[NYT] Muslims Form Community Patrol. Some Neighbors Say No, Thanks. Let's try the spicy lamb noodles Mamood. I hear they're a local favorite.
The self-funded group sees itself as a neighborhood watch. But there was alarm after its cars were spotted in Brooklyn without warning, or explanation.
Maeen Ali remembers the worry he felt when he first spotted the “Punish a Muslim Day” screed online.
The letter, mailed last spring throughout England, encouraged violence that ranged from pulling off a woman’s head scarf to bombing mosques. Each attack, the letter instructed, would be rewarded with points. The hate campaign prompted the police in New York and other big cities to expand patrols around mosques and Islamic centers on the specified day.
Mr. Ali, who lives in Downtown Brooklyn, said he was consumed by thoughts of his four children’s safety.
“That just boiled inside of me,” said Mr. Ali, 38, who moved to the United States from Yemen in 1990. “That’s when I said to myself that it was really important to come out and protect Muslims in the community.”
It prompted the NYPD the same NYPD who lifted out bodies from the WTO rubble, who lost 23 officers and many others over the years due to 9/11 - to protect motherf↻cking MOSQUES ?! In NY ?
(Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates finances the military leader trying to topple a United Nations-recognized government in Libya. It helps lead a coalition of nations imposing an economic blockade of Qatar, despite U.S. calls to resolve the dispute. It hired former staffers of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) as elite hackers to spy in a program that included Americans as surveillance targets, a Reuters investigation found this year. "Americans as surveillance targets"... you mean like the Orange Man ?
And yet, in a highly unusual practice, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) does not spy on the UAE’s government, three former CIA officials familiar with the matter told Reuters, creating what some critics call a dangerous blind spot in U.S. intelligence. "Dangerous blind spot"....similar to the Magic kingdom and 9/11 possibly ?
The CIA’s posture isn’t new. What’s changed is the nature of the tiny but influential OPEC nation’s intervention across the Middle East and Africa - fighting wars, running covert operations and using its financial clout to reshape regional politics in ways that often run counter to U.S. interests, according to the sources and foreign policy experts. Obviously the UAE cannot be trusted. They keep bills of lading, invoices, and receipts of financial transactions. For insurance purposes of course.
The CIA’s failure to adapt to the UAE’s growing military and political ambitions amounts to a "dereliction of duty," said a fourth former CIA official.
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What’s changed is the nature of the tiny but influential OPEC nation’s intervention across the Middle East and Africa - fighting wars, running covert operations and using its financial clout to reshape regional politics in ways that often run counter to U.S. interests, according to the sources and foreign policy experts.
We taught them very well. The "Counter to U.S. interests" piece..... could be a topic for in-depth discussion.
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I knew a former Marine that told me some tales about Switzerland during the 60's -- the Swiss "ignored" the Cloak n' Dagger stuff as long as all the bodies were tidied up before daylight and none of the tourists got a scare! Same thing with Qatar today... it is just too convenient to have a neutral place to do all of your clandestine meetings.
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TheCIA’s failure to adapt to the UAE’s growing military and political ambitions amounts to a "dereliction of duty," said a fourth former CIA official.
Nothing in the article gives one any pause for comfort. Has the CIA taken to relying solely on electronic surveillance and ignored human intel? Are they relying on "five eyes" and the NSA to give them critical intelligence?
The CIA has been derelict in its duties in many instances. For example, two of the 911 hijackers were from the UAE. There are other examples of their missing the boat.
Recent derelictions of duty during the last administration might be due to a pre-occupation with domestic spying (against the law), for example, spying on the Senate and POTUS candidate and newly-elected Trump. I'm not confident this has all been cleaned up yet. It is not a surprise that people out here in "flyover land" are a bit jaundiced about justice being done.
[Business Insider] A mysterious explosion at a Russian weapons testing site earlier this month released various radioactive isotopes, creating a cloud of radioactive gases that swept across a nearby town, the country's state weather agency said Monday, and experts said the mixture removes all doubt about what blew up.
The deadly August 8 blast at the Nyonoksa military weapons testing range released a handful of rapidly decaying radioactive isotopes ‐ strontium-91, barium-139, barium-140, and lanthanum-140 ‐ which have half-lives ranging from 83 minutes to 12.8 days, the Roshydromet national weather and environmental monitoring agency said in a statement on test samples. Inform Vlad that the DARPA Lofty Particle Beam Destructor (LPBD) was set on 'STUN.' Please discontinue any further testing.
"These are fission products," Joshua Pollack, a leading expert on nuclear and missile proliferation, told Insider. "If anyone still doubts that a nuclear reactor was involved in this incident, this report should go a long way toward resolving that."
Alexander Uvarov, the editor of the independent news site AtomInfo.ru, told the news agency RIA Novosti that these isotopes were products of nuclear fission involving uranium, Agence France-Presse reported Monday. This collection of radioisotopes could be released by a reaction involving uranium-235.
Nils Bohmer, a Norwegian nuclear-safety expert, told The Barents Observer that "the presence of decay products like barium and strontium is coming from a nuclear chain reaction," adding that it was evidence that it "was a nuclear reactor that exploded."
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Yes, and when we all become "government employees" under socialism, "being screamed at" = sent to re-education or labor camp and "you can leave any time you want" = bullet in the head.
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she should have been able to get this in a major newspaper but, since the author knows what she is talking about, and doesn't agree with the left, this is unlikely
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[NYT] Muslims Form Community Patrol. Some Neighbors Say No, Thanks. 
[Business Insider] A mysterious explosion at a Russian weapons testing site earlier this month released various radioactive isotopes, creating a cloud of radioactive gases that swept across a nearby town, the country's state weather agency said Monday, and experts said the mixture removes all doubt about what blew up.
