclosed and unusual clandestine mission to support French and Malian counterterrorism forces battling Al Qaeda’s branch in North and West Africa, known as Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, as well as smaller cells aligned with Al Qaeda or the Islamic State. The Americans helped provide intelligence for missions, and had participated in at least two such operations in Mali this year before Sergeant Melgar’s death.
Those who knew Sergeant Melgar described him as a soldier’s soldier — he deployed to Afghanistan twice on training missions between July 2014 and February 2016, according to his Army service record — and a devoted father who texted and talked via Skype multiple times a day with his wife while serving overseas.
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Death by hanging for a breaching of the 'Esprit de Corps'?
the two SEAL commandos were in Mali with the approval of Mr. Folmsbee in a previously undisclosed and unusual clandestine mission to support French and Malian counterterrorism forces
[CHICAGO.SUNTIMES] The FBI’s Jeffrey Sallet has taken on mobsters and terrorists.
He fled the dust cloud when the first tower fell on Sept. 11, 2001. He had nearly finished his fourth Boston Marathon when the bombs went off on April 15, 2013 ‐ before he tossed on his finisher’s shirt and joined the manhunt for the bombers.
But as he prepares to take the helm of the FBI’s field office in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... , Sallet said there is one issue already keeping him up at night: This city’s ongoing struggle with gun violence.
"I’m doing my homework and making sure that I am engaged on that issue from the moment I hit the ground in Chicago," Sallet told the Chicago Sun-Times.
Sallet is coming here from New Orleans, where he led the FBI’s field office for two years. He officially becomes Chicago’s special agent in charge on Nov. 6, assuming the job last held by Michael J. Anderson, who announced his retirement in August.
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What is it your buisiness?
That business is of the drug addicts, democrats, felons, and gang members running that phony city.
Your business is the corrupt scumbags running investigations of scumbags in DC.
And if you do not handle it there, I WILL FIRE YOU ALL.
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Chicago Mayor Rahm does not seem to be losing any sleep over all these murders. No bother to him. His main agenda is to be a sanctuary city to illegal aliens, that is where the future votes are. The blacks killing each other on his plantation, who needs them any more, he must think.
When the FBI takes over the issue of gang violence and murder, that will be fine with Hizonner, not my problem sez he.......
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Every day I read posts from secondcitycop. He is posting the inner workings of that idiot place and it's overwhelming.
If you like, post some of his work. The people who sound angry have usually good reason and he he has extra reasons. It is not a personal grind, but professional.
All LEO should be tracking this as he is showing not only what is in Chi city, but trends in LEO culture as well.
He is a Good Guy and stuck his neck out there for us and deserves not only a good listen, but a Medal.
[CHRON] Reverend Jesse Jackson, the noted civil rights activist, wants to have an extensive conversation with Texans owner Bob McNair.
In the wake of a firestorm of controversy following McNair saying "We can't have the inmates running the prison," at a recent NFL owners meetings, Jackson was sharply critical of the remarks in a telephone interview Sunday with The Houston Chronicle. Jackson accused owners, including McNair, of having a "plantation mentality."
Jackson added that there should be sanctions against McNair for his comments. McNair has apologized publicly in a statement and privately to his players and stated that he wasn't referring to players in those remarks.
said he reached out to McNair and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and hasn't heard back from them.
Jackson suggested that the NFL provide extensive details about what was said at the closed-door meeting regarding players' national anthem protests.
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its a private company, people are paid to work there (NFL), they can pretty much say and do as they please as owners of their own companies.
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Them's not working in chains and can leave the environment anytime they want to in order to sell their labor to anyone else. I'm sure those pieces of paper from their universities for fake classes will have a lot of influence on what that other labor will be. Who really has exploited who? It's called conning working the system/man.
[NYPOST] The Weinstein Company’s “Amityville: The Awakening” grossed a minuscule $742 total at 10 locations on Saturday, two weeks after the haunted house sequel began streaming for free on Google Play.
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The fact they are trying to keep the Amityville franchise alive shows another side of how vile and inept the Winstein Company is.
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I guess when they were high as a kite and being ridden by the farm team like a bull at a PBR circuit, a re-launch of Amityville probably seemed genius.
A recent article discussed the potential production of unsymmetrical di-methyl-hydrazine (UDMH) in North Korea. UDMH is an important liquid rocket engine fuel and is critical to North Korea’s long-range missile programs as it is used by the Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) and Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) systems, and will likely also be used by future IRBMs and ICBMs. The article identified several research papers published by North Korean researchers related to this capability including one suggesting that production may be taking place at the February 8 Vinalon Complex in Hungnam.[1] This assessment is supported by the fact that this complex contains production lines for both chlorine and ammonia, chemicals used in the production of hydrazine, the presence of waste water ponds, and recent construction activities within the complex.
We believe that this article represents a reasonable starting point for the discussion of potential UDMH production in North Korea. That said, we would like to suggest additional locations that are likely involved in this activity‐most notably, the July 27 Factory (a.k.a., Aoji-ri Chemical Complex)‐and provide some additional thoughts and information to further the discussion, with the goal of developing a more granular picture of North Korea’s UDMH production capability. While most analysts agree that North Korea possesses the scientific and industrial capability to produce UDMH, no firm open source evidence has been found confirming this notion. However, the failure to domestically produce the fuel would represent an extremely vulnerable single-point-of-failure that the North understands well and has most likely addressed, given known historical practices within its arms production industry. We look forward to further discussion on this subject.
[Express] A SECRETIVE US watchdog that monitors North Korean missile tests has revealed for the first time how Kim Jong-un could obliterate the US mainland.
North Korea has the capability to strike any state in the US according to a leading American commander who heads up a secretive military monitoring centre.
The man in charge of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) revealed for the first time how officials who work there monitor North Korea missile tests 24/7.
Engineers, photo experts, and intelligence analysts at the Ohio air base pour through satellite information for impending weapon tests - and analyse the results from missile launches.
It comes amid escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula, as the US Defence Secretary yesterday admitted the chance of a North Korean nuclear strike was "accelerating".
Colonel Sean Larkin, who heads up the NASIC programme, told CBS that North Korea is well equipped to hit any state of the US mainland.
He said: "The missile tests this summer have demonstrated the ability that they could reach the US."
When asked if this would put any state in particular danger, the US military leader was unequivocal: "All 48 states on the mainland."
Colonel Larkin admitted that the if positioned in a standard trajectory, the missiles launched in July could have blitz California.
In a shocking computer stimulation of the North Korean ICBM, researchers at NASIC revealed how Kim Jong-un is within touching distance of ordering a nuclear blast on the US west coast.
Col. Larkin revealed the only piece of the puzzle missing from a nuclear North Korea was a re-entry vehicle that could withstand the heat of plunging back into the planet's atmosphere.
Researchers at NASIC believe North Korea is determined to develop such a re-entry vehicle, as revealed in photos of tests last year.
As a result, US President Donald Trump has admitted that unless the US can confirm whether or not Kim Jong-un's regime has developed such capabilities, he may order a preventative strike against the regime.
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Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house." - Lazarus Long
[PRESSTV] Tens of thousands of anti-independence protesters lined the streets of Barcelona on Sunday in dramatic scenes captured by a police helicopter.
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MOAB on the capitol building, then, when you have their attention........
[DAWN] MNA Ayesha Gulalai's former personal secretary was bumped off on Sunday in Laki Marwat in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, DawnNews reported.
Noor Zaman was killed when unknown suspects on cycle of violences shot up him in Laki Marwat's Tajori town, police said.
"The attackers were on cycle of violences and fled after the attack," station house officer at Tajori cop shoppe, Altafur Rehman, told DawnNews. He added that at present no further information regarding the motive behind the attack can be provided.
"We have started an investigation. Once thorough investigations are carried out, we will be able to comment further," Rehman said.
A first information report (FIR) was registered at Tajori cop shoppe by Zaman's relatives, who nominated four individuals from the Dawar tribe, Rehman said. He added that the police have initiated a search for the men nominated in the FIR in order to arrest them.
On August 8, Zaman had moved the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission against the former Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) leader over alleged corruption in development projects.
The petition filed with NAB in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa alleged that Gulalai and her father, Shams-ul-Qayyum, have been involved in embezzlement and corruption in various development schemes.
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If they did, I think this would be the end of ESPN and would serve as a lesson in business schools for decades on how corporations commit suicide.
[HollywoodReporter] It’s not outlandish to entertain a previously unthinkable prospect: Might ESPN elect to go without rights to NFL games?
In a span of less than five years, industry giant ESPN has seen its narrative transformed from that of a mighty colossus into the hard-luck tale of a ragtag warrior.
As it struggles to regain heretofore heroic heights ‐ levels of growth that are probably no longer attainable ‐ ESPN has had to endure a slew of significant workforce layoffs (with more reportedly on the way) and a once-doting Wall Street that has turned a skeptically cold shoulder. Astonishing increases in earnings, previously viewed as faits acomplis, now seem like fantasies from another world, thanks to the now-familiar combo of cord-cutting and burgeoning rights fees.
With so much of ESPN’s universe asunder, it’s not outlandish now to entertain a previously unthinkable prospect: Might ESPN elect to go without rights to NFL games after the expiration of its eight-year deal for Monday Night Football in 2021?!
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It would be a good time for someone to get a group together to buy the bits and pieces and contracts. Change the name and add the tagline "No politics, just sports!"
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Why not, they think they have joined the news ranks with CNN...
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You cannot fix stupid.
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To be fair, both entities are doing the dog.
Basic camera work, sounds of the game, and few info graphics would do wonders as we have gone from sportscasters who know the game in and out and love it, to commentators who live off cue cards and piss off viewers.
Seriously, Joe Buck's greatest broadcast in his career was last night when he just STFU for almost an inning. I think he was a little pissy the game went extra.
Watched KSU@KU football game last weekend. Real low prestige game to host, right? Had to dig up a couple old guys. They were sportcasters of the olde school and were fantastic. Also a flat blunt reminder how low, boring, and vanilla sports coverage has become.
The first picture looks like a reboot of 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy'. Let the mocking commence!
[InformationLiberation] The normal testosterone level for an American male is a range anywhere from 270 to 1070 ng/dL with an average of 679 ng/dL.
When a crew from Buzzfeed got their testosterone levels checked as part of an investigation into male attractiveness, 3 out of 4 were apparently low: Three of the four on the chart are lower than the low of 270 cited above, Way to go, Zach and Ned!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[CHICAGO.SUNTIMES] The FBI’s Jeffrey Sallet has taken on mobsters and terrorists.
The man in charge of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) revealed for the first time how officials who work there monitor North Korea missile tests 24/7.
