Beijing plans to set up a naval facility in Djibouti, East Africa, to boost counter-piracy and peacekeeping efforts, officials say. The future Chinese installation will be near a US airbase reportedly used for the Pentagon’s drone operations.
Beijing is currently in talks with Djibouti’s government to build a naval facility to support the Chinese Navy’s counter-piracy and peacekeeping missions in the region, China’s top officials told media. They carefully avoided calling the installation a “military base” similar to those maintained by the US worldwide.
Spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry Hong Lei says the “support facilities” will provide “logistical support” to fuel, rest and re-supply Chinese Navy ships, addressing possible speculations the port will boost Beijing’s military expansion in the strategically vital Horn of Africa.
“The construction of the relevant facilities will help China’s navy and army further participate in UN peacekeeping operations, carry out escort missions in the waters near Somalia and the Gulf of Aden, and provide humanitarian assistance,” he told a daily news briefing on Wednesday, Reuters reports.
Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Colonel Wu Qian also spoke at a monthly news conference, mainly repeating the Foreign Ministry’s comments, but he added an important detail: “China wanted to play a greater role in ensuring regional peace and stability.”
The announcement comes as Beijing prepares to play a greater role in the world by modernizing its military and navy, and making significant contributions to UN peacekeeping all over the globe. Currently, China is a major provider of peacekeeping troops to Africa, where it has huge economic interests, having invested some $40 billion in the continent over the last 15 years.
Beijing also faces public pressure to protect its citizens overseas, especially after four Chinese were killed by terrorist groups in Syria and Mali last week. It may also need to evacuate its nationals as it did in Libya in 2011 and Yemen in March.
At the same time, Beijing is pushing to build-up a so-called “blue-water navy” able to operate in oceanic waters with a global reach. Over the past few years, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has commissioned its first aircraft carrier, “Liaoning,” originally laid down in 1988 for the Soviet Navy. Similar naval programs to build state-of-the-art warships and nuclear submarines are also underway.
A former colony of France, Djibouti already hosts the United States’ only African permanent military base at Djibouti-Ambouli International Airport. Called Camp Lemonnier, it accommodates the Pentagon’s African Command (AFRICOM) and is used for CIA drone operations.
Djibouti is a gateway to the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, and has been used by international navies – including China’s – as a base for anti-piracy from neighboring Somalia.
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Heh. It is gonna be just a giant listening post aimed squarely at the US operations.
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Hypothetially, a similar scenario could occur iff SHTF between the US + China in the SCS, ECS, + over Taiwan, etc. + concessions have to be made in order to avoid protractive or Nuclear conflict.
China could get the CNMI while the US keeps Guam, wid one or either side forced to accept a much-reduced mil presence.
As myself + Perts have said, HOW POTUS OBAMA RESPONDS TO CHINA IN EAST ASIA-PACIFI MAY ROVE MORE DANGEROUS TO US INTERESTS THAN WHAT HE DOES VEE RUSSIA + IRAN.
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FYI FREEREPUBLIC > [AFP] LARGE CHINESE Air = PLAAF] FLEET FLIES NEAR JAPAN ISLANDS: MEDIA.
Coming soon enuff to Guam's Camel Rock, like China's "White ships".
Lest we fergit, YEAR 2020 = BESIDES OKINAWA MARINES MOVING TO GUAM, IS ALSO THE BENHMARK OR SYMBOLIC YEAR CHINA IDEALLY WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE US PULLOUT OR FALL BACK FROM EAST ASIA-WESTPAC TOWARDS HAWAII-EASTPAC + US WEST COAST, vee "SHARING THE PACIFIC" = 1/2 of the Pacific [WestPac]by 2020 NLT 20125.
CHINA = US HAS NO STATES WEST OF HAWAII IN EASTPAC, ERGO US HAS NO REAL INTERESTS IN WESTPAC + SHOULD GIVE UP ITS ISLAND TERRITORIES TO BEIJINNG.
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..the Chinese authorities probably won't agree because 1) the question becomes 'how come they can afford it and we can't' and 2) how come this sh!t isn't sold back home too?
#2 is real. Jackie Chan was doing a movie in New Mexico and in an interview said he like spending time in the home improvement big box stores cause they had stuff made back home but no one could find there.
Former head of the Algerian counter-terrorism agency General Hassan was handed a five-year prison sentence by a military court in a behind closed doors trial. Abdelkader Ait-Ouarabi, known as General Hassan, was sentenced to five years in prison on charges of destroying documents and disobeying military orders.
Refused an order to whack a political opponent of the boss? Or simply another potential challenger to the comfy chair?
Gen. Hassan headed successfully the Algerian counter-terrorism department and helped save the country during the bloodbath period when Algeria was haunted by terrorist organizations. He was dismissed from his position in 2013, put under house arrest and then arrested in August 2015.
Journalists were barred from attending the trial. One of the defendant’s lawyers Mokrane Ait Larbi regretted the court did not allow Gen. Toufik to speak in favor of his client. Khaled Bourayou, another defense lawyer, deemed the trial “a vengeance” saying that the court ignored the exceptional work done by his client in combatting terrorism. He also regretted that the court disregarded his client’s age and health condition.
“If he is condemned, what signal will Algeria be sending to all those who – here and worldwide – are waging a relentless battle against internal and transnational terrorism, which has increased in ferocity in recent years?”
President Bouteflika has lately embarked on eliminating his former military comrades he deemed challenging his rule.
Aside from Gen. Hassan several other military high ranking officers including high profile Gen. Toufik, who headed for 25 years Algerian powerful DRS intelligence agency, have been side-lined or arrested.
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An explosion ripped through a bus carrying presidential security in central Tunis on Tuesday, prompting the Tunisian president to issue a state of emergency for the North African country.
NPR's Leila Fadel reports that a spokesman for Tunisia's Interior Ministry said at least 11 people were killed in the attack and 17 others were wounded. The state of emergency will last for 30 days and an overnight curfew is also in place until tomorrow morning local time.
The incident occurred on one of the largest thoroughfares in the city, Mohamed V Avenue, and went off at a time when the streets were busy with people commuting home from work.
Leila adds: "It's unclear exactly what caused the blast, but Tunis has been the target of extremist attacks."
The news service adds that Tunisia's president has declared "war" against terrorism and urged international cooperation in fighting it.
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Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has directed the special military commission of Yemen's national army to announce the conditions and centres of recruitments to quickly enable the popular resistance fighters to join the national army officially, the official Yemen News Agency reported.
This came during the commission's meeting chaired by the commander of the fourth governorate in Aden, Major General Ahmed Saif Al Yafei.
Brigadier Nasser Mishabbab Al Otaibi, Commander of the UAE Taskforce in the Arab Coalition Forces in Aden, attended the meeting.
During the meeting, President Hadi urged the commission members to exert more efforts in cooperation with the Yemeni military and field commanders to identify those fit for serving in the national army and the security service charged with protecting the security and stability of Yemen's liberated governorates.
The legitimate Yemeni government forces are fighting the rebel Houthi militia and forces loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh in various areas of the country.
A special court has sentenced a Syrian national to 19 years in jail for supporting Al-Qaeda and other terror-related activities.
The sentence includes three years for forgery, three years for information technology offenses and 18 months for violating border security regulations, according to a report in an online publication on Friday. The man was also found guilty on charges of declaring all Arab government officials non-believers, seeking to topple them and the Saudi government, and traveling to Somalia to take part in fighting there.
The court found that he had procured a forged residential permit to enter the Kingdom illegally after returning from Somalia, stored seditious material on his computer, including video clips and texts of speeches of Al-Qaeda leaders and members, and formulas for manufacturing explosives.
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[AFP] Officials from China's ruling Chinese Communist Party have supported violent attacks in Xinjiang, a top regional official said in comments highlighting internal opposition to tough local policies.
The homeland of the mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority is often hit by deadly unrest. China blames the violence on Islamist separatists but rights groups point to Beijing's actions.
Xu Hairong, the region's top anti-graft official, accused some local CCP members of participating in the unrest. Xu said, "Some communist cadres ... even support or take part in violent terrorist attacks."
He gave few details but added that some officials were "wavering on the big issues of opposing anti-separatism and maintaining ethnic unity."
The statement published on Tuesday came days after Chinese police killed 28 members of a "terrorist group" in Xinjiang, in the bloodiest such operation in months. It also came after the editor of the Xinjiang Daily, the regional party mouthpiece, was dismissed for what anti-graft officials said were offenses, including publicly criticizing party policies.
Officials launched a "strike hard" campaign after a bomb shook the main train station in the regional capital Urumqi last year as Chinese chief Xi Jinping was wrapping up a visit to the city.
The CCP is officially atheist and bans all of its officials — including Uighurs — from religious faith. But Xu said officials persist in religious beliefs despite the policy. He said, "Some waver in their ideals, are confused in their beliefs, not believing in Marxism-Leninism but believing in ghosts, and lack loyalty to the party."
[Daily Telegraph] A Muslim man on trial in Sydney for attempted murder wore a mask at a public debate on sharia law to threaten that "mujahideen" will someday bring jihad to Australia.
In the video played in court yesterday, Milad Bin Ahmad-Shah Al-Ahmadzai approached the microphone wearing an abeya and asked a debater opposed to sharia law, "What are you going to do the day the mujahideen decide to jihad here, whether by air, on train or foot?"
Police intelligence on Al-Ahmadzai was made public yesterday when a former counter-terrorism officer gave evidence on a two-year-long surveillance operation during a preliminary hearing for his trial at Parramatta District Court.
Al-Ahmadzai’s extremism has already been on display with his continuing refusal to stand for the presiding judge on the grounds that it is against Islam. But he may soon be forced to stand, after NSW Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton said yesterday she would consider strengthening the law to make it easier to prosecute people for contempt of court.
The police officer told the hearing he was one of three officers who listened to 20,000 phone calls involving Al-Ahmadzai between December 2009, and September 2011, when the accused was making and answering around 100 calls a day.
The court heard numerous phone conversations alleged to be between Al-Ahmadzai and Daesh sympathizers, including Ali Al-Talebi, who is accused of sending money to Daesh, and Hamze Alqudsi, who is defending charges he recruited people for jihad.
One of the people Al-Ahmadzai called was a man identified as Tolga Cifci, who was later convicted over the whipping of a Muslim convert. Cifci tells Al-Ahmadzai, "They aren’t going to do sh*t. If our boys come down it is going to be a punch-up."
[IsraelTimes] Leaked witness statement says Abdelhamid Abaaoud asked his cousin to hide him while he planned further strikes, Rooters reports.
The leader of the group of bully boyz who carried out the attacks that killed 130 people in Gay Paree two weeks ago also planned to strike at the French Jewish community, Rooters reported Friday, quoting a witness statement related to the investigation into the November 13 terror attacks. The report did not specify which Jewish targets were intended to be hit.
The bully boyz were also planning to disrupt the education and transportation systems in the French capital, Rooters said.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, aged 27, was killed on November 18 in a police raid on an apartment building in the Gay Paree suburb of Saint-Denis.
The Rooters report quoted the witness statement saying that Belgian national Abaaoud "also boasted of the ease with which he had re-entered Europe from Syria via Greece two months earlier, exploiting the confusion of the migrant crisis and the continent's passport-free Schengen system."
The quotes were apparently taken from a confidential police witness statement leaked this week to French magazine Valeurs Actuelles.
Two days after the Gay Paree bloodbath, Abaaoud asked his cousin Hasna Ait Boulahcen to hide him as he prepared more attacks, the witness statement reportedly said.
He told her "they would do worse (damage) in districts close to the Jews and would disrupt transport and schools," the witness statement said.
"Abaaoud said he would give Boulahcen 5,000 euros (about $5,000) to buy two suits and two pairs of shoes for him and an unidentified accomplice to 'look the part' in a planned attack on Gay Paree's commercial district La Defense," Rooters said.
Boulahcen was killed in the same raid as her cousin.
The Gay Paree prosecutor's office said Friday it would launch an investigation into how the confidential statement was leaked to the press, Rooters said.
Islamist bully boyz have targeted the French Jewish community on more than one occasion. In January, four people were rubbed out in an attack at the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Gay Paree, two days after 12 people were killed in an attack on the offices of the Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... magazine in the French capital.
In March 2012, a rabbi, his two young children and another young girl were shot and killed by an Islamist gunman at a Jewish school in the city of Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... .
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I thought the theater was a Jewish target?
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So he's got a lazy $5k for a couple of suits to look the part?
Follow the money.
Yes, yes, dear Reader, but he actually said it aloud and officially
. [IsraelTimes] A senior German police official says some of the migrants reaching Europe are 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.... snuffies planning terrorist attacks, but the refugee influx is not systemically used by holy warriors to bring members into the EU.
Really? When they announced they were doing so?
The Austria Press Agency cites German federal police chief Hans-Georg Maasen as saying that some who blend in with the migrants fought with IS and are planning a "combat mission" once they arrive in Europe. He says Thursday that his office knows of 7,900 Islamic snuffies in Germany who advocate violence to advance their goals, with some trying to win migrants to their cause.
He says German authorities receive one or two "fairly concrete tips" a week of planned terrorist activity. And he describes IS holy warriors as "combat-hardened professionals" more dangerous than those from al-Qaeda.
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A senior soon to be a retired German police official
Paging Bernie Sanders! [RT/RFL] Norway has deported around 30 Pakistanis seeking asylum in the country. The Norwegian Embassy in Islamabad said the Pakistani asylum seekers were deported in the past several weeks.
Torben Eskelund, a spokesman for immigration department at the embassy in Islamabad, said that the number of deportees might increase as more cases are processed. He said more than 400 Pakistanis had applied for asylum in the Scandinavian nation this year. He added that more than 300 had entered Norway through the Nordic route through Russia.
Norway has tightened its immigration laws as an unprecedented number of people seek asylum there.
From Sydney Morning Herald journalist Ruth Pollard on the scene.
This behaviour is best understood when you admit the true enemy is Islamism and NOT Islamic State the group. That is why the Turks support them. Even if there were no Kurds they would still support the Caliphate because Turkey is now run by Islamists.
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Reyhanli, Turkey: As Islamic State extremists raised their black flag in the besieged Syrian border town of Kobane last year after a brutal three-week onslaught, the Turkish military - stationed just a kilometre away - turned their backs...
As we gathered journalists watched, hundreds of Turkish soldiers and a long line of tanks positioned along a nearby ridge ignored the thunder of IS shelling that was destroying the Kurdish town street by street, forcing 160,000 people to flee in a matter of days.
Instead, the soldiers focused their attention on the small bands of Kurdish protesters gathered on the hill next to the Mursitpinar border crossing to watch and worry about the plight of their loved ones still inside Kobane.
Each day the Turkish soldiers would fire up their tanks and Armoured Personnel Carriers and storm towards the crowd of civilians, shooting volley after volley of choking tear gas and water cannons straight at protesters and journalists, chasing us over the rocky hills and into the small village nearby, where we found shelter wherever we could.
It was agonising for the Kurds on the hill - with that much firepower, the Turks could have easily crossed into Kobane and helped the Kurdish YPG fighters who, in the end, with the backing of air strikes from the US-led coalition against IS, fought off the jihadists and reclaimed their ruined town.
Turkey is fighting AGAINST us kick them out of NATO
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Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the Clown Price of Russian nationalism.
Ya know, I knew who said this from the headline; I didn't even have to look at the text of the story. In Russian politics, it's like having an only child:
[Hurriyet] The Turkish army has suspended flights over Syria as part of an ongoing joint military campaign with the United States against 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.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) after it shot down a Russian jetfighter, sparking an unprecedented crisis between Ankara and Moscow.
The decision was taken following the eruption of the crisis with Russia in which a Turkish F-16 downed a Russian warplane early Nov. 24 after it allegedly violated Turkish airspace, according to diplomatic sources.
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The Obama administration is warning states that they cannot refuse to accept refugees fleeing war-torn Syria, saying that noncompliant states may be subject to penalties.
"The science is settled!"
The federal Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) said in a letter to state agencies on Wednesday that they cannot withhold services to refugees based on their country of origin or religion. The letter cited the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bars discrimination on the basis of race or country or origin.
That certainly is one theory...
A theory that should be thoroughly tested in the courts. You know, just to be sure. Might take a couple years but we want to be certain the law is solid...
The House overwhelmingly passed a measure earlier this month to make it more difficult for Syrian refugees to enter the country, following the Nov. 13 terrorist attack in Paris in which at least one assailant is suspected of entering the country posed as a migrant.
The ORR letter said refugees are subject to a rigorous screening process before they enter the country.
“It is the most robust screening process for any category of individuals seeking admissions into the United States,
...a terrifying thought, given the FBI have stated they are incapable of vetting these people...
The ORR is doing something that is a fine tradition amongst our politicians. It's called, "lying"...
and it is only after admission that ORR and our partners in resettlement begin our work,” the letter said.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) slammed the Obama administration as “hypocritical” over the letter.
“While the United States has the most generous refugee system in the world,
Not quite, say the Germans and the Swedes...
the American people are rightly concerned about admitting Syrian refugees and the impact it would have on the safety of their families and neighbors,” Goodlatte said in a statement.
“It’s hypocritical for Obama Administration officials to threaten enforcement action against these states when they refuse to enforce the vast majority of our immigration laws, such as cracking down on sanctuary cities that openly defy federal law and endanger the American people,” he continued.
Obama has vowed to allow 10,000 Syrian refugees into the U.S. over the next fiscal year.
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In dumbest terms coming to my mind...
Let's say Oblabla and... well, any other Western politician not corrupted by Gazprom and similar Russian 'interests'... (Hollande appears a good example)... manage to convince Putler and that wannabe-Ayatollah Khamenei to get Assad out of Damascus...
...and Assad leaves, say, 5 minutes after the moment you've read this post of mine...
...what would that change on the battlefields of Syria?
Would the fighting end?
I strongly doubt this.
Hand at heart: the story about 'chaos without Assad', supposedly because of a break-down of 'civil order' in what was left of Syria under his control - as propagated by Oblabla - is nonsense. Syria (that is: the 30% of country still under supposed control of the regime) is already now a complete chaos. It is bankrupt since November 2011 and surviving only thanks to extensive financial support from Tehran.
Tehran has bankrupted itself 'thanks' to spending about US$50 billion in Syria of the last four years - and is currently surviving only thanks to loans from China, made possible by... surprise, surprise... Daesh advance into northern Iraq, in summer of last year....
Aw... I'm going off-topic now...
Anyway: Syria is ruined. Infra-structure is in tatters; most of major cities completely ruined. Industry is demolished. Agroculture sector ruined by war and successive draughts. There is already now no civil order, but 'organized chaos' run by various quasi-pro-Assad militias - foremost the IRGC-QF, which can't think about anything else but bolstering arsenals of Hezbollah/Lebanon and developing an even large force of Hezbollah/Syria, accompanied by construction of Shi'a religious schools and all the related indoctrination...
But OK. Let's say Assad is gone and ask again: would that mean that various of his militias (usually called 'Syrian Arab Army' or 'Syrian Armed Forces' by our glorious media) would stop fighting?
I would say: no way.
Reasons (roughly, quite roughly):
- a) 30% of these militias are Alawis, who are not only sternously convinced they are better than all the others there, but have so much blood and terror on their hands (not only from 40 years of their dictatorship but also four years of war in which they have destroyed the country) that at least half of them would end on various courts for war criminals - if not right in front of some execution squad.
- b) 10% are Syrian Sunni Nazis (more specifically 'Syrian Socialist National Party'), who think of themselves in terms German Nazis thought of themselves in the 1930s and 1940s.
- c) 10% are Syrian Sunni Ba'athists (and, sigh, hope I need not explaining how Ba'athists think of themselves).
- d) 35% are various Iraqi Shi'a Jihadists recruited by the IRGC (i.e. 'Hezbollah/Iraq'), then the IRGC-recruited Hezbollah/Syria, and Hezbollah/Lebanon, plus mercenaries from Afghanistan, Pakistan and wherever else...
- e) 5% are Palestinians (predominantly Palestinian Christians), that is kids of Palestinian refugees that grew up in Syria and have little other choice but to side with Assad, and various foreign volunteers organized as the 'Arab National Guard';
- f) 5% are Syrian Christians who were dumb enough to side with Assad (well, there is no doubt that emergence of the JAN, Daesh and similar idiots helped them in this decision); and
- g) 5% are Syrian Druze, who were stupid enough to side with Assad (supposedly for their own interests, but actually in order to be used as Assad's show-fight against the Daesh, primarily in Dayr az-Zawr area).
What sane person thinks anybody could bring any semblance of an order into this chaos alone? Not even the IRGC can control all of this (not to talk about Assad), but somebody thinks some sort of 'international agreement' - could?
And, how can anybody think he/she could bring an order into a chaos of about 2,000 'registered' armed opposition groups fighting against the above-mentioned conglomerate?
And then - a question which is ah-so-overimportant for the West: what's with Daesh? How shall anybody bring them under control?
Even if, say, there is a multi-national coalition that launches an all-out invasion of that pseudo-state: what shall we do with all of these idiots once they are defeated? Slaughter them to the last combatant, wife and kid? Forcefully convert them...? or convince them to convert... and to what...?
I'm really sorry, and be sure: I really mean no offense to anybody.
But, my conclusion - which appears 'unavoidable' to me - is that anybody thinking some sort of 'diplomatic solution' to this conflict is possible, is daydreaming.
(Note: which shouldn't mean that I think that any kind of military solution is possible, either. It is simply too late. So, grab yourself a bag of popcorn, some beer, and watch - as long as you still can.)
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It is the most robust screening process for any category of individuals seeking admissions into the United States,
Shall we compare it with the vetting of the brides of service members trying to accompany their new spouses to the US?
You don't even try to stop the horde overwhelming our Southern border, but you'll put layers and layers of obstruction to people trying to follow the 'rules' even if they literally do have a sponsor.
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By all means, let's make Syrian ISIS/rebel refugees forced on the States and Black Lives Matters civil disruptions along with collegiate Speshul Snowflakes™ as campaign issues in 2016.
I welcome it
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3dc,
Bravo, sir. Would that our leaders had that kind of courageous insight.
Mike
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All that will become of the "refugees" is a handful of terrorist acts 10 years from now, and hundreds of them heading back to continue the war. Let them fight to the finish.
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The 1964 Civil Rights Act is over 50 years old, which means that it was mostly written by and voted on by Dead White Mens. I thought we had decided to ignore things like that.
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The Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution was mostly written by and voted on by dead white men. Pesky Bill of Rights and federalism stuff, no big deal. So the Constitutional-Law-Professor-in-Chief has indeed decided to ignore it:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States, respectively, or to the people.
The ORR is an executive branch agency that has no right to declare anything without authorization by Congress. Whose power to require states to accept refugees is itself questionable. But it'll take years to litigate, by which time the damage will be done.
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Oh, there you go, talking about the Constitution. I saw it in the National Archives a couple of weeks ago, and I can tell you it's pretty hard to read. For example, I couldn't make out the part permitting Executive Orders.
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Oh my. We have Two Really Good Lawyers discussing the issue. I'm going to sit here very quietly and happily absorb.
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I'm not a lawyer, but didn't the 14th amendment pretty much gut the 10th? Especially since every president from Lincoln to FDR and beyond have been pushing the Federal Government as THE authority?
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The federal Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) said in a letter to state agencies on Wednesday that they cannot withhold services to refugees based on their country of origin or religion. The letter cited the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bars discrimination on the basis of race or country or origin.
That certainly is one theory...
A theory that should be thoroughly tested in the courts. You know, just to be sure. Might take a couple years but we want to be certain the law is solid...
John Roberts will just say that it's all perfectly fine, and Obama will give him visitation rights to his balls.
#10 The 1964 Civil Rights Act is over 50 years old, which means that it was mostly written by and voted on by Dead White Mens
Agreed. We need to treat it like a living document per the fashion of the day. The Voting Rights Act, as well.
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Rambler, the 10th Amendment makes the principle of federalism explicit: states are sovereign and retain all powers not explicitly granted to the federal government. It's the "states' rights" amendment, as important as the 2nd amendment, neither of which have been considered much by the Supreme Court (and thereby eroded). It still means what it says.
The 10th amendment was part of the original Bill of Rights. The 14th amendment was ratified after the Civil War, and simply requires state governments to grant due process, as well as the federal government. Logical enough, and the two don't inherently conflict.
What Obozo's Executive Branch is saying to state governments here, is pure coercion and thuggery: heads we win, tails you lose.
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But the Supreme Black Robed Princes of the Land have already twisted the 14th all out of shape to force states to accept 'Gay Marriage'. To force them to accept this isn't out of range of their 'extending' it to cover something never intended - see Abortion, etc...
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Oh, I'm not saying a majority of Justices give a damn about the Constitution anymore. I'm just saying, there's strong federalism case to be made here. State AGs ought to band together and file suit, much as they did with respect to certain provisions of Obamacare.
[Rudaw] SHINGAL, Kurdistan Region -- Iraq's Nineveh Plains are a long way from the jungles of Mynamar, but for Joseph, a Myanmarese medic with the Free Burma Rangers (FBR), treating a mortar wound is the same. It's just that with no trees here, mortars here do damage over greater distances.
"In the jungle, even if a mortar lands near, it's no problem," says Joseph, who like many ethnic Karen, has no surname. But on Shingal, "it's pretty different."
Joseph belongs to a clandestine non-governmental group that has been described as "Doctors Without Borders with guns," that operates in the ethnic states of Myanmar. Now the group are in Iraq and they've been helping the Peshmerga in the fight against the Islamic State
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[IsraelTimes] IDF holds first operational test of 'Barak 8,' aimed to deflect Hezbollah weapons, as all eyes turn to more powerful RussianS-400
The Israel Navy has carried out its first successful launch of a new maritime missile defense system under battlefield conditions, a senior naval official announced on Thursday.
News of the "Barak 8" missile defense system's successful test came as the eyes of the world turn to the Russian S-400, an anti-aircraft system deployed in Syria on Thursday, which operates at a substantially greater distance.
Though the Russian missile system is effective at a greater range, the Barak 8 can be installed on naval ships as well as on the ground, giving it a decided advantage in its mobility.
The system, made up of a radar array and missile launcher, successfully detected and shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle "that was very fast and very small," in order to simulate a real-life enemy aircraft or missiles, the naval officer said.
The system, which was developed jointly by Israel and India, had been installed on one of Israel's Sa'ar 5-class warships. In previous tests, the missiles had been fired from land.
The radar acquiring targets for the Barak 8 system is code-named Adir (Hebrew for "Tremendous"), or MF-STAR (Multi Function Surveillance And Threat Alert Radar).
This newest iteration ("8") is intended to defend against advanced weaponry believed to be in the hands of Hezbollah, including the Russian-made Yakhont P-800 anti-ship missile.
"The Barak/Adir systems will be able to deal with the Yakhont," the senior officer boasted. "It is the bread and butter of this system."
The system is intended to be mounted either on naval vessels or on the ground, in a battery formation. It can identify and destroy airborne threats like UAVs, jets, missiles and rockets -- including projectiles launched simultaneously.
Though the senior officer said he could not reveal the maximum range of the Barak 8 system, an executive vice president of Israel Aerospace Industries, which helped develop the defense system, revealed to Jane's Defense News earlier this summer that some of the missiles being used can shoot down targets at a range of 150 kilometers (93 miles).
The system is also intended to defend the coastline and reportedly can tackle missiles larger than those within the capabilities of the Iron Dome system.
A Syrian rebel commander who boasted of killing a Russian pilot after Turkey downed Russian jet on Tuesday appeared to be Turkish ultranationalist and a son of former mayor in one of Turkish provinces.
Could it be that the Turkemen are not actually a native Syrian rebel group, but rather an expression of now-President Erdogan's hatred of his former BFF President Assad?
Alparslan Celik, deputy commander of a Syrian Turkmen brigade turned out to be the son of a mayor of a Keban municipality in Turkey’s Elazig province. He also turned out to be the member of The Grey Wolves ultranationalist group, members of which have carried out scores of political murders since 1970s.
Fascinating. The Grey Wolves have been mentioned here once or several times.
Celik came under spotlight after he announced that as the two Russian pilots descended by parachute after the Su-24 jet was downed by Turkish military, both were shot dead by Turkmen forces on Tuesday.
A graphic video posted earlier on social media purported to show a Russian pilot lying on the ground surrounded by a group of armed militants.
At the time they were called Turkmen rebels. Now we have to consider the possibility they were actually Turkish Grey Wolves operating clandestinely on the far side of the border as an arm of the Turkish government.
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At the time they were called Turkmen rebels. Now we have to consider the possibility they were actually Turkish Grey Wolves operating clandestinely on the far side of the border as an arm of the Turkish government.
[IsraelTimes] Alarms, tunnels, smaller oil tankers and less pressure on civilians -- Islamic State adaps to life under bombardment
In 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.... group's Syrian stronghold of Raqqa, sirens ring out whenever a warplane approaches as jihadists flee their posts and vehicles to hide, activists say.
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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
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[AFP] Officials from China's ruling Chinese Communist Party have supported violent attacks in Xinjiang, a top regional official said in comments highlighting internal opposition to tough local policies.
[Daily Telegraph] A Muslim man on trial in Sydney for attempted murder wore a mask at a public debate on sharia law to threaten that "mujahideen" will someday bring jihad to Australia.
A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
[RT/RFL] Norway has deported around 30 Pakistanis seeking asylum in the country. The Norwegian Embassy in Islamabad said the Pakistani asylum seekers were deported in the past several weeks.
