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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Lynda Carter aka Wonder Woman in "The New Adventures of Wonder Woman" aka Bobbie Jo Baker in "Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw" aka Charlotte Furber in "Lightning in a Bottle" aka Governor Jessman in "Super Troopers" aka Principal Powers in "Sky High" (age 60)
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East Coast power companies are having some problems and are playing smart meter games with their customers, which might be it, if it's not just another nuisance DOS attack.
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Lag time was introduced as a side-effect of our keeping Justice out of the Burg. We have some scripts running in the background. That has slowed us down some. Fred and Badanov are under the hood working on it.
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In the meantime... Well, they did say "remote".
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I am getting the following when trying to open articles. offered FYI
Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Too many connections in /home/www/www.rantburg.com/htdocs/mysql_connect.php on line 6
Unable to connect!
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GolfBravo,
Lynda Carter aka "Mazoga the Orc", vidgame voice talent Oblivion Elder Scrolls 2006.
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The DDoS attack we've been suffering through for the past few days has involved a lot of hits on ports 81 and 8080. I've shut them down for now and might leave them shut down.
For those who access using those ports, sorry.
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The DDoS attack
For those lacking the nerd gene, Distributed Denial of Service attack - using a whole bunch of computers to stop another one from functioning by trying to over-load it.
The thing I find amusingly ironic about Justice and his ilk (No, J*, 'irony' is not a synonym for 'metallic') is that the technology he uses for his simple-minded copy&paste ranting is entirely a product of Western civilization. Electricity, electronics, computers, the Interwebs, the generators and wires to run it - all stuff discovered or invented by the Infidel. Without it, he would be out sitting in a wadi somewhere, whispering sweet nothings to his favorite goat.
[Tolo News] At least 23 Talibs were killed in a joint operation by Afghan and foreign forces in Afghanistan, officials said.
Sixteen Talibs were killed in Afghan and foreign forces operation in Baghran district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province on Friday night, governor's Media Office said on Saturday.
Five other Talibs were maimed during the operation, the Media Office added.
Did any of them have cell phones for the relationship-mapping program?
Afghan and foreign forces and civilians suffered no casualties during the operation, it said.
The Media Office said that during the operation the joint forces have seized weapons and Improvised Explosive Devices.
The operation comes as Afghan forces have taken security responsibility of Lashkargah the capital of Helmand province a few days ago.
At least seven other Talibs were killed in US forces operation in Gelan, Wagha districts and Qala-e-Qazi area of Ghazni province on Saturday, Zorawar Zahid, police chief told TOLOnews news hound.
Mr Zahid said five imported muscle are among those killed and a US soldier was also maimed during the operation.
May he heal well and quickly.
A US tank has been damaged during the operation which still continues.
Insurgents have recently increased their activities in Ghazni province targeting Afghan police check posts and government sites.
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[Tolo News] Afghan cops on Saturday officially took the security responsibilities of the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif, the relatively peaceful capital for Balkh province, from international forces.
Good luck, guys. .
In a security handover ceremony, NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... transitioned security responsibilities of the city of Mazar-e-Sharif to Afghan forces as part of the security transition process that will last until the end of 2014.
The ceremony was attended by senior civilian and military officials.
"In the past nine years PRTs (Provincial Reconstruction Teams) haven't done any significant job in terms of reconstruction and development in Balkh, so their presence and absence would be the same and wouldn't make any difference," Balkh Governor Atta Mohammad Noor said.
"We truly understand that putting the security and military burden of our country on our international friends forever would not be rational.
He said that he welcomed the official transition of this responsibility to the Afghan forces and will do everything in his power to carry out this responsibility with honour.
Governor Noor said there will be no 'serious difficulties in the short-term.'
"But, given the change in the fighting tactics of Islamic fascistiand their supporters, who use nontraditional, irregular and grueling method of war in all dimensions, especially aimless killing of the civilians and liquidation of elite civil and military figures, we will face many challenges in the long run," he said.
Northern Balkh has been a relatively peaceful province.
Afghan cops have so far taken over security responsibilities of Bamyan province, Mehterlam the capital for eastern Laghman province, Lashkargah the capital for southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province, city of Herat and the city of Mazar-e-Sharif.
Afghan forces have taken over security responsibilities of some of the first handover regions, as Afghan people are still doubtful about their ability to maintain security in the areas.
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[Dawn] Aid agencies are unable to reach more than two million Somalis facing starvation in the famine-struck Horn of Africa country where Islamist Orcs and similar vermin control much of the worst-hit areas, the UN's food agency said on Saturday.
World Food Programme (WFP) officials said the areas of southern Somalia controlled by the al Qaeda-linked 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. The organization's current leader is Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad, also known as Ibrahim al-Afghani. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a Kenyan al-Qaeda member, is considered the group's military leader... , which imposed a ban on food aid in 2010, were among the most dangerous to operate in worldwide.
"There are 2.2 million people yet to be reached. It is the most dangerous environment we are working in the world. But people are dying. It's not about politics, it's about saving lives now," Josette Sheeran, WFP's executive director, told agency staff and news hounds in northeastern Kenya.
The drought gripping the region straddling Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia is the worst for 20 years and is affecting some 10 million people, the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... says. In southern Somalia, 3.7 million people risk starvation.
WFP was among several groups ordered out of rebel-held areas last year who were now preparing to return. A WFP official briefing Sheeran said the agency was considering food drops from aircraft in regions inaccessible by land.
Aid groups also face landmines in the border areas where al-Shabaab clashed with Kenyan and Ethiopian forces earlier this year, said Regis Chapman, WFP Somalia's head of programme.
Sheeran visited the pastoralist village of El Adow some 100 km from the Somali border.
A Rooters witness said cattle carcasses littered the arid lands surrounding the settlement.
More than a quarter of the children in the area are malnourished and a third of adults receiving food handouts, UN data showed.
Nice Gesture, But Not Enough In that case, it's too much.
In El Adow, 75 year-old Nimau Witou clutched three bags of wheat, soya, beans and a can of cooking oil, given to her by WFP, lamenting the demise of her entire herd of livestock. The handout should last her and her family a month.
"It's a nice gesture but it's not enough," Witou told Rooters.
"And it's not the kind of food we are used to; it's the wrong kind of food. But it's our only lifeline," she said.
Alongside Sheeran was La Belle France's Agriculture Minister Bruno Le Maire, who will report to a UN emergency meeting in Rome on Monday.
Al-Shabaab have accused the UN of exaggerating the gravity of the humanitarian crisis and denounced the declaration of famine in two parts of Somalia as political.
Aid agencies the hardline group expelled from southern Somalia in 2010 could not return, they said, reversing a previous pledge.
Somalia's beleaguered government exerts almost no power outside of the capital, Mogadishu, where government forces and African troops are battling to quash the rebels' four-year insurgency. It condemned the bad turbans' aid ban.
"The bully boyz are literally and deliberately starving the people to death," Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali said in a statement. "It is the insurgency itself that is the root cause of the famine."
Cycles of drought and flooding have become increasing frequent across the Horn of Africa and east Africa, due largely to global warming.
Or possibly to maldistribution of resources due to endless and vicious internecine warfare
"We know that food aid is not the solution for us in the long term," said primary school teacher Abdi Kadir Mohamed in El Adow. "We need to be better prepared for drought."
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As horrible as the murders in Norway were, that killer will get more news coverage in the West than the jihadists in Somalia who may kill TWO MILLION people through starvation.
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"It's a nice gesture but it's not enough... And it's not the kind of food we are used to; it's the wrong kind of food. But it's our only lifeline"
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Yeah, well lemme know when the concert is, okay?
I had a buddy of mine in the Marines who went from Kuwait to Mogadishu in 92 for Restore Hope for a coupla months. By the time he left all he wanted to feed these people was lead.
* TOPIX, DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > KIM JONG-IL HAS MCDONALD'S FLOWN INTO NORTH KOREA, via Air Koryo from China allegedly whenever Kimmie + Regime start to feel the hunger.
[An Nahar] Leaders of Sudan's main opposition group, whose men are fighting government troops in South Kordofan, on Saturday rejected calls to disarm and said they would negotiate only via an outside third party.
The northern branch of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, the ruling party of South Sudan, in a statement also accused the government of seeking to destroy north-south relations just two weeks after formal southern independence.
SPLM-north chairman Malik Agar, his deputy Abdelaziz al-Hilu and the party's secretary general Yasser Arman met in South Kordofan earlier this week for just the second time since the conflict there erupted on June 5.
"The meeting praised and valued... the refusal of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) to be disarmed, in addition to the impressive victories achieved under the leadership of Comrade Abdulaziz al-Hilu," the group said.
For more than six weeks, heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... including relentless air strikes has raged across South Kordofan between government troops and Nuba forces of Evil led by Hilu, who fought with the former rebel army of the south during its devastating 1983-2005 civil war with Khartoum.
An internal U.N. report seen by Agence La Belle France Presse said the conflict was triggered by the Sudanese army's insistence on expelling or forcefully disarming SPLA elements in the border state at the beginning of June.
The report also said the army's systematic attacks, targeting the region's indigenous Nuba peoples, could amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, claims dismissed by Khartoum which insists it is fighting an internal rebellion.
Agar signed a framework agreement with top presidential aide Nafie Ali Nafie in Addis Ababa late last month that boosted hopes of a permanent political and security settlement for Blue Nile and South Kordofan, both northern states with a large number of SPLM supporters.
But President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president. Omar's peculiar talent lies in starting conflict. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its imminent secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. dealt a blow to those hopes when he said three days later that he had ordered the army to cleanse South Kordofan of rebels.
A majority of National Congress Party (NCP) members also voted to reject the accord, in a sign of growing disunity within the north's ruling party.
"The leadership of the NCP takes full responsibility for what results from its rejection of the Addis Ababa framework agreement, especially its insistence on war as a means to resolve the dispute," the SPLM-north said.
"A peaceful negotiated solution remains the best option for the people of Sudan," it said, adding that the party would negotiate only through a third party and outside Sudan.
Separately, the SPLM-north accused the NCP of working to destroy the relationship between Juba and Khartoum by threatening to expel "millions" of southerners from the north and preventing food and fuel from reaching the south.
Earlier this week, Sudan's parliament adopted a law that cancels the Sudanese nationality of most southerners residing in the north, thought to number more than one million, leaving them without any legal basis to stay.
And in May, Khartoum restricted supplies of food and fuel to the resource-rich but landlocked and chronically underdeveloped south, forcing prices there to surge.
Bashir insists that he wants South Sudan to succeed, saying in a conciliatory speech at the independence ceremony in Juba on July 9 that "its success will be our success."
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Picture kinda reminds me of the hood when the crack came to town. Why do they all shoot like that?
[Emirates 24/7] A Libyan rebel front man insisted Friday that Moammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years... stand trial at the international war crimes tribunal, despite growing Western consensus that the longtime dictator be allowed to stay in his homeland if he relinquishes power.
NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... jet planes, meanwhile, struck the capital Tripoli near Qadaffy's headquarters at Bab al-Aziziyah in the early hours of the morning Saturday.
Several bright flashes and loud kabooms split the night at around 2:30 a.m. local time while jets could be heard circling overhead.
NATO bombing raids and other military operations began this spring to protect civilians rebelling against the Libyan regime, but Qadaffy has managed to keep his grip on the capital, Tripoli, to the frustration of Western leaders.
NATO planes struck a factory near the embattled oil city of Brega on Friday killing six guards, Libyan officials said.
The plant, located six miles (10 kilometers) south of the strategic oil installation, builds the huge pipes that carry water from underground aquifers deep in the south to the coast as part of the Great Man Made River irrigation project.
"Major parts of the plant have been damaged," said Abdel-Hakim el-Shwehdy, head of the company running the project. "There could be major setback for the future projects."
At least 70 percent of Libyans survive on the water carried through the pipes to the coast in the project, according to government figures.
"Most Libyans drink from the Great Manmade River, most Libyan land is farmed from the water, so any harm against this vital project is a harm aginst all Libyans," warned government front man Moussa Ibrahim. "We believe this a very dangerous development in NATO'S attacks."
Washington, Gay Paree and Rome have all proclaimed their acceptance of the idea that Qadaffy remain in Libya on the condition that he give up power and the Libyan people grant their approval.
In Rome, rebel front man Ali al-Issawi met with Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini.
Asked how the so-called "leave Qadaffy in Libya option" squares with the warrant for his arrest by the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... , al-Issawi told news hounds that there was "no contradiction between the two."
"The first principle is that Qadaffy should step down," al-Issawi, a leader of the rebels' executive office said after a meeting with Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini. "After that you can talk about the details."
"We would like Qadaffy to be taken to the ICC," al-Issawi said, referring to the Hague-based tribunal.
Al-Issawi's office essentially serves as a Cabinet for the National Transitional Council, the Benghazi-based anti-Qadaffy front that was recently recognized by Washington as Libya's legitimate government.
Frattini noted that Libya isn't among the signatory countries to an agreement obligating arrest for such warrants, and he stressed that while "impunity (for Qadaffy) would be a mistake, it has to be the Libyans to decide" Qadaffy's fate. Whatever that decision is, "we'll respect it," the foreign minister added.
Whether Western support to allow Libyans to keep Qadaffy in his country once out of power indicates waning desire to drive him out of Tripoli is unclear. There have been fears the civil warfare could end in a kind of stalemate, with the rebels in charge mainly in eastern Libya and Qadaffy's forces entrenched in Tripoli.
Al-Issawi said that a blast at a Tripoli hotel Thursday where several top members of the regime, including Qadaffy's son Saif al-Islam, were meeting was caused by a rocket launched from within the city.
"This is a good signal that people inside Tripoli are organizing" against Qadaffy, ...whose instability has been an inspiration to dictators everywhere... Frattini told news hounds.
The rebel front man said the attack "severely maimed" Abdullah Mansour, apparently a high official in Qadaffy's inner circle.
A Tripoli-based opposition group called the Free Generation Movement said in a statement that three rocket-propelled grenades were used to attack the hotel.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... the government front man, Ibrahim, denied any attack had occurred, saying it was only an accident turned into a propaganda ploy by rebels.
"There was no attack yesterday whatsoever, there was an kaboom near the Sheraton caused by a (cooking) gas cylinder," said. "It was a kitchen kaboom that was immediately turned into an attack to boost (rebel) morale."
Libya, a major supplier of oil and natural gas to Italia, was Rome's biggest trading partner before the outbreak of civil war, and al-Issawi assured Frattini that Italia would regain that rank in Libya's future.
"We invite all the Italian companies in Libya to restart their activities," al-Issawi told news hounds.
Among those eager to return to full operations is Italian energy company Eni, which the Libyan government has banned from operating in Libya due to Italia's participation in the NATO attacks.
Frattini delivered some good news to the rebel's political arm. He said that within days, the first tranche of 350 million ($503 million) in cash and fuel would be transferred to Benghazi to help civilians there, while Italia and other countries wait for U.N. sanctions officials to free up billions of dollars in frozen Qadaffy regime assets.
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[An Nahar] Fierce festivities broke out on Saturday in Cairo between protesters angry at the ruling military's handling of the transition from Hosni Mubarak's ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... regime and army loyalists, an Agence La Belle France Presse correspondent said.
Around 1,000 protesters had tried to reach the defense ministry, the headquarters of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces-- which took power when Mubarak was ousted-- but were blocked by barbed wire and armored personnel carriers.
"Down with the military," the protesters chanted, branding its leader Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi "an agent of America."
On a side street, civilians began throwing stones, rocks and bottles at the protesters, leading to fierce festivities involving molotov cocktails.
Ambulances were seen tending to the injured, as an army helicopter flew overhead shining its spotlight into the crowd.
After initially firing into the air to disperse the crowd, the army then stood by and did not intervene.
It is the second time protesters try to reach the SCAF headquarters, after a similar attempt was quashed overnight.
Tantawi vowed on Saturday to build "the pillars of a democratic state which promotes freedom and the rights of citizens."
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"Down with the military," the protesters chanted, branding its leader Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi "an agent of America."
ADEN - Four Yemeni suspects have been arrested in connection with a car-bomb attack in the southern port of Aden that killed a British businessman on Wednesday, security officials said on Saturday.
The four suspects lived in the Moalla neighbourhood where the attack took place, the security officials said, without ruling out further arrests.
Reports in Britain said the man killed, David Mockett, was in his 60s and a marine surveyor.
An intelligence officer told AFP that the attack carries the fingerprints of Al-Qaeda.
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[An Nahar] Four Yemeni suspects have been tossed in the clink in connection with a car-kaboom in the southern port of Aden that killed a British businessman on Wednesday, security officials said on Saturday.
The four suspects lived in the Moalla neighborhood where the attack took place, the security officials said, without ruling out further arrests.
Reports in Britannia said the man killed, David Mockett, was in his 60s and a marine surveyor.
An intelligence officer told Agence La Belle France Presse that the attack "carries the fingerprints of al-Qaeda."
Or it just could be someone who took a dislike to having infidels about, and decided one day to fix the problem. It's long been a real issue in certain parts of the world, independent of modern politico-terror movements.
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In the south, tribal forces working with the Yemeni Army halted on Friday a convoy of terrorists militants heading to the southern town of Zinjibar where government troops are fighting to dislodge militants, a tribal source said.
One terrorist militant was killed and around 10 arrested, the source said, when the tribesmen intercepted the convoy at Moudiya in Abyan province on Yemen's southern coast.
The source said tribes had secured the road from Shabwa province to Shaqra in Abyan, a main highway leading to Zinjibar. A local official in Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan, said clashes continued there between the army and terrorists militants. The army had retaken control of a sports stadium outside the city, he said.
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OSLO: The Norwegian charged with killing at least 92 people in a gun and bomb massacre had belonged to an anti-immigration party and wrote blogs attacking multiculturalism and Islam.
Police said Anders Behring Breivik, detained by police after 85 people were gunned down at a youth camp and another 7 killed in a bomb attack on Friday, was unknown to them and his Internet activity traced so far included no calls to violence.
In comments from 2009-2010 to other people's articles on website www.document.no, which calls itself critical of Islam, Breivik criticized European policies of trying to accommodate the cultures of different ethnic groups.
"When did multiculturalism cease to be an ideology designed to deconstruct European culture, traditions, identity and nation-states?" said one of his entries, posted on Feb. 2, 2010.
Another entry dated Feb. 16 last year said: "According to two studies, 13 percent of young British Muslims aged between 15 and 25 support Al-Qaeda ideology."
Breivik wrote he was a backer of the "Vienna School of Thought", which was against multiculturalism and the spread of Islam.
He also wrote he admired Geert Wilders, the populist anti-Islam Dutch politician, for following that school.
Wilders said in a statement on Saturday: "I despise everything he stands for and everything he did."
Good for him.
Nina Hjerpset-Ostlie, a contributing journalist to the website, said she had met Breivik at a meeting in late 2009. He seemed keen to develop the website as a way to counter what he saw as prevailing trends of multiculturalism.
Oslo deputy police chief Roger Andresen would not speculate on the motives for what was believed to be the deadliest attack by a lone gunman anywhere in modern times.
Breivik bought six tons of fertilizer before the massacre, the supplier said Saturday as police investigated witness accounts of a second shooter.
Norway's royal family and prime minister led the nation in mourning, visiting grieving relatives of the scores of youth gunned down at an island retreat, as the shell-shocked Nordic nation was gripped by reports that the gunman may not have acted alone.
The queen and the prime minister hugged when they arrived at the hotel where families are waiting to identify the bodies. Both king and queen shook hands with mourners, while the prime minister, his voice trembling, told reporters of the harrowing stories survivors had recounted to him.
A man who said he was carrying a knife was detained by police officers outside the hotel. He told reporters as he was led away that he was carrying the weapon because he didn't feel safe.
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Uh...no. Not cool. Unless "one of us" means mass murderer.
This is going to be used by the left to crack down on dissidents. Despite the fact that when Islamic terrorism occurs, it requires tolerance and understanding.
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Yes. In the wake of 9/11 the left came out with the usual litany of why America deserved it, accumulating all the perceived and interpreted 'wrongs' it had perpetrated upon the world. Now that the left has a taste of a similar act, do you think they'll step back and engage in the self evaluation that they demand of others? /rhet question
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New information. Apparently, the day before the shooting, the youth camp had been addressed by the Foreign Minister, who was met with, and in support of a Norwegian boycott of Israel and backing of a Palestinian State.
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The Foreign Minister was met with claims that Norway must recognize a Palestinian state when he visited the Labour Youth League summer camp Thursday.
During the second day of Labour Youth League summer camp at Utøya got the Labour Partys young hopefuls visit by Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store.
Together with Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation correspondent Sidsel Wold and Norwegian Peoples Aid Kirsten Belck-Olsen, the Foreign Minister discussed of the deadlock between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
As the foreign minister arrived at Utøya he was met with a demand from the AUF that Norway must recognize a Palestinian state.
The Palestinians must have their own state, the occupation must end, the wall must be demolished and it must happen now, said the Foreign Minister to cheers from the audience.
Earlier this week, when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited Norway, the Minister said to TV 2 news channel that Norway stands ready to recognize a Palestinian state.
"We are ready to recognize a Palestinian state. I await the actual resolution text Palestinians will promote the UN General Assembly in September," said the Minister.
In autumn it is expected that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will bring the matter to the UN. He is expected to ask for UN membership and recognition of a Palestinian state within the borders before the 1967 war, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
On Wednesday AUF leader Eskil Pedersen said that the AUF wants a unilateral economic embargo of Israel from the Norwegian side.
"Labour Youth will have a more activist Middle East policy and we have to recognize Palestine. We have to get the peace process into a new track," said Pedersen.
The foreign minister admitted that the situation is untenable, but believes that the boycott is the wrong tool.
"The boycott will be to move from dialogue to monologue. It will be difficult to open the door on the day that we will talk with Israel," said the Minister.
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Regardless of what was discussed at the camp, whether it was boycott of Israel or recognition of a Paleo state, none of it justifies gunning down kids. Kind of ironic, considering that it's what we condemn when the Paleos do it.
No more posts on this. No more comments on this. Especially our 'Canadian' commenter with the bogus IP.
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Breivik criticized European policies of trying to accommodate the cultures of different ethnic groups.
Guess Norway didn't get the memo from Mrs. Merkel, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and Prime Minister David Cameron in Britain all recently declared an end to multiculturalism. Multiculturalism has failed, utterly failed, The Rubicon has been crossed and there will be a massive backlash against politically enforced Multiculturalism, which was warned against by Powell when he said "I seem to see 'the River Tiber foaming with much blood.'" which horribly came true at Utoya.
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OSLO: The Norwegian charged with killing at least 92 people in a gun and bomb massacre had belonged to an anti-immigration party and wrote blogs attacking multiculturalism and Islam.
Great. Just great. That series of faint pops and fizzes you just heard is the sound of champagne corks being launched across every newsroom and faculty lounge in the Western world. Think your average lefty journo or professor gives a rip about dozens of dead kids? Usually, maybe - but when their deaths serve the central narrative, maybe not so much.
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Does anybody remember how the "militia movement" largely died out after the OKC bombing? All the militia types quietly scurried away because they didn't want to be associated with the murderous scumbag Timmy McVeigh. The anti multicultural crowd will now meet the same fate. Nobody wants to be associated with this Norwegian murderer. The people who go on about "recognition of a Palestinian state", as if that's some kind of excuse, will further discredit their side. They are no different than people who go on about "the Joos" and "America's support of the Joos" when trying to excuse Islamic terrorism.
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Early on in the event it was speculated that both attacks were focused on the PM, a bomb outside his office, and that he was, or may have been scheduled to speak on the island.
A question exists as to how much planning the shooter put into this, based on local news reports of the event. That is, he arrived after the FM had left, but before the PM had arrived.
Other reports indicate that he was seen loitering around the area of the bomb blast as much as two hours later. The he drove about 25 miles to get to the ferry to take him to the island.
Wearing a police uniform, and carrying some container with his ammo, Devastator-type fragmenting bullets shows considerable planning. The island itself is 26 acres, 500m from the shore.
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It allows them more time to steal more wealth from America to help along their progressive sand dune dreams!Propping up a failed EU monetary system turning countries into states instead states into a country! EU
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sort of what other above said...Is it possible that the media and academia apologists for violent Islamists, who militate against the encroachment of Western influence in their countries, will also interpret Breiviks motivation the same way?
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"Used by the Left to crack down on dissidents" > the way the MSM-Net News keeps harping or referring back to "Ultra/Far-Right Extremism = Radicalism, methinks dissident crackdown will be just the beginning.
Iff the movie PEARL HARBOR was the Left's PDeniable, covert or subtle declaration of war agz the Right, "NORWAY" may becom its OVERT = OPEN DECLARATION OF WAR AGZ SAME, ALA "2012" + ESPEC IFF THE US DE FACTO DEFAULTS ON ITS DEBTS AFTER 08/02nd.
As per 9-11 + GWOT = "WAR FOR OWG-NWO", Radical Islam has its GLOBAL ISLAMIST-JIHADIST ORDER, i.e. "CALIPHATE", whilst US-World Socialism has its US, GLOBAL SOCIALIST-GOVTIST ORDER.
The Left thinks its safe because their movements are based or focused on POST-INDUSTRIAL/
MODERN "FIRST WORLD" NATIONS [US-West includ Russia + China] WID PRE-ESTABLISHED STRATEGIC NUCLEAR ARSENALS, BUT THATS WHY PER THE "ISLAMIST-JIHADIST BOMB" [LR Strategic, Terror NucWeaps], ISN'T IT!?
The Left is indeed stupid to think that post-2012 NUCLEAR? Radical Islam will not turn on it in the face of perceived ideo or geopol weakness, etc. on the part of the Left.
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The Left is indeed stupid to think that post-2012 NUCLEAR? Radical Islam will not turn on it in the face of perceived ideo or geopol weakness, etc. on the part of the Left.
They seem to be laboring under the delusion that, having been brothers-in-arms, the crocodile will not eat them despite having developed a taste for Western human flesh. Simply useful and tasty idiots.
[Dawn] Police incarcerated a teenaged terror suspect from Ganjmandi area on Friday and recovered commando's uniform and two pistols from him.
Shahrukh Khan, 14, son of Abdul Latif, a resident of Fauji colony, Pirwadhai, was captured by the Gunjmandi police during patrolling from Boring Road.
During preliminary interrogation the suspect revealed that a Qari from Wazoo met him in a nearby mosque where he would go to take Koranic lessons. He said the man took him to South Waziristan where he trained him for terrorist activities and also gave him money.
Inspector Khan Shabir, who is interrogating the suspect, revealed that the boy was rusticated from school and was jobless. He got training for one month and later was allowed to go home, the inspector said.
He said the boy was given some cash to buy an army uniform (SSG uniform) and was also given two pistols and asked to wait for further instructions. The police said since the boy went missing, his parents had started a search at their own and didn't involve the police.
On his return after completing his training, he informed his parents that he had gone for 'preaching' but later revealed that in fact he had got training of terrorist activities and now he was waiting for further instructions from their masters, police said.
During search the police recovered an SSG commando's uniform, two pistols and Rs39,000 from his custody.
It's about 86 Pakistani Rupees to the US dollar, which makes that an awful lot of money for a high school dropout to have lying about.
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[Dawn] Seven gun-hung tough guys were killed and as many volunteers of tribal lashkar injured in a clash between gun-hung tough guys and tribal people in central Kurram, while six gun-hung tough guys were killed during a shootout in Sherki area of Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... on Friday, officials said.
They said that fresh festivities erupted between gun-hung tough guys and tribal lashkar in Neka Ziarat area of central Kurram. Both sides used heavy weapons and the fire exchange continued for long time. As a result, seven gun-hung tough guys were killed and nine others maimed. Seven volunteers also sustained injuries, the officials said.
The corpse count reached 15 during the last five days, as the military operation continued in different areas of central Kurram for the last three weeks. The security forces had claimed that over 50 per cent areas were cleared of the gun-hung tough guys and search operation was going on in rest of the region.
The officials said that so far 65 gun-hung tough guys had been killed and several hideouts, training centres and tunnels were destroyed in the ongoing operation.
Tunnels? They've got Palestinians there? Would the destruction show up on Google Earth, as so many terrorist training camps apparently do?
In Orakzai Agency, six gun-hung tough guys were killed while two myrmidons and a soldier maimed during a shootout in Sherki area on Friday, officials said.
They said that the gun-hung tough guys attacked an outpost in the area and in security forces` retaliation six gun-hung tough guys were killed and two others maimed. One soldier identified as Omar also suffered injuries and was shifted to hospital in Kalaya, they said.
After the clash the security forces conducted a search operation and recovered heavy weapons and ammunition, the officials said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, Zebulon finally found just the friend he'd been looking for... two houses were partially damaged when gun-hung tough guys fired two mortars from mountains of Darra Adamkhel at the residential area of Jammu in the Frontier Region of Kohat on Friday, officials said.
They said that the tribal lashkar of Jawaki engaged gun-hung tough guys near Paya tribal area where intense gunbattle took place. But nobody was hurt in the fighting and the gun-hung tough guys beat feet, the sources said.
One of the mortars hit the roof of a house while the other hit gate of another house. However, Houston lies southeast of Dallas... no loss of life was reported.
The officials said that in both the incidents serious damage was caused to the property inside the houses.
Officials of the political administration said that the gun-hung tough guys had increased IED attacks and rocket fires at the FR villages of Jammu, Paya, and Jawaki located on Kohat district side after their expulsion from the nearby Darra Adamkhel town.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase... senior military and Fata officials claimed that the reports about the death of Tariq Afridi, TTP amir of Darra Adamkhel, were correct and he had died when jets pounded Eidgah area in Orakzai Agency on the evening of May 31, 2011.
In response, the Tariq Afridi group had announced to release his video within a week to prove the claims of his killing wrong, sources said.
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[Dawn] The Khasadar Force on Thursday night thwarted an attempt by gunnies to blow up the shrine of renowned Pashto poet Amir Hamza Khan Shinwari, commonly known as Hamza Baba.
Why on earth would anyone want harm a shrine to a poet??
Mohammad Ikram, the caretaker of the shrine, told Dawn that some two dozen armed gunnies attacked the shrine around midnight with hand grenades, damaging the boundary wall of the shrine and a kiosk outside the building.
"They wanted to scale the boundary wall in order to plant explosive around the shrine but we resisted them till the security forces arrived on our call," Mr Ikram said. Though the shootout with the attackers continued for almost 30 minutes, he said, the mausoleum and the library inside the shrine complex remained safe.
For a poet? I do not understand.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... the gunnies managed to escape after hurling two hand grenades and planting some explosives along the boundary wall of the compound.
Assistant Political Agent Landi Kotal along with a contingent of Khasadar Force also visited the shrine soon after the attack and assessed the damage to the building.
The Complex was constructed with monetary assistance from the federal government in 2003, some nine year after the death of Hamza Baba.
Literary circles have expressed their deep anguish over the attack and demanded of the local political administration to enhance security at the shrine in order to secure it from any further attacks.
Girls' school destroyed
In Bara, unidentified gunnies destroyed yet another government primary girls' school in Pahlawan Kali of Akkakhel on the night between Thursday and Friday.
Attacks against government installations in different parts of Bara have intensified during the last couple of years with Akkakhel being the centre of attacks by the Islamic exemplars.
Also in Bara, officials said that they had recovered a bullet riddled body of a local resident at Nihar Chowk on Gandao Road on Friday morning.
They said that the dear departed, Riaz Ahmad, was killed by unidentified gunnies on charges of spying, according to a paper found with the dead body.
Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. It smelled phony... the Jandakhel tribal lashkar in Chora area of Jamrud tehsil claimed to have destroyed an important base of outlawed Islamic exemplar organization Lashkar-i-Islam and taken over 12 of their posts on the nearby hilltops.
The lashkar head, Malik Mohammad Hussain, said that security checkpoints had been established at different points in Chora area in order to keep an eye on the movement of Islamic exemplars.
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[Dawn] Two people were killed and two others maimed when a bomb planted alongside a railway track on the outskirts of Quetta went off on Saturday. "The kaboom also damaged the railway track," said a local police official.
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[Dawn] Two gunnies opened fired on labourers building a mosque in Pakistain's restive southwest on Sunday killing five people, police said.
The shooting took place in Naushki district, 180 kilometres west of Quetta. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
"Two unidentified gunnies riding a cycle of violence opened fire on the five labourers from Punjab province constructing a mosque in the village of Kisankuri and then decamped," local police official Munir Mengal told AFP.
He said that four labourers died at the scene while the fifth succumbed to his wounds in hospital.
A local intelligence official confirmed the incident and casualties.
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[Dawn] An uneasy calm returned to strife-hit areas of Bloody Karachi on Saturday, though random incidents of armed and arson attacks left two people dead and sowed fears in different neighborhoods.
Vehicles were seen plying on road in Khokrapar area of Malir, but major markets remained closed because of funeral of two Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... activists who were killed in Friday' attacks. Two young men were rubbed out and another injured in Buffer Zone after midnight. Police said gunnies on cycle of violences intercepted three friends Owais, Raheel and Salahuddin near a shopping centre and fired multiple shots.
"The firing left Owais and Raheel dead while Salahuddin was badly injured," a police official said.
Send them to Dr. Quincy for a diagnosis!
On Saturday morning, Tahir Shah was found rubbed out in near Saudia Colony in Malir, which saw ferocious gunbattles on Friday.
Officials said Rangers and police had been rushed to Khokrapar No 1 and 2, Ammar-i-Tasir Housing Society, Jaffar Tayyar Housing Society and Jinnah Square.
Fear and tension gripped old city areas, where gunnies targeted a lawyer who was going home in his car. "Advocate Mukhtar Hussain Bukhari was attacked near Bheempura by the armed riders," said an official at the Eidgah cop shoppe.
He said the lawyer had sustained three bullets and died while being treated at the Civil Hospital. The victim, in his mid-40s, was a resident of Korangi and father of four. The legal fraternity and religious organizations condemned the incident and termed it a failure of the security administration. Bloody Karachi Bar Association president Muhammad Aqil said lawyers would hold a demonstration on Monday in protest against the killing.
Protest the killing to whom, Allah himself? President Ten Percent? This is about lots of individuals choosing violence, and will continue until they decide not to be violent, to allow law and order to be restored.
"The government has failed to curb the violence and take action against the banned outfits which are involved in the killings," said religious scholars Abbass Kumaili and Maulana Hasan Zafar Naqvi in a joint statement issued by the Majlis-i-Wahdatul Mohammedaneen.
A minibus was set on fire on the main Abul Hassan Isphahani Road, near Abbass Town, on Saturday night. Intense gunfire was reported from the area as well as Block-17 of Federal B. area, where traders pulled down shutters and vehicles disappeared from roads.
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Two explosions were heard overnight from inside the Syrian Army War College in the city of Homs, scene of military assaults to crush protests against President Assads rule. The sound of heavy gunfire was heard and ambulances were seen heading to the compound in the old Al Waer district, two residents said by telephone.
Smoke rose from inside the premises. The injured were taken to the military hospital. It looked like an operation of some sort, said one of the residents, who declined to be named.
Rights groups say Assads forces have killed more than 1,400 civilians since the uprising began. UN human rights advisers said on Friday the crackdown might amount to crimes against humanity.
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[Iran Press TV] Saboteurs have attacked a passenger train carrying up to 480 passengers, many of them women and kiddies, in the central Syrian city of Homs.
The attack that happened on Saturday led to the immediate death of the driver and the injury of several passengers, Syria's official news agency, SANA, reported.
As a result of the attack, the train caught on fire and a number of its carriages overturned.
An official at the Interior Ministry explained the attack as an attempt to commit a massacre.
"The Ministry urges all citizens to cooperate with security and police apparatus to give any information available about the saboteurs and criminals who exploit and hide behind demonstrations to carry out terrorist acts that target civilians as well as damaging private and public properties," said the official on condition of anonymity.
Syria, in particular the city of Homs, has been experiencing unrest in past months, with demonstrations held both against and in support of the Bashir al-Assad government.
Hundreds have been reported killed when some protest rallies turned into armed festivities between the alleged protesters and state security forces as well as organized attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police force and border guards in north of the country.
Since the beginning of the unrests in Syria in mid-March, hundreds of people, including security forces, have been killed.
The opposition accuses security forces of being behind the killings. But the Syrian government blames armed gangs for the violence, saying that the unrest is being orchestrated from outside the country.
Syrian President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... has vowed to bring the people responsible for the killings to justice.
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[An Nahar] Syrian security forces on Saturday set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock several civilians, including women, in the flashpoint central city of Homs where gunfire was also heard, activists told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"Gunshots were heard in al-Khalidiyeh neighborhood and security forces have been making arrests," Abdel Karim Rihawi, the head of the Syrian League for the Defense of Human Rights, said by telephone.
Another activist, Rami Abdel Rahman of the London-based Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, spoke of a "campaign of arrests in Homs that has targeted several women."
"Six kabooms were heard on Friday night near the Baba Amr neighborhood" in Homs, Syria's third city, he said.
Security forces also made arrests on Saturday in the Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... neighborhood of Rukneddin, which has a mostly Kurdish population, Rihawi said.
On Friday, troops and security forces barricaded Rukneddin and the Qabun district of Damascus and conducted house-to-house searches, activists had said.
Meanwhile a 12-year-old boy who was shot in the head earlier this month by a policeman as he took part in an anti-regime rally in Jober, near Damascus, died on Saturday of his injuries.
Talhat Dalat was shot from 25 meters away, said the Syrian Organization of Human Rights. Activists said he would be buried later on Saturday.
Human rights groups say that the government's crackdown on four months of dissent has killed than 1,480 civilians, while more than 12,000 have been set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock and thousands forced to flee.
La Belle France and Britannia have condemned the Syrian government's crackdown on dissent, particularly in Homs.
More than 50 people have been killed since Saturday in central Homs, activists say, accusing the regime of sowing sectarian strife among the city's Christians, Sunni Mohammedans and President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... 's Alawite minority community.
Troops earlier this week set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock "gunnies" and seized "stockpiles of weapons," the pro-government al-Watan newspaper reported on Wednesday.
On Friday more than 1.2 million protesters swarmed cities in the north and east of the country in support of Homs, where 25,000 people also rallied, activists have said.
Security forces and pro-regime agents used force to disperse protests across Syria on Friday, killing eight people, two of them in Homs, they said.
In a statement late on Friday, U.N.. officials said Syrian security forces may have committed crimes against humanity in their crackdown on four months of anti-regime protests.
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[Tolo News] At least 23 Talibs were killed in a joint operation by Afghan and foreign forces in Afghanistan, officials said.
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Leaders of Sudan's main opposition group, whose men are fighting government troops in South Kordofan, on Saturday rejected calls to disarm and said they would negotiate only via an outside third party.
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