[TOWNHALL] There's one chick that's floated to the top of pop political zaniness in the last couple of years that I find an entertaining and an exemplary model of the best public schools and liberalism have to offer.
Her name? Liberal Chick.
Her game? Well, according to her Facebook page she's "a right wingers worst nightmare...helping liberals everywhere understand what they believe and exposing conservatives for who they are."
Yep, Liberal Chick is on a one-woman crusade to systematically root out conservative principles and cheerlead her progressive ideals, primarily via the means of memes, lots of hash tags, misspelled words and fifteen-second videos.
Sadly for Liberal Chick, her beloved Leftists suffered a massive and embarrassing shellacking of biblical proportions last week, thwarting all her good hash tag efforts to further her feckless worldview.
Never one to be daunted, Liberal Chick mustered her might to explain, via video, why Obama's lackeys got so brutally hammered in the midterms. Her explanation? Well, you've got to see and hear it for yourselves by clicking Liberal Chick's video below. Enjoy and don't forget to follow this kooky broad on Facebook. If she's not satire she should be. There's no one really that stoopid.
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Probably not any stupider than Pelosi's explanation.
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Sadly for Liberal Chick, her beloved Leftists suffered a massive and embarrassing shellacking of biblical proportions last week
"Republicans benefited from a Democratic civil war. They were running a traditional campaign against a more traditional part of the Democratic Party. They didn’t really beat the left. They beat the old Dems."
Sterling Heights – — Metro Detroit is seeing an increase in immigration due to the turmoil in the Middle East, straining community services.
With more than 400 Iraqi refugees, mainly Chaldeans, arriving each month, the Chaldean Community Foundation faces a growing demand for its services.
The history of Chaldeans spans more than 5,000 years, dating back to Mesopotamia, which includes all of modern-day Iraq. Chaldeans are not Arabs; their language is Aramaic and they are Christians.
May Seikaly is an associate professor of modern social history of the Middle East at Wayne State University.
"Chaldeans are one of the Iraqi Christian groups," Seikaly said. "Chaldeans are a Catholic-Christian denomination; in other words, they follow the pope. The Chaldeans are prominent in Michigan and are better known and seen."
Five Iraqi Christians refugees living in Michigan shared their stories of leaving behind family members, homes and careers, in order to find peace and religious freedom during an event hosted last month by New Detroit's Multicultural Leadership Series in West Bloomfield.
None of the refugees who spoke at last month's series wanted to use their names, fearing for the lives of those they left behind. They talked of family members being held for ransom or murdered, their homes being bombed and being forced out of their jobs.
[Libya Herald] Libyan military operations are all about Kikla and Benghazi front-lines. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... the future of Libya could be decided in the so-called T Zone, 80 kilometres north-east of Zintan and 50 kilometres south of Zawia. It was retaken last week by Zawia brigades, which support Libyan Dawn. Zawia's fighters, civilians, businessmen ‐ even Bengladeshis working in the town ‐ are involved in trying to keep hold of the T Zone.
"The fighting is now taking place 10 kilometres further west. We have hundreds of fighters there," Zawia commander Hamdi Al-Beshti told Libya Herald to the sound of distant "Dababas" (tanks) blasting away.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Tunisia's influential Islamist party announced Saturday that it will not be endorsing a candidate in the presidential elections set for Nov. 23.
The backing of the moderate Islamist Ennahda Party, which is not running a candidate of its own, was eagerly awaited and would have been a major deciding factor in the election.
Instead the party's ruling council announced after an overnight meeting that its supporters were free to vote for any candidate.
There are 27 candidates running for the supreme office in the country, with veteran politician 87-year-old Beji Caid Essebsi widely seen as the frontrunner.
Essebsi's liberal party Nida Tunis (Tunisia's Call) won the most seats in October's parliamentary elections, running largely on an anti-Ennahda platform.
There had been speculation that Ennahda would back the incumbent, President Moncef Marzouki, against Essebsi.
The Islamists dominated elections after the overthrow of Tunisia's dictator in 2011 but lost popularity after a transition marked by social unrest, economic problems and terrorist attacks.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemen's president swore in a new government Sunday despite objections from the ruling party, led by former President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , and Iranian catspaws allied to him who control the capital.
At least three ministers boycotted the government after Saleh and the General People's Congress called it unrepresentative Saturday. The comments, along with a similar objection from the powerful Iranian catspaws, threaten to perpetuate the standoff that has gripped the impoverished country in the past weeks.
Thirty ministers, including Prime Minister Khaled Bahah, were sworn in by President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi in the presidential palace. Bahah said three other ministers were outside Yemen and unable to return in time.
After weeks of violence and political wrangling, a U.N.-brokered deal saw Bahah nominated as prime minister and tasked with forming a government. All Yemeni parties and political groups eventually agreed on an independent technocrat Cabinet last Saturday in what was seen as an important step in efforts to regain stability after Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to Americaâ¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... rebels captured Sanaa in September demanding Hadi appoint a new government.
The Houthis, allegedly with the tacit support of Saleh, the country's former president, complained the previous one was too close to their rival conservative Sunni Islamist party.
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North Korean leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-un appeared without the aid of a walking stick at a meeting of battalion commanders and political troop instructors, the state-run media said Wednesday.
Ignore the rumors: he didn't need a chair lift either...
One intelligence officer here said, "Kim's leg appears to have healed completely."
If we had a CIA worth anything we'd be spreading the rumor that it was due to a syphilitic gumma...
The National Intelligence Service here told lawmakers last week that Pudgy Kim disappeared from view at the start of September to have a cyst removed from his ankle. When he resurfaced late last month he walked with a stick.
A team of medical experts from Europe were apparently flown to Pyongyang to operate on Kim's ankle.
This is how you know the medical care is great in the People's Paradise: they import the help for Mr. Big...
In a rant speech at the meeting, the corpulent Kim warned against "armageddon" for the enemy and urged the military to maintain readiness through training. It was only the third meeting of battalion commanders and political troop instructors in the country's history. The last took place in 2006, when it was preparing for a nuclear test.
Unification Ministry spokeswoman Park Soo-jin told reporters that the regime appears to have convened this week's meeting to "bolster the ailing Kim Jong-un's leadership and unite the troops."
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North Korea on Saturday released two Americans who had been held prisoner in the North for months. The release of missionary Kenneth Bae (46) and Matthew Todd Miller (24) came 18 days after Pyongyang set free Jeffrey Fowle (56), who was detained in the North for five months.
From this point on, any American stupid enough to travel to North Korea should be left there without further negotiation by us. I can only imagine what we had to pay to get these two released...
Their release was negotiated by U.S. National Intelligence Director James Clapper, who delivered a personal letter from President Barack Obama to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
The U.S. government strenuously denied the freeing of the prisoners was linked to negotiations about North Korea's nuclear program.
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[TRUTHREVOLT.ORG] One of the reasons that the American public so eagerly and excitedly complies with the cultural code of lionizing every soldier and cop is because of the physical risk-taking and bravery many of them display on the foreign battleground and the American street. Physical strength and courage is only useful and laudable when invested in a cause that is noble and moral. The causes of American foreign policy, especially at the present, rarely qualify for either compliment. The "troops are heroes" boosters of American life typically toss out cliches to defend their generalization ‐ "They defend our freedom," "They fight so we don't have to." I always feel kind of embarrassed when someone says "thank you for your service." After spending time with some of the kids who came back from Iraq and Afghanistan I feel that even more.
No American freedom is currently at stake in Afghanistan. Except for the freedom to work unmolested in skyscrapers.
It is impossible to imagine an argument to the contrary, Popped right into my mind.
just as the war in Iraq was clearly fought for the interests of empire, the profits of defense contractors, and the edification of neoconservative theorists. It was fought to dispose of Sammy the dictator, who should have been killed in the course of the first Gulf War. There was pretty heavy Congressional support for that war--the opposition came from the Arab and Moslem bloc at the UN and from some (not even all) Euro lefties. Iraq was reputed to be hiding its WMDs. I notice the author doesn't bring up the fact that they were "discredited," now that the public knows about the chem stockpiles. Bush's intent was to plant a democracy in the middle of the sea of presidents-for-life, which seems kind of a forlorn hope from the perspective of eleven years, but at the time seemed to be doable and maybe even a good idea.
It had nothing to do with the safety or freedom of the American people. Well, maybe the freedom to live in a world free of a bloody-handed dictator who would occasionally drop a victim into a mulching machine and who subsidized terror groups on the theory that they were all traveling in the same direction.
The last time the U.S. military deployed to fight for the protection of American life was in World War II ‐ an inconvenient fact that reduces cliches about "thanking a soldier" for free speech to rubble. More people were killed on 9-11-2001 than were killed in the Pearl Harbor attack. The vast majority of the 9-11 victims were civilians, who were deprived of their right to consume oxygen. If you become a Moslem you automatically lose your right to speak freely or even to think freely. The Caliphate claims worldwide dominion. So does al-Qaeda. Thank your soldier or Marine or airman or squid.
If a soldier deserves gratitude, so does the litigator who argued key First Amendment cases in court, the politicians who voted for the protection of free speech, and thousands of external agitators who rallied for more speech rights, less censorship and broader access to media. The writer reserves his respect to lawyers, politicians, and community organizers, all of whom are by his definition "good." The litigators are the ones who've ripped huge settlements out of tobacco companies, stalled development projects like the Keystone pipeline, and led us into a world where a hammer comes with a warning label. We occasionally have to put a pol in jug, though he seldom serves as much time as your average drug dealer. And community organizers have so far not managed to organize any community anywhere into prosperity.
People who go into the military aren't necessarily heroic. In fact, the ones who join up wanting to be heroes are soon disabused of their illusions. Nor are the majority combat arms. The army needs personnel clerks and finance clerks and guys to set up communications networks. There are mechanics and programmers and intel collectors and analysts like me and several other guys who hang out at the Burg. There are engineers and medics and the guys in the supply room and dental assistants. Most of the jobs aren't particularly heroic. That's a good thing, because Rambos aren't required, not even for the special operations guys.
What makes the military work is discipline, both the formal structure of who salutes whom and when, and the informal structure that calls for being a part of a team, of being able to rely on someone you don't know to have the competence to support what you're doing. It's the reason combat is a contest of training, and always has been. The best trained force knows its arms and tactics better and it's more secure in its supply chain. It will also win unless heavily outnumbered 100.00 percent of the time, the exceptions being fire, flood, earthquake, and treachery.
Are there heroes? You betcha, and more of them than get written up for medals. They don't get identified in basic training and they don't stand out. They may even be maladjusted, like Ira Hayes. I can't recall ever having seen anyone strutting and pushing out his chest and promising to kill all them slant-eyed bastards. I doubt there were many who ever strutted and promised to kill all them damned raghead bastards. The really, truly heroes are very often the guys you don't look at a second time -- the "Aw, shucks" Sergeant Alvin York, or the short, opinionated Audie Murphy. I had a great uncle from Arkansas, Henry Pruitt, who won the medal of honor twice in the First World War, one each from the Marines and the Army. He was just an Arkansas farm boy.
To get back to the writer, it's a lot easier to sneer and pose and get snide than it is to sign up for something you really don't know anything about at a young age. In the majority of cases, you leave Mom and Dad and suddenly you're in a different society. Maybe you were a tough guy hanging around street corners making faces at people. More likely you were a kid who graduated high school without any particular destination in life. You get basically trained: keep your uniform straight, learn how to fire a weapon and clean it, do some obstacle course stuff to build up your confidence. From there you go to individual training. You may be a grunt (infantry) or a tank driver, or a cannon cocker (artillery). Those are the combat arms. The cannon cockers get the enemy's attention, the grunts kick his ass, and the tank drivers run over the remains. The combat arms are the "tooth."
Behind the tooth, and stretching for a long way, is the "tail." That's split into combat support and combat service support. (Bear with me if the terminology's changed since I got out, which was a while ago.) Combat support includes the engineers, who clear minefields among their other duties that keep them in the field for forty days at a time training. It includes intel, where the guys at division level deploy forward of the FEBA (Forward Edge of the Battle Area). Comms guys have to set up for secure communications all along the FEBA. Probably combat support should be referred to as the "gum," since it supports the tooth.
There are likely a few areas I've left out, like the chemical warfare guys and the MPs, who in wartime receive and process prisoners. Behind them all are the combat service support guys. Maybe the finance guys and the personnel clerks don't see mud very often, but the truck drivers delivering beans and bullets do. If the vehicles we use in wartime break down the truck drivers will have to haul them to the rear or the mechanics will have to come forward and fix them on the spot. When somebody's sick or hurt there will be a medic somewhere close by. If the person dies we also have mortuary service guys; they're headquartered at Fort Lee, if you want to stop by and say hello. They're in theater, too. They look like most anyone else.
I could yap on this all day, but the point I'm trying to make is that most people don't have "heroic" jobs, sneaking up on the enemy and stabbing him in the kidney and the rescuing the beautiful ambassador's daughter. Most just do what they're paid to do, bitching and moaning occasionally, slacking occasionally and planning on getting out when their time's up. When you say "thank you for your service," don't imagine the guy (or gal) you're addresing standing in front of a roll of barbed wire with a cigar clenched in his or her teeth firing a .50 machinegun from the hip. In my own not so humble opinion the truck driver or the medic or the mechanic deserves thanks just as much as the grunt or the cannon cocker or the tank driver. And the poor mortuary affairs guy probably deserves it most of all.
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Typical liberal cowards.
Ignore Afghanistan like last time and we'll have another 9/11.
Dismantle our military and we'll be invaded.
I'm for shipping them off to Iraq/Syria where they can be as non-military as they like.
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Nah. They are only playing to their audience: a 2 year old with a hand full of poo and a wall to smear it on, quoting from one of the comments.
When the balloon goes up and there is mayhem upon us ( from any number of sources) the site owners will be the loudest screaming (whining) to be rescued.
FWIW: Did not even know this site existed until this article, that is how relevant they are.
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It's Salon. Like Slate and Time, they publish "bash the holiday" articles like this because it gets them "eyeballs" and outraged commentary. That generates the numbers they use to present to the advertisers.
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The same guy who would scream and yell at the idea of a draft would give the finger to those that volunteer for the danger so others don't have to chosen randomly. What a tool.
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Someone needs to write an app, call it shitlist. Basically you tag sites like Salon so that any story or link from a tagged site that looks interesting will have a mouse-over reminder of why that site sucks so that you can decide to give them a click or not.
Salon has frequently fooled me with decent sounding article titles and always left me disgusted.
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This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
- Shakespeare, Henry V
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"Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf." - George Orwell - 'Notes on Nationalism'
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Procop, you forgot Henry IV, Act 1 Scene 3:
But I remember, when the fight was done,
When I was dry with rage and extreme toil,
Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dress'd,
Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd
Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home;
He was perfumed like a milliner;
And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held
A pouncet-box, which ever and anon
He gave his nose and took't away again;
Who therewith angry, when it next came there,
Took it in snuff; and still he smiled and talk'd, And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by,
He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly,
To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse
Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
With many holiday and lady terms
He question'd me; amongst the rest, demanded
My prisoners in your majesty's behalf.
I then, all smarting with my wounds being cold,
To be so pester'd with a popinjay,
Out of my grief and my impatience,
Answer'd neglectingly I know not what,
He should or he should not; for he made me mad To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet
And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman
Of guns and drums and wounds,--God save the mark!--
And telling me the sovereign'st thing on earth
Was parmaceti for an inward bruise;
And that it was great pity, so it was,
This villanous salt-petre should be digg'd
Out of the bowels of the harmless earth,
Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and but for these vile guns,
He would himself have been a soldier.
This bald unjointed chat of his, my lord,
I answer'd indirectly, as I said;
[DAWN] Christians on Saturday expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... about the killing of a couple from their community in Lahore over the alleged blasphemy and demanded exemplary punishment for the culpable.
They also urged the government to ensure the immediate end to the misuse of blasphemy law.
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[Iran Press TV] US President Barack Obama Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though.... says the deployment of additional troops to Iraq marks a "new phase" in the fight against the ISIL terrorist group, which is operating in Iraq and Syria.
Obama made the remarks in an interview on CBS News' "Face the Nation" program broadcast on Sunday, two days after he authorized the deployment of up to 1,500 troops to Iraq, approximately doubling the force the Pentagon has built up in the country since June.
"Phase one was getting an Iraqi government that was inclusive and credible - and we now have done that," he stated.
"Rather than just try to halt [ISIL's] momentum, we're now in a position to start going on some offense," the US president added.
"The Arclight airstrikes have been very effective in degrading ISIL's capabilities and slowing the advance that they were making," Obama said. "Now what we need is ground troops, Iraqi ground troops, that can start pushing them back."
Elsewhere in his remarks, Obama noted that the US and Iran have a common interest in fighting the ISIL terrorists, adding that the issue was totally separate from the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Tehran.
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Is this the "we're actually going to shoot at them" phase?
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More like "we're going to try to perhaps attempt to convince others to maybe shoot at them" phase.
[IsraelTimes] The ongoing tension over Jerusalem's flashpoint al-Aqsa Mosque compound is inflicting a "stab wound" on the peace treaty between Jordan and Israel, Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour said on Sunday, though he said Amman would not cancel the 20-year agreement.
"Israel and Jordan are committed to peace and to respect the peace treaty, but this commitment is not just applicable to one side, it is a commitment by both," Ensour told news hounds in Amman.
He added that backing out of the peace treaty with Israel was not on the table for now, the state-run Petra News Agency reported.
Last week, heavy festivities raged at the mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City as Israeli police faced off with Paleostinian stone-throwers, prompting Jordan to recall its ambassador in protest.
Jordanian officials had warned the kingdom may reassess the peace treaty in the wake of what they called "unilateral Israeli violations."
"What is happening is a stab wound to the idea of peace," Ensour said Sunday in remarks just two weeks after the 20th anniversary of the peace treaty.
Ensour said Israel's actions at the site were the result of a "clear" policy aimed at changing the decades-long status quo at the site, which is holy to both Moslems and Jews.
"The Jordanian government condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the events of recent weeks in Jerusalem, which are not the result of administrative errors or acts by a few snuffies but rather a clear government plan to change the realities at the holy places," he continued.
Months of unrest in and around the plaza have been triggered by Paleostinian fears that Israel was preparing to change the status quo to allow Jews to pray there -- a suggestion that has been repeatedly rejected by Israel.
Although Jews are allowed to visit the compound, they are not permitted to pray there for fear it could shatter the fragile status quo at the site, one of the most sensitive places in the Middle East.
During talks with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's new foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini earlier on Sunday, Jordan's King Abdullah II reiterated his opposition to Israeli "attacks" on Jerusalem's holy places.
He also called for a resumption of international efforts to revive the collapsed peace talks, a palace statement said.
Under terms of the 1994 peace treaty, Jordan is recognized as custodian of the Moslem holy sites in East Jerusalem, which was captured by Israel during the 1967 Six Day War and later annexed in a move never recognized by the international community.
Abdullah reportedly canceled Jordanian participation in a ceremony that had been scheduled for this week to mark 20 years of the Israel-Jordan peace treaty.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Abdullah spoke by telephone last week, and agreed on the imperative to calm tensions. Netanyahu also assured the king of Jordan, who is responsible for the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf trust that administers the site, that he has no intention of changing the status quo there to allow Jewish prayer, as some right-wing Jewish snuffies are demanding.
Nonetheless, in a further sign of Jordanian displeasure, Abdullah ordered two of his ministers and some 40 other Jordanian officials not to attend the 20th-anniversary ceremony scheduled to be held in the Jordan Valley area between the two countries, Israel's Channel 10 news reported Friday night. This move forced the official postponement of the ceremony, which may well be cancelled altogether, the TV report said.
The "modest" ceremony was also to have been attended by Israel's Minister for Regional Development, Silvan Shalom.
[Ynet] PM, Lapid spar as concerns over spread of unrest leads to government conflict; Netanyahu promotes zero-tolerance; Lapid decries ministers' incitement.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday accused Paleostinian Death Eater group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and the Israel-based Islamic Movement of orchestrating the current unrest in Jerusalem and the Arab sector, warning that anyone who called for the destruction of the State of Israel would have their citizenship revoked.
"Israel is a nation of law. We will not tolerate disturbances, and we'll act decisively against the throwing of stones, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks, the blocking of roads, and demonstrations calling for our destruction. We won't tolerate any more demonstrations where they wave Hamas or Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... flags and tell people to liberate Paleostine with blood and fire, and in effect call for Israel's destruction," Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting.
"Standing behind this incitement are ‐ first of all ‐ the various Islamic movements: Hamas and the Islamic movement in Israel. In the forefront, at least vis-a-vis the agitation on the Temple Mount, are the Mourabitoun and the Mourabiat ‐ movements engaged in incitement and which are financed by funds from Death Eater Islam. I have instructed that they be outlawed."
The comments come after two days of riots sparked when police rubbed out a knife-wielding Arab man in the northern town of Kafr Kanna on Friday. Those protests follow on the heels of weeks of tensions in Jerusalem over rumored changes to the status quo at the Temple Mount, holy to both Jews and Moslems and currently under the control of a Moslem trust, a string of vehicular terror attacks and the attempted liquidation of a right-wing activist and the subsequent killing of his suspected assailant.
Protests and riots in the wake of the shooting of 22-year-old Khair Hamdan on Friday led Israeli security forces to bolster their numbers in areas with Arab communities, while the Arab sector itself held a general strike Sunday, with schools and businesses being closed, and cars displaying black flags.
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, there was another kaboom... the riots among the Arab population and fear of losing control in areas beyond Jerusalem have led to conflict within the government.
Finance Minister Yair Lapid lashed out at the prime minister for his comments, arguing that the government's role "is to put out the flames, not fan them."
"There has to be a limit to irresponsibility," Lapid said. "A man was killed and the police are in trouble. Ministers, members of the government, and members of Knesset must put out the flames, not fan them. We must continue to live here together. The fact that people are using this situation to gain political capital is irresponsible."
Netanyahu, on the other hand, announced a tough stance against the rioters. He said that he had instructed incoming Interior Minister Gilad Erdan "to use any means to explore the possibility of revoking the citizenship of those who call for Israel's destruction."
But Netanyahu's primary criticism was reserved once again for Paleostinian Preisdent the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , who he accused of being the main instigator in the unrest.
"I gave instructions to outlaw these movements," he added, "but the Paleostinian Authority, with Abbas at its head, still stands behind this incitement. Fatah's site explained in the last fews days that the Israeli people have never been here. We actually have an attempt here to distort not only the current reality, but also history."
Lapid's Yesh Atid colleague, former Shin Bet chief Yaakov Peri warned that the ongoing festivities could get spiral out of control.
"The violence and incitement among the Arab population in in Jerusalem have reached dangerous heights that could easily spill over. We should all try to reduce the flames, I wish to call on the leaders of the Jewish and Arab communities to work toward calming the situation," Peri said.
"Ufortunately, statements made by government ministers have been inflammatory. They are making it harder to ease the tensions."
Two teenage girls who left Austria to travel to Syria and become "jihadi brides" have reportedly grown disillusioned by life with Isis and told their families they want to return home. Helluva way to get a date.
When they first arrived in the Middle East via Turkey, 15-year-old Sabina Selimovic and 17-year-old Samra Kesinovic were used as poster girls for the militant group, and social media posts purported to show how much fun they were having. What, no pics of all the jihadis having fun, too?
Interpol became involved when the girls left Austria in April, despite the fact that they wrote a note telling their parents: "Don't look for us. We will serve Allah – and we will die for him." I don't think death is what they have in mind for you. At least as long as you are nice and obediant.
But now the Austrian government has said the girls want to come back, and have been in contact with their families, the Austrian newspaper Oesterreich reported. I wonder how much the fathers will be paying in child support.
Speaking to the paper, an official with the home office said that escaping Isis in Syria "after such a long time" would be extremely difficult.
Austrian media reports suggest that the girls have been married to Chechen fighters and that they may be pregnant – and even if they could flee, Austria's laws bar them from returning once they have joined a foreign war. As minors?
An unnamed security service source told the Austrian Times: "It is clear that whoever is operating their pages it probably is not the girls, and that they are being used for propaganda."
Sabina and Samra grew up in Vienna in Bosnian immigrant families, according to the Austrian media, but their views are believed to have become increasingly radical in recent years. In total, around 130 Austrian nationals are believed to have become foreign fighters for Isis.
[Ynet] Low-enriched uranium gas stockpile grew by 8% to nearly 8.4 tons in about two months, IAEA says; chief Iranian nuclear negotiator believes both sides determined to reach deal by Nov. 24 deadline.
Iran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium gas has grown by 8 percent to nearly 8.4 tons in about two months, UN atomic inspectors say, an amount world powers probably will want to see cut under any nuclear deal with Tehran.
The ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency issued a confidential report on Iran to IAEA member states on Friday, less than three weeks before a Nov. 24 deadline for Iran and six world powers to resolve their stand-off over Tehran's atomic activities.
Iran's holding of refined uranium gas is one of the factors that could determine how much time it would need for any attempt to assemble nuclear weapons. Iran says it has no such goal but the West wants verifiable action by the Islamic Theocratic Republic to make sure it cannot produce an atomic bomb any time soon.
Iran and the six states will meet in Vienna from Nov. 18 to try to seal a long-term agreement to end a dispute that over the last decade has often raised fears of a new Middle East war.
The IAEA report said Iran's stock of uranium gas refined to a fissile concentration of up to 5 percent stood at 8,390 kg, a rise of 625 kg since its previous report in September.
Iran says it produces enriched uranium to make fuel for nuclear power plants. But if processed to a high degree, 90 percent, the material could also provide the fissile core of a nuclear weapon, which the West fears may be its ultimate aim.
Iran halted its most sensitive enrichment work - of 20 percent refined uranium - under an interim deal with the powers last November. But it is still making the lower-grade uranium.
Western experts say Iran would now be able to amass enough high-enriched fissile material for one bomb in a few months, if it opted for such a weapon of mass destruction. The United States wants this "breakout time" extended to at least a year.
One way to help achieve that, Western officials and experts say, is for Iran to ship out a large part of its stockpile to Russia where it would be turned into nuclear fuel rods, making it much more difficult to process into bomb material.
Diplomats said there was as yet no agreement on this issue and that the main sticking point in the talks - Iran's overall enrichment capacity - remained unresolved.
"It's a piece of the puzzle," one Western diplomat said. "The Iranians agree on the principle, but it's a point that doesn't resolve everything."
Current gaps notwithstanding, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, said Tehran believes both sides are resolved to reach a deal by the self-imposed Nov. 24 deadline.
"No middle solutions exist and all our thoughts are focused on how to reach a settlement," Araghchi, Iran's chief negotiatior, told the state news agency IRNA.
"No one wants to return to the way things were before the Geneva Agreement. That would be too risky a scenario," he said, referring to the preliminary accord reached a year ago under which Iran has curbed some sensitive nuclear activity in exchange for limited relief from international sanctions.
"Both sides are aware of this, which is why I think a deal is within reach. We are serious and I can see the same resolve on the other side," Araghchi was quoted by IRNA as saying.
Kerry said on Wednesday the negotiations would get more difficult if the Nov. 24 deadline were missed, and the powers were not - for now - weighing any extension to the talks.
His remarks seemed aimed in part at raising the pressure on Tehran to agree to the deal, which would include tougher UN inspections to verify Iran is complying with its provisions.
Iran agreed under last year's temporary accord with the United States, La Belle France, Germany, Russia, Britannia and China to limit its reserve of low-enriched uranium gas by converting new production into a less proliferation-sensitive oxide form, which it started doing a few months ago.
The stockpile is now above the defined level but Iran still has time to reduce it before the temporary deal expires this month, when it is supposed to be replaced by a long-term one.
Mark Fitzpatrick, director of the non-proliferation program at the International Institute for Strategic Studies think-tank, said he believed the powers would want to see the holding sharply reduced in any permanent settlement.
"If the stockpile is eliminated, then it may be possible to allow Iran a larger number of centrifuges," he said, referring to the machines that produce enriched uranium.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Officials in a predominantly Kurdish province of northeastern Syria have issued a women's rights decree, monitors said on Sunday, in an apparent rebuke to the hardline views of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) hard boyz who have advanced in the region.
ISIS, which has declared a "caliphate" across large areas of Syria and Iraq it has captured, has issued rules on how women should dress and has curb their movement outside the home, basing this on its radical interpretation of sharia (Islamic law), according to residents living in territory it holds.
The 30-point decree issued by the joint leaders of the "self-ruling democracy of Jazira province" aims to safeguard and strengthen women's rights in semi-autonomous areas, the head of the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Jazira refers to an area in the northeast province of Hasaka that has gained self-rule during Syria's civil war. One of the leaders of the area is Kurdish and the other Arab, according to Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Observatory.
Kurds hold about half of the province while ISIS has about 30 percent of Hasaka, mainly in its south and southeast, the Observatory says.
The decree called for "equality between men and women in all spheres of public and private life," and said women had the right to run for office and an equal right to work, pay and inheritance. It was not immediately clear whether the decree was legally binding or how it would be implemented.
In its English-language magazine last month, ISIS provided what it called religious justification for the enslavement of women and kiddies as spoils of war.
The al Qaeda ofshoot has been accused by rights groups of kidnapping women and forcing them into marriage.
The rights decree said women should not be married below the age of 18, called for preventing polygamy and said women had an equal status in the eyes of the law. It said men and women had an equal right to divorce and that so-called "honor killings" and other violence against women was illegal.
Abdulrahman said some elements of the decree already existed in the region but others would improve the rights of women.
Parts of northern Syria have been experimenting in self-rule since last year after Kurdish fighters seized territory in the chaos of Syria's civil war, a development giving increased autonomy to the long-repressed Kurdish minority in the country.
Kurdish forces have also been fighting off ISIS bully boyz in northern Syria, including the besieged town of Kobani on the Turkish border whose defenders have been bolstered by U.S.-led coalition air strikes on hard boy positions.
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Thanks Fred for posting this article. The women's brigade fighting ISIS said they are more than just fighters against ISIS, they are fighting and dying for women's rights in the heart of the Muslim world.
They are earning those rights over there literally with AK47s.
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Two teenage girls who left Austria to travel to Syria and become "jihadi brides" have reportedly grown disillusioned by life with Isis and told their families they want to return home.
