James Comey, the man nominated by President Barack Obama I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go... to be the next FBI director, said on Tuesday that he believed the use of waterboarding as an interrogation technique was torture and illegal. Comey, the former deputy attorney general from 2003-2005, told senators at a confirmation hearing that he had made his views known when he was serving in the George W. Bush administration but lost battles to stop the CIA from using so-called enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding and sleep deprivation on enemy combatants. Comey became known for refusing to certify the legal aspects of National Security Agency domestic surveillance during a 2004 stint as acting attorney general while then-Attorney General John Ashcroft was seriously ill in the hospital.
Though many of the questions posed to Comey were in relation to his views on interrogation techniques, some senators asked about surveillance programs like those recently disclosed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Comey, who has been out of government for eight years, said he could not comment on the specifics of the programs. But he said the collection and analysis of metadata like telephone and email logs are valuable tools in counter-terrorism work. The candidate was also questioned about the use of drones, which Mueller said last month have been used on U.S. soil for some limited law enforcement activities.
Comey is expected to be approved by the Judiciary Committee easily, and the full Senate is expected to follow suit before Mueller's term expires in September.
An influential Islamist cleric turned rebel commander urged Syrian insurgents on Wednesday to focus their war on President Bashar Assad's Alawite heartland to create a "balance of terror" and help turn the tide of the conflict.
After seizing large tracts of Syria's north and east and parts of the center, the rebels - short of heavy weaponry - have struggled to weaken Assad's grip over most major cities and his western Alawite communal stronghold along the Mediterranean coast that so far has been largely unscathed by the civil war.
"One has to concentrate on their strongholds and on their dwellings and their infrastructure. If (Alawites) continue living as they're doing in peace and safety while wedded to the regime they will not be affected. They will not think of abandoning Assad," said Islamist Sheikh Anas Ayrout.
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Well, once the post-acquittal,riots start, this should make it easier to hang the albatross around "Choom-daddy's" neck. Not that that the lame-stream media will ever do such a thing.
The Navy says it has landed an unmanned jet on the aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush today, marking the first time a drone has made an arrested landing on a carrier -- generally thought to be the toughest flying job in naval aviation.
The Northrop Grumman X-47B demonstration vehicle landed on the Bush off the coast of Virginia today, following by nearly two months the first successful catapult launch from the same carrier. while the Chinese try to learn how to have a human launch...
The "tailless" aircraft still used a "tailhook" to stop its motion once it touched down on the flight deck.
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus praised this milestone in the growth of unmanned military aviation.
"By evolving and integrating new technology like the X-47B and the unmanned aircraft to follow, carriers will remain relevant throughout their 50-year lifespan," Mabus said in a released statement Wednesday.
The Navy announced the successful landing at 10:45 a.m. Pacific time
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Those were strong young men in a towel wrapped locker room shower scene. They weren't gray. Well, Tom Skerrit was a little gray. Actually his moustache was really gray. The other guy was just balding, he wasn't gray.
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FYI WAFF > VIDEO: MODEL OF FUTURE RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT CARRIER WID PAK-FA.
Russan Navy's version = copycat? of the UK's CVF = QUEEN LIZ [-ski] CLASS??
* SAME > F-35: BORN IN THE USSR?
Also, as per FREEREPUBLIC, the USN intends to name the next CVN21 [FORD-class CVN/CVNF] the new "USS ENTERPRISE".
Correct me iff I'm wrong, but I recall an Artic in the MSM-Net last week it costs the USN too much to demobilize or scrap the CVN-65, as per the on-going sequester - I STILL SAY GIVE CVN-65 TO THE BRITS FOR TRAINING + USE UNTIL THEIR CVF COMES IS COMMISSIONED.
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Call Sign 'Salty Dog 502' That is the Strike Aircraft Test directorate @ PAX ( I was the Grumman-side Maint. Chief 91-94) and the 500 series have been traditionally reserved for the Attack community. I expect they will soon be hanging some ordnance on them for evaluations. Can the obligatory Buddy Store be far behind? Lawn darts need love too, ya'know.
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7.Abbottabad is home to soldiers and terrorists. Yes, the garrison town is home not just to many soldiers but also terrorists. One resident told the commission that the town was free of terrorist attacks precisely because so many militant families lived there, the Guardian reported
What did Bush say about countries harbouring terrorist?
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Osama also complained of feeling pain in his kidneys + heart, but yet never visited a doctor.
WHITNEY = MADONNA = TEXAS-SIZED ASTEROIDS = WE FEEL THE PAIN.
Egypt's general prosecutor has ordered the arrest of the Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader Mohamed Badie and nine other members for allegedly inciting violence outside the Republican Guard headquarter where 55 people were killed.
Arrest warrants were issued for Badie's deputy, Mahmoud Ezzat, and party leaders Essam el-Erian and Mohamed el-Beltagi, , according to state news agency Mena.
Thousands of Brotherhood followers have been holding a vigil near a mosque in northeast Cairo demanding the reinstatement of Mohamed Morsi, who was ousted as president by the army.
It was still unclear who provoked the violence outside the Republican Guard HQ, where Morsi was believed to be held in custody. The Brotherhood said its members were staging a peaceful sit-in when they were fired on by police and troops.
The House Homeland Security Committees hearing Wednesday on the Boston Marathon bombing will be conspicuously missing a witness from the agency at the center of the investigationthe Federal Bureau of Investigationand the debate could grow heated over that fact.
The FBIs absence is striking. Its role in handling warnings from Russian officials about the deceased terrorist suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaevwho was investigated and later fell off the radarhas been called into question.
Whether federal law enforcement officials failed to connect the dots that could have prevented the tragedy remains under investigation by the House Homeland Security Committee, and the FBIs role is an important part of that examination.
Under the leadership of Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, the committee is investigating the Boston terrorist attack, with a deep examination into the integrated law enforcement and intelligence communication network that sprang up in the wake of Sept. 11, 2001, under the Department of Homeland Security, to prevent continued stove-piping of information.
The committee is comparing the Boston bombing with other terrorist efforts since 9/11 and is keen to answer whether any communication or security breakdowns that occurred in the lead-up to the Boston attack are endemic of systemic problems in need of reform.
The FBI has conducted closed-door briefings for all members of Congress and special ones for Intelligence Committee members, but none specifically related to the Homeland Security Committee investigation. It is refusing to testify publicly on the attack, citing its ongoing investigation and pending prosecution of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
As long as the case is open, I dont see how we can participate in public hearings, said Paul Bresson, a spokesman for the FBI. Weve been providing briefings to Congress on this investigation.
In a decision that is getting little play in the media, lawmakers moved last month to block President Obama from arming Syrian rebels in what is turning out to be little more than a sectarian civil war.
House and Senate Intelligence panel members have voted to prevent the arming of the rebels by placing severe restrictions on available funding, committee insiders told The Hill.
The concern of many on Capitol Hill is that the administration plan would let weapons fall into the hands of terrorist groups, such as the many linked to al Qaeda, The Hill noted. The article further reports:
The exact nature of the restrictions is unknown because the committees voted privately on the basis of classified information. What is known is that the restrictions are sufficient to prevent the administration from delivering arms as planned, according to a source familiar with the actions.
The committee voted to allow them to make some movement on this, but its restricted, said one Senate panel insider, who declined to elaborate on the total aid or the restrictions added by the Intelligence panels, which both met again on Tuesday. It was a very restrictive amount.
Reuters reported Monday that none of the military aid that the United States announced weeks ago has arrived in Syria, according to an official from an Arab country and Syrian opposition sources.
President Obama on Tuesday nominated two major campaign bundlers to two of the most prized ambassadorships available anywhere -- London and Rome -- part of a pattern that has seen him reward at least 18 top fundraisers with plum diplomatic positions since 2009.
The White House said the post of ambassador to the United Kingdom will go, subject to confirmation, to Matthew Barzun, an Internet pioneer and investor who served as the Obama campaign finance chairman in 2008, as ambassador to Sweden from 2009-2011, and then again as finance chairman for the president's 2012 campaign.
The ambassadorship to Italy will go to John R. Phillips, a Washington lawyer who chairs the president's commission that selects candidates to be White House fellows. Phillips is the husband of Linda Douglass, a former network journalist who served as communications director for the Obama White House's Office of Health Reform.
According to the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics, Barzun bundled at least $500,000 for the Obama campaign in 2008 and at least $500,000 again in 2012; Phillips bundled at least $500,000 for Obama in 2012 and between $200,000 and $500,000 in 2008.
It's not unusual for presidents to reward their large campaign bundlers with ambassadorships. As long as the new ambassadors don't solicit hookers openly I think we're okay...
From what, swksvolFF? An ambassadorship, or soliciting hookers?
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One of the big problems in US Foreign policy is the way we choose ambassadors based on the size of their donations.
On the other hand the state department lifers probably aren't much better, but still, the whole thing reeks of third world oligarchy and has for a long time.
[NationalJournal] Last week, it scaled back several required provisions. They aren't the first. And probably won't be the last.
"It's the joyous, simultaneous, nonlinear equation from hell," said Kip Piper, a former top official at HHS and OMB who is now a consultant in close contact with IT vendors. Piper said it's no surprise that the administration has given up on certain functions given the technological complexity needed and the short time-frame.
The struggles with technology and administrative complexity have not come as a recent surprise to administration officials; they've been negotiating them for months already. By eliminating non-essential tasks, they may be violating the letter of the health reform law, with its rigorous timetables and multiple requirements, but they may be more likely to get the core functions right.
Lots of weaseling in that final may coupled with more likely... Also a cute little flow chart, for those who like such things.
Mr. Casey has more than 30 years of experience as a growth-oriented business executive, financier, and entrepreneur. Beginning his career in investment banking, he specialized in merger and acquisition transactions at The Blackstone Group and was a managing director at UBS Warburg LLC, where he provided investment banking services to large capitalization companies. He was founder and president of Lowell Partners LLC, a private investment firm specializing in energy projects and providing growth capital to small businesses. He also was a managing partner of the Fremont Group, where he was responsible for private equity investments focused in the communications, energy and infrastructure sectors.
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Known from INCEPTION it wouldn't work. Was never intended to work. It was intended as a 'foot in the door' to make the 'only alternative' a full government health care system.
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I use the Fox at home, but when I visit from the office...
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Serco has many government accounts. I used to work for them after they bought out a company that I was a part of. Besides their corporate culture being Dilbertish, they are decent enough for a huge company. The North American division has been working Air Force, Marines, Navy, DHS, DOE and others for decades.
On June 26, the Paris Court of Appeals found me guilty of defamation against television station France 2 and broadcaster Charles Enderlin.
After waiting one long week following the verdict, I was finally able to get the written arguments of the judges. The arguments state that -- despite the hoax eventually becoming obvious to all who looked at the case -- I was found guilty for having said that the al-Dura news report was a hoax...
It's been called the mother of all fauxtography, the biggest media hoax of our times, the most damaging image ever attached to Israel, an icon of hatred, blood libel on an international scale: the shooting of Mohamed al Dura, a 12 year-old Palestinian boy allegedly gunned down by murderous Israeli soldiers on September 30, 2000 at Netzarim Junction in the Gaza Strip..
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I have a little theory. Sine De Gaulle's return in 1058 France has been West's protector of the Arab cause and specially of the Palestinians. But peace in Near East means the Arabs no longer need France and its influence in Near East goes to the toilet.
So Al Dura's death was very convenient for France. Now, at that time power in Frace was shared between Socialist Prime minister and Jacques Chirac. Jospin was a rigidly honest Calvinist whose car was pelleted with stone when he visited Paleoistan because of what he had said about Israel's right to live. But President was Tacques Chirac ie the man who had tried to provide nukes to Sadam Hussein and was from the same party than De Gaulle ie the man who spent WWII asking himself how to stick it to the Allies intead of to the Germans (in his 800 pages book about his action in WWII there are about 5 pages on actions contributing to Germany's defeat) and whose foreign policy was France being woorld's power brokere and selling its body to the best offerer. Chirac shared that vision. So yes, I fo believe the Al-Dura affir was not an initiative of a cemebrity hunhry state owned broadcaster. I think some from far above gave orders to Enderlin.
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Behind Wal-Mart, the second-largest employer in America is Kelly Services, a temporary work provider.
Friday's disappointing jobs report showed that part-time jobs are at an all-time high, with 28 million Americans now working part-time. The report also showed another disturbing fact: There are now a record number of Americans with temporary jobs.
Approximately 2.7 million, in fact. And the trend has been growing.
The Social Security Administration knows, by payroll deduction, the number of people actually working. Correlate that with the Census date of work age adults and we know the real number on employment.
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Mr. B you hit home with that comment. Chips and dip. Sodas. Then underground exchanges. No interest in getting off help. Always wanting more assistance. $10 dollars snacks and $200 left on card then $80 dollars on diesel please.
Good government is sort of like unicorns and fairies. We all know what it's supposed to look like, we just have never seen any.
That said, though government is something that can go wrong very easily, due to the normal pressures of the human makeup (and even their rouge) there are degrees on how bad a government can get.
Arguably, the founders tried to create good government by surrounding it with internal pressures designed to keep it small. What they counted without was semantic wizards capable of turning "interstate commerce" into laws over everything including what type of food you can grow and how much and what kind of cars you can drive. They certainly didn't count on the power to tax meaning that you'd have to submit your possible treatment to a panel of bureaucrats. Or perhaps they knew it, and they thought if they could establish a government that worked for just a little while...
Most government is mildly bad -- would that it were indifferent, but that would require the people who get into administration jobs to be sort of like me and believe that telling people what to do is too much work and they'll figure it out, anyway. Most people who do that are, in fact, the type of person who thrives on power and telling you what to do. This is why in our modern fables, greed is the worst sin, but love of power isn't even mentioned, even though most of the time wealth is just a means to power.
What this means is that most governments tend to wish to acquire (and mostly succeed) the most power possible over the most people possible.
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So, what is good government? Ive never seen it in my life, since, since long before the sixties (1947 when I was born) government has seized on charity as a good way to get more power to itself for the children and for the poor and thereby has been destroying civic virtue and that which allows civilization to exist.
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Legislation meant to severely limit funding of left-wing organizations is back on the Knessets agenda, with Bayit Yehudi faction chairwoman Ayelet Shaked and Yisrael Beytenu faction chairman Robert Ilatov submitting a new version of the controversial bill Tuesday.
According to the bill, NGOs may not receive contributions of over NIS 20,000 from a foreign political entity if the organization, its members, a member of its management or one of its employees calls for IDF soldiers to be brought to international courts, calls for boycotts, divestment or sanctions (BDS) of Israel or its citizens, denies Israels right to exist as a Jewish and democratic state, incites to racism or support armed combat by an enemy state or terrorist organization against Israel. Treason shouldn't prosper.
[USATODAY] Russia's U.N. ambassador said Tuesday that Russian experts determined that Syrian rebels made sarin nerve gas and used it in a deadly attack outside Aleppo in March. International analysts say a chemical weapon attack occurred March 19 in the government-controlled Aleppo suburb of Khan al-Assal. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin blamed opposition fighters for the attack, which he said killed 26 people, including 16 military personnel, and injured 86 others. The rebels have blamed the government for the attack.
Churkin told news hounds after delivering an 80-page report to Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon that the Assad regime asked Russia, its closest ally, to investigate the attack after a U.N. team of chemical weapons experts was unable to enter the country in a dispute over the probe's scope.
The samples taken from the impact site of the gas-laden projectile were analyzed at a Russian laboratory certified by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Churkin said.
The ambassador said the results of the analysis indicate the Bashar 3 rocket "was not industrially manufactured and was filled with sarin." He said the samples indicated the sarin and the projectile were produced in "cottage industry" conditions.
The absence of chemical stabilizers, which are needed for long-term storage and later use, indicated its "possibly recent production," Churkin said.
"Therefore, there is every reason to believe that it was the armed opposition fighters who used the chemical weapons in Khan al-Assal," Churkin said.
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[Yemen Post] The authorities confirmed on Sunday that the armed forces managed to successfully apprehend a ship traveling off the coast of Yemen with on board an illegal cargo of weapons.
The Supreme Security Committee told the press on Sunday that the ship had been intercepted as it was entering Yemen territorial waters near the island of Zoqar in the Red Sea.
Prior inspections showed that the weapons are Turkish-made.
An official was quoted by Saba, the state news agency as saying, "The seized weapons were planned to reach its destination inside the country after being unloaded in an island of the Hunish Archipelago via small boats and then to the Yemeni coasts."
An investigation has been launched into the incident to determine who the cargo was intended to and more importantly the identity or identities of those responsible for loading the ship with illegal weapons in the first place.
The matter is bound to strike a nerve with Turkey as it has been earlier this year, in January accused of meddling within Yemen internal affairs by providing military equipment and weapons to dissident groups, after several illegal weapon-cargo bearing alleged links to Ankara were intercepted by the Yemeni authorities.
The Turkish government had to work really hard to dispel doubts.
Whether the shipment was being sent to Yemen to be later on moved to another location has yet to be determined. Security analysts have increasingly warned that the impoverished nation is being used as a by-pass country for traffickers.
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Three for three.
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I'm going with the bypass option. Thing is, there's no many destinations to choose from.
Not that he personally gives a damn, but hopefully there will be some 2014 election year negative carry-over for the larger democratic regime. "You gotta believe, boyz and girlz! If you don't believe, the unicorn will die!"
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I didn't say I approved, I think he's a loudmouth liar.
Who doesn't realize we're on to him, (He Can't, it's his methodology, all is well, everybody's snowed, BULLSHITi
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Regardless, the basement is something like 30-35 percent who care far more for power than ethics, the Constitution, integrity in law, etc. While its doubtful that full 30-35 percent are willing to die (give the last full measure of devotion) for that power, they will expect you to.
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] The former boss of the Fukushima nuclear plant, who stayed at his post to try to tame reactors after Japan's earthquake and tsunami in 2011, has died of throat cancer.
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Occupational hazard.
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So death toll still ZERO.
Tsunami death toll 10,000 plus.
No wonder the MSM are held in such "high regard"..
[REUTERS] Mental health advocates are worried that the privacy of people who have received treatment for their illnesses could be jeopardized by a White House push to expand a database used to run background checks on gun buyers. That's what we need, by Gum! Another B.O.-controlled database!
President Barack Obama Why can't I just eat my waffle?... said he wants to see state governments contribute more names of people barred from buying guns to the database, part of a sweeping set of executive actions he announced after a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December.
The database, called the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, is used by gun dealers to check whether a potential buyer is prohibited from owning a gun.
States are encouraged to report to the database the names of people who are not allowed to buy guns because they have been involuntarily committed to a mental hospital, or have been found to have serious mental illnesses by courts.
Many states do not participate. So the administration is looking at changing a health privacy rule - part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) - to remove one potential barrier.
The Health and Human Services Department has not released a detailed proposal outlining possible changes to HIPAA. When it asked for comments on the idea, it was flooded with more than 2,000 letters and e-mails.
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Perhaps there is some centrally located camp where we could all go by train and simply be screened for everything at the same time.
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This from the same man who has sealed every possible aspect of his own personal life, from his birth certificate, to his education records, to his involvement in the Benghazi scandal, ect.
I wonder if Obama himself could pass the background check necessary to purchase a firearm.
"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you".
.... Michael Moncur
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Note that with Obamacare the IRS will have access to your medical records/provider. May as well put it in the same database; after all the GIVERnment needs to be efficient as well as effective.
[REUTERS] President Barack Obama Because I won... likes burgers, hot dogs and such, but when it came time to answer a kid journalist's question about his favorite food, broccoli was the first word that sprang from his lips.
This revelation came on Tuesday at a White House event that recognized children who won a healthy recipe contest, as part of first lady Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign.
Having fun with the children, Obama agreed to take two questions from the journalists among them. The first asked what was Obama's favorite food. Broccoli was the presidential reply, according to a White House aide.
This from a politician who has literally eaten his way across the country: Burgers in a Washington suburb with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev; ribs in Asheville, North Carolina; hot dogs at a basketball game in Dayton, Ohio; and a tasty pastry called a kringle in Wisconsin.
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So there!
FYI on Fox's "The Five" Michelle's yogurt diet was discussed - the Babes went for the yogurt while Beckel + Boyz went for McDonald's Double Cheeseburgers.
[Shabelle] Three Somalis were convicted on Monday of piracy, kidnapping and murder in the 2011 shooting deaths of four Americans sailing in the Indian Ocean off of Oman and could face the death penalty, according to court documents.
The three men -- and eleven others who previously pleaded guilty -- boarded the Americans' yacht armed with assault rifles and planned to sail it to Somalia and hold the Americans for ransom. Instead, the hostages were killed by the pirates as they were being trailed by U.S. military forces.
A federal jury, which has been hearing the case since early June in U.S. District Court in Norfolk, found Ahmed Muse Salad, Abukar Osman Beyle and Shani Nurani Shiekh Abrar guilty on all 26 counts against them, according to court records.
The jury will be hearing more evidence during the sentencing phase of the trial later this month.
Scott and Jean Adam, retirees from Marina del Rey, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, and their friends Phyllis Macay and Robert Riggle, both of Seattle, were killed aboard the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, couple's 58-foot sloop, Quest.
Prosecutors have said all four passengers were asleep when the boat was boarded on Feb. 18, 2011, by the armed assailants.
Negotiations at sea by U.S. Navy officials to free the Americans failed after four days, according to the indictment. Navy SEALs subsequently raided the yacht, killing two of the hostage-takers and capturing the rest.
Some of the most emotional testimony during the trial came from Elizabeth Sem, daughter of yacht owner Scott Adam.
She was quoted in press accounts as saying her father, who had worked on the production crew of movies and TV shows including "The Dukes of Hazzard," and "The Love Boat," had attended a theological institute after he retired.
His sea voyages were part of his ministry, she said, adding that he handed out Bibles to people he met along the way
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[Al Ahram] The Egyptian armed forces released a statement on Tuesday hailing the new roadmap and the constitutional declaration issued by interim president Adly Mansour.
The military is able to fulfill their responsibilities and is aware of the dangers of the coming period, read the statement, and is sure that all forces want the country to get through this "difficult transition period."
The statement warned against obstructing the path set forward by the new roadmap using non-peaceful methods.
The president, it said, has announced a constitutional declaration that puts forward steps towards a new constitution "clarifying the path which gives everyone enough reason to feel secure."
"No party after that should trespass against the nation's will or try and go against it, no matter what the excuse is," the statement said adding, that the people will not accept such actions.
Egypt's interim president Adly Mansour issued on Sunday a constitutional declaration that will remain effective until the end of the ongoing transitional period, expected to last at least six months.
The declaration sets a roadmap for constitutional amendments, followed by parliamentary then presidential elections.
The declaration, which came into effect late Monday, consists of 33 articles. It will be automatically canceled when an amended version of the suspended constitution is approved in a referendum.
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To where, pray tell.
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Egypts Nour Party, the countrys second-biggest movement after the Muslim Brotherhood, said on Tuesday it would accept the choice of former finance minister Samir Radwan as interim prime minister.
Nour Party spokesman Nader Bakkar told Reuters the party would accept Radwan because he met the partys criteria for an interim prime minister. Political sources said on Monday that Radwan had emerged as the favourite for the post.
The military-backed transitional administration is keen to win Nours support for a new government to show it is acceptable after the army toppled the Brotherhoods Mohamed Mursi last week.
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[BBC.CO.UK] A new corruption survey by Transparency International shows that nine out of ten of the countries with the highest reported bribery rate in the world are in Africa.
A country that this year did not make the top ten, but where 44% of respondents admitted to having paid a bribe, is Nigeria.
In Lagos, BBC Africa's Tomi Oladipo has been finding out how corruption affects various sectors of society. It took some major baksheesh for him to do so...
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The phrase "Nigerian Scammers" Is famous for their telephone scams.
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[An Nahar] Iran has strongly condemned the bombing that targeted the Beirut southern suburb of Bir al-Abed on Tuesday.
Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Araqchi said the move was an "ominous conspiracy" plotted by "the Israeli regime and its allies in the region," in remarks carried by the website of Iran's English-language Press TV.
He expressed hope that the Lebanese authorities would "identify the perpetrators of the terrorist act to prevent those who seek to provoke insecurity and instability and cause sectarian strife in the country from achieving their goals."
"Such terrorist measures will fail to deter the resistance movement and Lebanese people from ... fighting against the occupying regime (of Israel)," the Iranian spokesperson pointed out.
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[Al Ahram] Egypt's interim president Adly Mansour has assigned prominent liberal economist Hazem El-Beblawi to top the administration that will be in charge of Egypt's upcoming transitional period.
El-Beblawi, a former finance minister, was not the first choice of the parties involved in the political process sponsored by the Egyptian Armed Forces following the ouster last week of former president Mohamed Morsi.
Most of the parties involved in the talks had preferred Mohamed ElBaradei Egyptian law scholar and sometime Iranian catspaw. He was head of the IAEA from December 1997 to November 2009. At some point during his tenure he was purchased by the Iranians. ElBaradei and the IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for something in 2005. ElBaradei served on the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group, a lefty NGO that is bankrolled by the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as George Soros' Open Society Institute. After the fall of Mubarak he ran for president. He lost. for the premiership, who would have been appointed PM last Saturday were it not for the objections of the Salafist Nour Party.
Elbaradei had been backed by the anti-Morsi Rebel campaign and other "revolutionary" youth groups and parties.
Ziad Bahaa El-Din, liberal lawyer and co-founder of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, was also floated for the position, but the ultra-conservative Nour Party also rejected his candidacy.
Soon afterward, economist Samir Radwan, a former finance minister, was announced as a potential prime minister.
It was El-Beblawi, however, who was soon after formally declared premier.
The appointment came soon after interim president Mansour issued a new constitutional declaration granting him legislative authority.
The constitutional declaration lays out the political roadmap that both Mansour and El-Beblawi will be expected to follow in the upcoming period.
El-Beblawi, also a co-founder of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, served as undersecretary-general at the UN between 1995 and 2000. He was minister of finance in Essam Sharaf's cabinet from July to October 2011 during Egypt's post-revolution army-administered transitional phase.
He resigned in October 2011 to object to festivities in Cairo's Maspero district between military police and Coptic protesters in which 28 of the latter were killed.
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Is that American "liberal" or European "liberal"? The fact that he's a co-founder of a social democratic party suggests the former, but I'm having difficulty reconciling that usage with the context. Although after the fall of Gamal Mubarak in 2011, I would have thought that any surviving European-style liberals would have lit out for the territories with whatever resources they could expatriate.
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[Dawn] A diplomat and Taliban official say the Afghan Taliban are closing their Qatar office at least temporarily to protest demands they remove a sign that identified the movement as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
The office was opened less than a month ago to facilitate peace talks, and has also come under pressure for using the same white flag flown during the Taliban's five-year rule of Afghanistan that ended with the US-led invasion in 2001.
Both officials, familiar with the peace talks in the Gulf State of Qatar, said Tuesday the office has been temporarily abandoned. They requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.
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Taliban: "As a precondition to the negotiations, we want pre-9/11/2001 status and power. From there you can give us more. And foreign aid. Infidels!"
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Some 100,000 North Korean college students have been press-ganged into construction work. "The regime is trying to finish redevelopment of the Mansudae District in Pyongyang by April next year," a source familiar with North Korean internal affairs said on Monday. "Because it couldn't finish construction before the deadline, the regime ordered colleges in Pyongyang and other major cities last month to close for 10 months and drafted students to construction sites."
The regime twice before changed the academic calendar for a "200-day struggle" in 1988 and an "Arirang" mass calisthenics performance in 2008. But mobilizing so many students for construction work is unprecedented.
The North has been carrying out a campaign since 2009 to build 100,000 new homes in Pyongyang ahead of regime founder Kim Il-sung's birthday on April 15 next year, the target year to become a "powerful and prosperous nation." But only nine apartment buildings with 500 units had been built as of late last year due to a shortage of money and building materials.
When it became clear that the goal was unreachable, the regime recently drew up a new plan to redevelop at least the Mansudae District. It wants to spruce up the district, home to a 23 m Kim Il-sung statue, with 77-story apartment buildings with 3,000 units and recreational facilities including theaters and parks.
But the mobilization of the students is unlikely to make much difference. "The problem is not manpower shortage but lack of money and materials," the source said. "Building sites are overflowing with laborers, but most of them are doing nothing because building materials don't arrive in time."
The regime is not even giving the students a proper meal, the source added. Instead, it is reportedly forcing them to donate materials, such as sand, cement and gasoline, in exchange for a promise of membership in the Workers Party or a youth honor award when construction is complete.
"Cement soup again!"
There are rumors that the real reason the students are being forced to work on building sites is to avoid an uprising emulating the Jasmine Revolutions in the Middle East, since students are among the most likely to have heard about the uprisings.
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"Building sites are overflowing with laborers, but most of them are doing nothing because building materials don't arrive in time."
Sounds normal. (for a dictatorship)
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[THESMOKINGGUN] The Oklahoma woman who had a loaded handgun concealed in her vagina when she was arrested earlier this year on a drug charge has been sentenced to 25 years in state prison, according to court records. I'm not sure I can actually comment coherently on this one. It's gonna be tasteless, so you might want to stop reading now...
Christie Dawn Harris, 28, last week entered no contest pleas to three felony counts during a hearing in Pontotoc County District Court. "I confess. It was my gun. It was my twat."
Harris, whose rap sheet already includes multiple felony convictions, copped on June 27 to possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, gun possession, and bringing contraband into jail. "Hi, there! Is that a gun in your underwear or are you just glad to see me?"
Judge Steven Kessinger sentenced Harris to serve 25 years on each count, with the penalties to run concurrently. That's 25 years for the rosco, and 25 years for the clam, but added together they only come out to 25 years.
He also ordered her to pay $1363 in court costs and fees. "Oh, all right! Here lemme get my dough!"
"You put those pants back on!"
Harris, seen in the adjacent mug shot, She's a sullen-looking wench. You wouldn't want to meet her in a dark Motel 6.
was arrested in March after a drug dog alerted to a vehicle in which she and another woman were seated (the car was parked outside a closed restaurant at 3:45 AM). "Aroo-o-o-o-o-o!"
"What is it, boy? What do you smell?"
"Arooo! Ruff! Ruff!"
"No kiddin'?"
"Ruff! Ruff!"
"Two of 'em? I'd better call for backup!"
A subsequent search of the Toyota Yaris turned up meth, drug paraphernalia, a .25 caliber semi-automatic pistol, and a loaded magazine. That's what just one of the Twins of Pleasure was sitting on.
While being transported to jail, Harris told a cop "several times that she needed to go to the bathroom," according to an Ada Police Department report. "Can we stop? I gotta pass a really hard one!"
During processing at the jail, Harris balked when directed to lower her underwear so that a female officer could check for contraband. She "advised that she was on her period and did not want to," cops noted. "Hey, Sylvia! Check out this tampon!"
After Harris complied with police, Officer Kathy Unbewust reported, "I observed at that time a wooden and metal item sticking out from her vagina area." Unbewust then "pulled the item from her vagina, and found it to be a 5 shot revolver with rounds in the chamber." "Well, well! What's this?"
"It's for personal use!"
Investigators subsequently identified the weapon as a Freedom Arms .22-caliber handgun, which was loaded with three live rounds and one spent shell. The police report notes that "gun located in suspect vagina." "One spent shell"? Y'mean she only thought it was that time of the month?
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Small Gun, Or huge twat.
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OK, I'll bite ( I am so gonna hate choosing those words), just WHAT IS a 'suspect vagina?'
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I am forced to imagine the thing going off half-cocked. No, I can't imagine the mechanics -- I'm the one who knows nothing about guns, remember? -- nonetheless, the very idea makes me need to lie down with a handkerchief dipped in cologne soothing my fevered brow.
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"Christie Dawn Harris here. I can honestly say that Hoppe's #9 cleared up my yeast infection"
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An Okie meth-slinger named Harris -
Not easy, I think, to embarrass -
Did boldly bear arms
In the midst of her charms... How'd her c**ter fit into a Yaris?!?
How did all that fit into a Yaris?
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She...was...stuffed up with a 2 dollar pistol
She had meth hidden in her brown
Short and mean, every meth head's dream
She smoked everything in town
What is there to 'rebuild' in the People's Paradise?
North Korea has decided to redeploy 300,000 soldiers to help kickstart its moribund economy, apparently confident that its nuclear weapons will serve as a sufficient deterrent, Japan's TV Asahi reported Tuesday.
Quoting a North Korean military officer, TV Asahi said the North's top military command issued an order on June 10 to reduce the number of troops by 300,000 or a quarter of the country's 1.19 million-strong military. Some 50,000 officers and 250,000 soldiers will be transferred to tasks aimed at rebuilding the economy by the end of next month, it said.
They're not 'reducing' the number of military personnel, they're just re-deploying them...
The broadcaster speculated that the troop downsizing suggests the North has completed development and deployment of nuclear weapons.
But South Korean intelligence officials were unconvinced. "North Korea has already deployed a lot of troops to economic projects and we have seen indications of more soldiers being sent to construction sites," said one intelligence official here. "But this does not signify troop downsizing."
Officials at the defense and unification ministries here said they have no information that the North Korean leader issued such orders.
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Uh oh, bad sign sending the army into the fields. Sign of bad worser times ahead.
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Between this and the other stories today, sounds like they've been bullied by their Chinese patrons into at least pretending to play nice and grow their economy instead of conquering food donations by making faces across the border. *This* is what you get when militarist goons marinating in sixty years of High Stalinism try to play nice.
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They're not 'reducing' the number of military personnel, they're just re-deploying them...
Seems like a "food for work" program to me.
And I thought they already tried this in 2011 or so.
The NOKORS still keep Russia on the side to offset agz overlord China, wid post-Cold War, 9-11 Russia being synonymous wid GERMANY as both are BFFS = strategic partners to the other.
[Al Ahram] A judicial source has stated that the general prosecution is beginning the interrogation of nearly 650 suspects over Monday's festivities at the Republican Guard Headquarters in Cairo.
A team of 60 Sherlocks from the prosecution, supervised by Judge Mostafa Khater, the district attorney of East Cairo, is investigating the festivities.
Suspects are currently facing the following charges: murder, intended murder, thuggery, unlicensed firearms, ammunitions and weapons possession and undermining general security for terrorist intentions.
Immediately following the festivities on Monday, interim President Adly Mansour ordered an investigation into the events.
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Syrians travelling to Egypt are now required to apply for a visa, after the authorities in Cairo issued a new rule amid soaring unrest in Egypt, consulate staff in Beirut told AFP on Tuesday.
There is a decision from Cairo that any Syrian travelling to Egypt must apply for a visa at the Egyptian embassy, a staff member at the Egyptian consulate in Beirut said. A decision will be made some 10 to 15 days after the traveller has made his visa application."
That's going to put a crimp in refugee travel plans...
I dont know whether this change is temporary or permanent. All I know is that it applies as of Monday, he added.
The UN says nearly 90,000 Syrians have registered with the High Commissioner for Refugees in Egypt. But the actual number of Syrians who have sought refuge in Egypt is believed to be much higher, in part because the country did not require Syrians to have visas until this week.
Staff at Lebanons Middle East Airlines confirmed the change.
Syrians now need a visa to go to Cairo. I have no information on the reasons behind the change, said a telephone operator.
MEA flights from Beirut to Cairo are frequently packed with passengers who have fled Syria by road into Lebanon, and then continue on by air to Egypt.
The confirmation of the new policy comes a day after several reports emerged of Syrians who were turned back on arrival in Cairo.
Egypts state newspaper Al-Ahram reported Monday that passengers on a flight from the coastal Syrian city of Latakia were refused entry. Egyptian media also reported Syrian passengers flying in on a Middle East Airlines flight were denied entry into Cairo.
Though he was eventually allowed into Cairo, prominent Syrian dissident Haytham al-Maleh waited for permission from the Egyptian authorities at the airport for two hours, he told AFP.
I have connections, and I was able to secure permission to enter Cairo after two hours waiting in the airport, Maleh said. But I saw some 25 Syrian families being made to wait before deportation."
We are surprised by the decision, especially because it comes from Egypt, which is a sister nation to Syria, said Maleh, who is a member of the main Syrian opposition National Coalition and who is based in Cairo.
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That's going to put a crimp in refugee travel plans...
I think that's the idea.
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[An Nahar] The WikiLeaks anti-secrecy website said Tuesday that runaway U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden had not yet formally accepted asylum in Venezuela as was claimed by a top Russian politician in a Twitter posting that later deleted.
Pro-Kremlin politician Alexei Pushkov sparked confusion when he tweeted Tuesday that Snowden had agreed to an offer from Caracas. He deleted the posting after about 30 minutes.
"Edward Snowden has not yet formally accepted asylum in Venezuela. The Russian politician concerned has deleted the tweet," WikiLeaks said on its Twitter account.
Pushkov does not officially speak for the Russian government but has close Kremlin connections and is believed to relay views similar to those of President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
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BRAZIL has repor now entered the fray as per offering Snowden formal asylum.
A member of the RKK terrorist separatist group was nabbed on Wednesday during a search of the house of a religious teacher in Narathiwat province.
OK, Let's play Guess the Religion, shall we?
The pre-dawn search was made under martial law by a 60-man team of police and soldiers on the house of Sulaiman Chete, a teacher of a religious school in Rueso district. During the search the authorities found hidden in the house Dulnia Waehami, who is wanted under two warrants for illegal assembly, attempted murder and possession of explosives.
Officials said he is a member of a militant separatist group, the Ronda Kumpulan Kecil (RKK).
A secret document that appears to show six-figure payments from Qatar to top Muslim Brotherhood officials is fueling charges of corruption and hypocrisy at ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and his Islamist cronies.
The document, allegedly recovered in the ransacking of Muslim Brotherhood offices in Cairo after the Egyptian military removed Morsi from office, lists payments ranging from $250,000 to $850,000 to top Morsi associates from the former Prime Minister of Qatar. The payments, which some observers believe may be linked to funding Qatar provided the Morsi government on steep and unpopular terms, undermine the religious regime's moral authority, say experts. The document, written in both English and Arabic, was brought to light by independent Egyptian journalist Abdallah Hamouda in a recent appearance on the BBC. Hamouda said he "challenged the people whose names were listed to defend themselves, but no one rang [back]."
The document, dated March 28, 2013, details the transfer of sums from "HE Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabber Al Thani (May God Protect Him), Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs" of Qatar, to a long list of significant Muslim Brotherhood members. Sheikh Hamad stepped down from his position late last month along with the Emir of Qatar who -- in a move that shocked the whole region -- suddenly abdicated in favor of his 33-year-old son, Sheikh Tamim.
The secret payments flowing in from Qatar as Egypt's economy crumbled may be related to huge loans the country made to Egypt that were criticized by economists as not being in Egypt's best interests. Instead of using the funds to restructure debt, the Morsi government simply added to Egypt's debt burden at interest rates that benefited Qatar, critics said at the time. But if secret payments helped smooth the way for the massive loans from Qatar, it may have backfired.
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Interesting, espec given Ahmadinejad's threat that Iran will destroy Qatar, + the latter's need to control that side of the Arabian Peninsula [Persian Gulf] as defense agz any US or US-led invasion fleet.
The Free Syrian Army claimed Monday that the Israel Air Force had destroyed a warehouse holding Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missiles east of the city of Homs in western Syria. The rebels' claim has not been corroborated by any other independent source.
In a Facebook post titled "The new Israeli strike," the rebels alleged that "the brave Syrian regime has conceded that a new Israeli strike targeted a warehouse containing Russian S-300 missiles and launchers. The facility was located in the al-Qassia camp, near the town of al-Hafa, east of Homs."
The post further insinuated that the attack was meant to stop the Free Syrian Army from seizing the advanced weapons system.
Good idea to whack the S-300s just because, but keeping them from al-Nusra is double-plus good...
Another report, by Syria's al-Haqiqa news website, claimed that "a senior Israeli official" confirmed that the explosion that destroyed an arms depot in the port city of Latakia last week was not the work of al-Qaida, as the state-run Syrian media reported, but yet another Israeli attack.
Bwha-ha-ha...
According to the report, the explosion destroyed a Syrian navy weapons depository holding Russian-made Yakhont anti-ship cruise missiles. The website quoted the official as allegedly saying he could "neither confirm nor deny," whether the Israeli military was responsible for the attack.
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Facing the heat from security forces, Maoists have chalked out elaborate plans to raise an additional 14 battalions of Peoples Liberation Army (PLA), the military wing of the CPI (Maoist).
According to an internal document of the outlawed outfit, procured by the anti-Maoist intelligence wing of Andhra Pradesh Police, the task of reorganisation of PLA, training, procurement and placement of forces has been entrusted to a key member of the partys Central Committee (CC) Sonu alias Nambala Keshav Rao.
The Maoist document, dated June 28, surfaced after week-long celebrations in the forests of Chhattisgarh to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the formation of CPI (Maoists) following the merger of Peoples War Group (PWG) and Maoist Communist Centre (MCC). The celebrations were followed by a meeting of the partys Central Committee at an unknown location in Jammu and Kashmir last week.
The document indicated Maoists plans to declare several regions in Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, Odisha, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra as guerilla zones in the near future. The specially-trained guerillas will take positions in these zones and continue their support for what they call peoples agitations for land.
The Maoist dalams (teams) and action squads will wage war not only in their strongholds but also in the new areas to demonstrate our strength and commitment the document said.Fifty-eight-year-old Nambala Keshav Rao, alias Basavaraj, accused in over two dozen cases and also said to be the accused number two in last
months Maoist attack on Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh, is the brain behind the Maoist intelligence network. In a statement handed over to some select media organisations, Namburi Pratap, a spokesman of the Central Committee, accused the AP police of spreading false reports about the illness of some of the Maoist top guns like CPI (Maoist) Secretary Ganapati, Katakam Ramakrishna and Sudarshan, as part of a propaganda to mislead the cadres.
The statement, handed over to mediapersons at Paderu town in the north coastal district of Visakhapatnam, indicated that the District Committees of CPI (Maoist) would be revived in AP after a gap of over eight years. Reports from Chhattisgarh say that the Maoists have constituted Baal Action Teams (BAT) to deploy school children in different capacities, to counter the build up of security forces. BAT, a specialised school children unit of Maoist which has started operating in Bastar region in the past several months, would also help Baal Sanghams (childrens associations) and Chhatra Sanghams (students associations) that are already functional in the areas, police sources said.
Bal Sanghams and Chhatra Sangham were active for the past several years in the region. They are used as informers, messengers and even as shields during military operations.
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Islamist synchronization in East-South Asia.
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Brunette, petite Sharon Lynne ( D'Auvergne Sharon Lindsay) was born on April 9, 1901 in Weatherford, Texas.
A former beauty contest winner, she began in show business as a nightclub singer and songwriter. Possessed of a strong, bluesy voice, she drifted towards the musical stage, eventually appearing in both the Broadway and screen versions of the musical Sunnyside Up (1929). She was also cast to good effect alongside Sue Carol in Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 (1929). Billed as 'Sharon Lynn', she had a few more minor leads in the late 1920s, then, after joining Fox, found herself relegated to the supporting cast. Even adding the extra 'e' to her surname didn't help. For the remainder of the 1930's, Sharon Lynne played assorted 'other women', 'fickle dancers', and the like. Her last effective role was as Lola Marcel, an excellent menace to Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, in Way Out West (1937). Finding decent roles ever harder to come by, Sharon had quit the movies by the end of the decade.
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Sofia looks like she could float from Colombia to Florida on those things.
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[Shabelle] -The president of Khatumo state of Somalia has opposed the current meeting held in Istanbul between the federal republic of Somalia and the Somaliland administration.
Mohamed Yusuf Jama who is the president of Khatumo state has termed the talks as illegal and and added that the talks holds no values to Somalis in general.
The president has called on the federal government to terminate the talks and urged the government to continue representing the Somali public in the whole of Somalia.
Mr. Jama said that it was unfortunate of a recognized government to hold talks to a single state and sidelining other states in the country.
Khatumo community hails from the regions between Somaliland and Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... of Somalia and is seeking recognition from the federal republic of Somalia.
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[An Nahar] Around 100 African migrants stormed a border fence from Morocco into Spanish territory on Tuesday, leaving five coppers injured, Spanish authorities said.
Officials said about 40 of the migrants managed to cross the fence separating the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco on the Mediterranean coast, in the latest in a wave of such attempts.
The migrants stormed a section of the six-meter (20-foot) fence near the airport in Melilla on Tuesday morning, Spanish government officials there said in a statement.
"The immigrants were grouped in a grove of trees on the Moroccan side and carried out a massive coordinated assault which the Civil Guard managed to partially abort," the statement said.
"In their efforts to defend the border fence, five civil guards were maimed, none of them seriously for the moment."
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[Al Ahram] Part of an ancient Egyptian king's unique sphinx was unveiled at a dig in northern Israel on Tuesday, with researchers struggling to understand just how the unexpected find ended up there. "Im-hotep!"
"Yes, Your Enormity!"
The broken granite sphinx statue -- including the paws and some of the mythical creature's forearms -- displayed at Tel Hazor archaeological site in Israel's Galilee, is the first such find in the region. "Those guys in Tel Hazor. You know, the ones with the beards and the goats?"
"Yes, Your Holiness!"
Its discovery also marks the first time ever that researchers have found a statue dedicated to Egyptian ruler Mycerinus who ruled circa 2,500 BC and was builder of one of the three Giza pyramids, an expert said. "Send them a sphinx!"
"Of course, Son of the Sun!"
"And tell me why I have a Roman name again."
"This is the only monumental Egyptian statue ever found in the Levant - today's Israel, Leb, Syria," Amnon Ben-Tor, an archaeology professor at the Hebrew University in charge of the Tel Hazor dig, told AFP. "Heh heh! If they dig that up five thousand years from now they're really gonna be puzzled!"
"Yes, Your Immensity!"
"It is also the only sphinx of this particular king known, not even in Egypt was a sphinx of that particular king found." "It will be a real thigh-smacker!"
"You got a real sense of humor there, O Beacon of Wisdom!"
Ben-Tor said that besides Mycerinus's name, carved in hieroglyphics between the forearms, there are symbols reading "beloved by the divine souls of Heliopolis". "Make sure you put my name on it, too, so they know who it's from!"
"Of course, Beloved of the Divine Souls of Heliopolis!"
"This is the temple in which the sphinx was originally placed," Ben-Tor said of Heliopolis, an ancient city which lies north of today's Cairo. "I've been wanting a new sphinx for the place."
"Good idea, O Vast One!"
Tel Hazor, which Ben-Tor calls "the most important archaeological site in this country," was the capital of southern Canaan, founded circa 2,700 BC and at its peak covering approximately 200 acres and home to some 20,000 Canaanites. It was destroyed in the 13th century BC.
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Having a statue like that really sphinx up the place.
[Al Ahram] Thousands of mourners turned a funeral for a police officer into a protest against the Moslem Brüderbund on Tuesday, blaming the man's death one day earlier on the embattled Islamist group in a scene seen frequently in recent months, Al-Ahram's Arabic-language news website has reported.
First Lieutenant Mohamed El-Misiri, who had been posted to a cop shoppe in Cairo's Nasr City district, was killed early Monday during festivities between military forces and supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi at Republican Guard headquarters.
Fifty-one pro-Morsi demonstrators were killed in the melee.
El-Misiri's funeral was held the next day in Alexandria.
At one point, mourners, including officers in uniform, held anti-Moslem Brüderbund placards, some of which read: "Mohamed El-Misiri was killed by Brotherhood bullets" and "Down with Brotherhood terrorism."
Funerals for other coppers recently killed in confrontations with Islamists witnessed similar anger towards the Brotherhood and ousted president Morsi -- even before the latter's overthrow last week by the military.
Morsi, affiliated with Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund group, was ousted on 3 July by military decree amid massive demonstrations to demand he step down, with Egyptian Armed Forces Commander Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi unveiling a "'roadmap" for Egypt's political future.
Morsi was quickly locked away Please don't kill me! , along with several other Brotherhood leaders, and banned from travelling.
Since days before his ouster, Morsi's supporters, led by the Brotherhood, have been staging a massive sit-in outside Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque in Cairo's Nasr City.
Demonstrators in Nasr City, along with other protests taking place across Egypt, demand Morsi's release and reinstatement as president.
Pro-Morsi protesters at Rabaa Al-Adawiya, including controversial Islamic preacher Safwat Hegazi, believe the ousted president is being held at the nearby Republican Guard headquarters.
Before the recent festivities, Hegazi had said that Morsi was being detained either at the Republican Guard headquarters or the nearby defence ministry, warning of "unimaginable" escalations if he was not released.
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[CROSSVILLE-CHRONICLE] While a nude female swimmer in his Camelot subidivision home's backyard pool had him distracted, the woman's accomplice was inside the victim's home stealing his personal property. Both made a clean getaway.
The incident took place last Saturday on Canterbury Lane around 3 p.m. at the home of a 54-year-old man who told police that a couple who live nearby approached his home when the woman suddenly told her husband to go back and retrieve her cigarettes, according to Ptl. Camden Davis' report.
The woman then approached the victim and asked him about his pool, and if she could take a swim. He told the woman it would be OK and led her to the rear of his house where the pool is located.
The woman then asked if it would bother him if she swam in the nude, and he replied that it would not. She proceeded to take off her clothes and jumped into the pool, swimming for about 20 minutes. The home owner retrieved a towel from inside his home, the woman dried off, dressed and left.
It was at that point he re-entered his home to discover that he had been robbed of a handgun, jewelry and medication. Loss was placed at $1,195, according to Davis' report.
Two suspects have been identified but have not been found by police for questioning. "I'm sorry, chief! I have no idea what she looks like with her clothes on!"
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[An Nahar] Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... leader MP Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... on Tuesday blamed the Dahieh bombing on "those who endorse the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... ideology" and "those who make fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... speeches."
"The bombing incident must not only be a subject for condemnation. Everyone who endorses an explosive rhetoric must be condemned and the person who detonates a bomb in residential neighborhoods is a major criminal," Aoun said after the weekly meeting of the Change and Reform bloc in Rabiyeh.
"Those who endorse the Takfiri ideology, those who make fiery speeches, those who incite sectarianism and those who instigate against all the members of a certain sect are the biggest criminals, whether they are MPs, ministers or clergymen," Aoun added.
"We thank God that no one was killed ... but more vigilance must be exercised and those who are inciting must shut up. From now on, I will attack the criminals," he went on to say.
Earlier on Tuesday, a booby-trapped car went kaboom! at a parking lot in the Beirut southern suburb of Bir al-Abed, wounding 53 people and causing extensive material damage.
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[REUTERS] The United States is considering pulling out all its troops from Afghanistan next year but is far from making a decision, White House and Pentagon officials said on Tuesday, but Afghan officials expressed skepticism that President Barack Obama I am not a dictator!... would back a complete withdrawal.
Amid tensions between Obama and Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... on the path forward, White House front man Jay Carney told news hounds that a "zero option" of leaving no U.S. troops in Afghanistan after 2014 is among the policy possibilities under consideration.
"This is not a decision that is imminent," Carney said.
Obama is committed to winding down U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan by the end of 2014. The United States has been talking with officials in Afghanistan about keeping a small residual force there of perhaps 8,000 troops after 2014.
At the Pentagon, front man George Little played down friction with Karzai and expressed confidence that there was still "plenty of time and space" to negotiate a bilateral security pact allowing for U.S. troops to stay in Afghanistan.
Karzai suspended talks on that pact in June, accusing Washington of mixed messages regarding peace talks with the Taliban. It was among the latest signs of deep tensions between U.S. officials and the Afghan leader. A June 27 video conference between Obama and Karzai aimed at lowering tensions was confrontational, officials said.
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I am not a dictator!...
Damn close, and you think you are.
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* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US HAS NO PLANS TO REDUCE TIES WID PAKISTAN.
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* SAME > FORMER ISI CHIEF: HIDING OSAMA A "VICTORY", for Pakistan + Islam.
Wehell, thats one way to N-O-T inspire the US Congress to send $$$ + aid to Pakland during + after 2014.
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* TOPIX > [NewsKerala] EXPERTS SAY "IN SHAMBLES PAKISTAN CLOSE TO BEING A "FAILED STATE" FOLLOWING DAMNING OSAMA OP REPORT.
The US priority remains keeping Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, etc. NucTechs out of the hands of Regional, Global Jihad-happy Hard Boyz + aligned.
[Dawn] Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif Tuesday said that the dream of economic progress could not be realised without maintaining peace in the society. That leaves them poop out of luck, doesn't it?
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I'm sure there are some unemployed East German economists who will be happy to help. Dollars or Euros, please.
North Korea is preparing to open up its economy with help from German experts, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported Saturday. The daily said Pyongyang is secretly seeking advice from German economists and lawyers to come up with new economic policies and attract foreign investment.
According to the advisors from leading German universities, North Korea is currently devising investment laws and already has finalized a master plan with the goal of opening up by the end of 2013.
One unnamed economist on the team told the paper that North Korea does not want to follow the Chinese-style model, which draws foreign investors to special economic zones. "Rather, they are interested in the Vietnamese model, in which specific companies were chosen as recipients of investments," the source said.
Specific companies with specific advisors who all need to wet their beaks. In America we call it the 'Chicago-style model'...
But he warned the issue is far from concluded. "The military in North Korea will not want to give up power," he said, adding that resistance from the powerful army will be difficult to overcome.
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Cause they have NO idea how to do it.
And the Kim's don't either. (Or simply don't)
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If they want to use the Vietnamese model, why aren't they hiring Vietnamese consultants, instead of going to the Germans? I would think that the Germans would tend to push them towards a German economic solution - IE, "you lose, the South wins, you try to get a couple pennies on the dollar for your rubble and ruins, and go to work for those who can keep you from starving. Hey, maybe one of your politicians might become prime minister in ten-twenty years, look at Angela".
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North Korea is preparing to open up its economy with help from German experts,
Germany, of all places, they don't read much History, do they.
"Opening" Germany was a nightmare. (WW2)
You want that?
Didn't think so.
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James, the Germans have been running an outstanding economy since at least the Great Elector. They started with naught, ended with naught and started again. A strong German economy is nothing new.
[An Nahar] Ministers from the Istiqlal party quit Morocco's Islamist-led ruling coalition on Tuesday, a front man for the conservative party told Agence La Belle France Presse, threatening a government shakeup or snap elections.
"It's official, our ministers have just presented their resignation to the head of the government (Abdelilah Benkirane)," Istiqlal front man Adil Benhamza said.
Of the six ministers from the party, only one, Education Minister Mohammed El-Ouafa, had yet to present his resignation by Tuesday evening.
Benhamza said that if he failed to do so within 24 hours, "he will be excluded" from the party.
Istiqlal's national council first threatened in May to quit the government over its failure to shore up the economy and solve pressing social problems.
Istiqlal held several ministerial posts, including education and the economy, and its withdrawal will force the moderate Islamist Party of Justice and Development (PJD) to find a new coalition partner or face early elections.
The PJD has led the government since it emerged as the largest party after elections in late 2011.
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After I retired from XXXXXX as a Standards Captain on the --400, I got a job as a simulator instructor working for XXXXXXX (a Boeing subsidiary) at Asiana. When I first got there, I was shocked and surprised by the lack of basic piloting skills shown by most of the pilots. It is not a normal situation with normal progression from new hire, right seat, left seat taking a decade or two. One big difference is that ex-Military pilots are given super-seniority and progress to the left seat much faster. Compared to the US, they also upgrade fairly rapidly because of the phenomenal growth by all Asian air carriers. By the way, after about six months at Asiana, I was moved over to KAL and found them to be identical. The only difference was the color of the uniforms and airplanes. I worked in Korea for 5 long years and although I found most of the people to be very pleasant, it's a minefield of a work environment ... for them and for us expats.
One of the first things I learned was that the pilots kept a web-site and reported on every training session. I don't think this was officially sanctioned by the company, but after one or two simulator periods, a database was building on me (and everyone else) that told them exactly how I ran the sessions, what to expect on checks, and what to look out for. For example; I used to open an aft cargo door at 100 knots to get them to initiate an RTO and I would brief them on it during the briefing. This was on the B-737 NG and many of the captains were coming off the 777 or B744 and they were used to the Master Caution System being inhibited at 80 kts. Well, for the first few days after I started that, EVERYONE rejected the takeoff. Then, all of a sudden they all "got it" and continued the takeoff (in accordance with their manuals). The word had gotten out. I figured it was an overall PLUS for the training program.
We expat instructors were forced upon them after the amount of fatal accidents (most of the them totally avoidable) over a decade began to be noticed by the outside world. They were basically given an ultimatum by the FAA, Transport Canada, and the EU to totally rebuild and rethink their training program or face being banned from the skies all over the world. They hired Boeing and Airbus to staff the training centers. KAL has one center and Asiana has another. When I was there (XXXX-XXXX) we had about 60 expats conducting training KAL and about 40 at Asiana. Most instructors were from the USA, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand with a few stuffed in from Europe and Asia. Boeing also operated training centers in Singapore and China so they did hire some instructors from there.
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I remember reading years ago that the "visual" approach to San Francisco was nasty because you were coming in over water and the end of the runaway was right up to the water. When if first opened up inexperienced pilots would misjudge their altitude and speed since they were used to getting altitude and speed references consciously or not, off of land features. The ocean would fool them. The thing is that danger became pretty well known and documented so the pilot shouldn't have been caught by it.
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I lived along the flight path to SFO most of my life. There are electronic buoys? on the ground all the way down the peninsula. The area before the runway allows for a nice slow decent and the runways are long. As long as you don't drop in early (as a JAL pilot did in the 70s) it should be a very easy landing.
San Diego airport is worse as you come over buildings and the I-5 before landing (another problem in the 70s over that).
But those are cake compared to that nightmare airport they had in Hong Kong. Watching folks hanging their laundry on the roofs and balconies just off the end of the wing and then a hard right around the last building and a quick drop to the tarmac. Even knowing it was coming that was unpleasant.
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Well some further testimony has come out and it seems they were using or at least eyeballing the glide path indicator lights on the end of the runway. If you are on the path you are supposed to see two white and two red. The instructor pilot reported seeing all red, which is too low. Also reported was that the auto correct speed control was not maintaining a high enough speed it would keep dropping the speed setting. The NTSB is starting to give those pilots the hair eyeball. They seem to indicate the pilots had enough time and were aware of the problems but either didn't react or kept their mouths shut. It doesn't look good for them or the airline.
I remember back in the day taking flight lessons on a Cessna 140 tail dragger. I became unemployed and ran out of money before I could complete even 8 hours. I do remember that the instructor introduced me to cross wind landing early. In fact I have a vivid memory about bring in the plane during the late summer morning when you get an updraft off the Texas flat lands and having a cross wind to deal with. You had to compensate for both. If I remember correctly it was use the rudder to compensate for cross wind then drop the leading wing down to increase descent against the updraft then get straight and lift the nose and cut the throttle for landing. As the flight instructor says general aviation in the US gets you to thinking for yourself....or you'll prang it.
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We had a similar situation with a certain Southeast Asian navy and their simulator training. Their sailors and officers essentially did the same thing as the pilots in gaming the scenarios.
Our one pickup team went up against three of their top crews in a simulated battle and cleaned their clocks. Their ANZUS instructors were not happy.
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We had a similar situation with a certain Southeast Asian navy and their simulator training. Their sailors and officers essentially did the same thing as the pilots in gaming the scenarios.
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I am sure that SFO had a PAPI approach lighting system. There is information on the system HERE.
Two pairs of red lights next to two pairs of white lights bring you down to the touch down zone on a precision approach. So when you land visual you set yourself up on altitude versus distance. This is basic stick and rudder stuff that applies to a Super Cub or a B-747.
On instrument approaches, you do a series of step down altitude changes, then you fly level where you intercept the glide slope (usually 3 degrees). Then you manually fly down the glide slope, or you couple on to it with your autopilot.
So many heavy pilots are used to this technique and don't practice stick and rudder, so if the ILS winks out, they are SOL. My uneducated guess is that is what happened here.
One of the more interesting landings I did was at Granite Mountain White Alice site east of Nome. That strip was on a mountainside, with a 10% grade, so that the visual illusion of landing there would make you approach low if you were not aware of the grade. Flying a pattern normally could make you be on final approach and be short of the runway, where you would need lots of power to make the threshold and not land short. The answer was to plan your approach and be at specific altitudes so that your touchdown would be in the right place and not short. It is all in the preflight planning, which a pilot is required to do before a flight. Part 91 of the Federal Air Regulations spells it out quite clearly:
§ 91.103 Preflight action.
Each pilot in command shall, before beginning a flight, become familiar with all available information concerning that flight. This information must include
(a) For a flight under IFR or a flight not in the vicinity of an airport, weather reports and forecasts, fuel requirements, alternatives available if the planned flight cannot be completed, and any known traffic delays of which the pilot in command has been advised by ATC;
(b) For any flight, runway lengths at airports of intended use, and the following takeoff and landing distance information:
(1) For civil aircraft for which an approved Airplane or Rotorcraft Flight Manual containing takeoff and landing distance data is required, the takeoff and landing distance data contained therein; and
(2) For civil aircraft other than those specified in paragraph (b)(1) of this section, other reliable information appropriate to the aircraft, relating to aircraft performance under expected values of airport elevation and runway slope, aircraft gross weight, and wind and temperature.
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[DAILYPOST.NG] Exactly one week after the enraged vigilante group in Bornu state, popularly called 'Civilian JTF' burnt down the house of All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP Chairman, Alhaji Mala Othman, the Joint Task Force, Operation Restore Order has confirmed that the ANPP Chairman, who had been fingered as one of the sponsors of the dreaded 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... sects is currently in their custody, and under serious investigation. "Serious investigation" = Number 7 truncheon and no mustache wax.
Lt Col Sagir Musa, the Spokesman of the JTF in Borno told newsmen in Maiduguri that, Alhaji Mala Othman's involvement in the activities of Boko Haram would be made available to the press as soon as the ongoing investigation is concluded.
Sagir also commended the patriotic efforts of citizens and residents of Borno state, particularly the youth vigilante groups that are determined and committed to assisting security agencies to defeat Boko Haram forces of Evil in the state.
He said it is interesting that while interacting with some youth leaders of Gwange and Hausari areas of Maiduguri, they have shown understanding on the need to conduct themselves in a more orderly manner and to always act within the confines of the law.
He said the youth were also requested to restrict their activities within their respective immediate enviroment and avoid major township roads; and were also cautioned never to take law into their hands.
Lt. Col. Sagir Musa also said that, JTF was aware of the fears and concerns of some members of the public with, regards to the activities of the youth vigilante groups and is doing a lot to ensure that the youth are monitored, guided and regulated in such a way that they can impact positively in the fight against terrorism in the state without becoming a nuisance to the society.
In another development, JTF has taken over Bulabulin, Bayan Quarters and Ngaranam areas of Maiduguri metropolis with massive deployment of personnel and equipment in the areas.
According to Sagir, JTF has also dislodged the Death Eaters in the area and has recovered arms and ammunations, IEDs as well as 4 AK47 riffles. 1 submachine Gun, 6 RPG Bombs, 7 empty magazines, 4 RPG launchers, 3 army comouflage uniforms and 2 tricycles were also said to have been recovered.
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[An Nahar] Death Valley National Park has asked tourists not to test out the reputation of the world's hottest spot by frying eggs on the ground, citing a growing litter problem at the popular U.S. landmark.
"An employee's posting of frying an egg in a pan in Death Valley was intended to demonstrate how hot it can get here, with the recommendation that if you do this, use a pan or tin foil and properly dispose of the contents," the park said on its Facebook page last week.
"However, the Death Valley NP maintenance crew has been busy cleaning up eggs cracked directly on the sidewalk, including egg cartons and shells strewn across the parking lot.
"This is your national park, please put trash in the garbage or recycle bins provided and don't crack eggs on the sidewalks," it said.
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[Shabelle] At least four foreign crew members and seven Somali pirates died when a fat merchantman that the pirates were holding to ransom off the Somali coast sank on Sunday, and 13 others were missing, a pirate who works with the gang said.
The Malaysian-owned MV Albedo cargo vessel and its crew were hijacked 900 miles off Somalia on November 26, 2010 while sailing from the United Arab Emirates to Kenya.
"The ship has been gradually sinking for almost a week, but it sank totally last night," the pirate said on Monday by telephone from Haradheere, Somalia's main pirate base.
"We have confirmed that four foreign (crew) and seven pirates died. We are missing 13 in total," said the pirate, who gave his name as Hussein. "We had no boats to save them."
The Albedo had 23 crew from Pakistain, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Iran when it was seized.
Hussein said the captain had died earlier and four of the crew had previously been taken off the ship. With four dead, this would leave 14 to be accounted for, and it was not clear why there was a discrepancy with the pirates' figures.
The EU Naval Force, a European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... anti-piracy unit that protects merchant shipping off the Horn of Africa, said the whereabouts of 15 crew were still unclear.
"EU Naval Force can confirm that the Malaysian flagged motor vessel MV Albedo, held by armed pirates at an anchorage close to the Somali coast, has sunk in rough seas," a statement on the force's website said.
"An EU Naval Force warship and Maritime Patrol Aircraft have closed the sea area and are carrying out a search and rescue operation to search for any survivors. The whereabouts of the 15 crew members from MV Albedo is still to be confirmed."
Some hostages are held on land while pirates demand ransoms from ship owners, with some kept onboard to maintain the ships.
The number of attacks by Somali pirates has fallen over the last two years due to increased naval patrols and the presence of well-armed security teams on ships.
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With four dead, this would leave 14 to be accounted for, and it was not clear why there was a discrepancy with the pirates' figures.
Cause they lie.
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"We had no boats to save them."
How'd you get aboard?
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I just had the image of a Mexican Mariachi band playing in the background. Not entirely sure why.
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I just had the image of a Mexican Mariachi band playing in the background. Not entirely sure why.
Hopefully not playing "Nearer My God To ?thee", Charles.
The Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, has recused himself from the bench hearing an appeal against post-arrest bail granted to General (retd) Pervez Musharraf by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) in a case relating to detention of judges after the proclamation of emergency on November 3, 2007.
I shall not hear the plea for cancelling the bail granted by the high court, the chief justice said and directed the Supreme Courts office to send the case filed by advocate Aslam Ghumman to another bench. The court office had placed the appeal before a bench headed by the chief justice who had also remained in detention until his reinstatement in March 2009.
On June 11, the IHC had granted bail to the former president on a surety bond of Rs500,000. A division bench of the high court held there was no record to determine Musharrafs role in placing over 60 judges in detention.
Ghumman filed the petition, challenging the IHCs order of granting bail to Musharraf after removing terrorism from the charge-sheet and requesting the apex court to set aside the decision and order his arrest.
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[An Nahar] The wife and children of Islamist holy man Abu Qatada, who faces trial on terror charges in Jordan following his deportation from Britannia, are planning to move to Amman from London, a family friend said on Tuesday.
"Abu Qatada's wife and five children want to leave Britannia and come to Jordan. They are currently preparing for that," the family friend told Agence La Belle France Presse, asking not to be named.
Military prosecutors on Sunday charged Abu Qatada, 53, with "conspiracy to carry out terrorist acts," just hours after his deportation from Britannia. He pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to the charges.
His lawyer Taysir Diab told AFP the military state security court would on Wednesday make its decision on a bail application.
"He is in good condition and is receiving good treatment. His mother and other members of his family here are visiting him in prison," Diab said.
Abu Qatada has been remanded for 15 days in the Muwaqqar prison, a maximum security facility built in 2007 that houses 1,100 inmates, most of them Islamists convicted of terrorism offences.
He was condemned to death in absentia in 1999 for conspiracy to carry out terror attacks, including on the American school in Amman, but the sentence was immediately commuted to life imprisonment with hard labor.
In 2000, he was sentenced in his absence to 15 years for plotting to carry out terror attacks on tourists in Jordan during millennium celebrations.
Jordanian law gives him the right to a retrial with him present in the dock.
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I hope we dont still have to pay for these parasites once in Jordan
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[An Nahar] A siege imposed by rebel forces on regime-controlled areas of Syria's second city Aleppo has created food shortages ahead of the Mohammedan holy fasting month of Ramadan, a watchdog said on Tuesday.
"A large number of food products are no longer available, and others have become increasingly difficult to find, driving up prices," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The group said rebel forces have surrounded certain neighborhoods and the regime has been unable to deliver food, because a highway into the northern city from the south has been blocked and the airport closed.
Rebels moved into Aleppo exactly a year ago, and have since seized large swathes of both the city and the surrounding province.
But after months of fighting, a relative stalemate has set in, with the army unable to recapture much territory and rebels unable to take the city as a whole.
For now, the army is focusing its efforts in the central city of Homs, where it is trying to retake several rebel-held districts.
The fighting has created enormous destruction, and the Observatory said troops had brought in bulldozers on Tuesday to remove rubble as they advance.
The Observatory warned that civilians in the city were dying for want of medical equipment.
"The army's continuous bombardment over the past 11 days has made the critical humanitarian situation in rebel areas of Homs even worse," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"An unknown number of rebels and civilians maimed in recent days are dying from their injuries, because there is no medical equipment to treat them," he added.
The Khaldiyeh and Old City neighborhoods of Homs have been under army siege for more than a year and since late June have come under steady shell and rocket fire as well as air strikes in a withering offensive by the regime.
"The little medical equipment the rebels could get into these areas was coming through underground tunnels. Now, these have been bombed too," Abdel Rahman said.
Activists on the ground confirmed the shortage of medical care.
"The medical community in the besieged areas of Homs is suffering from shortages," said Homs-based activist Yazan.
Large quantities of medical supplies had been used up due to the increased number of injuries caused by the shelling, Yazan told AFP via the Internet.
"This campaign on Homs has been the fiercest" since the start of the siege on rebel areas more than a year ago, he added.
Witnesses and activists have said Syria's forces have been joined in the assault by fighters from Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah.
At the start of the revolt against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... in March 2011, Homs was dubbed "the capital of the revolution" when it was shaken by widespread protests against his rule.
Now, the rebels are caught in a small segment of the city, covering barely two square kilometers (less than a square mile) in the center.
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[Dawn] KARACHI: Several persons, including women and kiddieswere maimed in different rocket attacks in Lyari's Kalri and Phool Patti lane areas on Tuesday, DawnNews reported.
A traditional event for the restoration of peace was underway by local residents in Kalri area of Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... when four rockets landed from an unknown direction and went kaboom! injuring several persons present on the occasion, including women and kiddies.
The victims were shifted to nearby hospitals for treatment where the condition of several maimed was reported as critical.
Another home-made bomb was hurled at the roof of a house which failed to explode.
Moreover area residents staged protests, after the incident, against the delay in the response of law enforcers and termed the rocket attacks as a failure of the government.
Fear and panic gripped the area after the incident as markets and shops closed down.
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[Al Ahram] Israeli troops found the remains on Tuesday of the first rocket to be fired from Egypt since the July 3 overthrow of the Islamist government there, a military official said.
Both Israelis and Egyptians reported hearing several kabooms in the southern city of Eilat on Thursday, the day after President Mohammed Mursi was toppled from power in Egypt.
Israel detected no signs of any cross-border shooting, but found the remains of a rocket on Tuesday, an official said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered...
An Israeli military front man said the rocket remnant had been discovered in the hills north of Eilat, a resort city on the Red Sea that abuts Egypt to the west and Jordan to the east.
The rocket was the first since the latest bout of unrest in Egypt that has put Israel on edge in part because of an increase of Islamist militancy in the Sinai region since an uprising toppled autocratic president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... in 2011.
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[BBC.CO.UK] Egypt's defence minister has warned against any attempt to disrupt the country's "difficult" transition.
His statement comes almost a week after the army deposed Islamist President Mohammed Morsi and appointed top judge Adly Mansour as interim leader.
Mr Mansour has named former the finance minister, Hazem el-Beblawi, as his prime minister.
In turn, Mr el-Beblawi has said he will offer some cabinet posts to members of Mr Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund movement.
Mr el-Beblawi's appointment was announced early on Tuesday, along with that of Mohamed ElBaradei Egyptian law scholar and sometime Iranian catspaw. He was head of the IAEA from December 1997 to November 2009. At some point during his tenure he was purchased by the Iranians. ElBaradei and the IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for something in 2005. ElBaradei served on the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group, a lefty NGO that is bankrolled by the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as George Soros' Open Society Institute. After the fall of Mubarak he ran for president. He lost. , who was named deputy president with responsibility for foreign affairs.
Mr el-Beblawi served as finance minister during the period of military rule in the aftermath of Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... 's overthrow. Mr ElBaradei is a liberal politician who was once the head of the UN nuclear agency.
The ultra-conservative Nour party said it was still studying the nomination of Mr ElBaradei. His candidacy as prime minister foundered earlier in the week when Nour objected.
The party withdrew from talks to form a new government, but reports on Tuesday suggested it was back on board.
A presidential statement suggested the military-backed interim government was reaching out to both the Nour party and the Moslem Brüderbund.
"There is no objection at all to including members of those two parties in the government," a presidential front man told the state news agency.
Mr el-Beblawi told BBC Arabic that he would be choosing his ministers based on experience and efficiency, but said it was "difficult for me to specify when" he would finish forming the government.
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[An Nahar] A Military Examining Magistrate demanded on Tuesday the death penalty for 37 suspects, including the municipal chief of the northeastern town of Arsal, over the killing of two soldiers in February.
The request was made in the indictment issued by Judge Fadi Sawan.
The judge also issued search and investigation warrants against 16 unidentified suspects involved in the murder of Captain Pierre Bashaalani and Sergeant Ibrahim Zahraman.
Bashaalani and Zahraman were killed and several soldiers injured when Arsal gunmen ambushed their patrol on Feb. 1.
Sawan also issued arrest warrants against 53 people accused of murder, attempted-murder, use of violence against the army, and the theft of weapons and ammunition.
The charges include the possession of arms and explosives.
Last month, State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged three people for killing soldiers at a checkpoint in the area of Wadi Hmeid in the outskirts of Arsal on May 28.
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[ALLAFRICA] 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... yesterday described the killings of over 40 students and a teacher of Government Secondary School in Yobe State by suspected 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... members as wicked, horrific and barbaric, saying any person who targets innocent children as a result of emotional dysfunction will certainly burn in hell.
The gunnies suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect attacked the Government Secondary School, Mamudo, along Damaturu-Potiskum highway while the students were asleep and started shooting sporadically.
Sympathising with the affected families of victims of the gruesome killings in Mamudo village, five kilometers from Potiskum town, Yobe State, about 3am on Saturday, in the school's boarding house with most of the victims roasted alive while asleep, Jonathan declared that the war on terror was still very much on and his government would not be undermined by any group or persons.
The president, who spoke through his special adviser on media and publicity, Dr Reuben Abati, insisted that his administration was determined to end the menace of terror in the country, describing bully boyz as cowards.
Abati said, "The killing is barbaric, completely wicked. Anybody who will target innocent children for any kind of grief or emotional dyfunction will certainly go to hell. Mr President wants to assure Nigerians that these kind of desperate Nigerians will be flushed out of the system.
"Mr President is committed to the issue of the protection of lives and properties of all Nigerians and he wants to assure that the war against bully boyz has been launched and will continue and the Nigerian government is determined to put an end to this menace.
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[USATODAY] A roadside kaboom struck a cycle of violence-drawn cart carrying women and kiddies between two villages Tuesday in western Afghanistan, killing all 17 people on board, a grim reminder of the dangers facing Afghan civilians ahead of the 2014 withdrawal of foreign combat troops.
International troops already have pulled back into a largely advisory and training role as they try to prepare Afghan soldiers and police to take over their own security. That effort has been marred by a series of attacks by Afghan troops or forces of Evil disguised in their uniforms.
In the latest so-called insider attack, an Afghan soldier opened fire on Slovakian troops in the southern city of Kandahar, killing one and wounding six others.
The roadside kaboom that struck the cart was aimed at stopping a joint patrol of Afghan soldiers and police that was pursuing a group of Talibs in the western province of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , local police Lt. Sher Agha said. But the bomb went kaboom! next to the cart carrying the villagers, killing 12 women, four children and a man, Agha said.
Another roadside kaboomwent kaboom! near a taxi in the southern province of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , killing three civilians and wounding two, provincial government front man Ummar Zawaq said.
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That effort has been marred by a series of attacks by Afghan troops or forces of Evil disguised in their uniforms.
because of course, they are morally equal, right Mr. "Journalist"?
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Members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Federation Movement (BIFM) detonated two improvised explosive devices in Maguindanao Monday night. Col. Dickson Hermoso, spokesman of the Armys 6th Infantry Division, said the BIFM exploded the improvised bombs around 11:30 p.m., targeting the Magaslong bridge.
The blast caused minor damage to the bridge. Hermoso said the bridge is open only to light vehicles while it is being repaired.
He said, This recent act of the (BIFM) is strongly condemned by the people, businessmen and LGUs (local government units) of Datu Piang and adjoining communities as haram especially that the holy month of Ramadan is about to start."
Hermoso said the act might hamper Muslims travel to mosques to pray. He said, Ramadan is due to start tonight or tomorrow, so this may affect the movement of those going to mosques because the bridge is damaged...Datu Piang is a Muslim community so the law-abiding people in the area are reacting against it (attack)...That is anti-people."
[Dawn] Pakistain reached an understanding with the United States on drone strikes targeting Islamist Death Eaters and the attacks can be useful, according to leaked remarks from a former intelligence chief.
Pakistain publicly condemns US missile attacks on Taliban and al Qaeda operatives as a violation of its illusory sovereignty, but the new revelations are the latest sign of double-dealing in private.
They come in findings of a Pak investigation into how al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who used to be alive but now he's not... evaded detection for nearly a decade, which were published by the Al-Jazeera ... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS... news network Monday.
Ahmed Shuja Pasha, who headed Pakistain's premier Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency at the time of bin Laden's killing in 2011, told Sherlocks that drone strikes had their uses.
"The DG (director general) said there were no written agreements. There was a political understanding," the report said.
The Americans had been asked to stop drone strikes because they caused civilian casualties, but "it was easier to say no to them in the beginning, but 'now it was more difficult' to do so," it quoted the former spymaster as saying.
"Admittedly the drone attacks had their utility, but they represented a breach of national illusory sovereignty. They were legal according to American law but illegal according to international law," the report quoted the ISI chief as saying.
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Interesting logo, I don't think they considered the logo as a "Burning" of Islam. (Up in smoke)
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Qassem Saadeddine, spokesman for the Free Syrian Army's Supreme Military Council, said a pre-dawn strike on Friday hit a Syrian navy barracks at Safira, near the port of Latakia. He said that the rebel forces' intelligence network had identified newly supplied Yakhont missiles being stored there.
Israel has not confirmed or denied involvement. The Syrian government has not commented on the incident, beyond a state television report noting a "series of explosions" at the site.
Syrian claim that anti govt rebels were behind the explosion is here.
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There are enough well trained highly motivated intelligence organizations besides the Isrealis to have pulled this gig off. There are a number of governments around the Mediterranean that would be proud to say they did it, and one of them might have.
Doesn't have to be the Israelis every time, boys,
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Maybe BC,
I mean, another horse could win, but if Secretariat's in the race I kinda know where I'm betting.
[Al Ahram] Egypt's new Prime Minister Hazem al-Beblawi will offer cabinet posts to the Muslim Brotherhood movement of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, the official news agency quoted a presidential spokesman as saying on Tuesday.
"Some cabinet posts will be offered to the Freedom and Justice Party," Ahmed al-Muslimani was quoted as saying by the official MENA news agency. The party is the Brotherhood's political arm.
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Must be a compromise venture, given the prior ...
* MIDDLE EAST ONLINE > MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD REJECTS EGYPT'S NEW CHARTER + OPTS FOR ESCALATION.
* SAME > EGYPT SALAFISTS DELAY, BLOCK, REJECT, + THEN PULLOUT OF GOVT TALKS.
* FOX NEWS + CNN > TOP EGYPT CLERIC WARNS COUNTRY ON VERGE OF CIVIL WAR, after Morsi ouster + outbreak of violence.
[NEWYORK.CBSLOCAL] There's some outrage in the parenting world about what could be the latest accessory for infants: Wigs.
Some babies have it and some don't, and there are some parents going to great lengths to make sure their baby has a full head of hair.
As CBS 2′s Emily Smith reported Tuesday, a company called baby-bangs.com makes that happen with wigs for infants. They come in an array of colors and styles to suit all different bald babies.
Online baby bloggers and other social media sites have taken issue with the accessory. Some local parents also had plenty to say about it.
"I don't feel like babies should be subjected to wearing wigs just yet. They're just babies," a mom told Smith.
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Stupid is as stupid does, some babies have hair, and some don't, I'd rather hear whether or not the ones who have hair keep it into old age.
(I did, now 66 with a full head of hair, don't remember if I had hair as a baby?)
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I for one was born with early Elvis side-burns.
[Dawn] The outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain has sacked its central front man, better known by the name of "Ehsanullah Ehsan", and appointed "Sheikh Maqbool" as his replacement.
In a written statement, signed by 10 TTP shura (council) members and issued on June 25, the TTP announced the removal of Ehsan as front man for the banned krazed killer group.
According to the document, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, the Taliban central council believes that the central front man had issued a statement which "may have caused rifts and misunderstandings between the TTP and the Afghan Taliban."
The letter, printed on TTP chief Hakeemullah Mehsud's 'letterhead', confirms Ehsan's removal as front man.
Though there is no mention of the new front man sources said that 'Sheikh Maqbool', which is also believed to be an assumed identity, would be the new spokesperson of the proscribed Pak Taliban.
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] Israeli media doesn't have a favorable impression of U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... and his push toward peace in the Middle East, opening one opinion page posting with this title: "Clueless U.S. mediator."
Ynet News' Hagai Segal's angle: Why is Mr. Kerry trying to hard to facilitate a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Paleostinian Liberation Organization Chairman the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , when Egypt and Syria are in utter chaos?
Even The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... wonders this question, Ynet said. And his work to bring about this deal is only "placing American foreign policy in a ridiculous light," the Israeli paper opined.
"The U.S. cannot make peace between Arabs and other Arabs, yet it believes it can make peace between Israel and the Paleostinians. ... Is it possible that John Kerry is more talented than all the American mediators who came before him? Not at all."
The paper goes on: "Kerry's mediation skills are limited to pressuring Israel to make dangerous concessions for the sake of negotiations that will lead nowhere. He lacks the intellectual and diplomatic ability to devise a permanent agreement that will satisfy both sides. He is a blind proponent of an impossible vision and is his own candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize."
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FYI the PA has just concluded an agreement wid Hashemite Jordan whereupon the latter will be responsible for Jerusalem's Islamic holy places -ISN'T THAT THE SAUDIS' RESPONSIBILITY, FOLLOWED NEXT BY THE PA WIDIN ITS SCOPE AS A "SOVEREIGN GOVT-STATE"???
Or is the PA indirectly admitting they are NOT sovereign, either by rejection or unenforceability of the "Two-State solution + Jordan's historical territorial claims to the West Bank???
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Israeli media doesnt have a favorable impression of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his push toward peace in the Middle East, opening one opinion page posting with this title: Clueless U.S. mediator.
Neither do we, the wrong showoff for the job.
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Not certain if it's the man they despise or the agency he represents. A justifiable response in either case I suppose.
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The funny thing is, with Syria and Egypt in utter chaos, the Israelis probably have more leverage with the Paleos than in a generation. Their cross-border financial and diplomatic sponsors are distracted to hell and gone with other higher priorities, and all the can't-wait-to-get-to-paradise crazies are heading to Syria to fight Alawi and Shia instead of Jews. Likewise, Hamas just got fed a rasher of twice-digested shit, so the PLO is stronger within the Paleo political environment, right? When both parties have resources they didn't have before, and the external pressure has been let up, the chances of a win-win result of negotiations are relatively high.
Not that John Fucking Kerry is the man to make that happen, him bigfooting around can only queer the pitch.
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"Mediator" appears to be code for "Douchebag"...
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
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The Navy says it has landed an unmanned jet on the aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush today, marking the first time a drone has made an arrested landing on a carrier -- generally thought to be the toughest flying job in naval aviation. 
Egypt's general prosecutor has ordered the arrest of the Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader Mohamed Badie and nine other members for allegedly inciting violence outside the Republican Guard headquarter where 55 people were killed.
[NationalJournal] Last week, it scaled back several required provisions. They aren't the first. And probably won't be the last.
[REUTERS] President 
[Shabelle] Three Somalis were convicted on Monday of piracy, kidnapping and murder in the 2011 shooting deaths of four Americans sailing in the Indian Ocean off of Oman and could face the death penalty, according to court documents.
[THESMOKINGGUN] The Oklahoma woman who had a loaded handgun concealed in her vagina when she was arrested earlier this year on a drug charge has been sentenced to 25 years in state prison, according to court records.
[Al Ahram] A judicial source has stated that the general prosecution is beginning the interrogation of nearly 650 suspects over Monday's 
Syrians travelling to Egypt are now required to apply for a visa, after the authorities in Cairo issued a new rule amid soaring unrest in Egypt, consulate staff in Beirut told AFP on Tuesday.
[An Nahar] The WikiLeaks anti-secrecy website said Tuesday that 
A member of the RKK 
A secret document that appears to show six-figure payments from Qatar to top Muslim Brotherhood officials is fueling charges of corruption and hypocrisy at ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and his Islamist cronies.
The Free Syrian Army claimed Monday that the Israel Air Force had destroyed a warehouse holding Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missiles east of the city of Homs in western Syria. The rebels' claim has not been corroborated by any other independent source.
[Al Ahram] Part of an ancient Egyptian king's unique sphinx was unveiled at a dig in northern Israel on Tuesday, with researchers struggling to understand just how the unexpected find ended up there.
That's enterta-a-a-a-a-i-i-i-i-nment!"
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confirmed that the ANPP Chairman, who had been fingered as one of the sponsors of the dreaded 
[An Nahar] Death Valley National Park has asked tourists not to test out the reputation of the world's hottest spot by frying eggs on the ground, citing a growing litter problem at the popular U.S. landmark.
Somali pirates
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[Dawn] KARACHI: Several persons, including 
[ALLAFRICA] President 
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means 
[NEWYORK.CBSLOCAL] There's some outrage in the parenting world about what could be the latest accessory for infants: Wigs.
[Dawn] The outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain has sacked its central 
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