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Look for everything to cost much more next several months also. What I find so disagreeable is everyone is working us over to get as much as they can out of us. Say you have a contract for trash pickup. They can up your cost because of a fuel surcharge. Then when fuel goes down you get no reduction. Over billing also. Many more examples I am certain.
The right wing has lost the election of 2012. I'm OK with that, as long as Obama and the left wing loses. It'll be a whale of a lot easier to rebuild with Mitt in the White House.
The evidence for this is overwhelming, yet it is the year's best-kept secret. Mitt Romney would not be throwing virtually all of his past positions overboard if he thought the nation were ready to endorse the full-throated conservatism he embraced to win the Republican nomination. Maybe he learned something from the "Smartest President Ever' - get elected first.
The right is going along because its partisans know Romney has no other option. This, too, is an acknowledgment of defeat, a recognition that the grand ideological experiment heralded by the rise of the tea party has gained no traction. It also means that conservatives don't believe that Romney really believes the moderate mush he's putting forward now. Not to put too fine a point on it, but if the conservatives are forgiving Romney because they think he is lying, what should the rest of us think? The rest of you should think he is more interested in progress than ideological stalemate.
It turns out that there was no profound ideological conversion of the country two years ago. We remain the same moderate and practical country we have long been. In 2010, voters were upset about the economy, Democrats were demobilized, and President Obama wasn't yet ready to fight. All the conservatives have left now is economic unease. So they don't care what Romney says. They are happy to march under a false flag if that is the price of capturing power. Didn't that happen four years ago?
Romney knows that, by substantial margins inside the Beltway, the country favors raising taxes on the rich and opposes slashing many government programs, including Medicare and Social Security. Since Romney's actual plan calls for cutting taxes on the rich, he has to disguise the fact. Where is the conviction?
The biggest sign that tea party thinking is dead is Romney's straight-out deception about his past position on the rescue of the auto industry.
"Ideas have consequences" is one of the conservative movement's most honored slogans. That the conservatives' standard-bearer is now trying to escape the consequences of their ideas tells us all we need to know about who is winning the philosophical battle -- and, because ideas do matter, who will win the election. And now, left E. J. Dionne embraces the conservative movement's most honored slogans. What shall we think of him?
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EJ is always telling us what we think, feel, and how we should behave. F&ck him. Better yet, surprise him November 6th
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Simple calculation is whether Mitt gets more from all the new Tea Party backed Congresscritters or making deals with the people who had control of both houses and the WH four years ago and blew it.
Pipeline developer TransCanada's Gulf Coast project has been dogged by protesters in east Texas but its progress in Oklahoma has been slowed by concerns about the American burying beetle. I was just worring about them the other night. Kept me awake, it did!
Some of the endangered insect's habitat is along the route of the $2.3 billion pipeline being built from the crude oil storage hub at Cushing to refineries in the Houston area. The American burying beetle has been a troublesome issue for oil and gas companies in Oklahoma for more than a decade. Since it was declared endangered.
Goulet said crews are making steady progress, and is expected to be finished by late next year, despite protests in east Texas.
Members of the Tar Sands Blockade have spent almost a month in a "tree village" near Winnsboro, Texas, to protest the project. Protesters contend the pipeline and "dirty" oil from Canada's tar sands could cause irreparable damage to the environment if it is allowed to proceed.
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Well look on the other side of the coin, by proceeding with the pipeline, that is digging up the ground and burying the pipeline, we are encouraging the burrowing beetles, to go for the gold and dig deeper.
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Bury the swampies next to the beetles.
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You know extinction is a perfectly natural process of evolution and species which are on the verge of extinction are usually in that condition for a reason. Over-specialization for example.
Seems to me the burrowing beetle is one such species and should be allowed to follow the natural course and die out.
The New York Times Co reported worse-than-expected results on Thursday as advertisers cut spending on both print and digital outlets, sending shares down 12 percent.
The newspaper company said that revenue was up almost 1 percent to $449 million. Still, the result missed the analysts' consensus estimate of $479.23 million, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Adjusting for severance costs and other special items, the company reported a quarterly loss of 1 cent per share, well below expectations of earnings of 8 cents per share.
The slight uptick in revenue was due to a 7.4 percent rise in circulation revenue helped by the company's digital subscription plans. But as the company tries to rely more on circulation for its revenue, advertising sales are in a persistent slump.
"It wasn't a nice quarter on revenue," said Edward Atorino, an analyst with Benchmark Co. "The advertising numbers look terrible. I thought they might do a little better. They are caught up in the downslide like everybody else."
The stock dropped 12 percent to $9.37 in morning trade.
Mr. Slim, Mr. Carlos Slim to the red courtesy phone...
Digital ad revenue, which has been a bright spot for the company, fell 2.2 percent.
The company attributed the declines to the "challenging economic environment, ongoing secular trends and an increasingly complex and fragmented digital advertising marketplace."
And the fact that they cater to a 'more selective' audience these days...
Advertising revenue at The New York Times newspaper depends largely on national accounts from sectors like telecommunications and technology that use the daily to reach people across the United States.
The trend of declining national ad revenue was apparent at Gannett Co, the largest newspaper chain in the United States, and its national newspaper USA Today, a competitor to the Times. While Gannett turned in better-than-expected results last week, national advertising, primarily through USA Today, was down almost 8 percent at its U.S. newspapers.
The clampdown by advertisers is expected at the New York Times into the next quarter - typically the strongest one for the newspaper industry as it's buoyed by holiday spending.
The company said it expects the same advertising trends in the fourth quarter as the third period.
Once a sprawling media conglomerate, The New York Times has bled barrels of red ink tightened its focus and shed assets. Over the past year, it sold a group of newspapers in the U.S. Southeast and in California, digital property About Group and stakes in sports ventures including the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool Soccer Club. It is now down to a handful of newspapers, including its flagship, the Boston Globe, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette and the International Herald Tribune.
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When a campaign goes down to this level, it has lost and it knows it. Obama is desperately trying to be one of the cool kids and throw playground insults at his opponent. He is toast and he knows it.
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The Downfall video of his discussion with Axelrod, Plouffe, and Messina must be in the final stages. I can't wait to see hwat Stephanie Cutter says to Michelle.
Bullshit (also bullcrap) is a common English expletive which may be shortened to the euphemism bull or the initialism BS. In British English, "bollocks" is a comparable expletive, although bullshit is commonly used in British English. It is a slang profanity term meaning "nonsense", especially in a rebuking response to communication or actions viewed as deceiving, misleading, disingenuous or false. As with many expletives, the term can be used as an interjection or as many other parts of speech, and can carry a wide variety of meanings.
It can be used either as a noun or as a verb. While the word is generally used in a deprecating sense, it may imply a measure of respect for language skills, or frivolity, among various other benign usages. In philosophy, Harry Frankfurt, among others, analyzed the concept of bullshit as related to but distinct from lying.
Outside of the philosophical and discursive studies, the everyday phrase bullshit conveys a measure of dissatisfaction with something or someone, but does not generally describe any role of truth in the matter.
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Once again, this Chump defines everything down. The presidency, the US, democracy, this campaign. What's left?
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He's losing and he half-knows it, but he can't believe it.
He's way too cool and too masculine for that older white guy to do this to him. Time to get out the even bigger Chicago guns, do a few driveby record unsealings and pop a cap into that Mormon's image. The damned guy's so old/uncool he doesn't even have scandals to exploit. Gotta be able to work that theme with Leno.
Time to turn the snark up to 11 and bring out the Hollywood Honeys to get the kids out to vote.
Aw hell, time to make up votes and get them into the system stat. What the hell did you think we passed early voting for, anyway?
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Timing may be a factor with these escapades. Early voting is already underway in many swing states. Hell, I voted last week. Wonder how many useful idiots wish they could change their vote now?
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You all still do not get it. The original interview was conducted in Rennaissance Florentine, this is the translation into Iowan so you backyard peckerwoods can understand it.
Ay Pee
Two hours after the U.S. Consulate came under attack in Benghazi, Libya, the White House was told that a militant group was claiming responsibility for the violence that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that the State Department emails do not tell the whole story. As reporters, you understand how TrueFacts must be molded and shaped into GoodFacts.
Clinton told reporters that the claim of responsibility noted by department officials was posted on Facebook and "is not in and of itself evidence." Actually, I am pretty sure it is a piece of evidence. The Secretary probably meant it was not the only bit of evidence, or perhaps she was confusing "evidence" with "proof". What sort of grades did she get in science and math? Did she pass geometry, which included a lot of proofs?
She cautioned against "cherry picking one story here or one document there" and said it is critical to look at the totality of information before coming to any conclusions. So why is the totality of information dribbled out over weeks? Besides, cherry-picking is how you generate GoodFacts. Every reporter knows that!
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She cautioned against "cherry picking one story here or one document there" and said it is critical to look at the totality of information before coming to any conclusions.
Please then, provide the "totality of information" as quickly as possible.
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Cherry picking news? Then of course, there are the false narratives too, eh Hilly? What about the poor shlump who is still in jail who allegedly made the trailer that inflamed the muslim world?
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Romney does better in muslim world than he does in Europe. Perhaps Al Jazeera is less dishonestvthan the European media.
World thinks they should get a vote because USA economy effects everyone and then they favor Obama just goes to show the world doesnt know squat about economics.
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What the Euro Nation may not realize, is that after the election Barry would not need to prop them up, in fact may sabotage them for better relations with Russia and Turkey. But hey, have to flamethrower the coop to make a quiche.
Military officials said they were investigating the deaths amid conflicting reports of what had happened and "a very confusing picture on the ground".
The Marine, from 40 Commando, and the soldier, understood to be a woman aged 25 from 3 Medical Regiment, were initially believed to have been shot dead by Taliban insurgents while on patrol in Nahr-e Saraj district.
However there were other reports they may have been killed by an Afghan policeman or soldier in an insider attack. Meanwhile, an Afghan police official said that the deaths were believed to have been caused by friendly fire when a British unit fired on another in a case of mistaken identity.
A spokesman for British troops in Helmand said the two "died from injuries sustained whilst on patrol in the Nahr-e Saraj district".
One Greek official said the troika would need to back down over demands for tough labour laws or risk a political revolt.
"Even if the troika give us a negative report, what are they going to do? Are they really going to not give us the instalment [to keep Greece's economy afloat] two weeks before the US elections, with everything that entails -- default, bankruptcy, global market turmoil?" he asked.
"These labour reforms will turn our country into Bangladesh. They have no fiscal benefit and will actually derail the adjustment programme. The political system will collapse if we impose them.
"The troika is demanding that we commit suicide, which is why we believe this is a matter that should be solved on a political level by the prime minister and not with the troika."
Why don't you solve your problems instead of wringing your hands and demanding that other people give you money?
Stournaras was forced into his U-turn after the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, told reporters in Berlin that a deal would be impossible until the troika concluded its report.
Schäuble, who is a key architect of the austerity measures dominating Europe's economic landscape, warned that the eurozone's finance ministers must also read the report before agreeing to the two-year loan extension called for by the Greek government.
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The explicit appeal to the US elections must mean something. However, divining that meaning would involve extensive emulation of the Euro-Greek mind. Since I prefer to live the rest of my life with my mind as undiminshed as possible, I will pass on this task and leave it to others with a stronger constitution.
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Chaos (Greek ÏÎ¬Î¿Ï khaos) refers to the formless or void state preceding the creation of the universe or cosmos in the Greek creation myths, more specifically the initial "gap" created by the original separation of heaven and earth.
A Minneapolis man described in recent court testimony as a key terrorist recruiter was jailed Wednesday amid disclosure that another young Twin Cities man appears to have returned to Somalia to fight with Al-Shabab, a U.S. designated terrorist group.
A federal judge revoked the bond Wednesday for Omer Abdi Mohamed after federal authorities discovered that he was serving as a "parent liaison" at a private nonprofit school that offers after-school programs on the Qur'an, the Arabic language and general studies homework.
Mohamed had been identified by four witnesses during a related trial this month as a key figure helping recruit young Minnesota men for a holy war in their native Somalia in 2007.
Mohamed himself didn't testify in that case, which focused on a part-time janitor at a Minneapolis mosque who was convicted of five counts related to terrorism. Mohamed had faced similar charges -- and possibly life in prison -- but he cut a deal in July 2011 allowing him to plead guilty to one conspiracy count, which carries a maximum term of 15 years. He'd been free on bond since.
Chief U.S. District Judge Michael Davis ordered him taken into custody after hearing from a probation officer and an FBI agent about Mohamed's activities at the school. Davis, who presided over the trial of Mahamud Said Omar this month, said it was clear that Mohamed had been a leader in the initial 2007 exodus of more than 20 Minnesota immigrants who returned to Somali to fight with Al-Shabab.
The trial, Davis said, laid bare "the web that has been weaved in dealing with the secret indoctrination" by terrorists of young Minnesota recruits.
The pipeline apparently continues.
Uri Rosenwald, an FBI agent assigned to the Minnesota Joint Terrorism Task Force, revealed details about two men believed to have left Minneapolis for Somalia on July 18. Like most of the Al-Shabab recruits described in the trial this month, the pair left the Twin Cities on the same day and both later failed to use their return tickets.
One of the men, Mohamed Osman, 19, had reportedly attended the school, Essential Learning of Minnesota Institute (ELMI) at 31st and Lake Streets, for three months. He also had worshipped at the Abubakar As-Siddique Islamic Center until a couple of months before he left, when he switched to a mosque in the Karmel Mall in south Minneapolis, Rosenwald said.
Mohamed also had worshipped at Abubakar when the first wave of recruits began leaving in August 2007. He moved his residence in May to a place across the street from the Karmel Mall and worships at a mosque there, his probation officer said.
An "adult" associated with the school reported to the FBI that Omar A. Farah, 20, also had left to join Al-Shabab. Farah reportedly called the adult and told him he was in Marka, Somalia, "the area where people kill people," Rosenwald recounted. The adult then mentioned Al-Shabab, he said, and Farah replied, "I am with them."
Much of Rosenwald's testimony was based on FBI interviews with a half-dozen unidentified adults, including the parents of children who attended ELMI.
Palestinian militants held fire overnight on Thursday and Israel refrained from air strikes as an informal truce brokered by Egypt appeared to take hold following two days of violence along the Israel-Gaza border.
Palestinians had launched dozens of rockets into Israel over the preceding two days and Israel conducted a number of air raids on the coastal enclave, raising fears of a prolonged, bloody confrontation between the two sides.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said the last known rocket was fired from Gaza on Wednesday at 8.00 p.m. (2 p.m. EDT).
An Israeli defense official said no formal agreement had been reached with Hamas, the Islamist faction which controls the Gaza Strip, although Egyptian defense officials had been instrumental in restoring calm.
"The Egyptians have a very impressive ability to articulate to (Hamas) that its primary interest is not to attack and use terror against Israel or other targets," Israeli defense official Amos Gilad told Israeli Army Radio.
But he added that there was no direct agreement with the Islamist faction which refuses to recognize the Jewish state and calls for its destruction.
"It can be said categorically that there is no agreement with Hamas, there has never been and there will never be. ... The only thing that has been set and said is that there will be calm. We are not interested in an escalation," Gilad added.
On Wednesday, Israel killed a Hamas militant in an air strike which it said was intended to stop rocket launches. On Tuesday, Israel killed three Hamas men, saying they had either launched attacks or were about to do so.
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A North Korean army minister was reportedly executed with a mortar round for drinking and carousing during the official mourning period after the death of Kim Jong-il.
That'll cure a hangover...
Kim Chol, the vice-minister of the army, was taken into custody earlier this year on the orders of Fat Boy Kim Jong-un, who assumed the leadership after his father died in December. On the orders of Mr Kim to leave "no trace of him behind, down to his hair", Kim Chol was forced to stand on a spot that had been zeroed in for a mortar round and was "obliterated", South Korean media reported.
The execution is just one example of a purge of members of the North Korean military or party who threatened the fledgling regime of Chubby Mr Kim.
So far this year, 14 senior officials have fallen victim to the purges, according to intelligence data provided to Yoon Sang-hyun, a member of the South Korean foreign affairs, trade and unification committee. Those that have fallen from favour include Ri Yong-ho, the head of the army, and Ri Kwang-gon, the governor of the North Korean central bank.
Analysts suggest Pudgy Mr Kim is acting to consolidate his power base and deter any criticism of his youthfulness and inexperience. He is believed to be either 28 or 29.
"When Suet Face Kim Jong-un became North Korean leader following the mourning period for his father in late December, high-ranking military officers started disappearing," a source told the Chosun Ilbo newspaper. "From information compiled over the last month, we have concluded that dozens of military officers were purged."
It also appears that Mr Kim told officials to use the excuse of misbehaviour during the mourning period to remove any potential opponents.
Other officials have been executed by firing squads.
Since being elevated to second-in-command by his father in 2010, Mr Kim has reportedly been behind the dismissal of at least 31 senior officials.
You know I think that "Tubby" in N. Korea has finally qualified himself for a real job. He needs to take the role of the next Bad Guy in the James Bond movies. Even Javier Bardem can't top this one .... :-)
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Ive often been the shell of my former self the morning after a bit of drinking and carousing . I guess this is the nork version of a morning expresso
Syrian rebels claim that Iran is hiding a stock of enriched uranium at a highly-protected site north of Damascus.
I'll bet the Israeli Air Force can handle it...
The information appears in a series of five YouTube videos made by rebels exposing secret chemical and biological weapons facilities. U.S. intelligence officials say that the data is credible.
The uranium is allegedly at Syria's largest chemical and biological weapons facility, located north of Damascus between Al-Tal and Aysh Wurur. The narrator claims he has entered the site and its roads reach 1,500 feet into the mountains in order to protect the weapons of mass destruction from cruise missiles. The stockpiles include mustard agent, cyanide, sarin, tabun, VX and biological weapons that poison food, water and soil, the video states.
Any Iranian uranium in Syria would not be included in intelligence assessments based on an accounting of the stocks at declared nuclear facilities in Iran.
Of course not. The IAEA isn't smart enough to look for uranium in another country...
The Syrian nuclear program must be seen as an extension of Iran's.
Much like the government as a whole...
The Assad regime has denied access to multiple nuclear facilities for years. It's been reported that 45 tons of North Korean uranium was flown from Syria to Iran after Israeli airstrikes destroyed Syria's main nuclear facility in September 2007.
The massive Syrian chemical and biological weapons arsenal must also be seen as Iranian property. Syrian regime documents leaked to Al-Arabiya show that Iran actually controls some, if not all, of Syria's chemical warheads and oversaw their movement in recent months. Iranian scientists reportedly flew into Syria to conduct a chemical weapons test at the Al-Safir chemical weapons site near Aleppo in late August.
A Syrian defector who claims he was the chief of staff for chemical warfare, Major-General Adnan Sillu, confirms that Iranian technicians are stationed at the Al-Safir site. He says there is a maze of tunnels leading to the weapons and their delivery systems, as well as a Scud missile base. North Korean scientists also work at the site.
There are about 20 chemical weapons sites around the country. The rebel-produced videos provide immense detail about some of these sites, some of which are hardened. Buildings housing Iranian and North Korean experts are also pointed out.
The Assad regime says it will only use its chemical weapons against "external aggression." A sigh of relief is not warranted. From the beginning, the regime has claimed that it is a victim of "external aggression" because the rebels are receiving foreign support.
Major-General Sillu denies earlier reports that he said he defected after chemical weapons use was discussed at a secret meeting with Iranian Revolutionary Guards present. The original story quoted him as saying that the meeting's participants agreed that chemical weapons would be used if a major city like Aleppo was lost to the rebels. It said that the transfer of chemical weapons to Hezbollah for use against Israel was also discussed.
It is not clear if Sillu is denying that the Assad regime plans to use WMD if Aleppo falls or just that he was present at the meeting.
Aleppo is in the scene of a fierce battle right now that could go either way. A large shipment of weapons to the rebels from outside forces or a series of defections could tip the scales. If it is true that Aleppo's fall is the trigger for chemical weapons use, then that horrid scenario is a strong near-term possibility.
Matthew Van Dyke, an American that fought alongside the Libyan rebels and is currently in Aleppo filming a documentary, reported about the bloodshed in Aleppo on his Facebook page on October 18. He articulates the scene:
"You look down at your boots and wonder how they can still look so clean after stepping in the blood of civilians all day after they've been rushed to the hospital in the back of trucks and carried inside on plastic lawn chairs because there aren't enough stretchers. Then you watch the hospital fill up and the pools of blood on the floor until someone gets a mop and pushes it all out the front door of the hospital where it spills down the steps like a macabre red carpet for the next wave of casualties coming in."
Van Dyke says he saw a teenage boy, who had just lost his mother from the battle, take away the headless corpse of his baby brother. "[This] isn't a war, it's a massacre," he concludes.
And the sad truth is that the pain of this story is miniscule compared to the agony of the headlines we'll read if Assad gives the orders to use his WMD.
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i wouldn't store soiled underwear in Syria. if it WAS there ... they moved it.
The Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists are at odds over the exact language of the draft Egyptian constitution, but the difference is meaningless. Sharia will be the law of the land. And the U.S. response is that it is withholding judgment until a constitution is officially proposed but so far, so good!
The dispute is over the precise definition of the role of Sharia in Article 2. The Muslim Brotherhood is satisfied with declaring "the principles" of Sharia to be the main source of legislation. The Salafists want it to say that Sharia (not its principles) is the main source of legislation. That is what the fuss is over.
On October 18, the Muslim Brotherhood's official website carried a statement from Dr. Mahmoud Ghozlan, a leader in its Guidance Bureau that sits on the Constitutional Assembly that is writing the draft. It claims that an agreement has been reached, but the Salafists are still planning demonstrations on November 2.
Ghozlan says that the General Provisions section of the constitution will define what is meant by the language of Article 2:
"The principles of Islamic Sharia include general evidence and fundamentalist bases, rules and jurisprudence, as well as sources accepted by doctrines of Sunni Islam and the majority of Muslim scholars," it reads.
In other words, the institution of Sharia.
The fact that even this isn't strong enough language for the Salafists shows how radical they are. By the way, the Salafists won about 20% of the vote in the parliamentary elections.
Non-Islamists are also outraged about the language of another part of the draft. Article 68 reads, "The state shall take all measures to establish the equality of women and men in the areas of political, cultural, economic and social life, as well as other areas, insofar as this does not conflict with the rulings of Islamic Sharia."
Manal El-Tibi, a human rights activist, saw what was happening and quit the Constituent Assembly. She complained that the Assembly is stacked with Islamists and "they want not only an Islamic Egypt but a Caliphate ... I saw all the dirty details."
Manal El-Tibi, a human rights activist, saw what was happening and quit the Constituent Assembly. She complained that the Assembly is stacked with Islamists and "they want not only an Islamic Egypt but a Caliphate ... I saw all the dirty details."
The Assembly includes 24 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, six Brotherhood supporters, 18 members of the Salafist Al-Nour Party and three members of the Islamic Centrist Party.
The draft constitution is also designed to solidify the Brotherhood's grip on power by undermining the Supreme Constitutional Court. It takes away the independence of the judiciary by permitting the president to choose the chairman and members of Egypt's highest court.
When asked what the U.S. thinks about what the Egyptian constitution looks like so far, State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland said the U.S. won't make a judgment until its fully written, but then made a judgment on the process. Ahram Online summarized her statement as saying it has been "broadly democratic and moving in the right direction."
The good news is that the constitution has to be approved in a referendum. The Egyptian people can accept it or reject it. The Brotherhood's popularity has fallen sharply and there are protests against President Morsi and the draft constitution. If the Salafists vote against it as well, even if it's not for good reasons, it's hard to see it passing.
The Supreme Constitutional Court has also announced that it is investigating the legality of the Constitutional Assembly. The Court disbanded the lower house of parliament and since the parliament chose the Assembly, it has grounds to dismiss the body. The ruling comes today, October 23.
The draft constitution will institute a Sharia-based governance no matter how the Brotherhood-Salafist disagreement plays out. The U.S. shouldn't be facilitating its passing by reassuring Egyptians that the process of writing the constitution has been "broadly democratic and moving in the right direction."
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[An Nahar] The rebel Free Syrian Army will cease fire during this week's Eid al-Adha Mohammedan holiday if government forces stop shooting first, its commander said on Wednesday.
"The FSA will stop firing if the regime stops," said FSA military council chief General Mustafa al-Sheikh, speaking to Agence La Belle France Presse by telephone from Turkey in reference to a proposal by international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi.
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... he said the "regime has lied many times before. It is impossible that the regime will implement the truce, even if it says it will."
Brahimi has proposed a truce for the four-day Eid, which starts on Friday.
Syria's foreign ministry said it would make a final decision on the truce on Thursday, although Brahimi said earlier Damascus ...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations... has accepted the proposal.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea... a front man for the FSA's Mustafa Brigade in the Eastern Ghouta area of Damascus province expressed skepticism.
"What truce is possible when there are non-stop massacres and the deaders are dying in the hundreds?" he told AFP via Skype.
"Amid the unrelenting aerial bombardment, which truce do you think will be applied?"
The FSA is an umbrella term for scores of rebel groups that have joined the 19-month uprising against the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites...
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Defense minister Ehud Barak and Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz decided Wednesday, Oct. 24, that the heavy Palestinian missile assault from the Gaza Strip, which escalated to 60 rockets on Israeli civilian locations, in a few hours, must be stopped. The bulk of the personnel taking part in the joint Israeli-US war game Austere Challenge 12 and the Turning Point 6 home front exercise were ordered to pull out, together with anti-missile interceptors and other resources, and redeploy in southern Israel across from the Gaza Strip.
Following this decision, another 13 rockets were fired at Ashkelon early Wednesday afternoon.
Military sources report that the two exercises were effectively halted -- "reduced" according to the official communiqué - after a wide range of towns and villages within range of the Gaza Strip, including Ashkelon, took a heavy beating from round after round of rockets, including Grads.
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The way to 'solve' this missile problem is for the Israelis to shoot an exact equal number of rockets or bombs, indiscriminately into Palestinian Gaza villages.
Only much larger.
Like daisycutters.
1 rocket = 1 daisycutter.
Pooft... problem solved after first day.
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Interesting.
I thought the timing of the combined exercise would diminish and confuse the IDF with silly US support obligations. Now it seems a possible predeployment to disguise the fielding of equipment.
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reports today are that Egypt told Hamas to stop and Hamas did stop -- only one rocket fired since midnight 10-25 local time as of 10-25 noon local time
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Sign that the Paleos fear Zero will lose so they're making hay while they can?
[Dawn] General (Retd) Mirza Aslam Beg ...occasionally incoherent retired four-star general who was the Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army, succeeding the creepy General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, after the latter was rubbed out died in an air crash in 1988. The general was involved up to his hairy ears in the Mehran bank scandal, shuffling millions in public money to buy or lease politicians, and is believed one of the prime movers in the sale of Pak nuclear technology to Iran. He ranks second only to Hamid Gul in the volume and flavor of his anti-Western vitriol.. , a central figure in the Asghar Khan case, has expressed his reservations over the Supreme Court verdict, maintaining that the decision is a conspiracy against him and the opposition.
Speaking to a private news channel, the former general said the verdict is based on 'false testimonies and affidavits', adding that the Supreme Court should not have issued the verdict under present circumstances.
Speaking about the dismissal of the then government of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... , he said that the decision was constitutional.
"President Ghulam Ishaq Khan showed 17 cases of corruption against the government and dismissed it a week later," he said.
He also alleged that Benazir Bhutto used Lt. General Asad Durrani.
In the televised interview, he further said that if the ISI was under him he would have investigated the matter.
Beg said that he was unaware of the money being distributed amongst various politicians and did not know as to why the DG ISI was handing out this amount.
He also alleged that then president and caretaker government were aware of the money being handed out to politicians.
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Paleostinians fired dozens of rockets into Israel from Gazoo on Wednesday and an Israeli air strike killed a krazed killer, a day after the Emir of Qatar made a rare visit to the enclave's Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, leadership.
Hamas grabbed credit for some of the rocket and mortar kabooms, prompting some Israelis to wonder whether it had been emboldened by the Qatari visit on Tuesday that broke the Islamist group's diplomatic isolation.
In recent months, Hamas has largely held its fire when other krazed killer factions have launched cross-border rocket attacks, but the sudden upsurge in violence stoked fears that the hostilities could escalate further.
Hamas accused Israel of stepping up air strikes in the Gazoo Strip, a move it said was meant to convey Israeli anger over Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani's visit, and pledged to "continue to hold a gun ... until Paleostine is liberated".
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(Sh.M.Network)--A fierce fighting has erupted on Wednesday between Somali National Army (SNA) backed by the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... forces and Al shabab fighters in Lower Shabelle region of northwestern Mogadishu, reports said.
The combat broke out after Al shabab fighters attacked on new military bases set up by the allied forces that located between Leego and Yaqbariweyne villages on Baidoa corridor, just 100 Km northwest Mogadishu.
The exact figures on the casualties following the fighting are to be confirmed as the area is remains military frontline for the "Operation free Shabelle", which the AMISOM and Somali forces are struggling to retake all rebel-held positions in the Lower and Middle Shabelle regions.
Local residents told Shabelle Media by phone that AMISOM forces have fired string of mortar rounds into the rural areas near the battle zones believed to be Al shabab hideouts. No deaths reported.
No statement was released by the both warring sides on the fighting and shelling.
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[BBC] A man suspected of involvement in an attack on the US consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi last month has been killed in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, officials say.
The man was killed after an exchange of fire with security services in the Cairo suburb of Madinet Nasr.
Authorities named the man only as Hazem.
Four US diplomatic officials were killed in the Benghazi attack, among them the US ambassador to Libya.
According to the Egyptian officials the suspect was cornered in a flat in Madinet Nasr early on Wednesday morning. He threw a bomb at the security forces, but it bounced back into the flat.
An exchange of fire with the security services then began and went on for several hours, local media reports say.
The suspect's burnt body was found in the property, along with weapons and explosive materials, officials say.
The area was sealed off by police while emergency services dealt with a blaze caused by the exchange of fire.
Emergency services also had to rescue other residents of the building using hydraulic ladders, officials told the al-Ahram newspaper.
One possibility is that the suspect was trying to make his way to the Sinai peninsula, which has become a magnet for militants from across the region, the BBC's Jon Leyne in Cairo reports.
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DV - Usual Suspects is usually not even close to the protected real suspects. Just an opportunity to remove some stickier thorns
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He threw a bomb at the security forces, but it bounced back into the flat.
Sof it was a work accident and there is nothing to see here? What Darth said. I have a feeling that these fall guys are going to fall one by one in mysterious ways.
[Dawn] An anti-terrorism court has acquitted two suspects charged in a devastating suicide kaboom targeting former federal minister Aftab Ahmad Sherpao which had left 53 persons dead and another 137 injured when they were offering Eid prayers in 2007.
The court presided over by Syed Asghar Ali Shah pronounced that the case was badly investigated and the evidence on record did not connect the two suspects, Moslem and Arif Khan, with the commission of the offence.
Official sources informed that the order was announced by the presiding officer on October 22, but due to security reasons it has so far not been made public.
The occurrence had taken place on December 21, 2007 on the occasion of Eidul Azha when Aftab Sherpao was offering prayer along with his two sons, Sikander Sherpao and Mustafa Sherpao, and several other people at his native Sherpao village.
Mustafa Sherpao had also received injuries in the blast. FIR of the bombing was registered at Umerzai cop shoppe in Charsadda under several sections of Pakistain Penal Code and section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act.
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A Tunisian man who was tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! in Turkey this month with reported links to the attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya is facing terrorism charges, his lawyer said Wednesday, as an Egyptian official said a bad turban suspected of involvement was killed in festivities in Cairo.
An Egyptian interior ministry source told CBS News' Alex Ortiz the suspect in Egypt, known only by his first name, Hazem, was killed after neighbors summoned police for a suspicious resident. The police came in and exchanged fire with the target. The man went kaboom!" in his apartment during the engagement with security forces.
It is unclear whether Hazem was Egyptian, or just living in Cairo. .
An Egyptian official told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named the man recently returned from Libya and kept weapons in his hideout. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief news hounds, said an investigation into the man's possible involvement in the consulate attack is under way.
In Tunisia, suspect Ali Harzi was repatriated on Oct. 11 by authorities in Turkey, and a judge issued his arrest warrant, lawyer Ouled Ali Anwar told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. He said his client was told by a judge Tuesday that he has been charged with "membership of a terrorist organization in a time of peace in another country."
U.S. officials told CBS News' David Martin Wednesday that Harzi is not considered to be one of the ring leaders of the Benghazi attack; So far the FBI has not been allowed to question him
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Imagine this: You're having a pleasant afternoon with your buddies, playing the links at San Juan Hills Golf Club.
You arrive at the 12th tee box at the San Juan Capistrano course and there you see it: A shark, very much alive and thrashing around on the grass.
OK, so it was only a 2-foot-long shark, but still.
"Shark falling from the sky, kind of odd," said Melissa McCormack, director of club operations at San Juan Hills.
The fish was actually found about 4 p.m. Monday by a golf course employee, who picked it up, put it into the back of his golf cart and drove it to the clubhouse, she said. A group of golfers had just left the tee before the shark was spotted.
The shark had two puncture wounds, which made McCormack think a predatory bird had scooped the fish up out of the water, dropping the shark down onto the course. She first relayed the story to the Capistrano Dispatch.
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That's one way to mess up your opponent's putting!
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What happens to sharks when they eject over land.
A 41-year-old car washer from northeastern Brazil shocked his family by turning up at his own wake after his family mistakenly identified a murdered local man at the morgue as him, local media reported Tuesday.
Family and friends in the town of Alagoinhas in Bahia state were gathered around the body of another car washer resembling Gilberto Araujo when he showed up after being told of his "death" by a friend who had spotted him in the street.
"I said, 'Guys, I'm alive, pinch me,'" Araujo told the O Globo news website. He had not seen his family for about four months until then.
His mother, shopkeeper Maria Menezes, said some of those attending the wake fainted while others fled.
"It was a fright. ... I'm very happy because what mother has a son that they say is dead then turns up alive?" she said.
On first learning of the confusion, Araujo tried to call an acquaintance at the wake to inform them he was alive, but his call was dismissed as a prank. The corpse has now been returned, O Globo reported.
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"It was a fright. ... I'm very happy because what mother has a son that they say is dead then turns up alive?" she said."
BUT THEN AGAIN MADAM ...
what mother has a son who's alive and kicking ... and yet everybody is not sure that he's not a zombie????? There's definitely some petrified wood in your family tree :-)
[An Nahar] Libya on Tuesday celebrated the first anniversary of its "liberation" from the regime of Muammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years until he was ejected from the gene pool by his indignant citizens... , even as fighting flared in a former bastion of the slain dictator.
On October 23, 2011, just three days after Qadaffy was captured and killed in his hometown Sirte, the transitional authorities declared the country's liberation, formally ceasing hostilities.
The day was observed as a public holiday across Libya.
Cars cloaked with the national flag cruised the capital from the early morning, their speakers pumping out patriotic songs at full volume. People gathered at Martyrs Square after sundown with youths setting off fire crackers.
In Benghazi, hundreds of people massed outside Tibesti Hotel to mark the one-year anniversary but also demand that the eastern city, cradle of the uprising that toppled the regime, become the "economic capital."
Fierce festivities in Bani Walid, one of the final bastions of the former regime and accused of harboring die-hard Qadaffy loyalists, have cast a pall over celebrations.
De facto Libyan leader Mohammed Megaryef expressed confidence on Tuesday that the military operation in Bani Walid would finish "very soon". He expressed regret over the casualties of the fighting.
In a speech broadcast by state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
, Megaryef emphasized that the assault specifically targeted the "criminals who held the town and its residents hostage," rather than Bani Walid as a whole.
He called for national reconciliation and the reactivation of the judiciary.
Earlier, columns of smoke rose over the hilltop town according to an AFP photographer on the northwestern edge of the town. The sound of shooting and kabooms rang out in the valleys below.
Dozens of foreign workers continued to flee on foot, he added.
Pro-government forces entered Bani Walid and released 22 detainees, the official LANA news agency said.
Fighting in Bani Walid has fanned old tribal feuds and underscored the difficulties of achieving national reconciliation. Former rebel fighters are locked in battle with ex-Qadaffy loyalists.
"Since the formal declaration of the end of hostilities, Libya has become a country beset by intercommunal strife," said Claudia Gazzini, senior Libya analyst for the International Crisis Group.
"The central authorities have acted chiefly as bystanders, in effect sub-contracting security to largely autonomous gangs only nominally under the authority of the state," she said.
Bani Walid natives, angered by the government-sanctioned offensive against the heartland of the powerful Warfalla tribe, stormed the national assembly on Saturday in protest.
Demonstrators also ransacked the offices of a private television station in Benghazi after it announced that Qadaffy's son Khamis and the dictator's front man Mussa Ibrahim had been captured there.
The authorities never presented evidence to back these claims and the Bani Walid natives said these reports were fueling attacks on their town.
Last week's scaled-up offensive against Bani Walid came in response to the death of Omran Shaaban, 22, a former rebel from the city of Misrata who was credited with capturing Qadaffy.
Shaaban spent weeks held hostage in Bani Walid, where he was allegedly tortured, before the authorities managed to broker his release.
He later died of injuries sustained during the ordeal, stoking tensions between his hometown Misrata and Bani Walid, long-time rivals who fought in opposite camps of the 2011 conflict.
The incident galvanized the authorities to tackle the bastion of the former regime.
Dozens of people have been killed and hundreds more maimed during festivities between pro-government forces and Bani Walid fighters over the past week. The bitter fighting has evoked recent memories of the civil war that toppled Qadaffy one year ago.
To justify the offensive, Megaryef, president of the national assembly, said the oasis had become "a sanctuary for a large number of outlaws and anti-revolutionaries and mercenaries."
Tribal leaders and commanders in Bani Walid, located 185 kilometers (115 miles) southeast of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of thich 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... , accuse "lawless Misrata militias" of seeking to annihilate their historic rival.
The authorities, they say, are powerless to stop them.
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Three terrorists militants killed in Tatarstan's capital Kazan were suspects in high-profile attacks against Islamic leaders in the Russian region earlier this year, according to Russia's Investigative Committee.
In July, Tatarstan's leading Muslim cleric, Mufti Ildus Faizov, was wounded in a car bombing and his former deputy, Valiulla Yakupov, was gunned down in attacks conducted by suspected Islamists.
Two members of the Federal Security Service were killed in the fighting in Kazan along with the three terrorists militants on October 24.
Tatarstan's Interior Ministry said the terrorists militants blocked a street in Kazan and shot at police. It added that one of the dead men appeared to be wearing a suicide belt packed with explosives.
[Dawn] Two persons including a suspected cut-thoat were rubbed out while another was injured during a search operation in Akkakhel area of Bara on Tuesday, sources said.
Although security forces declined to give details of the search operation conducted in Gud Malang and Misri chowk localities of Akkakhel, local sources said that the dead included a passer-by and an activist of a local cut-thoat group.
Sources said that the operation was conducted jointly by army and Frontier Corps. They said that security forces rounded up 150 residents of the area and shifted them to Fort Salop for investigation.
The officials of Bara political administration, when contacted, said that such operations had become a routine exercise in Bara with little or no results.
"They (security forces) never share such information and plans with the local administration and most of the time they act on their own," said an administrative official, who wished not to be named.
The forces also imposed curfew in most areas of Sipah including Alam Gudar and Dogra on Tuesday.
Spokesman for the security forces Maj Fazl, who was away from Bara, told Dawn on phone that he had no details of the search operation.
Local officials said that they had anticipated the Akkakhel operation soon after the killing of six coppers including SP Khurshid Khan in an attack by forces of Evil on Ghaziabad police post on the outskirts of 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.
It was generally believed that the attackers had come from Akkakhel and went back to the area after killing SP Khurshid Khan and other coppers.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, Zebulon finally found just the friend he'd been looking for... Commandant Khyber Rifles Col Fayaz on Tuesday handed over 35 Kukikhel ...a tribe of primitives inhabiting Khyber Agency. They are a branch of the Afridi tribe. Traditionally they have been migratory, tromping between Jamrud and the Rajgal valley with the seasons. The tribe has had mustache-cursing relationships with several other tribes, including the Zakkakhel and Kambarkhel, and with the Mullagori. They make welcome most anyone with a turban and automatic weapons, but every once in awhile they get together a tribal lashkar to mollify the government... and three Zakhakhel rustics, tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! during Ghundi operation, to a delegation of tribal elders.
The commandant also returned 24 light weapons, seized during the operation, to the tribal elders.
The meeting was arranged by the local political administration after the Kukikhel rustics expressed resentment over the Ghundi operation in which local elders were not taken into confidence.
In Mohmand Agency ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... , Levies personnel and volunteers of Haleemzai Peace Committee demolished the houses of five suspected forces of Evil in Roadh Mandi area on Tuesday.The owners of the houses were identified as Saraf Khan, Zawo Jan, Zar Shah, Amir Shah and Akbar Shah.
Earlier, a jirga of Haleemzai tribe decided to demolish the houses of the suspected cut-thoats, who were allegedly involved in a kaboom in the area.
The participants of the jirga said a fine of Rs1 million would be imposed on those rustics, who provided shelter to cut-thoats.
Addressing the jirga, Haleemzai Peace Committee chief Malik Mohammad Ali said that they would extend full support to security forces and political administration to restore peace in the area.
In this connection, an agreement was also signed by the rustics, bounding them to stand united to fight against forces of Evil and protect their area.
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The Yarmouk Complex of military plants near Khartoum, which was bombed five minutes after midnight Wednesday, Oct. 24, by four fighter-bombers, recently went into manufacturing Iranian ballistic surface-to-surface Shehab missiles under license from Tehran, debkafile's military and intelligence sources disclose. Western intelligence sources have not revealed what types of Shehab were being turned out in Sudan but they believe the Yarmouk's output was intended to serve as Tehran's strategic reserve stock in case Iran's ballistic arsenal was hit by Israeli bombers.
The Israeli Air Force has a long record of pre-emptive attacks for destroying an enemy's long-range missiles in the early stages of a conflict. In June 2006, for instance, the IAF destroyed 90 percent of Hizballah's long-range missiles in the first hours of the Leb war.
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Here's another source The Atlantic but does have good info.
And doesn't the US military currently have the largest number of military folks in Israel?
The blogger 'Dedicated Tenther' does an outstanding job, in a 10 part post, of deconstructing what happened in Benghazi: who knew what, what the intel indicated, and who did what.
Superb. A public service, and more to come.
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Barack Obama is a stuttering flustercluck of a miserable tyrant.
The writer has certainly captured the essence of our Champ in the above.
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The writer certainly does capture things accurately.
The MSM has been apathetic about this story with the exception of Sharyl Attkinson, Fox, and occasionally CNN. Otherwise, the MSM is overly concerned with minutia and trivia such as what Moochelle is wearing, Gloria Allred and possible revelations that might be damning to Romney, how "O" is ahead in the polls and how how he won the debates (despite having a poor showing or in the first instance not showing up), or "O's" next stop on the pop culture fund-raising circuit. The MSM is agenda-driven, carrying water for Obama, not doing their job, lazy, and silly in its focus.
I have a feeling Benghazi is far more ugly than most can imagine if the rocks start getting turned over. By reasonable standards, one would think F & F and Benghazi would bring about charges for high crimes (treason) and misdemeanors. Unfortunately, our standards have changed. Had this occurred during Nixon's time, it would be in the headlines everyday. There would be a steady drumbeat to remove those from office who are responsible and prosecute them. Republicans and Democrats would be calling for justice. Segments of our population have been inured to a tabloid mentality by massive give-aways to buy votes, underlying simmering racial issues, Balkanization of various groups in our country, Clinton sexcapades in the WH, and all the Obama shenanigans such as crony capitalism, voter fraud, F & F, and forcing Obamacare. Where are the voices within the administration who still have integrity and a shred of decency. There is a cancer in our government that needs to be excised. God help our country if those who really know what's going on don't speak up instead of focusing on their careers or the next election. Citizens should demand that with either party whomever is in power.
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Don't forget that Abu Graibe, which was far less serious and didn't even involve anyone over the person in charge of the prison, dominated the headlines with 24/7 coverage for 18 months.
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Tonight it seems that the burg is infested with trolls.
Shipman, your statement is logically akin to saying that celery is worse than basketball. Meaningless on its face and any attempt to apply some consistent moral evaluation to the two leads straight under the crazy bridge to where the trolls live.
[An Nahar] The Syrian rebels battling the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... have shoulder-launched missile systems, including Stingers made by the United States, Russia's top general said on Wednesday.
Russian chief of staff General Nikolai Makarov, whose country is the Syrian regime's top arms supplier and has refused to back the rebels, said it was not clear who had delivered the weapons.
"We have information that the rebels fighting the Syrian army have shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles of several states, including Stingers made in the United States," he said quoted by the Interfax news agency.
"We need to still find out who has delivered them," he said.
Makarov said it was possible that these and other weapons could have been delivered to the rebels from abroad on several means of transport, including passenger planes.
"For this all kinds of transport could be activated, including civil aviation. This is a serious matter," Makarov said.
NBC News of the United States had reported in July that the rebel Free Syrian Army had obtained two dozen surface-to-air missiles (man-portable air-defense systems known as MANPADS) that were delivered via Turkey.
Makarov noted that Washington has denied sending arms to the rebels but said the information that U.S.-made Stingers had appeared in the rebels' arsenal should now be taken into account.
"The Americans say that they have not delivered anything to the rebels. But we have reliable information that the Syrian rebels have foreign-made MANPADS, including American ones."
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And this story is claimed as the explanation for the series of peculiarities surrounding the Benghazi attack.
(CBS Atlanta) - New research suggests that the phenomenon of premenstrual syndrome, known more commonly as PMS, may not occur the way many have thought over the years. "WOULD YOU LIKE A DEMONSTRATION?!?" she asked.
"I have PMS, a .45 and one nerve you getting on - now what were you demanding I pay attention to?"
Researchers working under the direction of Dr. Sarah Romans of the University of Otago in New Zealand asserted that the correlation between an impending menstrual cycle and symptoms such as mood swings is far more tenuous than previously stated, according to Time Health & Family. "I'M GONNA RIP YOUR THROAT OUT!" she sobbed.
"The human menstrual cycle ... has historically been the focus of myth and misinformation, leading to ideas that constrain women's activities," authors of the study wrote. "We wished to examine one pervasive idea, that the [menstrual cycle] is a cause of negative mood, by studying the scientific literature as a whole. We briefly reviewed the history of the idea of premenstrual syndrome and undertook a systematic review of quality studies."
A reported 47 studies were examined in the process, each of which tracked the moods of women throughout the course of their respective menstrual cycles. Of those studies, only 15 percent found that women experienced PMS.
That sounds about right. Some women suffer a great deal as their hormone levels change, some don't have any problems whatsoever, some are aware of changes without being overly troubled by them. And some experience each of those possibilities at different stages of their lives. Likewise, some men need red convertibles to replace their thinning hair and not-thinning abdomens, but many are untroubled by the passage of time as they enjoy what each new stage brings.
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They studied the wrong thing.
PMS = Putting up with Men's Shit. ;-p
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I don't know about PMS but some womyn get really POd. I remember investigating a fatal accident up near the Kentucky border. It happened in front of a TN-KY border gin mill. A man and his wife had been drinking and got into an argument. He walked out the front door to leave. The bar was just on the edge of the highway. He walked onto the highway and got hit by an 18-wheeler. The bartender told the woman her husband just got killed crossing the road. She took off her wedding ring and threw it out the front door into the dark and said: "Good riddance, I never did like the SOB."
On Oct. 13, Israel killed Abu al Walid al Maqdisi, the former emir of the Tawhid and Jihad Group in Jerusalem, and Ashraf al Sabah, the former emir of Ansar al Sunnah, in an airstrike. The two were reportedly leaders of the Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem (MSC), which is a consolidation of Salafi-Jihadist groups in Gaza.
Since their deaths, a number of statements and eulogies have been released by jihadist groups and media outlets such as the Global Islamic Media Front, Jaish al Ummah, Masada al Mujahideen, Islamic State of Iraq, and Ansar Jerusalem, among others.
On Oct. 24, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released a statement on jihadist forums, titled "Statement of Condolences for the Killing of the Two Mujahid Sheikh Abu al-Walid al-Maqdisi and Abu al-Bara'a al-Maqdisi." The statement was obtained and translated by the SITE Intelligence Group.
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[An Nahar] Peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said Wednesday that Syria and "most" rebel chiefs have agreed to a truce this week, boosting hopes of a breakthrough in the conflict, but the main armed opposition group was skeptical.
Syria said it was studying the U.N.-Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... envoy's initiative for a four-day ceasefire during the Mohammedan holiday of Eid al-Adha and would announce its decision on Thursday, the day before it is supposed to take effect.
"The Syrian government has agreed to a ceasefire" during Eid, Brahimi said, adding "most" rebel leaders contacted said they also would observe it.
"If we succeed with this modest initiative, a longer ceasefire can be built" that would allow the launch of a political process, said the Algerian diplomat.
Brahimi has touted his ceasefire initiative for weeks, but as the date for its implementation fast approaches, there has been no let up in the deadly violence.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 142 people were killed across Syria on Wednesday, 20 of them civilians including women and kiddies massacred in Douma, a rebel-held town near Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world...
As the bloodshed continued, Brahimi told the U.N. Security Council a truce would be "small step" but he was unsure if it would hold, according to diplomats.
Brahimi appealed for unanimous support, warning the 15-nation council a new failure among its divided members would cause the 19-month civil war to spread, they told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The Security Council is bitterly divided over the conflict, with Western nations pressing for action against the Assad regime while Russia and China have been blocking these moves.
But it did agree to back Brahimi's ceasefire call Wednesday in a statement also urging Syria's neighbors to "use their influence" on the parties to push for an end to the conflict.
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per sentence he will be in the slammer until 2034 and on supervised release from then until 2039
when he was arrested, his car had
10 green plastic garbage bags with 118 pounds (54 kg) of a fine white powder (which tests later identified as urea, used to manufacture explosives and fertilizer),
2 lozenge bottles filled with primary explosives hexamethylene triperoxide diamine (HMTD) and cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX),
2 plastic bags with 14 pounds (6.4 kg) of a crystalline powder (later shown to be aluminium sulfate, used primarily as a desiccant, to keep things dry),
two 22-ounce olive jars with 2.6 pounds (1.2 kg) of golden-brown liquid (later identified as secondary explosive ethylene glycol dinitrate (EGDN), an extremely explosive and volatile nitroglycerin equivalent that is twice as powerful as TNT), and
4 operational timing devices designed to detonate primary explosives, consisting of small black boxes containing circuit boards connected to Casio watches and 9-volt battery connectors. When the watch alarm would ring, an electrical charge would pass from the battery to a small lightbulb which had had its glass covering removed, exposing the filament; the bulb would heat, ignite, and detonate the other bomb ingredients in a chain reaction.
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President Obama recently sat down with the editorial board of Iowa's largest newspaper, the Des Moines Register, for what his campaign stipulated would be an off-the-record discussion:
The Des Moines Register's publisher and I spoke with President Barack Obama this morning -- but we can't tell you what he said. Just four days before the Register's presidential endorsement is released, Laura Hollingsworth and I received a phone call from the president. He was calling from Florida, on the heels of a morning campaign appearance and about 14 hours after his debate with GOP nominee Mitt Romney at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla. The conference call lasted nearly 30 minutes and was an incredibly informative exchange of questions, answers and an insightful glimpse into the president's vision for a second term. He made a genuine and passionate case for our endorsement and for reelection. Just two weeks before Election Day, the discussion, I believe, would have been valuable to all voters, but especially those in Iowa and around the country who have yet to decide between the incumbent Democrat and his Republican opponent. Unfortunately, what we discussed was off-the-record. It was a condition, we were told, set by the White House.
The Register's editors contrast this rigmarole from the most transparent administration evah with the access they were granted by Mitt Romney's campaign:
Romney appeared before our board Oct. 9. We literally met in a barn on a family farm owned by Jeff Koch, just west of Van Meter. We had a wide-ranging conversation in a little under an hour of access. He squeezed us in just before a campaign stop that spotlighted his agriculture policies. With the exception of one final question ("Why have you earned the Des Moines Register's endorsement?") his camp said the interview could not be videotaped, which has become our typical practice with politicians meeting our editorial board. But the audio was digitally recorded and posted on DesMoinesRegister.com.
That full audio is available here, by the way. With Iowa looking like a dead heat, an endorsement from a major newspaper could help tip the scales -- so after a protracted battle, Team Obama finally relented and agreed to allow the content of meeting to be released for the record. During that roundtable conversation, Obama predicted Latino voters would push him over the top in November because Republicans have alienated the growing demographic. The president was also asked about his decision to spend his substantial political capital, and exploit his large Congressional majorities, to aggressively push his partisan health care law, rather than in pursuit of other economic priorities.
Obama's answer? "Absolutely" no regrets:
QUESTION: "Some say you had a super majority in your first two years and had this incredible opportunity, but because of what you were talking about, as you were running, you had to go to get Obamacare done. Do you have any regrets taking on some of the economic issues, some of the issues that we're talking about for your second term, that when you had the chance, so to speak, during your first -- do you have any regrets that you didn't do that at that time?"
OBAMA: "Absolutely not, Laura."
Obama projects unflinching confidence that he was entirely correct to put jobs, economic growth, immigration reform -- everything -- on the back burner in order to jam through Obamacare. He's proud of his law, which raises government healthcare spending, hikes family premiums, adds to the deficit, rations care through an unelected panel of bureaucrats, exacerbates our doctor shortage, and boots millions off of plans they hoped to keep. All of these outcomes explicitly violate promises the president made during the national healthcare debate. Meanwhile, the nation's economic outlook remains bleak. That's not in spite of Obamacare; it's because of Obamacare, which the CBO estimates will destroy 800,000 American jobs. The Romney campaign blasts the president's answer:
"In the face of a struggling economy, President Obama took his eye off the ball, and spent over a year focused on passing Obamacare -- a massive government takeover of health care that cuts Medicare for today's seniors, raises taxes on millions of middle-class families, and impedes job creation. But rather than learn from this mistake, the President would do the same in a second term, implementing even more job-destroying policies that will cost the nation over 700,000 jobs. It's clear why Americans can't afford four more years like the last four years. As President, Mitt Romney's top priority will be fixing our nation's economy by creating 12 million jobs, higher take-home pay for American workers, and a more prosperous future for all Americans."
Obama demonstrates zero introspection or appetite for self-correction. He has no new ideas for the future. He has to be dragged kicking and screaming into on-the-record interviews with major newspapers -- while cheerfully appearing on MTV, Leno, Letterman, The View, "Pimp with a Limp," and the Daily Show. By what measure has this man earned four more years to carry out more of the same?
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President Obama doesn't give many interviews these days outside Comedy Central, so it caused a stir Wednesday when editors at the Des Moines Register managed to pin him down and even elicit some news. Specifically, Mr. Obama said he wants to pursue immigration reform in a second term, as well as a budget "grand bargain" with Republicans that includes tax reform.
This will come as a surprise to voters reading the President's just-released 20-page brochure on his second-term agenda, which makes little or no mention of these priorities. Perhaps that's why the White House first demanded that the interview be off the record, making the transcript public only after the Register editor objected in a public blog post.
But the larger reason to be skeptical concerns Mr. Obama's answer to another Register question: Whether he regrets pursuing ObamaCare and other liberal social priorities in his first two years rather than focusing on the economy.
"Absolutely not," Mr. Obama told the Iowa journalists. "Remember the context. First of all, Mitch McConnell has imposed an ironclad filibuster from the first day I was in office. And that's not speculation."
Whoaaaa there, big fella. Mr. McConnell was then and still is the Senate Minority Leader, and in 2009 he had all of 40 votes. Mr. Obama could have pursued any agenda he wanted, and the Des Moines editors wanted to know why he didn't focus on the economy first. Yet Mr. Obama's instinctive reaction is to blame Republican obstructionism that never happened.
In those first days of progressive wine and roses, Mr. Obama managed to peel off three Republican votes for his stimulus blowout in February 2009. He got five Republicans for the trial-bar gift known as the Lilly Ledbetter bill and nine for an expansion of the state children's health program, both in January. That was some ferocious filibuster.
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No jobs -> No taxes paid -> No funds for Obamacare*
This isn't rocket science.
* Timmy and Bernanke can print the stuff but that just reduces it down to the old Soviet saying - they pretend to pay us [with funny money] and we pretend to work.
The new warrants issued late Tuesday target Patrice Talon, the alleged instigator of the plot and Yayi's former ally-turned-enemy, as well as Olivier Boko, a Talon associate
Prosecutors say the president's niece, Zouberath Kora-Seke, and his physician Ibrahim Mama Cisse were promised one billion CFA francs (1.5 million euros, $2 million) to carry out the plot, with former commerce minister Moudjaidou Soumanou acting as an intermediary
The motive for the alleged plot has not officially been made clear, but an aide to the president said on condition of anonymity that it may have involved lucrative contracts
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Attorneys for the groups said officials prohibited Muslim men from participating in regular group prayer, wearing certain religious clothes and from possessing items that are integral to Islamic worship.
WTF.
... next they''ll want AK-47s
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So if the inmates were aztec Pierce County should provide them with humans victims?
When the Founding Fathers made first amendmant they were thinking in verities of Christianism. They never thought about Aztecs, Muslims or Kali worshippers in America. Some non-Cristin religiones are acceptable in a civilized society (It was Mustafa Kemal not me who implied Muslim nations are not civilized :-) but others simply cannot. Not Aztecs, Not Kali worship and not Islam. Had Founding Fathers thought in Islam they wouldn't have formulated First Amendment like they did.
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Claryfying the preceding text: I was not telling the United States should eb a christian-only county but thet the Founding Fathers thought in religions following a set of ethics. Those ethics are presnt in buddhism or judaism but they are not present in every religion. That is why granting freedom of religion whatever the religion is quite simply not possible. Not with a religion who is at war, a hot war, with everything else.
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next they''ll want AK-47s
Covered in the para you quoted.... but most certainly the Shia will require razors for their ritual bloodletting... one of the many Eid things, I can't keep track of them all.
There was a .gif of a running sheep around here once, the Occulted Cyan Mod was fond of it.
It's tempting to "amend the First Amendment" when it's the Other Guys who we think are abusing it; but we have a saying in the US that "Sauce for the Goose is sauce for the Gander." In other words, the rules are the same for everybody.
The US media are withholding information they don't agree with and skewing the news. We still have means to get around that. When the govt starts telling anybody what they can and cannot believe, we're all in trouble.
[An Nahar] Syrian Ambassador to Leb Ali Abdul Karim Ali on Wednesday denied that his country was involved in the liquidation of Intelligence Bureau chief Maj. Gen. Wissam al-Hasan, saying Israel or "some Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... forces" might be behind the crime.
"Leb's stability is in the interest of Syria which condemns all liquidations and is preoccupied with its internal crisis and with confronting the conspiracies plotted by intelligence agents in Europe, the world and the region," Ali said following talks with Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour.
Ali described accusations against Syria of being behind the murder as "regrettable remarks."
"We had warned in the past against political accusation," the ambassador added.
"Syria has nothing to do with this criminal incident and it condemns it and extends condolences to all the families of the deaders and entire Leb," Ali said.
Answering a question, the Syrian ambassador said "Israel is the side that benefits" from undermining security in Leb.
Asked whether he was openly accusing Israel of the crime, Ali answered: "We also accuse some Takfiri forces ... that see an interest in chaos."
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[An Nahar] Syrian warplanes raided the rebel-held town of Maaret al-Numan on Wednesday, monitors said, as peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi prepared to brief the U.N. Security Council on his ceasefire efforts.
The U.N.-Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... envoy has proposed a ceasefire for the Mohammedan holidays of Eid al-Adha which start on Friday but without securing any firm commitment from the government or rebels who have been locked in conflict for the past 19 months.
The hoped-for halt in fighting that has killed an estimated 34,000 people and which is now costing around 100 lives a day aims to clear the way for a political dialogue to resolve the conflict.
On the ground, the air force carried out fresh strikes on Maaret al-Numan where the two sides are battling for control of a key military base and a stretch of the highway linking Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... and Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... , the country's second city.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the rebel Free Syrian Army and Al-Nusra Front, an Islamist group, were leading the assault on Wadi Deif base near the town in the northwestern province of Idlib.
Five members of the same family, including a woman and a child, were killed in an air strike on Maaret Shamirin village in the province, according to the Britannia-based Observatory.
It said air raids further south targeted Irbin and Harasta, in the suburbs of the capital Damascus, where four rebels were killed in festivities.
Five more civilians died in shootings and bombardment of Harasta and 20 were maimed in shelling as regime forces tried to wrest back control, the monitoring group said, adding that several districts of Aleppo also came under air strikes.
A total of 164 people were killed in nationwide violence on Tuesday, including 89 civilians, 34 rebels and 41 soldiers, the Observatory said.
In Moscow, Russia's top general said on Wednesday that the rebels had secured shoulder-launched missile systems capable of shooting down aircraft, including Stingers made by the United States.
"We have information that the rebels fighting the Syrian army have shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles of several states, including Stingers," General Nikolai Makarov said, quoted by Interfax news agency.
On the diplomatic front, United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... front man Martin Nesirky said Brahimi was pressing hard for a truce and would brief the divided Security Council on his efforts on Wednesday.
"It remains to be seen what will happen" about the ceasefire, said Nesirky. "Mr Brahimi is pushing extremely hard as is the secretary general because this is an extremely important moment."
He said the envoy wanted "a long-lasting ceasefire that will enable a political process to unfold."
The 15-member Security Council is bitterly divided over the conflict, with Western nations pressing for international actions against the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... while Russia and China have been blocking these moves.
U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous spoke on Monday of tentative plans to assemble a peacekeeping force if a ceasefire takes hold. "We are getting ourselves ready to act if it is necessary and a mandate is approved," he said.
Damascus has said Brahimi's visit was "successful" although there was no concrete outcome. The Arab League, however, has dampened hopes of a truce, saying the chances of it coming into effect were "slim."
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[An Nahar] Hundreds of Buddhist university students rallied Wednesday against Moslems in a flashpoint city at the center of communal tensions in western Myanmar, a protest leader told AFP.
The protest in Sittwe, capital of Rakhine state, followed overnight violence in nearby towns as a fresh outbreak of unrest between ethnic Rakhine and Moslem Rohingya stretched into a third day.
At least three people died and hundreds of homes were torched on Monday in festivities between the two sides, according to officials, with a further 50 properties set ablaze on Tuesday morning.
Rakhine state witnessed widespread violence in June that left dozens dead, tens of thousands displaced and prompted rights groups to warn of a humanitarian crisis.
The Rohingya are viewed as undocumented Democrats from neighboring Bangladesh by the Myanmar government and many Burmese -- who call them "Bengalis".
More than 800 students joined the rally to call for an end to "studying with terrorist Bengalis", and for the removal of Moslem villages on the road to the university, student protest leader Wai Yan told AFP by telephone.
It was the latest in a series of protests by Buddhists in Myanmar against the stateless Rohingya, who have long been considered by the United Nations ...Parkinson's Law on an international scale... to be one of the most persecuted minorities on the planet.
Tensions remain at boiling point across Rakhine state with a curfew in force in many areas, while tens of thousands of Rohingya languish in basic camps, some behind barbed wire in Sittwe, since June's flare-up of violence.
Rights groups say the Rohingya are becoming increasingly desperate as a campaign to force them out of the country intensifies, with Buddhist monks taking a lead role in whipping up sentiment against them.
Fresh violence, including the torching of homes, took place overnight in two towns, a Rakhine state front man said.
"There were festivities yesterday (Tuesday) night and houses were burnt in Myebon and Kyauk Phyu towns," Myo That told AFP, adding that he did not know if there were any casualties.
"They took the chance to attack each other at night when it was dark."
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(CBS SF) SANTA CRUZ -- A pregnant woman tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! last weekend for public drunkenness gave birth in the lobby of the Santa Cruz County jail early Monday. So now the child will have something to talk about for the rest of her life, once she learns to talk...
Sheriff's Sgt. Steve Carney told the Santa Cruz Sentinel that jail staff initially refused to book the 29-year-old Clearlake woman Sunday afternoon because she was pregnant and intoxicated. She was eventually booked after an evaluation at local hospital. "Can you gimme an evaluation, Doc?"
"Sure. She's knocked up. And drunk."
The woman was being released Monday after deputies determined she had sobered up enough to go home, according to the Sentinel. "How many fingers y'see, Shirl?"
"Eleven."
"Try again."
"Six?"
"Give it another try."
[Hic!] Four?"
"Close enough. Get the hell outta here."
As she was being escorted out of the jail lobby, she went into labor, according to the Sentinel. "Aaaah!"
"Wossa motta, Shirl?"
"The baby! It's com... [BLURT!]... here!"
The jail's medical staff assisted in the delivery of a baby girl estimated to be two or three months premature, the report said. "More like passin' a cantaloupe than a watermelon, eh, Shirl?"
"Shuddup and gimme a drink."
Jail staffers had to resuscitate the newborn before paramedics arrived, Carney said. "Jones! Give the child CPR!"
"But she's all slimy and..."
"Get breathing, Jones!"
"Jones (The jail staff) did a good job," Carney told the Sentinel. "They probably saved this little baby's life ... what if she (the mother) had walked away?" Or staggered away, as it were...
The mother and baby were taken to the hospital for further observation and care, the report said. "Another one for the drunk tank, Dr. Kildare. Oh, and put the little one in the NICU when you get time."
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So now the child will have something to talk about for the rest of her life,once IF she learns to talk...
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Snotty comments about the kid not necessary, Skid. My friend has adopted two FAS kids; and deserves a hero's recognition. Plus some help. These kids don't deserve this condition.
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Sorry Mom (seems I've said that before!), didn't mean to appear to dump on the child, who will have enough to bear. The snark was directed at the parent's actions of personal choice which will have intentionally put the child at risk. This may be a one time incident, I think not. A subtle difference for some, perhaps too concise.
Certainly the child will be able to talk but is unlikely to become a highly functional contributing member of society. That purpose appears to be forgotten.
Others may say I am insensitive and should have sympathy for the poor mother who obviously has a number of personal issues, beyond the sudden delivery. Sorry (again), have to draw the callous line of personal choice somewhere. As so many here, I'm very familiar with the nochoice pattern of addictive behavior and dependency, the theatre of patient/victim choice, the failure role of society/savior and the tremendous impact on the nearby normals that get the random splash.
Your friend is a hero, no question about it. I also expect the children he cares for are sweet and trusting challenges.
Sorry (yet again!) that there are fewer resources available for enforcement of prevention and education than for the remediation and support of the results.
And worse yet, I'm sorry I'm angry this preventable incident, wasn't.
[Dawn] 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. is among 14 districts in the country with high incidence of violence against women over the first six months of the current year, according to an Aurat Foundation report.
Other districts are Lahore, Okara, Sargodha, Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... , Rawalpindi, Sialkot, Gujrat, DG Khan, Pakpattan, Muzaffargarh, Sahiwal, Mirpurkhas, Sheikhupura and Ghotiki, said the 'Violence Against Women In Pakistain Monitor (Jan-June 2012) report released here on Tuesday.
According to the report, women in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... are at a high risk of subjugation but culture and societal norms in the province make it harder for women to report violence against them.
During January and June this year, 283 VAW cases were reported in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa but the number is six per cent of the countrywide incidence of such crimes.
Around 55 per cent of VAW incidents reported in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in six months were of murder totaling 157, while the province registered nine cases of abduction and kidnapping during the period.
Overall, 32 cases of domestic violence, 23 of honour killing and 30 of suicide were reported in the province between Jan and June 2012.
In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the prevalence of sexual violence was reportedly low as seven cases of rape or gang rape were reported in six months.
The rate of the registration of first information report for VAW was reportedly high in the province as FIRs of 65 per cent of the cases were reported during the first six months of the year.
According to the report, FIRs were registered for 184 VAW cases but no FIR was registered for 82 cases. There is no information about the status of FIR for 17 cases in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
Statistics show 60 per cent of women who were subjected to violence in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa were married.
"A total of 1,170 married and 62 unmarried women were victims of violence of women in the province during the Jan-June 2012 period. There is no information available about the marital status of 51 victims of violence against women," it said.
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Scientists in Oregon have created embryos with genes from one man and two women, I tried to do that once. It didn't work. I was too drunk.
using a provocative technique that could someday be used to prevent babies from inheriting certain rare incurable diseases.
The researchers at Oregon Health & Sciences University said they are not using the embryos to produce children, and it is not clear when or even if this technique will be put to use. But it has already stirred a debate over its risks and ethics in Britain, where scientists did similar work a few years ago.
The British experiments, reported in 2008, led to headlines about the possibility someday of babies with three parents. But that's an overstatement. The DNA from the second woman amounts to less than 1 percent of the embryo's genes, and it isn't the sort that makes a child look like Mom or Dad. The procedure is simply a way of replacing some defective genes that sabotage the normal workings of cells.
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...and it is not clear when or even if this technique will be put to use.
[Bangla Daily Star] Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... men are waiting for a ''proper time'' to fight back the government with their strong presence in the streets when the opposition intensifies its anti-government movement after the Eid-ul-Azha.
Under the cover of social, cultural and educational programmes like study circle meetings, discussions, and Koran recitation competitions, grassroots units of Jamaat in different parts of the country are working to gear up political activities and boost the morale of local leaders and activists of the party.
Contacting several central and local leaders of Jamaat, it is learnt that the party men are now making preparations with the hope that the main opposition BNP will soon decide to go for street agitations against the government.
Jamaat is a key component of the of BNP-led 18-party alliance.
"BNP chief Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... 's latest call to wage a tough movement against the government after the Eid-ul-Azha has certainly inspired our grassroots leaders and activists," Jamaat leader and politician ANM Shamsul Islam told The Daily Star recently.
Addressing a public meeting in Dinajpur recently, Khaleda said the 18-party alliance will launch a vigorous movement after the Eid-ul-Azha for "restoring democracy and saving people from repression."
Shamsul, MP from Chittagong, said they are now organising their activists as well as general people for a tougher movement.
"We, 18-party leaders of Chittagong, held a meeting in the port city recently to discuss the nature and strategy of the post-Eid movement," he added.
Nurul Amin Chowdhury, secretary, Chittagong (North) unit of Jamaat, said recently they are using some tactics to communicate with their leaders and activists to carry out the organizational activities in the area.
Asked, Abu Taleb Mandal, secretary of Pabna district unit of Jamaat, said they still face police action when they bring out processions.
"But we continue to hold different indoor programmes to strengthen the party network," he said. "The party's grassroots leaders have already overcome the immediate aftershock of the government crackdown on the party high- ups."
Taleb went on, "Our grassroots leaders' morale has already been boosted. We are now able to hold a large gathering in the capital on a short notice. Now, we are waiting for an opportune moment to show our strength."
The party's grassroots leaders, however, are getting some opportunities to organise themselves as the local administration does not force them to keep their party offices closed, unlike the case with the central office.
Jamaat's central office in the capital has been kept closed since the police raid on September 19 last year following the party men's violent protest in the capital against the crackdown on party high-ups. The city office of the party has also met the same fate.
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[An Nahar] Republican White House hopeful Willard Mitt Romney ...former governor of Massachussetts, currently the Publican nominee for president. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. More to the point, he isn't President B.O... said President Barack Obama I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody... 's campaign was "taking on water" Tuesday, as the rivals barnstormed across toss-up states while seeking swing votes two weeks before election day.
With their debates behind them, the candidates raced out of the blocks and onto the campaign trail, hoping to corral the most ballots from the shrinking pool of Americans still undecided in a race heading for a photo finish.
At a rally in Henderson, Nevada, Romney claimed he had the momentum, saying the debates have "supercharged" his White House bid and brought him that much closer to victory in November 6.
"His campaign is taking on water and our campaign is full speed ahead," he said. Four torpedoes amidships known as debates one through four will definitely force you to take on water.
The line was a clear swipe at the president's condescending comment during Monday night's debate when, reacting to Romney's repeated charge that the U.S. Navy was undersized, Obama mocked his challenger by saying that working with the military was not like playing a game of "Battleship."
It was a fitting jibe that marked the venomous tone Tuesday, when Obama warned a rowdy Florida crowd that they cannot rely on his "reckless" and elusive Republican foe.
Romney was riding a tide of campaign optimism, however, and presenting himself as a voice of change, as he sought to peel away the states of Nevada and Colorado from Obama's column.
"His is a status quo candidacy. His is a message of going forward with the same policies of the last four years. And that's why his campaign is slipping. And that's why ours is gaining so much steam," Romney said.
He repeated his argument later Tuesday in Colorado, where running mate Paul Ryan ...U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, serving since 1999. He is the VP candidate of the Republican Party. He proposed an alternative to President B.O.'s 2011 budget and made himself the target of both Democrat and Republican verbal pies. Joe Biden made a fool of himself when they 'debated'... and 12,000 other people joined him at one of the more spectacular venues of the entire campaign: Red Rocks, the natural amphitheater above Denver which has hosted the likes of rock acts U2 and Coldplay.
"We're in the home stretch now, and I think the people of Colorado are going to get us all the way there."
At Obama's rallies, the president's beseeching tone and the new urgency in his appeals reflect his failure to sink Romney in the debates, as well as signs that it is the Republican, not Obama, who has momentum in the tight race.
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From the poll trends... looks like it.
Remember:
Don't get cocky and they can't cheat if it ain't close.
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Looking beyond the current tyrant, there is a great body of work to be done to rid our republic of the statist, Keynesian model. A difficult and potentially painful shift must take place from that of a society of entitlement, big government, and credit to one of savings, investment, and domestic production.
To fiscal and economic repair, I would also add that some new thinking regarding foreign policy and our involvement in feckless, overseas misadventures should also be undertaken. No one would suggest we overlay our fragile political process on the remote Yanomami of Brazil. Why would we assume anyone else is different and in need of our meddling or fixing? If "African problems require African solutions", as so often is heard is indeed accurate, why then do middle eastern problems not require similar ownership templates for resolution?
The sordid, ongoing disaster in Benghazi is a prime example of our attempt to picking winners and losers; a task we've historically not been good at. It is long past time to reign-in our arrogant, misguided agents of foreign policy in McLean and Foggy Bottom and return them to the vitally important functions of providing intelligence and conducting legitimate diplomacy. Furthermore, when asked to provide information to the HPSIC/SSCI and we discover a few short weeks later that they have withheld, obfuscated, and lied; those resposible should be immediately relieved of their duties and fired.
Stay at home, support our steadfast allies, and simply mind our own business. Make no loud threats or bold protestations, but rather where necessary, issue discreet warnings. Failing those, quietly and unmercifully smite those who would harm us at home or abroad, returning home without boasting or book writing.
Lastly, we should curb our headlong investment in failed diplomacy. If we are serious about peace and peace making, we should heed the warnings of Eisenhower and re-examine the industries of conflict, their benefactors, and obvious motives.
I hope and pray we finally up for the post-Obama challenge.
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I think the first attitude that needs to change is that people think a home is a place to live in and that it's not good if places to live become less affordable.
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BP housing is as affordable as it has ever been. What planet are you living on?
Interest rates are as low as they ever have been; house prices are lower than they have been for a decade; anyone with a job and a pulse can buy a house.
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True, so let's rant about the unemployment, not the affordability of housing, which is not a problem.
Then we can focus on solutions for the actual problem, rather than whine about not getting the opportunity to smell the unicorn farts that have to be around here somewhere.
[An Nahar] The Appeals Chamber of the U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Leb probing ex-PM Rafik Hariri's murder has unanimously dismissed Defense challenges to the Tribunal's legality, the STL said in a statement on Wednesday.
Defense counsel for the four accused had challenged, before the Trial Chamber, the legality of the Tribunal, arguing that it violates Lebanese illusory sovereignty and that it has selective jurisdiction and no authority to try the accused.
On July 27, the Trial Chamber dismissed the Defense motions noting that the Tribunal was created by U.N. Security Council Resolution 1757 and the Trial Chamber did not have the authority to review this resolution, rejecting all the challenges filed by the Defense.
The decision was appealed by counsel for three of the four accused.
Four of the five Appeals Chamber judges agreed in their decision, issued on Wednesday, that they lacked the authority to review a Security Council resolution. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... in a separate opinion, STL President Judge David Baragwanath expressed the view that the STL, as a court of law, must exercise a limited authority to review certain aspects of Security Council resolutions.
He nonetheless concluded that the Defense Counsel have failed to establish that the Security Council acted beyond its authority and joined the other judges in dismissing the appeals.
Defense Counsel have argued in both Chambers that while the February 14, 2005 attack was tragic, it did not constitute a threat to international peace and security, which was the prerequisite for the Security Council's intervention to establish the STL.
The Appeals Chamber "considers that the Security Council has a broad discretion as to the characterization of a particular situation as a threat to peace and security and that the Tribunal cannot judicially review the Security Council's actions," the summary of the decision reads.
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[Dawn] Six people were killed in incidents of violence across Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , DawnNews reported on Wednesday.
Two bodies, bearing marks of torture, were found from the city's Lea Market and Manghopir areas.
Moreover, one person was rubbed out by unknown gunnies in Bloody Karachi's Machar Colony.
In separate incidents, a man and a woman were stabbed to death with knives in Abbas Colony and in Clifton area's Neelam Colony.
Furthermore, one person, who had been maimed during an incident at North Nazimabad's Landikotal roundabout, departed this vale of tears during treatment at a hospital.
Moreover, the Sindh Rangers conducted an early morning raid in Lyari's Shah Baig Line area and placed in long-term storage I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! Baba Lashari, a man suspected of involvement in gang wars.
The suspect identified various locations where looted goods had been hidden. The Rangers then raided these locations and recovered the stolen goods.
According to Rangers' sources, the placed in long-term storage I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! suspect was allegedly involved in serious crimes, including assassinations.
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[Yemen Post] The UN Envoy to Yemen Jamal Benomar met on Wednesday with big shots of the Southern Movement in the port city of Aden.
Local sources cited that the meeting focused on the participation of the Southern Movement in the national dialogue and raise the southern case at the conference that will have no ceiling.
They said Benomar considered the conference as a good chance to the southerners, pointing out that southern leaders put a number of conditions and demands.
Sources said that the southerners conditioned that their participation must be 50 percent, the release of southern political detainees and halt of any arrests against southerners.
Some factions of the Southern Movement such as the followers of the former president Ali Salem Al-Beedh and other groups boycotted the meeting, the sources added.
Southern leaders have recently held meetings with a number of foreign ambassadors to Yemen and expressed their stances towards participation in the national dialogue conference.
Media sources had quoted Benomar as saying that most Yemeni political forces have no clear visions about the southern case.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes... sources of the technical committee of dialogue denied that the appointment of the dialogue conference scheduled for November 15 would be put off.
The dialogue conference is an article of the power transfer deal mediated by the GCC states and it is designed to involve all political forces, civil society, youth movements and women in power.
The conference be held without ceiling and the southern case will be the more important issue on the table.
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Fifteen people have been locked away I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! over two kabooms on the convoy of Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti on Monday, district police officer Abdul Rashid said on Tuesday.
Mr Rashid told Dawn here that police were interrogating suspects mostly from Swabi and hoped that the culpable people would be locked away I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! 'very soon'.
He, however, refused to disclose the suspects' names and native areas.
The first blast occurred on Swabi-Jehangira Road when the chief minister was on the way to Karnal Sher Khan Chowk for the inauguration of Swabi-Mardan and Swabi-Topi roads, while the second blast took place in Shewa Adda area when the chief minister's convoy was passing through it.
The bombs were planted on cycle of violences.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... Awami National Party leaders condemned attacks on the chief minister's convoy.
In a joint statement issued here, provincial user and zakat minister Zar Shahid Khan said Monday was a day of happiness for locals because the chief minister was to announce a huge development package for them but enemies of peace carried out the cowardly act to spread terror.
Former MNA Haji Rehmanullah lauded the role of the chief minister, saying Mr Hoti despite the attack addressed the public meeting in Swabi grid station and told party leaders and workers that the government backed their efforts and knew their difficulties and sacrifices.
"We are followers of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and stick to his non-violence philosophy. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... it doesn't mean that we can't defend our homeland. We are preachers of peace and love peace but no one can browbeat us," he said.
ANP district general secretary Tamraiz Khan said leaders and parliamentarians in the district denounced the attacks over the chief minister's convoy and lauded Mr Hoti's courage.
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At least 250 families were evacuated after a fresh encounter between village guards and suspected members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) in Cotabato. The firefight occurred on Monday between the village guards of Lower Paatan and at least 20 heavily armed BIFF members. A paramilitary member was injured in the incident.
Police and military personnel were immediately deployed in the area, prompting the lawless elements to withdraw toward the Liguasan Marsh.
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said, "At least 250 families were evacuated and temporarily sheltered at Lower Paatan Elementary School."
[Dawn] At least five people were killed Wednesday when a US drone targeted a suspected jihad boy compound about 10 kilometres from the main town in volatile North Wazoo region, intelligence sources said.
The US drone fired three missiles in Tappi village, about 10 kilometres southeast of Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... , on a compound which intelligence sources said was a jihad boy facility.
Two missiles hit the house and one struck a vehicle resulting in the death of four suspected jihad boys. A woman was also killed in the strike, sources added. The official sources also said that three cows have also been killed as the house was completely destroyed.
The political administration and the military authorities do not comment on such drone strikes although Pak administration has been complaining to the US government about the illegality of the drone operation.
The identity of those killed in this strike could not be ascertained from independent sources, however the intelligence sources claimed the targeted compound was a suspected jihad boy hideout.
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I sometimes get the feeling the old dumb iron munitions would be more effective - spot a target, drop a B-52 load on him/them. Make the collateral damage hurt - shelter a target in your village and more than a house and a couple of cows get whacked.
A terror cell plotting to cause more damage than the 7/7 attacks joked about driving around as suicide bombers "ready to take on England". One of the alleged ringleaders of the British jihadist group made the comments while being secretly recorded in a car with his co-conspirators, a courtroom was told.
The gang, inspired by al-Qaeda, are accused of planning to use eight suicide bombers to cause "mass death" and carnage on the streets of Britain. The court heard how they even talked about attaching blades to a vehicle and driving into a crowd of people in what was called the "Ultimate Mowing Machine".
The three "senior members of the gang", Irfan Naseer, 31, Irfan Khalid, 27, and Ashik Ali, 27, deny between them a total of 12 terror charges including planning a bombing campaign, recruiting others for terrorism and terrorism fundraising. They were among a total of 12 people arrested by police on various terrorism charges last year.
Naseer and Khalid are accused of twice traveling to Pakistan for terror training and producing martyrdom videos to be shown after their deaths.
The gang is alleged to have planned to use up to eight suicide bombers to detonate rucksacks packed with explosives in crowded places and possibly others on timers. They described turning a Birmingham street into a "little war zone" and wanting "another 9/11".
The court heard how the plot was frustrated because of the euro financial crisis and a decline in the price of gold. It was to be funded by trading £13,500 raised in phony street charity collections in the name of Muslim Aid on financial markets.
But the group's chief fundraiser, Rahin Ahmed, took "terrible losses" in August and September last year after losing £9,000 invested in the foreign exchange market in just four weeks. When confronted he told the gang's alleged ringleader, Naseer, that instability such as the "troubles in Europe" and "gold crashing" had made things "too uncertain". Ahmed has already admitted collecting and investing money for terrorist acts.
Four other men Naweed Ali, 24, Ishaaq Hussain, 20, Khobaib Hussain, 20, and Shahid Khan, 20, have pleaded guilty to going to Pakistan in August last year for terrorist training. Bahader Ali, 29, and another man Mohammed Rizwan, 33 deny terror charges they face and will stand trial next year.
Watch our Project Veritas reporter being educated on how to properly commit massive voter fraud by the son of a sitting US Congressman. Patrick Moran, son of Congressman James Moran, discusses forging utility bills and impersonating pollsters, all for the goal of circumventing voter ID laws in Virginia and casting ballots for unsuspecting inactive voters within the state for Barack Obama. Patrick Moran holds the salaried title of Field Director for his father's congressional campaign, and assures our reporter that "committee" lawyers will defend his fraud if the forged documents "look good".
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Utility bills should not be identification. One could be an illegal alien and have an utility bill. Recently, there was a scandal at our local university where some students were obtaining really good forged identification with photo ID obtained from offshore internet sites. Just send a photo of yourself to the site and the rest is done for you. Even the local police had difficulty identifying the forgeries.
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A utility bill is all you need to register your kid for high school in Kaliphornia. They are prohibited by law from asking whether or not you are a citizen or legal resident. Guess it's the same with registering to vote. Kinda waters down the value of a citizen's vote, huh?
Patrick Moran, the son of Virginia Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) and the field director for his father's reelection bid, resigned abruptly Wednesday after a video linked him to voter fraud.
The video -- released earlier in the day by Project Veritas, a conservative organization headed by the Republican activist James O'Keefe -- revealed that the younger Moran had weighed options for helping an undercover operative cast votes on behalf of 100 people who allegedly weren't planning to vote.
"There will be a lot of voter protection, so, if they just have, you know, the utility bill or bank statement -- bank statement would obviously be tough ... but faking a utility bill would be easy enough," Moran says, apparently referring to options for getting around Virginia's voter ID laws.
Moran's campaign issued a statement confirming the congressman's son had stepped down.
"Patrick is well liked and was a well-respected member of the campaign team. This incident, however, was clearly an error in judgment. The campaign has accepted Patrick's resignation, effective immediately," the statement said.
The resignation comes just a day after Rep. Moran and two other Virginia Democrats -- Reps. Gerry Connolly and Bobby Scott -- had urged the Justice Department to launch an investigation into Strategic Allied Consulting, a GOP firm linked to separate allegations of voter registration fraud in Virginia and Florida.
Questions for anyone with the time to run them down:
1) what will Mr. Patrick Moran be doing Monday? He has left his father's campaign and no longer has a paid job. How will he spend his time? I'm afraid I know the answer but I don't want to appear too cynical.
2) what will Mr. Patrick Moran be doing in six months? Twelve months? Unless I miss my guess, he'll be employed by a Soros-funded NGO.
3) remember those folks at ACORN Mr. O'Keefe previously burned? Where do they work today? Who signs their checks? What are they doing in the two weeks before the election? I'm speculating that the nut doesn't fall too far from the tree.
The points are simple: first, that these folks are crooked through and through.
But more important, unless the conservative side has concerted follow through and an institutional memory, folks like Mr. Moran and the ACORN-ites will simply lay low for a short while and then pick up doing just what they were doing before. Someone else will be signing their checks but the job will be the same.
I applaud Mr. O'Keefe, and I'm especially happy with Prof. Jacobson's efforts at Legal Insurrection. But one thing the conservative moment needs is the ability to watch the people we've caught.
Leopards don't change their spots.
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About 2) From seing many American movies from the sixties here is the answer I would like to "What he will be doing in six months?": Making big stones into little stones all while weraing a chain at his foot.
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I agree with Doc Steve that we need to keep track of these people.
But we also IMO need to change the environment so that they can't thrive. Serious Voter ID systems/enforcement would go a good way to doing that. Not a panacea, but an important element.
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[Yemen Post] The Yemeni authorities revealed on Tuesday an Al-Qaeda plot to retake control of cities in the southern province of Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... including former strongholds such as the strategic city of Jaar, the interior ministry reported.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, AQAP, entrusted the remaining members of its offshoot, Ansar Al-Sharia, in Abyan and Al-Qaeda affiliates in Lahj province to implement the plot, the ministry said.
The Yemeni army launched earlier this year a US-backed offensive and drove the forces of Evil out of their strongholds in Abyan and Shabwa provinces.
Hundreds of forces of Evil including senior were killed, injured and cooled for a few years Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! and the army regained key towns in Abyan including the capital Zinjibar and Jaar during the offensive.
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising... the Yemeni authorities have been hunting the remaining Qaeda operatives across the republic killing and arresting tens of terrorist suspects and dismantling Qaeda cells including those responsible for deadly suicide kabooms in recent months.
The US drones have largely contributed to targeting key beturbanned goon leaders and operatives mainly in southern and southeastern regions.
Al-Qaeda forces of Evil have lately carried out deadly raids against military bases in Abyan killing and wounding tens of soldiers.
The raids indicated Al-Qaeda has started to regroup and reminded the people of similar raids on army bases last year when Al-Qaeda was still on its strength.
"The plot meant the forces of Evil have not learned a lesson from the severe blows including the golden swards operation which drove them out of their strongholds in this province earlier this year," officials at the ministry were quoted as saying.
"Yemen is well-prepared to eradicate terrorism and face like the plots and the forces of Evil will receive severer blows this time," they added.
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History says, yep National Defense is expensive.
It also says that either you play the game, which requires that expense, or the game will eventually play you. You can either influence events as a doer or be influenced by events as a victim.
[Dawn] Governor Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Masood Kausar on Wednesday said that majority of the Pak Taliban were in favour of the anti-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... drive but only few of Pak Taliban fractions were against the campaign, DawnNews reported.
Talking to media representatives after inauguration of the anti-polio drive at 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. University, Kausar said that the Pak Taliban was not a single unit rather its consisted of different groups who do not take orders from a centralised body.
He said that had there was peace in the tribal areas the anti-polio drive would have been more successful.
He said that the areas which could not be accessed by the government officials, implementation of campaign were implemented through non-governmental means. Help of local rustics and 'jirgas' was also sought, he added.
He reiterated that the majority of Pak Taliban were in favour of government's anti-poli drive.
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[Yemen Post] Saudi border guards incarcerated Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! on Monday about 60 Yemenis from Saada governorate after they attempted to control deserted houses on the Saudi-Yemenis borders, Yemeni media sources affirmed.
They said the Yemenis who are affiliated to the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is "God is Great, Death to America™", Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews" ... group tried to control a Saudi Tel-communication cell located in the area.
The Saudi military had engaged in a war with the Houthi group in 2009 after Houthi fighters crossed into Saudi territory.
The Houthi group has recently allied with the former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... against their joint political foes, Yemeni media sources affirmed.
Yemeni political sources had stated that Houthi fighters were trained in camps of the Republican Guard led by the elderly son of Saleh, Ahmed Ali in the framework of cooperation between Saleh's family and Houthis. Meanwhile, ...back at the sea battle, the Terror of the Baltic's career had come to an abrupt and watery end... tribal leaders affirmed that the Houthi group set up three camps in Saada and Amran to recruit and train fighters, pointing out that Houthi fighters are transferred to Iran and Leb to receive training.
The Houthi group had involved in six wars with the central government, the last one ending in 2010. The founder of the Houthi group, Hussein Al-Houthi was killed in 2004 during the first round of the war.
The Houthis are accused of attempting to expand and take control on Saada, Hajja, Amran and other northern governorates with support of Iran. They engaged in fierce battles with tribes of Hajja early of the current year.
Their festivities with Salafis in Saada first erupted in November 2011 and they were ceased in line with truce agreement brokered by tribal leaders
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(Sh.M.Network)--The Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) and those of Somalia have have captured Al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban... women's leader in Kismayu port.
Apart from the woman, the troops also locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! 72 suspected Orcs and similar vermin and recovered an assortment of weapons.
Among those locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! was the woman identified as Marianna Issa Mohammed who was identified by residents of Kismayu as the Al-Shabaab women leader.
Her arrest is seen as a boost as the troops race to pacify the city that has been under the rule of the Orcs and similar vermin for long.
KDF information operations officer Col Cyrus Oguna said the Sunday operation was a success because of the cooperation from the locals.
Col Oguna added the troops also locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! five Al-Shabaab members as they tried to enter Kenya in Kolbio area.
Two KDF soldiers were maimed in the exercise after the Orcs and similar vermin engaged them in a shootout that left three of them killed and two AK 47 rifles and an RPG recovered.
"Economic activities continue to thrive at the Port City with 5 ships carrying foodstuffs and cement docking at the Kismayu Sea Port today," said Col Oguna in a statement on Tuesday.
He added the UN and WHO representatives visited the area on a fact finding mission and were received warmly by the locals.
The troops took control of Kismayu last month in an operation that has been seen as a success in their efforts to restore order in the war torn country.
The Kenyan troops crossed to Somalia last year in an operation that was aimed at neutralising the turbans.
In a related development, police in Wajir intercepted a lorry carrying 400 sacks of sugar from Somalia on Tuesday.
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So, one sack of crap and 400 of sugar intercepted
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Ashrafuzzaman Khan, a former president and secretary-general of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), will be charged with war crimes, according to Mohammad Abdul Hannan Khan, coordinator of the investigation agency of the Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal.
Khan revealed the plans for the indictment during a press briefing October 9. Khan will be charged by Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal for his involvement in the torture and execution of 18 political opponents in 1971 during Bangladesh's fight for independence from Pakistain.
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[Yemen Post] Yemen has denied media reports that Turkey had requested to establish a training camp for the Syrian free army in the country, the Al-Shara'a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The paper quoted a bigwig in the Yemeni government as saying the media reports that Turkey's foreign minister, Ahmed Oglo, has conveyed the request during his visit to Yemen this week was 'untrue'.
Oglo left Sanaa three days ago after his visit that came to confirm his country's support to Yemen. During the visit key bilateral agreements, mainly in the economic field, were signed.
"The information was baseless because Yemen and Turkey never talked about such a request. The two countries focused on economic cooperation and other key issues of mutual interest" the official said.
"Yemen is very far from the battles between the Syrian regime and free army forces, and for this, such reports were not reasonable," the official said, wondering about media attempts aimed at widening disagreements among the Yemeni political factions and harming the Yemeni president's character.
The paper also quoted an official from the Islah party as denying that President Abdrabu Mansour Hadi had met with officials from the party to discuss the Turkish request.
Muhammad Qahtan said we already met the president but the report about such a request was really unacceptable, according to the paper.
"Yemen has no borders with Syria and the status of the Syrian free army requires logistic and training aid from a neighboring country, not ours".
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[Yemen Post] Yemen's intelligence service, the National Security, has placed in long-term storage Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! on Wednesday morning six Yemenis who were released from Iraqi prisons.
Families of the detainees could not meet them at Sana'a Airport as they were taken to another gate and transferred to a custody of t he National Security.
A Yemeni human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... group, Hood, called to swiftly release the returnees and allow them to spend Eid al-Adha holiday, a Moslem religious holiday, with their families.
About 16 Yemenis including two women are still languishing in Iraqi jails. One man was sentenced to death, but the Yemeni authorities have recently received insurances that he will not be executed.
Prime Minister Mohammad Salem Basindwa had called the Iraqi authorities to extradite Yemenis imprisoned in Iraq.
The Iraqi Ambassador Assad Al-Samraee said, in a meeting with Yemeni officials, Iraq will positively respond to the demands of exchanging detainees between Yemen and Iraq.
Sana'a has witnessed protests carried out by relatives of Yemenis imprisoned in Iraq in which they demanded the Yemeni government to form a ministerial committee to follow up cases of Yemeni detainees held in Iraq.
Yemen nationals have been languishing at Iraqi prisons since nine years on charges of entering Iraq illegally.
According to human rights groups, Yemeni prisoners were not enabled to defend themselves or have lawyers.
A lawyer of a Yemeni human rights group, Hood, had said that Yemeni detainees face risks in Iraq, accusing the Yemeni government of ignoring their cases.
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[Dawn] THE visit to Kabul by NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen along with the 35 ambassadors who participate in the NATO council in Brussels was, from Afghanistan's perspective, particularly welcome.
A delegation of permanent representatives of the UN Security Council (UNSC) had cancelled a scheduled visit for security reasons shortly after the UNSC authorised the extension of the stay of NATO forces in Afghanistan up to Oct 13, 2013.
There was good reason for concern on the part of the UN delegation. The Taliban are not conquering territory or restoring their writ in areas they have vacated. But they have established through attacks on Camp Bastion and subsequently on another base in eastern Afghanistan that they are capable of launching sophisticated and complex attacks on what were considered to be invulnerable targets.
They have also been able to create the perception that either because of their infiltration or as a consequence of what is termed 'cultural differences', a substantial number of Afghan cops cannot be relied upon to protect their NATO partners and may well attack what they perceive as lucrative targets such as a high-level UN delegation.
There was also good reason for the NATO delegates to come despite the security threat. Rasmussen needed to reassure the Afghans that despite all the news that had been appearing about the US and other NATO countries, NATO was committed to the end-2014 withdrawal timetable.
He also made reassuring noises about NATO being prepared to maintain a presence in Afghanistan and that the latter would not be left alone after 2014.
In answers to questions, however, Rasmussen did concede that if conditions permitted, the withdrawal could come earlier. This has to be read in conjunction with an interview given to the Guardian by the new British ambassador in Kabul who, having acknowledged that there was an ongoing debate about withdrawal, hinted that not only was an early pullout possible but that it was preferable.
What was perhaps of greater importance was Karzai's assertion that he was quite prepared to handle the situation arising from an earlier withdrawal -- the sort of defiant note that has characterised all his recent statements about his NATO allies. This is, to put it mildly, something of a departure from reality given that not one Afghan battalion is graded as capable of handling an operation without assistance.
An International Crisis Group report published a few days ago asserts in this context that only seven per cent of the army and nine per cent of the national police units are considered capable of independent action even with advisers.
To make matters more difficult, the Afghan cops, particularly the army, are faced with a situation where the annual desertion rate is 33 per cent and 65,000 soldiers have to be recruited every year to fill the ranks.
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IMO, post-2014 increased reliance by the US-NATO on Drone strikes to take out assorted Hard/Bad Boyz directly infers Global Prompt Strike = Space Strike.
Iff UAV-launched Hellfires, etc. don't get 'em, Armed Dirigibles in high atmospheric orbit, ABL + Space-based Lasers will.
[STAR WARS' "GRAND ARMY OF THE [Space]REPUBLIC" here].
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Afganistan is not a place where you grow old and live in comfort and peace.
The former ruler was a man named Najibullah ( the Bull ) When the Russians pulled out they abandoned him. He fled to the UN compound and....
"Perhaps Najibullah deserved a bad death as much as any man in the country, but his end was still horrifying. In 1996, Mullah Omar captured Kabul. The Taliban broke into the UN compound and dragged Najibullah out into the street. They beat, hanged, and shot him, leaving his swaying battered corpse in the street, a sacrifice to the victims of KhAD."
the body swung up there in the cold breeze and nobody cut it down anytime soon. After a couple of weeks it was naked and stripped and had cigarette burns all over the swollen corpse and Afghan paper currency stuffed between his butt cheeks.
Karzai is in a line of work which doesn't have a lot of space to live to get old. If the US were to abandon him ( couldn't happen right?) he would last about a week...maybe.
he is a fractious sock puppet. he won't make it in the long term.
We've been training them for 10 years. We've put tens of billions into arms, infrastructure, salaries. The result is a handful of combat effective units, a fair number of units that are at least cohesive and a lot of units that are made up of illiterates, drug users, Taliban syms or some combination of the three.
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..that's why so much aid money has gone off the books. Unlike the parsimonious Russians with his predecessor, the current personage probably has a nice retirement fund set aside in a secure account somewhere.
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There are many ways to apply pesticide. One that is quite effective is from the air. There is no good reason for us to keep troops on the ground in this cess-pool. Get them out, and then, should anything happen that starts there, bomb from on high.
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"The result is a handful of combat effective units, a fair number of units that are at least cohesive and a lot of units that are made up of illiterates, drug users, Taliban syms or some combination of the three Democrats."
Somebody had to do it. ;-p
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The 15-nation council issued a statement backing the ceasefire after Brahimi outlined how the conflict is worsening but added that President Bashar al-Assad had accepted his proposal
The council reaffirmed demands for the government to allow "full and unimpeded humanitarian access" to cities where activists say more than 35,000 people have been killed in the past 19 months
In a video presentation from Cairo, Brahimi told a closed-door meeting of the council that Assad has accepted his proposal but that he was waiting for the government's formal statement which is expected on Thursday
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[An Nahar] Jordanian police said on Tuesday they have placed in long-term storage Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! seven Syrians for carrying 35 "advanced" walkie-talkies, which are banned in the kingdom.
"The seven Syrian men were placed in long-term storage Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! on Monday in Amman and Irbid (in the north)," police front man Mohammed Khatib told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"In addition to the 35 advanced walkie-talkies, which are illegal here, they had types of receivers that can be directly linked to satellites, three personal computers and a night vision device."
He gave no further details.
The arrests were made on the heels of Jordan's announcement it had foiled a "terrorist plot" and placed in long-term storage Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! 11 al-Qaeda suspects who planned to carry out suicide kabooms against shopping malls, foreigners and diplomatic missions in the kingdom.
Separately, a Jordanian soldier was killed before dawn on Monday in a clash with gun-hung tough guys trying to cross the border into neighboring Syria.
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Now if they had bayonets and horses the Jordanians would have called Obambi at 3am.
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...and automatically forwarded to the State Department watch desk.
Police have charged an alleged Muslim rioter with animal cruelty on the celebrated police dog who brought a famous fugitive to heel. The man is alleged to have kicked police dog Chuck and punched two officers during last month's violent Islamic protest in Sydney.
Detectives arrested the 26-year-old on Wednesday after he turned himself in. He was charged with rioting, two counts of assaulting police and committing an act of animal cruelty.
The man is alleged to have punched an Australian Federal Police officer in the head with a clenched fist outside the US Consulate during the demonstration. Police also allege he kicked Chuck in the ribs and later punched a policewoman to the ground.
Chuck helped catch Malcolm Naden in March, biting the accused murderer on the arm as he emerged from his hideaway in the dead of night. The German shepherd's actions gave police vital time to clap Naden in handcuffs and close the book on their seven-year manhunt.
The man arrested on Wednesday is the 12th person to face charges over the September 15 riots in Sydney's Central Business District.
[Bangla Daily Star] An alleged criminal was killed in a "shootout" between his accomplices and Rab members in Kachua upazila of Chandpur early yesterday. Kachua upazila of Chandpur: Out of the way spot. Quaint bed and breakfasts Betcha a Garmin can't find it...
Betcha Old Patriot can.
The dear departed was identified as Jamal Hossain alias Boro Jamal, 45, son of Adam Ali of Megdai village in the upazila.
Several Rab members also sustained injures during the shootout, said Md Alamgir Hossain, officer-in-charge of Kachua Police Station, quoting Rab officials.
Jamal was accused in five cases including robbery and theft, he said. Baby, he's a bad man... Good robber, but a bad man.
The OC said on a tip-off that Jamal and his gang were preparing to commit a robbery, a team of Rab-11 conducted a raid at Bachaiya village in the upazila around 2:00am. 0200, Sarge. I've heard about these early morning ops, Sarge.
Shutup and lock and load. Spider senses tingling at the proximity of the elite force, the gang opened fire on them, forcing the Rab to retaliate. That's the good guys returning fire, for the uninitiated...
After around a half an hour-long gunbattle, Jamal's bullet-ridden body was found lying in a pool of blood Right where the coppers had dumped it...
Queerly enough, the only bullets found after 30 minutes of wild firing into the night were the two behind poor Mr. Jamal's ears.
while his accomplices managed to evaporate. As if they'd never been there...
Police took the body to Chandpur Sadar Hospital morgue for his appointment with Doctor Quincy.
"He's dead, Jim."
" Dr. Quincy is a doctor among doctors. He made the diagnosis without even looking!"
Rab men recovered a firearm and several machetes from the spot.
That's the gang's mistake right there: never bring machetes to a gun fight.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The right wing has lost the election of 2012.
Pipeline developer TransCanada's Gulf Coast project has been dogged by protesters in east Texas but its progress in Oklahoma has been slowed by concerns about the American burying beetle.
Obama's Keystone Cops at it again. 
I seem to remember an article here at Rantburg yesterday about Texas Attorney General saying to these people, "Don't Mess With Texas". Good advice. 
Military officials said they were investigating the deaths amid conflicting reports of what had happened and "a very confusing picture on the ground".
A Minneapolis man described in recent court testimony as a key terrorist recruiter was jailed Wednesday amid disclosure that another young Twin Cities man appears to have returned to Somalia to fight with Al-Shabab, a U.S. designated terrorist group.
Its Rantburg U, of course....... Rantburg gets its click... and it needs one more from you.....
Syrian rebels claim that Iran is hiding a stock of enriched uranium at a highly-protected site north of Damascus. 
General (Retd) Mirza 
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[BBC] A man suspected of involvement in an attack on the US consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi last month has been killed in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, officials say.
Imagine this: You're having a pleasant afternoon with your buddies, playing the links at San Juan Hills Golf Club.
A 41-year-old car washer from northeastern Brazil shocked his family by turning up at his own wake after his family mistakenly identified a murdered local man at the morgue as him, local media reported Tuesday.
[An Nahar] Libya on Tuesday celebrated the first anniversary of its "liberation" from the regime of 
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Mohmand Agency
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(CBS Atlanta) - New research suggests that the phenomenon of premenstrual syndrome, known more commonly as PMS, may not occur the way many have thought over the years.
[An Nahar] Peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said Wednesday that Syria and "most" rebel chiefs have agreed to a truce this week, boosting hopes of a breakthrough in the conflict, but the main armed opposition group was skeptical.
President Obama recently sat down with the editorial board of Iowa's largest newspaper, the Des Moines Register, for what his campaign stipulated would be an off-the-record discussion:
Syrian warplanes raided the rebel-held town of Maaret al-Numan on Wednesday, monitors said, as peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi prepared to brief the U.N. Security Council on his ceasefire efforts.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
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Six people were killed in incidents of violence across 
At least five people were killed Wednesday when a US drone targeted a suspected
A terror cell plotting to cause more damage than the 7/7 attacks joked about driving around as suicide bombers "ready to take on England". One of the alleged ringleaders of the British jihadist group made the comments while being secretly recorded in a car with his co-conspirators, a courtroom was told. 
Patrick Moran, the son of Virginia Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) and the field director for his father's reelection bid, resigned abruptly Wednesday after a video linked him to voter fraud. 
The Yemeni authorities revealed on Tuesday an Al-Qaeda plot to retake control of cities in the southern province of 
[Dawn] Governor 
THE visit to Kabul by 
Police have charged an alleged Muslim rioter with animal cruelty on the celebrated police dog who brought a famous fugitive to heel. The man is alleged to have kicked police dog Chuck and punched two officers during last month's violent Islamic protest in Sydney.
[Bangla Daily Star] An alleged criminal was killed in a "shootout" between his accomplices and Rab members in Kachua upazila of Chandpur early yesterday.
