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I seem to remember that they used to have a harder hitting side arm. Something from a Mr. Browning that worked well in the Phillipines a few years ago.
.45ACP or something like that?
I've heard a couple of stories about the intro of the 9mm about it being a sop to our NATO allies or a sop to females that couldn't handle the .45.
Don't know if either are true but changing the side arm probably left lots of room for graft.
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I don't believe a word that Langdon clown says. I do not believe for one minute a guy can be hit eight frigging times with a .45 ACP/235 grain bullet and keep coming.
I've shot guys with a .45 and no matter where I hit them, big toe, shoulder, wrist, ankle, wherever, they went DOWN. The biggest advantage to the .45 is you do not have to be a good shot. you don't have to center punch a guy, hit anywhere on the torso and they are done. Shit man, hit a guy in the gut wearing body armor and they go down with the .45...who the hell are they trying to kid with those stupid assed comments about the .45?
The 9mm is just a glorified .38 special and we know how useless that round was.
Recoil? You only need one shot with the .45 so why is it a problem to put a second round on target when you've blown a hole the size of a grapefruit in his leg?
AND in close combat in jungle the .45 is a great brush cutter.
I personally think the US military should bring back the Thompson also...used one of those in Angola and no one fucked with me very long.
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If you get to bring back your .45, can I bring along my R1 ?
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There's probably a European Union study about how a .22LR is big enough to knock down the Death Star or some such, and how it would work well with the F-35. (That's the ticket.)
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Yeah, you can bring your R1, hell bring a G3 for all I care just leave that useless piece of crap M16 at home.
Now that we are fighting in more open country, a rifle that can reach out and touch someone at 300 or 400 meters is needed.
The M16 was a one size fits all solution which did not work based on the idea of caring more ammo and quantity over quality of rounds down range in the battle area. What we need is a weapon that can put a man down with one shot, cut brush in the jungle AND knock a bad guy off his moped at 400 yards.
When I shot with the Bundeswehr, we shot G3s at targets at 300 meters to qualify.
Alvin York would roll in his grave at how deteriorated our ability to shoot a rifle has become.
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They used to say if the M1911 couldn't stop an enemy, throwing it at the enemy would.
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#7, the amok Moros identified the shortcoming of the existing sidearm. While the army selection process began in '06, the weapon selection board wasn't convened till 1911, beyond most of the Moro activity. Took time to 'perfect' a model to met the specifications.
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My Dad fired a .45 in 1944 in the Army Air Corps and told me he could be most effective with it by throwing it. Not very accurate, he thought.
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I saw a man who accidently shot himself through the leg with a .45, he didn't fall down,(He did Cuss a lot), the bull that he'd fall down Is strictly BS.
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I don't know about some of you but I was very good with the 1911, shot expert the first time I picked it up. I think I shot better than that the time sappers breached our wire and tried to kill me in my hooch, I shot three of them getting out of bed and shot about six more running around in my underwear.
The .45 is a good weapon and it is accurate, it takes practice. AND a man sized target at 25 yards is a pretty good sized target...just hit them anywhere.
In my battalion we used to have contests during annual qualification and we never had an officer shoot less than sharpshooter with the .45...never had an officer or senior NCO fail to qualify.
I don't know where this nonsense about a .45 being inaccurate came from...probably from some clown that picked one up one day shot it three times and quit.
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..could be. The first arms room I administered (circa early 70s) was in a HHC. There were about 60 .45s in there. At least 8 of them were M1911s, not M1911As, the mod occurred in 1924. Too many were by then 'smooth' bores. You could say we were on the bottom of the Class IX priority authorization.
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#15 I saw a man who accidently shot himself through the leg with a .45, he didn't fall down,(He did Cuss a lot), the bull that he'd fall down Is strictly BS. Posted by Redneck Jim
That wouldn't have been on a range on Vint Hill Farm Station would it Jim ?
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No,it was an expert ,and it was online, he was practicing, had a dumfuk (Pulled the trigger too soon),and was pissed. went through his leg (From a draw, at a diagonal from top to mid-thigh, went between the bones.
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As P2k says, it depends on when and where the 1911 was. The rack (issue) 45's we used while I was shooting for the Idaho National Guard Pistol Team were so old and worn that we had frames crack and were lucky that the barrel links didn't fall off during use or cleaning. Those were NOT target guns. The National Match 45's on the other hand were a great piece of equipment.
Same comparison of rack vs National Match rifles...An M16A1 is NOT a target weapon.
Blood Feud, Ed Klein's new book on the Clintons and the Obamas currently rocketing to the top of the Amazon best seller list even before its official publication day, is a lurid, irresponsible work of yellow journalism filled with suppositions, inaccuracies, myriad anonymous sources, made-up dialogue and (often extreme) bias.
In other words, it is essentially like your average front page story in the New York Times.
But unlike the Times, Klein gets it essentially right about his subject "-- the Clintons and the Obamas despise each other.
And unlike the Times, Blood Feud is a compulsive read. I dare you to put it down.
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Any Federal agency that is weaponized against the American people should be defunded or done away with. A flat tax or some other simpler scheme would limit the amount of bureaucracy carry out such a tax law.
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#2 as the Instaprof would say - where's the graft in that?
The more money/resources people try to tax/steal from others the more those with money/resources spend on protecting it, which seem strangely to involve buying politicians who do the tax codes, thus the exponential growth in tax laws and regulations and power of the bureaucracy.
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The entire tax system is a payoff to two constituencies that give lots of money to both parties...tax lawyers and CPAs.
If you made the tax simple, you would put several hundred thousand of these parasites out of work. According to some articles I have read, and I may be wrong about the exact numbers though the magnitude is close, apparently tax preparation is a 10 billion dollar industry to the lawyers and accountants, assessing some dollar value to the time spent preparing individual returns, calculates out to be about the same amount.
Imagine $20 Billion to file income taxes? AND it produces nothing. Alan Greenspan said that any government program that cost money but produces nothing is purely inflationary.
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Saudi Arabia has deployed 30,000 soldiers to its border with Iraq after Iraqi soldiers withdrew from the area, the Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television reported on Thursday.
The Dubai-based satellite channel said it had obtained a video showing some 2,500 Iraqi soldiers in the desert area east of the Iraqi city of Karbala after they quit their positions on the border, leaving the border area with Saudi Arabia and Syria unguarded.
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If Iraq ends up split into three parts, Obama administration will claim a foreign policy victory by successfully replacing Sykes-Picot borders with the Biden borders.
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Reuters: The Iraqi prime minister's military spokesman denied on Thursday that the country's border guards had withdrawn from the frontier with Saudi Arabia, after a Saudi-owned television channel reported Iraqi forces had quit their posts.
"This is false news aimed at affecting the morale of our people and the morale of our heroic fighters," the spokesman, Lieutenant General Qassim Atta, told reporters in Baghdad. He added that the frontier was "fully in the grip" of Iraqi border troops.
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Saudi Arabia has troops to protect their country.
Who knew?
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Sunni vs Sunni. I wonder if the Saudis will fight. If they do fight I wonder who I will want to win recalling that the Saudis supplied 19 of the 20 9/11 hijackers.
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Mr. Wife said only those at the receiving end are considered gay, TopRev. The others are just doing what men do when an opening is available. Nonetheless, he never went into the coffeehouses on general principle in that part of the world.
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Obama administration will claim a foreign policy victory by successfully replacing Sykes-Picot borders with the Biden borders.
Actually those are the Michelle Bachman borders. I remember the MSM and liberals laughing hysterically when Michelle suggested them.
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Besoeker,
If these are indeed SANG, then those wacky al-Sauds have already made the decision not to let the rank and file anywhere near ISIS. The SANG is the royal family's personal bodyguard, and they are the most trustworthy and loyal troops the Sauds have.
If, on the other hand, they crack, we are in very deep kimchi.
Mike
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[Libya Herald] The Foreign Ministry in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... is said to be in disarray after an gang took it over last Thursday, ordering staff to go home. The group left at the end of the day, but the ministry is still now "a mess", according to a senior ministry official. Top staff are staying away out of fear they will be attacked, he says.
It was initially reported that the gunnies were from the Libya Revolutionary Operations Room (LROR) and that their objective was to defend the Political Isolation Law. On Thursday, the nearby Supreme Court was due to deliver a decision on the constitutional validity of the law. In the event it decided to postpone its decision because of the threat from protestors outside the building.
A letter, ostensibly from the LROR, was published on social media claiming that they had taken over the ministry. The letter demanded that the minister, Mohammed Abdulaziz, be sacked and that the Isolation Law be fully implemented throughout the ministry.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... the LROR has since called the letter a fake and denied occupying the ministry.
"I don't know if these people belonged to the Revolutionary Operations Room or not, but when I came to work on Thursday morning I found armed people closing all the front doors of the building. I returned home, as did my colleagues," Foreign Ministry official Alaa Kawan told the Libya Herald.
It appears that there may have a power struggle within the ministry. "I was told these armed people are supporters of the assistant deputy of financial affairs at the ministry, Ahmeda Al-Majri, who had a problem with the minister which led the latter firing him," another official said.
There were already problems in the Foreign Ministry prior to Thursday's incident. Abdulaziz has been working out of Cairo for the past few weeks after threats to him and his family. Deputy ministers, too, have been noticeable by their absence.
Diplomats report not being able to contact officials, with phone calls unanswered or phones switched off or out of coverage. When they do get through, they say, officials respond that they do not know what is happening.
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He was named Quds commander in 1998 and in May 2005 was described by Iran's ultimate authority, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei, as "a living martyr".
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From the "Target Non-Aquisition" files.
Once met a guy who did 'research' on intel in the middle east; dressed like slob, and drove an old taxi cab around. 'Cause who pays attention to a taxi driver...
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[DAWN] Pakistain Army claims on Wednesday that three more IED making factories with large quantity of explosives, anti-tank mines, a jacket wallah training center, a media facility and a rocket cache were recovered from the cleared area in North Wazoo Agency during the military offensive.
A front man for the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) told Dawn.com that Operation Zarb-e-Azb was progressing successfully as planned as six IEDs attached with four computers in a ready position were also recovered from a private hotel in the area.
"Forces are making swift progress in NWA as forces are hitting and shelling murderous Moslem hubs and hide outs," he said.
Sources said sniffer dogs are also being used in the cleared areas to find hidden explosives in the tribal agency bordering Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Yellow Wolf clutched at his chest and fell from his horse... former DG ISPR Major General (retd) Athar Abbas demanded that the military should give access to the media to such areas which have been cleared by the troops.
Earlier, Pak military helicopters shelled murderous Moslem hideouts in Khar Warsak area of 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... , killing 10 myrmidons.
Nearly 500,000 people have fled the offensive in North Waziristan, which is aimed at wiping out longstanding murderous Moslem strongholds in the area, which borders Afghanistan.
Tens of thousands of families have left for the town of Bannu, close to North Waziristan, while hundreds more have moved further afield to the towns of Lakki Marwat, Karak and Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... since the Operation Zarb-e-Azb began in mid-June.
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[Ynet] Iran pushed back Wednesday against US demands for concessions at nuclear talks, declaring it would never "kneel" over what curbs Tehran must accept to win an end to the sanctions choking its economy.
Both Iran and the six world powers it is negotiating with want an accord by July 20. But they parted last month without significant progress — and came to the table Wednesday with demands that the other side blink first. "We have never bowed down to imposition and we will not accept it in this round of talks either," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told news hounds in Vienna.
[PREMIUMTIMESNG] The Nigerian military on Monday said it has busted a major intelligence cell 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... and tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... some of its leaders.
The cell, the military said, played a major role in the kidnap of over 250 girls in Chibok on April 14 and the murder of the Emir of Gwoza on May 30.
In a statement by the spokesperson of the Defense Headquarters, Chris Olukolade, the military said it arrested Babuji Ya'ari, a man whom it said participated in both attacks
"The man, Babuji Ya'ari, who is also a member of the Youth Vigilante Group popularly known as Civilian JTF which he uses as cover while remaining an active terrorist, also spearheaded the murder of the Emir of Gwoza," the military said. "Babuji has been coordinating several deadly attacks in Maiduguri since 2011, including the daring attacks on Customs and military locations as well as the planting of IEDs in several locations in the town."
Mr. Olukolade, a Major General, said the arrest of Mr. Ya'ari led to the arrest of other members of the cell, including a woman, Hafsat Bako, who was responsible for paying sect members and had initially escaped to Gombe.
"Another female suspect named Haj Kaka who doubles as an armourer and a spy for the hard boyz group has also been arrested," he said.
About 217 of the teenage girls kidnapped from the Government Secondary School, Chibok, are still in the custody of the Boko Haram despite international efforts and condemnation. The military had said it knew the whereabouts of the girls but would not use force to free them to avoid casualties.
In an opinion he wrote for the Washington Post last week, President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... said he was not weak in his handling of the kidnap of the girls.
"I have had to remain quiet about the continuing efforts by Nigeria's military, police and Sherlocks to find the girls kidnapped in April from the town of Chibok by the terrorist group Boko Haram," the president said. "I am deeply concerned, however, that my silence as we work to accomplish the task at hand is being misused by partisan critics to suggest inaction or even weakness."
Mr. Jonathan's statement comes amidst criticisms of his government and the military's handling of the Chibok kidnap and the whole Boko Haram crisis, which has claimed over 13,000 lives since 2009.
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[Ynet] Jerusalem District Police have decided to bar visitors from entering the Temple Mount complex.
Earlier the body of an Arab boy was found near Jerusalem and the possibility that he was kidnapped and killed in retribution for the murder of the three missing Israeli teens is being investigated. His deaths sparked violent protest in East Jerusalem, with residents throwing stones and fire bombs at the police; no injuries were reported.
Israeli politicians' calls for the establishment of an independent Kurdish state in Iraq's north are "harmful to Kurds' interests," head of a Kurdish research institute told the Anadolu Agency on Wednesday.
"We're saying what you told us to say. Please don't hit us with THAT!"
"For years we have been voicing that there are no established ties between Israel and the Kurdish administration; however, following Netanyahu's recent remarks, some countries have started to think that we are backed by Israel," Farid Asasard from Sulaymaniyah-based Kurdistan Center for Strategic Studies said.
On June 29, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq as part of an Israeli plan to form an alliance between Tel Aviv and moderate forces across the region.
"The Israeli discourse promoting an independent Kurdish state is bringing damage, not support, to the Kurdish issue," Asasard said.
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I've asked before, but just how bad does your homeland have to be when you start to consider Yemen as the promised land?
The Yemeni coast guard has seized a boat in the Gulf of Aden carrying 42 illegal migrants from Africa, the authorities said on Tuesday.
The coast guard intercepted the boat in Yemeni territorial waters, arresting three crew members and the owner of the vessel, which had come from the Horn of Africa. The migrants were to be handed over to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) “to be returned to the country from which they embarked,” the authorities said without specifying which country.
Would-be migrants from Africa, mainly Ethiopians and Somalis fleeing poverty or violence, frequently set sail for Yemen in the hope of reaching oil-rich Saudi Arabia. In the past five years, more than 500,000 people — mostly Eritreans, Ethiopians and Somalis — have reached Yemen via the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea following treacherous journeys on vessels that are often overloaded.
Yemen is home to up to two million migrants, mostly illegals who entered from other countries of the Arabian Peninsula, according to unofficial estimates commonly cited by experts and humanitarian organizations.
Are the Somali refugees in Sa'naa as well behaved as the ones in Minneapolis?
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Would love to hear what Sam Kinison would have to say about this.
Rebels from northern and eastern Syria on Wednesday threatened to lay down their arms in a week if the country's exiled opposition does not help them fight the Islamic State (IS).
The ISIL thanks you...
"We, the leaders of the brigades and battalions... give the National Coalition, the (opposition) interim government, the (rebel) Supreme Military Council and all the leading bodies of the Syrian revolution a week to send reinforcements and complete aid," the statement said.
"Should our call not be heard, we will lay down our weapons and pull out our fighters," it added.
"They're killing us out here! Somebody do something!"
The statement comes three days after IS declared the establishment of a "caliphate" straddling Syria and Iraq, referring to an Islamic system of rule that was abolished nearly 100 years ago.
"Our popular revolution (against Syrian President Bashar Al Assad)... is today under threat because of the (Islamic State), especially after it announced a caliphate," said the statement.
The factions that signed the statement are local rebel groups based in Raqa, Deir Ezzor and parts of Aleppo province where fighting against IS has been most intense, and which are now under IS control.
IS first appeared in Syria's war in late spring 2013. It has since taken control of Raqa in northern Syria, much of Deir Ezzor in the east, and parts of Aleppo province. Rebel groups from those areas have frequently complained of being poorly funded even though they are leading the fight against IS, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
The statement comes days after US President Barack Obama called on Congress to approve $500 million to train and equip the moderate Syrian opposition.
It also follows a visit late last week by Secretary of State John Kerry to Saudi Arabia, during which he said: "The moderate Syrian opposition... has the ability to be a very important player in pushing back against (the militants') presence."
Some Syrian rebels seeking Assad's ouster initially welcomed the war-hardened IS fighters among their ranks. But their systematic abuses and quest for hegemony in opposition-held areas eventually turned the rebels against them and their project.
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Peace. I'm sure their Western Backers---who adore Peace---will be overjoyed.
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Well, when you're losing, giving up is usually an option. I'd be careful about the 'no hard feelings' clause, though.
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If I read it correctly, during the, umm, election Assad offered certain conditions and amnesty to those who joined Team Not Assad. If Team Assad saw something like this coming it would be a mutually beneficial move. Also, rumors are Al Nusra and ISIL are no longer dating.
Afghanistan’s delayed presidential election result will be announced on Monday, officials said, as the two candidates wrangle over alleged fraud in a political crisis that threatens the country’s first democratic transfer of power.
The five-day delay is to allow an audit of nearly 2,000 of the 23,000 polling stations nationwide in an anti-fraud audit designed to boost confidence in the vote-counting process.
But both Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah say they won on clean votes, and neither appears prepared to accept defeat — triggering the prospect of a power struggle as US-led troops withdraw after 13 years of fighting the Taliban.
“The preliminary result was supposed to be announced today, but because of the inspection of ballot boxes in 1,930 polling stations, it was delayed,” Ahmad Yousuf Nuristani, head of the Independent Election Commission, told reporters. “This is to guarantee transparency... we don’t give in to any pressure on us.”
The preliminary result will include all the votes cast in the June 14 run-off election.
Following a period for complaints to be heard, the final result is now expected on about July 24.
Abdullah, previously seen as the election front-runner, boycotted the vote count over alleged fraud, while Ghani said he backed the election commission and claimed victory by more than one million votes.
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The operation to transfer Syrian chemical weapons from a Danish freighter to a US military ship ahead of their destruction at sea kicked off on Wednesday, expected to last up to 20 hours.
With the vessels moored stern-to-stern within a wide safety zone set up around the port of Gioia Tauro in Italy, the first of 78 containers was taken off the Ark Futura by crane and manoeuvred onto the MV Cape Ray by a vast climbing platform. The first three containers to be transferred hold a total of 20 tonnes of mustard gas, while the remaining 75 contain among other things the raw materials for Sarin nerve gas, according to Italian media reports.
Once the chemical agents have been safely transferred, they will be destroyed in international waters in the final phase of a programme to rid Syria of its chemical arms stockpile.
“Proud of Italy’s contribution to international security, (and) a transparent operation which is environmentally safe,” Italy’s Environment Minister Gian Luca Galletti said on Twitter as the transfer began.
The port has stepped up security for the transfer, sealing off access roads and barring entry to any non-authorised people, while a military helicopter flew overhead as the Cape Ray arrived before dawn. Inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPAC) boarded the Ark Futura to check the cargo before the transfer began.
Once the Cape Ray moves back out into international waters, the process to destroy the agents and materials is expected to take between 45 and 90 days.
The US vessel has been equipped with two Field Deployable Hydrolysis Systems — portable treatment plants capable of “neutralising” the most dangerous Syrian chemical agents. The process should destroy more than 99 per cent of the chemicals, reducing the lethal agents into a sludge similar to low-level hazardous industrial waste, which will then be disposed of by private waste treatment facilities.
Syria shipped out its stockpile of chemical weapons under the terms of a UN-backed and US-Russia brokered agreement to head off Western air strikes against the regime last year.
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There's a pop up wall at the Y-12 facility, topped with spikes that can rip the undercarriage off an 18-wheeler going 50 mph. Needless to say, I'd think it'd do the same to normal car as well.
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A door for yourself to go through it;
A tunnel so he'll crash into it.
Some paint and a brush
From a tumbleweed bush
And a sound effects man oughtta do it.
[ARABNEWS] Violence in South Sudan's civil war including the execution of scores of hospital patients is the worst seen for decades and is an "affront to human dignity," Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday.
"The conflict has at times seen horrific levels of violence, including against health care facilities," said Raphael Gorgeu, South Sudan chief for Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, MSF).
"Patients have been shot in their beds, and lifesaving medical facilities have been burned and effectively destroyed. These attacks have far-reaching consequences for hundreds of thousands of people who are cut off from medical services," he said
"The violence carried out against the maimed and sick, and against those seeking shelter in hospitals and against medical facilities themselves, are not only violations of international laws and humanitarian principles, but an affront to human dignity," MSF said in a report that examined the situation in six months.
"Throughout its 30-year history in the country, MSF has repeatedly witnessed violence against staff, patients, vehicles, compounds and health care facilities," MSF said, noting that at least 58 people were killed in the grounds of four hospitals.
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"He's dying"
"No, He just has a cold"
*blam*
"He's dying....a lot"
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[ONLINE.WSJ] New York's top court struck down a law that made cyberbullying a crime, in what had been viewed as a test case of recent state and local statutes that target online speech.
The New York Court of Appeals, in a 5-2 ruling, held on Tuesday that the 2010 Albany County law prohibited a vast swath of speech "far beyond the cyberbullying of children," in violation of the First Amendment.
The court's ruling could stand as a guidepost for other state high courts hearing challenges to such laws, as well as for states and localities considering criminal penalties for cyberbullying, legal experts said. Besides Albany, four other New York counties and more than a dozen states, including Louisiana and North Carolina, have similar laws.
The Albany law made it a crime to electronically communicate "private, personal, false, or sexual information," intended to "harass, annoy, threaten, abuse, taunt, intimidate, torment, humiliate, or otherwise inflict significant emotional harm on another person" for no legitimate purpose.
Cohoes High School student Marquan W. Mackey-Meggs was the first to be charged under the law, after the then-15-year-old created a Facebook page in 2010 called "Cohoes Flame" and posted photos of other teenagers with captions that included graphic and sexual comments, according to court documents. He pleaded guilty, on the condition that he could challenge the constitutionality of the law.
Judge Victoria Graffeo, writing for the majority, described the posts as "repulsive and harmful" but declined the county's request to uphold the law in a form that would have barred narrow categories of electronic communications, including sexually explicit photographs and private or personal sexual information, sent with the intent to harm.
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The Albany law made it a crime to electronically communicate "private, personal, false, or sexual information," intended to "harass, annoy, threaten, abuse, taunt, intimidate, torment, humiliate, or otherwise inflict significant emotional harm on another person" for no legitimate purpose. Good decision. I would think that much of this is covered under other laws such as slander and libel laws. You can not enact a law that is going to protect people from the way they are going to feel about something. Words such as "harass, annoy, threaten, abuse, taunt, intimidate, torment, humiliate, or otherwise inflict significant emotional harm" are vague, fuzzy and otherwise meaningless; they are based on however you "feel" about what is being said. Some people may be very sensitive to such words whereas others just let the words just roll off their backs. Not a way to make laws.
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Actually I think the reason it got struck down is more the left is afraid of it being used against them, given their normal mode of operation in regards to behavior online.
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This entire debate is not about fences, or illegals, or helpless children. The issue at hand is DRUGS! Drugs coming into America and money going out. Narcotics enterprises are the life blood and 'coin of the realm' of both urban America and the wealthy Hollywood and political elite.
Does anyone really think that the legalization of the gateway drug marijuana in our cities and states, or Toronto Mayor Rob Ford or a detached thinker like our 'Crack Smoker in Chief' are societal anomalies? This is a business, and business is booming.
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That's right, and by extension, we should deploy the Secret Service to the border, as well. Although, I don't think there's enough hookers between Nuevo Laredo and Mexicali to service support a full deployment of agents.
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Canada not such a problem. However, it required $20m to catch 4 illegals. U.S. Immigration.
[BREITBART] Busloads full of illegal aliens, many of them children, from overcrowded detention facilities in Texas were flown into San Diego Tuesday morning before being driven north to Murrieta for processing, but plans changed when over 100 protestors prevented the bus from entering the Murrieta Border Patrol facility.
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Patrice Lynes, the organizer of the Murrieta protests, recounted the events that led to the buses turning back, and what demonstrators wanted to convey.
When Lynes heard of the transfers, she gathered a couple of friends and began staging demonstrations against the transfers, as well as in support of Border Patrol agents. On Sunday, June 28, the group that joined Lynes grew to a couple dozen. Lynes also gathered about 25 people--including moms, students, and former Border Patrol agents--to meet with staff in the office of U.S. Rep. Kevin Calvert (R-CA) to voice their concern over the lack of enforcement of current immigration laws.
After public outcry over the transfers, some plans to fly the detainees to Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, were canceled, but Tuesday's flights did take off, one of which headed for San Diego. After the plane landed, the 140 illegal aliens on board were escorted onto buses and driven up to the Murrieta Border Patrol station for processing.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... when the buses arrived, they found Lynes and fellow demonstrators waiting. After about 25 minutes, the buses backed down. It was later discovered that they were rerouted south to San Diego County's Chula Vista Border Patrol station--despite that station's inability to process the detainees.
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[BUSINESSWEEK] Fresh from success in Iraq, a Sunni murderous Moslem group tried to tighten its hold Wednesday on territory in Syria and crush pockets of resistance on land straddling the border where it has declared the foundation of an Islamic state.
Embattled Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... warned that the entire region is endangered by the 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... , whose gunnies have rampaged across his country in recent weeks. Facing pressure to step aside, al-Maliki said the focus must be on countering the threat — not wholesale leadership changes.
The myrmidon group has fed off the chaos and supercharged sectarian atmosphere of Syria's civil war to seize control of a large chunk of territory there. With its recent blitz across Iraq, it has expanded its gains while also effectively erasing the border between the two countries and laying the groundwork of its proto-state.
Led by an ambitious Iraqi myrmidon known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the group this week unilaterally declared the establishment of an Islamic state, or caliphate, in the land it has seized. It also proclaimed al-Baghdadi the head of its new self-styled state governed by Shariah law and demanded that all Moslems pledge allegiance to him.
Its assault in Iraq appears to have slowed after sweeping across the predominantly Sunni Arab areas and encountering stiff resistance in Shiite-majority regions. But in Syria, al-Baghdadi's group has forged ahead with an offensive against towns and villages held by rival rebels along the Euphrates River in the eastern province bordering Iraq.
Militants stormed houses in the frontier town of Boukamal, rounding up people suspected of opposing them, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The murderous Moslem group captured Boukamal on Tuesday, after fighters from the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front defected.
Al-Baghdadi's fighters also were battling rival factions at the northern entrance to the nearby town of Sheheil, a Nusra Front stronghold, forcing thousands of residents to flee.
The group — which has changed its name simply to the Islamic State — is reviled by most Syrian rebel groups, and many of them have been locked in a bloody six-month battle with it across northern Syria that has killed more than 7,000 people. A few smaller rebel factions have pledged loyalty to al-Baghdadi's organization out of fear or convenience, but most factions in Syria oppose it.
On Wednesday, nine Syrian rebel groups, including a powerful coalition called the Islamic Front, rejected al-Baghdadi's declaration of a caliphate. In a statement posted on Islamic websites, they said the declaration was "void" and pledged to continue the fight.
In Raqqa, the Syrian stronghold of al-Baghdadi's group, activists said the snuffies displayed more heavy weaponry believed to have been looted from Iraqi military bases.
Video posted by activists showed what appeared to be an Islamic State leader asking a group of people in a mosque, including children, to pledge loyalty to al-Baghdadi. The video appeared genuine and corresponded to other News Agency that Dare Not be Named reporting.
"Before, it was enough if you showed them support; now they're asking people to swear allegiance," said a Raqqa-based activist who spoke condition of anonymity because he fears retribution. He and other activists said the group also was punishing and jailing people suspected of breaking the traditional dawn-to-dusk fast for the holy month of Ramadan, which began Sunday.
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This new "Caliphate" is for all intensive purposes a Militant-led challenge to the traditional authority of Saudi Arabia as Keeper of the Islamic Holy Places, + Defender of the Faith + Faithful [Islamic "Holy See"], to add to the earlier challenge agz the Saudis by Shia Iran.
Al-BAGHDADI'S CALPHATE IS HERE TO STAY - IT WILL STRUGGLE FOR ITS EXISTENCE + LEGITIMACY FOR MANY YEARS.
Iff my personal dreams or visions from childhood hold true, + usually do, its true importance or significance is an islamic entity as inspiration to the future US convert to Islam known as the "Hidden Imam" or "Islamic Mahdi".
[ARABNEWS] Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal has urged the international community to unify ranks and immediately change its policy on Syria, where the war continues to worsen unabated within its borders.
"The least the world can do is prevent the systematic genocide of innocent people and ensure international protection to them," said Prince Saud.
"The world must unify to prevent the delivery of weapons to the Syrian government," said the prince in the editorial he wrote for "The Diplomat," a bi-monthly official journal owned and distributed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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[AnNahar] The headquarters of several security agencies and army checkpoints were the target of terrorist plots as the ongoing investigations revealed that the recently busted terrorist networks are linked.
Security sources told al-Akhbar newspaper published on Wednesday that investigations with terrorist networks revealed that the Interior Ministry headquarters along with the General Security directorate and the Internal Security Forces directorate buildings were the target of terrorist operations.
The sources also said that army checkpoints and al-Saha restaurant near the Great Prophet Mosque in Beirut's southern suburbs were on the list of targets.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... the newspaper said that Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq remains doubtful over such reports as more investigations should be carried out and further evidence collected.
According to As Safir newspaper, investigations showed that there are links between the recent security achievements.
The daily said that a French national originally from the Comoros islands in the Indian Ocean who had been tossed in the calaboose Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! last month at the Napoleon Hotel in Beirut's Hamra area, Duroy Hotel jacket wallahs in Raouche area and the Fnaideq terrorist cell are linked.
The newspaper reported that the three networks form one terrorist cell.
The army announced on Saturday that Alaa Kanaan and Mahmoud Khaled, members of a terrorist network who were recently apprehended during raids in Fnaideq, confessed to the existence of a cave in the region where they used to prepare explosives.
Also Thursday, the army raided another residence in Fnaideq, seizing a large cache of arms and military equipment.
On Wednesday, a Saudi suicide-bomber went kaboom! at the Duroy Hotel when he detonated his explosives during a security raid. His accomplice, also a Saudi citizen, survived the blast and is being questioned.
The two suicide bombers allegedly wanted to target al-Saha Restaurant in Dahieh.
Security forces began recently enforcing strict measures and carrying out raids in several areas after obtaining information on a plot to target hospitals and high-ranking security officials.
Early Tuesday a suicide kaboom at the entrance of Beirut's southern suburbs, Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... 's main bastion, killed a security officer and maimed 20 others.
The bombing in Tayyouneh came three days after a suicide kaboom in eastern Leb that killed one person and maimed 30.
[AnNahar] Army troops on Wednesday carried out raids in the Beirut area of Tariq al-Jedideh in search for suspects.
"The army is carrying out raids in Tariq al-Jedideh in search of suspects wanted on terrorism charges," LBCI television reported.
MTV said troops raided places near the Cola and Corniche al-Mazraa areas in Beirut.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde... al-Jadeed television said the army staged raids near the Beirut Arab University in Tariq al-Jedideh in search for runaways.
It also reported raids in the nearby Afif al-Tibi Street.
According to state-run National News Agency, one person was placed in durance vile Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! and a car was seized in Afif al-Tibi.
Al-Manar television said the arrested man was a Saudi national, adding that a woman who was with him was also apprehended.
"The raids in Tariq al-Jedideh are interconnected and part of the preemptive security plan that security agencies are implementing to bust terrorist cells," Army chief General Jean Qahwaji said as he entered a security meeting at the Grand Serail.
Later on Wednesday, MTV said security forces were still encircling a number of buildings in Tariq al-Jedideh.
The development comes amid heightened security measures in Leb in the wake of a number of bombings that rocked several regions.
Last week, a Saudi jacket wallahwent kaboom! at the Duroy Hotel in Beirut's Raouche area as General Security agents tried to storm his room. His accomplice, also a Saudi citizen, survived the blast and is being questioned.
Earlier in June, security forces raided the Napoleon Hotel in Beirut's Hamra district after obtaining information on a plot to target hospitals and high-ranking security officials.
Over 100 people were interrogated during the security raid but only a Frenchie who is originally from the Comoros islands was arrested and has reportedly confessed to being sent by the 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... to carry out a terrorist attack in Leb.
Also in June, a suicide kaboom at the entrance of Beirut's southern suburbs, Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... 's main bastion, killed a security officer and maimed 20 others.
The bombing in Tayyouneh came three days after a suicide kaboom in eastern Leb killed one person and maimed 30.
[IsraelTimes] Some 60,000 Israelis have downloaded a free app designed to assist in the event of an abduction.
Using the free United Hatzalah SOS smartphone app, subscribers can inform the emergency organization that they need assistance and provide their exact location via GPS technology. The app, developed by the Israeli start-up NowForce, requires one swipe of the finger.
The system contacts any family or friends that are programmed into the system during registration.
The app responds to problems that arise from placing an emergency call to the police in the event of a kidnapping situation. Security forces have to undergo lengthy legal processes to obtain permission to track an individual's cell phone signal, prolonging emergency response times and the chance of rescue.
Police received a distress call from one of three kidnapped Israeli teenagers minutes after they were taken, but security forces were unable to ascertain their exact location. They then waited nearly seven hours before responding to the teens' call for help, believing it was a prank.
Israeli media have reported that the teens were shot by their abductors in panic after they realized a call had been placed to police. The app allows for a discrete method to call for help, its creators say.
[Iraq Sun] Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki Wednesday offered amnesty to Sunni militants who fought against the government and took control of swathes of territories in the Sunni-dominated provinces even as he described the declaration of an Islamic state by the militants as a threat to the entire region.
"I announce an amnesty for all tribes and all people who have been involved in actions against the state, who now return to their senses. They are welcome. We will not exclude anyone except those involved in killings," Xinhua quoted Maliki as saying in his televised weekly speech.
Maliki's offer is seen as an attempt to reduce the number of Sunni fighters and to cut the support by the Sunni community to those who took up arms against the government.
Al-Maliki also warned that the latest declaration of Islamic state by Sunni extremists is a threat to the entire region.
"Daash (Arabic first letters of the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria or ISIS) has turned to be caliphate state and this is a message to the states in the region that you have become within the red circle.
Daash was speaking about a state in Iraq and Sham (Levant), now it is speaking about caliphate in the region," Maliki said in his speech.
Late in June, the ISIS, which seized large areas in Syria and in Iraq, formally declared the establishment of caliphate Islamic rule in both countries and demanded allegiance from all Muslims.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, was declared the caliph or religious ruler of the new caliphate, according to an online audio recording which was made on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The new caliphate is an attempt to revive the system of Islamic religious ruling which ended about 100 years ago with the fall of the Ottoman Empire during the World War I.
"The Islamic State decided to establish an Islamic caliphate and to designate a caliph for the state of the Muslims," Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, spokesman of the Islamic State, said in the recording.
Al-Adnani called on Muslims everywhere, not just those in areas under the group's control, to swear loyalty to al-Baghdadi and support him.
"Jihadi cleric al-Baghdadi is the caliph of Muslims everywhere," al-Adnani said, adding that "listen to your caliph and obey him".
"Support your state, which grows every day," he added In his speech Wednesday, al-Maliki also rejected claims by the semi-autonomous Kurdish region to control the disputed areas, which are now in the hands of the Kurdish security forces.
"No one has the right to exploit the events that occurred to impose a fait accompli, like what happened in some of the actions of the Kurdistan region. This is a rejected act," Maliki said.
Maliki's comments came as an answer to Kurdish regional leader Massud Barzani's comments that the Kurds did not need the Iraqi constitution to resolve the problem over disputed areas, as the Peshmerga (Kurdish security forces) have now controlled the disputed city of Kirkuk, the last part of the disputed areas described in the constitution.
"The Kurds have been waiting for 10 years for fulfillment of Article 140 but it was no use, now Article 140 is achieved and it is over, and we won't talk about it anymore," Barzani said.
The disputed areas are mainly ethnically mixed with the Kurds, Arabs and Turkmans and other minorities.
The Kurds demanded expansion of their autonomous region in northern Iraq to include the oil-rich province of Kirkuk and other areas in the Iraqi provinces of Nineveh, Salahudin and Diyala.
Maliki also rejected the latest press releases by Barzani about a referendum to establish a Kurdish state.
On June 23, Barzani told CNN in an interview that "the time is here for the Kurdistan people to determine their future and the decision of the people is what we are going to uphold".
Iraq has been witnessing its worst security conditions that began about three weeks ago when armed Sunni insurgents, spearheaded by the Al Qaeda splinter group Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), launched a surprise offensive that led to the debacle of Iraqi security forces, and the fall of a large part of the country's northern and western territories.
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[DAWN] In an apparent reaction to a former Army spokesperson's remarks, regarding Gen (retd) Ashfaq Parvez Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... 's reluctance in launching a military offensive in North Wazoo in 2010, Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... on Wednesday reprimanded the retired officials to be careful in issuing statements, DawnNews reported.
In an interview to BBC Urdu on Monday, former DG Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen (retd) Athar Abbas had said that the military leadership of the country was in favour of launching the offensive in 2010, however, it could not due to the indecision of Gen Kayani.
In a statement issued here today, Chaudhry Nisar advised those who have been a part of important national decisions to be 'reticent.'
"Being tactful and strategic is better for the nation and the country," he added.
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[ARABNEWS] Uganda said on Tuesday its forces in Central African Republic (CAR) had clashed for the first time with fighters from Seleka ...a 'mainly' Moslem rebel force in the Central African Republic that overthrew the govt, imposed a regime of rapine and looting on the country's non-Moslem population, and was then tossed by France. They still exist, getting funding and weapons from somewhere or other, licking their wounds, complaining about the oppression of Moslems, and occasionally raping and looting someone... , a mainly Mohammedan rebel force, killing 12, and would pursue them as part of a campaign against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
"Seleka had never tasted our fire, I think it was important that they taste our fire so that they are careful they are in bed with LRA and we shall treat them as such," Paddy Ankunda, front man for Uganda People's Defense Forces (UPDF) said.
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[Libya Herald] Benghazi Joint Security Room (BJSR) has called on mediators to negiotiate with Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... to get them to leave the city's Jalaa Hospital.
An Ansar group moved into the hospital and took over security ten days ago after BJSR forces pulled out. Three days ago, the BSJR ordered the total evacuation of the hospital, threatening to remove staff and patients by force if necessary. The hospital said that it was not possible. There have been reports, however, of staff and patients leaving, but these have been denied.
The Security Room yesterday asked Dr Awad Alqawiri, a member of both the new Benghazi Municipal Council and the city's hospitals and clinics association to help resolve with the matter.
"We were asked to meet and negotiate with the gunnies,"Alqawiri said.
This morning there was a meeting at the municipal offices involving the BSJR and the association as well as council officials and representatives from the Ministry of Health at which it was agreed to coopt Mabrouk Shnieb, who heads a local conflict resolution group, to talk to Ansar.
There will be another meeting tomorrow, Alqawiri said to assess the situation.
The BRJR has reportedly given the mediators three days to ensure Ansar quits the hospital.
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] The recent decision by an obscure administrative law board to cancel the Washington Redskins' trademark registrations came despite the fact the agency hadn't received a single letter from a member of the public complaining about the team's name, records show.
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, which is part of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, ruled last month that the name was disparaging to American Indians. The team is appealing that decision.
Politicians, including President B.O., have waded into the team name controversy, with many saying the team should change its name. But despite widespread media attention and a legal fight that goes back more than a decade, the USPTO recently acknowledged there's hardly been an avalanche of public complaints filed with the agency.
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PTO employee here. The "obscure administrative law board" is the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, a federal court. This wasn't agency rulemaking open to public comment. It was a dispute was between two private parties, the challenger having standing under the Lanham Act, under which the government can decline to extend trademark protections to offensive or disparaging marks. Much like state DMVs will not issue offensive or obscene vanity plates.
Interestingly:
In 1999, the TTAB issued a decision in which the trademark of the Washington Redskins football team was canceled under this provision, based on the claim that the name Redskins was disparaging to Native Americans.
On appeal to the federal district court and then to [Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, one step below the U.S. Supreme Court], the TTAB's decision was reversed in 2005 in Pro-Football, Inc. v. Harjo as the laches defense as applied to the particular plaintiffs who brought the complaint was not considered. However, this case was ultimately dismissed when remanded to the District Court.
Since the evidence was weak, the TTAB decision will almost certainly be appealed and reversed again. And hopefully dismissed with prejudice.
Funny how the government can decline to enforce "disparaging" marks, yet cannot bar vexatious litigants from using the courts to engage in harassment and lawfare.
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They started out as the Boston Braves. Their coach was a native American. He didn't object.
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And yet the Treasury keeps printing and coining money with slaveholders on them. How offensive is that to another minority? BTW, the natives of the (NY) Finger Lakes region do find the paper with Washington offensive. Something to do with some of their ancestors joining the British effort on Fort Stanwix resulting in George ordering a 'scorched earth' retaliation campaign they remember to this day.
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A list of other sports teams with Indian-like names: Names of sports teams. I hope that I haven't inadvertently planted the idea of other work to do by the Feral government for years to come--or God forbid created another agency or two. I don't know what they will do about Mexico's and Canada's teams with Indian-like names. Probably work for the State Department's negotiations and new treaties.
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Careful Besoeker, you might get your front door kicked down at 4:00 a.m. by a SWAT team from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and then Lois Lerner might show up.
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Well the government needs to give its PR department (the MSM) something to write stories about. Otherwise all those nasty ones like the border chaos, IRS, etc. might be ran. No one wants that. Do they?
[AnNahar] For those who believe in the yeti, the news can only be described as, well, abominable.
Science has cast its methodical eye on samples of hair reputed to have been left by the Himalayan snowman of legend... and determined they came from a bear or a goat.
Bummer. Another mystery turns out not to be so mysterious after all.
Similarly crushing disappointment lies in wait for those who believe in Big Foot, the yeti's North American counterpart; in the almasty, the elusive man of the Central Asian wastes; and in the orang pendek, a bipedal hominid reputed to roam the mountainous forests of Sumatra.
The evidence, reported in the British journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, comes from DNA testing of hair samples attributed to "anomalous primates," a neutral term for these creatures of legend.
The probe added the firepower of biotechnology to a debate that has been raging for decades.
"On the one hand, numerous reports including eye-witness and footprint evidence, point to the existence of large unidentified primates in many regions of the world," its authors said.
"On the other, no bodies or recent fossils of such creatures have ever been authenticated," they said. "Modern science has largely avoided this field."
- Missing humans? -
Theories for "sightings" of yeti and co. have ranged from surviving Neanderthals and other minor branches of the human family tree, to a species of giant ape, Gigantopithecus.
The Sherlocks, led by University of Oxford genetics professor Bryan Sykes, sent out a request in May 2012 to museums and individual collectors -- including renowned mountaineer Reinhold Messner -- with samples of hair that reputedly came from "anomalous primates."
They received 30 hair samples in good enough shape to allow gene sequencing.
Three were said to be from yetis.
One of these was found to have come from a Southeast Asian goat called a serow (Capricornis sumatraensis).
The other two -- one from Ladakh in India and the other from Bhutan -- threw up an intriguing link in the DNA bank with... Ursus maritimus, or the polar bear.
The hairs likely came from a distant descendant of the polar bear or a local cross with a brown bear, the scientists suggested.
"If these bears are widely distributed in the Himalayas, they may well contribute to the biological foundation of the yeti legend, especially if, as reported by the hunter who shot the Ladakh specimen, they behave more aggressively towards humans than known indigenous bear species."
Eight samples attributed to the almasty came variously from the brown bear (Ursus arctos), or from cows, horses and racoons.
A single sample thought to have came from an orang pendek was traced to a Malaysian tapir (Tapirus indicus).
The 18 "Big Foot" samples were found to have a wide range of real world sources, ranging from the American black bear, raccoon and cow to a porcupine and either a wolf, coyote or dog.
Perhaps the biggest disappointment was a "Big Foot" tuft in Texas which turned out to have come from a hairy human -- a European, judging by the genetic match.
The authors throw down the gauntlet to the "cryptozoology community" -- those who believe in the existence of fabulous, hidden creatures -- to throw up more convincing evidence to back their assertions.
"The techniques described here put an end to decades of ambiguity about species identification of anomalous primate samples and set a rigorous standard against which to judge any future claims."
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I remember reading that one Bear species identified was thought to have gone extinct about 200,000 years ago.
Additionally his postulation that Zana could be from a relict, as opposed to modern, human group which migrated into the Caucasus 10k+ years ago is also intriguing.
Whatever the case, at least he had the eggs to bring his reputation and access to technology to the subject.
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Actually I suspect that it's another form of stalking, it's a reverse-psychology thing. I think I'll just continue to spend another decade nonexistant for tax purposes.
[ARABNEWS] A leading Jordanian jihadist ideologist on Wednesday denounced the declaration of a "caliphate" by Sunni militants in Iraq and Syria, warning against more bloodshed.
"Can every Muslim and weak person find refuge in this caliphate? Or would it be like a sharp sword against all opponents?" Issam Barqawi, known as Abu Mohammed Al-Maqdessi, wrote on Facebook and on jihadist websites.
On Sunday, militants previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), declared a "caliphate," an Islamic form of government last seen under the Ottoman Empire, straddling parts of Iraq and Syria.
The militants, who renamed themselves the Islamic State (IS), already control large swathes of territory in north and east Syria, and this month captured vast stretches of northern and western Iraq.
They ordered Muslims worldwide to pledge allegiance to their chief, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi.
Once mentor to Iraq's now slain Al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, before the two fell out over ideological differences, Maqdessi warned against "Mohammedans who kill other Mohammedans".
Experts say the declaration of the caliphate is a direct challenge to Al-Qaeda and could spark a contest for the leadership of the global krazed killer group.
They said it was unlikely that major groups linked to Al-Qaeda would immediately declare their allegiance to IS.
Jordan's jihadist movement is generally dominated by anti-IS groups that support Al-Qaeda and its Syrian ally, Al-Nusra Front.
Jordan is already suffering from hosting more than 600,000 Syrian refugees, and has long faced the challenge of dealing with its own Islamist krazed killers, many of whom have joined jihadists or Al-Qaeda-linked groups in neighboring Iraq and Syria.
On Monday, King Abdullah II appealed for international support to help Jordan deal with regional turmoil after the caliphate was declared.
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[DAWN] A former front man for the Pakistain Army says that as army chief, retired General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... baulked at launching a military operation in North Wazoo in 2010 for fear of a backlash from the religious right.
[Tolo News] At least eight Afghan National Army (ANA) personnel were killed and 16 others maimed, including civilians, in a suicide kaboom in Kabul, Wednesday morning.
The incident occurred at 7 a.m. near Kabul University when a jacket wallah denoted his bomb targeting a bus carrying ANA soldiers, according to the Afghan Ministry of Defense (MoD).
The Afghan Ministry of Interior (MoI) confirmed that the suicide bomber was on foot and detonated his explosives as the army bus approached a roundabout in Kart-e Sakhi.
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[Jpost] Israel has been forced to cope with waves of terrorism of various types and intensities since its founding and to this day. These waves of terrorism are carried out by various terrorist organizations (Paleostinian and Shi'ite) in various arenas (internal, along the borders, overseas) and using various methods (suicide kabooms, bombs, kidnappings and negotiations, shootings and more).
In the decade since the end of the second Intifada, and since the death of Yasser Arafat and his replacement by Abu Mazen, there has been a significant lull in the number of terrorist attacks on Israeli soil, the wave of suicide attacks has subsided and the number casualties from terrorist attacks has diminished. On the other hand, there has been a significant increase in the scope of the threat of high trajectory fire from terrorist organizations in the northern arena (Leb) and the southern arena (the Gazoo Strip and Sinai peninsula).
There have been several developments in recent years that have had a direct impact on the scope and nature of terrorism today and in the immediate future. The first development is reflected in the tectonic changes that have taken place in Arab countries in recent years, known as the "Arab Spring." The most important changes being reflected in the revolutions taking place in the countries bordering Israel as well as in those in the second and third cycle.
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#1 A few years ago a car sticker "have Arabs, have terrorism" appeared on a lot of cars in Israel. It was, of course, outlawed as racist.
Somehow, the deleterious effects of political correctness, the tool the left loves to use to squelch debate, needs to be weakened to defend a country. Looks like Israel as well as the U.S. suffers from this.
Catherine Herridge, came out with a book in 2011 entitled "The Next Wave." In it, she makes a case for the growing internal terrorist threat of home-grown jihadists. Both Israel and the U.S. needs to address this threat. Israel, through necessity, has addressed this to the extent they seem to have minimized suicide boomer threats. Maybe the U.S. not so much because of PC and a huge bureaucracy that hamstrings effectiveness.
Another aspect, of recent in the U.S. is the lack of transparency and trust that has been growing in the U.S. during this administration and to some extent during the last administration. It creates a us (government) against them (citizens) mentality. You see some of this pushback occurring now.
[DAWN] KARACHI: In what appeared to be a surge in targeted operations against hard boyz in the metropolis, police in an hour-long exchange of gunfire with them killed four hard boyz on the outskirts of the city, followed by an encounter in Orangi Town where another suspected myrmidon who was allegedly involved in the recent killings of over half a dozen of coppers was rubbed out.
The law-enforcement agencies have sped up action against hard boyz associated with the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain, killing over a dozen hard boyz in recent days, in view of a possible blowback of the ongoing army operation in North Wazoo.
Malir SSP Rao Anwar said police received secret information that some TTP hard boyz were allegedly hiding near Aliabad Goth, off the Superhighway, in Gadap City. As the police party reached there, it came under a gun attack by the myrmidons, he said. He added that police re-enforcement was called in from Malir district. In an ensuing encounter, he said, four hard boyz were killed and arms and ammunition were seized from their custody.
No coppers was hurt in the exchange of fire, he added.
Four TTP suspects killed in Gadap; another rubbed out in Orangi
Gadap City SHO Khan Nawaz said that the encounter took place in Shadi Goth, nera Aliabad, at around 4pm that continued over an hour. He said the dear departed did not look like foreigners.
The SHO added that three suspects was struck down in his prime while the fourth one was incarcerated Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! in a maimed condition. He was being taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital when he died.
According to a hospital official, one of the dear departed aged 23 years while the three others were in their mid-30s. All sustained multiple bullet wounds. Three TT pistols and one Kalashnikov assault rifle were seized from them, said the police.
Shortly afterwards, another encounter took place in Orangi Town where one suspected myrmidon was killed while three coppers sustained bullet wounds.
One of the maimedcoppers was in a critical condition, said SSP West Irfan Baloch.
He said that the police had received information that a gang of hard boyz belonging to the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (Swat) involved in the killing of coppers was allegedly hiding near Banaras Bridge.
Subsequently, the officer said, police contingents reached the spot and an exchange of fire ensued. In the encounter, three coppers were maimed while one suspect was bumped off.
The dear departed was identified as Omair alias Shikari. He was allegedly involved in the killing of seven coppers, including two traffic coppers, in Pirabad and Mominabad recently, said SSP Baloch. A 9mm pistol was seized from him. The maimedcoppers were shifted to a private hospital on National Stadium Road where the condition of one of them was said to be critical, the officer said.Three or four other hard boyz managed to escape, he said.
Earlier in the first major targeted operation against suspected hard boyz after the 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... airport attack, seven suspected hard boyz were killed in hours-long gunbattle in militancy-infested Manghopir during a joint operation by the Rangers and police on June 20. It was followed by the killing of two more suspected hard boyz in Kalakot and Site areas, respectively, the same day.
Two more TTP men were killed in Federal B. Industrial Area by the paramilitary force on June 27.
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When asked if he was concerned that people might stop using Facebook, Twitter and other social networks as a result of U.S. intelligence activities, Flynn answered matter-of-factly: "Yes." I have. Ditto...
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I remember a legion of acquaintances who emailed me invites to the various 'social' websites. However, I remembered the admonition of (then) Commodore Grace Hopper who said - automation and privacy are mutually exclusive. Never touched the stuff. So I'll leave it to the inquisitive can troll through the Rant's archive if they want to know about me.
[Libya Herald] Ras Lanuf and Sidra oil terminals were formally handed back to the Libyan government this evening in a ceremony in Ras Lanuf attended by both Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Thinni and Ibrahim Jadhran, the man who 11 months ago seized and closed them.
The front man for Jadhran's Cyrenaica federalists, Ali Al-Hassi, announced yesterday that the two ports would handed back today.
When functioning normally, the two terminals are able to process half a million barrels of oil exports a day.
At this evening's handover after Maghreb prayers, Jadhran said it would have happened earlier but for the behaviour of the General National Congress which he called "illegitimate" — a reference to the belief that it had illegally by continuing in office beyond February.
"We are handing them over as a goodwill gesture after the election of the House of Representatives which will hopefully lead the country into better circumstances," he stated.
For his part, the Prime Minister, at the head of a ministerial delegation, said that he was delighted that Ras Lanuf and Sidra were now back in official hands "without using force". This was "the end of the oil crisis", he declared.
He left Ras Lanuf immediately after the handover.
Speaking to the Libya Herald afterwards, Ibrahim Jadhran said that the main aim in handing back the two terminals today was "to finish the crisis and to help the newly elected parliament to succeed. We expect the new parliament to serve the Libyan nation, free from any ideologies. The former Congress was the reason for the crisis because of it has been dominated by Islamists who never think about the interest of the Libyan people".
Cabinet secretary Ahmed Lamin put a slightly different slant on it.
"What happened today was the final phase of the agreement signed between the government and the Petroleum Facilities Guards last April. Every side fulfilled their commitments." He added: "The Prime Minister has instructed the head of the Petroleum Facilities Guard, Ali Al-Ahrash, to make a new plan to protect the oil ports in order to prevent such things to happen in future."
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The United States will increase security measures at overseas airports that have direct flights to the United States, the Department of Homeland Security said on Wednesday. The department did not specify which airports or what countries would be affected, nor did it say what triggered the enhanced measures.
I'm presuming that we're working in concert with the appropriate countries, though it's certainly possible that Champ is haring off after claiming authority to act unilaterally without anyone's consent...
"We are sharing recent and relevant information with our foreign allies and are consulting the aviation industry," DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said in a statement.
U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday the Obama administration was pushing for increased security precautions at European airports because of concerns that al Qaeda operatives in Syria and Yemen had teamed up to develop bombs that could be smuggled onto planes.
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UK terror alert: body searches at British airports
Holidaymakers face invasive physical checks and lengthy delays at Britain's airports amid fears that jihadists returning from Iraq and Syria plan to target transatlantic flights with laptop explosives and 'body bombs'
Holidaymakers face invasive physical checks and lengthy delays at Britain's airports amid fears that jihadists returning from Iraq and Syria plan to target transatlantic flights with laptop explosives and 'body bombs'.
A tough new security regime was imposed on passengers after American intelligence suggested that al-Qaeda was plotting to use Western fanatics to bring down a US-bound plane.
Travellers at Heathrow were subjected to 'vigorous' body searches and clothing and shoes were swabbed for traces of explosive. Passengers were ordered to switch on laptops, mobile phones and other electronic devices, and bags were taking twice as long to pass through scanners, according to reports.
Passengers boarding American-bound planes were understood to have undergone a second round of checks before boarding their flights.
A memo sent to all airports by the Department of Transport urged staff to enhance checks, with laptops subject to particular scrutiny.
In Manchester, a passenger reported taking an hour to pass through security.
Airport security was stepped up across the UK, the US and other countries amid fears that al-Qaeda bomb experts have successfully designed an explosive that can bypass current checks. It is feared that Western jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq, including hundreds of Britons, have been recruited as would-be suicide bombers.
Intelligence suggests that al-Qaeda in Yemen, known as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), and specifically its master bomb maker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, have linked up with the Jabhat al-Nusra jihadists in Syria and passed on bomb-making skills.
It was unclear whether the suspected new explosive could be deployed in an electronic item such as a laptop, soaked on clothing or surgically implanted in a bomber. All such techniques have been tried by Asiri in the past.
Beefed-up security at foreign airports with direct flights to the US was requested by Jeh Johnson, the American secretary of homeland security. The move underlined growing White House unease at the apparent failure of the UK and other European countries to stop young Muslims heading to Syria and Iraq to join Islamist groups.
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"The move underlined growing White House unease at the apparent failure of the UK and other European countries to stop young Muslims heading to Syria and Iraq to join Islamist groups."
I don't understand why them going to flypaper Syria, et al., is a problem. Let them go; just don't let any survivors return.
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Great, and here I am going to Europe Sunday, returning Saturday; probably get patted down 2x, and my (work) computer confiscated....
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Thanks B, going to visit Airbus sites. no matter how many times I have been crawling around inside and under it, that A 380 is one big honking machine....
makes the 747 look like a Piper Cub.
The radical al-Qaeda offshoot Isis has told other Sunni rebel groups which joined the uprising in Iraq to swear an oath of allegiance and give up arms.
The group declared a caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria it controls and changed its name to the Islamic State.
Other rebel groups are trapped between the Islamic State which has taken over their areas, and a Shia-dominated government they are fighting against.
The Islamic State has suppressed other groups in parts of Syria it controls.
It has imposed a monopoly of its rule, by force if need be.
Most recently, it took over the important town of al-Bu Kamal controlling the Syrian side of the main border crossing with Iraq after three days of violent festivities with other Syrian rebel groups. It is now reported to be manning checkpoints and detaining suspected rivals.
Now, the same process of monopolising control seems to be under way in Iraq.
The other Sunni rebel groups, made up of former Iraqi military personnel, tribal elements and adherents of Saddam Hussein's Baath party, face a dilemma.
Tribal and rebel military sources say that after two days of talks in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , they have been told that they must take an oath of allegiance to the new caliphate, and that only fighters from the Islamic State are allowed to bear arms.
Even if they take the oath, other fighters will still have to hand in their weapons.
As one senior rebel source put it, "our revolution has been hijacked".
But he said the other groups did not intend to engage in what they believed would be a losing battle with the Islamic State, which is rapidly consolidating its grip on the mainly Sunni areas that fell to its advance three weeks ago.
The non-Isis rebels are dismayed, and bitter that the Americans, who are giving $500m (�290m) to similar rebel groups in Syria, regard them as snuffies because they joined the insurgency against the US forces here, but later fought and expelled al-Qaeda.
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[THEHIMALAYANTIMES] When Washington imposed sanctions in June 2012 on 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... leader Abubakar Shekau, he dismissed it as an empty gesture.
Two years later, Shekau's skepticism appears well founded: his Islamic myrmidon group is now the biggest security threat to Africa's top oil producer, is richer than ever, more violent and its abductions of women and kiddies continue with impunity.
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[DAWN] The revelation of spying on a major political party of Pakistain is a grave, unwarranted and totally unacceptable interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign country and is condemned, said the Pakistain People's Party (PPP) front man Senator Farhatullah Babar in a statement issued on Wednesday.
The PPP expressed grave disappointment over the revelation that the United States' National Security Agency (NSA) had been spying on the party in 2010.
The PPP called upon the government to take up the issue at the diplomatic level and seek guarantees that such grave violations of international law will not take place in the future.
"Such insensitive operations and unacceptable interference in the affairs of a political party of a sovereign country will serve no purpose except to increase resentment and distrust," the PPP front man said.
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Spying on people in other countries is the NSA's job. In the midst of all the keyhole peeping they've been up to, I am personally reassured they had the time to do what they're actually supposed to do.
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[Washington Post] Endorsement of the NSA's Internet surveillance programs by a bipartisan privacy board deeply disappointed civil liberties activists Wednesday while providing a measure of vindication for beleaguered U.S. intelligence officials.
James Clapper, director of national intelligence, welcomed the conclusion by the independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board that the National Security Agency's Internet spying on foreign targets in the U.S. has been legal, effective and subject to rigorous oversight to protect the rights of Americans.
Activist groups panned the report as a dud.
It was a dizzying turnabout for a privacy board that in January drew criticism in the other direction for branding the NSA's collection of domestic calling records unconstitutional.
As they unanimously adopted their 190-page report on Wednesday, the five board members — all appointed by President Barack Obama I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go... —sought to explain their largely favorable conclusions about surveillance programs that have provoked worldwide outrage since former NSA systems administrator Edward Snowden revealed them last year.
At issue is a spying regime, first definitively disclosed in Snowden documents last year, under which the NSA is using court orders to obtain foreign customers' emails, chats, videos and texts from Google ...contributed $814,540 to the 2008 Obama campaign... , Facebook and other U.S. tech companies under a program known as PRISM. The documents also showed that the agency is intercepting foreign data as it transits fiber optic lines in the U.S.
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Spying on other countries - even current allies - is NSA's JOB, dammit. Get used to it.
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James Clapper, director of national intelligence, welcomed the conclusion...
James would no doubt "welcome" any conclusion, so long as it isn't his.
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Unfortunately, they consider 'foreigners' like the Muslims consider 'apostates', as in these days incorporating the Tea Party, real conservatives,...posters at the Rant. Hi, there NSA!
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I never worked for the NSA, although I know a few people who did. I think they've been abused about as much as the IRS has -- some of it willingly, some of it not.
The problem today is that our enemies hide among our friends as much as they live in their own nations. I don't know the NSA's collection strategy, but I doubt they worry much about Rantburg. I think the IRS spies on us more, and Obamacare gives them far more power -- and leeway -- to spy on us all. That's just one more reason to rescind the entire mess.
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"Spying on other countries - even current allies - is NSA's JOB, dammit. Get used to it."
So you wouldn't have a problem with allies spying on US citizens, right??
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Spano, I didn't say that I would like it if our allies spied on us. However, I expect that they will try. I hope that the NSA and other agencies can prevent them being successful.
I assume that they are trying.
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[Washington Post] A suspected ringleader of the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans was ordered held without bond during a Wednesday hearing in D.C. federal court.
Ahmed Abu Khattala, who has pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to a single conspiracy charge, was seized in a secret raid in Libya in June. He was held aboard a Navy warship before he was brought to the District to face trial.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael DiLorenzo said in court Wednesday that multiple witnesses know of Abu Khattala's involvement in the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. DiLorenzo said the defendant's statements corroborate that evidence.
The State Department in January designated Abu Khattala a terrorist, calling him a "big shot" of the Benghazi branch of the hard boy organization Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... , a group that arose after the 2011 fall of the Libyan regime of Muammar Qadaffy ...whose instability was an inspiration to dictators everywhere, but whose end couldn't possibly happen to them... .
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[HOUSTON.CBSLOCAL] Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he wants to know why the immigrants he turns over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement keep coming back.
"I want an explanation and investigation as to why 3,800 of the people in my jails that are charged with state and local crimes are here illegally," Arpaio told Newsmax TV. "We turn them over to ICE and they keep coming back over and over again."
Arpaio stated that he has sent a letter to Homeland Security demanding an answer.
"How come they're not deported, or if they are, why do they keep coming back across the border?" Arpaio questioned.
More than 52,000 unaccompanied children have been detained after crossing the Texas-Mexico border since October in what President Barack Obama Because I won... has called a humanitarian crisis. Many of the migrants are under the impression that they will receive leniency from U.S. authorities.
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Make the organ donors or start executing them as terrorists. Once word gets out, they'll stop coming back.
No, I have no mercy for people invading my country.
Or rather, I have enough mercy to not be at the Vlad the Impaler option yet.
[ARABNEWS] A young, red-bearded ethnic Chechen has rapidly become one of the most prominent commanders in the breakaway Al-Qaeda group that has overrun swaths of Iraq and Syria, illustrating the international nature of the movement.
Omar Al-Shishani, one of hundreds of Chechens who have been among the toughest jihadi fighters in Syria, has emerged as the face of the Islamic State (IS), appearing frequently in its online videos — in contrast to the group's Iraqi leader, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, who remains deep in hiding and has hardly ever been photographed.
In a video released by the group over the weekend, Al-Shishani is shown standing next to the group's front man among a group of fighters as they declare the elimination of the border between Iraq and Syria. The video was released just hours before the myrmidon group announced the creation of a caliphate — or Islamic state — in the areas it controls.
"Our aim is clear and everyone knows why we are fighting. Our path is toward the caliphate," the 28-year-old Al-Shishani declares. "We will bring back the caliphate, and if God does not make it our fate to restore the caliphate, then we ask him to grant us martyrdom." The video is consistent with other News Agency that Dare Not be Named reporting on Al-Shishani.
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[ARABNEWS] CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines: Suspected communist guerrillas shot and killed a Philippine town mayor Wednesday while he was traveling in a convoy with army troops from a charity event, military officials said.
Regional military commander Maj. Gen. Ricardo Visaya said at least three New People's Army rebels opened fire with M16 rifles and maimed Mayor Mario Okinlay in his southern mountain town of Impasug-ong in Bukidnon province. Okinlay later died in a hospital.
An army battalion commander was among military personnel in the convoy but the mayor, who was riding on a cycle of violence in front of two vans and an army truck, was the only one hit by rebel gunfire. The guerrillas fled when the soldiers returned fire.
Okinlay and the soldiers had come from a medical charity mission in a village and were returning to town when they came under attack, regional army front man Capt. Christian Uy said.
The Maoist rebels have been fighting since 1969 in one of Asia's longest-running Marxist insurgencies. Their numbers have dwindled amid battle setbacks, surrenders and factionalism, but the resilient guerrillas are still regarded the country's most serious security threat.
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[AnNahar] Four Tunisian soldiers were killed by a land mine Wednesday in the country's northwest, where the army has been battling Islamist hard boys, the defense ministry said.
"Four soldiers aboard a Hummer were killed by a land mine kaboom during an anti-terror operation" at Jebel Ouergha in Kef province, said ministry front man Rachid Bouhoula.
Weapons "caches of the gunnies were destroyed and units of the security forces pursued these elements," Bouhoula told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The incident is the latest in a string of fatalities caused by roadside kabooms and land mines in the remote border region, parts of which have been declared closed military zones as the security forces press a campaign against Death Eaters holed up there.
On Tuesday, four soldiers and two coppers were maimed when a roadside kaboomwent kaboom! in the Kef region, two days after a similar attack injured another policeman.
Separately, a landmine killed a 19-year-old Tunisian overnight near Mount Chaambi, further south, according to the interior ministry.
Since late 2012, security forces have been battling jihadists hiding out the Kef and Mount Chaambi regions and thought to be linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
More than 20 soldiers and paramilitary police have been killed in the campaign, often by improvised land mines.
Last month, AQIM for the first time grabbed credit for an attack in Tunisia, which has been rocked by Islamist violence since the 2011 revolution that toppled a decades-old dictatorship and touched off the Arab Spring.
The May 27 attack on the home of the interior minister, Lotfi Ben Jeddou, in the western Kasserine region, killed four coppers.
Authorities say they have gained the upper hand in the fight against jihadists active along the Algerian border, while acknowledging the campaign to root them all out will take time.
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[ARABNEWS] Lebanese politicians failed to elect a president on Wednesday, for the eighth time, to succeed Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... whose term ended in May, prolonging a political vacuum as the country struggles with violence, economic decline and an influx of Syrian refugees.
The civil war in neighboring Syria has aggravated long-standing rivalries in Leb, where political power is divided among religious communities — the presidency goes to a Maronite Christian, the Parliament speaker is a Shiite and the prime minister a Sunni.
Parliament speaker Nabil Berri said he would postpone a vote for a new president until July 23 because not enough parliamentarians turned up to the assembly on Wednesday. Political groups have boycotted sessions in recent weeks and blamed each other for the deadlock.
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[DAWN] The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Development Programme (UNDP) Country Director Marc-Andre Franche has contradicted the allegations of PTI chief Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... regarding the interruption in its election project on May 11, 2013 polling day, saying that none of its consultants were ejected from the offices of the Returning Officers.
The UNDP Country Director also insisted that none of its computers were shut down after the victory speech of Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Prime Minister 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... as alleged by Khan on May 11.
Marc-Andre Franche said that none of the consultants were ejected from the offices of Returning Officers or witnessed their computers being shut down.
It may be mentioned that the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) chief alleged in his speech at a public rally in Bahawalpur last week that soon after the 'victory speech' of Nawaz Sharif, the data operators stopped sending computerised result copies to the Election Commission of Pakistain (ECP).
Earlier, the ECP had also denied Khan's claim that a UNDP election result gathering project was halted after Nawaz Sharif's speech on May 11 last year.
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[NEWS.YAHOO] Students and civil servants in China's Moslem northwest, where Beijing is enforcing a security crackdown following deadly unrest, have been ordered to avoid taking part in traditional fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Statements posted Wednesday on websites of schools, government agencies and local party organizations in the Xinjiang region said the ban was aimed at protecting students' wellbeing and preventing use of schools and government offices to promote religion. Statements on the websites of local party organizations said members of the officially atheist ruling party also should avoid fasting.
"No teacher can participate in religious activities, instill religious thoughts in students or coerce students into religious activities," said a statement on the website of the No. 3 Grade School in Ruoqiang County in Xinjiang.
Similar bans have been imposed in the past on fasting for Ramadan, which began at sundown Saturday. But this year is unusually sensitive because Xinjiang is under tight security following attacks that the government blames on MoslemDeath Eaters with foreign terrorist ties.
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Bully for the Celestials. I wonder, would a few generations of intense persecution improve Islam?
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The problem with stamping out religious beliefs in a population, is they all still believe anyway. Look at the return of the Orthodox Church in Russia; two generations, and it popped right back up.
It's easier to believe than not, 'cause, like, who knows?
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Ever met anyone worshiping the old Aztec Gods, Tex?
West African states lack the resources to battle the world's worst outbreak of Ebola and deep cultural suspicions about the disease remain a big obstacle to halting its spread, ministers said on Wednesday. The outbreak has killed 467 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since February, making it the largest and deadliest ever, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
West African Health ministers meeting in Ghana to draw up a regional response mixed appeals for cash with warnings of the practices that have allowed the disease to spread across borders and into cities.
Abubakarr Fofanah, deputy health minister for Sierra Leone, a country with one of the world's weakest health systems, said cash was needed for drugs, basic protective gear and staff pay.
"In Liberia, our biggest challenge is denial, fear and panic. Our people are very much afraid of the disease," Bernice Dahn, Liberia's deputy health minister, told Reuters on the sidelines of the Accra meeting.
"People are afraid but do not believe that the disease exists and because of that people get sick and the community members hide them and bury them, against all the norms we have put in place," she said.
Authorities are trying to stop relatives of Ebola victims from giving them traditional funerals, which often involve the manual washing of the body, out of fear of spreading the infection. The dead are instead meant to be buried by health staff wearing protective gear. Neighboring Sierra Leone faces many of the same problems, with dozens of those infected evading treatment, complicating efforts to trace cases.
The Red Thingy Cross in Guinea said it had been forced to temporarily suspend some operations in the country's southeast after staff working on Ebola were threatened.
"Locals wielding knives surrounded a marked Red Cross vehicle," a Red Thingy Cross official said, asking not to be named. The official said operations had been halted for safety reasons. The Red Thingy Cross later said only international staff were removed.
A Medecins Sans Frontieres center in Guinea was attacked by youths in April after staff were accused of bringing the disease into the country.
Ebola causes fever, vomiting, bleeding and diarrhoea and kills up to 90 percent of those it infects. Highly contagious, it is transmitted through contact with blood or other fluids. WHO has flagged three main factors driving its spread: the burial of victims in accordance with tradition, the dense populations around the capital cities of Guinea and Liberia and the bustling cross-border trade across the region.
Health experts say the top priority must be containing Ebola with basic infection control measures such as vigilant hand washing and hygiene, and isolation of infected patients.
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There will ALWAYS be money shortages in public health situations.
It's easier in every case to take the money and just leave.
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[Libya Herald] Mohammed Al-Harizi, the head of the Justice and Construction Party's Committees' Council, who was released last night, says his kidnappers threatened to execute him next Monday and that one of them burned him with a lit cigarette.
The onetime front man for the National Transitional Council was seized on Sunday night and released late yesterday.
Giving details of his two-day abduction at a presser this afternoon with his wife by his side, Harizi said that he genuinely expected to be killed, as threatened, on 7 July.
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[OMOJUWA] The minister of state for defence, Senator Musiliu Obaniko just minutes ago alerted Nigerians to the fact that APC chieftain and former Governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu is behind the Boko Haram menace in Nigeria. The minister made the comment via his Twitter page. Tweets by the minister himself are marked #MO, an indication that this is the position of the minister and pointedly could be assumed to be the position of the government he represents.
Nigerians will now expect that the Federal Government will go ahead to arrest Senator Bola Tinubu and the friends mentioned by the minister. At this point, it appears minister of state Obanikoro will be very useful to investigations around finding those behind Boko Haram. One can expect the government to make arrests soon, a failure to do so would indicate a continued state of cluelessness on the part of the authorities.
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President Obama promises that the U.S. troops he's sending to Iraq won't get into another shooting war, but a top White House adviser has listed several scenarios that would prompt direct military action against Islamic militants.
Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser to the president, said the U.S. "has a role to play in a number of different ways" that could result in military engagements in Iraq. The government in Baghdad is fighting militants loyal to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), and Mr. Obama has sent nearly 500 U.S. troops to protect the U.S. embassy and the airport in Baghdad, and to serve as military advisers.
"I think the threats that we would look to, for instance, would include an evaluation of whether ISIL is posing a threat to U.S. interests that would necessitate our taking action against them, as we have against terrorist organizations in other parts of the region," Mr. Rhodes said. "I think the security and safety of our personnel would certainly be of profound interest to the United States."
In addition to those two possibilities for military action, Mr. Rhodes told foreign journalists Tuesday that the Obama administration would consider engaging ISIL forces if the U.S. believes it can make "a positive difference."
"We have left that door open if we believe it can make a difference, a positive difference, or if we believe that it is in our core interest to do so because we face a counterterrorism threat or a threat to our personnel," Mr. Rhodes said. "And I'd add keeping that Embassy open and keeping our operations running in Iraq is what facilitates our ability to cooperate with the Iraqi Government and provide them with security assistance and political support."
Mr. Rhodes said the president "has been very clear that there's not a U.S. military solution that can be imposed on the current dynamic in Iraq."
"Our assessment teams are on the ground," he said. "Our joint operation centers that we are establishing with the Iraqis will help support their efforts to coordinate operations against ISIL as well. But those are Iraqi operations, ultimately."
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IIUC, IOW the Bammer is still adhering to his minimalist approach, + putting conditions or restrictions on any direct US military intervention on behalf of overseas US Allies, effec "leaving the battlefield" to be mainly fought over by US Allies themselves agz invading third-party protagonists + expansion-happy OWG Globalist Co-Superpowers.
Iff one is hoping to change the future by preventing Washington from geopol retreating across the World back towards CONUS-NORAM = EASTPAC, Hawaii + US West Coast; + preventing same from destroying Guam + other Pacific islands via "Earthquake/Tectonic Bombs" as
part of anti-China, anti-Nuclear Islam
"strategic/theater denial" [A2/AREA-DENIAL], LOOKS LIKE ITS GOING TO BE A LONG L-O-N-G
LLLOOOOONNNNNGGGGG HARD STRUGGLE.
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Matt, they probably have to tie multiple fatalities before returning fire. And even then, they are supposed to call WH to ask permission.
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Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser to the president, said the US. "has a role to play in a number of different ways" that could result in military engagements in Iraq..
Yes, vectoring Russian fighter pilots from kill box engagement to kill box engagement, and providing accurate BDA could be characterized as "playing a role."
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Yep we'll be in a shooting war in Iraq and the media will not say a word, the Obamaistas will not let the media in theater to report and we'll have a lot of "training accidents coming home to closed casket funerals...It will make all of our clandestine operations back in the 70s look like they were on national tv in comparison.
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Considering that this is the same Ben Rhodes who was involved with the "Benghazi video excuse," is that a big surprise?
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We shrugged and walked away when Affirmative Action hiring became the norm. We shrugged and walked away when promotions were driven by Affirmative Action criteria. We shrugged and walked away when college admissions fell under the unspoken Affirmative Action mantel of approval. We shrugged and moved away when unchecked neighborhood crime and the gerrymandering of congressional districts permitted intellectual giants such as Maxine Waters, Elijah Cummings, and Sheila Jackson Lee to enter congress and sow the seeds of division and hate and entitlement within their own racist caucus.
Egyptian police arrested four members of an militant group on Wednesday over bomb blasts near a presidential palace, although another group claimed it had planted the explosives.
Any reason will do...
Two bomb disposal experts, a police colonel and lieutenant colonel, were killed on Monday as they attempted to defuse bombs outside the Ittihadeya palace in eastern Cairo.
Security forces "arrested four suspected of being involved in the latest blasts that happened near the presidential palace," a security official said. They were "among the most dangerous terrorist elements of Ansar Beit Al Maqdis (Partisans of Jerusalem) and are being interrogated," the official added.
Three were arrested at dawn in the southern Cairo suburb of Helwan, while the fourth was detained in the capital's Nasr City district, he said.
Sinai-based Ansar Beit Al Maqdis has claimed some of the deadliest attacks in Egypt since the ouster of president Mohammed Mursi last July.
But the bombs that exploded on Monday were actually claimed by another group, Ajnad Misr (Soldiers of Egypt), which had warned on Friday that it had planted them. It said then that it had not set off the bombs to avoid civilian casualties, and warned passers-by to stay away from the palace.
The authorities claim that groups like Ansar Beit Al Maqdis are linked to Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood, which was blacklisted as "terrorist organisation" in December after a deadly bombing north of Cairo. The Brotherhood denied that bombing as well as all other attacks, saying it is resorting to only "peaceful protests" in favour of Mursi.
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[Ynet] IDF retaliates after 13 rockets launched on southern Israel; Iron Dome battery intercepts 2.
The IAF responded quickly to seven mortars fired from Gazoo Wednesday evening, striking rocket-launching terrorist cells in the southern Gazoo Strip and continuing a general escalation in tensions since the bodies of three Israeli teenagers were discovered in the West Bank on Monday.
One rocket was launched at Sderot Wednesday overnight, damaging a structure in several vehicles. No injuries were reported.
Two rockets were fired on Ashkelon after the IAF attack. One was shot down by the Iron Dome system and the other fell in an open area causing no damage. Another two rockets fell in open areas near Eshkol. Finally, a barrage of 8 rockets were fired at Ofakim and Sdot Negev. One was shot down, the rest fell in open territory and no injuries were reported.
The earlier mortar rounds were fired into the Eshkol Regional Council all striking in open territory. No injuries or damage was reported, but previous rockets over the last several days have struck cars and buildings including one factory in Sderot which burned to the ground after being hit.
The Israeli government has yet to agree to any specific military action in response to the murder of the teens and increasing rocket fire from Gazoo after two inconclusive meetings of the security cabinet which lasted hours.
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... as tensions increase, so does the suspicion that officials are preparing for a wider military strike, most likely to be focused on Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in Gazoo. IDF reservists reported receiving calls from the army to update their personal details including telephone number, address, and bank account numbers.
While these check-ups from the army are routinely conducted for most reservists every several months, calls made during the severe escalation in Israel has given rise to speculation that reserve forces could be called up for a ground operation.
Civilians, both Israel and Paleostinian have also played a role in recent escalations including violent protests which erupted in Umm al-Fahm where protesters were met by 400 riot police.
Jewish protesters filled the streets of Jerusalem Tuesday yelling "death to Arabs" and calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take Dire Revenge" for the lives of the three Israeli teens.
Earlier Wednesday the body of an Arab teen from Jerusalem was found in a suspected Dire Revenge" murder sparking Arab protests in East Jerusalem where police faced barrages of rocks and fireworks from the protesters.
Philippine marines captured a jungle base of the Abu Sayyaf group following a fierce battle that left two soldiers injured in the southern Philippine province of Sulu.
Marine Captain Maria Rowena Muyuela said troops recovered a huge cache of improvised explosives from the Abu Sayyaf base in Patikul town believed used by Radulan Sahiron, a senior leader of the group. Quoting military reports, Muyuela said the rebels were forced to flee - dragging their casualties - when more marine reinforcements arrived at the town, a known stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf.
Brigadier General Martin Pinto described the Abu Sayyaf camp as "well fortified". He said, "The seized camp is fortified with connecting trenches, well—established firing positions and with hundreds of improvised explosive device emplaced in all approaches."
He added that the persistence of troops forced the heavily-armed militants to break into smaller groups and flee. He said, "Our troops had to breach the enemy's defenses and squeeze themselves to the complex terrain to be able to get closer to the objective. Despite the Abu Sayyaf's terrain advantage, the marines held their ground and returned fire as they inched their way to the camp, clearing several enemy satellite camps and the eventual capture of the Abu Sayyaf base."
Pinto said, "The persistence of the troops to push forward forced the heavily-armed Abu Sayyaf militants to escape and scamper towards different directions, taking along with them undetermined number of casualties - their dead and wounded members - while on the government side, we only have two marines who suffered minor wounds from the battle."
Authorities said there was no indication that Sahiron was among the dead or injured in the fighting which began on June 30, but there were reports that the Abu Sayyaf had fled with some of their kidnapped victims.
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I can't find it. Fred recently changed out a lot of the old images for new. Low boredom threshold, has our Fred.
News reports from Mudug region indicate that security forces in Galkacyo have arrested dozens of potential suspects.
The Chief of Galmudug Police Station, Abdi Jamac Abdulle, reported to the media that the people arrested will undergo investigations and those found guilty will be taken to court. These search operations are by the Galmudug administration to strengthen the security situation in Galkacyo.
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You can also save money on you auto insurance with Galkacyo, 15 minutes wise. Or so I'm told.
(Just tell the lizard to shut up.)
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[DAWN] Qatar Airlines will resume flight operations to and from Bacha Khan Airport in Peshawar from tomorrow (Thursday), a travel alert posted on its website said, whereas police claimed to have arrested a TTP commander involved in the attack on Peshawar airport.
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An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced a son of deposed president Mohammed Mursi and one of his friends to a year in prison each for possession and use of hashish.
Any reason will do...
Abdullah Mursi, 19, and his friend were arrested on March 1 after allegedly being found in possession of two hashish joints while they were in a car parked by the roadside in Qalyubia province, north of Cairo. The two were freed the next day pending investigation after agreeing to give urine samples, which the prosecution says tested positive.
A court in Banha, in Qalyubia province, on Wednesday handed down sentences of one year in jail and fines of 10,000 Egyptian pounds (around $1,400 or 1,025 euros) each. The defendants can appeal the verdict.
Defence lawyer Mohamed Abu Leila said the case "was fabricated".
"Lies! All lies!"
"Rulings nowadays don't deserve comment; the entire system is defective," Abu Leila said.
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You don't roll a joint to smoke hash; charges are bullshit.
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You don't roll a joint to smoke hash; charges are bullshit.
The charges probably are bullshit, but a not-uncommon way to smoke hash is to chop it up and mix it with tobacco, either in a pipe or a cigarette. Or so I've heard.
Really funny, but NSFW
I also get a right ripping good bloody chuckle from male-feminist bloggers online at such websites as Good Men Project and XY, safe places where male feminists share their stories of how to be men without being anything that being a man traditionally entails. You can find such self-gelding castrati in homemade YouTube videos and the painfully self-deballing video marvel "Dear Woman" of a few years back. You should read the whole thing.
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Great article and some truly spectacular comments. Best read I have had in a long while.
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Claiming to be a "Male lesb!an" probably will not going to fly either as a mating strategy. When I think of "feminist," I think of NOW. Many, maybe most, of these feminists aren't that fond of men.
As I recall, the YAF used to pass out popcorn to Lefty students engaging in "hunger strikes" ("Oooh! I skipped my Snicker bar this afternoon in support of [insert cause here].")
Wonder if something of like intent could be accomplished at NOW, etc. confabs?
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I doubt if any woman worth waking up next to is going to hate men and be a rabid feminist.
Some of the crap in the media about feminism these days makes me think of "The World According to Garp" which was a huge slam of the feminist movement and probably more predictive of its evolution than anyone thought at the time.
A good woman demands two things:
Respect
And a man that is a MAN.
Don't forget the ten manly arts:
Change a diaper
Mow a yard
Change the oil on a car
Cook
Shoot a pistol
Bait a hook with a worm
Wash dishes
Do laundry
Iron a shirt
House break a puppy
That may sound whipped but a man that can do all that does not marry because he wants a surrogate mommy. He can care for his family, defend his family and not live like a slob in the basement of his parents' home.
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[Ynet] Politicians decry murder as 'despicable', while Paleostinian protesters hurl stones at security forces, Shuafat residents say teen's death was retribution to kidnapping and murder of Israeli teens: 'We will sacrifice our lives for the Shahids.'
Hundreds of Paleostinian protesters have been rioting in East Jerusalem since the early hours of Wednesday morning, following the murder of an Arab teen from Shuafat. Two photojournalists were maimed, including a Ynet photographer.
Protesters in Shuafat burned tires, hurled stones, Molotov cocktails, fireworks and pipe bombs at IDF and police forces at the scene and called out "we will sacrifice our lives for the deaders." Security forces used stun grenades to disperse the crowd and cordoned off the area to stop others from entering the neighborhood.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber... Israeli politicians from across the political spectrum condemned the murder and vowed security forces would work to find the killers. However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... they were careful not to claim it was retribution for the murder of three Israeli teens that were presumed to have been kidnapped since June 12 but were discovered dead in a West Bank valley late Monday.
The burnt, dead body an Arab teenager was found early Wednesday morning in Jerusalem Forest, and police were investigating a possible connection to the reported kidnapping of a Paleostinian youth in East Jerusalem earlier in the day. Another possibility being investigated is that the boy was killed as part of a domestic issue or "honor killing."
The incident occurred only a day after Israel buried three teenagers.
Protesters also vandalized three light rail stations in East Jerusalem, smashing glasses and destroying security cameras.
Protesters also threw stones at security forces in Beit Hanina, as well three pipe bomb. One of the pipe bombs went kaboom!, and one person was hurt and taken to hospital. There were no injuries among the coppers.
Two news photographers were hurt during the festivities, one of them a Ynet photographer.
Several hundreds of the Shuafat residents have also made their way to the slain teen's home to offer their condolences to the family.
Residents condemned the murder, saying their son was a victim of the kidnapping and murder of the three Israeli teens.
Murder is murder Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber... Israeli politicians from both the left and the right quickly condemned the boy's death. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat vigorously condemned the murder, and said: "This is a horrible and barbaric act which I strongly condemn. This is not our way and I am fully confident that our security forces will bring the perpetrators to justice. I call on everyone to exercise restraint."
Justice Miniser Tzipi Livni Tweeted that "the murder of the Arab boy in Jerusalem (is a) shocking incident that must be condemned, (and we should have) zero tolerance for it." Livni vowed security forces work to bring those behind his death to justice.
Rightist Housing Minister Uri Ariel also condemned the murder, saying via Twitter that "The murder of the Arab boy and the burning his body this morning is a despicable act and shocking. I call the police to spare no efforts, to reach the killers fast and bring them to justice."
The family of Naftali Frenkel has also commented on the death and said "If the Arab youth was murdered because of nationalistic motives then this is a horrible and horrendous act.
There is no difference between (Arab) blood and (Jewish) blood. Murder is murder. There is no forgiveness or justification for any murder," said Yisahi Frenkel, Naftali's uncle.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Saudi Arabia has deployed 30,000 soldiers to its border with Iraq after Iraqi soldiers withdrew from the area, the Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television reported on Thursday.
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[PREMIUMTIMESNG] The Nigerian military on Monday said it has busted a major intelligence cell of the 
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[Ynet] Jerusalem District Police have decided to bar visitors from entering the Temple Mount complex.
[BREITBART] Busloads full of illegal aliens, many of them children, from overcrowded detention facilities in Texas were flown into San Diego Tuesday morning before being driven north to Murrieta for processing, but plans changed when over 100 protestors prevented the bus from entering the Murrieta Border Patrol facility.
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[ARABNEWS] Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal has urged the international community to unify ranks and immediately change its policy on Syria, where the war continues to worsen unabated within its borders. 
[IsraelTimes] Some 60,000 Israelis have downloaded a free app designed to assist in the event of an abduction.
Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz 
[Libya Herald] Benghazi Joint Security Room (BJSR) has called on mediators to negiotiate with 
[WASHINGTONTIMES] The recent decision by an obscure administrative law board to cancel the Washington Redskins' trademark registrations came despite the fact the agency hadn't received a single letter from a member of the public complaining about the team's name, records show.
If Besoeker's famous 'Prawn and Rice Peri Peri' recipe shall not be altered in any way. Go ahead.... SUE ME ! 
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The radical al-Qaeda offshoot Isis has told other Sunni rebel groups which joined the uprising in Iraq to swear an oath of allegiance and give up arms.
[ARABNEWS] A young, red-bearded ethnic Chechen has rapidly become one of the most prominent commanders in the breakaway Al-Qaeda group that has overrun swaths of Iraq and Syria, illustrating the international nature of the movement.
[ARABNEWS] CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines: Suspected communist guerrillas shot and killed a Philippine town mayor Wednesday while he was traveling in a convoy with army troops from a charity event, military officials said.
[AnNahar] Four Tunisian soldiers were killed by a land mine Wednesday in the country's northwest, where the army has been battling Islamist
West African states lack the resources to battle the world's worst outbreak of Ebola and deep cultural suspicions about the disease remain a big obstacle to halting its spread, ministers said on Wednesday. The outbreak has killed 467 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since February, making it the largest and deadliest ever, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
[Libya Herald] Mohammed Al-Harizi, the head of the Justice and Construction Party's Committees' Council, who was released last night, says his kidnappers threatened to execute him next Monday and that one of them burned him with a lit cigarette.
[OMOJUWA] The minister of state for defence, Senator Musiliu Obaniko just minutes ago alerted Nigerians to the fact that APC chieftain and former Governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu is behind the Boko Haram menace in Nigeria. The minister made the comment via his Twitter page. Tweets by the minister himself are marked #MO, an indication that this is the position of the minister and pointedly could be assumed to be the position of the government he represents.
Egyptian police arrested four members of an militant group on Wednesday over bomb blasts near a presidential palace, although another group claimed it had planted the explosives.
[Ynet] IDF retaliates after 13 rockets launched on southern Israel; Iron Dome battery intercepts 2.
Philippine marines captured a jungle base of the Abu Sayyaf group following a fierce battle that left two soldiers injured in the southern Philippine province of Sulu.
[DAWN] Qatar Airlines will resume flight operations to and from Bacha Khan Airport in Peshawar from tomorrow (Thursday), a travel alert posted on its website said, whereas police claimed to have arrested a TTP commander involved in the attack on Peshawar airport.
An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced a son of deposed president Mohammed Mursi and one of his friends to a year in prison each for possession and use of hashish.
