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I notice that with the layoff of 18,500 workers much more will be dealt a blow. Not really covered at all. Now for example; each truck must be purchased, each driver must have uniforms, each truck has a computer($2000-6000 each) and printer. Suppliers of raw food materials. Maintenance help for trucks and production equipment. Plastics for packaging and printed boxes. This will have a ripple not to mention people who are owed money.
Being a minority has helped them here in this country. Weston wanted to purchase Holsum bread but couldn't because he would have too much control over the market. No such problem for Group Bimbo. Teamsters currently enjoy a working relationship with Group Bimbo. So bringing Hostess into the fold is possible especially when union workers are involved. The union could kick in money to help the deal along. Non union workers, sorry bye, bye. Flowers would be messy. In my opinion not likely(non union).
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The brands most likely will be purchased by a competitor that will bolt the additional sales to a more efficient delivery system, David Pauker, a food industry restructuring specialist, tells Reuters. The company itself won't survive.
In other words, someone will buy the name. So the union won't find a 'white knight' to rescue the entity previously known as Hostess. It appears the bankruptcy judge has thrown the union a life preserver by directing further talks. I doubt the 'triumphant' [we won by sticking together] union culture with the same 'leadership' will produce anything that can last, too much emotion, no rational thought invested in the enterprise.
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IIUC, the bigger picture is that, as per the revampment of Twinkies + other US Products under non-US foreign ownership, the Bammer + Congress will be demanded to void or ignore right-to-work Regs in favor of mandatory, company-wide union membership???
Subjectively, its no different that justifying the setting up in 2015 or ASAP afterward of OWG, anti-Nationalist "Global Federal Unions" e.g. NAU + similar. "MUTUAL" OR "SHARED" CHAOS/SURVIVAL + FOREIGN DOMINATION OF THE US DOMESTIC ECON IS ALL BUT OFFICIALLY PERMANENT LEST THERE BE NO NAU OR WORKPLACE UNIONS = "COLLECTIVES".
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No, the Champ will step in and engineer a stealth nationalization to protect the "workers rights" ...read save the unions, ala General Motors. Bet the demographics of how this will aid the Dems are being worked out as we speak.
I'd rather see Bimbo Bakeries USA take them - they already run Ball Park (buns), Boboli (pizza breads, Earthgrains, Entenmann's, Mrs Bairds (big in Texas), Orowheat, Sara Lee, Thomas' English Muffins.
Another better one is Flowers (in Georgia), who rescued and turned around the dying TastyKakes brand.
I'd rather see the brands bought by successful bakers who already have the expertise, production and distribution systems in place to continue the brands. The VC's will kill them with debt, just like they did the original Hostess company (its that Vulture Capitalists debt combined with the unions and poor management during the mid 2000's that killed Hostess)
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See also NEWS KERALA > ISRAELI AIRSTRIKES WRECK PALESTINIAN STADIUM, which was allegedly used by Gaza Paleos to fire rockets at Israeli targets.
versus
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Israeli Deputy DM Matan Vilnai] ISRAELI MINSTER WARNS PALESTINIANS OF "HOLOCAUST" [shoah = "disaster"], iff Gaza Paleos refuse to stop + instead choose expand their frequency, type of rocket barrages.
FYI there appears to be some controversy over DDM Vilnai's use of the term "shoah", i.e. whether DDM Vilnai meant a true Paleo-specific "genocide" by Israel to occur; as opposed to meaning just general or broad-based"disaster" iff the Paleos refuse to cease fire + instead escalate???
* CHINA DAILY FORUM > [NYT.com] HAMAS GAINS FAVOR IN WEST BANK, AT PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY'S EXPENSE.
* SAME > BLOODLUST IN ISRAEL:"FLATTEN GAZA, SEND IT BACK TO THE STONE AGE, THEY NEED TO DIE".
Ordinary Israelis to noted Personages.
* SAME > ISRAELI MISSLES HIT GAZA MEDIA CENTER FOR SECOND TIME.
* SAME > RUSSIA TODAY [RT] CHANNEL RUSIYA AL-YAUM TARGET OF ISRAELI ROCKET | "ISRAEL KNOWING TARGETED THE MEDIA" - RT REPORTER IN GAZA.
But apparently not the Al-Quds communications/electronic equipment located in same???
* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > ISRAEL BOMBS HAMAS PM'S OFFICE: 48 KILLED, 400 INJURED.
* SAME > IDF TAKING OVER HAMAS RADIO WAVES - ISRAEL NEWS, YNETNEWS.
The Marine Corps is forming the first squadron of pilots to fly the next-generation strike fighter jet, months after lawmakers raised concern that there was a rush to end the testing of an aircraft hit with technical problems.
So far two veteran pilots of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing have been trained to fly the F-35B. They are becoming the first members of the Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 that will debut at a ceremony Tuesday at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Ariz.
The first F-35B arrived Friday and 15 more are slated to arrive over the next year. The Defense Department has pumped a half a billion dollars into upgrading the facilities, hangars and runways at the base to make way for the next-generation fighter jet, officials said.
The pilots of the new squadron are expected to fly the aircraft by year's end.
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Correct me iff I'm wrong, but isn't VMF(A)-121 the same squadron that grew into legend by its valiant fight, destruction at Wake Island, + later the Solomon battles during WW2???
[Ynet News] While the Arab world condemns Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and Operation Pillars of Defense steals the headlines on the Arab channels, a civil war continues to run wild in Syria between the rebels and Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime a war that has been going on for a year and eight months.
In a report given by the opposition on Sunday night to the SkyNews channel in Arabic, the violence and warfare continue in a few of the country's cities, killing 51 in the last 24 hours and almost 200 since the weekend.
Against this backdrop, editor-in-chief of the most-read newspaper in the Arab world, "al-Sharq al-Awsat", Tariq Alhomayed tried to turn his readers' attention to another tragedy in the Arab world; revealing what he believes brought upon the escalation in southern Israel the Iranians and Assad.
In an editorial entitled, "The solution to Gaza return to Syria," Alhomayed wrote that, " Unfortunately, wars in our region have become like a race, so each war is to cover another one. In other words, these wars are nothing more than a move to escape forward.
Therefore what is happening in Gaza is escaping forward, particularly in the hope of saving al-Assad or at least ensuring that the cost of toppling him will be greater for everybody. The greatest architect of such wars is Iran".
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Dozens of homeowners in storm-thrashed parts of the city have been slapped with violations threatening criminal prosecution if they don't get their properties fixed up, sources said yesterday.
The violations -- many in Breezy Point, where Superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc and left thousands without power or heat -- shocked homeowners who are still trying to figure out how to get their homes and lives back on track.
"This is absolutely disgraceful!" fumed state Sen. Tony Avella, who receive multiple calls about the issue from his constituents in Queens.
"For the city to be going around issuing these notices and violations while people still have trees on their houses -- most people are just in shock."
Buildings spokesman Tony Sclafani said the violations don't carry monetary penalties and are being used by the city to keep track of storm damage.
"These violations are issued by the department as a way to record the conditions at the location," he explained. They couldn't use a notebook or a database?
Still, City Councilman Mark Weprin, who represents parts of Queens, was furious.
"It was certainly upsetting for a lot of people because it put salt in their wounds," said Weprin, who received several calls from his constituents. "People were upset they got them.
"They're still waiting for insurance companies to come up, looking for contractors to come out -- it would be impossible not to have these violations. The language on these violations were very poorly chosen and scared people," the councilman added. "That's adding insult to injury."
A Buildings Department source said 900 houses in all the affected areas across the city got the notices. Of those houses, some 200 will have be torn down by the city in the coming weeks. You get the government you vote for and deserve. Enjoy!
Meanwhile, off the record (whatever that currently means), current and ex-Klingon officers are telling the press that they never liked Petraeus in the first place. A package of stories in Time portrayed CIA analysts bristling, I say....bristling at Petraeus' martinet style. "The agency's not a militaristic organization (except on matters of internal self promotion)," one ex-official huffs to the magazine, "They don't welcome people barking orders without debate." That follows on a story in The New York Times before Petraeus' downfall that CIA officials were disinclined to (display loyalty) and fall in line behind the ex-general. "The attitude at the agency is, 'You may be the director, but I'm a needledicked Thailand analyst,'" went one memorable quote sourced to a gutless and also anonymous CIA veteran.
Diplomatic message to Egypt: Hamas terrorism must cease by Tuesday evening or we step up attack.
Israel has delivered an ultimatum to Hamas through Egypt, according to which the IDF will widen its offensive in Gaza in 36 hours unless Hamas ceases firing rockets and smuggling arms into Gaza, IDF Radio reported Monday morning.
Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz told the station that the time left before Israel steps up its attack can be measured in "hours, not days."
"We are at a junction," he said. "Either we go toward a calm or toward a meaningful widening of the operation including a possible move to achieve complete military decision."
There are ongoing contacts between Israel and Hamas through intermediaries, IDF Radio said, but the gaps between the sides are still very large. According to reports in Cairo, Hamas demands a complete removal of the blockade on Gaza, an IDF commitment to stop crossing the security fence into Gaza and a cessation of targeted killings.
Israel, for its part, demands that Hamas cease firing rockets into Israel for a period of "several years" and a cessation of arms smuggling into Gaza. Israel agrees to Hamas's demand that the Rafiah crossing into Egypt be opened, but refuses to open crossings into Israel.
Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzuk said that Hamas will not agree to Israel's demands for a "security belt" on Gaza's eastern side, and a cessation of smuggling through the tunnels.
Voice of Israel public radio quoted a senior source in Jerusalem as saying that the question of whether Egypt can broker a ceasefire will be resolved Monday. A senior minister said that Israel will have to agree to a certain relaxation of the blockade of Gaza in return for long-term quiet on the southern border.
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Chairman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi strongly rejected the Zionist regime's allegations that Iran has supplied Hamas with 'Fajr 5' (Dawn 5) rockets, saying the resistance does not need Iranian rockets.
The Islamic Republic of Iran's Supreme Leader has always stressed that "Iran withholds no assistance to the resistance", but Iran's support is of "spiritual kind", Boroujerdi told Iran's Arabic-language news channel, Al-Alam on Sunday.
The senior Iranian lawmaker reiterated that the resistance has obtained the required capability, power and self-sufficiency and does not need backup or rockets from other countries.
Yup, the Gazooks have their own missile factory. Totally operated by Gazooks .. in a suburb of Tehran...
His remarks came after the Zionist regime and some western experts claimed that rockets launched by the Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas, to target Israeli cities were Iranian-made.
Also a senior Palestinian leader warned on Saturday the Zionist regime against launching a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip, saying that the coastal enclave would became a graveyard for Israeli soldiers otherwise.
"If the Zionist regime decides to extend its aggressions to ground assaults, Gaza will turn into a graveyard for Israelis," Lebanese satellite television Al-Manar quoted a member of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, Mushir Al-Masri as saying.
"The resistance is fully prepared to confront Israel and our clashes are intensifying," he said.
"We shall have Dire Revenge!"
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Uh, uh, SILLY CRITICS - THE ROCKETS ARE FAJR-III'S, NOT FAJR-V's, THUS IRAN IS INNOCENT.
gut nuthin.
IMO the greater threat from Iran at present stems from MSM-Net Artics oer past months that the latter is allegedly sending out teams or detachments of Advisors to organize the disparate Militant Groups into Hezbollah-style military + political entities, i.e. well-armed, well-$$$, + capable of electorally dominating or taking over regional Local, State Govts vee "legitimate/
popular" processes.
Again, I expect Iran to remain on the strategic defensive, hence the impetus is on its regional + international proxies = NGOS to defend the Paleos.
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Just thinking out loud, no expertise. But wouldn't it work out about the same if Israel took out Qom, Iran's refineries, and their Air Force, as opposed to taking out the Nuke program? Why go for the hard targets? Let them keep them. See how they work without electricity, water, and gas.
h/t Instapundit
The dead child was paraded before the cameras during the visit of Egyptian prime minister Hisham Kandil, who kissed the dead child in the presence of Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh. But even the New York Times was suspicious.
Bloggers such as Elder of Ziyon quickly pieced together the evidence of Hamas fakery: Old media: Proudly supporting Islam since 1967
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To be fair, green helmet man has gained 60 lbs since retiring, and wailing woman thinks the sink chants suras every time the toilet is flushed. Forgot the importance of the farm team, but with the three letter scores changing the game from fastball to t-ball, understandable.
Three defense volunteers were killed and 35 people including passengers and train staff were injured, many seriously, in a terrorist bomb blast that hit a local train in Rueso district in Narathiwat province on Sunday morning.
The incident occurred around 7:30 a.m. when a bomb planted on the railway track at the Bukit Yure station was detonated while the Yala-Sungai Kolok train stopped at the station. After the explosion, terrorists militants hiding nearby opened fire at the station.
The blast left a hole about 3 meters in diameter and 2 meters deep in the rail track. Two passenger cars were derailed. Train services on the route were suspended.
In Narathiwat's Rangae district, a woman was killed and her son seriously injured in a terrorist gun attack on Sunday morning.
Halimo Royi and her son Abdulloh were returning home from work at a rubber plantation on a motorcycle. Two terrorists men followed them on another motorcycle and the terrorist pillion rider opened fire at them with an AK47 rifle. The mother was killed instantly while her son was seriously injured. Police recovered more than ten AK47 cartridges at the scene.
In Yala province on Sunday morning, about 300 people, including civilians, religious leaders, government officials, police and soldiers, took part in a religious ceremony, offering prayers for peace and an end to the continuing mayhem in the deep South. On Saturday morning, a woman was killed and 33 others wounded in a terrorist motorcycle bomb attack in Yala's Muang district.
New IAF Video: Surgical attack on underground launching site located in the backyard of a mosque. Mosque was not hit.
The Israeli Air Force has issued a new video showing the pinpoint accuracy of aerial bombings and Hamas use of holy sites for terror.
The surgical missile strike bombed the underground launcher site in the backyard of a mosque without causing damage to the building, used for worship by Muslims.
Precision aerial bombings in the Pillar of Defense counterterrorist operation have proven themselves, sparing civilian deaths and a media backlash.
Israel suffered serious damage in the Hamas propaganda war in Operation Cast Lead four years ago. Foreign media and Israels mainstream media accepted Hamas claims of civilian deaths, many of which later were proven to be untrue.
The United Nations Human Rights Council, in its Goldstone report, condemned Israel for war crimes. The reports author, retired South African Judge Richard Goldstone, later admitted the report was based on incomplete information.
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> Mosque was not hit.
Use cluster munitions next time, or bunker buster, try and make mosques look undamaged, but unstable and thus likely to fall on attendees.
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Doesn't matter. Israel is the aggressor in this go round. They killed the military leader of Hamas. All of the rocket attacks are retaliation for that.
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Then that should no longer be considered a 'holy site' but a legitimate military target. Israel was within its rights to level the place and them bounce the rubble.
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Gaza is not a signatory to the Geneva Conventions, I don't think. Which makes it ok to launch missiles from mosques and not be shot back at. Sez so somewhere in jernalizm skool.
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You and I would be upset if crazies built a missile launcher next to our church. I suspect that the mosqueteers were more than pleased with the arrangement.
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Hmmmm. Could be. The IDF did find and destroy it, so perhaps the musk should be treated as full of spy jooos just to be sure.
And to be clear, because so many medias are actively looking for shocking photos, they have created a well paying market for such weapon and dead people photos. Blood Pixels.
Results of survey will make sobering reading for leaders of three major parties, as PM prepares for crucial meeting on EU budget.
Well over half of British voters now want to leave the European Union, according to an opinion poll that shows anti-EU sentiment is sweeping through all three main political parties.
The Opinium/Observer survey finds that 56% of people would probably or definitely vote for the UK to go it alone if they were offered the choice in a referendum. About 68% of Conservative voters want to leave the EU, against 24% who want to remain; 44% of Labour voters would probably choose to get out, against 39% who would back staying in, while some 39% of Liberal Democrats would probably or definitely vote to get out, compared with 47% who would prefer to remain in the EU.
The findings will make sobering reading for all three major parties, which are at risk of losing support to the buoyant anti-EU party Ukip -- now two points ahead of the Lib Dems on 10%.
Overall just 28% of likely voters think the EU is a "good thing" while 45% think it is a "bad thing". The 18-34 age group is the only one in which there is a clear majority backing the EU, with 44% saying membership is good, against 25%.
The poll will pile yet more pressure on David Cameron to negotiate a tough deal on the EU budget as he prepares for a Brussels summit, beginning on Thursday, at which EU leaders will attempt to hammer out a financial deal for the union for the seven years from 2014.
The prime minister's problems deepened on Saturday when one of the ringleaders of a recent Commons rebellion on EU financing, the Eurosceptic MP Mark Reckless, predicted an even bigger revolt if Cameron returned from Brussels without having negotiated a real-terms cut in EU spending, or wielded a veto.
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From EC's link:
"It's even more serious than economics because if you rob people of their identity, if you rob them of their democracy, then all they are left with is nationalism and violence. I can only hope and pray that the Euro project is destroyed by the markets before that" - Farage said at the end of his speech.
Unfortunately for a lot of politicians [on both sides of the pond] - that is the desired outcome.
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I have no problem with Europe. But a big problem with the current state of the EU. I don't agree with everything Farage says but just to see the painful faces of all those non-elected Eurocrats when Farage speaks make me smile.
Telling Mr. van Rompoy that he comes from a "non-country" and has the "c harisma of a damp rag" really was a highlight.
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Whut troll?
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We don't have a sink trap anymore, Whiskey Mike. So if they aren't worth being chew toys, they get evaporated. You didn't miss much.
Police in riot gear quelled scuffling between pro-Israel and pro-Muslim demonstrators on Sunday outside the Federal Building during a protest over renewed violence in the Middle East.
About 40 officers stood on the south side of Wilshire where protesters blocked traffic at Veteran Avenue as hundreds of demonstrators waved Israeli and American flags on one side of the street and a smaller number of pro-Palestinian demonstrators stood on the other.
"My family is over there. They have to sit in shelters. And they're very stressed out, but unfortunately the world doesn't realize this is a day to day reality, "said Noa Tishby, the founder of Act for Israel, a non-profit group representing Israel's interests through the use of new media.
The demonstrations were held in response to renewed violence as Israel launched rockets on Gaza in response to attacks by Hamas on Israel.
The Hamas attacks were in retaliation for the assassination of a top Hamas military leader.
"Palestinians are struggling for liberation," said Sophia Azeb, of the group Palestinian Women of Southern California. "They're struggling for equality. They're struggling for their basic human rights, which are being violated again and again. "
At one point during Sunday's protest, police were prompted to go into tactical alert, the Los Angeles Police Department said. A freeway offramp on the northbound San Diego Freeway at Wilshire was temporarily closed.
Sunday's demonstration was the latest to take place in Los Angeles.
Demonstrators sympathetic to both sides of the conflict gathered Thursday night near the Israeli Consulate on Wilshire Boulevard.
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The majority of state governors are Republicans, and they have the power to disarm the health-care law.
Champions of ObamaCare want Americans to believe that the president's re-election ended the battle over the law. It did no such thing. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act won't be fully repealed while Barack Obama is in office, but the administration is heavily dependent on the states for its implementation.
Republicans will hold 30 governorships starting in January, and at last week's meeting of the Republican Governors Association they made it clear that they remain highly critical of the health law. Some Republican governorsincluding incoming RGA Chairman Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Ohio's John Kasich, Wisconsin's Scott Walker and Maine's Paul LePagehave already said they won't do the federal government's bidding. Several Democratic governors, including Missouri's Jay Nixon and West Virginia's Earl Ray Tomblin, have also expressed serious concerns.
Talk of the law's inevitability is intended to pressure these governors into implementing it on the administration's behalf. But states still have two key choices to make that together will put them in the driver's seat: whether to create state health-insurance exchanges, and whether to expand Medicaid. They should say "no" to both.
At its core, ObamaCare is a massive entitlement expansion. Between vastly increased Medicaid eligibility and new premium subsidies, it is expected to bring 30 million more people onto the federal government's entitlement rolls. The law anticipates that the states will take on the burden of implementing the expansions, but states can opt out of both.
Running the exchanges would be an administrative nightmare for states, requiring a complicated set of rules, mandates, databases and interfaces to establish eligibility, funnel subsidies, and facilitate purchases. All of this would have to take place under broad and often incoherent statutory requirements and federal regulations that have yet to be written.
The exchanges would create unsustainable pressures on each state's insurance market, treating similarly situated people differently by providing far greater subsidies for those in the exchanges than those in employer plansyielding perverse incentives that distort consumer and employer decisions and increase costs.
States would endure all this simply to become functionaries of the federal government. The idea that creating state exchanges would give states control over their insurance markets is a fantasy. The states would be enforcing a federal law and federal regulations, with very little room for independent judgment.
Governors know this. A group of them has already indicated that they will not build the exchanges, and several more seemed ready to opt out as the administration's deadline for state decisions approached on Nov. 16. Predictably, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius tried to head them off by extending the deadline to Dec. 14. She will try to use the extra month to twist governors' arms. They should resist.
By declining to build exchanges, the states would pass the burden and costs of the exchanges to the administration that sought this law. And it is far from clear that the administration could operate the exchanges on its own.
Congress didn't allocate money for administering federal exchanges, and the law as written seems to prohibit federally run exchanges from providing subsidies to individuals. The administration insists that it can provide those subsidies anyway. But if the courts read the plain words of the statute, then federal exchanges couldn't really function.
Thus states that refuse to create their own exchanges would effectively be repealing a large part of the lawsparing their citizens from the job-killing employer mandate and from assaults on their religious liberty. In some cases people would even be spared from the individual mandate to buy coverage, since in the absence of exchange subsidies more families would qualify for exemptions from the mandate.
The Medicaid expansion, meanwhile, would throw millions of additional Americans into a system that is already bankrupting state governments and increasing costs in the private-insurance market. Medicaid's payments for services are so low that many existing beneficiaries have trouble finding physicians and other health-care providers who will accept them as patients. Enrolling more people without reform will push the system to the point of collapse.
In refusing the Medicaid expansion, governors should notify Washington that doing so means freeing themselves of ObamaCare's "Maintenance of Effort" requirements. These would prohibit states participating in the Medicaid expansion from reforming their Medicaid systems to reduce costs.
Instead of following the Obama administration's plan, states should seek real reform. For example, they should demand that Washington transform the federal portion of Medicaid for non-disabled and non-elderly beneficiaries into a uniform block grant, with state discretion over eligibility and benefits. The goal should be to turn Medicaid into a premium-assistance program rather than government-run insurance. Medicaid could then be used to help people enroll in mainstream insurance plans. This is the way to help the low-income uninsured get the same kind of coverage as other Americans.
President Obama won re-election and Democrats maintained control of the Senate this month, but the states hold the future of ObamaCare in their hands. Knowing the harm the law would do to their citizens, to the economy and to American health care, governors should refuse to become its enablers.
Mr. Capretta is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Mr. Levin is a fellow at the EPPC and editor of National Affairs
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If ObamaCare is impossible, it won't happen. Thank heaven for reality.
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When the uninsured begin to see their IRS Earned Income Tax credit and Form 1040 refund decremented to pay the penalty, a light may..... (I say again may) come on!
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...databases and interfaces to establish eligibility...
Can anybody think of a government computer project that came in on time and under budget? Every one that I ever heard of cost millions upon millions of dollars. There always seems to be a heckuva lot of fudge factor in these types of projects.
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Think about this: the Fed program will require computer systems that far exceed any that have yet been implemented outside of classified ones.
Examples:
The FBI Virtual Case File System (started in 2001, cancelled as a complete failure in 2005, started over in 2006, and was finally introduced in March 2012.
IRS Modernization -The IRS launched its Business System Modernization program about 25 years ago. By 1995 and $2 billion in expenditures, only marginal improvements were made. In 1999, an IRS assistant commissioner called the modernization program a failure, and said most of its technology did not work. By then, the IRS was starting over with a new $5 billion contract that has continued with mixed results. And remember - the IRS will be enforcing the "penalty" phase of this.
Then in Texas, the Health and Human Services issued a contract valued at $899 million over five years with Accenture Ltd in 2005 - the program was supposed to determine eligibility and maintain an eligibility computer system, furnish call center services and provide enrollment broker services for health insurance in the state. It got scaled back project the following year due to failures in developing the systems. The project was plagued by complaints of slow service and the denial of benefits to eligible recipients, and was abandoned in March 2007.
This thing is going to be an unholy mess - in addition to being willfully ignorant of the huge negative impacts on health-care availability and large increases in costs, the idiots that passed Obamacare certainly had no understanding of what it will take to implement the system. They seem to think passing a law will magically make complex systems appear. Wrong. Reality is going to bite hard.
The Israeli military says its artillery has fired into Syria in response to gunfire aimed at Israeli troops in the Golan Heights.
It was not immediately clear if there were casualties in Syria. Israel says none of its troops were injured in the initial incident.
Israel has lodged a complaint with the United Nations about the incident which is the latest in several exchanges during the past week.
Meanwhile, France has invited Syria's new opposition coalition to appoint an ambassador to Paris.
French President Francois Hollande met Saturday with Maath al-Khatib, the first leader of a new Syrian coalition that has united the disparate factions fighting to end the rule of President Bashar al-Assad.
Officials say Monzer Makhous, an academic, is expected to fill the ambassador post. However, it is unclear if the appointment will happen before a transitional Syrian government is formed.
France is the first Western country to recognize the opposition coalition.
The 20-month Syrian conflict began as a protest movement against the rule of President Assad. An estimated 36,000 people have died as the government crackdown against protesters developed into a full-blown civil war.
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BANGKOK President Barack Obama says he continues to work to achieve a negotiated solution to the crisis between Israel, and Hamas in Gaza.
Before the president arrived in Southeast Asia, White House officials said he was working the phones with leaders in the region in search of a solution to end Hamas rocket attacks on Israel.
During a news conference in the Thai capital, he was asked if an Israeli military ground operation into Gaza would constitute an escalation of the crisis.
The president summarized his message to leaders like President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey.
"My message to all of them was that Israel had every right to expect that it does not have missiles fired into its territory," he said. "If that can be accomplished, without a ramping up of military activity in Gaza, that is preferable. That is not just preferable for the people of Gaza, it is also preferable for Israelis, because if Israeli troops are in Gaza they are much more at risk of incurring fatalities or being wounded."
The president, and members of his foreign policy team, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who is with the president in Asia, are also talking with Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his advisers.
In his remarks in Bangkok, Obama said he wants to see what progress can be made in coming days.
The president expanded on what he says he told the Egyptian and Turkish leaders.
"Those who champion the cause of the Palestinians should recognize that if we see a further escalation of the situation in Gaza, then the likelihood of us getting back on any kind of peace track that leads to a two-state solution is going to be pushed back way into the future," said Obama.
Obama said if regional leaders are serious about wanting to resolve the situation and create a genuine Israeli-Palestinian peace process, in his words, "it starts with no more missiles being fired into Israel's territory" creating the space to deal with longstanding conflicts.
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Palestinian medics say Israeli strikes on Gaza have killed at least 21 Palestinians in the deadliest day of Israel's five-day offensive to stop rocket fire by Gaza militants onto its territory.
Israeli warplanes struck several buildings in Gaza City on Sunday, including a multi-story house where the medics say at least 11 civilians were killed, mostly women and children. It is not clear whether militants were among the casualties.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Ilana Stein says that one of the air strikes was aimed at the Hamas commander of rocket operations in northern Gaza, but that his fate is not known. She acknowledged that some Gaza civilians have been killed by Israeli warplanes targeting militants.
Palestinian medics say the death toll from the Israeli offensive has risen to at least 67 Palestinian civilians and militants since last Wednesday. Palestinian rocket attacks have killed three Israeli civilians.
The Israeli military reported at least 114 rockets fired against Israel Sunday. The military says the Iron Dome defense system intercepted 36 rockets, including several aimed at Tel Aviv, the fourth straight day the city has been targeted. Other rockets struck residential areas in southern Israel, wounding about 10 civilians, five of them in a car that was hit in the town of Ofakim.
U.S. President Barack Obama says efforts to resolve the fighting must begin with Gaza militants ending their rocket barrage of Israel. He spoke on Sunday while on a visit to the Thailand.
Mr. Obama reiterated U.S. support for Israel's right to defend itself and said it would be "preferable" to end the missile fire without an Israeli escalation of its offensive. Mr. Obama said he has had several conversations with the leaders of Israel, Egypt and Turkey in recent days to try to achieve that goal.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he is prepared to "significantly expand" operations against Gaza militants. His government has massed thousands of troops on Israel's border with Gaza in preparation for a possible ground invasion of the Hamas-run territory.
An Israeli official arrived in Cairo for Egyptian-mediated talks on a potential truce with Hamas. Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood movement has ideological ties to the Palestinian group. Cairo also maintains a peace agreement with Israel.
While in Bangkok, Mr. Obama said that supporters of the Palestinian cause should recognize that further escalation of the Israel-Hamas conflict would mean that efforts to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process will be "pushed way into the future."
In Sunday's strikes on Gaza, Israeli warplanes also attacked two adjacent buildings housing media offices, wounding eight journalists, one of whom lost a leg. Israel's military said it attacked communications equipment used by Hamas and urged reporters to stay away from militant positions and operatives.
The media rights group Reporters Without Borders condemned Israel, accusing it of obstructing freedom of information. The group also demanded an immediate end to such attacks. Israel says it has no intention of harming members of the foreign media and that it continues to allow them to enter Gaza to do their work.
Israel began its offensive with a November 14 air strike that killed Hamas's military leader in Gaza. It said the attack was in response to weeks of intensifying rocket fire from Gaza on southern Israeli communities.
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5:37 PM IDF Spokesman releasing names of Islamic Jihad terrorist leaders targeted in strike on communications building in Gaza. Keep in mind that the building is the HQ of the foreign press in Gaza.
1. Baha Abu al-Ata, commndr. of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Gaza City Brigade, involved in planning attacks against Israel, arms manufacturing, long-range rockets
2. Tissir Mahmoud Mahmed Jabari, senior PIJ operative, responsible for training within org & approving terrorist attacks against Israel
3. Halil Batini, PIJ senior operative, a key figure in org's long-range rocket launching operations, responsible for internal security
4. Ramaz Harab, responsible for propaganda in PIJ Gaza City Brigade, aide to Tissir Jabari, former head of Sheikh Rajuan Division
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6:45 PM Reports of another successful targeted killing -- 2-3 senior terrorists killed in Al-Buriej, Gaza, from the Popular Resistance terror group.
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Keep in mind that the building is the HQ of the foreign press in Gaza.
So were any of these innocent co-conspriators killed along with Batini et al?
President Barack Obama has arrived in Burma, becoming the first American sitting president to visit the Southeast Asian country.
Mr. Obama is scheduled to meet with both Burmese President Thein Sein and Aung San Suu Kyi, the nation's leading democracy activist, who has been free only since 2010 after 15 years of detention or house arrest.
President Obama has said his trip to Burma does not represent an endorsement of the government, but is rather an acknowledgement of the political reform process under way in the country.
The president said there has been a stated commitment to further political reform in Burma, which he says deserves encouragement.
"But I do not think anybody is under any illusion that Burma has arrived, that they are where they need to be," said the president. "On the other hand if we waited to engage until they had achieved a perfect democracy, my suspicion is we would be waiting an awful long time."
He said the goal of his visit is to highlight the progress that has been made, and also to address the steps Burma needs to take in the future.
The trip underscores Mr. Obama's increased focus on Asia as he tries to fulfill his pledge to strengthen the U.S. economy during his second four-year term in office. The Obama administration has said American foreign policy and engagement will "pivot" toward Asia in the future.
The Burmese government has recently begun making democratic reforms, but some human-rights groups have cautioned that it is not yet a fully free country.
The U.S.-based rights group Human Rights Watch told VOA the president should have waited to travel to Burma until the country makes more progress in restoring basic freedoms.
Mr. Obama also is attending a meeting of regional leaders from ASEAN in Cambodia, another destination where he is expected to raise concerns about long-standing human-rights problems. The president is expected to urge Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen to hold free and fair elections and end land seizures.
Mr. Obama spoke in Bangkok during a news conference with Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra Sunday. Thailand was the first stop on a three-nation Asian visit in his first overseas trip since winning re-election nearly two weeks ago.
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..but he is taking notes on how to run an Executive Order authoritarian government and keep the people in their place.
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The photos of this historic meeting are both hilarious and cringe-worthy- he is going to get a shot of them embracing no matter what and she is just creeped out.
The US and France are partnering to create the plan. High-level American and French military and diplomatic leaders met for two days of talks in Paris in October to work out a common strategy.
The US and French military strategy focuses primarily on ways to help regional militaries confront AQIM. According to US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, "[o]ur goal in Mali, because of our concern about AQIM, is that we need to work with the nations in the region. They all agree that we're facing the same threat there from AQIM." US Army General Carter F. Ham, chief of the US Africa Command, said that there were no plans for US direct military intervention in Mali, but that the US would support counterterrorism and peacekeeping operations by other countries. France has also determined that it will not to provide ground troops but will provide logistics, training, and intelligence support.
The plan contains the following elements:
Assist neighboring countries to defend themselves. The US has provided money to Mauritania and Niger for military equipment. The US has held military exercises with Senegal, Burkina Faso, Guinea, and Gambia. French troops have also participated.
Gather intelligence. The US military has launched a series of clandestine intelligence missions to conduct surveillance flights and monitor communications over the Sahara Desert and the region to the south. The US is operating surveillance flights from Special Forces bases in Burkina Faso. France plans to transfer surveillance drones to west Africa by the end of the year.
Establish a base in Algeria. The US and France are lobbying for support from Algeria, which would be an important ally in any confrontation with the Islamists in Mali. Algeria is the strongest state in the area, and it fought and won a brutal war with radical Islamic groups in the 1990s.
It also fought a brutal civil war with the French, which they remember as if it were yesterday...
Algeria is also the home of the former Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) which in early 2007 renamed itself Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and expanded its previous ambitions to bring down the Algerian government to include all of north Africa.
The US has requested military basing rights in the southern part of the country that is adjacent to northern Mali. In addition, southern Algeria is well-located to provide logistical support for units operating in northern Mali. "There is a strong recognition that Algeria has to be a central part of the solution," said a US diplomat.
Create a UN military force to intervene directly in Mali. The primary effort will be to assemble a UN peacekeeping force to intervene militarily in Mali. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will develop a force consisting of 6,000 African troops, funded and supported by the Western nations. Half of the soldiers will come from Mali's national army, and the remaining half will be drawn from other African countries in the region. The US, France, and Britain will supply the training, logistics, and intelligence support. The headquarters will be set up in Koulikoro, about 30 miles northeast of Mali's capital of Bamako. ECOWAS has agreed to provide 3,300 troops, mostly from Nigeria, Niger, and Burkina Faso.
The US and allied countries are currently working out the details of a plan with Mali's interim government. Mali said it welcomes the support. The final plan will be reviewed by the UN Security Council in mid-November, at which point it could be put into action. The first step will be to establish the base of operations in Koulikoro. Then ECOWAS soldiers will be trained, equipped, and integrated with Malian forces. This will take about six months, at which point the ECOWAS force will be ready to begin operations.
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It should be noted that the planned ECOWAS force is similar to one created in Somalia to confront al Qaeda's affiliate, Shabaab. The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) force of 16,000 Ugandan, Kenyan, and Burundian troops, supported and trained by the US, was formed in 2007. By 2012, it had successfully driven Shabaab out of most of the populated areas of Somalia.
According to the plan, the ECOWAS force will begin operations in Mali sometime next year. Its first task will be to secure Mali's capital, Bamako, and southern Mali. It will then move to northern Mali to confront AQIM directly. ECOWAS will attempt to drive AQIM and affiliated jihadist groups out of strongholds in Timbuktu, Gao, and Kidal and into the mountain ranges of Mali and Niger where their influence can be contained.
AQIM and associated groups are taking the threat of intervention seriously. "Hundreds of jihadists, mostly Africans from Western Sahara have arrived as reinforcements to face an offensive by Malian forces and their allies,"AFP reported, quoting a Malian security source. "They are armed and explained that they had come to help their Muslim brothers against the infidels," a Timbuktu resident said. AQIM has threatened to attack Mali's capital of Bamako if the ECOWAS force is set up.
On the other hand, Ansar Dine recently stated that it is ready to open talks with the Malian government to prevent a conflict. Ansar Dine has also sent delegates to Algeria and Burkina Faso in order to head off intervention. "Ansar Dine reaffirms its availability to immediately engage in a political dialogue with the transition authorities in Mali, in order to reach a complete end to hostilities," the group said. MUJAO also has appeared to back away from the conflict. Its rank and file have begun to defect and its commander in Gao surrendered to authorities in Niger. Video embedded at site: Interview with US General Carter F. Ham discusses the plan to confront Islamists in Mali.
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I'm sure that the French Foreign Legion will be happy to reestablish a military base in Algeria. In effect, they will be coming "home".
[Shabelle] A Kenya police official says that an kaboom on a bus in Kenyas capital has killed at least five people and injured 13.
Nairobi police Chief Moses Ombati says at least five people were killed Sunday after an kaboom on a 25-seater public transportation vehicle, and that there will likely be more casualties. He says 10 men and three women were maimed in the blast. He did not give details on the cause of the blast.
Kenya has been hit by a string of grenade attacks that are blamed on sympathizers of al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... , Somalias Islamist bad turban rebels who are linked to Al-Qaeda.
Al-Shabaab has vowed to carry out attacks on Kenya because it sent troops into Somalia last year to fight the rebels, who are considered a threat to Kenyas security because they have been blamed for kidnapping foreign tourists and aid workers in Kenya.
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Happened on a matatu (minibus) coming out of Eastleigh. That is a major slum in Nairobi with many people with Somali ties. Sympathizers to jihadists and al Shebaab do live in this location. It will be nearly impossible for Kenya to stop these small-scale attacks that claim 6-10 lives - often with grenades or small quantities of explosives. However, the Kenya police have done an excellent job (so far) of stopping a major attack against hotels and prominent landmarks.
[An Nahar] Gunmen riding on cycle of violences have killed a prominent politician in Nigeria's second city of Kano, officials said Sunday amid a wave of similar shootings blamed on a radical Islamist group.
Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... gun-hung tough guys have attacked scores of politicians and other symbols of authority in Nigeria's restive north. A police source, who confirmed the killing, said the group may be responsible for the latest violence.
Ibrahim Abba Garko, a politician in the assembly of Kano state, of which Kano city is the capital, was shot three times as he sat with friends at a popular meeting spot near a petrol station.
"He was shot in the head, chest and shoulder by the gunnies and from all indications he was their target," said Salisu Ibrahim Riruwai, another Kano state politician.
"He was struck down in his prime," Riruwai said, adding that two others were seriously injured in the attack.
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[Yemen Post] An intelligence officer of the Political Security, Khaldon Malik, was killed on Sunday morning in the heart of the capital Sana'a, security officers affirmed.
Eyewitnesses said that masked gunnies shot fire on Malik and managed to escape, pointing out that the officer was transferred to the hospital, but he died.
Dozens of the intelligence officers were killed by gunnies and the Yemeni authorities could not identify the perpetrators so for.
More than 60 Yemeni officers, most of them are intelligence officers, were killed across Yemen since the beginning of 2012.
Most liquidations carried out against intelligence officers have occurred in Aden and Sana'a which experience alarming insecurity since the popular uprising erupted against the former regime in early 2011.Yemeni analysts say that Al-Qaeda failed to target Yemeni strategic facilities and it resorted to assassinate high-ranking officers as a simple option.Leaders of political parties and ministers were frequently to subjected to liquidation attempts in Sana'a and other major cities.
Yemeni political sides exchange accusations about inflaming instability and tensions in light of divisions among military units.
The Interior Ministry has directed to ban cycle of violences with no registration plates in all Yemeni governorates as most liquidations were carried out by gunnies on cycle of violences .
The ministry stated that security campaigns will be conducted to pursue those cycle of violences which have no registrations plates.
Al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula had called its members to use cycle of violences and avoid using vehicles after US drones increased against them.
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Perhaps it's time to change uniform insignia or dawn mufti ?
In Bangkok, President Barack Obama My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it... and Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra have reaffirmed close relations between the United States and Thailand.
After a visit to a royal monastery and symbol of Thailand's Buddhist religion and culture, Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went to a hospital in Bangkok for an audience with ailing Thai king Bhumibol Adulyadej.
At 85, the king is a powerful unifying influence for the Thai people through decades of political upheaval, including military coups and a political crisis in 2010.
After bilateral talks, Obama and Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra used a news conference to reflect on nearly 180 years of diplomatic relations, and reaffirm deep political, economic and security links.
Thailand democracy
As in the United States, the president said, democracy is something that needs continuing work.
"What you are seeing here in Thailand is a democratically-elected prime minister, who is committed to democracy, committed to rule of law, committed to freedom of speech and the press and assembly," said Obama. "But obviously what is true in Thailand, as is true in America, is that all citizens have to remain vigilant and there is always improvement to be made."
The Thai prime minister said her government is committed to national reconciliation and stable democracy.
"The destination of us [Thailand] is the stability of democracy, because we believe it will be the fundamental of economic growth in the future," she said. "So, the destination to go with that vision is national reconciliation."
Obama said it is "no accident" that Asia and oldest U.S. Asian ally Thailand were his first overseas stops since being re-elected. He said the Asia-Pacific region will shape U.S. security and prosperity and is critical to creating jobs and opportunity for Americans.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] UN leader the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... on Sunday called on Israel and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, to work with Egypt to reach a ceasefire in their mounting conflict.
Ban said in a statement he was heading for the region to support ceasefire efforts but his office did not say whether he had left or what his itinerary would be.
The UN secretary general said he was "deeply saddened" by reports that up to 10 members of one Paleostinian family had died in one Israeli air strike on Gazoo and "alarmed" by the firing of rockets from Gazoo into Israel.
"This must stop. I strongly urge the parties to cooperate with all efforts led by Egypt to reach an immediate ceasefire. Any further escalation will inevitably increase the suffering of the affected civilian populations and must be avoided," Ban said.
With another 23 Paleostinians killed on Sunday in Israeli air strikes on Gazoo, Egypt was at the centre of efforts to broker a truce, and Paleostinian officials said a deal could be reached by Monday.
"I am heading to the region to appeal personally for ending the violence and contribute to ongoing efforts to that end," Ban said.
While the United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... has not given Ban's itinerary, Israeli media has said that he will go to Jerusalem while Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... said Ban would also go to the Paleostinian territories.
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[JTA] Israel has repelled some 44 million cyber attacks on government websites since the start of Operation Pillar of Defense, a government minister said.
Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz told news hounds Sunday that all the attacks have been thwarted except one, which brought down a website for a short time.
On Saturday, the online terror group Anonymous announced that it had brought down 700 Israeli private and public websites, including the websites of several Israeli government offices, such as the Foreign Ministry and the Kadima Party. It did bring down the Foreign Ministry's Mashav department website, which coordinates Israeli aid missions to foreign countries, and the Kadima website remained down as of Sunday night.
The group also said it erased the database of the Bank of Jerusalem, though the bank's website is operational. It also released the personal information, including national ID number and e-mail, of at least 35,000 Israelis.
"For far too long, Anonymous has stood by with the rest of the world and watched in despair the barbaric, brutal and despicable treatment of the Paleostinian people in the so called 'Occupied Territories' by the Israel Defense Force. But when the government of Israel publicly threatened to sever all Internet and other telecommunications into and out of Gazoo they crossed a line in the sand," Anonymous said in a statement.
"We are ANONYMOUS and NO ONE shuts down the Internet on our watch. To the IDF and government of Israel we issue you this warning only once. Do NOT shut down the Internet into the 'Occupied Territories,' and cease and desist from your terror upon the innocent people of Paleostine or you will know the full and unbridled wrath of Anonymous."
One year ago, Anonymous launched a cyber attack on several Israeli government and military websites, including government ministries, the Mossad and the IDF, after Israel intercepted Gazoo-bound ships attempting to break the naval blockade.
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I expect Israel to react the same way it did about rockets from Gaza. Me thinks the days of 'anonymous' hacking are coming to a close.
1. The IDF just sent seventy trucks carrying food and medicine into Gaza, despite being at war.
2. Gazans are being allowed into Israel for medical treatment.
3. Egypt sent in 400 activists to express solidarity with the poor Gazans. That they will become both hungry and wounded, and therefore use up the Gazans supplies of food and medicines is of no concern to any of the parties involved.
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During the great unpleasantness, the South was severly strained to provide medical care and sustenance to it's POW's. Despite numerous pleadings from General Lee for a prisoner exchange, the north refused each of Lee's requests. Immediately following the war, when some men desired that Lee run for president, an angry congress attempted to try Lee as a war criminal for the terrible conditions at Andersonville. He used the north's refusal of prisoner exchange as his defense and was acquitted of all charges.
Less than 40 years later in another war a British general ordered the burning of crops and homes along with the concentrated detention of farm families (25 thousand died in the camps) in a successful bid to discourage waring farmer commandos.
Some 40 years later, the Warsaw Ghetto. No discussion required here.
Let them have the food and medicine. There are innocent women and children involved.
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See also RELATED DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS >"ANONYMOUS" TAKES DOWN 650 ISRAELI [Net/Web]SITES, WIPES DATABASES [e.g. Minstry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem Bank], LEAKS EMAIL ADDRESSES AND PASSWORDS.
#7 has me dyin' to find out just whom is hiding behind the "V for Vendetta" face masks.
Federal authorities investigating U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. continue to "peel back layers of the onion" in the case, according to a source close to the financial probe who described it as an ongoing investigation.
The source said Thursday that federal investigators are "going down every rat hole," and that the FBI crew investigating "is not yet finished digging."
The federal probe, which began before Jackson took medical leave from Congress on June 10, first looked at activity in the congressman's campaign fund. But it has since gone into other areas, said the source, who would not elaborate.
Broad, sweeping subpoenas were issued in the Jackson investigation, including on financial institutions that controlled Jackson accounts both in and out of Washington, D.C., the source said.
Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed reported last week that Jackson is in the midst of plea discussions. "No one has pled guilty, but plea discussions are ongoing," a source told Sneed.
Meanwhile, investigators are also examining what role the congressman's wife, Ald. Sandi Jackson (7th), played in the finances, but the source described the inquiry into her so far as a "normal" part of investigating a main target.
Sun-Times first reported last month that the FBI in the Washington, D.C., field office had been investigating Jackson due to alleged "suspicious activity" in his finances.
The revelation came after Jackson checked into the Mayo Clinic, saying he suffered from bipolar depression. His 2nd District constituency, which includes some of the poorer areas of the city, has gone without representation since June.
Jackson has missed the first days of this week's lame-duck session in Congress and people close to him say they don't think he's ever returning.
Jackson was temporarily back in Washington last month when he was spotted at a nightclub drinking with other women. He returned to the Mayo Clinic but was again released, the facility said Tuesday.
People close to Jackson said he is still getting treated on an out-patient basis.
Jackson did not campaign for reelection and still coasted to victory on Nov. 6.
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Thats where ya gotta go to catch a rat.
And make no mistake about it, he's a rat.
A chip off the old block as they say.
And he still got re-elected.
After the crash we need to do some serious housecleaning here in America. These 5th column traitors must be kicked out of our government and society.
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5th column traitors must be kicked out of our government and society.
Quite difficult to do when the Rule of Law has been abandoned and tribal control has been firmly established. Historically, this type of governance does not easily self-repair. I see no recuperative indicators, not one.
Disgraced former Labour MP Margaret Moran cheated the taxpayer out of £53,000 in one of the worst cases of fraud to emerge from the parliamentary expenses scandal, a jury found yesterday.
But despite the damning verdict, 57-year-old Moran will not be punished after a judge ruled she was too depressed to stand trial.
As a consequence, the former MP for Luton South will not even receive a criminal record although the jury in the rare trial of issue ruled that she had committed 21 counts of fraud.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Officials in Nigeria's northeast Taraba state on Sunday imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in one town following reported festivities between Christian and Moslem groups that killed at least one person.
A state front man said that security forces have been instructed to shoot anyone who disregards the ban on movements.
Religiously divided Taraba is one of several Nigerian states previously hit by sectarian violence, although the town of Ibbi, where the unrest broke out Sunday, has historically been peaceful.
"The state government has declared a 6:00 pm (1700 GMT) to 6:00 am curfew in Ibbi starting from today," Information Commissioner Emmanuel Bello said.
"Security personnel deployed in the town have been directed to shoot anybody that defies the curfew especially those bent on breaching the peace. This security measure is necessary in the government's effort to restore normality in the area," he added.
Police front man Amos Olaoye told AFP that one person was killed, but residents of different faiths offered conflicting corpse counts which could not be immediately verified.
Resident Baffayo Ahmad said the violence began after Christian community members set up a barricade on the road leading into the Moslem neighbourhood of Malam Gambo.
According to Ahmad, they rejected requests to dismantle the roadblock.
"This led to arguments between Moslem residents and the Christians in the area which degenerated into festivities," Ahmad said.
"Many Moslem and Christian homes and shops were burnt. Three Moslem dead bodies were brought to the mosque," Ahmad said.
David Shamaki, a Christian resident, said the roadblock was set up following rumours that a church "was going to be attacked".
He reported 10 people killed in the ensuing unrest, describing all the victims as Christian.
Lunatic group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... has repeatedly attacked churches during Sunday worship as part of an insurgency that has killed hundreds on northern and central Nigeria since 2009.
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Mr. Obama's administration has placed itself between a rock and a hard place. The administration's reopolitik foreign policy has decided that the Turks are needed for dealing with Syria and possibly Iran; Mr. Erdogan's ego is being stroked by the White House by involving his government with Gaza. That's going to feed the Turks' desire to become the de facto Islamic power in the Islamic region.
Stroke means cash, and cash means Obama goes hat in hand to Congress, the side that insists on a budget.
Ah, the Islamic region.
Egypt is a borderline failed state, one step away from starvation. Syria is in a civil war, as are Yemen and Sudan (still). Iraq is coyly cuddling up to Iran. Jordan is facing its own Muslim Brotherhood-instigated riots as a result of trying to fix its own economic issues. Lebanon's various warlords are gearing up for another alleyway fight.
North Africa, which has been ignored by both the White House and the diplomatic set at Foggy Bottom, has both Salafists and Al Qaeda's Maghreb franchise trying to set up caliphates. That will drag most of the continent (already dealing with Somalia) into another long and costly war. Libya could go either way, but most likely it'll end up looking like the rest of North Africa minus Algeria, albeit with more weapons.
The Saudis are watching everyone else. Qatar has its own agenda, which doesn't involve chatty night-time talks with the Oval Office.
We won't mention Afghanistan and Pakistan. It's best to avert one's eyes from an air crash into a daycare center at a refinery.
To make matters worse, all sides will likely end up being hanged by their strings of words. If Hamas continues to insist that the politics of the souk don't apply to it, then they will get what they want: a ground operation by Israel.
This is going to put everyone else in a hell of a bind.
Morsi is going to have to accede to the thugs of the Muslim Brotherhood and back his own words. That is something Egypt cannot really afford to do either militarily and economically.
Media like the NYT, and the Western Left, are going to have to double-down on their rhetoric, since they nailed one (rhetorical) foot to the floor with this last round of bash-Israel rhetoric. They have no other place to go now, except to cover Gaza.
I won't speak for Israel, but it's almost certain that, unlike their Palestinian enemy, they've learned from their earlier operations (against Hesb'allah in Lebanon and Hamas.) And both are now much more heavily armed.
And Mr. Obama will have to - surprise - face a decision: Bring Israel to heel and risk both a domestic and Israeli backlash, or find a way to placate the Islamic world by other means.
Either decision will be hard. If he brings Israel to heel without stopping Hamas' gambit cold, he will alienate both the Republicans and the pro-Israel faction. He needs the former at this point because he faces a potential economic storm. He will need the latter, to a lesser extent, for support during his next administration. It will also be another wedge issue for a divided electorate. He can't bribe the citizenry or Congress, nor can he bribe Israel, nor the Islamic world. He can't cajole any of them. He can't even use his Presidential influence. The "call from the President of the United States" doesn't have the same power, especially since Mr. Obama has quietly euthanized it.
President Obama is going to have to choose between Turkey (and Egypt) or Israel, and do so publicly. It's going to be interesting watching the media spin that decision.
I can see the Pegster cranking up the old Spin Machine now...
In any case, the message from all parties involved appears to be: "Mr. Obama, we've reserved a nice place for your administration at the kid's table. And by the way, you're paying for the broken dishes."
And The Smartest Man in the Room will still get blamed for whatever happens. Sometimes life is absolutely fair.
That means he's 'dead,' right? Nigeria's military has killed a top commander of myrmidon Islamist group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri, an army front man has said.
Ibn Saleh Ibrahim was killed in an exchange of fire with six of his lieutenants, the front man added.
An unknown number of civilians are said to have been killed in the crossfire, says a BBC news hound in Nigeria.
Boko Haram, which has killed hundreds of people since 2009, has not commented on Mr Ibrahim's reported death.
The group's founding leader, Mohammed Yusuf, was killed by security forces in July 2009.
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Boko Haram is now said to be led by Abubakar Shekau.
Army front man Lt Col Sagir Musa told the BBC that Mr Ibrahim was "very close" to Mr Shekau and had a reputation of being "invincible".
"Yesterday [Thursday], we learned he was in town and we were able to track him in a special operation," he said.
"There was an exchange of fire and in the process he was killed with six of his lieutenants."
There has been no independent confirmation of Mr Ibrahim's role in Boko Haram.
Lt Col Musa said Mr Ibrahim had been responsible for last month's liquidation of retired General Mohammed Shuwa following an order from Mr Shekau.
Gen Shuwa was rubbed out at his home in Maiduguri - no group has said it carried out the attack.
He is regarded by the Nigerian military as a war hero, and played a key role in crushing Biafran separatists during Nigeria's brutal civil war in the 1960s.
In a statement, Lt Col Musa said the operation in Maiduguri, supported by armoured personnel carriers and helicopters, was on-going.
Weapons and bombs have been recovered, he added.
The BBC's Abdullahi Kaura in the northern city of Kaduna says residents in Maiduguri told him that the security forces have sealed off four areas within the city - Ngarnam, Bulabulin, Bayan Quarters and Flatari.
This has made it impossible for people to move in and out of the areas, though some managed to flee on Thursday when fighting broke out, he adds.
Military helicopters were circling the suspected Boko Haram strongholds, but no shooting was heard on Friday, our news hound quotes residents as saying.
Residents also told our news hound that during Thursday's festivities, civilians, including women and kiddies, were killed after being caught in the crossfire.
The number of casualties is not known.
Earlier this month, rights group Amnesia Amnesty International accused Nigeria's security forces of carrying out widespread abuses in their campaign against Boko Haram, including extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and torture.
The group is campaigning to impose Islamic law across Nigeria.
It has carried out a wave of bombings and liquidations since 2009.
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had a reputation of being "invincible".
I do not think that word means what you think it means
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[An Nahar] Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will seek a meeting of the so-called Middle East quartet over the Gazoo crisis when he holds talks with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Henry L. Stimson ... in Asia this week, the Russian news agency Ria Novosti said Sunday.
Russia has condemned as "disproportionate" the Israeli blitz on the impoverished Gazoo Strip, where 64 Paleostinians have been killed while three Israelis have been killed in rocket attacks by Paleostinian hard boyz since Wednesday.
Lavrov said he would meet Clinton on Tuesday in Phnom Penh where he is joining a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and plans to push for a meeting of the Quartet ... The Quartet are the UN (xylophone), the United States (alto), the European Union (soprano), and Russia (shortstop). The group was established in Madrid in 2002 by former Spanish Prime Minister Aznar, as a result of the escalating conflict in the Middle East. Tony Blair is the Quartet's current Special Envoy.... and the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... to discuss the deadly violence.
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[An Nahar] Roadside bombs killed a total of five people and maimed 10 Sunday in two separate blasts in Pakistain's lawless tribal zone near the Afghan border, officials said.
One of the improvised bombs was planted along the route of an army convoy in the Mir Ali area 35 kilometers (21 miles) east of Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... , the main town in the North Wazoo district, they said.
"The kaboom killed at least two soldiers and injured seven others," a security official in Miranshah said.
Another local security official confirmed the attack and said two of some 10 to 15 vehicles in the convoy were severely damaged.
In the Shin Qamar area of the Khyber tribal region, at least three laborers were killed and three maimed Sunday in an kaboom caused by a roadside kaboom, said senior local official Nasir Khan.
He said the bomb went off as the laborers, who were carrying construction materials on mules, passed by. Local intelligence officials also confirmed the incident.
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[An Nahar] Leading Republican Senator John Maverick McCain ... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution... suggested Sunday that President Barack Obama On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today... should send Bill Clinton as a special envoy to try to negotiate peace between Israel and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,.
"The United States should obviously be as heavily influential as they can," McCain told CBS television, referring to the bloody conflict that has raged since Wednesday between Israel and the Gazoo Strip's Islamist rulers.
The Arizona Republican, who lost his 2008 presidential bid to Obama, sang the praises of Clinton, a Democrat, as someone uniquely placed to try to broker a truce between the sworn enemies.
"I know he'd hate me for saying that but we need a person of enormous prestige and influence to have these parties sit down together as an honest broker," said McCain.
"The United States of America has got to push as hard as we can to resolve this Israeli-Paleostinian issue."
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"I know he'd hate me for saying that but we need a person of enormous prestige and influence to have these parties sit down together as an honest broker," said McCain, the butter freezing in his mouth.
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"I know he'd hate me for saying that but we need a person of enormous prestige and influence to have these parties sit down together as an honest broker," said McCain.
Like the historically proven non sequitur "Gaza Truce Negotiator", terms of reference such as "Honest broker" and "Bill Clinton" should never be used in the same sentence.
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Are all these politicians bat $h*t crazy????????
Is that all that McCain can think up? Send Bill Clinton to be a negotiator? He is either a creative genius or BSC. Bunch of recycled politicians. I am getting a headache.
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McCain read Machiavelli? Doubts, serious doubts. He's prolly crazy and right twice a day.
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Hmmmmmm....how about letting Bibi Netanyahu do the negotiating?
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Mr. Clinton, his reputation here at the Burg notwithstanding, does have three things that Mr. Obama and the rest of his administration lack: prestige (being an ex-president helps), interpersonal skills, and non-insular political experience.
You want a salesman. Saints make crappy negoatiators.
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This is a classic example of setting the Dems up for failure! The Dems send their fair haired leader, it fails, the Dem machine has a classic Fail for 2016...
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wrong Clinton...isn't his wife perfect for this? After all, she's the one w/combat experience I hear.
No. But it's lovely the journalist gets invited to dine with such elite company.
[NY Times] Is François Hollande more like Mariano Rajoy or Mario Monti? In other words, is the French socialist president condemned to be always behind the curve with reform, as the conservative Spanish prime minister is? Or can he get ahead of it, as the technocratic Italian premier has?
I put this question to my fellow guests at a dinner in Gay Paree last week. La Belle France is not at imminent risk of blowing up, as wrongly implied by the British magazine The Economist, with its latest dramatic front cover showing baguettes tied together like sticks of dynamite with a lighted fuse. It is a much richer country than Spain. And its people are more willing to pay their taxes than are the Italians. French 10-year borrowing costs are only 2.1 percent, compared with Italia's 4.9 percent and Spain's 5.9 percent.
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More willing to pay their taxes than the Italians...that's damning with faint praise.
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Actually France collects taxes against property which tends to retard falls in the affordability of land, without the deadweight effect of taxes on commerce.
France's main problems are not it's high business taxes*, but it's regulatory culture where so much needs a bureaucrats approval.
[Asharq-E] A senior Iranian politician denied his country had supplied Paleostinian Islamist hard boyz in Gazoo with missiles capable of hitting Israel's commercial center, Iran's Arabic-language Al Alam television reported.
Israel began air strikes on Gazoo on Wednesday, with the declared goal of deterring Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, the Paleostinian Islamist group that runs the Gazoo Strip, from launching rockets that have plagued its southern communities for years.
Hamas' armed wing said on Saturday it had launched an Iranian-made Fajr-5 rocket at Tel Aviv, Israel's commercial center, about 70 km (43 miles) north of Gazoo, in the third rocket attack on the city since Wednesday.
Israeli police said Saturday's rocket was intercepted mid-air by an Israeli anti-missile battery and caused no casualties or damage.
Israel's enemy Iran, which supports and arms Hamas, has condemned the offensive begun by the Israel Defiance Forces as "organized terrorism".
But Alaeddin Boroujerdi, head of the Iranian parliament's national security and foreign policy committee, said Israeli claims that Iran was supplying rockets were unfounded, according to a report posted on Al Alam's website on Saturday evening.
The hard boyz were self-sufficient and in no need of weapons from outside their territory, he added, according to Al Alam.
With its 75 km (46 mile) range and a 175 kg (385 pound) warhead - powerful enough to shear through a concrete apartment block - the Fajr is a prestige weapon for Hamas, which is massively outgunned by Israel's technologically superior military.
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Iran denies supplying Iranian made and supplied Fajr-5 rockets to Gaza militants
On Friday, Iranian officials announced that its rockets are being used in the attacks. On the same day, it was announced that Iran is stepping up its uranium enrichment.
According to a source in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, cited by World Net Daily, Iran has large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and it has provided those weapons to Hamas. Also, Iran has military advisers in Gaza to teach the Palestinians how to set up and operate the missile systems.
The same source said the attacks were meant as a message to Israel that any attack on Iran would be countered by Irans puppets.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Around 400 Egyptian activists headed to the Gazoo Strip on Sunday to show solidarity with its people as Israeli air strikes pounded the Paleostinian enclave for a fifth day, organisers said.
A five-bus convoy transporting members of several Egyptian parties and political movements arrived at the country's Rafah border crossing with Gazoo, officials said.
"The trip is aimed at showing our support for the people of the Gazoo Strip in the face of the Israeli aggression," said organiser Mahmud Ali of Egypt's liberal Dustoor Party.
The activists were "carrying a message of support from the people of Egypt," he added.
They were also bringing medicine and emergency medical supplies.
"We all entered through Rafah border... 100s now attempting to enter Gazoo," activist Gigi Ibrahim said on her Twitter account.
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Are the civilian shields going to chain themselves to key assets, as was done to the idiots who went to Iraq in 2003?
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] UN attack helicopters fired cannons and rockets at rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo or Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... on Sunday but could not stop an advance on the key city of Goma, a UN front man said.
"The situation in Goma is extremely tense. There is a real threat that the city could fall into the M23's hands," UN peacekeeping front man Kieran Dwyer said.
M23 rebels are now near Goma airport where UN forces and the DR Congo army are "defending," while tens of thousands of civilians have fled the conflict zone, Dwyer added.
About 625 UN expatriate workers have been grouped at special protection points across the city, Dwyer said. UN peacekeepers in 17 "quick reaction units" have been deployed across Goma.
Goma is the capital of Nord Kivu province where the M23 mutiny was launched in April. UN experts and the DR Congo government say the group has backing from neighbouring Rwanda, which denies the charge.
According to UN sources in the region, many government soldiers and civilians have fled Goma, which is at the heart of a major mineral producing region.
The UN peacekeeping mission, MONUSCO, has been backing the army "to protect civilians and in self-defense, including carrying out sorties and firing from attack helicopter missions that have fired rockets and cannon rounds," Dwyer said.
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[An Nahar] Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... called on Sunday for Paleostinians to stage peaceful demonstrations against Israel's military offensive on Gazoo bad boy groups.
"I call on the Paleostinian people to intensify their peaceful demonstrations in the streets against the Israeli aggression in Gazoo," he said at a meeting with the Paleostinian leadership.
Abbas, whose Paleostinian Authority rules the West Bank but not the Gazoo Strip which was taken over by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in 2007, also called for an urgent meeting of the Paleostine Liberation Operation (PLO), Hamas and Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Mohammedan Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... leaders.
"The aggression is aimed at all of the Paleostinian people," he said in a televised speech on Friday. "Not only at Hamas or the Islamic Jihad."
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Republic of Congo said Sunday they have reached the "door" of the regional capital Goma.
The DR Congolese army said meanwhile that fighting between its troops and rebels has reached a displaced people's camp near Goma, a claim the rebels denied.
Rebel front man Lieutenant Colonel Vianney Kazarama told AFP that the M23 rebel movement had reached Kibati, which is five kilometres (three miles) from Goma.
"We're at the door... We are not in the city of Goma. It's not our ambition to take Goma. Nevertheless if (President Joseph) Kabila's army attacks us, we will pursue the enemy until it is repelled very far from Goma," Kazarama said.
No comment on the rebel claim could be obtained from the army.
But an army intelligence colonel told AFP on condition of anonymity that fighting between government troops and rebels had reached the displaced people's camp in Kanyarucinya, which is some 10 kilometres from Goma.
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[An Nahar] Malian Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra said Sunday that the government would eventually hold talks with two northern rebel groups, the Islamist Ansar Dine and the Tuareg MNLA, because they are both homegrown movements.
"Dialogue is inevitable. People who make up the Azawad National Liberation Movement (MNLA) or Ansar Dine are our compatriots," Diarra said after talks with the chief west African regional mediator, Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and may be in the process of being chased out now... 's President Blaise Compaore.
Mali's desert north has been under the control of rebel groups since shortly after a March 22 coup, but the two other groups that have seized the region, Islamist rebel movements Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), are both made up mainly of imported muscle.
Homegrown Islamist group Ansar Dine (Defenders of Faith) and the ethnic Tuareg separatist group MNLA announced Friday that they were ready for talks with Bamako after meeting Compaore.
Diarra said he hoped conditions for dialogue would be met "as quickly as possible", but stopped short of proposing a timetable.
Diarra was appointed interim prime minister in April to help restore civilian rule after the March coup, appointing former junta members in the key ministerial portfolios of defense, internal security and territorial administration.
He said talks would not address "Orcs and similar vermin and narcos (who) for the most part are not Malian citizens".
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[An Nahar] An Israeli official landed in Cairo on Sunday for Egypt-mediated truce talks with Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, to end the Gazoo conflict, Egyptian security officials said.
The official landed in a small plane at 1100 GMT and was quickly escorted away by intelligence personnel, the security officials said.
Hamas officials say intensive truce talks are focused on agreeing guarantees for the ceasefire conditions.
At least 56 Paleostinians and three Israelis have been killed over the past five days around Gazoo.
With international opinion veering away from an escalation, U.S. President Barack Obama I am the change that you seek... said on Sunday it was "preferable" for the Gazoo crisis to end without a "ramping up" of Israeli military activity.
"Israel has every right to expect that it does not have missiles fired into its territory," Obama said in Thailand. "If that can be accomplished without a ramping up of military activity in Gazoo, that is preferable."
In Cairo, senior Hamas officials said Egyptian-mediated talks with Israel to end the conflict were "positive" but now focused on the possible stumbling block of guaranteeing the terms of a truce.
An outcome acceptable to Hamas would be assurances by the United States, Israel's main backer, to be the "guaranteeing party," one official said on condition of anonymity.
"There are efforts to that end," he told Agence La Belle France Presse. "If that is not the case, I don't think there's anyone who wants to gamble with his political reputation."
Hamas, now in the fifth day of a conflict with Israel around Gazoo, wants guarantees that "the aggression and liquidations would stop," said another bigwig.
The Islamist movement also demands that the siege Israel imposed on Gazoo in 2007 after Hamas seized the territory be lifted -- an unfulfilled condition when Hamas agreed a truce in January 2009 to end the last major conflict there.
The first official said the parties in the talks realized time was of the essence, as Israel mustered troops and armor outside Gazoo amid threats that the air and naval bombardment would give way to a ground invasion.
"Extended talks could lead to a development on the ground that would foil all efforts," he said.
In January 2009, Egypt helped mediate an end to a three-week war in Gazoo with a truce that Hamas said would require Israel to lift its blockade.
Israel too had demanded Egyptian commitments to stop smugglers from sending weapons into Gazoo, but arms continued to find their way into the enclave, according to Israel.
Hamas and Egyptian officials have accused Israel of violating a recent tacit ceasefire to end tit-for-tat air strikes and rocket fire when it assassinated Hamas' military chief in Gazoo on Wednesday, sparking the latest conflict.
Israel says it responded to continued Hamas rocket fire.
Meanwhile on Sunday, Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman insisted that "the first and absolute condition for a truce is stopping all fire from Gazoo," and that all gangs would have to commit to it.
Earlier, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel was ready to "significantly expand" its operation against Gazoogunnies even as he prepared to receive French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who is on a whirlwind truce mission to the region.
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11:27 P.M. Just 75 rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel on Sunday, compared to an average of 230 rockets per day over the weekend -- a two-thirds drop in rocket fire (also from a different source, some rockets lack explosive heads).
The IDF states that since the beginning of the escalation of the conflict, over 980 rockets have been launched from the Gaza Strip toward Israel and that approximately 100 rockets have landed in Gaza. According to the IDF, a rocket siren sounds, on average, every seven minutes somewhere in Israel.
11:24 P.M. Ramzi Hamad, one of the heads of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, says that Hamas and Israel have agreed on 90% of the terms of a cease-fire agreement, according to Al Jazeera. One of the heads of Fatah, Nabil Shaath, who is currently in Cairo, said talks on a cease-fire have entered an advanced stage.
Not much coming from the Israeli side about the negotiations, which suggests that either the percentage of agreement is a figment of Hamas' imagination, or the last ten percent is all the important stuff, like "this agreement is binding on all those within Gaza's current borders, including members of groups other than Hamas and foreigners such as Iranians and 'peace activists'."
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16:47 P.M. Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad says...Ramez Harb was killed in the strike Monday. Harb is a leading figure in their militant wing, the Al Quds Brigades.
16:33 P.M. Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Qandil says a cease-fire agreement may be signed soon between Israel and Hamas. "The negotiations continue...Morsi is committed to fulfill his role as a major player in the area and help with the resolution." (Reuters)
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18:32 P.M (local). A senior Egyptian official tells Haaretz: "We are very close to a cease-fire. What is needed is more flexibility on the Israeli side, tomorrow will be a critical day in the talks."
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What is needed is more flexibility on the Israeli side,
That's nice, dear. Go back and play with your thumbs until Daddy has finished spanking Haniyeh.
[An Nahar] Syria's regime on Sunday slammed as "hostile" a French decision to host an opposition ambassador, as its forces bombarded southern districts of the capital and festivities raged nationwide.
La Belle France on Saturday invited the National Coalition, the newly formed Syrian opposition bloc, to send an envoy to Gay Paree, after President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, and a fine job he's doing of it... met its leader, Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib.
"La Belle France is acting like a hostile nation," National Reconciliation Minister Ali Haidar told Agence La Belle France Presse in Tehran. "It's as if it wants to go back to the time of the occupation," he added, of the French mandate in Syria after World War I.
Haidar spoke as Iran prepared to host talks between Syrian officials and opposition groups tolerated by Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... 's regime.
The National Coalition was not invited.
"Invitations were extended to all those who accept dialogue, not to those who refuse to talk as a matter of principle," Haidar said.
Opening the talks, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi warned against sending weapons to the rebels, saying this would threaten regional stability and increase the "risk of terrorism".
Russia reiterated its alignment with Iran on the issue of providing the coalition with weapons.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned, in a message to the Tehran meeting, against the risk of weapons ending up in the hands of "al-Qaeda and other beturbanned goon groups" seeking to seize Syria, Iran's official IRNA news agency said.
The opposition coalition, formed in Doha on November 11, says it is committed to building a provisional government composed of representatives of all ethnic and religious groups in Syria.
But it refuses to engage with the Damascus ...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations... regime before Assad's departure.
Despite the French offer to host an envoy, Gay Paree remained cautious on the issue of supplying weapons to rebels amid fears of the conflict spreading.
The Israeli army said it retaliated for shots fired at its soldiers from Syria, scoring a "direct hit" on the source of the shooting in the latest spillover of violence across the ceasefire line.
The Jewish state has complained repeatedly to the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... after several such incidents.
In Damascus, government artillery bombarded several southern districts including al-Hajar al-Aswad, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Britannia-based watchdog, which relies on a network of activists and medics in civilian and military hospitals for its tolls, said one civilian was killed and others were maimed.
Mortar rounds also hit the mainly Alawite regime heartland of Mazzeh in west Damascus, which state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
blamed on "terrorist groups".
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 its environs in the north saw heavy combat, the Observatory said, reporting rebels had seized control of a "large part" of regime Base 46 they have been besieging for weeks.
Artillery fire hit the provinces of Daraa in the south and Deir Ezzor in the east, where rebels on Saturday said they seized Hamdan airport, a helicopter gunship base.
Sunday's fighting killed 32 people nationwide, including 10 civilians, according to a preliminary count by the Observatory which says the corpse count in more than 20 months of conflict is upwards of 39,000.
Academic Monzer Makhous is to become National Coalition envoy to La Belle France, although it was unclear if this would happen before a planned provisional government is formed.
Coalition chief Khatib in Gay Paree on Saturday repeated the group's promise to build a government of technocrats. But he appeared to make little progress on his call for the West to arm the insurgency.
"The (rebel) Syrians need military means but the international community also has to exercise control," Hollande said, acknowledging that La Belle France could not act without EU agreement because of the strict embargo on arms deliveries to Syria.
EU foreign ministers are due to discuss the embargo in Brussels on Monday.
La Belle France on Tuesday became the first Western power to recognize the opposition coalition as the sole representative of the Syrian people.
Turkey and the Gulf Arab states have also officially recognized it, and Britannia's foreign minister William Hague said on Friday London was considering following suit.
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The Syrian rebels are Islamists. Won't end nicely.
[Dawn] At least two people have been killed, along with 23 others injured, including two rangers, after an kaboom near 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... 's Abbas Town, DawnNews reported.
Eight of the injured are said to be at death's door.
The blast took place near the Jamia Masjid Imambargah Mustafa at Abul Hassan Isphahani Road.
Eyewitnesses said that the blast took place near a barrier at the entrance of Abbas Town. Both sides of the road had been cordoned off due to security arrangements.
Ambulances have rushed towards the scene of the blast and have taken the injured to nearby hospitals.
Reports said that firing was heard near the gathering after the kaboom.
Nearby shops were damaged in the kaboom, while windows at nearby buildings have also been shattered.
Police and Rangers have sealed off the area. Electricity in the area has also reportedly gone.
According to police officials, the bomb had been placed on a cycle of violence. They said that six kilograms of explosives material was used in the attack.
The bomb disposal squad said that three to four kilograms of explosives had been used in the blast.
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[Asharq-E] A Syrian general and a dozen other officers defected with their families to Turkey on Friday, Turkey's state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... reported, following heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or desultory fighting... on Turkey's southeastern border with Syria.
Ankara said on Friday it had "intensified" talks with its NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... allies on steps to shore up security on the 900 km (560 mile) frontier with the 20-month civil war in Syria at stalemate.
State-run Anatolian agency said 53 people had crossed the border - one general, 12 other officers and an unspecified number of soldiers and their families.
They crossed into Turkey's southern Hatay province and were sent by local authorities to the Apaydin refugee camp, Today's Zaman newspaper reported on its website.
A foreign ministry official could not immediately confirm the report. It follows the reported defection on Nov. 9 of 26 military officers, including two generals.
With winter setting in, dozens of Syrian military officers are holed up in Turkish camps, along with about 120,000 civilian refugees.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... once again swooped on law enforcers yesterday, leaving at least eight coppers and 11 others injured in Chittagong and Dhaka.
The day before, the Jamaat announced a countrywide "peaceful programme" for yesterday, protesting government "oppression" on its leaders and filing of "false" cases against them. But the party did not give any details of its plan.
Law enforcers locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! six Jamaat-Shibir activists at Jatrabari, four at Motijheel and another six at Bangshal in Dhaka as also 42 Shibir men in Chittagong as of 8:00pm yesterday.
In the port city, at least five coppers personnel, an ansar and three auto-rickshaw drivers were hurt as the activists rampaged through different places from 10:00am to 11:00am.
Of the injured, Sub-Inspector Bashir Ahmed was admitted to Police Hospital while Assistant SI Manir Hossain, constables Moslem Uddin, Tafazzal Hossain and Md Ilias and ansar Nurul Islam were admitted to Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH).
Ruhul Amin, one of the auto-rickshaw drivers, was also admitted to CMCH, said Sub-Inspector Jahirul Islam, in-charge of CMCH Police Outpost.
Commuters and shopkeepers in areas such as Sholoshahar, CDA Avenue, GEC Intersection, Golpahar Intersection, Probartak Intersection, CMCH and Chawk Bazar Intersection were seen running for shelter as the Jamaat-Shibir members went wild.
Traffic from Sholoshahar Gate No 2 to Chawk Bazar Intersection came to a halt.
Around a hundred Jamaat-Shibir men brought out a procession at Sholoshahar Gate No 2 around 10:00am and marched towards GEC Intersection wielding cricket stumps and carrying brick chips, witnesses said.
Without any provocation, they started hurling brick chips at a police van that was going to Dampara for refuelling.
Three coppers, including Bashir Ahmed and ansar Nurul Islam sustained injuries, said Sairul Islam, officer-in-charge of the cop shoppe. The rioters snatched 20 bullets from Nurul.
The Jamaat-Shibir men then split into two groups. One group vandalised a BRTC bus at GEC Intersection while the other damaged at least three auto-rickshaws at Probartak.
Another police team of five to six also came under attack and were chased up to Premier University. The activists smashed a microbus of the university and three private cars parked in front of the building. They also wrecked two eateries and a showroom of a shoe company in the area.
Later, joined by another group, they started marching towards Chawk Bazar. They vandalised another auto-rickshaw at Chawk Bazar and then dispersed in the main male dormitory of Chittagong Medical College (CMC).
On information, pro-government Bangladesh Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... activists of CMC rushed to the dormitory and got locked into running battle with Shibir members, said witnesses.
Police reached the spot and tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! 37 Shibir activists from the hostel around 2:00pm, said Tareq Ahmed, additional deputy commissioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police.
A total of 42 Shibir men were tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in different areas of the port city yesterday, said Prodip Kumar Das, officer-in-charge of Panchlaish Police Station.
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A proposal by the transition team of Mexican president elect Enrique Pena Nieto has the Mexican left up in arms and claiming the proposal is throwback to the Mexican Dirty War of the 1970s and 1980s, according to numerous Mexican press reports.
According to press reports, president elect Pena is seeking to eliminate the Secretaria de Seguridad Publica (SSP) and move its fuctions, primarily the Policia Federal (PF) to the Secretaria de Gobiernacion (SEGOB) or Interior Ministry.
The proposal was formally presented last Thursday by Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) Mexico state federal deputy José Sergio Quiroga Manzur. According to a report published on the website of Milenio news daily, Sergio Manzur said the reform was intended to "ensure strong coordination" with regard to the internal security of Mexico.
The proposal so far has been seen by Mexican security experts as generally positive. An El Universal news daily report quoted two experts, Samuel Gonzalez, an independent security consultant, and Jorge Chabat, a professor at the Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economica (CIDE).
Gonzalez was quoted by El Universal saying that the SSP was never a federal security agency, but rather a police agency, whose functions belonged in SEGOB because its inclusion into arguably the most powerful federal agency would improve "coordination actions of public security."
Chabat said that folding the SSP into SEGOB would increase the powers of SEGOB to the extent it would give it a function outside the one it current has and that is of a coordination agency, sort of a chief of staff.
It should be noted that the SSP and the PF are both creations of the PRI, with the PF created during the term of the last PRI president, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon.
But objections to the proposal have been voiced from Mexico's leftist political parties, mainly coming from Jose de Jesus Zambrano Grijalva, president of the Partido de Revolucion Democratica (PRD), who said in an El Universal wire story he sees the reorganization primarily as a political move.
"We can not allow,much less agree, that the return of public safety to (SEGOB) for political purposes..," said Zambrano Grijalva, adding that the SSP in SEGOB could be used for punitive actions in a political context, "...and that we can not afford."
Zambrano Grijalva also said that he sees the move as Pena's "Get Tough" policy on security.
In his remarks, Zambrano also raised the specter of late Fernando Gutierrez Barrios, head of the now defunct Direccion Federal de Seguridad (DFS). That agency was used by a series of PRI presidents against several leftist movements starting in the late 1960s, many of them violent during Mexico's Dirty War. Zambrano Grijalva raised the objections because he himself had been a victim during the Dirty War along with others of Mexico's left.
PRD Senator Miguel Barbosa said that his party's caucus would not oppose the move, due to take effect December 1st when president elect Pena takes office. The new reorganization is likely to be approved anyway even without support from the left.
Senator Barbosa also characterized the proposal as "insane."
Partido Trabajo (PT) federal deputy Manuel Bartlett, himself a former interior minister, said the proposal reminded him of the "mega secretaria" or mega-ministry of the 1970s, which he said was a reminder of how powerful SEGOB was during past PRI administrations.
Deputy Bartlett was Interior Minister under the presidency of the late Mexican president Miguel de la Madrid in the 1970s.
PRD's Dolores Padierna Luna, general secretary of the PRD, called the proposal "dangerous." She said that she saw the proposal as an attempt to concentrate political control into one single agency in the Mexican federal government.
Zambrano Grijalva also said that reforms passed in the 12 years since the last PRI president, would probably prevent abuses by the incoming president elect Pena.
In the area of security reforms president elect Pena faces a legislative headwind starting out. Last month, his caucus' attempt to steam roll labor reforms was a test of how well PRI, in its weakened state in the Chamber of Deputies, could advance its own reforms. PRI had to use another minority party, Partido Nueva Alianza (PANAL) to move labor reforms in the Chamber of Deputies, a margin of only two votes necessary to move the legislation forward. PRI failed to gain a clear majority in the election that returned PRI to the presidency, and even with its electoral ally, the Partido Verde Ecologista de Mexico (PVEM), the Mexican greens party, the PRI Chamber of Deputies coalition was forced to make a deal with PANAL to move labor reform along.
PRD has its own problems in the senate in opposing PRI reforms. When the labor reform legislation reached the senate, Partido Trabajo (PT) members began to make noises about increasing its role in their coalition with the PRD and the Movimento Ciudadana (MC), another political minor party tied to the left.
But for the conservative Partido Accion Nacional (PAN) wanting to deny the senate a quorum -- to the extent PAN even rented a suite of hotel rooms in Mexico City for that purpose -- the labor reform legislation, even with the many objections PRD and the parties of the left voiced, may well have been passed in its original form.
Throughout his campaign, president elect Pena has publicly said that he intended to change the strategy in dealing with Mexico's organized problem, even going as far as using a former Colombian police commander, Oscar Naranjo Trujillo, as his advisor. Pena has also said in remarks to the press that he intended to raise the profile of Mexico's police forces, and diminish the role of Mexico's armed forces in the drug war.
But with less than 12 days away from his inauguration, Pena has yet to give any indication of who he intends to appoint as heads of several Mexican federal agencies. Naming a new Secretaria de Defensa Nacional (SEDENA) and Secretaria de Marina (SEMAR), as well as SEGOB would be a clear indication of how he intends to use his powers as president to deal with Mexico's organized crime problem.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com.
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On 22 July 2003, Task Force 20, aided by troops of the United States Army 101st Airborne Division under command of General Dave Petreaus, had a showdown with Saddam's sons Uday, Qusay and Qusay. These two buggers are no more and the world is now a better place.
Please tell us about your West Point appointment and rather abbreviated military career Mr. Truscott.
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Roger that 2x4! Lucian the IV (why do men need numbers after their names?) was a grad of the USAMA Class of 1969. He was kicked out of the Army a year later, which has had a chilling effect on his attitude toward the Army as well as his writings on military and policy matters. A birdcage liner factory makes an excellent pulpit for him.
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If they're going to call this a phony war, are they going to stop pretending OBL was anything other than a middleman between the ISI and the Taliban?
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Any idea why "Lucian Truscott IV" was booted from the Army?
No idea, Rob, but his first novel, published in 1978, was about murder in the West Point gay community, and he is certainly out and proud now. See link.
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The most important thing is that Uday and Quasay are still Eadday.
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Things that are uncontrollable seemingly occur, perhaps, when your folks give you a name that translates as Lucy-Anne in real English. I blame the parents.
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I got to about the 3d paragraph. This idiot clearly doesn't know his history. His snipe at MacArthur is incredibly ignorant to say the least.
[Los Angeles.CBSLocal] Detectives are looking for a man who botched a residential burglary in Arleta, leaving behind his car, evidence and photos of himself.
Police have identified Miguel Luna, 25, as the man who kicked in the front door of a home in the 10500 block of Sharp Avenue on Tuesday, Los Angeles police said.
KNX 1070′s Pete Demetriou reports authorities say Luna chose the house despite several posted surveillance security signs.
"He kicked in the door of the home near high noon, leaving his footprint below the door knob. He began ransacking a bedroom, not realizing the owner was asleep in another room," Lt. Paul Vernon said.
Luna was confronted by the homeowner and begged him not to call authorities, claiming he was a friend of of the owner's daughter. "My daughter? I got a daughter? When did that happen?"
"The owner finally chased him out of the home, picked up a hoe from the yard, and hit Luna over the head," said Vernon.
Luna was knocked unconscious for a short time before he got up and walked away, leaving his 1989 Honda in the victim's driveway, full of items stolen from the home.
The attempted burglary was caught on the home's surveillance system.
"This crime scene was really a study in how to get caught," Vernon explained. "Every manner of evidence was present: video surveillance, blood DNA from the hoe, pictures on the iPad, footprint on the door, a traffic citation with signature, a car, finger prints, and eyewitness identification."
Remember, guys, Darwin always wins.
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I bet even with all this, the cops still don't lift a finger to try to catch the guy.
[Dawn] Unidentified gunnieskidnapped and rubbed out an arms dealer in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency on Saturday.
Sources said that gunnies riding cycle of violences kidnapped Noor Faqir from his house in Naw Gazee Baba, Shalobar, and killed him few metres away from his home. Nobody grabbed credit for the killing.
The dear departed had Rs100,000 cash in his pocket at the time of the incident, however, the killers did not take away the money.
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When the scene is made secure, 5-6 weeks from now, the FBI will be sent in to investigate.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The Marine Corps is forming the first squadron of pilots to fly the next-generation strike fighter jet, months after lawmakers raised concern that there was a rush to end the testing of an aircraft hit with technical problems.
First Sandy knocked them down.
Results of survey will make sobering reading for leaders of three major parties, as PM prepares for crucial meeting on EU budget.
[Yemen Post] An intelligence officer of the Political Security, Khaldon Malik, was killed on Sunday morning in the heart of the capital Sana'a, security officers affirmed. 
In Bangkok, President 
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
[JTA] Israel has repelled some 44 million cyber attacks on government websites since the start of Operation Pillar of Defense, a government minister said.
Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed reported last week that Jackson is in the midst of plea discussions. "No one has pled guilty, but plea discussions are ongoing," a source told Sneed.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Officials in Nigeria's northeast Taraba state on Sunday imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in one town following reported 
Nigeria's military has killed a top commander of
Army 
Hillary Clinton
Quartet
Wazoo
John 
[Asharq-E] A senior Iranian 
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Republic of Congo said Sunday they have reached the "door" of the regional capital Goma.
[An Nahar] An Israeli official landed in Cairo on Sunday for Egypt-mediated truce talks with 
[An Nahar] Syria's regime on Sunday slammed as "hostile" a French decision to host an opposition ambassador, as its forces bombarded southern districts of the capital and 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[Bangla Daily Star] The 
[Los Angeles.CBSLocal] Detectives are looking for a man who botched a residential burglary in Arleta, leaving behind his car, evidence and photos of himself.
