[YEMENONLINE.INFO] The World Bank has suspended its operations in Yemen this week, which adds to blows to the country's economy which has been faltering due to persistent political instability.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk.
Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?
Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles.
No, he said. Do you?... the shutdown of the bank's office in Sanaa deepens the economic isolation after more than a dozen countries shut down their embassies and halted aid following the Houthi Lion of Islams' seizure of power.
A bigwig at the planning and international cooperation ministry expected the economic growth will be more than minus 10 percent this year due to deep recession, sharp drop in national incomes and other challenges including suspension of the foreign aid.
"The public investment program has been suspended since 2011 and foreign investments have been fleeing due to security concerns and poor basic services. There is no room to talk about development or positive growth at the present time," the official said, requesting anonymity.
The economic deterioration is being reflected on poverty and unemployment rates which are expected to rise above 60 percent this year.
Research centers said recession has forced many small and medium enterprises to announce bankruptcy and large layoffs coinciding with UN statements that around 61 percent of the country's population are facing hunger.
In addition, foreign currency reserves which declined from 5.1 billion U.S. dollars in September 2014 to current figure of 4.3 billion dollars could be used up and the flow of investments freezed amid growing concerns by investors, they added.
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Yeah, the qat supply has become a little erratic lately.
h/t Jerry Pournelle
The environmental movement has advanced three arguments in recent years for giving up fossil fuels: (1) that we will soon run out of them anyway; (2) that alternative sources of energy will price them out of the marketplace; and (3) that we cannot afford the climate consequences of burning them.
These days, not one of the three arguments is looking very healthy. In fact, a more realistic assessment of our energy and environmental situation suggests that, for decades to come, we will continue to rely overwhelmingly on the fossil fuels that have contributed so dramatically to the world's prosperity and progress.
In 2013, about 87% of the energy that the world consumed came from fossil fuels, a figure that--remarkably--was unchanged from 10 years before. This roughly divides into three categories of fuel and three categories of use: oil used mainly for transport, gas used mainly for heating, and coal used mainly for electricity.
Over this period, the overall volume of fossil-fuel consumption has increased dramatically, but with an encouraging environmental trend: a diminishing amount of carbon-dioxide emissions per unit of energy produced. The biggest contribution to decarbonizing the energy system has been the switch from high-carbon coal to lower-carbon gas in electricity generation.
#2
At the time of the end of the last ice age, man was largely confined to Africa and the ME. Since that event man has adapted from the Arctic to the equator, from deserts to islands, from mountains to jungles all over the planet. We have adapted very successfully. Communities and civs may have had problems, but the species as a whole has thrived. Hot or cold is not the problem. There are other events far beyond human control that are a more dangerous threat and worthy of appropriate attention than the Chicken Little machinations of the Left.
#3
it takes more energy (from coal fired power plants) to produce solar panels than they give out during their life
the whole paranoia is a scam.
carbon dioxide will save us, we need more of it. Plants love it.
We are going into a cold snap: according to the sunspot cycles. Guess what? That big flaming ball in the sky can affect climate. And so can the earth's orbit.
Keep pumping out carbon dioxide it is good for us.
#5
Obviously none of these tin hats truly understand climatology on a macrolevel.
We get all of this panic and hand wringing over rising ocean temperatures when the truth is that rising ocean temperatures would be good for humanity.
EVERY and I mean EVERY desert is fronted by either a cold water ocean or a cold water current.
Sahara, Kalahari, Atacama all of them. In Chili they have the Antarctic express, an extremely cold current running from Antarctica to the Ecuadorian border, the entire Sahara is faced with the Mediterranean which contrary to all of those lovely pictures from Cannes and Costa Del Sol is very cold. And of course the Kalahari and the Arabian peninsula washed by another deep cold water current from Antarctica.
A warm Mediterranean would feed millions, if not billions of people. The same for the Kalahari and the Arabian Peninsula.
They act as if millions will drown if the water levels rise, forgetting that man is smart enough to move to higher ground...
You are right they are ignorant of science but have an agenda cloaked in voodoo match, manipulated data, and junk science...and of course the media never misses a chance to stir up mass hysteria.
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[DAWN] IN Pakistain, ensuring that dangerous suspects and convicts are kept in detention is a major task, especially considering the several high-profile jailbreaks that have occurred in this country in the recent past.
The last such incident was the jailbreak in Gilgit-Baltistan, in which some inmates suspected of involvement in 2013's Nanga Parbat massacre managed to escape. With this bitter experience in mind, the GB authorities have sought to transfer 20 high-profile inmates to detention facilities in Punjab. What is troubling is that officials told this paper they feared a fresh jailbreak was possible. Why not shift them to Cameroon?
Considering the remoteness of the region and its limited resources and infrastructure, it appears to be a good idea to shift dangerous prisoners to Punjab, which has relatively better facilities.
Also read: 20 high-profile prisoners being shifted from Gilgit to Punjab
Some officials have raised concerns about how trials will be conducted, considering GB's physical distance from the rest of Pakistain; this problem can be largely overcome through the use of technology, for example by conducting the trials through video link.
The move by the administration highlights the need for better prison facilities in Gilgit-Baltistan. While shifting dangerous inmates to 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.... or elsewhere in the country may be one solution, it is only a temporary fix; in the long run, improvements need to be made to GB's criminal justice infrastructure to minimise the chance of future jailbreaks.
Also, while Punjab may indeed have better facilities, these are by no means foolproof. For example, even some key prisons in the province, such as Adiala in Rawalpindi, are said to be vulnerable to terrorist attacks. What is needed countrywide is a series of maximum-security prison facilities to detain terrorism convicts and suspects.
Punjab is due to bring such a facility online in Sahiwal shortly, and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... in the past has talked of building a similar high-security jail. But such facilities are needed in all provinces and regions considering the enormity of the threat militancy poses to the country.
Along with more secure detention facilities, what is required is a thorough exercise to conduct background checks of jail staff members whose duties demand interaction with terrorism convicts or suspects.
In the GB jailbreak case, the inmates were said to have 'brainwashed' jail officials while prison staffers are believed to have been complicit in their escape. Measures need to be taken so that holy warrior inmates don't mingle with ordinary prisoners, and jail staffers guarding them don't turn out to be sympathetic to the bad boys' cause.
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The obligatory indignant editorial...
[DAWN] THE suicide kabooms against two churches in Lahore yesterday could have been just another gruesome incident in the long list of horrors that has been inflicted on this country in recent years.
The reaction by sections of the Christian community in Lahore and other cities of the country -- with protesters taking to the streets and some turning to violence that resulted in two deaths -- though suggests that the state's halting response to the terrorism threat is leading to dangerous ruptures in society.
[DAWN] WHILE upholding the death penalty awarded to Mumtaz Qadri, the Islamabad High Court reaffirmed that "it is established beyond any reasonable doubt that the murder of the dear departed [governor Salmaan Taseer] at the hands of the appellant was preplanned, coldblooded and gruesome". While the part of the decision that sets aside the conviction for terror has attracted much criticism, scant attention has been paid to the verdict abhorring vigilantism in the name of religion while navigating through an issue as emotive as blasphemy.
Pakistain suffers from inexplicable contradictions. Those within the left-leaning PPP who exhibited the courage to speak up against abuse of the blasphemy law, like Sherry Rehman, were left to their own devices when attacked by our well-nourished bigoted brigade. Governor Taseer was a PPP man. Yet there was an eerie silence in parliament when he was brutally murdered at a time when the PPP held the reins of power. Who amongst those opposed to our growing bigotry and intolerance stood besides the Taseer family during the Qadri trial?
On each hearing of the Qadri appeal hundreds of fierce-looking protesters would turn up and chant pro-Qadri slogans a stone's throw away from the court. The courtroom would be swarmed with Qadri supporters and the environment would be so tense that lawyers standing outside expressing private views about the matter felt obliged to do so in hushed tones. Why were judges, prosecutors and witnesses not afforded security or anonymity in such a tricky case as is now being arranged for military courts?
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[DAWN] The government's legal team did not appear to be serious in securing the detention of Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi -- the alleged criminal mastermind of the Mumbai attacks -- as they did not produce the relevant records before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) and also delayed referring the matter to the review board to extend his detention.
On Mar 13, the IHC set aside Lakhvi's detention order, observing that the prosecution failed to produce the material "on the basis of which, it could be ascertained that the detention of the petitioner (Lakhvi) is justified".
Lakhvi was detained under the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) on Dec 18, 2014, the day the Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) in Islamabad granted him post-arrest bail in the Mumbai attacks case.
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Iraq is finished, an expiring, cancerous nation on life support. Pulling the plug might be merciful. It might be cruel. But either way, it's time to accept the fact that this country is likely to die and that we'll all be better off when it does.
The Kurds in the north, who make up roughly twenty percent of the population, want out. They never wished to be part of Iraq in the first place. To this day, they still call the bathroom the "Winston Churchill," in sarcastic homage to the former British prime minister who shackled them to Baghdad. Since the early 1990s, they've had their own government and autonomous region in the northern three provinces, and they held a referendum in 2005 in which 98.7 percent voted to secede and declare independence. The only reason they haven't finally pulled the trigger is because it hasn't been safe; the Turks--who fear the contagion of Kurdish independence inside their own country--have threatened to invade if they did.
The Sunni Arabs in the west, who make up another rough twenty percent of Iraq, aren't itching for independence necessarily, but they sure as hell aren't willing to live under the thumb of Shiite-dominated Baghdad any longer. Millions of them live now under the brutal totalitarian rule of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, which has declared its own state not only in a huge swath of Iraq but also in much of northeastern Syria. ISIS either controls or has a large presence in more than fifty percent of Iraq at the time of this writing.
Iraq's Shiite majority, meanwhile, is terrified of its Sunni minority, which oppressed them mercilessly during Saddam Hussein's terrifying rule and which now flies the black flag of al-Qaeda and promises unending massacres.
President Obama campaigned on ending the war in Iraq. For years--and for perfectly understandable reasons--he was very reluctant to wade into that country's eternally dysfunctional internal problems, but even he was persuaded to declare war against ISIS in the fall of 2014 when its fighters made a beeline for Erbil, the capital of Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region and the only stable and America-friendly place in the country.
But however engaged the US chooses to be, the current war in Iraq is likely to drag on for years. If Iraq somehow manages to survive its current conflict in one piece, another will almost certainly follow. Its instability is both devastating and chronic. Far better at this point if Iraq simply terminates itself as a state and lets its various constituent groups peaceably go their own way, as Yugoslavia did after its own catastrophic series of wars in the 1990s.
More at site.
Michael J. Totten: World Affairs Journal
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#1
I concur. Iraq never made sense, Sykes-Picot agreement be damned.
#2
Pragmatically, any "partition" or breakup of Iraq into smaller sovereign states is the easy part - I'm more concerned wid the post-ISIS/ISIL + aligned aftermath, whether Iraq stays in federation or not.
The US-Allies should NOT see a repeat of SYRIA where, in their zeal to get rid of Baby Assad, they ended up supporting fervently or militantly ANTI-WESTERN, ANTI-SECULAR, ANTI-DEMOCRATIC, ANTI-JUDEOCHRISTIAN/NON-ISLAM/MINORITY, ... @ETC.
"MODERATE"-BUT-INTOLERANT REBEL GROUPS???
Save now wid POST-P5+1, GOING-NUKULAAR-WID-US-N-WESTERN-APPROVAL-N-SUPPORT NUCLEAR BOMBEY GOODNESS.
[AmericanSpectator] For all intents and purposes, if Isaac Herzog becomes Prime Minister he would become Obama's lapdog.
In the end, it's their country. The manipulation has been reported in the Israeli media, so if they choose to be manipulated, there's nothing we can or should do.
#3
Herzog, if he becomes PM, will try for an early meeting w Obama with favorable optics. So, yes, some people will call that 'lapdogging'.
However, Herzog has stated on several occasions that the really important part of the US-Israel strategic relationship is the ongoing cooperation: intel, military systems, etc. And there is essentially no difference between Herzog and Bibi on the issue of Iran.
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Relax, the (international) Left haven't won these elections yet.
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The manipulation has been reported in the Israeli media, so if they choose to be manipulated, there's nothing we can or should do.
Well, it's nice to hear that somebody's media, somewhere reports manipulation. In our country the media is a tool that is used by the manipulators. The last thing our media would do would be to report it.
[LegalInsurrection] Netanyahu is blaming his party's downward spiral on a relentless "anyone but Bibi" media campaign, one that he views as a "worldwide effort" to topple him. His opponents have called these accusations baseless. But he has a valid point.
The well-oiled system operating to replace Netanyahu is both unprecedented in Israeli politics, and controversial. It involves a new organization known as V15, a group with links to the U.S. State Department; a former Obama campaign strategist; and a significant infusion of foreign funds. It's no wonder that in a recent poll, 61% of Israelis thought that the Obama administration was interfering in Israel's elections.
Many Israelis also think that the White House is behind last week's leak of a 2013 Israeli-Palestinian negotiation document, which demonstrates the far-reaching concessions that Netanyahu was then prepared to make. There's no independent corroboration for it, but the timing of its publication--just after Netanyahu returned from his trip to DC--reeks of 'payback'.
Outside interference or not, if the Likud is trounced on Tuesday, it'll mostly be for the same reason that incumbents are defeated the world over--a mismanaged campaign in the final days of a hot contest.
The final polls published ahead of the election Tuesday gave opposition leader Isaac Herzog the edge, with his Zionist Union alliance likely to win four more seats than Netanyahuâs Likud party when the votes are counted.
But that does not mean victory, unless Herzog can form a governing coalition. Neither Likud nor the Zionist Union will garner anything near the 61-seat majority of the 120-seat Parliament required to form a government. So the question becomes which candidate, Herzog or Netanyahu, is more likely to persuade enough of Israelâs smaller parties to join a coalition that commands at leasts 61 votes.
The journalist goes on to describe possible Likud coalition partners, finishing with
If neither Herzog nor Netanyahu manage to cobble together a majority coalition, they could be compelled to join forces in a unity government, possibly alternating in two-year terms as prime minister.
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Obama's initial stated goal is a two-state "solution." Iran's and the rest of the Islamic world's goal is to destroy Israel. IMO Obama and VJ embraces the latter goal as well.
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On the contrary, TSM, it's impossible for outsiders to manipulate---the strength of diversity. (Not to mention that somebody like Obama would be eaten alive in coalition negotiations). Look up Hamilton-Zuk hypothesis.
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OTOH FREEREPUBLIC > [Pamela Gellar] OBAMA REFUSES TO RENEW 40-YEAR OLD EMERGENCY [Oil]SUPPLY PACT WID ISRAEL.
Once again, as a reminder, OSAMA BIN LADEN + MANY IN THE ARAB-MUSLIM WORLD BELIEVE STRONGLY THAT ISRAEL CAN'T OR WON'T SURVIVE A MAJOR ME WAR, OR FOR LONG, WIDOUT SIGNIFICANT REPLENISHMENT OF ITS WAR RESERVES, ETC. BY THE US + WESTERN NATIONS.
Moreso nowadays in this post-Cold War, post-911 21st Century "Age of OWG-NWO + Globalism" where the US-N-Only-The-US is BOTH the proverbial "Tip-of-the-Spear" in setting up ANTI-US OWG-NWO, + desired to engage in UNILATERAL OR "VOLUNATRY", STRATEGIC SELF-RETREAT + MILPOL-GEOPOL PULLBACK ACROSS THE WORLD SO THAT ITS GLOBALIST CO-SUPERPOWER SIBLINGS CAN RISE TO "US-STYLE",
"NUCLEAR", PARITY.
Again, "PARITY" VEE THE US, N-O-T "INFERIORITY".
POTUS Obama + US-specific Globalists are asking for serious trouble, perhaps even at literal risk of their own heads + National Security/
Existentialism, iff somebody doesn't follow the script.
* GLOBALIST "PARITY" = the US likely won't be the only Nation, as "Sole" Superpower or Co-Superpower, to possess LAND/ISLAND-SINKING MILTECHS.
IFF GUAM, ETC. STRATEGIC PACIFIC ISLES CAN BE ARTIFICIALLY "CAPSIZED" + SINK INTO WESTPAC BY THE "WEAK/DECLINING", + NOW [SSSHHH ... CCCCC Self-]RETREATING, USA IN ORDER TO DENY MILPOL UTILITY TO CHINA + PLA OR NUCLEAR ISLAM, SO ALSO CAN LARGE PARTS OR ALL OF THE US PER SE VIA TECH-ADVANCED ENEMY OR PROTAGONIST.
[RUDAW.NET] When the 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) first waged its onslaught against the predominantly Kurdish town of Shingal in August, the Kurdish morale was weakened. The public nearly panicked in the face of a notoriously well-gang.
But then, as ISIS reached the gates of Erbil, its fighters were swiftly turned back by the Kurdish armed forces, known as Peshmerga, and by US air strikes on the holy warriors.
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[Breitbart] CIA Director John Brennan refused to refer to the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group as an "Islamic" terrorist organization in a Friday speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, repeating White House rhetoric. Identifies the disease, then joins the patient group in categoric denial. Very interesting.
The CIA Director assured the audience at the Council on Foreign Relations that ISIS represents an ideology that's "inconsistent" with Islam.
A CBS reporter asked Brennan why the administration has been so "reluctant" to identify Islamic extremism as the root ideology of jihadist groups in the Muslim-majority world.
"The people who carry out acts of terrorism, whether it be Al Qaeda, [ISIL], are doing it because they believe it is consistent with what their view of Islam is," said the CIA Director. "It is totally inconsistent with what the overwhelming majority of Muslims throughout the world."
"By ascribing it as a Muslim terrorism or Islamic extremism -- I think it does really give them the type of Islamic legitimacy that they are so desperately seeking, but which they don't deserve at all," Brennan added. "They are terrorists, they're criminals. Many of them are psychopathic thugs, murderers, who use a religious concept and masquerade, mask themselves, in that religious construct.
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#1
here you have it folks, the root of the problem.
until the "intelligence" community realises that it is a losing strategy not to come clean and name the enemy then we will continue to lose and lose big domestically.
They need to ally with secular Muslims - YES but they need to also name and isolate the totalitarian political doctrine of fascist Islamism.
Explain at every opportunity that the two are different and that secular Muslims are our allies against the fascists. And importantly: ban Sharia.
Failure to do so has led to:
- the rise of homegrown fascist Islamism
- the rise of Sharia in the US, Australia and the UK
- the rule of secular law undermined in favour of giving spy agencies super powers without judicial oversight (this was billed as protection against islamofascism but had nothing to do with it)
- free speech destroyed
This is all the evil wrought domestically because the intelligence agencies cannot see the value in naming the enemy as fascist Islamism.
They have bought the idea that if they do this they will alienate secular Muslims, and/or create violent hate against them in the multicultural "paradise" they've created through indiscriminate mass immigration
This is wrong
Failure to name and recognise the enemy is leading to the fifth column threatening us within our own borders.
elected Governments do what the intelligence community tell them on this issue
so the change of strategy has to come from within the intelligence community
#3
"They are terrorists, they're criminals. Many of them are psychopathic thugs, murderers, who use a religious concept and masquerade, mask themselves, in that religious construct."
#7
Maybe in addition to gainful employment we need to provide all disaffected Muslim youts with insurance that includes mental health coverage. A Radicalization rider if you will?
#10
I guess he is saying referring to them as islamic is like referring to him as head of Intelligence.
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"Many of them are psychopathic thugs, murderers, who use a religious concept and masquerade, mask themselves, in that religious construct."
Psychopathic thuggery masking itself in a religious construct is an apt description of the political consensus of the OIC as well as the contemporary political reality in important member states.
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Director Brennan, from an old spook, let me just say you make a shitty analyst. You have to be truthful and call things what they are. ISIS quotes the Q'uran, they adopt and hold to Sharia, and they believe themselves to be the purest of the Islamic groups out there. That makes them Islamic no matter what label YOU want to impose on them for your political purposes. You must deal with reality, not playing games with semantics. Otherwise your product (the intelligence you are supposed to be producing) is not based in the reality of the situation, and will be wrong - and will hurt the country and get ops people killed for no reason at all. You tell the truth even if its not what they want to hear, even if its not politically correct. I've had to tell flag officers (including those with multiple stars) stuff they didn't want to hear, but it was my duty to do so, despite the risk of personal career damage. Its the duty you acquire when you take that oath. Put on your big girl panties and face up to reality and your responsibility to the nation. So what if the President doesnt like what he hears? Fuck him, the truth is the truth, and as CINC he needs to hear it. Hold him accountable.
So Director Breannan, and those who think like you, here's my very personal and heart-felt FUCK YOU to you, from an old Cold Warrior. We won our war and did so with minimal loss, and we even won the follow-ons in the Gulf and Balkans - unlike you you dickless bitches who will not even give one bit of thought to what we say because we are politically incorrect.
I hope I live long enough to help pick up the pieces of the wreck you are creating for our nation. And if we both live that long to see the disaster and the recovery, I'll be one of the ones laughing at your corpse while it swings from a gibbet after your summary trial and execution for treason.
[Jpost] Scapegoating is the misplaced and unmerited negative treatment or blame of someone for a problem. A scapegoat may be an adult, sibling, child, employee, peer, ethnic or religious group, country, or even an inanimate object. It's akin to kicking the dog when you've had a bad day at work.
The appeal of scapegoating is that it reduces a complex problem to an illusionary simplicity. It creates the mirage that the problem can be solved simply by getting rid of or attacking the offending individual, object or group.
Sadly, whenever a crime of the sort that happened a couple of years ago at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut occurs, pundits come out in full scapegoating mode. But rather than some group being blamed for the shooting, the guilt is being laid before objects, organizations, and ideologies.
Some commentators were quick to blame the shooting on violent video games. Others blamed "a violent society that glorifies violence." Some insisted that it's all because "God has been taken out of the schools." And of course, the favorite scapegoat of all: guns and the NRA.
Unfortunately, such scapegoating does not actually address the real problem at all. Nor does it keep what happened in any kind of perspective--admittedly difficult to do in the midst of the shock.
But let's consider a few statistics to aim us in the proper direction:
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So called "gun violence" is an omnipresent mantra and perpetual agenda of the left. "Scapegoating" is a benign description of what the left tries to do. Total control is the ultimate goal of the left. It masquerades in the name of nationally issued carry permits issued only after national registration of firearms. It is a prelude to gun confiscation. We have seen how well that has worked out in the past, e.g. Nazi Germany, Katrina Hurricane. In the meantime, just about every psychopathic/criminal SOB in the world has access to firearms of all sorts. Were it up to the Bloombergs, Obamas, Hillary Clintons, and UN, the elites would have armed security team but screw the rest of us.
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[YEMENONLINE.INFO] The World Bank has suspended its operations in Yemen this week, which adds to blows to the country's economy which has been faltering due to persistent political instability.
[DAWN] IN Pakistain, ensuring that dangerous suspects and convicts are kept in detention is a major task, especially considering the several high-profile jailbreaks that have occurred in this country in the recent past.
