[The Post - A Conservative Perspective] As a former member of the intelligence community I felt a deep shadow fall over me as I read about Hillary Clinton's use of an outside email service instead of the more secure and private State Department system. She did this for obvious reasons, to keep her communications out of official channels and away from the prying eyes of her political enemies (the Republicans...). One might sympathize with a politician in her situation.
However, the Secretary of State of the United States of America is the number two intelligence target IN THE WORLD, behind only her boss, the President. To tap into her communications guarantees lavish rewards and promotions to the intelligence team who does it. All eyes are on her, like vultures, waiting. Yes, it really works this way.
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Do you ever get the impression that Hillary is a self centered person who feels "entitled" to a lot of stuff that the peasants can't aspire to...and that it makes her a little DIM most of the time. Integrity problems, paranoid, and she thinks the average American citizen is Stu-pid.
Just what we need in National Leadership. The Democratic Party gave is John ( Breck Boy ) Edwards and John Kerry (the pink Bicycle ) Kerry. Why should we be surprised that now it wants to give us Hillary?
Sort of an older version of Debbie Wassermann Schultz. Aren't we lucky?
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Huh.
Last I heard Hillary! set this up to outsmart Team Bronco, the only person capable of even trying that mind you, cuz she knew she was getting bad intelligence from the Obama administration.
[Raymond Ibrahim] By constantly projecting Western standards on Islamic jihadis, CIA head John Brennan has come to epitomize the U.S. intelligence community's intellectual failures concerning the true sources of the jihad. Among other failures.
Last Friday, March 13, Brennan insisted that Islamic State (IS) members are not Islamic. Instead, "They are terrorists, they're criminals. Most--many--of them are psychopathic thugs, murderers who use a religious concept and masquerade and mask themselves in that religious construct."
Note his usage of terms familiar to Western people ("terrorists," "criminals," etc.). Islamic State jihadis may be all those things--including "psychopathic thugs"--from a Western paradigm, but the fact left out by Brennan is that, according to Islamic law and history, savage and psychopathic behavior is permissible, especially in the context of the jihad.
But perhaps Brennan knows all this and is simply being "strategic"? After all, the CIA head also "warned against ascribing 'Islamic legitimacy' to the overseas terrorist group, saying that allowing them to identify themselves with Islam does a disservice to Muslims
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“Like the president during his childhood years in Jakarta, I came to see Islam not how it is often misrepresented, but for what it is – how it is practiced every day, by well over a billion Muslims worldwide, a faith of peace and tolerance and great diversity.” In the speech, during which he drew applause after speaking in Arabic for more than a minute Brennan's speeches. Brennan is known for his fondness for Islam.
[Hurriyet Daily News] President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... said The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... should be ruled like a company, and for this to happen, a presidential system is required! Thus, the "Turkish-style presidential system" in Erdogan's mind is becoming clearer.
We were defining it as an "authoritarian, one-man administration," but "corporatism" has been added to it with the latest statement. Benito Mussolini ...former dictator of Italia. He perfected the idea of the corporate state and was all the vogue in intellectual circles until he lined up with Adolf in the Second World War. He wanted Italians to be figli de la lupa, and like the sons of wolves they turned on him when they finally got the chance. He ended his days dangling by his heels in a public square next to his mistress... 's fascist Italia was exactly this type of a state.
Well, the clues were there... Looking at the series of laws that were attempted to be sold to the people as a "security package" but actually were aiming to form a police state, we understood what it was.
Justice would be reporting to the president, the executive body would be run by the president, the president would be able to renew parliamentary elections, he would be running the country with decrees with the power of the law without the need for a parliament and a "corporative" mentality would dominate the state.
Thus, if his wish comes true, Turkey will turn into the Italia of 100 years ago. They were saying "New Turkey" all the time, now we know their dreams were "old Italia."
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Custom-made for the US-born, US-raised, Convert-to-Islam Islamic Mahdi 2030-2050.
[SultanKnish] If you believe Hillary Clinton, her email scandal happened because she couldn't figure out how to do what every American of working age knows how to do; juggle a work and personal email account.
...But like the rest of her party, Hillary is very much a 20th century regulator, not a 21st century innovator.
...Democrats not only didn't invent the internet, but they've been trying to kill it ever since it existed. The latest attempt to hijack the internet under the guise of net neutrality follows multiple attempts to implement CDA laws censoring it back in the Clinton days. Obama's rhetoric over reclassifying the internet is a carbon copy of Clinton's own rhetoric over the Telecommunications Act.
...To the left, skill and ingenuity are just forms of unchecked privilege. The only achievement that matters is power over people. The revolutionary exploits technology, but his revolution is that of the regulator, his machine is collective; its ultimate design is to end ingenuity and abort progress. His communication is not a dialogue, it is a diatribe, and his vision of the internet is only meant to be open until he can close it.
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And yet, the vast majority of Silicon Valley types support the Dems, much like the great majority of American Jews--and with about the same results.
[DAWN] IT is tragic that while polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... workers continue to be cut down in the country, few outraged voices are heard condemning their murder or demanding justice.
On Tuesday, two Lady Health Workers and their guard were rubbed out in the Danna area of Mansehra ...a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south... district. And yesterday, one vaccinator died and another was injured in an attack for which responsibility was claimed by the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban in Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central ...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth... .
Will the deaths of these brave individuals serve to shake up state and society and prod the country into finding the wherewithal to push back against the threat? This is unlikely, since the latest victims are far from the first polio vaccinators to have met a brutal end in a hail of bullets.
In such cases, the response from the state, which has hardly gone beyond providing a guard or two to protect the vaccinators, has been demoralising to say the least. The killing of polio workers -- and their protectors -- is an issue which has now taken its place among the myriad other challenges that have faded into the background to become just another unfortunate reality in this country.
At just about every level -- from the administrative and health authorities to the families of the children potentially at risk -- there appears to be little realisation that polio, which is easily transmissible, is fast proving to be a national calamity that has alarmed even the international community.
The warnings could not be clearer: rising incidence of the disease, growing violence against the teams administering the vaccination, the fear factor faced by parents who are intimidated into refusal by retrogressive elements.
The presence of the virus is being confirmed at more and more locations across the country, with interior Sindh (Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... has had a polio problem for a considerable period of time) being the latest to find the alarm being raised.
It is difficult to predict how and when this situation can be reversed. Those against the polio vaccination effort appear focused and implacable in their intentions to deter health workers from vaccinating children.
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If they like their polio maybe they should keep their polio.
...Israel's version of the New York Times, and proud of it...
explains the discrepancy between the Israeli polls and the outcome as follows: "[Netanyahu] won this election by convincing over 200,000 voters who were planning to vote for Habayit Hayehudi, Shas, Kulanu and Yahad to change their minds in the last six days of the campaign." Why did they switch? The answer is simple and obvious: Most of those small-party voters oppose a Palestinian state, and Netanyahu ruled out a Palestinian state on his watch a day before the election. Outside of the Eurocentric secular elite in Tel Aviv, IMO, not even them: they vote this way because it's the proper progressive ritual, and hope (secretly) to be outvoted.
most Israeli voters look at the chaos in the Muslim world and draw the obvious conclusion that a Palestinian State would be absorbed into the maelstrom of extremism surrounding it, and turn into an artillery platform for terrorists. Last July I argued in Tablet magazine that it's not the settlers, but the "unsettlers" (ISIS and Iran) who have forced a one-state solution on Israel. Netanyahu went through the motions of diplomacy until Monday in order to maintain correct relations with Washington. That pushed the one-state vote out to minor parties. Once Netanyahu acknowledged the obvious, 200,000 minor party voters came back to Likud.
Netanyahu has decided, with some justification, that he might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb. His disagreement with the Obama administration is not about the best way to contain Iran's nuclear ambitions. The Obama administration views Iran as a positive force with benign motives: the Director of National Intelligence's Threat Assessment speaks of "Iran's intentions to dampen sectarianism, build responsive partners, and deescalate tensions with Saudi Arabia," and dismisses Iran's threat to regional stability as mere "secondary consequences" of its support for Shia communities. Iranian official propaganda quotes it with enthusiasm. And after the appointment of Robert Malley as the Middle East Coordinator for the White House--the man Obama kicked out of its 2008 campaign because of his close ties to Hamas--Netanyahu has little to lose in terms of good will.
Wretchard opines on Obama's lousy luck gambling.
It is now hard to see how Obama can offer Iran any credible deal after these setbacks. Can he offer them a stable agreement with Congress in rebellion? Can he give them Palestine after forcing Netanyahu to play the national security card? No and no. At the same time it appears he must let Tehran keep all the earnest payments he optimistically advanced in the hope of that grand bargain.
He can hardly hope to ask for Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria back now that he can't go forward with the rest of the Big Time deal. Obama's like the unfortunate guy who put a payment down on a full house full of appliances in anticipation of a job he was going to get next week. He's spent the whole week blowing his savings reserving the best goods. Now the job's been canceled and those lay-by payments made toward the merchandise in the window are as gone as the job.
It's a tragic outcome, for it makes impossible the one hope which Obama was counting on the save his foreign policy from disaster. The hoped-for bargain with Iran, like the long-awaited Palestinian peace process, filled the same gambler's niche as "Steiner" in the Downfall movie. Obama was going to recoup everything at the last turn of the card, just you wait and see. In the movie it was evident once "Steiner" could not march to the relief of Berlin, that the capital was doomed. Where the analogy falls apart is that today's onlookers live inside the reality that Obama has condemned instead of being a dispassionate audience in a theater 60 years later. In my opinion it's all failure theater. The Iranian deal was never meant to be anything more than a repeat of Carter's North Korean 'deal' where they'd wait until someone not-left-enough would be in office to do their breakout. Obama wanted everything to come to a head/crisis on someone else's watch, so he could assign blame and nag while the world burned.
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"Obama wanted everything to come to a head/crisis on someone else's watch, so he could assign blame and nag while the world burned."
And all of his policies happen after he leaves office.
[VoxDay] In reading "LEARNING FROM VIETNAM: THE PATTERNS OF LIBERATION MOVEMENTS" by Doan Van Toai and David Chanoff, I couldn't help but notice that the pattern of SJW entryism in television, SF/F, and games appears to be rather similar to the successful Communist strategy in Vietnam.
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.
[Hurriyet Daily News] President 
a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south...
