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[Dawn] IT is unfortunate that the stand-off between those demanding tougher legislation on blasphemy and the Bangladesh government has had such a violent outcome. For several weeks, the Hefazat-e-Islam -- which draws support from the country's madressahs -- and its supporters have been demanding changes, including the introduction of the death penalty for those found guilty of blasphemy. Bangladesh, however, describes itself as a secular democracy and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. Wajed said that the current laws were adequate. Matters came to a head on Monday. With tens of thousands of religious activists on the streets, violence first erupted on Sunday after the police tried to break up a blockade of the highways leading into Dhaka. The next day, in a pre-dawn raid, the police launched a crackdown; Dhaka turned into a battleground echoing with gunfire, hundreds were maimed and there were a number of deaths. The police shut down Islamist television stations and nabbed Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! dozens of protesters.Here in Pakistain, there is good reason to empathise. As this country's experience has proved, caving in under pressure to groups that resort to violent means to press for their demands can never produce good results. Though it may temporarily appease such elements, it also emboldens them.
In particular, laws made under such pressure, especially from the religious right, generally prove to be controversial. As Pakistain has seen in terms of its own blasphemy legislation, laws based on religion prove practically impossible to undo later. It is easy for the hardline right to stoke the population's passions through the card of religion. Yet the state must stand up; and that is why, although demands for a revisit of Pakistain's own blasphemy laws fell silent after the liquidation of Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, the issue needs to be taken up again once a new government is in place. The hardline right may exert a lot of force, but it has to be resisted if Mohammedan countries are to become progressive countries too.
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The bulk of the cash stashed offshore by big corporations is from earnings offshore; they choose to not bring it in to the US, pay taxes on it, then send it back offshore to spend. Companies pay US taxes on US earnings (expect when they engage in some devious and probably illegal accounting tricks to shift costs from offshore to the US to offset US earnings.)
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Whoops, my bad Rome fell in 410 when it was sacked by barbarians.
The Vandals, who till this day get blamed for all sorts of mindless destruction. Actually, the Vandals were tired of being sc***ed over by the ruling class in Rome who kept playing games of intrigue than dealing with reality. The Vandals just brought a serious dose of reality to the pettiness of those who believed they should be in charge.
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"You'll take the blame. Cutter and Ritter will take some, too, but it won't amount to much...The rest of the blame will fall on Greer. Oh yeah, you'll take him down with you, you'll destroy his reputation, but that's as far as it'll go. The old Potomac two-step, Jack."
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I predict that nothing will happen of significance. Maybe some low level State Department functionary will get blamed, or maybe somebody in CIA or Defense. Hilary and Obama will suffer no lasting damage.
By 2016, people will have forgotten where Benghazi is or why it is significant. The Republicans won't have the balls to bring it up -after all, in 2016, it will be a long time ago, just water under the bridge.
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Again, the Democrat-controlled US Senate are unilikely to abandon + remove POTUS Bammer from the Oval Office/WH over Benghazi unless intentional murder is conclusively proven.
EXCLUDING ANY DIRECT FELONY LINKS TO THE VARIOUS "FAST-N-FURIOUS" ALLEGATIONS/SCENARIOS, THE ALTERN WOULD BE AKIN TO FELONY-LEVEL MANSLAUGHTER.
As things stand, those whom seek to impeach the Bammer have a very weak "derelection of duty/responsibility" case, one that IMO does NOT defeat the Bammer's counter-argument of Benghazi being a simple or tragic "mistake in judgement/conclusion" by the Bammer + Admin. IFF ANYTHING, THE BUCK ENDS AT SECSTATE HILLARY, NOT THE BAMMER???
My $$$ is on CHINA-VS-JAPAN-VS-DEBT/SEQUESTER-RIDDEN-US, to include any China, China Ally-led major mil incidents on the mainland.
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It is obvious that lying is the common skill set required for this administrations job security. Jay 'Art' Carney and Victoria Nuland are the best at being the worst.
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So the movie isn't the same as the book, Mr. Carney? Edit out the turtle universe, make Pennywise a bit more comedic and make sure Judge Stone and the gang doesn't do the girl in the sewer?
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So when is the MSM going to cut off Victoria Nuland and refuse to listen to her? After all, she lied to them...
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It is a sad day to realize that if you assume govt spokespersons are lying all the time, you will be better off in your decision making process.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
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Even iff the GOP-led House successfully impeaches the Bammer over Benghazi, he Democratic-controlled Senate are not going to remove him from the Oval Office unless there is overwhelming proof that POTUS Obama's decisions + actions vee Benghazi, let alone "Fast-n-Furious" alleged arms smuggling, were more than just a simple mistake(s) in Judgement-Conclusion, or Dereliction of Duty-Responsibility. IT WOULD HAVE TO BE SHOWN THAT PYUS BAMMER + ADMIN MURDERED, OR PREFERRED TO MURDER, AMBASSADOR STEVENS + THREE OTHER AMERICANS FOR THE SAKE OF POLITICS ANDOR SELF-PRESERVATION.
Iff NOT, thats where IRAN in the Persian Gulf, + CHINA'S AGGRESSIVE ESCALATIONS in East Asia. come into play, + now SYRIA-LEBANON-IRAQ, come into play, espec as affected by the massive US Debt Burden includ Sequestration + US-Global Econ woes.
E.G. TOPIX > DID ISRAEL "NUKE" SYRIA?
Did IDAF employ TACNUKE BUNKER BUSTER(S) during Syria airstrikes, + DID POTUS BAMMER = USA KNOW???
* SAME > [Long War Journal] "IRANIAN CITIZENS" REPORTED KILLED DURING ISAF [near-border]STRIKE.
* SALON.COM > US FORCES IN EUROPE ON ALERT DUE TO LIBYA CRISIS [read, NOT Syria] UNREST.
USMC MilAssets in Spain, includ MARSOG + Air-Ground elements.
RELATED REUTERS = LIBYA CRISIS DEEPENS AS [allied] REBEL GROUPS EXPAND DEMANDS.
* NEWS KERALA > "INDIA-CHINA BORDER BACK TO NORMAL [post-Ladakh/Depsang Valley = Troops withdrawal] BUT TROUBLE COULD ERUPT AGAIN".
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US APPROVED 40-KM ADVANCE BY PAKISTANI MILITARY INTO AFGHANISTAN? | PAJHWOK AFGHAN LEADER MUSLIMYAR [Pak Senate Leader Jazal Hadi M.] ALLEGES US-PAK DEAL ON DURAND LINE.
At this rate, Afghanistan could evol into POST-US "IRAQ II"???
RELATED SAME > [DNA India] INDIA, CHINA FACING OFF AS TIBET IS NO LONGER A [pre-1949] BUFFER ZONE: TIBETAN PRIME MINSTER LOBSANG SANGAY.
* TOPIX > CHINA + JAPAN TRADE BARBS OVER OKINAWA OWNERSHIP.
* SAME > [International Business Times] CHINA DEMANDS JAPAN CEDE SOVEREIGNTY OVER US MILITARY BASE OKINAWA.
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > RYUKYUS PROBLEM [Okinawa] UTLIMATELY RELATED TO SINO-US REGIONAL + GLOBAL BALANCE OF POWER.
[Dawn] IMRAN Khan's injuries resulting from a fall from a forklift during a poll rally in Lahore on Tuesday gave the nation some anxious moments and it was a moment of relief when doctors declared the PTI chief out of danger. Unfortunate though it was, such an accident was not entirely unexpected. The hair-raising somersault only underscored the utter disregard of safety measures in the boisterous rallies that are an essential feature of our electioneering. The threat to life doesn't come from the hard boyz alone; the chaos that is the hallmark of all public activity in South Asia poses perhaps an equal threat to life and limb. Too many party workers and supporters want to be on the dais and be seen close to the leader, resulting in the kind of jostling and pushing witnessed on Tuesday evening.
But what was a welcome departure from all the mudslinging that has characterised the campaigning was the mature response of politicians -- across the political spectrum -- to Mr Khan's plight. For instance, Mr Khan and Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... had been at each other's throats even before the campaigns began. With the approach of election day, the vitriol had scaled new heights. However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... on Tuesday, the PML-N chief announced the cancellation of all campaign activity for Wednesday. Mr Sharif had expressed similar solidarity with the Bhutto family on the liquidation of Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... that had resulted in the postponement of polls by several weeks. Apart from Mr Sharif, messages of sympathy for the PTI leader poured in from other party heads and politicians. They ranged from political foes including Altaf Hussain and former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's former prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics could be awe-inspiring ... to friends such as Syed Munawar Hassan ... The funny-looking leader-for-life of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. He joined the National Students Federation (NSF), a lefty student body, and was elected its President in 1959. He came into contact with the Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba (IJT) Pakistan and studied the writings of Mawlana Syed Abul Ala Maududi, The Great Apostasizer. As a result, he joined IJT in 1960 and soon he was elected as President of its University of Karachi Unit and member of the Central Executive Council. He was Assistant Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistain in 1992-93, and became Secretary General in 1993. After years of holding Qazi's camel he was named Amir when the old man stepped down in 2009... and Maulana Samiul Haq ...the Godfather of the Taliban, leader of his own faction of the JUI. Known as Mullah Sandwich for his habit of having two young boys at a time... , not to speak of Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... . The MQM and the Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... announced a halt to campaigning for a day, and President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari ... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ... , who is frequently criticised by the PTI, sent him a bouquet. Equally heartening was Mr Khan's own attitude as he spoke from his hospital bed, urging the people to cast their vote on May 11.
This maturity has been welcomed by a nation that often views its representatives with cynicism. However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... one niggling thought remains. Why have many of the leaders moved by Tuesday's dreadful spectacle not shown the same sympathy for those killed and maimed in the election rallies bombed by the TTP? Were these victims and their grieving relatives lesser human beings undeserving of solace because they belonged to the 'wrong' political parties?
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The question is, who takes his place once he's metaphorically bowled, caught, stumped, run out, or trips over his own metaphorical wicket?
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