Scientists say MASSIVE crack in the earth in Yellowstone is NO sign of volcanic eruption.
If you believe that, I have this new bridge with rusty metal pins in San Francisco Bay, I can sell you. - TGFP.
By Sandy Fitzgerald |
Saturday, 31 Oct 2015 01:17 PM A huge crack that has formed in the foothills of Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains is not a sign that Yellowstone's massive underground volcano is about to erupt, or anything else more sinister: It's just something that opened naturally, scientists are saying.
The crack measures 750 yards long and 50 yards wide, reports Mother Nature Network, and was discovered by backcountry hunters who were out hunting for game, not geological mysteries.
The chasm was first reported by SNS Outfitter & Guides,
a hunting company, on its Facebook page earlier this week and after
that, the news — and the conspiracy theories — have been growing:
This
giant crack in the earth appeared in the last two weeks on a ranch we
hunt in the Bighorn Mountains. Everyone here is calling it “the gash”.
It’s a really incredible sight. Huntwyo.com
But as it turns out, the crack isn't related to the Yellowstone
supervolcano, or anything worse, despite the claims swirling around
online about it.
"Apparently, a wet spring lubricated across a cap rock," an engineer has
told SNS. "Then, a small spring on either side caused the bottom to
slide out. He estimated 15 to 20 million yards of movement."
The region has been, through the years, the site of several such
landslides, although not nearly the size of the recently discovered
chasm, which lies not far from the Yellowstone Caldera.
Episodic volcanic eruptions have occurred in the Yellowstone area — three of them major.
The Yellowstone Caldera itself was created by a massive volcanic
eruption approximately 640,000 years ago, and Yellowstone Park itself
sits squarely atop one of the biggest volcanoes on Earth, according to National Geographic.
Scientists believe that some kind of eruption at Yellowstone is
possible, but the odds of a "supervolcano" that could "plunge the Earth
into a volcanic winter — are anyone's guess; it could happen in our
lifetimes, or 100,000 years or more from now, or perhaps never," the
publicacation continues.
How many of these are potential terrorists ? - TGFP.
Middle Eastern migrants arrive in Nickelsdorf, Austria, Oct. 9, 2015 Where oh where have the Muslim migrants gone?
That is the question German authorities are asking themselves after some troubling reports of disappearances.
According to German press reports, keeping track of all the Muhammads
and Alis pouring across borders is proving ever so tricky for European
countries being flooded with people on the move from the Middle East and
Africa.
Now, the United Nations is partnering with a private company to offer
a solution – a new “universal” identification system that will comply
with the United Nations’ sustainability goal of having biometric
identification “in the hands of every citizen” in the world by 2030.
As author-blogger Pamela Geller noted this week, citing German press reports, more than one in two refugees from one camp went missing and are now unaccounted for and considered “on the run.”
At least 580 refugees initially were reported to have disappeared from Camp Shelterschlefe.
Now, in a “terrible new twist,” the disappearances are spreading.
“It’s become an epidemic,” Geller said. “7,000 migrants have left the
Brandenburg shelters. Where are they going? Who is sheltering these
illegals, many with ties to ISIS?”
Such a high number of people hiding is “completely unacceptable,” according to the German authorities.
“Where are they hiding? Could they be connecting with sleeper cells?” Geller writes.
“Is it any wonder that Europeans are scrambling for guns?” Geller added, referencing a report by WND earlier this week
that long guns are flying off the shelves in Austria and other
countries where it’s still legal for average citizens to buy firearms. Die Welt is reporting that thousands of refugees have left their assigned accommodations.
“They are simply not there anymore,” the news outlet reports.
Refugees disappear daily from the initial welcoming centers in
Brandenburg without giving notice.
Authorities said they believed the missing persons to be heading on
their own to stay with family or friends already in Germany or in other
countries throughout Europe, or at least that’s the hope.
Several hundred migrants have disappeared each week since the
beginning of September without signing in, Ingo Decker, the spokesman of
the Potsdam Ministry of the Interior, told Die Welt.
“Eventually, these refugees are simply not there anymore,” he said.
One of the REAL Axis of Evil types. - TGFP,
Refugees disappear daily from the initial welcoming centers in Brandenburg without giving notice.
Authorities said they believed the missing persons to be heading on
their own to stay with family or friends already in Germany or in other
countries throughout Europe, or at least that’s the hope.
Several hundred migrants have disappeared each week since the
beginning of September without signing in, Ingo Decker, the spokesman of
the Potsdam Ministry of the Interior, told Die Welt.
“Eventually, these refugees are simply not there anymore,” he said.
On Wednesday alone, more than 600 people left the welcoming center,
Susan Fischer, the deputy ministry spokeswoman, reported to the
newspaper. According to official figures of the state government, more
than 17,000 newcomers came into the country since early September. About
7,800 have been housed in cities and villages, about 2,700 people are
still in the initial reception centers. That leaves at least 7,000 who
have left and are AWOL.
A report from German news outlet Faz.net headlined “Refugees disappearing from lodging,”
says around 700 refugees disappeared from emergency accommodations in
Lower Saxony. Voices calling for a direct registration by the
governmental agencies are getting louder.
National authorities required cities and towns in the region to
accommodate 4,000 on short notice and now can’t account for all of them. Germany’s welcome mat ‘setting the stage’
Paul McGuire, an analyst who has appeared on Fox News and the History Channel and co-author of the new book, “The Babylon Code: Solving the Bible’s Greatest End Times Mystery,”
says the heavy influx of Muslim migrants almost assures there will be
another terrorist attack at least as big as what happened in Paris
earlier this year at the Charlie Hebdo newspaper office.
He said sources in Germany tell him the majority of the nearly 1
million migrants who have streamed into the country are between 18 and
25.
“There’s no way they could be this stupid and let this many in. It
has the look of something intentional,” he said. “I’m getting emails
from people in Germany. They know this is being done on purpose, to
destroy their villages and towns.”
McGuire said he was in France just a few days after the Charlie Hebdo attack.
“They were sitting ducks, and the people of France were completely
shocked,” he said. “So they’re setting the stage for another attack.”
McGuire said the leaders of the global “hardcore left,” such as
billionaire philanthropist George Soros, are using the Muslim migrants
as a battering ram against the walls of the Christian West.
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban was quoted by a public radio
outlet this week calling out Soros for his backing of the migrant
invasion, saying:
“His name is perhaps the strongest example of those who
support anything that weakens nation states, they support everything
that changes the traditional European lifestyle. These activists who
support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international
human-smuggling network.”
McGuire said the Muslim migrants are particularly useful to socialist globalists like Soros.
“They are like a bludgeoning group, they can bludgeon everything
Christian out of our society,” he said. “The hard left uses them because
they demand all these laws and special accommodations, and inevitably
they enact Shariah and force the culture to go into retreat, and then
you have this weak Christianity that can’t withstand anything.”
‘Driving the new world order’
McGuire sees a perfect storm brewing in which global authorities will
need to keep better track of people, especially refugees, but the new
rules will end up applying to everyone.
“So these migrants are coming to drive the new world order, to bring
order out of chaos,” he said. “You destroy nationalism, destroy social
cohesion, and then these Muslim groups coming in will create a crisis
and force a response that will feature a state crackdown and the need
for heightened security, and one of the ways you do that is through
universal IDs. It’s just evil.”
A large portion of Germany’s missing refugees had not been
registered, nor had they applied for asylum, which is a recipe for
chaos. The local authorities point out that they have no authority to
hold people.
The same rules apply to refugees sent from the Third World to American cities.
Once they are resettled in a city, whether it’s Denver or
Minneapolis, Des Moines or Detroit, they are free to migrate anywhere in
the United States. The refugees are placed on a fast track to full
citizenship and signed up for various welfare benefits by resettlement
agencies affiliated with the Catholic, Lutheran, Episcopal, Jewish and
evangelical-Christian organizations. A congressional research study
found that 91 percent of refugees from the Middle East receive food
stamps.
Local politician Angelika Jahns criticized the current situation in
Germany. “We need to know who is staying in Lower Saxony,” she told the
Die Welt. She said the refugees should be registered as soon as they
arrive in Lower Saxony, but they are not forced to do so by the German
national government.
The problem of refugees gone missing is clearly on the radar of
global elites, and in fact they are already using the refugee crisis to
promote a sweeping new global ID system, WND has learned.
The United Nations high commissioner for refugees in May 2015 awarded
a three-year contract to a firm called Accenture to “identify and
track” refugees in a pilot program targeting camps in Africa and Asia
with a new biometric ID, reports FindBiometrics.com,
a trade journal covering the biometric and information management
industries. Accenture is an international technology services provider
based in Chicago.
Here is how FindBiometrics describes the project:
“The UNHCR will use Accenture’s Biometric Identity
Management System (BIMS) for the endeavor. BIMS can be used to collect
facial, iris, and fingerprint biometric data, and will also be used to
provide many refugees with their only form of official documentation.
The system will work in conjunction with Accenture’s Unique Identity
Service Platform (UISP) to send this information back to a central
database in Geneva, allowing UNHCR offices all over the world to
effectively coordinate with the central UNHCR authority in tracking
refugees.
“Starting with a pilot project in the Dzaleka Refugee
Camp in Malawi, the program has blossomed over the last couple of years
to provide services in refugee camps in Thailand and Chad, with over
220,000 people identified in the two countries so far. It’s an ambitious
project, but Accenture has experience with large-scale biometric system
initiatives, having helped the Department of Homeland Security’s Office
of Biometric Identity Management with a major border control project,
for example. This latest endeavor will see the company’s technology used
in important humanitarian efforts – and in fact it seems to have
already helped hundreds of thousands.”
U.N. Agenda 2030 calls for ‘universal ID’ for all people
This “universal ID,” which grabs the biometric data of refugees, is
just a starting point for the United Nations. The goal is to eventually
bring all people into the massive data bank. The proof is in the U.N.’s
own documents.
The U.N. Agenda 2030 document adopted by 193 of the world’s heads of
state, including President Obama, at the Sept. 25 U.N. conference on
sustainability in New York, includes 17 goals and dozens of “targets.”
Target 16.9 under the goal of “Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions” reads as follows: “By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration.”
The World Bank is also throwing its weight behind the United Nations biometric project being conducted by Accenture.
In a new report
issued in collaboration with Accenture, the World Bank is calling on
governments to “work together to implement standardized, cost-effective
identity management solutions,” according to FindBiometrics.
A summary of the report states that about 1.8 billion adults around
the world lack any kind of official identification. “That can exclude
those individuals from access to essential services, and can also cause
serious difficulties when it comes to trans-border identification,”
according to FindBiometrics.
“That problem is one that Accenture has been tackling in
collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees,
which has been issuing Accenture-developed biometric identity cards to
populations of displaced persons in refugee camps in Thailand, South
Sudan, and elsewhere. The ID cards are important for helping to ensure
that refugees can have access to services, and for keeping track of
refugee populations.”
Then comes the final admission by the World Bank that the new biometric IDs are not just for refugees.
“Moreover, the nature of the deployments has required an
economically feasible solution, and has demonstrated that reliable,
biometric ID cards can affordably be used on a large scale. It offers
hope for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal of getting legal ID into
the hands of everyone in the world by the year 2030 with its
Identification for Development (ID4D) initiative.”
It is a serious problem for the authorities that many thousands of
people are on their way on their own in the federal territory, Decker
told Die Welt.
He said refugees might be registered multiple times as the
registration is based on information given by the registrants, which
almost always come without any papers.
“The same guy that is Muhammad Ali here in Eisenhüttenstadt can be
Ali Mohammed a little bit later in Hamburg,” Decker exemplified. “The
states must live with that for the time being, because a proper
registration at the border is currently not in sight.”
One the U.N.’s biometric labeling of all humanity is in place, this will no longer be a problem.
Raising wages then job cuts. Yeah, fight poverty by making poverty. - TGFP.
The $15 minimum wage increase in the Seattle area “is getting off to a pretty bad start,” according to a new report.
Data shows that the Seattle Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) lost
700 restaurant jobs from January to September of this year, and a report
from the American Enterprise Institute suggests that this could be the
product of adverse effects of minimum wage hikes on restaurant jobs.
“What is also noteworthy about the loss of Seattle restaurant jobs
this year is the fact that restaurant employment in the rest of
Washington state is booming this year,” writes Mark Perry, an AEI
scholar and professor of economics and finance at the University of
Michigan’s Flint campus.
A report by Perry, published Wednesday on AEI’s public policy blog
Carpe Diem, notes that there has been an increase of 5,800 new
restaurant job positions in the rest of the state of Washington.
While the overall job growth rate this year for the Seattle MSA is
higher than the national average, the drop in restaurant jobs stands
out. The past three years have seen restaurant employment in the Seattle
MSA area at an average job gain of almost 4,000 employees during
January-September, according to Perry’s work. “One likely cause of the stagnation
and decline of Seattle area restaurant jobs this year is the increase in
the city’s minimum wage,” Perry wrote.
The Seattle City Council passed a $15 minimum wage ordinance that is
currently being phased in. On April 1, the minimum wage jumped to $11
per hour.
But correlation does not necessarily mean causation.
Salim Furth, a research fellow in macroeconomics at The Heritage
Foundation, points out that the data numbers are for a metropolitan
statistical area. The data includes 600,000 people who live in Seattle
and 3 million people who live in cities and suburbs that aren’t affected
by the Seattle minimum wage ordinance. “It’s too soon to tell for sure,
but there is already some preliminary evidence that the recent minimum
wage hike to $11 an hour, along with the pending increase of an
additional $4 an hour by 2017 for some businesses, has started having a
negative effect on restaurant jobs in the greater Seattle area,” Perry
wrote.
James Sherk, research fellow in labor economics at The Heritage
Foundation, notes to The Daily Signal that the AEI data is suggestive
evidence but by itself does not prove that the minimum wage caused the
drop in jobs.
Sherk says the United States does not have much historical experience with high minimum wages, “but what we have is bad.”
For example, in American Samoa (a Pacific island chain that is a
United States territory), a $7.25 minimum wage increase was applied in
2007 by Congress.
“This would be the economic equivalent of raising the minimum wage to
$20.00 an hour in the continental U.S.,” Sherk’s research states. “American Samoans have a largely separate economy and considerably lower incomes than residents of the continental United States.”
According to Sherk, the American Samoa tuna canning industry minimum wage stood at $3.26 per hour in the beginning of 2007.
After wage hikes started to apply, canned tuna industry employers
began to lay off and cut hours of employees. One cannery shut down in
2009. “Samoan employers responded to higher
labor costs the way economic theory predicts: by hiring fewer workers,”
Sherk wrote. “Congress hurt the very workers it intended to help.”
Vietnam veteran, 73, fights off 200lbs female mugger in lengthy attack at an auto parts store after shoppers fail to intervene
Victor Bejarano was attacked in parking lot of a Califronia auto parts store 200lbs woman assaulted 76-year-when he refused to hand over his wallet Fight continued inside the store where no-body came to the aid of retiree Eventually a witness called police and the would-be mugger fled in an SUV By HANNAH PARRY FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 19:54 EST, 22 October 2015 | UPDATED: 21:10 EST, 22 October 2015
Victor Bejarano visiting his local auto parts store in Fresno, California when he was set upon by the female mugger who demanded he hand over his wallet.
This is the dramatic moment an elderly veteran fought off a 200lbs woman who tried to steal his wallet.
Shocking surveillance footage shows the 5'8" attacker confront Bejarano in broad daylight as he walked to the entrance of the AutoZone, in East Belmont on Saturday morning.
But if she thought she had picked an easy target in the 73-year-old retiree, she had a surprise in store.
The Vietnam veteran refused to give up his wallet.
'In the beginning she told me, "You wouldn't hit a woman," and I said, "You're not a woman. I mean, you're attacking me,'' he told ABC 30 Action News.
Video shows the determined Bejarano defending himself against the would-be mugger as they grappled in the parking lot.
The fight continued inside the store where Bejarano tried to seek help from the tireless attack.
Incredibly, no-one came to the aid of the besieged California pensioner.
When the retired mechanic refused to give up his wallet, the pair fought with Bejarano determined to defend himself against the would-be mugger
They continued to grapple until eventually, one of the shoppers in the store announced they had called 911.
The woman walked back to her SUV and fled the scene.
'I got to tell you, she was pretty tough,' said Bejarano, who explained he had been reluctant to hit the woman but had been forced to do anything he could to get away from her.
'I didn't want to hit her. I didn't want to punch her. I didn't want to do none of that,' he added.
Police are now hunting for the woman who is described as being African American, in her twenties and around 5'8" tall, weighing 200lbs. She drove away in a green Ford Explorer SUV which was around 15 years old.
While she fled the scene, the former mechanic stayed to pick up the part he needed to fix a friend's van.
Bejarano fought with everything he had to successfully stop his wallet being stolen.
But he said if she'd have simply asked appealed to his human side rather than trying to force him to hand over money with force, she would have had more luck.
'If she told me 'Hey, I have family I've got kids, I would've given her $10,' he said.
Posted: 10/13/2015 01:22 AM EDT | Edited: 3 hours ago
Don Chingon recently
issued a challenge to customers: Eat a behemoth burrito and gulp down a
margarita in one hour or less, and you’ll win a 10 percent stake in the
Brooklyn taqueria.
"If you are going to eat a massive amount of food in a single
sitting, you deserve real compensation," owner Victor Robey told the NY
Daily News. "Some restaurants will put your name on the wall. We'll give you the wall."
But The Grand Chingon Challenge is no easy feat. The burrito weighs
30 pounds and is stuffed with steak, chicken, pork, rice, cheese, beans
and salsa.
And the margarita? It's made with an extremely spicy ghost
pepper.
Customers have to pay $150 to participate in the challenge, and once they start, no bathroom breaks are allowed.
Puking will also result in disqualification.
The restaurant adds that it will not be responsible for “death or illness” caused by the enormous meal.
The vile and desperate act in front of white picket fence may be seen as a dirty protest against the middle-class
Bum deal: Residents were flabbergasted to be greeted by this disgusting sight
A woman pooh-poohed the white picket fence's iconic status in America
by taking a dump in broad daylight in front of a plush Los Angeles
residence.
The vile poo-petrator showed no respect for the
idealised symbol of middle-class suburban life when she dropped her
trousers and relieved herself on the grass by the pavement.
Her
bare-bummed cheek was caught on camera by a horrified resident, who also
took pictures of the toilet paper littering the street after the
outrageous event.
Chineseinla.com
Sh*t and run: The woman left dirty paper in the street after wiping and fleeing
The naughty number two has made the mystery woman public
enemy number one in Monterey Park, California, where Mayor Peter Chan is
concerned it could send the east LA city's image down the pan.
In June, it was the Brits who were left open-mouthed after a woman had a sneaky poo in a supermarket aisle in Southport - then carried on shopping.
And two weeks ago police released CCTV footage of a man they would like to speak to after human faeces was found on a chair at a coffee shop in Rugby railway station.
An officer inspects a cache of weapons found during a
death investigation in Los Angeles on July 17.
Pacific
LOS ANGELES — The body of a mystery man was
decomposing in his car in the ritzy Pacific Palisades neighborhood in
Southern California for nearly two weeks before he was found by
authorities, an attorney said.
Inside his home, detectives discovered more than 1,200 guns,
scopes, 6.5 tons of ammunition, bows and arrows, knives, machetes and
$230,000 in cash after he was found on Friday.
They also located eight of the 14 vehicles stashed around Los Angeles
registered to the man, including an SUV designed to drive underwater. Who he was and how he came to accumulate the arsenal and vehicles are questions authorities are still trying to answer.
Veteran defense attorney Harland Braun represents the man’s fiancée Catherine Nebron and identified him as Jeffrey Alan Lash.
That’s also the name authorities are working with and they’re in touch with a relative to try to officially identify the body, said Craig Harvey, coroner’s chief of investigations.
Lash and Nebron were together for 17 years and she believed him when he told her that he worked as an undercover operative for unnamed government agencies, Braun said Wednesday.
“The story itself sounds totally crazy, but then how do you explain all this?” Braun said. “There’s no evidence he was a drug dealer or he stole these weapons, or had any criminal source of income, no stolen property, all the stuff you’d look for.”
There’s no indication the man was doing anything illegal with the weapons, LAPD Deputy Chief of Detectives Kirk Albanese said. Detectives were reviewing everything, but so far the guns appeared to be registered to him. Many were still in boxes or had price tags.
Braun said Nebron and two friends were in a car at a supermarket early July 4, when Lash felt hot and had trouble breathing.
“He wouldn’t go to a hospital and didn’t want any 911 call,” Braun said. When he died, Nebron parked him in a car down the street from the condo they shared, the lawyer said.
Authorities don’t believe there was any foul play involved, but won’t give a cause until there is more investigation.
Lash told Nebron the government agencies would take care of his body and the items in the home, so Nebron and her friends took a trip to Oregon, distraught.
When they returned about 10 days later, Nebron was shocked to still see Lash’s body in the car.
She contacted Braun, and together they called police, who found the body, guns and more.
Neighbors thought Lash was dying of cancer because he appeared to be degenerating over the past year, but Lash told Nebron that he had been exposed to nerve-damaging chemicals on a mission and his condition was worsening.
A nearly 800-pound man undergoing in-patient treatment for his obesity says a hospital kicked him out for ordering a pizza.
Steven Assanti,
33, had been staying at Rhode Island Hospital for 80 days, in which he
lost 20 pounds, NBC 10 reports. But after he violated his diet, the
hospital asked him to leave, he told the station.
"It's an addiction and I realize that, and it's a disease," he said in the news segment above.
A hospital spokeswoman confirmed to ABC in Boston that Assanti had been discharged but could not comment further.
Assanti temporarily took refuge in the trunk of his father's SUV but
was admitted into Kent County Hospital on Tuesday, NBC 10 noted. His
father said he needed to be monitored or risk gaining even more weight.
According to CBS in Boston, a social worker was trying to arrange for Assanti to stay through the weekend. His father said they were also considering an apartment complex in North Attleboro, Massachusetts.
According to a study published in 2013, more than 15 million Americans are considered morbidly obese.
ANKARA, Turkey - Two bomb explosions targeted a peace rally Saturday by
leftist and Kurdish activists in the Turkish capital of Ankara, killing
86 people and wounding 186, the country's health minister said.
The explosions occurred seconds apart outside Ankara's main train
station as hundreds were gathering for the rally, organized by Turkey's
public sector workers' union and other civic society groups. The rally
was to call for increased democracy and an end to the renewed violence
between Kurdish rebels and Turkish security forces.
Authorities were investigating whether the attacks — which struck 50
meters (yards) apart — were suicide bombings. There was no immediate
claim of responsibility for the deadliest attacks in Turkey in years.
The attacks came at a tense time for Turkey, a NATO member that borders
war-torn Syria, hosts more refugees than any other nation in the world
and is holding a general election on Nov. 1.
Authorities had been on alert after Turkey agreed to take a more active
role in the U.S.-led battle against the Islamic State group. Turkey
opened up its bases to U.S. aircraft to launch air raids on the
extremist group in Syria and carried out a limited number of strikes on
the group itself. Russia has also entered the fray on behalf of the
Syrian government recently, bombing sites in Syria and reportedly
violating Turkish airspace a few times in the past week.
Turkish jets have also carried out numerous deadly airstrikes on
Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq. Some 150 police and soldiers and
hundreds of rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, have been
killed since July, when the conflict flared anew.
Busloads of activists had travelled to Ankara from other cities to
attend Saturday's peace rally. Health Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu said
62 of the bomb blast victims in Ankara died at the scene, while 24
others died after being taken to the hospital.
An Associated Press photographer saw several bodies covered with
bloodied flags and banners that demonstrators had brought with them for
the rally. Police later cordoned off the area.
Television footage from Turkey's Dogan news agency showed a line of
protesters on the street near the train station, chanting and performing
a traditional dance with their hands locked, when a large explosion
went off behind them.
The video also showed several people later lying injured on the streets
or being taken into ambulances. Scuffles broke out between police and
family members frantically searching for loved ones or complaining about
the poor police response.
"There was a massacre in the middle of Ankara," said Lami Ozgen, head of
the Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions, or KESK.
Small anti-government protests later broke out at the scene of the
explosions and outside of Ankara hospitals as Interior Minister Selami
Altinok visited the wounded.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned Saturday's attacks, which he
said targeted the country's unity and peace, and called for solidarity.
"The greatest and most meaningful response to this attack is the
solidarity and determination we will show against it," Erdogan said.
Critics have accused Erdogan of re-igniting the fighting with the Kurds
to seek electoral gains — hoping that the turmoil would rally voter
back to the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP. Electoral
gains by the country's pro-Kurdish party caused the AKP, founded by
Erdogan, to lose its parliamentary majority in a June election after a
decade of single-party rule.
Erdogan denies the accusation.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu held an emergency security meeting to
discuss the attack. His office said he was suspending his election
campaign for the next three days.
It was the third attack targeting meetings of Kurdish activists. In
July, a suicide bombing blamed on the Islamic State group killed 33
peace activists, including many Kurds, in the town of Suruc near
Turkey's border with Syria. Two people were killed in June in a bomb
attack at a pro-Kurdish party's election rally.
"This attack resembles and is a continuation of the Diyarbakir and
Suruc (attacks)," said Selahattin Demirtas, leader of the Turkey's
pro-Kurdish party. "We are faced with a huge massacre."
Hours after the attack in Ankara, Kurdish rebels declared a temporary cease-fire ahead of Turkey's Nov. 1 election.
A Kurdish rebel statement said Saturday the group is halting
hostilities to allow the election to proceed safely under "equal and
fair" conditions. It said it would not launch attacks but would defend
itself.
The government has previously dismissed any possible Kurdish cease-fire
plans, saying the rebels must lay down their arms and leave the
The not so great would be dictator never stops.
This is why we must be eternally vigilant and stop him.
President Barack Obama is considering using an executive order to impose
new background-check requirements on people buying guns from
high-volume dealers, The Washington Post reports.
The change would require dealers who go over a certain number of sales
per year to have a license from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
and Explosives and do background checks people attempting to buy guns
from them.
Obama has been unsuccessful with his efforts to toughen gun laws as he
deals with a Republican Congress. He signed 23 executive orders in 2013,
months after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Connecticut.
He plans the new effort in the wake of the Umpqua Community College
killings last week in Oregon.
Obama said last week he asked his administration to see "what kinds of
authorities do we have to enforce the laws that we have in place more
effectively to keep guns out of the hands of criminals."
Federal law already requires dealers who are "engaged in the business"
to perform background checks, but the new executive action would add
anyone who sells a significant number of guns per year, according to the
Post.
Current law exempts anyone "who makes occasional sales, exchanges, or
purchases of firearms for the enhancement of a personal collection or
for a hobby, or who sells all or part of his personal collection of
firearms."
The ATF objects to the action, saying it would be difficult to enforce,
and one official told the paper, "Everyone realized it would be hugely
politically controversial."
Jennifer Baker, spokeswoman for the National Rifle Association, said the
change could "ensnare" people who were not intended to be covered, such
as a widow selling her husband's gun collection.
"People who repeatedly sell large volumes of firearms are already
covered in the current statute because they are already defined as
'engaged in the business,'" Baker told the Post."I do not believe an executive order's going to solve any problems here," Louisiana Rep. John Fleming told Sinclair Broadcasting.
"The president going beyond his powers to do things that should go through legislation is a bad idea."
