[Wash Times] MSNBC’s Joy Reid told her fans Monday that the National Rifle Association has machinations of building an America where "packs of warlords" can kill at will. The host of "AM Joy" reacted to Sunday’s church shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, by claiming NRA members ‐ over 5 million Second Amendment advocates ‐ seek the creation of "private armies" operating outside the rule of law.
The comments came one day after 26-year-old Devin Kelley killed 26 churchgoers and wounded another 20 in a rampage reportedly linked to a domestic dispute.
"Americans are living like packs of warlords, with heavily armed people everywhere, any one of whom can kill dozens at will. This is insane," Ms. Reid said at the start of a series of tweets. "And the @NRA has decreed that the answer to this is more warlords, hoarding more guns, like little private armies. The @NRA ethos is that everyone is your enemy. Every tribe is your enemy, and you need to be prepared to kill a lot of people all the time."
The NRA bills itself as the "foremost defender of Second Amendment rights" for all Americans, and "the premier firearms education organization in the world."
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....why are bastions of Democratic power such homes to those drug warlords and their gangs?
It is entirely by design. Clustering of democratic urban voting blocks cannot survive on welfare alone. Business and industry have already fled. The only economy remaining is the drug trade.
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So the NRA is going to attack churches in small Texas towns where the people cling to their Bibles and Guns? I should think Ms. Reid would be happy about that.
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Pravda style propaganda designed to encourage acts of violence by extremists. These propagandists of violence should be classified as enemy combatants by DHS, given at best life in prison.
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Said individual has never met a mid east warlord. Maybe her employer (owner, slaver as the current monolog goes) can pay to arrange that. May it be a one way trip...
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[NATION.PK] The notion that modernity comes in many forms is exemplified in the person of Saudi’s Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman. In the latest quixotic adventure, the Crown Prince has placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! 11 princes on corruption charges; including the billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal. Since June, through various royal decrees, the young crown prince has consolidated his grip on government’s affairs. A display of consolidation was shown in a separate move when he recently replaced the head of the Saudi National Guard and the navy chief with the minister of economy.
These arrests along with replacing the high officials indicate an accelerated change in the kingdom that first came to light when came after Muhammad bin Salman replaced Muhammad bin Nayef as the crown prince.
All these moves, collectively, show the ruthless manner in which Muhammad bin Salman has consolidated power so far. Being the young crown prince and with so much power and authority in his hands, he’s setting himself up to rule the kingdom for a long time with no opposition.
He can be seen as one of the typical dictators of the Middle East ruling the country with the U.S approval. As many commentators and analysts see him as the new face of modernity for his liberal ideas ‐lifting the ban on women driving, indicating privatisation of oil, and initiating projects and resorts where Saudi laws don’t apply‐ his bold and authoritarian decisions provides a truer image of him.
His erratic behavior has already created a crisis in the Middle East as the war in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... is not ending soon and the diplomatic standoff with Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... is yet to be solved.
Keeping all these contradictions and adventures initiated by the young prince, we should be prepared to expect more unpredictable moves and adventurism from the Saudi government.
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I am somewhat concerned that we may see a Lebanon-style civil war develop, with at least four factions; quasi-modern royals, paleo-royals, Sunni religious zealots, and Iranian-backed Shia (the majority, IIRC.) Best case outcome is a big improvement, but all the others border on catastrophic. Too uch, too soon?
[DAWN] ANOTHER index, another appalling ranking. Pakistain’s latest embarrassment comes in the form of the second-worst rating in the world for gender parity on the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2016. Pakistain ranks 143rd out of 144 countries, bettering only war-torn Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... in terms of gender equality. The low grade indicates that Pakistain is doing poorly on all gender indicators: educational attainment, health and survival, economic opportunity and political empowerment.
The ranking may surprise those who celebrate the great strides Pak women make every day. They, not our men, are the ones winning Nobel Peace Prizes and Oscars. They are slated to lead political dynasties, win human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... awards, staff our malls, and play a greater role in law enforcement.
But the women we celebrate are exceptions not representatives. Indeed, many of them owe their success to the typically poor circumstances of other Pak women ‐ they are notable because they have somehow survived, documented or mitigated the deplorable condition of women in this country. Rather than deploy amazing individuals as a bulwark against criticism, we should acknowledge and address the brutal reality of the gender gap.
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[Jpost] Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi raised the Iraqi flag on the Iraq-Syria border in the town of al-Qaim on Sunday. It was a symbolic gesture more than three years after Islamic State took over a third of Iraq, committed genocide against Yazidis and mass murdered thousands of others. But Iraq is still deeply divided as the prime minister has attempted to roll back the rights of the Kurdistan autonomous region and as Shi’a militias run checkpoints throughout many Sunni Arab areas.
Iraq is emerging from years of brutal war with millions of internally displaced people and many cities damaged or destroyed by fighting. But even in the midst of the end of this conflict, Iraq has launched a new conflict against its Kurdish region, sending tanks to retake the disputed district of Kirkuk. Iraqi security forces have clashed with Kurdish forces as it attempted to break through to a strategic border crossing called Faysh Khabur near Syria and Turkey. Dozens have been killed since October 16. Although a kind of ceasefire is in place, the situation does not bode well.
There is a new sense of nationalism and religious fervor in Iraq. Shi’a sectarian flags fly from not only militia units but also appear in regular Iraqi Army units. When Iraqi forces rolled into Kirkuk they brought the flags with them. And in Mosul, a Sunni city, they hang them at the checkpoints. This triumphalism is about symbols and the Iraqi Parliament is also trying to ban symbols it doesn’t like. On October 31, the parliament sought to enforce laws that criminalize "Zionist symbols," including the Israeli flag. This was likely in response to the numerous displays of the Israeli flag in the Kurdistan region during the lead-up to the September 25 independence referendum. It won't end well
[RUDAW.NET] First of all, I am not a Kurd, I am a Chaldean Assyrian Syriac Christian from Erbil, a descendent of Babylon and Assyria, a descendent of the one of the most ancient Christian churches, the Church of the East.
I have lived all my entire life beside my Kurdish friends, most of them Moslems, and others Yezidis and Kakeis. Since elementary school in my town Ankawa, which is considered today the largest Christian city in Iraq and Kurdistan, and until finishing my MA studies in Erbil, I had made many good Kurdish friends.
The Kurds, a nation of 45 million, have been separated between several countries, and they have struggled more than a century for their rights to be identified as a nation, to have the right to speak their own language, to sing their songs freely, to govern themselves according to their values and principles. Sadly they were killed, tortured, oppressed, and even denied their existence by the countries they have lived in, only because they wanted to live according to their standards and not according to other people goals.
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Finally, I want to send a message to all supporters of religious and ethnic coexistence in the world, to the lovers of peace and harmony: please help Kurdistan in these difficult times, please do not leave us alone in the face of tyranny and oppression.
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See Catalan independence for an idea of the difficulty in breaking away. Also see Brexit. There is a lot of push-back by the Globalists/NWO types against nationalism movements.
A Kurd nation would probably be good for the Kurds but it's not too popular with Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq.
[Breitbart] With the NFL facing cratering TV ratings, it is also important to note that fans are staying away from the stadiums, too. Fans have remarked on the sparse crowds at several games since last Thursday night. For instance, Levis Stadium in San Francisco did not appear to have many fans in the seats.
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The U.S. government may not believe in sedition and treason but the people of this country do. There was a rebellion at the voting booths last fall. People don't like their values being trashed by government or in the stadium.
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Precisely John, and I am reasonably certain the factors which you have mentioned played a huge role in the defeat in thee last election of the manifestly loathsome Hillary Clinton.
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Levis Stadium in San Francisco did not appear to have many fans in the seats.
Um, Levis Stadium is in Santa Clara, 40 miles away from SF. They've always had attendance problems and the playing field is the worst natural turf playing surfaces anywhere. With respect to this stadium, SF's owners asked for this one.
[Don Feder's Grasstops, Lorton, VA] Now that you're through being nauseated, incensed and generally disgusted with the Bowe Bergdahl sentence ‐ 20 lashes with a dishonorable discharge ‐ keep it in context. The travesty is symptomatic of the political correctness that's rampant in our military.
Bergdahl's non-punishment may have been a way for the judge, Col. Jeffery Nance, to give the middle-finger salute to Trump, who called the deserter "a dirty rotten traitor who should have been executed."
In an e-mail to his parents before he took French leave in 2009, Bergdahl said he was "ashamed to be an American" (twice), that "the title of US soldier is just the lie of fools," that "the US Army is the biggest joke the world has to laugh at... It is the army of liars, backstabbers and bullies," and "the horror that is America is disgusting." Don't hold back.
Six good men died searching for this piece of human offal. The wife of Master Sergeant Mark Allen testified at the sentencing hearing. Shot in the head looking for Bergdahl, Allen was sentenced to life in a wheelchair, unable to speak, raise his hands or hug his 9-year-old daughter.
In exchange for "the dirty rotten traitor who deserved to be executed," Obama traded five top Taliban commanders, who are presently plotting the deaths of more Americans.
Obama announced Bergdahl's release in a Rose Garden ceremony, flanked by his parents. His National Security Advisor Susan Rice hailed the deserter as a soldier who served "with honor and distinction." Lying comes easily to Rice, who spent two weeks telling the world that the Benghazi butchery was sparked by a video. A bit more at the link.
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PC has been in the military for a long time although maybe not as much as now. Patton ran afoul of it as well as MacCarthur and Chesty Puller--others as well more recently. The military is a part of our government like a marriage for better or worse.
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Am I perplexed by Col. Nance's ruling? Absolutely. That said, I am certain that a lot of peeples wanted this affair to go away ASAP, and the DD, etc., accomplished that.
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