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Turkish air strike kills 35 Kurdish smugglers
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Africa Subsaharan
Will the rise of Boko Harum lead to the fall of Nigeria?
Posted by: ryuge || 12/29/2011 05:42 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The band is getting back together?
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/29/2011 10:52 Comments || Top||

#2  This one plays a different music.
Posted by: Jaen Baptiste Emannuel Zorg || 12/29/2011 15:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Read somewhere this is down to Northern politicans being pissed off at the new guy not revolving leadership of Nigeria between Muslim and Christian.

Northern politicians are funding Boko Harum
Posted by: Paul D || 12/29/2011 16:32 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Obama's annus horribilis
This is why I put up with the nonsense Jennifer Rubin writes. When she's on, she's really on.
Posted by: Steve White || 12/29/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Obama's true believers are not impressed by this. In their minds, Obama has no flaws, and it's always somebody's else's fault. Meanwhile Obama's potential opponents are tilting at windmills and fighting among themselves.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 12/29/2011 9:04 Comments || Top||

#2  This is where the rubber meets the road.
Krauthammer: "Embarrassing Candidates" Making Obama Look Presidential
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 12/29/2011 9:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Of course, Obama continues to think he is fourth best president behind Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln in regards to legislation and foreign policy during his first two years. IMO, our country looks like an extended series of tornadoes went through the USA during the last three years and left a disaster that remains to be cleaned up.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/29/2011 9:51 Comments || Top||

#4  The word anus was misspelled...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/29/2011 11:51 Comments || Top||

#5  "The word anus was misspelled..." should have been Obam's (it aint us) hurribilis.
Posted by: Dale || 12/29/2011 12:49 Comments || Top||

#6  I think Rubin's right to focus on BO's rejection of the Ryan proposal. The Ryan proposal was at least a decent effort at addressing a major issue; instead of opening a negotiation or making a proposal of his own, BO went straight to political attack mode; and ever since then has complained about how partisanship is stopping him from getting anything done. It's roughly like the Japanese complaining that the US wouldn't negotiate on December 8.
Posted by: Matt || 12/29/2011 15:26 Comments || Top||

#7  Obama rejected Ryan as he rejected Cantor because he always has to be the smartest guy in the room even though he is the most incompetent charlatan in the room. Its all about him and his narcissism and the rest of the world be damn.
Posted by: Hupeque Brown8189 || 12/29/2011 18:07 Comments || Top||

#8  But the Lord High Ass-Monkey of Cool, Tyrant Obama IS the best president in one respect.


Gun and ammunition sales.

I've bought more guns and ammo than I have in decades.
Posted by: Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division || 12/29/2011 18:18 Comments || Top||

#9  The gun shop I go to most (I go to all of em) has a picture of BO with the words "Our Best Salesman" on the cash register.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/29/2011 21:24 Comments || Top||

#10  From what I've read, gun and ammunition sales started going up approaching the 2008 election, and haven't fallen since...and buyers come from both sides of the aisle. Our president really is their best salesman, a thought which would not comfort him, had it ever occurred to him.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/29/2011 22:02 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
Revolution in the Middle East has only just begun
Posted by: ryuge || 12/29/2011 05:40 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And starvation in the Middle East is waiting in the wings.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 12/29/2011 9:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Not if the UN can figure out how to guilt the West into giving more.
Posted by: lotp || 12/29/2011 10:14 Comments || Top||

#3  The West has got so much on its plate now, there is little room to even consider feeding would-be jihadis, guilt trips or no.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 12/29/2011 10:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Looks to me like more of a de evolution.
Posted by: Dale || 12/29/2011 10:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Shashank Joshi
I am a doctoral student of international relations at Harvard University’s Department of Government, and an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London .

I hold a master’s degree from Harvard, and previously graduated with a Starred First in politics and economics at Cambridge University. During 2007-8, I was a Kennedy Scholar from Britain to the United States.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/29/2011 14:20 Comments || Top||

#6  That's not much of a recommendation, grom.

Every one of his degrees/"accomplishments" lowers him in my estimation. >:-(
Posted by: Barbara || 12/29/2011 14:31 Comments || Top||

#7 

Exactement ma petite.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/29/2011 14:40 Comments || Top||

#8  Anguper, you underestimate the power of progressives' guilt trips (rank and file) and wants of teh Won.

'Bama admin thinks there isn't enuff jihadis yet, so they already are working on giving them Syria.
Posted by: Twobyfour || 12/29/2011 16:06 Comments || Top||

#9  Methinks you can plot a general trend downward for civilization, the rule of law, and the social contract from about the time of the death of Ali to now. There was a vast awakening of intellectual growth in the ME until Tamerlane came on the scene and destroyed Baghdad University and slaughtered the population, supposedly building four pyramids at the corners of the city of human heads, some say the pyramids were sixty feet high..
Then the culture rose againt to its pennacle under Suliman the Great...then it declined again, sharp up tick with oil, sharp downward spiral with spread of Wahabism funded with oil. Even sharper downward spiral with jihadists funded by self loathing and guilt ridden wealthy arabs (much like our limosine liberals and liberal Jews)...I say that the whole place is going to come apart and look like Somalia in about five years. The tribal tradition is stronger than governments of men so look for vast quantities of post 20th century technology to be rusting in the desert and nomads fashioning sabers out of front bumpers of junked Mercedes Benzes and Maybachs...That super tall building in Abu Dahbi will be a mineret for a mosque and birds will roost in the hotels and condominiums...
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 12/29/2011 22:06 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Free Syrian Army Commanded by Military Governor of Tripoli
Intifada
In the wake of the “Arab Spring” and NATO interventions, both official and secret, Qatar seeks to impose Islamist leaders wherever possible. This strategy has led it not only to fund the Muslim Brotherhood and to hand Al-Jazeera over to them, but also to support Al Qaeda mercenaries, who will henceforth oversee the Free Syrian Army. However, this new scenario raises serious concerns in Israel and among the supporters of the “clash of civilizations.”
Posted by: tipper || 12/29/2011 00:07 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:



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Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2011-12-29
  Turkish air strike kills 35 Kurdish smugglers
Wed 2011-12-28
  Iran Says No Oil via Strait of Hormuz if Sanctions Applied
Tue 2011-12-27
  More than 40 Dead in Syria as Besieged Homs Heavily Shelled
Mon 2011-12-26
  Sudan kills Darfur rebel leader Khalil Ibrahim
Sun 2011-12-25
  Two Christmas Day church bombings in Nigeria kill 28
Sat 2011-12-24
  Syria Says 40 Dead in Capital Suicide Blasts, Opposition Blames Regime
Fri 2011-12-23
  Arab Observers Arrive in Syria to Monitor Peace Plan
Thu 2011-12-22
  Explosions rock Baghdad; 18 killed, dozens injured
Wed 2011-12-21
  185 Syrians Dead as corpse count hits three digits for the first time
Tue 2011-12-20
  Syria allows Arab observers
Mon 2011-12-19
  20 Civilians, 6 Troops Killed in Fresh Syria Violence
Sun 2011-12-18
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Sat 2011-12-17
  Australian terror conspirators jailed for 18 years
Fri 2011-12-16
  Syrian Dissidents Declare Creation of 'National Alliance'
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  U.S. War in Iraq Declared Officially Over


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