"There is no longer any valid basis for the current salt guidelines," said a professor at McMaster University in Ontario who was one of the researchers involved in a major study published last year by the New England Journal of Medicine. "So why are we still scaring people about salt?" Because the proles caught on to the Death Panels?
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[Ynet] Moody's Investor Service has upgraded Egypt's credit rating, saying macroeconomic performance has improved and external vulnerabilities have been reduced.
In a statement, it ranked Egypt at B3 on its scale - speculative and subject to high credit risk - with a stable outlook, an improvement from its previous classification of Caa1.
It would be nice if Saudi Arabia, et al could reduce their direct support of the Egyptian economy, and transfer that funding to pay for the Egyptian armed forces' expenses for that little Yemen adventure.
Moody's says it expects economic growth to accelerate to an annual 4.5 percent for the fiscal year that ends in June, before rising to 5 to 6 percent over the coming four years, assuming political stability continues.
[SkyNews] A Syrian preacher from a west London mosque has been found shot dead in a car in Wembley.
Abdul Hadi Arwani was found sitting in a dark-coloured Volkswagen Passat with a gunshot wound to his chest on Tuesday morning.
The preacher, in his late 40s, was discovered in the vehicle at 11.15am. An air ambulance was called, but he was declared dead at the scene. "Make that an air hearse, Clancy!"
Detectives launched a murder investigation and said they knew the identity of the victim, but that formal identification had not yet been completed.
Sources confirmed it was believed to be Mr Arwani, a preacher at the An-Noor Mosque in Acton, west London.
The mosque has previously hosted the son of radical preacher Abu Hamza, and was the location for the November 2013 escape of terror suspect Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed, who dressed himself in a burka.
A police source said the mosque had attracted a number of former criminals who have turned to Islam and it was possible that a feud at the mosque had turned violent.
Mr Arwani was advertised as a speaker at an event at the East London Mosque last June and listed as speaking from Syria.
He is said to be a staunch critic of the Bashar al Assad regime.
The An-Noor Mosque has hosted fundamentalist speakers including Murtaza Khan, Shakeel Begg and Haitham Haddad.
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Police say his favorite Goat "Belinda" is missing along with 214 pounds sterling. Rumors that his other goats were found having a party and singing "Ding dong the witch is dead" should not be spread. You may however snicker quietly.
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>But several associates insisted to the Daily Mail that Arwani was a moderate Muslim who shunned extremism and was a down-to-earth, mild, modest person who was a prominent community leader in London.
A partially identified Russian national was detained in Kharkov by a local office of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) Tuesday, according to Russian language news accounts.
The woman, identified by her call sign "Teresa" was detained, along with several items the local prosecutor said identified her as the head of a clandestine sabotage and reconnaissance group.
According to the regnum.ru news account, the detainee had entered Kharkov oblast in Ukraine around February, 2015. Among the contraband seized were improvised explosive devices, ammunition, and "anti Ukrainian symbols".
The detainee is being tied to an explosion which destroyed a Ukrainian flag pole on Pravda Avenue and caused damage to nearby structures, mostly in the form of broken glass. According to a separate regnum.ru report, the destruction of the flag pole was designated as an act of terrorism by the local prosecutor's office.
Kharkov city has seen a number of bombings, most attacking rolling railway stock, but also attacking localities which aid in the Ukrainian war effort against the Don Basin rebels. Earlier reports from that region suggested a number of Russian backed guerrilla groups operate in the region.
The most recent bombing attacks were directed against rail cars in the Kharkov rail yard, the last in March. Damage was caused, but no injuries were reported.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraina by clicking here.
[TIME] Amid a continuing negotiation over debt relief from the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... bailout
Greece released its first quantifiable demand for WWII reparations from Germany on Monday, estimating that the German government owed Greece 279 billion euros ($305 billion) in damages from the Nazi occupation of the country.
Deputy Finance Minister Dimitris Mardas announced the reparations figure during a parliamentary committee meeting on Monday, Rooters reports. The estimate includes looted national treasures and a 10.3 billion euro "occupation loan" that was extracted from the Bank of Greece during the 1940s occupation.
Germany has rejected Greece's continuing claims for reparations, arguing that a previous payment in 1960 of 115 million deutschmarks settled its historic debts.
In brief, "Nuts!"
The demand comes as Greece has pressed for debt relief from the European Union and International Monetary Fund, which rescued the Greek government from insolvency in exchange for strict austerity measures.
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I'll awaitin EC's response to this ridiculousness.
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I thought they got at least that much the last time they got bailed out. Or are they gonna bring this reparations mess up everytime they need a handout? 40 acres and a mule.
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I blame the Phokian wall and Persian archers. If the Germans refuse to pay, sue Iran for the damages of Thermopylae.
By the way, has Sharpton's National Action Network gone internationale? Just asking.
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It's like 7 trillion dollars plus spent on the 'War on Poverty', yet there are people demanding 'reparations' for stuff that ended in blood payment over hundred and fifty years ago.
Nuke-armed aggressive Germany [Ukraine]is to Russia as a Nuke-armed aggressive Japan [ECS, SCS] is to China, + despite Germany being Russia's strategic partner + BFF.
[Weekly Standard] As reported by the Austrian daily Der Standard, some fifty Bosnian soccer fans broke into a chant of "Kill, kill the Jews!" during a pro-Palestinian rally in Vienna's central Saint Stephan's Square last week. The incident appears to have occurred on Tuesday, when the Bosnian national team was in town for a match against the Austrian team. According to Der Standard, citing a spokesperson for the Viennese police, the Bosnian fans joined the rally uninvited. In native.....'Austrian:'
Wien - Am Rand des Freundschaftsspiels zwischen Österreich und Bosnien-Herzegowina in Wien sollen Fans der bosnischen Fußballmannschaft bei einer propalästinensischen Demonstration auf dem Stephansplatz am Dienstag antisemitische Parolen gerufen haben. In einem auf Youtube veröffentlichten Video ist der Ruf "Ubi, ubi židove" zu hören, was "Töte, töte Juden" bedeutet.
Sorry, I simply couldn't pass up an Obamateurism opportunity.
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: The Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU), the largest distance learning institution in the country, passed a deceased student in a 24-day workshop he was required to attend on campus.
According to sources, staff members routinely strike deals with students to mark them present at workshops they fail to attend.
[Jerusalem Post] Two former US secretaries of state - Henry Kissinger and George Shultz - penned an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday criticizing President Champ for the framework agreement his administration reached with Iran last week.
The former top diplomats said that the framework agreement with Iran effectively concedes any option of using military force to compel Iranian compliance.
"Mixing shrewd diplomacy with open defiance of UN resolutions, Iran has gradually turned the negotiation on its head," Kissinger and Shultz wrote in the Journal. "Iran's centrifuges have multiplied from about 100 at the beginning of the negotiation to almost 20,000 today. The threat of war now constrains the West more than Iran."
"While Iran treated the mere fact of its willingness to negotiate as a concession, the West has felt compelled to break every deadlock with a new proposal. In the process, the Iranian program has reached a point officially described as being within two to three months of building a nuclear weapon. Under the proposed agreement, for 10 years Iran will never be further than one year from a nuclear weapon and, after a decade, will be significantly closer."
The two former secretaries say that while they have "respect" for the Champ's administration's efforts to place constraints on Iran's nuclear program, the major challenge in ensuring that Tehran doesn't gain possession of an atomic device is the verification mechanisms called for in the deal.
"Comparable ambiguities apply to the one-year window for a presumed Iranian breakout," they write. "Emerging at a relatively late stage in the negotiation, this concept replaced the previous baseline - that Iran might be permitted a technical capacity compatible with a plausible civilian nuclear program. The new approach complicates verification and makes it more political because of the vagueness of the criteria."
"Under the new approach, Iran permanently gives up none of its equipment, facilities or fissile product to achieve the proposed constraints. It only places them under temporary restriction and safeguard - amounting in many cases to a seal at the door of a depot or periodic visits by inspectors to declared sites. The physical magnitude of the effort is daunting. Is the International Atomic Energy Agency technically, and in terms of human resources, up to so complex and vast an assignment?"
Kissinger and Shultz called into question whether Iran - given its track record of violating international commitments - could be trusted in abiding by the terms of any agreement it signs with the West.
"In a large country with multiple facilities and ample experience in nuclear concealment, violations will be inherently difficult to detect," they wrote. "Devising theoretical models of inspection is one thing. Enforcing compliance, week after week, despite competing international crises and domestic distractions, is another."
"Any report of a violation is likely to prompt debate over its significance - or even calls for new talks with Tehran to explore the issue. The experience of Iran's work on a heavy-water reactor during the 'interim agreement' period - when suspect activity was identified but played down in the interest of a positive negotiating atmosphere - is not encouraging. Link to Jerusalem Post article.
h/t Instapundit
When a sensational rape story is found to be fraudulent, there are few ramifications for those who perpetuated the hoax in the first place.
To take the most recent example, no one is getting fired at Rolling Stone for its fraudulent article about a brutal gang rape at the University of Virginia. The fact-checkers who failed to raise sufficient concerns about the lack of corroborating evidence, the editors who removed crucial details that would have made the article's weaknesses clear, and the author who sought a sensational story to fit an agenda will all keep their jobs. "Fit an agenda" is the key phrase
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For the Left, their 'beliefs' trump truth. That's why they shove their 'religion' down other peoples' throats. They're impervious to their obvious hypocrisy because all is justified in the attainment and imposition of power.
Lies on rape, lies on 'hands up don't shoot', lies about paying taxes there Mr. Reid. Remember the three practices of the Left -
Thou shall covet
Thou shall bear false witness
Thou shall steal
Sabrina Rubin Erdely and Rolling Stone magazine did a long report on the "Blumer case" a few years back that reads a fair bit like the University of Virginia non-rape case. The source is RedState so keep the salt shaker in the room, but the author builds a rather convincing story. Which is more than Sabrina can do...
Caution: The use of victimization narratives has the potential to become habit forming.
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The Russians probably know far more about the HillaryCare! server than we ever will. I suspect partly because to Hillary we're the enemy but the Russians aren't.
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Maybe we should get Hillary's emails from Putin.
He probably has them.
It says the Russians would get back into the network at Foggy Bottom even after they 'eradicated' them - I wonder if they did that via Hillary's email server.
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Switch the gov computers to something really strange like Plan-9 from Bell Labs. Even Russian Hackers would pause at it's strangeness.
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/
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Er huh....watcha been doing lately guys? Hey General, can you grab the SGM and your head civilian, come up to the Hill and give us a 'lay down.' Come early please and plan on spending the entire day.
MISSION STATEMEN - "USCYBERCOM plans, coordinates, integrates, synchronizes and conducts activities to: direct the operations and defense of specified Department of Defense information networks and; prepare to, and when directed, conduct full spectrum military cyberspace operations in order to enable actions in all domains, ensure US/Allied freedom of action in cyberspace and deny the same to our adversaries."
The command is charged with pulling together existing cyberspace resources, creating synergy and synchronizing war-fighting effects to defend the information security environment. USCYBERCOM is tasked with centralizing command of cyberspace operations, strengthening DoD cyberspace capabilities, and integrating and bolstering DoD’s cyber expertise
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If Hillary's * server was secure, she would have had her security expert testify to that. Next to POTUS himself, her communications would be the most sought after intelligence mine in the U.S. So of course the Russians hacked her, and they (and the Chinese, and the Iranians, and...) own her.
Hillary * is completely compromised.
* I used her first name. I'm therefore a sexist. Sue me.
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I used her first name. I'm therefore a sexist. Sue me.
I can't use my 'internal' codename for her in front of women or children. I guess I'm sexist too!
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She's just enough of a tool to provide the Rooskies with what they need to hack Foggie Bottom and then say "See...it doesn't make any difference if it was my server or the govs server, nothing is secure"
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
"There is no longer any valid basis for the current salt guidelines," said a professor at McMaster University in Ontario who was one of the researchers involved in a major study published last year by the New England Journal of Medicine. "So why are we still scaring people about salt?"
[Weekly Standard] As reported by the Austrian daily Der Standard, some fifty Bosnian soccer fans broke into a chant of "Kill, kill the Jews!" during a pro-Palestinian rally in Vienna's central Saint Stephan's Square last week. The incident appears to have occurred on Tuesday, when the Bosnian national team was in town for a match against the Austrian team. According to Der Standard, citing a spokesperson for the Viennese police, the Bosnian fans joined the rally uninvited.
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: The Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU), the largest distance learning institution in the country, passed a deceased student in a 24-day workshop he was required to attend on campus.
