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Hurricane Irma Discussion Number 29 NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL112017 500 AM AST Wed Sep 06 2017 Irma continues as a Category 5 hurricane this morning, having passed over Barbuda a few hours ago. Earlier data from an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft included SFMR winds near 155 kt and that the central pressure had fallen to 914 mb inside the 25 n mi wide eye. There has been little change in the satellite appearance of the hurricane since that time, so the initial intensity remains 160 kt. The initial motion is 285/14. Irma is currently being...

...HURRICANE WARNINGS ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF THE LEEWARD ISLANDS... ...HURRICANE WATCHES ISSUED FOR THE BRITISH AND U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS AND PUERTO RICO...

In a sweeping defeat for Obama-era holdovers at the U.S. Department of Justice, a federal court has tossed out a case in which the department had subpoenaed a Christian pastor’s views on Islam. The Islamic Center of Culpeper, Virginia, had already won a favorable settlement in its Obama-aided case against the city, which agreed to provide a permit for the mosque to pump sewage from a site where it wants to build a mosque, even though state environmental officials had said the site was not suitable for a septic system. But that wasn’t enough for the lawyers who staff the...

Hurricane Irma Advisory Number   6 NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL       AL112017 500 PM AST Thu Aug 31 2017 ...IRMA BECOMES A CATEGORY 3 HURRICANE OVER THE EASTERN ATLANTIC... SUMMARY OF 500 PM AST...2100 UTC...INFORMATION ---------------------------------------------- LOCATION...17.3N 34.8W ABOUT 720 MI...1160 KM W OF THE CABO VERDE ISLANDS ABOUT 1780 MI...2865 KM E OF THE LEEWARD ISLANDS MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...115 MPH...185 KM/H PRESENT MOVEMENT...WNW OR 290 DEGREES AT 12 MPH...19 KM/H MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...967 MB...28.56 INCHES   WATCHES AND WARNINGS -------------------- There are no coastal watches or warnings in effect.   DISCUSSION AND 48-HOUR OUTLOOK ------------------------------ At 500 PM AST (2100 UTC),...

Mueller has issued subpoenas to a former lawyer for Paul Manafort and to Manafort's current spokesman, an aggressive tactic that suggests an effort to add pressure on the former Trump campaign chairman. The subpoenas seeking documents and testimony were sent to Melissa Laurenza, an attorney with the Akin Gump law firm who until recently represented Manafort, and to Jason Maloni, who is Manafort's spokesman, according to people familiar with the matter. Manafort is under investigation for possible tax and financial crimes, according to US officials briefed on the investigation. issuing subpoenas to a lawyer of someone under investigation is unusual,...

The latest cover of the German magazine Stern features a drawing of U.S. President Donald Trump doing a Nazi salute. The caption -- "Sein Kampf" ("His Struggle") -- is an obvious and contemptible allusion to Adolf Hitler's 1925 autobiographical book "Mein Kampf" ("My Struggle"). the implications of this madness have to do with the status of free people everywhere in the face of media tyranny, in the face of a media insistent on indoctrinating us into thinking a certain way, being shocked a certain way, and, above all, dictating to us how to interpret reality even when our own eyes...

A dig to lay new cable for the Partner communications company near Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem this summer unearthed a very old missed message: a 1,500-year-old mosaic floor bearing a Greek inscription. Dr. Leah Di Segni of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem deciphered the inscription, which reads: "In the time of our most pious Emperor Flavius Justinian, also this entire building Constantine the most God-loving priest and abbot, established and raised, in the 14th indiction." According to Di Segni, "This inscription commemorates the founding of the building by Constantine, the priest. The inscription names the emperor,...

Special Counsel Robert Mueller issued grand jury subpoenas in recent days seeking testimony from public relations executives who worked on an international campaign organized by Paul Manafort, people directly familiar with the matter told NBC News. According to one executive whose firm received a subpoena, Mueller's team is closely examining the lobbying campaign, which ran between 2012 and 2014. Some of the firms involved in the campaign received subpoenas for documents weeks ago, the executive said, and now the Mueller team is seeking testimony. "We think they are trying to figure out, was this a legitimate project?" the executive said....

Myanmar's government says 71 people died after an armed group of Rohingya Muslims attacked police and military posts in the western state of Rakhine. Officials say the militants stormed more than 30 locations in the early hours on Friday.

Ukraine has marked the 26th anniversary of its independence from the former Soviet Union with a military parade joined by NATO units. On Thursday, Kiev hosted the parade of about 4,500 personnel, including some deployed in eastern Ukraine, where conflict with pro-Russian separatists continues. It was the first Independence Day parade to feature representatives of NATO members, including the United States and Poland. President Petro Poroshenko delivered a speech, indicating that Ukraine hopes to join NATO to deal with security threats from Russia. One of the spectators told NHK that Ukraine needs to gain full independence from Russia. President Poroshenko...

The following clip contains excerpts from an Islamic State propaganda video that was released after the recent jihad massacre in Barcelona. It’s a reminder that one of the engines driving the Great Jihad is the urgent imperative to reclaim territory that has been lost to the Ummah. It doesn’t matter that Iberia, a.k.a. al-Andalus, was first claimed for the Ummah through violent conquest. Once a plot of land belongs to the Ummah, Islamic law insists that it remain Islamic in perpetuity. If non-believers happen to reoccupy the territory, it is only a temporary usurpation, to be rectified by the Muslims...

“The imam said he frequently gives money to needy people, particularly former members of his mosque.” Yes, the jihadi for whom he was buying the weapons was very needy. He needed to kill some Infidels. “Feds link Detroit terror suspect to ISIS supporter,” by Robert Snell, Detroit News, August 22, 2017: Detroit — Federal prosecutors Monday linked Sebastian Gregerson to a Virginia man who threatened to commit a domestic terror attack in support of the Islamic State. The link was revealed in a 47-page federal court filing that more fully describes ties between Gregerson and like-minded associates, including a radical...

In a marathon interview with the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, the co-founder of Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm behind the uncorroborated anti-Trump dossier, refused to identify the political clients that commissioned the salacious document. Fusion GPS also stands behind the dossier, a lawyer for the firm said at the end of a 10-hour interview given by co-founder Glenn Simpson. Despite all the questions raised about the dossier, Levy, the lawyer for Simpson, says that Fusion GPS stands by the information in the document. “Today, a special counsel and three congressional committees are investigating ties between the Russian government...

A number of prominent national security experts are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to put “in their proper place” the lower court judges who have ruled against President Trump’s plans to temporarily restrict entrants to the United States from certain terrorist-producing nations. The lower-court judges have made rulings based on their own political ideology and their opposition to the president rather than the law, contends a brief filed by the American Freedom Law Center, or AFLC, on behalf of the national security experts, including Andrew C. McCarthy, the Center for Security Policy, Frank J. Gaffney, Robert J. Shillman, retired Adm....

The State Department has just issued its annual report on religious freedom around the world. Saudi Arabia, to judge by the language of the report, vied with North Korea as the worst offender. And while limits on the religious freedom of foreigners was mentioned, the report did not go into the details of how, in Saudi Arabia, the observation of Christian worship, no matter if held behind closed doors, is strictly forbidden and severely punished. Nor did the State Department report take up the perennial problem of Saudi textbooks which preach hatred of Christians and Jews Meanwhile, in official Washington,...

Police don’t know if it’s an accident or deliberate. But seriously, what are the odds that someone would accidentally crash into two separate bus stops in two different places on the same morning? And so it is likely deliberate, and that means that it is quite possibly more vehicular jihad. Last June, the Islamic State published a poster depicting an SUV driving over a heap of skulls and bearing the legend “Run Over Them Without Mercy.”

Judge Napolitano: He was arrested for some financial crime. That’s the tip of the iceberg. The real crime against him was that he had contact, he had access to emails of every member of Congress and he sold what he found in there. What did he sell and to whom did he sell it. That’s what the FBI wants to know. This may be a very, very serious national security investigation. Three members of the House Homeland and Intelligence Committee and five members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Dozens of House democrats and potentially all members of Congress....

A partial lockdown was ordered Thursday for all Florida prisons in response to tips about potential revolts at several facilities, a Department of Corrections spokeswoman confirmed. The lockdown means recreational and educational areas will be off limits to all 97,000 inmates. But inmates will still have access to meal halls, phone areas and bathrooms, according to the department. The heightened security measures come a day after the department announced it was canceling weekend visitation privileges at major institutions, work camps and annex facilities out of an "abundance of caution."

Do most Americans recognize that a full blown Communist Revolution has erupted across America? Today on TRUNEWS, Rick Wiles raises the alarms bells over the Muslim-Marxist assault on the foundation of our Republic. Rick details the players in this coup against President Trump, the U.S. Constitution and the fabric of law and order, and discusses how this all ties back to Barack Hussein Obama, and his goal to radically change the nation.

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