On the other hand, it would be appropriate. My wife thinks it is a good idea too.
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It's the modern equivalent of slavery, and their society is so backwards and we're so accomodating of that that we're stuck trying to figure out which slavery is 'good' slavery and which slavery is 'bad' slavery.
Maybe it would help if we could get President Zero to pretend these people are confederates or something.
The Egyptian Moslem Brüderbund's Justice and Peace party won 40 percent of the vote in the first phase of Egypt's elections, according to Arab media reports of the results published on Saturday.
Arab media being, of course, known for their accuracy when raw facts are involved. See Note below.
With 20% of the vote, the Salafist ...Salafists espouse an austere form of Sunni Islam that seeks a return to practices that were common in the 7th century. Rather than doing that themselves and letting other people alone they insist everybody do as they say and they try to kill everybody who doesn't... party al-Nour took the second-highest number of votes, al-Quds al-Arabi and al-Hayat reported. Al-Quds al-Arabi reported that liberal parties took 15% of the vote. The Jerusalem Post could not independently verify the reports.
Abdul Moez Ibrahim, Egypt's top election official announced the results of only a handful of clear-cut victories for individual candidates, with most going to run-offs next week, and gave no figures for party lists in the polls, in which Islamist parties are expected to come out on top.
He said four individual candidates, two of them from the Moslem Brüderbund's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), won more than 50 percent of votes to gain outright victory out of 56 seats contested. The rest will require a run-off.
Note: In other words, the fog of elections still hovers over the Egyptian political landscape. We'll perhaps have a better idea in a month or two who has been counted as winning.
In Egypt's complex election process, staggered over three phases in six weeks, two-thirds of the 498 seats up for grabs are allocated proportionately to party lists, with the rest going to individual candidates.
[Al Ahram] Salafist ...Salafists espouse an austere form of Sunni Islam that seeks a return to practices that were common in the 7th century. Rather than doing that themselves and letting other people alone they insist everybody do as they say and they try to kill everybody who doesn't... leader and Alexandrian parliament candidate Abdel-Moneim El-Shahat described the literature of Egyptian Nobel prize winner Naguib Mahfouz as "inciting promiscuity, prostitution and atheism."
El-Shahat reiterated his opinion regarding Nobel prize novelist Naguib Mahfouz in a TV interview on Thursday night, elaborating that Mahfouz's novels "are mostly set in areas involving brothels and drugs." He went on to describe Mahfouz's acclaimed novel Awlad Harretna (Children of our Alley), one of the books that earned him a Nobel prize in 1988, as a novel whose "symbols promote atheism."
El-Shahat's statement propelled a reaction of alarm among Egypt's liberals and intellectuals. Some considered the statement a reminder of the dangers that freedom of expression is likely to face in Egypt should the Islamists take power.
Novelist and critic Howeida Saleh reacted strongly to El-Shahat's latest televised statement: "We have long stressed [during the old regime] the importance of respecting democracy and giving Islamists the opportunity to demonstrate their cultural and political approach; but we [Egyptians] have not had a revolution so that the likes of El-Shahat come to smear our cultural symbols and call us atheists as soon as they [Islamists] start rising to power."
Contemporary novelist and literature professor Sahar El-Mougy argued that it would be useless debating with El-Shahat and other ultra-Islamist figures over matters concerning arts and culture. It would overshadow, he says, the important questions they should be asked, instead, such as their economic and social plans for the country.
Author Ibrahim Abdel-Meguid, however, believes that the intellectual community is overreacting to El-Shahat's statement. Abdel-Meguid says dismissively that Abdel-Meguid is "tuned into a time a thousand years ago," and that he takes El-Shahat's statements only with pity.
Other statements by El-Shahat, the official spokesperson for the Salafist umbrella group, the Salafist Call, have sent just as many chills up the art community's spine.
For instance, he is notorious for his statement that Pharaonic monuments should be covered up because, according to El-Shahat, they are from a "rotten" culture that does not worship God. This also caused outrage among archaeologists as well as those who work in the tourism sector, who have further accused him of sabotaging one of Egypt's main sources of revenue.
El-Shahat also denounced those who promoted democracy, and not God's word represented by Sharia (Islamic Jurisprudence), as atheists.
El-Shahat will be facing Hosni Mohamed Taha, who is supported by the Moslem Brüderbund, in a run-off election for a single-seat in Alexandria in the first phase of Egypt's parliamentary vote on Monday 5 December.
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[Iran Press TV] Amnesia Amnesty International has urged African nations to arrest former US President George W. Bush during his visit to the continent this month.
"International law requires that there be no safe haven for those responsible for torture; Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia must seize this opportunity to fulfill their obligations and end the impunity George W. Bush has so far enjoyed," senior legal advisor for Amnesia Amnesty International, Matt Pollard said.
According to the international rights group, African nations have the obligation to bring Bush to justice for his role in war crimes, Rooters reported.
This is while Bush's stay in Africa is aimed at raising awareness of cervical and breast cancers, as well as HIV/AIDS.
Last month, the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal found Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair guilty of committing crimes against humanity during the Iraq war.
Earlier this year, Bush canceled a trip to Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... due to fears of being incarcerated over allegations of ordering the torture of prisoners held in overseas military bases.
President from 2001 to 2009, Bush authorized the use of waterboarding, as well as other interrogation techniques, considered to be torture by human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... groups.
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Except that these countries adore W. Bush, because he gave them a huge amount of practical and useful help in improving themselves. Not just dumping money or sending idealistic NGOs to waste everyone's time.
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Ask anyone, say Al-Alwaki or Shamir Khan, Would you prefer to be water-boarded or hit with a drone missile? Oops, they are not here to answer. Arrest Obama.
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I consider Human Rights activists to be torturing me everytime they speak. I therefore demand they be arrested and broken on the wheel for my amusement.
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Expelled Iranian diplomats packed up Iran's London embassy on Friday, as crowds staged new anti-Britain protests in Tehran. Embassy staff were to leave Britain by 1400 GMT on Friday - a deadline given by the British government after the ransacking of its embassy in Tehran earlier this week.
The Iranian flag was still flying outside Iran's London embassy early Friday as staff loaded boxes into a moving truck and ducked in and out of the building to avoid the media.
Tensions between Britain and Iran worsened on Tuesday when protesters smashed windows and ransacked offices at the British embassy in Tehran. The British government has since moved to expel Iranian officials from Britain, pulled its own diplomats from Tehran and backed new sanctions against Iran.
Four other European countries, including France and Germany, have also pulled top diplomats from their Tehran embassies. The European Union has since tightened sanctions against Iran, and the United Nations Security Council has condemned the violence.
The attack came after Britain and other Western nations placed new sanctions on Tehran's central bank over its suspected nuclear weapons program.
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Like an abusive spouse, members of theMexican indepndant left lashed out against its own country whenit field a request to investugate Felipe Calderon Hinojosa for ceimes against humanity late last month.
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Russia's North Caucasus region will vote in the country's parliamentary election on Sunday with thousands of armed security officers on in the streets while homes are searched and street markets closed.
Chechnya is expected to have 12,000 guards on duty, many of them surrounding the 456 polling stations, head of the regional Interior Ministry Ruslan Alkhanov said. At least half of the guards will be armed.
Alkhanov said, "We are obliged to ensure citizens can exercise their voting rights safely. We will work on this day and night."
On Drudge - Friday Night Doc Dump by the DOJ. Looks like a lot of smoke and mirrors to spread the blame downward. Pretty obviously the AG and his minions knew, and lied. "Apologizes for the tone of the emails" Moved to Saturday. Remember, F & F is WoT related given the national security implications across our southern border.
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The emails sent to Capitol Hill on Friday showed that Burke supplied additional incorrect information to the Justice Department's criminal division that ended up being forwarded to Breuer. For example, Burke said that the guns found at the Terry murder scene were purchased at a Phoenix gun shop before Operation Fast and Furious began. In fact, the operation was under way at the time and the guns found at the Terry murder scene were part of the probe. Breuer was one of the recipients of that information. In written comments this week to Grassley, Breuer said that he was on a three-day official trip to Mexico at the time of the Justice Department response and that he was aware of, but not involved in, drafting the Justice Department statements to Grassley. Breuer says he cannot say for sure whether he saw a draft of the letter before it was sent to Grassley.
Where Burke got the inaccurate information is now part of an inquiry conducted by the inspector general's office at the Justice Department.
Burke's information was followed by a three-day struggle in which officials in the office of the deputy attorney general, the criminal division and the ATF came up with what turned out to be an inaccurate response to Grassley's assertions.
The process became so intensive that Breuer aide Jason Weinstein emailed his boss, "The Magna Carta was easier to get done than this was." A copy of the latest draft was attached to the emails.
translation: they lied and covered up. The truth doesn't require three days of frantic back-and-forth. F*ckers. Fire and prosecute them. Make Obama pardon them
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Uh, uh, YYYEEEEUUUUPPPP, JUST LIKE THE PAKISTAN AIR FORCE???
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Looks like a lot of smoke and mirrors to spread the blame downward.
The denial itself speaks volumes. To many it is explicitly obvious. To many it is implicit, and it will affect their voting. The Trunks ought to bang that drum real hard before the election. And the one about the Black Panthers threatening voters. And "Reverend" Wrongight. And. And. And. ....
[Dawn] The White House has said it sincerely expressed condolences to Pakistain over loss of 24 soldiers in a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... strike but indicated the US would wait for conclusions of investigations underway before reacting further to the border incident that has complicated its relations with the key regional country.
"Well, we are in the middle of an investigation -- actually, at the early stages of an investigation -- into what exactly happened. So I think that the expression of condolences for tragic loss of life conveys a sincere sentiment about our feelings, the President's feelings and the administration's feelings, and it goes to the importance of the relationship that we have with Pakistain," President Barack I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money Obama's front man said.
Press Secretary Jay Carney dismissed as "utter nonsense" the suggestion in a report by The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... that President B.O. was refraining from making a formal apology to Pakistain due to domestic political considerations.
Questioned at the daily briefing about whether the White House has apologised over the incident, which has evoked a strong reaction from Pakistain, Carney referred to the comments that President B.O. sees it as a tragedy.
"We need to find the results of this investigation. We have offered our condolences. We have called it what it is, a tragic loss of life. And we anticipate results of the investigation to come when they're ready," he said, when asked if the White House considered it premature to offer an apology.
"It's a matter of fact that I, speaking for the White House and the President, offered condolences on behalf of him, the administration, the American people, for the tragic loss of life -- and it was a tragedy," he responded to a question.
"And we have launched an investigation through CENTCOM, as well as ISAF, to find out exactly what transpired. But -- maybe I'm pre-empting what your question was, but there was obviously no apology and there was an expression of condolences," the front man added.
Carney found the headline of the media report as being at odds with the story but confirmed that there was a "suggestion from our embassy in Pakistain that a message of expressing condolences be taped."
"We didn't do that, but I personally got up here and expressed condolences on behalf of the President and the American people. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta ...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... has done the same thing. So that message has been delivered. But, again, the headline is at odds with the story."
The White House front man said the US is working with Pakistain on the issue of border routes for NATO supplies, which have been closed in the aftermath of the November 26 attack on Pak check posts.
He said it is "vital" to American national security that the US continue to have cooperative relationship with Pakistain, especially in the fight against terror.
"We urge them to attend the conference in Bonn, and are working with them on our overall relationship. We understand that this is complicated by events, as has been the case at various times this year.
"But it's an important relationship that we continue to work on, because it's in the interest of the American people and our national security that we continue to work on it."
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Well, we are in the middle of an investigation negotiations -- actually, at the early stages of an investigation attempted shakedown
[Dawn] NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... commanders are planning a substantial offensive in eastern Afghanistan aimed at krazed killer groups based in Pakistain, involving an escalation of aerial attacks on krazed killer sanctuaries, and have not ruled out cross-border raids with ground troops, The Guardian newspaper reported on Friday.
The aim of offensive over next two years is to reduce threat represented by Pakistain-based groups loyal to krazed killer leaders like Haqqani clan, Mullah Nazir & Hafiz Gul Bahadur.
NATO hopes to reduce level of attacks in the eastern provinces clustered around Kabul to the point where they could be contained by Afghan cops after transition in 2014. The move is likely to add to already tense atmosphere following recent border post attack by NATO helicopters that resulted in death of 24 Pak soldiers.
While drawing down forces in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... & Kandahar, the US will step up its presence in eastern provinces bordering Pakistain, bringing long-festering issue of krazed killer sanctuaries in Pakistain tribal areas to a head. Message being given to Pakistain military is that if it cannot or will not eliminate krazed killer havens, US forces will attempt job themselves, report said.
It is unclear to what extent killing of 24 Pakistain soldiers in NATO air strikes last Saturday will have on NATO strategy. An investigation is underway into the incident. As a consequence, Pakistain closed supply routes used by NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and barred the US from using a Pak air base to launch drones.
Isaf commander, General John Allen, said the need to confront sanctuaries in Pakistain was "one of the reasons we are shifting our operations to the east".
In an interview in Kabul, Allen, a US marine, did not give specifics of strategy and said nothing about cross-border operations.
According to The Guardian, Allen said he did not know what long-term consequences of last Saturday's clash would be, describing it as a "tragedy", but made clear that push to the east would continue.
"Ultimately outcome we hope to achieve in the east is a reduction of krazed killer networks to the point where Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) can handle them, reducing them in 2012, if necessary going after them in 2013," Allen said.
"I won't go into specifics of operations but as we consolidate our holdings in the south and as population centers there in Helmand River valley and in (Kandahar,) we will conduct substantial operations in the east idea being to expand security zone around Kabul. In particular we are going to pay lot of attention to south of Kabul, Wardak, Pashtun-infested Logar, Ghazni, Zabul.
Because in the end if you have a population in the south that feels secure and it's secured by ANSF, and you have a population in east and around centre of gravity of Kabul, and those two are connected by a road so you have freedom of movement, you have a pretty good outcome."
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[Dawn] Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... on Friday said that conspiracies were being hatched against the government but it was not very easy to topple it, DawnNews reported.
Speaking to media representatives in Islamabad, Prime Minister Gilani appreciated the system's 'success', which he said had been sustaining for the past four years despite the conspiracies against it.
The prime minister further said that people hatching conspiracies against the government wanted to avoid the Senate elections and root out the existing system.
Responding to a journalist's question, Prime Minister Gilani said Pakistain's response to NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... 's attack was responsible and not aggressive.
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[Dawn] Setting terms for renewal of ties with the United States, Pakistain has sought 'punishment' for and an 'apology' from those responsible for Saturday's deadly NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... attack on two of its border posts.
The demand, military sources say, was made through a letter sent to Washington earlier this week.
"Nothing short of this will be acceptable," a bigwig said in a background interview with Dawn, adding that Pakistain would otherwise be constrained to "reconsider its partnership in the war on terror".
Even as the inquiry initiated by the US military is yet to identify who, if anyone, is culpable, a Pak general at a media briefing on Tuesday said that International Security Assistance Force chief Gen John Allen was ultimately responsible in his capacity as commander.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... military officials would not explicitly say if they would like to see his (Gen Allen's) exit.
Moreover, the US has been asked to clarify why its helicopters returned to attack the post after they had disengaged following contacts between senior Pak and Isaf commanders.
Civilian and military leaderships from both sides have been interacting quite regularly to find the way forward, but the mood in Islamabad and Rawalpindi suggests that no progress is likely until the Americans come up with a 'tangible response' to Pak demands.
Robert Raines, a front man for the US Embassy, said discussions were taking place. However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... he refused to confirm or deny if any specific demands had been made.
A Pak diplomat at the Foreign Office confirmed the demand and said Washington had been categorically told to "stop treating Pakistain as a client state".
Relations between Pakistain and the US have been on a downward spiral since the start of this year, but the most recent incident has made the much talked about likely breakdown in bilateral ties more imminent.
The government has already expressed its fury by blocking crucial NATO supply route, calling for vacation of the Shamsi airbase by Dec 11 and by pulling out of the Bonn conference on Afghanistan.
Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, in a telephonic conversation with Italian counterpart Giulio Terzi, said the attack reflected the "callous behaviour" of the US and NATO.
Maj-Gen Ishfaq Nadeem, the Director-General of Military Operations, stepped up the rhetoric earlier in the week by claiming that the attack was deliberate.
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It appears that those responsible for the attack were punished by being killed. It is simple, do not shoot at American soldiers. American soldiers do not hold their in the face of gunfire; they attack.
Rioters attacked dozens of liquor stores, a massage parlor and hotels after being stirred up by fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... sermons in a predominantly Kurdish city in north Iraq, police officials said Saturday.
The Kurdish-ruled north was spared much of the violence that engulfed the rest of the country from 2003 to 2008, but there have been several outbreaks of unrest against the rule of the two main secular-leaning parties.
The region also is home to a range of Islamist groups, including organizations involved in mainstream politics as well as smaller, more radical networks.
Friday's rampage began after midday prayers in the town of Zakho, some 300 miles (475 kilometers) northwest of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... . Thirty people were maimed, according to hospital official Imad Barwari.
The police officials spoke on condition of anonymity, as they were not authorized to speak to the media.
In retaliation for the initial rioting, angry crowds then attacked offices belonging to a Kurdistan-based Islamist party, officials said.
Police on Saturday also nabbed a leader of Kurdistan's largest Islamist opposition party, which has denied any connection to the attacks.
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Instant karma. The best part is that the entrepreneurs will start anew, because they are profit oriented, but the expense of repair is going to come out of the hide of the Islamists, because they are prophet oriented.
"Priests" are really brave when they personally risk nothing. They get really cowardly, however, when it is their butt or their wallet on the line.
The base that once served as headquarters for the U.S. military in Iraq is now under Iraqi control. A United States military spokesman said U.S. officials handed over Camp Victory to Iraq Friday, after officials from both countries signed the necessary paperwork. There was no formal handover ceremony.
About 13,000 U.S. troops remain in Iraq, but are scheduled to leave by the end of the month. The pullout will end a military presence that began with the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled former dictator Saddam Hussein.
Camp Victory, a sprawling U.S. military compound on the outskirts of Baghdad, had served as the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq since 2003. Top U.S. military officials lived at the site, which is encircled by 42 kilometers of protective walls.
At its height, the base was home to more than 40,000 troops and military-related personal.
The sprawling base was built on and around a lavish palace complex constructed by late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Saddam was imprisoned at the compound before his trial and execution in 2006.
The Wall Street Journal says Iraqis are considering a number of ideas on the future use of the complex, including as a military barracks, a cultural center or five-star hotels.
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Soon to be renamed Camp Chaos, followed by Camp Tyranny.
* US defence secy says strong diplomacy key to Israels security
* Says Peace process with Palestinians effectively on hold
* Says We cant get em to the damn table
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta urged Israel to get back to the damn negotiating table with Palestinians and take steps to address what he described as the Jewish states growing isolation in the Middle East.
Panetta, addressing a forum in Washington, also made one of his most extensive arguments to date against any imminent military action against Iran over its nuclear programme, saying he was convinced that sanctions and diplomatic pressure were working. You always have the last resort ... of military action. But it must be the last resort, not the first, Panetta said.
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Leon wants them to negotiate away land and goods unilaterally. Where's the Paleo give on Jerusalem? Stick that in their face it's clear who's intransigent. Demand Paleos live up to prior agreements before doing new negotiations?
"What're you, a Zionist Pig?"
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Yes, come sit at the table of the damned, you will receive much attention.
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In the prior agreements reached by Israel and the Paleos, has either side ever carried out the agreements? Has either side ever pretended to carry out its agreements?
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Israel needs to ignore the feeble thrashings of a doomed American administration. Israel needs to cleave to the Old Testament virtues we can all understand. Break the ceders of Lebanon and let the grass grow for the cattle of Israel.
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Pawnetta, a career Fed who systematically continues to get himself "kicked upstairs" (like his "sole-sistah" Hitlery), is as anti-American as they come. His face looks like "40 Miles of Bad Road" and that ain't gonna improve anytime soon.
The Israeli government has carried out a two-day exercise it says is aimed at boosting preparedness for any terrorist attack aimed at sparking an outbreak of a highly contagious disease. Israeli officials emphasize the biological weapons drill is routine, but it comes amid rising tensions in the region, particularly from Iran.
In this exercise no one knows what contagious agent has been used, anthrax, botulism or another deadly organism. The staff must identify the agent and within hours begin vaccinating the local population against it.
The exercise comes amid rising tensions in the region. Western governments last week tightened sanctions against Iran after the United Nations nuclear agency (IAEA) said it had evidence that Iran was trying to build a nuclear bomb.
Shlomo Brom, an analyst with the Institute of National Security Studies, says he believes a military strike against Iran is only a distant possibility.
"Certainly there are discussions in the Israeli government on the option of an Israeli attack against the Iranian nuclear program as a last resort. But I do not think that it is imminent," Brom explained.
In January, security forces will hold another drill, this one responding to a simulated radiological attack such as from a uranium-laced weapon or "dirty bomb."
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Unconventional attacks are a serious concern. Anything the human mind can conceive of must be considered. Quick response a must. We all know about the nuclear bomb stories but I guess an unseen little bug does not hold any prestige.
Lobbing a dirty bomb I guess holds some interest but expect a return volley. Who sent biological may be difficult to ascertain.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Edward Livingstone ... has completed a three-day visit to Burma after discussions with democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and a vow that the United States is prepared to support further democratic reform.
"We are prepared to go further if the reforms maintain momentum, but history teaches us to be cautious," said Clinton. "We know that there have been serious setbacks and grave disappointments over the last decades."
Clinton said the U.S. will contribute about $1.2 million in aid to Burma for landmine victims, microfinance operations, and health care initiatives. But she said tough sanctions on Burma will not be lifted until Burma makes concrete steps toward democracy.
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See als TOPIX > CHINA + INDIA WOO BURMA AGZ US INFLUENCE.
IMO read, TRADE + ESPEC MILBASES = CONTROL OF THE ENTRANCE PER SE TO INDIAN OCEAN.
[Iran Press TV] An Iranian politician says the participation of the envoys of a number of Western countries in the carnival leading to the British Embassy in Tehran indicates London's confusion over the bill to downgrade ties.
The Ambassadors of 25 countries in Iran organized a group visit to the disputed Qolhak Garden in north Tehran on Thursday followed by another visit to the British Embassy compound in downtown Tehran.
The visits followed protests by angry students outside the British Embassy on November 29, during which protesters pulled down the UK flag and demanded the speedy expulsion of the British envoy.
Majlis on November 27 passed a bill, which was also approved by the Guardian Council the next day, to downgrade relations with Britannia to the level of charge d'affaires and limit all economic and cultural collaboration with London to the minimum level.
"Ambassadors and embassies have a specific description in international law and the presence of an ambassador is to promote [the level of] relations between countries and they (envoys) do not have the right to meddle [in the affairs of their host country," Mohammad-Karim Abdi said Friday.
Abedi, who is also a member of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said foreign envoys are not allowed to cross even the thinnest of their host countries' redlines and even the slightest violation of the law can make an ambassador become a persona non grata.
The Iranian politician further described yesterday's visit by Western envoys in Tehran as an insult to their diplomatic status.
Abedi added that British confusion over the Majlis decision to downgrade ties had prompted Western envoys to seek to visit the embassy compound and Qolhak Garden on Thursday, Fars News Agency reported.
"The entry of Western ambassadors into Qolhak Garden will have no impact on any decision or law [pertaining to the garden] and the [Tehran] Municipality will do its job because [according to the Iranian law] if 31 trees are felled in a location that place can be seized [by the state]," he said.
With an area of 200,000 square meters, Qolhak Garden was first leased to the British by Mohammad Shah Qajar in 1872 as the ambassador's summer residence. Although the lease contract expired under Reza Shah Pahlavi, the complex has remained in the possession of the embassy.
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[Iran Press TV] The UK and US militaries have been developing new biological weapons which are capable of terminating certain races, a Middle East expert tells Press TV.
"They (the US and UK military establishments) even developed a black-only bomb that targeted the Afro gene. There is even talk now that there may be one for the Chinese gene," Peter Eyre, a Middle East consultant, said in a recent interview with Press TV.
Eyre described the sinister project as "absolutely insane," adding the work on such weaponry initially started in former Rhodesia [modern day Zim-bob-we] by the UK government, but was then transferred to South Africa [by then UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher] when the former British colony declared independence.
The analyst went on to say that the US and UK have not only amassed a huge stockpile of biological and chemical weapons but also provided dictatorial regimes around the world to use and develop such lethal weapons.
"The United States, the United Kingdom...were behind providing Iraq Saddam Hussein with chemical and biological warfare [during Iran-Iraq conflict]...The UK actually paid for the laboratories to be established [in Iraq] and helped them (the former Iraqi regime) produce that," Eyre said.
Ralph Schoenman, a Caliphornia-based political commentator, also told Press TV that the Pentagon has also been weaponizing genomes viral agents in level 4 and level 5 laboratories in the US.
Schoenman further stated that such weapons are either sold to repressive regimes or are deployed in operations against countries Washington wants to destabilize.
The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), which prohibits the development, production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons, called on member states to destroy all stockpiles of banned substances by April 29, 2007.
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... the US has announced that it will not be able to destroy its stockpile of chemical weapons before a final deadline required by the CWC in 2012, saying it needs at least another decade to destroy its chemical weapons.
According to the CWC's directive, any country found to be in non-compliance will have to be referred to the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Security Council.
Schoenman said, however, that the US has no intention of eliminating these weapons and such talk on the US part is simply propaganda.
"There is not a scintilla of evidence to suggest that the US military indents to dispose of this weaponry; on the contrary, it is escalating its supply," he added.
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See also TOPIX > MAN-MADE SUPERFLU COULD WIPE OUT HALF OF HUMANITY, to start.
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Weapons of the future. Small unseen and not traceable probably cheaper. I got the paranoia Schizophrenia blues.
Well not that bad just paranoia. Paranoia will destroy ya:
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I wouldn't worry too much about the US government doing this. Now say a family member of someone killed by unconstrained, pandered to, and financed religious extremists who thinks that formal government won't clean up the mess, but someone who has the advanced training and skills to produce such ugly stuff - maybe. It's one thing to blow up a girls school in the badlands of the last holdouts of pre-industrial society. It's another thing to screw with a society in which there are individuals who if motivated enough can end your world.
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Peter has a blog!
about him: I have appeared on TV, US Radio, written a book and write for the Palestine Telegraph. I reflect on the greed in this world, the wars, pain, suffering & poverty that American and British imperialism and their foreign policies have created. There is a direct link between this and the rise in self induced terrorism, conflict, genocide, poverty, and the displacement of millions of people. Current wars are all about excessive greed for oil and gas, natural resources, world control and certainly nothing to do with democracy. I also believe that world politics are controlled by Wall Street and London Bankers with Christian and Jewish Zionist at its heart.
Middle East Consultant? Perfect Iran Press TV source
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I didn't know that religious extremists were a race.
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"I wouldn't worry too much about the US government doing this". Yes, I would like to believe this but in order to deal with this, research must be done to at least inoculate your people. All things at all times must be considered. Even on the fringe.
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The guy is an obvious loony tune: there is no 'Afro' gene, what there is is a specific set of genotypes that cluster around specific racial characteristics. And yeah, with technology today, it is possible to target racial genotypes; however, the big danger is that 1} you don't know who all has what ancestor several generations back; and 2) mutations happen, especially in anything as wont to change itself as a flu virus which would be the most likely candidate for such an attack. That means that the flu could easily mutate after release and start killing all those that you had wished to save.
Besides which, the population in Africa is doing a fine job of wiping itself out, as well as erasing any and all economic development and infrastructure left behind by the colonial period. Such a weapon would be a case of taking coal to Newcastle.
[Iran Press TV] Despite British allegations that Iranian authorities had organized Tuesday's protests outside the UK Embassy in Tehran, US Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... says there is no such indication.
"I don't have any indication how and or if it (the protests) was orchestrated," Biden told Rooters on Thursday.
The comments stand in sharp contrast to earlier claims made by British Foreign Secretary William Hague that the protests in Iran had been state-sanctioned and orchestrated.
Hague, in an address to the UK parliament on Wednesday, blamed Iran's Basij forces for the attack, saying, "We should be clear from the outset that this is an organization controlled by elements of the Iranian regime."
Britannia further used this pretext to "immediately" close Iran's Embassy in London and expel Iran's diplomatic missions from the UK.
Angry students protested outside the British Embassy on November 29, pulling down the UK flag and demanding the speedy expulsion of the British envoy.
The protest followed a Majlis decision on November 27, which was also approved by the Guardian Council the next day, to downgrade relations with Britannia to the level of charge d'affaires and limit all economic and cultural collaboration with London to the minimum level.
The Iranian politicians acted on the bill in response to the UK's recent decision to impose unilateral sanctions against the Central Bank of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran, over allegations that Tehran's nuclear program may consist of a covert military aspect.
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Thanks, Joe. Idiot
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Looks like it's time to get Joe in for another plug loosening...
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Expelled Iranian diplomats packed up Iran's London embassy on Friday, as crowds staged new anti-Britain protests in Tehran. Embassy staff were to leave Britain by 1400 GMT on Friday - a deadline given by the British government after the ransacking of its embassy in Tehran earlier this week.
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[Iran Press TV] The UK and US militaries have been developing new biological weapons which are capable of terminating certain races, a Middle East expert tells Press TV.
Joe 
