NC Renegades

Iran’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the nuclear inspection organization is barred from revealing to the United States any details of deals it has inked with Tehran to inspect its contested nuclear program going forward, according to regional reports.

Recent disclosures by Iran indicate that the recently inked nuclear accord includes a series of side deals on critical inspections regimes that are neither public nor subject to review by the United States.

Reza Najafi, Iran’s ambassador and permanent envoy to the IAEA, stated over the weekend that no country is permitted to know the details of future inspections conducted by the IAEA. In addition, no U.S. inspectors will be permitted to enter Iran’s nuclear sites.

“The provisions of a deal to which the IAEA and a second country are parties are confidential and should not be divulged to any third country, and as Mr. Kerry discussed it in the Congress, even the U.S. government had not been informed about the deal between IAEA and Iran,” Najafi was quoted as saying by Iran’s Mehr News Agency.

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In a late-afternoon vote, the effort by Republicans to strip federal funding from abortion-provider Planned Parenthood was blocked by Senate Democrats in a 53 to 46 vote that failed to meet the three fifths majority required to move forward.

The 60 votes were needed to end a Democrat filibuster. Even if that had happened, even if the bill passed the Senate and the House, the White House had already promised to veto it.

Republican lawmakers have already vowed that the fight over Planned Parenthood is just beginning  The next step will be to try to defund abortion provider Planned Parenthood through the budget process, a move that is already generating a war of words over a government shutdown.

Though mostly along party lines, the vote did have some crossovers. Democrat Senators Joe Donnelly Joe Manchin voted for the bill. Manchin had this to say about the defunding effort:

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Not much to say. The government has made it clear that the people are an inconvenience. As they also have made it clear that their fear of God is not a consideration. Voting has consequences but so does silence in the face of evil. And make no mistake: this is evil.

David DeGerolamo

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Three North Carolina men fearing a government takeover and martial law stockpiled weapons, ammunition and tactical gear while attempting to rig home-made explosives, according to charges announced by the Justice Department on Monday.

The men from Gaston County, near Charlotte, were arrested by federal authorities on Saturday after more than a month’s investigation.

Walter Eugene Litteral, 50, Christopher James Barker, 41, and Christopher Todd Campbell, 30, are accused of stockpiling guns and ammunition, as well as attempting to manufacture pipe bombs and live grenades from military surplus “dummy” grenades, according to the statement by Acting U.S. District Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose and FBI Special Agent in Charge John Strong.

In addition to ammunition for a .338 caliber rifle, the statement says Litteral purchased hand-held radios, Kevlar helmets, body armor and face masks in preparation for an armed resistance to the feared military occupation.

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If the government starts arresting people who are preparing for tyranny, there is not enough Walmarts to hold everyone. I wonder what “attempting” to manufacture pipe bombs means?

However, it is illegal to manufacture pipe bombs, grenades or do a straw man purchase of a firearm.

David DeGerolamo

A year ago, on August 3, Islamic State militants stormed the homelands of Iraq’s Yazidi minority, killing hundreds of men and enslaving thousands of women.

The scenes of desperate Yazidi families crowding on the top of Sinjar mountain without food or water spurred Kurdish fighters into action, an emergency airlift and the start of the U.S. airstrike campaign against the Islamic State Sunni extremists.

Yazidis who survived that massacre are scattered around the region. About a two hour drive north of the northern Kurdish city of Irbil, amid dusty, rocky hills is Lalish, the site of a famous Yazidi shrine. On this Sunday, a day before the anniversary, Yazidi families are walking into the shrine grounds in 50-degree (Celsius) heat to meet, pray and wash in the holy waters of their temple.

‘There was no food, no water’

Murad Aloo, is one of them. Wearing all black, he walks around the temple grounds, stopping at the stand selling water and ice cream. But he finds little peace here. The images of what happened 12 months ago is seared into his mind.

​​On that day, he said, the shooting started at around 10 in the morning. When the Yazidis realized they were going to be slaughtered by the oncoming Islamic State militants, they fled by the thousands to Sinjar mountain.

“I will never forget what happened. I saw mothers leaving their daughters behind, fearing for their own lives. I saw women and men being slaughtered, even pregnant women.”

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What is the viewpoint of ISIS on this situation?

Islamist Tweet: A Home Without Yazidi Slave Girls Is So Boring

What is Obama’s response?

David DeGerolamo