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23 Reportedly Dead as Syria Regime, Opposition Trade Charges of Breaking Ceasefire
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Forget Zimmerman, We have a Veteran in Iran held under false charge under penalty of death.
I cannot pass up such an article, and it's prescient nature lures me to spread it as wide as possible. Some quotes:

"There is something very wrong with a state of affairs in which local elites feel entitled to American handouts but apparently do not fear the consequences of sentencing American citizens to death through political show trials. "

but in ending:
"It is a recognition that it is hard enough for governments to fulfill their most basic obligations to their citizenry without taking on additional responsibilities to others abroad. Moreover, it is a recognition that no one can and should discharge the sovereign responsibilities of a government for it, and that hoping for the opposite will yield only frustration and tears"

It is very important, now more than ever that we ensure American Citizens the blanket of security we DO provide other nationals. And many nations have fallen into other hands. We still have people there and it is always scarry.

This guy just wanted to see his Family, and Iran uses him as a political chip under sentence of death. He was not a hiker and he told them he was coming. They could have said no. That is end all be all - just wrong. They know it, does "POTUS" know it?

What shall happen when we lose more of North Africa and the Middle East?
Posted by: newc || 04/13/2012 02:28 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
Observations of a Rocket Launch
Interesting article from Information Dissemination and discussion of the failed NORK rocket launch. Check it out.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 04/13/2012 19:42 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran Nuclear Talks: Can Islam Guide the Way to Peace?
Posted by: tipper || 04/13/2012 00:34 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Very doubtful
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/13/2012 0:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Lets ask Bibi.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/13/2012 4:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Can Marxism guide the way to prosperity?

Was this taken from the book, "stupid questions".
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/13/2012 4:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Can A = -A? Easy answer. No.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/13/2012 9:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Pigs are more likely to fly.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/13/2012 11:11 Comments || Top||


-Election 2012
None Of The Above For President
What has happened to the 2012 campaign?

This should be the most important election of our lifetime. But it’s clear that something is seriously wrong. How can we be having such an underwhelming, uninspiring and irrelevant election campaign at such a critical juncture?

The very fact that 2012 is being carried out as if it were no different from any other election, at an extraordinary moment — when profound international challenges loom, and serious national crises have gone unaddressed — speaks to the ultimate disconnect between the people and their elected leaders.

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 04/13/2012 10:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A great many people have come to the realization that elections don't matter, that all the same crap is going to happen regardless of who is elected, and that the elections are fraudulent just like any banana republic.
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/13/2012 10:31 Comments || Top||

#2  ..as though we've finally figured out that it is the Inner Beltway Party vs the proles Hinterland. The Outer Party bureaucracy simply follows the lead.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/13/2012 10:37 Comments || Top||

#3  A Ronald Reagan type did not show up for this election so we need to figure out who will do the least damage and hope they turn out far better than we fear.

And those unwilling to hold their noses should at least show up for the down ticket votes because no matter who wins the executive branch we will want to restore Congess as the power balance it was created to be.
Posted by: Rjschwarz || 04/13/2012 11:40 Comments || Top||

#4  "because no matter who wins the executive branch we will want to restore Congess as the power balance it was created to be."

-well said...and hopefully the congress will do just that instead of giving the executive more power on a platter...
Posted by: Broadhead6 || 04/13/2012 12:53 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
In Praise of Chumps
....The thing about communism, at least to the uninitiated, is that it appears to be identical in all respects to a hereditary aristocracy. If one didn’t know better, it would seem that the more communist a country, such as North Korea, the more it resembles a monarchy. In China, the children of the Politburo members are actually called princesses and princes, and they gad about in a style that makes the current European royalty look like a bunch of low-rent grifters.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/13/2012 04:11 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It is serfdom plain and simple with an all powerful government as a god. It's a godless ideology and for the stupid to believe in.
Posted by: newc || 04/13/2012 13:02 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Fri 2012-04-13
  23 Reportedly Dead as Syria Regime, Opposition Trade Charges of Breaking Ceasefire
Thu 2012-04-12
  Nork rocket launched, then 'breaks up'
Wed 2012-04-11
  Syria denounced for not adhereing to agreed peace plan
Tue 2012-04-10
  Syrian Rebel Army Ready to Respect Truce
Mon 2012-04-09
  84 Dead, 200 Arrested as Violence Rages across Syria
Sun 2012-04-08
  Hugo off to Brazil for Emergent Care
Sat 2012-04-07
  Azerbaijani intel service jugs 17 hard boys
Fri 2012-04-06
  Mali rebels declare cease-fire after seizing north
Thu 2012-04-05
  Pakistan rejects US bounty on Hafiz Saeed
Wed 2012-04-04
  Yemeni airstrikes kill 43 al-Qaida militants
Tue 2012-04-03
  Oil Pipeline Blown Up In Southeast Yemen, Flows Halted
Mon 2012-04-02
  Twin explosions rocked Mombasa Saturday
Sun 2012-04-01
  Paris: Scientist accused of plotting to blow up 'city size of London'
Sat 2012-03-31
  Us Drone Strike Kills Four In Miranshah
Fri 2012-03-30
  France nabs at least 17 Islamists in raids across the country

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