A military judge is allowing prosecutors to argue an Army private used a most wanted list compiled by WikiLeaks as a guide for leaking classified information.
The "Most Wanted Leaks of 2009" was admitted as evidence Monday in the court-martial of Pfc. Bradley Manning at Fort Meade, near Baltimore.
The judge ruled the list is relevant to the government's most serious charge that Manning aided the enemy by causing intelligence to be published on the WikiLeaks website. Prosecutors are trying to prove the information Manning leaked helped al-Qaida.
The most wanted list included a request for documents about detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Manning has acknowledged sending WikiLeaks a file containing Guantanamo detainee records in March 2010.
He says he leaked the documents of his own accord and didn't consider them a national security risk.
MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin suggested Monday that American fugitive Edward Snowden might be allowed to stay in Russia, and said the Russians would never turn Snowden over to our American partners the United States.
“If he wants to go somewhere and somebody will host him – no problem,” Putin said in televised remarks during a news conference in Moscow. "If he wants to stay here, there is one condition: He must stop his work aimed at harming our American partners.” Easily done, you have the laptops and his "work" is finished.
It appears, the Russian president added, that Snowden has no such intention. “So he must choose for himself a country to stay in and move there,” he said. “Unfortunately, I don’t know when this will happen. If I knew I would tell you now.” But I do not know, so it is impossible for me to tell you. But if I knew, I would tell you what I know, no ?
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Still behind the curve, B. Everything Putin is saying points to the fact that Snowden has outlived his usefulness to Russia. The game now is nothing more than a negotiation for a US concession: Viktor Bout? The Magnitsky Act?
Don't forget the most important factor here, hidden in plain sight: shake gas. Putin's slush fund, Gazprom, is collapsing, and with it, Putin's stick for bullying his neighbors.
Putin's hand s weak and getting weaker. He will trade this card while it still has some value.
Marine Le Pen is spoiling for a fight. The leader of France's Front National vows to smash the existing order of Europe and force the break-up of monetary union, if she wins the next election.
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"systems identified as FALLOUT and CONVEYANCE appear to be a final layer of filtering to reduce the intake of information about Americans."
But what if the routers were in their control; routing your (American nationals) data offshore for analysis, before routing it back in. MPLS would make it easy-paesy to do, they would just require admin level permissions on core routers.
Maybe we could append lots of keywords to the goatse image and set up automated forwarding on a vast scale?
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I'm guessing Snowden is not a real happy camper right now. Further, after the FSB has pumped every drop out of him, what are the odds Vlad sells him out for something else of value, or someone, and we get the ugly mess of the trial back here anyway, after all the possible damage that could be done has been done to our collection systems. For Vlad, a twofer......
The armed forces are giving all political forces 48 hours as a last chance to solve the ongoing problems, or else the armed forces will have to announce a new roadmap for the future, and will enforce certain measures with the help of all factions including the youth, without excluding anyone.
The statement was read out on Egyptian state TV.
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I was just talking to a young Egyptian couple who were listening to the news, live. They are very happy that the military is standing up for the "people".
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Given how low all other agents of government have fallen here, wonder how long before that thought will be starting to catch on here.
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Sadat came from the military IIRC. He didn't do too bad.
I think a benevolent dictator is the most the Egyptians can hope for and IMNSHO they really want one. That whole society (can I say MOST Muslim societies?) want the big daddy figure of a Caliph or Emir to take care of them.
Population as the children of the family seem to be there preferred default position.
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As per CNN + FOX NEWS this Guam AM, the MusBros have rejected the Military's ultimatum.
That sound you're hearing is Israel going "OH CRAP"!
POTUS Obama can't ignore this one because of same + Egypt's Oil [also read, OPEC] + Suez Canal. HIS NON-MILITARY OPTIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, NORTH AFRICA OR AFRICA, + EAST ASIA ARE GETTING STEADILY LESSOR + LESSOR.
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Where is the congressional investigation and agitaters' hand waving about a Native American being played by an effeminate white male? Paula Deen was just demolished for something like this, and here Depp is acting the fool in redblackface. Where is that discussion? Otherwise, shuddup about the ball teams.
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Saw Depp in an inteview on the Letterman show (first time I glanced at it in ages -- won't make that mistake again) and the ensuing, seemingly endless, vitual sob fest for the white man's (us, again) treatment of the noble red folks was something to behold. Depp later followed the lecture on caucasian evil with much pedestal-putting of Indun (don't dare call them Indian, cuz Columbus was lost -- a factoid also included in the lecture series) culcha. About halfway through this cluster farg, I turned to The Wife (mostly a liberal) and asked, "What IS this?" A shrug and "I don't know" was her response.
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Yep, skip over the Aztec blood sport.
Skip over the early records of encounters where the Euros join one tribe's traditional territorial raiding of another. Marauding and looting existed in Pre-Columbian America. They just carried it out with lower level tech.
Skip over little facts, like why the Crow wanted to be scouts for the US Army [something about the enemy of my blood enemy is my friend].
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Also skip over how the Lipan Apache and the Tonkawa in Texas readily allied themselves with Texas rangers and volunteers to fight against their traditional enemy, the Comanche.
You know, if I were on the ground floor of a Lone Ranger reboot, I'd throw out all the traditional post-Civil War detail and convention from the TV series and previous movies ... and move it back to pre-Civil War Texas. A young ranger survivor and his Lipan Apache scout friend, wandering around on the fringes of the frontier doing good. I'd even ditch the mask - not to mention that stupid bird squatting on Depp's head. In the years before photography became widely available, you could wander around and five miles from where you lived and worked, no one would know the hell who you were. Back to the basic adventure, just two guys traveling around, doing the bit of good and rescuing people from bad guys ... I could so make that version rock!
(And I just had an idea for a pair of walk-on characters for the next book...)
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Good idea. Make Tonto a Tonkawa. Nobody ever writes westerns that have Tonkawas in them.
Potawatomis lived up north. As far as I know they didn't have chicken hats.
Maybe you could have a few Coahuiltecans walk on, Sgt. Mom? Maybe in the midst of the Second Harvest?
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Sgt. Mom -- that would be taking American culture seriously. That's not allowed anymore.
I swear, if they made a "Fibber McGee and Molly" movie, there'd be a scene where they shoot heroin before calling Wallace Wimpel and his wife over for a foursome.
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Also skip over: roughly 15-20 thousand years of unceasing inter-tribal warfare and lack of any technology beyond the late stone age.
@ Vanity Fair of all places
Now, before I get into the specifics of Snowden's China leaks, I want to stop for a minute. I know that, from the time he disclosed classified documents about the mass collection of Americans' telecommunications data, there have been plenty of debates about whether Snowden is a whistle-blower or a traitor. And I can understand that disagreement when it comes to the data-mining program that slurps up e-mail and phone data of American citizens. But what, exactly, is Snowden attempting to prove with his China revelations? That countries engage in espionage? That the United States listens in on communications of countries with which it maintains often tense and occasionally volatile relations?
The existence of electronic espionage seems to be his beef. In an interview with the South China Morning Post--in which he admitted that he took a job as a systems administrator with an N.S.A. consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton, for the purpose of stealing classified documents--Snowden laid out his bizarre and egomaniacal philosophy: he would decide what information to pass on in countries around the world.
"If I have time to go through this information, I would like to make it available to journalists in each country to make their own assessment, independent of my bias, as to whether or not the knowledge of US network operations against their people should be published."
Note the language. It's against the people, not the governments. He wants everyone to think we're doing this against Joe Grocer in Hong Kong out of malice.
I'll have to assume that Snowden is on this fit of self-righteous arrogance because he thinks there is something wrong with what he's seen of United States surveillance in other countries. But to decide that standard espionage activities are improper is a foolish, ahistorical belief.
N.S.A. surveillance has been beneficial repeatedly in American foreign policy. Although most instances remain secret, we already know that the N.S.A. listened to Soviet pilots during the 1983 shooting down of a South Korean airliner; used intercepted diplomatic messages to track a 1986 Berlin disco bombing to Libya; and used the cell phones' SIM cards to track terrorist suspects after the 9/11 attacks.
But let's take a more important example. In 1937--at a time when the United States was declaring neutrality in the emerging global tensions that fueled World War II--the Japanese government created a cipher for its military messages using a device called the "97-shiki O-bun In-ji-ki." The Americans code-named it "Purple."
The United States military was able to intercept Japanese communications (the very reason that Tokyo needed a code) but couldn't decrypt the information sent through the Purple machine. William Friedman, the first American cryptography expert who tried to break the code, made some progress before suffering a nervous breakdown. Using that initial information, others managed to break more of the code. Once cracked, the United States could track Japanese naval-troop movements and even intercepted communications containing plans for the Pearl Harbor attack--information that was not properly used.
Would Snowden have been outraged that the United States was intercepting Japanese data at a time when the countries were not at war? It took years to crack the Purple code--would Snowden think the United States should have waited until after Pearl Harbor to tap into Japanese communication lines, and only then begin the arduous effort to break the code? And if not, then what is his point in turning over these kinds of secrets to the Chinese? All I have to say is, thank God Snowden was not around in 1937, four years before the United States joined the war--Lord knows how many Americans would have died if he had acted with whatever arrogance, or self-righteousness, or narcissism, or pure treasonous beliefs that drove him to his espionage on behalf of the Chinese. I didn't really want to get into the big digression on modern techniques here, just wanted to point out the historical context, and the modern social context the author points out here:
Which brings us back to Snowden's global hypocrisy tour. I think nothing has more thoroughly damaged Snowden's "whistle-blower" persona than his bizarre--and, I would say, cowardly--decision to rely on some of the countries with the greatest history of oppression to help keep him out of the Americans' hands. (Usually, when people engage in civil disobedience for a cause--which Snowden seems to want people to believe he is doing--they accept the punishment that will accompany their decision. Snowden, instead, has acted like a spy, fleeing to countries with deeply strained relationships with the United States.
The irony of someone purportedly dedicated to privacy and human rights aiding the Chinese government grew even starker while Snowden was in Hong Kong. Last week, Human Rights Watch issued a report condemning a massive surveillance campaign undertaken by the Chinese government in Tibetan villages, which results in political re-education of those who may question the Communist regime and the establishment of partisan security units. "These tactics discriminate against those perceived as potentially disloyal, and restrict their freedom of religion and opinion," Human Rights Watch wrote.
But hey, that's just real life, not the Internet privacy that concerns Snowden. And, of course, the level of the Chinese government's surveillance and control of their citizens' use of the Internet is almost an art form. Just six months ago, China's legislative body, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, adopted the "Decision to Strengthen the Protection of Online Information." The new rules, which Human Rights Watch says "threaten security and privacy of internet users," require telecommunications providers to collect reams of personal information about customers who sign up for Internet, landline, or cell-phone service. The law also requires for the providers to insure they have the ability to immediately identify the real names of people who post comments under pseudonyms. Guess why? "In the days following the decision,'' Human Rights Watch reported, "several well-known online activists found that their weibo micro-blogging accounts had been shut down.''
As for Russia, the crackdown on public activism has intensified in recent months, which, again, has led to Human Rights Watch issuing a report just a few weeks before Snowden landed in Moscow. "The crackdown is threatening civil society," said Hugh Williamson, Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "The EU has spoken out strongly in recent months, but now is the time to directly call on Russia's leadership to revise restrictive laws and stop the harassment of independent groups." Primarily, the Russians are going after hundreds of rights groups and related activist organizations as part of a massive campaign to force them to register as foreign agents. "The authorities are seeking to define 'political' so broadly as to make any involvement in public life that is not controlled by the government off-limits," Williamson said. "They are also trying to tarnish groups with the 'foreign agents' label, which in Russia can only mean 'spy.'"
And what about Ecuador? Why, just two weeks ago, this country that is apparently on Snowden's list of possible future homes passed new rules that impede free expression. The statute, called the Communications Law, prohibits anyone from disseminating information through the media that might undermine the prestige or credibility of a person or institution (you know, like revealing a government-sponsored surveillance program). The law also places burdens on journalists, making them subject to civil or criminal penalties for publishing information that serves to undermine the security of the state (you know, like revealing a government-sponsored surveillance program).
The takeaway from all of this is perplexing. Perhaps Snowden is so impaired by his tunnel vision about America's espionage techniques that he doesn't understand he has made himself an international fool by cozying up to some of the world's less-admirable regimes on issues of human rights. And there is another thing to bear in mind: Since Snowden seems keen on turning over secret American information to repressive governments, will he be, in the end, acting to aid that repression? Will whatever information he yields be the missing thread that these authoritarian governments need to oppress their citizens more?
I don't know. Neither do you. And, in the most horrible reality of all, neither does Edward Snowden.
The skinny little creep is a catspaw. Question is, who's controlling him? That's what we need to know, and that's precisely what the Obama administration, WaPo, the Guardian and the rest won't say. Why do you think Putin is chuckling so? He knows...
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The Prescott Fire Department lost nearly its entire crew today - the Granite Mountain Hotshots - with 19 firefighters dying.
A Prescott Fire spokesman told The Daily Courier the crew was battling the Yarnell fire, which has resulted in evacuations as it has grown to an estimated 1,300 acres in size. Worst wildfire loss in 80 years and worst firefighter loss since 9-11. Really hurts to lose guys like these - I think half may have been volunteers. Several are just a degree or two of separation from me - friends of a friend - and probably from many of you too.
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So very sad. Brave Americans trying to save their neighbors and kin. There is no higher calling, none more brave. Be with the families and loved ones Geagte Here ek bid.
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Having been a volunteer firefighter for 22 years this is imply a horrible incident. It is very risky work but the community is so much better for having people who do this because they care. We all like the action sadly there is always an inherent danger associated with it. My heart goes out to them all. Be safe my brothers and sisters.
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As of now, lightning is blamed. Usual suspect "arsonist" rounded up in 3-2-1 to assuage public outrage.
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What happened? A shift of the wind? I heard that a simple change in wind direction can lead to fires sweeping hundreds of acres in a matter of seconds. Scary.
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I helped fight the fire back in 1994 and still remember that horrible day. Somethings went horribly wrong happened in Prescott if it caught 19 firefighters since disasters like this are a combination of several things done wrong and going wrong all at once.
If I could guess by the name, canyon fires are very tricky. My gear got ruined and not in a hah hah joke way one day when we were fighting a grass fire, where the grass was real short and dry and the wind was blowing 60mph, shifty too, say a 30 degree change too frequently - didn't help the damned pump went out. Didn't see fire, just the ground changing color, then hits taller stuff and whoosh, angry fire and that was in flat land, canyons + big heat make for some...interesting things to remember. Also, tree embers and burning critters can blow a hole in any defense measures set up, such as a back burn, wet line, or road plow/grater.
Stories out there are a bit breathless, so not sure how much stock to put into them. Darth, would it be a good guess that these firefighters were on foot?
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If they were digging holes and deploying the "shake and bake" then I would guess they were. Sounds like the fire moved so fast a few had time to open the shelter, but didn't get under it in time according to reports.
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...What is bizarre is that Obama haven't just tolerated the Brotherhood's rise to power, he has abetted it. It would be defensible to argue that we have little power to influence events in Egypt, and, moreover, attempts on our part to exercise influence are likely to backfire; therefore we should stand aside and do nothing. But why Obama would consider it a good idea to put America's thumb on the scale on the side of the Brotherhood is beyond me.
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Why would one want to travel to Pakistan in 1981? Seriously, what would the draw be? Why would the LA Times embargo the Khalidi tape? Why is an anti-muslim film maker in jail; why hasnt he been charged? And why did Obama meet with Abdullah bin Bayyah (who's main agenda is globally pushing to criminalize blasphemy) at the White House.
The fact that for the first time in Our country's history, there is a man in jail for effectively violating sharia law is of major significance. And taking the rest of the talking points together, creates a major implication.
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“This is an outrageous breach of security and privacy, even from an administration that has shown little regard for either over the last eight years,” Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton told CNN in a statement. “Our government’s duty is to protect the private information of the American people, not use it for political purposes.”
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As per FREEREPUBLIC, DRUDGE, ETC. it seems Russian forces may be charged wid security security at mass events in the USA.
See, the Russiansback in 1984, + now North Koreans in 2012-13, didn't invade America - they were invited in by the Amerikans + our OWG Mighty USSA = OWG Weak USRoA Global SSR Govt!
D *** NG IT, AMERIKANS WANTED THEM TO SHOOT AMERICAN CITIZENS!
WELL, I FOR ONE AM CERTAINLY EMBARRASSED ABOUT THIS SERIOUS ERROR IN AMERIKAN MEDIA REPORTING.
h/t Instapundit
...what does Obama get in return for his push for big government? A government that loves him back. Unlike the financial, insurance and real-estate industries that have been fickle about him — showering him with hosannas and cash in 2008, while offering a relative trickle of support in 2012—Obama remains the living end for government workers.
IRS employees donated to Obama over Romney by a 4-to-1 margin, IRS attorneys favored Obama by 20-to-1, and government lawyers at the National Labor Relations Board and the Department of Education shut out the Romney campaign completely. The federal bureaucracy had effectively lined up against nearly half the country.
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Meanwhile, the White House press secretary dissembles daily; the intelligence community appears incapable of delivering a complete and truthful answer to Congress
They too, are silently "showering him with hosannas". The wars must eventually end [if only for a while]. It's all about budgets and market share. Notice how seldom intelligence community officials testifying before congress mentioned EO-12333 ? The American people have become market share.
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Governor Tarkin: The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I have just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away forever.
General Tagge: But that's impossible! How will the Emperor maintain control without the bureaucracy?
Governor Tarkin: The regional governors Czars and the bureaucracy will now have direct control over their territories domains.
A senior employee at the Israeli national lottery (Mifal HaPayis) was caught on security cameras trying to poison another senior employee, Israeli media reported on Sunday.
The former was documented by the security cameras at the Mifal HaPayis Tel Aviv headquarters pouring unidentified substance on the door of the latter's office.
The building's security guard, who spotted the employee in her attempt, called the police, who sent the unidentified substance for lab tests abroad. Tests found it to be mercury, a highly poisonous substance that is not easily attainable.
The employee was arrested Sunday morning and her house and office were searched by police. Police will request to extend her remand Sunday evening.
[The Daily caller] In the pages of The Nation, the oldest continuously published weekly in the country and the self-described “flagship of the left,” a former member of the House of Representatives has called for the impeachment of the president over revelations of massive government surveillance of ordinary citizens. ...and leftests.
Democrat Elizabeth Holtzman of New York, who sat on the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate era, powerfully yet dispassionately lays out the case for the immediate impeachment of the president.
“Nothing less is necessary to protect our constitutional system and preserve our democracy,” she declares.
The last straw for the retired Congresswoman was the revelation that the president “directed the wiretapping of hundreds, possibly thousands, of Americans” (a number that is likely conservative). ....but might not be under a future Republican administration.
“As a matter of constitutional law, these and other misdeeds constitute grounds for the impeachment,” writes Holtzman in her bombshell treatise. “A President, any President, who maintains that he is above the law — and repeatedly violates the law — thereby commits high crimes and misdemeanors, the constitutional standard for impeachment and removal from office.”
The eloquent Harvard Law grad provides a devastating legal critique of the vast executive-branch scheme to log every phone call in the United States.
“It now appears that thousands of calls were monitored and that the information obtained may have been widely circulated among federal agencies,” Holtzman writes. Calls, e-mails, texts, the lot.
The skilled jurist also draws eerily ominous parallels between whatÂ’s happening right now and the actions of the corrupt Nixon administration.
“Among his other abuses of power, President Nixon ordered the FBI to conduct warrantless wiretaps of seventeen journalists and White House staffers,” Holtzman sagely explains. “In fact, the first illegal Nixon wiretap was of a reporter who, in 1969, revealed the secret bombing of Cambodia, a program that President Nixon wanted to hide from the American people and Congress.”
The president, Holtzman says, “has been guilty of such gross incompetence or reckless indifference to his obligation to execute the laws faithfully as to call into question whether he takes his oath seriously or is capable of doing so.”
Holtzman makes a remarkably unqualified argument against the president, leaving little doubt that The Nation is laying down strict principles, rather than engaging in some cheap situational attack that it would hypocritically abandon if, for example, the same abuses were being carried out by a president whose party and agenda the flagship left-wing magazine found more palatable.
To show just how serious she is about impeachment proceedings, the former House member concludes with expert guidance for Americans who want to see the president impeached.
“Drumming up public support means organizing rallies, spearheading letter-writing campaigns to newspapers, organizing petition drives, door-knocking in neighborhoods, handing out leaflets and deploying the full range of mobilizing tactics,” she writes. Don't forget to vote Republican next time. That helps as well.
“An energized public must in turn bear down on Congress. Constituents should request meetings with their Senators and Representatives to educate them on impeachment,” Holtzman concludes. They can also make their case through e-mail, letters and phone calls.” You may wish to make certain your IRS affairs are in order over at the Nation.
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If the Hussein regime wishes to continue to pursue this clearly intrusive and unlawful "surveilance", surely Mr Snowden can provide details of the infrastructure to the proper Congressional agencies to insure the dismantlement of those components that are in violation of US Constitutional and International law, as a part of the impeachment process.
In South Africa, police have fired warning shots at a protest against President Champ's visit to the country.
At the University of Johannesburg Soweto campus, where Mr Obama hosted a question and answer session on Saturday, groups were protesting about the use of drones in the Middle East, the continuing Cuban crisis and Champ's failure to completely close the camp at GITMO.
German 'Greens' adored him anyway. Not certain of anyone over 50 years of age.
This is a powerful op-ed piece and I encourage folks to read it. A German Green realizes that he's been pawned. Imagine what the average German burgher and house-frau are thinking.
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Somewhere in there is the classical tale of selling one's soul, counted in millions of dollars in small donations made with untraceable pre-paid credit cards from Europe to someone's 2008 election campaign. Faust should play well at the Nationaltheater München this year.
Cape Town - US President Barack Obama warned on Sunday that Africa could only fulfil its rising potential with leaders who serve their people, not tyrants who enrich themselves. Green Energy schemes and kickbacks pay much, much better.
In a strident call for democratic change and good governance, Obama used the political legacy of ailing Nelson Mandela and South Africa's emergence from grim years of apartheid as proof that freedom will ultimately prevail. That was only after he gave us a new glimpse of his college daze and his moment of ANC communist inspiration.
"In too many countries, the actions of thugs and warlords and human traffickers hold back the promise of Africa," Obama said at a speech at the University of Cape Town. "Human trafficking" perfectly acceptable if they are of voting age. No ID necessary by the way.
"America cannot put a stop to these tragedies alone, and you don't expect us to. That is a job for Africans. But we can help you and we will help you," he said, announcing major new US programmes to boost electricity and health care. $ 7b in USD borrowed from the Chinese to build grids for Chinese industry in Africa. Quite innovative.
Syrian activists say three people have been killed in government airstrikes on the central city of Homs. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Syrian army warplanes began pounding the old quarters of Homs early Sunday, killing one woman and two children.
President Bashar AssadÂ’s forces have been on the offensive in Homs, reclaiming some of the territory they have lost to the rebels since SyriaÂ’s crisis began 27 months ago. A city of about 1 million, Homs has sided with the rebels since the early days of the uprising.
Homs is SyriaÂ’s third largest city and capital of its largest province, which carries the same name and stretches from the Lebanese border to the frontier with Jordan and Iraq.
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From the map, the 'government' has a ways to go...
A top Somali Islamist, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, has been transferred under armed guard from the airport in the capital Mogadishu following his arrival there on Saturday. He is now being questioned at a government intelligence base.
Marquess of Queensbury rules?
He was moved after a fight broke out between government officials, members of the security forces and clan elders over what to do with him.
"Shoot him! Shoot him now! I demand you shoot him now!"
"Quiet, Daffy..."
He was held after fleeing fighting between factions of the Islamist group, al-Shabab, amid reports of a split in the group.
A delegation that accompanied Hassan Dahir Aweys from central Somalia has accused the government of reneging on a promise to grant him an amnesty. The Somali government has made no official comment.
They did however snicker loudly...
On Saturday, Sheikh Aweys was flown from the northern town of Adado, escorted by government security forces, but it was unclear whether he had surrendered or defected.
The United Nations says he gave himself up to government allies after infighting, but clan elders deny this.
"Lies! All lies!"
Regarded as the elder statesman of Somali Islamists, he has been on a US list of people "linked to terrorism" since shortly after the 9/11 attacks in 2001.
The exact cause of the al-Shabab split is not known, but there has been a long-running internal power struggle between its leader Ahmed Abdi Godane and those seen as more moderate who oppose links with al-Qaeda, analysts say.
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[An Nahar] The Afghan government on Sunday said talks on a key security pact with the U.S. would only re-start when Taliban rebels meet with Kabul's negotiators, further complicating efforts to revive the country's troubled grinding of the peace processor.
The Taliban have consistently refused to meet the High Peace Council (HPC), the official negotiators of the Afghan government, saying that President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... is a puppet of the United States.
Karzai suspended talks over the security pact, which would allow some U.S. troops to stay in Afghanistan after 2014, in protest at how the Taliban had opened an office in Qatar that appeared as if it was an embassy for the rebels.
"The talks on the security pact that were suspended in reaction to the Taliban's Qatar office can resume when the talks between the HPC and the Taliban begin," a statement from the palace in Kabul said.
Karzai has so far refused to send HPC officials to Qatar, but has not ruled out peace negotiations as long as any talks are rapidly moved to Afghanistan.
The Taliban have also offered a glimmer of hope, saying the Qatar office may be used to meet unspecified Afghans "in due appropriate time" -- seen as a hint that their refusal to talk with the HPC could be negotiable.
The search for a peace deal is an urgent priority as 100,000 U.S.-led NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... combat troops prepare to withdraw next year and Afghan forces take on the fight against the myrmidons.
U.S. President Barack Obama I am not a dictator!... recently said he anticipated "a lot of bumps in the road" during the grinding of the peace processor but that it was the only way to end the violence in Afghanistan.
"President B.O. hopes to get the security pact between Afghanistan and America by October," Karzai said at a presser in Kabul on Saturday.
"I told him that we have some clear and unchangeable conditions in this regard, which is peace and security in Afghanistan, guarantee of Afghanistan's national interest, a stable central government and an united Afghanistan."
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[Pak Daily Times] KARACHI: Law enforcers claimed to have apprehended around 31 suspects including members of banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organizations, and recovered huge caches of explosives and weapons, during various targeted raids and operations in various parts of metropolis on Sunday.
Police claimed to have nabbed five alleged members of banned organization and recover huge caches of kaboom, weapons and ammunitions during targeted raid in Orangi Town locality.
As per detail, police conducted the targeted raid on a tip-off at Pirabad locality of Orangi Town and managed to arrest five alleged members of banned organization. The officials also claim to have recovered 6 ball bombs, 3 block bombs, explosives, Walkie-talkie sets, nut bolts, ball bearings, two Kalashnikovs, one MP-5 rifle, one repeater, three pistols and lots of ammunition. The accused were shifted to undisclosed location for further questioning.
Separately, Rangers claimed to have apprehended around 26 suspects in different targeted raids and operations carried out in Mehran Town, Bismillah Market, Cattle Colony, Nazimabad, Super Highway and other areas of the city. The officials also claim to have recovered various weapons and kabooms from their custody.
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"The US government appears to be Simulex's number one customer, however. And Chaturvedi has received millions of dollars in grants from the military and the National Science Foundation to develop SEAS.
Chaturvedi is now pitching SWS to DARPA and discussing it with officials at the US Department of Homeland Security, where he said the idea has been well received, despite the thorny privacy issues and this is a problem?/sarc
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[Pak Daily Times] GILGIT: Security forces have arrested a key suspect of the Nanga Parbat killings, eight days after the tragic incident. According to reports, the accused, identified as Shifa, was arrested from Chilas on Saturday night. Senior officials said that they have accelerated the search for the remaining 15 terrorists who they believe to be still hiding in Diamer.
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At least 45 people have been killed and dozens have been injured by bomb attacks in the Pakistani cities of Quetta and Peshawar.
A suspected suicide bomber killed 28 people in an attack on a Shia area of Quetta, in the south-west, which has been gripped by sectarian violence. And a bomb attack on security forces in Peshawar in the north-west left 17 people dead and more than 40 injured.
The attacks came as PM Nawaz Sharif pledged new action on terrorism.
He's gonna be every bit as effective this time as the last time he was in power...
So far it is not clear which extremist groups were behind Sunday's attacks, the BBC's Richard Galpin reports.
Ruritanians? Esquimaux?
Over the past two weeks they have also targeted women students, foreign mountaineers and a convoy carrying a senior judge.
Mr Sharif is under mounting pressure to explain how he intends stopping the bloodshed, our correspondent says.
An especially good question since Fester has no idea...
In Quetta, members of the Shia Muslim minority have long been targeted by Sunni Muslim militants.
On Sunday evening, a suicide bomber on a bicycle tried to attack a Shia mosque but was intercepted at a checkpoint where the bomb went off, police said. Nine women, a young girl and four boys were among those killed.
In Peshawar, hospital officials told the BBC four children were amongst those killed in an attack near the city. A bomb was placed inside a car parked on the side of the road in a busy market area just south of the city. The target was a convoy of troops but all those reported to have been killed were civilians.
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Eight soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in southern Thailand early Saturday morning. Another four people, two soldiers and two civilians, were injured in the blast in Krongpinang district of Yala province.
The soldiers had been on duty all night at their base and were returning home in a military truck when the roadside bomb went off.
"It was a very powerful bomb that completely destroyed the truck. Ten soldiers were in the truck. Eight died and two were wounded," Colonel Pramote Promin said, adding that two villagers had also been wounded in the blast.
Two Muslim men, including a village chief, were gunned down in Narathiwat province in separate incidents on Friday afternoon, Thai police said.
[Pak Daily Times] The detection of dangerous 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... virus P1 in a child of the North Wazoo Agency (NWA) has raised concern among the health authorities. According to details, type P1 virus has been detected in a nine-month-old child of Datakhel area of NWA. Health authorities noted that due to the creation of hurdles by the tribal people in the anti-polio vaccination, spread of poliovirus on a large scale was feared in FATA. The health authorities also said that the three-day anti-polio vaccination campaign would kickstart in FATA, except North and South Waziristan agencies, from Monday (today). Due to security threats more than two hundred thousand children of NWA and SWA would remain deprived of the vaccination.
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Polio is very Islamic. Smallpox next
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[An Nahar] Gulf Cooperation Council's foreign ministers warned late Saturday that Hizbullah's continued involvement in the Syrian war was threatening the Geneva peace conference.
Following a consultative meeting they held in Manama, the ministers condemned in a statement "the continued involvement of Hizbullah's militias" in Syria.
They called for "putting an end to such an intervention which will be a hindrance to the efforts exerted to hold the Geneva 2 conference."
The statement said the ministers "expressed deep concern over the repercussions of the Syrian crisis on the situation in Leb politically and security wise."
They reiterated their call on the Lebanese government to remain committed to the policy of dissociation and prevent any Lebanese party from getting involved in the neighboring country's war.
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[Al Ahram] 24:20 That's all for tonight. Today saw unprecedented numbers take to the streets all over Egypt, calling for Morsi to resign. It's hard to estimate numbers, but it's clear that 30 June has been bigger than anyone predicted.
There was deadly violence in Beni Suef and Assiut, and there are ongoing festivities at the Brotherhood headquarters in Cairo, as we close. There were also 30 reported cases of sexual harassment in Tahrir Square - although none reported at Ittihadiya or at the ongoing pro-Morsi demonstration at Rabaa Al-Adawiya.
24:15 There are reports of ongoing festivities at the Moslem Brüderbund's headquarters in Mokattam, Cairo, which was earlier attacked by protesters throwing Molotov cocktails. There seem to be festivities between those inside the building and those attacking it, with birdshot and possibly live ammunition. There are a number of injuries reported, but all unconfirmed so far by official sources.
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Not to worry. Obama will send in the US military to prop up Morsi if necessary.
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Not to worry. Obama will send in the US military to prop up Morsi if necessary.
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Shirley, Champ will support the "Will Of The People" and ask Morsi to step down.
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Arab spring - Reloaded !
Call The Wachowski Brothers, its gonna be a hit
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Much less a spring than an implosion. Egypt is corruption and incompetency written larger than Detroit. One big black hole sucking up anything near it without any viable constructive outcome (except in an alternate universe - found often among academics and their off springs in the bureaucracies of the world)
It's time for the absurd paradigm governing the Israel-Palestinian and Arab-Israeli conflict -- as well as the "peace process" -- to be abandoned or challenged. This narrative has become increasingly ridiculous. The following is close to being the official version:
The Palestinians desperately want an independent state and are ready to compromise to obtain that goal. They will then live peacefully alongside Israel in a two-state solution. Unfortunately, this is blocked either by a) misunderstanding on both sides, or b), per the recent words of the Huffington Post, "the hard-line opponents who dominate Israel's ruling coalition." Israel is behaving foolishly, not seeing that -- as former President Bill Clinton recently said -- Israel needs peace in order to survive. One reason, perhaps a leading one, why Israel desperately needs peace is because of Arab demographic growth. Also, the main barrier to peace is the Jewish settlements.
This interpretation has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with reality. People on both sides know this, even if they rarely say so publicly.
[BREITBART] White House Down, the new film chockablock with liberal talking points and a stand-in for President Barack Obama, underwhelmed during its first weekend in theaters.
The powerful entertainment site Deadline.com dubbed the movie's $26 million haul a flop.
White House Down features Jamie Foxx playing the president, a leader whose plan to pull all U.S. troops out of the Middle East is interrupted by right-wing terrorists who attack the White House. Numerous critics said the filmmakers intended Foxx's character to echo Obama, and director Roland Emmerich routinely portrays right-of-center characters as either fools, cowards or villains. I guess that's because the country's been overrun by right-wing terrorists in the past ten or fifteen years. People are probably tired of seeing reality reflected so accurately.
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They'll break even when it goes into international distribution.
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We had a thunderstrom roll thru San Antonio yesterday, which left us without electrical power for much of Sunday. We thought we'd kill a couple of hours, waiting for power to be restored by going to the nearest movie theater and taking in a movie - whatever was showing that interested us. This turkey was one of them, by the way. We looked over the list of movies showing ... and were completely underwhelmed. Not one of them interested us enough to pay $10 to see it. (We went home, after picking up some ice and groceries and read our Kindles, instead.)
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Most of the hollyweird production is now oriented to that world market where trashing America gets box office returns. Just like publishers turning down book pre-orders for a best seller because it's not about business anymore, it's about pushing your disdain for fly over country while parasitically living here.
ThereÂ’s an economic concept known as a positional good in which an object is only valued by the possessor because itÂ’s not possessed by others.
The term was coined in 1976 by economist Fred Hirsch to replace the more colloquial, but less precise “neener-neener”. - BBT
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and after Foxx's turn in Django Unchained, kinda nice to see him get some box office humility. Still happy with "getting paid to kill white people in a movie?"
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"Not one of them interested us enough to pay $10 to see it"
I know what you mean, Sgt. Mom. The last time I was in a movie theater was for either Armageddon or Apollo 13 (depending on which was released last). Some movies should be seen on the large screen, at least the first time.
What amazes me is they keep making this trash - surely they'll run out of suckers financial backers sometime. >:-(
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..its a world market not America anymore for them. I'm with the Instaprof - End the Hollyweird Excise Tax* Cut and Subsidies!
* the 20 percent excise tax on motion picture theater gross revenues that existed between the end of World War II and its repeal in the mid-1950s.
[An Nahar] The agency in charge of website addresses passed a major milestone Friday on the path to broadening the world of domain names by the end of this year.
The board of U.S.-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) touted freshly-approved benefits and responsibilities for registrars that essentially act as domain name wholesalers.
Changes to contractually enforceable rules include requiring registrars to confirm phone numbers or addresses of those buying domain names within 15 days.
"People who have stolen an identity or have criminal backgrounds obviously don't want to give you their name and address if their intentions are not kosher," said Cyrus Namazi, ICANN's vice president of industry engagement. "The intent here is to weed out bad actors."
Prior to new rules outlined in the Registrar Accreditation Agreement, there were "loose checks and balances" to make sure aliases weren't being used by people buying domain names, according to Namazi.
"It is a very serious and significant milestone in moving toward new gTLDs (generic Top-Level domains)," he said.
ICANN is considering more than 1,800 requests for new web address endings, ranging from the general such as ".shop" to the highly specialized like ".cycle of violences."
Many of the requests are from large companies such as Apple, Mitsubishi and IBM ...contributed $532,372 to the 2008 Obama campaign... -- with Internet giant Google ...contributed $814,540 to the 2008 Obama campaign... alone applying for more than 100, including .google, .YouTube, and .lol -- Internet slang for "laugh out loud."
Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,-based ICANN says the huge expansion of the Internet, with some two billion users around the world, half of them in Asia, means new names are essential.
There are currently just 22 gTLDs, of which .com and .net comprise the lion's share of online addresses.
"We spent a long time negotiating very thorny issues," Akram Atallah, ICANN's generic domains division head, said in an online video. "The new agreement achieves everything we wished for in order to roll out the new gTLD program."
The first new website address endings should be available in the final quarter of this year, according to Namazi.
The revamped agreement will affect more than 1,000 domain name registrars around the world.
ICANN has been negotiating with domain handlers for more than two years on agreement revisions, with interests of governments and law enforcement agencies among those factored into changes, according to Namazi.
"Law enforcement agencies played a big role in it, because Internet crime is one of the biggest factors out there," he said.
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Yet if a Christian so much as looks crosseyed at a Muslim, they scream Islamophobia.
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Clearly we must help these poor Jihadi victims of wily dastardly arrogant Fascist Male Brute Zionist-Crusader US-West + Israel by allowing them to sneak over our Sacred Motherly Commie-Socialist OWG-NWO borders illegally en masse where they can jihad in peace amongst a US infidel population wid no guns + no jobs + lots of still-expanding sovereign debt.
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Lets sit here and watch them kill each other. Sell guns to BOTH sides.
That way Obama can get what he wants, the Russians can get what they want. And we get to eat popcorn.
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Before you diagnose cognitive dissonance! Consider this:
"If someone hates you"...it is really not you they hate because you are obviously without fault. It is actually those in your village they hate. Therefore, if you hate your villagers as well, it is quite alright to give the haters of your village weapons.
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MccShame will whistle through his dentures: "Thissssh isssssssh why we musssssht arm the shammmme people who killed our ambasssssshador in Benghazzzzzzi...."
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Another blood martyr for the Catholic Church.
Lets see, how many Catholic suicide bombers has that produced? Hmm....
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Catholics don't need suicide bombers. All they have to do is tell McCain and Graham to go piss up a rope so these people can continue killing each other.
But McCain and Graham, huh? These so called senior Republican senators are a couple of shameless shills for Soddies. Excuse me while I go change my registration to independent.
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In the old knuckle dragging troglodyte 19th Century, this would be the excuse by Western countries to move in, shoot anything that moved regardless of faction and establish an 'enlightened' colonial office over the locals. While such actions offered solutions to problems, the modern post-Marxist progressive world will muddle about with much hand wringing and statements for the theater of the absurd.
MOGADISHU - Al Shabaab militant group in Somalia has publicly admitted killing two senior officials, underscoring the growing violent dispute within the militant group, Garowe Online reports.
That is just grand...
In an audio recording provided to Somali media, Abdiaziz Abu Musab, Al Shabaab's military spokesman, said Al Shabaab group killed Ibrahim Haji Jama Micad (Ibrahim Afghani) and Abdihamid Hashi Olhaye (Moallim Burhan) in an operation to arrest them.
"We are informing their family members of the killing and we [Al Shabaab] buried them," said Abu Musab.
He dismissed media reports that Ibrahim Afghani and Moallim Burhan were captured and executed by Al Shabaab militants. Instead, Abu Musab claimed that the two deceased Al Shabaab officials were killed in an operation to arrest them after they fought back.
"You'll never take us alive!"
"We don't intend to!"
Abu Musab said an Al Shabaab court had ordered their arrest and the two deceased officials fought against militants sent to arrest them in Barawe, a coastal town in Lower Shabelle region.
Similarly, Abu Musab said another operation in Ramo Adey village of Bay region to arrest a senior Al Shabaab member, Muktar Robow Abu Mansur, resulted in the killing of an Al Shabaab fighter sent to arrest Abu Mansur, who later escaped.
Abu Musab said unnamed persons "who were dividing Al Shabaab had escaped Barawe", and some reports said Abu Musab was referring to Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, who was detained in Galgadud region after escaping Barawe and is currently jailed by the Somali federal government in Mogadishu.
This development marks the growing violent dispute within Al Shabaab ranks, as Al Shabaab chief Ahmed Abdi Godane is fighting former comrades for domination of Al Shabaab group. Ibrahim Afghani was Godane's deputy and was wanted by the U.S. government with a US$7million bounty.
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[Al Ahram] As millions take to streets countrywide to demand snap elections, Egypt's embattled presidency asserts its respect for free expression but calls for dialogue to resolve political stalemate
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[Pak Daily Times] At least 30 people were killed and scores more injured when a fuel tanker exploded on a highway in Uganda, a major transit route for fuel heading from Kenya to land-locked east African states, a police spokesman said on Sunday.
The truck exploded late on Saturday a few miles north of the capital Kampala after it had stopped when it was involved in an accident with another vehicle and people nearby crowded round trying take fuel from the tanker, the spokesman said.
The practice of taking fuel from stricken trucks is not uncommon, although what caused the blast was not immediately clear.
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[Pak Daily Times] KHUZDAR: Unidentified gunnies fired on passenger buses in different areas of Khuzdar District on Sunday, killing at least three people and injuring several others. According to Levies sources, the gunnies on cycle of violences fired indiscriminately on three passenger buses in Kaka Heer and Darra Kahala areas of Wadh Tehsil, as a result of which three persons were killed on the spot while several passengers sustained injuries. The assailants managed to escape unharmed. The bodies and injured were shifted to Civil Hospital Khuzdar for medico-legal requirements. Some injured persons with serious wounds were later referred to Quetta for treatment. Following the firing incident, panic spread in the area. A heavy contingent of security forces reached the scene and cordoned it off before starting a search operation for the attackers. On the other hand, transporters staged a protest against the attacks and demanded the authorities ensure security to travellers.
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[Al Ahram] A pro-Kurdish party said it will launch on Sunday rallies in several cities to press the Turkish government to "do its part" to settle the nearly three-decade old conflict in southeast Turkey.
"Our party is calling on our people as well as all oppressed and ignored segments of society to say 'Government, take a step' in order to step up the struggle for democracy," the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) said in a statement.
The party is calling on Ankara to "do its part" for a democratic solution to the bloody conflict and to "stay away from any actions" which could undermine the grinding of the peace processor.
The BDP said one of its main demands was to ensure freedom for the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan, who has been serving a life prison term on a remote island off Istanbul since his 1999 capture.
The PKK first took up arms for Kurdish self-rule in southeastern Turkey in 1984, sparking a conflict that has cost some 45,000 lives.
The BDP's other demands included release of Kurdish prisoners and political activists, the lifting of restrictions on education in the Kurdish language and reducing the 10-percent election threshold required to secure seats in the 550-seat parliament.
The BDP-led campaign comes after Ocalan said Tuesday that he has sent Ankara a set of proposals for the next phase in peace efforts to follow the withdrawal of rebel fighters from Turkish soil.
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[An Nahar] A string of attacks across Iraq killed 15 people Sunday, including nine in a bombing at a football pitch, the latest in a spate of blasts targeting Iraqis playing and watching the sport.
The deaths are part of a surge in violence that comes as Iraq grapples with months of protests by the Sunni Arab community and protracted political deadlock.
Analysts warn there may be no respite before general elections next year.
Attacks on Sunday struck in djinn-infested Mosul, Dawr, Sharqat and Hilla, but the deadliest violence hit the capital.
At 7:00 pm (1600 GMT) in the Nahrawan neighborhood of southeast Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , a bomb went off as a group of youths were playing football at a popular pitch.
The blast killed nine and maimed 25 others, an interior ministry official and a medical source said.
Most of the victims were boys under the age of 16, the sources said.
The bombing was the latest in a string of attacks targeting football pitches and cafes broadcasting matches in this football-mad country where Iraqis closely follow not only the national team, but also an array of other international and club competitions.
Including Sunday's attack, more than 50 people have been killed in at least 10 such bombings in cities in and around Storied Baghdad, but also in northern Iraq, according to an Agence La Belle France Presse tally.
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[Pak Daily Times] Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... ese authorities locked away Please don't kill me! former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre on Sunday, the first step towards a trial on charges of crimes against humanity that is seen by many as a milestone for African justice.
The man once dubbed "Africa's Pinochet" also stands accused of war crimes and torture during his eight years in power in Chad, where rights groups say that some 40,000 people were killed under his rule.
"Hissene Habre has been taken into custody as part of the probe," said a prosecutor with a special court set up in February to try the 70-year-old former leader.
One of Habre's lawyers, El Hadji Diouf, told local radio he had been tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! at his home in Dakar where he lives with his wife and children and taken to an unknown destination.
Delayed for years by Senegal where he has lived since being ousted in 1990, Habre's trial will set a historic precedent as until now African leaders accused of atrocities have only been tried in international courts.
Typically dressed in combat fatigues during the years of his rule, Habre earned the nickname "desert fighter" after he seized power in 1982 from former rebel ally Goukouni Weddeye during a long conflict with Libya, which wanted to annex the north of Chad.
His regime was marked by fierce repression of his opponents and the targeting of ethnic groups, and in 1990 he fled to Senegal after being ousted by Chad's now President Idriss Deby Itno.
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[Pak Daily Times] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... has called for formulation of a policy by the prime minister in consultation with the army chief and PTI to deal with terrorism in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... .
Addressing a convention of the party on Sunday, Imran Khan said there are different forms of terrorism in FATA, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , which will have to be dealt with through different means.
He said he has written a letter to the prime minister for the formulation of a national policy in consultation with political and military leadership to deal with terrorism. He said terrorism could not be overcome in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa unless the prime minister, the chief of army staff and the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government sit together and arrive at a consensus formula. They will have to hold dialogue with Taliban at political level, he added.
On a different note, Imran said intra-party elections of the PTI were a major success. He said they would learn lessons from the mistakes of the 2013 general elections and assured the party workers that the future lies with the PTI. While noting that the party had no polling agents at many polling stations, he said three commissions are working to identify the past shortcomings. Imran said Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa would be made a role model for other provinces in development.
He said under PTI the province would become electricity surplus, which would be exported to other provinces. The PTI leader said various projects of power generation would be announced in the coming weeks.
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"I need to feel relevant"
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[Pak Daily Times] A Christian girl who was incarcerated Please don't kill me! for alleged blasphemy last year and forced into hiding for fear of her life has moved to Canada, an activist said on Sunday.
Rimsha Masih could have faced life in prison if convicted over allegations that she set fire to pages of the holy Koran in the poor, run-down neighbourhood where she lived on the edge of Islamabad.
She was arrested last August and spent three weeks on remand in one of Pakistain's toughest jails in a case that drew widespread international condemnation.
She was released on bail and the case against her was quashed in November, but she and her family were forced into hiding, living under government protection for fear of their lives.
But a Christian activist in Pakistain told AFP on Sunday that Rimsha and her close relatives had moved to Canada.
"Rimsha and her family have arrived in Canada," Sajid Ishaq said.
"The Canadian government is supporting them. They are presently doing a foundation course to learn basic English," he said.
Basharat Masih, a Pak policeman who said he had been assigned to Rimsha's protection, also confirmed that they had left.
"They are being taken care of by the Canadian government and attending church services," he told AFP.
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re: #1 g(r)omgoru True, they can get to her in some parts of Canada,mostly the big cities. BUT . . . . there are a LOT of places in Canada where they cannot get to her. From time to time I frequent some of those places and I can assure you that they do exist.
[NEWS.SKY] Two English Defence League leaders have been released on police bail after they were locked away I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! by police in Central London.
A spokesperson for the Metropolitan police said: "Two men aged 30 and 44 have been released on bail to a date in mid- August pending further enquiries."
Tommy Robinson had shouted, "You are enforcing Sharia law", at officers who held him on suspicion of obstructing police as he tried to enter the London borough of Tower Hamlets.
The EDL had previously announced plans to walk through part of the capital before gathering outside Woolwich Barracks, near where Drummer Rigby was hacked to death in broad daylight.
But the Metropolitan Police put conditions on the march which demanded that it ended at Old Palace Yard, opposite the House of Lords.
As well as planning to lay flowers in memory of Drummer Rigby, Mr Robinson and EDL co-leader Kevin Carroll, who was also arrested, were walking to raise money for a young girl fighting cancer.
Sky Correspondent Tom Parmenter said: "They'd walked six miles when they were arrested outside Aldgate East underground station.
"Police had been tracking the walk across London and had regularly spoken to them about their route.
"The EDL leaders had been warned not to go past a large mosque in east London or enter the borough of Tower Hamlets.
"As they approached the boundary of the borough they were warned again by officers who told them they may be arrested."
Mr Robinson and Mr Carroll repeatedly asked if they would actually be arrested before another man approached the pair and assaulted Mr Carroll.
Parmenter said: "As coppers tried to deal with the situation the EDL leaders continued to walk forward and then a senior policewoman placed the pair under arrest."
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[Pak Daily Times] A kaboom outside an imambargah in Quetta killed around 28 people, while 17 people were killed in a kaboom on a security force convoy in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. . Bombings in Wazirsitan killed eight more.
A jacket wallah on Sunday tried to blow up a holy manbargah in Quetta, killing 28 people and wounding more than 65 others at a checkpoint, officials said. The attack happened in congested Hazara Town, where a massive bombing killed 90 Hazaras in February this year. "The suicide bomber wanted to target a holy manbargah, but he went kaboom! himself before getting there. Nineteen people have been killed and 51 others are injured," said police official Fayaz Sumbal.
Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Home Secretary Akbar Hussain Durrani said the bomber went kaboom! at a checkpoint set up by local neighbourhood volunteers around 50 yards away from the imambargah. "The suicide bomber was intercepted at a security checkpoint manned by Hazara Town civilian boys. They stopped him at the barrier 50 yards away from the imambargah and he went kaboom! there," he said. "The evening prayers had just ended in the mosque and most of the victims are Shias. Among them six are women and one is a child," Durrani told AFP. He confirmed the corpse count had reached 28. Hazara Town in particular has been a flashpoint for attacks on Shias and the Hazaras. Locals have set up checkpoints controlling access to the neighbourhood, accusing regular security forces of being unable to stop the attacks.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... a boom-mobile aimed at a security force convoy killed 17 people and maimed 46 others on Sunday in Badaber, on the outskirts of Peshawar, an official said. The attack happened not far from the semi-autonomous tribal belt where Taliban and al Qaeda-linked groups have bases, as British Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... visited Islamabad. "Now 17 people have died," said Jamil Shah, front man for the government-run Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, adding that 46 were maimed. At least three children were among the dead, and two children and a woman were among those hurt, he added.
Police said most of the victims were civilians because the bomb targeting the Frontier Corps (FC) convoy went kaboom! in a bustling market area. "The boom-mobile was parked in a market packed with the general public. When the FC convoy comprising of three vehicles passed by, the bomb went kaboom! and hit a vehicle in the convoy," police official Shafiullah Khan told AFP. "But many non-combatants were killed and maimed in the attack because there was a big rush in the market at the time," he added.
Javed Khan, a local administration official, told news hounds that one policeman was also among the dead in Badaber, a flashpoint for violence south of Peshawar. "This is a very sad incident. There have been targeted operations in that area in the last few days and we have tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! many gunnies from that area," Khan said. Shops and cars were damaged in the attack, an AFP news hound said. Pieces of human flesh, broken glass, lost shoes and vegetables from nearby carts were flung across the scene, and the seats of damaged cars were stained with blood.
It was not immediately clear whether anyone from the paramilitary Frontier Corps had been killed. "So far, we have reports that two Frontier Corps soldiers have been injured. We don't know about any other losses," a military official told AFP on condition of anonymity. Gunfire was also heard after the blast. A Bomb Disposal Squad official said 40-50 kilogrammes of explosive was used in the attack. It was not clear whether the bomb exploded remotely or carried by a suicide bomber. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, Gloria slowly backed away from the eight-foot bull frog. If the creature croaked she would surely be deafened... in the northwestern tribal district of South Wazoo, a roadside kaboom killed four people in the main town of Wana, officials said. In the North Waziristan tribal region, another roadside kaboom targeting a security force convoy killed four security officials and maimed 12 in the main town of Mir Ali, military and civilian administration sources told AFP. Speaking in Islamabad, Prime Minister Cameron said the battle against terrorism needed "a tough and uncompromising security response" as well as investment in education and tackling poverty. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... condemned the attack. "Pakistain has suffered the most in terms of human and financial losses. We are, therefore, resolved to tackle the menace of extremism and terrorism with renewed vigour and close cooperation with our friends," he said after his talks with Cameron.
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[NEWS.INVESTORS] Barack Obama I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go... cashiered yet another battle-seasoned American general Tuesday, even as the war in Afghanistan continues along with numerous other serious global threats to United States security.
This is the fourth senior officer Obama has forced from the country's service.
All four were tied somehow to the Afghanistan mess that Obama has long argued was the most important war. Each departure was staged as a resignation. They were usually tied to some personal indiscretions to save face for Obama, who would know of indiscretions as a product of the corrupt reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... Democrat machine.
There was Gen. David McKiernan, the four-star who lead U.S. ground forces during the successful lightning Iraq invasion. He was asked to resign command of allied forces in Afghanistan just four months into Obama's presidency in 2009. Never fully explained, but the implication was administration dissatisfaction with the war's progress.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, a special ops veteran who was McKiernan's successor. He resigned when his staff was quoted making derogatory comments to an embedded journalist about the administration in general and VP Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... in particular. If mocking Megamind Biden is worthy of resignation, then most of America needs to step down by lunch today.
Gen. David Petraeus, the archictect of the surge and successful counter-insurgency strategy in Iraq, was demoted from Central Command to return to lead the Afghan war. After that successful tour Obama named him director of the Central Intelligence Agency, which required his military resignation after nearly four decades of service.
Obama and Biden were too busy to attend the traditional farewell ceremonies for such a general officer across town. But they were willing to let Petraeus take a large part of the fall for their unexplained absences during the 9/11 terror attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi and denied the consulate's repeated pleas for rescue.
Then somehow word got out that Petraeus, regularly rumored as a Republican presidential candidate someday, had an affair with his biographer. He "offered" to resign and, by golly, Obama felt he had to accept.
Now, comes Marine Gen. John Allen, the latest Afghan war commander. He did such a good job in that military quagmire that Obama named him to lead all U.S. and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... forces in Europe. But then somehow word leaked that Allen had engaged in flirtatious e-mail exchanges with a married socialite in Tampa. A Pentagon investigation declined any misconduct charges.
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Post-2015 OWG Amerika has no need of Top Egg Commanders anymore because we no longer have the ability to mobilize for war because all of our jobs + companies are now controlled by overseas foreign Govts-Corporations + OWG Global Fed "Unions" + related.
As per China MilBlogs, PERTS + BLOGGERS = technically, ITO there is no need of China to fight the US - ALL CHINA HAS TO DO IS DEMAND THAT THE US PAYOFF ITS DEBT TO CHINA OR ELSE SURRENDER SOVEREIGN US TERRITORIES + OTHER IN LIEU OF SAME.
WELL THERE YA GO - A FAIR-N-REASONABLE POLITICAL SETTLEMENT WHERE THE US CAN PROUDLY UNILATERALLY SURRENDER LIKE FRANCE, + GIVE UP GUAM-WESTPAC, HAWAII, + POSSIBLY 1/2 [or More?]OF CONUS-NORAM WIDOUT FIRING A SHOT.
Ala "MUNICH II" or "MUNICH 21" [21st Century] ...
> HE KEPT US OUT OF WAR.
> HE KEPT US OUT OF LIMITED OR FULL NUCLEAR WAR.
> HE'S REDUCING THE DEFICIT.
> HE CAN BORROW MORE FROM CHINA TO PAY OUR DEBT [wink-wink] + PAY FOR THE AMERIKAN WAY-OF-LIFE.
Clearly a Bammer 3rd-4th term as POTUS is not enuff a reward for staying handsome in surrender.
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Lest we fergit, "GLOBALISM" + OWG-NWO = "MULTIPOLAR WORLD" where the Superpower USA is just one world nation among nation, + JUST ONE GREAT POWER AMONG MANY INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO "POST-US" WANNABE CHINA + NUCLEAR CALIPHATE.
* RECENT ANTI-DOMA SCOTUS RULING = JUST ANOTHER REASON FOR THE ACLU + DEMOLEFT - YOU KNOW, THE GOP-RIGHT - TO SUPPORT LEGAL SHARIA IN AMERIKA!
Radical Islam's banners will fly over Washington DC + White House, BECAUSE AMERIKA WILL DEMAND IT BE SO.
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Isn't it odd how the latest two were essentially forced by 'leaked' personal information. Leaked from where?
And isn't it odd how the NSA just happens to have been storing private emails, call records, etc...
But I'm sure there isn't any connection. It's not like Obama's from Chicago where such things are common or anything.
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Welcome to the Afghanistan Military Career Ending Roller Coaster, where you can delight in thrills and chills, watch your career rise and quickly fall and be sent into retirement at the end. All brought to you by B.H.O., Proprietor in Chief.
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Dial it in. There were 24 flag officers in the service a year ago (4 stars). Six of them are now out the door. The military is being deliberately decapitated. The remainder are either opportunists or keeping their head down for the good of the troops. Hopefully a few will survive to the end of the Champ's term. Presuming he doesn't finagle a 3rd term . . .
[Al Ahram] Thousands protested in Istanbul's Taksim Square Saturday at what they say is harsh police treatment of anti-government demonstrators, as activists placed press adverts calling on the regime to tone down its rhetoric.
Riot police blocked off the centre of the square, the symbolic heart of the nationwide protest movement, for some two hours as the demonstrators chanted "Government, resign!"
The crowd also denounced the death of a demonstrator in the country's Kurdish-dominated southeast on Friday after soldiers opened fire to disperse villagers protesting against the expansion of an army outpost.
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And international human rights organizations have their back.
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Ms. Burton wears a series of butt-ugly outfits...
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Nyoka the Jungle Girl is a fictional character created for the screen in the 1941 serial Jungle Girl, starring Frances Gifford as Nyoka Meredith. The character of Nyoka is often described as having been created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. But although the serial was officially based on Burroughs' story "Jungle Girl"—which first appeared in the pulp magazine Blue Book and later was published as a novel—there is no character named Nyoka and no Nyoka-like character in the original story.
In 1941,Gifford was loaned to Republic Pictures and cast in the role which would arguably produce her most enduring fame: as the semi-clad Nyoka in Jungle Girl, a 15-chapter movie serial, based very loosely on the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The role was the first time since Pearl White in the silent era that an actress had played the lead in the movie serial genre.
As far as the "Realistic Gorilla", who knows, no face no credits.
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[Pak Daily Times] Three people were bumped off in separate targeted attacks across the city on Sunday, police said.
An activist of Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM) was killed near Sindhi Hotel. New Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Industrial Area police said Abdul Sattar alias Kala, 25, was sitting outside his home, where armed riders shot him dead. They suspected the victim might be killed over political grounds.
Similarly, a worker of Sunni Tehrik ...formed in Karachi in 1992 under by Muhammad Saleem Qadri. It quickly fell to trading fisticuffs and assassinations with the MQM and the Sipah-e-Sahaba, with at least a half dozen of its major leaders rubbed out. Sunni Tehreek arose to become the primary opposition to the Deobandi Binori Mosque, headed by Nizamuddin Shamzai, who was eventually bumped off by person or persons unknown. ST's current leadership has heavily criticized the Deobandi Jihadi leaders, accusing them of being sponsored by Indian Intelligence agencies as well as involvement in terrorist activities... (ST) was rubbed out in Sector 5-J, New Karachi. Bilal Colony police said Asif Qadri, 25, was targeted by armed riders outside his home. The body was shifted to the hospital.
Another man was rubbed out at Chandni Chowk, Azam Basti within the precincts of Mehmoodabad cop shoppe.
Police said the incident took place due to altercation between two neighbours after exchange of harsh words on a petty issue. While three people - Rizwan, Osama and Bilal sustained injuries during baton-charge against their rival group. Police said the victim was identified as Imran Yosuf, 21.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wine tasting, Vince was about to start tasting his third quart... a tortured-mark body of a police head constable , Zahid Shah, 30, was found from Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... River. Pak Colony police said the victim was posted at Garden, and went missing on Tuesday night when he left for home.
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Iranian Foreign Ministry's spokesman Abbas Aragchi confirmed on Sunday the detention of seven Slovak citizens accused of espionage, Mehr News Agency reported.
According to Aragchi, detained Slovak citizens arrived in Iran as tourists and behaved inappropriately. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia has been informed about the detention of its citizens, Araghchi said.
Earlier, head of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi said that the reason for detention was special devices, which were carrying Slovak citizens.
Slovak citizens also visited several strategically important places in Iran, head of the commission added.
On December 2012 Iranian TV has recently aired a documentary titled "Hunter in a Trap", about Iranian intelligence services revealing and capturing CIA spies in the country, the young journalists club website reported. The documentary features a man, who calls himself "Matthew Waluk" from Slovakia, that describes how the operation was set up.
On February 2013 "Matthew Waluk" was released and sent back to Slovakia.
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[Al Ahram] The main opposition coalition group, the National Salvation Front, has issued a "revolutionary statement" to comment on ongoing mass rallies against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's rule.
"In the name of the Egyptian people with all their factions, the National Salvation Front announces public endorsement of the ouster of the regime of Mohamed Morsi and the Moslem Brüderbund," the statement reads.
"The Egyptian population continue their revolution and will impose their will, which has become unequivocally clear in all Egypt's squares.
"The Salvation Front also trusts that the Egyptian people will protect its revolution until peaceful transition of power is fulfilled...we also call on all political forces and all citizens to remain peaceful...and refrain from dealing with the failed Brotherhood government until the fall of this tyrannical organization."
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16 dead in Sunday's protests
At least 16 people died in protests across Egypt on Sunday, including eight in clashes between opponents and supporters of President Mohamed Morsi in Cairo, the health ministry said on Monday.
A further three people died in the central province of Assiut and one in each of the provinces of Fayoum, Beni Sueif and Kafr el-Sheikh.
One protester suffocated to death at the rally outside the presidential palace in Cairo and another died of wounds in the coastal city of Alexandria, the ministry said.
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So, sounds like another Civil War in the mid-east.
Do you think Obamanation will arm the rebels in this one?
Nope me neither. There will be no calls for a no fly zone or arming the peasants here unless the military takes over and drives the MB underground again. THEN Zero will arm the resistance.
[Pak Daily Times] Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain who earlier on Sunday resigned from party leadership and handed authority to the Rabita Committee, retracted his resignation.
"I may not be the chief in the eyes of Britannia, but I am the chief in the eyes of party workers," Altaf said while addressing party workers from London. He had earlier announced that he was voluntarily stepping down as the party chief following a raid at his UK house by the London Metropolitan Police in which several items were seized. The MQM chief said that despite requests to the police, he had not been provided with a list of the seized items.
Altaf said that it is not difficult for the establishment to punish anyone, saying this has been happening all over the world. He claimed that the establishment has maligned him and his party by propagating the perception that his party did not tolerate opponents. Altaf demanded that the agencies operating all over the world should catch the murderers of Dr Imran Farooq. Speaking about Dr Farooq's case, the MQM chief said he had hired a lawyer who was present during the raid, but he had not heard from him since then. "I will represent myself in the case and will accept the court's decision."
Altaf said he is taking back his decision on the strong demand of party workers and supporters. He said that conspiracies were being hatched by the British government to involve him in Dr Farooq murder case and warned London against such steps. "It will be better for Britannia to shun from involving me in this case." He told Britannia not to include his name in the murder case, warning that otherwise it would be harmful for the country where he is living on asylum.
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[An Nahar] Intermittent sniper fire left one person injured in the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... on Sunday, the state-run National News Agency reported.
It said Mohammed Abdo Ibrahim, a resident of the neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen, was maimed in the leg when sniper fire between the area and al-Baqqar broke out.
The attack led to tension in the other trouble spots in the city despite a calm, NNA said.
It also limited traffic in the different areas that regularly witness festivities, the agency added.
The Lebanese army command said a soldier died on Sunday morning after he succumbed to injuries he had sustained in festivities in Tripoli.
It did not specify when he was maimed.
Tripoli regularly suffers from deadly gunbattles linked to the fighting in Syria. The Alawite neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen backs Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... while the mainly Sunni Bab al-Tabbaneh supports the revolution against him.
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[Pak Daily Times] KARACHI: In 2013 till June, around 273 people were kidnapped from various parts of the metropolis and their bodies were later found dumped in gunny bags.
The recovered bodies carried marks of severe torture before they were being shot, tortured to such extent that many of them are still lying unidentified in morgues. Incidents of recovering dead bodies stuffed in gunny bags are increasing day by day, as more than 273 cases have been reported in six months.
Law enforcers believe terrorist elements to be behind unrest in the city, they have been kidnapping people and then dumping their sacked bodies. Police bigwigs report that bully boy wings of the politico-ethnic parties as well as some autonomous criminal groups have established short term torture cells and are behind killings incidents of kidnapped people.
Law enforcement agencies (LEAs) are worried about rise in the incidents of recovering sacked bodies, and are unable to take stern action due to political influence. They believe that discovering of dead bodies is a number game between rival groups, who are bent on creating terror and panic among rival groups, LEAs and the citizens.
An official, wishing to remain anonymous, informed that most sacked bodies were dumped or thrown after 24 hours of kidnapping. Some bodies were found after two-to-five days, while few were discovered shortly after kidnapping, he said.
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kids: don't play with gunnie sacks. Apparently they're deadly
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"Two-hundred and seventy three dead, Inspector. Whatever shall we do?"
"The bodies were all found in gunny sacks, no? Then arrest all the gunny sack vendors."
[An Nahar] Sudan's former leader Sadiq al-Mahdi held an unusual show of force on Saturday, telling thousands of followers that the regime of President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. has to go, 24 years after it toppled Mahdi.
"From today, we will sign on to the ticket of liberation to have a new regime," Mahdi told his faithful gathered on a sandy outdoor square in Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman.
"We will do this through peaceful sit-ins," said the chief of the opposition Umma Party. "And now we call for the regime to go."
Mahdi, prime minister of a coalition government formed after elections in 1986, was toppled in a bloodless Islamist-backed coup led by Bashir on June 30, 1989.
The Umma leader normally addresses his faithful before the Musselmen fasting month of Ramadan, which this year begins in about 10 days.
But Saturday's rally was unusually large and comes during an opposition campaign to peacefully unseat the regime which is battling economic difficulties, armed rebellions in parts of the country, and internal dissension.
Mahdi is the great grandson of a Musselmen religious leader known as the Mahdi whose forces defeated the British at Khartoum in 1885.
Saturday's rally took place across from the Mahdi's tomb.
Policemen in helmets, some carrying shields, stood every few meters along a wall surrounding the field.
Riot police trucks and plainclothes security agents were stationed across from the rally site but did not intervene.
Buses parked near the field carried banners identifying the outlying states from where they had come with Mahdi's partisans.
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[Al Ahram] Several hundred people who had fled the 2011 Libya conflict refused Sunday to leave the Choucha refugee camp in southern Tunisia, which was due to be shut, blocking attempts to dismantle their tents, an AFP journalist reported.
It's worked for the Paleostinians...
But this lot, unfortunately for their near-term prospects, are not Palestinians. Later they will have reason to be grateful for this little fact.
The UN's refugee agency UNHCR
...who are grateful for the work...
said in March that it would close the camp on Sunday. Choucha opened in early 2011 to shelter those fleeing the conflict that toppled Libya's former dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later...
Water and electricity supplies to the camp have been cut, but its remaining residents, mostly sub-Saharan Africans, are blocking any attempts to take their tents down, the AFP journalist reported.
Mohammed Taher, a 33-year-old Sudanese resident of the camp, said he was determined to stay in Choucha in spite of its closure.
"We refuse to leave, and even if the Tunisian authorities are going to take down our tents, we will sleep under the stars," he said.
He said the Tunisian government had made lots of promises to the refugees at Choucha which it had not kept.
Khaled Moujib, a Paleostinian living in Choucha, also charged that the government was doing little to help their situation.
"We are being held hostage by the Tunisian authorities, who refuse to legalise our situation," he said. "We do not want to be integrated into a Tunisia that does not have a law to protect refugees."
Paul Constant, 39, from Ivory Coast said he would leave the camp immediately if he was offered residency in Tunisia.
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[Al Ahram] Around 500 people gathered near the Moslem Brüderbund's headquarters in Cairo's Moqattam district, hurling Molotov cocktails and stones at the building, state news agency MENA reported Sunday evening, quoting eyewitness as saying they had heard shots during the melee.
Television channels aired images of parts of the building exterior in flames.
A bigwig of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), Gehad El-Haddad, lamented the attack on Twitter.
"No police on scene yet in Moqattam. Security is dealing w/ attacking thugs. They were joined by others wearing Black Bloc uniform w/ firearms," he asserted.
A number of offices belonging to the Brotherhood and the FJP, the group's political arm, have been attacked in recent days.
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Huge protests calling for the resignation of Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi and early presidential elections are taking place in the capital, Cairo, and other cities.
Tens of thousands of opponents have massed in Tahrir Square and outside Cairo's main presidential palace.
Four people died in violent incidents in provincial cities.
In Cairo, stones and petrol bombs were thrown at the headquarters of the ruling Muslim Brotherhood.
Protest leaders have called on demonstrators to stay on the streets until Mr Morsi resigns. They accuse the country's first Islamist president of failing to tackle economic and security problems since taking power a year ago.
A presidential spokesman urged the protesters to respect the democratic process while Morsi supporters massed in the Cairo suburb of Nasr City.
One clear achievement of the protesters has been to get so many people out on to the streets, BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen reports from Cairo. The question they face now is how to fashion a political strategy that can rival the organisation of the Muslim Brotherhood, he says.
Another big question, he adds, is what the army will do. The minister of defence has warned that the military may intervene if Egypt becomes ungovernable.
One man was killed and at least 24 injured in Beni Suef, 115km (71 miles) south of Cairo, security sources said. According to a report on the Ahram news website, Morsi supporters attacked an opposition rally and unidentified gunmen opened fire. The report could not be confirmed independently.
In the southern city of Assiut, three people died and several were injured when shots were fired at protesters, reportedly by attackers on a motorcycle.
According to the health ministry, 253 people were injured across the country during Sunday's protests.
In Cairo, unidentified persons attacked the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters, which had been fortified with sandbags earlier. Staff inside said they had not broken in, Reuters news agency reports.
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Well, looks like a bit more than "tens of thousands".
They can't count, and yet lecture on the "science" of global warming?
[Al Ahram] Iraqi Kurdish politicians agreed on Sunday to delay controversial presidential polls for two years as they sparred over whether to allow regional leader Massud Barzani to stand for another term in power.
Parliamentary and provincial elections due September 21 will go ahead as planned, but the delay to the presidential polls are the latest step in a months-long battle between the two regional hegemons and opposition parties over whether Barzani, the dominant figure in the autonomous three-province region, can remain in office.
The opposition argues Barzani has served the maximum-allowable two terms in office, but the dominant Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and its smaller partner the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) have pushed for a referendum on a new constitution which would, if approved, allow him to serve up to two more.
On Sunday, the standoff reached a head, with opposition politicians throwing water bottles and fistfights breaking out in the Kurdish regional parliament, before a delay to the presidential elections was eventually approved.
"The Kurdish parliament approved delaying presidential elections for two years," said Omar Sadiq, an MP loyal to Barzani's KDP. "The election on September 21 will be for parliament and the provincial councils only."
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[An Nahar] Hizbullah deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... accused al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... movement on Sunday of standing behind the latest festivities that left scores of casualties in the southern city of Sidon.
"Hadn't been for al-Mustaqbal ... civil peace and stability wouldn't have been hit hard" in Sidon, he said.
Around 18 soldiers and more than 20 fighters were killed in two days of festivities between Salafist holy man Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir's supporters and the army last Sunday.
The fighting in Abra outside Sidon was the worst in Leb since the outbreak of conflict in neighboring Syria 27 months ago deepened sectarian tensions.
Asir, a staunch anti-Hizbullah sheikh, himself has not been seen since the fighting along with Fadel Shaker, a once-prominent singer-turned Salafist.
Qassem said "the instigation against the army and the encouragement of strife led to Sidon's kaboom."
"The incidents proved that instigation leads to more troubles and harms the instigators more than anyone else," he said in reference to al-Mustaqbal.
Qassem reiterated the call for the formation of a national unity government that works for the consolidation of civil peace and stability based on the army-people-resistance formula.
"We don't want exceptional gains, we want national partnership," he said, adding "we don't want to isolate anyone and the other way around."
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The people in Cairo march against Morsi. Not only do the people hate Morsi, they're not fond of Champ and Ambassador Anne Patterson. Hat tip to the Instapundit.
The deuce you say!
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Soon to be exile to Elba [or pine box] time for brother Morsi. I believe the army is away at summer maneuvers.
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IN SEARCH OF CHEAP HELP: The Hill: Silicon Valley prepares to push House toward immigration reform. I was talking a few weeks ago to a friend who chares an IEEE chapter in Silicon Valley. He says they bring over Chinese coders, pay them $500/month and put them in corporate apartments with a van that goes back and forth to the office, then send them back to China after a year. But they donate to Democrats, so there's not much press scrutiny.
#3
H1B for software needs to be completely terminated. Hell, H1B itself needs to be completely terminated. If we need technical expertise, then give them a damn green card, or other form of unrestricted work permit. If we truly are shot of a skill set, we need them, let them compete fairly and openly - instead of the H1B way, which is basically an indentured servant, wage slave who must work whatever his sponsor says or be sent home.
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That's old school Thing. Used to read Computerworld with the want ads in the back. Whole page columns of prerequisites that no one on the planet had. Just an excuse to get one of these visas. No one ever checked up whether the foreign hire had the qualifications posted in the scam. Kids bright enough to get an IEEE type degree were also smart enough to know that after investing the time and accumulating the debt for the degrees, they would face competition with one of these visa holders who were not free agents but indentured servants, with matching pay. Why waste your time? We killed 'growing our own' for over two decades now by this program.
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Yeah P2K, this sounds like a bad deal for the educated youth of America, but I have got to remember, they have overwhelmingly voted for the Democratic Party and the economic policies that party represents. Well, maybe these educated American youth can become English teachers and teach the Chinese workers a thing or two.
I call shenanigans. H1B requires that the employers pay "minimum wage or prevailing wage." This is part of the application itself, and if someone is lying or not paying what they said they would it is not an H1B problem -- it is a criminal problem.
I am personally a fan of H1Bs. It's a great way to cherry pick other nations of some of their best and brightest, and get those people working for us. Many do wind up with green cards.
In Silicon Valley over HALF of new companies are started by foreign-born entrepreneurs. We want these people here.
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You miss out about free agents. They can negotiate wages. If they get a better offer, they take it and move on. Employers don't like that. If they have a 'lock' on the employee, he's not a free agent to negotiate his wages at will. Technically, they can do that with a contract, but it then obligates the employer as well as the employee to the salary. From the bean counters point of view, that shifts the labor from asset to liability. With a 'indentured' employee, that means obligation upon the employees part, but not on the employers part. He can't take a better offer but the employer has the ability to terminate his visa at will.
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H1Bs aren't as locked in as you may think. They can and do switch jobs. There is no restriction on their securing new employment. There just can't be a break in between.
It's actually pretty remarkable how familiar foreign nationals are with our immigration laws. So long as this is a land of economic freedom and opportunity, high performers will want to come here. Smart, highly motivated people who want something tend to be exceptionally well informed. The idea of dumb coolies working in caves, eating dog food and sleeping on cardboard is a union construct -- i.e. ad campaign of people who want to protect highly subsidized jobs and a source of mandatory political contributions.
Policing may be bad, but again, that's not an H1B problem.
I call shenanigans. H1B requires that the employers pay "minimum wage or prevailing wage." This is part of the application itself, and if someone is lying or not paying what they said they would it is not an H1B problem -- it is a criminal problem.
Except they're used for jobs that pay many, many times more than minimum wage. And "prevailing wage" is a term, AFAIK, that applies to union wages, not professional salaries.
I am personally a fan of H1Bs. It's a great way to cherry pick other nations of some of their best and brightest, and get those people working for us.
While leaving OUR best and brightest unemployed.
No thanks.
It's actually pretty remarkable how familiar foreign nationals are with our immigration laws.
So what? I'm sure drug smugglers are familiar with our customs regulations, too.
So long as this is a land of economic freedom and opportunity, high performers will want to come here.
So why does the government subsidize them? Let them come in through the same line as everyone else.
I'd be THRILLED if we shifted our immigration policies to favor skilled people and booted the day laborers. Instead, we let the illegal day laborers stay while subsidizing the importation of (supposedly) skilled labor. Seems like the government wants to squeeze Americans out of the job market...
(Which, with Obamacare and the latest Amnesty bill, they clearly do.)
people who want to protect highly subsidized jobs and a source of mandatory political contributions
Such as the companies who use H1B visas rather than pay citizens (who might desire things like "vacation" and "time for family") to do the work.
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Keep the cap, let the H1B be a free agent with card four months after arrival in the US and make the company go back through the process again, see how long the program is still lobbied for.
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My response is quite simple. I don't care if there is a heaven but I pray there is a hell for people like the supporters of H1B.
You ruined the end years of my life and millions of others. Seem that justice would require your afterlife in hell.
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I'm a little surprised at the reaction, but this is no time to go wobbly.
"Minimum wage or prevailing wage" is poorly worded. Here's the text from USCIS: "Employers affirm in the labor condition application that the wage offered to the applicant is at least as high as that paid by the employer [to its other employees] for the same type of job, and the number equals or exceeds the prevailing wage for the job in the same geographical area."
But you didn't know that RC. You just flamed me thinking it is legal to pay an H1B worker $7.25/hr. H1B program is NOT a way to save money on wages, especially with the extra legal costs.
Seriously, ask yourselves why employers are willing to spend months and/or years bringing people from overseas when they no longer pay relocation within the US for most positions. Hint -- it's not the cost.
H1B workers are not day laborers. They have to have a 4 year degree or higher. They primarily work in high tech, one of the few industries in which the US continue to lead the world.
And it is illegal to treat your H1B employees differently than your w-2 employees. If your w-2 Americans are getting 2 weeks vacation then so do your H1Bs. They also get all the federal and state employment goodies like family leave.
So, repeat after me. It's not about cost. It's not a way to get slaves. It's not for people who make minimum wage. It's not for unskilled laborers. These are educated people paid good money because they have highly sought after skills. Want to put up a wall along our southern border? So do I! Want to deport people here illegally. So do I! But I would also keep the H1B program.
Respectfully Iblis, that really has to be the minority view of minority views. Does your "hint" also apply to the Delta Airline sales representative that answers my call from her phone shop in Bombay, or the SW development office [which will remain unnamed] on the north side of Atlanta which is scheduled to outsource it's entire developmental activity to Asia in January, 2015 ?
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So what's the H1B worker gonna do when he finds out he's classified as one kind of low paid worker and doing the work of another higher paid classification? What's he gonna do when he finds out his employer lied and just plain isn't paying what was promised? Forget what happens to the employer because it ain't gonna happen because if the worker loses his job he loses his visa and he goes back to Bangalore. He's not gonna say a thing. And it's no joke about advertising for skill sets that nobody has in this country and then using the resulting lack of applicants as an excuse to get an H1B visa. This a SCAM.
It's just like when Bush said we need illegal aliens to do the work that Americans won't do. The truth is American workers need not apply for the kind of entry level jobs that American teenagers used to get as their first rung on the economic ladder. It's easier and cheaper for the employers to hire the "immigrants".
You wanna end up living in a United States where we have a billion people just like India and China just because lettuce growers and sleazoid Silicon Valley "entrepreneurs" wanna cut corners? I don't.
Don't mind being in the minority, so long as I'm right.
I have personally been involved in the hiring of dozens of foreign workers, including H1Bs. Not once was it done for cost reasons. In fact, more often than not there was genuine regret that we couldn't find anyone local.
The call center people you reference are low end employees. Not one of them, not even their managers, could come over as an H1B. Apples and oranges.
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At the end of the day, nearly everything done in the business world is done as a result of some form of cost-benefit analysis, ie, "cost reasons", and this is not a minority view,
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Iblis give me an email. I will send you a resume and then you can explain how I am not qualified for jobs in the USA and how some foreign workers are.
Don't forget to disparage my patents and published papers either.
Just look at the sport entertainment business. When free agency hit, salaries went up. There was always high school and college sports, but it all took a hard turn to careerism when the price went up. Colleges and universities opted to become minor league training systems for the pros. Big money, big incentive. Lots of recruits.
Now imagine if free agency was stopped. That the business could control their labor market by flooding the market with 'other talent'. Suddenly the incentive to put all those resources into the programs and recruit starts to slide.
I've watched this since the 80s. It has created disincentives to go into the fields. Business wants unlimited labor - keeps it relatively cheap to what it would be in scarcity. Simple economics.
And I've heard the argument they could take it overseas - except they understand the cost of doing business with vibrant corruption and running afoul of local foreign laws which mean they personally could be unable to leave the country if they ever step foot there because of some infraction.
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"Employers affirm ... that the wage offered to the applicant is at least as high as that paid by the employer [to its other employees] for the same type of job,
The way this worked at Enron was we hired Indian and Chinese nationals as junior software developers when they all had the chops to fill a senior spot. They got a job, we saved money. Hey, we were masters of playing by (and with) the rules!
#24
I will take every damn H1B eligible person in the world over what we are getting now. What moron decided we could only take in tens of thousands of people who can program your lawn mower while de-facto bringing in hundreds of thousands to use your lawn mower.
And anyone who is whining that these H1B people keep programmer's wages lower than they could be, can bite my lily white a$$, because the vastly more low skilled immigrants the "high-skilled" hire to do service work have already destroyed the wages of everyone else.
Using Government power to keep sucking your thumb in a comfy corner of the economy isn't working in Egypt, Turkey, Brazil, China, Greece, Italy, or France. Don't expect it to work in the U. S. of A. either.
We must let as many of these these people in as we can persuade to come, and get them green cards, and let them start families, and join the American experiment.
#25
Sure, I remember the H1bs. Dozens.
A contracting firm builds a pool and negotiates a rate with them they could never find on their own. The firm then negotiates a contract pay rate with an employer that is 'equivalent' to direct hires. The private contract rate between the firm and the individual is never exposed and IS NOT REGULATED by DoL. The employer pays and reports the going rate, the firm pays the people less and the difference gets skimmed by both parties. One in three are good enough to carry the other two, who are paid an even lower rate. They are incentivized to get the work done by the threat of all three losing their jobs. So they work longer, billable hours than direct employees.
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H1Bs are drones, not entrepreneurs. Java monkeys with at most 4 years of experience.
The evidence is overwhelming: this is an indentured servant program designed to shave 20% or more off the cost of mud- and low-level production employees.
[Al Ahram] Egypt's Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya issued a statement on Sunday afternoon stressing its commitment to peaceful protests in support of the president's democratic legitimacy, as its members join the hundreds of thousands protesting outside the Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque in Cairo's Nasr city.
The group added that it had not ordered any of its members to carry weapons.
The statement went on to accuse the media of anti-Islamist bias, asserting that Egypt's mainstream media ignored crimes committed by the opposition and violations by police against bearded men.
"The continuous attack on bearded men on public transport might compel some to carry tools for self defence," the statement added.
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For a given value of peace that means being Pakistan's sock puppet under the rule of the latest incarnation of the ISI-owned Taliban...
Pakistan assured Britain's visiting prime minister on Sunday that it would promote peace efforts in neighbouring Afghanistan as the West pushes for talks with the Taleban ahead of NATO's withdrawal.
David Cameron's two-day visit to Afghanistan and Pakistan was part of a Western push to end a 12-year Taleban insurgency after recent efforts to start peace talks collapsed in ignominy over the manner in which the militants opened an office in Qatar on June 18.
The West considers Pakistani support vital to any peace deal in Afghanistan although relations between Kabul and Islamabad are traditionally mired in distrust.
Can't imagine why...
Apparent headway between Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Afghan leader Hamid Karzai at a summit hosted by Cameron in February has since unravelled in a series of public rows.
'We hope that the UK will continue these efforts to seek sustainable peace and stability in Afghanistan,' said new Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after meeting Cameron.
He echoed Karzai's position that any peace process should be 'Afghan-owned and Afghan-led'. Karzai is hostile to any contacts with the Taleban that sidestep his administration in Kabul.
'I have assured Prime Minister Cameron of our firm resolve to promote the shared objective of a peaceful and stable Afghanistan, to which the three million Afghan refugees currently living in Pakistan can return with honour and dignity,' said Sharif.
Cameron said he welcomed Sharif's remarks about the 'vital importance of the relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan'.
'I profoundly believe that a stable, prosperous, peaceful, democratic Afghanistan is in Pakistan's interest, just as a strong, stable, peaceful, prosperous and democratic Pakistan is in Afghanistan's interest, and I know that you and President Karzai will work together towards those ends,' Cameron said.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Pak Daily Times] GILGIT: Security forces have arrested a key suspect of the Nanga Parbat killings, eight days after the tragic incident. According to reports, the accused, identified as Shifa, was arrested from Chilas on Saturday night. Senior officials said that they have accelerated the search for the remaining 15 terrorists who they believe to be still hiding in Diamer.
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[Al Ahram] 24:20 That's all for tonight. Today saw unprecedented numbers take to the streets all over Egypt, calling for Morsi to resign. It's hard to estimate numbers, but it's clear that 30 June has been bigger than anyone predicted.
[An Nahar] The agency in charge of website addresses passed a major milestone Friday on the path to broadening the world of domain names by the end of this year.
MOGADISHU - Al Shabaab militant group in Somalia has publicly admitted killing two senior officials, underscoring the growing violent dispute within the militant group, Garowe Online reports.
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Iranian Foreign Ministry's spokesman Abbas Aragchi confirmed on Sunday the detention of seven Slovak citizens accused of espionage, Mehr News Agency reported.
[Al Ahram] The main opposition coalition group, the National Salvation Front, has issued a "revolutionary statement" to comment on ongoing mass rallies against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's rule.
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