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I'm not trying to be paranoid or cynical or wear tin foil... but after hearing this the first thing that goes through my mind is, "That is a good justification for martial law and the suspension of the constitutional process if this gets out of hand. And that would have been planned to happen that way."
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Not paranoid or cynical, Darth - just practical and paying attention. :-(
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In the old days, the local Health Department could forcibly enforce quarantine as necessary -- no army needed.
And honestly, if this thing goes pandemic, elections will be the least of our worries. Plenty of time afterward for the ~50% of us who survived to figure out which part of the country holds the voting majority -- I know where I'd place my bets.
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Darth, I doubt it, but... given how completely unhinged many on the left have become, I wouldn't entirely dismiss the possibility of an attempt at a Lincoln-esque "suspension of rights" via executive order emerging from the umbra of the overlap between Soro's willingness to sacrifice others, Obama's narcissism and the Progressive's fascist impulses.
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In a few weeks approximately 750,000 light infantry will mobilize in Pennsylvania to rid the commonwealth of the despised and delicious white tailed rat. 700,000 in Michigan and 600,000 in Wisconsin. Guys, there will be no suspension of rights that survives first contact with the enemy.
[CFP] Should flights coming from West African nations be cancelled and our borders closed? According to Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the answer is “No, absolutely not.” “When you start closing countries like that, there is a real danger of making things worse,... governments could fall if you isolate them.” African governments fall? That's a feature, not a bug. African governments fail? How would you be able to tell?
What kind of logic is that? How is it possible that blocking visas and the travel of people sick with Ebola and quarantining them in the Hot Zone is making things worse? Would that not be easier for the virus outbreak to be contained and allow the virus to burn itself out before it mutates? If you don't believe in borders and wish to expand to become an international agency, actually quite logical.
Apparently the neighboring countries to Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria have good judgment and have made the decision to close their borders to and cancel incoming flights from the affected countries. Not to mention France, Great Britain, and South Africa.
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African governments fail? How would you be able to tell?
Bacterial subjects, and fungal,
Feast silently deep in the jungle:
Great trees' dissolution
Means redistribution,
The one kingly role they don't bungle.
[NATION.PK] A blast in Mohmand agency killed two polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... workers and injured one more on Wednesday, the third day of Eid. No terrorist organization has grabbed credit for the attack as of yet, which is why it is still uncertain whether the polio workers were the ones being targeted. But even if no one has owned up to the attack, the bomb's close proximity to the house of the workers tell us that this was no coincidence.
Over 60 polio workers have been killed since 2012, and this does not include the tally of those that died protecting the workers in similar attacks over the past two years. The highest number of refusals to vaccinate have come from the agencies that connect to the Durand Line, as do most of the attacks on polio workers. Statistics alone tell us that if an effective immunization campaign is to be carried out, it must be largely focused in the tribal agencies, or the spread of the disease will continue unmitigated.
Operation Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... brought about an increased movement of unvaccinated people from North Wazoo to the rest of the country, which means that the last three months of the year are likely to see another flurry of cases reported. The bandidosLions of Islam have been carrying out a war against polio vaccination, and the government's inability to protect workers and fight the narrative against the vaccine has made Pakistain an 80 percent contributor of polio in the world. The year's total is at an all-time high in 14 years, and this upward trend does not look to be going in a different direction anytime soon. Pakistain would do well to look at India, which became a polio-free nation at the end of 2013, even though they had over 700 cases as recently as 2009. The only way we can rid ourselves of the disease is if the protection of polio workers is made top priority, treating it as a part of the fight against krazed killers. This is terrorism, pure and simple. The safety of polio workers cannot be stressed enough, and it is a dismal failure of state and intelligence agencies, that they are still being systematically targeted and brutally killed.
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#1
Common sense doesn't seem to work. The "carrot" approach also does not seem very useful with these savages.
Political correctness aside, maybe it time to use the "stick" approach. The next time a vaccination team is killed, or is denied access to a village, back off a few kilometers, and then call in an Arclight bombing mission to obliterate the village. Make sure you have a village headman from every other village in the region watching from a good vantage point.
Then tell the village headmen: "We are here to eliminate polio from the earth - and your region is the last place on earth where the scourge of this disease still exists. We have two choices: 1) we can immunize all children to eliminate the disease; or 2) We can eliminate the population that might harbor the disease.
So - you have two choices: Help us immunize everyone - or say goodbye to your neighbors, right before we vaporize them with a B-52 airstrike.
We have another flight of bombers about six hours out. So - when we call your village's name, please answer up either "Vaccinate Us" or "Obliterate Us" - and we will take appropriate follow-up action
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Whats wrong with letting polio flourish in Pakistain? Let it run wild, until they realize whats happening (which may be never) and allow the vaccinations.
[IsraelTimes] Netanyahu's pivot away from the Palestinians and toward regional Arab powers has its skeptics, but this PM has made a career out of being underestimated.
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The newspaper, Bibi and most don't understand what are the Palestinians.
The Palestinians are a tool of Western Left - it exist for their proposes.
The Arabs use them when it fits or not. But for Western left they are a permanent tool.
Because there isn't anything that the Left hates more than Israel.
Not all the mysterious explosions which have occurred in Iran's nuclear sites and missile bases in the past eight years were the result of intentional sabotage by foreign intelligence agencies.
"The Iranians are doing a pretty good job in sabotaging the project themselves," former Mossad chief Meir Dagan once said. "They have a sort of 'trust me' culture and carelessness there, which quite often lead to accidents."
But if someone did succeed in infiltrating the Parchin site with explosives and causing the huge explosion which took place there, we are talking about an exceptional achievement.
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This is the place where they make the explosive segments to actuate an atomic bomb; the segments look a lot like the segments on the face of a soccer ball, and are about 1.5" thick. The explosive is built up in layers and zones, to focus the blast wave on the fissionable material. The process of making them is sort of a combination of painting and molding, with a lot of time spent waiting for things to cure.
All of this, by the way, has absolutely no application in a civilian atomic power project. It's purely used to make a bomb.
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The process of making them is sort of a combination of painting and molding, with a lot of time spent waiting for things to cure.
One wonders if a certain...impatience...wasn't at work here.
Mike
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Who knew that the making of explosive lenses would lead to an open house event?
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A mistress seldom reflects that if she can persuade a husband to betray his wife she might someday be the next to be cheated on. For any arrangement founded on dishonesty suffers from the danger that you may be deceived in turn. In the context of politics the relevant question to ask is why the administration, having betrayed the Kurds, should not betray someone else. The Kurds have long been a pawn in regional politics.
In 1975 Congress, concerned by Watergate and possible illegal clandestine activities, created the Pike Committee to examine CIA effectiveness and its cost to taxpayers. It soon clashed with the CIA and the White House over access to classified documents. Although Congress voted to never publish the Committee's report, copies were leaked to the Village Voice. The report noted, among other things, the Kurds had agreed to resume their war for autonomy against the Iraqi Government with support from the Shah of Iran and assurances from the United States Government that it would help as well. The report stated that while Barzani often "expressed his distrust" of the Shah, he trusted the United States. It concluded the United States and Iran actually "hoped that our clients [the Kurds] would not prevail. They preferred instead that the insurgents simply continue a level of hostilities sufficient to sap the resources of our ally's [Iran's] neighboring country [Iraq]." Of course, "this policy was not imparted to our clients, who were encouraged to continue fighting. Even in the context of covert action, ours was a cynical enterprise."
They've been shafted again. The editors of Bloomberg note that the Turks are watching ISIS destroy the Kurds, in much the same way as the Soviets stood by and let the Nazis crush the Warsaw uprising.
...Ok, they've been sold out. The question is: in exchange for what? This goes to the very heart of any cynical (and I know dear readers that you have no objection to cynicism per se) appraisal of betrayal. Who's is the shafter and who are the shaftees? Are the Kurds being betrayed for some possibly greater good, which Obama will doubtlessly identify by and by, or is Washington just the flunkey for the men in the flowing robes?
[DAWN] THE fact that the self-styled Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... is drawing fulsome praise from across the holy warrior spectrum is hardly surprising. After all, the terrorist group's rapid rise and capture of territory in Iraq and Syria has granted it celebrity status within jihadi circles. So while there may be minor differences between various global holy warrior groups -- tactical, theological, level of ferocity -- the general consensus seems to be that the IS model of waging 'jihad' is a successful one and worthy of replication. A few days ago, the banned TTP -- while still accepting Afghan Taliban supremo Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... as its spiritual leader -- praised all Death Eaters in Iraq and Syria, including IS, terming them "noble" and "our brothers". Some time ago, pro-IS literature was also reportedly distributed in parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... and Fata. Also, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, a fanatical holy warrior outfit responsible for a number of terrorist atrocities inside Pakistain, proclaimed it was "in the same ranks" as the so-called Islamic State. Nigerian myrmidon group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... has expressed warm wishes for IS 'caliph' His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... as have some holy warrior outfits in Southeast Asia and North Africa.
While there's little hard evidence that the above-mentioned statements signify that IS and other holy warrior groups are forging some sort of grand global jihadi alliance, they do appear to be policy statements making the intentions of the Death Eaters clear. They should serve as warning shots, alerting governments the world over to the potential havoc such groups can unleash should they join forces operationally. In many ways, IS is the new Al Qaeda; but considering that it actually holds territory makes the Islamic State even more dangerous than the terrorist franchise. After all, Al Qaeda was successful because it was provided a safe haven by the erstwhile Taliban rulers of Afghanistan. Should IS consolidate its hold over areas it controls it will serve as a magnet for hard boyz from across the globe, with the potential to destabilise states across the Middle East and Central Asia, including Pakistain. While Al Qaeda is now being regarded by many as a spent force, especially after the elimination of the late Osama bin Laden ... who used to be alive but now he's not... , IS has many of the trappings of a state and its battlefield successes have made it the talk of the Islamist world. Hence it is essential that governments, especially those of Moslem states, coordinate their efforts to deny IS the chance to operationally link up with sympathetic groups elsewhere.
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There is no one that the left hates more than a man who does not hate, who goes through the day without outrage and who does not spend his life stewing with vindictive resentments.
Leftists call it "privilege" now. They have called it apathy, escapism and a hundred other things.
They will find a thousand other names for it as they march through the future centuries grinding their teeth and cursing their country for its backwardness, their people for their provincialism and their culture for its mercantilism. But privilege is simply freedom from resentment.
To be of the left is to confuse perpetual outrage with righteousness. The professional leftist believes that the path to utopia on earth lies in constantly denouncing thought criminals until they have all been unthought so that only their kind of ethical and empathetic people walk the earth.
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"To be of the left is to confuse perpetual outrage with righteousness. The professional leftist believes that the path to utopia on earth lies in constantly denouncing thought criminals until they have all been unthought so that only their kind of ethical and empathetic people walk the earth."
To that I would only add perpetual envy pretending to be righteousness.
Good post, gromgoru.
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The left's defeat comes when its ... its alarmist crises are met with laughter.
I'm thinking, like Man-Made Global Climate Fluctuations.
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My favorite way to deal with the Cult of Warming is when they spout their stuff, tell them "I'm sorry, I don't believe in your religion, please stop preaching at me and trying to convert me to your religion" They get the weirdest look on their faces and start spluttering.
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Leftism is a form of mental problems, mainly stemming from narcissism with hints of envy Freudian projection, neoteny, a lack of stoicism, bits of dunning kruger and often found in a sort of warped tribal-socipathy, where outgroup members are seen as disposable.
I think of it as akin to hypo-aspergers/hyper-oxytocin with equivalent societal dysfunction.
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