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Proposed takeover of Calgary-based oil and gas producer Nexen by China’s state-owned oil giant C
(November 23, 2012) The proposed takeover of Calgary-based oil and gas producer Nexen by China’s state-owned oil giant CNOOC should be nixed by the Canadian government, says Probe International’s Patricia Adams. As instruments of the Communist Party, China’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are undisciplined by markets or the rule of law. Without subsidies, their rate of return on equity is negative. It would be impossible to stop them from distorting the Canadian economy, so Canada should just say no to CNOOC.

The Canadian government will soon decide whether to let China’s state-owned oil giant CNOOC buy Nexen Inc., the Calgary-based oil and gas producer. A survey released this week shows that 72% of Canadians oppose the prospect of this Chinese Communist Party-led enterprise operating in Canada, with good reason.

China’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are controlled by the Chinese Communist Party and their role is political — to keep the Communist party in power. They receive subsidized financing from state-owned banks that receive subsidized savings from captive Chinese citizens who are not allowed to invest their money freely, as we in the West can. SOEs typically receive other subsidies and privileges such as free land, monopoly control over their markets, expedited licences, and exemptions from the need to meet environmental and other standards. In China, a country where the rule of law languishes, China’s SOEs get away with pretty much anything, often at the expense of a bribe to a local official.

Though many are in awe of China’s “rise,” it is a Potemkin village of misallocated capital that, at its root, depends on the suppression of consumer, labour, environmental, and investor rights. Fisher Investments calls it “crony communism.”

That is why researchers at the Transition Institute, a Beijing-based think-tank, want Chinese SOEs privatized and forced to operate according to market discipline and the rule of law, and not by political favour. They are not alone. The Chinese economist, Mao Yushi, the recent winner of the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, calculated that China’s state-owned sector received 7.5 trillion yuan ($1.2-trillion) in subsidies between 2001 and 2009, without which they would have realized a negative average return on equity of 6.3%. The World Bank argues that China’s SOEs represent a problem for China and is calling for their reform into real market-disciplined institutions, not ones that operate by dint of Communist party favours.

Thanks to their status as the “special children” of the Communist party, Chinese SOEs have become flush with cash at the expense of Chinese citizens, who must overpay for everyday products, who must endure the destruction of their environment and the seizure of their land, and who suffer the suppression of their right to sue to defend themselves. Waving cash obtained through such unethical means, Chinese SOEs are now on a shopping spree around the world for investments such as Nexen.

CNOOC’s proposed takeover of Nexen can’t go ahead until the government of Canada approves the $15-billion purchase under the Investment Canada Act, something it can only do if the takeover is likely to be of net benefit to Canada and not injurious to our national security.

The act requires foreign investors to adhere to our standards of free and fair enterprise, and to be accountable under the law. But Chinese SOEs do not ordinarily operate by our standards. They are notoriously secretive, they have inefficient cost structures and low productivity, and it would be virtually impossible to stop them from distorting the Canadian economic environment. Should a political issue arise between Canada and China, the SOEs would necessarily do the bidding of their owners — the Chinese government.

Should a Chinese SOE make money by virtue of its Canadian investments, it will indirectly strengthen its master, the Chinese Communist Party, in its control over ordinary Chinese citizens. If a SOE loses money by its Canadian investments, it will directly hurt ordinary Chinese consumers and taxpayers, who will need to make up the shortfall.

Because of these disbenefits to the Chinese citizenry, reformers in China want the SOEs reformed in much the same way the West has reformed so many of our own SOEs — by privatizing them, as Canada did with Petro-Canada and the U.K. did with British Petroleum. Because of the dubious economic benefit to the Canadian economy from renationalizing key parts of our economy — and with the national being a foreign dictatorship to boot — the government of Canada should simply say no.
Nexen Inc.is an upstream oil and gas company developing energy resources in the UK North Sea, offshore West Africa, the Gulf of Mexico and Western Canada. Nexen has three principal businesses: conventional oil and gas, oil sands and shale gas.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/26/2012 21:10 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336069 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Texas Schools Teaching Boston Tea Party As Terrorist Act
Posted by: tipper || 11/26/2012 15:19 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336070 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Liberal historical revisionism at its finest.

Not reporting on your neighbor will soon be considered a terrorist act.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/26/2012 16:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Call on me teach, over here, me. So, can we take all 'union actions' which have effected the safety of targeted individuals and property as terrorist acts as well? /sarc off
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/26/2012 16:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Out of context. The story was supposed to be from the British perspective as if it was a news report or current events.
Posted by: Large Darling of the Antelope3345 || 11/26/2012 17:53 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Chinese Aircraft Carrier First to Takeoff, Land Planes
Posted by: Beavis || 11/26/2012 13:34 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336085 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not too shabby. Spotting will be the next challenge I guess. I'll wager they do well with that too, a crowded carrier deck does have some resemblance to a CFD.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/26/2012 17:27 Comments || Top||

#2  By this achievement, China + PLAN have done more than the Cold-War Soviets did wid their Yakolevs.

However, not to be outdone by the CPLAN it appears the post-Soviet Russians are intent on building one or more US-style nuke-powered Supercarrier wid forward jumpdeck on the bow.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/26/2012 18:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Amazing how most of their deck gear, flight deck personnel's safety gear looks just like ours.

I want to see videos of bolters. Lets see how they handle high tempo evolutions one after another on a crowded deck. They have a long way to go.
Posted by: Secret Asian Man || 11/26/2012 19:11 Comments || Top||

#4  SAM, and then they have to work out the whole carrier battle group concept, with defense in depth, coordinated air defense, ASW, and a few other tricky things.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 11/26/2012 19:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Is this Eastasia's Inner Party's 'Floating Fortress' gambit to simply impress the Outer Party and the rubes of Oceania?

Maybe it's actually designed to tighten the sphincter of Eurasia (who they still consider a threat). (Of course they've always been at war with Eastasia)

The average Proles probably don't care.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/26/2012 22:05 Comments || Top||

#6  Now do it at night.
Posted by: Chris in Fort Worth || 11/26/2012 22:32 Comments || Top||

#7  then they have to work out the whole carrier battle group concept

More likely it'll be lily-pad ops.
Posted by: Pappy || 11/26/2012 22:34 Comments || Top||

#8  See also RELATED CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > NAVY: CHINA NOW CAPABLE TO DEPLOY ITS JETS ON AIRCRAFT CARRIER.

PLAN VADM. Zhang Yongyi.

* SAME > CHINA FIRST NON-CAUCASIAN NATION TO ACHIEVE CTOL JET FIGHTER AIRCRAFT CARRIER OPERATION | [WSJ.com = Jeremy Page] CHINA AIRCRAFT CARRIER PASSES LANDMARK.

POSTERS = ask what about INDIA? BRAZIL? Net Counter-response is that India's Russian-made, Ukraine-supplied CV had broken down during sea trials, ala ENGINE/BOILER-GATE [Asbestos]; + both India + Brazil's carrier, naval pilots were initially foreign-prepped + foreign-trained, respectively, UNLIKE CHINA WHICH IS DOING NEARLY EVERYTHING ON ITS OWN EXCEPT COLD-WAR ERA ORIGINAL SHIP CONSTRUCTION???

versus

* TOPIX > [Japan]ISHIHARA TALKS UP [Advanced] WEAPONS EXPORTS AS DETERRENT, as only tech-superior/saavy Japan can do, by and for Japan.

* SAME > ISLANDS NOT LISTED AS TERRITORY BY ROC [aka Taiwan] IN MOFA CALENDAR.

OOOOOPPPPPSSSS - lucky for Taiwan mainland China has the ball.

* SAME > KOREA [aka ROK = South Korea] READY TO FILE OFFICIAL "CONTINENTAL SHELF" CLAIM, to the UN = UNCLOS.

The ROK claims their sovereign UW Continental Shelf extends naturally all the way to the OKINAWA TROUGH.

* CHINA DAILY FORUM > OPPOSITION TO US BASES IN PACIFIC REACHES TURNING POINT.

D *** NG IT, "US GO HOME, OKINAWA FOR OKINAWANS" - SSSSSSHHHHH, you know, CHINA!

Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/26/2012 22:46 Comments || Top||

#9  Oh, no, the Chinese have just begun to catch up to the military ability of Thailand.

And Thailand is way ahead of the Chinese in selecting an "Ultimate Leader" who is smokin' hot.


Posted by: rammer || 11/26/2012 22:56 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Disagreeing with Obama can ruin Christmas, says White House report
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/26/2012 12:04 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336075 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well shit, there goes my Christmas.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/26/2012 12:04 Comments || Top||

#2  I think Obama's Inflation Grinch already has.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/26/2012 12:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Der santa kommissar already gave me a Hopey Thinkgimmies, so what the hell.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/26/2012 12:42 Comments || Top||

#4  For he is a jealous god, you shall not have other gods besides him.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/26/2012 13:42 Comments || Top||

#5  You better not stall
You better not fight
He's gonna find out who's naughty or nice
Barry O is coming to town

Give me what I want, or I shoot a reindeer every hour. We'll start with Blitzen...
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/26/2012 13:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Barry would start with hoof.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/26/2012 14:44 Comments || Top||

#7  Well, he already ruined my Christmas by being reelected, so I don't think there is much more that he can do, Christmas ruination-wise.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 11/26/2012 15:00 Comments || Top||

#8  What Sgt. Mom said. :-(
Posted by: Barbara || 11/26/2012 19:10 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
British Colonel Kemp: Hamas Leaders 'Running for Their Lives'
Posted by: Cheager Angoluque6848 || 11/26/2012 11:16 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336065 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Jesse Jackson Jr. shielding his wife
It looks like former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), who resigned Wednesday, is trying to take any potential heat off of his wife, Ald. Sandi Jackson (7th) -- who is also his campaign manager.

I'm told that Sandi Jackson has hired her own legal representation as her husband's lawyers try to work out a deal in the ongoing federal probe of his campaign finances. It doesn't take too much reading between the lines of Jackson's resignation letter -- unusually poignant -- that he is telling the feds to blame him -- and leave his wife out of it. In the letter, sent Wednesday to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Jackson acknowledged the probe for the first time, said he is cooperating with "the investigators, and accept responsibility for my mistakes, for they are my mistakes and mine alone."

It's prudent for Sandi Jackson to have her own lawyer. She is under the microscope herself as federal agents are digging into Jackson campaign spending.

According to campaign finance disclosures, Sandi Jackson has been drawing $5,000-a-month payments from her husband's main campaign fund through her firm, J. Donnatella and Associates. Her company has been on the Jackson campaign payroll for years, and it is located, according to FEC records, in the couples' Washington red-brick rowhouse off DuPont Circle. Sandi Jackson was deeply involved in the South Side and south suburban political operation the couple put together -- run for a time from the basement of their Chicago home.

Former Rep. Jackson hired three high-powered lawyers to represent him -- Reid H. Weingarten and Brian M. Heberlig, partners in the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson, and former U.S. Attorney Dan K. Webb, a Winston & Strawn partner in Chicago. This team only represents the former congressman.
Posted by: Au Auric || 11/26/2012 08:42 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336067 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Heh. How noble...........
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/26/2012 21:53 Comments || Top||


Europe
New details on the Al Hilli murders
Curiouser and curiouser.
Posted by: phil_b || 11/26/2012 08:39 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336069 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If they didn't solve it a few months ago ... their chances are slim now. Professionals are involved, and they left a cold trail.
Posted by: Raider || 11/26/2012 11:30 Comments || Top||

#2  You do have to wonder how it is that Sylvain Mollier just happened to be there at the time of the murder of Al-Hilli and the two women. It's clear to me (though I am of course cynical) that Al-Hilli was up to something; the man was too well connected, had too much money, and too many concealed stashes to be be anything else. Whether he was connected to Saddam, or the Saudis, or al-Qaeda, or the Muslim Brotherhood (or someone else) -- who knows? Maybe CIA or Mossad, but if they knew you'd think they'd slip a quiet word to the investigators.

I think the key is Mollier, and I'd be running every minute detail of his life down.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/26/2012 12:34 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Mexico's fearless woman mayor beaten to death
The body of a woman once called a 'heroine of the 21st century' for fearlessly standing up to Mexico's brutal drug cartels has been found beaten to death at the side of a road.

Maria Santos Gorrostieta, 36, was the former mayor of Tiquicheo, a rural district in Michoacan, west of Mexico City.

She famously survived two assassination attempts by narcotics gangs who have turned the country into a war zone.

Her brave defiance may have cost the mother-of-three her life. The official cause of death was a blow to the head but she had been stabbed, her legs and hands had been bound and her waist and chest were covered in burns, suggesting she had been tortured.

She was discovered by residents of the community of San Juan Tararameo, Cuitzeo Township, who were heading to work in the fields.

Her family had reported her missing on November 14, and the disappearance was being investigated by the Anti-Kidnapping and Extortion Institution.

A murder investigation has now been launched.

Posted by: Au Auric || 11/26/2012 08:39 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336064 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
How the World Saved Hamas 20 Years Ago
Posted by: tipper || 11/26/2012 06:54 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336064 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What does the rest of the world have against the Juice, anyway?
Posted by: Bobby || 11/26/2012 11:48 Comments || Top||

#2  They are twinkie killers and don't like bacon.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/26/2012 17:31 Comments || Top||

#3  The fact that they ARE the Juice, Bobby. >:-(
Posted by: Barbara || 11/26/2012 19:15 Comments || Top||


Ehud Barak to retire from politics
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has announced that he will retire from political life and won't run in the upcoming elections.

During a surprise press conference on Monday morning, Barak said, "There are many ways to contribute to the state, politics isn't the only one. My decision to retire stems from my desire to devote that time to my family, and also because I have never felt that politics was the height of my ambition."

He said, "I believe that it is important to make way for fresh faces – a turnover in positions of power is a good thing. I made the decision not without qualms but ultimately with a whole heart."

He added that he will continue to serve as defense minister until the next elections. When asked whether he could serve as the next defense minister as a non-elected official, he said the question is "irrelevant."
Posted by: ryuge || 11/26/2012 05:16 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336068 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now let me see: is it the third or the fourth time?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/26/2012 7:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Somebody didn't want a ceasefire.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/26/2012 7:43 Comments || Top||

#3  This was a test. This was only a test. Had this been an actual alert, you would have been advised to turn to........
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/26/2012 9:10 Comments || Top||

#4  adds to the mystery of what's going on here. why did they agree to the ceasefire in Gaza? where do they stand vis-a-vis Iran? the differences between Barak and Netanyahu have been growing stronger every week. only time will tell - what this really means.
Posted by: Raider || 11/26/2012 10:01 Comments || Top||

#5  the third or the fourth time?

Fourth, I think.
Posted by: Pappy || 11/26/2012 10:57 Comments || Top||

#6  The Israelis agreed to the ceasefire because they got what they wanted --

  • They whacked a bunch of Hamas bad boyz

  • They demonstrated that Iron Dome works

  • They demonstrated that Egypt won't materially help Hamas

  • The round is over, so the Israelis felt good about going to their corner and getting ready for the next round.
    Posted by: Steve White || 11/26/2012 11:02 Comments || Top||

    #7  Israel's successful live-fire exercise tested the IDF mobilization scheme, highlighted the Iranian connection and undoubtedly made visible a number of Iranian communications and logistics venues. It also put a little Rabbi Mint in the Hildebeast's mouth as she trek'd through Israel. Short-term benefits, long-term benefits... all bases covered.

    Posted by: Besoeker || 11/26/2012 11:14 Comments || Top||


    Israel’s Newest Missile Defense System: ‘David’s Sling’
    Posted by: tipper || 11/26/2012 04:56 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336062 views] Top|| File under:


    Syria-Lebanon-Iran
    Devotees turn mosque floor red during mass flagellation to mourn Shiite martyr
    WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: They pay respects to the Prophet Mohammad and his martyred grandson with the flowing of their blood

    Posted by: tipper || 11/26/2012 04:35 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336084 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Doesn't bother me at all when they celebrate their religion with their OWN blood; I just don't like it when they use other peoples blood.
    Posted by: Glenmore || 11/26/2012 7:53 Comments || Top||

    #2  If yer still alive, keep flagellatin'.
    Posted by: Spot || 11/26/2012 7:56 Comments || Top||

    #3  Flagellation? Don't that make you go blind?
    Posted by: SteveS || 11/26/2012 12:32 Comments || Top||

    #4  Even their freaking worship services are gory. What a hell born religion.
    Posted by: Daddy Gosbeck || 11/26/2012 12:39 Comments || Top||

    #5  Hey, Mo sez he's not happy. Want's a few more quarts...from all the pious.
    Posted by: tu3031 || 11/26/2012 13:47 Comments || Top||

    #6  Make your Sunni neighbor enjoy the wonders of the season, if he don't then shoot heem in the foot that he might see the light.

    Posted by: Shipman || 11/26/2012 17:29 Comments || Top||


    Russia slams support of Syria's rebels
    Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev slammed as "unacceptable" the recognition and support by France and other states of the Syrian opposition battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

    Britain and France have joined Turkey and Arabian Peninsula states in recognising a newly formed opposition bloc as the sole representative of the Syrian people. Paris has also suggested arming the opposition fighters.

    "From the point of view of international law, this is absolutely unacceptable," Medvedev told Agence France-Presse and Le Figaro newspaper in an interview ahead of a working visit to Paris starting Monday. "I remind you that in line with the principles of international law, no state can take measures aimed at the forced change of a government in another state."

    "A desire to change the political regime of another state by recognising a political force as the sole carrier of sovereignty seems to me to be not completely civilised," he added.

    France was the first Western state to recognise the newly-formed Syrian National Coalition as the sole representative of the Syrian people and was swiftly joined by Britain, Italy and the European Union.

    Paris has also raised the idea of excluding defensive weapons for the rebels from the current blanket EU embargo on Syria. The United States has been more circumspect, saying it is not ready to recognise the oppposition and has appeared wary of arming them.

    Medvedev described France's stance as "very controversial".

    "Let the Syrian people decide the personal fate of Assad and his regime. It is preferable if they (the opposition forces) came to power legally and not because of deliveries of arms from other countries," he said.
    Posted by: tipper || 11/26/2012 03:35 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336063 views] Top|| File under:


    Home Front: WoT
    Terrorism Law Is a Niche for a Deepening Pool of Defenders in New York
    In New York, rounding up “the usual suspects” in terrorism cases nowadays may well refer to the defense lawyers.

    Katya Jestin, a former prosecutor now in private practice. When asked why she had joined the defense of a Guantánamo detainee, she said, “For me it’s having just a deep belief in the legitimacy of our federal system and the rule of law.”

    As Islamic terrorists from around the world are brought to Federal District Court in Manhattan or Brooklyn to face prosecution, an extraordinary outgrowth has been a deepening pool of lawyers qualified to represent them. It is a peculiar niche of defense work, requiring skills not always taught in law school.

    These lawyers often must obtain government security clearances, and become adept at navigating the laws involving classified information and foreign intelligence searches. They often travel overseas to interview witnesses and a client’s family members. “Not only do you have the substantive law and the procedural law, but you have the whole cultural orientation,” said Anthony L. Ricco, who has represented a series of terrorism defendants over the past two decades.
    Posted by: tipper || 11/26/2012 03:30 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336065 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Terrorists and lawyers... the difference is ?
    Posted by: Besoeker || 11/26/2012 9:11 Comments || Top||

    #2  Admittance to the bar?
    Posted by: Pappy || 11/26/2012 10:56 Comments || Top||

    #3  Want to travel the world? Obtain government security clearances? Meet interesting people?
    Learn interesting things? Be paid well by the federal government? Well, Terrorist Lawyer may be the profession for you! Call now! 1-800-SCU-MBAG!
    Posted by: tu3031 || 11/26/2012 13:26 Comments || Top||


    Africa North
    Presidency assures constitutional declaration is temporary
    [Al Ahram] The office of the president released a statement to the media Sunday assuring that the constitutional declaration issued by President Mohamed Morsi last week is only a temporary measure, necessary to follow up on corruption crimes and protect elected bodies.
    The statement said there is a need to hold accountable those responsible of corruption under the former regime and during the transitional period, as well as to attain the rights of the revolution's deaders, which can only be accomplished by the declaration.

    "The presidency reiterates the temporary nature of the said measures, which are not meant to concentrate powers, but on the contrary to devolve it to democratically elected parliament and to avoid any attempt to undermine or abort two democratically elected bodies (the upper house of parliament and the Constituent Assembly), as well as preserving the impartiality of the judiciary and to void politicising it," the statement read.

    The statement also sought to assure the country's political forces will all be included in a national dialogue to reach consensus over the constitution.

    Meanwhile,
    ...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his face ...
    President Morsi has been holding meetings with advisors and aides to discuss the current crisis that followed the new constitutional declaration.
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336066 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

    #1  Nothing is so permanent as a Temporary Measure.
    Posted by: Redneck Jim || 11/26/2012 1:10 Comments || Top||

    #2  Except the Bush "temporary" tax breaks.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 11/26/2012 9:34 Comments || Top||


    India-Pakistan
    Pillion riding banned in Pindi
    [Dawn] The City District Government, Rawalpindi (CDGR) has imposed Section 144, prohibiting riding double in the district till Muharram 10.

    The notification issued by Rawalpindi Administrator Saqib Zafar did not mention the relaxation for patients, elderly people, women, children and journalists.

    However,
    a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package...
    the provinces of Sindh, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
    ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
    and Balochistan
    ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
    have excluded elderly people, women, children and newsmen from the ban.

    The notification said that the order shall become effective immediately and will remain in force till Muharram 10.

    It had also warned that action would be taken against violators under section 188 of PPC.

    Meanwhile,
    ...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact...
    the Taxila administration also imposed a ban on riding double and waving guns in the limits of Taxila and Wah Cantt till 10th of Muharram-ul-Haram.

    Official sources said local administration issued two separate notifications to this effect.
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336067 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


    Africa Horn
    Heavy blast heard in Somalia's southern port city of Kismayo
    [Shabelle] At least two people have been injured in a heavy blast rocked Somalia's southern port city of Kismayo, 500 Km south of Mogadishu, witnesses said.

    Sunday attack which used a roadside kaboom has been targeted Ras Kamboni militia officials as they were having a meeting in district administration office in the heart of the city.

    Two people--a soldier and a civilian woman at the office were hurt in the blast, and taken to the hospital, according to the local sources.
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336069 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


    Syria-Lebanon-Iran
    Rebels seize 'large part' of army airport near Damascus
    [Al Ahram] Syrian rebels seized a "large part" of a military airport near the capital on Sunday as troops shelled the outskirts of Damascus
    ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world...
    province, a watchdog and activists said.

    The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that 31 rebels and 16 soldiers in and around Damascus were among 94 people killed in violence across the country on Saturday.

    Rebels took a "large part" of the military airport of Marj al-Sultan, 15 kilometres (nine miles) east of Damascus, and destroyed two helicopters, according to the Britannia-based Observatory.

    A video posted on the Internet by activists appeared to show one wrecked helicopter, while a rebel shoots rockets at the airport, gripped by several fires.

    The Syrian Revolution General Commission and Local Coordination Committees, two major networks of activists on the ground, meanwhile, reported shelling of several areas near Damascus.

    Helicopter gunships pounded Zamalka town, northeast of Damascus, as rebels clashed with troops in nearby Harasta, said the Observatory, which relies on a network of activists, lawyers and medics in civilian and military hospitals.

    The opposition fighters have set up rear bases in orchards surrounding the capital, where they had made advances during the summer but have since been driven out.

    In the southern province of Daraa, hard boyz temporarily took control of a military outpost on the border with Jordan overnight, the Observatory said.

    In the north, rebels pressed on with an offensive against troops stationed at the strategic Tishrin dam, which straddles the Euphrates river and connects the provinces of Aleppo
    ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins...
    and Raqa.

    The rebels, according to a local resident, have been closing in on the area for the past week.

    Opposition fighters already control one of the main routes to Raqa and the dam would give them a second passage, connecting a wide expanse of territory between the two provinces, both of which border Turkey.
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336067 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


    Arabia
    Sniper scopes seized at Hodeida Port
    [Yemen Post] The Yemeni authorities seized on Saturday at Hodeida Port a cargo of sniper scopes imported from China.

    Director of Hodeida Port Salem Ben Boraik told the state news agency, Saba, the authorities could identify that there were nine packages filled with sniper scopes inside a cargo of child diapers.

    The seizure of the scopes came amid fears that some Yemeni groups and factions prepare to wars and retaliate against political foes.

    Yemeni groups accuse each others of seeking to inflame conflicts and break down the GCC-crafted power transfer deal.

    Yemeni officials and political parties accuse Iran of supporting some Yemeni groups with weapons and funds, but there was no formal investigations that approve that claims.

    Yemen's custom authorities seized earlier of November a container loaded with pistols cargo at Aden port's free zone.

    Security sources affirmed that a cargo of small pistols was hidden inside packages of biscuits, pointing out that the investigations are ongoing to identify the involved persons.

    The discovery of this cargo came after the government embarked on a campaign a against weapon carrying in major cities.

    According to state sources, the authorities seized about 75,000 pieces of arms across Yemen during the first half of 2012.

    The Interior Ministry sought to pass a law that organizes the possession of arm carrying, but it was faced with many obstructions.

    Though Yemenis live on less than two dollars a day, Yemen has the second most heavily armed population in the world, unofficial statistics say.

    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336076 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Brings to mind 3dc's story about Chinese ammo packed in cases marked 'canned ham', being shipped from Pakistan to Africa some decades ago.
    Posted by: Pappy || 11/26/2012 10:50 Comments || Top||

    #2  'Canned Ham' from PakiLand.

    Yup.
    Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/26/2012 21:51 Comments || Top||


    Africa Horn
    Gov't,Al shabab both claim major victory over Balad-Hawo battle
    [Shabelle] A bigwig in Al shabab snuffies on Sunday has claimed a major victory over a battle against Somali forces in Balad-Hawo town, Gedo province.

    Sheikh Abdiaziz Abu Musab, the front man of Al shabab for the military operations said that his fighters stormed military bases inside the city on Saturday afternoon, seizing a wide-range of weapons--light and heavy, including AK47 rifle assaults during their ambush attack from Somali forces.

    "We launched a pre-planed attack on Somali forces in Balad-Hawo late on Saturday at about 5 pm. During the battle we managed to take over briefly the overall control of the city and withdrew for military tactics," Abu Musab said.

    For his part, Diyad Abdi Kalil, Somali army officials said they have inflicted heavy and irreversible losses upon the Al shabab in the fighting.

    Mr.kalil said the attack was fended off and at least 13 fighters were killed by government forces. He underlined that the town is under their control.

    The latest reports from the city indicated on Sunday that the situations has returned into normal as the public movement and transportation are up and running.
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336065 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


    Africa North
    Egyptian state TV channels abruptly cease transmission
    [Al Ahram] A handful of Egyptian state television
    ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
    channels -- including Channel 1, Egyptian Satellite TV and some Nile TV channels -- abruptly vanished from the airwaves on Sunday evening.

    While the channels eventually resumed terrestrial transmissions, satellite transmissions had yet to be restored as of 7:45pm local time.
    Has someone neglected to pay this month's bill?
    Salah Hamza, managing director of NileSat, the satellite television platform that carries the channels, said: "The connection was broken by sources outside Egypt; investigations are ongoing to determine the source [of the disconnection]."
    Definitely unpaid bills.
    Hamza said Channel 1 and Egyptian Satellite TV had been set to a new frequency in order to resume broadcasting, while Nile TV channels, too, were in the process of being set to new frequencies.

    Ali Abdel-Rahman, head of Nile TV channels, told Al-Ahram's Arabic-language news website that "no one knows the reason for the technical problem until now now."

    Abdel-Rahman went on to stress that Ismail El-Shishtawy, head of the Egyptian Radio and Television Union, was working to resolve the problem with NileSat management.
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336074 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

    #1  No, it's the Jews' fault.

    What? No one claimed that? Wow.
    Posted by: Eric Jablow || 11/26/2012 5:34 Comments || Top||

    #2  Obama practicing his new show in the sticks prior to going to Broadway.
    Posted by: AlanC || 11/26/2012 9:30 Comments || Top||

    #3  Cheech: "Whatch watchin?" Chong: "Some weird Indian movie." Cheech: "That's not an Indian movie, that's a test pattern".
    Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/26/2012 12:20 Comments || Top||

    #4  Wakin up on Saturdays looking at the Indian and waiting for National Anthem is a fond memory.
    Posted by: Shipman || 11/26/2012 17:07 Comments || Top||

    #5  I liked the end of day and "Touched the Face of G*d", myself.
    Posted by: Pappy || 11/26/2012 19:17 Comments || Top||

    #6  What Pappy said.
    Posted by: Barbara || 11/26/2012 21:22 Comments || Top||

    #7  HIGH FLIGHT
    Posted by: rammer || 11/26/2012 21:52 Comments || Top||

    #8  And now we end our broadcast day...
    The F-104 looked fast standing still.
    Posted by: tu3031 || 11/26/2012 21:58 Comments || Top||

    #9  Followed by our National Anthem...
    Posted by: tu3031 || 11/26/2012 22:01 Comments || Top||

    #10  Star Spangled Banner
    Posted by: rammer || 11/26/2012 22:07 Comments || Top||

    #11  Alternate sign-off

    Battle Hymn of the Republic


    Posted by: rammer || 11/26/2012 22:20 Comments || Top||


    Arabia
    Yemen Gives Elders Till Monday to Enable Teams to Fix Marib Pipeline
    [Yemen Post] The Yemeni authorities gave tribes in Marib province till 9:00 am Monday to negotiate with the saboteurs who bombed the Marib oil pipeline to enable the teams to repair the pipeline, Alsahwa net reported on Sunday.

    Marib governor chaired a meeting that gathered tribal elders from the Wadi Abida district and military commanders, and at the meeting, the attendants agreed to give the tribal elders in the district till tomorrow to allow the teams fix the damages to the pipeline, preventing more attacks on it and to remove all road closures and security disorder.

    The 272-mile pipeline has been attacked four times in Marib province this month and pumping was halted after the first successive attacks in the Wadi Abida district.

    After the attacks, rustics closed roads and have prevented the authorities from fixing the damages.

    On Saturday, the state-owned SEPOC warned of a possible fuel crisis in the coming period if the pipeline continues to be down.

    The Marib pipeline carries about 110.000 b/d from Marib and Shabwa provinces o the Ras Isa terminal in Hodeida. The crude is transported on the Safer Tanker to the Aden refinery. Part of the crude processed at the refinery is locally consumed.
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336065 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


    Syria-Lebanon-Iran
    Syrian Rebels Claim Capture of Helicopter Base Near Damascus
    [Blogs.VOANews] Syrian rebels say they have captured a government helicopter base near Damascus
    ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world...
    as they try to close in on Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's
    Scourge of Qusayr...
    seat of power in the capital.

    A video released by Syrian activists on Sunday appears to show anti-Assad rebels roaming around the Marj al-Sultan air base, about 15 kilometers east of Damascus, after they launched an assault the previous day. The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the rebels killed at least eight soldiers and destroyed two helicopters at the base, while at least 15 rebel fighters also were killed.

    Activists say Syrian opposition forces trying to end President Assad's autocratic rule have been gradually expanding their territory around Damascus, despite being heavily outgunned by government forces who remain entrenched in the capital.

    In other developments Sunday, the Observatory said rebels seized a training base of a pro-Assad Paleostinian beturbanned goon faction near Damascus. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine
    Probably the PFLP-GC, rather than the plain vanilla PFLP, which is a separate organization and is actually based in Paleostine.
    condemned the attack on its base, which it said has been used to train thousands of Paleostinians to fight Israel in the past 30 years.

    Elsewhere, the Observatory said a kaboom on a bus killed at least five people in southern Syria.
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336118 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

    #1  The Rebelss are also claiming that they've cutoff the Aleppo highway again from Assad's forces.

    * ION TOPIX > PLANELOADS OF CASH: FLIGHT RECORDS REVEAL RUSSIA FLEW 30 TONNES OF BANK NOTES TO SYRIAN REGIME, to shore up Baby Assad + make sure he's able to pay his troops.
    Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/26/2012 22:17 Comments || Top||


    Africa Horn
    MPs call to boost military push against Al shabab
    [Shabelle] Several MPs in Somalia Federal Parliament have on Sunday called for boosting up the ongoing military operations against Al shabab fighters in south and central Somalia.

    Dahir Amin Jesow, one of the Somalia's new politicians, urged Somali government officials to step up war on Al shabab until they are being rooted out of the entire country. He has been attacked in Lower Shabelle region during his recent visit by Al shabab.

    The call comes as Somali forces along with AMISOM soldiers are making gains against Al shabab. The allied forces secured the capital last year and that opened door to seize some key town in south following months of offensives.
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336064 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


    Southeast Asia
    School director seriously wounded in southern Thailand
    The director of a school in Pattani province was shot and seriously injured on Thursday afternoon.

    Nanthana Kaewchan, director of Ban Tha Kam Sam School, was traveling in her car when attacked by two men on a motorcycle at about 3:15 p.m. The pillion rider shot at her with an M16 rifle. Mrs Nanthana was seriously injured and admitted to the hospital.

    Three arrested in Narathiwat raids

    Combined security forces yesterday raided five locations in Narathiwat province suspected of being used by terrorists insurgents to plan a violent attack in the province. Officials arrested three suspects and seized a large quantity of explosives and bomb-making materials.

    Around 100 soldiers, police and bomb-disposal officers launched the raids after receiving a tip from local residents in Rusoh district that the sites were being used by terrorists insurgents from Runda Kumpulan Kecil.

    At one of the five locations, on a rubber plantation, they seized a home-made bomb in a steel box weighing 11 kilograms, along with 15 other light home-made bombs suitable for throwing. They also seized a gas cylinder, fertiliser, gasoline, nine batteries, electric wires and car paint. Tests revealed fingerprints from additional suspects on those bombs and materials. Police think the bombs and materials belonged to terrorists insurgents involved in a violent attack on a train in the region on November 18.

    In related news, Pattani Governor Pramuk Lamun laid 12 royal wreaths on behalf of HM the King and other Royal Family members for Nanthana Kaeojan, 51, a school director who was gunned down by terrorists insurgents in Pattani province on Thursday.

    The Federation of Teachers in the Three Southern Border Provinces yesterday held a meeting to discuss security for teachers following Nanthana's death. They agreed to meet with security agencies, governors and religious leaders to discuss the safety measures.
    Posted by: ryuge || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336067 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


    -Short Attention Span Theater-
    Irish Daily Star editor resigns over duchess' topless photos
    [CNN] The editor of the Irish Daily Star resigned Saturday "as a result of the publication on 15 September 2012," which revealed topless photos of the duchess of Cambridge, according to a statement from the paper.

    The images showed Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, sunbathing, igniting a firestorm of controversy in the British media and stern comments from Buckingham Palace.

    Michael O'Kane had been suspended earlier, following the publication.
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336065 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  I understand the NYT is hiring...
    Posted by: Pappy || 11/26/2012 10:59 Comments || Top||

    #2  I'd be happy to recommend you to the Atlanta Constipation Michael, but I just don't think a good Irishman would... fit in.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 11/26/2012 11:02 Comments || Top||

    #3  ..beyond the pale?
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/26/2012 11:56 Comments || Top||


    Israel-Palestine-Jordan
    Hamas to free Fatah prisoners after Gaza flareup
    [Al Ahram] Gazoo's ruling Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement is to release all prisoners from the rival Fatah movement tossed in the calaboose
    Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
    in connection with the political dispute between them, a front man said on Sunday.
    "The Hamas government has decided to pardon all cases against Fatah members which are related to the internal division since 2006," Hamas government front man Taher al-Nunu said at a presser in Gazoo City.

    He said the government had decided to set up a committee "to implement this decision and establish a new stage of reconciliation." Interior ministry front man Islam Shahwan said there were 22 Fatah members in jail in Gazoo.

    The move comes three days after Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
    ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
    telephoned Gazoo's Hamas premier Ismail Haniya to congratulate him "on his victory and (offer) condolences for the deaders."
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336073 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

    #1  I understand Hamas is giving them a motorcycle escort.
    Posted by: Pappy || 11/26/2012 22:32 Comments || Top||


    India-Pakistan
    Prayer leader shot dead in Swat
    [Dawn] Unidentified gunnies rubbed out a prayer leader in Fatehpur area of Khwazakhela tehsil in Swat
    ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...
    district on the night between Friday and Saturday.

    Local sources said that the victim, Maulvi Ahmad Hussain, was going home from the mosque after Isha prayers when the gunnies ambushed him. He was killed on the spot.

    The relatives of the dear departed said that his family had no enmity with anyone in the area. The Khwazakhela cop shoppe started the paperwork but haven't done much else against unidentified persons.

    Also, six persons were maimed when two cars collided in Rahimabad locality of Mingora on Saturday. The injured were shifted to Saidu Sharif Hospital.

    In Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
    ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
    , suspected faceless myrmidons attacked a police van in Mathra on the outskirts of provincial metropolis and injured a policeman on Saturday evening.

    An official of Mathra cop shoppe said the law enforcers were patrolling the area when gunnies opened indiscriminate firing on them near Akakhel Bus Stop on Warsak Road."Inspector Khushdil Khan sustained bullet wounds and the van was damaged in the attack. The rest of the coppers remained unhurt," the official said.

    He said that a search operation against the accused was launched in the area but so far no one was placed in long-term storage
    Book 'im, Mahmoud!
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336074 views] Top|| File under: TTP

    #1  We hear so much about Moslems killing OTHER Moslems. Its a basic staple on this site. I seem to see a pattern in Islam for shooting people who also happen to be Moslems. Its everyhere and it seems to be rather constant. the Religion of Peace kills its own a lot.

    I have to smile at that. I will be back tomorrow and read some more of the same. They are killing each other, they do it everyday in every way. Let's watch.

    There are apparently some good business opportunities in selling ammunition to Moslems and then introducing them to one another.
    Posted by: Threater Flusoper9823 || 11/26/2012 8:56 Comments || Top||


    Arabia
    Hadi: Al-Qaeda is behind economic recession
    [Yemen Post] Yemen President Abdurabu Mansour Hadi
    ...the second and possibly the last president of Yemen, successor to former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh...
    said on Saturday that Al-Qaeda is behind economic recession in Yemen.

    During his reception to the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc in Sana'a, Hadi affirmed that Yemen suffers from Al-Qaeda that severely damaged the national economy.

    "Terrorism has no nation, borders... all international states should cooperate to combat and eradicate it" he added.

    He also said that Al-Qaeda's target against Yemen's economy distracted investments and led to the increase of unemployment.

    During the meeting, Hadi received a letter from his Turkish counterpart, Abdullah Gul, regarding regional and international issues.

    Hadi stressed the importance of enhancing commercial exchange, praising Turkish development in all fields.

    A number of high-ranking Turkish officials including the Foreign Minister visited Yemen during the few past months and Turkey granted Yemen about $100 million.

    According to official statistics, Yemen lost about $3 billion during offensives that Yemeni launched against Al-Qaeda last year.

    After the Yemeni government announced its victory in early June, al-Qaeda carried out a suicide kaboom various governorates and killed the commander of Yemen's southern military region, Salem Qatan.

    The Yemeni authorities had stated that they would continue the battle against Al-Qaeda snuffies and that the government will deal with them as citizens in case they were persuaded to abandon violence.

    Yemeni officials say Al-Qaeda restored to use other tactics as it assassinated a number of Yemeni military commanders and officers, and carried out suicide kabooms against military and security compounds in the capital Sana'a and other cities

    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336066 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia


    Africa North
    Lawyers scuffle in Alexandria over Morsi's declaration
    [Al Ahram] Scuffles broke out between lawyers at the Alexandria court complex on Sunday as the fallout from President Morsi's Constitutional Declaration continues to reverberate across Egypt.

    Lawyers affiliated with the Moslem Brüderbund fought with lawyers critical of President Morsi's controversial declaration, which they say jeopardises judicial independence.

    Moslem Brüderbund lawyers and others who support the declaration called for a vote of no confidence in the leader of the lawyers' syndicate, Sameh Ashour, as well as the leader of its Alexandria branch, Abdel-Halim Allam, who they accuse of embracing calls for suspending work in courts in protest at the declaration.

    Islamist lawyers further condemned the decision of the lawyers' syndicate to back judges who have condemned the declaration.

    "Suspending work in courts will negatively affect both citizens and lawyers. It's a crime for a judge to refuse to work," said Abdel-Aziz El-Dreiny of the lawyers' syndicate.

    Following the president's decree, a number of courts and judges called for partial strikes to condemn what they said was a threat to judicial independence.

    In Alexandria, courts stopped working on Saturday. The prosecution has continued working as normal. Judges' Club leader in Alexandria, Ezzat Agwa, said courts in the city were expected to continue their strike until the president rescinds the declaration.

    Judges in Assiut, Upper Egypt, have continued their partial strike. They took action in response to calls for a strike by the Judges' Club on Saturday.

    General Adel Refaat, security director in Suez, has said courts in the governorate will continue to work as normal until a clear position is announced by the Judges' Club.

    In Sharqiya, all courts have continued working, but the prosecution has begun a partial strike.

    Courts and prosecution offices in the Delta governorate of Qalioubiya went on strike Saturday.
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336066 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


    -Lurid Crime Tales-
    Alleged shoplifter dies after being subdued by Walmart workers
    [AJC]
    A pack, not a herd.
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336068 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Stealing a floor model during the airing of a Snoop Dogg concert.... the tragic downside.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 11/26/2012 6:06 Comments || Top||

    #2  Apprehend and detain a shoplifter, sure. But I saw the video of these jokers, and this was pretty much a homicide in my book.

    Someone is going to get a payday.
    Posted by: Secret Asian Man || 11/26/2012 6:31 Comments || Top||

    #3  Of course in the old days, they literally crucified thieves. It cut back on recidivism.
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/26/2012 9:30 Comments || Top||

    #4  They should have taken his photo and banned him for life from WMT stores. I feel bad for the workers involved - they obviously went beyond the call of duty and are getting punished for their loyalty to the company. In a world where more often than not, employees are working with the thieves, that's a pity.
    Posted by: Zhang Fei || 11/26/2012 10:47 Comments || Top||


    Caribbean-Latin America
    Badanov's Buzzkill Bulletin

    For a map, click here
    By Chris Covert
    Rantburg.com

    Mexican Army units since November 14th have seized 2,082.8 kilograms of marijuana, 5.8 kilograms of poppy seed and 2.1 kilograms of opium gum, according to official Mexican government news sources.

    • An army unit with the Mexican 7th Military Zone rescued a kidnapping victim in Nuevo Leon state November 14th.  The military unit was on patrol in Juarez municipality when the rescue took place.  Three unidentified suspects were detained at the scene.  Soldiers also secured one rifle, 19 weapons magazines, 446 rounds of ammunition and one vehicle.

    • Mexican Army units with the 22nd Military Zone dismantled a number of communications nodes in Guerrero and Mexico state November 14th.  Communication nodes were located in Tlatlaya municipality in Mexico state and Arcelia municipality in Guerrero state.  Soldiers seized 17 radios, five RF amplifiers, two radio frequency detection equipment, one transmission console, six antennas, two solar panels, one electrical generator, computer equipment and documents.

    • An army unit with the Mexican 26th Military Zone secured weapons in a raid in Veracruz state November 14th.  The unit was on patrol in Misantla municipality when soldiers detained one unidentified individual.  Seized contraband included six rifles, 42 weapons magazines, 700 rounds of ammunition and one motorcycle.

    • A Mexican Army unit with the 26th Military Zone exchanged gunfire with armed suspects  in Veracruz state November 15th.  The military unit was on patrol in Xalapa city when it came under small arms fire.  Three armed suspects died when soldiers returned fire.  Soldiers also secured three rifles, weapons and ammunition, four grenades and one vehicle.

    • An army unit with the Mexican 10th Military Zone seized quantities of drugs in Durango state November 15th.  The military unit was on patrol when soldiers discovered and secured 5.8 kilograms of poppy seed, 2.1 kilograms of opium gum, two handguns, three weapons chargers, six rounds of ammunition and an ATV.

    • A Mexican Army unit with the 2nd Military Zone seized a quantity of marijuana in Baja California state November 15th.  The unit was on patrol in Santa Catarina municipality when it rolled upon an abandoned vehicle with 437.7 kilograms of marijuana in 49 packages. Soldiers also found a road nearby which could be used as a landing strip for fixed wing aircraft.  The landing strip was destroyed by soldiers.

    • An army unit with the 2nd Military Zone secured a quantity of marijuana in Baja California state November 15th.  The drug find was made in Santa Catarina municipality near ejido Benito Juarez where soldiers seized 44 packages of marijuana totalling 370 kilograms.  Separately, a Mexican Army unit destroyed a landing strip for fixed wing aircraft in Ejido Heroes de la Independencia.

    • A Mexican Army unit with the 7th Military Zone exchanged gunfire with armed suspects in Tamaulipas state November 15th.  The shootout took place in Prados de Oriente residential division in Reynosa municipality where armed suspects fired on the military unit. Army return fire killed three suspects.  Soldiers also secured in the aftermath three rifles, weapons magazines and ammunition and one armor plated vehicle.

    • An army unit with the 25th Military Zone seized a quantity of illegally obtained fuel in Puebla state Novmber 14th.  The seizure took place incidental to a traffic stop which took place near the village of San Marcos in Tehuacan municipality.  Soldiers secured 7,000 liters of gasoline.  One unidentified individual was detained at the scene.

    • A Mexican Army unit with the 13th Military Zone seized a quantity of marijuana in Nayarit state November 17th.  The unit was on patrol near the village of  Miravalles in Compostela municipality when it rolled upon two abandoned  vehicles with the drugs inside.  Soldiers seized 5.5 kilograms of marijuana, an undisclosed quantity of marijuana divided for personal use and retail sale, one rifle, two weapons magazines and 35 rounds of ammunition.

    •  An army unit with the 14th Military Zone seized more than one metric ton of marijuana in Aguascaliente state November 16th.  Soldiers of the unit were conducting searches at an army checkpoint in Cosio municipality when they searched a tractor trailer truck coming from Tecoman, Colima and bound for Reynosa, Tamaulipas, and found the drugs.  A total 1,255.6 kilograms of marijuana were secured. One unidentified individual was detained at the scene.

    • A Mexican Army unit with the 15th Military Zone exchanged gunfire with armed suspects in Jalisco state November 17th.  The military was on patrol when it came under small arms fire in Arandas municipality.  Army return gunfire killed three armed suspects. Soldiers also secured seven rifles, four handguns, 4,761 rounds of ammunition, 75  weapons magazines, 14 kilograms of marijuana and four vehicles.


    Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
    Posted by: badanov || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336066 views] Top|| File under:


    Good morning
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336074 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Birthday Gam Shot

    Kristin "Pam the Vam" Bauer van Straten [Filmography](age 39)


    Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 11/26/2012 11:59 Comments || Top||


    Israel-Palestine-Jordan
    Israel accuses Palestinian of spying for Hezbollah
    [Al Ahram] Israel's Shin Bet internal security agency says a Paleostinian man has been charged with relaying information to Hezbollah guerrillas in Leb about sensitive government sites, including parliament.

    It identified the suspect as Azzam Mashahara, a resident of east Jerusalem, which Israel captured in 1967.

    Paleostinian residents of east Jerusalem, unlike Paleostinians from the West Bank or Gazoo Strip, have Israeli identity cards that allow them to travel freely within Israel.
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336069 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

    #1  Did they shoot him & drag him through the streets?

    Oops! No that's would be Hamas.
    Posted by: tipover || 11/26/2012 3:35 Comments || Top||

    #2  Yeah, funny how that works...
    Posted by: tu3031 || 11/26/2012 13:27 Comments || Top||


    Africa North
    Egypt: Mohammed Morsi insists 'I won't be another dictator'
    [Telegraph.CO.UK] As police continued to fight battles with protesters around Tahrir Square in Cairo on Sunday, Mr Morsi issued a statement stressing that the power seizure was only "temporary" and calling for political dialogue.

    He also agreed to meet Egypt's judges on Monday to negotiate a solution to the crisis.

    "The presidency reiterates the temporary nature of those measures, which are not intended to concentrate power," the statement said.

    "The presidency stresses its firm commitment to engage all political forces in the inclusive democratic dialogue to reach a common ground."
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336066 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

    #1  'I won't be [just] another dictator'
    Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/26/2012 0:30 Comments || Top||

    #2  Do it for The People, 'cause that's always worked out well.
    Posted by: SteveS || 11/26/2012 0:33 Comments || Top||

    #3  And you can trust him, cuz...he's not like the others.
    Posted by: tu3031 || 11/26/2012 2:51 Comments || Top||

    #4  Morsi is a big fan of Frank Zappa's "We Are Not Groupies" routine.
    Posted by: Perfesser || 11/26/2012 6:48 Comments || Top||

    #5  I won't be another dictator, I'll be the new Pharaoh, dammit!
    Posted by: Spot || 11/26/2012 7:54 Comments || Top||

    #6  Castro, Diem, Mandela, Zuma, Mugabe, Kharzi, Musharraf, Morsi.... we know how to pick'em!
    Posted by: Besoeker || 11/26/2012 9:02 Comments || Top||

    #7  Don't agree with the inclusion of Diem in that list.
    Posted by: bman || 11/26/2012 10:54 Comments || Top||

    #8  See what a nice tie, a US university degree, and college professorship will get you?
    Posted by: Pappy || 11/26/2012 10:55 Comments || Top||

    #9  #6 Castro, Diem, Mandela, Zuma, Mugabe, Kharzi, Musharraf, Morsi, Carter, Obama.... we know how to pick'em!
    Posted by Besoeker


    Corrected and updated.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 11/26/2012 10:59 Comments || Top||

    #10  I suppose he's going to accumulate 80 million bucks first and then go straight to being an ex-dictator, hypochondria optional.
    Posted by: Solomon Protector of the Texans5923 || 11/26/2012 11:03 Comments || Top||

    #11  Said the spider to the fly.
    Posted by: Zhang Fei || 11/26/2012 12:49 Comments || Top||

    #12  "I will be a dictator like no other!"
    Posted by: Secret Master || 11/26/2012 12:58 Comments || Top||

    #13  I will not dictate, but I will reason with Them™. We will just streamline the process, like Hugo.
    Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/26/2012 16:07 Comments || Top||

    #14  Land clearing and excavations for the start of a new pyramid will commence in January, 2013.
    Posted by: Raider || 11/26/2012 17:23 Comments || Top||

    #15  Leading opposition figures including Mohammed ElBaradei, the former head of the UN International Atomic Energy Agency, Amr Moussa, the former head of the Arab League, and Abdelmoneim Aboul Fotouh, a moderate Islamist who challenged Mr Morsi for the presidency, announced the formation of a "National Salvation Front" to fight the decision.

    Well. The opposition wheels out a veritable Murderers Row. Mr. Potato Head, Jerry Lewis's Bumbling Arab Twin and...the Other Guy. Considering their enviable track records, I'd say Morsi has nothing to worry about...
    Posted by: tu3031 || 11/26/2012 18:03 Comments || Top||

    #16  "I won't be another dictator"

    "I'll be WORSE!"
    Posted by: Barbara || 11/26/2012 19:13 Comments || Top||


    India-Pakistan
    Malik demands probe into DI Khan attack
    [Dawn] Federal Interior Minister Rahman Malik on Sunday expressed anger over the Dera Ismail Khan
    ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
    blast and said that the incident could have been avoided by more vigilance, DawnNews reported.

    Malik immediately ordered an investigation into the attack and has also asked for a report from the Khyber Pukhtunkhaw IG.

    The minister condemned the bombing of the Muharram procession and said that had the route been cleared by BDS, the blast could have been averted. He also called for the arrest of the shop's owner where the bomb had been planted.

    Malik also called the Sindh IG and congratulated him on the success of averting a terrorist attack in Bloody Karachi
    ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...

    He said that police must remain alert throughout the time of the procession and ensure security.
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336065 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


    Africa North
    Thousands of anti-Morsi protesters camp in Tahrir
    [Al Ahram] Thousands of protesters are still camping out in Tahrir square to protest president Mohamed Mori's controversial decree, with some engaging in consistent festivities with police forces.

    "There are around 10,000 protesters in Tahrir now. They are chanting against the Moslem Brüderbund and are calling for the cancellation of the president's newly-issued constitutional declaration," Ahmed Nour, one of the spokesmen of the Revolutionary Socialists, told Ahram Online.

    "There are around 30 tents in Tahrir square, five more than yesterday. Sometimes minor festivities occur between the protesters and other people who they suspect of belonging to the Moslem Brüderbund."

    The festivities between demonstrators and police are now taking place in Simone Bolivar square near the famous Omar Makram mosque, Nour added.

    Demonstrators erupted into the streets after Morsi issued a highly-controversial constitutional declaration which shields his decisions from legal challenges and protects the upper house of parliament and the constituent assembly from dissolution.
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336065 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


    Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
    Russia to create Daghestani battalion
    Posted by: ryuge || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336068 views] Top|| File under:


    India-Pakistan
    Land dispute claims five lives in Jamrud
    [Dawn] At least five persons were killed and a passerby child was injured when gunnies ambushed a car in Malagori area of Jamrud tehsil in Khyber Agency on Saturday.

    Local officials said that the inmates of the car had come to the offices of political administration in Jamrud in connection with resolution of a land dispute with their rivals.

    They said that the victims were attacked by a group of gunnies when they were going back in the car in Shahgai near Malagori. All the five men, stated to be relatives, were killed on the spot.

    The victims were identified as Momin Khan, Misal Khan, Waqas Khan, Imdad Khan and Ibrar Khan. A passerby boy, Rahat Khan, who was also hurt. The attackers managed to flee after the incident. Officials said that the two rival groups had an old land dispute.
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336064 views] Top|| File under:


    Israel-Palestine-Jordan
    Hamas to probe 'unlawful executions' of alleged collaborators
    [Al Ahram] Gazoo's Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, government on Sunday announced the creation of a committee to examine the "unlawful executions" of Paleostinians accused of collaborating with Israel during the recent conflict.
    "The government has decided to set up a committee to study what happened with the unlawful executions which took place during the aggression," Hamas government front man Taher al-Nunu told news hounds in Gazoo City.

    He was referring to at least two incidents during Israel's bombardment of the territory in which seven people accused of "collaborating" with Israel were bumped off.

    In both cases, the killings were claimed by the armed wing of Hamas, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades.

    On November 16, a man was rubbed out in Gazoo City after allegedly "providing guidance and information on the locations of the resistance and their rocket launchers to the Israeli occupation," a source told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity
    ... for fear of being murdered...

    Four days later, gunnies executed six "collaborators" in Gazoo City's Nasser neighbourhood, witnesses told AFP.

    A message pinned to their bodies said the men were executed by the Qassam Brigades because they had provided "information about the capabilities of the resistance and their factions" and handed Israel information "about the movement of the fighters."
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336067 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

    #1  A little late, boys, but, hey, maybe you'll find out they were innocent, right?
    Heh...
    Posted by: tu3031 || 11/26/2012 2:50 Comments || Top||


    India-Pakistan
    As worshippers gather, Pakistani city endures second deadly blast in two days
    [CNN] For the second time in two days, a deadly blast shook a northwest Pak city as worshippers marked the sacred holiday of Ashura.

    The kaboom occurred near a Shiite Mohammedan procession in Dera Ismail Khan
    ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
    . The bomb was planted inside a bicycle repair shop, killing five people and injuring more than 70 others, said Mian Iftikahr Hussain, the provincial information minister.

    A front man for the Pak Taliban said the group was behind Sunday's bombing on the procession and warned of more attacks.

    A day earlier, the Pak Taliban grabbed credit for a blast that killed seven people, including three children, during a Shiite religious procession in the same city Saturday.

    That bomb was planted in a garbage container and went kaboom! as the last section of the procession, in which children were following adults, was passing by, police front man Khalid Sohail said.

    Eighteen people, including five children and two police officials, were maimed in Saturday's attack.

    The front man for the Pak Taliban, Ihsanullah Ihsan, said the group would continue "its mission" and attack Shiite Ashura processions across Pakistain.

    Pakistain has been on high alert because of the two-day holiday of Ashura, in which believers mourn the death of a key imam from the 7th century. The government increased security for the Ashura observance.
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336072 views] Top|| File under: TTP

    #1  the sacred holiday of Ashura.

    Wouldn't be an Islamic holy day without somebody being blown up.
    Posted by: SteveS || 11/26/2012 0:42 Comments || Top||

    #2  As per TOPIX, DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > protection is also being demanded for the rights of Indonesian Shias.
    Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/26/2012 22:48 Comments || Top||


    China-Japan-Koreas
    New Naval Era Dawns as China's Carrier Launches First Jet
    Video at link....
    Posted by: Uncle Phester || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336065 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Finally, a target worth a torpedo.
    Posted by: gromky || 11/26/2012 1:17 Comments || Top||


    -Lurid Crime Tales-
    Day by Day: Twinkie by the Numbers
    Notice the list of union officers and salaries. Betch'a the useful idiots and cannon fodder on the line didn't pull that kind of salary.
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336083 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Yeah, but what's gonna happen to those big salaries when all those 18,000 former union members stop paying their dues?
    Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/26/2012 11:35 Comments || Top||

    #2  They will raise their dues on the rest of the union members to make up for it. Either that or take a bigger cut out of the remaining union dues.

    Probably kick themselves in a big raise for their 'hard work' to boot!
    Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/26/2012 13:50 Comments || Top||

    #3  TWINKIE/SNACK/CAKE-GATE = PCorrect, pro-OWG, NAU direct assault on anti-Union "Right-to-Work" laws in the BOTH the US Private + Public Sectors.

    ONE WAY TO FOSTER OWG REGIONAL OR MULTI-STATE "GLOBAL FEDERAL UNION" IS VIA [intentional/pre-planned] "SHARED/COMMON
    CHAOS" FOR NATIONAL, SOCIETAL SURVIVAL WHERE "WORKPLACE UNION" IS A MAIN METHOD TO PROTECT THE MAINSTREAM'S NORMAL QUALITY-OF-LIFE.

    As per the EU/EUZ's myriad crises, the devil is how to convince the Govt, Mainstream of one or more sovereign Nation-States to pay or be responsible for the quality-of-life of other same WIDOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE + ELECTORAL/VOTER CONSENT.

    > WHO PAYS?
    > HOW MUCH?
    > HOW?
    > E.G. WHY IS SOMEONE FROM FRANCE = WESTERN EUROPE IN CHARGE OF CENTRAL + EASTERN EUROPEAN GOVT, AFFAIRS, + $$$ COFFERS?
    Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/26/2012 19:38 Comments || Top||

    #4  No more anti-Union + "Right-to-Work" > THERE BE THE GUBMINT, + THERE BE THE UNION - THATS IT, NADA!
    Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/26/2012 19:42 Comments || Top||

    #5  They will raise their dues on the rest of the union members to make up for it.

    That's what they do now anyway.

    Either that or mandate larger 'assessments' from the union employers.
    Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/26/2012 22:17 Comments || Top||


    Africa North
    Brotherhood supporters, foes clash in Tanta over Morsi decree
    [Al Ahram] Clashes broke out between supporters and opponents of the Moslem Brüderbund in the large Delta town of Tanta, Ghariba governorate, in the late hours of Sunday as violence over president Mohamed Morsi's decree escalated.

    According to Ahram's Arabic-language news website, anti-Brotherhood protesters have hurled Molotov cocktails at the headquarters of the Islamist group's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP).

    Both sides then engaged in a fistfight that has reportedly left 15 protesters injured.

    A 15-year-old Brotherhood member was killed in the Nile Delta city of Damanhour earlier in the day in similar festivities.
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336070 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

    #1  Arab Spring Fever.
    Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/26/2012 11:28 Comments || Top||


    Journalists, farmers syndicates withdraw from Egypt's Constituent Assembly
    [Al Ahram] The Journalists Syndicate Council announced Tuesday its withdrawal from Egypt's Constituent Assembly, citing the assembly's refusal to listen to the syndicate's recommendations.

    The decision came after an urgent council meeting that resulted in a unanimous vote in favour of withdrawal.

    The council criticised what it said were violations of freedom of expression in the current draft constitution. Moreover, it criticised the assembly's disregard for journalists' demands to protect press independence, to prohibit the closing down of media outlets or the confiscation of newspapers.

    Last week, Journalists Syndicate Secretary-General Gamal Fahmy threatened to withdraw from the assembly in protest at the draft articles.

    Fahmy, who writes for Al-Tahrir newspaper, was among a number of prominent journalists who in August left their columns blank in protest at what they said was an attempt by the Moslem Brüderbund to control state-owned newspapers and publications.

    Tuesday also saw the Farmers Syndicate representative, Mohamed Abdel-Qader, withdraw from the assembly, saying the farmers' constitutional demands were ignored. Those include that the state provides irrigation and reclaimed lands for youth.

    On Thursday, representatives of all of Egypt's Churches met and agreed to withdraw from the Islamist-led assembly in protest at a number of articles revealed in the latest draft.

    The beleaguered assembly has already suffered a number of withdrawals since 11 June, when the 'Egyptian Bloc' parties -- including the Free Egyptians, the Egyptian Social Democratic Party and the leftist Tagammu Party -- initiated a walk-out, followed by the Karama Party, the Socialist Popular Alliance Party and the Democratic Front Party, to allow greater representation for women, young people and Coptic Christians, while also registering their objection to "Islamist monopolisation" of the assembly.

    Meanwhile,
    ...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. It smelled phony...
    the assembly is still facing the risk of dissolution by court order due to a case challenging the constitutionality of the law which set the criteria for choosing its members. The 100 assembly members were chosen by the now-dissolved parliament, which was ruled unconstitutional by the High Constitutional Court (HCC) in mid-June.

    On 23 October, the Supreme Administrative Court referred the lawsuit challenging the assembly's constitutionality to the HCC, which is yet to issue its verdict. It has been claimed that some assembly members are attempting to draft the constitution quickly and submit it for a national referendum before the court issues its verdict.

    The first assembly was dissolved in April after a court ruling stated it was not representative of Egyptian society. The same criticism is being directed at the current constitution-drafting body.
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336063 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


    India-Pakistan
    Terror attack bid foiled in Karachi: police
    [Dawn] Bloody Karachi
    ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
    Police claim to have thwarted a terror bid by recovering a large quantity of kaboom and arms in the city's Manghopir area, DawnNews reported.

    According to the police, a raid was conducted in Manghopir after an anonymous tip-off was received. During the raid, police searched a car in the area in which they found kaboom.

    IG Sindh Fayaz Laghari told a presser that during the raid a terrorist had also been killed and two suicide jackets had been recovered.

    Laghari said that the snuffies were planning to join the Muharram procession as mourners and then would have carried out the attack in the middle of the crowd.

    He said that the placed in durance vile
    ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
    snuffies were being investigated and preliminary investigations indicated that the group to which they belong may also have been responsible for the Abbas Town bombing.
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336066 views] Top|| File under: TTP


    Afghanistan
    Suicide bombing kills 3 near U.S. embassy in Afghan capital
    [CNN] A jacket wallah dressed as a security guard went kaboom!" Wednesday in a street near the U.S. Embassy in the Afghan capital, killing himself and two other people, authorities said.

    The attacker set off the explosives attached to his body around 8 a.m. after he was noticed by security guards in the neighborhood, said Sediq Seddiqi, a front man for the Afghan interior ministry.

    The blast took place in a district that houses international organizations, diplomats and senior government officials. Afghan authorities don't know what the bomber's intended target was, Seddiqi said.

    One of the people killed was a security guard and another was a civilian, Seddiqi said. One person was maimed in the attack, he said.
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336066 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


    Arabia
    Saudi royals, officials visit king in hospital after surgery
    [Al Ahram] Senior Saudi royals and government officials have visited King Abdullah in hospital, state news agency SPA reported, a week after the monarch - believed to be in his late 80s - had surgery to tighten a ligament in his back.

    The stability of the world's biggest oil exporter and an important regional U.S. ally is of global concern as the kingdom holds more than a fifth of the world's crude reserves and is a venue for millions of Moslem pilgrims every year.

    SPA's report on Saturday carried a photograph of officials and royals gathered inside the National Guard's King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyadh, but did not say who was allowed to see the king or when he is expected to leave hospital.

    The king was admitted for surgery on November 16 and an announcement from the Royal Court said that he had undergone a successful back operation that lasted for 11 hours. No photographs of Abdullah have been released.

    Saudi analysts said on Saturday it was understandable that he would take time to recover, given his age.

    Abdullah underwent a similar operation in October last year and had back surgery twice in the United States in 2010 for a herniated disc, after which spent three months outside Soddy Arabia
    ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face...
    recuperating.

    After his back operation last year, Abdullah appeared on state television
    ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
    two days after his surgery and was released from hospital within five days of the operation.

    Investors attributed Saudi stock market selling last week to worries over the king's health. The benchmark index fell 3 percent in the trading week ending on Wednesday and fell 1.4 percent on Sunday after a 0.8 percent bounce on Saturday.

    The crown has passed down a line of the sons of the kingdom's founder King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, who died in 1953.

    Abdullah - who took power in 2005 - named his brother Prince Salman, 13 years his junior, heir apparent in June after the death of Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz.
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336062 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Time to get the ice machines outta mothballs?
    Posted by: tu3031 || 11/26/2012 2:57 Comments || Top||

    #2  Still no word on Prince Bandar ?
    Posted by: Besoeker || 11/26/2012 9:06 Comments || Top||


    Africa Horn
    Somali,AU forces move close to Jowhar town
    [Shabelle] Somali National Army (SNA) along with the African Union
    ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
    forces on Tuesday moved closer to the main rebel-held city of Jowhar, some 90Km north-west Mogadishu, according to the reports.

    Sources say on Sunday that the coalition forces backed by tanks and heavy artillery weapons set on foot on the main road leading to the city which is largely controlled by Al shabab.

    Hundreds of local residents began fleeing from the city in fear of major attack that could result a civilian casualties.

    Somali and AMISOM forces have in the past captured several main towns and locations on Mogadishu-Baidoa road from Al shabab turbans.
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336068 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


    Europe
    Separatists winning in Catalonia, Spain
    [CA.News.Yahoo] Four separatist parties in Spain's Catalonia looked set to win a majority in regional elections on Sunday, partial results showed, but the main one was on course to lose some seats, possibly undermining its bid to call an independence referendum.

    With half of votes counted, the ruling Convergence and Union alliance, or CiU, was winning 48 seats in the 135-seat local parliament, well down from its current 62 seats.

    The separatist Republican Left, or ERC, was winning 20 seats, with two other smaller separatist parties taking a total of 16 seats, giving the four parties 60 percent between them.

    Regional President Artur Mas, of CiU, had campaigned on a pledge to hold a referendum on independence, in response to a resurgent separatist movement among Catalans who are frustrated with Spain in a deep economic crisis.
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336076 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Whether it's Quebec, or the Basques, or the Catalans or the Scots, I don't quite understand the desire to break off to become a small non-entity. I understand regional pride, historical grievances, cultural differences, etc. etc. I can see why the idea is strong in the Balkans and the Caucus where ethnic cleansing and war are within living memory and could easily reignite. But what did the Canucks ever do to the French Canucks, eh? And what's the attraction of moving from being a G8 member to becoming a tiny back-water? Mark Steyn always makes the point that it would also make more sense if the Independence parties offered real independence and a break from the monopoly of the social democratic statist model. But the Independents are almost always offering more of the same, except maybe a little more socialism. So while Barecelona is a lovely city, an independent Catalunya would somewhere between Monaco and Slovakia in terms of global importance, and they would still have the same economic woes that Spain has. They'll still be in the Euro. Only they'll get no gold medals in the Olympics, their soccer/futbol team will be woeful, and still no one will speak their language or locate them on a map. Tourists wont care if their not officially in Spain when they stroll the Ramblas and oggle Gaudi buildings and Picasso paintings. So, what's the point?
    Posted by: DJ Curtis C || 11/26/2012 8:43 Comments || Top||

    #2  I don't quite understand the desire to break off to become a small non-entity

    It's call tribalism. Don't just count the Basques, or the Catalans or the Scots, remember Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania were part of another 'whole' known as the USSR. The same with the Ukraine. Throw in the division in Belgium. Then you have Switzerland. Would it be better for the parts that speak German, French, and Italian to join their respective linguistic neighbors to simply become part of something bigger or does the identity of being Swiss have a greater influence?

    Considering the Catalans, are they any different than Texans, once an independent entity now part of greater union? Like many of the those identified, how hard would it be to draw up a catalog of abuses of the central governing power to their 'way of life and culture'? Wait till the big bailout of the bankrupt blue states gets rolling and states like Texas are economically exploited to fund the political pandering.
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/26/2012 9:28 Comments || Top||

    #3  When I lived in Texas during the Carter years the most popular bumper sticker was: "Let the Yankees freeze in the dark". I hear it is making a comeback.
    Posted by: bman || 11/26/2012 11:01 Comments || Top||

    #4  I've been to Catalonia, and have a simple answer to your question DJ: they're not Spanish. It's as simple as that, really.
    Posted by: Secret Master || 11/26/2012 13:32 Comments || Top||

    #5  I don't believe the Globies truly anticipated OWG + "Global Federal Union" + Ethnic Nationalism to result in a rise of Economics-led separatism among the ranks of major Powers or Nation-States, espec in EUROPE = EUROZONE/EU.

    THE US PER SE IS NOT IMMUNE - as per the US + proposed NAU [2015], IMO the next two years will measure the gauge of de facto secession among US State-Local Govts from Washington DC, NOT JUST NUMBERS OF INDIVIDUAL CITIZENS IN DIFFERENT US STTAES FILING PETITIONS OF SECESSION TO THE BAMMER WHITE HOUSE.

    The proposed future NAU-n-higher will have the power and authority of Fed-style public governance, NOT WASHINGTON DC ANDOR THE US + US GOVT. PER SE. THE "BIRTH PANGS" OF NAU IS NOT GOING TO BE EASY OR WIDOUT CHALLENGE.

    OWG + NAU, ETC. = TANTAMOUNT TO SERIOUS DE FACTO AMENDMENT OR ALTERATION [destruction?]OF THE US CONSTITUTION WIDOUT EITHER A NATIONAL VOTE(S) ANDOR A STATE VOTE(S).

    Covert usurpation of the right of the People and Contitutionally-mandated Polities, by and for "Globalism" + OWG-NWO - IFF UNILATERAL AMENDMENT, USURPATION, ANDOR DESTRUCTION OF THE US CONSTITUTION IS NOT A CAUSE FOR SECESSION + CIVIL WAR, WHAT IS!?
    Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/26/2012 19:21 Comments || Top||

    #6  The theory is more effective or effcient use of scarce resources in protractive bad or uncertain economic times.

    * ION CHINA DAILY FORUM > [Russia Today] COMMUNISTS [KPRF = Russia] PROPOSE RUSSIA-LED EURASIAN-UNITY VS. [US-led] IMPERIALIST GLOBALIZATION.

    KPRF Leader Gennady Zyuganov at ICAPP Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan.

    ICAPP = stands for International Conference of Asian Political Parties.

    and

    * SAME > GLOBALIZATION HAS PEAKED?, in favor of "Localization"???

    ARTIC > 2/3rds of Americans think REDUCED GLOBALIZATION is good for the US.
    Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/26/2012 23:02 Comments || Top||

    #7  It is my understanding that Catalonia has a much stronger economy than the rest of Spain, and they deeply resent supporting the rest of the ocuntry. This is not true for Quebec, which still rsents being conquered by the British Empire, nor Scotland ditto. I have no idea about the Basques, except that they were portrayed as unmannered country ignoramouses in The Three Musketeers.
    Posted by: trailing wife || 11/26/2012 23:32 Comments || Top||


    Caribbean-Latin America
    12 die in Chihuahua state

    For a map, click here. For a map of Chihuahua state, click here

    By Chris Covert
    Rantburg.com

    A total of eight individuals were found tortured and shot to death in southern Chihuahua state Saturday morning, according to Mexican news accounts.

    The find took place near a road between Delicias municipality and Satevo municipality, which is Chihuahua state highway 24 near the intersection with Mexican Federal Highway 45. The location was described as near the break to the dam at Las Virgenes lake, near rancho San Miguel, or about at the 46 kilometer mark.

    The victims, seven from Ciudad Jiminez and one the Hidalgo de Parral, were identified as Luis Gerardo Baca Ortega, Justin Alejandro Carrazco Vasquez, Jose Angel Morales Alferes, Fernando Campos Rodriguez, Edgar Ulises Moreno Peña, Jose Carlos Medina Padilla, Edgar Armando Sanchez Delgado and Ventura Ismael Guevara Rodriguez.

    The victims were found half naked, tortured and shot in the head.

    According to a news item posted on the website of El Diario de Juarez news daily, several armed suspects riding in an eight vehicle convoy kidnapped three of the victims in Jiminez municipality and two more in Valle de Allende. However, Milenio reported that six were kidnapped from Parral.

    Sinaloa cartel usually operates in southern Chihuahua state.

    According to a news item posted on the website of Proceso news weekly, two more individuals were killed Saturday in Chihuahua state.
    • A man was shot to death in Delicias, Chihuahua. An unidentified spokesman for the Chihuahua state Fiscalia General del Estado (FGE) identified the victim as Heriberto Ortiz Leyva, 28. Ortiz Leyva was found in El Refugio residential division on Delicias city. The report also said Ortiz Leyva's parents were murdered two weeks before.

    • An unidentified man was found beheaded near Casas Grandes in far western Chihuahua state. The victim was found by local residents in a vacant lot near Kilometer 27 of the Mexico Federal Highway 10. The corpse had been eaten by animals.

    • Milenio news daily reported in a Sunday morning dispatch a municipal police agent was shot to death in Meoqui municipality.

    • Milenio also reported in the same dispatch another unidentified individual was found dead in San Francisco de Conchos municipality.


    Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
    Posted by: badanov || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336077 views] Top|| File under:


    Syria-Lebanon-Iran
    Iran warns Turkey not to deploy Patriot missiles
    [Al Ahram] Iranian parliament speaker warns that installation of NATO Patriot missile batteries in Turkey will 'have negative effects, intensify problems in region'
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336080 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

    #1  Popcorn?
    Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/26/2012 0:29 Comments || Top||

    #2  Irritating, isn't it?
    Posted by: gorb || 11/26/2012 3:37 Comments || Top||

    #3  Too bad the Turks have blown their relationship with Israel, they could have deployed Iron Dome and David's Sling...
    Posted by: Steve White || 11/26/2012 8:16 Comments || Top||

    #4  Might be time to test the embassy alert and evacuation security procedures in Ankara.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 11/26/2012 8:58 Comments || Top||

    #5  No, problem.... we'll just re-institute and expand the Iraqi Northern and Southern no-fly-zones and you can take the long way around to Syria.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 11/26/2012 9:30 Comments || Top||

    #6  My question is, if Turkey does, what the hell are you going to do about it Iran?
    Posted by: DarthVader || 11/26/2012 9:32 Comments || Top||

    #7  Darth, good question but the REAL question is g(r)om's. How MUCH popcorn do I order?
    Posted by: AlanC || 11/26/2012 10:38 Comments || Top||

    #8  Or...?
    Posted by: Chris in Fort Worth || 11/26/2012 22:29 Comments || Top||

    #9  Send a THAAD along with the Patriots just for funzies.

    The game is up Iran. North Dakota pumps more oil than you; Pennsylvania more gas. No one will miss you, and all your neighbors hate your guts. It is a shame that all your friends (Hamas, Syria, and Sudan) are getting the sh1t kicked out of them, while you watch.

    “There is a lot of ruin in a nation.” Said Adam Smith. And Iran, you are half way there. Keep doing what you're doing and you can go all-the-way. Trust me, America will happily stand on your head as you go under.
    Posted by: rammer || 11/26/2012 22:44 Comments || Top||


    Home Front: Politix
    The Communists have won in America - Pravda
    Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336071 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  LOL Anguper! some choice citations

    Recently, Obama has been re-elected for a 2nd term by an illiterate society.

    liberalism is a psychosis

    He [O] is a Communist without question promoting the Communist Manifesto without calling it so How shrewd he is in America. His cult of personality mesmerizes those who cannot go beyond their ignorance. They will continue to follow him like those fools who still praise Lenin and Stalin in Russia. Obama's fools and Stalin's fools share the same drink of illusion..
    Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/26/2012 0:42 Comments || Top||

    #2  So if soviet communism was the tragedy, is obamunism the farce? I hope so...
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/26/2012 7:50 Comments || Top||

    #3  I'm reminded of the Russian joke.

    The news is rarely the truth, and the truth is rarely the news.

    Pravda meaning truth.
    Posted by: phil_b || 11/26/2012 8:47 Comments || Top||

    #4  In other education related news, Russian farmers astounded as seeds germinate and take root.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 11/26/2012 8:55 Comments || Top||

    #5  Obama's fools and Stalin's fools share the same drink of illusion.

    That's the KoolAid, right?
    Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/26/2012 11:56 Comments || Top||

    #6  My favorite comment:

    "The Communists have won in America with Obama but failed miserably in Russia with Zyuganov who only received 17% of the vote."

    Al
    Posted by: Frozen Al || 11/26/2012 11:59 Comments || Top||

    #7  Bye bye Miss American Pie! You know the song you hippies. Sing it!
    Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/26/2012 12:07 Comments || Top||

    #8  #3: Pravda meaning truth.

    And Izvestia means news. It's a neat little joke.
    Posted by: MW || 11/26/2012 17:28 Comments || Top||

    #9  Lest we fergit, 1990's NET + CLINTONISM > FASCISM = merely "LIMITED COMMUNISM/
    TOTALITARIANISM/GLOBALISM".

    The US-n-only-the-US, i.e. the Nation = Govt-State that is the "tip of the spear" in setting up post-9-11 OWG-NWO, is the also the only one that has to be "restrained/controlled", correct?

    The US-n-only-the-US is the only one that H-A-S or M-U-S-T "ABSORB/TOLERATE" A MAJOR NUKE-WMD TERROR OR OTHER MILITARY STRIKE, WID ITS CORRESPONDING MASS CASUALTIES = PHYSICAL DESTRUCTION, ETC. + N-O-T RESPOND WID MILITARY FORCE, CORRECT?
    Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/26/2012 18:46 Comments || Top||

    #10  E.G. TOPIX > [Korea Herald] OBAMA NEEDS NEW STARTEGY ON NORTH KOREA TO OFFSET FAILED DE NUCLEARIZATION EFFORTS: EXPERT [Larry Miksch of Washington-based CSIS Think-tank].

    * SAME > DEMOCRACY LET [traditionalist/
    fundamentalist] AMERICA DOWN. Despite his election President-reelect Obama does not appear to represent the interests of many millions of Americans.

    ARTIC > US Voters whom voted + helped re-elect Obama tended to come from Coastal Megacities long-used to Govt-led benefits = employment programs, OBAMA + OTHER US POLITICIANS MAY COME UNDER DEADLY/MORTAL RISK.

    * SAME > CALL FOR IMMEDIATE/URGENT ACTION AT CLIMATE TALKS IN DOHA | WAVER OF [United/International] RESOLVE TO RISE TO CHALLENGE TO CAUSE GLOBAL CATASTROPHE, WORLD LEADERS WARNED.

    * SAME > WORLD NATIONS STAND BEFORE CLIMATE "FISCAL CLIFF".

    And Other to possibly lead to ...

    * FREEREPUBLIC > WHY BARACK OBAMA WILL BE THE LAST PRESIDENT OF THE "UNITED" STATES.

    2014.

    * CHINA DAILY FORUM > [AmericanRepublic Manifestum.blogspot] AMERICAN MILITARY TO SUPPORT AMERICAN REPUBLIC REVOLT 2013.

    * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > REVEALED: HOW THE US PLANNED TO BLOW UP THE MOON WID A NUCLEAR BOMB TO WIN COLD WAR BRAGGING RIGHTS OVER THE SOVIET UNION, to intimidate the post-Sputnik CPSU + Soviet Union.

    Lessons from 1959 for desired non-elected future OWG-NWO + the Threat vee "the Global Govts-Perts Consensus is that there is no Global Govts-Perts Consensus".

    D *** NG IT - SEE, I TOLD YA DIDN'T I, IFF WE DESTROY THE SUN [Moon] WE'LL SAVE THE EARTH, ESPEC FROM GWCC [Russkis]!

    ["FAMILY GUY" PATRIARCH + PROUD IRISHMAN PETER GRIFFIN LOOKING GRIMACINGLY = CONQUERERINGLY AT THE SUN[Moon] here].

    The Sun shall surrender iff Peter has to destroy the Earth to do it!
    Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/27/2012 0:01 Comments || Top||


    Africa North
    Brotherhood's Shura Council chairman criticises Morsi declaration
    [Al Ahram] Ahmed Fahmi, chairman of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (the upper, consultative house of Egypt's parliament), seized on Thursday's council session to criticise the constitutional declaration issued by President Mohamed Morsi on 22 November.

    "We had hopes that President Morsi would put the constitutional declaration before a national referendum," Fahmi said. He also argued that the declaration "has severely divided the nation into Islamists and civilians." Fahmi urged Morsi to conduct a national dialogue with all forces to put an end to the crisis triggered by the declaration.

    Fahmi's comments came as a surprise to many, given that not only is the chairman of the Shura Council a leading member of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) -- the political arm of Moslem Brüderbund from which Morsi hails -- but he is also a relative of Morsi himself.

    In its brief debate over Morsi's declaration, the council itself was divided into supporters and opponents. Islamists, led by FJP and the ultraconservative Salafist Nour Party, hailed Morsi's declaration.

    Tarek El-Sehari, a Salafist and the deputy Shura Council chairman, said the declaration "is a necessity, with a view to the fact that the Mubarak-appointed judges and prosecutors failed to refer the diehards of the former regime to trial or put a stop to their attempts to dissolve the Shura Council and the constitution-drafting assembly, and have indulged in thuggery and hooliganism under the banner of commemorating the revolution."

    "These criminals can never be branded as 'revolutionary forces' and should rather be sent to trial as required by the constitutional declaration," said El-Sehary. "Everyone has the right to criticise the president, but nobody -- especially those who failed to secure seats in the last parliamentary elections -- has the right to attack public property or incite violence."

    El-Sehary sharply directed attacks against those who "resorted to insults" when criticising Morsi's declaration. He argued that the building of a new Egypt should not come at the expense of putting obstacles in the way of a democratically-elected president.

    Ezzeddin El-Qomi, a leading FJP official, opened fire on the independent Judges' Club, arguing that it "is only a social club, which should be concerned with achieving the personal needs of its members rather than becoming a political forum for judges."

    The Judges' Union announced yesterday that courts would organise a strike to protest Morsi's declaration.

    According to El-Qomi, Morsi's declaration is aimed at thwarting internal and international conspiracies to destabilize Egypt. "This declaration is a necessity, but it came too late because some judicial authorities are doing their best to dissolve all elected institutions -- especially parliament," he said.

    Tarek Mostafa, another FJP member, said the constitutional declaration "simply aims to ensure stability for a temporary period of time until a new parliament is elected." He sharply attacked "those who launched terrorist attacks and torched the headquarters of the FJP in several cities across Egypt."

    Saad Emara, another FJP member, fired a barrage of attacks against the European Union
    ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
    and the US, "which rushed to criticise the declaration" and "the bad coverage by private television satellite channels." He added: "This demonstrates that our enemies are doing their best to meddle in our own affairs and cause instability."
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336066 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


    -Lurid Crime Tales-
    Man Arrested After Telling Kids Santa Isn't Real
    [ABCNews.Go] A real-life Grinch was arrested after he spoiled the holiday cheer at a parade, telling children that Santa isn't real.

    The unidentified 24-year-old man, who had his hair gelled to look as though devil horns were protruding from his head, was arrested by police in the Canadian town of Kingston last week during the annual Santa Claus parade, authorities said in statement.

    The St. Nicholas naysayer faces criminal charges of causing a disturbance by being drunk and breach of probation.

    "It was pretty despicable that someone, during this time of the year, would tell kids Santa isn't real -- which of course we would argue," Const. Steve Koopman told the Toronto Star.

    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336066 views] Top|| File under:


    Israel-Palestine-Jordan
    Jordan charges 3 opposition activists with 'incitement'
    [Al Ahram] A Jordanian court on Sunday charged three members of the main opposition party -- the Moslem Brüderbund's political wing -- with incitement against the government during recent protests, a judicial source said.
    The Islamic Action Front
    ...Jordan's branch of the Moslem Brüderbund...
    in response called for the immediate release of all prisoners incarcerated
    Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
    in connection with the protests.

    The three suspects, charged by the kingdom's state security court with "incitement to oppose the regime," will be kept in jug for 15 days pending three separate cases, the source told AFP.

    There are now 107 people awaiting trial in connection with a spate of recent protests sparked by fuel price hikes, including one woman, according to the same source.

    Senior party official Ali Abu al-Sukar called for the "immediate release of all prisoners."

    "Arrests will not scare Islamist and popular movements," which will continue to demonstrate to "reform the regime," he said in a statement.
    Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336068 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring



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