To make up for its reported drop in revenue, ISIS is said to rely more on taxation, the group's main source of income.

Clearly they shouldn't have executed so many infidels - no dhimmi to tax means you have to tax believers, which has never been popular.

This might just be the side business of his that takes off; he certainly knows enough about the product...

Doing their job at ensuring a fascist future for the EU.

...If you are a Palestinian.

Would be perfect in places like Houston where flooding is a bigger danger to the road integrity than freezing.

You're gonna like the way you look in this 'blazer', hehe...

bitterness is growing within China's armed forces to President Xi Jinping's decision to cut troop numbers by 300,000, and, according to a source and commentaries in the military's newspaper, considerable effort will be needed to overcome opposition to the order with PLA official sources warning "people are worried, it's been too sudden."

Will Xi become Pertinax? Time will tell.

...Officer Harding received a ‘letter of appreciation’ from the Juvenile Restorative Justice Initiative.

The even better side to the coin of 'we could have ended it peacefully' - the warlike method actually failed to accomplish that goal. Then again, that was never the goal in the north for the civil war, so there's that.

One of these six cops found Roberts identification card that showed he was a supervisor at the IPRA. Once they discovered that Roberts was a man who is tasked with holding police accountable for a living, the dashcam recording of the incident goes black.

The irony, in this case, is that the IPRA rarely finds cops at fault for anything, even when they shoot and kill innocent women.

Perhaps the reason for the failure of the IPRA to hold cops accountable is that they are all afraid they may end up like Davis or Roberts.

A technological response to a problem of inattention. This will not solve the problem, so I'd say it was instituted for other reasons.

Looks pretty cool, actually.

Guarantees he'll do the opposite; e.g. more federal control over the Internet.

More delays, making a dropped case seem more likely.

Cell phones seem pretty deadly distractions, overall.

The "Justice" system becomes more Stalinist by the day.

Taking a page out of Daesh's book.

Thou shalt not steal.

How to empty a city of it's citizens

Like the queer rights movement, they claim to be 'born that way', mostly because they themselves believe it to be wrong to choose to be the way they are.

Here's the thing: lots of people are born with birth defects but overcome them. I'm supposed to shed a tear for these people? That said, a case can be made that the age of majority is far too high, historically speaking. Though the public schools don't help there with their infantilization of all America's youth...

In the insane world of French politics, I guess Syria is still a French colony.

It seems that NATO countries, and especially the United States, have developed a peculiar understanding of security which is fundamentally different from our view. The Americans are obsessed with the idea of securing absolute invulnerability for themselves, which, incidentally, is a utopia, for both technological and geopolitical reasons. But that is exactly where the root of the problem lies.

Absolute invulnerability for one nation would mean absolute vulnerability for everybody else. We cannot agree to this. Of course, many nations prefer not to raise this question openly for a variety of reasons. But Russia will always call a spade a spade and speak openly about such matters. I would like to stress once again that violation of the principle of common and indivisible security (accompanied by repeated assurances that they are still committed to it) may have extremely serious consequences. Sooner or later, those consequences will also affect the nations that initiate such violations, whatever their reasons are.

Absolute invulnerability is also impossible. Pursuing it is insane; as such is it any surprise the USG is the mad dog of the world?

Can my 72 virgins be men?

“Since ancient times, when there was no money, transactions happened through bartering,” he said. “I have no faith in money the way it has evolved today. This crisis is the byproduct of what money has become, where there’s a lot of it in the hands of the few, and a deficit of it for most other people.”

The wages of dishonest money.