Wars and Rumors
Islamic State militants beheaded a renowned antiquities scholar in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra and hung his mutilated body on a column in a main square of the historic site because he apparently refused to reveal where valuable artefacts had been moved for safekeeping.
The brutal murder of Khaled al-Asaad, 82… highlighted Isis’s habit of looting and selling antiquities to fund its activities – as well as destroying them.…
1966: Stock market collapse, Vietnam War, protests
1973: Oil embargo (Oct), Yom Kippur war, Stocks collapse, recession
1980: Inflation, Iran-Iraq war, Silver panic, Stocks crash, recession
1987: Black Monday (Oct.), largest single-day crash ever
1994: Bond collapse, DJIA bear market, war
2001: Stock market crash, 911 (Sept.), recession
2008: Stock market collapse 9/29 (Sept.), recession
2015: …
…Reports indicate that much of the infighting between the Roma gangs are over the ownership of women, while the Arabs are much more profit-motivated. Even in areas where gypsies have seized control of the prostitution rackets, they are still forced to pay protection money to the Muslims who rule the city, reports the Berliner Kurier…
I know this part of Bangkok very well. The Erawan shrine is in the heart of the business and shopping area… The shrine is a major tourist attraction. The Thai government said the attack was aimed at foreigners. Local media reports that tourists, including Chinese, are among the casualties. … In determining who placed the bombs or why, suspicion falls upon the Islamic extremist terror movement - aligned with IS - which has emerged from the Muslim south. … I recently discussed the probability of IS-aligned terror cells from southern Thailand becoming operational in Bangkok and directing their actions against foreigners. Unfortunately, I was correct.
…The first three phases to the Islamic State’s plan to defeat the West have already passed…
4. Undermine Western economies
5. ...?
6. Prophet!
…a truck bomb attack killed more than 60 and possibly as many as 70 people and wounded many more in a mainly Shiite area of North Baghdad. Detonating at around 6:00 am Baghdad time in a Sadr City market, more than 200 people were injured… ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack.…
Idriss Déby, the president of Chad, pronounced the battle against the notorious ISIS-linked terrorists of Boko Haram a rousing success on Tuesday, declaring that the group had been “decapitated” and would be mopped up “by the end of the year.”
However, Tuesday also brought word of a massive bomb attack on a crowded market in Nigeria that appears to have been the work of Boko Haram. 47 people were reportedly killed in this attack, with 52 more injured.…
WALLER COUNTY, Texas — A group of armed members of the New Black Panther Party marched on the Waller County Jail Wednesday afternoon chanting “The revolution is on… Off the pigs,” and “Oink Oink… Bang Bang!” The group of about fifteen Black Panthers exercised their First and Second Amendment rights. The group was met in Waller County by a large contingent of Harris County (Houston) Sheriff’s Office deputies.…
The IKEA superstore near Stockholm which witnessed a double murder this week by Eritrean asylum seekers has responded by ending the sale of kitchen knives in-store, and the government has stepped up its policing at asylum-lodgings to defend against a backlash.
The response of the Swedish authorities to the ‘stabbings’ which killed what is reported to be a Swedish native mother and son shopping in the Västerås branch of IKEA – the largest in the country – has mystified some international observers.… unconfirmed suggestions in the fringe press that the killers shouted “Allah Akbar” as they struck. … IKEA stores are gun-free zones…
Hero SAS sniper gunned down a knife-wielding Islamic State (ISIS) maniac just as he was trying to brutally behead a father and his young son.… head shot from 1,000 metres away… "They were last seen heading towards the Turkish border in a pick-up truck. It was a good day’s work." …the village held a party to celebrate the deaths of the ISIS fighters and it is understood terrorists have since refused to enter the town.…
Jihadis' VJ Day plot to bomb the Queen: Police and MI5 in race against time to foil 'spectacular' Boston Marathon copycat IED attack next Saturday
7 Aug - Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) militiamen have kidnapped 230 Syrian civilians, including 19 children and 45 women, after invading a village in the province of Homs in central Syria. Among the hostages are 60 Christians… included Christians who had fled Aleppo province to the north in search of safety in the village of al-Qaryatain…
So there's this guy in Arlington, Virginia who was walking around with his Confederate/Gadsden hybrid flag (it's basically a Confederate Battle flag with the Gadsden "Don't Tread on Me" snake in the middle). And, according to this, some "concerned citizen" (nosy neighbor is more like it) snapped a picture of the guy and then called 911 because the guy was "walking very deliberately" with his flag. He wasn't talking to anyone or harrassing anybody or trespassing on private property. Just - walking around with his flag. …
A suicide bomber killed at least 15 people in an attack on a mosque used by members of a local security force in southwest Saudi Arabia on Thursday, the interior ministry said, an assault that an online statement said was carried out by Islamic State.
The attacker struck as men were praying…
LAGOS, Nigeria – Nigerian troops rescued 178 people from Boko Haram in attacks that destroyed several camps of the Islamic extremists in the northeast of the country, an army statement said Sunday.
Spokesman Col. Tukur Gusau said that 101 of those freed are children, along with 67 women and 10 men.…
ISIS executes 19 girls for refusing to have sex with fighters as UN envoy reveals how sex slaves are 'peddled like barrels of petrol'…
An alert has been issued by the FBI to all law enforcement agencies in Colorado and Wyoming involving U.S. military families and concerns about who may be watching them.
The alert says Middle Eastern men are approaching families of U.S. military members at their homes in Colorado and Wyoming. It mentions Greeley, Colorado, and Cheyenne, Wyoming, as the specific areas.…
HATTIESBURG, Miss. — Camp Shelby was in a heightened state of alert Wednesday after authorities said a man matching the description of Tuesday's shooter fired shots near the military post for a second day.…
An apparent Islamic State recruitment document found in Pakistan’s lawless tribal lands reveals that the extremist group has grand ambitions of building a new terrorist army in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and triggering a war in India to provoke an Armageddon-like “end of the world.”…
Harlem Suarez, 23, of Key West, Florida, has been charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. …Suarez first came onto the FBI’s radar in April, after he posted “extremist rhetoric” and pro-ISIS messages on Facebook…
Six people… stabbed at the annual Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade… by an ultra-Orthodox man who perpetrated a similar stabbing at the 2005 march. …released from prison several weeks ago after serving 10 years in prison for his last attack, which wounded three people.…
My 87-year-old black Dad called to say he wanted to congratulate me for my perseverance. “You finally have me and all your siblings (4) agreeing with you.”
My deep desire is to alert my son, daughter, and other non-political hard-working Americans of the moral, spiritual, and cultural evil threatening to overtake our great nation. No longer are we simply engaged in a battle of ideas -- Republican vs. Democrat, liberal vs. conservative. America's choice of governing has become far more daunting -- light vs. darkness, good vs. evil. “Choose ye this day, whom you will serve.”…
Boko Haram militants slit the throats of sixteen Christian fishermen on the shores of Lake Chad in the Nigerian state of Borno.…
A 32-page document obtained by American Media Institute reveals the Islamic State’s plans to build a terrorist army and provoke an Armageddon-like “end of the world” war on humanity.… (Quotes and links to USA Today)
One Sheriff hospitalized, several more on high alert after suspicious envelopes with white powder were discovered in mail.
Glenn Palmer, Sheriff of Grant County and outspoken gun rights supporter, has been hospitalized after rash developed on his skin after opening an envelope filled with white powder. Several other pro gun Sheriffs received similar envelopes in the mail, but so far none of them others developed strange symptoms.…
The Oregon State Police and multiple partners are conducting a statewide investigation after multiple government offices around the state received suspicious mail, some with an unknown substance.
Hazardous Materials Teams and investigators have responded to these reports. This is a preliminary release and more information will be released when it is available.…
Via Al Jazeera: At least 19 people have been killed and 47 others injured when explosives carried by a girl, aged about 10, detonated in a crowded market in the Nigerian city of Damaturu, police have said.
No one claimed responsibility for Sunday’s explosion but the latest attack bears the hallmarks of the armed group Boko Haram.
Two former detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba were arrested by Belgian police in a counterterrorism operation targeting a recruiting network for al Qaeda in Syria. …
"He has a smirk on his face …I don't know if there's any remorse whatsoever based on that picture…"
…[he had] “exhibited extreme erratic behavior and has made ominous as well as disturbing statements” … "a history of mental health issues, i.e., manic depression and/or bi-polar disorder.” … wife also removed all weapons from their home because she feared his “volatile mental state” …
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