[PJMedia] I have been reading Peter Schweizer's book Clinton Cash with brief pauses to wipe the puke off the computer screen. For the past fifteen years, there has been no sewer too stinky for Bill and Hillary to bathe in. Most of Schweizer's research has already made the mainstream media, but the sheer mass of it still amazes. It's not one malfeasance or three, but an unbroken pattern of overtly corrupt behavior trading half-million-dollar speaking fees and multi-million-dollar payoffs to the Clintons' foundation in return for billion-dollar mining concessions and corporate takeovers staged by the most revolting gangsters in the jungle of Third World governance. The English language needs a word like the Yiddish term "chutzpah" to describe them, but without the connotation of modesty and discretion.
What kind of people are we Americans, that we allow these kleptocrat's hirelings to persist in public life? The answer, I fear, is that we have become corrupt ourselves. I've seen enough corruption in the Third World to know that it requires the consent of the governed.
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FTA: After the biggest scam in U.S. financial history,... What is this "after" stuff? The biggest scam in US financial history is still going great guns.
[DAWN] AT least some purveyors of hate are discovering that there are consequences. On Tuesday, an anti-terrorism court sentenced a prayer leader from Kasur to five years' imprisonment for delivering a hate speech at a public gathering.
The case against Qari Abubakar had been filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act on a complaint by a sub-inspector.
The prosecution produced a video recording of the incident to reinforce its argument that the prayer leader was attempting to inflame sectarian sentiments with his words.
Reportedly, 21 people have been convicted this year in Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... for delivering hate speeches, with some of them tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! for eight years. More than 4,000 individuals have been placed in durance vile Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! for this particular crime in the last few months, according to Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan in a recent briefing to the Senate.
While the arrest of such large numbers of people in the absence of details as to how many of them have actually been charged or had legal proceedings initiated against them, means little in concrete terms, we now have evidence that some substantive action is being taken.
Even though this is but a drop in the vast swamp of religious intolerance that has to be drained, it is to be welcomed.
For far too long, odious, divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... narratives from the pulpit have been allowed to circulate freely; this has directly contributed to religious intolerance in our society and even, in some cases, to crimes committed in the name of faith.
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... closing the prison gates on individuals who spew such rhetoric is only the beginning: unless properly monitored they can continue to exert a malign influence on those behind bars with them.
It is also pertinent to ask at this point whether similar action would be taken against some of the bigger names in the business of peddling hate, or will only the comparatively small fry be silenced?
Taking the long view, there is another, even more insidious aspect of creating fissures within society along faith lines that continues virtually unabated. That, as pointed out in a conference on Tuesday by the National Commission for Justice and Peace, is the strain of religious triumphalism that runs through our school textbooks that casts aspersions on followers of minority faiths.
Speakers rightly commented that such propaganda has had a profound and intergenerational impact. There is no time better than now to tackle this issue that lies at the root of religious intolerance.
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[DAWN] WHO exactly targets and shoots Ahmadis dead we don't know. Who targets and kills Shias, we kind of know, or their organizational association in any case. Who targets and kills women suspected of sexual transgressions we precisely know, right down to the address. It is usually the same as the victim's. But the effect is the same. The entire system is tilted against them.
This is the nature of impunity in Pakistain. It is not just that perpetrators are exempt from punishment. Structurally, the state has derived its legitimacy in part through impunity trade-offs. Instead of asserting a monopoly on violence, it has historically allowed enclaves of violence as a power-sharing formula. Authority over violence was extended to the jirga, the wadera, the sardar; the krazed killer murderous Moslems; non-interference agreements that vested legitimacy and underwrote the state's writ.
There seems to be a creeping change. The state seems to be asserting its direct presence for the first time in the most unregulated periphery of all: private space. Underage and forced marriages are now outlawed; domestic violence criminalised; violent acts, defended as culture, prohibited.
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Because like most Arab armies they're more suited for oppressing the populace? Because like most Arab armies they've no support whatsoever from the guys who send them to fight and die?
[RUDAW.NET] Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) forces of Evil captured Anbar's largest city of Ramadi on Sunday, forcing Iraqi troops to retreat. Hundreds of people were killed during the offensive, many of them civilians. The Iraqi government has deployed at least 3,000 Shiite murderous Moslems nearby Ramadi in response.
In the past 72 hours US-led Arclight airstrikes have conducted 19 Arclight airstrikes in areas surrounding Ramadi, targeting ISIS.
The Iraqi army left behind at least 30 armoured vehicles and dozens of weapons while retreating Ramadi. The pictures of weapons left behind surfaced on various ISIS affiliated social networking sites, boasting of their victory in the face of what seems to be a crippled army.
This is not the first time that the Iraqi army has fled in the face of ISIS, and often leaving weapons behind for them. The question that has prompted much-heated discussions online has been -- why? The Iraqi army is well-equipped and trained, but has consistently failed to drive ISIS forces of Evil out, while the poorly equipped Kurds in Kobani canton, fought ISIS vehemently during a 134-day siege despite lack of sufficient equipment.
Ramadi did not fall to thousands of ISIS fighters, but surprisingly to 150 fighters in the face of an army of 6,000 according to a former US Central Command Adviser Ali Khedery.
Although the US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... has downplayed the significance of the defeat by saying, "I am absolutely confident in the days ahead that will be reversed", the damage to Iraqi army's reputation has plundered.
Official statistics indicate that at least 500,000 people live in Anbar city, which is a predominately Sunni area. Between 2012 and 2013 there were large-scale protests and strikes against the former Prime Minister and current Vice President Nuri al-Maliki. The tensions between Shiites and Sunni were furthered, and Maliki's troops were deployed to quell protests.
Rafi al-Issawi, the former Sunni Deputy Prime Minister argued that US should directly arm Sunnis to keep the Iraqi state unified, while speaking at the Brookings Institution in Washington. This might help ease tensions between Iraq's Sunni population, which has suffered alienation by the previous Iraqi cabinet.
The Iraqi army's defeat has not only rocked their confidence and morale but the public'a faith in their ability to function as a capable army to defend the nation against a notorious threat. Perhaps, there's more at play than we imagine because the Iraqi army's incompetence further legitimises the deployment of Shiite murderous Moslems in Sunni-populated areas, which has been opposed by Sunni groups, fearing reprisals by the militiamen.
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The problem with deploying the Shiite militias is that they're less competent than the Iraqi army and they're given to the same kind of rape and pillage as the IS animals.
Maliki spent much of his time in office purging Sunnis. The Sawha troops who had assisted (without bearing the full burden) in the surge were stiffed on their pay. Where he could get away with it the Sawhwa were disbanded. The army is predominantly Shiite--and I'm sure the ranks are conscious of the fact.
The Kurds are going out of their way to emphasize the secular nature of their regime. They are "Kurdish," but they are allied with and have elements that are Assyrian and Chaldean and Turkmen--and Arab. The Peshmerga has actually been around longer than the current Iraqi army and it appears to be well-disciplined and competently officered.
It's hard to emphasize how much that last means. The militias, like al-Sadr's and the Badr Brigades and the Iraqi Hezbollah, tend to be swarms of light infantry. They wave their guns, make faces, and charge. They win when there are sufficiently more of them than the enemy; they overwhelm with numbers, not with tactics. If there aren't quite enough of them they'll turn around and run.
Arming the Peshmerga would put them in position to seriously oppose IS and probably win. The reason we (meaning the U.S., in the person of the B.O. administration) haven't done this is because strengthening the Kurds makes an eventual Kurdistan, including territories in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and eventually Iran, much more likely. The Saudis don't like that idea because the Kurds aren't Arabs. The Turks don't like it because they've been fighting a nuisance war with them for years. The Iraqis don't like it because there's lots of oil money involved that they won't get to rake off. The Syrians approximately ditto.
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At this point, would you seriously want this administration "strengthening the Kurds"?
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I do NOT buy the "only 150" BS. They're not popular enough to hold the city with that few troops. That's a company -- how much area can a company patrol, 24x7? There's close to 200,000 people in Ramadi -- if only 1 in a 1,000 people are willing to take up arms, the ISIS thugs are out-numbered. Even a little coordination and they're outnumbered AT ANY INSTANT IN TIME.
And the pics we saw out of there took more than 150 to stage.
Does this administration trust the idiot press to repeat ANYTHING?
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Kirsten Powers’ new book, “The Silencing,” nails it by showing just how bad things have gotten for free speech in America. It’s going to get a whole lot worse, and I’ll explain why.
Powers has dubbed today’s intolerant purveyors of leftist causes the “the illiberal left” because, as a liberal herself, she sees them as anything but liberal about allowing a voice to those who don’t toe their rigid line. Her book catalogues and analyzes the dehumanization and demonization techniques the illiberal Left applies towards anyone who dares to veer from their rigid narratives. Their sacred cows include abortion, climate change, same-sex marriage, and second-wave feminism. Dissenters are systematically smeared and destroyed.
There is no small irony in the fact that the crazed reaction from the illiberal Left to Powers’ book demonstrates the very behaviors and attitudes she critiques. Social media immediately erupted with a hate-fest and swarmed Powers on Twitter, in exactly the manner described in her book. It’s yet another exercise in promoting groupthink and suppressing freedom of expression by those who want to tell us all what we must think.
But I would add that most of this is coming straight out of the Left’s holy of holies: the LGBT lobby (whose agenda Powers happens to support.) Because next up on the LGBT hit parade is the literal silencing of America—with the force of the federal government behind it. Much more at the link
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Christian dissenters will stand their ground but they are in decline. What is increasing is the population of the Mohammedan in America and they are increasing exponentially, they will destroy the gay community and subdue it in the West as the count down to the Apocalypse continues.
All of this ultimately leads to leads to the worst case scenario of the decades such as what Iraq and Syria are now experiencing with the atrocities committed against those populations by ISIS. Atrocities never thought could happen until today.
A bit of silliness by a Salon writer who believes that calling bikers sexist will bring tears to their (bikers') eyes
In the parking lot of a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Tx. this Sunday, nine were killed, 18 injured and at least 170 arrested in a shootout between the Bandidos and the Cossacks — two rival biker gangs believed to be fighting for control of Texas.
OMGs, or outlaw motorcycle gangs, are organizations that take advantage of their motorcycle clubs in order to conduct criminal activities. According to the FBI, "OMGs are highly structured criminal organizations whose members engage in criminal activities such as violent crime, weapons trafficking, and drug trafficking." The most notable gangs include the Hells Angels, Mongols, Outlaws, Sons of Silence and the Bandidos.
OMGs first formed after World War II, as subcultures that promoted nonconformity and the outlaw life.
"Thrill-seeking attracted some returning veterans to choose a saloon society lifestyle centered around motorcycles," wrote James Quinn, a professor at the University of North Texas. "Positive views of military experiences, and the intense camaraderie they bred, also made such a lifestyle attractive."
In fact, bikers and law enforcement are still intertwined — one of the bikers busted in the Waco shooting is a retired detective.
They adopted the term "one percenters" to describe themselves after a 1960s speech from the then president of the American Motorcycle Association argued that 99 percent of motorcyclists lived according to the law. The one percenters, obviously, do not.
Today, OMGs are actually a fairly small portion of the U.S. gang population, with only 2.5 percent of gang members belonging to an OMG, however the FBI considers them a disproportionately large threat. In the 2013 National Gang Report, the FBI found that 11 percent of respondents report that OMGs are the most violent gang type in their areas. More insipid garbage at the link...
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.
[DAWN] WHO exactly targets and shoots Ahmadis dead we don't know. Who targets and kills Shias, we kind of know, or their organizational association in any case. Who targets and kills women suspected of sexual transgressions we precisely know, right down to the address. It is usually the same as the victim's. But the effect is the same. The entire system is tilted against them.
Although the US Secretary of State 
