#1
Morgan Freeman's line: To those who threaten our freedom, we will find you and we will destroy you.
Pardon me if I'm a little jaded. How much time and money and how many lives did it take to finally get bin Laden? And we still haven't gotten Zawahiri. Wouldn't it be more cost effective to go directly to the source, ie. Soddy Arabia and Pakistan? And why do we still issue visas to people who come from countries that are known to harbor terrorists? Why does Germany let them walk right in?
#3
Western 'leadership' lost the 9/11 war because they didn't want war. They wanted the appearance of doing something without having to face the real enemy (not to be confused with who they think is the real enemy - the people they've fundamentally betrayed).
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Well, if you read the friendly article, you'll find the woman was from Mauritius and there were two men seen running away from the scene of the crime...
According to Wikipedia, "According to the 2011 census conducted by Statistics Mauritius, Hinduism is the major religion at 48.5%, followed by Christianity (32.7%), Islam (17.3%) and Buddhism (0.4%). "
#4
I suspect they will see an epidemic of human cumbustion with men fleeing the scene in the near future. Most victims will not be wearing their veil or will have recently spurned a suitor by some odd unrelated coincidence.
Such a generous thing they do with borrowed money.
[Hurriyet] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's top holy man has said his Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) will print copies of the Koran "24/7" to send to Muslims in other countries.
Diyanet President Mehmet Görmez said they would print copies of the Koran at a press in Ankara's Sincan district.
"We will send copies of the Koran to our Muslim brothers living in many countries, who long for the Koran, after printing it 24/7 at a press in Sincan," Görmez said on Nov. 4, speaking during the opening ceremony of a three-day workshop on "common mistakes in Koran reading and conflicts between schools of Islam" in the Black Sea province of Kastamonu.
"[This press in Sincan] will only print copies of the Koran and the Diyanet will transport them to every corner of the world," said Görmez, adding that he hoped the Koran would be printed in "every language."
"We have opened a translation bureau and we have a small unit under the presidency that has been designated for translation. Thank God, we have managed to print translated copies of the Koran in 16 different languages over the past two years. But there are more than just 16 languages spoken around the world," he said.
The statement came less than a year after the Diyanet announced that 4,000 copies of the Koran translated into the western and eastern dialects of the Armenian language would be distributed to libraries and civil organizations in Turkey for free.
The Diyanet has published 1,150 volumes since it was founded in 1924, but the variety of its publications significantly increased after the 1990s.
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This would be the latest edition of the Krayon, featuring Erdogan as eternal calfiph...
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Just 1150 "volumes"? There are small games companies with more titles, and larger print runs.
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"Let's print the Koran in Armenian!"
"Oh, sure, and King James into Fenian!"
"And then we could re-do
_Mein Jihad_ in Hebrew..."
"...and Bach into brash Beethovenian."
[StrategyPage] The U.S. Air Force is at war with the United States Congress over how to handle the A-10 ground attack aircraft. This would seem to be a suicidal undertaking by the air force because Congress must also approve all promotions to general rank. Nevertheless the air force was recently caught trying to undermine a law Congress passed forbidding the air force from retiring the popular (with ground troops) A-10 ground attack aircraft. This hostile attitude by air force leadership is nothing new. Earlier in 2015 the general commanding the ACC (Air Combat Command) was fired (because of Congressional pressure) for giving a speech in which he declared that any air force personnel speaking out publicly in favor of the A-10 were guilty of treason. While ACC is in charge of most combat aircraft (fighters, bombers, recon and ground attack) ACC leadership has long believed that the A-10 has outlived its usefulness and that its ground support job could be done just as well by fighters like the F-16 and F-35. Experience in combat has shown that this is not true, but apparently to senior people in the air force backing the truth, at least when it comes to the A-10, is treasonous.
While the air force leadership officially denounced the "supporting the A-10 is treason" remarks it was recently revealed that while those apologies were being made those same air force generals were trying to sabotage the A-10 by quietly cutting major maintenance programs 40 percent during the last year. This meant that a growing number of A-10s would not be available for service because of "maintenance issues." It is believed that such excuses would not include the fact that the maintenance problems were self-inflicted by the air force leadership and it would instead be implied that the age of the A-10s was a factor. Why are the generals doing this? My hypothesis is that they pegged their star[s] on the F-35 and don't want to face the consequences of that decision. More at the link.
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Don't need A-10 if you just retreat from the battlefield and nuke it from orbit.
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Give the A-10 to the Army and Marines. Problem solved.
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I 2nd Rambler's motion.
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The obvious solution to this quandary is an air-superiority variant of the A-10.
Sure, sounds crazy but consider:
It soothes the Fighter Mafia's disdain for all things terrestrial. The bean counters are happy because it fits their one-size-fits-all world view. The manufacturers get contracts and cash. And the people who actually need the A-10's unique services still get them.
Or you can do what Rambler said and just give the damn plane to the people who want it.
He faces more prison time than the deserter Bergdahl. This is your Obama Department of Defense.
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The prosecutorial zeal was so great that an Air Force officer appointed to investigate the case said the piled-up charges were combined to “artificially exaggerate the criminality of the accused,” who often was simply “socially maladroit and crass.”
"Socially maladroit and crass"...Now it's me they're attacking !
#3
Sounds like the kangaroo court/guilty until proven innocent approach to "sexual assault" in colleges is making its way into the military.
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Notice how the sexual harassment "class" created the while mess. The one accuser seems to have misinterpreted being steadied while she was standing in a turret and being posed while she was modeling.
And the lesion appears to be retaliating for his opinion that gay marriage isn't.
Also interesting is the inrerservice rivalry angle. His commendations come largely from his time with Army units, including helping with the wounded after a mortar attack. The Army doctors treated him and refused to release him to Air Force doctors -- both a sign to me that someone in the Air Force was blocking his treatment and that someone in the Army was backing those doctors.
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Stick to online dating.
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[AlAhram] 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... head Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday the alliance must counter a Russian military build-up in the Baltic, the Black Sea and the eastern Mediterranean which could give Moscow control of key areas.
The Russian enclave of Kaliningrad sits west and on the blind-side of the Baltic states, who have been badly unnerved by Russia's intervention in Ukraine, while Moscow has sharply increased its military presence in Syria with aircraft and ships deployed to bolster long-time ally Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... Stoltenberg warned that through such moves, Russia is acquiring the ability and presence to exercise control over strategic points and NATO must ensure it can carry out its own missions in such a changed environment.
"This is a military buildup which provides the Russians with what many experts call Area Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) capabilities," he told news hounds at the Portuguese naval base of Troia south of Lisbon.
"We have to be sure we are able to overcome these capabilities so we can reinforce and deploy forces if needed," he said, after watching troops take part in the Trident Juncture exercise, NATO's biggest in more than a decade.
"The question on our agenda now is how to overcome, how to deal with the increased A2/AD capabilities of Russia in the Baltic, the Black Sea and now in the Mediterranean," he said, adding that the alliance should "reinforce our forces all the time".
Stoltenberg made his remarks when he was asked about what more NATO should do to reassure eastern member states who fear for their future in the face of a more assertive Russia.
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NOt to be outdone by RUSSIA, US + RUSSIAN OWG CO-SUPERPOWER SIBLINGS CHINA + IRAN have also increased their "A2/AD" capabilities agz the US-Allies in their respective regions.
OVERCOMING RUSSIAN, CHINESE, + IRANIAN, OTHER? "A2/AD" CAPABILITIES = LETTING THEM ACUIRE THEIR "SPHERE(S) OF INFLUENCE" AS BEFITING A CO-SUPERPOWER ... ...
To wit,
* TOPIX > [Channel News Asia] US PATROL [SCS = USS Lassen] SOUGHT TO AVOID PROVOCATION, NOT RE-CONFIRM CHINA ISLAND CLAIMS.
* SAME > [HuffPo] CHINESE ADMIRAL'S VISIT TO IRAN: ERA OF US DOMINANCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST IS ENDING.
* YAHOO NEWS > [FT.com] CHINA HAS TO LEARN TO BE A "GREAT POWER" [OWG Co-Superpower in charge of East Asia + WESTPAC?].
DITTO EARLIER OR OLDER MSM-NET ARTICS AS PER RUSSIA + IRAN.
Different OWG GFU + Regional Co-Superpower, but roughly the SAME PRINCIPLE(S) APPLY.
* LUCIANNE > [Gateway Pundit] OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WILL NO LONGER CONDUCT [Counter-Terror] OPERATIONS AGZ [Post-Mullah Omar Afghan Taliban] - THEY ARE OUR FRIENDS NOW.
BFFS = BEST FRENEMIES FOR-E-V-A-R!, like POST-P5+1 NUKE DEAL, WHY-YES-WE-ARE-A-WEST-APPROVED/SUPPORTED-OWG-CO-SUPERPOWER-NOW NUKULAAR IRAN???
I'm a'guessin the US is expecting the Post-MO Afghan Taliban to stay effec isolationist while also resisting any ISIS/ISIL set up in AFPAK.
* REALTED BHARAT RAKSHAK > US NO LONGER CONDUCTING OPERATIONS AGZ TALIBAN - DAILY TIMES.PK | US BELIEVES ISLAMIC STATE HAS NO "INSTITUTIONAL" PRESENCE IN PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN [Local Afghan or AFPAK-specific, Organized Command-N-Control links to IS 'Capital" Raqqua in ME], PENTAGON NOW SEES THE [Afghan]TALIBAN AS RECONCILIATION PARTNERS.
#1
Boy there was a whole lot of cheer leading for the flying turkey in that article.
So did they chamber this "new" weapon for an existing 20 mike mike round or did they do the F-35 thing and chamber it for something that can't be made for five years and costs twice as much?
#5
Also autoplay is why I have fucking flash set to prompt on firefox with ad blocker. Keeps those idiot autoplay videos from happening and infected ad sites from showing.
h/t Vodka Pundit
The Pentagon was tipped off in 2011 by a longtime Army contractor that Russian computer programmers were helping to write computer software for sensitive U.S. military communications systems, setting in motion a four-year federal investigation that ended this week with a multimillion-dollar fine against two firms involved in the work.
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.
A woman was left fighting for her life after apparently bursting into flames on a park bench in Germany.
[StrategyPage] The U.S. Air Force is at war with the United States Congress over how to handle the A-10 ground attack aircraft. This would seem to be a suicidal undertaking by the air force because Congress must also approve all promotions to general rank. Nevertheless the air force was recently caught trying to undermine a law Congress passed forbidding the air force from retiring the popular (with ground troops) A-10 ground attack aircraft. This hostile attitude by air force leadership is nothing new. Earlier in 2015 the general commanding the ACC (Air Combat Command) was fired (because of Congressional pressure) for giving a speech in which he declared that any air force personnel speaking out publicly in favor of the A-10 were guilty of treason. While ACC is in charge of most combat aircraft (fighters, bombers, recon and ground attack) ACC leadership has long believed that the A-10 has outlived its usefulness and that its ground support job could be done just as well by fighters like the F-16 and F-35. Experience in combat has shown that this is not true, but apparently to senior people in the air force backing the truth, at least when it comes to the A-10, is treasonous.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
