[Pak Daily Times] Abdul Quader Molla of Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... (JI) became the first person accused of atrocities during the country's independence war to be hanged. Whereas a number of big shots of the JI in that country are behind bars awaiting trials on similar charges, it fell to the lot of Molla to be the first to have his trial completed and be sentenced to death. A last minute hoped for reprieve when the Supreme Court took notice proved infructuous when the court refused to reverse the death sentence.
There has been concern internationally that the tribunals trying the accused for their role in massacres carried out by the JI's militias, Al Badr and Al Shams against intellectuals and ordinary citizens in what was then East Pakistain do not meet the highest international standards of fair trial. There also does not appear to be in place a proper appeals process to ensure justice is not only done, but is seen to be done.
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[IBD] Mexico has passed its biggest energy reform since 1938, opening its state oil industry to foreign investment. This now makes North America the world's oil and gas powerhouse. Credit the fracking revolution.
After a bruising battle in Mexico's congress, dramatized by howls of "treason" and leftists stripping to their skivvies in an unedifying bid to claim the country is being "stripped" of its resources, Mexico's lower house voted 353-134 to end 75 years of government control of its vast oil reserves.
The decision followed a similar vote from the upper chamber on Tuesday night.
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Watch China move in. I think Ecuador is tied up now for their energy exports to China.
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Ok, first rule for energy investment in Mexico: Make them buy all the hardware you send there right out of the gate. Call it 'co-ownership'. That way, if they later decide to go all Venezuela on you, at least your sunk costs are covered.
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and "backdoor" all the software so if they go VZ on you, it all shuts down
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and "backdoor" all the software so if they go VZ on you, it all shuts down
Pay no attention to the Test And Jump instruction on line 31244.
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If this brings income to the private sector of Mexico, jobs will be good and illegal immigration will be reduced significantly. Democratic immigration reform (importing Dem votes) will take a hit.
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If this brings income to the private sector of Mexico, jobs will be good and illegal immigration will be reduced significantly. Democratic immigration reform (importing Dem votes) will take a hit.
Not likely. Mexico just restructured its tax code to take advantage of foreign investors. And the municipality system will continue to rob the average Mexican blind, forcing them to flee north.
Resources flowing to the Mexican central federal government have accelerated.
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It's dishonest of IBD to hail the appearance of foreign investors, and not take notice of the confiscatory tax code Mexico passed only weeks before.
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but of course they will spend it to help the grinding poverty, lack of training/skills, elevating the Mestizo class....right?
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Well, if they were SMART they would, but I've never lost a bet on Mexican government stupidity. If Mexico spent one-twenty-fifth of their oil money (4%) on training Mexican citizens for the oil patch, they'd get a 10,000% return on that investment over the next 50 years. Heck, if Exxon/Mobile, Shell, Chevron, and whoever else might be interested in investing in Mexico trained locals for jobs, they'd be money ahead. However, I have very LOW expectations from this.
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I've heard nothing in community about increasing work in Mexico. I think alot of companies feel they have enough to do atm so why risk a Venz. type deal happening?
In explaining the disastrous rollout of Obamacare, President Obama told Chris Matthews he had discovered that "we have these big agencies, some of which are outdated, some of which are not designed properly."
An interesting discovery to make after having consigned the vast universe of American medicine, one-sixth of the U.S. economy, to the tender mercies of the agency bureaucrats at the Department of Health and Human Services and the Internal Revenue Service.
Most people become aware of the hopeless inefficiency of sclerotic government by, oh, age 17 at the department of motor vehicles. Obama's late discovery is especially remarkable considering that he built his entire political philosophy on the rock of Big Government, on the fervent belief in the state as the very engine of collective action and the ultimate source of national greatness. (Indeed, of individual success as well, as in "If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.")
This blinding revelation of the ponderous incompetence of bureaucratic government came just a few weeks after Obama confessed that "what we're also discovering is that insurance is complicated to buy." Another light bulb goes off, this one three years after passing a law designed to force millions of Americans to shop for new health plans via the maze of untried, untested, insecure, unreliable online "exchanges."
This discovery joins a long list that includes Obama's rueful admission that there really are no shovel-ready jobs. That one came after having passed his monstrous $830 billion stimulus on the argument that the weakened economy would be "jump-started" by a massive infusion of shovel-ready jobs. Now known to be fictional.
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As far as I am concerned, anything the man says earns him:
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The fake translator from South Africa who interpreted Obama's speech during the Nelson Mandela funeral was an apt metaphor for the current regime and its leader.
A writer, totally out of ideas, tells the world we are racist because El Presidente was cutting up at a memorial.
Not even President Obama is above taking a selfie in the least appropriate selfie-taking venue possible. While attending a memorial service for Nelson Mandela in South Africa, Obama posed with British Prime Minister David Cameron and Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt. It is probably a bit tacky for these world leaders to pose and preen together, but they are only human. We are all helpless when we have such photographic power in the palms of our hands. Nice one. Public servants cutting up at a memorial ceremony, which I last checked, was s'posed to be a solemn event. Helpless. With a 250 member entourage.
In the already widely circulated image, Michelle Obama is sitting to the president's left, staring into the distance. In two other images, the first lady looks in the president's direction as he speaks with the Danish prime minister and then looks straight ahead. I will only watch Obama and Aunt Esther when he resigns office and takes her with him.
The media (and everyone else) have reacted, trying to frame Michelle Obama as "angry" or "disapproving" when maybe she wasn't even paying attention to her husband being silly with his world leader friends. That's the ticket. Stand by your man, Michelle Aunt Esther as he is mugging and cutting up with a pretty blonde from Denmark.
At the Washington Post: "The first lady looks stern -- dare we say disapproving? -- throughout."
In the New York Daily News Michelle Obama "sat at a distance, as if in disapproval of the digital display."
Someone at Business Insider quipped, "That stare can kill."
The headline at The Huffington Post boldly declares "Michelle Obama is having none of it."
Over at D.C. political blog Wonkette, "Michelle Obama Pissed, Y'all."
On and on the punditry goes, ascribing very specific, historically racialized narratives to what Michelle Obama is thinking and feeling in one candid moment. Liberal media making a racialized narrative. I guess so. They make it for everyone else.
Setting aside how sad it is that this story is even being reported as a "story," we have no possible way of knowing why Michelle Obama isn't grinning and posing and presenting herself the way people apparently expect her to at a memorial service for one of the most beloved world leaders of our time. Has it gone unnoticed that in these images, she's the one person acting like she's at a memorial service? Good point. but then Aunt Esther Michelle Obama isn't a statue. She could well have hold the hubby to straighten up.
Some of the response is certainly tongue-in-cheek. After the wonderful side eye Michelle Obama gave John Boehner during a luncheon after the president's second inauguration, we all had a lot of fun imagining what the speaker could have possibly said to elicit such a vivid reaction. But what I'm considering here is not that there is no room for jokes, but that all too often, it is black women or caricatures of black women that serve as the punch line. Do tell us about caricatures. Ya'll are so good at them.
More than anything, the response to these latest images of Michelle Obama speaks volumes about the expectations placed on black women in the public eye and how a black women's default emotional state is perceived as angry. The black woman is ever at the ready to aggressively defend her territory. She is making her disapproval known. She never gets to simply be. She just did.
Maybe the first lady is irritated with her husband or someone else, maybe she's indifferent, maybe she's thinking about the long plane ride home, maybe, just maybe, she's recalling Nelson Mandela's life and legacy. We will never know. I guarantee you she is thinking about how to turn the United States into a racialized sh*thole like South Africa...
Meanwhile, the Internet is speculating about Michelle Obama's mind-set, her motivations and the state of her marriage because if a married black man, always on the prowl even if he is the commander in chief, is seen smiling next to an attractive white woman, well, that's curtains for the marriage. The white she-devil strikes again! The first lady can't win. Last month, Michelle Obama was a "feminist nightmare." Today she is angry and on the verge of losing her marriage. We can only imagine what tomorrow will bring. Imagination being the key here.
And of course, there is another image that simply isn't being shared with the same frequency or enthusiasm--one of Michelle Obama sitting with her husband and the Danish prime minister laughing and smiling openly. We are selective in what we choose to see. This image is being ignored because it doesn't fit the narrative we want. There is also an image, shared by Goldie Taylor, of Laura Bush looking unamused while her husband speaks to a beautiful woman in the row behind them. Is she disapproving? Is she worried about her marriage? Is she "having none of it"? Or is she just sitting? Blame Bush. Or the TEA Party. That's always good for a few political points laughs
Though in most cases, the selfie allows us to turn the camera on ourselves, President Obama's selfie at Nelson Mandela's memorial service was a mirror, reflecting the biases people may not even realize they hold. A mirror indeed.
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Ms Gay is also an assistant professor of English at Eastern Illinois University, whose writing has appeared in The Nation, as well as minor online publications.
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.
[IBD] Mexico has passed its biggest energy reform since 1938, opening its state oil industry to foreign investment. This now makes North America the world's oil and gas powerhouse. Credit the fracking revolution.
- Charles Krauthammer
