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Satellite images suggest 'looming' N.Korea missile test
North Korea could carry out a long-range missile test in the next three weeks, with new satellite images showing increased launch site activity, according to satellite operator DigitalGlobe Inc.

The global provider of commercial high-resolution earth imagery said Monday that the new pictures showed significant movement at North Korea's Sohae (West Sea) Satellite Launch Station.

"Given the observed level of activity noted, of a new tent, trucks, people and numerous portable fuel/oxidizer tanks, should North Korea desire -- it could possibly conduct its fifth satellite launch event during the next three weeks," it said.

DigitalGlobe said the type of activity was consistent with preparations observed before North Korea's failed launch of its Unha-3 missile in April.

Pyongyang insisted the April launch bid was aimed at putting a satellite in orbit, but the United States and United Nations denounced the mission as a disguised ballistic missile test.

The test put a halt to international efforts to engage the isolated nation, with the United States calling off plans to deliver badly needed food assistance.
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#1  mememememememememememememememe!
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/27/2012 20:42 Comments || Top||

#2  "pay attention to meeeeeeeeeeeee!!!11!!"
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#3  Oh, joy.

Is this our resident idiot troll or a new idiot? >:-(
Posted by: Barbara || 11/27/2012 21:20 Comments || Top||

#4  It was the old one, Barbara. It is now evaporated.
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Europe
France Says It Will Vote in Favor of PalestiniansĀ’ U.N. Bid
France will vote in favor of the PalestiniansĀ’ request to heighten their profile at the United Nations, the French foreign minister told Parliament on Tuesday, embracing a move that Israel and the United States oppose.

The support of France, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, is the most significant boost to date for the PalestiniansĀ’ hopes to be granted nonmember observer status and thus greater international recognition. Russia and China, two other permanent members, have also thrown their support behind the Palestinian bid.

The French support appeared calculated to strengthen the position of the Palestinian AuthorityĀ’s president, Mahmoud Abbas, whose Fatah party governs the West Bank, after fighting with Israel in the Gaza Strip this month that left Hamas, the Islamic militant organization that oversees Gaza, ascendant.

The French announcement was also a blow to Israel, whose diplomats have been working feverishly to try to ensure what they call a Ā“moral majorityĀ” in the United Nations vote, meaning that even if a majority of nations voted in favor of the Palestinian bid, the major world powers would not.
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Home Front: Politix
Yes, Romney Was the Problem
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 11/27/2012 15:21 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ouch!
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/27/2012 15:51 Comments || Top||

#2  But with the MSM covering Obama's butt so very well, some Republicans might be forgiven for thinking that a real conservative like Rick Perry or Newt Gingrich had no chance at all.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/27/2012 15:56 Comments || Top||

#3  A real conservative might have. But not Perry or Gingrich
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/27/2012 16:14 Comments || Top||

#4  So what we are left with now is better?

The Champ won because he and his Afro-Chicago machine cheated. You'll never convince me otherwise. The election process (no ID required voting), along with the Rule of Law in this nation are dead!
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/27/2012 16:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Of the choices we had, the best were Perry and Pawlenty. Romney was always among the worst. I said so during the primaries and kept my mouth shut during the campaign. Now that's it's all over "I told you so" doesn't even begin to cover it.

Ford, Bush I, Dole, McCain, Romney -- how many times do we have to play the same losing strategy?
Posted by: Iblis || 11/27/2012 16:20 Comments || Top||

#6  I'll respectfully disagree lblis. While I'm no huge O'Reilly fan, he hit it dead on the night of the election wen he said it was always about the "free stuff". We've hit the tipping point and the host is now being eaten!

Axelrod and others pointing to a flawed R&R ticket simply shifts the focus away from the real corruption that assaulted our liberty. They want you to continue to pound the dead horse.



Posted by: Besoeker || 11/27/2012 16:29 Comments || Top||

#7  B -

Look at the numbers. Did D's turn out or did R's stay home? If it was the former then you may be on to something, but even with all the 100%+++ reporting districts Champ's numbers were still down.

R's stayed home. Why? Not because D's got free phones.
Posted by: Iblis || 11/27/2012 16:32 Comments || Top||

#8  Well, the word early last spring was that Romney would have trouble motivating the base, and it looks as if that turned out to bite the Pubs.

It's a little strange: the Dems never have this problem; every Dem I know will hold his/her nose and vote 'D' regardless. But the Pubs are pickier in their voting, and it looks as though it cost them the election.

A real conservative might not have liked Mittens, but if you couldn't tell the difference between him and Champ then you weren't paying attention.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/27/2012 16:43 Comments || Top||

#9  A real conservative might not have liked Mittens, but if you couldn't tell the difference between him and Champ then you weren't paying attention.
Posted by Steve White


Amen and amen.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/27/2012 16:59 Comments || Top||

#10  But the Pubs are pickier in their voting

Come on, driving the car off the cliff at 40 mph or 120 mph is still driving the car off the cliff. Math isn't subject to political influence anymore than gravity. Only the sudden deceleration at the end of the drop is going to stop the car because no one has the standing or guts to do what's necessary before the precipice.

We're pretty much divided as Adams cited for the War of Independence, a third for, a third against, and a third siting on the side line. How many non-Trunk eligibles didn't bother to register let alone show up? Certainly more than enough to alter the final vote. Heck The One lost 9 million votes from 2008. They have just as much concern about that kind of drop as a foreshadowing for future elections.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/27/2012 17:02 Comments || Top||

#11  No surprise when over half the electorate cannot name both of their Senators.

Remember this from the U of Wisconsin:

Too many people saw Romney as Gordon Gekko, Offshore accounts, Bain, etc. You cannot educate the unsophisticated dumbed down American on how it was o.k., Romney's really for the little guy. This is the one issue O won in the exit polls by 81% to 18%.

It looks like the same RINO usual suspects are starting to promote Jebb Bush. The press will help dangle hope for him as a viable alternative like McCain then cut his huevos off after he gets the nomination.

Only one Republican Presidential Candidate has received a majority of votes since 1988 and that was W by a razor thin margin in 2004. But in the 2010 Mid-Terms, with the help of the Tea Party, the Trunks slaughtered the Dems.

Could it be when Romney ran away from the Tea Party, they said fine, go elect yourself or something similar.
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 11/27/2012 17:15 Comments || Top||

#12  Repubs of conservative or libertarian stripe stayed home in quantity. Figured the only difference between Zero and Mittens is the 'time to impact' so might as well get it over with. That, and for many social conservatives, a moral opposition to voting for Romney. I contend Romney is a good man, and a far more able executive than any candidate in a long time. But a majority of voters wanted a president who "cared for them" and that wasn't Romney. It's not that he 'cared' for a majority and not for the rest, like Zero sold people, but that he did not feel 'caring' belonged in the KJRs of a CEO.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/27/2012 17:16 Comments || Top||

#13  Glenmore, if that were the case Romney would have won Ohio and lost Louisiana.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 11/27/2012 17:27 Comments || Top||

#14  If you want to kvetch about Romney and the Republican electorate at least take the time to look at the states he carried versus the swing states he didn't.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 11/27/2012 17:30 Comments || Top||

#15  We're suffering from the paralysis of analysis. It was simply the "free stuff" and widespread cheating in swing states. Some urban areas had NO votes for R&R? Others had 125% or registered voter turnout? Think about it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/27/2012 17:31 Comments || Top||

#16  I agree w/Glenmore & Beso.

balls out rant on:

--Romney, good family man, but a RINO, yes. Anyone w/an IQ over 21 should've realised the difference between him and Maobama. Unfortunately, his tactics on the ground sucked. He didn't get the base to vote and I think the numbers proved it.

-My overall election opinion -- 'Bammer Voters wanted their free stuff and they know Obama Claus would deliver.

-face it, we are the problem. (We, meaning the electorate). My jaded POV is that our electorate is quite stupid+self-serving+self-asorbed. No punches pulled here. 50% of the American electorate are morons.

-In Ohio, a state I know very well, The Champ won by being the big GM Savior -- with our tax money. Romeny's quote (as I read it) was actually about protecting the GM/Dodge consumer during the proposed bankruptcy. Romney was right to a degree. Personally, Gov't should never be in the pick winners/losers in business game - sets bad precedents.

-minorities (esp blacks) are either racist or committed to the gov't tit so badly that they are a negative in the Patriotic column. That's right, I said it. Same goes for the single woman vote. Too stupid to realize that Roe V. Wade won't be overturned any time soon (if ever), and too immature/lazy/infantile to buy their own contraceptives. Case in point - Fluke. A 30 yr old adult basically saying they are too f*cking incompetent to piece together a plan to save $20.00 a month to buy condoms.

--sick of hearing about the "poor". (this has less to do w/the election, just my pet-rock) If you have a plasma T.V., AC, a car, and are fat - you ain't f*cking poor. You live better than Brit monarchy did 100 yrs ago. How does anyone w/almost no skin in the game via federal income taxes get to vote on my taxes via federal elections?? Which leads to my last point (I have more but have to get off the 'puter right now) -----No representation w/out taxation!

rant/off
Posted by: Broadhead6 || 11/27/2012 18:04 Comments || Top||

#17  Y'all are ranting about what motivates *you* to vote.

Well, something like 47% of us will vote for anyone with an 'R' behind his name. Same is true of the other side.

Now we are told--for decades now--that the way to win the squishy middle is with a squishy candidate. We are told this despite all the evidence. Our squishy candidates aren't winning the presidency.

The squishy middle is emotional. It is poorly informed. It has no patience for nuances about federalism when we are talking about universal healthcare. Universal healthcare is universal healthcare. Done. Over.

The way to win these emotional retards is by getting excited. We have to get excited. Not just hold your nose and vote for this year's worthless RINO because he is better than the other guy. And we can't get excited about people like Dole, McCain and Romney.

You may pontificate until the end of time about how Republican voters should support these unexciting candidates. Fact is, it isn't working.

So let's just agree here and now that, as a matter of strategy, no more RINO's need apply for the office of presidency. And, if we wind up losing with this strategy for nearly 3 decades in a row, then and only then will you have cause to complain.
Posted by: Iblis || 11/27/2012 18:26 Comments || Top||

#18  The election process (no ID required voting), along with the Rule of Law in this nation are dead!

My daughter was registered in our little city. She moved to LA but neglected to change her registration. She also neglected to come home and vote on election day. So there was her name on the list of registered voters that the little old ladies at the polling place had. But they weren't checking anybody's ID. All you had to do was claim that you were Daughter Uluque, sign her name and you were good to go. Those nice old ladies would never know the difference. I showed them my drivers license. They laughed at me but I showed it to them anyway. I couldn't give them a hard time because they really are nice old ladies and they just wouldn't get it.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/27/2012 19:00 Comments || Top||

#19  Repubs of conservative or libertarian stripe stayed home in quantity. Figured the only difference between Zero and Mittens is the 'time to impact' so might as well get it over with.

Yep. Republican of libertarian bent here and that describes me exactly.

I preferred Obama to McCain in '08 on the theory that one Obama term would move us more quickly to the unavoidable hard stop at the bottom whereas a President McCain would have kept us on roughly the same trajectory but at a moderately slower pace. Why prolong the pain?

This round I didn't much care who won. It was a contest between hard rapidly-implemented socialism and the softer socialism by abdication perpetuated by a Republican Party which has been singularly unsuccessful at even slowing the leftward lurch of the nation for decades now. The only difference is how quickly we'll arrive at the bottom of the cliff and whether the shock will come rapidly enough to awaken a significant portion of the electorate. Let's get it over with.

Face it: there is no viable alternative among the two major parties to the present debt ridden welfare state politics. Your choices are between a faster or slower journey to nearly identical destinations.

Who among the Republicans is a true voice for a small (pre-Great Depression sized) federal government? Paul Ryan is held forth as a champion of small government and a Tea Party favorite but even his budget blueprint calls for an ever-increasing federal government; rather than rolling back and eventually eliminating the welfare state he's proposing a way for the federal government to continue down that road but do so more efficiently.

The hard cold truth is that both parties are addicted to the power of a massive statist centralized federal government with the only significant difference between the two being the ways in which they wish to exercise those powers over us.

Wake me when one of the parties dredges up someone worth voting for.

Posted by: Hupeagum Schwarzeneggar3800 || 11/27/2012 19:20 Comments || Top||

#20  I think Bill Wittle put it quite well:

Say What You Believe and Believe What You Say

H/T: The Rott


Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/27/2012 19:28 Comments || Top||

#21  Sorry - can someone remove the duplicate post? Twitchy finger on the 'Post' button....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/27/2012 19:29 Comments || Top||

#22  So, other libertarian Republicans (not me) stayed home because Romney wasn't pure enough?

I'll believe the country's at a tipping point when you all ACT as if it's at a tipping point.

Oh, wait ..... I KNOW it's at a tipping point, and that the difference between Obama and Romney could have been the difference between going over the cliff and pulling a little way back.

"Might as well get it over with", huh? Well, friend - you and others like you now own the results which are already playing out.

It's your responsibility now.
Posted by: lotp || 11/27/2012 19:57 Comments || Top||

#23  "It's your responsibility now."

Funny. That's what I said when Romney was nominated :-)
Posted by: Iblis || 11/27/2012 20:05 Comments || Top||

#24  I blame Barbie, childhood advertisements, and free birth control pills.

Nuff said.
Posted by: Water Modem || 11/27/2012 20:09 Comments || Top||

#25  Sadly I think Beoseker is right. It was the free stuff. I know several people who's reason for voting was "We're screwed either way, might as well get free stuff while we can". They just didn't believe Republicans would change anything, or that moderate Romney would either. I still believe the last debate where Romney agreed with Obama so much undid what was gained in the first debate.

Young-age: It's going to disappear, might as well get some now.
Middle-age: It's going to disappear, better get some before it's too late.
Old-age: I'll be dead when it's gone, might as well enjoy it to the fullest.


I think those three attitudes sums up the slim margins that handed Obama that election.

Posted by: Charles || 11/27/2012 21:30 Comments || Top||

#26  Who is champ?
Posted by: Phaith Grique4599 || 11/27/2012 22:02 Comments || Top||

#27  Who is champ?

An alternate nickname for our beloved President Obama, Phaith Grique4599, preferred by Steve White, the salmon highlighted moderator, among others.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/27/2012 22:32 Comments || Top||

#28  So, other libertarian Republicans (not me) stayed home because Romney wasn't pure enough?

Nothing at all to do with Romney not being "pure enough" and everything to do with his not being a real alternative. Should one wish to travel from point A to point B a train heading towards point C in a direction opposite point B is not a good option no matter whether the train moves at 20 MPH, 50 MPH or 100 MPH. However, given the inevitability of arriving at the undesired destination, there may be some merit to taking the fastest available option so that one can begin the journey back sooner rather than later.

"Might as well get it over with", huh? Well, friend - you and others like you now own the results which are already playing out.

A few others to whom you may wish to assign blame:

- Those who elected William Howard Taft who in turn proposed the modern income tax and an associated Constitutional Amendment (eventually ratified as the 16th Amendment). Taxation of income is the food on which our federal leviathan gorges, without it our central government would never have reached a fraction of its present size.

- Those who elected Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 and reelected him three more times largely on the basis of his massive expansion of federal power and his initiation of the federal welfare state. At this point our present arc was probably unavoidable.

- Those who elected President Lyndon Johnson whose lasting achievements, Medicare and the War on Poverty have bankrupted the nation while retaining nearly impenetrable popular support.

- Those who elected Richard Nixon whose lasting achievement, the Environmental Protection Agency, will eventually destroy more economic activity in the United States than most other agencies combined.

- Those who elected Ronald Reagan whose economic policies generated the tax revenues that made possible the continued rapid expansion of the federal government by the next several administrations and whose other domestic policies did nothing to shrink it during either of his terms in office.

- Those who saddled Reagan with the Bush family who have for a generation worked tirelessly to ensure that conservatives and libertarians remain on the fringes of the Republican Party establishment.

- Those who elected George W. Bush whose rate of increase in federal spending on domestic programs vastly outstripped that of his Democratic predecessor.

See a pattern there? Bit by bit, brick by brick, program by program, agency by agency via tax after tax both parties have, for roughly a century now, constructed the federal leviathan. To believe that squishy moderates like Senator McCain or Governor Romney, each of whom stands far to the left of past liberal Democrats like, say, John F. Kennedy (who would probably be considered a right-wing extremist today), are real options to even begin to undo that damage is, well, laughable. At best.
Posted by: Hupeagum Schwarzeneggar3800 || 11/27/2012 22:42 Comments || Top||

#29  Until this newest generation feels real pain, there will be no real gain in this day and age of the United States of America.
Posted by: Voldemort Grereth1352 || 11/27/2012 23:45 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Chinese paper congratulates Kim Jong Un on being named 'Sexiest Man Alive' by the Onion
In a hilarious if increasingly common example of a real newspaper taking a satirical newspaper seriously, the People's Daily--the website for the Communist Party of China's newspaper--published a story on Tuesday congratulating North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on being named 2012's "Sexiest Man Alive" by the Onion.

"U.S. website The Onion has named North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un as the 'Sexiest Man Alive' for the year 2012," the story announces before quoting the Onion's sarcastic write-up:

"With his devastatingly handsome, round face, his boyish charm, and his strong, sturdy frame, this Pyongyang-bred heartthrob is every woman's dream come true. Blessed with an air of power that masks an unmistakable cute, cuddly side, Kim made this newspaper's editorial board swoon with his impeccable fashion sense, chic short hairstyle, and, of course, that famous smile," it said.

"He has that rare ability to somehow be completely adorable and completely macho at the same time," said Marissa Blake-Zweiber, editor of the Onion Style and Entertainment.

The accompanying 55-page slideshow includes images of Kim in varying degrees of sexiness--riding a horse, posing with military leaders, aiming a rifle, riding a horse and, uh, riding a horse.

Of course, this isn't the first time the Onion's sarcasm has been lost in translation.

In September 2011, Capitol Police in Washington were forced to investigate after the Onion's Twitter feed teased a satirical article--"Congress Takes Group of Schoolchildren Hostage"--with a series of tweets proclaiming breaking news of a hostage situation inside the Capitol building.

A month later, the Onion caused real confusion when it published a satirical story--"Study Finds Every Style of Parenting Produces Disturbed, Miserable Adults"--that cited the California Parenting Institute in its findings.

The real institute was soon deluged with emails and phone calls from concerned residents.

And in September, Iranian news agency Fars plagiarized an Onion story that claimed an "overwhelming majority of rural white Americans" would prefer Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over President Barack Obama.
Posted by: gorb || 11/27/2012 12:11 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I want everyone to know that I was voted the runner-up.

But I forced them to keep that result a secret when I found out that the top man was "Tubby The Korean Kitten". How was I supposed to know that he borrowed a silk smoking jacket from Hugh Heffner??? It's unfair competition, if you ask me. :-(
Posted by: Raider || 11/27/2012 12:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Can you blame them? I mean, how could they not take it seriously? Just look at the guy...
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/27/2012 14:40 Comments || Top||

#3  And that's dad, who I also believe was named Sexiest Man of All Time by the Onion, not Sonny Doughboy...
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/27/2012 14:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Western satire is too much for inscrutable Chinese minds.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/27/2012 16:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Western satire is too much for inscrutable Chinese minds.
The geniuses of the Muslim world seem to have a problem with it too.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 11/27/2012 16:35 Comments || Top||

#6  My favorite Onion headline:

"98% of commuters favor public transportation -- for everyone else."

That is so-o-o-o true...
Posted by: Steve White || 11/27/2012 16:47 Comments || Top||

#7  What I want is for the 2% of folks who don't know how to drive to have their own highway just for them.
Posted by: gorb || 11/27/2012 20:44 Comments || Top||

#8  The best is still "CLINTON DEPLOYS VOWELS TO BOSNIA: CITIES OF SJLBVDNZV, GRZNY TO BE FIRST RECIPIENTS". I offered to donate the unnecessary vowels in my middle name for that one.

And then there's the Onion's video: "Supreme Court Rules that Death Penalty is 'Totally Badass'", complete with all nine Justices declaiming that they were "The Law".
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 11/27/2012 21:51 Comments || Top||

#9  The Onion + Scrappleface.

Looks like the Chinese are red-faced about it.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/27/2012 22:40 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Jamie Foxx "Our Lord and Savior Obama" - Nuus Busters
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/27/2012 08:21 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  After all, how many cell phones did Jesus give away?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/27/2012 11:37 Comments || Top||

#2  http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-207_162-57554783/jamie-foxx-takes-heat-for-calling-obama-our-lord-and-savior/
Posted by: Mugsy Glink || 11/27/2012 13:08 Comments || Top||

#3  ...and who's this Lazarus guy that keeps hanging around? He smells terrible.
Posted by: mojo || 11/27/2012 17:46 Comments || Top||

#4  ..the original zombie?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/27/2012 20:36 Comments || Top||

#5  That's not Lazarus - that's Harry Reid.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/27/2012 23:39 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Sinai-Bound Weapons Seized In Suez
[Maan] Egyptian police seized a truck carrying heavy weaponry in the city of Suez on Monday, an Egyptian official said.

A police commander in North Sinai told Ma'an that the truck was en-route to the peninsula to deliver grad missiles and other high grade weapons.

Three suspects were cooled for a few years
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
for questioning and the weapons seized by Egyptian authorities.

Hardline Islamist jihad boy groups have expanded into a vacuum left by the collapse of state control in North Sinai during the uprising that overthrew Mubarak in February, 2011.

The state launched a concerted effort to reestablish control following an Aug. 5 attack in which 16 border guards were killed. But a Nov. 3 gun attack in which three coppers died underlined the challenge still facing the authorities.
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#1  Is it really a power vacuum or is it leverage for American $? The anti Mohammed film was intentionally being shown in Egypt in an effort to extort money from the Americans. The anti-American riots were a power play by the MB to show they could make trouble. Why not allow chaos on the Israeli border (Sinai)?
Posted by: jvalentour || 11/27/2012 21:57 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
North Korea really is that bad
It's not easy to talk to people about North Korea. The story is so awful, and so static, what more is there to do, or even to say? This speech by Adrian Hong, a strategic consultant who also co-founded a U.S.-based NGO that assists North Korean escapees, starts with that question. His 10-minute speech, which you can view here, makes a powerful case for the moral urgency of the long-running North Korean crisis.

Everybody involved with North Korea knows what's happening. There's no illusion as to how bad the regime is. The illusion is in the sense that we can't solve it, that we think that this is an inevitable crisis that cannot be fixed or that we have no right or ability to do anything about it. I think that North Korea is not just an issue for human rights. This place is almost this black hole for modern civilization.

Of course the PRC & Russia have no responsibility here.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/27/2012 07:28 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Apparently, the Chicoms and Roosians hold it up as a model of socialist power.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/27/2012 12:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Sexiest Man Alive
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/27/2012 13:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Chinese source of #2
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/27/2012 15:59 Comments || Top||

#4  ION NEWS KERALA > KIM JONG-UN WARNS "REBELLIOUS ELEMENTS" AGZ CREATING UNREST IN NORTH KOREA.

versus

* WORLD NEWS > US IS SENDING ANOTHER AIRCRAFT CARRIER TO PATROL OFF THE COAST OF IRAN.

Taken collectively, I would say that the arse of of the USS "GEORGE WASHINGTON" CVN/CVBG may once again be in the target sights of the DPRK
[PLA?].

The DPRK has times made it clear that they would prefer to go down in a violent = mutually destructive manner iff a de facto state collapse occurred - READ, BETTER TO DIE ATTACKING THE ROK, USFK, USFJ + UNCOM, ETC. THAN SEE CHINA + PLA TAKE OVER NORTH KOREA.

In such a scenario, the only remnant of ancient KOGURYO/KORYE will be the ROK.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/27/2012 22:07 Comments || Top||

#5  Also from WORLD NEWS > [Chosun Ilbo] KOREAN CONTINENTAL SHELF CLOSER TO JAPAN THAN THOUGHT.

Related to similar news from the other day.

The bad news for the ROK is that mainland China is also claiming the former's UW "continental shelf" as China's own.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/27/2012 22:11 Comments || Top||


Europe
Aid: Africa For Norway
Posted by: tipper || 11/27/2012 02:39 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How about just embedding the video in the post?
Posted by: gromky || 11/27/2012 3:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Brought a smile to my face this morning. A nice skewering of the pretentious dweebs that we always see this time of year.
Posted by: rwv || 11/27/2012 7:01 Comments || Top||

#3  AID:Africa for Norway
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/27/2012 11:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Green taxes. Making it hard to stay warm!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/27/2012 17:34 Comments || Top||

#5  That video is a scream! :-D

And very well-done.
Posted by: Barbara || 11/27/2012 18:27 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Female Teachers give Boys Lower Marks
h/t Instapundit
Female teachers mark male pupils more harshly than they do their female students, research has claimed.

Additionally, girls tend to believe male teachers will look upon them more favourably than female teaching staff, but men treat all students the same, regardless of gender.
I wonder if anybody did the stats on ritalin prescription vs. gender
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/27/2012 00:48 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ritalin is the drug of choice. I know of some classes where two thirds of the students are on Ritalin. The problem then later is other drug use. Just say no to drugs is no longer taught. Yes, and boys are targeted but I don't know the numbers on them. Zombie students. Boys cannot be boys.
Posted by: Dale || 11/27/2012 1:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Never underestimate female solidarity.
Posted by: phil_b || 11/27/2012 2:41 Comments || Top||

#3  The problem here is that the education industry, especially its female contingent, has defined the word "boy" to mean "defective girl".

Thanks, feminists and cultural marxists.
Posted by: no mo uro || 11/27/2012 5:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Little boys simply grow up to be old white men. Better to abort or cull them early. Simplifies selective breeding and employment as well. Remember, only in a true matriarchate can the overall numbers and global human footprint be kept to an acceptable level.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/27/2012 7:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Beso, you mean it the way Camille Paglia said: "If it were not for [mainly old white] men, we'll be still living in grass huts." ?
Posted by: twobyfour || 11/27/2012 8:13 Comments || Top||

#6  I think Besoeker forgot or omitted the /sarc tag :).
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/27/2012 9:34 Comments || Top||

#7  A not yet drooling Justice Ginsburg: We need all female Supreme Court.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/27/2012 10:19 Comments || Top||

#8  I liked the story of that teacher from last week better.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/27/2012 13:04 Comments || Top||

#9  I don't remember anybody using ritalin when I was in school. That was a long, long time ago. But they did use the board of education. I had a few meetings with the board myself. Boy, that sucker sure burned the backsides. Ouch! No need for a prescription and the results were immediate.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/27/2012 13:05 Comments || Top||

#10  Seems like every single day you see another news story that makes you want to homeschool.
Posted by: Iblis || 11/27/2012 13:25 Comments || Top||

#11  @Skidmark

Maybe there's a connection?
Posted by: European Conservatives || 11/27/2012 14:21 Comments || Top||

#12 
Boys are poorer students and male teachers s*xistly compensate for that by raising their grades. It could even be true, I guess.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/27/2012 16:08 Comments || Top||

#13  Glenmore, as I remember it, them girls had this neat, well ornamented script, while mine looked like crows footprints. My female teacher simply could not read it, so I got C's as a rule, cuz she did not really know if I am right or wrong. The next year, we got a male teach who could read crow and my grades improved to B+.
Posted by: twobyfour || 11/27/2012 21:12 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
NYT: Anti-Islam filmmaker who stoked riots has no regrets
The Egyptian-born Coptic Christian who made the anti-Islam film that sparked protests across the Mohammedan world has no regrets about his insulting portrayal of the Prophet Mohammad, according to an interview with The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
In his first public comments since the 14-minute trailer for his film, "Innocence of Mohammedans," gained notoriety in September, Mark Basseley Youssef told the newspaper he wanted to reveal what he called "the actual truth" about Mohammad and raise awareness of the violence committed "under the sign of Allah."

The film portrayed Mohammad as a womanizer, ruthless killer and child molester. The film touched off a torrent of anti-American unrest in Arab and Mohammedan countries. For many Mohammedans, any depiction of the prophet is considered blasphemous.

In explaining his reasons for the film, he cited "atrocities" by Mohammedans. After a Mohammedan gunman killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009, "I became even more upset and enraged," he said in written comments conveyed to the Times through his attorney. A Times request to interview him in person was blocked by prison authorities.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/27/2012 00:05 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "The film portrayed Mohammad as a womanizer, ruthless killer and child molester."

-or, people could have just read the Koran...pretty much says the same thing. So, all we have here is finally a film that does the book it came from some justice!
Posted by: Broadhead6 || 11/27/2012 9:54 Comments || Top||

#2  But a beard to die for and a fine judge of camel flesh. So he had that going for him.

Posted by: Shipman || 11/27/2012 16:05 Comments || Top||

#3  don't forget a snappy dresser - must've helped w/the ladies... (or, so I'm told)
Posted by: Broadhead6 || 11/27/2012 17:05 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Pakistani Taliban reject peace talks with govt
[Dawn] The Pak Taliban has ruled out any possibility of peace negotiations with the Pak government, a front man for the banned Death Eater group said Monday, vowing to continue fighting until the ouster of the country's 'secular rulers'.

Reacting to a statement by Federal Interior Minister issued Sunday, a front man for the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) Ehsanullah Ehsan rejected any prospects of peace talks with the government, accusing the interior minister Malik of being "a foreign agent not worthy of granting forgiveness to the Taliban".

The TTP front man further said that the organization would continue their fighting until "the ouster of secular rulers imposed by foreign forces to rule an Islamic country", adding that the TTP was striving for the creation of "an independent state governed by Islamic Sharia law, upon which the foundations of Pakistain were laid".

Bomb targets police in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
In another incident, a bomb went kaboom! near a security checkpost at Achini Cross in Peshawar's suburban area of Sarband.

The blast targeting a police vehicle was carried out using a remote-controlled improvised bomb (IED), security sources confirmed.

Three security personnel suffered minor injuries whereas a police mobile sustained partial damages in the attack.

Security personnel cordoned off the area as investigations in the attack went underway.
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP

#1  Well, ya know, Islamabad did try to jam/block their cell phones + IPads, Wifi, etc. which of course it an act of war warranting same.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/27/2012 19:35 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Parliament Order to Investigate Enforced Disappearances in Yemen
[Yemen Post] Yemen's House of Representatives ordered on Monday the freedoms and human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state...
committee to coordinate with the interior ministry to probe the issue of the people who enforcedly disappeared and submit a report on that as soon as possible.

The order comes amid calls by the families of scores of those who disappeared during the 2011 popular uprising and the past years, organizations and the public to find out about the disappearances.

The freedoms and human rights committee, however, has been criticized by MPs who described it as dead and can't live up to the responsibility of following up the issue.

The MPs have called on the House to reshape the committee since some of its members are currently busy with 'special matters'.

Apart from this topic, MPs urged to form a panel to probe the crash of the military transport plane in downtown Yemen's capital Sanaa on Thursday and the crash of the Yemenia plane off Comoros few years ago.

MP Nabil Al-Basha said a lot of airways have already started to reconsider sending flights to Sanaa after the crash of Antonov An-6 which killed the 10-member crew on the ground a terrorist act was behind the tragedy.

"There should be a special panel to investigate the crashes of the Yemeni planes at a time when the country's space is full of foreign planes and terrorist groups have heavy weapons including missiles," Al-Basha said.
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Africa North
Nasserist leader: Protests to continue until Morsi decree overturned
[Al Ahram] Egypt's opposition will maintain popular protests until President Morsi's controversial decree is annulled, a defiant Hamdeen Sabbahi declares at Monday press conference
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Africa Horn
Unknown Gunmen assassinate Bakaro market merchants' chief
[Shabelle] Witnesses said Monday that anonymous attackers have shot and killed the chairman of Bakaro Market traders' chairman Ahmed Nur Awdinle and his security guard.

Mr.Awdinle was shot in the head and the chest by two men armed with pistols as he was walking inside the Market along with his security guards, according the witnesses.

The motive and the identity of the killers have not yet been established by the local police in Bakaro, the largest marketplace in Somalia. The attackers were reported to have managed to escape from the scene before government troops arrived in.
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Africa North
MaliĀ PM in Paris for Military Intervention Talks
[An Nahar] Mali's Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra arrived in Gay Paree on Monday for talks with bigwigs on plans for a military intervention to dislodge Islamists in control of the vast north.

Diarra's office said he would meet Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Tuesday to discuss "French support for reclaiming regions illegally occupied by terrorists".

It said the visit was part of efforts to "strengthen the mobilization of the international community to accelerate the recovery of our country's territorial integrity."

French Foreign Ministry front man Philippe Lalliot said the talks would include discussion of planning for an African-led intervention in the region and efforts to reorganize Mali's military.

Other aspects of the crisis, including a roadmap on a political transition, will also be discussed, he said.
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Ansar Dine


Arabia
Yemen approves use of helicopters against saboteurs
[Yemen Post] The Military Committee formed under the GCC-crafted power transfer deal has approved using of helicopters in the hunt of saboteurs.

The committee reversed two helicopters to pursue those who blockade main roads linking between major cities, the state news agency, Saba, said.

The committee ordered to set up security checkpoints in the main road linking between the port city of Hodeida and the capital Sana'a as well as checkpoints in the Sana'a-Marib road.

Road blockades and attacking oil, gas pipelines, and electricity plants by rustics caused many problems to the interm government and people.

According to Saba, more than 130 road blockades occurred in different Yemeni governorates in October, pointing out that attempts of security forces to remove such blockades led to the killing of eight persons and wounding more others. Some tribes try to put pressures on the government through blockading roads, particularly after the eruption of Yemen's uprising in 2011.

Killings and other criminal acts have remarkably increased in some governorates due to Dire Revenge™ and armed disputes as gunnies exploited insecurity in Sana'a to carry out killings and tribal Dire Revenge™.

Major cities witnessed a state of loose security following the ouster of the former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
who some of his relatives still run military services.

The Interior Ministry has declared a ban on weapons carrying inside cities, but gunnies are still seen roaming with AK-47 assault rifles, hunting rifles and pistols inside Sana'a streets.

Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia


Africa North
Morsi tells judges only 'sovereign matters are protected from legal review
[Al Ahram] Egypt president, after decree, tells judges only 'sovereign matters, are protected from legal review, says spokesman
Possibly this was even true, at least at the moment the spokesman was speaking,
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Birthday Gam Shot

Rebecca Ferratti [Playmate of the Month June 1986][Filmography](age 48)




Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 11/27/2012 2:44 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Muslim Brotherhood rounding up activists
The Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR) has claimed that members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) are rounding up people and handing them over to the security forces. It is alleged that they are targeting people they believe to have been involved in attacking Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) headquarters.

Malek Adly, a lawyer for ECESR said, Ā“the MB are making lists and taking people from the street.Ā” He reported that MB members have been moving in large groups and forcibly taking people to the central security forces, who transfer them to the police to be arrested.

Adly said Ā“the people who are picked up are charged with attacking MB members, the police or the FJP buildings.Ā” He added, Ā“the ECESR have sent legal assistance to help these people and we have been successful in securing their release.Ā”

Mahmoud Ghozlan, a spokesperson for the MB denied these reports and said Ā“I canĀ’t imagine they would carry out the task of the police. The most they could do is tell the police their names.Ā”
Let the police do the dirty work, and make sure everyone in the neighborhood knows that they can be ratted out if they don't toe the MB line. Very smooth, Mahmoud...
He added, Ā“people lie and accuse the MB of things a lot.Ā”

Waleed El Haddad, a spokesperson for the FJP said, Ā“these reports are just rumours. We would not take people to the police; we would report it to the police and let them deal with it.Ā”

Adly reported Ā“this has been happening in Beheira, Port Said, Suez, Ismailia and Alexandria.Ā” The ECESR tweeted on Sunday that their lawyers were able to secure the release of 26 people in Alexandria who claim to have been arrested in this way.

Adly believes this is in response to the destruction of FJP offices around the country, which began on Friday and has continued since then. Protesters marched on the headquarters of President Mohamed MorsyĀ’s party to demonstrate against the constitutional declaration he made on Thursday night. Muslim Brotherhood members helped in protecting the headquarters from the protesters.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/27/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There's a lot of misinformation concerning Arab dictators allegedly supporting Islamists while suppressing secularists. More and more, my impression is that it's not a matter of them supporting the Islamists so much as being unable to suppress them because of the overwhelming support among the populace that they command. India's Indira Gandhi and Sanjiv Gandhi were assassinated by a handful of sectarian zealots. Arab leaders have to deal with populations where a majority are religious zealots. Arab leaders have a kind of truce with the zealots - as long as the zealots don't mount assassination attempts, there's a tacit kind of truce. Any kind of large scale suppression (aka massacre) has to contend with the fact that the majority of the population, including a big chunk of the security forces are themselves religious zealots.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 11/27/2012 11:38 Comments || Top||


Arabia
HOOD Criticizes Measures Depriving Jews from Social Rights
[Yemen Post] The Yemeni National Organization for Defending Rights and Freedoms (HOOD) has criticized tight security measures imposed on the Yemeni Jews amid threats by the Shiite Houthi
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is "God is Great, Death to America™", Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews" ...
Group to target them.

Hood said in a letter to the chief of the national security and interior minister the Jews, who were relocated from their villages in Saada to the capital Sanaa, are living in a prison under the tight security measures including those preventing them from moving and contacting other people.

"The Jews are Yemenis and have the right to move, talk and contact other Yemenis, and the security measures...allegedly to protect them...violate human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
and could be a crime," the letter said.

"We demand to lift the siege on the Yemeni Jews, who live in the tourist city after they were enforcedly relocated because of harassment in northern regions," it said.

The letter was sent after the organization received a complaint that the police at the tourist city have prevented visiting the Jews except through permission from the interior ministry.
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran losing Arab sympathy for backing Assad: Hamas
[Al Ahram] Iran must reconsider its support for the Syrian regime if it does not want to alienate Arab public opinion, the deputy chief of the Iranian-backed Paleostinian movement Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, said on Monday.

"Iran's position in the Arab world, it's no longer a good position," Mussa Abu Marzuk, whose movement's politburo had been based in Damascus
...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world...
, said during a briefing to news hounds at his new headquarters in the Egyptian capital."It has to address its position, so as not to lose public opinion," he said.
He says this, while eagerly awaiting the next shipment of Iranian missiles.
Hamas, which controls the Gazoo Strip, relocated its leadership from Damascus to Qatar and Egypt after a rift with Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
over his brutal crackdown on the revolt against his regime that began in March last year. As a result, his Islamist movement is no longer as close to Tehran, which supplies weapons to Paleostinian bad turbans, as it once was.

"Iran asked Hamas to adopt a closer position to Syria. Hamas refused, and this has affected our relationship with Iran," Abu Marzuk said.

Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal confirmed last week that Iran "had a role in arming" the movement's Death Eaters in Gazoo during their eight-day conflict with Israel, and thanked Tehran, despite the disagreement over support for Assad.
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  What Arab sympathy?
Posted by: European Conservatives || 11/27/2012 9:31 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
M23 rebels ignore deadline to leave Goma
[CNN] Tension loomed in the 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...
city of Goma Monday night as rebel commanders said they would not leave the city despite the approaching midnight deadline imposed by regional leaders and the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
African leaders convened in neighboring Uganda over the weekend and released a statement mandating that the M23 group withdraw at least 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Goma as a condition of initiating negotiations and telling the rebels to "stop all war activities," and "stop talk of overthrowing an elected government."

But M23 leaders on the ground said Monday that they will leave the conflict-scarred city only if talks are successful. Meanwhile,
...back at the Esquimeau village our hero was receiving a quick lesson in aeronautics......
both rebel and government troops were massing west of Goma, potentially leading to further festivities.
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Beyonce Documentary Premiering on HBO in February
[An Nahar] Beyonce is getting personal.

HBO announced Monday that a documentary about the Grammy-winning singer will debut Feb. 16, 2013. Beyonce is directing the film, which will include footage she shot herself with her laptop.

The network said the documentary will include "video that provides raw, unprecedented access to the private entertainment icon and high-voltage performances." It will also feature home videos of her family and of the singer as a new mother and owner of her company, Parkwood Entertainment.

Beyonce said in a statement the untitled project was "personal" to her. She is married to Jay-Z. They had their first child, daughter Blue Ivy Carter, in January.

The 31-year-old will perform at the 2013 Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 3, 13 days before the documentary airs.
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Unfortunately I'll miss her performance as I will be doing something else that day. Not certain what, but I'm sure I'll be doing something else. Nor will I be on hand to watch the National Felon League's Super Bowl.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/27/2012 7:42 Comments || Top||

#2  I think I'll give a miss to Bouncy and Jay-zee also. Not only is Showtime not in my cable package, but she is one of the Obama-adoring celebutards that I am boycotting from now until the end of time.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 11/27/2012 9:37 Comments || Top||

#3  I'll watch just to see what sort of reception she gets. But she isn't just dead to me- she never was alive. I ignore all "celebrities."
Posted by: Grunter || 11/27/2012 10:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Just like last night when I happened to be sitting in front of the TV when Diane Sawyer broke into a little story about Oprah Winfrey's breast cancer scare.

"This is the news?" I asked. "Ask me if I care."
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/27/2012 11:56 Comments || Top||

#5  "This is the news?" I asked. "Ask me if I care."
Cancer is scary. 50% of the people you know will have a brush with it, if not be directly killed by it. While you were resting in an alpha state, Diane's 'facts' were injected. I bet the background theme for the ad that followed is still in your head.

Tribal chants, however glitterized, with a subliminal beat to increase receptiveness, reprogram or reinforce existing audience proclivities with the repeated chorus.

It's all manipulation. If not interested, be VERY aware.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/27/2012 12:08 Comments || Top||

#6  The more I watch Diane Sawyer the more aware I become. Once you see past her smooth veneer it really is scary.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/27/2012 14:27 Comments || Top||

#7  Oh, good. I'll add this as Another Reason I'm Glad My TV Is Gone. Reason# 1058, I believe...
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/27/2012 14:35 Comments || Top||

#8  I have a much more productive use of my time that evening; I'll be watching oil paint dry.
Posted by: Barbara || 11/27/2012 15:52 Comments || Top||

#9  Many people who read and like Tolkien and C.S. Lewis haven't read the novels by the other Inkling, Charles Williams. Williams was quirky, but one of his first ones, Shadows of Ecstasy, is relevant here .....
Posted by: lotp || 11/27/2012 19:17 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Egypt's top Islamist expects assassination of liberal figures
A senior member of Egypt's former militant Islamist group al-Gamaa al-Islamiya has warned that liberal politicians and intellectuals who oppose President Mohammed Mursi's latest constitutional declaration could face a campaign of targeted assassinations starting from December.
Michael Totten notes that the liberals in Egypt are a distinct minority in terms of influence. The Muslim Brotherhood is deeply illiberal; in a country where the large majority of people are illiterate and allow religion to guide their everyday lives, a disciplined, motivated Brotherhood is ideally suited to impose their vision. To do that they have to rid the country of competitors, be they religious (the Copts) or political (the liberals and the opportunists like El-Baradei). Look for more pogroms, assassinations, and the sudden need for wealthy Egyptians to check out their earnings statements personally at banks outside the country.
Nageh Ibrahim, the ideologue of the Gamaa al-Islamiya,
Pious looking brute, isn't he...
which took up arms against ousted president Hosni Mubarak's regime in the 1980s, told Al Arabiya that his expectation "was based on an analysis of the political situation not on information."
But since he's one of the head cheeses, he doesn't need information...
He said recent escalation of violence in different parts of the country, including successive attacks on security forces in Sinai, attacks on Muslim Brotherhood offices and on mosques, point to a possible bloody reaction against liberals.
We all know that the European part of WWII started because Poland attacked a German border station...
Ibrahim first made his statement in an interview with the London-based Asharq al-Awsat, saying targeted assassinations against prominent liberals would be a "natural reaction" to violence and mistrust, and political polarization in Egypt.

And while he supported President Mursi's latest decrees to consolidate his powers by making his decisions irrevocable by the judiciary, Ibrahim called for the president to include more civil and liberal figures in his government and take their demands into consideration when making decisions.
And if they don't agree, kill them...
"Had the president included representatives of the civil powers in the new government, he would not have had so many enemies," Ibrahim said. "This has to be done before Egypt becomes divided, not only politically but possibly geographically as well."
Sinai would be a nice homeland for a Copt-only nation. Just sayin'...
He warned that if Mursi backtracks on his decisions, the country would plunge further into turmoil.

But his statement on the assassination of liberals drew sharp criticism from his colleague Essam Derbala who is chairman of al-Gamaa al-Islamiya's Advisory Council and member of the group's political wing Construction and Development Party. Derbala described Ibrahim's statements as "irresponsible" and not representative of the group's or the party's opinion.
At least until Morsi tells Derbala what to say and think...
"This is a very bad timing for issuing such statements," Derbala was quoted as saying by the Egyptian newspaper al-Mesryoon. "This would promote divisions in the Egyptian society and spread fear of Islamist groups."
"Ya maroon! Shut up until the western reporters leave the room!"
Derbala expressed his doubts that Ibrahim issued those warnings based on factual information and saw them more as mere speculations.

"These are just speculations that reflect his own point of view, but are not official especially that he does not hold any positions now in the group."

Tarek al-Zomor, leading member of the group, also played down Ibrahim's statements as mere speculations.

"All the changes in Egypt are made in a peaceful way," he said. "This is the path Egypt has taken since the January 25 Revolution."
Tahrir Square is the epitome of peaceful change...
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#1  I guess that is the green light. "You've been already been warned."
Posted by: Large Darling of the Antelope3345 || 11/27/2012 1:11 Comments || Top||

#2  I wonder how far away a purge of the army is?
Posted by: phil_b || 11/27/2012 2:39 Comments || Top||

#3  no need for sudden purge of the army

the army is being slowly neutered; Brotherhood lackeys, dupes, etc. are being placed in positions as they open up

of course this will slowly make the army less competent at chasing terrorists in the Sinai, etc. but, to the brotherhood, this is either a small price to pay or, maybe even, part of the plan
Posted by: lord garth || 11/27/2012 4:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Sharia Law V Democracy is what the whole WOT is about imo.
Posted by: Paul D || 11/27/2012 10:10 Comments || Top||

#5  "I hit Ahmad, Ahmad hits Saif, Saif hits me - we can't get nuttin' done!"

Assassination is a game any number can play.
Posted by: mojo || 11/27/2012 12:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Some guys threatening the liberals?

Shirley, our (US) libs will have something to say about that!

No? Whaddabout the EU libs?

OK, well the crickets are certainly sounding off!
Posted by: Bobby || 11/27/2012 12:14 Comments || Top||

#7  No doubt this will do wonders for the tourist trade.
Posted by: remoteman || 11/27/2012 12:31 Comments || Top||

#8  I think it's so considerate for the fanatics to provide snipers with a clear target on their foreheads, don't you?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/27/2012 16:15 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria Rebels Seize Dam, Limit Aleppo Access
[An Nahar] Rebel fighters seized control of a key dam on the Euphrates river in northern Syria, limiting the army's overland access to the battleground city of Aleppo
...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins...
to a single route, a monitoring group said on Monday.

"The capture of the Tishrin dam is very important. It means that the army basically has only one road left to Aleppo," said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

"The highway crossing over the Tishrin dam was the last main route from Raqa province (northeast) under regime control. Now it is impassable," the head of the monitoring group told AFP by phone.

With the overnight capture, the rebels now hold sway over a wide expanse of territory between the two provinces bordering Turkey which backs the revolt against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
The other main route from Raqa to Aleppo passing through the town of Al-Thawra further south along the Euphrates is dotted with both regime and rebel checkpoints, Abdel Rahman noted.

He pointed out there is another small bridge to the north of Tishrin dam but the road is winding and difficult.

The army must now rely on the Damascus
...The capital of Iran's Syrian satrapy...
-Aleppo highway to bring men and equipment to Syria's embattled commercial hub, where fighting is at a stalemate after months of deadly urban combat.

"The stretch from Damascus to Maaret al-Numan is government-held," said Abdel Rahman. "The rebels control Maaret al-Numan, though not the highway that passes alongside it. From there to Aleppo, no one is in control."

The regime also has a parallel military road at its disposal, but this is a rugged and challenging route, Abdel Rahman said. "If the main road takes you 10 hours, this will take four times as long."

Videos posted on the Internet show about a dozen rebel fighters in military fatigues walking at night on a road crossing the Tishrin dam.

The strategic advance came after several days of festivities and a siege of the dam by the beturbanned goons, according to the Observatory and residents, with the military responding with air strikes.
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#1  I'm wondering whether Assad will use chemical weapons as a last resort.
Posted by: phil_b || 11/27/2012 1:28 Comments || Top||

#2  I think he will in the final extremity to close the passes to Alawite country.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/27/2012 16:02 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Senior journalist Hamid Mir escapes bid on life
[Dawn] A senior Pak journalist and TV anchor escaped a bid on his life Monday when the bomb disposal squad defused a bomb planted under his car in Islamabad, police and his channel said.

Hamid Mir, a senior Geo TV anchor was returning to his house in the capital and the bomb was apparently planted when he stopped at a market, Geo News reported.

The bomb in a metal box was found stuck under the front passenger seat of Hamid Mir's car, city police chief Bani Amin said.

The bomb disposal squad was immediately called, who successfully defused the bomb containing half a kilogram of kaboom, Geo News reported.

"It was in a tin box, there was half a kilo of explosives fitted with detonator," Amin told Geo News.

Mir was criticised by the Pak Taliban last month in the wake of the shooting of teenage activist Malala Yousafzai.

Intelligence officials said last month that an intercepted Taliban message suggested jacket wallahs had been assigned to attack journalists, with Geo at the top of the list of targets because of their coverage of the Malala attack.

"It's a message to me as well as Geo and the journalist community in Pakistain," Mir told the television channel. "They want to stop us from speaking the truth but I want to tell them that we will not be deterred."
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Arabia
Saleh demands 50 percent representation in dialogue
[Yemen Post] The former Yemeni president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
told the UN Envoy to Yemen Jamal Benomar that the General People Congress will not accept less than 50 percent representation in the National Dialogue Conference, a Yemeni newspaper, Akhbar Alyawam, reported.

The newspaper said that representatives of the GPC met on Sunday with Saleh and he ordered them to inform Benomar that they refuse representation of less than 50 percent.

Members of the Technical Dialogue Committee had agreed to mandate Benomar to set the representation percentages of those who will take part in the dialogue.

Yemeni politicians accuse Saleh of attempting to impede the political settlement, and provoke tensions.

Media sources affirmed that Saleh attacked the deputy chairman of the GPC Abdul-Karim al-Eryani and accused him of operating to exclude him from the party.

International and regional actors exerted efforts to persuade Saleh to abandon politics, but Saleh is still determined to involve in politics.

Leaders of the Joint Meeting Parties (the JMP) have stressed that the JMP has a firm stance towards Saleh's abandonment of politics, pointing out that Saleh was granted the immunity in return for giving up politics.

The JMP frequently charge Saleh with intervention in tasks of the interim government and seeking to disrupt its performances.

Yemeni senior politicians including Secretary General of the Yemeni Socialist Party Yaseen Saeed Noaman and Secretary General of the Nasserist Unionist People's Organization Sultan al-Atwani demanded Salehto leave Yemen

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Afghanistan
Afghans demand reprieve for killer of French troops
[Dawn] Student demonstrators on Monday demanded that an Afghan soldier sentenced to death for killing five French soldiers be spared execution.

A military court last week rejected an appeal by the soldier, Abdul Sabor, and the Afghan authorities have since executed 14 death row prisoners in two groups including several Taliban hard boys.

Unconfirmed Afghan media reports have suggested that Sabor is among a third group that President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
has approved for execution. Karzai's office has refused to comment on the issue.

So-called green-on-blue attacks have spiralled this year, with a total of 61 NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
soldiers killed by members of the Afghan cops, fuelling distrust between the allies in the war against the Taliban.

Sabor, who killed five French soldiers on January 20 while they were jogging within their base in the eastern province of Kapisa, is the first Afghan convicted by a court of carrying out such an attack.

The French casualties prompted La Belle France to withdraw its combat forces from Afghanistan earlier than planned. It ended its combat mission in Kapisa last week.

About 500 university students blocked a key road linking the eastern town of Jalalabad to the capital Kabul and hollered poorly rhymed slogans against the government, an AFP news hound said.

"We demand the president withdraw a decree that approves the execution of Abdul Sabor, the soldier who is accused of killing five French troops," a statement by the demonstrators said.

The students demanded an end to the execution of "all political prisoners", a reference to the Talibs held in Afghan prisons.

They also burned Israeli and US flags in protest at the attacks on Paleostinians in the Gazoo Strip during eight days of violence that left six Israelis and 166 Paleostinians dead.
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#1  Great opportunity for a french platoon to machine gun the protesting students. Ask any survivors if they see the similarities, then shoot them again.
Posted by: Rob06 || 11/27/2012 17:00 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Luxor governor announces revival of tourist flow
[Al Ahram] Tourist flow in the governorate of Luxor is slowly coming back to normal rates, said Luxor Governor Ezzat Saad during a presser held on Monday.
I can see the old videos on National Geographic and the History Channel. That is quite good enough for me -- I've no need to expose myself to possible kidnapping...or worse.
There are indicators that prove the crisis on Egypt's tourism industry that Luxor has been witnessing since the January 2011 uprising is coming to an end, added Saad.

The governor announced that while the tourism sector is being revived in Luxor, political and economic stability are of utmost importance to overcome low tourist rates.

The governorate of Luxor in collaboration with the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism are planning to organise an international event to celebrate the completion of the 5th stage of the "Kabash road" renovation project as well as other international events, such as the "Luxor African Film Festival" set for March 2013.

These events will likely boost tourist flows and attract a wide array of international figures and renowned archaeologists, according to Saad.

The governor's statements follow the Minister of Tourism Hisham Zaazou's expectations of a likely increase in tourists visiting Egypt by the end of 2012. Zaazou announced on Sunday that he foresees a 20 per cent increase, reaching an average number of almost 11.6 million tourists by the end of year.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Bakri Says Training UK Islamists for 'Jihad' in Syria at Lebanon Camp
[An Nahar] Four British Islamist snuffies are being trained to fight in Syria at a camp run by radical Islamist preacher Omar Bakri in northern Leb, Britannia's The Sun newspaper reported on Sunday.

Bakri boasted of his "military-style courses for Islamic fanatics on the lawless border with Leb," The Sun said.

In an interview with the newspaper, Bakri revealed one recruit was a computer programmer in his 20s from London, while another was a Midlands-based IT worker.

And he claimed: "Others like them will follow."

"Of the four, two of them have Syrian connections. But they are all born in UK and have professional backgrounds," Bakri added.

"After their training they will do their duty of jihad (holy war) in Syria and maybe Paleostine."

Bakri, 52, came to Britannia in 1986 and stayed until 2005, during which time he praised the 9/11 attacks.

The Syrian-born holy man claimed to have trained "many fighters" from other countries, including Germany and La Belle France, since setting up home in Leb.

He boasted of exploiting the festivities between Israel and Gazoo to focus on "military activities."

He added: "I'm involved with training the mujahideen (fighters) in camps on the Syrian borders and also on the Paleostine side."

The Islamist bully boy leader was instrumental in developing Hizb ut-Tahrir in the United Kingdom before leaving the group and heading another Islamist organization, al-Muhajiroun, until its disbandment in 2004.
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#1  Job or Jihad is an easy choice for many british muslim.
Posted by: Paul D || 11/27/2012 9:55 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Opposition says Mauritania leader 'incapable,' must resign
[Al Ahram] Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz returned home on Saturday after 40 days recuperating in La Belle France following an October 13 shooting, prompting opposition protests against a power vacuum in his absence.

"We maintain that the head of State is incompetent and his regime must get out" said Saleh Ould Henenna of the coalition Coordination of Democratic Opposition (COD) at a presser.

"The coming days will prove that Abdel Aziz is physically incapable just as he has always been politically, to lead the country and that his return will only complicate the chances for a solution to the country's crisis."

The country's opposition has long demanded that Aziz step down, and began regular protests against his regime since May. The opposition accuses the former general of having failed to respect commitments made in the Dakar accords that led to his election in 2009, a year after he seized power in a coup d'etat.

The president's mandate expires in 2014.

In an interview with French International Radio (RFI) and Le Monde newspaper on Saturday he said he still has a comfortable majority in parliament to govern. "The opposition must know that to get to power, you have to go through the ballot box and without the ballot box you can't demand anything."

"I am not in the same shape as I was before the accident, but I still have all my mental and physical faculties and it is me who is leading the country."

Abdel Aziz said that if legislative polls, postponed in 2011 and now planned before the end of the year, showed a turnaround in his support, "we are ready to make the necessary gestures for the country." The 55-year-old president received a warm welcome home from thousands of supporters who lined the streets to greet him.

Abdel Aziz had been travelling in an unmarked vehicle when he came across a mobile army checkpoint outside the capital. His failure to stop led Lieutenant Elhaj Ould H'Moudy, who was dressed in plainclothes, to open fire.

H'Moudy has said it was a mistake, and has not been punished, with government accepting the shooting was an accident. The opposition has demanded further investigation.
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China-Japan-Koreas
'Poison' pen mightier than sword for would-be North Korean assassin
[CNN] All you might feel is someone brush by you and a slight pin prick. But very quickly you would be suffering muscle paralysis followed by suffocation. You would be dead within a very short period of time.

This is the deadly effect of just one of the weapons found on a failed North Korean assassin last year on the busy streets of Seoul, now shown exclusively to CNN.

Disguised to look like a Parker ballpoint pen, it contains a poison needle and is practically impossible to identify as a weapon.

The second pen shoots a poison-filled bullet which penetrates the skin and releases the toxin and the third weapon is a flashlight, loaded with up to three bullets. They all look completely innocuous but all three will kill.

An individual willing to be identified only as an "investigation official" showed CNN the weapons, pointing out the flashlight as the most significant find. "This flashlight is new," the man familiar with North Korean liquidation devices said.

"I've never seen this weapon. If you look at the front, there are three holes, there was a bullet in each hole and here is the trigger. This is currently loaded and dangerous, two bullets remain."

The third bullet had been fired by investigation authorities to test the weapon. It was accurate and deadly. The would-be assassin who was carrying these devices was placed in long-term storage
You have the right to remain silent...
on his way to kill his target.

That target was anti-North Korea activist, Park Sang-hak, who has since been given round-the-clock police protection by South Korean authorities. We showed Park the footage of the weapons intended for him. He was shocked.
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#1  You call that a Soviet Umbrella???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/27/2012 0:05 Comments || Top||

#2  What, no ricin? Doesn't seem complete without ricin. Bucha newfangled drugs...
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/27/2012 6:47 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Rights group urges no amnesty for Afghan Taliban
[Dawn] An international human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
group urged Afghan authorities on Monday to refuse to provide Taliban hard boyz with immunity from prosecution in return for peace talks.

The New York-based Human Rights Watch
... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world...
(HRW) said President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
's Western-backed administration had pledged amnesty for the Taliban if they join a Kabul-backed peace scheme.

"Providing immunity from prosecution for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other serious human rights abuses violates international law," HRW said in a statement.

"Future government talks with the Taliban should not hinge upon denying justice to victims of war crimes and other abuses," said Brad Adams, the group's Asia director. "Afghanistan's civilians should not be forced to choose between justice and peace."

Citing recent comments by Karzai's peace envoy Salahuddin Rabbani, HRW said the administration had promised immunity to Taliban officials joining peace talks and that their names would be removed from UN sanctions lists.

This month, Rabbani negotiated the release of nine Taliban prisoners held in Pak jails in the hope of pushing negotiations forward.

Karzai's government has been desperately trying to broker a peaceful end to the insurgency, which has been led by the Taliban since they were ousted from power by a US-led invasion in 2001.

The Taliban have publicly rejected Karzai's call for peace, dismissing his government as a puppet of the United States.
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India-Pakistan
Toxic cough syrup kills 16 in Lahore
[Dawn] At least 16 people have died after drinking a toxic cough syrup in Lahore, forcing authorities to close three pharmacies and a medicine factory, officials said Monday.

The deaths occurred in the low-income Shahdra Town neighbourhood between Friday and Sunday with the victims mostly drug addicts who took the syrup to get high, said local cop shoppe chief Atif Zulfiqar.

The scandal comes after around 100 heart patients died in January in Lahore, Pakistain's second largest city, after taking faulty medicine made locally.

"At least 16 people, mostly drug addicts, have died after taking the toxic syrup," Zulfiqar told AFP, updating an earlier corpse count of 13.

"Some of the victims were found dead in a graveyard where addicts used to take different kinds of drugs," he said. Seven others died in hospital.

Three pharmacies have been shut down and their owners tossed in the clink
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
, he added.

The health adviser for Punjab province, Khawaja Salman Rafiq, said the syrup would be confiscated from all pharmacies.

He said inspectors had shut down a drugs factory and sent samples to a laboratory for detailed analysis.

"Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif has ordered an inquiry and a report will be submitted to him within 72 hours," Rafiq said.

Doctor Tahir Khalil at Lahore's Mayo Hospital said 20 victims aged 15 to 45 had been admitted after drinking the syrup and most had a history of addiction.

"One of the victims who was at death's door died today and the total deaths in hospital are seven," Khalil said.

"Six people were saved and were discharged after treatment, while seven others were still admitted to hospital," he added.
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Senior Pakistan TV anchor escapes car bomb plot
Islamabad (AFP) Ā– A high-profile Pakistani journalist and television anchor escaped an assassination bid on Monday when police defused a bomb planted under his car in Islamabad, police and his channel said.

The device in a metal box was found stuck under the front passenger seat of Hamid MirĀ’s car, city police chief Bani Amin said.

Mir, who hosts the Capital Talk evening show on Geo television and writes a column for the biggest-selling newspaper Jang, was criticised by the Taliban last month in the wake of the shooting of teenage activist Malala Yousafzai.

Ā“It was in a tin box, there was half a kilo of explosives fitted with detonator,Ā” Amin told Geo News. He said officers have defused the bomb and are gathering evidence at the scene.

Mir was on his way to his office and the bomb was apparently planted when he stopped at a market, said GeoĀ’s Islamabad bureau chief Rana Jawad.

Ā“ItĀ’s a message to me as well as Geo and the journalist community in Pakistan,Ā” Mir told the television channel. Ā“They want to stop us from speaking the truth but I want to tell them that we will not be deterred.Ā”
Brave man. Good luck.
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#1  Sweeps month?
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/27/2012 2:58 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran Slams U.S. for Pulling Plug on Nuclear Conference
[An Nahar] A U.S. announcement that a conference on a Middle East free of nuclear weapons cannot be held as foreseen is a "serious setback," Iran said Monday, accusing Washington of protecting Israel.

"The U.S. cannot unilaterally decide for the sake of Israel to announce that the conference cannot be held. This is a very serious setback for the non-proliferation regime,"Iran's ambassador to the U.N. atomic agency told Associated La Belle France Press.

"In a nutshell the U.S. has taken the Middle East nuclear-weapons-free zone hostage for the sake of Israel," said the envoy to the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh.

"It is clear now for us and the whole world that the U.S. does not have genuine political will for a Middle East being free of weapons of mass destruction. It wants to continue Israel having a nuclear weapons capability, which is a threat to the Middle East and of course to international security."

The U.S. State Department said Friday that the gathering, which a 2010 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference decided should take place, could not now happen in Finland before the end of the year.

The 2010 conference mandated the U.N. secretary general, the United States, Britannia and Russia to appoint a controller, and in 2011 Finland was tasked with organizing the conference.
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  See also FREEREPUBLIC > IRAN BUILDING POWERFUL NUCLEAR DEVICE, allegedly more powerful than WW2's "Fatman" + "Little Boy".

OWG "CALIPHATE" Aside, many ordinary Muslims also believe that the powerful JudeoChristian US-West does not take them seriously as regional or international competitors in their own right, to the point of actually belittling or laughing at Islam, Muslims, + the Islamic/Muslim World - IMO, AMONG OTHER AMBITIOUS IRAN HAS UNILATERALLY TAKEN UPON ITSELF TO DO WHAT THE SUNNI SAUDIS, ETAL. HAVE HISTORICALLY FAILED OR REFUSED TO DO WHICH IS TO ESTABLISH A DE FACTO ISLAMIC MILPOL = NUCLEAR GLOBAL SUPERPOWER PAR OR SUPERIOR TO THE US-WEST, NOT JUST A REGIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL POWER ["Great" Power].

The only question is whether the Global Jihad [Nuclear?] will attack + destroy "post-US" wannabe Rising China before it attacks + destroys the US-West.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/27/2012 19:26 Comments || Top||

#2  RELATED DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > IRANIAN SCIENTISTS SEEING SIMULATION OF LARGE NUCLEAR WEAPON | [Times of Israel]DIAGRAM SUGGESTS TEHRAN-PLANNED BOMB WOULD BE THREE TIMES SIZE OF HIROSHIMA BLAST.

and

* WORLD NEWS > IRAN IN POSITION TO BLOCK OIL LANES.

* SAME > [Examiner]REAR ADMIRAL SHOEMAKER [USN]SPEAKS CANDIDLY ON WAR WITH IRAN.

ARTIC > RADM. SHOEMAKER = Iran + military is presently no match for that of the USA but can still obstruct or tie things up in the Gulf for the US-Allies for a while [nuisance]as per removal of Iran-specific/led threats, barriers, + post-action general cleanup around the Gulf + peripherals.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/27/2012 22:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Ala the "Japan/Egypt" nuke model, Iran is hoping that its dev of NucWeaps-related proficiencies that can poten threaten its neighbors in the near-term will result in indirect diplomatic pressure on the GCC, etc. to demand the formal withdrawal of any + all US, NATO-EU forces from the Gulf region.

In the interim, Iran will not stop its NucProgs or its support of Shia rights widin the GCC group of nations.

* IIRC STARS-N-STRIPES [old = paraph] > US/USDOD FEARS BAHRAIN WILL BREAK UP.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/27/2012 22:36 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
South Sudan says Sudan putting new block on oil sales
[Al Ahram] Sudan has put a fresh obstacle in the way of allowing its land-locked southern neighbour to pipe its oil to the Red Sea, South Sudan's president Salva Kiir said on Monday, dashing plans to re-start production after 11 months and unsettling last year's still fragile peace agreement.

South Sudan took over the national oil company when it seceded last year but left the northern state with 25 percent of the oil fields which straddle their border as well as the sole pipeline to Port Sudan and the adjacent refinery.

In January South Sudan shut down its entire oil output of 350,000 barrels a day after tensions with Sudan over oil fees escalated but an agreement to re-open the export pipeline was announced in September.

But Kiir said on Monday Sudan had now demanded as a new condition for reopening the pipeline that South Sudan now disarm rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement North (SPLM-North) which operate in two states bordering South Sudan.

"It is an impossible mission which our brothers in the government in Khartoum would want us to undertake. Because of this Khartoum authorities have refused to accept passage of South Sudan oil through their territory to market," he told a meeting of government officials in Juba which was attended by Rooters.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Islamic Jihad gets hands on IDF documents
[Ynet] Paleostinian terror group releases documents including personal details of dozens of Israeli soldiers. 'Maybe one of the soldiers in my reserves unit uploaded list onto Google
...contributed $814,540 to the 2008 Obama campaign...
Docs,' IDF soldier says

A day after the IDF confirmed that Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem 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...
sent text messages to thousands of reserve soldiers during Operation Pillar of Defense, several Paleostinian media outlets released seven documents that, according to the terror group, include personal and confidential details of more than 100 Israeli soldiers.

The published documents include the soldiers' full names, army ID numbers, their roles (such as "medic" or "sniper"), cell phone numbers and dates of birth.

Additional documents published by Islamic Jihad's armed wing, which were translated into Arabic, belong to a certain IDF division and include details on a grenade launching training course and a farewell tour in honor of former Home Front Defense Minister Matan Vilnai.

According to Islamic Jihad, the documents were drafted in 2012. The terror group said the documents were obtained by its intelligence division.

Roi, one of the soldiers whose details appear in the documents, told Ynet that the details were accurate. "Maybe one of the soldiers in my reserves unit uploaded the list onto Google Docs. You need a code to enter, but it is easy to decipher," he said.

On Sunday the IDF's Information Security branch said that during Operation Pillar of Defense Islamic Jihad sent thousands of threatening messages to soldiers after reservists posted their phone numbers online.

The messages said, "We will turn Gazoo into your graveyard and (burn) Tel Aviv."
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Africa Subsaharan
DR Congo Army Chief Ready to 'Counter-Attack' Rebels in Goma
[An Nahar] 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...
army chief General Francois Olenga said Monday he is ready to "counter-attack" if the rebels do not withdraw from the strategic city of Goma by Tuesday.

If the rebels "do not respect" the Tuesday deadline set by regional leaders for their withdrawal from Goma, "we will do our work and restore the state's authority," Olenga told AFP. "The whole Congolese population is against the aggression and that's enough for us, that gives us the morale to counter-attack."
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30 Inmates Escape as Gunmen Attack Nigerian Police Unit
[An Nahar] Gunmen attacked a Nigerian police unit believed to be holding suspected Islamist Orcs and similar vermin in the capital Abuja on Monday, killing two officers and leading to the escape of 30 detainees.

Authorities however claimed to have re-placed in durance vile
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
25 of the 30 escapees and said no one being held on "terror-related charges" was freed.

The attack on the Special Anti-Robbery Squad compound in the pre-dawn hours resulted in a shootout, with police claiming to have repelled the assailants and arrested two of them.

It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack. The raid was similar to others carried out by Islamist jihad boy 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...
, but criminal gangs have also committed violence under the guise of the group.

In a recent report, rights group Amnesia Amnesty International said more than 100 people accused of links to Boko Haram had been placed in durance vile
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
at a Special Anti-Robbery Squad cop shoppe in Abuja.

"In the confusion that ensued, about 30 suspects in the detention facilities of (the squad) broke out of the cells and attempted to escape," a police statement said.

"Tactical and coordinated efforts to re-arrest the fleeing suspects yielded instant results. So far, 25 of the suspects have been re-arrested, while five suspects originally being held in relation to robbery related offenses are currently on the lam."

It added that "no explosive or IED-related materials were used in the botched attack."

Members of Boko Haram have carried out scores of attacks in northern and central Nigeria, including against cop shoppes and sometimes with the intent of freeing tossed in the calaboose
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
members.

An Agence La Belle France Presse journalist who visited the scene saw the main gate outside the police unit heavily guarded, including two armored vehicles, six police trucks and more than a dozen armed coppers.

It was not immediately possible to determine whether the complex had suffered damage.
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram

#1  Probably involved inside information. It appears that Boko Haram has ources of information from inside the Nigerian Gov't and security forces.
Posted by: Raider || 11/27/2012 9:52 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Wally Jumblat Urges Dialogue, Review of People-Army-Resistance Formula
[An Nahar] Progressive Socialist Party chief Walid Wally Jumblat
... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling...
called on Monday for the resumption of national dialogue among the country's bickering leaders while stressing a review of a clause in the government policy statement that stresses the right of the "people, army and resistance to liberate" Lebanese territories.

Hizbullah's "arms are a major point of contention," Jumblat said at a presser he held in Mukhtara to announce an initiative that would bring back the March 8 majority and March 14 opposition alliances to the dialogue table.

"But after the resumption of dialogue there should be a new formula because we can't continue to stick to this formula that is unclear and mixes between the resistance and the army," he said.

"The state is the authority and if anyone has a magic solution to the arms, then let him inform us," Jumblat said.

The policy statement of the government says the government adheres to the right of Leb through its people, army and resistance to liberate the Shebaa Farms, Kfarshouba hills and the Lebanese part of the village of Ghajar.

But Jumblat rejected the liberation of Lebanese lands in inappropriate ways and criticized the so-called Ayoub drone that Hizbullah sent over Israeli territories in October to serve "things outside Leb."

"We don't want the Islamic Theocratic Republic to use Leb to improve its position in the negotiations with the U.S. the same way we don't want Arab axes to use Leb to fight" Iran, he said.

Jumblat said his initiative lies in calling on all sides to abide by the Baabda Declaration - made in June after the first national dialogue in over 18 months - in which rival politicians pledged to commit themselves to dialogue and political, security and media pacification, avoid speeches that fuel sectarian incitement and bolster stability to prevent Leb from sliding into sectarian strife.

In his initiative, Jumblat called for ending media and violent political rhetoric, and avoiding the involvement in the battle "field" of the Syrian crisis.

He stressed the initiative is part of the efforts made by President Michel Suleiman
...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too...
to resume the national dialogue in cooperation with Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri
Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet...
Contact between the March 14 opposition alliance and the Hizbullah-led March 8 majority was shaken following the Oct. 19 liquidation of Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau chief Wissam al-Hasan in a car boom kaboom in Beirut's Ashrafiyeh district.

The opposition, which blamed Miqati's government and accused Syria of carrying out the killing, boycotted parliamentary activity, demanding the resignation of the cabinet, and said it would not sit at the national dialogue table with Hizbullah.
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Africa Horn
Somali President urges district commissioners, army officers to uphold the law
Uphold the law? What an amusing concept for that part of the world.
[Shabelle] Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the president of Somalia's Federal republic government on Sunday nigh met with security officials and district commissioners in Mogadishu for security purpose, sources at the palace said.

During the meeting which held at Villa Somalia, the state house, the President told again the armed forces that their responsibility was to maintain rule and protect citizens in the country.

Somalia's National Security Agency chief, Police Force chief, Gen Sharif Sheekhuna Maye, General Abdikarim Yusuf Adam ...Nickname, Dhaga-badan ("Many ears"), Somali army chief who attended the Sunday meeting promised to tackle the security and remove all illegal checkpoints in Mogadishu.

At the end of the security meeting in Mogadishu overnight, Mr.Mohamud stated that any soldier is found guilty of killing another innocent person will be sentenced to death, according to the Islamic Sharia Law.

The move comes as the Incidents of government soldiers causing harm to civilians have grown since the expansion of Somalia's armed forces along with African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
(AU) forces to the far rebel-held towns in south and central of the strife-torn country.
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Africa North
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood delays demonstration on Tuesday to avoid bloodshed
[Al Ahram] The Moslem Brüderbund has decided to postpone a mass protest it had called for Tuesday in Cairo in the interest of preventing violence, an official from the Islamist group's Freedom and Justice Party said on Misr 25 TV channel.

Parties opposed to the Moslem Brüderbund and President Mohamed Morsi, who was propelled to power by the group, have called a protest in Tahrir Square on Tuesday to demonstrate against a decree issued by Mursi last week.

The Nour Party, a more hardline Islamist party that has come out in support of the Mursi decree, had agreed with the Brotherhood on the postponement, a front man for the party said.
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


India-Pakistan
Pakistan protests Iran over cross-border mortars
[Dawn] Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
Home Secretary Akbar Durrani on Monday said Pakistain has recorded their dissent to the Iranian government over 12 mortars fired from Iranian territory into Chaghi District on Sunday night, DawnNews reported.

Speaking to media representatives, Durrani said that at least 12 mortars were fired from Iranian side at the Pakistain-Iran border area of Chaghi last night. However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
there were no casualties reported.

He said that the Pak authorities have recorded an official protest with their Iranian counterparts over the incident, adding that the provincial home ministry has informed the foreign ministry about details of the incident.

The secretary said that a meeting between the two sides on the issue will be convened on Tuesday.

Target and purpose of the mortars is not ascertained as yet, he added.
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Its called Pak Sunni abuse + persecution of Pak Shias.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/27/2012 0:08 Comments || Top||

#2  The ultimate Popcorn event Iran V Pakistan.
Posted by: Paul D || 11/27/2012 10:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Test firing into the 'Wastelands'?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/27/2012 13:01 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm interpreting this incident as a subtle = "polite", "we're watching/not amused" warning from Iran to its BFF Pakistan as per Pak Sunni abuse + persecution of local Shias.

Pak failure to control the situation will only entice Iran to undertake a greater role in AFPAK affairs, which suits Iran fine because it once controlled or dominated the region, but does NOT bode well for US plans ala 2014.

The parallel abuse + persecution of SIKHS in Pak may bring in INDIA which risks India going head-to-head agz Pak BFF CHINA. India prefers that Muslim Pakistan keeps its eye northward of India's troubled NE region.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/27/2012 22:53 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Mauritanian Website Publishes Images of French Hostage
[An Nahar] A Mauritanian news website on Monday published images of a French citizen kidnapped last week by one of the armed Islamist groups controlling the north of neighboring Mali.

Two photos published on the site Alakhbar showed the man, identified as Alberto Rodriguez Leal, 61, with his head bowed, wearing a blue shirt and flanked by two gunnies dressed in kakhi robes.

"My name is Rodriguez Leal Alberto. I was kidnapped in Diema, between Nioro and Bamako by MUJAO" the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, read the transcription of comments made by the hostage in an accompanying video.

According to Alakhbar the images were taken on Sunday.

"I ask the French government to respond rapidly to their demands," Leal added. MUJAO has not yet publicized its requests in exchange for the hostage's release.

"I am not at fault in this kidnapping, it is the government which is implicated by its outside actions."

Leal said he trusted the French government would rapidly deal with his situation and "find a favorable outcome."

"For my family, don't worry. I am being well treated," he added.

Leal, who was kidnapped on November 20 while driving in a camper van in south-western Mali from Mauritania, was initially identified by Malian security sources as Gilberto.

He was born in Portugal, but is a French citizen.

MUJAO, one of the Islamist groups occupying the vast arid north, on Thursday grabbed credit for the latest kidnapping, bringing to 13 the number of hostages held by hardliners in the region. Seven of these are French.
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Home Front: Culture Wars
First They Came for the Sodas
Last week a new study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that American adults drink alcoholic beverages in moderation.Calories from alcohol, the study concludes, make up 5 percent of the total calories consumed by American adults. What's more, few Americans consume alcohol on a daily basis.

"On any given day, almost one-third of men and 18% of women aged 20 and over consume alcoholic beverages," the report concludes. That means just one in four Americans consume alcohol on any given day.

And the group the report indicates as ingesting the largest amount of calories from alcohol--men aged 20-39--consume only 174 calories per day (8 percent of total average calories) from alcohol beverages. That's fewer calories than two average light beers.

In spite of these modest totals, the study authors appear to be positioning their work as an important warning against alcohol consumption.

"I think sometimes people forget completely that alcoholic beverages have calories," lead study author and scold public-health theologist Samara Joy Nielsen told The New York Times.

The study authors are also explicit in linking alcohol to soda--that other scourge of public-health activists--at least in terms of the calories it contributes to Americans' diets.
Social Engineering Through Food Regulation. There is no problem but they will make a solution anyway. We have to be saved from ourselves. Sit down, shut up, and quit ruining my day, ya Nanny Bastids.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/27/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Silly peasants, let them eat tufo
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 11/27/2012 5:56 Comments || Top||

#2  What's a tufo, 1 year old bread?
Posted by: twobyfour || 11/27/2012 8:32 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm reeeeeally getting sick of the thousand little tyrants chipping away at freedoms for our own supposed good.

Posted by: DarthVader || 11/27/2012 9:23 Comments || Top||

#4  People forget alchoholic beverages have calories? How divorced from reality is this person. Have they ever heard of the term beer belly? It's pretty common and has the whole message packed right in there nice and tightly.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/27/2012 10:25 Comments || Top||

#5  rj, this is just more evidence of the patronizing superiority of the elite.

We plebs are just too f'ing stupid to live with out their "benevolent" guidance. I react the same to all those "saviors" that went after smoking cause no one knew it was unsafe. The terms coffin nails and cancer sticks, which I first heard in the '50s, to the contrary.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/27/2012 10:32 Comments || Top||

#6  that's why I drink Jim Beam and Coke Zero. It's like a diet drink
Posted by: Frank G || 11/27/2012 10:57 Comments || Top||

#7  What's more, few Americans consume alcohol on a daily basis.

The Few. The Proud.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/27/2012 12:05 Comments || Top||

#8  Frank G -- you're on to something w/that cocktail -- from yahoo: "There was a study conducted in South Australia that found that alcohol when mixed with diet or sugar free mixers are processed through the stomach much quicker which allows it to enter through the bloodstream faster in turn causing a more intoxicating effect..."
Posted by: Broadhead6 || 11/27/2012 15:23 Comments || Top||

#9  Close the CDC; they apparently don't have any diseases to left to control.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/27/2012 16:16 Comments || Top||

#10  Alcohol has the effect of tamping down bacteria numbers especially in the small intestine, preventing SIBO, and thus raising health.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/27/2012 17:33 Comments || Top||

#11  Frank, to add to that recipe: for the allergic out there... nobody is allergic to cactus juice except those allergic to alcohol itself. So salt lime and a shot.
Posted by: Water Modem || 11/27/2012 20:04 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Iran Warships Returning to Sudan
[An Nahar] Iranian warships will return to Sudan on Friday, the armed forces said, one month after a similar port call followed Khartoum's accusation that Israel bombed a military factory.
What arms are the ships delivering?
Probably the replacement missiles for Gaza. Their inventory had shrunk considerably in the last few weeks.
Sudan's links to Iran have come under scrutiny after Khartoum accused Israel of the October 23 strike against the Yarmouk compound, which led to speculation that Iranian weapons were stored or manufactured at the factory in Khartoum.

"Two Iranian warships would also visit Port Sudan harbor on November 30 and would stay at the harbor for three days within the military maritime cooperation," said Sawarmi Khaled Saad, Sudan's army front man quoted by the official SUNA news agency.

A Pak naval vessel would also stop at the Red Sea port, for two days beginning on Thursday, Saad said.
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli Army: Gunfire from Syria Hits Golan, no Injuries
Alternate headline: Syrian gunner faces wrong way, almost misses the broad side of a mountain.
[An Nahar] Gunfire from Syria hit the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights overnight close to an Israeli military vehicle monitoring the ceasefire line but causing no injuries, the military said on Monday.

"There was gunfire near an Israeli military vehicle which was driving along the security fence," a military spokeswoman said, adding the incident had occurred late on Sunday.

But she said troops in the area had not returned fire as they have done on previous occasions.

Such incidents have occurred with increasing frequency in the past few weeks as violence from the civil war in Syria spills across the ceasefire line.
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Israeli Troops Shoot Dead 'Gaza Attacker'
[An Nahar] Israeli forces on Monday shot and killed a man who infiltrated from Gazoo, broke into an Israeli home and stabbed a woman, an army spokeswoman said.

"A suspect from the Gazoo Strip infiltrated the community of Sde Avraham and stabbed a woman inside her home. She was lightly injured," the spokeswoman told Agence La Belle France Presse.

Soldiers and security officers arrived on the scene and began pursuing a suspect, she said.

"They asked him to stop but he didn't. He then started approaching the soldiers in a threatening manner," she said.

"They asked him again to stop but he failed to comply. They fired at him and killed him. According to the initial investigation, the incident is of a terrorist nature."

It was not immediately clear how the man had infiltrated the Gazoo border, which is patrolled by Israeli troops who also enforce a buffer zone that is off-limits to Paleostinians within the Gazoo Strip.
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  No EBT card, voting sans ID, no-cost medical care, free tuition, or hiring preference for that fella.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/27/2012 7:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Why'd they shoot him if he was already dead?
Posted by: mojo || 11/27/2012 17:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Double-tap.
Posted by: Pappy || 11/27/2012 21:12 Comments || Top||

#4  You alwqays double-tap zombies. Just to make sure they are really dead.

(Hasn't anyone seen Zombieland?)
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/27/2012 21:35 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Authorities Defuse Mine near Pilots' Residence in Aden
[Yemen Post] Explosives experts defused on Sunday an anti-tank mine, T-62, that was placed near the residence of the pilots in the Sheikh Othman district in Yemen's port city of Aden, the official news agency Saba reported.

The mine was connected to electrical wires and a stick watch and the authorities are investigating, it said.

Separately, the security authorities in the same district found three RPGs thrown at the 22 May stadium amid alarming security disorder in key Yemeni cities including the business capital of Aden.

In Hadramout
...the formerly independent Qu'aiti state and sultanate, annexed by Communist South Yemen in 1968, encompassing a region along the Gulf of Aden, extending eastwards to the borders of the Dhofar region of Oman. The people are called Hadhramis and speak Hadhrami Arabic. The city Tarimis estimated to contain the highest concentration of descendants of the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI) anywhere in the world, approximately seven in every square yard...
, the security authorities in Sayoun seized 79 kg of external hashish, of the type so called the red gold, Saba said.

The stash was found inside a car, it said, adding the suspects who were driving the car aimed their guns at the forces observing a checkpoint when checked and bravely ran away.

After a short hunt, the two suspects were tossed in the slammer
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
Drugs trade has thrived in Yemen recent months, with large quantities seized mainly in southern and southeastern regions.

Also, the Yemeni government has formed a committee to investigate the deadly attack against Shiites while they were observing a religious day outside Yemen's capital this week.

Four Shiites were killed and about a dozen others injured in the kaboom in Al-Geraf district.
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia


Europe
French Media Ignores Protest against Radical Islam
CBN so salt. Any French Rantburg citizens who can tell us more about this?
A patriotic march for French values and culture, and against radical Islam, was virtually blacked out by France's politically correct media.

Over the weekend, protestors chanted against Islamic fascism and about the French victory over Arab invaders in 732 A.D. It was the first march of its kind in France. A broad coalition of groups from across France came together because they feel they're losing their country to radical Islam, Sharia law, and a politically correct establishment that encourages the spread of Islam.

"Sharia law is slowly being enforced in our country and we want to march here to protest that because our government is doing nothing," one French demonstrator said.

"The French people -- they want to defend their culture, their history - they are called 'fascists,'" one woman said.

"I don't think it's only a problem of France. It's a problem of Europe. It's also a problem for the U.S.A.," another protestor said.

There was no visible counter demonstration, but an egg did manage to hit a CBN News reporter who was standing near the protestors.

The march took place just weeks after a group of French young people called Generation Identitaire stormed a mosque in Portiers and hung a banner from the roof, demanding a referendum on Muslim immigration.

France has more Muslims than any other European nation. Some believe there could be as many as 15 million Muslims in France, although the official figure is much lower.

Noted French writer Renaud Camus helped organize the march. "What I call 'le grande remplacement,' or 'the big replacement,' the change in population, is the biggest thing to happen in French history since the 15th century," he said.

The leftist French media ignored the demonstration, seeing it as racist. But it's clear the movement to resist radical Islam is growing in France.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/27/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is there such a thing as radical muslim?

I remember reading an article from a Pakistani who say the North West of Pakistan ie tribal areas were more conservative Islam just like the Taliban and their backers Saudi and UAE.

When one jihadi was asked why UAE never targeted because that was where the funding came from.

Pakistan,UAE and Saudi backing the Taliban pre 911 spoke volumes re their wish of conservative Islam.Does Obama realise this?
Posted by: Punky Big Foot3318 || 11/27/2012 9:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Combing French Google News, I can't find nuttink
Posted by: European Conservatives || 11/27/2012 14:55 Comments || Top||

#3  "Pakistan,UAE and Saudi backing the Taliban pre 911 spoke volumes re their wish of conservative Islam. Does Obama realise give a rat's ass about this?"

FTFY, Punky.

Answer: NO
Posted by: Barbara || 11/27/2012 15:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Surprised?
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/27/2012 16:11 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Cops: Gang member killed, another seriously wounded at funeral
[Chicago Tribune] A reputed gang member was killed, and another seriously maimed, at a funeral for a man who was bumped off last week on the South Side, with a minister at the services tweeting afterward, "This is Crazy."

The two men were shot outside St. Columbanus Church in the 300 block of East 71st Street, across the street from the A.A. Rayner & Sons Funeral Home, shortly before 12:30 p.m., police said.

They were taken to Stroger Hospital, where one of them was pronounced dead. The other victim was at death's door, according to Chicago Fire Department front man Will Knight. Both victims are convicted felons and known gang members, police said. Two guns were recovered at the scene.

The shooting occurred after the funeral for James Holman, 32, who was slain last week at an apartment building in the Washington Park neighborhood, according to police and the minister who was presiding, the Rev. Corey Brooks.

"I just preached a funeral and gunfire has broke out," Brooks tweeted. "Chaos about 500 people here. This is Crazy!!

"Please pray for Chicago," he added in a later tweet. "This is horrible."
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Internecine fighting continues in the 6th Ward. No ceasefire or end in sight. A.A. Rayner & Sons Funeral Home reports business is booming.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/27/2012 8:04 Comments || Top||

#2  No more than population control. Survival of the fittest.
Posted by: OCCD || 11/27/2012 11:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Isn't this almost kinda like a WOT story? I mean these gangsters are fighting their own little war over drugs and turf and terrorizing their fellow citizens in the process, shooting up churches and innocent civilians. Al Capone would have been proud but there is no Elliot Ness on the scene and the IRS is busy going after the 1%. If Oh Bummer would secure the border it might cut down the flow of drugs into Chicago but don't hold your breath for that.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/27/2012 11:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Holman, identified by police as a gang member, was gunned down last week at an apartment building in the Washington Park neighborhood.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/27/2012 15:28 Comments || Top||

#5  As long as they keep killing each other, I'm cool. :-(
Posted by: Barbara || 11/27/2012 16:01 Comments || Top||

#6  As long as they don't disturb public order, that is
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/27/2012 16:12 Comments || Top||

#7  Wasn't there an article in the last week where the Mayor said America should be more like Chicago? Why, yes. YJCMTSU
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/27/2012 17:08 Comments || Top||

#8  Bankrupt DETROIT spreading its morass to Chicago + upper Midwest???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/27/2012 19:10 Comments || Top||

#9  They were taken to Stroger Hospital - a place befitting a gangster

Named after the illustrious John H. Stroger, a Chicago political 'icon' known for his scandalous and patronage-ridden administrations. A gangster without a gun (openly carried, anyway).

Michael 'Hinky Dink' Kenna and 'Bathhouse John' Coughlin would be proud.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/27/2012 20:53 Comments || Top||

#10  'Hinkey Dink' Kenna is where the decidedly Chicago term 'Hinkey' (the general feeling that something is 'just wrong') comes from.

A tad more info regarding Mr. Kenna and Mr. Coughlin (with some cool hand-drawn maps of early Chi-Town)
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/27/2012 21:03 Comments || Top||


Arabia
UN representative arrives in Sana'a
[Yemen Post] Special Representative of UN Secretary General on Children and Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui, along with accompanying delegation, arrived in Sana'a on Monday.

Zerrougui told the state news agency, Saba, that her visit aims at following up issues of children and armed disputes, providing assistance to enhance democracy and rule of law.

Saba said that Zerrougui will hold meeting with high-ranking Yemeni officials to follow up the outcomes of the visit made by and UN Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
to Sana'a days ago.

A number of international and regional envoys visited Yemen this month due to instability and fears that the political settlement will be broken down.

Yemen suffers from many challenges and difficulties including the division of the army , al-Qaeda, worsening security situations and deteriorating economy.

Ki-moon, GCC Secretary General Abdul-Latif Al-Zayani and UN Envoy to Yemen Jamal Benomar met with President Abdurabu Mansour Hadi
...the second and possibly the last president of Yemen, successor to former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh...
and other Yemeni officials and discussed Yemen's political settlement.

The envoys affirmed that Yemen will be given all sorts of support for the success of the dialogue conference, reiterating that they would closely follow up the political process in Yemen.

They also asserted that Yemen's stability, security and unity will secure the region as a whole, hinting that the Gulf Cooperation Council pledged to give Yemen $6 billion to its development projects.They praised progress made in initiating the national Dialogue Conference, undermining the importance of respecting the timelines as set out by the GCC initiative
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring



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