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The first thing that comes to mind when I think of any government official these days is: "Traitor" After that comes "Liar, leech, parasite, vermin" and a whole host of vile imprecations.
They seek to destroy us, how can we consider them anything else?
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Probably will work for public institutions. Private colleges will come up with 'consent agreements' surrendering your rights (much like the 'I accept' box you click on for software updates) and granting the administration immunities. There will still be sheeple who'll attend such paper mills cause they have a certain (undeserved) credibility attached to their names, till they wear it out.
The most interesting overnight news is that former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been "held for questioning" by police investigating allegations that he tried to influence a judge investigating a illegal contributions to his campaign.
...The judges were looking into alleged illegal campaign contributions from Muhammar Khadaffi - the former Duck of Death.
...Alas, the Duck is not available for comment. Khadaffy was toppled in NATO operation led by Barack Obama, David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy. He was caught in an attempt to escape and was killed in still mysterious circumstances.
...I have made an outrageous assertion: not that Leftists are indifferent to virtue, but are openly hostile to virtue.
Outrageous, perhaps, but there is no difficulty in proving the point; the Leftwing positions on abortion, on homosexual so-called marriage, on euthanasia, on so-called social justice, on egalitarianism, on secularism, on the glorification of violence and terrorism in social causes, are none of them secret. I assume all readers know the core Leftist positions, so we need not pause to recite examples.
The Leftist promotion of vice is not random. If it were random, then the Left would sometimes be on the right side of a moral question, just as a stopped clock is right twice a day.
America's ruling elite is divided into two camps when it comes to foreign policy. One side, the neo-cons, sees the world as a collection of American provinces. Maybe administrative districts is a better term. They really thought they could turn Iraq into a fully functioning representative democracy.Not only that, they thought it could be a model for the rest of the Arab world district. I think that's a bit of a straw-man argument, and as I said before I'm tired of seeing all the people pointing at Obama trying to burn down everything the previous administration tried to build and saying "Gee, look at how stupid you were to try to build things." I mean, based on that criteria there's nothing America's done that isn't stupid, because I think the dumbass means to try to burn all of it down sooner or later.
The other camp is composed of people who think the other camp is dangerously wrong, but have no earthly idea why and they have no sensible alternative to offer. It is why Obama pulled the plug on the Bush deal in Iraq and went tromping off to Afghanistan. He and his flunkies had no idea what they were trying to accomplish. They just knew the old Bush hands hated it so that was enough.
The rest of the world is not willing to wait around for America's elites to figure out what their doing. Russia, in particular, is taking advantage of the Obama administration's petrified paralysis. Last year they made Obama look foolish by outflanking him in Syria. Putin followed that up with a stunning success in Ukraine. Now they are taking advantage of Washington's bungling to return Iraq as an ally in the Persian Gulf.:
The first delivery of Russian Sukhoi fighter jets arrived in Iraq on Saturday, the country's Defense Ministry said. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is hoping the jets will make a key difference in the fight against ISIS.
The Iraqi Ministry of Defense on Sunday confirmed receiving five Su-25 fighter jets in accordance with the deal with Moscow. The jets were delivered by a Russian An-124 transport plane in a dismantled state, and are expected to be set up and become operational within 3-4 days.
Until Bush the Lesser dethroned Saddam, Iraq was a Russian client state. Their military was equipped by the Russians and trained in Russian tactics. It is why they were good at running a secret police, but clownishly awful at large set piece combat. The Russians were never good at this type of warfare, which is why the Germans drove them to the gates of Moscow.
Now, the Russians have Syria, Iran and Iraq on board and that means they can build their pipelines without too much interference from the West. Running gas from the Persian Gulf through Iran to the Caspian Sea was never ideal and would allow the GCC-Saudi deal to compete on economic grounds. Running a pipeline over Iraq into Syria puts them in the Mediterranean. The only thing they must now do is get rid of ISIL.
The other bonus for Russia is they get to work on their modernization efforts. The Russians have been revamping their military and their tactics to face the threats of this century. They know they will not be fighting a tank war in Europe. Instead they will be fighting insurgents from their southeast. They saw how the Americans adapted and they are doing the same. Iraq is good practice.
"The Sukhoi Su-25 is an air-ground support and anti-terrorism mission aircraft. In these difficult times, we are in great need of such aircraft. With God's help, we will be able to deploy them to support our ground forces on a mission against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant militants within the next 3-4 days," Iraqi Army Lieutenant General Anwar Hamad Amen Ahmed told RT's Ruptly news agency at an airport receiving the jets.
The modern battlefield is four dimensional. Air assets attack ground elements with the help of specialized ground forces. That means choppers and jet aircraft that can be coordinated with those ground forces to bring timely and potent firepower on small targets. It takes practice to hone these skills and this provides the Russians with a chance to gets some saddle time.
There's also the fact the Russians will increasingly rely on mercenaries. Demographics are reducing the number of Russian males available for military service. The Russian military is close to being majority Muslim at this point. The solution to this is to create a military with a Russian elite and a Muslim militia. I doubt that works, but Iraq provides a training ground for how they intend to adjust to the demographic realities they face.
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"One side, the neo-cons, sees the world as a collection of American provinces. Maybe administrative districts is a better term. They really thought they could turn Iraq into a fully functioning representative democracy.Not only that, they thought it could be a model for the rest of the Arab world district."
One sentences contradicts the next. I think the second is accurate as far as the neo-con position. Call them niavely optimistic perhaps but not imperialist as the first sentences seems to indicate.
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Absolutely agree with RJ. Good intentions with poor results. Better to call them 'heathens and uncivillized' - per 19th century Brit. terrminology, and leave it at that. Conquer, seize the oil fields, and leave. Unpc borgboy.
Palestinian Arabs attacked an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) ambulance humvee on Monday that was transporting the recently discovered bodies of three murdered Israeli boys who were kidnapped on June 12, an Israeli source told The Algemeiner.
The Muqata blog posted an image on Facebook of what it claimed to be the damaged vehicle writing, "8:44pm IDF Ambulance humvee transporting the bodies of the boys attacked by arabs….windows smashed."
In the picture, the ambulance's windshield is shattered and splattered with paint.
Additionally, the Tazpit News Agency reported that "the teams working to recover the bodies were attacked by Arab rioters."
An IDF spokesperson declined to confirm the report.
The IDF is preparing a more suitable response for the rat bastards...
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Paleo's better watch out. The ME is changing to a more... Brutal status-quo.
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ARCLIGHT Gaza. The world will notice, especially the Arabs. This whole mess is because we've refused, time and time again, to be the "strong horse". Flatten a few cities (Riyadh, Tehran, Ankara, Istanbul?), and the Arabs will learn not to torment the Eagle. Otherwise, it'll be business as usual.
People respond to fear. We need to strike some fear. For every terrorist attack, a city disappears. Either there will be no more cities in the Mudddled East, or terrorism will become a thing of the past. We're dealing with 7th century mindset, folks, not 21st century intellectuals. Power works, appeasement doesn't.
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[Rooters] The United States said on Friday it had decreased its surveillance flights in the search for more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist militants in Nigeria, but added that the overall effort was unchanged due to more flights by other countries. More flights by other countries permits us to more easily lead from behind.
The defense official said surveillance alone would not lead to a resolution. "It will take the Nigerian piece of the equation with their own sources and human intelligence coupled with the other forms to really understand the picture." Translation: If they [the Nigerians] are not interested, why should we be. Besides, the story is no longer sensational or poll-worthy.
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#BringBackOurDrones
Snark of the day [zap]
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S'what happens when you expend your strategic hashtag reserves on domestic games.
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When this issue's wrung out like a dishrag,
A "bride" in a gown like a trashbag
Should rise up like a ghost
Holding up her riposte,
A sign reading #BringBackOurHashtag.
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If you find the girls you find Boko Haram. Pres Hussien is not interested in hurting fellow Muslims, especially the ones "getting it done" on the war front.
[Ynet] Soldiers shoot and kill Palestinian who threw a grenade at them; IDF source promises: Operation will continue until kidnappers are caught.
Three Palestinians have been arrested in the West Bank overnight Monday. The IDF also confirmed that one Palestinian had been killed from army fire after throwing a grenade at the Israeli troops during a raid in the Jenin refugee camp. Palestinian officials identified the man as Yousouf Ibrahim abu Zagha, 19.
On Monday evening, the bodies of the three Israeli teens who were kidnapped over two weeks ago were discovered by security forces just north of Hebron.
After the discovery of the boys' bodies, the IDF blocked off all the entrances to Hebron.
The two prime suspects in the kidnapping, Amar Abu-Eisha, 33, and Marwan Kawasmeh, 29, haven't yet been captured and IDF officials vowed Monday that operations against Hamas would continue.
"We've finished only this part of Operation Brother's Keeper. With the same might, we're going to lay our hands on the two kidnappers," a military source said.
The IDF demolished a part of the Hebron home of Abu-Eisha, fearing that he was in the house and could open fire on soldiers. Some of the walls of the house were destroyed and a fire broke out but was quickly extinguished. No one was injured in the incident and the soldiers reported that they were scanning the remains of the house for weapons.
Forces also carried out a raid on the home of the other Palestinian suspected of abducting the three Israeli teens whose bodies were found earlier in the evening. Earlier Monday, officials reported in depth searches in Hebron at the home of the two suspects.
Since the beginning of Operation Brother's Keepers, a total of 419 Palestinians have been arrested, among them 59 were released in the Shalit deal, and 279 are Hamas operatives. The IDF has searched 2,200 sites.
One hundred Palestinians rioted near the home of Kawasmeh in the evening. They rolled garbage bins and threw rocks at IDF forces. The soldiers responded with crowd dispersal measures, like tear gas.
In several places, rioters also burned tires. Earlier Monday, Palestinians clashed with IDF forces in the Halhul area, where the bodies of the boys were discovered. Some 200 Palestinians threw rocks at security forces, who responded with riot dispersal measures.
As the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) claimed control of Iraq's biggest oil refinery and a key border crossing between Iraq and Jordanit lost a key propaganda weapon: its powerful smartphone app. However, ISIS won't consider it a major setback, as it has an extensive and sophisticated online presence. New Scientist investigates the tools at its disposal.
What kind of app did ISIS have?
ISIS had written its own Android app, called The Dawn of Glad Tidings, to enable it to spread information via social media. The app allowed users to make their Twitter accounts available to ISIS, so that the organisation could use them to send tweets. On 19 June, Google removed the app from its Android store "for breaching its community guidelines" against violent content.
When ISIS took Mosul earlier this month, the app fired out 40,000 tweets in a day, and their gory threats and images may have gone some way to inducing the surrender of the Iraqi army. But ISIS is sophisticated in its use of propaganda. It also puts out benevolent images of its supporters delivering food supplies, for example.
What else is ISIS doing online?
ISIS seems to be aware of a key aspect of the power of social media: that it is a conversation. Platforms such as Ask.fm, on which users can post questions and give answers anonymously, enable people to have direct conversations with ISIS fighters.
"Terror group communications used to be unidirectional - for instance al-Qaeda publishing its magazine. Twitter and Ask.fm now allow people to have a conversation with, say, an ISIS fighter. And that two-way interaction humanises these guys," says Shiraz Maher of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at Kings College London. "A 19-year-old from Bradford finds a 19-year-old from Leeds in Syria and they find they have a lot in common, making it all a bit more real."
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Basically, by showing up. The Iraqi certainly didn't.
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There was an interesting article in one of the UK papers about ISIS tactics in Tikrit.
They captured a military base and captured the personnel app intact. They downloaded the app and database to other ISIS laptops and set up checkpoints surrounding the city. When Iraqi men tried to get through the checkpoint, ISIS compared their names to those on the database.
There was a base nearby that held out. Many troops sent their families south to safety. However ISIS was waiting for them and took the families hostage. ISIS exchange the families for control of the base and a nearby pipeline.
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Yes, because stories of mass beheadings and Junta are all the rage.
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Frozen Al, I watched one of their 60 minutes highlight reels, and one of the things there were doing was going car to car with a laptop w/ camera taking face shots.
Nice to see they have a dating site as well. Helps spread the required homosexuality necessary for a true jihadi. My serious face, I am not slandering homosexuality with the comparison; I am pointing out the homosexual tendancies of the culture of devout muslim; marrying girls before they start to look like girls, selling women captives but raping the men, the discouragement of interacting with women to the point of encouraging only man-man relationships, to 'exercising' for the sake of butt bombs.
Dawn of Glad Tidings - sounds like a household necessity commercial. Howz about
Cascade of Swiffer Fresh Step.
Bounce of Arm & Hammer Crest.
Heinz of French's Hellmen.
[CHANNELSTV] A Security Consultant, Captain Umar Aliyu (Rtd), on Monday, said that Nigeria was not getting any wiser and not learning anything in the fight against insurgency, four years down the line.
Captain Aliyu, who was part of a conversation about the State of the Nation on Channels Television's Sunrise Daily, feels that the effort of the authorities in the fight against Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... does seem to be going anywhere.
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The downside of trying terrorists in a civilian court system. They'll all be released as planned.
It's been the plan all along. Close Gitmo, release the thugs, turn over all the documents, pay the lawyers at the "Center for Constitutional Rights" triple time and damages besides, and shut up anyone who disagrees.
[BIZBEATBLOG.DALLASNEWS] Texas Sen. Wendy Davis, the Democratic nominee for governor in 2014, issued a statement condemning the court's decision in the Hobby Lobby case. "Today's disappointing decision to restrict access to birth control puts employers between women and their doctors. We need to trust women to make their own health care decisions — not corporations, the Supreme Court, or Greg Abbott," she said.
Abbott, the attorney general and her opponent in this fall election, issued a statement praising the ruling, which is below.
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Idiot.
4 of 16 possible birth control items that Hobby Lobby had a problem with as they could induce an abortion.
Regular pill, condoms, etc. are all fine and covered.
So fuck you Wendy and the tyrant brigade you rode in on you misinformation spreading whore.
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Access to contraceptives is not restricted. Access to your employers money for certain contraceptives is restricted. Much different concept to grasp for leftist who have GIVERnment subsidized lawyers, houses, sports stadiums, green energy......
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Wendy has come to realize that, short of an alien invasion, she's not going to be governor. The attempt to 'tack right' was screwed up by the fact that she can't keep her mouth shut, and as the adoring press has been hanging on every word, people know what she's said in the past. The only thing she can see to do now, ambulance chaser that she is, is to continue to parrot the left talking points, so the out of state money continues to flow.
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If you want your boss to pay for your contraceptives, then your boss gets a say so in whether she does or not. Pretty simple. Don't like it? Find a different boss.
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decision to restrict access to birth control puts employers between women and their doctors
As others have more eloquently stated, this did NOT put an employer between a woman and her doctor. It only took away the employers' money from it (the employee is still free to buy these items).
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The Supreme Court decison was narrowly based on the Religious Freedom Protection Act (RFPA.)
The act came about as a result of the Supreme Court's decision on Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon vs. Smith. The decision determined that states could deny unemployment benefits to a person fired for violating Oregon's prohibition on using peyote, even though said drug was part of a religious ritual (in this case, the Native American Church.)
The decision determined that states have the power to accommodate "potentially illegal acts" performed as part of religious beliefs. However, states are not required to do so.
The RFPA, being introduced by Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) and endorsed by Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA,) as well as a number of other prominent Democrats, passed as a bipartisan measure by both the House and Senate. Both at the time had Democratic Party Majorities. The Act was signed by President Bill Clinton in 1992.
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'disappointing decision to restrict access to birth control'
Not to be confused with Obamacare restricted access to any other medical process, procedure, or care for everyone else. It's all about who holds the power, not the actual execution of the power.
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Her first time out, Wendy was vague;
She aborted when pee wet her leg.
Next she tried a catheter
So no one would laugh at her;
Didn't matter; she still laid an egg.
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What the hell is wrong with someone with a job that can afford a bit of birth control? Jeeze! What is wrong with these people? They want control but no responsibility.
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[ABCNEWS.GO] Toronto's embattled mayor appeared contrite and ashamed at a news conference today, his first public appearance since leaving rehab for alcohol addiction.
"When I look back at some of the things that I did when I was using, I am ashamed, embarrassed and humiliated," Rob Ford said. "I was wrong, and I have no one to blame but myself."
Ford said he spent the past two months at the GreeneStone Residential Addiction Treatment Facility in Ontario seeking help for substance abuse.
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He'll no doubt be found lifeless by concerned neighbors soon, cause unknown.
[JPOST] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, warned Israel on Monday against waging war on the Gazoo Strip, saying this would "open the gates of hell" on Israel.
The warning was issued hours before the bodies of the three kidnapped Israeli youths were found near Hebron.
Hamas front manSami Abu Zuhri ...a senior spokesman for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gaza. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest... said that Israel bears responsibility for the latest escalation in the Gazoo Strip.
"[Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu should know that his threats don't scare Hamas," Abu Zuhri said. "If he wages war on the Gazoo Strip, the gates of hell will be opened."
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal phoned Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan and briefed him on the "tragic" situation in the Gazoo Strip and West Bank, Hamas officials said.
They said that Mashaal urged Erdogan and the international community to "move quickly to halt the Zionist aggression and lift the siege imposed on the Gazoo Strip."
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[Iran Press TV] The United States is seeking a Yugoslavia-style disintegration of Iraq in order to take over some parts of the country after Washington failed to keep its hold on the entire country, an American political commentator says.
The US wants "disintegration or breakup of Iraq, much like the breakup of Yugoslavia," said Rodney Martin, who is the director of the World View Foundations, a website, and a host at the American Nationalist Network, an internet radio station. I'm not too sure what the opinions of actual racists (as in White People's Party) are worth.
"If the United States can't get their hands on all of it, then they will take some of it. This just speaks to the immorality of the United States' policy in that region and in other parts of the world as well," he told Press TV in a phone interview on Monday.
On Sunday, Republican Senator John Barrasso said that a stable Iraq, split into three separate parts, will best serve the interests of the United States.
"The United States basically has the Kurdish region, they established that after the first (Persian) Gulf warâ¦and then they have pledged to keep Iraq together," Martin stated.
"And then when the political situation, which the United States created, let's understand this political structure in Iraq was dictated to Iraq by the United States when the elections which have been conducted under a political system imposed by the United States didn't go the way the United States wanted, then the United States pulled support and let the country fall apart," he added.
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Man, their Rolodex must have every nut bag in America in it.
[Pak Daily Times] Over 300 religious scholars belonging to the Sunni Tehrik ...formed in Karachi in 1992 under by Muhammad Saleem Qadri. It quickly fell to trading fisticuffs and assassinations with the MQM and the Sipah-e-Sahaba, with at least a half dozen of its major leaders rubbed out. Sunni Tehreek arose to become the primary opposition to the Deobandi Binori Mosque, headed by Nizamuddin Shamzai, who was eventually bumped off by person or persons unknown. ST's current leadership has heavily criticized the Deobandi Jihadi leaders, accusing them of being sponsored by Indian Intelligence agencies as well as involvement in terrorist activities... Ulema Board on Monday jointly appealed to gunnies to surrender and stop subversive activities in the holy month of Ramazan.
In a joint declaration, Learned Elders of Islam and mashaikh said that Ramazan-ul-Mubarak is the month of peace and blessings and noted that launching armed struggle against innocent and unarmed people is a great sin as per Islamic sharia. They said that due to the behaviour of the Taliban thousands of people of North Wazoo have been compelled to leave their homes. They urged supporters of Taliban to persuade them to announce their disassociation from armed struggle, as Islam teaches peace and respect of humanity.
The declaration said Islamic laws can only be enforced in the country by implementing the teachings of the Holy Prophet (PTUI!). The declaration said the Taliban must first implement sharia on themselves and surrender before the law.
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Vacation Month?
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[An Nahar] Two people were killed and several others were maimed in an armed clash Monday at the Shatila Paleostinian refugee camp in southern Beirut.
"Paleostinian nationals Wael al-Tull and Jamil al-Issawi, 73, were killed and several people were maimed in festivities between a Paleostinian group and another loyal to Nasser al-Droubi and the al-Zir family at Shatila camp's peripheries," state-run National News Agency reported.
Earlier, MTV said one person was killed and several others were maimed in a shootout between a group loyal to Arab Movement Party chief Shaker al-Berjawi and a number of Paleostinians.
According to Voice of Leb radio (93.3), gunnies loyal to al-Droubi and Bilal al-Zir clashed with "Paleostinians from the camp's security committee, leaving one of its members maimed."
An Nahar newspaper also said the shootout involved elements loyal to Shaker al-Berjawi, Bilal al-Zir and Paleostinians groups.
Later on Monday, the army deployed on the road separating al-Hayy al-Gharbi, where the al-Zir clan is located, and the Shatila camp, LBCI TV reported.
On March 23, a person was killed and at least ten were maimed in festivities between armed Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... and supporters of al-Berjawi near the Sports City center in Beirut.
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[Iran Press TV] Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says Kiev will not extend the 10-day ceasefire with pro-Russia protesters in eastern Ukraine.
President Poroshenko made the statement on his website on Tuesday.
"We will attack and free our lands. The decision not to continue the ceasefire is our answer to terrorists, Death Eaters and marauders," he said.
Poroshenko declared a seven-day ceasefire with pro-Russia protesters on June 20 and later extended it to 10 days.
Before the ceasefire's expiration, Ukraine's president discussed the situation with Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... , German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... , and French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... during a four-way phone call.
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A black reverend stiffed by the Cochran campaign has exposed an alleged criminal conspiracy by Cochran staffers to commit massive voter fraud ahead of Tuesday's controversial U.S. Senate Republican runoff election in Mississippi.
Reverend Stevie Fielder, associate pastor at historic First Union Missionary Baptist Church and former official at Meridian's redevelopment agency, says he delivered "hundreds or even thousands," of blacks to the polls after being offered money and being assured by a Cochran campaign operative that Chris McDaniel was a racist. "They [the Cochran campaign] told me to offer blacks fifteen dollars each and to vote for Thad."
"You're admitting to violating the 1954 law banning 501(c)(3) organizations, which includes charities and churches, from engaging in any political campaign activity?"
"You're willing to accept bribes?"
"Would you have stiffed your parishioners and kept the money?"
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If the AG in Miss doesn't go after this, then the corruption goes to the Governor's office. Which it likely does )Haley Barbour is one corrupt SOB as are his cronies and most relatives).
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Put this in context. The establishment Republicans went out and rented the Democratic vote fraud machine to protect one of their own from his own constituents. How again are these guys any better than the other guys?
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And now everyone knows it beyond a doubt. It's not this primary season they are worried about anymore. It's 2016, when things are going to get heated.
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It would bankrupt Soros to get the black vote out for a non-black candidate. In my humble opinion.
[ONLINE.WSJ] North Korea said Monday it will charge two Americans in its custody with unspecified crimes, a move that may signal the start of a process to extract coerced confessions from the men and eventually release them.
A four-sentence statement from North Korea's state media said U.S. tourists Matthew Miller and Jeffrey Fowle had been investigated for "perpetrating hostile acts" after entering the country. It said North Korea had evidence and testimony from both men about their alleged actions.
Mr. Miller, 24 years old, and Mr. Fowle, 56, entered North Korea on separate tours in April.
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Well, they aren't chicks, so you know Bubba ain't going back to get them out this time...
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Seriously, a "road maintenance worker" tours North Korea? Other then an obsession to tour the toilet of civilization, what the heck is anyone doing in North Korea?
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Why any American not on official business would voluntarily set foot in North Korea requires a lot more explanation than is available on the internet. On the other hand, perhaps this phenomenon points toward an unexploited business opportunity for a travel agency to organize trips to the lower reaches of Hell.
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Pssst, comrade, would you like to travel
And see how true commies make gravel?
We can hang out a while,
Then put on a show trial,
And you're back with some bucks at the gavel!
[An Nahar] The shadowy Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigade on Monday pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the chief of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a day after the powerful jihadist group declared an "Islamic caliphate" led by Baghdadi. I believe they were affiliated with al-Nusra until the ascension of the Galactic Overlord.
"With utmost honor and pride, we announce our allegiance to the jihadist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as a caliph for Muslims," the Brigade announced on its Twitter account.
"We also announce our full support for everything the ISIL is doing for the sake of Islam and right, as it is the duty of every Muslim to seek a caliph who can establish the rule of (Islamic) Sharia," the group added.
The ruthless jihadists of the ISIL, who are spearheading a Sunni militant offensive in Iraq, on Sunday declared an "Islamic caliphate" and ordered Muslims worldwide to pledge allegiance to their chief, in a spectacular bid to extend their authority.
The group renamed itself simply the Islamic State (IS) and declared its elusive frontman the leader of the world's Muslims, in a clear challenge to al-Qaida for control of the global jihadist movement.
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Salafists and Wahabbis. Hmm, I wonder who could be bankrolling these Sunnis?
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the IS does get funds from individuals and perhaps some indirect aid from govt but as of now their budget comes from extorting businesses within their area of control and from looting banks, etc.
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Another group with a bullseye on their back.
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[Iran Press TV] An American author and investigative journalist says CIA director John Brennan who is "a known Saudiphile" has played a key role in the creation and rise of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL).
Wayne Madsen made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Monday, saying Washington's trainings and provision of arms and cash to forces of Evil in Iraq and Syria gave rise to the brutal militancy.
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Brennan and Prince Bandar, we don't hear much from them these days do we? Perhaps ValJar could give us an update.
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the way to win a war is to kill the enemy and its supporters in whatever numbers are necessary to move them to acknowledge that the game is not worth the candle.
Always has been that way and most likely will always be that way. The U.S. has not really been into that option since WWII. It has caused us untold problems.
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According to boring old Kennan,
"An enemy's something to pen in."
The modern rejoinder:
"I'm more of a joiner --
"My mallet, your mortise, Mo's tenon."
MOGADISHU -- At least two persons have been reported killed in deadly blast in Mogadishu's Karaan district according to witnesses on Monday, Garowe Online reports.
Conflicting reports emerged, with some accounts disclosing that the fatalities from the bombing that was planted in a building housing Kaaraan municipal authority included two government soldiers. Bystanders who sustained injuries are being treated at Keysaney hospital, sources said. Security forces arrived at the scene of the explosion but perpetrators remain unidentified.
The broad daylight blast comes just days after Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab group pledged more rampage as ordinary citizens continue to observe the fasting month of Ramadan.
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[Iran Press TV] Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... snuffies of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL) have fired a volley of rockets at a revered Shia shrine in the Iraqi city of Samarra, and injured several people.
According to reports on Monday, at least three rockets fired by the Takfiris hit the shrine complex as the snuffies continue waging acts of violence and terrorism in the Arab country.
It is said that at least nine innocent Iraqi citizens suffered injuries in the terrorist attack.
Following the attack, the deputy head of the Samarra municipal council says the shells struck a reception area near the gate of the holy shrine.
Reports also said that the Iraqi Air Force responded to the attack and destroyed the site from where the rockets were launched.
The turban attacks came just two days after government forces cleared snuffies out of an area near Samarra.
The city, located nearly 120 kilometers (74 miles) north of Storied Baghdad, is home to the holy shrines of two Shia Imams and a major pilgrimage site visited by tens of millions of Mohammedans annually despite the tense security situation in the area.
Over the past days, Iraqi armed forces have been engaged in fierce festivities with the terrorists, who have threatened to take their acts of violence to other Iraqi cities, including the capital, Storied Baghdad. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... the ISIL's advance has been slowed down as Iraqi military and volunteer forces have begun engaging them on several fronts.
Senior Mohammedanholy mans have condemned the ISIL atrocities, including mass executions and rape.
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The ISIS/ISIL has repor also claimed it will destroy the Kaaba in Mecca after they capture Saudi Arabia.
Besides Jordan + the KSA, ISIS' five-year plan of conquest [AMAP by Year 2020] includes taking over WEST AFRICA, INDONESIA, ISRAEL, IRAN, + INDIA. Large parts of Central-East Africa, Caucasus + Central Asia are also depicted on their new map.
* FYI DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Haaretz = The Daily Beast] REPORT: ISRAEL TELLS US IT WOULD ACT [milaction] TO SAVE JORDAN FROM ISLAMISTS | HAARETZ.
[ALLAFRICA] About a week ago, the Nigerian Army and security agencies nabbed a convoy of 33 buses ferrying 486 people of Northern origin in Abia State, on the suspicion that they could be members of the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... terrorist group. This is not the first time Northerners have travelled to the South and vice versa. The suspicion was based on several factors.
The gunnies in the North brag they want to Islamise Nigeria. Eastern Nigeria has less than five per cent of its indigenes who subscribe to the Islamic faith. "Abubakar Shekau", the leader of Boko Haram, has been boasting that he would soon start targeting the South. Governor Kassim Shettima of Borno State, who is often seen as a hidden supporter of Boko Haram, recently warned that the turbans would soon spread their activities to the South and other parts of the country. There have been reports that "Fulani herdsmen", the murderous gangs attacking villages in North Central Nigeria and raping women, have infiltrated parts of Enugu State.
When, in the midst of it all a convoy of 33 buses carrying mostly young men with virtually no luggage, moves into Igbo land at 3am under the cover of darkness, there is bound to be suspicion that they are up to no good. No normal human being will see this kind of strange influx in his neighbourhood and fail to raise an eyebrow. On further investigation, we have already been informed that a high ranking, wanted Boko Haram kingpin has been discovered in their midst. The Coordinator of the National Information Centre, Mr Mike Omeri, also dropped an ominous hint that the findings about the 486 suspects would shock the nation, though he went no further than this.
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A sad sordid tale.
My Inner State Department says these people just need to get along.
My Inner Henry Kissinger says they are fighting because they can't get along.
My Inner General Mattis says just kill them all.
Aw, they just need a little law and order. One Ranger, one Nigeria, eh?
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Napalm. Keep the people on the bus and napalm the lot of them. Scrape the remains onto the side of the road as a reminder and deterrent.
Islam will continue to push until they get pushed back, harder. These people aren't sane -- they're animals. They need to be treated like animals. When animals go rabid, you shoot them. Just sayin'.
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The North Korean regime has declared a quarantine for the Pyongyang area in frantic efforts to prevent the spread of measles, a source said Monday.
This doesn't happen in civilized countries...
The source said measles broke out in the capital in early June, and since then travel has been controlled and preventive measures have been put in place.
The regime has reportedly instructed factories, enterprises, schools and village offices to keep those with symptoms at home. It is also blocking traffic between Pyongyang and the provinces and issuing travel permits only to those with vaccination certificates.
Due to a lack of vaccines, the North is merely putting the breakout areas off-limits instead of treating patients. Radio Free Asia last week reported that measles has also broken out in Yongchon, North Pyongan Province on the Chinese border.
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Now, now. We are all 'civilized' in our new PC world.
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His Holiness The Pontiff of the Collected Child Molesters in Dresses excuse-for-a-religion could not be reached for comment on the suffering his spiritual brethren (spit!) have been inflicting on the country.
[An Nahar] French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Monday that jihadists spearheading a militant offensive in Iraq have sold oil from captured areas to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Fabius said the sale was evidence of the "confusing" nature of the escalating conflict in the Middle East in which Assad and the jihadists are in theory on opposing sides.
The rebels, previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), declared a "caliphate", or Islamist state, straddling Iraq and Syria at the weekend.
"We have proofs that when ISIL has taken over oil it has sold oil to the (Assad) regime," Fabius told a news conference in New Delhi, without elaborating.
Other revenues and weapons have been seized during the advance by the Islamist fighters, particularly in the town of Mosul.
In Syria the fighters, who have renamed themselves simply the Islamic State (IS), control large swathes of territory, but also face opposition from other rebel groups because of their reputation for brutality.
Referring to how the rebels in Syria and the Assad regime use each other to derive legitimacy, Fabius said: "Officially they are combating each other but in fact they are very often helping each other."
The situation in Iraq is "very, very, very worrying," he added.
"Why? Because it is probably the first time that a terrorist group -- and a ferocious terrorist group -- is in a position, if there is no reaction, to take over the whole country, and a rich country, with enormous consequences for the region and the world," he said.
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Oil money is fungible. They would and did sell it to the devil(s).
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Fabius said the sale was evidence of the "confusing" nature of the escalating conflict in the Middle East in which Assad and the jihadists are in theory on opposing sides.
File under French military sales to Russia and other rogue states. In other news, French pastry is also very rich.
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Fabius said the sale was evidence of the "confusing" nature of the escalating conflict in the Middle East in which Assad and the jihadists are in theory on opposing sides.
The rebels, previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), declared a "caliphate", or Islamist state, straddling Iraq and Syria at the weekend.
I was wondering how these jokers were going to finance themselves. They have to eat at some point. They don't seem like the types to set up a viable state. You can only plunder for so long the place where you are before you start thinking about expanding to other countries.
[DAWN] The Baloch Human Rights Organisation (BHRO), Baloch National Movement and the outlawed Baloch Students Organisation-Azad have alleged that a military operation was launched in Shabiq area of Turbat district on Sunday.
In separate statements issued on Monday, the three organizations said that several people had been taken into custody, dozens of houses set on fire and women and kiddies beaten up.
They appealed to the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... and international human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... organizations to take notice of what they called serious human rights violations in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
The BHRO said that Seth Nasir Baloch, Master Javed, Hasan Baloch, Master Sadir Baloch and Asa Baloch had been taken into custody.
The organizations claimed that similar operations had been conducted also in Awaran and Pangur areas.
They said if the detained people had done anything wrong they should be produced before a court of law.
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[PREMIUMTIMESNG] The Secretary-General, Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, Ishaq Oloyede, has called on security agencies in the country to be fair and professional in the discharge of their duties.
Mr. Oloyede gave the advice while delivering a keynote address at the 9th Ramadan Lecture of Moslem Media Practitioners of Nigeria, MMPN, in Abuja on Sunday. The holy man at the lecture, Musa Abdur-Raheem, also explained that the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... myrmidon group that has killed thousands of people was not representing Islam.
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Bin Laden, Al Quaida, the Algerian GIA rapers, Boko Haram, insert the name of your favorite bad guy, don't represent Islam so don't shoot at us, don't take measures against us, don't keep us under watch. But don't hold your breath while waiting for our fatwah against them or us asking Muslims to take arms agsint those who are "defacing" our wonderful religion. Fatwahs are only for those who publish a drawing of Muhammad. Don't even ask us to condemn the kidnapping and raping of infidel girls! Jus a bunch of infidel women, ie sub-humans, that don't belong to the master Arab race. By heaven's sake they were Black!!!!! You don't expect us lose sleep over Blacks?
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Boko Haram people behave exactly like Muhammad people and Muhammad himself behaved. How can it be that they don't represent Islam?
[CNSNEWS] Sen. Dick Durbin ...Senator-for-Life from Illinois and Democratic Party Whip. In April 2006, Time magazine identified Durbin as one of America's 10 Best Senators, so what's that tell you? He was the first United States Senator to support the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, then the junior senator from Illinois.... (D-Ill.) says President Barack Obama I am the change that you seek... , "will borrow the power that is needed to solve the problems of immigration."
Durbin made the comments at a press briefing on immigration last Thursday urging House Speaker John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner ... the occasionally weepy leader of House Republicans... (R-Ohio) to bring an immigration bill onto the floor for a vote.
"I don't know how much more time he thinks he needs, but I hope that Speaker Boehner will speak up today," Durbin said. "And if he does not, the president will borrow the power that is needed to solve the problems of immigration and he shouldn't be sued as a result of it."
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Again, Illinois has to apologize for this mope.
Illinois Democrats do not recognize the Constitution, Laws are for peasants, and rely on 'the dependent population' to keep office.
Can't remember a single thing Durban has done for this state besides moving to D.C.
#2
So much for separation of powers. Lip service by the oligarchs. It's like separation of church and state, but when they want to, they'll tell the Christians what little rights they'll actually have. It's all about power.
#9
If you don't have a border you don't have a country. So if someone who's sworn to uphold the constitution of the country decides to abandon the country then they're breaking their oath.
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I have to admire Democrats for their ability to utter such preposterous bullshit with a straight face. It isn't even clear what he means but I take it Illinois voters aren't bright enough to question it.
I hope Boehner has the guts to stick with his lawsuit. It sounds like Baraq was seriously taken aback when Boehner told him there would be no vote on reform this year. For once in his life Teh One didn't get every little thing he wanted and it really tweaked his nose. Dunno if Boehner was acting on principle or if Cantor's defeat put the fear in him but it's been a pleasant surprise.
[Iran Press TV] Iran's defense minister says the Death Eaters of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL) and their supporters must be put on trial as "war criminals."
"Murder, plunder, aggression, destruction, mass execution and displacement of thousands of innocent people in Iraq and Syria are clear examples of war crimes," Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan said on Monday.
He added that such criminal acts combined with the silence and inaction of the so-called human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. advocates and international organizations "have butchered the security of the region."
The official emphasized that such crimes are being committed to create a safe haven for the Israeli regime and undermine the resistance movement against Tel Aviv.
The Iranian minister said the ISIL will have a destiny worse than that of the executed Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, and the terrorist group's inhuman measures would definitely backfire on its supporters.
Dehqan stressed the importance of strengthening unity among all Iraqi ethnicities and groups to maintain the country's integrity and secure its national interests, noting that foreign countries interfering in Iraq's internal affairs are not interested in the country's dignity and independence.
Dehqan expressed Iran's support for the territorial integrity of Iraq, saying, "The Islamic Iran seeks a unified, united, secure and advanced Iraq and will support any measure in this regard."
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[Tolo News] At least seven Taliban Death Eaters were killed and 10 others were maimed in an Afghan National Army (ANA) operation on Sunday, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) released in a statement.
The first operation was launched in Chahardara district of northern Kunduz province to clear the area of krazed killers, in which four Death Eaters were killed and three were maimed, the statement said.
The statement said three other Death Eaters were killed and six others were maimed in an operation led by the ANA in Nawa district of southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province.
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... the MoD did not provide details about ANA casualties.
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[Pak Daily Times] Ukraine looked primed to extend a shaky truce in the conflict-hit east of the country after frantic talks involving the leaders of Russia, La Belle France and Germany as a ceasefire deadline neared.
Ukraine's new President Petro Poroshenko and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... agreed to work on "the adoption of an agreement on a bilateral ceasefire between Ukrainian authorities and separatists" following four-way phone talks with Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... and Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... , the French presidency said. The deadline for the current truce runs out at 1900 GMT on Monday but violence has rumbled on regardless with no end in sight to months of fighting that has claimed some 450 lives.
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[Pak Daily Times] Former ISPR DG Maj Gen (r) Athar Abbas has disclosed that the army was on the brink of launching a military offensive in North Wazoo three years ago, but the then army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... was reluctant to do so.
In an interview with the BBC, Abbas said that the military leadership had given the go-head for an operation in North Waziristan in 2010, and preparations for it were made for one year, but it was cancelled at the last minute due to Gen Kayani's indecisiveness. "It had been decided in principle that preparations for the operation would take place between 2010 and 2011, and that it would be launched in 2011 to rid North Waziristan of bully boyz once and for all," Abbas said.
When asked whether the reason behind his reluctance to give the final approval for the operation was due to his own weaknesses, Abbas agreed, saying yes. "He was very reluctant when it came to the North Waziristan operation. Kayani thought the decision to launch the operation would reflect on his personality and people would take it as his personal decision, which is why he kept delaying the operation," said the former DG ISPR. Abbas further said that delay in launching the military offensive in North Waziristan has complicated matters, as the forces of Evil have strengthened their position in the area and have also established contact with other bully boy groups.
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[MEDIAITE] Appearing on MSNBC this afternoon, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) tore into the Supreme Court's Monday decisions, with his particularly harsh words saved for the majority opinion's author: Justice Samuel Alito.
Speaking with Ed Schultz ...currently hosting some kind of show on MSNBC that nobody watches, formerly touted as a Limbaugh killer for Air America... about the court's two Monday decisions — a 5-4 ruling in favor of "closely held" corporations like Hobby Lobby not being required by law to extend contraceptive coverage in its employee health care plans; and their 5-4 Harris v. Quinn ruling that Illinois-based home health care workers cannot be compelled to financially support a union — Ellison suggested that SCOTUS has been nothing but anti-worker as of late.
"Whether it's Citizens United, or Hobby Lobby, which also came down, or Harris v. Quinn, this Supreme Court is extremely busy and doesn't have much regard for precedent at all," Ellison said.
"In fact, in this case today, Harris v. Quinn, Alito — Justice Alito, I try to call him Justice Alito, but Mister Alito," he sneered, "actually took a swing at [Abood v. bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... Board of Education, 1977], which is a case of many, many years of precedent, but spoke disparagingly about the case. But thank goodness it's still the law."
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The left certainly does whine when things don't go their way.
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When time Keith's scimitar will sheath,
Please sit him gently on the heath;
Place on his head a laurel wreath
To honor him who lies beneath,
And on a scroll, "I, Keith, bequeath
To you a Congress with no teeth."
[Ynet] Soldiers search for weapons in remains of home belonging to Amar Abu-Eisha; Brig. Gen. Nitzan Alon: 'We won't rest until the mission is complete'.
The IDF used explosives Monday to demolish part of a home in Hebron that belonged to one of the key suspects in the kidnapping of the three Israeli teens, Amar Abu-Eisha, fearing that he was in the house and could open fire on soldiers.
Some of the walls of the house were destroyed and a fire broke out but was quickly extinguished. No one was injured in the incident and the soldiers reported that they were scanning the remains of the house for weapons.
Nonetheless, Israel's security cabinet was yet to formulate a firm military response to the situation. Following a three-hour discussion on Monday night, ministers were to meet again on Tuesday for further deliberations.
Forces also carried out a raid on the home of the other Paleostinian suspected of abducting the three Israeli teens whose bodies were found earlier in the evening. Earlier Monday, officials reported in depth searches in Hebron at the home of the two suspects Abu-Eisha, 33, and Marwan Kawasmeh, 29.
The Shin Bet had apparently suspected the two Paleostinians since the day after the abduction. Accordingly, their families and any others suspected of aiding them were tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! and questioned by security officials. According to media reports the day after the kidnapping, the wives of the two suspects had been arrested and undergone hours of interrogation.
GOC Central Command Brig. Gen. Nitzan Alon addressed the IDF response to the discovery that the three boys had in fact been killed saying, "Our forces, together with people from across the security service and the police are continuing and will continue the search for the kidnappers, the forces of Evil from Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, as long as is required. We won't rest... until the mission is complete."
True to his word, IDF operation did continue Monday evening as military sweeps were carried out in several homes in Hebron, some of which had some form of connection to Kawasmeh. Paleostinian media reported Saturday that the Shin Bet had arrested Abu-Eisha's father.
Clashes were noted in the late evening between Paleostinians and IDF soldiers in the area of Halhul where the bodies of the three teens were found. All entrances to Hebron were closed as a result of the discovery.
The festivities were characterized by some 200 Paleostinians who threw stones at security forces and soldiers answered with riot control measures. Several dozens of settlers gathered at the entrance to Karmi Tsur, just adjacent to Halhul. The settlers raised Israeli flags and blocked all Paleostinian vehicle traffic on Highway 60.
Since the beginning of Operation Brother's Keeper, security forces have arrested more than 450 Paleostinians. Among them were Hamas members and others suspected of terrorist activity. Two radio and television stations have been closed in the framework of the operation and more than 2,000 homes have been searched.
[AF.REUTERS] The president of China, North Korea's only major ally, visits South Korea this week where the leaders of the two countries are expected to call on Pyongyang to end its pursuit of nuclear weapons, although Beijing will make sure it is not seen as taking sides.
In a visit certain to be watched carefully in Pyongyang, President Xi Jinping will be holding talks with South Korean President Park Geun-hye for the fifth time in a year, without yet meeting the North's leader, Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
North Korea's nuclear and missile programme, and its plans to hold a fourth nuclear test, will dominate the agenda, officials in Seoul said.
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[The Nation (Pak)] Former Punjab Law minister Rana Sanaullah today submitted his statement as he appeared before judicial court, set up to probe the Model Town tragedy.
According to the submitted statement to the commission, Rana Sanaullah said he didn't order police to open fire on the PAT workers. "I was told that the workers of PAT threw stones on the coppers?" he said.
The former minister said that he informed the whole situation to the Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab...
Following the festivities which took place on June 17, 2014 between police and PAT workers, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif removed the former law minister and former principal secretary from their posts.
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[Pak Daily Times] BANNU: The fate of almost half-a-million displaced rustics, 70 percent of them being women and kiddies, depends on the ongoing military operation in North Wazoo tribal region bordering Afghanistan.
The offensive which Pakistain's military claims to be against all myrmidon groups, without discrimination of good and bad, will decide whether they will be able to go back to their motherland in weeks, months or remain in Bannu, a town adjacent to North Waziristan, for a long time. The military announced on Monday it has launched a ground offensive in this hilly tribal belt, which was once considered to be the epicentre of global terrorism. But for the displaced tribes, the peace in their motherland is as far as they are from their ancestral homes.
The North Waziristan operation has its national, regional and international significance. The links of most terrorist attacks at urban centres in the country were traced to North Waziristan. Several myrmidon groups have used the region as a launch-pad for attacks against US forces in Afghanistan. The international community will watch closely this operation with its binoculars because for them the terrorist outfits may have linkages with the Islamic fighters in Syria and the ISIS in Iraq. Washington faced embarrassment after the withdrawal of forces from Iraq, and it cannot afford the same script to be rewritten on Afghan soil, especially when it has announced withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan.
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[Ynet] Arab-language Sky channel reported that Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... was holding "frantic" talks with US and EU officials in Washington to prevent Israel from conducting a "Dire Revenge™ military operation."
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Not to suggest that Abbas is a duplicitous weasel, but...
I'd be crying to Washington and Brussels for deliverance from the wrath of the hated Juices at the same time I'd be sending a list of names & addresses to every IDF fax number and email addy I could get my hands on.
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Maybe is butt will be saved if he arranges a Hamas Gaza tunnel tour and a workplace accident occurs at both ends of the tunnels. Just maybe.
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Time to settle all family business.
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Maybe if you didn't indoctrinate the little kiddies in your schools about the destruction of Israel (and those living there), maybe they'd learn to play better with others. You reap what you sow.
[Ynet] Rocket from Gazoo strikes Eshkol Regional Council damaging vehicles, 4 maimed, 1 missing in Gazoo after IAF strikes.
The IDF spokesperson confirmed late Tuesday night that the Israeli Air Force (IAF) had carried out 34 attacks on terrorist targets in several different sections of the Gazoo Strip, targeting structures and even some open areas.
According to the reports, one of the areas was a site in the area of Khan Yunis controlled by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,' military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades where 4 were said to be maimed and another missing.
Attacks were also reported near Rafah in the southern area of the Strip on structures belonging to other terrorist organizations active in the area.
According to the Paleostinians, an Israeli helizap near Beit Lahia caused significant damage to houses belonging to local residents.
The IDF Spokesperson said that the Monday night attack was in response to a rocket fired earlier by Paleostinian bully boyz that struck an open area in the Eshkol Regional Council.
No injuries or damage was reported as a result of the initial rocket fire, but three additional rockets were launched from Gazoo after the IAF attacks. One fell in an open area in Sdot Negev while another caused damage to several vehicles in a village near the Eshkol Regional Council.
The last rocket set a fire near a packaging factory in Eshkol, but no injuries were reported and the fire was successfully extinguished.
Paleostinian media also reported the death of another man in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank after festivities broke out with IDF troops in the area
Earlier in the day the bodies of the three kidnapped Israeli teens who were kidnapped over two weeks ago were discovered by security forces just north of Hebron.
The Cabinet concluded a meeting in the evening regarding Israel's reaction to Hamas after the discovery of the three murdered teens. Additional meetings are expected as the Cabinet discussions only finished after midnight Monday without reaching any concrete decisions.
The two prime suspects in the kidnapping, Amar Abu-Eisha, 33, and Marwan Kawasmeh, 29, haven't yet been captured and IDF officials vowed Monday that operations against Hamas would continue.
One hundred Paleostinians rioted near the home of Kawasmeh in the evening. They rolled garbage bins and threw rocks at IDF forces. The soldiers responded with crowd dispersal measures, like tear gas.
In several places, rioters also burned tires. Earlier Monday, Paleostinians clashed with IDF forces in the Halhul area, where the bodies of the boys were discovered. Some 200 Paleostinians threw rocks at security forces, who responded with riot dispersal measures.
Dozens of settlers gathered in a junction nearby, waiving Israeli flags and blocking the passage of vehicles with Paleostinian license plates.
After the discovery of the boys' bodies, the IDF blocked off all the entrances to Hebron.
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Iranians and Hezbollah might be a bit preoccupied these days. Gazooks would be wise to lay low but, of course, we all know that wisdom is not their strong suit.
[DAWN] OPERATION Zarb-e-Azb against the TTP and its associated forces is in full swing. While the operation appears to enjoy public support, one must understand the nature of the conflict and its significance for Pakistain.
For years, the categorisation of the conflict in Fata has been contested. Recent legislation concerning Fata — including the Actions (in Aid of Civil Power) Regulation 2011 (AACP) — suggests that the federation has started recognising the conflict in Fata as a non-international armed conflict (NIAC) under international law.
Previously, the conflict was characterised as internal disturbances. While the AACP is far from according adequate protections required under International Humanitarian Law (IHL), it frequently utilises IHL jargon, and is reflective of the IHL framework when it outlines the treatment and limited protections afforded to 'miscreants'.
Under international law, two factors determine whether violence crosses the threshold to be classified as an NIAC: the conflict's intensity and organization of the parties to the conflict. The intensity test provides that an NIAC should be "similar to an international war", but the conflict itself must be confined within the boundaries of a particular country.
The state must regain control over its territory. The nature of engagement between state forces and turbans in Fata confirms the presence of an NIAC. International criminal tribunals have found the existence of an NIAC in much lower levels of conflict intensity. There have been recognised NIACs of shorter duration, with smaller scale armed engagement, smaller troop deployments, fewer types of weapons used and targets identified, lower organizational capacities of Death Eater outfits and fewer displaced persons.
The existence of an NIAC does not automatically mean that the illusory sovereignty of a nation is undermined. In fact, recognising the conflict as an NIAC provides the state sanction under IHL to militarily defeat its adversary with lower levels of due process than what is available during times of peace.
Under international law the state can re-establish control over its territory in order to defend its national unity and territorial integrity with the caveat that other states cannot use the presence of an NIAC as justification for intervening, directly or indirectly. Furthermore, the presence of an NIAC does not exclude the applicability of domestic criminal law to Death Eaters, but ensures safeguards for civilians in conflict zones.
Basic protections under Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions are applicable in any armed conflict. Acts prohibited are the mutilation, cruel, humiliating and degrading treatment and torture of persons; taking of hostages; and the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgement pronounced by a regularly constituted court. There is also the requirement that the maimed and sick be collected and cared for.
Historically, Pakistain has been reluctant to accept the conflict in Fata as an NIAC, probably because it has feared international recognition of Death Eater outfits or the conferral of legal status that grants them the privileges of combatants. These fears are misplaced, as the TTP is abhorred by nearly all states, and viewed as a global terrorist outfit by Security Council members.
Under international law, status principally depends on actual and sustained control and authority over the territory in conflict rather than the recognition turbans receive from third states.
An NIAC is presented in a state when "dissident armed forces or other organised gangs under responsible command, exercise such control over a part of its territory as to enable them to carry out sustained and concerted military operations". Only when such organization, command, control and capacity are disrupted does one come out of a non-international armed conflict. Without such organization or control, the turbans have no legitimacy whatsoever.
The federation should regain control over its territory and establish its writ in the troubled regions. This will automatically exhaust any legitimacy that the TTP claims to possess in Fata. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... the armed forces must fight this war with transparency, and in compliance with IHL, which would mean that Common Article 3 protections are afforded and civilian immunity is fully preserved.
All civilians, including IDPs, should be adequately cared for and provided all basic facilities and protections. Reputed journalists should be embedded with the forces and given complete access to information so they can apprise the public of the ground realities.
The ICRC should be allowed a sizeable presence in the region. Such measures would prevent violations of IHL by all warring parties, and any war crimes committed by the TTP would further discredit them. Such steps would also reinforce the absolute legitimacy of the operation in the eyes of the international community. Pakistain has the wherewithal to militarily win this war in light of geo-political realities and the asymmetry of armed force.
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The 46 Indian nurses trapped in Iraq were evacuated on Monday night to the basement of their hospital as Iraqi helicopter gunships chasing militants rained bombs in one of the most fierce battles to control the city of Tikrit. Ironically, the nurses were moved to the basement kitchen by none other than the militants, when the hospital compound and surroundings came under heavy bombardment after sunset.
The Tikrit Teaching Hospital, where the nurses are holed up, has become the latest theatre of war after the militants occupied the buildings and fired guns to celebrate the militants' declaration of the caliphate of a new Islamic State in lands seized this month across a large swathe of Iraq and Syria.
After bombs hit portable houses occupied by Bangladeshi workers outside the hospital and flames spread, a couple of militants came into the nursing quarters and sat with them.
'He promised we will not be harmed and moved us to the basement,' said Marina M Jose, who made a desperate call to Khaleej Times from the hideout.
She said she talked to Ambassador Ajay Kumar who told them to remain in the basement till the bombing is over. She said the ambassador, with the aid of Google map, was asking Iraqi officials to stop targeting the building where the nurses are lodged.
Reality has begun to bite as the nurses are also faced with near-starvation in an enclave in the wilderness of Iraq’s civil war.
Amid questions who is in charge of Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, the nurses who came to Iraq chasing their dreams, spent two consecutive days minus breakfast. They managed with a few pieces of biscuits and water and cooked some kanji (rice soup) with the last grains they had, for dinner on Sunday night.
“We were not sure about another bite for the rest of the day and were desperately calling the PR boy, who came past 2pm with some rice, rajma beans, chickpeas, milk powder and tea powder,” one of the nurses told Khaleej Times.
Asked about dinner and breakfast, she said the boy had given “two pieces of thick quboos, one for dinner and one for tomorrow’s breakfast”.
The boy also told them to be “very, very careful with food” as markets are mostly closed and life remains grim in the besieged city.
Tikrit, which had been witnessing fierce battles between government forces and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil), mostly remained without power and water.
“We do not have drinking water anymore. The boy had managed to salvage some bottles of water from another building and this is the last drop of potable water available inside the hospital compound,” the nurse said.
“Nights are sleepless with no air-conditioning and the summer temperatures touching extreme degrees. To beat the heat, we lie down on wet bed linen and wear wet cloths at night. When the cloths dry up after a while, we soak them again,” she explained.
With the crisis worsening with each passing day, she fears that the frustration would gradually explode in anger and hysteria. “On Sunday night, scores of militants fired in the air for hours from nearby buildings. We desperately called the PR boy who said these are celebratory gunfire. He wouldn't explain further.”
“We were unsure who occupied the hospital terraces. Were they government forces celebrating a recapture of the city? Were they the militants or their sympathisers celebrating the Isil’s declaration of the caliphate?' she had initially wondered.
'With the latest round of bombings, it has become clear that we are now in the hands of the militants.'
When Khaleej Times last spoke to them, the nurses were moved back to their quarters as the militants wanted to break fast and pray in the basement.
Marina said that as reported in the media, the embassy has delivered some financial assistance on Sunday. “Each of us received 10,000 Iraqi dinars with instructions to safe-keep and not to tell anyone.”
She said it’s equivalent to Rs500, just enough for onetime top-up of the phone credit. The embassy also topped up credits for 10 needy nurses on Monday.
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[The Nation (Pak)] Pakistain People's Party leader and former interior minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. today said that the operation against hard boyz should have started eight months ago.
Talking to journalists at airport, Malik said that the PPP wais with the Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... 's government because his party always supported democracy.
He criticized Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, and would-be dictator, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... and Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... , saying that both are trying to bring 'seasonal' revolution, not a permanent one. "Terrorists want to destabilize the country and strict action against them is necessary," he added.
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[BREITBART] Prompted by a conversation with Speaker John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner ... the occasionally weepy leader of House Republicans... , President Barack Obama Because I won... said Monday he is done waiting for Congress to act and taking steps to reform nation's immigration system through administrative action.
"America cannot wait forever for them to act. That's why today I am beginning a new effort to fix as much of our immigration system as I can on my own, without Congress," Obama said in the Rose Garden, with Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... by his side. The President lamented that Republicans have "proven again and again that they're unwilling to stand up against the Tea Party."
At an event celebrating professional golfers last week, Boehner told Obama "Republicans will continue to block a vote on immigration reform at least until the remainder of this year," Obama said.
In a statement, Boehner said "In our conversation last week, I told the president what I have been telling him for months: the American people and their elected officials don't trust him to enforce the law as written. Until that changes, it is going to be difficult to make progress on this issue."
Obama said he will direct Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson and Attorney General Eric Inaction Jackson Holder ... aka Mister Fast and Furious... to figure out what Obama can do unilaterally to fix the nation's immigration system, in addition to shifting resources southward to secure the border.
"I've also directed Sec. Johnson and Attorney Gen. Holder to identify additional actions my administration can take on our own, within my existing legal authorities, to do what Congress refuses to do and fix as much of our immigration system as we can," he said. "If Congress will not do their job at least we can do ours."
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[Pak Daily Times] Criticising cancellation of all international flights to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. after firing at a PIA plane which was about to land the Peshawar airport and the subsequent killing of a woman in the plane, the combined opposition senators staged a walkout from the House over what they claimed was indifference of the federal government. They claimed that the federal government had totally failed to restore flights from Peshawar airport by different airliners.
On a call-attention notice ANP's Senator Afrasiab Khattak asked what action taken has been by the federal government to restore international flights to and from Peshawar. "The federal government did nothing and left the people of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... to the mercy of God," he bemoaned, adding that if such behaviour continues, it will have serious consequences for the federating units. The senator noted that a large number of people of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa work in the Gulf countries and they all prefer to come and depart from Peshawar instead of other parts of the country.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had been cornered by the banditti... Senator Zahid Khan said that the federal government could have summoned the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa IG over the firing incident, but it did not bother to do so. Claiming that Punjab and Sindh have already announced that IDPs of North Wazoo Agency will not be allowed in these two provinces, he asked how will the people of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa fly from these two provinces. Speaking on the occasion Federal Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Sheikh Aftab said that the prime minister has taken serious notice of the attack on Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and Peshawar airports and directed strict safety at all airports.
The prime minister has already approved Rs 5 billion for the installation of different security equipment at all the airports so that security should be ensured. He assured the House that the federal government is not silent over this serious issue and is taking appropriate measures to ensure security at all airports. He also notes that civilian population surrounded all airports, which is a provincial matter, and in this regard the federal government is in contact with the provinces.
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This is interfering with absolutely necessary economic activities, i.e. smuggling. How are they supposed to get the baksheesh if there's no flights going where there's something worthy of stealing?
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[LEADERSHIP.NG] United States president Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... on Sunday morning said that Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... and other terrorist groups were putting the United States and the entire world under a very serious threat.
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As stated often, he is the premier 'master of the obvious'.
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Clearly the US response should be to watch on the sidelines as Boko Haram, Al-Shabab, AQIM, etal. + now ISIS/ISIL take over 1/2 or more of Africa.
As Iraqis say ... ...
* TOPIX > [CBS NEWS] IRAQI OFFICIAL SAYS THEY CAN'T WAIT FOR US MILITARY AID.
D *** ng it, thats strange, thats similar to what the anti-Assad FSA + other said in SYRIA, + the Ukraine as they lost the Crimea.
INDIA + JAPAN + SOKOR + TAIWAN + PHIL + VIETNAM, ETAL. i'M A'LOOKIN AT YOUSE VEE YOUR VARIOUS CHINA DISPUTES.
and
* DEFENCENET.GR > [Russian Deputy FM] MOSCOW WARNS US, EU ON ISIL: "IFF YOU DO NOT TAKE ACTION OR INTERVENE IN IRAQ, WE WILL"! RUSSIA TO NOT REMAIN IDLE ON THE ACTIONS OF TERRORISTS.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > VIETNAM SHOULD PREPARE FOR ALL SCENARIOS IN CHINA OIL SPAT: PARTY CHIEF.
CPV General Secretary Nguyen Phu Troung.
IMO read, ESPEC IN CASE POTUS OBAMA = USA "DOESN'T"???
[IBD] House Minority Leader Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace... and Honduras first lady Ana Garcia de Hernandez are making separate tours of the south Texas border, where most of the 52,000 unaccompanied undocumented Democrat children have crossed this year.
But while the political debate has focused on U.S. immigration enforcement, a key economic factor has been lost in the clamor. Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, which are supplying three-quarters of the latest cross-border flood, are bucking a trend in Latin America toward stronger local economies based on sound reforms and security.
Those three Central American countries are dependent on their diaspora to prop up their own woeful economies. Immigrants send back billions of dollars to their families. Remittances have risen to 16.5% of El Salvador's GDP, 15.7% of Honduras' and 10% of Guatemala's, according to World Bank data. Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic and Bolivia rely on remittances for 4.1% to 9.7% of GDP.
But the figure drops precipitously for every other country in Latin America. Mexico, with the largest immigrant population in the U.S. with as many as 13 million people, now relies on remittances for just 2% of GDP.
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#2 Mexico expels illegals. They just don't care if its to the south or the north. As long as you keep moving, pay the Mexican coyotes, and look the other way same many of your fellow travelers are yanked for slavery, Mexican government personnel are only concerned about getting their cut of the take. Why to you think the drug trade 'exploded' in Mexico? The export business was already there, they just added hyper money to the process.
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Well, you certainly can't move 50,000 kids across Mexico without a lot of government corruption. Unless, of course, our president made a deal with Mexico that Congress doesn't know about. At least, the House doesn't.
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The House Minority Leader is suffering from a serious mental disorder. A country cannot continue to exist if it is swamped with hordes of illegal immigrants(otherwise known as near-future Democratic voters).
[Iran Press TV] Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... terrorist groups operating in the Middle East are enemy stooges to sow discord among Mohammedans and incite Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... across the globe, a political analyst tells Press TV.
"These groups have been created, supported and financed by outsiders of our religion for two reasons. One to divide the community and Mohammedan community and secondly is for creating such a bad image of Mohammedans as a wholeâ¦," said Massoud Shadjareh, head of the Islamic Human Rights Commission from Tehran, in a Monday interview.
"I am in no doubt that this was created to serve the purpose of Israelis and those who actually want to create havoc in the area," he noted.
The analyst argued that the Takfiri snuffies are in fact listening to the "call for Jihad of the White House" and said, "That is why you do not see any of them going to fight in Paleostine or Myanmar or Kashmire or Central Africa."
"If that sort of effort was put into any of these other areas, especially Myanmar and Central Africa, then thousands of Mohammedans would not have been slaughtered the way that they are being," Shadjareh added.
Over the recent years, several Mohammedan countries, including Iraq, Syria, Leb, Pakistain, Afghanistan and Nigeria have become the scenes of atrocious crimes against humanity by Takfiri terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL), al-Nusra Front, Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigade, etc.
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[TheGuardian] Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, is to defy public opinion and announce a dramatic shift in the country's defence policy that would make it easier for its troops to fight in overseas conflicts.
Abe's cabinet is expected to adopt a resolution on Tuesday that would end Japan's long-standing ban on exercising collective self-defence, or coming to the aid of an ally under attack even if Japan itself is not threatened.
Japan's postwar constitution prohibits the use of force to settle international disputes — a restriction Abe and his supporters say inhibits the country's ability to protect itself and its allies, despite growing fears over North Korea's nuclear programme and China's aggressive territorial claims in the region.
Abe's decision to introduce legislation that would reinterpret the pacifist clause in the constitution, which has prevented Japanese forces from fighting overseas since the end of the second world war, came after opinion polls indicated he would struggle to win enough support in parliament and among voters for outright constitutional reform.
The change to be approved on Tuesday would require a simple majority in both houses; his ruling Liberal Democratic party [LDP] has a comfortable majority in the lower house and controls the upper house with the support of a junior coalition partner. Changing the wording of the constitution, however, would require a two-thirds majority in both houses and a simple majority in a nationwide referendum.
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If he succeeds, I expect Japan will have the material to construct a nuclear weapon three days later. They won't assemble them -- yet -- but the parts will be manufactured and stored somewhere underground. They'll be assembled within hours, once the time comes that Japan needs them.
I still say we need to sell Japan a couple of used US aircraft carriers. That would put a crimp in China's expansionist policies. It would also require someone not quite as much a wimp as the current occupant of the White House.
The world is NOT a "safe place". The only guarantee of individual freedom is enough strength to guarantee it. This is a lesson the Europeans, especially, need to learn. I think Japan has gotten the message.
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I expect Japan will have the material to construct a nuclear weapon three days later
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IMO there will be a military conflict between China + Japan, as ... ..
> Both China + Japan see themselves as Asia's #1.
> China particularly fears a rearmed Japan, espec as armed wid Nuclear Weapons.
> As we see in the SCS + IOR, China is working hard to acquire Superpower/US-style "strategic access" for the PLA at + beyond the "First Island Chain". CHINA WELL-RECOGNIZES THAT TO DO THE SAME IN NE ASIA WILL MEAN DE FACTO MIL CONFRONTATION + WAR.
Pragmatically, it is to China's advantage to unilaterally or preemptively strike before Japan, etal. acquire NucWeaps, + before US-led GMD-TMD is permanently entrenched in East Asia.
* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > [Global Times] PLA COULD DEFEAT JSDF IN ANY MILITARY CONFLICT - JAPANESE MEDIAS.
For the reasons I have stated or described above -JAPAN HAS NEITHER THE FIGHTING MANPOWER, AIRPOWER, NOR ESPEC THE NUKES THAT CHINA DOES.
Perhaps most importantly, China covertly may have Anti-US US OWG Globalist POTUS Obama on SSSSHHHHHH ....CCCCCCCCCC ITS SIDE???
* GLOBAL NATION PH > WHAT "JAPAN'S "COLLECTIVE SELF-DEFENSE" MEANS TO THE PHILIPPINES?
Japan mil intervention in the SCS, NOT just US.
* SAME [repost] > WEST PHILIPPINE SEA CHINA'S BEST SHIELD AGZ US, PAPER SAYS.
* PHIL STAR > EDITORIAL: [PAF] NO LONGER ALL AIR, NO FORCE.
* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [GMA News] FA-50'S [SoKor = 2015?] WILL MAKE PH AIR DEFENCE EFFECTIVE, AQUINO SAYS.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > CHINA'S DF-41 ICBM CAN WIPE OUT THREE [US] CITIES IN ATTACK.
China's just sayin'.
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > CHINA SHOULD NOT ABANDON THE RYUKYUS! CHINA'S NEW "10-DASH-LINE" VERTICAL MAP DOES NOT INDICATE ITS SOVEREIGNTY OVER OKINAWA + ARCHIPELAGO.
[Iran Press TV] US car giant General Motors has recalled up to 8.4 million more vehicles to fix an ignition switch glitch that prevents airbags from inflating.
On Monday afternoon, the embattled company announced six new recalls that involve 7.6 million vehicles in North America and 800,000 more overseas.
The recalls consist of mainly older midsize cars dating back to 1997, bringing GM's total number of recalls this year to over 29 million.
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The way this is going I assume the problem is much worse than just the airbags. Any chance it locks the steering column?
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3dc, my mother got a recall letter yesterday. It warned that the car could suddenly slip from power to manual steering, In this case, turning the engine off and on again might fix the problem as a short term fix. There are as yet no parts to effect repairs, but when there are she will be contacted.
My mother is eighty-eight. This is not something she is equipped to deal with, especially in the midst of moving into an independent living apartment far from her previous home.
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I own a Toyota, my Grandson owned (Note past tense) A Chevy Truck (Now a Toyota) After the Chevy tuck couldn't keep axles in it, The Toyota has no problems. (Take that Chevy)
GM was bailed out, A big mistake, It should have been Cleaned out.
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Just remember, the "new" GM had to be legally isolated from the "old" GM because mass defects are a thing of the past, there's no reason old owners legal claims could go forward.
In investment news, GMAC finance credit bonds are selling at junk bond prices (high risk), and betting is Saturn, Buick, Opel, and a few other shouldn't bother planning new models.
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So not to be too petty, but is there a picture in the Vast Rantburg Archives of a GM product and not one of Henry's 'I didn't take no steenking bailout' Tin Lizzies that could be swapped out please?
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Cain was not to be killed. It was no use killing him because all men have a little Cain in them. The curse of Cain infects in many forms. Nazism, Communism and Islam are only a few examples of the disease. Instead Cain was meant to be a living example of the futility of evil. His accursed nature made him into a living symbol of death. Each thing he touched would be cursed by his existence.
When we remember what Cain is, when we know what his signs, the swastika, the sickle and the crescent, represent, then he is no threat to us.
We move him onward, we cast him out and drive him away before he kills us and we kill him and the cycle of bloodshed that he starts everywhere he goes begins again.
It is when we forget that he becomes truly dangerous. When Abel and Cain cannot be told apart, then Cain can pretend that he is the victim and that Abel was the killer. The blood soaks into the earth and he washes his hands of it and pretends that he knows nothing about it. Men begin playing detectives, they search for the root cause of Cain's crimes and try to understand what provoked him this time.
But even when the Lord does not speak to men, the blood can still be heard crying from the earth. A thousand years of blood, the blood of men, women and children from every race and every part of the world.
Cain has made a mountain of corpses. His Caliphate was built on bones. His code is cruelty and his holy book is written in blood on the flayed skins of his murdered victims.
A thousand years of blood calls from the earth. The cries of peoples long vanished from the earth warn us that we will either drive out Cain or his curse will fill our lands with blood and dust and all that we love and all that we have worked for will die at his cursed touch.
[Pak Daily Times] In a crucial development, army on Monday launched a ground operation in the Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... subdivision of North Wazoo Agency (NWA), following the completion of the civilian population's evacuation from the tribal agency last week.
As many as 15 bully boyz were reported dead in the ground offensive on Monday. Since the launch of operation Zarb-e-Azb on June 15, 376 bully boyz have been killed, 19 have surrendered to the security forces and 61 terrorist hideouts have been destroyed. Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... 17 soldiers have bit the dust, the military said on Monday. Infantry troops and Special Services Group (SSG), the army's elite commando wing, are engaged in a search operation in Miranshah.
Talking to Daily Times by phone on Monday, NWA Political Agent Siraj Ahmad Khan said the civilian displacements from the NWA to other areas had completed last week and no evacuation has taken place since then. He said the security forces and political administration were making sure that no civilians were stranded in any part of the NWA. More than 460,000 people are out of the NWA, according to Khan.
"Although there is no civilian population in the NWA now, we are making sure that the civilians are not stuck or made hostage by the murderous Moslems. For this purpose, search operations are being launched across the tribal agency," the political agent said. The security forces, he said, were pursuing Zarb-e-Azb operation on "methodical lines". "The troublesome areas of Miranshah, Mir Ali, Ghulam Khan, Shawal and other parts would be cleared as per plan. So far, the operation has been a complete success and the security forces are hopeful that it would yield hundred percent results throughout."
According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), after evacuation of all the civilian population, the ground operation commenced in and around Miranshah early Monday morning. "House-to-house search of Miranshah town is being carried out by infantry troops and Special Services Group. Fifteen bully boyz have been killed in ground offensive so far. Troops have discovered underground tunnels and IEDs (improvised bombs) preparation factories inside the so far cleared area. Three soldiers got injured in the exchange of fire," a Zarb-e-Azb operation update said on Monday.
Integrated fire of artillery, tanks and other heavy weapons is being carried out on terrorist concentrations in Mirali and other areas, it said. "An effective cordon is in place at other areas housing terrorists." On the situation of the internally displaced persons (IDPs), the ISPR said distribution of relief items for IDPs continues at Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... and Tank. The break-up of relief goods and humanitarian assistance to IDPs suggests, as many as 30,000 ration packs, each of 110 kilogramme, have been distributed so far.
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Your tribesman of Waziristan
Sure likes to help his fellow man.
If he can't help you with finality,
At least he'll show you hospitality.
"We'll see y'all. Please come again.
Hey, don't forget your goat, my friend!
I think I hear the army's trumpets;
I'd better bring them tea and crumpets."
[IsraelTimes] Eyal Yifrach, 19, Naftali Fraenkel, 16, and Gil-ad Shaar, 16, the three kidnapped Israeli teenagers whose bodies were found on Monday, realized very quickly that they had been abducted on the night of June 12.
The three teens were waiting at Geva'ot Intersection, west of the settlement of Alon Shvut in the Etzion Bloc south of Jerusalem, soon after 10:15 p.m, looking to catch a ride heading west on Route 367 toward Beit Shemesh and from there to locations in central Israel where each of them lived.
The prevailing assessment within the defense establishment is that the kidnappers, at least at first, only saw one of the hitchhikers, perhaps Yifrach, who did not know Shaar and Fraenkel. Only once the kidnappers' Hyundai i35 came to a stop did the kidnappers realize that they would be outnumbered by their hostages within the small confines of the car. This may be what changed the nature of the crime from kidnapping to murder, security sources suggested.
Inside the Hyundai, Israel alleges, were Hamas terrorists Amer Abu Aysha and Marwan Kawasme.
Recognizing, too late, that the car was not an innocent Israeli vehicle, one of the teens called the police at 10:25 p.m. and whispered, "We've been kidnapped." The call was transferred immediately to a senior female officer, who continued to ask questions but received no reply. The call lasted for 2:09 minutes and was then cut off. The officer called the number eight more times, but received three busy signals and reached voicemail five times.
The kidnappers, apparently realizing that a call had been made, shot the three teens dead soon afterwards in the backseat of the car, military sources said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday night that they were murdered "in cold blood."
Early assessments by some regarding the professionalism of the terrorists appear to have been misplaced: the killers seem to have panicked. The three teens did not fulfill the role Hamas sought for them, security officials indicated, to serve as bargaining chips that would free thousands of Palestinians prisoners and promote the Hamas brand throughout the West Bank.
The killers then drove a further 10 minutes or so before switching vehicles. They abandoned the Hyundai i35, a relatively new vehicle, and set it on fire.
They transferred the bodies to the second vehicle, and drove close to the field in the Halhul area where the three corpses were ultimately discovered, bound, partially buried, and in what eyewitnesses said was "in not good condition," on Monday afternoon. The land where the bodies were found belongs to the Kawasme family, Channel 2 news reported.
Unbeknownst to the killers, the emergency call had not prompted an alert by Israel's security forces. The senior officer did not pass on the information to her superiors or listen to the recording for further evidence, concluding that it was a prank call. The security forces realized there had been a kidnapping, and began what became an 18-day search operation, only some seven hours later.
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Trying to post a comment - a quote from an illegal 14-year old on her way to the US, about "the new law" that makes it easier, and I get the error message - ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0x93
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I forwarded your comment to Fred's attention, Bobby. Thanks!
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The problem is special characters in the copied browser text. First, I copy the text from the browser and paste it to a text editor (e.g. notepad). Then I search the text for a forward double quote, copy it to the clipboard and paste to the search for part of a change command. In notepad the change command is Ctrl+h. I insert the double quote character on my keyboard into the replace with part of the change command and then change all.
I repeat for the trailing double quote character, the long hyphen character, and the curly single quote character, replacing them with their keyboard equivalents.
The United States said on Monday the declaration by militants of an "Islamic caliphate" on territory they have seized in Iraq and Syria has "no meaning."
Too bad no one in that part of the world listens to Champ...
"We have seen these types of words or comparable claims from Isil before," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters, referring to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militant group. Ummm... No, we haven't.
"This declaration has no meaning for the people in Iraq and Syria," she said, adding that it just "exposed the true nature of this organization and its desire to control people by fear." The meaning to the people of Iraq and Syria is that the turbans now control enough territory to declare their state, and they're confident they're strong enough to keep it. They've got lots of people who've been pushing the caliphate idea for years, people like all of Hezb ut-Tahrir and al-Muhajiroun (now whatever Anjem Chaudry's calling it), and Omar Bakri Mohammad, whom the Lebs jugged a week or so ago for his involvement with jihad. They've got a world-wide recruiting organization and lots of financial backing from the Devout™. If they can keep Baiji they're probably self-supporting.
"This is a critical moment for the international community, for countries in the region, for all of the Iraqi people to unite against the threats that they face," Psaki said, while stressing she did not want to "overemphasise" the declaration's impact. It's a critical moment, but she doesn't want to over-emphasize it. That makes sense. Not a lot of sense, but sense. Of a sort.
The White House said the militants spearheading the offensive in Iraq had waged "a campaign of terror of gross acts of violence and repressive ideology that pose a grave threat to Iraq's future." They aren't any different from Zarqawi, or from the bunch that was active in Saudi Arabia until the princes cracked down. Remember the guy who kept the murdered contractor's head in his refrigerator? The Taliban did the same sort of thing. Remember the Bamian Buddhas?All that stuff's far away and it has nothing to do with the U.S.A., does it? It's not like they attacked New York or something.
Oh. Wait. They did.
But that was a long time ago. We were all so much younger then.
"Isil is not fighting for a stronger Iraq. Isil is fighting to destroy Iraq. And that's why you've seen this administration work closely with Iraq's political leaders to encourage them to unite the country as they confront this existential threat," spokesman Josh Earnest said. So where's the "Shock and Awe" part, Josh, if it's all that important?
With Iraq's parliament scheduled to hold its opening session on Tuesday following April elections, Psaki said Washington was "continuing to urge Iraqi leaders to come to an agreement on the three critical posts that are key to forming Iraq's next government." That means they want to dump Maliki, whom Iran and Russia don't want to dump even though Sistani does.
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The good side is that only one political entity would hate us!
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"Declaring caliphate has 'no meaning': US"
Yeah, it's right up there with Obama's Nobel Prize.
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But what does it mean to Saudi Arabia? After all, isn't posession of the two Mosques the n'est plus ultra of Islamic control? One would think that a caliphate has to have that to have legitimacy.
What do the head turbans in Qom, Cairo, Mecca etc. have to say about this?
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The head turbans are waiting to see if ISIS can keep what it has gained. If they still have it in a few months the "idea of caliphate" will start to take hold.
#8
These kids/amateurs should all be fired and replaced with someone who knows what the heck they are doing. They should pay great attention to this growing menace, get their "collective" heads out of the sand and figure out how to deal with it. There is no identifiable coherent strategy.
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I wonder if anybody is looking at the opportunities afforded by such a declaration. As AlanC notes, who runs the caliphate isn't obvious from Islamic principles, and there are plenty of candidates who, with a little encouragement, might be willing to dispute each others' claims.
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Anyone sane would realize that trying to argue with the jihadis about stuff gives them more credibility than they deserve.
[The Nation (Pak)] The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has changed its name to Islamic State (IS) and declared itself a caliphate. IS has made gains in Iraq since they captured djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and has had jihadists from other groups swear allegiance to them. Al Qaeda never went as far as to asset a caliphate, and in their ambitions IS may have surpassed Al Qaeda and if the global community hasn't already, it is time to sit up and pay attention.
For ideological jihadists, the caliphate is the ultimate aim, and IS has come closest to realising that vision. There exists a certain amount of nostalgia for the caliphate, and this publicity stunt will help IS recruit young turbans from all over the globe as well garner some conservative popular support from Mohammedan countries including Pakistain. Numbers of Mohammedan youth from the US, UK, the Sinai, Jordan, Gazoo and Indonesia have been reported to have traveled to Iraq and Syria to take up the IS cause as well as fight against the Syrian government.
The Iraqi government's pleas for international intervention may be helped by the declaration of a caliphate. What is the international community going to do? The US has been on the fence about what to do with Iraq; will they let the situation further escalate? Russia already has its plane in Iraq with Syrian support. The only counter to ISIS is regional. Turkey won't support the IS ideology and just had its diplomats kidnapped in Mosul. Iran is already countering IS and is sick of radial Sunnism. Iran doesn't want to lose an ally in Storied Baghdad that is more important than even Assad in Syria. They are reportedly airlifting over a hundred tons of supplies to Storied Baghdad daily, and forces have been deployed weeks ago. Yet, beyond the Middle East, in South Asia, in Africa and even East Asia, Mohammedans may actually agree with the Islamic State's call to arms.
Things are different this time around. IS doesn't want to destroy the US like Al Qaeda; it wants to carve out a state, and break territorial boundaries constructed by colonial rule. It wants to break the borders of Iraq, Jordan and Leb and free Paleostine. And by state, it means Caliphate. The modern nation state and its trappings hold no importance for IS. IS has assets in the low billions and a very efficient bureaucratic governing structure. It would not have made such a statement, if it wasn't ready for a backlash form opposing jihadist groups as well as international players.
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So what country will be first to put an Embassy in the caliphate capital? Anybody? Anybody? Any such embassy would not only have to be a super-bunker to protect from the near guaranteed retaliatory strikes that will occur against the Caliphate before too long but probably a medieval fortress to keep the locals looking for hostages out.
[The Nation (Pak)] Hafiz Muhammad Saeed ...who would be wearing a canvas jacket with very long sleeves anyplace but Pakistain... , the founder of a self-declared Pak charity who India and the US accuse of criminal masterminding the 2008 terror attacks on Mumbai, has dismissed new American sanctions on his organization.
Saeed, in an interview with the BBC, said the US is targeting Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) to win India's help in Afghanistan. The US alleges the JuD is a front for the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... and has offered a $10 million reward for the arrest of Saeed, who is accused of being a leader of both the groups.
Saeed told the BBC's South Asia correspondent Andrew North that America's ban on JuD was "dictated" by India. "America always takes decisions based on Indian dictation. Now it's imposing this new ban because it needs India's help in Afghanistan. I had nothing to do with the Mumbai attacks and Pakistain's courts said all India's evidence against me was just propaganda?" Saeed told the BBC in Lahore.
He claimed the $10 million price on his head doesn't worry him. "The people of Pakistain know me, and they love me. No one has tried to approach the American authorities to get this bounty. My role is very clear here, and God is protecting me"
The BBC asked him if he was an obstacle to better India-Pakistain relations. "India makes me an issue to divert attention from Kashmire, which is the real issue. Kashmire should be free and India must withdraw its hundreds of thousands of troops who are occupying the territory and give Kashmiris the right to decide their future. We are not the obstacle to better relations," he replied.
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[DailyMail] President in pointed snub to MI5 over 'lone wolf' mission to interrogate British security experts
Oh, those masterly diplomatic skills!
o Sources said U.S. agents want to assess stability of Moslem relations in UK
o Normally Obama relies on intelligence passed directly from the British
o But fears have ramped up after recent radicalisation of young Britons
President B.O. has sent a special unit of CIA officers to the UK to investigate British Moslemsnuffies amid growing fears in Washington that we are becoming a 'breeding ground' for terrorism.
In a pointed snub to MI5, the agents arrived on a 'lone wolf' mission to interrogate senior security experts about the radicalisation of UK Moslems.
The mission has been revealed as our security services have been forced to admit they are struggling to keep track of the estimated 500 Britons who have travelled to the Middle East to fight alongside the Islamic Isis forces in Syria and Iraq.
It is unusual for the CIA to send a team to the UK: the agency usually relies on information passed to it by MI5 or MI6 or by its agents stationed at the American Embassy in London.
Sources have told The Mail on Sunday that the agents were keen to establish the 'stability' of the relationship between the Sunni and Shia branches of Moslems in the UK. The fighters going out to join Isis have been British-based Sunnis, causing deepening tensions within the community.
Professor Anthony Glees, of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at Buckingham University, said the mission, which took place earlier this year, showed the level of concern in Washington over the issue, which he claimed was rooted in the UK's 'lax' immigration policies.
'The US is worried about the British situation. They fear there might be a knock-on effect for them,' Prof Glees said.
'The throat-cutting between Sunnis and Shias in Iraq and Syria has not yet spread to the UK, but it is a real threat. It is conceivable you could see Shia "hit squads" in Britannia targeting Sunnis preparing to go out to the conflict zones to fight.'
He said: 'The Americans regard the UK as a disaster because of our lax stance on immigration which has allowed this militancy to take hold.
'Frankly, they would not be doing their jobs properly if it did not do this — forming an objective view of the situation outside of the reports they get from MI5 and their officers at the US Embassy in London.'
Last night a source at the CIA insisted British intelligence had been informed of 'all outside contacts' the agents made in the UK.
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... the sources also admitted that the move revealed a growing lack of trust in Washington over MI5 and MI6's ability to provide a reliable assessment of the security threat presented by young Moslems under the sway of imams who are radicalised and then recruited to fight in religious wars around the globe.
The B.O. regime has become increasingly anxious that young American Moslems could follow the same pattern. There are strong links between British and American forces of Evil and the sources say the CIA feels British efforts to identify and unmask them have been inadequate.
A CIA and a Home Office front man declined to comment.
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"Rent-a-Clue" agency tip of the day. Check their freaking passports." Oh no, I was just visiting Mosul for the hot springs."
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Damn few swim to England. Most find their way through port of entry. Biometrics! The technology EXISTS! End the feckless political correctness and use it.
#4
If the CIA agents aren't there at the invitation of the Brits, the Brits can just send them home and tell Champ to give Downing Street a call.
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My guess is Champ could give a damn about immigration or it's impacts on Great Britain or anywhere else. Yes, the Klingons are there via invitation to talk to 'security experts,' but 'Immigration' is likely little more than a convenient Anti-Mohammad Video.
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The whole article makes no sense. The CIA has a large number of agents in the UK "seconded" to MI5 and has for a long time. They are largely tasked with helping the British anti-terrorist effort.
If Obama wants to know about muslim terrorists in Britain, he can ask the CIA agents already working there.
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The agents 'already there' may not possess the special skills required for the particular types of communication and dialogue desired.
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[Iran Press TV] The United States is seeking a Yugoslavia-style disintegration of Iraq in order to take over some parts of the country after Washington failed to keep its hold on the entire country, an American political commentator says.
Yea though he speaketh, he has absolutely no understanding. 
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The United States said on Monday the declaration by militants of an "Islamic caliphate" on territory they have seized in Iraq and Syria has "no meaning."
