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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Jenny McCarthy aka Kate in "Scary Movie 3" aka Herself in "Party @ the Palms " aka Ms. Isaac in "Wieners" aka Connie in "Witless Protection" aka Lori in "John Tucker Must Die" aka Julia in "Thank Heaven" aka Rebecca Sommers in "Dirty Love" Aka Playmate of the Month October 1993/ Playmate of the Year 1994 (age 39)
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Dr. Jenny McCarthy (two assets qualifying her) whose campaign of ignorance and blame will condemn countless children to needless disease and loss of life to help her assuage the guilt that her kid has autism. See also, Dr, Deirdre Imus for anti-immunization stupidity.
*spit*
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Although Frank G's a bit harsh I agree. Jenny has done a lot of damage. I can't look at her anymore without feeling a bit sick.
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Although Frank G's a bit harsh
Nah, the anti-vaccine movement deserves all the scorn we can muster and then some. Hey everybody, let's go live in the Dark Ages! Gaia will protect us. Bah and bah again.
[An Nahar] Hundreds of SPLM-North rebels were killed in festivities with the Sudanese army in South Kordofan on Monday, said a local governor in Sudan's only oil producing state where the army is battling Death Eaters.
"Several hundred members of the movement were killed this day in an assault on the city of Teludi that was repelled by the armed forces," governor Ahmed Haroun said of South Kordofan, the scene of frequent festivities.
An army front man, Sawarmi Khaled Saad, said "this morning more than 700 rebel fighters together with 12 officers tried to attack Teludi (east of the bustling provincial capital Kadugli) to occupy it."
"The armed forces waited for the invaders to arrive on three fronts with equipment and on several vehicles, but in an hour the armed forces and popular defense forces beat back the attack, causing heavy losses," he said.
South Kordofan remained under Khartoum's northern administration when South Sudan became independent in July, but violent festivities since June have pitted Nuba rebels once allied to southern rebels against the Sudanese army.
It is located on the border between Sudan and the new state of South Sudan, run by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM).
The festivities first erupted when the Khartoum government tried to disarm Islamic fascistiin the ethnically divided state, saying it would not tolerate the existence of two armies within its borders after the south separates.
Last month, the International Crisis Group warned the conflict in Sudan is spreading and that the government's efforts to crush the rebels in its southern border region could spark a wider civil war.
"With hundreds of thousands of people displaced ... the growing war on multiple fronts poses serious dangers for the country, for its future relationship with the Republic of South Sudan and for the stability of the region as a whole," said the think-tank.
Khartoum is engaged in military operations against rebel movements in three separate regions along Sudan's volatile border with the south, which gained full independence on July 9.
The impending loss of the south prompted what the think tank described as a "soft-coup" within Sudan's ruling National Congress Party by senior army generals, who outflanked the more pragmatic elements seeking a negotiated strategy and opted instead to remove their opponents militarily.
The conflict in South Kordofan state erupted just one month before southern secession, between the Sudanese army and Nuba Islamic fascistiwho fought with the SPLA, the former rebel army of the south, during their decades-long war with the north.
The fighting, apparently triggered by the army's insistence on disarming the opposition SPLM-North, spilled into nearby Blue Nile state as the government moved to assert its authority within its new borders.
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This can happen when some folk want to take other folks guns away, and no point in having Generals if they can't have a war.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] The Kenyan military and relief agencies were on Monday giving conflicting accounts of a bombing raid by Kenya Air Force jets deep inside Somalia on Sunday afternoon.
While international humanitarian group Medicins Sans Frontières (MSF) said it was treating dozens of injured following an aerial bombardment of the town of Jilib that hit a camp for internally displaced people, the Kenyan military said it had carried out a raid in Marere, Lower Juba region, southern Somalia but that only Al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban. The organization's current leader is Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad, also known as Ibrahim al-Afghani. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a Kenyan al-Qaeda member, is considered the group's military leader... gunnies had been killed.
MSF on Monday called on warring parties to respect the rights of civilians.
"At least three people are reported dead and 52 injured, mostly women and kiddies," MSF said in a statement in Nairobi.
But in a statement, military front man Emmanuel Chirchir said no civilians were either killed or injured by the Kenya Air Force bombs.
He said the casualties reported at an IDP camp were caused by enemy fire.
"The incident at the IDP camp developed following enemy actions in the area. Upon the aerial attack, an Al-Shabaab driver drove off a technical battle wagon mounted with an anti-aircraft gun towards the IDP camp. The wagon was on fire and laden with explosives. It went kaboom! at the camp, causing the reported deaths and injuries," Major Chirchir added.
The front man said they had contacted MSF personnel on ground to ascertain the turn of events.
The Kenyan military killed at least 10 Al-Shabaab members and seriously maimed 47 others in an air strike at another training centre for the group.
Major Chirchir said Al-Shabaab's training centre on the outskirts of Afmadow, was bombed on Sunday evening.
At least two jet fighters were involved in the bombing of that part of the commercial town.
"The centre was severely damaged by the air strike at around 1500 hours. From the ground it is confirmed 10 Al-Shabaab members died and 47 were seriously maimed," the military front man said.
It was, however, not clear whether the injured were captured by Kenyan and TFG troops.
Major Chirchir said the bombardment was part of a plan to capture the town and further advance towards the southern Somalia port town of Kismayu.
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[An Nahar] Libyan ex-prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, held in a Tunisian prison, fears for his life as the sole holder of Libyan state secrets since the late MoammarQadaffy's ... who is now napping peacefully in the dirt... death, his lawyer said Monday. Wouldn't that make him more valuable? Though of course it's understood the secrets could be given up rather uncomfortably in the event of non-cooperation.
"After the death of Moamnar Qadaffy, he became the only one to hold the secrets of the Libyan state, and has become valuable prey for the secret service," lawyer Mabrouk Kurchid told a news conference in Tunis.
"Storied Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi is appealing for help because he fears for his life. There is an attempt to influence Tunisian justice" by the Libyan authorities, Kurchid said.
Mahmoudi, Libya's premier until the final days of Qadaffy's regime, was incarcerated on September 21 on Tunisia's southwestern border with Algeria under a warrant from the new authorities in Tripoli.
A Tunisian court swiftly sentenced the 70-year-old to six months in prison after finding him guilty of illegal entry, but that decision was overruled on appeal.
The new Libyan authorities who toppled Qadaffy have sought Mahmoudi's extradition, for which a hearing has been scheduled on November 22.
Despite a provisional release granted last Thursday by a Tunisian court, Mahmoudi remains behind bars, his lawyer said.
"I am concerned by my client's health, which is deteriorating," he said of Mahmoudi, who briefly went on a hunger strike in late September.
Tunisia's justice ministry said Mahmoudi was kept behind bars following a second extradition request filed by the interim authorities in Tunis on October 27.
A ministry front man told Agence La Belle France Presse that the two countries are bound by a 1961 agreement which includes provisions on extradition.
Tunisia in August recognized Libya's National Transitional Council as the country's new authority and has committed itself to cooperation on security issues.
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TRIPOLI: Seif Al-Islam Qaddafi will not escape justice and should be tried in Libya for murder, corruption and "many things" before an international court questions him, the country's interim justice minister said on Monday.
Mohammed Al-Alagi said he did not want Seif Al-Islam, now on the run, to meet the same fate as his father, former leader Muammar Qaddafi, who was beaten, abused and shot after forces of Libya's National Transitional Council captured him on Oct. 20.
But he said anything could happen if there was a battle when Seif Al-Islam was found.
Translation: it'd be too bad if he didn't live long enough to be hanged...
"It depends when and where they got him. If he was under fire, in crossfire, for example, nobody could guarantee he would survive. But if they arrested him, I think he would be safe," Alagi told Reuters in an interview.
"It's better if he (Seif Al-Islam) faces trial in Libya but that needs guarantees of a fair trial of international standards. The Libyan justice system is normal. The Libyan justice system should try him here first and then, if he needs to, he can face international justice," Alagi said.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) wants to try the 39-year-old for crimes against humanity. Its prosecutor said on Sunday he had "substantial evidence" that the London-educated Seif Al-Islam had helped hire mercenaries to attack Libyan protesters against his father's 42-year rule.
Alagi said he would like to see him tried by the Hague-based court to show the world what he had done, but said the legal process would depend largely on where he was found.
"If he's in Libya we will arrest him. If he's outside, the ICC will arrest him. If he's in a country that has signed the Rome statute (that set up the court), he will be arrested. I'm not worried that he'll escape," he said.
He will be charged with "killing people, stealing money, corruption ... They will find many things to charge him with."
Alagi said he had been in contact with the ICC but declined to say what had been discussed.
Seif Al-Islam may be heading for Niger, which risks upsetting its own pro-Qaddafi Tuareg nomads if it hands him over to the ICC in line with its treaty obligations. It has promised to do so if the wanted man shows up on its territory.
The fugitive Libyan has been in indirect contact with the ICC over a possible surrender, although he may hope that mercenaries could spirit him to a friendly African country. Algeria, which took in Seif Al-Islam's mother, sister, brother Hannibal and half-brother Mohammed, is not a signatory to the treaty that set up the ICC. Nor is Sudan or Zimbabwe.
Alagi said he did not know which intermediaries Seif Al-Islam was using and that Libya's new rulers were not involved. Asked if he believed NTC fighters would kill Seif Al-Islam, he said: "I hope not really. I would not like to see that happen, I think he will face trial in Libya or outside Libya.
"Myself, I want to see him tried in the ICC. I want the international community to see what he did."
If we all live long enough...
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BRUSSELS: NATO ends its military operation in Libya at midnight on Monday, seven months after launching an air and sea campaign that helped bring the overthrow and death of Muammar Qaddafi.
In announcing the decision last week, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen called it one of the most successful operations in the history of the 62-year-old alliance. Rasmussen will mark the end of the mission by visiting Libya on Monday, where he will meet Libyas National Transitional Council and members of civil society, the alliance said.
NATO stuck to its decision to end the operation despite NTC calls for it to stay engaged longer and says it does not expect to play a major post-war role, although it could assist the transition to democracy by helping with security sector reform.
NATO took over the mission on March 31, based on a United Nations mandate that set a no-fly zone over Libya and permitted foreign military forces, including NATO, to use all necessary measures to protect Libyan civilians. That mandate was terminated last Thursday, despite a request for the UN Security Council to wait for the NTC to decide if it wants NATO help to secure its borders.
NATO allies have been keen to see a quick conclusion to a costly effort that has involved more than 26,000 air sorties and round-the-clock naval patrols at a time when budgets are under severe strain due to the global economic crisis. But NATO officials said members of the alliance are free to give further security aid to Libya individually.
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...'NATOSecretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen called it one of the most successful operations in the history of the 62-year-old alliance'.
In terms of what has this 'success' been measured?
Costs in terms of how much and who paid for it all
v. the 'successful' result, which is still a little bit unresolved to my mind. There must be quite a few Jihadis having gun-sex all night and day celebrating NATO's success. Someone might want to send them a bill, and if they don't pay, NATO can go bomb them again, on my dime this time.
The NTC officially announced Libya's liberation on October 23, days after the capture and death of Gaddafi. Nato commanders have said they believe the interim administration is able to take care of the country's security.
Last week, however, Al Qaeda's black flag, complete with Arabic script declaring 'there is no God but Allah' and full moon underneath, was seen fluttering above the Benghazi courthouse building, according to Vice.com. The black flag is said to be flying over the building alongside the Libyan national flag.
Vice.com reported that Islamists in Benghazi have been seen driving SUVs along the city's streets and waving the Al Qaeda flag at night while shouting, 'Islamiya, Islamiya! No East, nor West'.
The revelation in Benghazi came just days after it emerged that rebels in Libya have imposed Sharia law in the country since seizing power. The country's new leader, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, said Islamic Sharia law will be the basic source of legislation in free Libya.
The sudden lurch by a country seen as very moderate towards Islamic extremism will alarm many in the West who supported the ousting of Colonel Gaddafi.
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The suddenunexpected lurch by a country seen as very moderate towards Islamic extremism will alarm many in the West who supported the ousting of Colonel Gaddafi.
I don't think Qatar was surprised at all.
Then again, I don't think the powers that backed removing Daffy are all that surprised either. As long as the oil flows again and refugees aren't crowding onto Europe's shores, they won't care who's in charge.
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Then again, I don't think the powers that backed removing Daffy are all that surprised either. As long as the oil flows again and refugees aren't crowding onto Europe's shores, they won't care who's in charge.
And if oil doesn't flow, but refuges do, they still won't admit they were wrong.
The black flag in Islam is associated with jihad. This particular black flag was used by the Islamic State of Iraq (Al Qaeda in Iraq). Not coincidentally, the Benghazi rebellion leadership fought for AQ in Iraq.
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Thanks for the warning. Now they have had time to hire world-class experts who have no problem with trading their skills for money and pointing the cartels to whomever they find at the other end of the internet. I hope Anonymous knows how to cover their tracks properly.
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More on this story including the Spanish language video.
We encourage anyone who is not properly protected to immediately and publicly disassociate themselves from this operation, as it is an extremely risky operation in which there is an imminent and probable loss of a great number of human lives
Sounds like they understand the danger. What they need is a Second Amendment.
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The restoration of the death penalty in Mexico - with a Singapore-style capital offense fast track (arrest to indictment to trial to appeals to execution or acquittal in 2 years) - would solve a lot of problems. Instead of doing the right thing, the Mexican government sets up death squads, where executions are carried out without due process.
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It's not even a Singapore-style thing - we used to have this kind of trial process for capital crimes until the early 60's. Arrest to execution used to take a couple of years stateside, too.
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If they are going after Los Zetas, then they are doing they same thing every other Mexican cartel is doing, including the Sinaloa and Gulf Cartels, as well as all their little sub groups and gangs.
Anonymous just chose their side in Mexico's drug war and it ain't with the good guys.
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Finally, someone willing to take on these criminals and put an end to them. Their stupid Guy Fawkes masks should be even more amusing with a .223 hole punched in the forehead.
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[One Pakistan] MIRANSHAH, Pakistain -- A US drone strike on Monday killed three Islamic fascistiin Pakistain's northwestern tribal region, a hotbed of Taliban gunnies near the Afghan border, officials said.
The drone fired two missiles into a moving vehicle as it drove through a village near Mubarak Shah town about 15 kilometres (nine miles) east of Miranshah, the main town in North Wazoo district, Pak security officials told AFP.
"Three Islamic fascistihave been killed in the attack," one security official said.
"The vehicle was moving. There are reports that four Islamic fascistiwere killed in the strike but we are verifying the death of the fourth turban. We have confirmed the death of three others."
The identities of the dead were not clear.
A similar attack on Sunday killed four Islamic fascistiin Datta Khel town about 30 kilometres (20 miles) west of Miranshah.
Covert CIA drones are the chief US weapon against Taliban and Al-Qaeda Islamic fascistiwho use Pakistain's lawless tribal areas as launch pads for attacking US troops in Afghanistan and plotting attacks on the West.
Under President Barack The Cambridge police acted stupidly Obama, the United States has drastically stepped up drone strikes in Pakistain but it refuses to discuss them publicly.
The latest attack is the 60th US drone strike reported in Pakistain so far this year.
Dozens of them have been launched since Navy SEALs killed Al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who was potted in Pakistain... in the garrison city of Abbottabad, close to the capital Islamabad, on May 2.
Relations between Pakistain and the United States deteriorated after that, and again over accusations that Pak intelligence was involved with the Haqqani network, blamed for a siege in September of the US embassy in Kabul.
Around 2,000 Paks staged a demonstration outside the national parliament in Islamabad Friday to demand an end to US drone strikes, claiming they kill more innocent civilians than Death Eater leaders.
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[Dawn] A provincial cabinet minister from the Pakistain People's Party (PPP) beat feet unhurt Monday when Talibs opened fire on his vehicle in the country's northwest, officials said.
Amjad Khan Afridi, minister for housing and physical planning in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province, was travelling in his bullet-proof car when forces of Evil hiding in the Bilitang area of Kohat district opened fire, police said.
"Militants fired three sniper shots from the nearby hills. One bullet hit the car's windscreen. The minister is safe," Mubarak Zeb, police chief in Kohat district, told AFP.
"The minister was the target. Militants were involved in this attack," he added.
An intelligence official in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, the scenic provincial capital, blamed the attack on the Taliban.
Afridi had a police escort at the time of the attack, the official added.
Pakistain's northwest is deeply troubled by violence blamed on the Taliban and al-Qaeda allies.
Since 2007, more than 4,700 people have been killed across the country in Death Eater attacks.
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[Dawn] Three children were killed on Saturday in an kaboom believed to be of a landmine in Cholistan (desert area).
Police said the landmine was buried in a field in Toba Qasimwala, 95 kilometres from Rahim Yar Khan.
The victims included 10-year-old Imran, 10-year-old Akhtar and eight-year-old Asghar who were playing in the field. Also in the kaboom died two cows and a goat.
The blast was so fierce that the corpses were shattered into pieces. Security personals arrived at the scene and cordoned off the field.
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I'm stunned they didn't call it a US drone zap.
[Dawn] Although police had claimed arrest of a hit man allegedly involved in more than 230 cases after a shootout in Defence Housing Authority last week, none of the top Sherlocks or the specialised units of police is willing to investigate and establish charges against him, it emerged on Sunday. "Youse got nuttin' on me, coppers!"
Well-placed sources in the police department said that the suspect had been interrogated by different intelligence and law-enforcement agencies and finally handed over to the Clifton cop shoppe after almost every specialised unit of the police showed reluctance to investigate charges and prepare a charge-sheet against him. "Heh heh. Da witnesses is all dead."
"Digging out evidence against him and establishing his indirect involvement in so many cases is a highly challenging task given the state of investigation and prosecution," remarked an officer. "... or gonna be dead."
On Oct 23, the Clifton police had claimed to have tossed in the slammer Zakir Husain, alias Agha Murtaza Husain, son of Shah Mohammad, after an alleged shootout with him and his accomplice on Khayaban-i-Shaheen. "Youse don't wanna be witnesses, do youse?"
The police said that the suspected hit man was also involved in the killing of DSP Nawaz Ranjha, DSP Naeem Khan Bangash and Inspector Nasirul Hasan. "'Cuz dat could be painful."
An FIR (268/2011) under Sections 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 324 (attempt to commit qatl-i-amd) with 34 (common intention) and another FIR (269/2011) under Sections 13-D and 13-E of the Pakistain Arms Ordinance was registered at the Clifton cop shoppe.
Background interviews with senior law-enforcement officials showed that the suspect was picked up by officials of an intelligence agency following the interception of an email. Subsequent to his detention and questioning, the suspect was handed over to the Rangers, enjoying policing powers in the city, the officials said.
After grilling the suspect and carrying out their standard operations procedure, the Rangers handed him over to the Clifton police, the officials added.
Rangers have claimed at several pressers that after picking up suspects, they hand them over to local police for further legal formalities.
Sources said that a police investigator had reluctantly agreed to question the suspect and prepare a charge-sheet against him, with the condition that he would not take the suspect's custody in a back date.
A joint interrogation team (JIT) comprising representatives of the intelligence agencies, Rangers and police questioned the suspect on Oct 26.
"Without hesitation, he is sharing information he is being asked about," said a team member.
Speaking to Dawn, law-enforcement officials said so far it seemed that the suspect had either ordered or passed on instructions to different hit men for carrying out killings.
They added that his name had been mentioned several times during the course of investigation by suspected assassins who according to the joint interrogation teams had been taking instructions from him. I don't suppose it's occurred to them that he might have a terrible accident? Are there no stairs in the Pak jailhouses? Are there no wells? Not even a few sharp instruments in the kitchens?
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[Dawn] The United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... ' cultural agency decided on Monday to give the Paleostinians full membership of the body, a vote that will boost their bid for recognition as a state at the United Nations.
Unesco is the first U.N. agency the Paleostinians have joined as a full member since President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... applied for full membership of the United Nations on Sept. 23.
The United States, Canada, Germany and Holland voted against Paleostinian membership. Brazil, Russia, China, India, South Africa and La Belle France voted in favour. Britannia and Italia abstained.
Washington is likely to cut funding to Unesco over the vote.
"The action today will complicate our ability to support Unesco," David T. Killion, U.S. ambassador to UNESCO, told journalists after the vote.
"The U.S. has been clear for the need of a two-state resolution, but the only path is through direct negotiations and there are no shortcuts, and initiatives like today are counterproductive."
The vote highlighted divisions over foreign policy within the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , some of whose 27 members voted for and some against Paleostinian membership.
Austrian Unesco ambassador Ursula Plassnik, whose country voted in favour, said she regretted the European Union could not arrive at a common position on the Paleostinian issue.
The Paleostinians obtained backing from two thirds of Unesco's members to become the 195th member of Unesco, with status as "an observer entity". Of 173 countries that voted from a possible 185, 107 voted in favour, 14 voted against, 52 abstained and 12 were absent.
Forty representatives of the 58-member board has voted in favour of putting the matter to a vote earlier this month, with four -- the United States, Germany, Romania and Latvia -- voting against and 14 abstaining.
Admission will be seen by the Paleostinians as a moral victory in their bid for full U.N. membership but could be costly for Unesco.
U.S. legislation stipulates that it can cut off funding to any U.N. agency that grants full membership to Paleostinians.
Israel called the vote a "tragedy".
"This resolution is a tragedy for Unesco.. Unesco deals in science and not science fiction and nevertheless (Unesco) adopted the science fiction reality," said Nimrod Barkan, Israel's ambassador to Unesco.
Israel has said the Paleostinian bid would amount to politicisation of the agency that would undermine its ability to carry out its mandate.
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The Paleostinians want to list Bethlehem, churches and mosques as world heritage sites.
Heresy sites maybe, but not heritage.
Bethlehem is in Israel! We don't care what the stinking christians following their heretic founder say, Israel is a Jewish land, and only Jewish culture belongs, that is why we purge those of fake faiths. We should bulldoze Bethlehem and carry on expelling the stinking christians and their muslim friends. The whole of the Arab world wasn't able to stop us, and Unesco certainly isn't going to stop us! We are the Jews and we do as we please.
IsraelForTheJews: you're a hateful, hate-mongering asshole who in the end is no different from the Palestinian terrorists you despise.
That's why you were sink trapped.
Now go away.
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article says, "U.S. legislation stipulates that it can cut off funding to any U.N. agency that grants full membership to Paleostinians."
nope
the 1990s legislation requires the funding cut off
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That would hold, Lord Garth, if were were under 'rule of law' - that is not necessarily so under Emperor Obama who has demostrated time and again that he will rule by decree and simply ignore any law which he finds inconvienent.
I was looking at this some more. The law has various bits of fuzziness, e.g., about how quick funding is to be cut off. As you imply, Obama will likely use all possible ways to slow the funding cut off or to compartmentalize it to reduce the scope.
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Cut funding from one area and they'll just slush it over from another. Unless you cut funding to the entire UN operation you've done nothing.
[An Nahar] "We were to have made a 60 million dollar payment to UNESCO in November and we will not be making that payment," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told news hounds.
Nuland said the Paleostinian admission "triggers longstanding (U.S.) legislative restrictions which will compel the United States to refrain from making contributions to UNESCO."
The United States, Israel's top ally, in the 1990s banned the financing of any U.N. organization that accepts Paleostine as a full member. The United States provides about 22 percent of the UNESCO annual budget.
The November payment amounts to a tranche of what U.S. officials say is a total annual U.S. contribution of $80 million to the U.N. organization.
Nuland echoed earlier remarks by the White House which said UNESCO's admission of the Paleostinians as a full member was "premature" and undermined international peace efforts and hopes of direct talks on a Paleostinian state.
She said the United States is aware its own interests could be undermined by its withholding funding to UNESCO.
"Under UNESCO's constitution, a member state will have no vote in the general conference if it gets more than two years in arrears in its contribution. So our actual arrearage status will begin in January," she said.
"We now need to have consultations with Congress," she said.
"Not paying our dues into these organizations could severely restrict and reduce our ability to influence them, our ability to act within them, and we think this affects U.S. interests," Nuland said.
"So we need to have conversations with Congress about what options might be available to protect our interests," she said, declining to elaborate.
She conceded that one option would be to gain some sort of flexibility where Washington can still fund UNESCO.
Nuland said the United States is also concerned it could lose influence with other U.N. organizations if the Paleostinians are admitted to them as a full member and Washington is automatically forced to withhold funds.
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Isn't UNESCO the organization that puts out those little orange boxes so kids can collect pennies for trick or treat instead of candy? Then they're supposed to give the pennies to their Sunday Schools? And now the Palestinians get to have a say in how that money is spent? And they held the vote on Halloween? Oh well, if it's for the children...
RAMALLAH: The Salem military court sentenced Palestinian lawmaker Jamal Al-Tirawi of President Mahmoud Abbas Fatah movement to 30 years in jail for his role in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades Fatahs military wing.
Or until the next Israeli soldier is kidnapped...
His brother Raed Al-Tirawi said that the court accused Jamal of being involved in directing and dispatching Palestinian fighters for military attacks against Israeli targets.
The court also accused him of recruiting operatives for Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, dealing in weaponry and supplying arms to his group in Nablus.
The lawmaker was arrested from home in the Balata refugee camp, to the east of Nablus, in May 2007.
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GAZA: Israeli aircraft struck the southern Gaza Strip targeting rocket-launching fighters, the military said Monday, and Palestinian officials reported that two terrorists men were found dead in the area. The Israeli military said in a statement that its aircraft attacked a terrorist squad that had just fired a rocket into Israel. The military said it had confirmed a hit but provided no further details.
Palestinian security officials said two bodies were discovered around dawn wearing the uniform of Al-Ahrar, or The Free People, a splitter little-known group with ties to Gazas Hamas rulers that previously had no history of violence against Israel.
The terrorists men were unarmed and no rocket launchers were found in the area, the officials said.
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[An Nahar] NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen ruled out the possibility of a no-fly zone for Syria, in remarks to an Agence La Belle France Presse correspondent as he travelled Monday to Tripoli to mark the end of the alliance's air war in Libya.
"It's totally ruled out. We have no intention whatsoever to intervene in Syria," Rasmussen said when asked if there was a possibility NATO would now spearhead a no-fly zone in Syria.
Rasmussen landed unannounced in Tripoli hours before NATO's mission in Libya was due to end officially, seven months after Western powers fired the first barrage of missiles against Moammar Qadaffy ... the like of whose wardrobe will never be seen again. At least that's what we hope... 's forces in an air war that played a major role in ousting the veteran dictator.
"We have no intention whatsoever to intervene in Syria," he insisted, saying the conditions there were different to those in Libya.
"First of all we took on the responsibility for the operation in Libya because there was a clear U.N. mandate, because we had strong and active support from the countries in the region," Rasmussen said.
"Actually they contributed actively to Operation Unified Protector. None of these conditions are fulfilled in Syria. And besides, one case is not like the other. We have to take decisions on a case-by-case basis. From an overall perspective, you can't compare Libya and Syria," he said.
Syrian activists have appealed on the international community to impose a no-fly zone on Syria to protect civilians and encourage army deserters opposed to the autocratic rule of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... .
Rasmussen strongly condemned the Syrian regime's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters which has killed more than 3,000 people, most of them civilians, according to a U.N. toll.
"Obviously I strongly condemn the security forces' crackdown on civilians in Syria. It's absolutely outrageous. And the only way forward in Syria, like in other countries, is to accommodate the legitimate aspirations of the Syrian people, introduce democratic reforms," Rasmussen added.
His remarks came as the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... said it awaited Monday a response from Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... to a proposed roadmap for peace, after talks Sunday in the Qatari capital with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem.
Repeating previous warnings, Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani told news hounds after the meeting that Assad risks forcing an international intervention if he allows the violence to continue.
"The entire region is at risk of a massive storm," Sheikh Hamad said.
Pro-democracy activists have urged the vaporous Arab League to freeze Syria's membership from the 22-member organization.
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Wow...my first thought was that this was Scott Rasmussen! And here I thought he just did public opinion polling!
Never mind.
[An Nahar] Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem on Monday held talks with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani on "the current situation in the Arab arena and the situation in Syria," Syrian official news agency SANA reported.
Muallem and a Syrian delegation on Sunday held talks in Doha with an Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... ministerial team on ways to end the unrest in revolt-hit Syria.
Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi said the organization's foreign ministers were awaiting a response after putting a roadmap to end the unrest to the Syrian delegation led by Muallem.
The roadmap calls for tanks to be withdrawn from Syrian streets and for talks between the embattled regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... and its opponents, Arabi told Agence La Belle France Presse in the Qatari capital.
During his talks with Muallem, "Sheikh Hamad expressed keenness to preserve security and stability in Syria, affirming the need to develop relations between the two countries," SANA said.
The meeting was attended by Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani and deputy PM Abdullah bin Hamad al-Atiya. Attending on the Syrian side were Assad's Political and Media Advisor Buthaina Shaaban, Deputy FM Faisal Muqdad and Syria's permanent envoy to the vaporous Arab League Youssef Ahmed.
The talks come amid growing fears among regional leaders that unchecked Syrian bloodshed could further inflame the Arab world.
"The Arab proposal to Syria calls for withdrawing tanks and all military vehicles to bring an immediate end to the violence and give assurances to the Syrian street," said Arabi.
The peace plan also calls for dialogue to take place in Cairo between Syrian regime officials and opposition figures, he added, before leaving Doha without indicating if a response had been received from Assad.
The Syrian delegation also left Doha later without making any statements, Qatar-based Al-Jazeera news channel reported, following Muallem's talks with the Qatari emir.
The region is reeling from unprecedented uprisings that have since January unseated three long-time rulers in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya.
Repeating previous warnings, Qatari PM Sheikh Hamad said Assad risked forcing an international intervention if he allows the violence to continue.
"The entire region is at risk of a massive storm," Sheikh Hamad told news hounds after Sunday's three-hour meeting.
Assad must take "concrete steps," he said, to end the unrest that according to the United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... has claimed more than 3,000 Syrian lives since March.
Sunday's Arab ministerial meeting "agreed on a serious proposal to stop the killing and all forms of violence in Syria," said Sheikh Hamad.
A follow-up meeting will be held Wednesday in Cairo, "whether or not there is an agreement," he added.
Assad warned in a newspaper interview that any Western intervention in Syria would cause an "earthquake" across the Middle East.
"Any problem in Syria will burn the whole region. If the plan is to divide Syria, that is to divide the whole region," Syria's embattled president told Britannia's Sunday Telegraph.
The Daily Telegraph quoted Assad Monday dismissing the Syrian opposition as unrepresentative elements who did not deserve his time.
"I wouldn't waste my time talking about them," he said. "I don't know them. It's better to investigate whether they really represent Syrians."
The Doha talks came as Syrian activists put mounting pressure on the Arab League to suspend Syria's membership of the 22-member bloc and organized protests across Syria on Sunday calling for the League to "freeze the membership" of Syria and as the corpse count in Syria rose.
On Monday, three people, including a 29-year-old man were rubbed out by a sniper in the protest hub city of Homs, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Another civilian and an army deserter were killed in Hama province in a pursuit by security forces, the London-based group said in a statement.
A fourth civilian was rubbed out in Harasta, a town near Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... as security forces carried out raids and made at least 13 arrests, it added, a day after at least seven people were killed in violence in several cities.
Meanwhile, ...back at the scene of the crime, Lieutenant Queeg had an idea: there was a simple way to tell whether Manetti had been the triggerman -- just look at his shoes!... dozens of students demonstrated at the University of Qalamoun in the Damascus region demanding the fall of the Baath party regime.
"Bashar go away, there shall not be a dialogue," they chanted according to a video posted on You Tube website.
Almost 100 people were killed in Syria on Friday and Saturday, the two bloodiest days yet of the uprising, among them 30 Syrian security agents and dozens of civilians, according to Observatory.
In Damascus meanwhile, a national committee began work Monday "to draft a new constitution for Syria," the official SANA news agency reported.
A new constitution was one of the key demands of the Syrian opposition at the start of the anti-government protests in March. Now they are demanding Assad's ouster.
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[An Nahar] Security forces rubbed out eight civilians and an army deserter in separate incidents in revolt-hit Syria on Monday, a rights group said.
Six people were rubbed out in the protest hub city of Homs, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Another civilian and an army deserter were killed in Hama province in a pursuit by security forces, the London-based group said in a statement.
An eighth civilian was rubbed out in Harasta, a town near Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... as security forces carried out raids and made at least 13 arrests, it added, a day after at least seven people were killed in violence in several cities.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase... dozens of students demonstrated at the University of Qalamoun in the Damascus region demanding the fall of the Baath party regime.
"Bashar go away, there shall not be a dialogue," they chanted according to a video posted on You Tube website.
Almost 100 people were killed in Syria on Friday and Saturday, the two bloodiest days yet of the uprising, among them 30 Syrian security agents and dozens of civilians, according to the Observatory.
In Damascus meanwhile, a national committee began work Monday "to draft a new constitution for Syria," the official SANA news agency reported.
A new constitution was one of the key demands of the Syrian opposition at the start of the anti-government protests in March. Now they are demanding Assad's ouster.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] A proposed Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... plan to end months of bloodshed in Syria includes a demand to remove tanks from the streets, the pan-Arab group said at it awaited today a response from Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... to its suggested roadmap for peace.
"The Arab proposal to Syria calls for withdrawing tanks and all military vehicles to bring an immediate end to the violence and give assurances to the Syrian street," Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi told AFP in the Qatari capital Doha.
The Arab League was today awaiting a response from Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... to its plan which, Arabi said, also calls for a dialogue to take place in Cairo between Syrian regime officials and opposition figures.
Arab foreign ministers met overnight their Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem in Doha for talks amid growing fears among regional leaders that unchecked Syrian bloodshed could further inflame the Arab world.
The region is already reeling from unprecedented uprisings that have since January unseated three long-time dictators in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya.
Repeating previous warnings, Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani told news hounds that Mr Assad risks forcing an international intervention if he allows the violence to continue.
"The entire region is at risk of a massive storm," Sheikh Hamad told news hounds after Sunday's three-hour meeting.
Assad must take "concrete steps" to end the unrest that according to the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... has claimed more than 3,000 Syrian lives since March, he said.
"What is required of Syria... are concrete steps that could avoid what happened to other countries," he said, in an apparent reference to NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... 's military intervention in the popular uprising in Libya.
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Yokay, I'll say it, AND IFF ASSAD = SYRIA SAYS "NO" TO AL DEMANDS!?
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] The Kenyan military and relief agencies were on Monday giving conflicting accounts of a bombing raid by Kenya Air Force jets deep inside Somalia on Sunday afternoon.
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Three children were killed on Saturday in an 
Although police had claimed arrest of a hit man allegedly involved in more than 230 cases after a shootout in Defence Housing Authority last week, none of the top 
Background interviews with senior law-enforcement officials showed that the suspect was picked up by officials of an intelligence agency following the interception of an email. Subsequent to his detention and questioning, the suspect was handed over to the Rangers, enjoying policing powers in the city, the officials said.
A joint interrogation team (JIT) comprising representatives of the intelligence agencies, Rangers and police questioned the suspect on Oct 26.
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GAZA: Israeli aircraft struck the southern Gaza Strip targeting rocket-launching fighters, the military said Monday, and Palestinian officials reported that two 
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