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IDF Begins To Shift Forces South As Rocket Fire Continues
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Fifth Column
Google Celebrates 4th Of July
Really, guys - that's the best you can do on Independence Day?
Posted by: Raj || 07/04/2014 10:14 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Maybe these corporations need to move to Brussels, so they can enjoy the attention of the Euro-Bureaucrats.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/04/2014 11:04 Comments || Top||

#2  What better graphic example of leftist, Global Googleology and denial. Global multiculturalism will not permit the celebration of American heroism or exceptionalism. Western democracies are essentially the only people in history to have stood against and defeated tyranny. This is what the globalist fear most. Their biggest fear is that the sleeping white male wakes up and starts to push back. If this happens they WILL be defeated, but until it does, they will continue to do everything in their power to prevent it from happening by creating a crime of racism, by legislating demographic genocide, by legalising theft via "affirmative action" and other means, by destroying the economies through fiat currency and "forward planning", gun control, by destroying the free market economy while pretending it still exists... The weapons in their arsenal are legion and they control the corridors of power, academia, the press and the issuing of "money".
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/04/2014 11:18 Comments || Top||

#3  What do you expect?

Google gave the empty suit campaign committee reams of data on Google users for data mining and did it gratis. So they are so in the bag for the demise of civilization as we know it they gave Obumble free campaign data mining services.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 07/04/2014 12:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Breathe, gentlemen!

What does America do well? Our "exceptionalism" includes helping up people when they fall, as the little kid has in this doodle. "Our exceptionalism includes offering new opportunities, no matter what your color or ethnic background. We are the land of the second chance and free exchange of ideas.

Note that the Arab-looking guy hears the music and is happy to be an American. One of my Muslim students is asking me a lot of questions about what Americans believe, and why. She is so thrilled that her daughters are getting an education; and now, at long last she's getting one herself. This is a Muslim woman learning to find her voice and speaking against evil, wherever it rears its ugly head.

OK, the style of the art is a little weak. It would be nice to have some soldiers in the parade. But globalism? I don't see it here.
Posted by: mom || 07/04/2014 12:10 Comments || Top||

#5  July 4th is only significant because of male white privilege.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/04/2014 12:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Mom - you did notice they were all marching to the left, and there was a wee little man....leading from behind ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/04/2014 12:31 Comments || Top||

#7  Left marching Teletubbies
Posted by: Frank G || 07/04/2014 13:19 Comments || Top||

#8  OK, the style of the art is a little weak

Weak? That's a funny way of spelling 'pathetic'.
Posted by: Pappy || 07/04/2014 14:26 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: spano bellingbo3665 || 07/04/2014 14:59 Comments || Top||

#10  That must be the internet, previously known as ARPANET, from the mind of DARPA, previously known as ARPA.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/04/2014 15:26 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: spano bellingbo3665 || 07/04/2014 16:22 Comments || Top||

#12  Note that the Arab-looking guy hears the music and is happy to be an American.

The guy with the beard? I thought he was a hippy. Maybe a biker. I am failing to see the lurking America-hatred in this doodle.
Posted by: Angie Schultz || 07/04/2014 17:50 Comments || Top||

#13  I didn't see a problem with this one.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/04/2014 18:15 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Musharraf's 'abettors'
[DAWN] PUSHED into the background — but only just — by other events, the political status of the Musharraf trial is difficult to know at the moment. Is the government willing to push ahead with a trial or will it bow to the (il)logic of civil-military relations and allow Pervez Perv Musharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
to leave the country? Meanwhile,
...back at the pond, Gloria slowly backed away from the eight-foot bull frog. If the creature croaked she would surely be deafened...
the defence team of the former dictator is doing its best to drum up scandal and headlines in the likely hope that it will build further pressure on the government. The latest move is to try and build some hype around a so-called abettors' list, essentially the individuals in the military and the government who allegedly advised Mr Musharraf to impose the November 2007 Emergency. There are two aspects here worth commenting on. First, whether or not there were abettors would hardly make a difference to the trial that Mr Musharraf faces. Ultimately, it was the former military strongman who signed on the dotted line of the Emergency order — a patently illegal move, the illegality of which in no way is diminished whether he acted alone or on the advice of others. The defence team appears to be simply trying to turn up the political temperature by dragging other then-senior military figures into the picture in the hope that it will cause the government to back down from insisting on a Musharraf trial.

Second, setting aside the obvious motives of the defence team in repeatedly bringing up the issue of those who allegedly collaborated with Mr Musharraf, there is a real and important issue here too: for all the emphasis on the dictator himself, the reality is that military rule is only possible because of the many senior politicians, judges, bureaucrats and other public officials who collaborate with dictatorships. Go back to the original sin, ie October 1999. From the very fact that the coup was launched while then Gen Musharraf was still in the air, to all the constitutional and legal contortions necessary to validate the takeover, to the technocrats and politicians who rushed to Mr Musharraf's side to help him establish his rule — virtually everything that took place required the dictator to rely on aiders and abettors who helped build the lie of constitutional, political and electoral legitimacy. Surely, if the door to dictatorship is to remain shut forever, those who helped build and sustain dictatorships should also be held to account.
Posted by: Fred || 07/04/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Iraq
Ali Khedery @ WashPost: Why we stuck with Maliki — and lost Iraq
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/04/2014 14:59 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A sad story.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/04/2014 16:21 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm sure we could have lost Iraq with another prime minister and the same President.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/04/2014 19:25 Comments || Top||

#3  "Why we stuck with Maliki— and lost Iraq"

I'm sure massive graft was involved in there somewhere . . . .
Posted by: Barbara || 07/04/2014 20:05 Comments || Top||


The US Is Flying Right Into The Iran-Russia-Syria Plan In Iraq
"With this increased commitment of U.S. military assets to Iraq, the U.S. isn't just forcing itself to coordinate logistics with the Iranian-Syrian-Russian alliance in the Middle East. It's also bringing American policy alarmingly close to that of some of the region's more destructive forces — whether Obama intends for this or not."
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 07/04/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If you're super-smart, you think of things nobody was smart enough to think of before---like allying with Iran.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/04/2014 3:53 Comments || Top||

#2  for now, the only objective that people agree on is to prevent the fall of baghdad to the caliphate

to assure this objective some coordination with Iran and Russia is part of the price

Posted by: lord garth || 07/04/2014 7:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Let Iran and Russia do it. We can applaud and criticize from the rear. And yeah, I'm serious. No more, let the Iranians and Russers do this shit, maybe they'll do some fine nation building. The entire mess look like broccoli and I say to hell with it.
Posted by: Shipman || 07/04/2014 11:44 Comments || Top||

#4  I think the empty suit's foreign policy is to undo or destroy everything Bush accomplished.

That's the sum total of his foreign policy. The Dems hate Bush so much they don't care they are destroying the US, all they care about is erasing Bush's legacy. Sort of like Horemheb's demolition of Amarna to erase Ahkenhaten from history.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 07/04/2014 12:23 Comments || Top||

#5  What Shipman sez!
Posted by: borgboy || 07/04/2014 15:19 Comments || Top||

#6  We should be removing troops not augmenting them. Let the Arabs kill each other and if they take a few Persians, good job.
Posted by: irishrageboy || 07/04/2014 15:33 Comments || Top||

#7  Let the Arabs kill each other and if they take a few whole bunch of Persians, good job.

FIFY, IRB
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/04/2014 18:31 Comments || Top||

#8  I'm amazed we didn't fortify the hell out of Kurdistan while we were there. Just in case.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/04/2014 21:05 Comments || Top||

#9  OOOOOOOOO, to be so close but once again still so far.

Methinks its more correct to say that Iran-Russia-Syria are falling or following alleged Marxist-Globalist-Anarchist POTUS Obama's plan, NOT the other way around.

The Globies like others IDEALLY desire to avoid any kind of serious or major, let alone catastrophic or mutually destructive, MilPol confrontation amongst the Great Powers - to that end, as a OWG Globalist the Bammer is broadly but intentionally allowing Rising Iran, Putinist Russia, + Rising China to unilater EXPAND THEIR SPHERES OF POWER-N-INFLUENCE IN LIKELY ANTICIPATION OF THESE SAME BECOME OWG GLOBALIST CO-SUPERPOWERS = PRINCIPAL NATIONS IN CHARGE OR OTHERWISE DOMINATING THE LESSOR STATES WIDIN THEIR PERTINENT OWG GLOBAL FEDERAL UNIONS AS SET UP ON THEIR CONTINENTS OR IN THEIR REGIONS.

The problem for the Globies is that they seemingly forgot to ask the smaller states iff they wanted OWG Global Federal Union andor iff they wanted their "Unions" or blocs to be led or dominated by these select OWG "Co-Superpowers".

ANother prob for the Superpower US = HOW MUCH SOVERIEGNTY + TERRITORY(S) CAN THE US GIVE UP FAR, OR HOW FAR CAN THE US GEOPOL RETREAT OR FALL BACK IN SAFETY WIDOU BEING EXISTENTIALLY THREATENED BY IRAN + RUSSIA + CHINA, ETC. = GEOPOL WANNABES.

BECAUSE THE US IS NOW PERCEIVED AS "WEAK" BECAUSE IT GAVE UP OR FELL BACK TOO MUCH , TOO FAST, TOO FAR.

Remember, most of these Islamist Militanst come from extremely poor backgrounds wid little to no education of any sort save in pro-Radicalist, pro-Jihad Madrassas - THEYE NEVER HEARD OF "OWG-NWO" OR "GLOBALISM", NOR DO THEY CARE FOR IT. ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS WHETHER AN ENEMY ARMY CAN DEFEAT OR DESTROY THEIR ARMY, + PREVENT THEM FROM TAKING WHAT THEY WANT FROM THE VANQUISHED.

Once again, to paraph KRAUTHAMMER = "SAY IT WID ME, AMERIKA, OOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPSSSSSS"!

* TOPIX > [Independent.UK] BRITISH JIHADIST CALLS FOR "FLAG OF ISLAM" TO BE FLOWN OVER DOWNING STREET + BUCKINGHAM PALACE.

ARISE, MADONNA, ARISE!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/04/2014 22:46 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Escalation Scenario Starting To Fulfill Itself
[Ynet] Analysis: With murderous terror attack in Judea and Samaria, rocket fire from Gazoo and Jews seeking Dire Revenge™, reality of past few weeks resembles scenario IDF has been preparing for.

Since the jolt in the Arab world began about three years ago, the IDF has been preparing for a scenario in which a flare-up on one of the fronts the Israeli army is dealing with will spread to other arenas and eventually spark a major war on two or three fronts.

In such a war, the Israeli home front will be hit with a large amount of missiles and rockets and will become, like the home front in Gazoo and possibly in Leb, a main battlefield.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/04/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Palestinians" simply can't stand not getting the top headlines.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/04/2014 4:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Why not just kick the bums out to where they came from, just like with messy-cans?
Posted by: Albert Noodleman2094 || 07/04/2014 23:35 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Ozzie Saffa with Brigitte Gabrial on radical muslims.
Gabrial nails it once again.
Oh my. That's five minutes you'll be glad you spent watching this video.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/04/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Government
Archaeologist at TX Mass Grave Blames DREAM Act
[Breitbart] During a Fusion TV report by Jim Avila on an illegal immigrant mass gravesite in Texas at Sacred Heart Burial Park in Falfurrias, a neglected cemetery about an hour's drive north of the border, the head of a team of 30 archaeologists, Baylor University's Lori Baker said it is 'talk" of the DREAM Act that is causing the surge of minors to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.

Baker, whose team unearthed the mass grave of undocumented immigrants, said, "Now with the talk of the Dream Act we saw this massive insurgence of individuals and they are being told America wants them to come bring your children and so their are woman walking from Guatemala with their children all the way to Texas."

Baker was referring to President Barack Obama's 2012 "DREAM Act" executive order that suspending deportations of illegal immigrants who came here as children.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/04/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:



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Fri 2014-07-04
  IDF Begins To Shift Forces South As Rocket Fire Continues
Thu 2014-07-03
  Saudi Arabia deploys 30,000 soldiers to border with Iraq
Wed 2014-07-02
  Civilian group: 56 dead in Nigeria market blast
Tue 2014-07-01
  Report: Abbas holding 'frantic' talks with US, EU
Mon 2014-06-30
  Bodies of Kidnapped Teens Found Near Hevron
Sun 2014-06-29
  Afghan Forces Claim Victory in Major Taliban Battle
Sat 2014-06-28
  Maliki rejects calls for emergency government
Fri 2014-06-27
  Syrian planes bomb Sunni targets in Iraq, Maliki rejects calls for emergency government
Thu 2014-06-26
  At least 21 killed in rush-hour blast in Nigerian capital
Wed 2014-06-25
  Zarb-i-Azb: 47 militants killed in NWA, Khyber blitz
Tue 2014-06-24
  Thousands flee North Waziristan region on last day of evacuation
Mon 2014-06-23
  Syria Army, Hizbullah Seek to Oust Rebels from Qalamun Foothills
Sun 2014-06-22
  30 militants killed in Khyber Agency, N Waziristan air blitz
Sat 2014-06-21
  Lebanon security chief escapes suicide attack
Fri 2014-06-20
  Zarb-i-Azb operation: 23 militants killed in fresh strikes


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