Strange that, I thought it was ice water.
[ANI] Johannesburg, July 31 (ANI): Michelle Obama , speaking at the Young Africans Leaders Initiative program, told a group of young Africans in the bloodiest city in Afrika that the "blood of Africa" runs through her veins.
The First Lady, who also urged changing traditional beliefs on the worth of educating women, said that the roots of her family tree are in Africa and her husband's father was born and raised in Kenya, and that members of their extended family still live there, but we're not close. 24.com reported.
She also said that she have had the pleasure of travelling to Africa many times over the years at tax payer expense, including four trips as first lady, and she has brought her mother and her daughters along whenever she can, also at tax payer expense.
Obama added problems with girls' education often stemmed from traditional European "attitudes and beliefs" that exist even in the United States and lead to issues such as the gender pay gap and an underrepresentation of women in leadership and that white men worldwide needed to "look into their hearts and souls and ask if they truly view women as their equals". So, evil men are the problem. She should certainly have first hand knowledge, I'll give her that.
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Like her buddy Valjar, she's a hybrid. Something along the lines of Winnie, Oprah, Desmond Tutu, and Joseph Stalin. She's actually unsure where she stands other than her absolute and unqualified hatred of all things white. Having said that, you really have to respect her consistency.
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Nationalist America = OWG Globalist Amerika may wake up one day to find its former? overseas Allies doing to the USA what mighty "red line" defender POTUS Obama did, + may continue to do so thru Jan. 2017.
PROMISE TO SUPPORT THE US BUT INSTEAD STAY ON THE SIDELINES AS AMERIKA BURNS IN THE NAME OF GOOD OWG-NWO "CO-SUPERPOWER" GLOBALISM???
* See ZERO HEDGE > THE MOST SHOCKING REASON PUTIN ISN'T WORRIED ABOUT THE US$50.0BILYUHN YUKOS RULING.
VLAD = "...War is coming to Europe".
* REALTED GROONG > [ArmenRadio = FT.com] A WAR WILL HURT IN EUROPE: AN ANGRY SOURCE IN THE KREMLIN SAYS.
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Winston Churchill once prophetically told Hitler's appeasers: "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war."
Please understand the main point: Hamass present position was contingent, not necessary and certainly not inevitable. Since U.S. policy had a significant share in causing this problem (along with others, yes, of course), which has paralyzed every attempt to make political progress among the protagonists as well as sired horrific violence, we arguably have some responsibility for solving itfor getting rid of this scourge. So why is John Kerry doing precisely the opposite?
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John Kerry’s ceasefire proposal for Gaza has probably destroyed what remained of the United States’ influence in the Middle East, at least for the duration of this administration’s tenure.
Mission accomplished - off to Martha's Vineyard for some windsurfing!
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John Kerry's ceasefire proposal for Gaza has probably destroyed what remained of the United States' influence in the Middle East, at least for the duration of this administration's tenure.
Well, at lease some good came from his trip. No influence at all is better than bad influence.... I always say.
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Obama surrounds himself with men of John Kerry's quality and brilliance.
Its a gift.
Feel the thrill shoot up your leg?
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In the tech world, the saying goes "A's hire A's, B's hire C's".
We're somewhere around the K or L level here.
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It seems to me that the current honourable secretary of state is doing no more than mouthing the words of his boss, the president. Granted, the intelligent and honourable thing to do would have been to publicly resign rather than present the Qatari demands to Israel as his own work, but he's The Second Smartest Man In The Room, poor dear, even without being outranked by The Smartest, etc.
[DAWN] My guess would be eliminating non-cooperating turbans while retaining the infrastructure to allow colonization of Afghanistan and military adventurism in Kashmir. What's yours?
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[SultanKnish] While Israelis are fighting and dying, families huddling in bomb shelters and soldiers going off to face death, the men and women in suits and power suits moving through the great halls of diplomacy are using them as pawns in a larger game.
During the Cold War, Israel was a pawn in a larger struggle between the US and the USSR. Now it is back to being a counter in a larger game.
Israel's function within the great halls of diplomacy was always as a lever on the Arab states. It was not an end, but a means of moving them one way or another. When the Arab states drifted into the Soviet orbit, the "Special RELATIONSHIP" was born. The relationship accomplished its goal once Egypt was pried out of the Soviet orbit. It has lingered on because of the emotional and cultural ties of Israel and the US.
Now Obama is using Israel as a lever to push Egypt back into the Islamist camp. Egypt's rejection of the Muslim Brotherhood broke the Arab Spring. Political Islam, which seemed to be on the ascendance, is back to being a freak show represented by terrorists and Turkey's mad mustachioed dictator.
Egypt was where Obama went to begin the Arab Spring. Egypt is still his target. Israel is just the lever.
The reason Israel was never allowed to truly win any wars was because it was being used as a lever. By being a "good lever" during the Cold War, it could damage Egypt enough that the latter would come to the negotiating table overseen by the US and move back into the Western sphere of influence.
Israel couldn't be allowed to win a big enough victory because then there would nothing to negotiate. Likewise, Israel wouldn't be allowed to keep what it won because then there would be no reason for Egypt to come to the negotiating table. Sometimes Israel would even be expected to lose, as in the Yom Kippur War, to force it to come to the negotiating table.
Swap Egypt for the PLO and that's how the disastrous peace process happened. Then swap the PLO for Hamas and that is where we are now.
[NY Times] Battling Paleostinian bully boyz in Gazoo two years ago, Israel found itself pressed from all sides by unfriendly Arab neighbors to end the fighting.
Not this time.
After the military ouster of the Islamist government in Cairo last year, Egypt has led a new coalition of Arab states — including Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , the United Arab Emirates and Jordan — that has effectively lined up with Israel in its fight against Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, the Islamist movement that controls the Gazoo Strip. That, in turn, may have contributed to the failure of the antagonists to reach a negotiated cease-fire even after more than three weeks of bloodshed.
"The Arab states' loathing and fear of political Islam is so strong that it outweighs their allergy to Benjamin Netanyahu," the prime minister of Israel, said Aaron David Miller, a scholar at the Wilson Center in Washington and a former Middle East negotiator under several presidents. "I have never seen a situation like it, where you have so many Arab states acquiescing in the death and destruction in Gazoo and the pummeling of Hamas. The silence is deafening."
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It is not also the case that those same Arab states conduct significant trade with Israel, to include food and consumer goods?
Paleos are to Arabs what homies are to American Africans. Jordan expelled them lethally. They are wanted nowhere in the region. Israelis are nicer to them than Arabs. Their "leaders" use them to extort Euro-American nations. They are truly the dispossessed, unwanted. And they stupidly go violent, making themselves even more abhorrent. One senses that were they given the entire Levant to make their home they would turn it bleak and barren.
It may be that the only way to civilize Paleos, make them livable, would be to lop off their leader cadre to a man and woman and bring in heavily protected non-Arab gene pools to dilute and re-form theirs under a century-long, or so, Latinate protectorate -- not UN, of course.
JEFF Bezos, the Yankee guy behind Amazon.com and Blue Origin spaceflight technology, seems quite a nice guy -- unusually so for the founder of a major information technology company.
Years ago, he kindly sent DoubleClick -- along with several million other folk around the globe -- a natty in-car coffee mug, in return for being an early user of Amazon services. Thanks, Jeff -- still got it, still use it on long trips.
But Jeff's also an extremely persistent cove, particularly when a new money-making idea worms its way into his always very active mind. And that's the way it has been lately with something he calls Amazon Prime Air.
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We should expect IS to continue to foil predictions. However, if they are following Abu Bakr Naji's strategy for establishing an emirate, we should be able to see the broad strokes of the Islamic State's strategic thinking. [9] Naji's strategy has been adopted by AQAP's leader, Nasir Abd al-Karim al-Wuhayshi, and extolled by another influential ISIS supporter, Abu Sa'ad al-Amili. To paraphrase the AQAP leader's advice to other Muslims about judging al-Qaeda, we should look at Naji's book, Idarah al-Tawahhush (Administration of Savagery), and look at what ISIS is doing before deciding whether this jihadist group is following a rational plan or simply running boldly on a tightrope over a deep canyon.
Naji's plan would have ISIS conquering areas after the mujahideen have driven out central government forces by using terrorist tactics and mobilizing the population to their side by polarizing society using money and sectarian politics. They would place these areas under the control of a primitive government one step above a state of nature, which would be accepted by people desperate for security. The mujahideen would introduce more government services over time and expand these areas while defending them from government counterattacks by arming the local population where possible and continuing mujahideen guerrilla operations to compel government forces to defend fixed locations, such as the capital, major religious shrines and economic targets. They would expand each area they control and merge them with others under their control or controlled by ex-military or tribal groups. They would offer the tribes booty taken during their insurgency to gain their allegiance.
As a real state begins to appear viable, the mujahideen leaders would send out a worldwide call for administrative experts, managers, judges and others who might help govern a complex state. We know from abundant reporting and IS's first magazine Dabiq that ISIS and now IS have already engaged in all these practices and more in Naji's playbook. This does not mean ISIS is following Naji as a recipe, but it does mean that more attention needs to be paid to Naji's work as experts devise a strategy to defeat ISIS without the use of U.S. military ground forces. More importantly, if the Islamic State is following Naji we should expect them to focus on undermining Saudi Arabia's ruling family and developing a plan to disrupt the flow of energy to the world's economies from the Arabian Peninsula. We should also expect the Islamic State to eventually inspire attacks inside Europe and the United States, with AQAP apparently ready to help in both endeavors if the opportunity arises.
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"driven out central government forces by using terrorist tactics and mobilizing the population to their side by polarizing society using money and sectarian politics."
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One winter a cold wet cat started staying on my porch. He was polite. I fed him. Later, he brought his pregnant girlfriend. He was domestic, she was feral. I moved them into the barn and soon I had a passel of cute fuzzy feral kittens that would attack me if I went into the barn, claw me if I cornered them or bite me if I picked them up.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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