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>>151168
No brakes

>>151168
Drumphy wumphy makes me comfy

Why didn't Trump shill LePen?

>>148562
This has been posted like three times already, stop posting it

>>148572
Link the threads or fuck off.

>>148576
I can't because been removed asswipe

"Hard data on this. It isn't an opinion. It isn't an approximation. There is a second location with eyes on with all the right equipment to capture exactly what the shot was," another military source said.

A military insider told The Globe: "This is an incredible feat. It is a world record that might never be equalled."

The world record was previously held by British sniper Craig Harrison, who shot a Taliban gunner with a 338 Lapua Magnum rifle from 2,475 metres away in 2009.

Previously, Canadian Corporal Rob Furlong had set the world record in 2002 at 2,430 metres when he gunned down an Afghan insurgent carrying an RPK machine gun during Operation Anaconda.

Weeks before, Canadian Master Cpl. Arron Perry briefly held the world's best sniper record after he fatally shot an insurgent at 2,310 metres during the same operation. Both soldiers were members of the 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.

JTF2 special forces are primarily tasked with counterterrorism, sniper operations and hostage rescue. Much of the information about this elite organization is classified and not commented on by the government. The unit's snipers and members of Canadian Special Operations Regiment, who are carrying out the main task of training Kurdish forces, have been operating in tough conditions in Iraq.

The Trudeau government pulled CF-18 fighter jets out of Iraq in 2016 but expanded the military mission, which will see the number of Canadian special forces trainers climb to 207 from 69 in an assist, train and advise mission. Canadian commandos are not supposed to be involved in direct combat, but are authorized to go up to the front lines on training missions with Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and to paint targets for coalition air strikes.

For operational security reasons, sources would not reveal the names of the elite Canadian sniper and his partner, nor the location where the action took place.

>>151453
Super cool

A sniper and his observer partner are often sent to remote and dangerous locations to hunt down insurgents while having to carry heavy equipment. Once they have located the target, snipers follow the same methodical approach before each shot. Breathe in, out, in, out, find a natural pause and then squeeze the trigger.

Canada has a reputation among Western military forces for the quality of its snipers, despite the small size of the Canadian Armed Forces compared to the United States and Britain.

"Canada has a world-class sniper system. It is not just a sniper. They work in pairs. There is an observer," a military source said. "This is a skill set that only a very few people have."

The skill of the JTF2 sniper in taking down an insurgent at 3,540 metres required math skills, great eyesight, precision of ammunition and firearms, and superb training.

"It is at the distance where you have to account not just for the ballistics of the round, which change over time and distance, you have to adjust for wind, and the wind would be swirling," said a source with expertise in training Canadian special forces.

"You have to adjust for him firing from a higher location downward and as the round drops you have to account for that. And from that distance you actually have to account for the curvature of the Earth."

U.S. Sergeant Bryan Kremer has the longest confirmed sniper kill shot by a U.S. soldier. He killed an Iraqi insurgent with his Barrett M82A1 rifle at 2,300 metres in 2004.

Oh look the Palmer report.
I'm surprised they could take time off from telling Russia conspiracies.

The distress of the left caused by Trump is really telling.

I was one of the people that believed that Hellarry should not win due to her health.
I also did not want Trumpet to win because he is an old man and I knew he would be just as ill shortly after.
There need to be more Young politicians.
Old people are too frail.

>>144006
>the media is largely choosing to ignore it.
Well, sudden death due to unsuspected illness would be a nice way to get rid of him without all the trouble of impeachment. So everybody is carefully avoiding to suspect a thing.

>Muslim girl Nabra Hassanen abducted and murdered ‘in hate crime’ on her way to mosque in Virginia

>Police in Virginia have charged a man with murder after a 17-year-old Muslim girl was abducted and beaten to death on her way to a mosque.

>Nabra Hassanen, 17, was on her way to prayers after breakfast yesterday when she was confronted by a man who drove past in a car.

>She was assaulted and became separated from her four friends, police said. She was believed to have tripped over her clothes before she was attacked.

>The other teenagers made it safely to the mosque where they notified the authorities and a search was launched for the girl. A body was later found in a pond near Ridgetop Circle in Sterling, about three miles from where the attack took place.

>The girls had been to a sleepover the previous night at an Islamic institution nearby.

>Last night, police charged Darwin Torres, 22, with murder. A metal baseball bat was found near the body.

>Torres was arrested after he was seen driving suspiciously in the area while officers were still searching for Nabra. Police were investigating the possibility that the killing was a hate crime. In a statement, the All Dulles Area Muslim Society said: “We are devastated and heartbroken as our community undergoes and processes this traumatic event.”

>“Please pray for me, please pray for me,” Nabra’s mother, Sawsan Gazzar, told the Washington Post. “Pray for me that I can handle this ... I lost my daughter, my first reason for happiness. I think it had to do with the way she was dressed and the fact that she’s Muslim. Why would you kill a kid? What did my daughter do to deserve this?”

>Loudoun county sheriff Michael Chapman said: “I just can’t think of a worse instance to occur with the loss of a 17-year-old on Father’s Day. As a father of a 17-year-old myself, I can’t think of anything worse.”

Where are the Islamophobes?

I see you guys in other threads enlightening us about the evils of Islam.

>>151380
And what are apaches supposed to do against a guy with a bag full of explosives in the middle of a crowd?

>>151380
P A R T + P A R C E L

>>151383
Like the humble oxygen bag in an airplane plummeting to the ground, they are merely there to give false hope and reassurance as you prepare to die.

This world deserves armageddon. This is fucking insane.

>>149629
Indeed it has, if you can genuinely wish death on someone just because they have different ideas on parenting than you do.

The main concern that I have is that this could lead to a lack of parental authority, which could cause respect and entitlement issues. In other words, they could become someone who thinks the world revolves around them, like you.

>>149635
>Lead to
What, you're saying they don't already? Kids at 8 and 9 years old already have tablets and smartphones. It's this new generation of parents that feel they didn't get enough as kids and have to give their own everything as some sort of social protest.
>I wasn't spoiled and that's a bad thing!

As Trump knows, though, there are many reasons for someone to provide information without wanting to be identified. Trump himself used to call news outlets pretending to be his own publicist so that he could share details without revealing the source. And while Trump administration officials often speak on the record to the media, they nearly as often speak only on background as so-called “senior administration officials,” faceless voices praising Trump without being able to be held accountable for what they said. It happens so often that the abbreviation “SAO” is understood immediately by the press.

Here, for example, are a number of things that the White House has provided to the White House press corps using sources who refused to be named. (All quotes are from pool reports filed by members of the media.)

Jan. 28: About the immigration ban.

>The official said that Trump advisers had been in contact for many weeks with key State Department and Department of Homeland Security officials about Friday’s executive order. “Everyone who needed to know was informed,” the official said.

When the administration was forced to craft a second attempt at the ban a month after this, press secretary Sean Spicer told press that the first attempt was flawed by not having enough people in place to vet it.

>The official said green-card holders from one of the seven affected countries who are currently outside the United States will need a case by case waiver to return to the United States, according to the official. Those green-card holders in the United States will have to meet with a consular officer before leaving the country, the official said.

Jan. 29: Immigration ban.

>The SAO said there was no “advance notice” of the order going out for clear reasons that he did not explicitly outline. “I think everybody here can use their imagination to imagine 25 reasons why that wouldn’t make sense from a security standpoint,” SAO said.

>The SAO said that “the guidance from the beginning” has been that legal permanent residents (LPRs) were exempt from the immigration EO, although there was some discussion about that in the room.

Notice that the comment about LPRs contradicts the statement from the previous day about green-card holders.

>SAO praised the implementation of the order as having been done “seamlessly” and with “extraordinary professionalism.”

A common thread: Praise for whatever the administration is doing.

Feb. 14: On peace in the Middle East.

>The official said a possible meeting between the Israelis and Palestinians would be part of the discussions tomorrow. “He’s hopeful to bring the two sides together to discuss peace,” the official said of the president. How quickly would he like to get a Middle East peace process going? “I do think it’s a very high priority for the administration,” the official said, who would not be pinned down on timeline.

Feb. 24: A response to reports that the White House had tried to get intelligence officials to deny reports about FBI investigations.

>[FBI assistant director] Andrew McCabe said ‘I want you to know story in NYT (in FBI investigating contacts between Trump campaign people and Russian intel) is BS.’ (Some question whether he said bullshit or simply BS although officials best recollection is ‘bullsh-t.’) Preibus asked ‘what can we do about this?’ McCabe demurs and says he’ll get back to Preibus. Preibus’ can concern is he’s ‘getting crushed’ on the story. ‘What an I supposed to do?’

An unnamed official relaying a conversation held within the White House is the sort of thing that Trump in other contexts has harshly criticized.

Mar. 10: Conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

>President Trump has been “heartened” by what he has heard from Berlin about devoting more resources to the annual NATO military budget. POTUS intends to talk with Merkel about her government crafting a “concrete plan,” the senior official said. POTUS is “very interested” to get Merkel’s insights about working with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the senior official said.

As is an unnamed person offering insight into Trump’s conversations with foreign leaders.

It stands at a whopping 98.5 feet—more than 40 feet taller than the largest in the States, a 56-foot rocking chair in Casey, Illinois. Before that, the title was clinched by an 85-foot chair in Spain and a 65-foot chair in Italy, both in the early 2000s.

Despite America’s dethronement on the world stage, you can still see dozens of these once record-breaking and otherwise giant chairs at their original sites, with plaques celebrating their days of glory. Here are five places where you can spot these remarkably large seats on your next U.S. road trip.

Bicentennial Chair
Gardner, Massachusetts
Gardner has, for over a century, always had a giant chair on display. The current chair, measuring 20 feet and 6 inches tall, was constructed in 1976 for the city’s bicentennial. The mahogany chair briefly brought the world title back to the “Chair City,” though for the final time. The chair was afflicted with rot in the 1990s but was saved from destruction, and is still a local landmark.

Size: 20.6 feet, 3,000 pounds.

Big Things In a Small Town
Casey, Illinois
The honor of the largest chair on Earth may have slipped out of American hands, but the largest rocker still rules on in the Midwest. Casey, which has created a reputation for its “Big Things in a Small Town,” holds the current Guinness record for the world’s largest rocking chair (among several other world records). For the chair to claim the title, it had to be proven to actually rock, and it took 10 people to move the mammoth piece of furniture. At over 56 feet tall, the super-sized rocker is also the largest chair in the U.S.

Size: 56.1 feet, 46,200 pounds.

Route 66 Rocker
Cuba, Missouri
When Casey’s record was awarded, it was bad news for another giant rocking chair, located off the iconic Route 66 in the town of Cuba. This one stands next to a Fanning Outpost complex with an archery range, a taxidermy shop, and a general store (with no apparent furniture connections). It was built in 2008 at a height of 42 feet, in order break the world record and drum up more traffic. It is only open for people to sit one day a year, known obviously as “Picture on Rocker Day.” A lift is hired to raise people up onto the seat.

Size: 42.1 feet, 27,500 pounds.

Largest Office Chair
Anniston, Alabama
In 1981, facing a crowded race for the world’s largest chair, the folks at Miller’s Office Furniture in Anniston made a strategic decision. They put up a giant version of one of their office chairs, super-sized by simply converting inches to feet, in an empty lot next to the showroom. At 33 feet tall, it was declared the world’s largest office chair by Guinness. After a brief move, the chair is now back to its original location, and its owners say it is there to stay.

Size: 33 feet, 20,000 pounds.

The Big Chair
Washington, D.C.
The Washington, D.C. furniture company Curtis Brothers Furniture built The Big Chair of Anacostia in 1959 to advertise the neighborhood business. Calling it the “World’s Largest Chair,” they also took the structure’s fame to the next level by getting a local artist to live on the chair for 42 straight days without ever coming down. The chair was originally made out of wood but after years of being battered by the elements, the monument became unstable and had to be deconstructed for repairs. It was rebuilt with aluminum so that the oversized piece would last for future generations to enjoy.

Size: 19.5 feet, 4,600 pounds.

>>151432
Stories like this make my butthole clench up, I'm so pissed

>>149700
ROFL republicucks are so dumb for getting mad about this

Democrats and lefties are superior morally and they can't see that because they're evil white supremacist nazzis

Nobody died, it was a dumb little bullet lol

>>149701
yeah i mean it's just a little mixed rampage/political assasination attempt get over it lol

>>149706
Tbf, that's how pubs reacted to Gifford's assassination attempt.

F-15 has downed an Iranian drone in Syrian airspace.

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/338583-russian-fighter-jet-comes-within-5-feet-of-us-plane-report

Russia needs to fuck off or join us in the fight against muslims.

>>149459
>Jones allegedly knew the age of the victims and repeatedly discussed it with both of them in the course of instructing them on what to send him, according to the documents.

>The complaint shows that with Victim A, Jones allegedly described their interaction as an “opportunity” and a “try out” and referred to giving her videos a “score.”

>“Talk about your age the whole time,” he told her at one point, the complaint claims. “Got it?”

>“In your honest opinion, do you think your butt is good enough to give guys boners?” he allegedly asked the same victim before urging her to “try harder!!!”

>In another video, the victim repeats to Jones, “I’m only 14 years old…yeah only 14 years old.”

>In August 2016, Jones and another 14-year-old girl, Victim B, communicated through Facebook chat for two days, the complaint alleges. The pair talked about how young she was and how much she liked his music.

>According to the documents, Jones allegedly repeatedly told her that she was “so lucky” to have his attention and would have to “prove” how big of a fan she was.

>After one video, he allegedly responded, “in the next one, you have to prove you’re my biggest fan. I know you can do it!”

>“How amazing that would be for you!! To have your favorite singer spanking your a–!” he allegedly wrote to her at one point. “If you’re lucky, maybe I’d let you suck my d—.”

>During their two-day conversation, Victim B sent Jones approximately 25 videos of her dancing, the complaint states. In approximately eight of them, she is exposing herself from the waist-down.

>“Bounce again and smile at the camera while you bounce. And while you bounce, say ‘I’m only 14’ three times throughout the video,” Jones allegedly instructed the girl, who at times was hesitant.

>“If you really are my biggest fan, you would do it!”

Disgusting

How stupid do you have to be to not realize that you're likely to get caught doing this?

>>150799
Ramadan bombathon, shalom

>>150799
What a shame, but we should discuss the democracy problem in Poland.

islam did nothing wrong

>An Israeli company
>$80 million worth of spyware
Shalom!

>>150588
20 years, maybe 40, tops.
I'm Mexican.

I don't know what to think. The so-called journalist Carlos Loret de Mola is a faggot slave for right politicians. The people now idolize the another journalist to the extreme to want her to be president.
The "serious" newspapers or mags are not reliable, they say poverty and other problems are caused by "errors" of government. The neoliberalism abuse and current laws are premeditated.

"These lizards are being illegally poached from the wild, caught in traps and snares. Some will have their throats slit or skulls smashed in before their genitals are removed," it said.

Wildlife activists said the volume of the item being sold online was huge.

"We were shocked at the sheer audacity and scale of the illegal wildlife trade," D'Cruze said. "Deceitful traders claiming to sell holy plant root labeled as 'hatha jodi' are in fact peddling dried lizard penis to their unwitting customers."

Tribal people in remote forests in central and eastern India used to hunt and eat the large-sized lizards, with most of them unaware that killing or possessing the animal is a crime punishable by seven years' imprisonment, said Aniruddha Mookerjee, a researcher who was part of the investigation.

>hemipenis
I learnt a new word today.

>>150815
Visit /an/ for all your /herp/atological needs.