The Daily Beast reports that China has finally admitted something everyone knew: they have been training cyber-warfare military and intelligence units. The formal concession of this digital warfare program is a big deal, arriving in a government publication produced by the Chinese government only once per decade or so, because they have always preserved a shield of “plausible deniability” for their cyber-war exploits in the past.
A horrific coordinated suicide bomb attack on two Shiite mosques in Yemen’s capital city of Sanaa has killed at least 100 people and injured hundreds more, according to Fox News. ISIS militants have claimed responsibility for the attack, which targeted members of the Iran-backed Shiite Houthi tribe which overthrew Yemen’s American-backed Sunni elected government in January.
As if tensions between Greece and its creditors in Germany weren’t high enough already, a German TV host decided to create a convincing fake video of Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis flipping Germany the bird.
A French magazine called Paris Match has printed photographs of Cherif and Said Kouachi, the jihadis who attacked Charlie Hebdo magazine in January over its “insults” to Islamic law, killing a dozen innocent people. The Kouachis were cornered by police in a printing factory near Charles de Gaulle airport, and died in a gun battle.
The next election will be won by an extraordinary conservative candidate, not one who strives to make himself acceptable to some vague mass of “moderates” that never actually shows up on Election Day.
Hurriyet Daily News caught Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan holding forth about his role in shaping American health care at the inauguration of a new health complex in Ankara.
Fox News reports that ISIS is claiming responsibility for the horrific shooting spree at the National Bardo Museum in Tunisia, in a statement describing the attack as a “blessed invasion of one of the dens of infidels and vice in Muslim Tunisia.”
Even a CNN commentator is noticing that the Obama economy doesn’t look good for millennials. And if we’re going to fix a big problem that stands to ruin the hopes of an entire generation, we need to think about big solutions, not just finger-pointing.
The story of Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh is disturbing, but not entirely unique, as a report from NJ.com notes. A federal indictment charges that the New Jersey man–a born-and-bred American who served four years in the Air Force–began following the Islamic State online and decided to join the jihad by arranging a “vacation” to Turkey, with an eye toward slipping across the border into Syria.
Under the most transparent administration ever, when you read a news story about some blockbuster tidbit of information retrieved with a Freedom of Information Act “request,” the truth is that the information was almost always pried loose with a FOIA lawsuit. The requests don’t go anywhere, unless they’re for entirely innocuous info. Lawsuits are what penetrate the Obama stone wall, and those take a long time to resolve.
For the benefit of anyone wondering why Israeli voters are still concerned about security, despite Team Obama and its pet media insisting they are surrounded by nothing but constructive, well-meaning partners in peace, the Middle East Media Research Institute brings us a lovely musical performance by a couple of child rap singers at a Hamas rally in Gaza.
Computers don’t think the same way people do. So even if Hillary Clinton’s team used computers to sort her email, there’s no reason to think she’s turned over all work-related items included on her home server.
Upon further review, Hillary Clinton’s unprecedented email practices in her drive for unaccountable secrecy may have jeopardized national security. If Clinton’s irresponsibility caused a major security breach, we’ll be watching this black comedy play out for years to come, whether she runs for office again or not.
Team Obama’s childish and petulant refusal to congratulate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his re-election is an unforced error that’s almost hard to believe, even from this crew. All they had to do was issue a pro-forma statement, just a few little words, a polite nod would do if an exuberant high-five is too much to ask.
The alarming, but fortunately well-controlled, incident on United Flight 1074 remains a mystery two days later. The plane was headed from Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., to Denver when a man rushed the cockpit shortly after takeoff, screaming a number of alarming things, including the word “jihad.”
American liberals won’t like it. But Netanyahu’s win shows Israeli voters are still concerned about the cold realities of national security, while Obama’s crew is busy gambling billions of dollars and millions of lives on elaborate theories about how appeasement can turn terrorists into statesmen.
ISIS believes “ancient relics promote idolatry that violates their fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic law.”
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki finally admits there seems to be no record of Hillary Clinton signing form OF-109 before leaving office in 2013.
The ongoing battle between the Islamic State and the hacker group “Anonymous” rages as two other “hactivist” groups, GhostSec and Ctrlsec, teamed up with Anonymous to produce a list of 9,200 Twitter accounts linked to ISIS.
It’s not news, but the Clinton email scandal reminds us that the increasingly despotic Democrat Party thinks representative government should be done away with, replaced by a single election every four years to empower a unitary gridlock-free imperial executive. The emperor, or empress, can’t be distracted by peasants who forget their place and file Freedom of Information Act requests, either.
Today, the Iraq government issued a surprising statement that they were suspending the battle for Tikrit, ostensibly because they’re worried about collateral damage to the city and civilian casualties.
The Islamic State (ISIS) released an unintentionally hilarious propaganda video showing its “elite special forces” in training, but far from showing off their fearsome skills, it makes them look like a clown act.
The Starbucks coffee chain announces a “race relations initiative” to allow employees to opine about race, whether customers like it or not. Perhaps some quick-thinking restaurant chains will begin advertising themselves as peaceful politics-free zones where people can enjoy meals and beverages without being proselytized from every angle.
Executions are rising sharply in Iran, reaching a 12-year high in 2014, according to the United Nations’s Human Rights Council. The UN called this “deeply troubling” and further criticized Iran for not living up to promises that it would protect ethnic and religious minorities, according to a report at Voice of America News.
As a minimum wage increase looms in Seattle, the city is losing restaurants.
