[CA.NEWS.YAHOO] Egyptian security forces rubbed out dozens of supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi on Saturday, witnesses said, days after the army chief called for a popular mandate to wipe out "violence and terrorism".
Men in helmets and black police fatigues fired on crowds gathered before dawn on the fringes of a round-the-clock sit-in near a mosque in northeast Cairo, Mursi's Moslem Brüderbund movement said.
"They are not shooting to wound, they are shooting to kill," said Brotherhood front man Gehad El-Haddad. "The bullet wounds are in the head and chest."
The bloodshed, near the military parade ground where President Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981, has rocked a country already struggling with the transition to democracy two years after Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... was swept from power.
A Moslem Brüderbund website said 120 people had been killed and some 4,500 injured. A Rootersnews hound counted 36 bodies at one morgue, while health officials said there were a further 21 corpses in two nearby hospitals.
Activists rushed blood-spattered casualties into a makeshift hospital. Some were carried in on planks or blankets. One ashen teenager was laid out on the floor, a bullet hole in his head.
Egypt's Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim accused the Brotherhood of exaggerating the corpse count for political ends. He said only 21 people had died and denied police opened fire.
Ibrahim said local residents living close to the Rabaa al-Adawia mosque vigil had clashed with protesters in the early hours after they had blocked off a major bridge road. He said that police had used teargas to try to break up the fighting.
Well over 200 people have been killed in violence since the army toppled Mursi on July 3, following huge protests against his year in power. The army denies accusations it staged a coup, saying it intervened to prevent national chaos.
SISI'S CHALLENGE
Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians had poured onto the streets on Friday in response to a call by army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for nationwide demonstrations to give him backing to confront the weeks-long wave of violence.
His appeal was seen as a challenge to the Brotherhood, which organized its own rallies on Friday calling for the return of Mursi, who has been held in some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location since his ousting and faces a raft of charges, including murder.
Ibrahim said Mursi was likely to be transferred shortly to the same Cairo prison where former leader Mubarak is now held.
Brotherhood leaders appealed for calm on Saturday, but activists at the Rabaa al-Adawia mosque vigil voiced fury.
"The people want the execution of Sisi," a holy man shouted to the crowd from a stage by the mosque. "The people want the execution of the butcher."
Interior Minister Ibrahim said the pro-Mursi sit-ins would "God willing, soon ... be dealt with" based on a decision by a public prosecutor, who is reviewing complaints from local residents unhappy with the huge encampment on their doorstep.
The head of the Nour Party, the second-biggest Islamist group after the Brotherhood, called for an immediate investigation into what it called a "massacre."
"There is no substitute for a political solution with the commitment of everyone to exercise restraint ... and to renounce violence in all its forms, whether verbal or physical," Younis Makhyoun said in a Facebook statement.
The Brotherhood is a highly organized movement with grassroots support throughout Egypt, making it hard to silence even if the army decides to mount a bigger crackdown.
European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said she "deeply deplores" Saturday's deaths and urged all sides to halt the violence. There was no immediate comment from the United States, which provides Egypt with some $1.5 billion dollars of aid a year, mainly military hardware.
Washington has delayed delivery of four F-16 fighters because of the turmoil. However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... officials have indicated they do not intend to cut off aid to a country seen as a vital ally and which has a peace deal with neighboring Israel.
"BULLETS WHIZZING"
Witnesses said police first fired rounds of teargas at Brotherhood protesters gathered on a boulevard leading away from the Rabaa mosque, with live shots ringing out soon afterwards.
"There were snipers on the rooftops, I could hear the bullets whizzing past me," said Ahmed el Nashar, 34, a business consultant, choking back his tears.
"Man, people were just dropping."
Dr. Ibtisam Zein, overseeing the Brotherhood morgue, said most of the dead were hit in the head, some between the eyes.
The bodies were wrapped in white sheets and laid on the floor, their names scrawled on the shrouds. A cleaner busily mopped the floor, washing away pools of blood.
Haddad said the Brotherhood remained committed to pursuing peaceful protests, despite Saturday's deaths - the second mass shooting of its supporters this month by security forces, who killed 53 people on July 8.
Brotherhood activists at Rabaa said they would not be cowed and warned of worse bloodshed if the security forces did not back down. "We will stay here until we die, one by one," said Ahmed Ali, 24, helping treat casualties at the field hospital.
"We have the examples of Algeria and Syria in our minds. We don't want it to become a civil war. If we take up arms it might become one. This is a religious belief."
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that's one way to deal with mass-starvation - reduce the number of seethingraging hungry mouths
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Fifty at a time isn't going to get it done. The Brüderbünd and the military will have to get into wholesale genocide to make a difference. Sadly in that part of the world it just might happen.
If it did, of course, the Joooz would try to stop it...
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welcome to justice - Moar tonight and tomorrow. By the way - your CapsLock key is broken D***F***
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GET SOME BOYS!
It's the 3rd redouix of the night of the longish knives.
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Tried that several years ago with pilots; succeeded in getting several good people killed.
Fire departments tried that for ladder rescue work; succeeded in getting several good people killed.
What was it Einstein said about the definition of insanity?
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...she says training systems do not maximize the success of women.
War doesn't maximize the success of women. The enemy doesn't care what you or feminists or judges have to say about it. The battlefield for over 4,000 years of recorded history is basically a Darwinistic environment. You adapt or die. So far the vast majority of cultures and civilizations have found women by and large have not necessarily been up to the butchery over any real extended period of time. Exceptions do not make a case.
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I actually think I'd be OK with the butchery, P2k, since I'm very interested in helping my way of life survive. (I admit I may be a outlier, female-wise, in that regard, though I think women can be pretty deadly if they're fired up enough).
What all the feminists and judges don't want to admit is that women, by and large, just don't have the strength to be infantry.
It's not like being a firefigher (which I have been), where you can drag a victim out of a building; it's not that far to get out of a building, and it's really not that hard to drag even a large man. (That slinging someone over your shoulder and carrying them while you're in a standing position, like you see in movies, is horse hockey - that's putting the victim, who might still be breathing, right up in the toxic fire gasses, guaranteeing that he/she won't still be breathing when you get outside.)
In combat, you don't just drag someone out of building and had him/her over to the rescue squad. You may have to pick up and carry your wounded buddy, who could be much larger/taller than you, and his gear, and your gear, probably some distance. (I've never been in combat, so correct me if I'm wrong.)
I can't do that. No woman (and some of the men) I know can do that. I've got enough common sense to realize it. Apparently the feminazis don't.
Affirmative action in combat is insane, and will get people killed, including the women. And I have no doubt the feminazis will then whine about how that's not fair and the enemy killing women is discrimanitory - waaaaaah (like the enemy somehow cares).
There are plenty of jobs women can excel at in the military. COMBAT AIN'T ONE OF THEM.
Idiots.
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Affirmative Action anywhere is insane, but that hasn't stopped it's use for decades now in promotion, selection, and assignment boards.
Oh if I could be there:
Listen up for the MACO! Tonight is marginal due to winds. We'll be jumping CARP [Computerized Air Release Point], at 1250 AGL. TOT is approx 2120 hrs local. SPC Smith here will be on the ramp, first stick, first pass. She'll be jumping the baseplate. For obvious reasons, we'll want her on the ground first. I will jump the tube. The rounds and extra ammo will be distributed among you at the airhead. Winds on the DZ are from the South at 8-10 knots gusting to 14, turn and track toward the sound of the aircraft during descent. It will have a heading of 180, into the wind. There is essentially no moonlight, you'll likely not see the bird once you exit. Clear the DZ as quickly as possible, the follow-on passes will be inbound at 5 minute intervals. Get to the high ground and road. Look for the flashing red light. That will be the Rally and turn-in point. We'll assemble here, establish a hasty security perimeter, inventory equipment, ck for injuries, and link up with the Pathfinders and reception committee. It will be a 5k ruck to the RON point just short of the objective. Any questions? Good luck. Hooah!
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When I saw the headline, I was sure it was from a satire site like the DuffelBlog or the Onion.
When I read it, it sure sounded like satire, but the speakers were dead serious.
As Barbara so eloquently points out, it is a simple biological fact that men are on average stronger than women. And raw strength does make a difference in combat. (Pure luck also plays a huge part, but I assume that both men and women have the same amount of that.)
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it is a simple biological fact that
Women can bear children and men can't. That is why it's the males who take risks.
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You may have to pick up and carry your wounded buddy, who could be much larger/taller than you, and his gear, and your gear, probably some distance. (I've never been in combat, so correct me if I'm wrong.)
You're not. My Misguided Children practice this consistently. Over-the-shoulder and litter (with moving change-out), dead weight, etc.
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I used to care about this issue but no longer do.
For example, in a big battle not much would be different were there women fighting there. That the 22,000 casualties at Antietam were men instead of women seems unlikely to make any difference. Nor would the outcome of the battle be much different because one side had "stronger" soldiers, because the leadership on both sides was too poor to leverage the advantages that each actually had.
From the point of view of the individual, if we were drafting women and putting them in the infantry where they were more likely to be killed than the men who could be there, then that would upset me. But to let women volunteer to take this risk, well, I am good with that.
Perhaps it is somewhat unfair to the men who get stuck in units with their weaker sisters that to survive, they have to do more, and sometimes even that won't be enough.
Besides, if history is any guide, most of the women about to deploy into real danger will fall pregnant shortly before it is time to get going, so actual war-fighting will be largely unaffected.
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Besides, if history is any guide, most of the women about to deploy into real danger will fall pregnant shortly before it is time to get going, so actual war-fighting will be largely unaffected.
What about the issue of sending under-strength units into battle?
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But to let women volunteer to take this risk, well, I am good with that.
That's the catch. Since the Militia Act of 1792 through today's Title X USC subparagraph 311 the Militia, men don't get to volunteer. All males 17 to 45 are members of the (unorganized) militia and subject to conscription. It's Congress' authority per Article I, Section 8. It'll never be 'equality' they claim that's being sought until the 'responsibility' goes along with it. Otherwise it's privilege and prerogative.
Nor would the outcome of the battle be much different because one side had "stronger" soldiers
But it does, because its endurance. Endurance to do sustain marches to make it to the field. Endurance to carry a soldiers load. Endurance to put up with little or no field sanitation to avoid debilitating afflictions common to field duty. The un-strong drop out before the first shot is fired. If they're not there, they can't fight.
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Oh, pish posh. The militia act is an act of Congress, and can be changed any time, just like the now defenestrated draft law. In order to draft anyone in the future, the Congress would have to pass a new law. And if they do, they will rewrite it to establish legal conscription on anybody they want to. When that happens, let's argue about those details.
As for endurance, again looking at Antietam, with that leadership, it probably wouldn't matter much if the battle were 50 miles north at Gettysburg or 50 miles south at Mananas.
It is possible that extra endurance might give one side more ability to maneuver tactically a-la Napoleon's campaigns, but none of these Generals were anything like Napoleon, nor is a disparity in maneuver dispositive in battle. Maneuver is just one of many dimensions of capability that an able commander must consider in order to succeed.
I am unconvinced that the sex of soldiers matters much in the outcome of most battles, or campaigns. It would matter a lot to the women who will be casualties at the front and to the people in their unit who were relying on them to not die or be wounded. But an able commander should be able to manage the battle, or campaign, even if burdened with marginally more casualties than would have happened with an all male force.
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Yes, marginally. I mean how much less effective in combat can a motivated and trained woman be?
10%? 20%? 50%?
So in the invasion of Iraq, we lost 139 solders and defeated the existing government. I ask, could GEN Franks have won that thing with 153/167/209 losses from an ALL woman Army?
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So in the invasion of Iraq, we lost 139 solders and defeated the existing government. I ask, could GEN Franks have won that thing with 153/167/209 losses from an ALL woman Army?
In Iraq, we had the Maxim gun, and they had not. Against a near-peer adversary, without air dominance, and perhaps even air superiority, these factors will count. The massive federal deficits being racked up do not bode well for future defense budgets, and that means procurement could ramp down to Carter-era levels, giving potential adversaries the time to catch up.
GEN Franks could do exactly the same thing today to China, Russia, or France as he did to Iraq then.
Their only hope would be nukes, which would then unlock the key to their obviation.
Better they will decide to lose power, than to be incinerated.
Any Government that actually engages the U.S. militarily will be destroyed, and that will continue to be true for at least a decade, no matter what the funding is.
The whole near-peer concept is a useful thought experiment which helps with budgets, but the reality is void.
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If American feminism is a real thing, then it should support having some buff chicks bleeding out in shit-hole foreign countries to protect the rights and privileges of Americans of every gender just like men have done for centuries.
If feminists can't support that thesis, then they need to argue to get ladies out of combat. But, I am good with letting the ladies, who volunteer to do so, shoulder the burdens of freedom along with us men.
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Without proper standards and oversight, the outsourcing of security functions by the UN to private companies could have a negative effect on the effectiveness and image of the UN in the field.
Any more of a "negative effect" than introducing cholera in Haiti, the debacles in Mogadishu and Bosnia, and engaging in child prostitution in Africa?
In order to ensure Americans understand how to access the benefits available to them when many provisions of the Affordable Care Act go online October 1, the Obama administration announced last month that it is setting up a call center that will be accessible to Americans 24 hours a day.
One branch of that call center will be located in California's Contra Costa County, where, reportedly, 7,000 people applied for the 204 jobs. According to the Contra Costa Times, however, "about half the jobs are part-time, with no health benefits -- a stinging disappointment to workers and local politicians who believed the positions would be full-time." The county supervisor, Karen Mitchoff, called the hiring process "a comedy of errors" and said she "never dreamed [the jobs] would be part-time."
The Times indicates that a job posting advertised all of the jobs as full-time, and one call center employee, who said no reason for the apparent change was provided, told the paper, "It reminded me of that George Clooney movie where he goes around the country firing people [Up in the Air]. The woman said, 'I know you were led to believe you would be full-time, but things have changed. . . . You are actually 'part-time intermittent.'"
The Contra Costa employees are currently in training, and the call center -- one of three based in California -- is set to go live on October 1.
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Where's the irony meter? Have we added one yet?
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The Times indicates that a job posting advertised all of the jobs as full-time and one call center employee, who said no reason for the apparent change was provided, told the paper,,
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"a stinging disappointment to workers and local politicians who believed the positions would be full-time"
Then you're IDIOTS. And clueless, too.
Dipshits, meet cluebat.
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The irony... this article is dripping with it.
I keep wondering if this is the onion instead of real life.
When real life is better than the onion we have reached Orwellian times.
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I make my wife wax hers, the mustache is kinda cute though.
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I guess B's poster girl has trouble fending off the many men in her life, so she is resorting to those highly becoming glasses as well. Boyfriend must be a wuss.
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators filled Cairo's streets and squares Friday, July 26 in rival rallies shortly after deposed president Mohamed Morsi was formally charged and detained for 15 days. Tahrir Square was packed with crowds responding to Defense Minister Gen. Abdel Fattah El-Sisi's call for a mandate to support the military fight on "terrorists." Another huge crowd of Morsi supporters packed the streets around the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in Nasser City.
Instead of directing their ire at the overthrown Muslim Brotherhood, the pro-military demonstrators shouted "Bye Bye America!" as huge placards waved over their heads depicting as a threesome Gen. El-Sisi, Vladimir Putin and Gemal Abdel Nasser, who ruled Egypt in the 60s in close alliance with the Soviet Union.
Their rivals in a separate part of Cairo chanted "Sisi out! Morsi is president! Down with the army!"
In Alexandria, five people were killed in clashes between Muslim Brotherhood supporters and opponents.
The anti-American banners represented a message: No matter if President Barack Obama denies the Egyptian people US support because of the military's steps against the Muslim Brotherhood, Cairo has an option in Moscow.
Reports began appearing Friday morning on the social networks including Facebook from sources close to Putin that Moscow is considering supplying Egypt with advanced fighter bombers to replace the F-16 planes, whose delivery Obama suspended Wednesday, July 24. This was a gesture to show the US President's displeasure over Gen El-Sisi's rejection of the demand to release the ousted president and integrate the Muslim Brotherhood in the interim government.
The military gave the Muslim Brotherhood an ultimatum to endorse the new situation by Friday. The Brotherhood, whose supporters have maintained a sit-in in Nasser City for 20 days, did not respond.
The military accordingly gave the screw another turn.
A Cairo investigating judge Friday ordered deposed president Morsi detained for 15 days pending investigation into charges of plotting with the Palestinian Hamas to orchestrate a jailbreak during the 2011 revolution and conniving with Hamas in killing police officers and soldiers.
He has been held at an unknown location since the coup.
These charges carry potential death sentences.
They relate to the attack by armed men who on Aug. 5, 2012 killed 16 Egyptian border policemen in their camp in northern Sinai near Rafah. The prosecution claims to have evidence that the raid was plotted by Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood to depict the Egyptian military as a spent force. That attack kicked off the current armed Salafist mutiny against Egyptian military and police targets in Sinai.
The other charge relates to the raid on Wadi Natroun prison at the tail end of the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak, which broke out of jail thousands of inmates including Morsi and other Muslim Brotherhood leaders.
According to DEBKAfile's intelligence sources, the jailbreak was executed by special networks of Hizballah and Hamas which had been planted in Cairo and Suez Canal cities for subversion and terrorism.
The radical Hamas, offspring and ally of the Egyptian Brotherhood, is now solidly in the military regime's sights as a hostile entity.
The military takeover of power in July 3 is gaining the aspect of a neo-Nasserist revolution. Many Egyptians are beginning to turn to Moscow in search of their country's primary world ally rather than Washington. They have taken note that Putin has shown himself to be the foe of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria as well as Egypt.
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When I was in, even in the Infantry, they said amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics.
So I have to ask: How many Port-a-Potties does it take to service one of these affairs?
Never mind.
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Well, whatever the port-a-pottie requirement was, subtract 40 former users and Morsi supporters as of this morning.
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as huge placards waved over their heads depicting as a threesome Gen. El-Sisi, Vladimir Putin and Gemal Abdel Nasser, who ruled Egypt in the 60s in close alliance with the Soviet Union
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Matt Chris is fine, kinda rattleled by the murder of that Social Work a few weeks back, a classmate and first in family to finish college. They had to raise cash to send the body back to Savannah. Bad business.
Turkish authorities detained a bird on suspicion it was spying for Israel, but freed it after X-rays showed it was not embedded with surveillance equipment, newspapers said on Friday.
A spokeswoman for European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said that Brussels was looking into media reports that Israel was reducing cooperation with EU diplomats seeking to advance projects for the benefit of Palestinians in the West Bank.
Israel has blocked the European Union from aiding tens of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank, in retaliation for an EU ban on financial assistance to Israeli organizations in the territories. The European mind has difficulty grasping the idea of Jews who don't just submit to what "their betters" may decide for them.
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Catherine Ashton sounds like the name of an English female. There exists no other on Earth as deluded with self importance and as conceited as an English female.
Seriously women here really are that bad..
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TC, A couple of our best friends are "English" females and much as I love them I have to admit that you're correct. Been over there many times and get them in a group and.......oy.
My thought is that it has to do with the emasculation of British men as a result of WWI & II. The men that were left at home just weren't up to the job, but, I'm not sure.
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Yes, the complaint of the Tommies in the latter part of the war was that the Yanks were - over paid, over sexed, and over here. To which the Yanks responded that the Tommies were - under paid, under sexed, and under Monty.
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Israel should make it clear that no Leviathan oil will be sold to EU countries that vote or participate in actions against them. Split the EU up internally
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Not sure it is such an old phenomenon as ww2.
Women were second class in terms of equality in the workplace up really until the 80's. Legal framework got placed and positive changes did happen early on but I believe most change for the worse came under Tony Blair and New Labour.
I'll give you an example of what I mean by 'worse'; I just did a search "history of uk female equality in the workplace" which returned hit after hit on laws I must obey mixed and whinging about how it is still oh so unfair for women, with very little in way of history and celebration.
Here's one; I was sat on the N24, a young women behind me made the comment 'why do pedestrian crossings signs have silhouettes of men and not women?' I would have thought there is more to worry about in life and the world than fucking crossing signs but to a socially conditioned woman in the UK it seems this question is of more significance.
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'why do pedestrian crossings signs have silhouettes of men and not women?'
Considering that pedestrian crossing signs are adorned with silhouette stick figures, one can only assume that said UK "feminists" wish that said stick figures be wearing dresses. Which doesn't sound terribly feminist.
Spokesman for Islamist movement told Reuters that 31 supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi were killed and scores were wounded by security forces during protest in Egyptian capital. A whiff of grapeshot
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Brotherhood activists at Rabaa said they would not be cowed and warned of worse bloodshed if the security forces did not back down. "We will stay here until we die, one by one," said Ahmed Ali, 24, helping treat casualties at the field hospital.
"Hokay"
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"We will stay here until we die, one by one"
Your terms are acceptable.
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die, one by one
I'm sure Egyptian military can be more efficient than that.
The Secret Service pushed back Friday on complaints from a group of college Republicans who questioned why they were barred from a President Obama event earlier this week.
According to a report on Campus Reform, the Missouri College Republicans said an officer told them they could not get in to see Obama's speech on Wednesday at their school for "security reasons."
"I hate to make allegations but it was just very suspicious that we were not allowed in," one of them was quoted as saying.
But the Secret Service put out a brief statement later Friday saying the event had reached capacity -- and that's why they were apparently blocked. Reached Republican capacity anyway.
They had tickets, so they should have been included within that capacity count, not beyond it. That's why tickets exist for such occasions.
"The event at University of Central Missouri was closed to any additional general public due to the event site reaching maximum capacity," Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary said.
They weren't additional general public, they were audience members.
So, was it "security reasons" or "capacity" ?
Missouri College Republicans State Treasurer Courtney Scott, though, told Campus Reform that each of the students had a ticket and arrived early.
"We followed all the rules," she said. Obviously you followed the old rules.
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The Secret Service has become the lapdog , it seems.
They are lying. I would suggest that the Secret Service works for the political boss at the time. Write the names down and when the Administration changes ( and it always does ) then get those files out for review...oh, and record the boss of that team's name as well. Clean House at Secret Service and see how they like it. Make it a "security" issue.
Rabbi Ovadia Isakov, 40, a representative of the Chabad-Lubavitch hassidic movement, was shot and seriously injured in Derbent in the Russian republic of Dagestan on Thursday. Isakov, identified as chief rabbi of Derbent by Chabad sources, was struck in the lung after being shot from behind by an unidentified assailant not far from his home. The attack took place as the rabbi left his car to enter his home.
Russian authorities believed the attack might have been motivated by the rabbi's Jewish appearance. Police said they were considering "religious motivations" but were exploring all leads. The rabbi's house had been vandalized in 2007.
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Don't know too much about these guys, but Chabad-Lubavitch is very, umm, interesting. We have a small house (schul?) up the road from us. Today being the Sabath and Lubavitchers take this very seriously they are walking to schul. They strike me as a very primitive movement with all the good and bad baggage that carries. Including do it yourself Kosher butchering and a certain standoffishness. Still I find the practioniners and the Rab to be quite friendly and good neighbors.
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Chassidism (also spelt hasidism, or some combination thereof) is a mystic movement in Judaism dating back to the 18th century in Eastern Europe, expressing worship as much in song and dance as in the classic prayers, Shipman. For whatever reason the clothing style of their males is somewhat locked into that time and place, while females dress with similar modesty to the women of other ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups. Only the Chabad sub-movement looks to the outer world of both Jews and non-Jews, establishing "Chabad Houses" all around the world to minister to whatever Jews might wander in, and it is likely those that you see -- those of the other branches seem to cluster in Brooklyn and Israel, having been wiped out in Europe by the Nazis. It was a Chabad House that the Muslem terrorists took over in Mumbai in 2008, torturing the young rabbi and his wife to death.
Shul is the Yiddish word for a synagogue. Among the Hasids, Yiddish is very definitely a living language, though non-orthodox Jews also use shul, synagogue and temple interchangeably.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The IRS's internal watchdog is reviewing allegations that the agency improperly audited a Tea Party owner of a small Virginia farm whose repeated festivities with a local environmental group and the county over zoning laws have made her a cause celebre for property-rights advocates.
Martha Boneta, who runs a 64-acre organic farm in Fauquier County's tight-knit historic hunt country, has spent the last few years tangling with the Piedmont Environmental Council over the group's access to her property, which she bought in 2006. The PEC wants regular access to the land to monitor adherence to a conservation easement intended to limit commercial activities and safeguard the historic and scenic value of the land.
Boneta, who considers herself a Tea Party Republican and held a fundraiser on her farm for former conservative U.S. Senate hopeful Jamie Radtke in early 2012, also has locked horns with Fauquier County officials in recent years. The county has levied thousands of dollars in fines against her for selling fruits and vegetables on the property during the weekend without a proper license even though she held a county-approved license for a "retail farm shop" and for holding unlicensed events, including a birthday party for her best friend's child and a pumpkin carving, without a permit and a site plan.
She has fought back, accusing county officials of colluding with the PEC to target her, which both the PEC and county officials say has no merit. Both sides have dug in, battling over a stream of accusations and land-rights claims in court over the last few years.
Boneta gained the support of other farmers in the county, and last August several joined her at a hearing at the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors' offices and staged a "pitchfork protest" in which they held signs and and farming tools in a show of support.
Last year, her case attracted the attention of GOP Del. Scott Lingamfelter, who wrote the Right to Farm Act, also known as the "Boneta bill," designed to strengthen the ability of local farmers to sell certain food products from their homes without inspection by the state Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. The measure passed the House of Delegates in February but stalled in the divided Senate.
Amid the publicity, Boneta last year also received notice of an IRS audit - an audit she believes is directly related to her disagreements with the environmental group and the county and is intended to frighten her into backing down.
"The audit had the effect of really scaring me," she told the Washington Examiner. "If that was the intention, it worked. I was terrified. The auditor asked me questions that were uniquely related to my litigation with Fauquier County and the Piedmont Environmental Council. If not collusion, how could this be possible?"
A front man for the PEC said the group has nothing to do with the zoning issues she was having nor the audit.
"Our issues and concerns relate solely to our conservation easement," said the PEC's Heather Richards.
Peter Schwartz, a Fauquier County supervisor who served on the PEC's board seven years ago, said he has never had any contact with the IRS or the Treasury Department with respect to Boneta or her farm, and has "no knowledge of the status of the matter."
"Other than that, I have no further comment on your inquiry," he said in an emailed response to questions.
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Lets reduce the federal gov from 23 million employees to say 2 million and encourage the states to do the same. Its time to lay off the parasites.
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"The federal government should be able to run with about 30,000 people if the feds did only those things designated exclusively to them under the enumerated powers."
FTFY, BP.
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The White House press secretary announced that the Obama administration will be sending two Gitmo inmates to Algeria.
"As the President has said, the United States remains determined to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. In support of those efforts, today the Department of Defense certified to Congress its intent to repatriate an additional two detainees to Algeria. We are taking this step in consultation with the Congress, and in a responsible manner that protects our national security," Carney's statement reads.
"We continue to call on Congress to join us in supporting these efforts by lifting the current restrictions that significantly limit our ability to transfer detainees out of Guantanamo, even those who have been approved for transfer."
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[ABCNEWS.GO] Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn will have to defend himself
...no one else will...
Perhaps by now his generous wife will have decided his little escapades are no longer amusing enough to continue opening her purse for.
in a French court on charges of aggravated pimping despite recommendations by prosecutors that the charges be dropped.
Judges investigating the case in the northern city of Lille decided on Friday to go ahead with charges of aggravated pimping in a group.
The case revolves around an alleged hotel prostitution ring and hinges on whether Strauss-Kahn knew he was partying with hookers and whose money was used to pay them. His lawyers have said Strauss-Kahn had attended "libertine" gatherings but did not know that some women there were paid.
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What's a few spintriae between friends. No record of him awarding ambassadorial posts were there ?
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Being neither a lawyer or familiar with the Frenchish legal system, I gotta ask: what's the difference between aggravated pimping and just regular pimping?
From the Land of Make believe (AKA Colorado), a gun buy back event was cancelled after it was learned under new Colorado law, every buyback would have to go through universal background checks.
Meanwhile, General Electric Capital is doing their small part in the gun grabbing program by cutting off lending to gun shops. And we were told new banking regulations would only target the rich!
If you want to learn how to cast your own bullets, go here.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
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.45 caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Bang It Ammo, Precision One reloaded .42 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammuntion, Tulammo steel cased, .36 per round
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson,180 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LG Ammo Sale, PMC, .40 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, reloaded, .29 per round
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain, From Last Week: -.04 each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo Supply Warehouse, Wolf WPA steel case, .30 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1000 rounds: LAX Ammunition, reloaded, .29 per round
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: +.03 each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Bud's Gun Shop, Fiocchi .49 per round
Cheapest, Bulk 250 rounds: LAX Ammunition, reloaded, .36 per round
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: -.06 each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammo Sale, Tulammo steel cased, .38 per round
Cheapest Bulk 1000 rounds: Lucky Gunner, Tulammo steel cased, .40 per round
Cheapest brass cased: High country Ammunition, Remington Blemished, .46 per round
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: +.03 each (+.08 over two weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munire, Prvi Partizan FMJ, .65 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: United Nations Ammo, Prvi Partizan steel cased, .60 per round
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Selway Armory,Wolf Ammo, steel core and case, .28 per round
Cheapest, Bulk, 1000 rounds: Ventura Munitions, Wolf Ammo, steel core and case, .27 per round
Cheapest, Brass casing: Ventura Munitions, Fiocchi, .54 per round
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: +.06 each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammofast, Remington round nose, .16 per round
Cheapest, Bulk, 1000 rounds: Natchez Shooter Supplies, Federal Champion, .06 per round
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles .223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic)
California: Del-ton: $750
Texas: Private build: $1,200
New York: DPMS: $800
Maryland: Bravo Company USA: $1,100 (Same Gun)
Florida: Smith & Wesson MP15: $795
.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic)
California: Magnum Research Core 30 MOE: $1,000
Texas: Rock River Arms LAR-8: $1,150
New York: DPMS Oracle: $1,200
Maryland: DPMS LRT-SASS /w scope : $2,600 (Same Gun)
Florida: DPMS: $1,400
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I love Pritzi Partizan ammo, it's honestly very very good. Functions flawless in my .308 AR and my wife's .380 ACP. I haven't gotten any .45 yet, but I'd put it on par with my Remington UMC ammo for range shooting.
I do need to find some stuff to shoot from my Garand, I just feel like saving up my nice steel core M2 AP ammo is a good idea for some odd reason.
Egyptian authorities have arbitrarily arrested and detained Syrian refugees as sentiment against them grows, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday.
Did the UN ever speak out about 'anti-American' hostility in Egypt?
The climate of hostility has increased since the Egyptian army seized power this month, human rights groups say. More than 90,000 Syrians are believed to have come to Egypt to escape the civil war, now in its third year.
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said Syrians had been accused of taking part in protests supporting Islamist President Mohammed Mursi, who was toppled by the army on July 3. The UNHCR had requested access to 85 detained Syrians and assurances that they will not be returned to Syria, she told a news briefing.
There were a few who were arrested for alleged violent acts during protests. Were not sure what the charges are for the others, she said.
Mursi last month announced he was cutting off diplomatic ties with Syria, and some of his Sunni followers had talked of waging holy war against Syrian President Bashar Al Assad, who is backed by Shia Muslim Iran and the Lebanese Shia Hezbollah militia.
The new army-backed administration in Cairo has distanced itself from Mursis position.
But Egyptian media and television have made disturbing statements against Syrians, Fleming said.
Were obviously very concerned when big public communications machines like television are behind some of this rhetoric that is very xenophobic, she said.
The hostile environment has led to surge in the number of Syrians already in Egypt approaching UNHCR to register as refugees, she said. The government estimates that there are up to 300,000 Syrians currently residing in the country, she added.
The Egyptian government has introduced entry requirements for Syrians, requiring that visas and security clearance be issued prior to travel to Egypt, the agency said.
Flights carrying Syrians have been turned back from airports in Egypt to Damascus and Latakia in Syria, she said. Some 476 Syrians had been deported or denied entrance to Egypt since the new measures were put in place on July 8.
UNHCR has appealed to the government to consider at least allowing women, children and the elderly to enter the country without the visa restrictions, Fleming said.
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"The new army-backed administration in Cairo has distanced itself from Mursi's position."
Ha! Ha! And even Hamas is trying to suck up to it's former Iranian sponsor, despite the fact many Hamas goons have been caught by Syria fighting for the terrorists fighting the shit terrorists.
Pox on both their houses!
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Syrian opposition groups stand ready for peace talks with Damascus if President Bashar al-Assad would transfer all executive power to a transitional body, their leader said Friday, dpa reported.
Ahmad al-Jabar, president of the Syrian National Coalition, said in New York that the United Nations Security Council should demand all Syrian parties accept a national transitional government with full executive authorty including military and security matters.
"The Security (Council) must explicitly require this of all participants," al-Jabar said.
He said the 15-nation council should impose targeted sanctions against Damascus if it rejects a transition.
Al-Jabar said he would take part in peace talks in Geneva if Damascus "explicitly" would transfer all authority to the transitional body. A conference last year in Geneva called for a political and democratic transition to end the conflict, which arose after a bloody regime crackdown on pro-reform demonstrations in early 2011.
"The situation in Syria is desperate," al-Jabar said. "The Syrian people are calling for peace and democracy. We need more international pressure to force the Assad regime to accept a transition regime."
Diplomats who met with al-Jabar and his delegation said the discussion covered issues from human rights to prospects of a political settlement.
"We received a positive message and a strong commitment to unity and democracy in Syria," British Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant said following a three-hour meeting. "They rejected extremism and terrorism."
French Ambassador Gerard Araud said the Syrian opposition gave a "clear commitment" to a new Geneva conference while demanding that Damascus relinquish power to the transition government.
Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, whose country backs al-Assad, called the meeting "useful."
"We should not be carried away (by the commitment). The meeting was not to officially recognize the coalition," he cautioned.
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The problem, as I see it, is that people keep redefining what "homophobia" means. It used to mean that homosexuals were beaten, imprisoned or killed.
Then it meant that you didn't approve of homosexual relationships, but other than that homosexuals should be left alone to do whatever they want in private.
Then it meant that you didn't approve of the homosexual agenda, including equal or preferential rights for LGBTQ, including gay marriage.
Now it seems to mean that you do not fully support LGBTQs, gay marriage, and preferences in hiring, college admissions, and everything else.
Soon, it will mean that you are straight.
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His Anglican views will evolve as Islam gains a tighter grip on his native land. Dear old Desmond, he'll eventually find the Doppers were right after all.
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Sociology of Protestantism : A Methodist is a Baptist with shoes. A Presbyterian is a Methodist who has been to college. An Episcopalian is a Presbyterian who is living off his investments. This has all changed now. Now an Episcopalian is, I suppose, is someone heading a campaign against AIDS. Or an Episcopalian is a priest wearing a bra. Or an Episcopalian are two guys named Bruce and Dwayne.
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"Archbishop Desmond Tutu says he will never worship a "homophobic God" and will rather go to hell."
I believe that's already been arranged.
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I thought (in summary) that there were a lot of sins and sinners, but that God loved those who loved him - sinners every one.
Seems Des missed that class.
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Here Des, not my word but his. Enjoy the taal my china.
"Moenie le by 'n man soos war 'n man by 'n vrou le nie. Dis is 'n aftootlike sonde."
Levitikus 19:22 [Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination]
Egyptian authorities will bring "to an end soon and in a legal manner" sit-in protests by supporters of ousted President Mohammad Mursi, interim Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim was quoted as saying by state-run news website al-Ahram.
Ibrahim said the protests would be cleared in line with complaints filed by residents in the area, according to Reuters. Supporters of Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood have been manning two main vigils in the capital for a month, demanding Mursi be reinstated after his July 3 overthrow by the army.
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Masikryeong Skiing Ground, a key element in state propaganda for the new regime of Kim Jong Eun, recently met with disaster after a portion of the construction site collapsed following seasonal rains. Now, an inside source has told Daily NK that additional heavy rains have caused landslides, heavily damaging neighboring homes and farms.
According to the source, the damage was caused by the removal of trees from the slopes of the planned ski resort. However, it was also exacerbated by two further factors: that personnel dispatched from Pyongyang were only concerned with restoring the skiing ground; and that there was negligent disregard for flood control measures to ensure that water would flow in a controlled way.
The source, who originally hails from Gangwon Province, told Daily NK, In recent days there was a landslide at Masikryeong Skiing Ground, so cornfields and rice paddies in the vicinity have been completely submerged. People were completely defenseless at the sudden inundation.
The source followed up, Along with the rain, drainage ditches have become clogged with the muddy water and sand that flowed down from the ski resort construction site, so the fields remain flooded. People have been complaining that preparations were not made before the trees were cut down.
A South Korean intelligence official gave cautious backing to the story, saying, It seems that the area was seriously damaged by heavy rain since there is no grass on the steep Masikryeong slopes. Considerable manpower has been introduced to try and recover it. According to the South Korean state meteorological agency, 420mm of rain fell in the area between July 10th and 14th, and continued to fall less intensely thereafter.
The project to recover the Masikryeong Ski Ground project is a particularly urgent one, because the construction has been trumpeted as one of Kim Jong Euns main state projects, designed to feed into propaganda about him being a young man with a drive to make North Korea more powerful through science, technology, and sport. The authorities have even launched a nationwide campaign rooted in the slogan Masikryeong Speed, meaning that failure is not an option.
The source informed Daily NK that the personnel mobilized for the recovery effort have been drawn from universities in Hamheung in South Hamkyung Province, as well as Hamju and Jeongpyeong counties.
Initial news of damage to the Masikryeong area was provided by representative Shin Young Sun of Pureun namu [Green Tree Charity Foundation], a group that sends aid to North Korea. Speaking with the South Korean media, Shin stated, There has been a lot of rain in the Gangwon province since the night of the 11th. Theyve suffered floods and landslides. There has also been a landslide at Masikryeong. I heard that support personnel have been sent there from Pyongyang.
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Body surfing would suit the Norks I would think.
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they took a hill, removed the trees and freed up the topsoil to erode, then were gobsmacked as gravity, rain and stupidity worked just as well as they have together for about 5,000 years
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GAROWE, Somalia -- Puntland Ministry of Health has officially launched a five day vaccination campaign for polio eradication on Thursday, Garowe Online reports.
Puntland Health Minister Dr. Ali Abdullahi Warsame said the mass campaign will reach various places across Puntland including rural areas and faraway towns and villages. The minister added that his ministry wants to dispatch 800 teams of polio workers reaching out to each and every child who could be at risk of getting wild poliovirus especially those living in Sool and Sanaag regions after some cases were reported from Sool regional capital of Lasanod last week.
Both Dr. Ali and Abdi Hagaa, the head of WHO Puntland and UNICEF official respectively who also spoke at the ceremony emphasized the need for pre-cautionary measures as they have received 83 cases from southern Somalia and called on the parents to bring their children at any nearby health facility for immunization.
Puntland Parliament Speaker Abdirashid Mohamed Hirsi who gave the first polio vaccination drops to a young child at the spot told that some parents hide their children from the polio workers I request you [parents] to make your children available for the immunization since wild poliovirus is serious and cause irreversible paralysis.
Puntland Ministry of health together with its partners including WHO and UNICEF previously conducted several rounds of vaccine exercises targeting children less than five years.
This immunization campaign comes as polio outbreak claimed at killed at least 11 people in Hiraan region of south central Somalia and some cases were reported from Sool region.
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Lotsa Luck, you're fighting Islamics, and you won't win against years of prejudice.
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A lottery on how many vaccination workers killed next week?
Twin suicide attacks rocked a busy marketplace in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 41 people and injuring more than 150 others, officials said, in the deadliest attack to hit the country during the holy month of Ramadan. The explosions at the bazaar in Parachinar, the main town of Kurram tribal district on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, sent handcarts flying as shoppers bought food to open their fasts at sunset.
We can confirm the death of 41 people in the twin blasts. More than 150 others have been injured in the attack, doctor Sabir Hussein, head of the main public hospital in the town told AFP. We have sent 20 critically wounded people to major hospitals in Peshawar and Kohat to save their lives."
Parachinar administration officials said both blasts were carried out by suicide bombers.
There were two blasts in the main bazaar of Parachinar. These were carried out by two suicide bombers who walked into the crowded market, Riaz Mehsud, a senior administration official, told AFP.
Mehsud said the market was packed with people and that handcarts were sent flying after the blasts, which also damaged up to 15 shops and two cars.
We found many body parts, including parts of the suicide bombers. There was blood and human flesh at the blasts site, he said.
The bombers struck in a largely Shia area but officials said they could not immediately identify the victims.
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Tanzania said on Thursday its armed forces were ready to protect the country against any foreign threat to its territory, raising the stakes in an escalating border dispute with Malawi.
Tanzania is embroiled in a territorial wrangle with Malawi over the ownership of Lake Nyasa, which is known as Lake Malawi in the neighboring country. Malawi, which sits to the west of Africa's third-largest lake, claims the entire northern half of the lake while Tanzania, to the east, says it owns half of the northern area. The southern half is shared between Malawi and Mozambique
Malawi's President Joyce Banda, told mediators this month her government would not accept any interim deal on the disputed boundary with Tanzania until the wrangle over sovereignty is settled. Banda also said her government would not entertain any interim agreement on Tanzania usage of the lake until the issue was resolved.
Tanzania has repeatedly assured their citizens to continue using the lake without any fear.
Malawi had pulled out of talks on the issue in October, accusing its northern neighbor of intimidating its fishermen, a charge Tanzania denied. It returned to the negotiating table this year as the soured relations delayed exploration for oil and gas.
In 2011, impoverished Malawi awarded exploration licenses to British-based Surestream Petroleum to search for oil in the lake.
[GOOGLE] At least 150 Syrian regime forces have been killed in Khan al-Assal, a town in Aleppo province at the centre of an alleged chemical weapons strike this year, monitors said Friday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also said that at least 10 people were reported killed on Friday in regime shelling of the northwestern province of Idlib.
The deaths in Khan al-Assal, northern Syria, came as the regime tried to recapture the town, which fell to rebel fighters on Monday.
More than 50 of those killed were executed by rebels after the town fell, with the rest having died in fighting, the Observatory said, adding that 30 of the dead were officers.
Rebels had for months tried to take Khan al-Assal, a strategically located town in the west of Aleppo province. They finally seized the town on Monday but fighting raged on its edges the next day, said the Observatory.
Amateur video filmed by rebels and distributed by the Observatory showed the bodies of dozens of regime forces in a building that had been the site of a battle.
The mainstream rebel Ninth Division claimed its fighters took Khan al-Assal. But footage distributed by the Britannia-based Observatory said jihadists including Al-Nusra Front were behind the takeover.
Fierce fighting raged in March in Khan al-Assal during eight days in which 200 rebels and government forces were killed.
Both sides have traded accusations that chemical weapons were used in Khan al-Assal and killed around 30 people, according to a toll released that month by the Observatory and the regime.
During a visit to Damascus by two UN envoys earlier this week, Syrian authorities reiterated their demand that the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... focus on investigating the alleged use of chemical weapons in Khan al-Assal.
Khan al-Assal's fall from regime control has complicated any effort to send in inspectors to visit the site.
Elsewhere in Syria, the Observatory reported 10 people killed and several others maimed in regime shelling of the Idlib village of Basamis on Friday.
Syria opposition activists also held small anti-regime protests in several towns across the country.
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Really a suburb of Alleppo, but controls the roads south.
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The rebels [who dine on the internal organs of their enemy] execute 50. Saves a lot on chow and the medical supplies provided by the west. Important to use those humanitariansupplies sparingly.
[BBC.CO.UK] The Ohio man accused of raping and holding three women captive in his home for about a decade has agreed to a plea deal that will see him imprisoned for life without the possibility of parole.
Ariel Castro, 53, was arrested in May after one of the women escaped. He abducted Michelle Knight, 32, Amanda Berry, 27, and Gina DeJesus, 23, from Cleveland streets between 2002-04.
Castro was charged with murder for beating and starving one of the women, who was pregnant, until she miscarried.
In a courtroom in Cleveland, Ohio, Judge Michael Russo repeatedly warned Castro he would never be let out of prison.
"Is that clear?" he asked Castro, who sat clad in an orange jail jumpsuit, his hands cuffed in front of him.
"I do understand that, your honour," Castro, an unemployed school bus driver, replied. "I knew I was pretty much going to get the book thrown at me."
No death penalty
Under the terms of the plea deal Castro will receive an additional prison sentence of 1,000 years and his property and other assets will be forfeited. He will also be classified as a sex offender. The agreement protects him from further charges and from the death penalty.
The judge said there were plans to demolish the house where the women were held.
At the hearing, Castro told the judge he was abused as a child and said, "My addiction to pornography and my sexual problem has really taken a toll on my mind."
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"no death" = in general prison population. Shouldn't take long
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The Pentagon has informed the U.S. Congress of a possible sale of $2 billion worth of military equipment to Iraq, officials said Friday. Lawmakers, notified Thursday, have 30 days to raise any objections to the plan, which consists of three contracts.
The first includes 12 Bell 412 EP helicopters and associated equipment, parts, training and logistical support totaling an estimated $300 million.
This equipment will provide the Iraqi Air Force with a search and rescue capability critical to developing a mature Air Force, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, or DSCA, said in a statement.
The second contract, worth an estimated $900 million, is for 50 M1135 Stryker Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Reconnaissance Vehicles. The sale would provide the Iraqi army with reliable capabilities for early warning of contamination by radiological, biological, and chemical material, according to the DSCA.
Worth some $750 million, the final contract is for five years of maintenance support for a series of vehicles, from simple jeeps to so-called Tactical Floating River Bridge Systems.
Helping Iraq maintain, sustain, and effectively utilize the equipment it has purchased or received from the United States over the past decade is a U.S. priority, the DSCA said.
As with all notifications of such plans, it underscored that the proposed sale would not alter the basic military balance in the region.
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I bet there are plenty of people in US intelligence community who wonder how Iran gets access to US military tech.
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There are hundreds of acres of Saudi that are covered by American military equipment that just sits there and will never be used. Warehouse stacked to the ceiling with stuff also which will never be used. And the Iraqi Republican Guard in their distinctive Red Boots were to be seen in the refugee columns dressed up like women as the American Tanks drove by...
Islam can pay us real cash for our stuff and then they can whisper to one another while they tip toe to the rear. Because that is what they will do. They will twinkle to the rear...unless they have something better to do like put their wife's head in a bag. Or blow up their cousin's house and rape his goat.
Thousands of Egyptians poured into the streets nationwide on Friday to grant the armed forces a mandate to confront violence and terrorism or voice support for ousted President Mohammad Mursi.
In Cairo, thousands gathered in the iconic Tahrir Square and outside the Ittihadya presidential palace in support of the army. Meanwhile, thousands gathered in two other areas of the populous capital demanding the return to power of Mursi and denouncing his overthrow as a military coup.
Army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called on Wednesday on Egyptians to demonstrate nationwide to grant him the mandate to fight terrorism.
Islamist supporters of Mursi say the armys call signals an intention to crackdown on them, vowing to remain in the streets.
The army says it does not take sides and vowed to secure both rival demonstrations as long as they remain peaceful.
Several clashes however were reported. In the city of Alexandria four people were killed in clashes between supporters of Egypt's military and deposed President Mursis loyalists, state media reported, quoting a hospital official. Police have intervened to break up the clashes in the Mediterranean city, in which at least 86 people were injured, many with gunshot wounds, the reports said.
The health ministry said at least 54 others were wounded in clashes elsewhere in the country.
Army helicopters buzzed low over the main pro-Mursi tent vigil and over Tahrir Square where the pro-army camp is holding its demonstration.
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[PITTSBURGH.CBSLOCAL] How do you define noise? It could be a train or maybe even a motorcycle.
All of them could be considered noise under a new ordinance in one Allegheny County town.
Coraopolis only has about 5,500 people, which normally makes it a very quiet place. They say the only exception is when the trains roll by or the big trucks rumble right down Fifth Avenue.
"I've been this area all my life. You got one way in and one way out. So where are the trucks going to go?" Frank Corso said.
"The only noisy thing about it is the train. Other than that and the trucks and everything else, it's really pretty quiet," Asha Luster said.
Under the new ordinance, residents are "entitled to the peaceful enjoyment of their premises." Loud noises can be defined as horns, radio, musical instruments, that annoy or disturb the quiet and comfort.
It also states that "yelling, shouting, hooting, whistling and singing on public streets which would disturb the quiet and comfort of residents in the vicinity is now prohibited."
The obvious question is -- how will it be enforced?
It's a great question considering the noise could even be your dog. But, after nearly two decades in town, Sue Heckman said she's not leaving.
"I feel safe here. It's always quiet. You just hear traffic or the birds," Heckman said.
Violations of the ordinance can result in a fine of up to $500.
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[BBC.CO.UK] Tens of thousands of supporters and opponents of Egypt's ousted Islamist president are attending rival rallies, with two people killed in festivities.
In what is seen as a trial of strength, supporters of Mohammed Morsi filled the streets around a mosque in Cairo to condemn his removal by the army.
Army supporters converged on Tahrir Square, just a few miles away.
Mr Morsi is in detention, accused of conspiring with the Paleostinian bad boy group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,.
Earlier this week, the army chief, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, urged people to take to the streets to give the military a mandate for its intervention in removing Mr Morsi and establishing an interim government.
Since Mr Morsi, the country's first democratically elected president, was ousted on 3 July, dozens of people have died in festivities between his supporters and opponents. Militants have also staged deadly attacks in the Sinai peninsula.
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[PRESSTELEGRAM] Their friends and family agree -- if two people ever were "made for each other," it was Helen and Les Brown.
Both were born on the same day, Dec. 31, 1918. Helen and Les were high school sweethearts who celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary this year. It would be their last; Helen died on July 16, and Les died the next day, July 17.
They were 94.
"It was a real love match, wasn't it," their oldest son, Les Jr., said. "They were together every day for 75 years."
Daniel, the couple's youngest son, agreed.
"My mom often said she didn't want to see my father die, and he didn't want to live without her," Daniel said.
The two boys, sitting in their parents' Belmont Heights home, said their parents met at Huntington Park High School and eloped on Sept. 19, 1937. They were married against their own parents' wishes. Helen was from a working-class family, while Les was from a more wealthy family, and both sides of their family thought the love would never last between them.
But it did.
Helen and Les moved to Long Beach in 1963. Helen was a housewife who had a knack for buying and selling area properties, and Les owned a photography studio, serving as a photographer for the Navy. His father, too, was a photographer.
Despite being born on the same day, the Browns were two very different people, according to their sons, who said their mom was very strict and their dad was more laid back. And, like all married couples, they had some issues to work through during the years.
They were Jehovah's Witnesses, a faith that strengthened their marriage, the sons said. They reaffirmed their love for one another daily.
Besides spending time at Kingdom Hall for worship, the longtime Long Beach residents -- who had seven grandchildren -- were well known for taking in-state road trips together and were frequently found at Ma N' Pa Grocery, a corner store on Roycroft Avenue and Colorado Street. They also were close friends with many of their neighbors.
"They loved California, and they loved Belmont Shore and Belmont Heights," Les Jr. said. "They wouldn't leave ... And, Ma N' Pa Grocery treated them like royalty. Mom was there every day. That was her pantry."
One family friend, Bob Brobst, who belonged to the same congregation, had known Helen and Les for nearly a decade.
"Like the Bible says, 'They were as one,' " Brobst said, adding that he will always remember how compatible his friends were as a couple.
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[CA.NEWS.YAHOO] Ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi is under investigation for an array of charges including murder, the state news agency said on Friday, stoking tensions as Egypt's opposing political camps erupted into the streets.
Heeding a call by army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for a popular mandate, thousands of people rallied in numerous Egyptian cities, welcoming the military's pledge to confront weeks of violence unleashed by the July 3 overthrow of Mursi.
Supporters of the deposed Islamist leader staged counter demonstrations to demand his reinstatement, shrugging off fears of an imminent crackdown and vowing not to give in to an army demand for an immediate end to their protests.
A Rooters witness said thousands of pro-Mursi activists clashed with pro-army protesters in Egypt's second city Alexandria, some demonstrators hurling stones down on the crowds from nearby rooftops. Fifteen people were maimed.
Seven protesters were also reported hurt during festivities in the Nile delta city of Damietta.
In sun-baked Cairo, army helicopters buzzed low over the main pro-Mursi tent vigil.
There is deepening alarm in the West over the course taken by the country of 84 million people, a pivotal nation between the Middle East and North Africa and recipient of $1.5 billion a year in mainly military aid from the United States.
Mursi has not been seen in public since his downfall and the army has said he is being held for his own safety. But Mena news agency said the former president would now be tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... for 15 days as a judge investigated a raft of allegations.
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There is deepening alarm in the West over the course taken by the country
GAROWE, Somalia -- A high-level European Union delegation visited Puntland region in northern Somalia on Thursday, as the EU prepares to host the Brussels conference for Somalia in September, Garowe Online reports.
Prior to arriving in Puntland capital of Garowe on Thursday, the EU delegation visited Mogadishu where they met with Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, and Hargeisa where they met with Somaliland President Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo.
Puntland President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole thanked the EU visiting delegation for coming to Puntland for consultations ahead of the New Deal conference in Brussels.
"We are pleased to receive this high-level EU delegation here in Puntland. We discussed a number of important issues for Puntland and Somalia, including the upcoming New Deal conference for reconstruction and development of Somalia," said President Farole.
The president said Puntland government plans to submit its priorities, to be incorporated into the New Deal conference agenda.
"Puntland is completing its Second Five-Year Development Plan and we have shared a briefing paper with the [EU] delegation. The Development Plan includes Five Priority Sectors and Eight Cross-Cutting Issues, including HIV/AIDS and the effects of khat drug," said President Farole, adding that "security is the priority of priorities" for Puntland.
On Puntland's participation, President Farole said: "Puntland is ready to attend the conference with its own name and status. Media reports said [Somali] President Hassan Sheikh [Mohamud] said the Federal Government, Puntland, and Somaliland will attend the conference. But Puntland can only attend when its weight is recognized."
President Farole noted that Puntland were historically neglected in terms of economic development, adding that "families who resided in southern Somalia for centuries returned and rebuilt Puntland and hosted hundred of thousands of fellow Somalis from southern Somalia who found safe refuge and shared with the host community meager resources in Puntland".
"We hope that the Federal Government recognizes and fulfills its national responsibilities," President Farole added.
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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, called Friday for scandal-ridden San Diego Mayor Bob Filner to resign "for the good of the City of San Diego."
The heat is on. Polling across the country must be suggesting that people are beginning to associate the 'War on Women' with the Dems.
A growing number of women have accused Filner of unwanted sexual advances. The mayor defended himself as a "hugger," claiming such actions were misinterpreted, but acknowledging poor treatment of women.
Wasserman Schultz joined a chorus of Democrats asking him to step down. On Thursday, Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi suggested Filner, along with New York mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner, aka Carlos Danger
"get a clue," and get some .........therapy.
"The misconduct Mayor Bob Filner has been accused of is reprehensible and indefensible. I am personally offended by his actions and I firmly believe no employee should face a hostile environment or harassment at their place of employment. There is no place for this type of conduct in the workplace and certainly not in our city halls and public offices," Wasserman Schultz said in a statement.
"For the good of the Planet City of San Diego, I call on Mayor Filner to resign," she said.
Two teachers were killed and three other people, including another teacher and two policemen, were wounded when a bomb exploded in Narathiwat province Wednesday.
A seven-member police patrol was escorting another car carrying three teachers. A bomb planted by the roadside was detonated remotely as the convoy passed by. The car with the teachers inside skidded off the road into a ditch about 100 meters from where the bomb exploded.
Two female teachers were killed and a male teacher, who was the driver, was seriously wounded. Police said Mr Apichart, the wounded teacher, stepped on the accelerator after the blast and lost control of the car, which plunged into the ditch, killing his two passengers.
Meanwhile, army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha blamed terrorists insurgents for using violence as a bargaining tool to force the government to meet their demands. Gen Prayuth Wednesday said the southern unrest remains unsolved because insurgents want to use violence as a tool to bargain with the government to accept their demands.
[BREITBART] As the swirl of events surrounding former disgraced Congressman and current New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Carlos Danger Weiner ...aka Hot Dog Tony, the remarkably offensive sex maniac six-term New York congressman who resigned in 2011, then decided everybody had forgotten by 2013, when he decided to run for mayor of New York City... reaches epic proportions, new details are emerging about Weiner's ambitions and his sexting of young women. Weiner was likely considering a mayoral run as early as March 2011, before he had even resigned from Congress; he likely lied in his recent presser in which he stated that his sexting had stopped during the summer of 2012; and it is now obvious that Weiner fibbed repeatedly to the press about cleaning up his act between his resignation and his admissions of continued misbehavior this week.
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Makes the other one, Spitzer, look positively Victorian.
Pakistans main opposition party announced on Friday that it would boycott next weeks election for a ceremonial head of state to protest against the manner in which the vote was brought forward.
The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the ballot would be held on July 30 instead of August 6 after the main ruling party complained that the original date clashed with the end of Ramadan. Many lawmakers tasked with electing a successor to President Asif Ali Zardari will be on pilgrimage or offering special prayers at the tail end of the holy fasting month, the court said.
Twenty-four candidates applied to contest the vote, although the election of Mamnoon Hussain, the candidate for the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) party is considered a foregone conclusion.
We have been left with no alternative, but to boycott the election, said Senator Raza Rabbani, the presidential candidate for the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).
The Supreme Court did not issue us any notices, nor did they hear us or provide us an opportunity to present our point of view... a unilateral decision was made, Rabbani said. We see it is part of moves to impose the centres rule again.
Pakistans new president will be elected by members of the upper and lower houses of parliament and of four regional assemblies.
Rabbani said that the Supreme Court decision made it difficult for him and other opposition candidates to campaign in four provincial capitals and the federal capital Islamabad in just two days.
Rabbani is a highly respected senator and one of the few PPP politicians who could have commanded cross-party support in the vote, although the PML-N is expected to vote as one for Hussain.
The last PPP government had a turbulent relationship with Pakistans top court, and Rabbani said his party would struggle against the mindset which interfered with the election process.
The boycott is not the end of the story. The story begins here and we will continue our struggle against the current system and the mindset behind it, Rabbani said.
Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf, the second largest opposition party led by former cricket hero Imran Khan, said they would contest the election despite reservations over the change of schedule.
After consultations, we have decided to contest the presidential election, Khan told a Press conference. My party and I think the PPP is right that very little time has been given to candidates for canvassing. The election commission should have thought about this."
Retired judge Wajihuddin Ahmed, a retired Supreme Court judge with a reputation for being competent and honest is the PTIs candidate for president.
Zardari was elected after the PPP won elections in 2008 following the assassination of his wife, former premier Benazir Bhutto. The PPP served a full five-year term in office, but lost heavily in May general elections won by a PML-N landslide.
Zardari is hugely unpopular, reviled for alleged corruption and for presiding over a government that oversaw deteriorating economic growth and increasing attacks from the Taleban. He did, however, earn grudging admiration
...not from us...
for managing to keep his coalition in power and for returning to the prime minister powers commandeered for the presidency under military dictatorships.
Those constitutional amendments mean that the presidency is now a ceremonial post and Hussain, a staunch loyalist of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, has little personal clout.
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[REUTERS] Several thousand Islamists erupted into the streets of Tunis on Friday to defend the Islamist-led government from popular demands for it to resign over the liquidation of a secular opposition politician.
As Islamists and secular opponents staged rival protests over the future of Tunisia's Ennahda government, the interior minister pointed the finger of suspicion at a hardline Islamist, saying the same gun had been used in Thursday's killing as in an liquidation earlier this year that provoked violent protests.
"The people want Ennahda again!" and "No to a coup against democracy!", the Islamists chanted, rejecting demands for a new government of national unity.
Divisions between Islamists and their secular opponents have deepened since Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was toppled in 2011 in the first of the Arab Spring revolutions.
In the second murder of a secular politician in Tunisia this year, Mohamed Brahmi, a member of the Arab nationalist Popular Front party, was shot 14 times.
Thousands of anti-government protesters also massed in the capital on Friday, while shops and banks closed their doors and all flights in and out of the country were canceled.
"Down with the rule of the Moslem Brüderbund," the secular protesters chanted, referring to the ruling Ennahda party, which draws inspiration from the Brotherhood, a pan-Arab Islamist movement.
Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou drew a direct link between the latest killing and the liquidation of the Popular Front's leader Chokri Belaid on February 6, which set off the worst violence in Tunisia since Ben Ali's downfall.
"The same 9mm automatic weapon that killed Belaid also killed Brahmi," he told a news conference, naming the main suspect as hardline Salafist Boubacar Hakim, already being sought on suspicion of smuggling weapons from Libya.
Authorities had identified 14 Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... suspected of involvement in Belaid's liquidation, and most were believed to be members of the local hardline Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia ...an Islamist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends... , he said.
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Champ has the template of that speech minus the names of the next dictator he praises; ie, Pol Pot, Castro (after he's dead)...so many communist dictators and such little time.
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Maj. Pickler testified that Col. Vermeesch prefaced his recommendation with a pre-emptive denial: "Just to be clear, this is not UCI." [Unlawful Command Influence]
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g(r)omgoru: why does this sound familiar? I'm not sure it is familiar yet - but it will be. Every male accused (not even convicted) of sexual misconduct of any kind - will end up getting separated under Obama's orders.
I am so glad that I was in the Navy 40 years ago rather than now, and that I was married at the time.
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Purging the ranks and internal destruction of the military through gender wars. Highly effective, both at the top [Petraeus/Broadwell], and at the bottom. The regime is served and well pleased.
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By the way, just so no one gets the wrong impression - I am still married - to the same woman.
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An army that can parade is not an army prepared to fight, an army that can fight is not prepared to parade.
Some day something like this will trigger a thought in someone's mind that it's cheaper to give all the applicants scholarships to civil universities that to operate and maintain the academies. Originally West Point was not only set up for military training, but also to produce civil engineers that the young country needed to build its vast expanses. They did away with that 'engineer' mentality back in the 50s when they did away with it as the sole degree.
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Hal Moore [who needs no introduction] is a USAMA Grad. Ben Malcom, who wrote 'White Tigers' graduated North Georgia. Both live near here. It isn't the institution, it's the leadership of the institution and country, and the man.
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It WAS misconduct, he admitted to drinking, to being drunk, and to having s@x with another cadet, all of which were conduct violations. Her list of infractions would also include lying about it - which is the only thing HE was - IMO wrongly - convicted of. She should also have been kicked out.
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Those all are - or at least used to be - conduct violations for cadets. Individually only the lying about them would have warranted expulsion, but a pattern of inability to exercise self-disclipline used to be unacceptable.
[USATODAY] A pair of bombs exploded in a busy market area Friday evening in northern Pakistan, tearing through crowds of shoppers grabbing last-minute items to break their daily fast during the holy month of Ramadan and killing 23 people, a doctor said.
The blast struck a market in the town of Parachinar, which sits in the Kurram tribal area that borders Afghanistan to the west.
Dead bodies quickly overwhelmed Parachinar's hospital, as more than 100 people wounded in the blasts sought medical attention, said Dr. Zahid Hussain, who works at the hospital. Hussain said the bombs, which went off in quick succession, killed 23.
"We have no place to keep the wounded," the doctor said. "Many of them are lying on the hospital floor and on the lawn."
The two bombs ripped through the main bazaar in Parachinar when people were doing their evening shopping before the iftar meal that breaks the day of fasting during Ramadan, police spokesman Fazal Naeem Khan said.
One bomb was believed to have been planted on a motorcycle and explosives experts were examining the site Friday night, he said.
The second bomb detonated about four minutes after the first, about 400 yards away from the initial blast, government official Javed Ali said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
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UN Security Council members held informal discussions on Friday with Syrian opposition leaders for the first time since the conflict erupted in March 2011, dpa reported. The closed-door meeting was organized by British ambassador Mark Lyall Grant at UN headquarters in New York in a bid to update the 15 council members on the complex situation in Syria.
Syria's ambassador to the UN, Bashar Jaafari, protested that the meeting was "illegal" as the UN still recognizes his government.
"The situation in Syria is appalling," UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said, after meeting US Secretary of State John Kerry in New York, and called for efforts to find a political solution to end the 28-month conflict.
On Thursday, the Syrian National Coalition, headed by Ahmad al-Jarba, met with Kerry and German Ambassador Peter Wittig in New York.
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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.
[CA.NEWS.YAHOO] Egyptian security forces 
In order to ensure Americans understand how to access the benefits available to them when many provisions of the Affordable Care Act go online October 1, the Obama administration announced last month that it is setting up a call center that will be accessible to Americans 24 hours a day. 
The White House press secretary announced that the Obama administration will be sending two Gitmo inmates to Algeria.
Egyptian authorities will bring "to an end soon and in a legal manner" sit-in protests by supporters of ousted President Mohammad Mursi, interim Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim was quoted as saying by state-run news website al-Ahram.
Thousands of Egyptians poured into the streets nationwide on Friday to grant the armed forces a mandate to confront violence and terrorism or voice support for ousted President Mohammad Mursi.
GAROWE, Somalia -- A high-level European Union delegation visited Puntland region in northern Somalia on Thursday, as the EU prepares to host the Brussels conference for Somalia in September, Garowe Online reports.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, called Friday for scandal-ridden San Diego Mayor Bob Filner to resign "for the good of the City of San Diego."
[USATODAY] A pair of bombs exploded in a busy market area Friday evening in northern Pakistan, tearing through crowds of shoppers grabbing last-minute items to break their daily fast during the holy month of Ramadan and killing 23 people, a doctor said.
