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Bombings at Iraq cafe kill 20: Officers
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Europe
Stand by for Collision
One of the more interesting aspects of the European cover-up of mass sex assaults by so-called refugees is that it abets abuse inflicted on Muslim women as well. Before the story of the Cologne attacks broke, Katin Bennhold of the New York Times wrote a piece on the abuse of refugee women on the migrant trail. The story should have set alarm bells ringing in the West about what was coming up the trail towards them but it didn't.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/12/2016 06:03 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We in the West prefer to wait until it's too late. A pound of cure vs. and ounce of prevention thingy. Part of the culture, you know.
Posted by: gorb || 01/12/2016 12:44 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Pathankot and power plays
[DAWN] INDIA has provided Pakistain 'actionable intelligence' regarding the attack on the Pathankot airbase and demands satisfactory follow-up action by Pakistain if the foreign secretary talks are to start in three days' time. Our prime minister has assured the Indian prime minister he will do the necessary. The US is urging India not to postpone dialogue. Reports suggest a number of NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
countries consider the intelligence supplied (including mobile phone conversations between the attackers and suspected handlers in Pakistain, a Jaish-e-Mohammad
...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat...
letter, DNA samples of the attackers, their voice record samples, etc) to be credible leads if not conclusive evidence. Pakistain's international legal obligations require it to follow up on these leads to determine whether or not some elements based in Pakistain were involved in the attack.

Otherwise, the worst assumptions about Pakistain's international conduct will continue to be made by the international community. A repeat of the Mumbai stand-off would expose Pakistain to ridicule and ignominy. Pakistain could come under immense international pressure, including the threat of sanctions, if it is seen not to be cooperating with India in the hunt for possible suspects.

While suggesting Pakistain may need time to conduct its investigations, the US agrees with India that Pakistain must take the leads seriously. Along with India, the US and NATO countries lean to the view that the attack probably was planned and supervised from Pakistain by elements with a history of association with the intelligence establishment, whether with or without its direct or indirect connivance. After the judicial liquidation of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
...9th PM of Pakistain from 1973 to 1977, and 4th President of Pakistain from 1971 to 1973. He was the founder of the Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP). His eldest daughter, Benazir Bhutto, would also serve as hereditary PM. In a coup led by General Zia-ul-Haq, Bhutto was removed from office and was executed in 1979 for authorizing the murder of a political opponent...
, Pakistain lost control over crucial aspects of its foreign policy to violent non-state actors backed by the security establishment. The bill for this incredible irresponsibility is still being paid.
Posted by: Fred || 01/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Home Front: Culture Wars
Napoleon be pumped. An Army Marches on its Lactation
[Defense Watch] Today, my former boss, a retired Army Intelligence officer sent me a copy of a memorandum for record concerning the US Army's most recent lactation and breastfeeding policies, signed by the new Secretary of the Army, Eric K. Fanning and dated November 10, 2015.

My first reaction was to pop a couple Tums even before starting to read it. As I scanned the document, I realized how far the Army has fallen on its sword. The sword of feminism, the sword of lunacy has completely eviscerated the lean green machine, so that it is the US Army in name only now.

The magnificent fighting force that was born at Lexington and Concord in 1775; the spectacular fighting force that stormed the gates of Chapultepec, that found itself divided and fought each other at Gettysburg, only to be reborn as brothers again on San Juan Hill; the phenomenal US Army that threw back the Hun in 1918, and saved the world in 1945; the incredibly brave force that fought in Korea, and never lost a major battle in Vietnam; the professionals who restored a nation's pride in 1991 and who gave all that mortality can give from 2001 until now is dying.

The US Army is fading out like an elephant on its last breaths, a mastodon being consumed by hordes of politically correct and feminist ants, who seek to devour it from the inside out and outside in.
Appears the feeders pictured in the article are wearing USAF trousers, not that it matters much.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/12/2016 13:36 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  EEEWWWWWWW ... ... D *** NG IT, THATS TOO MUCH INFORMATION!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 01/12/2016 19:50 Comments || Top||


Government
US Court: Wearing Unearned Military Medals Is Free Speech
[ABSee] A federal appeals court on Monday tossed out a veteran's conviction for wearing military medals he didn't earn, saying it was a form of free speech protected by the Constitution.

A specially convened 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the First Amendment allows people to wear unearned military honors.

Elven Joe Swisher of Idaho was convicted in 2007 of violating the Stolen Valor Act, which made it a misdemeanor to falsely claim military accomplishments. President George W. Bush signed it into law in 2006, but the U.S. Supreme Court struck it down in 2012 as a violation of free speech protections.

Investigators looked into Swisher's military claims after he testified at the 2005 trial of a man charged with soliciting the murder of a federal judge. Swisher wore a Purple Heart on the witness stand.
Searching for my 'MEAL TEAM-6' photo, but can't seem to find it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/12/2016 11:15 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Seems like theft and fraud to me.
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/12/2016 12:49 Comments || Top||

#2  If I falsely claim to be a doctor or a Harvard grad, that is actionable. Why should it be any different if I claim to be a medal of honor winner?
Posted by: Omusoter and Tenille8260 || 01/12/2016 12:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Looks like a slippery slope. What happens when people declare they have paid their taxes even though they have not. Eh, we know how that would play out...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/12/2016 12:56 Comments || Top||

#4  ...and claiming to be a Federal judge is free speech too?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/12/2016 13:16 Comments || Top||

#5  The 9th Circus strikes again.
Posted by: Gerthudion White4991 || 01/12/2016 13:54 Comments || Top||

#6  ...and claiming to be a Federal judge is free speech too?

As long as you're claiming to be a 9th Circus judge and wearing a clown suit, yes.
Posted by: gorb || 01/12/2016 15:23 Comments || Top||

#7  Obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception

America is "common law", so this most likely applies.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/12/2016 18:59 Comments || Top||



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