"Anyway, so Norway has this most delicious and amazing delicacy, I have no idea what it's called, but it's basically a bacon-wrapped hot dog; we just assumed it was called Candy of the Lord. As Americans we were naturally and instantly addicted. You find them at gas stations, and there just happened to be one on the other side of the school where we were camped. A few of my fellow Marines and I requested permission to go to the gas station and we set out on our way. " Which seemed like a good idea at the time.
Congress is reported to have recently repealed its ban on a Ukrainian militia accused of being neo-Nazi, opening the way for American military assistance. Iran, Neo-Nazis (and they are, they are), various Sunni terrorists, Paleos---a "big tent" indeed.
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Damn, leave it to the congress critters to find so many ways to squander money.
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Yah, I can be called a neonazi by various Jews for.being against giving money to.the Russian/Iranian axis whose lies about not.existing you repeat.to.me. 20/years of being called a denier for.not.wanting to deindustrialize has taken its toll. You're the same as all the other fucking communists; anyone who doesn't want to be conquered by your charismatic asshole of the week is automatically a nazi. I'm not impressed anymore.
[Rooters] Oil prices hit their lowest since 2003 on Monday, as the market braced for a jump in Iranian exports after the lifting of sanctions against the country over the weekend.
The U.N. nuclear watchdog on Saturday said Tehran had met its commitments to curtail its nuclear programme, and the United States immediately revoked sanctions that had slashed Iran's oil exports by around 2 million barrels per day (bpd) since its pre-sanctions 2011 peak to little more than 1 million bpd.
On Sunday, Iran - a member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) - said it was ready to increase its exports by 500,000 bpd.
"Iranian exports come at a very bad time," said Barclays analysts. A chronic global surplus of a million barrels or more of crude daily has pulled down oil prices by over 75 percent since mid-2014 and by over a quarter since the start of 2016.
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I won't be content until see leftards collecting money for starving Saudi children in front of Tel Aviv U main entrance (their favorite place for collecting for their favorite causes in my neck of woods).
h/t Instapundit
More people in Europe are dying than are being born, according to a new report co-authored by a Texas A&M University demographer. In contrast, births exceed deaths, by significant margins, in Texas and elsewhere in the U.S., with few exceptions. what would Kipling say?
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The US is NOT officially Secular Marxist-Socialist, or in alternate Anti-Secular Islamist Theo-Socialist, YET.
["DRAGNET" THEME here].
Not-America AMERIKA still has until Year 2025 to be born.
Moreso as the Socialists per se widin the US DemoLeft still adamantly refuse to publicly reveal themselves as such like the HONEST, RESPECT-THE-WILL-N-DIGNITY-OF-THE-PEOPLE INTELLECTUALS, ETAL. THEY AREN'T.
PERHAPS THE 2016 ELECTION OF SELF-DESCRIBED DEMOSOCIALIST BERNIE SANDERS AS THE US' FIRST SOCIALIST POTUS WILL CHANGE THINGS???
[Iran Press TV] The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which keeps a tab on ceasefire in Ukraine, says its monitors have come under fire during an assessment mission in the country's war-torn east.
The organization said the incident occurred on Saturday when its observers' vehicle was hit with small-arms fire near Mariinka, a town some 20 kilometers (12 miles) southwest of the volatile city of Donetsk.
Three OSCE observers along with a paramedic and a translator were visiting the area in two armored vehicles to assess damage to a gas pipeline in the region.
The mission "heard the sound of one or two shots" and saw a hole in the window of one of the vehicles.
Ertugrul Apakan, the head of the monitoring mission, described the shooting as "entirely unacceptable."
"If monitors are unable to perform their duties, there can be no security and there can be no stabilization," he added.
There were no reports of casualties.
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"If monitors are unable to perform their duties, there can be no security and there can be no stabilization," he added.
almost as if that was the point, genius?
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[REUTERS] Pope Francis made his first visit as pontiff to a synagogue on Sunday, where, in a reference to Islamist attacks, he condemned violence in the name of religion.
Amid chanting of psalms in Hebrew and speeches underscoring the remarkable advances in Catholic-Jewish relations in the past 50 years, Francis became the third pontiff to visit Rome's main synagogue, after popes John Paul and Benedict.
The temple is just across the Tiber River from the Vatican, and is rich with symbolism of the past persecution of Jews, who for nearly 300 years until the mid-19th century were forced to live in the adjoining quarter still known as The Ghetto and make compulsory payments to the popes.
Security was exceptionally tight in the area, with even journalists going through three separate checks in the space of less than 100 meters. Anti-terror police patrolled both sides of the riverbank, which was closed to the public.
"The violence of man against man is in contradiction with any religion worthy of this name, in particular the three great monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam)," he said in what appeared to be a reference to attacks by Islamist Death Eaters.
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Good that he felt comfortable enough to say what he did in a synagogue. Now try that shi+ in a mosque and see what kind of blowback you get. In Arabic.
Raytheon's new Excalibur N5 projectile was fired from a 5-inch naval gun during a flight test at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. The new technology effectively triples the range of the Navy's 5 inch naval guns.
Raytheon claims that due to the remarkable precision of Excalibur, significant cost, manpower and time savings will become evident:
By using Excalibur's level of precision, there is a dramatic reduction in the time, cost and logistical burden associated with other artillery munitions. Analyses have shown that on average, it can take at least 10 conventional munitions to accomplish what one Excalibur can.
With an estimated cost of $80,000 per shot, only time will tell if cost savings will actually materialize, but it certainly will reduce collateral damage. Testing Excalibur was relatively easy. Sailing a destroyer into the Yuma test site, that was the real challenge.
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.
[Rooters] Oil prices hit their lowest since 2003 on Monday, as the market braced for a jump in Iranian exports after the lifting of sanctions against the country over the weekend.
[REUTERS] Pope Francis made his first visit as pontiff to a synagogue on Sunday, where, in a reference to Islamist attacks, he condemned violence in the name of religion.
