The European Commission announced on Wednesday a 16-point action plan worth almost 300 million euros ($327 million) to address the root causes of irregular migration and forced displacement in the Horn of Africa, the EU executive body said in a statement.
Most of the money is used to pay the Euro apparatchiks (salaries, benefits, Land Cruisers, hookers); the rest goes into the pockets of prominent Somalis and ends up in Switzerland...
The plan includes pillar-action points aimed at addressing migration in the Horn of Africa (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia) in general, as well as particular actions and recommendations for particular states.
The plan includes efforts to create employment opportunities and better living conditions in specific areas of Ethiopia, facilitate the return of refugees, who are currently hosted in the region and in Europe, to stable areas of Somalia of Somali, improve the reintegration of South Sudanese refugees in host communities of Uganda or create favorable conditions for their return, and support the implementation of the peace agreement in South Sudan and the return of internally displaced persons.
One of the overall objectives of the action plan is to promote sustainable voluntary return and reintegration by building national capacities.
The more important objective is to spend the money, preferably in ways that can't be audited...
The project aims to investigate and prosecute cases of human trafficking and smuggling and improve border management, as well as developing policies and legislative frameworks.
Prosecute cases of trafficking? So there's a provision in this for Carla del Ponte...
The new plan also recommends the improvement of the recruitment framework for migrant labor. To this end, governments, social partners and other stakeholders should efficiently manage recruitment within the overall labor migration process.
The U.S. does migrant labor just fine without all the overhead. Just check out the farms, landscaping businesses and poultry processing houses...
The implementation of the action plan will start in early 2016.
The money will be gone by late 2016...
The first 10 points of action will be implemented and financed jointly by the European Commission and EU member states, in partnership with African countries, the European Commission said.
The other six actions are to be financed under the Development Cooperation Instrument, the EU’s major financial tool for development cooperation in the 2014‐2020 period.
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Morocco military court has sentenced respectively three Morocco military personnel to three years in prison after the suspects were found in possession of an IS flag, reports say.
The three men positioned in Tichla region, were caught three month ago after the national gendarmerie received information that they were in position of the flag. The gendarmerie found the flag in the house of one of the suspects after a search. He told on a second whom he said gave him the flag. The second revealed the name of a third whom he said also gave him the flag after he designed it.
All the three soldiers had been suspended from their job for three months and had been incarcerated under the instruction of the military court. Reports add that further investigations, scientific revealed that the third soldier who designed the flag was in touch with an extremist at Sale. However the man later confessed that he designed it out of curiosity after searching on internet.
Idle hands are the workshop of the devil...
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An Egypt military court has sentenced nine Egyptians to life in prison for their involvement in a failed attack on tourists at a famous pharaonic temple, army officials said on Thursday. Two others were also sentenced to seven years in jail on Wednesday for the attack, which prosecutors say was carried out by members of the Egyptian affiliate of the Daesh group.
On June 10, at least three heavily armed men riding in a taxi made their way past a security checkpoint into the parking lot of the Karnak temple in Luxor, southern Egypt.
The taxi driver grew suspicious and alerted the police, saying they spoke in Arabic and used some French words. Surveillance footage shows that, when police approached the men, the assailants pulled assault rifles from their bags and opened fire on nearby cars as tourists disembarked from buses.
One of them killed himself by setting off an explosive vest he was wearing, while police killed an accomplice and seriously wounded another. Sixty bullet holes were found on a bus, a source close to the investigation said.
More than 600 tourists were present in the temple at the time of the attack. Twelve men were referred to a military trial for their involvement in the attack, but one defendant died in custody, army officials said.
He fell down the stairs. Elebenteen flights...
Those sentenced on Wednesday were Egyptians, while prosecutors have previously said that the two men who were killed during the attack were foreigners. Prosecutors say the assailants had been recruited by the Egyptian affiliate of Daesh, which is spearheading an insurgency against security forces in the Sinai Peninsula.
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Members of Libya's rival parliaments on Thursday signed a landmark, UN-sponsored deal on forming a unity government that will strive to bring peace to the war-ravaged country.
I think the over/under is 11 days...
Supporters of the agreement hope that rival political factions and militias will embrace the deal and agree on a ceasefire, so that they can fend off the Daesh group, which is expanding its gains in the North African country.
The document was signed in Morocco by Emhemed Shoaib, the deputy speaker of the internationally recognised Libyan parliament, and Salah Al Makhzoum, the second deputy of the Islamist-backed parliament based in the capital, Tripoli.
"This is just the beginning of a long journey for Libya," said UN envoy Martin Kobler, who attended the Morocco ceremony. "Signing is only the first step on the road of putting Libya back on the right track."
Al Makhzoum said while the deal is not perfect, it's a step to rescue Libya from collapsing and ensure its unity.
The speakers of the two parliaments - Tripoli-based Nuri A.M. Abusahmain and Aguila Saleh Issa from the east - were not at the Morocco ceremony. The two, who are seen by analysts as hard-liners, held talks on Tuesday in Malta to forge a separate deal without UN involvement. Afterward, they issued a statement saying the representatives who travelled to Morocco were not mandated to represent the parliaments in the talks.
Before the start of Thursday's ceremony, Al Makhzoum and Faraj Abu Hashem, the spokesman for the east-based parliament, said that 88 lawmakers from the two parliaments were present at the signing. The eastern parliament has 156 known members, while the rival parliament in Tripoli has 135.
The foreign ministers of Turkey, Italy, Spain, Qatar, Tunisia, and Morocco also spoke at the ceremony in support of the deal. Among the first to welcome the deal was French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who praised the accord and promised to support efforts by a new unity government.
"The priority should now go toward creating a national unity government," he said in a statement. "That's the condition for tackling terrorism and trafficking that threaten the security of the region and Europe."
And to get the oil flowing again...
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UN-brokered peace talks agree on full resumption of humanitarian aid to Taiz.
Participants at Yemeni peace talks hosted by the United Nations in Switzerland agreed on the full resumption of humanitarian aid to the city of Taiz on Thursday and planned to move onto wider issues to put a permanent end to the war, a UN statement said.
Hudna! Hudna! Hudna!
"The consultations will continue in the next few days and seek to define a clear way forward with a special focus on specific areas," the statement said after a third day of talks.
These would include a sustainable national ceasefire, the release of prisoners and detainees, the withdrawal of forces and creation of interim security measures, the organised return of heavy weapons to the state, the restoration of state control over public institutions and the resumption of an inclusive political dialogue, it said.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... fired off an angry tirade against The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on Thursday, ruling out any reconciliation with its leaders and accusing Ankara of shooting down a Russian warplane to impress the United States.
In comments littered with crude language, Putin dismissed the possibility that the downing of the warplane over the Turkish-Syrian border last month was an accident, calling it a "hostile act".
"We find it difficult if not impossible to come to an agreement with the current leadership of Turkey," said Putin, addressing almost 1,400 news hounds in a cavernous hall inside a Moscow conference center.
"On the state level, I don't see any prospects of improving relations with the Turkish leadership," he said of Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... .
Ties between Russia and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... member Turkey have been severely strained since the November 24 incident, which led to deaths of two Russian military officers.
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The Czech parliament passed a resolution on Thursday urging their government not to implement a European Union decision to label Israeli products exported from the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.
Czech leaders denounced the EU resolution, with Czech media reports quoting Culture Minister Daniel Herman as saying in the parliamentary debate it was "absolutely necessary to reject the efforts to discriminate against the only democracy in the Middle East." Strange Czechs. They take in Christian refugees from ME. They refuse cooperate with the rest of Europe's war on Israel.
In a harrowing incident that harkened back to the days of the Nazis, a Jewish cemetery in Sochaczew, Poland was desecrated on Sunday with anti-Semitic slogans and symbols and pro-ISIS messages. The cemetery sits among other graves for Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox Christians and Muslims.
Hate-filled slogans such as “F*** Jews” and “the Holocaust never happened” were scrawled across the Ohel HaTzadik memorial, next to threatening slogans such as “Islam will dominate” and “Islamic State was here.” Another featured a Star of David hanging from a noose. The entire Jewish population of the town was wiped out by the Nazis in World War II.
Paul Rozdzestwienski, Director of the Museum of the Sochaczew and Battlefield on Bzura, said “As museum professionals and at the same time residents of Sochaczew, we are ashamed of such behavior and would like to ask all residents to help organize the restoring of dignified appearance to the Sochaczew cemetery.”
Jonny Daniels, founder of the Holocaust memorial organization From the Depths, said, “It’s very worrying for us to see this blatant act of antisemitism and anti-Israel graffiti on a site of Jewish memory and memorial in Poland. The acts are becoming all too commonplace, and all decent peace-loving people must stand up against them.”
Many are concerned with a reported rise in anti-Semitic incidents across Europe, as well as the declining Jewish population in many countries.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The murder of the young Syrian activist took place close enough to his family's home that his youngest brother heard his piercing scream. Ibrahim Abdelqader's attackers stabbed him dozens of times and left his partially decapitated corpse hanging from a doorframe.
His family and colleagues say he was killed by a secret operative from ISIS who befriended him before he struck. The message from ISIS was clear: Its enemies are not safe, even across borders.
More than a month after the slaying of Abdelqader and his friend Fares Hamadi, the media collective that Abdelqader belonged to - which secretly documents life at the heart of ISIS's self-proclaimed caliphate - has been forced into deep hiding.
ISIS grabbed credit for the murders in a video message warning that "every apostate will be slaughtered silently." It was a grim riff on the media collective's name - Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, a reference to the Syrian city of Raqqa that has become synonymous with ISIS and its efforts to build a caliphate.
Last month, the activist media group collected the 2015 Committee to Protect Journalists' International Press Freedom Award for its work in one of the most terrifying cities of the world, monitoring ISIS and countering its steady stream of propaganda with factual accounts.
Their reports from Raqqa have tackled everything from the conscription of children to the sexual slavery of Yazidi women brought from Iraq. They have documented public killings, flagged the death of Western hostages, and tracked the bombs dropped by the Syrian regime, the U.S., La Belle France and Russia.
Now the Oct. 29 killings of Abdelqader and Hamadi raise concerns about the safety of anti-ISIS activists in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , a country that only recently grasped the scale of the terror threat within its own borders.
The killings extended the reach of the campaign ISIS already wages against the collective. In the mosques of Raqqa, Friday sermons regularly feature diatribes against the activists. ISIS killed three men this year that it accused of belonging to the network, although members said they actually were the father and friends of activists. On Wednesday, an activist with the group, Ahmed Mohammed al-Mousa was killed in the northwest Syrian province of Idlib by masked assailants.
"They have threatened all of us," says Abdelaziz Hamza, a co-founder of Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, who traveled to the U.S. in November to receive the journalism award. "We don't know who could be the next one."
Abdelqader, 22, and Hamadi, 20, were murdered by ISIS operatives in the southern Turkish city of Sanliurfa on a balmy night that the two friends thought would be perfect for relaxing with a water pipe.
The media activists say the man who boasts he criminal masterminded the attack was a familiar face - Tlass al-Surur, a wide-eyed scrawny young man who had arrived from Raqqa a few months earlier. They say Surur claimed he had come to Turkey to seek work and slowly won Abdelqader's trust, enough to carry out regular visits to his home.
All Syrian media activists, whether they are documenting the daily grind of atrocities committed by Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... 's government or the sensational violence carried out by ISIS, take precautions.
Abdelqader was careful, with a sharp sense of digital security and a general distrust of strangers. He masked his identity by using the pseudonym Baz al-Furati when dealing with Arab-language news networks.
But ISIS was cunning. Surur cultivated a friendship with Abdelqader in Turkey over the course of months.
Some say Surur lured Abdelqader by introducing himself as an ISIS defector, which would have presented the prospect of an irresistible trove of information. But Abdelqader's brother Ahmed insists the ruse was less elaborate, saying Ibrahim simply warmed to Surur.
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A proposal to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees to the United States has ignited a bitter debate in Washington, but more than 10 times that number of people from the embattled country have quietly come to America since 2012, according to figures obtained by FoxNews.com.
Some 102,313 Syrians were granted admission to the U.S. as legal permanent residents or through programs including work, study and tourist visas from 2012 through August of this year, a period which roughly coincides with the devastating civil war that still engulfs the Middle Eastern country. Experts say any fears that terrorists might infiltrate the proposed wave of refugees from United Nations-run camps should be dwarfed by the potential danger already here.
If most were Syrian Christian refugees (who are terribly persecuted in their homeland) it wouldn't be an issue at all. But most are something else...
“The sheer number of people arriving on all kinds of visas and with green cards, and possibly U.S. citizenship, makes it impossible for our counterterrorism authorities to keep track of them all, much less prevent them from carrying out attacks or belatedly try to deport them,” said Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies.
Numbers obtained from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection show 60,010 Syrian visa holders have entered the U.S. since 2012, including 16,245 this year through August. Additional numbers provided by a Congressional source showed another 42,303 Syrians were granted citizenship or green cards during the same period.
"It is highly unlikely that the 102,313 Syrians who were admitted over the past three years were effectively vetted," said spokesman Ira Mehlman, of the Federation for American Immigration Reform. "Even in countries where we have a strong diplomatic presence, the sheer volume of background checks being carried out precludes the kind of thorough vetting that is necessary."
The Syrians being admitted are coming directly from their homeland, usually through the U.S. visa program, as opposed to the refugees President Obama is seeking to take in through U.N.-run refugee camps. Most have secured legal entry before they arrive.
"Refugees are part of the admitted category," said Jaime Ruiz, spokesman for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. "Their cases are approved prior to arriving into the U.S."
Those who escaped Syria’s grinding civil war, which has killed an estimated 300,000, and made it to the U.S. are more likely to be those with the money and means to access the U.S. immigration bureaucracy, say experts. But even that system is susceptible to fraud.
A government official who expressed astonishment at such large immigration numbers from a relatively small country, said approximately half are legal permanent residents and the remainder came here on visas, the latter of which remains a point of contentious concern.
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The Obama administration appears to be on the cusp of the largest round of transfers of Guantánamo Bay detainees in a single month since 2007, a move that could reduce the detainee population there to as low as 90 by mid- to late January, according to officials familiar with internal deliberations.
Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter has notified Congress in recent days that he has approved 17 proposed transfers of lower-level detainees, said the officials. Congress has required Mr. Carter to certify that security standards have been met at least 30 days before any transfers.
In recent weeks, President Obama has twice stated that his goal is to reduce the number of detainees at Guantánamo Bay prison to the double digits from 107 by the end of this year.
President Obama wants to close the Guantánamo prison in Cuba before he leaves office in a little over a year. His administration has stepped up efforts to find countries to take 48 detainees on a transfer list and moved to speed up the work of a parole-like board that might approve the release of others who are currently recommended for indefinite detention.
The Republican-led Congress, however, has shown little interest in lifting a ban on bringing any detainees to a prison inside the United States, which is Mr. Obama’s plan for those who are either facing trial or are deemed too dangerous to release.
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The Obama administration cannot be sure of the whereabouts of thousands of foreigners in the U.S. who had their visas revoked over terror concerns and other reasons, a State Department official acknowledged Thursday.
The admission, made at a House oversight hearing examining immigrant vetting in the wake of major terror attacks, drew a sharp rebuke from the committee chairman.
“You don’t have a clue do you?” Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, told Michele Thoren Bond, assistant secretary for the Bureau of Consular Affairs.
They usually don't...
Bond initially said the U.S. has revoked more than 122,000 visas since 2001, including 9,500 because of the threat of terrorism. But Chaffetz quickly pried at that stat, pressing the witness about the present location of those individuals.
"I don't know," she said.
Ms. Bond is a political appointee and suffers from the same problems that most of the rest of the Obama team political appointees have: she's a clueless, talentless hack whose main job is to look after Democratic Party interests first and always...
The startling admission came as members of the committee pressed administration officials on what safeguards are in place to reduce the risk from would-be extremists.
At issue is how closely the U.S. government examines the background of people seeking entry to the country, including reviews of their social media postings.
Leon Rodriguez, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, told committee members that such checks aren't being done in an abundant manner, and he was not specific about when or how it would occur.
Leon's not even sure of his own name...
Lawmakers are trying to ascertain which safeguards are in place to ensure that extremists are not exploiting a variety of legal paths to travel to the United States.
One of the San Bernardino, Calif., shooters came to the U.S. on a K-1 fiancee visa last year despite the fact that the FBI believed she was already radicalized. Tashfeen Malik came to the U.S. on a K-1 fiance visa in July 2014 and passed multiple background checks and at least two in-person interviews, one in Pakistan and another after she married Syed Farook. FBI Director James Comey has said Malik and Farook communicated privately online about jihad and martyrdom before they married.
Lawmakers at times angrily pressed officials on why even public social media wouldn't routinely be looked at for vetting those trying to enter the country.
"If half the employers are doing it in the United States of America, if colleges are doing it for students, why wouldn't Homeland Security do it?" said Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass. "We don't even look at their public stuff, that's what kills me."
DHS did launch three pilot programs specifically aimed at reviewing social media postings as part of the immigration vetting process.
Pilot programs. They'll take about a decade each; they're screening Usenet right now...
"There is less there that is actually of screening value than you would expect, at least in small early samples, some things seem more ambiguous than clear," Rodriguez told lawmakers Thursday. He said foreign alphabets frequently used in social media posts were a challenge to translate.
It's not like natural language processing can only be done in English...
"We all continue to believe there's a potential for there to be information of screening value ... particularly in high risk environments," he added.
Both DHS and the State Department are reviewing the process for vetting visa applications, including the K-1 program, and have been directed by the White House to create specific recommendations for improvements.
Sometime in 2017...
DHS is specifically reviewing policies on when authorities at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services can look at social media posts as part of the process for evaluating applications for certain visas.
"There are some legal limits to what we can do," Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Wednesday. He added that he thinks reviews of social media should be done more often, but did not provide specifics.
Nor will he...
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What's the big deal they're just...umm... "Undocumented". Yeah...that's the ticket.
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Sadly there are no surprises here. This administration has established a well earned reputation for allowing terrorists into the country. Might be interesting to tally all the victims.
Police are revealing more about a report of a group of men asking about the Bagnell Dam. Miller County Sheriff Bill Abbott tells Lake News that the Camden County Sheriff’s Office forwarded a security tip regarding the hydroelectric facility to the FBI.
Police tell KMIZ-TV that the incident happened about two weeks ago at the Golden Corral in Osage Beach. A deputy was eating lunch and the wait staff told him about the group of men. Staffers said the men were asking questions about the dam. They wanted to know if they could rent a boat and tour the dam.
"So what are you boys interested in?"
"Umm, fishing."
"What's with the pipe bombs?"
"How else you go fishing, infidel?"
The Camden County Sheriff’s Office tells Lake News that they received a tip about a group of “Middle Eastern” men asking about Bagnell Dam. The police department forwarded that report to the FBI and a joint task force on terrorism.
The Miller County Sheriff’s office have have been in contact with the St. Louis security office for the dam. Patrols of the dam are continuing as normal.
“With recent things going on in our country and around the world, people are kind of a little bit more alerted. It’s everyone’s responsibility to watch out for each other. We all live in this community, and we’re going to notice things that seem out of place and if we don’t notify the proper authorities, who will?” Officer Corporal Scott Hines told KMIZ-TV.
Until you get sued for seeing something and saying something...
Police say the report does not mean that there is any reason to be overly concerned. People should be aware and alert as they go about their business.
It would seem to me to be a big mistake for someone to mess with a dam in rural Missouri. Enough guns, pickup trucks, huntin' dogs and bass boats that you'd never get away with it.
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That's not much information about the gentlemen in question. How many, who were they, and what was found on their cell phones and social media?
Flanked by his national security team, President Obama reassured Americans that there was "no specific, credible threat" against the country ahead of the holidays.
I think that means that TSHTF sometime tomorrow...
"We do not have any specific and credible information about an attack on the homeland," Obama said today at the National Counterterrorism Center. "That said, we have to be vigilant."
Yes, if you see something, say something, unless it's about a Muslim lad with a clock -- then you'll be sued. Or if it's about a Muslim woman because sexist. Or about a Muslim man because racist...
Obama said security experts are constantly hard at work putting up safeguards to prevent terrorists from entering the country, while at the same time bringing the fight to terrorists plotting overseas.
See how smoothly he lies? We have virtually no ability to screen the "refugees", airport security is a joke, and we're certainly not taking the fight to ISIS.
Obama also urged “resilience” in the wake of the attack in San Bernardino, California, calling it “one of our greatest weapons” in the fight against terrorism.
It would be better both to be resilient and to gob-smack the terrorists...
“When Americans stand together, nothing can beat us,” Obama said. “We cannot give in to fear or change how we live our lives because that’s what terrorists want, that’s the only leverage they have.”
Except the progressives have spent the last half-century working to ensure that we never stand together. Ask George Bush about how well the Left stood with him against terrorism...
It's a similar message to one given in November by the president in the immediate wake of the terror attack in Paris, where he sought to reassure the American people that there was no "specific, credible threat" facing the homeland during the Thanksgiving holiday.
But following the attack in San Bernardino, an ABC News/Washington Post poll out Wednesday showed just 22 percent of Americans express confidence in the government’s ability to prevent lone-wolf terrorist attacks.
He reassured us right before that attack, as I recall...
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Investor's Business Daily article about the ongoing transformation of our military leadership that will resonate for years after he is gone. Catastrophic impact on those who are tasked to lead the fight to defend the nation.
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As always bad journalism. It might be truth and with a Marxist President like Obama doesn't surprise me, but for that article to have any value, it needs to get to other years information.
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Plenty of evidence
And that's 2013, after which I was told shit is dire.
It's a shell force after every democrat President. Every time.
Hell, I covered this in my timeline long ago as it was happening.
However, I knew of some Flag Officers that needed to be purges and that should not count on his record....
But the "Leadership" of new appointments should.
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Looking at the list at http://www.standupamericaus.org/breaking-news/obama-purging-the-military-197-officers-in-5-years/
I see that 157 were Army Majors presumably terminated as part of a reduction in force (RIF) during 2011, and 24 Naval officers who were let go in 2012 were Commanders and Captains - most of the were likely O-6'S who were passed over as part of another RIF.
So - a grand total of 16 appear to have been flag officers.
The bogosity of the headline number pretty much impeaches the credibility of the entire story.
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Purges, hell! It's the resignations in the middle grades who had to put up with the normal bs having to deal with even greater crap flavored PC. Those who 'can do' have no problem finding a job on the outside. Guess no one learned from the collapse of the Iraqi army rife with politically reliable 'leadership'.
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I seem to remember this happening with every president, maybe more so with O.
What should be interesting is the purge when a Republican is president in 2017.
I suspect the "gay" meme drys up pretty quick.
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I seem to remember a number of general officers that were "asked" to retire, such as Gen. Ham in US African Command, and a couple of more. Not all at once, but spread out over the last seven years. I also know two general officers who were told they would NEVER get promoted, that they were guaranteed shitty jobs, and "suggested" to retire. And I'd bet there are a heckuva lot more than 197 -- closer to 400. Not to include RIFs.
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[FOXNEWS] Finance ministers from the 15 nations on the U.N. Security Council will meet Thursday to adopt a resolution aimed at disrupting the outside revenue that 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.... murderous Moslem group gets from selling oil and antiquities, from ransom payments and other criminal activities. And here it's only been 14 1/2 years...
The Islamic State group is already subject to U.N. sanctions under resolutions dealing with Al Qaeda. But the proposed resolution, sponsored by the United States and Russia, elevates ISIS to the same level as Al Qaeda, reflecting its split from Al Qaeda and the growing threat it poses especially in the Mideast and North Africa.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, who will chair Thursday's meeting, said when the meeting was announced earlier this month that disrupting the Islamic State group's financing and cutting it off from the international financial system "are critical to effectively combating this violent terrorist group."
U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power told news hounds Wednesday that the meeting is an unprecedented chance to bring together the people with the technical abilities to track and cut off funds to "starve" the Islamic State group of resources.
The Islamic State group, also known as ISIL and Daesh [Islamic State], controls a large swath of Syria and Iraq, including oil and gas fields, though bombing campaigns by the U.S.-led coalition and ground forces have enabled Iraq to regain some territory.
While the resolution is aimed at cutting off some of ISIS' outside revenue streams, a U.N. diplomat and U.S. official said the majority of funding for the murderous Moslem group comes from internal sources which are difficult to disrupt. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
The U.S. official said getting at ISIS' revenue is a serious challenge because much of it is internally generated from oil and gas sales which have the potential to generate hundreds of millions of dollars annually as well as from taxation and extortion. This is in contrast to Al Qaeda, whose funding typically comes from outside donors, including charities and kidnapping for ransom.
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Oil...schmoil...the real money is in antiquities.
Jordan dismissed a Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot from the Kingdom’s air force after he refused to visit Israel as part of a joint military venture between the two neighboring countries.
Pilot Majdi al Samadi is reported to have said to his commanders that he was “trained as a pilot not to cooperate with Israel but to fight it”
The command was given as part of a joint military venture between the two countries which last month conducted joint training operation sin the United States.
News of the incident was not announced by the military or the government, prompting the pilot’s relatives to go public with their outrage. The family of the pilot is angry over the fact that the military will not provide al-Samdi with the same benefits other discharged soldiers receive.
Correct. He disobeyed an order. I'm sure the Jordanian military has the equivalent of "discharged under less than honorable conditions"...
According to reports, the family will continue to rally the public to its side “with the goal of ending Jordan’s relations with Israel.”
In 1994 Jordan and Israel signed a peace treaty. Nonetheless, the Hashemite kingdom’s ties to Israel remain deeply unpopular in a country where Arabs of Palestinian descent comprise a majority of its subjects.
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"Arabs of Palestinian descent" for idiots journalists i guess Jordan Kingdom is in Arabia...
Russia has made clear to Western nations that it has no objection to Syrian President Bashar Assad stepping down as part of a peace process, in a softening of its publicly stated staunch backing of Assad ahead of talks in New York, diplomats said.
Russia, like Iran, has been a firm ally of Assad and is intervening militarily on his behalf against anti-government forces in the five-year civil war that has claimed more than a quarter million lives. Both Russia and Iran have long insisted Assad’s fate should be decided in a nationwide vote.
Western powers, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and others reluctantly agreed to allow Assad to remain in place during a transition period, a compromise that has opened the door to a shift on the part of Russia, Western diplomats said.
“What you’ve got is a move that will end up with Assad going,” a senior Western diplomat said on condition of anonymity.
[The Gorka Brief] The government couldn't look at the social media postings of Tashfeen Malik and Syed Rizwan Farook. I discuss the implications of this on the Hannity show.
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Of course, it's not off limits. They just chose to willfully blind themselves as it makes their job easier. Of course, if it does apply, then I'm guilty of about 10 yrs worth of civil rights violations.
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A religious studies kook professor at the University of San Diego who is concerned about growing anti-Muslim rhetoric has started a silent protest, with students and faculty wearing yellow stars marked “Muslim.” Bahar Davary, associate professor of theology and religious studies, came up with the idea during her class “Islamic Faith and Practice,” an introduction to Islam, and her students suggested several designs.
I bet they did...
The yellow Star of David is what the Nazis required all Jews to wear prior to the Holocaust. The crescent moon and word “Muslim” draw the connection with today’s politics.
Actually, it looks like a deliberate provocation, and I suspect that's just what Ms. Davary intended...
“What it symbolizes is that there have been people who have been made to be the ‘other’ throughout history,” said Davary, an Iranian-American whose academic specialty at the Catholic university is Islam.
Last month Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said he would require all Muslim-Americans to register in a national database, and subsequently proposed banning Muslims from entering the country. Ben Carson, another Republican contender, has said he could not support a Muslim as President.
“It’s not only Trump. It’s not only Ben Carson,” Davary said. “There have been anti-Muslim actions taking place. In some ways it’s frightening.”
Which is why anti-Muslim hate crimes in the U.S. run way behind anti-black and anti-Jewish hate crimes...
Davary’s students first began wearing the stars, and then other University of San Diego faculty members. She estimates there are over 100 being worn on campus, with more people asking for the stars every day. “By wearing these, we’re simply inviting conversation about this topic,” she said.
"Inviting conversation" the progressive way, in which you shut up and do as you're told...
For now, it’s a campus protest only. She advises her students not to wear the stars off campus in case the meaning is misunderstood.
I think she's perfectly understood...
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I remember a story by a US Army officer stationed in Saudi Arabia on a training mission. He handed over several training manuals to his Saudi counterpart.
Unfortunately the manuals used 6 pointed asterisks to indicate footnotes. The Saudi officer said these were "Stars of David" and my friend was trying to insert Zionist propaganda into his instruction manuals. My friend was labeled a Zionist spy and had to leave the Kingdom.
i.e: This is all fake.
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I must have missed the classes on Jewish terrorism and acts during the interwar period in Germany. /sarc off
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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The European Commission announced on Wednesday a 16-point action plan worth almost 300 million euros ($327 million) to address the root causes of irregular migration and forced displacement in the Horn of Africa, the EU executive body said in a statement.
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A proposal to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees to the United States has ignited a bitter debate in Washington, but more than 10 times that number of people from the embattled country have quietly come to America since 2012, according to figures obtained by FoxNews.com.
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