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| Posted: 27 Oct 2019 10:08 PM PDT DONALD Trump has threatened to "drop" captured ISIS fighters on the UK border if the Government continues to bar British-born jihadis from returning to the country. In an astonishing attack that put a fresh strain on relations with Washington, the US President said the UK, Germany and France had been a "tremendous disappointment" in dealing with ISIS fighters.  Mr Trump raised the pressure on Britain to change its policy on the return of ISIS fighters at a press conference in the wake of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's death. The US wants ISIS fighters to face trial in their countries of origin and yesterday Mr Trump said the US taxpayer was not going to pick up the cost of dealing with the return of non-American ISIS fighters. There are fears that Turkey's recent offensive against Kurdish forces in north-east Syria will lead to the release of thousands of dangerous former ISIS fighters. There were an estimated 60 British-born adults who were held captive in the region before the Turkish advancement. 'HAVE FUN CAPTURING THEM AGAIN'In an angry riposte to the UK, France and Germany's current policy Mr Trump warned yesterday that he would even take the extraordinary action of allowing the released ISIS fighters to reach the border of Europe if they didn't start taking responsibility for the fighters. He blasted: "The European nations have been a tremendous disappointment. I personally called - my people called a lot - take your ISIS fighters and they didn't want them. "They said 'we don't want them'. They came from France, they came from Germany, they came from the UK, they came from a lot of countries. "I actually said to them 'if you don't take 'em, I'm going to drop them right on your border and you can have fun capturing them again. "But the United States taxpayer is not going to pay for the next 50 years - you see what Guantanamo costs. DISGRACEFury as top Corbynista says it's 'sickening' that Brits wear 'racist' poppiesOUT WITH THE OLDHalf of under-35s say over-70s should be banned from votes on UK's futureJEZ DO ONERebel Labour MPs are mounting a secret plot to bring down Jeremy CorbynBERCSTOPJohn Bercow will quit as Speaker this week to take new job... as a speakerPOLL POSITIONGeneral election odds 2019 – what's the latest from the bookies?"We're not going to pay tens of billions of dollars because we were good enough to capture people that wanted to go back to Germany, France, the UK and other parts of Europe." The UK Government did not respond to Mr Trump's comments yesterday.  Trump says ISIS boss Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi blew himself up & 'died like a dog' after 'whimpering and crying' in raid GOT a story? RING The Sun on 0207 782 4104 or WHATSAPP on 07423720250 or EMAIL exclusive@the-sun.co.uk Top stories - Google News October 27, 2019 at 07:32PM https://ift.tt/2MRgQ3T Donald Trump threatens to 'drop' captured IS fighters on UK border if Britain continues to bar jihadis from re - The Sun Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
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| Northwestern men's soccer beats Spartans off Moderwell's last-minute goal - Daily Northwestern Posted: 27 Oct 2019 09:38 PM PDT   Midfielder Matt Moderwell attempts to steal the ball. The senior scored the game-winning goal against Michigan State. Daily file photo by Evan Robinson-Johnson Daily file photo by Evan Robinson-Johnson Midfielder Matt Moderwell attempts to steal the ball. The senior scored the game-winning goal against Michigan State.
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| Roy scores first career NHL goal, Vegas tops Anaheim 5-2 - The San Diego Union-Tribune Posted: 27 Oct 2019 09:38 PM PDT  Nicolas Roy was a six-year-old when Marc-Andre Fleury made his NHL debut. The two are teammates now, and on Sunday night Roy scored his first career NHL goal and Fleury made 13 saves, leading the Vegas Golden Knights to a 5-2 win over the Anaheim Ducks. Roy, making his first appearance as a member of the Golden Knights, showed off his blazing speed when he split two Anaheim defenders and slipped a shot through Ducks goaltender John Gibson's pads for what turned out to be the game-winning goal. "Usually I don't even celly after a goal, but that one I had to, it was so fun," said Roy, who celebrated by jumping into the glass that separated him and a slew of frenzied Golden Knights fans. "It was such a great feeling, a really great night." Advertisement Roy, who was drafted 96th overall by the Carolina Hurricanes in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft, was inserted into the lineup in place of Brandon Pirri and centered a fourth line better known for its rugged play with wings Ryan Reaves and William Carrier, two of the league leaders in hits. Sunday, the trio finished with a total of three points, as Carrier assisted on Reaves' second goal of the season and team-leading career seventh against the Ducks. "I don't know what it is," Reaves said of his success against Anaheim. "I played a lot of Duck Hunter when I was young." Reaves complimented Roy's immediate chemistry on the fourth line, which in just 7:18 of time on ice had an impressive Corsi edge of 11-2. "(He was) really good, solid, all over the ice, some crazy speed on his goal," Reaves said. "Really solid defensively and nice offensive touch." Advertisement Mark Stone, William Karlsson and Paul Stastny also scored for Vegas, which moved ahead of the Ducks and into sole possession of second place in the Pacific Division. Vegas has 16 points, one point behind first-place Edmonton. Anaheim has 14 points. The Golden Knights, who were outshot 40-26 in a 6-1 loss to Colorado on Friday, outshot the Ducks 49-15, including a whopping 17-5 in the first period when they seized control with a 3-1 lead. The 15 shots on goal were the fewest Vegas has allowed this season. "They were awesome, from start to finish," said Fleury, who improved to 14-4 all-time against Anaheim. "That was a tough loss to Colorado, not just because of the score, but maybe the way that the game played out. That wasn't us, and I think tonight, it's the type of games that we want to be playing." Ryan Getzlaf and Adam Henrique scored for the Ducks, while Gibson dropped to 1-7-1 against Vegas after allowing five goals. Gibson, who made 44 saves, has started every game for Anaheim against the Golden Knights since Vegas entered the league in 2017. The Ducks appeared to have carried their momentum from Saturday's 5-2 win at Colorado, as Getzlaf opened the scoring when he took a pass from Max Comtois and slipped it through Fleury's pads, making it 1-0 just 4:12 into the game. The lead didn't last. Stone was credited with tying the game 34 seconds later, when his wrist shot off the post ended up on the end of Anaheim defenseman Cam Fowler's stick. Fowler accidentally knocked the puck into his own net to tie the game at 1-1. The onslaught of shots at Gibson continued in the second period. Karlsson made it 4-1 with a power-play goal midway through the period. Advertisement Stastny put the game out of reach early in the third when he netted Vegas' second power-play goal. He took a pass from Max Pacioretty and netted his fifth goal of the season. "They have three lines of high skill and high speed," Anaheim coach Dallas Eakins said. "Then their fourth line is about as heavy as it gets. That's why they are a top team in this league." NOTES: Stone, who is three games shy of playing in the 400th of his career, has picked up at least one point in 11 of Vegas' 13 games. ... The Ducks are three games shy of their 2,000th game in franchise history, which is scheduled for Nov. 3 vs. Chicago. ... Gibson entered the game tied for the highest career save percentage (.922) among all-time NHL goaltenders with at least 200 games played. ... The Ducks' power-play woes continued, as they were 0 for 1 with a man advantage, and are now 3 for 31 this season, fifth-worst in the league. UP NEXT Ducks: Host Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday. Golden Knights: Host Montreal Canadiens on Thursday. ___ More AP NHL: https://apnews.com/tag/NHL and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports Advertisement "Goal" - Google News October 27, 2019 at 07:54PM https://ift.tt/2Ng10Pm Roy scores first career NHL goal, Vegas tops Anaheim 5-2 - The San Diego Union-Tribune "Goal" - Google News https://ift.tt/35TEe8t Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Magenta First Responder: T-Mobile Unveils New Discounted Plan - PCMag.com Posted: 27 Oct 2019 09:09 PM PDT  T-Mobile's introducing the Magenta First Responder plan on National First Responders Day. Just as it does for active soldiers and veterans, T-Mobile will say 'thank you' to first responders by reducing how much they pay for wireless service. The military discount saves families over $1 billion annually, according to the Un-carrier, and its latest plan might do the same. The new Magenta First Responder plan takes 50% off family lines. It creates significant savings for first responders and their families, offering four lines for just $100 per month when enrolled in auto-pay. Eligibility includes law enforcement officers, firefighters, and emergency medical services (EMS) personnel. Other US carriers feature military discounts, but Verizon and AT&T actually increased their prices in April 2018. Also, neither of them offer discounts for first responders. With the introduction of the Magenta First Responder plan, it's likely Verizon and AT&T decide to announce similar programs for their customers who are first responders. In addition, T-Mobile's taking 50% off the latest Samsung devices. The deal appears to include the Galaxy Note 10 and the Galaxy S10. Just purchase a new Samsung device on an equipment installment plan (EIP), and T-Mobile will issue bill credits every month to cover half the cost. Whether you're a new or existing customer who's switching to the Magenta First Responder plan, you're eligible for this deal. Both the Magenta First Responder plan and T-Mobile's 50% off deal on Samsung devices are scheduled to be available starting on Friday, November 1. First responders can switch to the plan online or in stores throughout the United States. "Mobile" - Google News October 27, 2019 at 09:08PM https://ift.tt/346mVz5 Magenta First Responder: T-Mobile Unveils New Discounted Plan - PCMag.com "Mobile" - Google News https://ift.tt/2P9t7Cg Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| T-Mobile adds new discounted Magenta plan for first responders and their families - CNET Posted: 27 Oct 2019 09:03 PM PDT  T-Mobile's latest wireless plan offers a discount to first responders. Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesT-Mobile is joining AT&T and Verizon with a new plan designed to give discounts to first responders and their families. Called Magenta First Responder, the new plan launches on Friday, Nov. 1, and will offer a 50% discount on family plans for "state and local law enforcement officers, firefighters and EMS personnel." As part of the new offering, four lines of the company's Magenta plan would be $100 with taxes and fees included, a savings of $60 from the company's regular rate. The discounted plan still includes all the regular Magenta features including 3GB of highspeed mobile hotspot and a subscription to Netflix's Basic plan (1 screen, non-HD). The pricing is similar to T-Mobile's offering for active military members and veterans that it introduced last year. As with the military plan, those who want T-Mobile's step-up Magenta Plus plan will be able to get four lines for $140 per month (a savings of $30 per month). "At T-Mobile, we're on an unrelenting mission to change wireless for good. With Magenta First Responder, we'll put money right back in the pockets of our nation's first responders and their families," said T-Mobile CEO John Legere in a statement, touting that his company's initial military offering "forced AT&T and Verizon to respond" which helped provide significant savings for military families. "This is what we do. We spark a reaction," continued Legere, in an apparent allusion to Verizon's controversy last year when the carrier was found to have throttled the data of California firefighters who were combating wildfires. The issue prompted Verizon to introduce its own plan for first responders and their families, which starts at $30 per line for four lines of its Unlimited Start plan ($120 per month total). AT&T, by comparison, offers 25% off its Unlimited &More plans for military and first responders. AT&T also has a special network dedicated to first responders called FirstNet that prioritizes their data in the event of an emergency. As with their regular plans, neither Verizon or AT&T includes taxes or fees with their respective monthly pricing. "Mobile" - Google News October 27, 2019 at 09:01PM https://ift.tt/2Ng3UU9 T-Mobile adds new discounted Magenta plan for first responders and their families - CNET "Mobile" - Google News https://ift.tt/2P9t7Cg Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Posted: 27 Oct 2019 08:58 PM PDT Operation Obliteration: How US gunships cornered ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi before he 'dragged three children with him into a dead-end tunnel and detonated a suicide belt' - as Donald Trump said he watched live on TV link 'like a movie'
Advertisement It was shortly after midnight in the remote village of Barisha that residents heard a familiar noise coming from above. The whir of rotor blades in the darkness signalled something was coming, something military – which, in these parts, usually brings death. Sure enough, within minutes the sound of bullets piercing the air followed. But this was no usual firefight, with those brandishing automatic weapons on the ground severely outgunned by an enemy they had not been expecting. For the footsoldiers still loyal to the Islamic State terror group were caught by surprise by the crack American team descending upon their high-profile prize – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the world's most wanted man. Five years after he had launched his self-styled 'caliphate', and brought a new wave of terror to the globe, the net was finally closing on the IS leader.  For the footsoldiers still loyal to the Islamic State terror group were caught by surprise by the crack American team descending upon their high-profile prize – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the world's most wanted man  Caliphate leader: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi detonated his own suicide vest during the targeted raid on his lair in Syria's Idlib province and killed three of his children in the blast. He is shown in a still from a video released in April, having not been seen since he spoke at the Grand Mosque in Mosul in 2014  Syrians walk past a damaged van at the site of helicopter gunfire which reportedly killed nine people near the northwestern Syrian village of Barisha  A satellite view of the reported residence of ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, prior to the airstrikes. The compound on the top right of the image was obliterated after the assault by US troops  An aerial view taken on on October 27, 2019 shows the site above the walled compound circled in red in the image above, after it was struck by helicopter fire  The helicopters targeted a home and a car on the outskirts of Barisha, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, after US media said IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was believed to be dead following a US military raid in the same province  The live feed of the assault is understood to have been played to those in the White House 'as though watching a movie' according to President Trump Capture or kill Being played on a live feed to those back in the White House, 'as though watching a movie', according to President Donald Trump, the helicopter gunships circled, taking small arms fire but delivering their far more devastating riposte. Some hovered in the air, laying down a cover of fire underneath which a crack team of elite Delta Force commandos and Rangers could slip to the floor safely, landing outside Baghdadi's compound on the edge of the village. Armed with highly-trained dogs and a robot to withstand suicide attacks, the 70-strong team was ready for a bloodbath. Capture or kill ... either option had been authorised. After playing a round of golf earlier, Mr Trump had returned to the White House, settling in the Situation Room alongside his top generals and security officials.  The rubble and destruction caused by the military raid in the northwestern Syrian village of Barisha  An aerial view of the site taken today shows the damage the helicopter caused on the site where al-Baghdadi was thought to have lived  Rubble and craters litter the site where the US strikes took place and which reportedly killed nine people This was the moment they had been planning for since a lucky break in Iraq last month. Iraqi-Kurdish officials had detained one of Baghdadi's many wives, a nephew and the wife of one of his trusted couriers. The information from that trio led them, it is understood, to an IS hideout in the desert of western Iraq, a bolthole that was to prove extremely valuable. For found inside, among some of the IS leader's personal possessions, were the coordinates of his secret location, a non-descript house in a part of northwest Syria that was controlled by Al Qaeda, an enemy of Baghdadi. Even for the organisation that murdered more than 3,000 in 9/11, the brutal violence of Islamic State was too much and Baghdadi was seen as unhinged. With the CIA now on board, the mission to take out Baghdadi had suddenly grown even more dangerous. Trump looks on When Mr Trump arrived on Saturday to watch the operation in real-time, it came four days after he had given the green light, with several other opportunities aborted at the last minute. Moments after he was in place, at around 9pm UK time, the US helicopters lifted off from their air base in Iraq and flew some 500 miles over 'very very dangerous territory', a journey that lasted just over an hour.  Donald Trump addressed the nation Sunday morning, confirming that the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. He said he had watched and monitored the whole operation Saturday night The teams had to cross Russian, Syrian and Turkish airspace to reach their objective. With current tensions in the region, they could easily have been mistaken for an invading force. US commanders notified Moscow, Damascus and Ankara that something 'big' that they 'would like' was going to happen – but they did not share their ultimate goal. As the helicopters, a mix of Chinooks and Black Hawks, approached the compound in the war-ravaged Idlib province, near the Turkish border, all hell broke loose.  Meeting in the situation room Saturday night (from left to right): National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien, Vice President Mike Pence, Trump, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Army General Mark Milley and Brig. General Marcus Evans Troops storm in Fearing a booby-trapped front door, the elite soldiers made their own opening, blowing holes into the wall of Baghdadi's den. Two 'wives', both wearing suicide vests which thankfully did not detonate, were killed in the ensuing firefight, along with a large number of Baghdadi's 'fighters and companions'. ISIS 'already has a new leader' barely a day after former chief Baghdadi 'died like a dog' in US strikes as former Saddam Hussein army officer takes terror group's reinsISIS 'already has a new leader' barely a day after former chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died 'like a dog' in US strikes as the former Saddam Hussein army officer takes the terror group's reins. Abdullah Qardash - sometimes spelt Karshesh - was said to have been nominated by the now deceased al-Baghdadi to run the group's 'Muslim Affairs', as reported by Newsweek. Little is known about Qardash, who once served under Saddam Hussein.  Abdullah Qardash, a former officer in Saddam Husein's military, is reportedly the new leader of ISIS But he is understood to have already taken over a number of duties from al-Baghdadi prior to his demise this week when he detonated a suicide vest. An official told Newsweek: 'Baghdadi was a figurehead. He was not involved in operations or day-to-day.' 'All Baghdadi did was say yes or no—no planning.' As they cleared the building carefully, tracking room by room in the darkness, an Arabic speaker called out, urging Baghdadi to give himself up. But the terrorist who called for death to the West ran, drawing Delta Force deeper into the compound they had studied from plans – memorising every corner, every hiding place and every possible escape route. As the team went further, they helped 11 children get out alive, while a group of Islamic State extremists, realising their time was up, surrendered. Mr Trump said there 'more dead than alive' in the aftermath. Once the compound had been emptied of others, the US troops and their dogs chased Baghdadi into an underground tunnel, taking three children with him. The soldiers knew it was a dead end and there was no escape, so proceeded slowly, sending in their highly-trained canines. Target down It was at that point that Baghdadi's murderous reign came to an end as he detonated his own suicide vest, killing himself, his terrified young hostages and bringing much of the tunnel down upon them. Announcing the news yesterday, Mr Trump said: 'The thug who tried so hard to intimidate others spent his last moments in utter fear, in total panic and dread, terrified of the American forces bearing down on him.' Back in the White House, having been informed of the explosion, they held their breath. Back in the tunnel, the US team dug through the rubble. Not much of Baghdadi was left – but enough for a DNA test using a small field kit. Within 15 minutes, news crackled through to the Situation Room on the radio: '100 per cent confidence Jackpot. Over.' Jackpot is thought to be the codename the US gave to Baghdadi, the same name they had given to Osama Bin Laden during a similar operation in 2011. The overall Bin Laden operation was given the classified name 'Operation Neptune Spear', a reference to the trident in the insignia of SEAL Team Six who went after the terrorist. This time, the mission for Baghdadi was given a more human touch, named after US human rights worker Kayla Mueller, who was captured by IS and, according to the US, made a personal prisoner of its leader before she was killed. With Baghdadi confirmed dead, and the opposition outside 'obliterated' in the president's words, Delta Force made their way out but not before 'exploiting' the scene, a military term for intelligence gathering on the go. Hideout blitzed They grabbed every computer, every phone, every bit of paper they could find in the hope it will bring them closer to tracking those still loyal to IS and putting an end to them once and for all. Two hours after they touched down, the team was back in the air, being whisked to safety, heading out of Syria along the same path they had taken to get in. The last action was to call in an airstrike by US drones, reducing Baghdadi's hideout to rubble, wiping it from the face of the Earth and covering their tracks. When he had word his units were back safe and sound, not a casualty among them, Donald Trump fired up his Twitter to tease the world with a cryptic message: 'Something very big has just happened!' He then stayed silent until breaking the news yesterday morning, telling reporters: 'Last night, the United States brought the world's number one terrorist leader to justice.'  Al-Baghdadi, the leader of the so-called Islamic caliphate, blew himself up during the targeted attack on his lair in Syria's Idlib province in the early hours of Sunday morning. His lair was in a village known for smuggling, and he arrived there 48 hours before the raid Death of a butcher, but not of his cause: JOHN R. BRADLEY examines the likely impact of the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-BaghdadiHe may have been the world's most wanted terrorist and the supremo of global jihad, but Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was all but a mythical figure to those hunting him. Known as 'The Invisible Sheikh' – by virtue of the mask he wore to address his commanders – he nurtured the lowest of profiles, eschewing the showmanship of fellow jihadi leaders who paid the price by making themselves vulnerable to tracking by intelligence services. Indeed, he made only two video appearances during his lifetime – until yesterday, that is, when US Special Forces apparently recorded him blowing himself up in northwestern Syria. For five years, Al-Baghdadi – a nom de guerre, his real name was Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim al-Badri – led the most barbaric terrorist outfit the modern world has known. He came to global attention in 2014 when a YouTube video showed him in the pulpit of the Nouri mosque in Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, which his IS foot- soldiers had just conquered. Dressed in a black turban and flowing black gown, he delivered a sermon urging Muslims around the world to swear allegiance to the new caliphate – an Islamic state led by a caliph, a successor to the Prophet Muhammad who has absolute political and religious power – and to flock to protect its newly conquered territory. Al-Baghdadi's Iraqi tribe claimed descent from the Prophet, but few had heard of him before he brazenly declared himself ruler of all Muslims. Born in 1971 to a middle-class family in the Iraqi city of Samarra, Al-Baghdadi always saw his destiny as an important religious leader. As a youth he was a keen footballer, but known for his piety. His family nickname was 'the Believer' because he'd scold those who failed to observe religious practices correctly. He moved to Baghdad to study, graduating in Koranic studies and then teaching at a mosque. But when the US invaded Iraq in 2003, he joined the violent insurrection. A year later, US forces arrested him in Fallujah, but he was considered a low-level threat and incarcerated for only ten months. Crucially, however, he spent time in the hellish Abu Ghraib and Camp Bucca – known as the Jihad University – detention facilities where he befriended battle-hardened jihadis. Following his release, Al-Baghdadi joined the Iraqi branch of Al Qaeda which later became Islamic State of Iraq. In 2010, he re-emerged as its leader, and his fighters crossed into Syria to take advantage of the chaos caused by the civil war. Islamic State in Iraq thus morphed into Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant – and ISIL (later IS) was born. By 2015, this ruthless battlefield tactician was ruling over a caliphate spanning parts of Syria and Iraq that was the size of Britain, with almost 8 million people under his control, and an annual budget of more than $1billion – generated through the sale of oil from the facilities IS controlled, but also from extortion and kidnapping. His fanatical militia, who flocked to the caliphate from all over the world, numbered at least 30,000, although some estimates put their number at the caliphate's peak as at least double or even treble that. During its reign of terror, IS carried out unspeakable acts of barbarity in the name of a perverted holy war. Its ultimate, apocalyptic goal was to rid the world of anyone – Muslim and non-Muslim alike – who refused to submit to its extremist interpretation of Islam. Thousands of innocents were lined up on their knees and ritually slaughtered by having their throats slit. As 'infidels', Christians, Yazidis and Shia Muslims were singled out for slaughter, the ghastly spectacle was recorded in sickeningly professional propaganda videos that shocked the world. IS relished its reputation for brutality to Western hostages in particular, including Britons David Haines, an aid worker, and Alan Henning, a Salford taxi driver who had gone to Syria to help deliver aid. Countless others were burned or buried alive, or drowned, while suspected homosexuals were thrown from the top of buildings, and thousands of women and girls were taken as sex slaves. In Iraq, more than 200 mass graves containing IS victims have been found containing between 6,000 and 12,000 bodies. Still more mass graves continue to be discovered in Syria. At the same time, IS terrorists have carried out dozens of attacks around the world, killing and maiming thousands. No wonder Donald Trump was triumphant yesterday – 'he died like a dog' – as he announced Al-Baghdadi's death. There have been numerous false reports of his death since the defeat of IS in 2017, but the President has a particular reason to be thrilled. Trump is facing stinging criticism domestically and internationally that his partial withdrawal of US troops in Syria this month has left the Kurds – America's allies in the fight against IS – exposed and created a vacuum which might allow IS to re-emerge. The group still has thousands of armed supporters in the area. IS sleeper cells have already launched several attacks. Al-Baghdadi's death will bolster Trump's claim that under his watch IS will not be allowed to regain strength and threaten American interests. But the President would be foolish to be too optimistic. The parallels between the US raids that killed Al-Baghdadi and that which killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011 are striking – and ominous. Many terrorism experts argue that Al Qaeda is an even more dangerous enemy today, with thousands of battle-hardened members in South Asia, Africa and the West. Meanwhile, Islamic State is active in at least 18 countries, claiming to have carried out more than 1,800 attacks in the first half of this year alone. Al-Baghdadi is gone and the dream of the caliphate is over – but his death has not dealt a fatal blow.
New US-led assault in Syria 'kills ISIS spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir' just hours after the terror group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was wiped out in Commando raidThe Islamic State group's spokesman was killed Sunday in northern Syria, a top Kurdish official said, hours after the jihadists' leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was announced dead. The official with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces -- who asked not to be named because he is not authorised to speak on the issue -- said IS spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir had been killed, after SDF chief Mazloum Abdi said he had been 'targeted' in a fresh raid. 'Al-Muhajir, the right-hand of Baghdadi and the spokesman for IS, was targeted in the village of Ain al-Baydah near Jarablus, in a coordinated operation between SDF intelligence and the US army,' Abdi said on Twitter. An AFP correspondent in Ain al-Baydah, which is controlled by Turkey-backed Syrian rebels, said two vehicles where hit by airstrikes: a small pick-up truck and a larger truck carrying a small metal container.  Firefighters extinguish the flames of a burning truck at the spot where Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, the Islamic State group's spokesman was reportedly killed in a raid in the northern Syrian village of Ayn al-Bayda near Jarablus on Sunday He saw two corpses lying outside the first vehicle while a third charred body was in the metal container. He could not identify who was behind the strikes or if they were carried out by warplanes or a drone. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed the death of al-Muhajir, saying he was among five IS members who were killed in a US-led operation backed by the SDF. In a later post on Twitter, SDF spokesman Mustefa Bali said: 'We believe ISIS spox. Al-Muhajir was in Jarablus to facilitate Baghdadi's entry to Euphrates Shield area,' referring to a zone in northern Syria controlled by Turkey's Syria proxies. 'The two US-led operations have effectively disabled top ISIS leadership who were hiding' in northwest Syria. 'More still remain hiding in the same area,' Bali said. Earlier on Sunday, Trump said Baghdadi was killed, dying 'like a dog,' in a daring, nighttime raid by US special forces deep in northwest Syria. Trump said that US forces killed a 'large number' of IS militants during the raid, which culminated in Baghdadi cornered in a tunnel, where he detonated a suicide vest. The operation to kill Baghdadi took place near a small village in northwestern Syria called Barisha, more than a 100 kilometres west of Ain al-Baydah. The IS 'caliphate' was eradicated in March, nearly five years after it was proclaimed by Baghdadi, largely reducing the jihadist militants to scattered sleeper cells. At the time, the IS spokesman came out of months of silence to spur on his troops. He had not delivered a speech since March. Top stories - Google News October 27, 2019 at 03:24PM https://ift.tt/2JttnZ5 How US gunships cornered ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as Donald Trump watched on live TV link - Daily Mail Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Posted: 27 Oct 2019 08:52 PM PDT A FORMER officer in Saddam Hussein's army has taken over as the leader of ISIS after the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, it has been reported. Abdullah Qardash – known as the Professor – is already believed to have assumed control of the day-to-day running of the jihadi group.  5  5 Baghdadi was killed when US forces swooped on his compound in northwestern Syria and he blew up self-up with a suicide vest after being cornered in a tunnel. Donald Trump said the terror chief died "crying, whimpering and screaming and bringing three kids with him". Qardash was reportedly appointed as Baghdadi's successor in August, after the terror chief was wounded in an airstrike and was also suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure. A regional intelligence official told Newsweek that Qardash would now have taken over as ISIS leader. "Baghdadi was a figurehead. He was not involved in operations or day-to-day. All Baghdadi did was say yes or no—no planning," said the official. It was in the Iraqi prison that Baghdadi became a jihadist demagogue converting hundreds of prisoners to his sick vision of a so-called caliphate.  5 Qardash, whose age is unknown, is believed to have worked alongside him ever since, reports The Times. The Iraqi worked as the death cult's top legislator before his promotion to leader in waiting, it has been reported. His nickname is the Professor and is known as a ruthless policymaker in the group. Qardash was also a confidante of Abu Alaa al-Afri, Baghdadi's previous deputy, who was killed in a US helicopter gun raid in 2016. Since the fall of Baghuz, ISIS's last urban stronghold in March, the group has been reduced to pockets of resistance across the two countries. Qardash faces a divided leadership, some of whom may reject his vision and strategy, reports The Times. With its members scattered in cells across a huge sweep of desert that spans two countries, three main factions have emerged, gathered around Tunisian, Saudi and Iraqi leadership. Security forces across the region have warned that the remaining cells are strong enough to launch attacks and are ready to step into any power vacuum. 'DIED LIKE A DOG'ISIS chief blew himself up in a tunnel as US special ops blitzed his lairSET FOR LIFEMum, 41, and dad, 39, RETIRE after saving £1.6m doing 2nd jobs as Uber driversDEATH SENTENCEBoy, 6, marked for death by his CANNIBAL tribe returns to jungle village'MIRACLES EXIST'Teen blinded in blaze hopes for miracle surgery to see girl pal's beautyNAKED AMBITIONStudent vets strip off for a naked calendar to support better mental healthFadhel Abo Ragheef, former security analyst with the Iraqi government, said he believes that Qardash's promotion could reinvigorate the sick death cult. He said: "The attacks will not increase with Qardash's new leadership but they will be more specific," "They have a lot of power over large lands, even though their funds have been reduced." Trump says ISIS boss Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi blew himself up & 'died like a dog' after 'whimpering and crying' in raid  5  5 Top stories - Google News October 27, 2019 at 04:04PM https://ift.tt/2Jr0XPy New ISIS leader named as ex-Saddam henchman 'The Professor' Abdullah Qardash after Baghdadi killed in US rai - The Sun Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Posted: 27 Oct 2019 08:40 PM PDT Trump faces renewed backlash for 'abandoning' the Kurds in Syria as its revealed THEIR intelligence helped locate al-Baghdadi in compound where he blew himself and three of his kids up in dead-end tunnel
Donald Trump is facing renewed criticism for his decision to withdraw U.S. Troops from Syria and leave the Kurds to confront a Turkish offensive alone after it's revealed Kurdish intelligence gathered the most information to help locate Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leading to his eventual demise Saturday. Al-Baghdadi, 48, the elusive leader of the Islamic State, killed himself and his three children by deploying his suicide vest as U.S. Special Ops forces raided his hideaway last night in Idlib, northwest Syria. Donald Trump beamed with pride when he announced that ISIS leader's death hours later, touting the news as a giant triumph for his administration and boasted it was even more profound than the Obama administration's military strike against al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. 'Last night the United States brought the world's number one terrorist leader to justice, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead,' Trump declared. 'He was the founder and leader of ISIS, the most ruthless and violent terror organization anywhere in the world. 'The thug who tried so hard to intimidate others spent his last moments in utter fear, in total panic and dread, terrified of the American forces bearing down on him.'  The U.S. military operation to strike ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was a success despite actions by President Donald Trump, according to military, intelligence and counterterrorism officials  Al-Baghdadi (above) was tracked down following the arrest and interrogation of one of his wives and a courier this past summer, but the plans to strike his compound were jeopardized when Trump announced he would pull American troops out of Syria However, in the hours since, two intelligence officials revealed to the New York Times it was actually Syrian and Iraqi Kurds who provided the most information about al-Baghdadi's whereabouts and were instrumental in bringing him down. In fact, officials started to narrow down al-Baghdadi's location and plan the raid this past summer, but the operation to strike his hideout was nearly blown out of the water when President Trump abruptly announced plans to withdraw American troops from northern Syria. The bold move forced Pentagon officials to green light the night raid before their control of troops, spies, and reconnaissance aircraft was withdrawn, military, intelligence and counterterrorism officials revealed to the Times. Those officials say that al-Baghdadi's death comes largely in spite of Trump's military leadership, with the Kurds continuing to provide information to the CIA even after Trump's announcement, which left them vulnerable to attack from an aggressive Turkish front.  The president proudly announced the death of the elusive terror leader on Sunday, but officials say that he only created hurdles in the military operations to capture al-Baghdadi. The White House released this photo of Trump in the Situation Room on Sunday. From left to right: National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien, Vice President Mike Pence, Trump, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Army General Mark Milley and Brig. General Marcus Evans It took months for CIA agents to narrow down the location of the notorious al-Baghdadi. He was finally tracked down following the arrest and interrogation of one of his wives and a courier this past summer, two American officials said to the Times. The pair betrayed al-Baghdadi and surrendered small fractions of information that enabled American, Iraqi, and Kurdish forces to narrow down his whereabouts to Idlib. Following that tip the CIA worked closely with Iraqi and Kurdish intelligence officials in Iraq and Syria to find his precise locations and to embed spies to monitor his movements that led to the raid. One official noted that the Syrian and Iraqi Kurds provided more intelligence for the raid than any single country did. Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper told ABC that he did not know if the United States would have been able to carry out the helicopter raid against Mr. Baghdadi's compound had American troops been completely withdrawn from Syria, as Trump had originally planned. Regardless, in his press conference earlier today, Trump insisted he has no regrets about withdrawing from the region.  Officials started to narrow down al-Baghdadi's location and plan the raid this past summer, but the operation to strike his hideout was nearly blown out of the water when President Trump abruptly decided to withdraw American troops from northern Syria. A satellite view of al-Baghdadi's compound near the village of Barisha in Syria pictured above  The rubble left in the wake of Sunday's raid in Barisha where 'group linked to the Islamic State group' were present pictured above  Syrians walk past a damaged van at the site of helicopter gunfire during Sunday's military strike that resulted in al-Baghdadi's death  The entire raid took two hours and ended when al-Baghdadi ran into an underground tunnel in his compound along with three of his children and detonated his suicide vest. Following the raid, American warplanes bombed his compound In the hours since, the president has been slammed repeatedly for the declaration, a backlash led by democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. 'My understanding, interestingly enough, is that that mission was accomplished with information supplied by the Kurds, and as we know Trump has turned his back and betrayed the Kurds,' Sanders told reporters Sunday. 'I think that will have a negative impact, on not only that region of the world, but in terms of relationships with allies from one end of this planet to the other.' Online, President Trump featured in hundreds of similarly critical statements admonishing him for thanking Russia first over the Kurds, and taking credit for their diligent work. 'The success of the Al-Baghdadi operation was the result of a five month joint intelligence gathering on the ground by the Kurds and the US Intel community,' journalist Rula Jubreal tweeted. 'The Kurdish allies who helped the US get Al-Baghdadi were betrayed by Trump, who now takes credit for the Kurds' efforts.' The Washington Post's Aaron Blake made a similar conclusion, tweeting: 'One striking thing: Kurdish SDF said this was a joint operation. But Trump first thanks Russia, Syria, Turkey and Iraq, then mentioned "certain support [the Kurds] were able to give us".'  In the hours since, the president has been slammed repeatedly for the declaration, a backlash led by democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Online, President Trump featured in hundreds of similarly critical statements admonishing him for thanking Russia first over the Kurds, and taking credit for their diligent work.      The raid was launched around midnight Sunday morning, which was 5pm EST on Saturday in Washington D.C., where Trump was watching a feed of the strike from the White House Situation Room. In the operation eight American helicopters, mostly CH-47 Chinooks took off from a military base near Erbil, Iraq. The helicopters then flew low and fast to avoid detection, and were subjected to sporadic ground fire, in the perilous 70-minute flight. Once they arrived to their destination they released a hail of gunfire on a compound of buildings as a cover for commandos with the Delta Force and their military dogs. The commandos then dismounted at al-Baghdadi's compound, blowing up one of its walls which allowed them to rush in. Once inside they confronted a group of ISIS fighters. The Delta Force officers entered the compound where they shot and killed a number of people and removed 11 children from area. Fearing capture al-Baghdadi ran into an underground tunnel taking three of his children with him while American troops were on his tail. Fearing he was armed with a suicide vest, which he was, the troops sent a military dog after him. In the tunnel the Islamic State leader detonated his suicide vest, wounding the dog and killing the three kids. The entire raid lasted around two hours, and involved just shy of 100 U.S. military personnel. In Trump's description of the successful strike he said: 'I got to watch much of it. Al-Baghdadi died after running into a dead-end tunnel, whimpering and crying and screaming all the way.' 'He died like a dog,' Trump added. After clearing out, American warplanes bombed the compound to assure it was physically destroyed. By 9pm Saturday in Washington D.C. Trump tweeted 'Something very big has just happened!' Read more: Top stories - Google News October 27, 2019 at 01:48PM https://ift.tt/2WiSovj Trump slammed for 'abandoning' Kurds as its revealed THEIR intelligence helped locate al-Baghdadi - Daily Mail Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| To everyone involved in defeating evil Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, we say thank you - The Sun Posted: 27 Oct 2019 08:34 PM PDT THE defeat of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is a victory for mankind over evil. To everyone involved — the intel officers, the President, the warriors — we say thank you. Baghdadi was the inspiration behind the Manchester Arena bombing, and his barbarism will never be forgotten by the families of the victims.  3 They should be comforted to know the brutal killer died as the coward he was: whimpering and crying in a tunnel. A handful of depraved jihadis are still at large, so the international defence community must not rest on its laurels just yet. But with no remaining strongholds and a dead caliphate, the remaining rump of IS is rudderless and weak. For Brits who question the statesmanship of Donald Trump, this symbolic triumph should serve as a wake-up call. Baghdadi will never kill and maim again. And soon, his poisonous ideology may be stamped out for good. Bloxit brigadeIN a simpering interview yesterday, Justin Welby made a dig at Boris Johnson for "pouring petrol" on the divisions of our country.  3 Not for the first time, the interfering Archbishop has got it all wrong. It is not the Prime Minister who has torn Britain apart, but a small group of Remainers refusing to honour that vital principle underpinning democracy: losers' consent. It was them and their MPs who instigated all this and who now — via their deranged campaign for a "people's vote" — are blocking all progress on the Prime Minister's pragmatic and sensible deal. The Remoaner Archbishop is part of the problem. Time he stopped meddling in politics and got back to his dwindling flock. Bye bye, bullyIT is appalling that John Bercow — who steps down later this week — has been allowed to get away without being investigated over grave allegations of bullying. 3 There is a new rule allowing investigations into grievance claims by ex staff, but oh so conveniently, it comes too late for the current Speaker. Shocking though it should be, this establishment stitch up is no surprise. Labour MPs happily propped up weaselling Bercow when he was inventing precedents willy-nilly to aid their Remoaner cause. AMAZIN!Students sting Amazon for THOUSANDS after discovering reusable discount code glitchHELI MISSWills, Kate & their kids were set to fly on the doomed Leicester City helicopterMEG A MOVEPrince Harry and Meghan Markle consider moving to the US for much of the yearCROWN DUELPrince Charles' aides banned stars of The Crown from event over affair storyline'DIED LIKE A DOG'ISIS chief blew himself up in a tunnel as US special ops blitzed his lair'NO JUSTICE'Fury as cop's son, 17, who mowed down 2 men while high on cannabis walks freeSo it fits that Parliament is now helping him escape difficult questions — with a gold-plated £1 million pension. But if MPs think that voters haven't noticed what's been going on, they're living in cloud cuckoo land. An election is round the corner, and our useless MPs are in for a rude awakening. Speaker John Bercow gets criticised by MPs for 'Brexit bias' Top stories - Google News October 27, 2019 at 05:21PM https://ift.tt/2NiGVaX To everyone involved in defeating evil Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, we say thank you - The Sun Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
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| Who was ISIL's self-proclaimed leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi? - Al Jazeera English Posted: 27 Oct 2019 08:16 PM PDT  Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Iraqi who rose from obscurity to declare himself "caliph" of all Muslims as the leader of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, or ISIS) armed group, has been killed in a US raid, the US president announced on Sunday. Donald Trump claimed that al-Baghdadi, 48, killed himself by detonating a suicide vest during the raid in northwest Syria's Idlib. DNA test results from the aftermath of the raid had positively identified al-Baghdadi, the US president said. Al-Baghdadi had long been a target for the US and regional security forces trying to eliminate ISIL even after the armed group was pushed out of the territory it once held, straddling Syria and Iraq. Only months after al-Baghdadi declared the establishment of a self-proclaimed, cross-border "caliphate" in Mosul, Iraq, in 2014, the group was being targeted by US coalition air raids. Yet it continued to spread further into Kurdish-controlled territory in northern Iraq, where they enslaved minorities, including members of the Yazidi community. At its peak in January 2015, ISIL covered an area across Syria and Iraq roughly equivalent to the size of the UK and attracted 40,000 foreign fighters to its cause. The group also caused global revulsion with beheadings of hostages from countries including the United States, Britain and Japan. $25m bountyThe United States put up a $25m reward for al-Baghdadi's capture, the same amount it had offered for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his successor Ayman al-Zawahri. US air raids had already killed most of al-Baghdadi's top lieutenants, including Abu Omar al-Shishani, Abu Muslim al-Turkmani, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Sayyaf and the group's spokesman, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani. Thousands of ISIL fighters have been killed or captured since a global coalition was formed to defeat the group in September 2014. Al-Baghdadi was born Ibrahim Awad al-Samarrai in 1971 in Tobchi, a poor area near the town of Samarra, north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, whose name he took. His family included preachers from the ultra-conservative Salafi school of Sunni Islam, which sees many other branches of the faith as heretical and other religions as anathema. He joined an armed movement in Iraq in 2003, the year of the US-led invasion of Iraq, and was captured by the Americans. They released him about a year later, thinking he was a civilian agitator rather than a military threat. In 2005, the father of five pledged allegiance to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Iraq's al-Qaeda franchise. Al-Zarqawi was killed by an American drone attack in 2006, months later his followers and some faithful fighters broke away from al-Qaeda and named themselves the Islamic State of Iraq after merging with other armed groups on the ground. After al-Zarqawi's successor - Abu Omar al-Baghdadi - was also eliminated, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took the helm in 2010. He expanded the group, which became the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in 2012 upon its expansion into Syria. 'Commander of the faithful'It was not until July 4, 2014, that al-Baghdadi seized the world's attention, climbing the pulpit of Mosul's medieval al-Nuri mosque in black clerical garb during Friday prayers to announce the restoration of the caliphate. "God ordered us to fight his enemies," he said in a video of the occasion, which presented him as "Caliph Ibrahim, commander of the faithful". Thousands of volunteers flocked into Iraq and Syria from around the world to become "Jund al-Khilafa" - soldiers of the caliphate - and join him in his fight against the Shia-led Iraqi government and its Western allies. ISIL ruled over millions of people in territory running from northern Syria through towns and villages along the Tigris and Euphrates river valleys to the outskirts of Baghdad. The group claimed responsibility for or inspired attacks in dozens of cities around the world including Paris, Nice, Orlando, Manchester, London and Berlin, and in nearby Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. In Iraq, it staged dozens of attacks on predominantly Shia Muslim areas. A truck bomb in July 2016 killed more than 324 people in a crowded part of Baghdad, the deadliest attack since the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. The group also carried out many bombings in northeast Syria, which has been under the control of US-backed Kurdish forces. Most of al-Baghdadi's speeches were distributed as audio recordings, a medium better suited to the secretive, careful character that for a long time helped him evade the surveillance and air raids that killed more than 40 of his top commanders. That caution was matched by ruthlessness as he eliminated opponents and former allies, even within the movement's ranks. He waged war on al-Qaeda's Syrian wing, the al-Nusra Front, breaking with the movement's global leader, al-Zawahri, in 2013. But by the time of his death in the US raid this weekend, his fortunes - and those of ISIL - were in rapid decline. With the defeat of ISIL in its stronghold of Mosul, which was declared the capital of his caliphate, in 2017 the movement lost all the territory it once controlled in Iraq. In Syria, ISIL lost Raqqa, its second capital and centre of operations, and eventually earlier this year its final chunk of territory in Baghouz was captured by the US-backed Kurdish forces. ISIL sleeper cellsWhile the destruction of the quasi-state that Baghdadi built has denied the group its recruiting tool and logistical base from which it could train fighters and plan coordinated attacks overseas, most security experts believe ISIL remains a threat through clandestine operations or attacks. ISIL is believed to have sleeper cells around the world, and some fighters operate from the shadows in Syria's desert and Iraq's cities, still launching hit-and-run attacks. In his most recent audio message, in September, al-Baghdadi put on a brave face, saying operations were taking place daily and urging followers to secure freedom for women jailed in Iraq and Syria over their alleged links to the group. "As for the worst and most important matter, the prisons, the prisons, oh soldiers of the caliphate. Your brothers and sisters; do your utmost to free them and tear down the walls restricting them," al-Baghdadi said. The loss of territory forced him to travel incognito in ordinary cars or farm pick-up trucks between hideouts on both sides of the border, escorted only by his driver and two bodyguards. The region was familiar territory to his men. It was the hotbed of the Sunni movement against first the US forces in Iraq and then the Shia-led governments that took over the country. Fearing assassination or betrayal, he was not able to use phones and trusted only a handful of couriers to communicate with his two main Iraqi aides, Iyad al-Obaidi, his defence minister, and Ayad al-Jumaili, his security chief. The two had been believed to be among the likely candidates to succeed al-Baghdadi, but Jumaili was killed in April 2017 and Obaidi's whereabouts are unknown. But their military background and lack of religious credentials mean that any of al-Baghdadi's deputies would struggle to inherit his claims to be caliph. Top stories - Google News October 27, 2019 at 11:29AM https://ift.tt/32MQgOR Who was ISIL's self-proclaimed leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi? - Al Jazeera English Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Delivering structural transformation to Indonesia - Mon, October 28 2019 - Jakarta Post Posted: 27 Oct 2019 08:10 PM PDT Reforms cannot simply be "sent"; they have to be "delivered". That is what President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo envisions as he embarks on his second term. He will need this determination to achieve one of his biggest priorities this time around: structural reform. "We have to transform our dependence on natural resources into competitive and modern manufacturing and service capabilities," he explained. This is something that the government has championed for years, but using the President's own language, Indonesia's "structural reform" has only been sent. It has yet to be delivered. Today, 60 percent of our exports of merchandise still come from agriculture, minerals and metals. This reality is more jarring when we look at our neighbors. Vietnam's biggest exports are TV and radio transmitters, and electronic microcircuits are the chief exports of the Philippines, Mal...  Top stories - Google News October 27, 2019 at 11:25AM https://ift.tt/2BMX6YX Delivering structural transformation to Indonesia - Mon, October 28 2019 - Jakarta Post Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Posted: 27 Oct 2019 08:10 PM PDT ISIS is plotting bloody attacks in the US and Europe to avenge the death of the terror group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, experts warned. Terror experts have told how security services will be braced for the type of revenge plots that were seen after Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011. 6 6 Fears are mounting that Baghdadi's death during a US raid on his compound in Syria could trigger the resurgence of the terror group in what has been dubbed "ISIS 2.0". It's believed that Abdullah Qardash, an ex-officer in Saddam Hussein's army who is nicknamed "The Destroyer" or "The Professor", has already assumed control of ISIS. Qardash was reportedly appointed as Baghdadi's successor in August, after the terror chief was wounded in an airstrike. The new leader, who is known for his brutality and intelligence, may order a wave of new attacks to assert his authority and avenge Baghdadi, experts fear.  6 Richard Kemp, former head of international terrorism intelligence at the Cabinet Office, said: "When bin Laden was killed, al-Baghdadi unleashed violent retaliation. "Security services will now be braced for attempts to avenge his death." A number of countries, including France, are believed to be on high alert following Baghdadi's death at his lair in northwestern Syria. French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner called for increased vigilance to prevent possible revenge attacks in a letter to police prefects seen by Reuters. "The possible intensification of jihadist propaganda following this death, which could possibly call for acts of vengeance, requires the most extreme vigilance, notable during public events in your departments in coming days," Castaner said. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab added: "The death of Baghdadi is a significant milestone in the coalition's work to defeat Daesh , but it is not the end of the threat." Syria's Kurdish forces believe ISIS sleeper cells will launch attacks in the coming weeks and months. Mazloum Abdi, the top commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces - the de facto army of the Kurdish administration - told AFP: "Sleeper cells will seek revenge for Baghdadi's death. "This is why anything is possible, including attacks on prisons," he said. ISIS supporters had even shared posters threatening attacks in New York and Washington on the same day US troops raided Baghdadi's lair. 6 Baghdadi was killed when US forces swooped on his compound and he blew up self-up with a suicide vest after being cornered in a tunnel on Saturday. Donald Trump said the terror chief died "crying, whimpering and screaming and bringing three kids with him". The president called it a "great night for the US and for the world" as they had brought the "world's greater terrorist leader to justice". As US forces bore down on him, Trump said the ISIS chief fled into a tunnel with three of his children and detonated a suicide vest. 'DIED LIKE A DOG'In a televised address to the nation from the White House, Trump said: "He reached the end of the tunnel as our dogs chased him down. "He ignited his vest, killing himself and his three children. His body was mutilated by the blasts. The tunnel had caved on him. "The thug who tried so hard to intimidate others spent his last moments in utter fear, in total panic and dread, terrified of the American forces bearing down on him." The president said: "He was a sick and depraved man, and now he's gone." He said the terror chief "died like a dog". Trump said no US personnel were killed and 11 children were rescued in the operation. One of the US forces' dogs was seriously wounded in the operation. Baghdadi's spokesman Abu al-Hassan al-Muhajir was also killed in a separate raid. Both operations were carried out with the help of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). NEW ISIS LEADERA regional intelligence official told Newsweek that Qardash would now have taken over as ISIS leader. "Baghdadi was a figurehead. He was not involved in operations or day-to-day. All Baghdadi did was say yes or no—no planning," said the official. Qardash is a former officer in Saddam Hussein's army who grew close to Baghdadi, 48, when they were both jailed in Basra by US forces for their links to al-Qaeda in 2003. It was in the Iraqi prison that Baghdadi became a jihadist demagogue converting hundreds of prisoners to his sick vision of a so-called caliphate. Qardash, whose age is unknown, is believed to have worked alongside him ever since, reports The Times. The Iraqi worked as the death cult's top legislator before his promotion to leader in waiting, it has been reported. His nickname is the Professor and is known as a ruthless policymaker in the group. Qardash was also a confidante of Abu Alaa al-Afri, Baghdadi's previous deputy, who was killed in a US helicopter gun raid in 2016. ISIS 2.0 FEARSSince the fall of Baghuz, ISIS's last urban stronghold in March, the group has been reduced to pockets of resistance across the two countries. Qardash faces a divided leadership, some of whom may reject his vision and strategy, reports The Times. With its members scattered in cells across a huge sweep of desert that spans two countries, three main factions have emerged, gathered around Tunisian, Saudi and Iraqi leadership. Security forces across the region have warned that the remaining cells are strong enough to launch attacks and are ready to step into any power vacuum. 'DIED LIKE A DOG'ISIS chief blew himself up in a tunnel as US special ops blitzed his lairSET FOR LIFEMum, 41, and dad, 39, RETIRE after saving £1.6m doing 2nd jobs as Uber driversDEATH SENTENCEBoy, 6, marked for death by his CANNIBAL tribe returns to jungle villageNAKED AMBITIONStudent vets strip off for a naked calendar to support better mental health'MIRACLES EXIST'Teen blinded in blaze hopes for miracle surgery to see girl pal's beautySEX SLAVE HellMissing teen rescued after she's spotted on Pornhub & forced to get abortionFadhel Abo Ragheef, former security analyst with the Iraqi government, said he believes that Qardash's promotion could reinvigorate the sick death cult. He said: "The attacks will not increase with Qardash's new leadership but they will be more specific," "They have a lot of power over large lands, even though their funds have been reduced." Trump says ISIS boss Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi blew himself up & 'died like a dog' after 'whimpering and crying' in raid 6 6 Top stories - Google News October 27, 2019 at 07:17PM https://ift.tt/2PpIDKu Warning Baghdadi's death could trigger wave of revenge attacks in US and Europe and spark ISIS 2.0 - The Sun Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Wages growth Australia: Truth about viral graph - NEWS.com.au Posted: 27 Oct 2019 08:10 PM PDT  It shows a frightening fact about Australia's economic situation — we experienced an acute and totally unexpected fall in wages growth. The graph shows wages growth falling below 2 per cent a year, and the Reserve Bank of Australia, our independent economic policy brains trust, failing to expect it. Their forecasts repeatedly show an expectation the problem will get better. Meanwhile, it gets worse. This sequence of events explains a great deal about Australia's economic malaise. Nobody expected it to come to this. But no single graph can tell the whole story. There is more to it. And the true moral of the story is not the simple one some people are drawing from the graph. Many people believe the RBA is stupid for missing these forecasts. Others think the RBA is duplicitous. Some people subscribe to a theory of a great conspiracy to drive wages down. I don't believe in any of those, and I don't think anyone sensible ought to either. Yes, the RBA has been embarrassed, but it published the above graph to highlight the error. Meanwhile, it is in everyone's long-run interest — government, business and citizen — for wages growth to be high because without high wages growth we see terrible weakness in consumption, and consumption is by far the largest part of our economy. So, why are wages so low? The fall in wages isn't just an Australian phenomenon. It has been global among advanced economies. And we still don't know exactly why it has happened. This is one of the things economists have to admit sometimes. The economy is complex, we don't understand it fully. There are a lot of theories why wages have fallen. It might be the decline of unions. It might be the rise of international trade. It might be underemployment, the rise of technology, the power of big business to pay lower wages or lower labour productivity growth. Depending on your biases (and we all have them!) it is possible to become convinced by any of these theories because they all make sense. But the best economists have fallen on the data and tried to analyse it to determine which of the above is to blame. They tend to come up saying, it's a little bit of everything, but even when you take these things into account, we still can't fully explain how low wages growth is. That leaves a mystery factor. "It appears that some, as yet unidentified, common factor, or factors, have weighed on wage growth in recent years," the RBA says. THE SECRETS OF MYSTERY COVE The existence of the mystery factor helps somewhat in forgiving the RBA for its misses. Nobody expected the mystery factor and if we can't even find it now, it's hard to forecast it in advance. The good news about the mystery factor is it seems to be on the wane. In the US and the UK, where wages growth was, like Australia's, depressed for a long time, growth has recently jumped up to 4 per cent per year. This week, UK wages growth hit its highest level in 10 years. What those countries have done is drive unemployment way down — below 4 per cent. That needs to be a priority here too, and all arms of government — RBA, treasurer, and state treasurers too — should be working to achieve it. Australia's unemployment rate is at 5.2 per cent, higher than this time last year. Can we hope for wages growth to pick up? As the next graph shows it already has. What's more, the RBA's forecasts have got a lot lower. There is even a chance that if wages growth leaps, the RBA, chastened by its recent over-estimates, will fail to forecast that as well. And indeed, the 2019 forecast is sitting slightly lower than the wage price index What I would love to see is unemployment falling and wages growth rising so high and so fast that the RBA suffers another series of embarrassing missed forecasts. But this time, missing on the low side. "viral" - Google News October 27, 2019 at 04:52PM https://ift.tt/344sldY Wages growth Australia: Truth about viral graph - NEWS.com.au "viral" - Google News https://ift.tt/2BCxygM Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| World reacts to death of ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi - Al Jazeera English Posted: 27 Oct 2019 07:46 PM PDT  Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL or ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed in a US military raid in Syria, President Donald Trump has confirmed. During a press conference on Sunday, Trump said al-Baghdadi had been "under surveillance for a couple of weeks". According to the United States's President, the ISIL chief died after running into a tunnel in the village of Barisha where he detonated an explosive vest, killing himself and three of his children. In the announcement, Trump thanked Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Russia and the Syrian Kurds for their cooperation. World reaction to the news has been divided, with some leaders hailing it as a turning point in the fight against "terrorism" while some governments played down its down significance. TurkeyTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said al-Baghdadi's killing "marked a turning point in our joint fight against terrorism."
RussiaThe Russian defence ministry reacted to the news with scepticism, saying "it had no reliable information on the US operation." "The Russian Ministry of Defense does not have reliable information on the US servicemen conducting in the Turkish-controlled part of the de-escalation zone of Idlib an operation on yet another 'elimination' of the former IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi," Major-General Igor Konashenkov was quoted by local news agency RIA as saying. IsraelIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu labelled the event as an "impressive achievement." "This reflects our shared determination, of the United States of America and of all free countries, to fight terror organisations and terrorist states," a statement from his office read. "This achievement is an important milestone, but the campaign is still ahead of us," it added. IranIran's information minister, Mohammed Javad Azari-Jahromi said in a tweet that the killing of al-Baghdadi was "not a big deal. You just killed your creature". The minister did not elaborate, but Iran has often accused the US of creating ISIL, without providing evidence.
BahrainBahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa praised the move and said it was a "fatal blow to the group."
Translation: "The killing of the criminal Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is a severe blow to the ISIL terrorist organisation. We salute our brothers and allies on their efforts and success in finding him and getting rid of him." FranceFrench Defence Minister Florence Parly congratulated the US but cautioned that the fight against ISIL will continue.
Translation: "Baghdadi: Early retirement for a terrorist, but not for his organisation. We will continue the fight against Daesh [ISIL] without rest, with our partners, adapting ourselves to new regional circumstances." "I congratulate our American allies for this operation. My thoughts today are for all the victims of the madness of Baghdadi and the criminals who have followed him." United KingdomUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said this was "an important moment," but also warned the battle against ISIL "is not yet over."
Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)The commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Mazloum Abdi said this achievement was a result of "joint intel cooperation."
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| Liverpool fans fuming with Gary Neville's comments about Mohamed Salah - Irish Mirror Posted: 27 Oct 2019 07:46 PM PDT Liverpool supporters have expressed their anger with Sky Sports commentary duo Martin Tyler and Gary Neville over comments they made suggesting Mohamed Salah goes to ground too easily during the Reds' 2-1 win over Tottenham . Despite Harry Kane's early goal for Spurs, Liverpool eventually ran out winners thanks to a second-half strike from Jordan Henderson and a Salah penalty after Sadio Mane was fouled by Serge Aurier in the box. Some Liverpool fans, however, believe that Tyler and former Manchester United defender Neville are biased against their side, and footage was posted on social media during the game in which the commentary duo discuss Salah.  After an incident in which Salah takes a shot in the Spurs area, Tyler said: "Mo Salah has been known to go to ground in the opposing penalty area," and Neville replies "It was theatrical from Salah." Reds fans quickly took to social media to back their Egyptian forward. One posted: "Have you ever come across a more biased commentary duo than Martin Tyler & Gary Neville," while another added: "Gary Neville shouldn't be commentating on a Liverpool game." One Twitter user said: "Gary Neville usually such a good commentator just can't hide his bias when Liverpool are playing" and another added: "Neville's mind works like a guy who thinks about every combination possible AGAINST Liverpool."  Reds supporters will probably not be too upset following the final whistle, however, as their win ensured their unbeaten run at the start of the Premier League continued, and left them six points at the top of the table ahead of nearest challengers Manchester City . Their next Premier League game is away at Aston Villa before they host City in a huge game which could go some way to deciding the title on November 10. Top stories - Google News October 27, 2019 at 07:09PM https://ift.tt/2qNq8oR Liverpool fans fuming with Gary Neville's comments about Mohamed Salah - Irish Mirror Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| ISIS leader Baghdadi is dead: 5 lessons about the war on terror - Vox.com Posted: 27 Oct 2019 07:27 PM PDT  Success has a thousand fathers, and it's too early to know who exactly did what when it comes to the reported killing of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Every agency and ally will want to claim some share of the credit. Although the specifics remain elusive, what we do know about the raid that led to his death — and its consequences — illustrates a series of lessons about US counterterrorism since 9/11, when the United States put the fight against groups like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State at the top of its priority list. The US Kurdish allies in Syria — the same ones the United States abandoned when it abruptly withdrew most of its forces from Syria and greenlit a Turkish invasion — reportedly played a key role in providing intelligence for the raid. So, too, did Iraqi allies. This is the norm, not the exception. Much of the intelligence war on terrorism is done by, with, and through allies, which have on-the-ground information as well as a capacity to act locally, neither of which can be replaced without massive US troop deployments. If the United States is going to fight global terrorist groups like the Islamic State, it will need a range of allies. Some are traditional friends and powerful states, like Australia and France, that have their own counterterrorism assets and operate in areas like Indonesia or West Africa where the United States has historically played little role. Others are local tribes and militias, whose forces are in direct contact with militants in remote parts of Somalia, Yemen, and other areas where jihadists are active. These allies risk the lives of their fighters and otherwise sacrifice to the cause of counterterrorism, and Americans should be grateful. In his remarks on the raid, President Trump thanked Russia and Turkey as well as Iraq, Syria, and the Kurds. Turkey has proven at best a fitful ally against the Islamic State. It initially allowed jihadists considerable freedom to transit its territory, but over time became far more aggressive. Its invasion of Syria and attack on the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the Kurdish-dominated group that for years has been in the front line against the Islamic State, shows that Ankara is far more concerned about Kurdish-linked unrest than fighting jihadists. The SDF, for its part, will have less time and fewer resources to help the United States fight the Islamic State, as it will now be focused on the Turkish threat and on guarding its autonomy against Syria and Russia, to which it turned in desperation to defend against the Turkish onslaught. Russia, as President Trump pointed out, sees the Islamic State as an enemy, but any thanks should wait until Moscow proves its bona fides by using its own assets and pushing its Syria ally to prioritize fighting the Islamic State in the territory it has just seized from the SDF. Before 9/11, the United States struggled to find, let alone kill, terrorist leaders like Osama bin Laden. Since then, Washington has developed an impressive mix of intelligence and special operations capacities that are on the hunt for terrorist leaders. In Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, and other countries, the United States has killed suspected terrorists using drones and special operations force raids. Such deaths do not by themselves destroy the terrorist groups, but they make them less effective, creating leadership confusion and forcing leaders to hide rather than plot attacks. Baghdadi's killing is likely to have a similar impact. It deprives the Islamic State of its so-called caliph, and it is unclear if his successor will be as charismatic or competent. The president claims the United States is already hunting his successor, and so his time at the helm may be short-lived. In any event, he will have to keep a low profile and will otherwise be unable to exert a high degree of leadership, command, and control without risking meeting the same fate as Baghdadi. Nevertheless, the Islamic State has a deep bench, and it has recovered from massive leadership losses in the past. Terrorists benefit from safe havens, and jihadist groups in particular prey on weak states or those caught up in civil wars — such as Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen. Before 9/11, al-Qaeda was able to build a mini-army in Afghanistan, with the United States seemingly impotent to stop it. Yet as the Baghdadi raid illustrates, these war zones are far less impenetrable than they were in the past. Working with allies, the United States can bomb terrorist hideouts or raid them to arrest and kill their operatives. US intelligence, alone and in combination with allies, is far better able to monitor terrorist havens. Drones and other platforms have greatly expanded US strike options, and special operations forces are far better resourced and focused on the terrorism problem, too. Even if the United States largely withdraws from Syria, it will still have some capacity to act there. The United States has five thousand troops in neighboring Iraq, and it could act from the territory of other allies. So Baghdadi's followers and other thugs should sleep lightly — if at all. In the aftermath of 9/11, US officials feared jihadists would conduct similar attacks, including ones involving the use of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons. Yet although al-Qaeda launched bloody attacks in Madrid in 2004 and London in 2005, and the Islamic State wreaked havoc in Paris in 2015 and Sri Lanka earlier this year, the last 18 years have seen far fewer attacks than anticipated. The al-Qaeda core has not conducted a major attack on the West in over a decade. The collapse of the Islamic State's caliphate, and now the reported death of Baghdadi, deprive the group of one of its most important recruiting pitches and have put it on the defensive, forcing it to focus on surviving rather than conducting attacks on the West. European states have become more effective at counterterrorism, while last year saw only one death in the United States at the hands of jihadists. Indeed, while civil wars like Syria and Yemen still rage at horrifying levels, terrorist attacks have fallen around the world. Part of this is because counterterrorism instruments and Western defenses have improved, but it's also because the collapse of the caliphate and the withering of al-Qaeda has made the messages of extremists less compelling. Given how hard the jihadists have been hit, it's remarkable how enduring the groups have proven. Despite their losses, both al-Qaeda and the Islamic State are still standing, and their affiliates are robust. Ambassador Nathan Sales, the US counterterrorism coordinator, warns of the spread of al-Qaeda to Africa and even claims that "what we see today is an al-Qaida that is as strong as it has ever been." The ideas the Islamic State and Al Qaeda promulgate now reach and inspire far more people than they did before 9/11. And some of the partners with whom the United States works are corrupt and brutal, and they will not be able to provide the long-term governance necessary to prevent the return of jihadist groups. In Iraq and Syria, and in other lands where jihadist groups are active, much of the response will remain tactical, hunting group leaders and preventing the groups as a whole from developing havens and otherwise getting too strong. Baghdadi's death is an important blow, but it is not the end of the struggle. The president himself would do well to learn these lessons. His constant carping on European and other allies risks jeopardizing one of America's most important counterterrorism assets. Abandoning key partners like the SDF is short-sighted and sends a message that America cannot be trusted. At home, even as he praised intelligence officers in remarks announcing Baghdadi's death, he railed against "poor leadership" in the intelligence community and "people who aren't very intelligent having to do with intel," probably references to officials involved in investigating his transgressions or standing up for independent analysis. Such pettiness and mistakes will make it harder to build on today's important counterterrorism success. Daniel Byman is a professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Follow him on Twitter: @dbyman. Top stories - Google News October 27, 2019 at 02:31PM https://ift.tt/36eK2to ISIS leader Baghdadi is dead: 5 lessons about the war on terror - Vox.com Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Double murders at Commonwealth Avenue; 22-year-old arrested - The Straits Times Posted: 27 Oct 2019 07:22 PM PDT  SINGAPORE - A 22-year-old man was arrested on Sunday evening over the murder of two women, aged 56 and 90, who are related to him. He is expected to be charged in court on Monday (Oct 28). The police said they were alerted to a case of two unnatural deaths at Block 7A in Commonwealth Avenue at 7.24pm. Both women were found lying motionless and were pronounced dead by paramedics at the scene. The police have classified the case as murder. Investigations have revealed that both the deceased and the suspect were related. The Singapore Civil Defence Force said two other persons were taken to the National University Hospital in ambulances. Neighbours said they heard a commotion on the ground floor of the Housing Board block at about 7pm, with a group of people shouting and screaming. Passers-by told The Straits Times that they called the police after the suspect started attacking other members of the public on the ground floor of the block. The suspect, who was in a singlet and shorts and was barefoot, had been walking in front of a group of people who were headed for prayers nearby, when he suddenly turned around and assumed a fighting position, said eyewitness K.C. Lam, 49. "He looked very aggressive from his eye contact, and when I tried to calm him down, he turned violent," said Mr Lam, adding that the suspect's right hand was stained with blood. Another passer-by, Mr Han Dong Guang, 63, said the suspect told Mr Lam: "Call the Government to talk to me." Mr Lam said that once the suspect threw the first punch at him, others joined in to try to calm him down and subdue him, but he attacked them instead. "He was trying to challenge everybody, he had a very aggressive pose and he was saying something but I couldn't understand him," he added. It took four people to subdue the suspect and pin him down to the ground before the police arrived, Mr Lam said. "I can't imagine what would have happened if he had ended up at the bus stop." Police officers were seen gathering evidence at two adjacent units on the seventh floor of the block. Investigations are ongoing. Top stories - Google News October 27, 2019 at 08:38AM https://ift.tt/36eJB2e Double murders at Commonwealth Avenue; 22-year-old arrested - The Straits Times Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Hong Kong Student's Viral Thread On Canada Brought Him Praise And Racism - HuffPost Canada Posted: 27 Oct 2019 07:12 PM PDT HuffPost is now part of the Verizon Media family. We (Verizon Media) and our partners need your consent to access your device, set cookies, and use your data, including your location, to understand your interests, provide relevant ads and measure their effectiveness. Verizon Media will also provide relevant ads to you on our partners' products. How Verizon Media and our partners bring you better ad experiencesTo give you a better overall experience, we want to provide relevant ads that are more useful to you. For example, when you search for a film, we use your search information and location to show the most relevant cinemas near you. We also use this information to show you ads for similar films you may like in the future. Like Verizon Media, our partners may also show you ads that they think match your interests. Learn more about how Verizon Media collects and uses data and how our partners collect and use data. Select 'OK' to allow Verizon Media and our partners to use your data, or 'Manage options' to review our partners and your choices. You can always update your preferences in the Privacy Centre. "viral" - Google News October 27, 2019 at 03:04PM https://ift.tt/31Qegzn Hong Kong Student's Viral Thread On Canada Brought Him Praise And Racism - HuffPost Canada "viral" - Google News https://ift.tt/2BCxygM Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Hands On the Next-Gen Mobile Hiring App - Yahoo Finance Posted: 27 Oct 2019 06:10 PM PDT  SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Connecting employers and job seekers in real-time! San Jose, California based startup Hands On is excited to launch its web and mobile app available on iOS & Android platforms, and it connects the contingent workforce with small and medium businesses in seconds. Employers and Job seekers will experience the convenience and efficiency of mobile hiring. Hands On is powered by intelligent algorithm-based shortlisting, in-app chat between job seekers and employers, enabling instant communication, applicant management, pre-onboarding, and multi-language functionality. The app is free for Jobseekers for life and businesses till April 30, 2020. "With Hands On, there is nothing stale about finding jobs or hiring staff. Hands On is a next-gen app, and it only publishes jobs that are current and shortlists job seekers who are actively looking for a job. Businesses pay for real-time connections with smart, intelligent algorithm-based applicant shortlisting or curated job recommendations and instant communication via the in-app chat. Hands On is not your traditional database search-based system, which is time-consuming and costly. Hands On ensures small and medium-sized businesses get the greatest bang for their buck. We are a highly automated platform for an amazingly low price," says Hands On Founder Rachna Gaur. She goes on to add, "We have an exciting product roadmap with some amazing functionality and features on the way." About Hands On Hands On incorporates the latest in technology to aid employers and employees in connecting to discover the perfect job match. We incorporate multiple next-gen features that make this matching process simple and effective, and open positions can be filled by qualified workers quickly and easily, in less than a day or as we like to put it NOW! You'll only get so far with recruitment or temp staffing agencies before hitting the wall. Hands On allows purposeful connection between the contingent workforce and the employers who need people capable of competently completing the tasks at hand. For more information visit us on https://www.handson.ai, and connect on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191027005006/en/ "Mobile" - Google News October 27, 2019 at 05:45AM https://ift.tt/2WhcZQJ Hands On the Next-Gen Mobile Hiring App - Yahoo Finance "Mobile" - Google News https://ift.tt/2P9t7Cg Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Mobile research, photography studio to study national parks - Channel3000.com - WISC-TV3 Posted: 27 Oct 2019 05:10 PM PDT Years ago as an undergraduate student, Tomiko Jones learned from a Navajo potter that there was no word for "art" in his native language, suggesting instead that "art is how you walk into the room. It is how you move through the world." Now an assistant professor of art at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Jones plans to actualize that idea. She learned in June of the approval of a $75,000 grant from the UW–Madison School of Education to have a high-tech and environmentally sustainable mobile research and photography studio built by students in the College of Engineering's Makerspace fabrication facility. While the grant won't cover the cost of a vehicle to transport the studio, Jones says she will procure one and expects to be touring national parks with the studio in three to four years. The studio will be outfitted with professional-quality digital, film and video camera equipment, a drone, a cyanotype printer and a video projector for outdoor presentations. "The studio will also provide modest living quarters with water, shelter and electricity generated through solar power to run appliances, lights, equipment and recharging stations," according to an excerpt from Jones' grant proposal. "These Grand Places," as the project is titled, will result in a photography exhibition and a publication. Along the way Jones aims to involve the people she meets to look "at how both myself and others use the land we live on." Jones has lived much of her life out west and moved to Madison less than a year ago. She intends to give her mobile studio a test run in Wisconsin next spring. "It feels that despite the political divisiveness, the time is now to address environmental change and our role or responsibility in it," she wrote in her grant proposal. To see Jones' work, go to tomikojonesphoto.com or @tomiko_jones on Instagram. "Mobile" - Google News October 27, 2019 at 05:00AM https://ift.tt/34aFEK1 Mobile research, photography studio to study national parks - Channel3000.com - WISC-TV3 "Mobile" - Google News https://ift.tt/2P9t7Cg Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| U.S. lawmakers will press Boeing CEO for answers on 737 MAX crashes - Reuters Posted: 27 Oct 2019 05:08 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of a U.S. Senate panel reviewing two catastrophic Boeing 737 MAX crashes told Reuters ahead of hearings this week that the plane would not return to U.S. skies until "99.9% of the American public" and policymakers are convinced it is safe. FILE PHOTO: An aerial photo shows Boeing 737 MAX aircraft at Boeing facilities at the Grant County International Airport in Moses Lake, Washington, September 16, 2019. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson Boeing Co (BA.N) Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg will testify for two days before Congress starting on Tuesday, which is the anniversary of the Lion Air 737 MAX crash in Indonesia, the first of two crashes within five months that killed a total of 346 people. "Clearly the accidents didn't have to happen and I don't think there was sufficient attention to how different pilots would react to signals in the cockpit," Senator Roger Wicker, a Republican who chairs the Senate Commerce Committee that will hold the first hearing, said in an interview on Friday. Several reports have found Boeing failed to adequately consider how pilots respond to 737 MAX cockpit emergencies in designing the airplane. The Federal Aviation Administration has spent months reviewing Boeing's proposed software upgrades to a key safety system and other training and system changes but is not expected to allow the plane to return to service until December at the earliest. "That plane won't fly unless 99.9% of the American public and American policymakers are convinced that it's absolutely safe," Wicker said, adding he planned to raise Boeing's communication with the FAA during the 737 MAX's development and "the relationship between regulators and manufacturers" during the hearing. "The main question is how can we have a comfort level that they won't happen again," Wicker said. Wicker said he expected to see the results of all the various investigations before proceeding to legislative moves and whether Congress must reform the FAA's practice of designating some certification tasks to Boeing and other manufacturers. "Clearly there was a breakdown in the system somewhere and clearly changes needed to be made," Wicker said. "We need to make sure (the 737 MAX) is as safe as humanly possible." 'A LOT OF SCRUTINY'Muilenburg, who earlier this month was stripped of his title as board chairman, said on a conference call last week he was "looking forward to participating in those hearings. I anticipate there will be tough questions, challenging questions, a lot of scrutiny." Also last week, Boeing ousted its commercial airplanes chief. A report issued on Friday by Indonesian investigators found Boeing, acting without adequate oversight from U.S. regulators, failed to grasp risks in the design of cockpit software on its 737 MAX, sowing the seeds for the Lion Air crash that also involved errors by airline workers and crew. Earlier this month, the chairman of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which will hold Wednesday's hearing, told Reuters that Boeing must shake up its management team. "Boeing's got to clean up its culture and I don't think you can clean it up with the people who were in charge when this all unfolded," U.S. Democratic Representative Peter DeFazio said. DeFazio said Congress must reform how the FAA certifies new airplanes. In the case of the 737 MAX, the FAA designated more than 40% of the tasks to Boeing. Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Peter Cooney Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. Top stories - Google News October 27, 2019 at 02:46PM https://ift.tt/2q0yhFX U.S. lawmakers will press Boeing CEO for answers on 737 MAX crashes - Reuters Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| 岡村隆史、チュートリアル・徳井の騒動に「納税のこととかはノーコメント」 - スポーツ報知 Posted: 27 Oct 2019 06:42 AM PDT 岡村隆史、チュートリアル・徳井の騒動に「納税のこととかはノーコメント」 - スポーツ報知  ナインティナイン・岡村隆史（４９）、俳優の堤真一（５５）らが２７日、東京・ＴＯＨＯシネマズ六本木で映画「決算！ 忠臣蔵」（１１月２２日公開、中村義洋監督）のワールドプレミアに出席した。 今作は、大石内蔵助が実際に残した決算書を元に、討ち入り計画を金銭面から描いた作品。大石を演じた堤は「台本から面白い。こっちの方がリアルです。今までにない忠臣蔵が出来上がった。打ち上げでも感極まって泣いてしまいました」と自信を見せた。 今イベントの前日まで今作を見ていなかったという岡村も、「絶対に面白いので、２回、３回と見に来ていただけたら」と胸を張った。お金の話し盛り込んだ今作のストーリーになぞらえ、「納税のこととかはノーコメントとさせていただきます」と、納税問題で活動自粛を発表したお笑いコンビ「チュートリアル」・徳井義実（４４）についてほのめかす発言で笑いを誘った。 2019-10-27 12:44:00Z https://hochi.news/articles/20191027-OHT1T50185.html  |
| Chance The Rapper returns for a second round of excellent SNL double duty - The A.V. Club Posted: 27 Oct 2019 05:56 AM PDT Chance The Rapper returns for a second round of excellent SNL double duty - The A.V. Club Nothing second-best about that. "I'm not an actor, I'm a [big damned] star!"Of the host-musical guest double threats, Justin Timberlake gets most of the love, and it's not undeserved, the lifetime stage kid being unsurprisingly funny and polished whenever he decides to show what his career could have been like if he'd gone into sketch comedy rather than the All-New Mickey Mouse Club and boy bands. But I'll take Chance any day of the week (so, Saturday), the rapper-actor-philanthropist making his second turn in the SNL double-spotlight another joyously silly, start-to-finish exuberant showcase. And, sure, he's not the polished live performer (as a sketch actor, anyway) that JT is, but, again, Justin was apparently bred to be a double-threat trouper. Chance The Rapper just is one by dint of boundless talent and effortless charisma. I genuinely had a big, dopey smile on my face through most of this Halloween episode, something all too rare for a recent Saturday night. Advertisement Coming out on stage bursting with energy, doing a delightfully silly, ultimately heartwarming old school rap ode to his "Second City" home with Kyle Mooney, and sporting a sweatshirt in support of the ongoing Chicago teachers strike (something much of the cast emulated during the goodnights, in a show of solidarity), Chance joked that the million bucks he personally gave to the Chicago Public Schools has fixed everything, a clear-headed humility that marked what was easily his most delightfully go-for-broke sketch of the night. Making a bid to be the next David S. Pumpkins, the "Ditty Of The Damned" sketch was a lavish musical number (complete with animatronic owl and skeleton, and animated cloud background) where Chance, as one of a quartet of spooky singing graveyard ghosts, carried the premise off with the confident timing and underplayed expertise of a sketch comedy pro, and then some. The joke itself—that Chance's specter has a far less picturesquely old-timey death story than his three counterparts—plays out with exquisite patience, Chance's suspiciously wire-haired revenant gradually and begrudgingly revealing that he died because his electricity fetish saw him frying from the inside out when he climbed up on his roof with a lightning rod up his ass. It's the sort of big, broad laugh that a lesser sketch would rush and then point and laugh at, but the musical conceit is maintained with rigor, both the other ghosts and would-be graveyard neckers Heidi Gardner and Kyle Mooney unwilling to let go of Chance's evasive abandonment of his part of the song. ("Is he allowed to be vague like that?" "He is not!") When a star is put in the position of playing a potentially humiliating role (like, say, getting zapped to death during dangerous anal play), the real test is how willing he or she is to commit to a character. There's no winking, no giggling to Chance's performance here—it's pure acting, and, coupled with his facility with the sketch's musical component, it's all gold. The character he plays is embarrassed, sure ("My death was a real 'you had to be there' situation . . ."), but Chance the actor was all-in, and the whole thing just sang with the sort of silly glee that an SNL classic sketch makes. Advertisement Best/Worst sketch of the nightA good sign for further Chance hosting opportunities is his own returning character, with the episode seeing the return of Chance's gamely out of his element MSG network sports reporter Lazlo Holmes. While last time his substitute hockey gig left him struggling to soldier on through a cold arena, unpronounceable Eastern European player names, and a sport he's never watched, at least it was an established team sport. Thrown this time into the world of e-sports, Chance's Holmes once more did his best to fill in for the usual League Of Legends correspondent (he's taking the PSATs), while having even less of an earthly idea what's going on around him. And if Chance wasn't as smooth at keeping up with his lines in this one, his occasional muffs at least played to Holmes' affectingly underplayed befuddlement. The joke, as before, could go sour with too much disdain in the mix, so Chance finds just the right note of beleaguered professionalism as he wonders at the exorbitant prize money, the gaggle of starstruck (and very young) girls worshipping Bowen Yang's nerdy and diffident champion, and the sight of 20,ooo Madison Square Garden fans screaming "like it was the Beatles" at a game "that looks like how a seizure feels." It's not an e-sports joke (calm it, nerds), but a worlds-colliding joke, with a guy trying vainly to keep his act together while being plunked down into a world he just doesn't get, and it wouldn't work without Chance providing the fraying calm at the eye of the silliness. As a sign-off, "Coming to you live from the Upside-Down" is a killer, too. On the other side of the comedy coin, the romantic sketch with Cecily Strong left Chance smack in the middle of one of those big, physical, knockabout sketches that's as much about logistics as it is writing or performance. As his dashing and mysterious suitor sweeps Strong's lovelorn night-outer literally off her feet (thanks to some semi-nimble SNL wire work), the pair's instant chemistry sees them hurtling around the stage and smashing everything in sight. Unwary watchers might have missed the wires at first (and Chance and Cecily's suspiciously bulky evening wear), leaving the big reveal to be patiently (once more) lingered over while the sketch plays out at first as seemingly just a character piece about two oddballs falling in love. Once the gaff is blown and the two are crashing into a nest of champagne flutes and a seafood tower, it's belly-laugh time, with just enough weird little touches around the edges to paper over the clunkiness of the harness work. (Chance does do an effortful little flip.) The idea that the duo's magic romance can only lift them, awkwardly, three feet off the ground effectively undercuts the swoony mood, while Cecily's friends can't help but question whether it's all worth it, no matter how lonely Strong's been. And if it's not easy to swap out flying rigs in the middle of a sketch, the time it takes for Beck Bennett's smitten bartender rebound guy to get hooked up leaves Cecily scrabbling in the air at her overturned purse for a few beats too long—sort of how the sketch as a whole never quite achieves liftoff. A necessity with Chance prepping for six sketches and two musical numbers, the two filmed pieces were both low-key winners. The cheery commercial where Chance and his friends raid Chance's cupboards for after-school snacks turns from a litany of funny junk food names to a gradually revealed horror movie where it's very strongly implied that Chance's bountiful supply of goodies stems from him having murdered his too-strict parents and stuffed their bodies in the refrigerator. ("What's in the fridge, Jason?" "Nobody is.") Happy Halloween, everybody. And that it was closely followed by an almost identical looking promo for Ronald Moore's upcoming alternate reality space race drama For All Mankind only made the trailer for Space Mistakes that much funnier. A heartily silly goof on the inevitable sameness of premise among astronaut disaster movies (Apollo 13, The Martian, Gravity, Ad Astra, ad nauseam), the sketch breaks the story's beats down to its most goofily expressed baseline. Ego Nwodim, as astronaut Chance's requisite worried wife, frets about things going "kaboom," and him "push[ing] the wrong thing and the top pops off." Alex Moffat's no-nonsense mission control officer demands, "no oopsies," but darn it if Mooney's careless astronaut doesn't forget his seatbelt, only to splatter against the back of the capsule in a shower of shock-funny gore. Pairing the straight-laced seriousness of all such movies with Chance noting solemnly, "I done boofed it" as he opens the rocket's poorly designed "moon roof" is the sort of comic premise that's just silly enough to be sort of brilliant. I wasn't as sold on the courtroom sketch, a TV show parody where Chance's Chicago judge only gives civil litigants ten seconds before he issues summary justice. Chance never quite finds the much older character, but the real weakness is in how the whole thing seems to back up the judge's knee-jerk judicial malfeasance by suggesting that somehow disreputable-looking people are, by default, guilty. (That the first two losing litigants are both down-low black stereotypes adds a queasy, hacky element to the premise as well, especially for a city whose horrific record of injustice toward its black citizens is well-known.) Without a strong central performance or established comic conceit, the various character bits throughout flounder, although the judge automatically ruling against Mooney's ventriloquist (who's the complainant) sees Chance shutting down Mooney's promise of a surprise witness with a humorously unsurprised, "Let me guess, it's the puppet." And, if last year's host Jason Momoa wants to come on as elderly Kate McKinnon's gigolo-nurse, complete with nipple-chandeliers, I'm not going to tell him no. Advertisement Weekend Update updateHey, the country's in the hands of a lunatic! So that's fun, something that Che and Jost continue to bat around with above-average success this season. Leading off with the breaking-as-of-airtime news that the president of the United States keeps using his Twitter account like a, well, dimwitted and desperate former reality show host to tweet out first a context-less four-dot ellipsis and then the equally out-of-nowhere but somehow chilling teaser "Something very big has just happened!," Jost took the lead in another round of Update trying to make grotesque reality into serviceable comedy. He and Che mostly manage once again. It's still tough to compete with all the other TV comics doing Trump stuff, and having to play catchup on the weekend can leave Update's zingers looking a little stale at times, but the Update partners have found a decent rhythm by this point. Jost's asides when introducing targets like pointlessly showboating, Nazi-cuddling GOP Congressman Matt Gaetz ("live-action Quagmire"), and far-too-many-crimes-against-democracy-to-name Mitch McConnell ("Senator and ghost pointing to where the murder happened") is an overused trope at this point, but that's not his fault. And there remains enough bite in the quick hits to land on occasion. Jost noting that accused sex monster Brett Kavanaugh is now the best known Supreme Court justice is like convicted sex monster Jared Fogle being the best known sandwich mascot went there, to the delight/collective groan of the audience. Meanwhile, Che continued his habit of going for the joke wherever it lives by pronouncing sadly that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's recent endorsement of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is a case of "another young woman turning to an older man promising to pay for college." Not the most substantive joke to make there, sure, but it turns on just enough real-world context to make the gag work. Once more, Update went short, with only one correspondent piece. But since it brought back the Trump brothers, we'll let it slide, as Alex Moffat and Mikey Day's doubles act as two of the three most odious presidential children in history, like Che's joke, is funny without getting all too deep into the issues. It's Moffat's show, with Day's Don Jr. acting as his manchild brother's sounding board/keeper/straight man, here desperately trying to keep the addled Eric from heedlessly spilling the family truth. As effectively mean-spirited a piece of character assassination as SNL's got going at the moment, Eric's position as the ultimate product of unearned success and nepotism (or "nippleteasing," in Eric's parlance) is a classic "upper class twit"/"dregs of the aristocratic gene pool" caricature made impossibly endearing by Moffat's decision to make this Trump son also-ran a guileless ride-along on the Trump train. Playing with distracting props provided to him by his solicitous brother (this time one of those pin-frame toys), Moffat's Eric clearly would like nothing better than to enjoy a life of childlike, harmless luxury, if not for the high-wattage spotlight of his father's inexplicable notoriety, and, it's implied, a yawning need for his father's approval. And if that sounds too simplistic and mean a take of a guy who helped his dad defraud a kids' cancer charity, well, the fact that the two Trumps this week both mocked—utterly without irony—political rival Joe Biden's son for riding to success on his father's coattails offers a rebuttal. Advertisement "What do you call that act?" "'The Californians!'"—Recurring sketch reportJust Chance's Lazlo Holmes. Once more, a good sign for another round of Chance. The "Dazzle Designs" sketch isn't a recurring one, really, but since it once more involves pairing Kate and Aidy as eccentrically spaced-out entrepreneurs, I'm tossing it in the apple pile with the similar standout sketch from the season premiere. The two just have the long-honed knack of making these sorts of premises work, the business' weirdo details (their student choir robes website is only reached through a nest of faxes, emails, and phone calls) vying with the proprietress' all-too-elaborately-feverish specifics about their products (one choir outfit makes a girl look like "the fiancé of an important Nazi") to make us wonder at just what is going on inside the characters' heads. As with the apple-picking, there are dome details so specifically funny (their outfits are perfect for choirs performing either Handel's "Messiah" or "an ill-advised African tune") that you just know someone on the writing staff has some painful experiences to draw on. Advertisement "It was my understanding there would be no math"—Political comedy reportMaybe I've got some Stockholm Syndrome going, but I didn't really mind this week's Trump cold open, complete with the on-again Alec Baldwin. It's still a lazy impression, but at least this time the stuff going on around his Trump had some creative snap to it. The MAGA rally crowd mindlessly parroting Trump's sweaty catchphrase defenses on cue is an old gag (Life Of Brian does it best) but the show did a good job recruiting a crowd of (white) people who could collectively stay in character throughout, nodding along with the necessary reality-free conviction of any Trump crowd clip. Maybe it was that Baldwin mostly stepped aside for a series of glassy-eyed Trump supporters (Mikey Day, Cecily, Aidy) to step up and be weird and unsettlingly plausible. Baldwin's schtick is still all malapropisms ("quid bro code," "Albacore, New Mexico") and funny faces, and it's tone deaf for him here to be taken aback by how fanatically willing to do crazy shit for him his supporters are, when that dictators-fawning blind allegiance is all he's got going for him. Still, Pete Davidson coming on as a freed American ISIS member, pledging thanks and loyalty to the guy whose ongoing human rights disaster in Syria has allowed that particular bunch to run free again, at least roughs Trump up a little on national TV. And Cecily's gabbling Trumpie, complete with a defiantly misspelled T-shirt she made from Trump's own misspelled tweets allows Strong to do her thing. (Aidy's gun-toting New Mexican is ushered off, bellowing, "The Earth is flat and Beyoncé is white!" for added color.) Advertisement Then there were the ringers. I get that both SNL alums Darrell Hammond and Fred Armisen both work right in the building, but it's always disheartening to see outsiders brought in to do parts that could be going to the overstuffed and underused repertory cast. Hammond, who got passed over despite doing a better Trump, came out as Bill Clinton, which is always fine, although there doesn't seem to be any logical reason for his rare on-camera appearance in the sketch. And Fred Armisen continues his run of variously ethic characters with non-specific accents as Turkish authoritarian, Trump pal and probable creditor, and current author of Trump-aided ethic cleansing, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. See the previous roster of targets to explain why the wateriness of the Erdogan satire here is such a letdown. (Even if his offer to make Biden "disappear" is sort of chilling, considering.) Oh, and Kate McKinnon strapped on some more jowls to play another male Trump administration figure in South Carolina Republican and avowed lickspittle Lindsey Graham. I know that there's a long-simmering rumor that it pisses Trump off to see his best buds impersonated by women, by Kate's impressions rarely go much beyond the impressive makeup. That said, the idea that the notoriously melodramatic Graham would lapse into an overheated monologue from The Glass Menagerie is at least a weird (yet inexplicably fitting) enough choice to make something of it. I am hip to the musics of todayChance's occasional sketch stumbles evaporated in his two stellar musical numbers. The first, with Chance introducing himself (aided in transition by an adorable song of her own by his daughter), was the rousing, angry, yet defiantly triumphant, "Zanies And Fools." Complete with glitter-drummers, besuited dancers, and ankle-swirling stage fog, Chance (although his earpiece seems to have gone out at one point) held the stage, rattling off the song's celebration of love in despite of it all with rapid-fire authority. Then, introduced by Momoa (sticking around in his gigolo costume, nipple rings included), Chance brought out guest vocalist Megan Thee Stallion for the exuberantly body-positive and flirtatious love song "Handsome." Playful and sexy, and, like Chance's whole night, filled with effortless charm. Advertisement Most/Least valuable Not Ready For Prime Time PlayerWell, Pete's sticking around for awhile, it seems, so that's nice. Bowen Yang continues to get good roles and pop in them, which is more than can be said for Chloe Fineman, who hasn't had a chance to do many impressions this season, despite that being one of her main assets. Ego Nwodim is in that second-year featured player hinterland where she's got to break out or resign herself to not making the varsity. She's a confident performer when given a chance, so here's to her getting one soon. Advertisement As for the varsity, Kenan, Kate, Aidy, and Cecily all took their customary central turns and all, just as expected, nailed them. But since it was Cecily putting her body on the line (and in a certainly uncomfortable harness), she gets the top spot. Most/Least valuable Not Ready For Prime Time PlayerEnding on just the right sort of silly note to cap off a very entertaining night, Kenan made a pretty delicious meal out of his role as dance instructor Tony Shalice, a flamboyant taskmaster for a class of Earth, Wind, And Fire wannabe backup dancers who is, unfortunately and absurdly, also a werewolf. Why a werewolf dance instructor, apart from it being Halloween and Kenan being unfailingly hilarious hamming it up while trying to block out the full moon with a succession of overly complicated window treatments? Because we've been good, that's why. The dancers, led by Chance, never quite gelled as either a dance troupe or a comedy force, but at least the completely wolf-enized Kenan got to throw one of his students unexpectedly right through the wall. Again, Happy Haloween, y'all. Advertisement Stray observations
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