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Since they did not identify him as a Republican, which the media will always do if it is a Republican politician who acts thusly, I can almost bet with near absolute certainty, this idiot is a Democrat...I have trouble with a null hypothesis to prove my theory because of a lack of evidence in the story.
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Evidence? You want evidence?
Jenkins pleaded guilty three years ago for selling knock-off sneakers at his local store. He was arrested again last year for allegedly hitting a police officer. Jenkins also raised eyebrows earlier this year when he appointed his longtime girlfriend to the village Board of Trustees.
I think he's a (D).
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If you go to the Wikipedia entry for Monticello, NY, and follow the link to the village web site, you will find a link to "Who we are". That site has hizzoner's picture. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide his party.
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You know something, Davis? he says to the officer in the video. Im the one that hired you in this job, man. I mean, it doesnt matter. It doesnt matter about that. But you know something? How the f**k you guys going to play the game?
When the officer later addresses him as sir, Jenkins replies: Dont call me sir.
Mayor? Is that better? the officer says.
Dont call me mayor, Jenkins replies. Call me n****r, because thats what I am when Im right here in handcuffs. But you know something? I dont give a f**k.
[Tolo News] A young girl was recently publicly flogged in Jaghori District of Ghazni province after a local holy man ordered the punishment based on allegations of her having sexual relations with a boy out of wedlock. Since then, the girl's father, Iqbal Masoomi, has demanded things be made right.
The young girl's named was Sabira, and according to her father, she was psychologically traumatized by the harsh public punishment. Reportedly, the young boy she was accused of having improper relations with was only asked to pay a fine.
"The allegations against Sabira are completely baseless," the father claimed. "She was whipped in public and the boy was freed by paying a fine and now she is suffering from psychological damage and won't leave the house...I want her honor and dignity to be restored," Masoomi said.
Having sexual relations out of wedlock is not against civil law in Afghanistan, but it is against locally practiced Islamic law, which is implemented by religious courts and adjudicators such as holy mans.
Public punishments such as flogging, stoning or even executions were a staple of the brutal Taliban regime that was ousted by the U.S.-led coalition in 2001.
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[Al Ahram] The trial opened Monday of two Tunisian rappers and a journalist accused of insulting public officials after another musician was convicted in June, with the verdict expected later in the day.
Aymen Feki and Moustapha Fakhfakh, as well as the French-Tunisian journalist Hind Meddeb, are charged with abusing public officials and attacks on public morals, crimes punishable by jail terms of one year and six months respectively.
The charges relate to a confrontation between police and protesters in June outside the same courthouse in a suburb of the capital where rapper Weld El 15 was tossed in the calaboose Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! for insulting the police in a song.
After a 40-minute hearing on Monday, the judge announced that he would deliver his verdict later in the day, an AFP journalist reported. Defence lawyer Ghazi Mrabet said the ruling would be made public at around 1700 GMT.
"Mustapha, Aymen and I are here to give a sign of good faith. We believe we have done nothing wrong," the journalist Meddeb told AFP.
She admitted to shouting insults when the scuffles broke out after the conviction of Weld El 15 -- who was later freed on appeal when his jail term was reduced to a six-month suspended sentence.
But she insisted that the insults "were not addressed" to the police or the judiciary.
The two rappers also pleaded innocent. No, no! Certainly not! to the charges against them.
Mrabet asked the judge to drop the charges against all three accused, stressing that Meddeb had been questioned by the police without an interpreter present, even though "she doesn't speak Arabic."
Since an Islamist-led government took power after Tunisia's 2011 revolution, trials of musicians and journalists have multiplied, sparking charges from human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... groups that the authorities are stifling freedom of expression.
Weld El 15 has been on the run since August when he received a 21-month jail sentence in absentia, on separate charges of performing songs deemed insulting to the police at a concert in the eastern town of Hammamet.
He plans to appeal the verdict in court on 5 December, after a fellow rapper, Klay BBJ, who was convicted on the same charges, was released on appeal in September after contesting the ruling.
Since the mass uprising that ousted former strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, attempts to reform the Tunisian judiciary and the security forces have stalled.
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[An Nahar] La Belle France is ready to send 800 extra troops to reinforce its presence in Central African Republic, the leader of the strife-torn nation said Monday after talks in Gay Paree with La Belle France's foreign minister.
Nicolas Tiangaye told Agence La Belle France Presse that Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius "had spoken of sending 800 men" in addition to the 410 already in the country.
"There is general insecurity... serious war crimes and crimes against humanity are being committed in Central African Republic, said Tiangaye.
"La Belle France has the military, financial and diplomatic means for efficient intervention."
Spiraling violence in La Belle France's former colony has sparked international alarm and last week French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... hinted at a "sensible" increase in troops.
A coup by the Seleka rebel coalition in March that toppled president Francois Bozize has unleashed chaos in the large country of 4.5 million, including sectarian bloodshed between Musselmens and Christians.
The U.N. Security Council plans to vote next month on a resolution that would allow Central African Republic's neighbors, the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... and La Belle France, to intervene.
The United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... , United States and La Belle France have all recently warned that the country could be headed for genocide.
The unrest has displaced almost 400,000 of the country's estimated 4.6 million people, left 2.3 million in need of assistance and some 1.1 million scrambling to find food, according to the latest U.N. figures.
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[News24] Zim-bob-wean authorities say they have given foreign shop-owners - mostly Chinese and Nigerian nationals - an ultimatum to shut down their businesses by 1 January. Bob is kinda like the captain of the Titanic, except that he's turning the crank on the freezer to generate his own iceberg.
A top official of the black empowerment ministry said only Zim-bob-weans had the right to run shops that have sprung up across the country and are termed foreign businesses targeted under the nation's black empowerment laws, the state-controlled Herald newspaper reported Friday.
Those laws, passed in 2007, demand foreign businesses to cede 51% control to local blacks.
The foreign shop owners have been criticized for taking retail trade opportunities from Zim-bob-wean traders by selling cheap imports.
Poor townships and city flea markets have in recent years been inundated by shops run by foreigners.
According to state media, shop owners who fail to comply will be tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! .
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Sounds rather harsh. Why not push them into some type of costly medical scheme and force them out of business ?
[An Nahar] Kuwait's supreme court Monday upheld a death sentence for a member of the Gulf state's ruling family convicted of killing his nephew, also a royal, according to the verdict.
Sheikh Faisal Abdullah Al-Sabah was convicted of shooting Sheikh Basel Salem Al-Sabah to death at the latter's palace in June 2010, apparently over a dispute on board membership at a sports club.
The sentence is final but can be commuted to life in jail by the emir of the Gulf state where executions are carried out by hanging.
Sheikh Basel was the grandson of the late former emir Sheikh Sabah Salem Al-Sabah and the son of late minister of defense and interior Sheikh Salem Al-Sabah.
Courts in Kuwait, which has an elected parliament and a vibrant political life, have in the past handed down death sentences to members of the Al-Sabah ruling family.
Kuwait resumed executions earlier this year after a moratorium since 2007. Around 50 prisoners are currently on death row.
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I thought killing off kinfolk was a respected and traditional hallmark of all royalty?
[Bangla Daily Star] A court in Azerbaijan yesterday sentenced three people to life in prison and another 26 to lengthy jail terms on charges of plotting attacks during the Eurovision Song Contest last year.
A source at the court for serious crimes in the capital Baku told AFP that three Azerbaijani citizens were given life sentences, while the remaining defendants were sentenced to jail terms of between nine and 15 years.
Yesterday's hearing brings to at least 36 the number of people convicted on charges of planning attacks during the Eurovision, which Azerbaijan hosted in May 2012, after seven others were found guilty at earlier hearings.
The security ministry in the tightly controlled Caspian Sea country claimed to have foiled a bid to stage "terrorist" attacks during the glitzy songfest and tossed in the calaboose Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! some 40 suspects.
The ministry said at the time that the group had links with neighbouring Iran and was planning attacks on the concert hall where Eurovision was held, as well as on Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, police buildings, hotels used by foreigners and mosques and other religious sites.
Security services in the oil-rich nation incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! the alleged gang during operations in various Azerbaijani cities, the ministry said without giving dates.
Eurovision, watched by more than 100 million people worldwide, was the biggest cultural event staged in Azerbaijan since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
The authorities spent hundreds of millions of dollars building the Crystal Hall venue and beautifying Baku ahead of the competition in an attempt to win acclaim for the Caucasus state, previously known mainly as an energy exporter on Europe's eastern fringe.
But the run-up to the competition was marked by demonstrations by opposition activists against the country's poor human-rights record, which saw dozens of people detained by police.
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From Ambrose Evans-Pritchard I don't wish to become entangled in debate over whether other states impose such ADIZ identification zones beyond their territorial waters, as asserted by Beijing. It is political infantilism to see and judge such disputes through a moral prism, as if our Hobbesian world conforms to codes of right and wrong. What we are dealing with is a great power collision of epochal proportions.
The Asian arms race is young, but clearly under way already. China has launched its first stealth drone, known as Sharp Sword. It developing indigenous aircraft carriers. Its Two-Ocean-Strategy implies a fleet of five or six carrier battle groups.
Japan is already rearming. It is building a de facto marine force. It has launched its largest warship since WW2, an 800-foot long DDH-class helicopter carrier, an aircraft carrier in all but name. Tokyo is developing its own version of the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency. Spending on warships and aircraft will jump by 23pc this year.
When I visited the spanking new buildings of the Japanese defence ministry in Tokyo in March, it already seemed like another world from the run-down digs of the old Self-Defence Force that I had visited six years earlier.
You could feel the emergence of a new military power, pacifist still in name only. The message that came through loud and clear from talking to officials is that Japan is ready for a fight if necessary, and is convinced that it can sink or shoot down any force sent by China into Japan's waters and airspace whether to close in on the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, or to ratchet up pressure against Okinawa.
I was shown detailed maps tracing movements of Chinese DDG warships and Yuan-class submarines that left me deeply alarmed over where this is going. Japanese officials said Chinese naval officers on patrol were not responding to normal signals.
"What we don't know is whether Chinese officers follow any international code of conduct? Do they understand what is banned and not banned? Does the Communist Party control their own military?" said one defence planner.
"Two thousand years ago under the Han Dynasty, the emperor put his right hand on the wheel of his chariot and told his general that everything inside the borders was the domain of the emperor, and everything outside was left to the commander. That has plagued China throughout its history, and it is the delicate issue we now face," he said.
There is no red telephone between Tokyo and Beijing to defuse a crisis if it erupts, nothing comparable to the Washington-Moscow "hotline" during the Cold War.
While the US and China were able to calm the waters after an American military jet collided with a Chinese fighter in 2002 killing the Chinese pilot it is unlikely that any such mishap between China and Japan could be contained at this stage.
FYI LATE 1970's ADAGE = IFF A US-SOVIET NUKE WAR EVAR! BREAKS OUT, GRAB THE FIRST CHICK YOU SEE + RUN, RUN TO THE HILLS".
Anyhoo ...
* CHINA DAILY FORUM > CHINA'S BEEF WID JAPAN IS ALSO A WARNING TO THE USA | KILLER APPS.
KILLER'S Bonnie Glaser = HHHHMMMM, HHHHMMMM, any relation to underclassman Virginia Glaser from St. Francis school, Yona, Guam???
just askin'.
* SAME > OBAMA HECKLED IN CHINATOWN.
* BIG NEWS NETWORK > [Market Watch] CHINA SILENT AFTER US AIR INCURSION REPORT.
Have bad vibes about this.
Historically, Imperial + Kai-Shek + Commie China likes to go tit-for-tat, IFF NOT AN OUTRIGHT MILITARY RESPONSE THEN SOMETHING SUBTLE-BUT-VIOLENT/COSTLY ["soft power"].
To include Islamic-Jihadist-style "Death by a Thousand Cuts/Wounds".
Lest we fergit, many in post-911, "post-US", "Mahanist" China's Political, Military inner circles are calling for Beijing Govt. to end or minimize traditional "soft power" approaches in favor of "hard" or Military-led approaches.
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We saw it in the SCS agz PHIL + Vietnam - China kept putting out PCorrect, pro-Diplomacy/
Compromise/Peace feelers ... ... and then one day just suddenly opened fired + killed everyone, anyone widin their weapons range, even those whom had surrendered properly.
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Lots of bad blood between the Chinks & Japs left over from WWII. I can understand the Chinese wanting vengeance. If they plan on getting it, things will have to jump off before the Japanese can build up. Wouldn't want a repeat of last time.
I further suspect the Chinese have a whole list of historical slights and grievances they are looking to correct. SCS and Japan are just the first innings of a long game.
[NEWS.INVESTORS] Iran isn't the only nuclear threat to worry about. As its military and economy have grown, so too have China's dreams of dominating an island chain centered on Taiwan and including Japan's Senkakus.
China's increased belligerence in the region is part of its plan to control the Yellow Sea, the South China Sea and the larger East China Sea. Its military doctrine refers to dominance over the "first island chain," which encompasses the East China Sea.
The next step is dominance over what Beijing calls the second island chain extending from Japan to Indonesia. Some analysts have even speculated about plans for a third island chain strategy extending as far as Hawaii.
As part of its plans, China on Saturday announced an air defense identification zone (ADIZ) in the East China Sea effective Nov. 23. Its military will take "defensive emergency measures" if aircraft enter the area without reporting flight plans or identifying themselves.
China's defense ministry warned in a statement that all aircraft that fail to comply with its new rules for transit through the zone could be shot down.
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I hope Japan isn't stupid enough to believe that Obama will back them up...
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The US + Japan + Seoul have all formally rejected China's claim of aerospace sovereignty rights in the ECS.
China is more likely to attack and destroy SOKOR + Nippon long before they can dev any effective indigenous nuclear arsenal as deterrence or utility agz the PLA.
Again, unless China is assured that the Bammer's POTUS successor after Jan 2017 is another ANTI-US GLOBALIST = MARXIST-ANARCHIST-GLOBALIST, it behooves China to make its Military or MilPol moves now while the "weakest/worst POTUS since Jimmy Carter" occupies the US White House Dec. 2013 - Jan 2017.
* JAPAN TIMES > US VOWS TO DEFEND JAPAN IFF CHINA AIR ZONE SPARKS CRISIS.
* BIG NEWS NETWORK > [Voice of America] US PENTAGON PREPARED TO [militarily]DEFEND US PLANES IN CHINA DEFENSE ZONE.
* SAME > [Global Post] WAR BETWEEN CHINA AND JAPAN IS AN ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN.
* SAME > [China Daily] REGISTRATION OF CHINESE PEOPLE [Nationals] IN JAPAN CALLED A SAFEGUARD, in case of major emergency = contingency.
Ditto repor as for Mainland Chinese in TAIWAN + SOKOR.
IMO Artic read = CHINA WANTS TO KNOW WHO, WHERE CHIESE IN JAPAN + OTHER ARE IN CASE OF PLA AIR ATTACK ANDOR GROUND INVASION.
Sakhalin Island I'm a'lookin at you.
* GLOBAL TIMES > FM SPOKESMAN: US SHOULD "CORRECT ITS MISTAKES" OVER CHINA'S SET-UP OF AIR DEFENSE IDENTIFICATION ZONE.
RELATED RENSE > CHINA TELLS US TO BUTT OUT OF ISLAND ROW WID JAPAN |[CNN.com] CHINA SLAMS "INAPPROPRIATE" US REMARKS ON TERRITORIAL DISPUTE WID JAPAN.
Beijing to US-Allies = ITS YOUR BAD, NOT OURS, SO CHANGE IT.
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > CHINESE SCOLARS: CHINA'S NEW AIR DEFENCE ZONE INTENDED TO MAKE JAPAN AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY RECOGNIZE THE DANGER THAT WAR IS VERY POSSIBLE/REALISTIC IN EAST CHINA SEA.
* SAME > CHINA'S NEW AIR DEFENCE IDENTIFICATION ZONE IS CONSISTENT OR CLOSELY LINKED WID CHINA'S OFFSHORE SOVEREIGNTY CLAIMS AS PER ITS CONTINENTAL SHELF AND THE DELINEATION OF CHINA'S OWN TERRITORIAL WATERS IN THE EAST CHINA SEA.
THE ZONE'S AIRSPACE, SURFACE WATERS, + SEAFLOORS RIGHTLY/CORRECTLY BELONG TO CHINA.
versus
* GLOBAL TIMES > WEAK-NATION MENTALITY LIMITING CHINA'S POTENTIAL ON WORLD STAGE.
Beijing to US-World = In case you haven't noticed yet, thingys have changed.
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Another grand Beltway scheme coming to fruition. The strategy in Washington was to engage the Chinese economically so that 'war' would be unthinkable, thus avoiding the nastiness of the first half of the 20th Century. So they sold out millions of American jobs and industry to the Chinese and even tolerated the Chinese artificially pegging their currency to the dollar to insure that their output was undervalued for over a generation. What the 'smart' people in the Beltway forgot is that the scorpion can't change its behavior, as the resurgence of 'Imperial' China demonstrates. Looks like there'll still be a war.
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Another grand Beltway scheme coming to fruition. The strategy in Washington was to engage the Chinese economically so that 'war' would be unthinkable
You're going back a few years P2k. Nixon, Kissinger and his legacy Kissinger Associates.
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This just in from CNN.
Two U.S. Air Force B-52 aircraft on Monday flew into China's newly claimed air defense zone over the East China Sea without identifying themselves as China would have wanted, a U.S. official confirmed to CNN's Barbara Starr.
China declared the new air zone last week over islands that both China and Japan claim. The United States said it would continue with its own air operations in the region and not recognize China's new restrictions, which require aircraft entering the zone to identify themselves and file flight plans.
The B-52s, which flew from Guam and returned there without incident, were not armed because it was a training mission. The mission lasted for several hours, but the aircraft were in the newly declared Chinese air zone for about an hour, according to the U.S. official.
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In their statements, both Washington and Tokyo accused China of undermining the stability of the Asia-Pacific region by so doing, but in fact, it is Washington and Tokyo that pose threat to the peace and stability in the region.
U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice recently reiterated that Washington is to send 60 percent of its naval forces to the Pacific region and it is to provide more advanced weapons to its armed forces in the region.
For Japan, Abe has taken a series of worrisome actions, including increasing Japan's military budget for the first time in 11 years, staging more military exercises and even openly announcing the intention to revise Japan's pacifist constitution.
The Diaoyu Islands are an inherent part of the Chinese territory and it is natural for China's East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone to cover the area.
Therefore, it is Washington and Tokyo who are indulging in the trick of calling white black. It is high time they stopped doing so.
At least they didn't use terms like "running dogs".
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The US defence secretary Chuck Hagel called it a destabilising attempt to alter the status quo in the region and warned that the US would defy the order. The Pentagon has since stated that US pilots will not switch on their transponders to comply, and will defend themselves if attacked. Think about this for a moment.
Mr Hagel asserted categorically that Washington will stand behind its alliance with Japan, the anchor of American security in Asia. The United States reaffirms its long-standing policy that Article V of the US Japan Mutual Defense Treaty applies to the Senkaku Islands, he said.
* WAFF > [Bloomberg]US TO CONTINUE FLIGHTS IN DEFENSE ZONE CLAIMED BY CHINA.
* PACIFICNEWSCENTER, FREEREPUBLIC > GUAM-BASED B-52S CHALLENGE DISPUTED CHINESE "AIR DEFENSE ZONE" OVER EAST CHINA SEA | US DIRECTLY CHALLENGES CHINA'S "AIR DEFENSE ZONE".
* Also from FREEREPUBLIC > [Business Insider] ONCE CHART SHOWS THE MAGNITUDE OF US NAVAL DOMINANCE.
Which Bammerika's future OWG "Co-Superpower", "post-US", "Mahanist" CHINA would like to de facto see changed in East Asia + Pacific.
* SAME > [Politico] CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: [Interim Iran nuke deal] WORSE THAN MUNICH.
NOT China but IMO similar principles are applicable.
IIRC RELATED TOPIX > OBAMA [+ Kerry] IS NELVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, IRAN NUKE DEAL IS MUNICH.
OWG Bammerika demands that its rivals + enemies righteously expand their borders as Amerika proudly surrenders + falls back like 1940/Vichy France.
[AMERIKAN "DUNKIRK" here].
Amerika wants to make it absolutely positively categorically undeniably ... clear that it was not militarily defeated or forced to retreat - D *** NG IT, WE VOLUNTARILY "LEFT" AS PER OUR COMPLIANCE WID THE UNO-N-ONLY-UNO LED "DIPOMATIC COMPROMISE/SOLUTION"!
So there.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > JAPAN GOVT. RECEIVES [International] SUPPORT ON CHINA'S FLY ZONE, [domestic] AIRLINES COMPLY.
Japan AIrlines [JAL] + All-Nippon Airways [ANA].
UPDATE = Tokyo is repor demanding that Japanese airlines do NOT comply wid China's new requirements.
* SAME > CHINA CARRIER HEADS TO SOUTH CHINA SEA FOR DRILLS | REUTERS.
* TOPIX > [SCMP] PROTESTED AIRSPACE OVER EAST CHINA SEA TO REMAIN FOREVER.
Artic again illustrates Ambassador Caroline Kennedy's dilemma.
China wants guraranteed or unfettered strategic access = overseas "sole" Milbases for the PLA vee the "First Island Chain", + isn't taking "no for an answer; US East Asian allies want to protect their claims of sovereignty over disputed ECS + SCS islands, + also don't want to hear "no" for an answer.
Perts say the post-1945/Cold War "status quo" in NE Asia M-U-S-T change, but acknowledge that such requires a formal + permanent, Regionally + Internationally-recognized resolution to the TAIWAN + NORTH KOREA/KOREAN REUNIFICATION QUESTIONS.
Iran + China's moves will MAKE-OR-BREAK the Globalist concept of a OWG "Multipolar/
Polycentric World", i.e. iff the "Sole" Superpower USA can unilaterally or aysmmterically give up major power-n-influence to Lessors in deference to [rough] OWG GLOBAL OR GEOPOL PARITY widout its actions being seen as major or catastrophic strategic weakness by other "Great Power" wannabes.
CAN THE ABOVE GLOBALIST AGENDA BE SAFELY CONTROLLED/MANAGED, OR NOT - going by how many DemoLefties + aligned are jumping off the Bammer's ship or desire to jump off as per OBAMACARE, THE ANSWER IS "NO"???
At best a mighty, resounding, you-betcha
"Maybe/Iffy"???
[Al Ahram] Ukrainian police fired tear gas Monday at pro-European demonstrators staging a second day of protests outside the government seat in Kiev over a decision to scrap a key pact with the EU.
Scuffles broke out outside the government headquarters shortly before the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... said the offer of a broad political and economic deal this week was "still on the table".
A day earlier, tens of thousands swarmed central Kiev chanting 'revolution' and waving flags, in the biggest rally since the 2004 Orange Revolution overturned a rigged presidential poll and forced a new ballot.
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[Pak Daily Times] Unknown gunnies on Monday assaulted a senior doctor of General Hospital in his room, breaching all the security layers of police and the hospital management.
Culprits tortured the doctor severely on a gunpoint without explaining any reason.
According to details, around six to seven armed assailants tried to barge into the room of gynecology head of the department General Hospital Dr Aslam, at around 10am, his peon and gate keeper tried to stop them but the gunnies beat them mercilessly and then forcibly entered in the room and also beat Dr Aslam without any reason. Later, the unknown armed persons managed to escape from the scene after creating terror and panic among the patients, attendants and hospitals staff.
Kotlakhpat police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against six to seven unknown persons on the complaint of Dr Aslam under section 506, 148/149 of the PPC. No arrest has been made so far.
Pakistain Medical Association (PMA) Lahore president Dr Tanveer told Daily Times that Dr Aslam was present in his room after routine round of its department wards when some unknown persons forcibly entered the room and severely tortured him. As a result, Dr Aslam and his two subordinates received injuries and admitted to the hospital emergency ward where their condition was said to be out of danger.
Dr Tanveer cited Dr Aslam as saying he had no enmity with any one and expressed his ignorance about the men who attacked him.
He added that Dr Aslam was also a chairman of inquiry committee of General Hospital and dealt several inquiry issues of the hospital. He said that somebody might have a grudge with Dr Aslam that resulted such an incident.
Sources said hospital administration also took a serious notice on the issue and constituted an inquiry committee led by senior doctors. Sources said an inquiry committee was investigating the hospital responsible staff who were present in outdoor wards. Sources said the inquiry committee and police also took help with CCTV cameras, which were installed at different areas of the hospitals.
Other senior doctors of the hospital said the incident created insecurity, mental stress and terror among the medical community. They said without assurance of proper security by the government medical staff could not perform its duties properly.
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I thought this was gonna be about Luke & Laura...
[Al Ahram] Anti-government protesters forced their way inside Thailand's Finance Ministry and burst through the gates of the Foreign Ministry compound on Monday, in an escalating bid to overthrow Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
The seizing of government buildings by protesters, led by the opposition Democrat Party, plunges Thailand into its deepest political uncertainty since it was convulsed three years ago by the bloodiest political unrest in a generation.
The protesters accuse Yingluck of being a puppet for her brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 military coup and convicted two years later of graft - charges he denies. Thaksin lives in self-imposed exile but exerts enormous influence over his sister's government.
About 1,000 protesters swarmed the Finance Ministry, filling its cavernous marble-floored halls and occupying six other buildings. Many gathered in first-floor meeting rooms, blowing whistles and laying out plastic mats for resting and eating. Occupying its grounds is symbolic, they said, of targeting the money at the heart of the "Thaksin regime".
Staff left the building and moved to a parking lot.
"I invite protesters to stay here overnight at the Finance Ministry," protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban told the crowd.
"Our only objective is to rid the country of the Thaksin regime," added Suthep, a former deputy prime minister under the previous Democrat-led government.
Yingluck, 46, was defiant, saying she would not step down.
Her broad support in Thailand's vote-rich north and northeast - rural regions that are among the country's poorest - helped her win a 2011 election by a landslide, making her Thailand's first woman prime minister.
That election was seen as a defeat for the traditional Bangkok elite of generals, royal advisers, middle-class bureaucrats and business leaders - a group that backs the Democrats and deeply mistrusts Thaksin and his sister.
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...DOD is absolutely denying this and I think they're safe for now. My guess, however, is this was a trial balloon. They'll be back.
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Not certain which ones will close, but I'm quite certain that the Fort Belvoir commissary will be the LAST to close. Used to be almost comical to watch the beltway foreign embassy crowd shop [for the folks back home] at Fort Belvoir.
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For some places it might make sense, but for others, no way. Hell, they'd do better if they would just outsource the whole thing to Walmart, put the thing inside the fence and keep the taxes (state and federal) outside the fence.
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As for shutting down the Stars-n-lies, meh. It aint the same Army I was in. Same goes for AFN. I still remember when it had some splash. Desert Shield? Rock the Casbah, by The Clash, memorable. Trivia note: one AFN Vietnam DJ was Pat Sajak. Zoomies pretty much run the show these days, I think.
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He also has a hospital wing named after him in Annapolis. I assumed he was a big donor.
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#8
Grocers have been pushing this for many generations. Now with Crony Capitalism the rage of the Beltway, I suspect it's just another trading card in gathering PAC and reelection monies on the campaign trail (like when did 'you know who' give a real frig about the troops?). My weekly experience is that the local commissary is anywhere about 50 cents to over a dollar cheaper per item than at Walmart. Walmart supplements with a few items that the commissary discontinued or on a very limited lists beats the commissary (why is a jug of water 89 cents at Wallysworld and 99 cents at the commissary?).
#9
Makes no sense, there is a 5% surcharge added to costs to cover expenses, and staff is non appropriated, meaning not a budget line item.
but then again coming from Champ and his SecDef butt buddy, anything to negatively impact the military is one thing he is good at.
#10
I don't have a problem with this - I never understood why it was necessary after about 1955. Walmart can do it cheaper and faster. As far as AFN and Stars n Stripes - who the hell listens or uses those? We didn't utilize them when i was in and that was almost 20 years ago. They served their purpose but they have always been and are still nothing more than money pits. Troops today can find faster ways to get info, music etc via the internet, satellite phones, skype, email.
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How about merging the commissaries and the exchanges? The exchanges don't use appropriated funds, IIRC. There might be some increases in prices, though.
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..yep. The army used to operate quartermaster clothing sales stores. Same logic used to move the function to AAFES. Strange how the old generic clothing items disappeared and the higher priced commercial alternative dominated the shelves.
#6
We can only assume this is meant to exclude white male *homosexuals*.
Can Axelrod be first? Michael Moore? Matt Damon? Justice Breyer? Senator Leahy? I'm afraid I can't take this seriously until its proponants take it seriously. Some dead bodies would go a long way toward convincing.
#10
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince ones opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.
The point to note here is that it is no longer possible to distinguish between hoax, satire and the bollocky gibberish that comes out of the academic world on a regular basis. See Chomsky, Krugman, and others for examples.
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