Police say two bank robbery suspects, including one dressed in a green leprechaun costume, have been shot dead after a St. Patrick's Day chase and shootout with police in Tennessee. Begorrah! I thought the wee men could do as they pleased on Paddy's Day...
Sgt. Bill Storment said First State Bank in the Nashville suburb of Gallatin was held up by a costumed man at 12:28 p.m. Wednesday, and the suspects fired at police during a car chase. A news release said the two ran into a field and died when they exchanged fire with officers. Well saints be praised...rosebud.
Sharon Riehemann, manager of the Fifth Third Bank next door, told The Associated Press that she saw a man in a green top hat, vest and shorts and a fake beard run away from First State Bank with a blue bag in his hands. She said he had just been in her bank but left without speaking. Got 'em right in the Lucky Charms.
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We were in Nashville last week, and saw the leprechaun at the bar, but he was well behaved. He was listening to country music and was quite docile.
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The 5th/3rd bank is next door to Deacons estate. They ran out of the bank yelling, "Look Ma, I'm on top of the world!" And then 1sgt Deacon yelled,"Commence firing!" and by the time the black powder smoke settled we were drinking Yinling, moonshine, eating some fine BBQ, and singing with our friends from Alaska over a bonfire! All in all an easy days work!
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Why would a leprechaun need to rob a bank?
Couldn't he just help himself to a few gold coins from the pot at the End of the Rainbow?
They left this one in charge and now the pot's empty you say!
Makes sense.
Russia must defend its claims to mineral riches of the Arctic in increasing competition with other powers, President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday.
Medvedev said global climate change will likely fuel arguments between nations seeking access to energy and other resources.
"Other polar nations already have taken active steps to expand their scientific research as well as economic and even military presence in the Arctic," he told a session of the presidential Security Council.
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Gallup Daily tracking poll: 47% disapprove, 46% approve, the other 7% were too busy watching The Young & the Restless to decide.
Considering how unpopular his major initiatives are, I'm surprised it took this long.
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More accurately, Rasmussen: Overall, 44% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. Fifty-five percent (55%) disapprove.
Not coincidentally: The new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 45% would vote for their districts Republican congressional candidate while 35% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent. Voter support for GOP congressional candidates increased slightly from last week, while support for Democrats fell two points.
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Or the lemmings head for the cliff despite all warnings. Oh well.
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Bret Baier took this tool to school today in his Fox interview, not letting him filibuster and non-answer with talking points. BB did well...
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Not gettin' easier for the Bammer.
To wit,
CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > {Telegraph.UK]CHINA'S POLITBURO SPOILING FOR A SHOWDOWN WID AMERICA; + PREMIER WEN GIVING THE WEST WARNING SIGNS | WEST DOESN'T TAKE CHINA'S LEADERSHIP SEROUSLY | CHINA'S LEADERSHIP TAKES AN INCREASINGLY ASSERTIVE TONE.
and
YAHOO NEWS > YEMEN-AMERICAN IMAM CALLS FOR US MUSLIM REVOLT.
and
PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > US STTAES DISTANCING THEMSEOVES FROM THE FEDERAL GOVT., OVER 40 US STATES DECLARE [forms of Local]STATE SOVEREIGNTY.
and
DAILY TIMES,PK > JORDANIAN KING SAYS JERUSALEM IS "RED LINE" [demands World Community stop Israel's actions ala Al-Aqsa Mosque area construx].
and
PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > SOUTH ASIA SPLITTING SIDEWAYS [espec as per INDIA's failure to lead SAARC Nations, NAM].
The International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), a Saudi charity whose Indonesian and Philippine offices have been designated by the US. Treasury in connection with the financing of Al Qaeda, has registered a new office in the United States. According to Florida State records, the IIRO (U.S.A.) Inc. was registered as a non-profit Florida corporation in Hialeah, Florida on April 28, 2009. After being required by regulators to provide a street address rather than a PO Box, the office address for IIRO USA appears now to be located in a shopping mall and is likely some kind of mail drop. The Florida records identify the IIRO President as Adnan Khalil Basha who is the long-serving IIRO Secretary-General in Saudi Arabia and the IIRO U.S.A. registration document states that it is intended, to be the US chapter of the International Islamic Relief Organization.'
Thomas Szasz is a pysciatrist who wrote this opinion piece on July 15, 2009. It is worth another read despite being dated July 2009. Grist for the health care debate mill. Szasz has fairly liberal roots despite the opinion expressed here. The money quote is: Health isn't worth our freedom?
What would Thoreau have made of the current debate? By THOMAS SZASZ
Enjoy your meal, folks...
The American Civil Liberties Union sued the federal government Tuesday to learn the use of unmanned drones for targeted killings by the military and CIA.
"In particular, the lawsuit asks for information on when, where and against whom drone strikes can be authorized, the number and rate of civilian casualties and other basic information essential for assessing the wisdom and legality of using armed drones to conduct targeted killings," the ACLU said in a statement, announcing its action. I wonder if the ACLU sued in May, 1942 to find out FDR's preparations for the battle of Midway, so that the public could have an informed discussion about the wisdom and legality of bushwhacking the Japanese Navy ...
The nonprofit civil liberties group filed initial Freedom of Information Act requests with the Defense, Justice and State departments and with the Central Intelligence Agency on Jan. 13. Only the CIA responded, and the ACLU is pursuing that request with an appeal to the agency.
The military and intelligence communities have increasingly relied on Predator and Reaper unmanned drones to capture video imagery and launch deadly missile strikes, particularly lately in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan. The Pentagon, especially, continues to purchase more and more drones each year.
A New American Foundation study, cited in Jane Mayer's October 2009 New Yorker piece that drew attention to the CIA's use of killer drones, found the number of attacks has continued to grow under the Obama administration -- from 34 in 2008 to 43 by October of 2009.
"The government's use of drones to conduct targeted killings raises complicated questions -- not only legal questions, but policy and moral questions as well," said Jameel Jaffer, director of the ACLU National Security Project. "These kinds of questions ought to be discussed and debated publicly, not resolved secretly behind closed doors. While the Obama administration may legitimately withhold intelligence information as well as sensitive information about military strategy, it should disclose basic information about the scope of the drone program, the legal basis for the program and the civilian casualties that have resulted from the program."
Charles Miller, a spokesman for the Justice Department, which is a defendant in the suit filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, said he had not yet seen the complaint. "The bottom line is that we will review the compliant once we receive it and make a determination as to how we'll respond in court," he said. The Defense Department, another defendant, had no immediate comment.
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Jameel Jaffer seems to be one of them, not us. Of course, the ACLU is going along with it . . . .
Kinda makes me wish we could push all those on the wrong side of this equation into a parallel universe so they can enjoy the consequences of their clulessness.
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I think the ACLU is worried that one day, maybe the US will wake up and realize that it is also one of its enemies and we'll send a hellfire up their bollocks. They want the target list first so they can change location before the strike.
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ALL members of Al Qaeda and the Taliban are aware that they are engaged in violent acts against the United States and are subject to detention and arrest if apprehended. Applicable common law and various statutes endorse the doctrine that force may be used against such persons without further warning if apprehension is impossible or if such warning would present an unreasonable danger of evasion or violent resistance.
Just to make sure, I hereby place all members of Al Qaeda and the Taliban currently resident in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia under citizens arrest for murder and sabotage, and for aiding and abetting murder and sabotage, acts I have actually witnessed or of which I have direct knowledge as prescribed by the common law and the statutes of the State of Texas, of which I am a legal resident.
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This is obviously based on the common belief among lefties that we need a legally correct law enforcement approach rather than military force for the struggle against terrorism.
Unfortunately, Osama bin Laden is still at large, but could the ACLUs non-military, due-process approach really work? Perhaps they would like to show up the Pentagon by trying it themselves:
ACLU Babe (peering into cave): Come out, Mr. Bin Laden, I have a suitcase full of arrest warrants for you.
Osama: Be gone, impudent strumpet of the Great Satan!
ACLU Babe : Well! Theres no reason to talk like a Republican. Its to your advantage to stand trial, you know. You could explain how your impoverished childhood and Bushs Imperialist Foreign Policy caused the revolt on September 11th. Our top historian, Oliver Stone, says so.
Osama: (Mumbling) Impoverished? Revolt? Buwaaahaahaa! (shouting again) Silence, brazen female without veil. You should be stoned.
ACLU Babe: Stoned? Thanks, but this is no time for an office party, and your chauvinism is Republica, er, repugnant. Please, we can help! Media interns, er, peace activists, have ordered a million Free Osama tee shirts. Saddam Husseins personal lawyer, Ramsey Clark, might help with your defense.
Osama: Clark? Phooey! His clients keep getting bombed or hanged. Not want Saddams lawyer anyway! Saddam was blasphemer and communist!
ACLU Babe: Commu-? Accchhh! Thats McCarthyism! First sexism, and now this! The horror! You belong in prison after all! Come out now, you red-baiting sexist beast!
Osama: Enough of your insolence, hippie harridan!
(We leave the scene as 200 armed terrorists swarm out of the cave.)
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Wisdom? Policy? Moral questions? The ACLU seems to be suffering from the delusion that they're an unofficial third house of Congress, and confused FoA filings for congressional subpoenas.
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when is the ACLU gonna be put on the terrorist list?
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Let's be clear: what the ACLU wants are operational documents about the conduct of war. No court in our country can authorize the release of such documents.
Article II of the Constitution leaves war-making to the President. Article I leaves the decision to go to war, and funding for the war, to the Congress. Article III says not one word whatsoever about a role for the courts in the conduct of war. The FoIA does not give people the 'right' to demand documents concerning war-making operations.
Those documents are secret for a reason: we don't wish to tell our enemies what we're doing, or how we're doing it, or what we plan to do tomorrow.
If the ACLU can't trust the 'wisdom and legality' of how the current administration makes war, they can vote for someone else in 2012.
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This world is getting nuttier by the minute...
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Why doesn't the Amerikan Communist Liberal Union just ask Eric Holder for the docs the next time they meet for lunch?
1. A male bee that is characteristically stingless, performs no work, and produces no honey. 2. An idle person who lives off others; a loafer. 3. A person who does tedious or menial work; a drudge:
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Ya wish it was, but it isn't. Especially when they get Barry and the boys to cave...
NEW YORK According to news reports today, State Department official Harold Koh stated that the Obama administration has considered legal objections to its predator drone program and suggested that the administration would release a detailed legal justification for the controversial program at an undetermined date.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit Tuesday against the State Department and other agencies demanding that the government disclose the legal basis for its use of unmanned drones to conduct targeted killings overseas. In particular, the lawsuit asks for information on when, where and against whom drone strikes can be authorized, the number and rate of civilian casualties, and other basic information essential for assessing the wisdom and legality of using armed drones to conduct targeted killings.
The following can be attributed to Jonathan Manes, legal fellow with the ACLU National Security Project:
We welcome reports that the Obama administration is seriously considering the legality of the drone program, and are encouraged to hear that the rationale behind the program may be made public. We urge the State Department and other agencies to quickly disclose their positions, including on the programs legal justification and the limits on where and against whom drones can be used. We also urge the administration to disclose other basic facts about the program, including information about the programs oversight and the number of civilians that have been killed in drone strikes. The use of drones to conduct targeted killings raises complicated legal, moral and policy issues, and the public needs this kind of information in order to engage meaningfully in the debate over these questions.
El poder adquisitivo cayó 162% en los últimos 11 años
Economistas creen que el incremento del salario mínimo decretado por el Presidente sera insuficiente porque la inflación podría estar cerca de 40%. Entre los 10 productos con mas inflación estan bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas, periódicos, libros, artículos de papelería, servicios médicos y paramédicos, vehículos y seguros
12 de marzo 2010 | 06:25 am - Alejandro Hinds Basically what this says is That since Chavez took control purchasing power has dropped 162%. In other words if, pre-Chavez, you could buy 100 potatoes, you can now only afford 62 anti-potatoes.
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Purchasing power fell 162% in the last 11 years. Economists believe that the increase in minimum wage decreed by the president was not enough, because the inflation rate is around 40%. Among the ten products with the most inflation are alcoholic beverages and nonalcoholic beverages, newspapers, books, paper goods, medical services and paramedic services, vehicles, and insurance.
The warning on the wall was written in blood. All who fight us shall face this same fate,' it stated in swirling, Urdu script, ochre red with the passing of sun and rain.
We've had the stains analysed they are human,' confirmed Lieutenant-Colonel Yusuf, whose Frontier Force troops had captured the compound, a Taleban training school just north of the insurgents' former headquarters in Makeen, South Waziristan.
Every bit as macabre as the faded threat was the strip of blue-tiled guttering that lay at the foot of the wall beneath it. Colonel Yusuf's men had found it splattered in gore. The uniforms of two missing Pakistani soldiers lay near by. We know from our intelligence sources that this is where the Taleban kept their prisoners. And this is where they trained young boys to slaughter them.'
As the Pakistani Army consolidates its positions in South Waziristan, the Taleban heartland seized by security forces during a five-month operation that began in October last year, they have discovered a world permeated by exhortations for sacrifice, slaughter and suicide. The beheading of prisoners was not the only art taught to the Taleban pupils in the compound at Nawaz Kot nicknamed Paradise House' by the soldiers who stormed it in the early stages of Operation Rah-e-Nijat, or Path to Salvation.
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Everyone in America should read this.
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HA! The MSM will bury this deep a bunker-buster wouldn't be able to touch it.
Dropping from 10,000ft, they glide in order to land unnoticed. The dogs often carry cameras and are trained to attack anyone carrying a weapon.
"Dogs don't perceive height difference, so that doesn't worry them. They're more likely to be bothered by the roar of the engines, but once we're on the way down, that doesn't matter and they just enjoy the view," said the dog handler. "It's something he does a lot. He has a much cooler head than most recruits." Go see the article, one of the coolest pics you'll see today - Fred, the pic is poach-worthy (in a fair use kind of way of course).
Great photo! Headline changed - this is an Austrian team, not from our friends Down Under.
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I've jumped out of airplanes, crawled through jungle, and fought the mobs at the free 4th of July Beach Boys concert on the Mall in DC. This, however, is something I don't think I'd be willing to do, especially as cold as it looks in that photo. The man and dog both have my respect.
I'll go quietly to my corner now and play with my stamps and toy soldiers...
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Saying "I take this vote with the utmost seriousness," Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) announced Wednesday morning that he will vote for the health-care bill now before the House, despite his reservations.
"I know I have to make a decision not on the bill as I would like to see it but on the bill as it is," said the congressman, who met with President Obama on Air Force One earlier this week about his opposition to the bill....
"The new proposal starts with a wholly unacceptable Senate health care bill and, with a few exceptions, continues to make it worse. It's a much better bill for insurance company investors than it is for the American people."
Like Louise Slaughter (she of the eponymous rule), Kucinich is now in the position of having -- publicly and vehemently -- opposed the Senate bill before he supported it.
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"The new proposal starts with a wholly unacceptable Senate health care bill and, with a few exceptions, continues to make it worse. It's a much better bill for insurance company investors than it is for the American people."
But you'll vote for it anyways?
You do realize that this makes you sound like an idiot, right, Dennis? I mean, not that most people didn't know that...
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Disgusting. Ya got taken up in AF1 so only the hand-picked are around to hear what the, umm, offer is. How is that transparent Congress again? Perhaps the most offensive politicing I have witnessed in my life, starting to get a little tired of it, the president of the united states taking an individual openly against one of the president's policies up for a private jetset-mansion talk. I hope Kucinich sticks with his guts (however much I disagree with them he does seem like he talks what he actually believes) and votes no; its not like anyone should trust Obama's word anyways, right magic bus of doom?
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I always imagined Kucinich probably used to be that odd little boy who would agree to eat worms at the bus stop hoping to impress the popular kids. Apparently, my suspicions were correct.
"You do have to be very careful that the potential of President Obama's presidency not be destroyed by this debate," said Kucinich. "Even though I have many differences with him on policy, there's something much bigger at stake here for America."
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dk is just another POL who thrives on positive feedback. His whole NO stance was contrived for his arrival at yes (not a bit surprised is anyone?). The time in the spotlight doubles by doing the switcheroo. DK is just another member of the duplicitous class thriving within hedonism.
ISLAMABAD -- A Pakistani court charged five young Americans on Wednesday with planning terrorist attacks in the South Asian country and conspiring to wage war against nations allied with Pakistan, their defense lawyer said.
The men -- all Muslims from the Washington, D.C., area -- pleaded not guilty to a total of five charges, the most severe of which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison, defense lawyer Hasan Dastagir told The Associated Press. "My clients were in good shape and high spirits," Dastagir said.
The men, aged 19 to 25, were charged by an anti-terrorism court inside a prison in Sargodha, the city in Punjab province where they were arrested in December. They were reported missing by their families in November after one left behind a farewell video showing scenes of war and casualties and saying Muslims must be defended.
Their lawyer has said they were heading to Afghanistan and had no plans to stage attacks inside Pakistan. Charity work. "Religious instruction". Checking out the school system. You know the drill... Charity work. Delivering ammo to poor widows ...
The court also charged the men with planning attacks on Afghan and U.S. territory, said Dastagir. The charges did not specify what was meant by U.S. territory but could be a reference to American bases or diplomatic outposts in Afghanistan.
The men also were charged with contributing cash to banned organizations to be used for terrorism and with directing each other to commit terrorist acts. "This last charge carries life in prison while the rest of the charges have lesser punishments," Dastagir said. The trial will begin on March 31, and the prosecution is slated to present more than 20 witnesses, Dastagir said.
The defense plans to bring witnesses from the U.S. and provide evidence of community service carried out by the men back home, Dastagir said.
Pakistani police have publicly made several accusations against the young men, claiming the suspects contacted Pakistani-based jihadi groups. They accused the five of using the social networking site Facebook and video-sharing site YouTube while they were in the U.S. to try to connect with extremist groups in Pakistan.
During past court hearings, the men have claimed they were tortured by Pakistani police and FBI agents. Pakistan and the U.S. have denied those allegations. I thought they were in "good shape and high spirits"?
The U.S. has pressed an often-reluctant Pakistan to crack down on militants in its territory, many of whom are believed involved in attacks on American and NATO forces across the border in Afghanistan. At the same time, several recent cases have highlighted incidences of foreigners signing up to join the insurgents on both sides of the border.
Two of the detained Americans are of Pakistani origin, while one is of Egyptian, one of Yemeni and one of Eritrean descent. Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet...
Thankfully, some countries have some laws that they actually enforce sometimes.
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Too bad Rantburg cannot file an amacus curiae brief with the court in Pakistan. We would have a lot to say with how they should deal with these nutters.
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Not long after President Barack Obama gave his conciliatory speeches to the Islamic world, he chose not to meddle in the sham election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In fact, he offered not a word of support for the men and women who took to the streets against that totalitarian regime.
Then, as "man-made disasters" continued to spontaneously erupt around the world including at a U.S. military base the administration held steadfast in using non-offensive euphemisms lest anyone be slighted by our jingoistic need to use words that mean something.
And when the president was given a chance to fulfill a campaign promise and acknowledge the genocide of 1.5 million Christian Armenians by Turks during World War I, he instead did everything he could to block the resolution.
These days, as Christian farmers are being slaughtered by Muslim machetes in Nigeria, outrage from the White House is difficult to find. But it made sure to instruct our Libyan ambassador to apologize to "Colonel" Moammar Khadafy after he offered some mildly critical comments about the dictator's call for jihad against Switzerland.
Khadafy can be forgiven, but there are transgressions that can't. One such sin was perpetrated by Israel after the nation's decision to allow a new housing project to be built in Jerusalem.
The White House became so agitated with the new housing project and the ill-advised timing of the announcement, which came during Vice President Joe Biden's visit that the casual onlooker might have been led to believe the Jerusalem neighborhood in question was part of some unfinished negotiation with Palestinians, or even that it was one of those "settlements." It was neither.
Still, according to The Jerusalem Post, Hillary Clinton telephoned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who, along with many other Israeli officials, apologized for the poor timing of the project's announcement to "berate," "rebuke," "warn" and "condemn" Israel. White House senior adviser David Axelrod used NBC's "Meet the Press" to call the incident an "affront," an "insult" and "very, very destructive."
As the administration was manufacturing this anger, the Palestinian Authority was preparing the newly minted Dalal Mughrabi square. You know, just a place for folks to gather and commemorate the 32nd anniversary of 1978's Coastal Road Massacre, in which 37 Israelis 13 of them children were murdered in a bus hijacking.
An American named Gail Rubin, who happened to be snapping some nature pictures in the area, was also gunned down.
No worries. No affront taken. That's not "very, very destructive" to the process. We are above the fray. Above frivolous notions of "allies" or "friends." History only matters when our enemies deem it important. We don't want to tweak the fragile mood of the Arab street.
If the purpose in this manufactured angst is to pressure Israel into handing parts of Jerusalem over to a corrupt Fatah (we don't need to discuss Hamas, which unlike Fatah, has the decency not to pretend to recognize Israel's right to exist) then someone is exhibiting a profound naivete. And if the purpose of pursuing a Jewish-free West Bank is to create goodwill with the Muslim world, good luck.
It is this administration's prerogative to change our foreign policy and allies. Yet, it would be nice if someone reiterated to our new Muslim friends that the United States has yet to deploy a single soldier to risk life or limb for the security of Israel. It has, however, only recently sent thousands of Americans to perish, in part, for the cause of Muslim freedom in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo.
That sacrifice alone should be enough to absolve us from any more bowing or kowtowing.
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I usually don't do that. But I assume people are lazy/impatient like me and don't like to wait for the link-only articles and just skip them. This was a good one. Know anyone else who doesn't follow the links? ;-)
On March 16th 2003, an Israeli bulldozer killed the American activist Rachel Corrie in Rafah, Gaza. Today, in Kafr Sur, near Tulkarem, and in Ramallah, family, friends and supporters gathered together to commemorate the anniversary of her murder.
Students of Kafr Sur Secondary School, who have been working on a research project about Rachel's life and death, today marked the anniversary with a march to a memorial stone at the entrance to the village. The students were joined by children from the nearby primary school, as the stone was unveiled and speeches were delivered by the headmaster, one of the students, and an ISM activist.
Approximately fifty Palestinians, Internationals and media then joined Craig and Cindy Corrie, Rachel's parents, for the inauguration ceremony of Rachel Corrie Street in Ramallah. Speeches were delivered by both the Mayor and Governor of Ramallah, the Minister of State, National Parties' Coordinator, an ISM activist and Rachel's parents.
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most cops i have had contact are dicks anyway so what's the problem?
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Assault with a dead weapon?
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"so I disarmed the suspect"
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Does your hair hang low?, does it wobble to and fro?,
Can you tie it in a knot?, can you tie it in a bow?
Can you throw it over your shoulder,
like a Continental soldier
Does your hair...hang...low?
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About ten percent have a favorable view of the Taliban (and their promise to bring peace and end corruption, something they didn't do when they ran the country in the 1990s.)
Heh, I guess Afghanistan has their clueless voters, too. Just fewer of them. Or maybe these are the ten percent who benefit from having these thugs around.
In any case, even if the Taliban did get rid of corruption, there would still be the clueless fanaticism to deal with. No thanks.
...The Boston Tea Party would make a strange lodestar for an anti-American movement. The tea partiers certainly aren't dropping out' of the system; if they were, we wouldn't be talking about them. And they aren't reading Marxist tracts in a desire to tear down the system' either. They're reading Thomas Paine, the founders, and Friedrich Hayek in the perhaps naïve hope that they'll be able to restore the principles that are supposed to be guiding the system. (To the extent they're reading radicals such as Saul Alinsky, it's because they've been told that's the best way to understand his disciple in the White House.)
Restoration and destruction are hardly synonymous terms or desires. And maybe that's a better label for the tea parties: a political restoration movement, one that reflects our Constitution and the precepts of limited government....
...The elite' the restorationists dislike is better understood as a new class' (to borrow a phrase from the late Irving Kristol). The legendary economist Joseph Schumpeter predicted in 1942 that capitalism couldn't survive because capitalist prosperity would feed a new intellectual caste that would declare war on the bourgeois values and institutions that generate prosperity in the first place. When you hear that conservatives are anti-elitist, you should think they're really antinew class. Conservatives see this new class of managers, meddlers, planners, and scolds as a kind of would-be secular aristocracy empowered to declare war on traditional arrangements and make other decisions for your own good.'
And that's why Obama backlash is part of the culture war. Defenders of Obamacare, cap-and-trade, and the rest of the Democratic agenda insist that they're merely applying the principles of good governance and the lessons of sound, sober-minded policymaking. No doubt there's some truth to that, at least in terms of their motives. But from a broader perspective, it is obvious that theirs is a cultural agenda as well.
The quest for single-payer health care is not primarily grounded in good economics or in good politics but in a heartfelt ideological desire for social justice.' The constant debate over whether the European model' is better than ours often sounds like an empirical debate, but at its core it's a cultural and philosophical argument that stretches back more than a century.
The restorationists reside on one side of that debate, while the Obama administration and the bulk of the progressive establishment reside on the other. And that debate is far from over....
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The Tea Party movement is a grass roots movement made up of Republicans, discontented Democrats, Libertarians, and independents. There are other groups that fall ideolgically within this rapidly growing movement. These folks do not want the hard-left, big-spending, central control-oriented direction of the current administration.
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Restoration, in this case, should be equated with "error correction", which can be categorized into groups:
1) Original error. Inherent flaws in the constitution, which have long been known.
2) Executive errors. The POTUS and VPOTUS need to be limited to acting only through senate approved cabinet officers, who can themselves be impeached. No "Czars", very limited recess appointments, memorandums or signing statements. No more takings of State lands by presidential whim.
3) Legislative errors. Mostly the 16th and 17th Amendments, the over-extrapolation of the 14th Amendment, the Interstate Commerce and General Welfare Clauses, and the delegation of authority to the bureaucracy.
4) Judicial errors. Legal precedents that have taken on a life of their own, far beyond their original intent, such as corporate civil rights, over-broad appellate authority, forced State appropriation of money and the use of special masters. Both civil and criminal legal reform, as well as structural reform of the judiciary.
5) Treaty abrogation, where such treaties violate US sovereignty.
6) Incorporation of such amendments that are needed to establish ideas now only in law, such as a War Powers and Posse Comitatus Acts.
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One view of the original American Revolution is that the objective at the beginning was a return to the autonomous colonies status [benign neglect] they enjoyed prior to the Seven Years War/French and Indian War. It was the actions of the government in London to impose authority and rule over the colonies after that war that created the agitations that lead to the conflict.
What that set in motion is something we face today. One little small phrase 'all men are created equal' would ensure that no stability will ever happen and that chaos would be a reoccurring aspect of the American Democracy. Nature is hierarchical and territorial. The American concept flies in face of nature. It is the mutant form of social organization compared to the vast majority of others. There is no acceptance of a 'natural' set of governed and governing in the culture. When the society and system slide towards the natural side there is a reaction to it. There is a throwing out of the old order who've become comfortable and smug in thinking themselves the natural governing by deed, word, or actions. Most Americans want to be left alone to do their own thing, raise a family, or get on in life. They generally don't want to be part of a political process. However, every now and then the people who do engage in public business get too powerful, too overreaching, too corrupt, they awaken that population who say 'enough is enough'. We are not ruled. There is no consent. This is one of those times. They will be interesting times.
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However, every now and then the people who do engage in public business get too powerful, too overreaching, too corrupt, they awaken that population who say 'enough is enough'. We are not ruled. There is no consent. This is one of those times. They will be interesting times.
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There is no way in pluperfect hell that a contingency plan for an Israeli attack would not be compromised all to heck by USAF officers and personnel, who are extremely top heavy with pro-Israel Evangelical Christians.
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The geographically challenged seem not to understand that Diego Garcia is more than 5000 Ks from Israel.
CONUS is only 2000 Ks further and Germany and the UK are one hell of a lot closer. Not to mention the UKs Cyprus airbases which are 20 minutes flying time from Israel and have US personel just hanging around.
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As phil_b points out, geography sez the writer's full of fecal matter.
Much better to use Okinawa.
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As bunker busters go--the huge kind recently in the news--these are pretty small. The big, reinforced facilities we think Iran is using won't be bothered by direct hits.
However. The facilities have to have doorways, elevator shafts, ventilation system outlets.
For an analogy, tanks are discussed sometimes in terms of their armor. So and so much on the bow, so and so much on the gun mantle, etc.
The Tiger tank was reputed to have seven inches of armor on the bow. It also had a bow machine gun. Weak spot. You could hit it, if you were lucky. Mostly, you weren't. Then.
Current accuracy is considerably better.
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Due to its complex legal status, Diego Garcia is probably as close to "neutral territory" as one can get in the real world.
Hypothetical attacks from bases on Cyprus, in the UK or in Germany would be made from EU territory. European governments, especially Germany's government would not have any diplomatic cover. They could not vote "present."
This buildup (and the leak) is an ostentatious display of military capability by the US. Given the simultaneous diplomatic hostility towards Israel (nonnegotiable demands) and the diplomatic self-abasement vis a vis Israel's foes this is more likely to put pressure on Israel than on other parties.
Is all this nuts? An insane theory?
Probably and hopefully so.
However, had I been given an accurate prediction of future political events e.g. back in 2007, I would have dismissed it as pure nonsense as well.
It is unlikely to happen. Jews currently block vote for Democrats. If Obama attacked Israel, Jews would block vote for the GOP. They would also stop donating to the Democrats. In combination, this would result in multi-decade minority status in Federal politics for the Democratic Party.
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RA: You think that will do it?
Former Secretary of State James Baker is alleged to have said "F*** the Jews - they don't vote for us anyway". Obama's attitude appears to be "F*** the Jews - they vote for us anyway". An Obama attack on Israel would stretch the quasi-religious devotion of American Jews for the Democratic Party beyond the breaking point.
You're an optimist. The jewish block voting is so solidly wired in that they'll give up Israel first.
It's not a matter of not knowing what's been going on under the dems.
It's a matter of insisting to oneself that, if necessary, even Israel doesn't matter. What matters is the bone-deep identification with dems and liberalism.
Nothing supercedes that.
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Among other, RADICAL ISLAM is working hard to destabilize parts parts of CENTRAL-EAST-SOUTH ASIA, + AFRICA ins order to make a US = US-ISRAELI WAR ON IRAN IRRELEVANT SAVE TO INDUCE THE US TO WASTE/EXPEND ITS VOLUNTEER ARMY + RELATED RESOURCES, besides also to control ASIA'S NUKES as complement to YEAR 2012 + IRAN'S ANTICIPATED WEAPONS NUCLEARIZATION.
Theres no reason for the US to attack Israel other than to PO the US Mainstream agz their own Govt [civil war].
"US President Barack Obama harbors anti-Semitism and the American Jews who voted for him are not pro-Israel, Dr. Hagi Ben-Artzi, the outspoken brother-in-law of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, said on Wednesday. In an interview with The Jerusalem Post, Ben-Artzi said it was no coincidence that the 78 percent of American Jews who voted for Obama was roughly the same percentage of Jews in the US who do not give their children a Jewish education."
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I can just hear the Obama dialogue with Axlerod or Emmanuel: "Hey, it's time to have a White House press conference. We need to deal with this story or we will lose some of our support for health care. Orrin Hatch said we are all crazy on Fox. We can't let that stand. Got to fall back on the community organizer/Saul Alinsky model for dealing with this crap. Where are those white coated doctors and nurses we paraded in here last time for a news conference? Get em in here. Get some of those SEIU union guys that look like main stream voters in here too. Make sure they don't look like union thugs. Do it. Get Kucinich in here for support. I went through a lot of trouble to bend his arm. He got a ride on Air Force One. He owes us. Where's that woman with the cancer and the little kid who lost his mother? Get them too..." And the story goes on.
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He is a first class loonbat. In the end he puts party above all else like the rest of these left-wing idealogues. Caved in to Chicago gangsters. Sold out for special attention and the perks of a ride on Air Force One. Hope Ohio sees the light and dumps him in November.
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The horror stories coming from the NHS in the UK are growing daily. Canada has long wait times. Germany is billions in the red and considering going back to private.
Treasurer Tim Cahill ripped Gov. Deval Patrick and President Obama this morning for health care initiatives that the independent gubernatorial hopeful alleged will bankrupt the country in four years.'
Last week Gov. Patrick criticized me as missing in action' on the issue of health care in Massachusetts,' Cahill said. In reality, I've been critical of Gov. Patrick's implementation and management of the Massachusetts universal health care program for a long time.'
Cahill alleged the governor has spent like we're in a booming economy at a time when we're experiencing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.'
If President Obama and the Democrats repeat the mistakes of the health insurance mandate on a national level, they will bankrupt this country within four years,' Cahill said. It is time for the President and the Democratic leadership to go back to the drawing board and come up with a new plan that does not threaten to wipe out the American economy.'
Cahill's call for a new plan resembled the statement made during US Sen. Scott Brown's insurgent campaign.
But even as he called for knocking down barriers that exist statewide and nationally to allow for-profit plans to compete with non-profit insurers, Cahill was short on specifics. He did say expensive mandates that require all health insurance plans cover certain benefits in the Bay State should be on the table.'
Cahill said he wants to level the playing field' among medical service providers, like community hospitals and big city hospitals that receive disparate reimbursement from insurers. Yet Cahill did not offer his own health care plan as he called for Congress to go back to the drawing board on its health care overhaul, and did not spell out what he'd do as governor to solve the current health care crisis.
Standing in his state house office, Cahill insisted he was speaking as treasurer, not a candidate for governor. Cahill said he firmly' believes that health care is a right.
But as congress and President Obama prepare to ram though a government-run health care plan, they should heed the warnings about the way in which Gov. Patrick has managed the same model in Massachusetts,' Cahill, a former Democrat said.
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"If President Obama and the Democrats repeat the mistakes of the health insurance mandate on a national level, they will bankrupt this country within four years,"
Given what we know of Obama's friends ("Say me who are your friends and I will say you who you are") it is not sure Obama would consider this a bug.
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My local state rep, Karyn Polito (R), is running for State Treasurer. She's immensely popular (ran unopposed last 3 times) and has good rep outside her district. I think she smells a little blood in the water too.
A new federal tax requirement is exposing sensitive salary information of trade association lobbyists and other senior employees, setting off alarms downtown over how the information will be used.
The new filings, available publicly at Guidestar.org, offer a first comprehensive glimpse into the salaries not only of top association executives - which have been disclosed for years - but of lobbyists, spokesmen and other mid-level executives whose pay must now be disclosed.
"We're concerned," said Jim Clarke, a vice president of public policy with the American Society of Association Executives, a lobbying organization representing industry groups.
Along with other updates, the Internal Revenue Service in 2008 dramatically expanded its disclosure requirements for trade associations, charities and other nonprofit organizations, bulking up its Form 990 to require detailed salary information for executives and other "key employees."
Although organizations began filing the new IRS form as early as last year, tax experts say the overhaul's effects are just now emerging, as many groups filed extensions while sorting through the new rules.
"A lot of them are just coming in," Clarke said of the new tax forms. "A lot of our organizations have fiscal years that end in June, July and August."
A tax lawyer who represents downtown trade groups privately blasted the new rules for creating a fresh bureaucratic mess, calling the updated IRS form an example of "how bad facts make bad law." The lawyer claimed that Members and IRS officials set up the new system after overreacting to news reports of some nonprofit executives' generous compensation packages.
"The view evolved that maybe we couldn't stop these people from being compensated at a very high level, but we could do something quite similar: force them to make their compensation public, which will shame everyone into paying them less," the lawyer said.
When the changes were being considered, many nonprofit executives expressed concerns that "this was just too much information," the lawyer said, likely setting up inter-office squabbles and bidding wars for talented employees.
The IRS' press office did not respond to a request for comment for this story.
A spokesman for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, which filed its 2008 return in November of last year, expressed skepticism on Tuesday about the IRS' new salary disclosure requirements.
The drug lobby in 2008 was required to disclose the salaries of 17 executives, including lobbyists. The year before, it needed only to disclose three employees' salaries.
"The IRS defines compensation very broadly," PhRMA spokesman Ken Johnson said. "It doesn't include just base salary, it includes bonus and retirement benefits. ... It also captures deferred compensation, which people may or may not ever receive."
Johnson's own $654,000 annual compensation package was outlined in PhRMA's most recent tax filing. In addition to Johnson's pay, the organization also disclosed the total pay for lobbyists Bryant Hall ($651,000), Steven Tilton ($642,000), Richard Smith ($756,000) and Mimi Kneuer ($831,000).
"PhRMA's compensation is benchmarked to the external market from which the organization is expected to recruit," Johnson said.
The American Society of Association Executives continues to lobby against the IRS' "vague" new salary disclosure requirements, Clarke said. He also said the new information may soon be used improperly by recruiters and rival trade groups looking to poach top lobbyists and communications staffers.
"If you put a big field of salary disclosure in there, other organizations will be using that information," he said. "You'll have cold calling from brokers. We really believe that will happen."
With year-to-year tax data not yet available and returns still streaming in, it's difficult to draw broad conclusions about salary trends at downtown trade associations yet. Still, many prominent groups such as PhRMA, America's Health Insurance Plans, the American Hospital Association, AARP and the American Petroleum Institute are already online.
For example, AHIP lobbyist Scott Styles was paid $535,000 overall in 2008, while co-worker Carmella Bocchino made $522,000 and Candy Schaller took home $402,000. American Hospital Association lobbyist Thomas Nickels was paid a total of $811,000 in 2008, while his colleague Linda Fishman made $517,000.
AHIP and AHA both declined to comment on employee salaries.
Lobbyists for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce also appeared on the organization's most recent tax filing. The trade association's top lobbyist, Bruce Josten, was given a total 2008 compensation package of $1.14 million, including a $622,000 base salary, $300,000 bonus and $61,000 in "deferred compensation."
Another chamber lobbyist, Rolf Lundberg, was paid a total of $567,000 in 2008, including $426,000 in base pay, a $72,000 bonus and $26,000 in deferred compensation.
Chamber spokesman J.P. Fielder said his organization is agnostic on the IRS' new requirements but said Josten and Lundberg "are on the tip of the spear in terms of the debate over a breadth of policy issues on how to create jobs.
"They handle broad portfolios in terms of issues that will support U.S. businesses," Fielder said. "We go out and hire the best executives, and we pay them salaries that are commensurate with their experience."
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"The view evolved that maybe we couldn't stop these people from being compensated at a very high level, but we could do something quite similar: force them to make their compensation public, which will shame everyone into paying them less," the lawyer said.
Everytime the Socialists who have taken over this country tries to shame an executive, that entity should give that executive a raise.
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Police officers who worked at the World Trade Center site in the weeks following its collapse from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack may be at greater risk for impaired heart function than other people, a study found.
As many as 60 percent of police officers who worked at or near the World Trade Center site after the Sept. 11 attacks had a condition in which the heart muscle doesn't fully relax after pumping blood, according to a study to be presented March 15 at the American College of Cardiology meeting in Atlanta. The abnormality can lead to other heart ailments, researchers said.
That disorder, called impaired diastolic function, was seen in just 8 percent of the people of a similar age range in separate studies conducted in Belgium and Minnesota. Further research is needed to determine whether the higher rates in police officers is a result of working at the World Trade Center site or from other factors, such as job stress or living in an urban setting, said Lori Croft, the study's author.
Under age 50 this is really uncommon,' said Croft, assistant professor of medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, in an interview. It may have something to do with working at the World Trade Center.'
Researchers at Mount Sinai in New York examined the heart health of 1,191 law enforcement officers with an average age of 45 who worked at the World Trade Center site at some point during the three weeks following the terrorist attacks. The heart abnormality seen in the officers is typically found in people over age 65 and is believed to be associated with aging, said Croft.
Separate research has found an increase in asthma and lung disorders among first responders that may be linked to the dust and debris inhaled at the site. New York City is being sued by thousands of ground zero workers who claim they have illnesses or injuries related to working at the site.
The research was funded by the Fraternal Order of Police of New York.
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I have heard horrer stories of health issues with both the police and fire fighters. This is the agent orange of their profession. The military, both veterans and active must help support them, give them what our Viet Nam vets never got. Support and understanding in their problems.
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The charismatic Chicago man accused of scouting out the deadly 2008 Mumbai siege and a plot to kill a Danish cartoonist plans to plead guilty to terrorism charges, his lawyer said Tuesday. David Coleman Headley, 49, is accused of helping two different Pakistan-based terrorist groups and using a friend's immigration company as a cover for surveillance activities in India and Denmark.
The Washington-born son of a former Pakistani diplomat and American mother, Headley reportedly befriended Bollywood stars and even dated an actress during his lengthy surveillance trips to Mumbai.
Charging documents also indicated Headley was so eager to kill a Danish cartoonist who sparked outrage with cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed that he began working seriously on that plot two months before the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks.
Headley, who has been cooperating with prosecutors since his October arrest, is set to appear in a Chicago federal court at 1830 GMT Thursday for a change of plea hearing, court documents showed. It remained unclear whether Headley would plead guilty to all or just some of the 12 charges laid against him in Chicago, some of which carried possible death penalty.
Headley's attorney confirmed a plea deal was in the works but declined to say to which charges his client would admit. "I am really reluctant to go into the specifics of what he's pleading to," defense attorney John Theis told AFP. "I expect that there will be a plea agreement," he added. "And the details of that are what is being negotiated, so I can't comment on anything." Prosecutors declined to comment on the deal.
Headley was initially arrested on terror charges related to a plot to attack Denmark's highest circulating daily, Jyllands-Posten, which triggered a furor in the Muslim world by publishing 12 cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2005. Headley was later charged in the Mumbai attacks, as was his old friend from military school in Pakistan, Tahawwur Hussain Rana.
Rana, who owns the Chicago-based First World Immigration Services that Headley allegedly used as a cover, insists he is a pacifist who was "duped" by his friend. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Headley also initially pled not guilty to the charges but has long been expected to eventually reach a plea deal with prosecutors.
In an alleged plot that reads like a movie thriller, Headley is accused of spending two years casing out Mumbai, even taking boat tours around the city's harbor to scope out landing sites for the attackers, who killed 166 people, including six Americans.
Headley said he changed his name from Daood Gilani in 2006 so he could "present himself in India as an American who was neither Muslim nor Pakistani," charging documents said.
Indian media have reported that during his five lengthy trips to Mumbai Headley befriended Bollywood stars and developed a reputation as a fitness fanatic while staying in an expatriate enclave in south Mumbai near the US consulate.
Indian security analysts believe he could be the vital missing link in the bloody 60-hour siege that began on November 26, 2008.
Ever since the attacks, there has been much speculation but no answers about whether the 10 heavily-armed gunmen had specialist help to land undetected by sea and strike their targets with such precision.
India and Washington blamed the deadly rampage on Pakistan's banned militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). The attacks stalled a fragile four-year peace process between the two nuclear-armed south Asian rivals. Headley allegedly told investigators he had been working with LeT since 2002.
He began working with an Al-Qaeda-linked group in Pakistan called Harakat-ul-Jihad-Islami on the Danish plot after LeT became distracted with the final planning for the Mumbai attack, charging documents alleged.
Headley allegedly told prosecutors he pretended to be interested in buying ads in Jyllands-Posten so he could tour the newspaper's offices in Copenhagen and Arhus "in preparation for an attack," the documents said.
Prosecutors say Headley was arrested at Chicago's O'Hare airport as he was on his way to deliver 13 surveillance videos to Harakat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami in the Danish plot.
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To fly the Sky Dragon blimp, "there is a need for ongoing helium to be provided, but it is at the cost of approximately 200,000 baht (6,000 U.S. dollars) per month,"
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WMF > IMPERIALIST US NOW SENDS MILITANT PROXIES TO FOSTER CONFLICT IN SE ASIA COUNTRIES.
* ION SAME > ARGENTINIAN DEFNCE MINSTER: LACK OF MODERN MILITARY TECHNOLOGIES, STRONG ECONOMY ALLOWS ARGENTINA TO WAGE ONLY A "TWO-HOUR" WAR [at best] AGZ BRITAIN OVER THE FALKLANDS.
"Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" Argentina in 2010 has even fewer operating = "ready" mil asets to fight than it did agz Thatcher, i.e. only 2 of 16 Argen Air Force strike planes, + 16 of 60 Argen Navy warships???
China prefers not to view itself as a global power that needs to take more responsibility in world politics, according to a wordy press statement from Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Sunday following the annual meeting of China's National People's Congress. But reality and spin collided at times Sunday as Wen struggled to convince that China is not the world's newest superpower.
China is a developing country with a "weak economic basis," Wen said. Gaps between rich cities such as Beijing or Shanghai and the poor rural areas remains wide. "We want all the benefits of being rich but none of the drawbacks."
"It might still take 100 years to transform China into a modern country," the prime minister said, speaking under gigantic chandeliers in a splendid room of the Great Hall of the People.
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Phuque the Chinese, we never should have done business with them in the first place. They're liers and thieves and have NEVER made anything by themselves, except for perhaps pasta and bird flu.
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I believe China must take care of the small things first (NORK).
But I agree with them.
China has mega problems that dwarf ours in comparison. With the population they have and the amount it will take to raise that country, I suspect that their GDP barely covers it.
Their pollution is grotesque tho.
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ION NEWS KERALA >[EIU] ECONOMIST: INDA'S ECONOMY WILL OVERTAKE CHINA'S BY 2018;
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SAME > AUSTRALIAN MINING GIANT: INDIA TO OUTPACE CHINA in 15 YEARS [2025/2025-203 r.o]. Competition, Demand for Natural Resources will drive INJUH'S SUCCESS???
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They want a two-tier society where they exploit the hell out of the hinterland but get concessions from us because their hinterland is so poor.
That's exactly what Kommie and co are doing.
Hmmm, that explains those visits, gathering intel and fine tuning.
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Dammit the O and I are too close together.
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ION PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > INDIA NEEDS 100.0MILYUHN BROADBAND CONNECTIONS, SAYS PITRODA [India NKC Chair], as INDJUH curr only has 10.0MILYUHN FOR A COUNTRY OF ROUGHLY/APPROXI 1.0BILYUHN.
I'm not sure which page this belongs on. We don't have a category called 'Home Front: Tragic Farce', though perhaps we should ...
From last year:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama's choice to run the Treasury Department and lead the nation's economic rescue failed to pay $34,000 in taxes from 2001 to 2004, but the last-minute disclosure didn't stop Senate Democrats from moving forward with his nomination.
Timothy Geithner had paid some of the back taxes in 2006 after the IRS sent him a bill. When the Obama transition team discovered he owed even more back taxes, Geithner paid those additional taxes days before Obama announced his choice in November, according to materials released by the Senate Finance Committee considering his nomination.
From this year:
Sacramento Bee, IRS Visits Sacramento Carwash in Pursuit of 4 Cents:
It was every businessperson's nightmare. Arriving at Harv's Metro Car Wash in midtown Wednesday afternoon were two dark-suited IRS agents demanding payment of delinquent taxes. "They were deadly serious, very aggressive, very condescending," says Harv's owner, Aaron Zeff.
The really odd part of this: The letter that was hand-delivered to Zeff's on-site manager showed the amount of money owed to the feds was ... 4 cents. Inexplicably, penalties and taxes accruing on the debt -- stemming from the 2006 tax year -- were listed as $202.31, leaving Harv's with an obligation of $202.35.
Zeff, who also owns local parking lots and is the president of the Midtown Business Association, finds the situation a bit comical. "It's hilarious," he says, "that two people hopped in a car and came down here for just 4 cents. I think (the IRS) may have a problem with priorities."
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$34,000 owed by Geithner is about what the debt for every man, woman, and child will be as the result of the current administrations increases to the debt.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Egyptian television on Tuesday aired footage of President Hosni Mubarak for the first time since his March 6 surgery in Germany, as his doctor described him as "upbeat and in very good spirits." "See? Toldja he wasn't dead!"
"Of course he's not dead! Dead people don't drool!"
Doc Steve, could we get a second opinion on that?
Mubarak, 81, had his gallbladder and a growth removed from his small intestine in an operation at the University of Heidelberg hospital.
In footage apparently recorded Tuesday morning, a pale looking Mubarak in a dressing gown sat in a chair talking to doctors.
The president had made no appearances in public or on television since the operation and no pictures of him in hospital had been published, causing a stock market dip on Monday over speculation about his health.
"I met with President Mubarak early this morning as part of our daily routine medical checkup. He was upbeat and in very good spirits as usual," Dr. Markus Buechler of Heidelberg University Hospital said in a televised statement.
"His resolve and will power that we witnessed all last week was very obvious this morning as he looks forward to returning to normal activities," he said, adding that no further daily laboratory tests were required.
Mubarak has no clear successor, which unnerves Egyptian and foreign investors because it is not clear who could follow in power and whether a successor would pursue the same economic policies of his cabinet that have been praised by executives.
Despite worries about the continuation of policy, most investors and analysts expect a relatively smooth hand over in any transition with little likelihood of significant unrest.
Mubarak, who came to power in 1981, handed powers temporarily to his prime minister, Ahmed Nazif, before the operation
He has not said whether he will run again for a sixth six-year term in the 2011 presidential election. Many Egyptians believe that if he does not, he will try to hand power to his politician son, Gamal, 46. Both Mubaraks deny any such plan.
Mubarak's fifth six-year term as president ends in 2011. During a speech in 2005, he said he would stay in power until his "last breath."
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TOPIX > MUBARAK RECOVERY FAILS TO EASE CONCERNS [mainstream fears as per POST-MUBARAK].
Venezuela is not the new sanctuary of Basque terrorist group ETA, but there is a potential "core," that should be investigated by Spain, Spanish Minister of the Interior Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba said. Deep dig, boys ...
The minister remarks came after a Spanish judge issued a bench warrant against 12 members of ETA and of the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), mostly of them residents of Venezuela and Cuba, AFP quoted.
"There is a core of people linked with ETA in Venezuela who have been there for some years and some new additions might have been made," he told Radio Nacional de España (Spain's National Radio, RNE). "We need to check what it is, its extent, and above all, prevent it, if any, from sprouting or remaining," the senior officer said.
The Spanish government is interested in "clearing up any suspicion" and "I therefore request the cooperation of Venezuelan authorities and I think we will get it," the minister added.
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The Gaza-based head of al-Quds International Institution warns against the reopening of Hurva synagogue as part of an Israeli plan to erect a Jewish temple on al-Aqsa ruins.
In an interview with al-Alam, Dr. Ahmed Abu Halabiya on Monday described the restoration of Hurva as part of a project to destruct al-Aqsa, some 700 meters away, and build the Israeli claimed Solomon's Temple in its place.
Israeli officials have reportedly called on Israelis to march into the al-Aqsa Mosque on Tuesday, highly revered as the third holiest site in the Muslim world.
Abu Halabiya called on Palestinian officials to take legal action through international organizations, such as the United Nations and the international Criminal Court in The Hague, and press for the trial of Israeli officials for the violations in al-Quds.
The Hamas MP in the Palestinian legislative body said protecting al-Quds's Islamic identity is a responsibility not only for the Palestinians, but all Muslims across the globe.
Also on Monday, Palestinian groups convened in Gaza city at a conference on al-Quds, calling on the Muslim ummah and the Arab world to stand up against Israel's provocations in the holy city.
They warned the Israeli regime against any violation against the al-Aqsa Mosque and vowed to defend their religion and sanctities if Israel risks igniting a religious war in the region.
The Monday meeting was attended by representatives from most Palestinian factions, including Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The Fatah-led Palestinian Authority, however, refused to participate.
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The Monday meeting was attended by representatives from most Palestinian terrorist crazy-committee factions, including Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Has Israel EVER allowed a synagogue to be built in place of (or taking over) a mosque? Has this happened anywhere in the world?
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the Hurva synagogue is built on the ruins of other buildings including a 2nd century synagogue
Paleo agiprop claims that among the ruins is a mosque built by Omar (one of the 'rightly guided caliphs'). Of course there is no evidence of this but that doesn't stop the agiprop.
There are some minicults in Israel that do advocate rebuilding the temple. However, they want to rebuild it at the site of the Dome, not at the Al Aqsa Mosque (they are within about 300' of each other)
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Paleo agiprop claims that among the ruins is a mosque built by Omar...
OK, they can take a number.
There are some minicults in Israel that do advocate rebuilding the temple.
All religions had/have/will have their odd minicults. It just shows that they're alive.
So, another excuse for an intefada... they always work out so well.
[Iran Press TV Latest] The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) plans to issue 100,000-rial notes in the next Iranian year -- a move which analysts consider the result of rising inflation. How many Zim-bucks is that ...
CBI Deputy Head Hamid Pourmohammadi said on Tuesday that the decision was part of the bank's plans to slash three zeros off Iran's national currency, ILNA news agency reported.
According to Fars News Agency, the announcement comes as the head of Iran's Bank Tejarat, Majid-Reza Davari, said 500,000-rial notes would also be issued in the next Iranian year, which begins on March 21.
Pourmohammadi said the decision is part of CBI's "monetary reform plan" but analysts say rising inflation has led the government to issue high value notes. A US dollar is currently about 10,000 rials.
The Iranian Parliament last week approved the budget bill for next year, which includes an economic reform plan to cut costly subsidies.
Although the rate of inflation has dropped from last year's record high to about 9 percent, economists believe the cutting of subsidies will stoke up inflation.
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I guess that means they won't need to worry about getting wheelbarrows to use as wallets for another year or so.
A "sudden split in the leadership" of North Korea is unlikely but not out of the question, the International Crisis Group speculated in a report Monday. Titled "North Korea under Tightening Sanctions," the think tank's report points out that the Stalinist country has been "shaken by constricting international sanctions" and "extremely poor policy choices." They paid a think tank for that ...
Robert Templer, ICG's Asia program director, said, "Instability, a coup d'état or even regime collapse would not be observable from the outside until well underway." Such a scenario could spark a humanitarian emergency demanding international intervention, he added.
"International sanctions have reduced foreign exchange earnings, while humanitarian assistance, which feeds millions of North Koreans, has declined due to political factors and donor fatigue," the report said. The North is skillful in forcing its residents, the weakest components in society, to bear the costs caused by international sanctions, it added.
Daniel Pinkston, ICG's North East Asia deputy project director, said the North Korean regime is faced with several internal challenges "that in isolation would each be manageable" but if such challenges occur all at once, they could pose a threat to the regime's survival.
But the report dismissed fears of a war. "The balance of power has shifted against Pyongyang, and the [North Korean] leadership is not likely to start a war it knows it would lose."
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They paid a think tank for that ...
And put them up in hotels and paid for their room service and prostitutes sightseeing, too.
But at least that money bought them some definite speculations they can use.
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) warns a third uprising will ensue if Israel pushes ahead with its practices in East Jerusalem (al-Quds).
"If matters remain at this level, regardless of whether we take the decision or not, it [an intifada] is coming. If Israel continues these practices, it is coming," Ma'an news agency quoted the organization's executive committee member, Ahmed Qurei, as saying.
Intifada "is not a matter of official decision, but rather it arises from the culmination of oppression, injustice, aggression and tyranny. It is something the people decide," Qurei told reporters during a Monday news conference in his office in East al-Quds.
"This is what happened with the two previous intifadas," he recalled.
Qurei criticized repeated attempts by Tel Aviv to change the city's demographic nature and the threat the regime posed to Arab Muslim and Christian identity. Israel's policy is aimed at severing al-Quds from negotiations and fully annexing the city to Israel, he added.
On Monday, a synagogue rededication ceremony, a few hundred meters away from the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, drew angry protests from Palestinians and prompted Hamas to call for massive demonstrations and dubbed Tuesday Palestinians' "day of rage."
Qurei, too, condemned the reopening of the Hurva synagogue as a "dangerous program" seeking to "Judaize" al-Quds and to falsify history.
The PLO official also spoke of unprecedented aggression and provocation from Israelis, citing a recent leaflet distributed by radical Jews calling on non-Jews to leave al-Quds amid mounting speculations of an Israeli takeover of the al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
Revealing an 1882 map of al-Quds, which illustrated planned Israeli settlements, the former Palestinian prime minister said it proved "an unprecedented danger, which targets its land, people, holy sites, heritage and history."
Despite intense security measures by Israeli authorities on Tuesday and the presence of some 3,000 security forces in al-Quds, thousands of angry Palestinians gathered in different neighborhoods of the city and protested the restoration of the synagogue.
Israeli forces clashed with the Palestinian protestors and fired rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse the demonstrators.
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Revealing an 1882 map of al-Quds, which illustrated planned Israeli settlements, the former Palestinian prime minister said it proved "an unprecedented danger, which targets its land, people, holy sites, heritage and history."
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Zionists have twisted the facts long enough. American Zionists, including liberals, have even prevented any debate on these matters for over 60 years as they successfully antisemite-baited anyone who questioned their version of history.
The Palestinians were expelled from the homeland and were not even provided minimum compensation. Instead, the Israelo-American lie is that those nasty Palestinians left their homes because they just don't like Jews, i.e. they are no better than Nazis and deserve the same fate!
A huge part of antagonism toward America in the world today stems from its pro-Israel settlement policies these past 60 years. They are a HUGE slap in the face to all emerging countries, most of which have also underwent bloody struggles to obtain independence!
If we Americans want to roll back terrorism, we must be a credible moral force! If we continue to support Israel's constant encroachment on Palestinian lands and rights, the hundreds of billions of DOLLAR$ we are spending and the thousands of brave American lives sacrificed are all for naught!!
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@#3 hunterkiller: You need to study history and quit being a tool.
No one was thrown off 'their' land, although wars do displace people.
The fact is more Israelis were displaced from their lands than Palestinians were at the time the state of Israel was born.
The Turks owned the land for hundreds of years that became known as TransJordan. The land was divided after WWI with 2/3s going to the newly created country of Jordan and Jews receiving a small piece west of the Jordan river. These Palestinians are 'fake' people. Even the other Arab states know these people are fakirs.
Even Arafat was born in Egypt.
You never ever hear about Palis demanding their land back from Jordan. Why is that?
It's about religion.
The Jews have every right to live on the land of their forefathers.
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If they are talking about it, they already planned it and rearmed and their bullying is to provoke even more reaction from the Israelis.
The goal of the Intifada is to cause Palestinian causalities for Muslim sympathy, just like last time.
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And those Arabs (there were no 'Palistinian' people then) who were 'driven out' left of their own free will with the hope of returning and participating in the rape of Israel.
And why is it that Arabs in Israel don't want to leave? Even for another Arab state?
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most of which have also underwent bloody struggles to obtain independence!
OT, but bullsh!t. The colonial powers were desperate to dump their colonies. All those roads, railways, schools and hospitals cost a bucket of money they could no longer afford.
Although with respect to the ever informative John Frum, India was an exception.
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How some people find it possible to support a murderous gang of thugs like the palestinian groups is a constant source of wonder to me. I might suggest to hunterkiller a bit of bible study to locate this town of al-Quds or, if that's problematic, a review of the last few years of Rantburg for articles on paleo behavior.
As a matter of fact, I have read postings recently on other sites making the same twisted points. I smell a memo passing around out there. I can't decide if it's the usual suspects or our new administration.
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The Palestinians were expelled from the homeland and were not even provided minimum compensation.
[Grrrr.]
kunterhiller: Suppose for the sake of argument you are correct that "Palestinians" inhabited the areas that are currently infested with "Palestinians". Would it not make sense that any Jews ejected from Muslim lands deserved a reciprocal right to return and compensation? Would you happen to know what I am talking about?
But alas, we don't have to suppose that there were "Palestinians" there, since that was a term invented by Arafat's clan back in the 60's to lend credence to their bogus claim for those too lazy to study any history whatsoever to sieze onto, along with the bogus implications that come along with the name. The truth is nothing was there before the Jews came along. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Maybe a nomad or two and a few migrants from other countries in the area, but they are everywhere and nowhere, so who cares. They can go elsewhere. The only reason Muslims put up with them is because they are useful fools as a thorn in Israel's side. Nothing else. If they were so loved, Jordan or Egypt could easily take them back in or at least let them cross into their land to obtain medical help. They don't.
The UN set up a mandate after WWII that this land belongs to Israel. Done. Finito. The UN deeded them the land because it was basically unoccupied except for a few Muslims who apparently attracted some others and who all breed like rabbits. Got a problem understanding that or accepting it? Take it up with the Useless Natterers themselves.
And if you still believe that tripe, and still have such a problem with "Palestinian" squatters' lands being taken over by Zionists, then why don't you start fixing such situations right here in your own back yard? Buy up as much property as you can and just give it to a Native American. Don't expect them to say thanks because it was theirs to begin with anyway, and there never was a UN resolution deeding it to the invaders anyway.
You've been outsmarted by Muslims playing the Fool's Sympathy card. But of couse, you like it that way because it gives you a cause that gets your blood moving and you fit right in with your mentally challenged liberal friends. Don't forget to maintain your denial after you leave here.
Or if you'd rather, look into it yourself. There is a real cause you could attach youself that will get your blood moving, too. And it's based in facts and truth, which has the benefit of you not having to walk around depending on people not being aware of false assumptions all the while maintaining your own denial and willful ignorance.
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OT, but bullsh!t. The colonial powers were desperate to dump their colonies. All those roads, railways, schools and hospitals cost a bucket of money they could no longer afford
It varied, certainly many colonies were money sinks that the Europeans weren't gaining much benefit frm towards the end of their rule. OTOH there were quite bloody independence struggles against the Europeans in many places - Vietnam, Algeria, Angola.
Small Euro forces were fighting bush wars all through the 50's, 60's and into the 70's before they finally gave up their empires.
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OTOH there were quite bloody independence struggles against the Europeans in many places - Vietnam, Algeria, Angola.
Vietnam was a communist takeover.
Algeria and Angola were ethnic civil wars that continued long after 'independence'. Although one faction in the Algerian civil war were 'white settlers' who left en mass toward the end. In excess of a million people left Algeria. Another faction, the Berbers were slaughtered. An unknown number were killed, perhaps a quarter of a million in the next 40 years of civil war.
Angola was similar, but without the white settlers and with bigger body counts.
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who cares if pleos where thrown off their lands? they're losers and that what usually happens. Even the arabs in the resst of the middle east don't want these cockroaches
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Since the U.S. is apparently upset with the Israeli government, now is the best time for the Palestinians to shut up and make a deal. If they miss this chance, the survivors will end up with their options substantially reduced.
If instead the Palestinians keep annoying the Israelis, eventually the Israelis are going get fed up and go all Old Testament on them.
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eventually the Israelis are going get fed up and go all Old Testament on them
Seems to me that somewhere in the old testament it says to kill all the Arabs or they will forever be a thorn in your side.
I don't agree with it, but it's still there. Tells you how much of a pain they were when it was written, and not much has changed since then. Including that the women still have real tits and the men still hold hands. ;-)
But I'm sure that over the next generation or two they will suddenly see the light.
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Talk is cheap.........if you Rantburghers, as American citizens, have a problem with the Apartheid regime of Israel; A let your money do the talking. Boycott all Israeli products and services immediately like many of us. And if you are aware of businesses that engage in commerce (or support) Israel in any way, boycott them as well. It's pretty simple, and it worked with South Africa. Boycott Israel now!
We should also demand an immediate cessation of all US aid to Israel, particularly military aid. We must not be part of these crimes against humanity B if you do not have problems with Israeli your cause is domed anyway ..Jews in the USA are only 1.4%
And only a small percentage of them support Israel at oltranza Regarding the Christian yahoos well they are irrelevant, and AIPAC? Well AIPAC and is members are already branded traitors of the America peoples and is political and military interests
So in the end is a non winning situation for the racist Israel and is morons Anti-American supporters, Real Conservatives do not happily embrace that little shity state at all.
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One can be sure that many of our troops on the front lines wonder if they're actually fighting for our freedom (questionable on it's face) which they may have signed up for, or for Israel's security. I expect it doesn't take long in the field of battle to figure that one out, or at least to question it. I can imagine how they feel when they learn how the Israeli government shows so little regard for its closest ally and benefactor. (Unless of course our military shields them from the facts)
It is disgraceful that so many of my compatriots in this post that call is members Americans don't have the courage or character to stand up to the Israeli influence in the face of this obvious disregard. And, while pontificating about the moral high ground and human rights they, without pause, willfully overlook Israel's flagrant violations of the standards that they profess to hold so dear.
It is truly no wonder why the approval ratings of Rantburg are so low
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Seems to me that somewhere in the old testament it says to kill all the Arabs or they will forever be a thorn in your side.
well there are the anti Amalek passages (e.g., one in Ex 17: 8-16, Num 24:20 and Deut 25:17-19) but no one really considers the Arabs to be the genetic descendants of Amalek (although some people have discussed whether Hamas is a spiritual descendant of Amalek).
there is also the command to drive out the Canaanites (also various places) but the Arabs aren't Canaanites, and besides, 'drive out' isn't the same as 'wipe out'.
on the subject of a 3rd intifada, if the PLO really wanted to this and could do this they would just go ahead; the fact that they make announcements shows they don't have it together enough to do it.
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Hey kid!!!!!tu3031 F@@@ - OF R T Fritzsche Army Airfield Fort Ord (Marina), CA, USA
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Seems to me that somewhere in the old testament it says to kill all the Arabs or they will forever be a thorn in your side.
I am not a biblical scolar (not even close! and perhaps someone else will chime in) but I believe the target were Philistines (not at all related to the non-people Palestinians). And that is the only time a group of people was targeted for death.
The Philistines had some truly reprehensible and sick practices in their worship of Baal.
(I've heard someone once contend that Allah is a derivative of Baal) Some of the Islamic practices - human sacrifices (also known as suicide or homiside bombers and their victims) and child sacrifices (Mothers sending their children out to be suicide bombers - see Palestine, Hamass, etc...) might lend some credence to this.
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The problem is that "Palestine" is a feverish promise given by Soviet masters to Marxist Arabs in exchange for a homosexual favors.
Srsly, however, South Africa is a very poor example of proving your point, and Zimbabwe is far more instructive; taking a once prosperous land and turning into a Marxian sh*thole, the eventual intention of Hamas et al.
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Egypt, jordan Russia ,China and the Palestinians are well paid to not attack Israel. This war is ongoing and there is no peace..nor will there be until zionism is renounced by the Jews d0uches and one state created...If Mubarek should die, turmoil in Egypt could be the beginning of the end for Israel as a Jewish state...
Or maybe in the end a whole lot of primitive, violent countries that contribute less to the world as a group than tiny Israel will become seas of cooling glass.
Israel is not the only place where patience is running thinner than the rabid drool that comes from the mouths of Islamicists and other anti-Semites.
Another option is for us to simply stop funding places like Gaza, where families have 10+ children on the welfare teat, paid for by the West but not by their brothers in Islam. Places where men are obsessed with 'honor' but whose idea of honor doesn't seem to extend to working hard, earning your own way and taking responsibility for your own lives. Or even to such basic steps as telling the truth to themselves and to others.
We might also want to stop funding these same people when they migrate to Britain and other Western countries. For Israeli doctors to stop treating Palestinian children and elderly in their hospitals.
And for us to tell you all it's time for you to stop blaming the Jews - or the West - and to acknowledge the huge failures of Islamic culture and countries for the last 1000+ years.
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could be the beginning of the end for Israel as a Jewish state...
LOL - I get the impression "hunterkiller" is typing that one-handed
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Egypt, jordan Russia ,China and the Palestinians are well paid to not attack Israel.
*snicker* *snort* *bam!!*
Ow! Dammit, hunterkiller, I just fell off my chair 'cause I was laughing so hard! Nobody with at least two brain cells to rub together and the ability to read could even conceive of the notion that China and Russia could be paid enough to do or not do anything, especially when it involves some piddling little never-ending Middle Eastern squabble. Honest to God, you are the stupidist troll we've had wander through here in all the years I've been paying attention.
tu3031, he's not a bedwetter any more because his mother discovered Attends. If you drive past the neighborhood the stench no longer makes your eyes water.
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working from memory, the biblical "kill them all" bit was a commandment to Saul (king before David). That Saul did not was the causation for his fall from favor and eventual replacement by David and David's line. later in the book of Nehemiah we see one of the decedents of those spared by Saul causing trouble and attempting to prevent the restoration of Jerusalem and the Temple. History continues to repeat itself.
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Besides, the relatively few Arabs that did leave Israel did so because their 'leaders' required it, not because they were driven out. The ones that stayed have a relatively good life today.
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"now is the best time for the Palestinians to shut up and make a deal. If they miss this chance, the survivors will end up with their options substantially reduced."
Remember what Abba Eban said, rammer - Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
Expect nothing logical from those losers.
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It is truly no wonder why the approval ratings of Rantburg are so low
Why would Fred care? He established Rantburg for his own amusement, not as a commercial venture, and as a result it's a very narrow interest site. Not at all the kind of thing that would attract large numbers like the filmstar gossip sites.
More importantly, those who understand the issues this site addresses do rate it highly. It's like getting high marks from physics professors rather than amateur photographers... Oh wait -- Rantburg counts both among regular readers. Also Special Forces and State Department johnnies, and the Instapundit, but we shouldn't expect a law professor who runs one of the most popular sites on the web know about such things.
[Maghrebia] Mauritania on Monday (March 15th) indicted six men and one woman for involvement in the al-Qaeda abduction of three Spanish humanitarian aid workers, ANI reported. Alleged ringleader Amar Ould Sid 'Ahmed, aka Amar Sahraoui, age 52, was arrested last month in Mali on suspicion of having kidnapped the three Spaniards last November and delivering then to AQIM camps in northern Mali, AFP reported. It is unclear whether he is an al-Qaeda member or merely a sub-contractor who "sold" the hostages to the terrorist organisation.
Al-Qaeda freed Spanish hostage Alicia Gamez last week. Two other Spaniards and an Italian couple remain captive in Mali.
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[Maghrebia] Algerian security forces dismantled a terror-support group in Bordj Menaïel, L'Expression reported on Tuesday (March 16th). Six suspects, aged between 20 and 30, are accused of providing logistical support to al-Qaeda's El Ansar brigade and informing terrorists about the movements of security services in the region.
In related news, El Ansar brigade ex-emir Ali Touati and nine other al-Qaeda terrorists were sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment by a Boumerdes court, El Watan reported on Tuesday (March 16th). Five other defendants, including two custom officers, were acquitted at the week-end hearing.
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Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has accused ex-prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif of having ties with the Taliban.
"Sharif is a great threat to the stability of Pakistan as he is involved in acts of terror under the guise of a major power player in the country's politics," Dawn newspaper quoted Musharraf as saying in Seattle, Washington Monday night.
Musharraf also slammed the incumbent politicians over what he described as hypocrisy and political opportunism. He defended his tenure as a corruption-free administration, stressing that no cabinet member in his government was contaminated by corruption.
Pervez Musharraf came to power in Pakistan on October 12, 1999, after ousting Nawaz Sharif in a military coup.
He announced his resignation on August 18, 2008, amid impeachment threats. In a televised address to his nation, Musharraf said that he would prefer to resign rather than drag Pakistan through impeachment proceedings.
On August 7, 2008, the country's ruling coalition said that it would begin impeachment proceedings against Musharraf, who seized power in 1999.
Musharraf and the current Pakistani government have been heavily backed and influenced by Washington, which analysts cite as the main factor behind the growing instability in the country.
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For once i believe Perv as Sharif has an history with Saudi/Islamist!
Michael Jackson was buried in that uniform, wasn't he?
[Al Arabiya Latest] Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has said Nigeria should be partitioned between the Christian and Muslim communities to solve its sectarian violence problem, the JANA news agency reported on Tuesday.
He proposed that it should follow the partition model of Pakistan, which was born in 1947 after the Muslim minority of predominantly Hindu India founded their own homeland, led by Mohammed Ali Jinnah.
"The only thing that could put an end to the bloodshed ... is the appearance of another Mohammed Ali Jinnah, who established a state for the Muslims and another for the Christians," he told African student leaders, some of them from Nigeria, the agency reported.
"The painful situation that Nigeria is enduring resembles the situation of the Indian subcontinent before 1947, at the time of the massacres between Hindus and Muslims," Gaddafi said in the remarks on Monday.
India's partition resulted in hundreds of thousands killed, thousands raped, and more than 10 million left homeless on both sides.
Gaddafi suggested that Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo should lead efforts for a Christian homeland in the south with Lagos as its capital, and that a Muslim homeland in the north should have Abuja as its principal city.
Gaddafi, until recently the head of the African Union, said the two communities should peacefully agree to share Nigeria's oil and other natural wealth.
Several hundred people were killed last week in sectarian violence in Nigeria's central Plateau State.
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Gaddafi said the two communities should peacefully agree to share Nigeria's oil and other natural wealth. He's such a kidder, and a flashy dresser, too.
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He proposed that it should follow the partition model of Pakistan, which was born in 1947 after the Muslim minority of predominantly Hindu India founded their own homeland
Would probably end up a more ampt comparison than Gaddafi intends.
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The painful situation that Nigeria is enduring resembles the situation of the Indian subcontinent before 1947, at the time of the massacres between Hindus and Muslims," Gaddafi said in the remarks on Monday
Please note Gaddafi The Common denominator is that Muslims cant get on with other religions and this is supported by Arabs!
A beautiful bunch a'ripe banana
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Hide thee deadly black tarantula
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
It's six foot, seven foot, eight foot, BUNCH!
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Six foot, seven foot, eight foot, BUNCH!
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
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I read a very good bio of Josephine Baker. Quite a fun gal and really a feather up the nose of the Nazis who completely misread the USA by misinterpreting our culture.
Paramilitary police guarding a space centre in southern India on Tuesday exchanged fire with two men who were acting suspiciously near the facility, an official said.
The shootout occurred in the early hours of Tuesday at the Deep Space Network in Byalalu, about 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Bangalore, when the guards challenged two men, one of whom began firing a handgun.
"In retaliation, our guards fired at the suspects who fled from the spot and vanished in darkness," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) director S. Satish told AFP.
"We have registered a case with the local police who have posted extra men at the facility."
Home Minister P. Chidambaram confirmed that guards from the paramilitary Central Industrial Security Force had fired at the suspects.
"Teams there are investigating the matter. There was no danger to the establishment," he told reporters outside parliament.
India has been on high alert since a bombing in the city of Pune in February that killed 16 people, with at-risk installations under tight surveillance.
Police are investigating whether the shootout was the work of militants or common criminals. The suspect fired two shots from a revolver and the security guards returned eight rounds.
"It's too early to talk of (a) terror angle. We are investigating the shootout case from all angles," Kamal Panth, inspector general of police for the Bangalore region, told AFP.
"We are combing the entire area to nab the suspects."
The attack in Pune was India's first since an assault on Mumbai in November 2008 that left 166 dead.
The Deep Space Network was set up in 2007 by the state-run ISRO for receiving data and images from the country's first unmanned lunar exploration mission, Chandrayaan-1, which was launched in 2008.
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According to academic research, the Venezuelan government changed its policy on public use of Internet after an electoral defeat in 2007. Raisa Uribarri, a professor and researcher at Los Andes University (ULA), says that following the adoption of the Constitution in 1999, the Law on Telecommunications and the Decree 825 issued by the Executive Branch of government in 2000, the Internet was viewed as a tool for economic development. Therefore, the Venezuelan authorities outlined strategies to expand its penetration.
The expert added that "2007 was a turning point." She stressed that the perception of President Hugo Chávez, who believed that his defeat in a referendum seeking a constitutional reform was due to the fact that "people did not understand the proposal" because of an alleged manipulation by the media, led to a change in the government strategy with regard to the Internet.
Meanwhile, Reporters without Borders (RSF), a non-governmental organization based in Paris that advocates freedom of the press, expressed its view with respect to the statements made by the Venezuelan ruler. Chávez criticized reports posted on a news website by two forum participants who reported the alleged murder of Minister of Housing and Habitat Diosdado Cabello and pro-government TV anchor Mario Silva.
"Imposing restrictions on the Internet will not solve the problem of false reports," RSF said in a statement.
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Law on Telecommunications and the Decree 825 issued by the Executive Branch of government in 2000, the Internet was viewed as a tool for economic development
A US missile strike and clashes between extremist gunmen and tribesmen killed at least 20 militants on Tuesday in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border, officials said.
The drone attack destroyed a mountain hideout in the district of North Waziristan, killing 10 militants including Al-Qaeda-linked suspects.
North Waziristan is known as a stronghold of Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked fighters and increasingly targeted by the covert US drone war since a suicide attack killed seven CIA employees in Afghanistan.
The missiles hit a compound used by militants near Datta Khel village, 20 kilometers west of Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan, Pakistani security officials said.
The exact identity of the militants was unclear and it was not immediately known whether there were any high-value targets.
"At least 10 militants, mostly foreigners, were killed," one Pakistani security official told AFP on condition of anonymity, adopting a term used widely in Pakistan to refer to Al-Qaeda-linked suspects.
"Five missiles were fired by US drones," he added.
Three other security officials confirmed the missile strike and gave the same death toll, while a local intelligence official described the target as a mountain hideout for militants. Arabs were said to be among the dead.
Militants cordoned off the area and were searching the rubble, where two cars were also destroyed in the strike, a local administration official said.
US drone attacks routinely target Taliban and Al-Qaeda commanders in Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal belt, which Washington calls the global headquarters of Al-Qaeda and the most dangerous region on Earth.
The drone war has killed a number of high-profile targets, including Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud and possibly his successor Hakimullah Mehsud, but the raids fuel anti-American sentiment in Muslim Pakistan.
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Militants cordoned off the area and were searching the rubble
How many militants were killed in the followup strikes?
Iran has urged Sweden to "seriously deal with" a Swedish newspaper which has republished a sacrilegious cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
"Iran strongly denounces the reprinting of the disrespectful cartoons," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast on Monday, adding that Tehran was concerned about the negative consequences of such "provocative acts."
On March 10, the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter reprinted a sacrilegious cartoon of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) by Swedish caricaturist Lars Vilks after the Irish police arrested seven suspects in an alleged plot to assassinate Vilks.
The cartoons were first published in Sweden in 2007, prompting worldwide protests by Muslims.
"Iran calls on the Swedish government to seriously deal with such anti-religious approaches," Mehmanparast said.
The Irish police later released three of the seven suspects, who were from Algeria, Libya, Palestine, Croatia and the US. Police charged an Algerian and a Libyan with minor offenses in connection with the plot.
The arrests were part of an international investigation into alleged death threats against Vilks.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Palestinians mounted violent protests in Jerusalem on Tuesday and President Barack Obama's Middle East envoy cancelled plans to return to the region as a U.S.-Israeli crisis over Jewish settlement plans simmered.
Hundreds of Palestinian demonstrators clashed with police in several locations in East Jerusalem, captured from Jordan by Israel together with the adjacent West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war. Police responded with teargas and rubber bullets.
"We have come to throw stones because that's all we have and the situation in Jerusalem is dangerous," a protester said in a confrontation at an Israeli military checkpoint, reminiscent of the early days of the Palestinian uprising that began in 2000.
Medical officials said at least 40 Palestinians were treated in hospitals in the most serious flare-up in the holy city in months. Police said 15 officers were hurt, one shot in the hand by an unidentified gunman. About 60 people were arrested.
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Their old allies, the Apartheid regime of P.W. Botha in South Africa have departed from the scene unfortunately, and now it looks like the US is starting to wise up to the fact that our "alliance" with Israel brings us nothing but a bag full of hurt. Looks like things are about to get very lonely outside for Israel.
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Well, Hunteridiot, Israel still has good relations with the USA. Obama is just shooting himself in the foot with his current pressure-Israel policy. You pointedly mention Botha, who has been out of power for what? 20+ years. Very topical reference! For the record Israel still maintains excellent relations with India and China, the two biggest power-brokers in the region. In the meantime, I'm sure Israel can handle some stone-throwing savages, and the opprobrium of anti-semite pinheads like you.
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#1 Their old allies, the Apartheid regime of P.W. Botha in South Africa have departed from the scene unfortunately. hunterkiller
Unfortunate indeed. Die Oud Crocodile has been gone for quite a spell hunter. I doubt Israel would wish to have much to do with President Jacob Zuma, a tribalist, ANC rapist who failed to make it past the 3rd grade. In all fairness however, Zuma is quite famous for that catchy tribal tune "Lethu Mshini Wami" (Bring me my machine gun).
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The lack of attention to our ally, Israel by this administration and the seemingly favortism towards muslim countries encourages jihad and ant-semitism. Israel is the only Democracy in the mid-East if you don't yet count Iraq. The sentiment from what I hear from some in Israel is that George W. Bush was a good friend to Israel--not the feeling about the current administration.
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Their old allies, the Apartheid regime of P.W. Botha in South Africa have departed from the scene unfortunately.
Very unfortunate indeed, seeing how "well" things are going for South Africa these days. In this case, the disease was and always will be better than the cure.
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, charged in the Fort Hood shootings, was too fat and "chronically" unprofessional during his psychiatric training, according to internal e-mails exchanged by his superiors.
The communications are the latest in a series of early signs that showed officers had reason to suspend Maj. Hasan's training, and perhaps re-evaluate his suitability as a military physician, but failed to do so. Yet, his bosses at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington allowed him to complete his residency in 2007, enter an advanced fellowship program, win promotion to major and transfer to Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009.
Boggles my mind that he was allowed to graduate his residency. Set aside Army-specific requirements, he failed to meet the minimum standard required of a competent psychiatrist. He should have been remediated and then separated from the program.
The e-mails highlight another point at which the U.S. military government could have intervened to stop Maj. Hasan's career before the shooting. The FBI and other intelligence agencies learned that Maj. Hasan had sent e-mail messages to Anwar al-Awlaki, an al Qaeda-affiliated radical imam in Yemen who urged followers to join the terrorist group and kill Americans. However, the FBI said in a statement that it dismissed the e-mails as apparently part of Maj. Hasan's work as a psychiatric counselor.
What work, exactly, does one do that allows one to correspond with an al-Qaeda affiliated radical imam? I think there are a few FBI guys and supervisors who need to be called onto the carpet.
The bureau did not share the intercepted communications with the military people who could have stopped Maj. Hasan, nor did the FBI question the major.
An Army inquiry released in January recommended the service look at disciplining Maj. Hasan's medical superiors who failed to raise red flags about his conduct, and instead passed him along to the next program and command. The e-mails reviewed by The Washington Times were among the report's restricted annex material not released to the public.
The e-mails show superior officers had plenty of problems with Maj. Hasan. In May 2007, as a then-Capt. Hasan approached a June 30 date to complete his residency in psychiatry, his direct supervisor warned higher-ups he had failed a physical by being overweight.
"He is a chronically somewhat unprofessional officer with a somewhat poor work ethic," Maj. Scott Moran, residency director, wrote in e-mail to a superior. Maj. Moran said he was preparing to put Maj. Hasan on probation and extend his residency.
That was the minimum required; the probation would include a remediation plan that would be tailored to address specific concerns raised by faculty supervisors. That's not an Army requirement, it's a requirement of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the agency that certifies residency programs.
But the superior rejected the idea, saying it would prompt a total re-evaluation of Maj. Hasan. The superior wrote back to Maj. Moran: "Please don't go forward on anything yet. If you put him on probation, even administrative, will require me to convene a relook board."
Sure would. Didn't want to do the work or didn't want to flunk out the only Army muslim psychiatrist?
A source close to the Army investigation said Maj. Hasan was counseled about his substandard high body-fat reading. The source said he thinks Maj. Hasan lost weight, but the fact an officer had to be told to slim down is not consistent with good officership.
In addition to the weight issue, another development could have slowed or stopped Maj. Hasan's advancement.
"There is another twist," Maj. Moran wrote on May 11, 2007. He told a second superior that Maj. Hasan did not have sufficient months in a psychiatric clinic to complete his residency. "I am not trying to hose this guy, but keep everything on the up and up," Maj. Moran wrote.
For any residency, there is a rather long list of requirements to meet. Miss one and you don't graduate. That Hasan didn't have enough clinic time suggests that either 1) Hasan didn't attend or 2) the faculty failed to ensure he got there and got the work done.
This superior dismissed Maj. Moran's concerns. "We discussed his situation or one like it at the time and decided that the distinction between year levels was arbitrary as long as he got the requisite number of months doing the necessary things," the superior wrote.
Then came Maj. Hasan's research project that was required for completing the residency. Walter Reed calls the practice, "Psychiatry Scholarly Activity Oral Presentation at the Psychiatry Regularly Scheduled Conference." Maj. Hasan chose not a psychiatric topic, per se, but one titled, "Koranic World View as it Relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military." The slide presentation promoted Islamic law over the U.S. Constitution.
At first, Maj. Moran was appalled. "This is not scholarly project level," he e-mailed other staff members. "[We] are going to meet with him this AM and counsel him."
It really sounds like Moran is trying to do his job as a residency director.
A Moran colleague e-mailed Maj. Hasan to say, "Can you tie this presentation more fully into the GWOT [global war on terrorism]? Your last few slides begin that process. Maybe you could rebalance this presentation with more on how the religion and sectarian violence develops."
Maj. Hasan e-mailed back, "Here are some revision [sic]." He eventually delivered the slide show June 20, and graduated 10 days later.
One staff supervisor was ecstatic. "Dr. Hasan does an excellent job speaking without 'reading' slides!" he wrote on a "resident evaluation."
"His balance of academic knowledge and personal awareness is remarkable."
But there was a dissenter among the graders.
"I must admit that I am confused as to how this is acceptable as a scholarly activity," the supervisor wrote. "While information about Islam, this seems to be a history/religious class report rather than a psychiatric scholarly activity. I would expect better academic efforts from a graduating resident."
Charles Gittins, attorney for Maj. Moran, said the e-mails show his client was trying to hold Maj. Hasan to Army standards. "He did everything he could to hold the guy to standards, and he was only with the guy for 14 weeks before Hasan graduated from the residency program," Mr. Gittins said.
The Army has yet to take any disciplinary action against Maj. Moran or other supervisors, as recommended by the inquiry.
The inquiry, led by former Army Secretary Togo West and former Chief of Naval Operations Vern Clark, concluded: "We believe that some medical officers failed to apply appropriate judgment and standards of officership with respect to the alleged perpetrator. These individuals failed to demonstrate that officership is the essence of being a member of the military profession, regardless of the officer's specialty."
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One staff supervisor was ecstatic. "Dr. Hasan does an excellent job speaking without 'reading' slides!" he wrote on a "resident evaluation."
Damning with faint praise. Notice the absence of rank? My personal favorite...."This officer is in full compliance with the Army Energy Conservation Progam."
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Thirteen people dead because no one was willing to put THEIR career on the line to stop this terrible, terrible excuse for an officer or a medical person. The people that failed also need to be quietly let go, but they won't be. The military is just far too short of medical people, especially doctors.
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COLOMBO: Court martial proceedings against the former Army Chief, General (retired) Sarath Fonseka, for alleged involvement in politics while in uniform, commenced here on Tuesday.
General (retired) Fonseka appeared before the court martial with his lawyers, headed by Rienzi Arsakularathne, the President's counsel. Representatives of the Attorney-General's Department appeared for the prosecution and the next date of hearing has been fixed two days ahead of the April 8 general election. There were reports of protests by the General's supporters in various parts of the island nation.
Last week, on a directive from President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Army Chief Jagath Jayasurya had named a three-member panel of two-star Generals to try General (retired) Fonseka on two different sets of charges. He is charged with engaging in politics while he was still the commander of the Army and making military purchases in contravention of set procedures.
Tuesday's court martial is the first against a former Army Chief in Sri Lanka and General (retired) Sarath Fonseka is the country's first four-star General. He was conferred the rank by Mr. Rajapaksa after the security forces defeated the LTTE in May last year.
General (retired) Fonseka was arrested on February 8 on several charges, including attempt to destabilise the government. He has challenged his arrest in the Supreme Court, which has fixed a hearing for April 26.
The two charges relating to politics and military purchases will be heard separately by the second court martial on Wednesday.
Both Courts Martial are presided over by Major-General H.L Weerathunga and served by Major-General A.L.R Wijethunga, Major-General D.R.A.B Jayathilake and Rear-Admiral W.W.J.S Fernando (Judge Advocate).
Separately, Presidential Secretariat, in a press statement, said that there had been a series of statements and comments on the internet in the past few days on alleged government plans to arrest NGO activists and to suppress and intimidate its opponents and critics.
It further said the government was in the process of preparing comprehensive legislation to govern NGO activities in the country, as there were many instances of malpractice, including misappropriation of huge sums donated by foreign governments and organisations. Once such legislation was in place, the government hoped NGO activities could be properly observed and monitored to suit national requirements, it added.
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[Dawn] Pakistani police seized 4.5 tonnes of explosives, rifles and suicide vests during raids in the eastern city of Lahore which has suffered a series of militant attacks, officials said.
"The police raided different shops in the city today and yesterday and seized the explosives and weapons," a senior police official in Lahore, Zulfiqar Hamed, told AFP.
The raids and seizures came days after twin suicide attacks targeting the Pakistani military killed up to 45 people in Lahore on Friday.
"The police raided a shop in Iqbal Town area on Tuesday and seized 170 bags mainly containing ammonium nitrate and weighing 3,000 kilograms, two suicide vests, four rifles, three sub-machine guns and one light machine gun," Hameed said.
He added that at least 10 suspects including the owner of the shop had been detained for interrogation.
Police also seized 1,500 kilograms of explosive material which included potassium used in manufacturing fire crackers, 600 rifle rounds and 16 hand grenades from another shop in Iqbal Town on Monday, he said.
Another senior police official, Ali Nasir Rizvi, confirmed the raids and arrests and said, "Both the shops had been rented out to one Mohammad Omar and we are trying to get hold of this person".
Lahore, a city of eight million near Pakistan's border with India, has been increasingly subject to Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked attacks in a nationwide bombing campaign that has killed more than 3,000 people in three years.
Violence in Pakistan is concentrated largely in the lawless northwest area along the border with Afghanistan, but analysts have warned that extremism is taking a hold in
Punjab, Pakistan's most populous and politically important province of which Lahore is the capital.
Eight attacks have killed more than 170 people in Lahore over the past year, a historical city which is a playground for the elite and home to many top brass in Pakistan's powerful military and intelligence establishment.
Pakistani officials say that the terrorist attacks are linked to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda stronghold of South Waziristan on the Afghan border where the military has been engaged in a punishing offensive against militants since October last year.
Washington says militants in Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal belt are fuelling the war in Afghanistan, where more than 120,000 NATO and US troops are battling a nine-year Taliban insurgency.
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Mmmm!
I must admit I'm more concerned about Pakland being infected with the modern misuse of the word historical.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Afghanistan confirmed for the first time publicly on Tuesday that it had enacted into law a blanket pardon for war crimes and human rights abuse carried out before 2001.
Human rights groups have expressed dismay that the law appeared to have been enacted quietly, granting blanket immunity to members of all armed factions for acts committed during decades of war before the fall of the Taliban.
President Hamid Karzai had promised not to sign the National Stability and Reconciliation Law, when it was passed by parliament in 2007.
Human rights groups say they learned only this year that the bill had been published in the official gazette, making it law.
Karzai's spokesman, Waheed Omer, said on Tuesday that the bill had become law because it was passed by two-thirds of the parliament and therefore did not require Karzai's signature.
Parliament is made up largely of lawmakers from former armed groups, some accused by rights groups and ordinary Afghans of war crimes.
"This law was passed with a two-thirds majority in our parliament, and according to our constitution, when a law is passed with a two-thirds majority, it does not require the president to sign it," Omer told a briefing.
It was the first time the palace had confirmed that the measure had become law.
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the bill had been published in the official gazette, making it law.
Maybe Nancy has a better fourth option: Publish the HC Takeover bill in the Afghanistan Official Gazette and thereby make it law.
After a European Union's top diplomat made remarks against Iran's nuclear program, Secretary General of the Arab League Amr Moussa has denounced Israel's possession of its vast nuclear arsenal.
"I wish to mention that Israeli nuclear activities are very disturbing and threatening to us," Moussa said in response to statements made by EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton on the alleged threats posed by Iran's nuclear activities.
"We should not speak only about Iran, but be unconcerned about military and nuclear adventurism in the Middle East," the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) quoted the Arab League chief as saying as he referred to Israel's hundreds of nuclear warheads.
"If we are against any nuclear actions, we [should stop] mentioning only one country," he added
"The relation between us and Europe is indeed [one of an] old history and common destiny," he said. "Since there is a common destiny, then the threat to our own security is very important. We have to be fair and objective and strategic about what we do."
Moussa expressed support for international talks with Iran and called for help to establish diplomatic negotiations and to prove that Iran's nuclear case is not a threat to the region.
Citing "concerns" over Iran's domestic capabilities to enrich uranium, The US and its allies accuse Iran of the "intention" to enrich uranium to weapons-grade levels and have gone to great lengths to prevent the country from producing fuel for its medical and industrial needs.
World powers, most of which possess and continue to develop vast nuclear arsenals that have been tested and even used in military confrontations, have been lobbying for a "symbolic" tightening of economic measures against the Tehran government.
As a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Islamic Iran insists that it neither believes in atomic weapons, nor, as a matter of religious principles, does it intend to access such weapons of mass-destruction.
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I wish to mention that Israeli nuclear activities are very disturbing and threatening to us
Yeah. Israel is constantly waving that threat around.
Unlike other nameless nations in the ME who aren't planning on developing nukes, and who never threaten Israel with annihilation.
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ION WMF > US, ISRAELI ATTACK ON IRAN FROM AFPAK, PERSIAN GULF WILL QUICKLY FORCE IRAN INTO MOUNTAIN, URBAN GUERILLA WARFARE. IRAN'S ARMED FORCES MAY FIGHT FOR AS LONG AS SIX MONTHS AGZ US INVASION.
* SAME > POST-US,ISRAELI ATTACK AND GROUND INVASION, CHINA SHOULD ACCEPT IRAN'S GOVT-IN-EXILE AND PROVIDE SUCH MILITARY ASSISTANCE AS TO HELP TURN IRAN INTO ANOTHER 1950 NORTH KOREA [anti-US Chinese = Foreign forced mil intervention], or VIETNAM [support of local Popular Armed Resistance in Iran backed by regular-conventional Military Forces].
[Iran Press TV Latest] US Senate Banking Committee Chairman Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) has introduced a bill to reduce certain high-risk activities in the American banking industry that has been blamed for triggering the nation's worst economic slump in 60 years.
Under Senator Dodd's bill, the Federal Reserve Bank (the US central bank) will have the right to investigate what they deem risky or suspicious activity, reported Wall Street Journal today.
Additionally, the bill will bring large financial companies that are not banks under the domain of the Fed's supervisory powers.
The plan will also see the establishment of a body within the Federal Reserve Bank tasked with protecting consumers' financial interests, such as credit cards and mortgages, the paper reports. This new entity would be independent within the Feds and would have its own budget and rule-making authority.
Mr. Dodd's bill has triggered anger among Republicans in the Senate who believe the bill goes too far and insist that the Fed itself should retain responsibility for protecting consumer interests. On the other hand, the plan is inadequate for many Democratic senators who prefer to see an entirely new agency.
The bill also entails serious outlays among many institutions, with the largest financial firms required to pay into a $50 billion fund, should there be any more financial collapses in the future.
Under Senator Dodd's proposals, there will be restrictions on large bank investments in or sponsorship of hedge funds or private equity funds.
Dodd has also been blamed for being principally responsible for pushing through legislations allowing financial institutions to continue offering huge bonuses and perks to top banking executives even after they were rescued from total bankruptcy by hundreds of billions of tax-payer funds granted to them by the US Government.
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now THATS a used car salesman if I ever saw one.
I wonder if he ever had to sit for hours with hydrolic fluid dripping on him. Naaa. I do not wonder.
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This nation is/was the most powerfull and richest in the world because of risk taking. This thug wants that money. Just like Obama said, "This is the wealthiest nation in the history of man kind." And change is what his Presidency is all about. Changing ownership of that wealth from those who created it, to those who want to steal it.
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Now that the horses have been out of the barn for over a year old Chris finally decides he has to do something about it.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Following the violent killing of three individuals linked to a US Consulate in Mexico over the weekend, the US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) joins the Mexican police in the hunt for the perpetrators.
Sitting on the border across the US city of El Paso, the City of Ciudad Juarez, were the murders took place, has been wrecked by a rising wave of violence, mostly associated with Mexico's drugs cartels, embroiled in bloody turf wars among themselves while simultaneously fighting the country's law enforcement bodies.
According to the Ciudad Juarez police department, there were 2,650 murders in the city of some 1.5 million inhabitants in 2009. Most remain unsolved. The city has the dubious distinctions of having Mexico's highest murder rate and being judged the most dangerous place on earth outside a war-zone.
Two of the murdered Americans were gunned down while travelling in their car apparently on their way back from a children's birthday party.
Their baby, who was travelling in the back seat of same vehicle, was unharmed in the attack.
The third victim was a Mexican citizen who worked for the US consulate.
While the US authorities were keeping an open mind on the motives of the attacks, an analyst with a Texas-based intelligence analysis firm Stratfor suggests that the murders may have been related to recent plans for closer cooperation between US and Mexican law enforcement agencies.
"We believe that it is likely related to a decision last month to start working more closely with the Mexican government by the Americans," said Stratfor's VP Scott Stewart, quoted by the Wall Street Journal on March 16. "They were going to put some personnel into a joint fusion center in Juarez."
The US State Department has urged its diplomatic staff in Mexican border cities to send home their families until further notice, in view of the surge in violence.
Meanwhile Mexico's President Felipe Calderon visited the troubled city today to boost the economic and social regeneration programs he had announced last month in order to fight the spiraling crime rate.
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I sincerely hope the FBI gets these narco-terrorist murderers. They are polluting America with drugs.
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The FBI is going to screw this all up. They will find the driver of the shooters, they will read him his miranda rights, then they will hand him over the the Mexicans who will torture him to get bogus information and kill him. Then the Mexicans will parade some group of guys that had nothing to do with it around and execute them, case closed. Solved the Mexican way.
They need to let some of the OGA's handle this, spend a yer to find everyone involved and execute them on the 1 year mark of the murders, case close perminantly!
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Despite some differences in the past between him and me, Chuck is one of the good guys and his citizen reporting efforts are admirable and deserve support.
A modest contribution is in order from me. As always Will S nailed it - (the) Past is (indeed) prologue.
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...are the more than 9 million resilient Haitians.
Well, they must be resilient to put up with all the crap that they've been subject to for at least 100 yrs. Of course, they'd probably be better off if they were also hard-working, honest and desirous of education. My sister-in-law goes down there on a lefty do-gooding mission every winter and tells the same stories year after year of the apathy and fatalism of her set of wards. She goes on at great length about the "great" strides the people are making but it really amounts to zilch.
The Haitians have evolved a "make do" culture in response to the last three generations of bandits running the country. Grassroots work is doing well, and small, religious NGOs who have lived among the people for years are succeeding in making changes.
People who have been to Afghanistan and Haiti both tell me this is far worse.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is ready to turn a page on the past by meeting Lebanon's Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, Hezbollah, which is mediating between the former arch-foes, said late on Monday.
The Lebanese Shiite group's leader Hassan Nasrallah "has advised Jumblatt that given recent developments, the Syrian authorities will forget the past and open a new page," it said in a statement.
"President Assad will receive him in Damascus during a visit on a date to be announced in the coming days," Hezbollah added. Definitely pass on the sushi, Wally ...
The announcement came two days after the Druze leader admitted he had made "inappropriate and unreasonable remarks about President Assad at a time of internal tensions and extreme division within Lebanon."
On February 14, 2007, the second anniversary of the murder of Lebanon's premier Rafiq Hariri, Jumblatt had branded Assad "the dictator of Damascus... a savage... an Israeli product, a liar... and a criminal."
A reconciliation between Jumblatt and Damascus could boost Syria's role in Lebanese politics years after its troops were forced out of the country. It will also probably weaken the Western-backed coalition that Jumblatt once helped lead until he split with them in August.
Nasrallah has been mediating between the Syrians and Jumblatt for several months.
The Hezbollah statement said the Syrian decision came after Jumblatt's "clear stance and courageous review" of his comments.
After the Hezbollah announcement, Jumblatt told Syria's al-Watan newspaper, which is privately owned but guided by government policy, "the old page has been turned forever."
Jumblatt, 60, was the main force behind the creation of a Western-backed alliance that led massive street protests to demand the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon following the Feb. 14, 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination. Many Lebanese blamed Syria for his death, a claim Damascus denies.
The Syrians pulled their army out of Lebanon in April 2005 ending nearly three decades of domination of their smaller neighbor.
Asked when he expects to visit Damascus, Jumblatt told al-Watan that "there is no specific date yet but I am waiting to go to Syria because I have a lot to say to President Assad."
"The most important thing is to forget the past and open a new page," he said.
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Nice try Wally, but Assad ain't a forgive and forget kind of guy.
You'll get boomed, just like the rest as soon as you leave those mountains.
[Al Arabiya Latest] A day after his apartment block was besieged by hardliners calling for his prosecution, defiant Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi lashed out at the government, saying it was "plagued with despotism", his website reported on Tuesday.
"Unfortunately, the (Islamic) republic has been plagued with despotism and elections have become meaningless. It has become only a term," Karroubi told a group of visitors from central province of Isfahan, according to his website Samannews.
The cleric, who continues to question the legitimacy of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election, said it was still difficult for him to understand how the hardliner won the poll last year given his government's track record.
"How can one believe that a president with so many objections against him such as inflation, unemployment... gets more votes than he got in his first election?"
Karroubi's remarks came two days after hardliners reportedly gathered outside his Tehran home, calling for him to be put to death.
Karroubi and former prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi have led a protest movement against Ahmadinejad since his June re-election, which they reject as massively rigged.
Ahmadinejad has been accused of stoking inflation with a populist economic policy that has involved pumping large sums of money into the economy.
His wife, Fatimah, charged that a group of "thugs" paid by "corrupt" government officials had vandalized the apartment block where the family lives.
Iran's Fars news agency described the small but vocal crowd which gathered outside the flats as "students and families of martyrs" of the Iran-Iraq war.
Pictures carried by the pro-government Borna news agency showed the building defaced with red coloring while slogans pronouncing "Death to Karroubi" were scribbled on the walls.
Karroubi was attacked by hardliners during Iran's commemoration of the Islamic revolution of 1979 on February 11 and his car was shot at in January in the city of Qazvin, west of Tehran.
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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.
El poder adquisitivo cayó 162% en los últimos 11 años 
Saying "I take this vote with the utmost seriousness," Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) announced Wednesday morning that he will vote for the health-care bill now before the House, despite his reservations.
Treasurer Tim Cahill ripped Gov. Deval Patrick and President Obama this morning for health care initiatives that the independent gubernatorial hopeful alleged will bankrupt the country in four years.'
Police officers who worked at the World Trade Center site in the weeks following its collapse from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack may be at greater risk for impaired heart function than other people, a study found. 
[Iran Press TV Latest] The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) plans to issue 100,000-rial notes in the next Iranian year -- a move which analysts consider the result of rising inflation. 
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has accused ex-prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif of having ties with the Taliban. 
A US missile strike and clashes between extremist gunmen and tribesmen killed at least 20 militants on Tuesday in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border, officials said.
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, charged in the Fort Hood shootings, was too fat and "chronically" unprofessional during his psychiatric training, according to internal e-mails exchanged by his superiors.
After a European Union's top diplomat made remarks against Iran's nuclear program, Secretary General of the Arab League Amr Moussa has denounced Israel's possession of its vast nuclear arsenal. 
[Iran Press TV Latest] US Senate Banking Committee Chairman Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) has introduced a bill to reduce certain high-risk activities in the American banking industry that has been blamed for triggering the nation's worst economic slump in 60 years. 
[Al Arabiya Latest] Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is ready to turn a page on the past by meeting Lebanon's Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, Hezbollah, which is mediating between the former arch-foes, said late on Monday.
[Al Arabiya Latest] A day after his apartment block was besieged by hardliners calling for his prosecution, defiant Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi lashed out at the government, saying it was "plagued with despotism", his website reported on Tuesday.
