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-Short Attention Span Theater-
What Snowden knew - Roger Simon, PJM
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/26/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Who cares.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 06/26/2013 11:00 Comments || Top||

#2  the heightened concern for our civil liberties under government digital surveillance...this presents an opportunity for dialogue we haven’t had for many years. Who knows if it will happen?

But if it does, I hope it will be intelligent and substantive. These are not easy questions. Good reasons exist for government surveillance.


I'm not optimistic about that debate. Most likely, the so-called debate will be sound bites, talking points, gotcha politics, and then move on to the next sensational news story.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/26/2013 11:20 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
New world disorder
Cybersecrets purloined and made public by a U.S. defector pale next to China’s all-encompassing electronic reach.

Posted by: tipper || 06/26/2013 11:05 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  China has been hacking and stealing our technology for years. Now they are expressing outrageous indignation when they are hacked. Screw em.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/26/2013 11:22 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
A fragile peace with Taliban if school attacks escalate
[Pak Daily Times] In the week in which America opened the door for negotiations with the Taliban, three bloody massacres of school children - shot down simply because they wanted to go to school - raise grave questions about what kind of peace the Taliban offer.
Why would anyone with so little as a single eye in their head have any questions whatsoever about the kind of peace the Taliban desire? The only question is which among the various Talib groups would come out on top in the end.
Within days of the initiative for talks, the Taliban shot to death nine foreign tourists encamped on the peak of Nanga Parbat in northern Pakistain, saying the murders were in retaliation for a drone attack that killed one of their leaders. But what kind of justification can possibly be offered for the Molotov cocktailing of a college bus carrying forty girls from their Quetta campus in Pakistain? Fourteen defenceless girls died in the bombing; eight more people died when the Death Eaters ambushed the hospital.

We are confronted by a savage war waged by Islamic forces of Evil against young people seeking education. In the wake of the outrage in Pakistain, two appalling massacres that killed 16 students were perpetrated in Nigeria by the country's leading terrorist group, Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
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Posted by: Fred || 06/26/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Peace Talks Vital For Israel
[Ynet] Negotiations with Paleostinians are only way to neutralize anti-Israel boycott calls
What utterly justified cynicism.
During the Presidential Conference last week, Netanyahu called a meeting with a small group of Jewish millionaires who arrived for the conference. He sought to raise their money and use their connections for the war against the anti-Israel boycott movement.

Founded in the territories in 2005, the movement is known for the initials of its goals -- BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions). It's arousing great interest in Western countries, leaving its mark on the academic system, on economic decisions made by business and political organizations and on the media. Its damage is growing.

Those who have been following this movement from afar may see in it as a historical closure: The Arab boycott, which made it difficult for Israel to integrate into the global economy, died during the Oslo process. It's only natural that after years of stalemate in the grinding of the peace processor it reappears, with a new name and an updated format.

The annual conference of the Paleostinian BDS initiative -- which launched the international move -- was held in Bethlehem on Saturday. Marwan Barghouti and Ahmed Saadat offered their greetings from prison.

When Jawad Naji, a minister in the PA government, began his address, participants accused him of collaborating with Israel and forced him to leave the auditorium. They spoke against the Peres Center for Peace, against Seeds of Peace, against the new city of Rawabi. The speeches were similar, in style and content, to speeches heard at a conference held several days earlier by the Yesha Council.

The boycott movement has zero influence in the West Bank. It's not the boycott in the West Bank which Israel should be worried about, but rather the changes in the West's attitude towards us.

In Israel's Left there are those who welcome the spreading boycott. They believe in the South African precedent: An academic boycott and economic sanctions lead to a change in policy. Their support of the boycott -- sometimes a boycott against the universities providing them with work -- grants them a distinguished admission ticket to Europe's radical Left and crowns them as victims of the Israeli establishment. There's nothing they like better than being victims.

In the Right as well there are those who are happy about the boycott. In the eyes of extreme rightists, it serves as unequivocal proof of the rightness of the perception which says: The problem is neither the occupation nor the stalemate in negotiations, but hatred of Israel. No matter what we do, the world will always want to destroy us. The boycott call is anti-Semitism disguised as a struggle for human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
'Lethal Weapon' in Israeli consulate
The truth is that the radical Left in the West has a problem: The fall of the apartheid regime in South Africa left no enemy country to hate. They protest against heads of the rich states, they protest against the corporations and against the stock exchange, but that doesn't generate the same burst of pure hatred evoked by the apartheid regime. If Hollywood were not filled with good, guilt-ridden Jews, we would have seen another film in the "Lethal Weapon" series, this time with blonde villains in the Israeli consulate instead of blonde villains in the South African consulate.

It's unfair that the latest international surveys place us at the top of the world's most hated countries, alongside Iran and North Korea. Life isn't always fair. The question is what does a state do in light of this situation: Does it suppress the problem or deal with it? Does it take a painkiller or get chemotherapy?

The fact is that the anti-Israel boycott calls failed to generate a buzz as long as there were negotiations. The rift on the Jerusalem-Ramallah route fertilizes the boycott -- talks neutralize it. Negotiations are indispensable for Israel.

In an interview he gave the Washington Post over the weekend, Netanyahu said he was ready to sit in a tent and negotiate with Abbas day and night. Netanyahu's willingness to leave his air condition in the summer heat is touching, but fails to deal with the problem. Approaching millionaires will not bear fruit either, apart from wasting money on empty propaganda.

Israel must do something dramatic: Either announce that it is freezing construction, or announce a massive release of prisoners, or open Area C for Paleostinian construction, or all of the above.
That is perhaps, a tad over-excited.
If the talks are not resumed, the Paleostinians will go to the UN institutions in the fall, and the boycott movement will grow wings.

Last week, Naftali Bennett likened the Paleostinians to shrapnel in Israel's backside, making his own contribution to the boycott supporters' anti-Israel campaign. Let's assume for a moment that it was a legitimate expression. Israel is the backside, but what is the identity of the shrapnel which makes it difficult for Israel each time it wishes to sit down? Is it Netanyahu's fear of a governmental crisis? Is it the bully boys' control of the Likud faction? Or perhaps the shrapnel in the backside is Bennett's Habayit Hayehudi party? Small, but painful.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/26/2013 05:10 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  If the talks are not resumed, the Paleostinians will go to the UN institutions in the fall,

Lotsa luck, there.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 06/26/2013 10:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Boycott away, eurozombies.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/26/2013 11:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Obama wanted Israel to go back to pre-1967 borders. Even if Israel were foolish enough to do that, it still would never be enough. Not when the muzzies have stated they want Israel disappear.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/26/2013 16:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Going back to 1967 borders would not deter boycotters. Their goal is having the Arabs finidh Hitler's job.
Posted by: JFM || 06/26/2013 17:09 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
See the Alleged Diary of Slain Amb. Chris Stevens in His Own Handwriting
Posted by: tipper || 06/26/2013 08:13 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  " “Never ending security threats…” As I recall reading this warning had been transmitted through diplo emails more than a few times by Ambo Stevens.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/26/2013 11:30 Comments || Top||

#2  "At this point, what difference does it make?"
Posted by: Pappy || 06/26/2013 12:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Whoa! Pappy, Kelvinator City.
Posted by: Shipman || 06/26/2013 16:28 Comments || Top||


Salafi and Secular Intellectuals Exchange Insults and Nearly Come to Blows
Posted by: tipper || 06/26/2013 00:46 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  D *** NG, I knew it - do the Wahhabis know???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 06/26/2013 1:21 Comments || Top||

#2  "Nearly" is not good enough.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/26/2013 4:53 Comments || Top||

#3  It'll always be "nearly", g(r)om.

At least until the Salafis can get a jump on 'em.
Posted by: Pappy || 06/26/2013 15:36 Comments || Top||

#4  ooh ooh ooh I bet on the one without the hat.
Posted by: irishrageboy || 06/26/2013 16:31 Comments || Top||

#5  unfortunately, the salafi mobs actual do kill people
Posted by: lord garth || 06/26/2013 21:13 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
From Father Knows Best to Father Doesn't Matter
h/t Instapundit
...Socially, men are looked down upon more than at any other time in history. Men are seen more as criminals than social pillars. Dennis Prager, a syndicated radio talk show host, recently noted that in a single generation, "We have gone from father knows best to father doesn't matter." Mr. Prager describes a world that has gone on the decline as subversive policies and agendas have belittled the importance and impact of moral men in our society.

Verily, the greatest impact on men boycotting society has involved the future well-being of our nation's children. It is well known that fatherless children are more likely to grow up impoverished and victims of neglect, abuse, and sexual molestation at significantly higher rates. However, the true impact of fatherless homes isn't understood until the data is reviewed in greater detail.

The U.S. Department of Health notes that 63% of youth suicides come from fatherless homes – five times the normal average. The Center for Disease Control notes that 85% of all children who have mental or behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes – 20 times the normal average. The Journal of Family and Culture once noted an over 100% increase in juvenile self-identification as "homosexual" once a father leaves the home. Pediatrics journal noted in 2011 that homosexual teens are five times more likely to commit suicide than heterosexual teens. Fatherless teenage girls are 711% more likely to have children as a teen, 53% more likely to marry as a teen, and 92% more likely to get divorced. Over 50% of women in prison came from fatherless homes. Over two-thirds of teens in chemical dependence programs come from fatherless homes. And, according to the National Principals Association, some 71% of high school drop-outs come from fatherless homes.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/26/2013 05:02 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Men are more apt, especially in a fatherly role, to be proponents of independence, self-reliance and self discipline. DIY didn't become a big business for metro-sexuals.

These characteristics are all anathema to big-gov't nanny state lovers. The growth of the regulatory society is the direct cause of "Father Doesn't Matter".

As far as the decline of the Black Family let's look back to Daniel Patrick Moynihan during the term of LBJ. A 25% illegitimacy rate was cause for major concern; now a rate over 70% barely raises an eyebrow. The difference is that gov't has made men (aka fathers) irrelevant to the family.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/26/2013 8:12 Comments || Top||

#2  The difference is that gov't has made men (aka fathers) irrelevant to the family.

By design.
Posted by: Tholush Ulish8503 || 06/26/2013 10:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Men are ESSENTIAL to making children, the queers know this. (Or will figure it out soon)
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 06/26/2013 10:55 Comments || Top||

#4  The current leftist mooks don't value men, women, children, or life, in general.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/26/2013 11:34 Comments || Top||

#5  Yes, but women are essential for making the family.

If I may,

Dudes will hump camels. Any gal can get themselves pregnant, in this modern world even without the male. At the moment of conception the woman becomes responsible for somebody other than herself. How she handles that responsibility - which really begins before conception because her attitude and upbringing will directly affect how she will handle finding out she is expecting.

Now before we get into a chicken/egg deal, having a guy around and having a Father are two separate things. The Man must also choose to be that role, not shamed into or running off or half-assing it. Total commitment. I'm not going to say one is more difficult than the other, but the male has the greater ability to be a rolling stone.

Trying to come from a macro sociologist view, it isn't just homosexuality, nor the effeminate male, or aborting woman. It is the grand concept of what life and responsibility are, the social expectation.

Now in opinion mode, I think it has a lot to do with the replacement of religion with government, with a big finger point at the over reliance of media and entertainment glorifying anti-family concepts. I know a family who is proud their 5 year old can zip around a smart phone. I'm proud mine can read Cathedral and Roman City to me and notice the fine penciling. Neither are greater because we are both family oriented. I also know that there are plenty of people who, to be as fair as possible, don't know better than to sit their kids in front of tickle my elmo and the latest online shooter as babysitter. The difference is staggering, not only in education but in success, success being self-reliance not necessarily income. I know plenty of money people who are F#d beyond words.

Why they don't know better or why they don't care are the questions.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/26/2013 12:19 Comments || Top||

#6  The "triumph" of the beta-male, as pushed by all the leftist alphas. Far easier to rule than those pesky conservative alpha wolves and libertarian lone wolves.
Posted by: OldSpook || 06/26/2013 12:47 Comments || Top||

#7  After all it takes a village to raise a village idiot.
Posted by: OldSpook || 06/26/2013 12:49 Comments || Top||

#8  swksvolFF says but women are essential for making the family

I only object to the stress here. One of the major problems today is the idea that husbands and wives are taught that they are individuals who should consider their own desires as paramount.

The idea of marriage, at least for me, is that FIRST you should think about the US rather than the Me or You.

It's a sick elevation of the Self over and above the consideration of the Family that has driven such things as Elmo or Street Fighter as babysitters.

There are chicken & eggs galore in this subject such as which came first, the ease of divorce or the growth of reasons for divorcing? Christian religion is not necessary for successful marriage and society but it does seem to help.

There are many things involved in a healthy societal institution of family, the glue that keeps the institution together. Here and there you can be missing some glue in a particular joint and the structure still holds but our society seems to have declared war on all of the glues. When you don't have enough glue the structure (and the society that relies on it) will crumble.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/26/2013 13:06 Comments || Top||

#9  Totally agree AlanC, the emphasis there is that the only time a person is completely dependant upon the actions of another is gestation. If the mother decides to booze, smoke, not eat right, or even abort that child does not have a choice. Once born, others can assist. I feel that the once a future mother makes that decision beforehand by their own lifestyle and upbringing. I hate using negative examples, but if the woman decides that drug use is more important than a future family, she would likely have unhealthy children if children at all. To be fair, I know too many guys who have made their hobbies and their self so important that a family and Family Man is way over the horizon.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/26/2013 13:51 Comments || Top||

#10  IMHO, religion is a way for society to interact with each other. We see that behavioral sum everywhere. If religion is rejected that need must still be filled, and that is where we see this life of Julia crap.

And that is the hook of this takes a village communist sht, the state as parents. It takes the concept of family but replaces the fact that Family is a volunteer concept and forces compliance, and destroys the free will.

I was having this discussion just the other night with a buddy of mine, what the kids are watching. One show we both just totally slammed stars a mouse and a special house where if they have any problems they just call for help and big brother shows up for the solution. Another had girls quitting their chores to play pretty princess with no consequences. Another channel targets pre-teens and glorifies high schoolers sleeping around and why sex should be seen as no big deal. I fear for the kids who don't have the BS filters to reject these fictions and even embrace it as real social interaction instead of the low sales pitch it really is. If I'm blowing of my chores and responsibilities to go golf or whatever, the kids see that.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/26/2013 14:25 Comments || Top||

#11  I was raised in a family of what I call Christmas Christians. Religion was way down on the priority list and never a topic of conversation.

However, the practical precepts were all in force. We lived by and learned such things as loyalty, honesty and honor with a healthy dose of compromise. Lots of people like to say that God is number 1 in their lives but personally I don't care and doubt that He does either.

I was number one in my life when I was young. The older I got the more my family (parents and sibling) became first. When I married my family (wife and kids) became number 1. I raised my sons to believe the same way and so far so good.

It's not that hard pull off a functional family if you have the right values. Now, where are people today getting their values???
Posted by: AlanC || 06/26/2013 15:53 Comments || Top||

#12  Now, where are people today getting their values??? AlanC, that is a key question. Many of the institutions that we have relied upon are under assault: government, the Constitution, schools, churches and religion, families, and social mores and restraints. Instant gratification, narcissism, entertainment, and celebrity worship seems to have replaced the aforementioned.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/26/2013 16:35 Comments || Top||



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Wed 2013-06-26
  FBI pulls ‘Faces of Global Terrorism’ ads after Muslims get offended
Tue 2013-06-25
  Taliban attack Afghan presidential palace
Mon 2013-06-24
  Pak Talibs kill 10 foreign tourists in Diamer
Sun 2013-06-23
  Dutch Say Time of 'Ever Closer' Union in Europe is Over
Sat 2013-06-22
  Britain OKs Treaty Clearing Way to Deport Abu Qatada to Jordan
Fri 2013-06-21
  Today's Pakaboom: 15 Dead in Peshawar Mosquaboom
Thu 2013-06-20
  Hizbullah Leader's Brother Killed In Syria Clashes
Wed 2013-06-19
  20 killed after militants storm UN compound in Somalia
Tue 2013-06-18
  Today's Pakaboom: 18 dead at Mardan funeral
Mon 2013-06-17
  LeJ claims twin attacks
Sun 2013-06-16
  Double blasts kill 25 in Pakistan
Sat 2013-06-15
  Mali's Tuareg rebels ready to sign peace deal
Fri 2013-06-14
  Mortars Fired at Damascus Airport, Delay 3 Flights
Thu 2013-06-13
  60 Boko Haram members killed in Maiduguri
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