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Two killed as Fazl escapes suicide attack in Quetta
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Europe
The jihadi tourist trail to Europe
Despite the author's silly opinions about how Europe should handle its problem, there is some interesting information in this article.
Posted by: ryuge || 10/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If he were still alive, Theo Van Gogh might disagree with the author.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/24/2014 6:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Jihadists? Another disease that needs to be quarantined and eradicated.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/24/2014 14:40 Comments || Top||

#3  I think ISLAM is the disease that needs to be quarantined and eradicated. Until we do that, the idjits that adhere to it will continue to kill, maim, and mangle everyone else, and even many of their own. What a disgusting pile of camel dung masquerading as a religion...
Posted by: Old Patriot || 10/24/2014 18:42 Comments || Top||


Great White North
How deep-rooted are jihadists in Canada?
[DAWN] We have dreaded this, but knew it may happen one day. An armed assailant attacked the Canadian Parliament and other sites in Ottawa, Canada's capital. Killing one soldier; and injuring at least three others.

The attacker, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, 32, was a "high risk" suspect whose passport had been confiscated. He was also a Canadian convert to Islam.

Only this week, a newly converted Canadian Moslem killed a soldier in Quebec and hurt another.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 10/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Salafists

#1  If you don't defend the border then you have to defend all the inside.
Multiculturalism is a failure.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/24/2014 7:58 Comments || Top||

#2  How deeply are they rooted in the U.S.? The open border to our south makes it very easy to infiltrate this country thanks to this bunch of adolescent idiots in Washington who gained control of Washington in 2008 (sarc).
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/24/2014 8:29 Comments || Top||

#3  .......arrogant adolescent Harvardian idiots, if you will.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/24/2014 8:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Mid 90's?! Duude, that was like, over two years ago.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/24/2014 10:22 Comments || Top||

#5  arrogant adolescent Harvardian idiots
Lots of redundancy in that statement, Besoeker.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/24/2014 12:46 Comments || Top||

#6  The best idea of all was allowing Saudi sponsored Wahabi imams into our prisons to preach religion to convicts. It is still going on.
Posted by: djk || 10/24/2014 14:23 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Could It Possibly Get Any Worse? It Already Did!
by Roger L. Simon

[PJMedia] Only eight days ago, October 15, I wrote a piece asking "Could It Possibly Get Any Worse?" Although I was only half-serious and thought I was just being intentionally hyperbolic, it already did!

Today, in my birth city of New York, within hours of each other, we had a doctor come down with Ebola and another quasi-Islamo-lunatic bash a cop in the head with a hatchet, only a day after a similar event in Canada.

The most amazing part of the cop attack was, at approximately 7PM West Coast time, after millions of people had been hearing about it on cable television for hours, according to Ed Henry on Fox, an administration spokesperson didn’t even know it had happened. They're probably waiting to make sure it’s "workplace violence."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/24/2014 04:26 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It can always get worse.

And many times it does.

Plan for the worst and hope for the best is a good way to take it. Unfortunately our inept government is planning for the best and hoping you don't notice when the worst comes.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/24/2014 9:46 Comments || Top||


Sturm: The fevered political plague
[ASPENTIMES] It's been an October of surprises. As U.S. health officials' mistake-riddled handling of the deadly Ebola virus topped newscasts, the Denver Post editorial board captured headlines for its denunciation of Sen. Mark Udall's campaign tactics, helping subdue the fevered politics that's plagued us.

Insisting that Udall -- dubbed "Mark Uterus" -- Think Again about his fixation on gynecological issues while "a great deal is at stake," the Post's endorsement of challenger Cory Gardner injected truth serum into a poisonously dishonest election season.

Noting Udall's lack of leadership in Washington and his "obnoxious one-issue campaign" in Colorado, the Post contends that "Udall is trying to frighten voters rather than inspire them with a hopeful vision." As if inoculating himself from scrutiny, the Post notes, Udall has spent a "shocking amount of energy and money ... to convince voters that Gardner seeks to outlaw birth control despite the congressman's call for over-the-counter sales of contraceptives."

The Post's rebuke may not be a cure-all for mindless and dispiriting "War on Women" sloganeering, but it's healthy if it incentivizes politicians such as Udall to address constituents' real preoccupations and priorities.
Posted by: Fred || 10/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Udall is trying to frighten voters rather than inspire them with a hopeful vision."

The sugar plum dreams of "Hope and Change" are not the tools of an incumbent. Once you are in office, you must learn to use fear and distraction.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/24/2014 6:04 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Punjab politicised
[DAWN] IN the end, one half of the dharna double-header ended in timid retreat, with a predictable final round of grandiose claims by Allama Sahib. For his part Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight...
on the same day announced he would stick it out till the bitter end.

It was always going to be a case of when the Constitution Avenue campers would give up rather than if. The real-time manipulations of live television could not ultimately secure the epic victory the self-proclaimed revolutionaries had predicted.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 10/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Attacks in Quetta
[DAWN] ONE day, one quiet provincial capital, three violent incidents -- Quetta in particular, and Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
in general, appear to be slipping back towards outright anarchy and the state seems utterly clueless and impotent. Start with the attack on the Shia Hazara community. With the majority of Hazaras settled in one particular zone in Quetta and the community under sustained and deadly threat, the law-enforcement and intelligence apparatus in the quiet provincial capital ought surely to be able to do better to protect the community. Yet, whatever measures were taken in the wake of the devastating bombings in early 2013 on the Hazara community have clearly proved inadequate. If preventing a drive-by shooting of a bus is fiendishly difficult, far more obvious is the failure to follow up on intelligence reports suggesting that Quetta is infested with sectarian holy warriors with an explicit agenda of attacking the Hazaras. All that ever seems to happen is after each terrible crime against the Hazaras, the law-enforcement and intelligence agencies briefly go into overdrive, raiding suspected terrorist hideouts, arresting people, etc before slipping back into complacency until the next hideous attack, when the cycle is repeated all over again.

Of course, if failure to defend a shocking vulnerable and under-siege community were not bad enough, the law-enforcement apparatus led by the paramilitary Frontier Corps was unable to even defend its own soldiers in a roadside kabooming in Quetta yesterday. Again, no counterterrorism system can be perfect and some attacks in a state of insurgency are inevitable, but that only underscores the wider point: whatever the army-led security establishment has done to counter terrorism and insurgency in the province over the past decade has not worked -- indeed, is not working. To add to that already chaotic scene came a third attack, this time on Fazlur Rehman in the evening. There are obvious possibilities for who can and would want to attack the JUI-F chief, including an unverified early claim of responsibility last evening, and those possibilities suggest that yesterday's attack could have ramifications far beyond Quetta, given the maulana's political base in southern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
and his party's presence in parts of Fata. What is also clear is that across the spectrum of the country's politicianship, there are very real and disturbing threats to the lives of politicians for any number of reasons.

Returning to Quetta, however, the signs are ominous. The attack against the Hazaras and the JUI-F chief in particular come in the run-up to Muharram, when security worries and religious sensitivities tend to spike. The first priority of the provincial and federal governments and the law-enforcement and security apparatus should be to urgently reassess any and all plans for keeping the peace in Quetta in the uniquely challenging weeks ahead. Else, the forgotten problems of Quetta could burn right through to the front of the national stage.
Posted by: Fred || 10/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


PTI's new dilemma
[DAWN] ONE preached revolution, the other freedom. But their basic cause was common: the overthrow of the Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
-led PML-N government. Now Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five...
has lost a critical partner, Tahirul Qadri
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 10/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


International-UN-NGOs
Analyst: Oil will slide to $70/barrel
The meltdown in the oil market is not over yet.

That's the message from Jeffrey Gundlach, the star bond investor who predicts oil will plunge another $10 (it's $80 a barrel now).

While another decline in oil prices would bring smiles to American consumers -- think around $2.70 a gallon at the pump as a national average -- it could spell trouble for the boom in shale projects boosting the U.S. economy.

"I think it's going to $70 and if it does, it's bye, bye fracking. Goodbye all of the great job creation from fracking because fracking becomes too expensive if you can buy oil at $70 a barrel," Gundlach said on Wednesday at ETF.com's Inside Fixed Income Conference.
Posted by: lord garth || 10/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Deflation time?.
Posted by: Dale || 10/24/2014 7:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Bye bye windmills first. Two thirds of money is borrowed for these things. I'd like to know the politicians who were in on that gravy train.
Posted by: Dale || 10/24/2014 7:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Windmill projects depend on politics, not economics; I don't think they are profitable even at $140 pr barrel of oil.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/24/2014 12:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Only in Hawaii, they still get a good fraction of their electrical power from burning fuel oil.
Posted by: Shipman || 10/24/2014 13:46 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Brilliant New Feminist Tactic: Using Little Girls in Videos to Yell The F-Word
Warning: Video suitable for mature audience only.
Posted by: junkiron || 10/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Test
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/24/2014 5:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Child pron for some sick, lonely wanker. The parents should be quite proud, especially if one or more of these little children turns up missing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/24/2014 5:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Not cute. Another case of testing the boundaries of decency and morality.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/24/2014 8:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Wow. That was horrible.

I'm not just talking about the script...that is bad enough, the 12345 skit was so forcibly contrived after so much miming I actually laughed out loud, but the overproduction, overacting, and skippy editing puts the whole deal at about junior high media club.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/24/2014 10:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Only a severely infantilized mind could find this video to be anything other than a gross abuse - children scripted to disseminate debunked untruths in attempt to generate income for a cesspool of faux social justice warriors. Which means of course, the creators had their audience pegged to a T. The child like squealing over this video by otherwise "adult" some women and men has been as shrill as it has been nauseating
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/24/2014 11:45 Comments || Top||

#6  children scripted to disseminate debunked untruths

About like regular school nowadays.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/24/2014 13:54 Comments || Top||

#7  I haven't watched it and won't. That said, why isn't this sort of thing considered child abuse?

Yeah, I guess that's a rhetorical question...
Posted by: Anice Nim || 10/24/2014 14:04 Comments || Top||

#8  Don't. Its like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo meets Basketball Wives.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/24/2014 14:13 Comments || Top||

#9  As the Net likes to say, WTF???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/24/2014 22:03 Comments || Top||


Government
Obamacare's Enrollment Increase: Mainly Due to Medicaid Expansion
With enrollment data now available for the second quarter of 2014, it is possible to construct a complete picture of the changes in health insurance coverage that occurred during the initial implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly known as Obamacare. The data show that in the first half of 2014, private health insurance enrollment increased by a net of 2,465,586 individuals. That net figure reflects the fact that 61 percent of the gain in individual coverage was offset by a drop in employer group coverage. During the same period, Medicaid enrollment grew by 6,072,651 individuals. Thus, while a total of 8.5 million individuals gained coverage, 71 percent of that net coverage gain was attributable to the Obamacare expansion of Medicaid to able-bodied, working-age adults
Posted by: Beavis || 10/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  AND reimbursements are down,
AND enrollment fees, co-pays and costs are going up.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/24/2014 11:29 Comments || Top||

#2  able-bodied, working-age adults on Medicare + Obama voters.
Posted by: Bobby || 10/24/2014 13:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Rat, not "+" but "="
Posted by: Bobby || 10/24/2014 13:25 Comments || Top||



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Fri 2014-10-24
  Two killed as Fazl escapes suicide attack in Quetta
Thu 2014-10-23
  Violence Erupts In Jerusalem After Deadly Terror Attack
Wed 2014-10-22
  Soldier, security guard shot in Parliament Hill attack
Tue 2014-10-21
  Al Qaeda attacks kill at least 33 people in Yemen
Mon 2014-10-20
  IS Takes Heavy Losses In Battle For Kobani
Sun 2014-10-19
  LNA claims advance in Warshefana district
Sat 2014-10-18
  Cameroon Soldiers Kill 107 Boko Haram Fighters
Fri 2014-10-17
  ISIS Retreats From Kobani
Thu 2014-10-16
  Kurdish fighters gain ground in Kobane
Wed 2014-10-15
  Six top TTP commanders announce allegiance to Islamic State's Baghdadi
Tue 2014-10-14
  Kurds, IS in Heavy Fighting near Turkish Border
Mon 2014-10-13
  21 militants killed in Khyber, Waziristan strikes
Sun 2014-10-12
  Al-Qaeda convoy en route to Mali 'destroyed' by French
Sat 2014-10-11
  Islamic State Advances Deeper Into Syrian Town Of Kobani
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  Operation Dignity sinks ship attempting to enter Benghazi Port

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