[DAWN] NEW YORK : The daughter of a Pak taxi driver wept uncontrollably in a New York court as she came up to testify against her father on conspiracy charges to kill her boyfriend's relatives in Pakistain.
Amina Ajmal, 23, the daughter and complainant took the witness stand to testify against her father, Mohammad Ajmal Choudhry, who faces life in prison if he's convicted of orchestrating the so-called "honuor killings".
Choudhry the father cried too, at the sight of his daughter for the first time since attending her ill-fated arranged marriage in Pakistain in late 2012.
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how honourable
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I love the line so-called "honuor [sic] killings"; ranks right up in journalism mealy-mouthisms with "alleged perpetrator" and "some say."
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Veterans aren't happy with a recent op-ed by the Washington Post, which charged that the Apache, Comanche, Chinook, Lakota, Cheyenne and Kiowa military vehicles were a "greater symbolic injustice" than the NFL's Washington Redskins' name.
"Even if the NFL and Redskins brass come to their senses and rename the team, a greater symbolic injustice would continue to afflict Indians — an injustice perpetuated not by a football club but by our federal government," Simon Waxman of the Boston Review wrote for the Post on Thursday.
He added that the helicopter names were "propaganda" that needed to end, because Native American life expectancy statistics indicate the "violence is ongoing, even if the guns are silent." Just to put this silly bitching in context:
Apache: Fierce, merciless desert warriors;
Comanche: Gave up agriculture when the horse was introduced into the country because being nomadic warriors was more fun, despoilers of their enemies, perhaps the greatest light cavalry ever
Chinook: also known as the Flatheads, were a settled people with something like a caste system. Some groups practiced -- gasp! -- slavery.
The helicopter name, I believe, refers not to the Indians but to the warm, dry wind that provides a respite from Montana or Wyoming winters. It was named for the Chinooks. A strong Chinook can make snow one foot deep almost vanish in one day. Chinook winds can raise winter temperatures from 20 below to 70 degrees for a few hours or days. Then it's back to freezing. You can't stop a Chinook, which is probably why they chose it
Lakota and Cheyenne: the quintessential plains Indians, fierce warriors who made General Custer wish he'd studied harder at West Point
If you remove all the flavor -- both good and bad -- from the language all you're left with is some sort of flavorless custard. This 'diversity' society we're being pushed into lacks both inclusiveness and guts. That's precisely the double-plus point...
Readers at the popular military news gathering website Doctrine Man reacted Friday.
"I suspect that the author is less unhappy that our choppers have Indian names, and more unhappy that there is a U.S. military," wrote Alex Kuhns.
Kevin Schooler wrote: "What floors me is that for the most part, it isn't American Indians who are offended. It is guilt-ridden white liberals being offended on their behalf. How's that for paternalism?"
Even the website's moderator weighed in, saying that the names the military chooses for weapons platforms "are anything but derogatory, they convey strength, honor, and courage. @SimonWaxman is grossly uninformed."
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what about offense at a Democrat Senator who falsely claimed Indian Heritage to advance in academia and government? Anyone offended at that besides me?
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It wasn't a false claim, Frank, because she FELT she was Indian.
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So the USS John F. Kennedy is an insult to JFK, and the Bradley IFV (thats a tank to you simon) is an insult to General Omar Bradley? This is war, not meterball where after 90 minutes of footsie the game ties and the guys go hug up and wear each others' clothes; badass machines need badass names.
And here's the problem folks, when you AC agitator wants to show he is down for the cause but comes up with doozies only when he is invited to a party, and this is what he comes up with, the Prious of Paper - and if you think that is a compliment or even think of spinning that, your time would be better spent renectoring your irony beard. Next time I get a coffee there better be a double-white white latte named The Waxman.
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Marxists and tyrants hate a courageous, strong, free society. They want their servants to be servants indebted completely to them.
Wisdom from American Indian Nations.
Those who have one foot in the canoe, and one foot in the boat, are going to fall into the river.
Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children.
Looking behind, I am filled with gratitude,
looking forward, I am filled with vision,
looking upwards I am filled with strength,
looking within, I discover peace
~ Quero Apache Prayer
More than two-thirds of America's youth would fail to qualify for military service because of physical, behavioral or educational shortcomings, posing challenges to building the next generation of soldiers even as the U.S. draws down troops from conflict zones.
The military deems many youngsters ineligible due to obesity, lack of a high-school diploma, felony convictions and prescription-drug use for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. But others are now also running afoul of standards for appearance amid the growing popularity of large-scale tattoos and devices called ear gauges that create large holes in earlobes.
A few weeks ago, Brittany Crippen said she tried to enlist in the Army, only to learn that a tattoo of a fish on the back of her neck disqualified her. Determined to join, the 19-year-old college student visited a second recruiting center in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and was rejected again.
Apologetic recruiters encouraged her to return after removing the tattoo, a process she was told would take about year. "I was very upset," Ms. Crippen said.
The military services don't keep figures on how many people they turn away. But the Defense Department estimates 71% of the roughly 34 million 17- to 24-year-olds in the U.S. would fail to qualify to enlist in the military if they tried, a figure that doesn't even include those turned away for tattoos or other cosmetic issues. Meanwhile, only about 1% of youths are both "eligible and inclined to have a conversation with us" about military service, according to Major Gen. Allen Batschelet, commanding general of U.S. Army Recruiting Command.
Comparable data aren't available for earlier years because the Pentagon began tracking eligibility only recently. But experts said seniors graduating from high school this year face the longest odds to qualify for military service since the draft was abolished in 1973.
"The quality of people willing to serve has been declining rapidly," said Gen. Batschelet.
Each year, about 180,000 young men and women successfully volunteer for America's active-duty forces. An additional 110,000 join the services' reserve and National Guard units. Individual services manage their own recruiting and have the authority to grant waivers to applicants who don't meet broad standards.
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Woo hoo! We've got two Rantburg military kids today! Well done and thank you to you and your son, GORT. Quite a collection of Rantburg offspring have made their way to the various services over the years -- not to mention the services of various countries -- which is something we can all be proud of, I think.
Oh dear. That'll make President/Prime Minister Putin a tad unhappy.
Mr. Moody will probably be ingesting some heavy metals any time now.
[AnNahar] Moody's cut Russia's credit rating outlook to "negative" Friday, a sign of a possible coming downgrade, citing the threat to the Russian economy from its involvement in the Ukraine conflict.
Moody's held Russia's overall rating at Baa1, in the low range for investment-grade bonds.
But it warned that the spread of the Ukraine conflict from Crimea to the country's eastern border with Russia has raised the dangers of "geo-political event risk" for Moscow, including from western sanctions.
It said that the lack of a strong plan and reforms in Moscow to address the country's weak economy also underpin the outlook cut. It said Russia's annual growth outlook has fallen to 1.7 percent for the next five years from previous forecasts of three percent.
Moody's said it did not cut the country's sovereign rating because it does not see the current level of conflict in Ukraine further pressing Russian growth lower.
But if the conflict worsens, Moody's said, Russia could be vulnerable from toughened western sanctions, capital flight and a loss of market access by Russian banks and companies.
"Moody's considers the situation in Eastern Ukraine compared to Crimea as more difficult, given the complicated background of separatist forces and the outbreak of violence," it said.
"Sanctions against Russia so far have been mainly targeted against individuals, but the G7-countries have reiterated the possibility of further sanctions targeting specific sectors of the economy."
Moody's said it would also consider downgrading Russia's rating "if the domestic growth outlook were to deteriorate further and, in particular, if lower growth were to negatively affect Russia's fiscal and external accounts."
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Not at all War on Terror, but the Arab Spring started because the poor could no longer afford food after a series of bad grain crops around the world. Now a significant protein source is at risk, which will cascade far beyond little Latvia and her piggies. As it is said, poor women and children will be hardest hit.
[AnNahar] Latvia ordered a cull of pigs and a 40-day ban on public events in its eastern district of Latgale on Friday amid an outbreak of African swine fever.
The disease was detected on Thursday evening when three wild boar were found dead by border guards near the Belarus border, the State Food and Veterinary Service said.
Tests showed two of the boar were infected with the disease, which is harmless to humans but lethal to pigs and has no known cure.
The disease is thought to have emanated from Belarus, and was also confirmed earlier this year in wild boar in fellow European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... members Poland and Lithuania.
Russia banned pork imports from the EU on January 29, after Lithuania confirmed the disease in two wild boars.
The EU criticized the move as "disproportionate".
Russia absorbs a quarter of the bloc's pork exports, worth around 1.4 billion euros ($1.9 billion) annually.
Posing a lethal threat to commercial pig farms, African swine fever has spread throughout the Balkans, the Caucasus and Russia since 2007, and is endemic to areas of Africa, according to the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... ' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
The FAO warns of "vast losses" if it migrates from Russia to China, which is home to half of the world's pigs.
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Senior Conservatives have called European leaders cowards as they united behind David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... in the bitter row over the appointment of Jean-Claude Juncker as the next president of the European Commission.
The Prime Minister was left isolated after all but one of his fellow EU leaders picked Mr Juncker at a summit in Brussels.
Mr Cameron had fought the appointment of Mr Juncker, viewed by critics as an ultimate EU insider, because he wanted a candidate who would reform the EU. He was outvoted 26 to 2 on Friday.
Tory Cabinet ministers leapt to Mr Cameron's defence on Saturday, publicly backing him for his stance in opposing Mr Juncker, the 59-year-old former prime minister of Luxembourg.
Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, accused the other EU leaders of "cowardice" for opposing Mr Juncker in private, only to back him publicly.
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#2, you do know that it was the Germans who shipped Lenin across the continent from Switzerland to Finland to enter Russia and subsequently create the Soviet Union? Their immediate interest was to get Russia out of the war, which once he got power, Lenin did.
We all have the Serbian army intel to thank for backing the assassins in their little conspiracy as we today are stuck with the rotten fruits of their work.
In what supporters called a necessary move to help deal with a growing fabricated humanitarian crisis, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins on Saturday unveiled a plan calling for the county to house and care for as many as 2,000 children who crossed the Mexico-U.S. border alone.
Jenkins told delegates at the Texas Democratic Convention that the federal government would pick up the cost for the effort, which would be centered in Dallas and an unnamed second city inside the county. So it's not like it's Texas or Dallas money caring for these kids, it's Federal money. SO not only do Dallasites and Texans pay, so do Oregonians, Californians, and New Yorkers. Do they get to say how their money should be spent?
Jenkins said he was certain Dallas County would begin housing children by late July. He said he was working on the plan with HHS, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Dallas and the other city would house the children across three sites, Jenkins said. He did not specify what facilities would be used but said they could be unoccupied schools, hospitals or other large buildings.
Specific costs were not outlined, and Jenkins declined to give a total cost estimate. Dallas County commissioners do not have to approve the plan, Jenkins said. Of course not - he's a judge, for heavens sake!
Jenkins said he reached out to federal officials after his 8-year-old daughter expressed concern about the children flooding across the border. She even offered the family's Highland Park home as a potential site, saying it would be fun to play with other little girls. Highland Park would make a swell place to house the kids - most of the houses there are big enough that they could easily fit in 50-60 kids.
President Barack Obama has announced planned stops in Dallas and Austin for fundraisers July 9 and 10, though [Texas Governor] Perry has invited him to see conditions at the border. I hear there are a couple of good golf courses along the Rio Grande.
The county, Jenkins said, would have a contract to house the children for 120 days. Depending on the state of the crisis, the children could be in the county much longer. Jenkins said the goal of the plan is to help children find longer-term housing, possibly with family. But not back with their mothers and fathers? How 'humanitarian' is that?
Adding to the challenge is that Dallas immigration courts are overloaded, as are most of the 59 immigration courts around the nation. Cases can take about 15 months to process, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a nonprofit that researches federal justice issues. One of my Inspectors is trying to get his wife into the country legally. I wonder what he thinks about this?
State Rep. Rafael Anchia, D-Dallas, said the city came through for Gulf Coast residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and should take similar steps for the unaccompanied children.
"We need to show same kind of compassion and fellowship to these vulnerable children," Anchia said. After all, they're practically voters!
Jenkins said he was hopeful that churches and other community organizations would get involved in the process.
"It's a great opportunity for our community to show compassion," he said.
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Its now official: On foreign policy, Barack Obama is worse than Jimmy Carter.
For decades, Carters presidency was synonymous with weakness on the world stage. The late 1970s was the era of double-digit inflation, a worldwide oil crisis, Iranian hostages and Soviet military advances from Latin America to Afghanistan. So pathetic was Americas predicament at the time that the late Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy mounted a primary challenge to Carter from the left.
Obamas rise to power mirrored his Democratic predecessors in many ways. Both men came to office in the wake of widespread public disenchantment with the political establishment, and promoted themselves as outsiders and breaths of fresh air. Both men spoke of surmounting what they portrayed as Americans exaggerated anxieties about the dangers hyped by fear-mongering conservatives.
For Carter, in a 1977 commencement speech, it was our inordinate fear of communism that Americans needed to overcome. For Obama, in his 2009 Cairo address, it was the fear and mistrust that had grown between the West and Muslim world in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Both men came into office emphasizing the promotion of human rights as a crucial dimension of American foreign policy. And both men gave the impression that their good intentions would be enough to accomplish these Herculean tasks.
Unfortunately, as is often the case, the reality of the world came crashing down.
It is barely remembered today, but, for all the derision heaped upon Carter as a weak and feckless President, he eventually responded to foreign aggression in tough and concrete ways. In November 1979, Iranian revolutionaries fresh after having overthrown the American-allied Shah seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 52 American diplomats hostage. In December, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.
Gone was the President Carter who had scolded Americans for their fear of the communist behemoth.
By January, Carter announced a series of proposals directed at weakening Americas adversaries. First was a 5% increase in defense spending, a move that angered many of his Democratic allies in Congress who had taken to slashing the defense budget in the wake of the Vietnam War.
In his State of the Union address, Carter announced what would later come to be known as the Carter Doctrine: that the United States would use military force to protect its vital interests in the Persian Gulf.
Next came an embargo on grain and agricultural technology to the Soviet Union. Carter also declared that the United States would boycott the 1980 Moscow summer Olympics unless the Soviets withdrew their troops from Afghanistan. When they did not, he began covert funding of Afghan rebel fighters.
Conservatives like to credit Ronald Reagan with ending the Cold War. To the extent that the collapse of the Soviet Union was brought about by American policies and not the internal contradictions and weaknesses of the communist system itself (a debate that engages historians to this day), the last year of the Carter administration laid the groundwork.
Global instability is on the rise and faith in Americas stabilizing presence is on the decline, and all we have from Washington are empty, millennial-friendly buzz phrases. Leading from behind was how one, too-clever-by-half administration official termed Obamas global strategy. Hitting singles and doubles is Obamas own, jocular assessment of his foreign policy. And now, Dont do stupid s--- is the mantra being repeated throughout the halls of the White House and State Department.
Dont do anything at all seems more apt a description of this administrations approach.
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Remember Ronnie (former gov of CA) ran in the primary against Ford, but (as usual) the 'establishment' candidate won. Given the legacy of the pardon, what did they really expect what the result would be. Then in '80, Ronnie ran again.
- Need to find a sitting or former governor who's not part of the Beltway mafia.
- Run on the record of actually doing something.
- Keep hammering that its not a personality contest for "American Idol", but a requirement for a competent administrator.
- Don't debate, they're rigged.
- Don't let the Donk MSM dictate your campaign.
- Play as dirty as they have.
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Once again, wid feeling, OWG GLOBALISM = can be ascribed as HOW MUCH OR HOW FAR CAN THE US = GREAT POWERS SAFELY + UNILATERALLY FALL BACK OR RETREAT, ETC. WIDOUT BEING EXISTENTIALLY THREATENED OR DESTROYED.
"HOW FAR" IS "TOO FAR" WHEN ONE ENGAGES IN VOLUNATRY OR UNILATERALLY STRATEGIC RETREAT OR FALL-BACK???
NEW DELHI: Reacting strongly to reports that China has in its recent map shown Arunachal Pradesh as its territory, India today said "cartographic depiction" does not change reality on the ground and asserted that Arunachal was an integral part of the country.
Asked about recent China maps which show disputed areas in Arunachal and South China Sea as its own, the spokesperson in the external affairs ministry said, "The cartographic depictions do not change the reality on the ground.
"The fact that Arunachal Pradesh in integral and inalienable part of India has been conveyed to Chinese authority at several occasions including at the very highest level."
He also indicated that this may be raised by the Indian delegation, headed by Vice President Hamid Ansari, currently in China to participate in an event to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Panchsheel or Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.
"It is normal practice to raise all issues of bilateral concerns," the Spokesperson said when asked if Ansari will raise it during his meetings with the Chinese leadership.
According to reports, China in its recent maps has shown disputed areas in Arunachal and South China Sea as its own.
Asked about reports of fresh incursions by Chinese troops in Ladakh region, the spokesperson neither confirmed nor denied such incident and merely said Indian soldiers guarding country's borders were capable to secure our land.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a visit to Sriharikota to witness the launch of ISRO’s PSLV C-23 rocket, on Sunday said his government is committed to give impetus to the country’s space programme.
A few hours after he landed at the spaceport, about 100 kilometres from here by a special helicopter from Chennai, Mr. Modi tweeted, “Will be in Sriharikota on Sunday evening and Monday morning for launch of PSLV-C23. Will meet scientists during my visit. Looking forward.”
In another tweet few minutes later, he said, “Our Government is committed to give further impetus to our Space Programme.”
A senior ISRO official told PTI from Sriharikota that the Prime Minister was being taken to the launch pad to witness the PSLV-C23 launch vehicle and GSLV Mk III Vehicle Assembly Building and would be briefed by scientists.
Meanwhile, ISRO said the countdown was progressing smoothly and Nitrogen Tetraoxide (N2O4) Propellant filling operation of Second Stage (PS2) of PSLV-C23 has been completed at 6.30 p.m. on Sunday.
PSLV C23 is scheduled to lift off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota at 9.52 a.m. on Monday with five foreign satellites from four countries.
Besides its main payload of 714 kg weighing French Earth Observation Satellite SPOT-7, PSLV C23 would carry 14 kg AISAT of Germany, NLS7.1 (CAN-X4) & NLS7.2 (CAN-X5) of Canada each weighing 15 kg and the 7 kg VELOX-1 of Singapore.
ISRO has so far launched 35 satellites from 19 countries around the globe -- Algeria, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Singapore, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Turkey and United Kingdom, bringing a huge sum to the country as foreign exchange.
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If there are ever turbans in space, Ima betting the house they're Hindoooo not Islamic.
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Nah, Frank, I figure some Muslim technician will screw up setting up a nuclear bomb test and ride the shock wave into space. In molecule-sized pieces.
LEH/NEW DELHI: After making incursion bids in Ladakh through land route, Chinese troops have made several attempts to enter Indian waters at Pangong lake nestled in the higher reaches of Ladakh with the latest incident reported on Friday.
According to reports reaching various government agencies here, the Army had a face-off with the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) as recent as June 27 in the lake when their troops tried to enter the Indian waters.
Udhampur-based Northern Command Army spokesman Col S Goswami declined to answer a query from PTI about the latest incursion attempts and instead was asked to "approach PRO (Army)".
However, there was no reply from his side when it was pointed out to him that he was the spokesperson of the Army.
The spokesperson of the ministry of external affairs when asked by reporters yesterday about reports of fresh incursions by Chinese troops in Ladakh region merely said Indian soldiers guarding the country's borders will be able to provide an appropriate response should any incident occur on the border.
According to sources privy to the development, Chinese troops were intercepted at the imaginary line that is supposed to be the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the lake and sent back after the face-off drill during which the army personnel on both sides wave banners claiming it to be their territory.
The incursions have taken place in eastern Ladakh and on the northern bank of Pangong Lake, located 168km from Leh, the sources said.
The Chinese patrols used to come frequently from the northern and southern banks of this lake, whose 45 km stretch is on the Indian side while another 90 km is on the Chinese side.
However, every attempt was foiled by the Army which has been equipped with new boats.
The high-speed interceptor boats, that were bought from the US, can accommodate nearly 15 soldiers and are equipped with radars, infra-red and GPS systems.
These boats are stated to be as good as the Chinese vessels and are used to conduct reconnaissance and area domination patrols.
The sources said the Chinese patrol boats were backed up by PLA troops from the banks of the lake and the move was apparently to put psychological pressure on the Indian troops who man the area.
The situation along the banks of the lake has always remained volatile with Chinese troops being intercepted by Indian Army patrol several times after the three-week long stand-off in the Depsang plains of Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO) in May last year.
The areas where the face-off frequently occured included the Finger-VIII area, also known as Siri Jap. China has managed to construct a road up to Finger-IV area which also falls under Siri Jap area and is five km deep into the LAC, the sources said.
China in its maps claim that this area belongs to it while the Indian Army has been claiming it to be part of Ladakh.
However, as the Indian side was trying to back its claim during negotiations, the Chinese army constructed a metal-top road and claimed the area to be part of Aksai Chin area, the sources said, adding many a time the Indian Army has used the same road to patrol the area and lay claim over it.
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See also BHARAT RAKSHAK > CARTOGRAPHIC DEPICTIONS DOES NOT CHANGE REALITY ON THE GROUND: [India] MEA.
and
* SAME > XI CALLS FOR [stronger] CHINA FRONTIER DEFENSE - JAPAN TIMES.
* RELATED GLOBALNATION.PH > CHINA CALLS FOR STRONGER [Land + Sea] BORDER DEFENSES.
Lest we fergit, CHINA MILBLOGS = showed maps where China could claim GUAM-WESTPAC vee so-called "underwater shelf diplomacy".
See below.
* Also from GLOBAL NATION > WEST PHILIPPINES SEA CHINA'S BEST SHIELD AGZ US, [Phil] PAPER SAYS.
Kinda sorta confirms my suspicions that when China said it won't use its military agz Vietnam in the on-going oil rig dispute in the SCS, IT PCORRECTLY OVERTLY OMITTED DENYING USING SAME AGZ THE PHILIPINES.
The Northern PHIL = LUZON? can be used as satging area for LR PLAAF Heavy Strike or Tac bombers + DF-21 ASBMS, ETC. to deter any incoming US intervention force from Hawaii + US West Coast, as well as a staging area for a major attack agz Guam vee PLA Airborne Forces.
[DAWN] A rape suspect escaped police custody with the help of his legal counsel after a Lahore High Court single bench dismissed his bail petition on Friday.
The suspect (S) moved the bail petition through Advocate Rab Nawaz and denied the charges of rape. He alleged that the police had dragged him into the case at the behest of the complainant party.
The Chiniot police investigating officer, however, said sufficient evidence had been collected against the suspect and medical report also established that the suspect had raped a mentally-challenged girl. He opposed the bail petition.
Justice Shahid Hameed Dar dismissed the petition. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... police failed to arrest the suspect as the counsel along with lawyers helped him flee the court.
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[OrthodoxChristianNetwork] Duane Alexander Miller of Nazareth Evangelical Theological Seminary's department of Church History and Theology speaks with Fr. Chris about the conversion of Muslims to Christianity.
Questions include:
* Can you share one or two stories of people who've converted?
* What is the decision process like for Muslim people who decide to convert?
* Where are these conversions happening most?
* What can you tell us about the denominations that former Muslims are entering? Are they becoming Orthodox?
* Do you think these conversions say something about the current culture of Islam or is this truly a personal, individual thing?
* For listeners who would like to learn more about this, are there any books or online resources you can recommend?
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Many younger Americans are joining Radical Islam precisely because of multicultural "diversity" + "tolerance", etc. where the only God is no God, + the Govt's answer to pervasive national or societal confusion is to deliber promote more confusion.
The super-PCorrect notion that America is also Amerika is a good example, AS IS THE SO-CALLED ISLAMIST "MAHDI/HIDDEN IMAM" ALSO BEING A FRUSTRATED ANGRY AMERICAN = AMERIKAN SOLDIER/KILLER-ELITE.
IFF HE COMES TO POWER, SAY GOODBYE TO THE ENTIRE WESTERN + NON-ISLAMIC WORLD.
The beginning of Ramadan was confirmed by Saudi Arabias Islamic project on Friday, saying that the crescent moon would be revealed to the naked eye on Sunday, therefore symbolizing the start of the holy month.
Other Arab and Islamic countries also announced that Ramadan will start on Sunday. These include Tunisia, Algeria and Libya, Oman, Egypt, Jordan, Sudan, Palestine, Indonesia and Malaysia.
Yemen and Turkey are the only countries in the region that declared Saturday as the first day of Ramadan.
As this years holy month falls in summer, some parts of the northern hemisphere will face fasting periods that last up to 21 hours, due to longer daylight hours.
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glenmore,
you may be thinking of Ahmad ibn Fadlan who was an envoy from the caliphate to one of the Khanates in the 10th century. He wrote about the burial of a viking ship.
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or you saw "13th Warrior"
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Moslem holy days are defined much, ironically, as Jewish holy days, in that The Day begins at sunset the day before.
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a calendar day begins at dusk in both Islam and Judaism
also day = yom in both hebrew and arabic
also night = laylah in both hebrew and arabic
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I see Palistine is listed as a country. When did that happen?
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I see Palistine is listed as a country. When did that happen?
In the future, perhaps, though I wouldn't give it strong odds, Mugsy Glink. But the article is from Al Arabiya, and must please its target audience with such little white lies.
[Daily Caller] Connecticuts largest insurer proposed a double-digit rate hike due to Obamacare regulations and uncertainty, but several Connecticut groups pressed state regulators to deny the private company the right to raise its rates.
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield opted for a 12.5 percent rate increase, a hike which sparked a hearing by Connecticuts Department of Insurance. The Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut pressed regulators to deny the substantial hike simply because many policyholders would be affected. (RELATED: Obamacare Update: Now Even More States Report Double-Digit Premium Hikes) This could be something to monitor closely.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Veterans aren't happy with a recent op-ed by the Washington Post, which charged that the Apache, Comanche, Chinook, Lakota, Cheyenne and Kiowa military vehicles were a "greater symbolic injustice" than the NFL's Washington Redskins' name.
More than two-thirds of America's youth would fail to qualify for military service because of physical, behavioral or educational shortcomings, posing challenges to building the next generation of soldiers even as the U.S. draws down troops from conflict zones.
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Senior Conservatives have called European leaders cowards as they united behind 
