In the UK , it is heroin (because of the pakistanese immigration), here in France it is mostly cannabis (80% of european cannabis come from morocco), but the jihadi/underground econmy link is the same.
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Bin Laden and Ayman Al Zwahiri, Al Qaeda s military strategists are sitting on a gold mine in Afghanistan from which they draw billions in profits to conduct their apocalyptic Islamist ambitions against America - the Great Satan, Israel the little Satan and the Western world. It is the production of heroin by the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Heroin is the new Sword of Islam and its cutting a big swath of destruction here in Britain, or as the columnist Melanie Phillips finely puts it: Londonistan.
I know, because I have witnessed it first hand [both in prison] and on the ground in my community of Luton just outside of London.
The war being waged by Islam in the Western World is a guerrilla war and one that has many fronts. When you control virtually all of the worlds supply of heroin then I am sure you are going to use this commodity as a weapon in one of those fronts in your Global Jihad. It is narco terrorism at its very worst which is the title of an important early book by Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, exposing the connection between the Jihadis growing and distributing heroin in the world and providing billions to fund their Global Jihad against all non-believers.
It's even better with the links and conmmentary in the original...
Times Peon #1: HOLY CRAP, Mr. Keller, did we just validate everything Dick Cheney and Colin Powell and stupid evil George Bush said to the UN? When were spilling secrets, were not supposed to do that!
Keller: OMG, WE DID! We DID validate these scheming nazi theocon bastards!!!
Times Peon #2: And and and what about Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame and those sixteen words Bush said you know, the impeachable 16 words about the Brit intelligence and the Yellowcake! Jim Geraghty at TKS says we might have freaking validated that story, too!
Keller: Ohhhhhh crap! And freaking bloggers! Okay, lets spin this, baby, spin it! All hands on deck! Turn this ship around! Call Chris Matthews! Call MoDo - no, wait, dont call her, shell make it worse by pretending to be Emma Peel, or something - call Bob Herbert! Hes a wiz at shifting the rudder! Spin, spin! Call Olbermann!
Peon #3: Aye, Aye, captain! Uh, sir, Olbermann is chewing floorboard and Matthews is crying, again. Should we call Judith Miller, sir?
Keller: Jesus God Almighty! No, no, just let her stay buried!
Times Peon #2: There is no God but Allah, sir, and Mohammed is his prophet. Be careful with those acclamations or we might get into trouble with Islamofa-
Keller: Dont you say Islamofascists, Peon! You know the only fascists on this planet live in the White House and some place in Kansas
Times Peon #2: Sorry sir, lost my head - a confusing day. Anyway, we want them on our side, sir, the ummmm non-fascist Islamists. Theyre telling people that the Democrats should win this election!
Keller: Exactly. Thank you, Peon, youre a good man for reminding me about them. Youre right, this is no time to lose our heads!
Times Peon #1: Hah-haha, good pun, sir!
Keller: Pun, hell, Im quite serious! (Pounding well-coiffed head against the newsrooms fifth column) I gotta think gotta think we need we require we gotta get Clinton in on this, no choice, only Clinton can spin this thing as adroitly as were going to need!
Times Peon #3: Which Clinton would that be, sir? Bill Clinton was on the cover of Time Magazine calling Saddam out in 1998 and saying he had WMD and possibly nukes! Hillary Clinton said in 2003 that the intelligence that stupid evil Bush was showing congress was consistant with what we saw in the White House in the 1990s.
Times Peon #2: And besides, sir, youre going to have a hard time using Clinton if the bloggers start reminding everyone about the nuke trigger he gave to Iran in 2000!
Keller: (under his breath) Damn! Freaking Clintons, can never count on them for anything! What about Gore!
Times Peon #1: Unavailable, sir! Flying a private jet to Iceland to warn about Global Warning, the biggest threat facing the world at this time, as you know!
Keller: Kobayashi Maru?
Peon #2: Fiction, sir. Star Trek, I think?
Keller: Albright! Gimmee Albright!
Times Peon #3: Under the desk with her head down on her knees, sir, with Byron Calame! Shes in a sort of trance muttering this over and over again: Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face. I knew that when I said it on Feb 18, 1998. She keeps saying it, sir. And Calame is saying, Banking data, NSA leak no way out, no way out, no way out.
Times Peon #1: Albright and Calame have gone bye-bye, sir.
Keller: I always did think they were the same person alright, you know what? Get Kerry. Bring on John Kerry! He was a sailor! Hell spin this wheel and turn us aright! He knows how to get out the information we want gotten out. And besides, he owes us! We shot down the Swiftboat Vets and never asked to see Kerrys milrecords, and we and got him an extra 10-15% in 2004!
Times Peon #2: Confined to quarters, sir, on account of nobody really likes him, much.
Keller: Okay,dammit, then sound the sirens! Dive! Dive! Dive!
Times Peon #2: Sir, were not a submarine, we are the majestic shining jewel of the journalistic sea! We are The TIMESTANIC!
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OMG! This is hillarious! You wanna see "November surprises," NY Slimes? You just gave us the ultimate one, lol!
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This I think is called a setup.
All the stories about Iraq and WMDs and terrorism that were LIES, wrong when George Bush and the evil Republicans told them, will now be the TRUTH when Nancy, Hillary and the Democrats 'uncover' them.
John Kerry started it. See, those stupid soldiers and Rumsfeld, they couldn't find the WMDs, couldn't finish what they started in Iraq. But thanks to the smart NYT, all is revealed!
History is being rerwritten before our eyes.
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Indeed, john, Pinchy Orwell has his minions on the job.
Apparently Democratic politicians aren't supposed to say anything that might challenge anyone on their side, according to blogger Jane Hamsher :
"I can see we're going to have to set up some sort of 'Democratic PR school' soon. They've become so accustomed to being George Bush's whipping posts they no longer recognize it when they have the advantage, and as the John Kerry incident demostrates they are in sore need of a few remedial lessons on how to press it when they do.
"First of all I don't care if John Kerry was eating live babies on TV, one week out from an election you do not repeat GOP talking points. Ever.
Unfortunately, as luck would have it, at the same banquet that Kerry made his "those who don't study and aren't smart are stuck in Iraq" comments, he also got confused about the menu and actually ate a live baby. Fox News is showing the footage now. It's just, really unfortunate, a very poor slip of the tongue, and, er, teeth.
Now the important thing to remember is, no Democrat should repeat a GOP talking point that it is bad to eat a live baby.
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Dems are spun, completely spun. I hope and pray, if there is a god, be mercifull and destroy the planet before you let them gain control of the USA.
University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann threw her annual Halloween costume party at her home Tuesday night. Among the guests was Saad Saadi, who came dressed as a suicide bomber, complete with plastic dynamite strapped to his chest and a toy automatic rifle. Worse, Gutmann posed with Saadi!
An obvious question: would Gutmann have posed with a guest--or even allowed him into her house--if he'd dressed as Adolf Hitler or a Nazi SS officer? A KKK member?
But in modern liberal circles, posing as a Palestinian suicide bomber (see his kefiya) is just fine. After all, he mainly tries to kill innocent Jews.
Update: Saad Saadi has a web site, at which he has posted many photographs along with the apology posted below.
My friend, Jason, and I express our condolences and sympathy to all affected by our costumes. We wish to make it clear that we do not support terrorism, violence, or anything that is against society. There is no agenda or statement associated with our behavior shown in these pictures. The costumes are meant to portray scary characters much like many other costumes on Halloween. Additionally, we strive for all societies to instill healthy and non-violent values.
Update II: I came about these photos because I'm the director of Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum. We monitor Middle East studies in North America, critique them, and do our best to bring attention what's going on in the discipline--all with an eye toward improving the study and teaching of the Middle East. Our site has a huge archive of articles on all manner of Middle East studies, including many that we commissioned. I also maintain a blog at CW, and these photos and commentary are posted there. If this story interests you, so will Campus Watch.
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HANNITY & COLMES > COLMES faux pas? = "Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania is running as a SOCIAL - err, SOCIALIST - CONSERVATIVE". Thusly the WOT is about, and only about, TERRORISM???
An NPR broadcast from September 2014, as imagined by some Daily Kos muppet:
Former President George W. Bush began serving consecutive life sentences today for High Treason in connection convictions for creating a false casus beli for War with Iraq. He was sentenced to Life plus 100 years. He is also serving a life term for warrantless wiretapping.
The plus 100 years is a nice touch; apparently future judges assume an afterlife.
President Jon Stewart today said, Its a little sad really. I owe him a lot. I mean, basically he launched my career. Vice President Colbert was unavailable while vacationing in France visiting relatives and stopping by the new UN Headquarters in London on the way back from his rest. In a prepared statement, the Vice President said, We are all sad and shamed at what George W Bush wrought upon this great nation. Perhaps this will be the new beginning America needs.
And so on and on, until ... well, your sides wont exactly split with laughter. In fact, any pre-existing side-located wounds will most likely heal closed. Further highlights:
Dick Cheney waterboarded following his conviction in a secret military tribunal;
Michael J. Fox competes in a marathon following successful stem cell therapy;
Former Bush officials sentenced to harvest stem cells in the former Huntsville Penitentiary;
Rush Limbaugh and Bill OReilly convicted for propaganda, stripped of their citizenship, and sentenced to life imprisonment;
Mona Charen eaten by some wild animal after escaping prison;
Ann Coulter, Michelle Malagang and Judith Miller denied parole and ordered not to speak in public or publish for the rest of their lives;
(Note the firm commitment to principles of free speech.)
Chelsea Clinton appointed National Health Care Director, in which role she will administer the application of free medicine to Americans;
An Ohio student wins one million dollars for showing evolutionary changes in house flies in two generations;
Election experts predict massive Congressional wins for the Progressive Party that is expected to hold 200 seats. Democrats will likely hold onto 20 of the remaining 38 seats and Independants will hold the rest. Under the National Restoration Freedom Act, Republicans will not be allowed to fly, vote or run for office until 2030;
Markos Moulitsas is a billionaire;
Palestine becomes a nation in 2009, and;
Terrorism declines for the sixth consecutive year.
Author Bob Holmes imagines what is evidently meant to be a heart-warming future in which all humans disappear from the planet instantaneously and things begin to "work their way back to a natural state" - "a natural state" being "the way they were before humans interfered."
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Lol! It's a complete progressive's wetdream!
I think the Macabee guy who wrote this had a couple of tissues ready for use. All bases covered, the Forces of Progress must be so proud!
In John Frankenheimer's original, electrifying 1962 thriller, The Manchurian Candidate, an American soldier is captured by communists during the Korean War, brainwashed and programmed to return to the United States and, years later, to assassinate a presidential candidate. There is compelling evidence now that John Kerry is a kind of Manchurian Candidate of Democratic politics. It seems entirely possible that at some point in his career, he was seized by a youthful Karl Rove, brainwashed and programmed to kill off, at crucial moments in American history, the Democratic partys political prospects.
The clues were there all along, if wed only looked closely enough. His curious combination of self-satisfied superiority and baffled indecisiveness was obviously too contradictory a mental characteristic to be natural. His ponderous oratorical style and studied condescension suggested something artificial had interfered with the firing of the synapses. But the plot worked brilliantly. In 2004, as the partys presidential candidate, Mr Kerry contrived to throw away a golden opportunity for a Democratic victory against an increasingly unpopular incumbent fighting an increasingly unpopular war.
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They got Cary when he was up in Cambodia and brainwashed him. Oops, not sure that is possible. Anyway now he cannot stop mentioning the "War." It is rumored that he is a Trojan Horse of the Dhimmi party.
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It seems entirely possible that at some point in his career, he was seized by a youthful Karl Rove, brainwashed and programmed to kill off, at crucial moments in American history, the Democratic partys political prospects.
Gaddarnit!
Who let this cat out of the bag! I'll have their head on platter!
And Karl will have other choice body parts!
Wetworks Division has been contacted and the culprit who released this vital intelligence will be brought to task asap.
Everyone else - cover this up immediately! I mean now!
If Democrats manage to take control of one or both houses of Congress on Tuesday, the reason will be that voters were not adequately roused into a state of heart-pounding, knee-knocking, teeth-chattering fear.
Not that Republicans haven't been trying. George W. Bush used to claim he was "a uniter, not a divider," but that was a long time ago. These days, he'd probably try to deny the quote the same way he tried to disown "stay the course." The Karl Rove formula for political victory has been to draw a bright line between "us" and "them" and then paint those on the other side not as opponents but as monsters.
Thus Bush openly accused those who disagree with his policy in Iraq of giving aid and comfort to the enemy. "The Democrat approach in Iraq comes down to this: The terrorists win and America loses," he said the other day.
Call me naive, but I never thought a president of the United States would stoop so low as to accuse current and prospective members of Congress -- a number of whom, by the way, are decorated war veterans, unlike Bush or anyone in his inner circle -- of being pro-terrorist. But this administration has so lowered the bar on political discourse in this country that it's now more of a limbo stick: How low can you go?
I've pointed out in earlier columns the difference between a leader who faces troubled times with a message of bravery and optimism -- Franklin D. Roosevelt's stirring words about the Great Depression, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," constitute perhaps the best example -- and a leader such as Bush who encourages people to be afraid because their fear is advantageous to him politically.
This goes beyond other scare tactics that have become standard practice. Republican candidates throughout the land are telling people that the Democrats "want to raise your taxes." The truth of the matter is that many Democrats question some of the Bush administration tax cuts because the benefits have gone so disproportionately to the very rich and because continuing to cut taxes when you're also throwing hundreds of billions of dollars at a long-running war is pure fiscal insanity. But in the context of today's political culture, this kind of distortion doesn't even warrant a raised eyebrow.
Republicans are also trying to demonize individuals, warning that if Democrats take control of the House, Nancy Pelosi (gasp!), who represents San Francisco (shudder!), will become speaker. Never mind that she is actually an effective and pragmatic politician, as evidenced by the fact that, days before the election, she has the Republicans playing defense.
"Wedge" issues are designed to invoke fear. As one would expect, Republicans have tried to portray the New Jersey Supreme Court decision on gay marriage -- which did not, by the way, endorse, mandate or even legalize gay marriage -- as some sort of mortal threat to family values from coast to coast. This effort has been oddly halfhearted, though. Maybe GOP strategists worry that stigmatizing homosexuality won't work so well in the wake of the Mark Foley scandal, which laid bare the party's essential hypocrisy. It's hard to portray the Democrats as the party of Sodom and Gomorrah now that everyone knows there are many powerful gay Republicans working on Capitol Hill.
None of this is pretty, and all of it demeans American politics. But claiming that "the terrorists win" if Democrats are elected to Congress -- a statement whose only conceivable purpose is to make Americans afraid -- is something entirely different. The president knows, and at times has acknowledged, that there are people of good will in both parties who differ with him on Iraq. He also knows, or should know, that fear diminishes us as a nation -- that fear appeals to our baser instincts, not our best ideals; that it makes us smaller, meaner, less noble.
He should know all this, but he uses fear anyway, because fear is effective. John Kerry may have chosen an inopportune time (or just the right moment, from the Republicans' perspective) to demonstrate his inestimable comedic timing and his finely tuned political ear. But while Kerry's recent gaffe produced some last-minute outrage, mere outrage probably isn't enough this time. The only thing that might work is fear, and so far not enough Americans have been made to quake in their boots.
I take that back: The president did say that Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld will serve out the remainder of his term. Run for your lives!
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Never mind that she [Nancy Pelosi] is actually an effective and pragmatic politician, as evidenced by the fact that, days before the election, she has the Republicans playing defense.
Bobby , Thanks for the comedic relief. I always find it amusing (in a pathetic sort of way) how these tools struggle to find anything that remotely sounds like an accomplishment that can be attributed to the current Democrat leadership.
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Bush and his neocon Mossad breeder Christianist handlers are destroying the Bill of Rights, butchering brown people for oil, and seeking to impose fascism, end medical research, force us all to go to church on Sunday, and take away A Woman's Right To Choose, which is the most important thing in the universe. And now, if bringing on 9/11 wasn't enough, they're stooping so low as to demonize their political opponents!
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Dear America: Vote Terrorist Democratic
"Of course Americans should vote Democrat," Jihad Jaara, a senior member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group and the infamous leader of the 2002 siege of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, told WND.
"This is why American Muslims will support the Democrats, because there is an atmosphere in America that encourages those who want to withdraw from Iraq. It is time that the American people support those who want to take them out of this Iraqi mud," said Jaara, speaking to WND from exile in Ireland, where he was sent as part of an internationally brokered deal that ended the church siege.-- http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/
You mean like scaring blacks that Trunks want to destroy their civil rights by disenfranchising them?
You mean like scaring children that the world will end if you don't implement Kyoto tomorrow?
You mean like scaring working people that Trunks only are concerned with the interest of the rich?
You mean like scaring people that the Trunks are implementing a totalitarian police state?
Just who has been scaring the people? Just who has been demeaning the people?
600K people in the congressional district
400K voters in the congressional district,
40% turnout
Historically, that's very high for an off year congressional, 35-37 is much more typical, but it looks like it could go as high as 42% this year. Split the difference and call it 40%.
So that means there will be 160K votes cast.
Polls indicate that the Challenger, Osama Murtha, , is taking advantage of the media frenzy and one-sided reporting on Iraq, and is ahead by 53 or 54 to 46 or 47 amongst likely voters. The Press is telling everyone Osama Murtha has this one in the bag, and so some of incumbent conservative Rudy Patton's backers just go through the motions, or sit it out like Cut-n-Run Libertarians, c.f. Bill Slow Quick.
The election comes, and the challenger wins 52%-48%. Polls had him up by 7-8%, but there was a bit of closing rush due to the Kerry flap and TV ad money pouring in, as well as due to sampling errors they were off by 3% (typical these days against conservatives, they tend to be less accessible to pollsters for a variety of reasons and thus tend to be frequently under-sampled).
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As a bonus, you WILL be noticed by your candidate when you call his office to remind him to vote for the borfer fence funding, etc. You'll have met him and you can remind him that without volunteers liek yourself he'd not be where he is - so he better lsiten this time!
The 4 days start today, and the big 72 hour push is this weekend - so you need to sign up TODAY.
There is no more "Later" left to wait around for.
You decide if its worth it to get out there or not
But let me remind you: Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Murtha, Chaman Rangel, Chairman Conyers, Intelligence Chairman Alcee "Impeached for bribery" Hastings and others like that are waiting in the wings to see if you will let them get into power by doing nothing or act to oppose them.
Get out of the batters box - you're up at the plate next!
Faced with mounting pressure from Nato over Pakistan's alleged harbouring of the Taliban, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf's response was not to arrest Taliban leaders residing in Quetta, but to bomb a religious school hundreds of miles to the north.
European and Nato tolerance levels for Musharraf's two-track policy of hunting down al-Qa'eda, while allowing Afghan and Pakistani Taliban to recruit, plan and arm themselves in Balochistan province, is now at an all-time low.
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Yet George Bush and Tony Blair still refuse to call the military's bluff, with the result that Nato troops continue to die every day in Afghanistan.
This is too good to be true. From National Review Online:
Drudge has the scoop. And if it's meant to be a slam-Bush story, I think the Times team may have overthunk this:
U.S. POSTING OF IRAQ NUKE DOCS ON WEB COULD HAVE HELPED IRAN...
NYT REPORTING FRIDAY, SOURCES SAY: Federal government set up Web site Operation Iraqi Freedom Document Portal to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war; detailed accounts of Iraq's secret nuclear research; a 'basic guide to building an atom bomb'... Officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency fear the information could help Iran develop nuclear arms... contain charts, diagrams, equations and lengthy narratives about bomb building that the nuclear experts say go beyond what is available elsewhere on the Internet and in other public forums...
I'm sorry, did the New York Times just put on the front page that IRAQ HAD A NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM AND WAS PLOTTING TO BUILD AN ATOMIC BOMB?
What? Wait a minute. The entire mantra of the war critics has been "no WMDs, no WMDs, no threat, no threat", for the past three years solid. Now we're being told that the Bush administration erred by making public information that could help any nation build an atomic bomb.
Let's go back and clarify: IRAQ HAD NUCLEAR WEAPONS PLANS SO ADVANCED AND DETAILED THAT ANY COUNTRY COULD HAVE USED THEM.
I think the Times editors are counting on this being spun as a "Boy, did Bush screw up" meme; the problem is, to do it, they have to knock down the "there was no threat in Iraq" meme, once and for all. Because obviously, Saddam could have sold this information to anybody, any other state, or any well-funded terrorist group that had publicly pledged to kill millions of Americans and had expressed interest in nuclear arms. You know, like, oh... al-Qaeda.
The New York Times just tore the heart out of the antiwar argument, and they are apparently completely oblivous to it.
The antiwar crowd is going to have to argue that the information somehow wasn't dangerous in the hands of Saddam Hussein, but was dangerous posted on the Internet. It doesn't work. It can't be both no threat to America and yet also somehow a threat to America once it's in the hands of Iran. Game, set, and match. oh please...let it be so
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No surprise here - as for IRAN, more and more pundits are coming to believe that Iran is already a nuclear power ala [Chicom-controlled] NORTH KOREA, i.e. possesses nuclear bombs or a stockpile of tactical devices. Unlike NK, Tehran's bombs are controlled only by itself, not the Commies.
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I woke to this being reported on NBC at 4:30 (yuck!) this morning. Definitely being spun as a government screw up -- that a nuclear weapons documents site wasn't secured, and that the website was approved by George W. Bush personally, the assumption being that he compromised security while seeking efficiency. No mention that these were captured Iraqi documents released to the public eye. So I lay there in agony, hoping that this was deliberate trap, full of the kind of almost-correct information that results in serious work accidents...
Thank you so very much for posting this so quickly, cajunbelle. Now I can face the day with equinimaty.
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Mind you, the NYT can publish all the classified information it wants, but God forbid anything supporting the reasons for removing Saddam ever make the light of day.
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Why is National Intelligence Director John Negraponte in Iraq today?
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Many have correctly complained since before the war that the admin's articulation of the Iraq issue insufficiently emphasized the clear POTENTIAL WMD threat, and allowed the natural focus on purported existing stockpiles to become a very misleading reductionist version of the pre-emption rationale. Many of us agonized as the Prez and others failed to follow up on their good phrase about a "gathering threat" with an explicit elaboration of what that meant - nukes.
As with much else that is part of the notably stupid "debate" these days, an unserious approach to the public affairs dimension has left a landscape so devoid of understanding or logic that the NYT geniuses can even imagine (perhaps incorrectly, as y'all point out) that this is a "hit" on the admin.
On a related historic note: I was well distracted from the topic at the time, but does anyone remember that one of Clinton's dumbest appointees, a female SecEnergy, declassified and posted historic nuke design info on the theory that this display of openness would somehow mollify hostile nuke-seeking parties, or some such idiotic idea? I recall being literally unable to believe what I had been told about this. THAT was an unimaginably irresponsible and indefensible stunt - somehow I doubt the NYT objected, if they even noticed it.
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"Iraqi documents captured during the war; detailed accounts of Iraq's secret nuclear research; a 'basic guide to building an atom bomb'..."
Does the date of the documents origin have any relevance? 80's...90's??? Just askin...I'm trying to anticipate the spin here. Something like; Yeah it was a WMD program...but you know...like from the old days...Rumsfield prolly sold it to em.
The official Palestinian Authority (PA) newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida published an anti-Semitic article last week that included many classic anti-Semitic libels along with some modern "updates."
Palestinian Media Watch reports that the themes in the October 23 article included:
- Jews start wars, including the war in Iraq, to promote Jews' power and control
- Jews are the dominant force in United States policy
- Jews control international finance
- Jews control international media.
In the article, Muhammad Khalifa, columnist from the United Arab Emirates, argues that the US is planning to control the world from a single central government in New York. The Jews, he says, control every key element in US policy, including the stock market, the media and international finance. They have used their "custom" of starting international wars to cement this US control, according to the PA daily.
The Jews, says Khalifa, started the war in Iraq as the first step to "force the other Arab nations to voluntarily surrender to their will." But this tactic will ultimately fail, he says, leading to World War III and the end of Western culture.
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The Jews, says Khalifa, started the war in Iraq as the first step to "force the other Arab nations to voluntarily surrender to their will." But this tactic will ultimately fail, he says, leading to World War III and the end of Western culture.
This is why I keep shouting about killing off Islam's top jihadist clerics. That an Arab can even write about Islam surviving WW III is ridiculously optimistic. We need to dismantle the MME (Muslim Middle East) propaganda machine. There will little progress in changing or winning any hearts and minds so long as idiotic drivel like this is spewn and consumed. Muslims need to be made aware of the hideous fate that awaits their continued pursuit of jihad. We need to produce a "Day After Tomorrow" video showing nuclear destruction of the MME and airdrop it throughout the region. Nothing short of this will have the least hope of awakening these vicious morons.
There will soon be another war in the Middle East, this time a renewal of the conflict between the Israel Defence Force (IDF) and Hizbollah. The conflict is inevitable and unavoidable. It will come about because Israel cannot tolerate the rebuilding of Hizbollah's fortified zone in south Lebanon, from which last year it launched its missile bombardment of northern Israel.
Hizbollah has now reconstructed the fortified zone and is replenishing its stocks of missiles there. Hamas is also creating a fortified zone in the Gaza Strip and building up its stocks of missiles. Israel, therefore, faces missile attack on two fronts. When the Israel general staff decides the threat has become intolerable, it will strike.
What happened in south Lebanon earlier this year has been widely misunderstood, largely because the anti-Israel bias in the international media led to the situation being misreported as an Israeli defeat.
It was no such thing. It was certainly an Israeli setback, but the idea that the IDF had suddenly lost its historic superiority over its Arab enemies and that they had acquired military qualities that had hitherto eluded them was quite false. Hizbollah suffered heavy losses in the fighting, perhaps as many as 1,000 killed out of its strength of up to 5,000 and it is only just now recovering.
What allowed Hizbollah to appear successful was its occupation of the bunker-and-tunnel system that it had constructed since June 2000, when the IDF gave up its presence in south Lebanon, which it had occupied since 1982.
Although the IDF had got into south Lebanon, the casualties it had suffered in entering the fortified zone had alarmed the government and high command, since Israel's tiny population is acutely vulnerable to losses in battle. Israel's plan was to destroy Hizbollah's tunnels and bunkers, but the sending of a United Nations intervention force did not allow the destruction to be completed before the IDF was forced to withdraw.
Tunnel systems have played a crucial part in many modern campaigns, without attracting much attention. That is a serious oversight. The success of the Viet Cong in sustaining its war effort in Vietnam in 1968-72 depended heavily on its use of the so-called War Zone B, a complex of deep tunnels and underground bases north of Saigon, which had been begun during the war against the French in 1946-55.
War Zone B provided the Viet Cong with a permanent base of refuge and resupply that proved effectively invulnerable even against a determined American effort to destroy it. War Zone B has now become a major tourist attraction to Western visitors to Vietnam.
In its time, however, War Zone B was very far from being a holiday facility: it assured the survival of the Viet Cong close to Saigon and their ability to mount operations against the government forces and the Americans. Hizbollah, either by mimicry or on its own account, has now begun to employ a tunnel and underground base strategy against Israel. It was for that reason it was able to confront Israeli armoured forces in south Lebanon earlier this year.
The adoption of a tunnel strategy has allowed Hizbollah to wage asymmetric warfare against Israel's previously all-conquering armoured forces. The tunnel system is also impervious to attack by the Israeli Air Force.
Since Israel's reason for existence is to provide a secure base for the Jewish people, and that of the IDF is to act as their shield and safeguard functions that have been carried out with high success since 1948 it is obvious that neither can tolerate a zone of invulnerability occupied by a sworn enemy located directly on Israel's northern border.
It is therefore an easy prediction to foresee that the IDF will at some time in the near future reopen its offensive against Hizbollah in south Lebanon and will not cease until it has destroyed the underground system, even if, in the process, it inflicts heavy damage on the towns and villages of the region.
It is likely that it will also move against the underground system being constructed in the Gaza Strip. Hamas resupplies itself with arms and munitions brought from Egypt through those channels. Gaza is a softer target than south Lebanon, since it is an enclave that Israel easily dominates.
Indeed, the IDF may attack Gaza as a distraction from south Lebanon in an effort to make Hizbollah divide its forces and efforts.
Destroying the underground military facilities may be straightforward, but it is likely to create diplomatic complexities, particularly with the UN. Entering south Lebanon risks provoking a clash with Unifil, the major part of whose strength is provided by France. It is unlikely that such a risk will deter Israel. When national survival is at risk, Israel behaves with extreme ruthlessness. It attacked an American communications ship during the Six-Day War because it objected to America listening in to its most secret signals.
The big question hanging over an Israeli return to south Lebanon is whether that would provoke a war with Syria, Lebanon's Arab protector. The answer is quite possibly yes, but that such an extension of hostilities might prove welcome both to Israel and to the United States, which regards Syria as Iran's advanced post on the Mediterranean shore.
What is certain is that probably before the year is out Israel will have struck at Hizbollah in south Lebanon. And the strike will come even sooner if Hizbollah reopens its missile bombardment of northern Israel from its underground systems.
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i myself just don't think that the tunnel system of hezbollah is quite as "nice" as the viet cong they also had jungle cover. and i find it hard to believe that ie is impervious too IDF warplanes . Didn't the US sendd idraela shipment of bunker busters awhile ago?
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I think BrerRabbit is right...the tunnels were located and mapped, the bunker busters were purchased and and after an initial shelling to get the Hez down in the holes, the tunnels will be dstroyed.
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undermine the tunnels from below with a boring machine and sea water. That will ruin well water in the area too so it's win win.
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Sooner or later, we (Industrialized Nations) will have to abondon this nonsence of fighting a war for survival against an enemy who recognizes no ethical restrictions whatsoever under self imposed constraints, and just "stomp 'em". IMO, everybody (who matters) hopes that somebody else will be the first to switch. In case of Israel, there are (not baseless) fears that being the first will turn the entire world agains us (both Israel and Jewish Diaspora).
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Israel should regularly warn all of Lebanon that hezzie rebuilding will not be tolerated and that severe civilian casualties will be incurred WHEN Israel takes action. Can't say they didn't warn 'em.
I can't agree more. It' easy to be a mench when your neighbors do not threaten you with annihilation or your are protected by the US nuclear shield. The most effective way to stop arab aggression is to post US troops inside Israel. This may not be popular with nationalist jews but it may be a tripwire for broader US action in the region.
Btw, the number of spermatozoids in westerners' sperm has dropped by 50% over the last 50years (from an average of 116 millions in 1940 to 66 millions in 1990, as per the danish researcher Niels Shakkebaek; also, according to the WHO, average numbers of spermatozoids per mililiters has dropped from 40 to 20 millions).
I was stocking up on groceries at Fred Meyer when I heard this fretful falsetto. "Honey, look at these ingredients. Oh my God. Check the percentage of trans fats. It's outrageous!" The fussing, believe it or not, was coming from a man. He was hopping up and down on spindly legs, beckoning his wife excitedly. I quickly moved on, thanking my lucky stars that the spouse had gravitated automatically to the hardware section of the store and was itching to move on to Home Depot.
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The last material I read on the subject indicated the Redlands were out producing the Bluelands by a respectable level.
When boys leave secondary school, they discover that society privileges girls in tertiary schools and in the workplace.
If youre talking soft humanities degree programs and their allied employment, like jobs not defined in dance, art, [insert minority title] studies, probably. However, if youre talking engineering, architecture, chemistry, physics, etc, you know the hard disciplines that dominated real colleges and university programs fifty years ago, Id suspect the male population is seriously represented. Universities may want balance, but they want to keep their programs alive too. If the interest isnt there neither will be the tuition and fee paying students.
Women say they look for partners who are "sweet and sensitive."
I understand firemen made a great comeback in popularity after 9/11. Sean Penn didnt look that heroic down there in New Orleans girls. When the chips are down, it quickly becomes a matter of natural selection. Four thousand years of human history cant be all wrong. A fashion statement isnt going to get your buns out of the fire.
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newest word as coined by the Seattle elite: Metronatural; supposed to be a play on Mertosexual (another gag me with a spoon kind of word)and some sort of Paul Bunyan as interpreted by REI. All you sensitive, back shavers; come out and say it: I'm Pussywhipped
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the hard disciplines that dominated real colleges and university programs fifty years ago, Id suspect the male population is seriously represented.
Yes. Whatsisname who used to be president of Harvard was drummed out for addressing just that isssue. Back in the day, I was advised that if I really wanted to apply my interest in maths to engineering, Chem E. was the most female friendly. I wasn't interested enough to learn the chemistry. Nowadays there are lots of very able women engineers, but that doesn't change the fact that the hard sciences are still tilted away from the distaff side.
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re. moose5089 comment on sperm numbers - one possible explanation for the reduction in concentration might be that the boys are getting laid a lot more often since 1940, and the sperm factories just can't keep up with the inventory shipping rate. Not saying it's the whole story, but I am darned sure my father's generation got a lot less sex and a lot later in life than mine or my kids'.
#10
I suspect biologically active contaminants in the food supply contribute to this as well as to insulin-resistance / Type II diabetes. Or maybe those researchers are just testing too often...
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Thank God I'm not around enough "regular" civilian populations to be sickened by what this lady is reporting. BTW - we in the mil seem to have no problem w/our combat swimmers.
My very thoughts; I'm always a bit irked when you US Hegemons see the euros as a separate, totally alien humanity... while as a matter of fact, we're only a "byproduct" of a cultural/polititcal strain (and by the way, at least part of the european new left you rightly despise so much has boomeranged from the USA in the 60's). You're not immune at all, about 49% of the electorate voted for it.
From the desk of Paul Belien
I am in Los Angeles at the moment, and do not have the opportunity to write about events in Europe as much as I would like to. I will not be back in Brussels until 12 November. Over here in the U.S. all attention is focused on the upcoming elections. There is a possibility that the Democrats will become the majority in the House of Representatives and that Nancy Pelosi, the California Liberal, will become the next Speaker of the House. I was in West Hollywood on Halloween. A friend described this area as one third retiree, one third Russian and one third gay. Sounds a bit like Europe to me.
The gays take every opportunity to dress up. Consequently Halloween has become a gay festival in LA. The first people I met when leaving the hotel were a group of men dressed up as ballerinas. This is Pelosi Land.
Americans can already see what their countrys future will be if they vote for Pelosi and her band. They only need to watch Europe. That is what America will be like 20 years from now if the Liberals succeed in turning the U.S. into a European-style welfare state. The latter is the cause of all Europes problems. It has led to secularization, because people who are catered for from the cradle to the grave no longer need God. It has led to the immigration debacle, because Europe has attracted welfare immigrants who only come for the benefits and not to contribute to the host countrys wealth creation. It has led to the loss of the citizens ability to care for themselves, because they expect everything from the state.
However, the current American elections are relevant for Europe, too. If they lead to the American withdrawal from Iraq, Europe will face a widespread intifada. The withdrawal will be perceived as a defeat of the West and the Muslim youths in Europes cities will become even more arrogant. They utterly despise the Europeans, whom they perceive (not entirely without reason) to be men dressed up as ballerinas, and they hate America because it fights back. In a world ruled by men who only understand the language of power it is better to be hated than despised. Sorry if I rant, but it is my perception that the USA are the ennemy, while Europe is the prey/prize.
By the way, a very interesting french blogger noted that in arab culture, excuses, apologies, and conciliation in general, were not seen as they are in the West; they are seen as proofs of weakness, and arabs gang up on those who are perceived weak, taking the side of their "strong" adversaries.
Thus, the constant appeal for the West to apologize is in fact a cultural warmachine, it both erodes its will, and makes it look weak, thus rallying support for the proponents of islam.
If America withdraws the Islamist fanatics will despise America for it. They will take this as a sign that the West has been defeated and that the world is theirs.
In this scenario Europe has more to lose than America. That makes it all the more surprising that Europes politicians refuse to support America. They seem to be hoping that the Muslims, although they despise the Europeans, will leave them alone so they can carry on paying the taxes that the immigrants live off. I fear it will not turn out this way. Moreover, the funds are running dry because the welfare state hampers wealth creation.
I have ambivalent feelings about the war in Iraq, but once a country has decided to go to war it has got to make sure it wins. Europe no longer knows this, which also goes to explain why it does not want to help America win the war and why, on a micro level, the situation in France is deteriorating day by day. Last year the French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy decided to reestablish law and order in the French immigrant suburbs which have become territorial pockets ruled by thugs and Islamists.
Instead of fighting this battle with all available means the French authorities are waging a half-hearted war which has led to the current debacle in Frances no-go areas. Last year youths developed a habit of setting parked (and empty) cars on fire, but this year policemen and firefighters are being attacked in paramilitary raids and crowded buses are being hijacked and arsoned. Still the French Republic refuses to crack down on the Islamic hooligans.
Yesterday Le Figaro reported that the police in Roubaix, a town in the North of France, had been ordered not to search the house of a suspected drug trafficker because he lived in a no-go part of town. Police officers reported in an official but confidential document that the Prefect [the Governor] of the Nord Department [Province] currently does not authorize police actions in that sector for reasons concerning public order. The house of the suspected drug dealer was situated in a sensitive area. Here the thugs can do as they please.
Following the publication of the confidential police report both the French Interior Ministry and the Defence Ministry have denied its content, saying that the police officers misunderstood the orders given to them. The suspected drug trafficker was not arrested, they say, because the police had to wait for reinforcements. Meanwhile the authorities have announced an official investigation into the leaking of the document. This attitude is a recipe for defeat.
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I'd rather have Pelosi as majority leader than have to listen to a goddamned wussy EUnick tell me about what it means to be an American, and how screwed up our country is.
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