[ALMANAR.LB] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's Major General Mansour Al-Turki, Ministry of Interior front man, admitted on Monday that the Saudi money has been used to fund al-Qaeda terrorist group in Afghanistan with billions of dollars.
During an interview with the BBC British news network, Turki justified sending the Saudi petrodollars to al-Qaeda by claiming that certain individuals have convinced Saudi nationals to offer money under the title of charity grants,
"[Saudi] People had been convinced they were providing money to help the poor when in fact the funds were going to finance al-Qaeda in Afghanistan," Turki said.
The Saudi General Administration for Financial Investigations announced earlier that it had received acknowledgements in 2014 about cases of suspected money laundering and terrorism financing crimes.
It said that 88% of the acknowledgments received were related to financing terrorism.
Turki denied that Saudi Arabia has ever funded any terrorist organization, but claimed there had been a "misuse of our financial system."
According to WikiLeaks report issued in 2010 citing leaked US diplomatic cables, private individuals in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states friendly to the United States are the chief source of funding for al-Qaeda, the Taliban and other terrorist groups in the Middle East region.
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Soddies fund terrorists to attack the West. Bammer funds Iran to buy Russians arms to attack the Soddies. Sounds more Byzantine than Bismarck.
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This Sami Al Arian shit has been going on worldwide for about 50 years - look how long it took the US to twig to it and act - to no lasting result
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That would never happen in America just ask Southern Poverty Center, ACLU, Blacklivesmatter, Doctors Without Borders, CAIR.......
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A decade ago "Alms for Jihad", the best book on Muslim use of charitable grants to fund terrorism, was attacked by the Saudi Bin Mahfouz family. Cambridge Press capitulated and its publication was halted. The book is as valid today as then and worth the read -- if you can find a copy.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Pakistain's cricketer-turned politician, Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... , has said that Pakistain's flawed policies are the cause of bad blood with Afghanistan.
"I am very sad that the relationship is not good and I am also sad to say that Pakistain is to blame. We did not have consistent policies dealing with Afghanistan and then the interference in the past in affairs of Afghans has caused a lot of bad blood," Khan who leads Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI) told VOA news during an interview published on Monday.
Khan emphasized the need for both Pakistain and Afghanistan to remove tensions in bilateral ties and build mutual trust to jointly tackle the security challenges facing them.
"I think in future I see very good relationship between the two countries. I think there is a realization in Pakistain that the mistakes were made. We feel that we have to correct this bad blood caused by flawed policies," Khan said.
PTI chief also urged Taliban to enter into peace negotiation with Afghan government as fighting is not the solution.
"They (the Taliban) must come to the table and they must resolve this dispute through talks and negotiations. War is never a solution. In fact, war leads to unintended consequences just like in Iraq and Syria," Khan said.
But if grinding of the peace processor succeeds with Taliban, the region is facing another security challenge from the terrorist group of 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 Syria (ISIS) that has already started its operation in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistain.
Khan held U.S. responsible for the emergence of ISIS. The kind of utter stoopidity we've come to expect from Imran.
"Now you see the emergence of ISIS or Daesh [Islamic State] (the Arabic acronym for Islamic State), and God knows where this is going to go. This is a direct result of that insane U.S. invasion of Iraq," he said, using an acronym for the Islamic State group.
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Why do people think that negotiating with violent terrorist/criminals has a chance of working? Remember what violent terrorist do: they break the law! They are never going to stop being violent thugs until somebody puts them in their grave.
Remember that the folks left in Gitmo are also violent terrorist/criminals. Letting them out is going to have equally bleak results.
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An Egyptian appeals court on Wednesday overturned death sentences for 149 people accused of killing policemen in a mob attack on their station, a judicial source said.
The court ordered a retrial for the defendants over the attack, which killed 13 policemen near Cairo on Aug. 14, 2013, the day police shot dead hundreds of demonstrators in the capital.
The initial ruling in February 2015 came amid a series of death sentences in mass trials that were criticized internationally, as the government cracked down on supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi.
The court had also sentenced 37 people to death in absentia, but they would have to hand themselves in for a retrial.
The grounds for the appeals court ruling were not immediately available, but the court has overturned hundreds of death sentences over the past year, to the relief of rights advocates and frustration of some in the government who have urged fast track executions.
Seven people have been executed for political violence since Morsi's ouster, including six who were convicted of belonging to an insurgent group.
The military overthrow of Morsi, the country's first democratically elected president, ushered in the worst domestic bloodshed in the country's modern history.
Morsi ruled for only a year, deeply dividing the country, and his removal was met with escalating protests by those who favored the Morsi-supporting Muslim Brotherhood.
On Aug. 14, 2013, less than two months after Morsi's overthrow, police broke up two protest camps in Cairo, killing about 700 protesters.
Morsi's supporters around the country attacked police stations, killing dozens of officers, and torched the churches of Coptic Christians.
Morsi himself is facing several trials and has already been sentenced to death in one case.
Several leaders of his Muslim Brotherhood movement, including its chief Mohamed Badie, have been sentenced to either death or lengthy jail terms.
The movement has been blacklisted as a "terrorist organization" and its assets confiscated. It was also long repressed by former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, whose downfall was one of the major episodes of the Arab Spring.
The police crackdown that initially targeted Morsi supporters was later widened to include secularist and leftist leaders and activists.
[AlArabiya] Yemeni President Abdrabu Mansur Hadi said Tuesday that military operations against Houthi militias would not stop until the Yemeni capital was liberated.
Backed by airstrikes from the Saudi-led coalition, popular resistance and Yemeni armed forces loyal to Hadi are fighting Houthis who control Sanaa and much of the country’s north.
Hadi, the internationally recognized president of Yemen, described the operation to recapture Sanaa as a “decisive battle that is irreversible,” in a phone call with the governor of Sanaa, cited by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
Hadi said pro-government forces had achieved “a number of victories in parts of Sanaa” and that the military operation would not end until the Yemeni capital was “liberated from coup militias.”
Meanwhile, Yemeni security officials and tribal elders said fighting has intensified outside Sanaa, killing at least 30 people in two days.
They said Tuesday that some 25 fighters from both sides were killed in fighting between government forces and Houthis and their allies some 65 kilometers east of the capital. Five civilians were also killed.
In the southern port city of Aden, fighting erupted Tuesday night between government forces and al-Qaeda fighters after authorities set up roadblocks as part of a security plan.
Yemen's conflict pits a loose array of government-allied forces against Houthi rebels and troops loyal to a former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
The officials, who are neutral in the conflict, and tribal elders spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters.
[Iran Press TV] A street bearing the name of the Daesh [Islamic State]Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group's warlord, His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... , in the Saudi capital Riyadh has made the news after Saudi citizens called for changing the street name.
A Saudi teacher, Ahmad al-Hakami, posted a comment on the official twitter account of Riyadh's municipality, saying it was "better to change the street name" in a bid not to echo the name of the Daesh [Islamic State] terrorist leader, Saudi online newspaper Sabq reported.
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hmmmm - can we soon rename all the Barack H. Obama Blvds and High Schools we saw springing up in 2008? (in a bid not to echo the name, of course)
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All those Martin Luther King Boulevards gracing the nation's cities are all doing just dandy, aren't they?
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A dramatic video in Mexico shows at least six police officers running away from cartel members who ended up murdering a businessman as his family watched in horror.
The man's family reached out to police for help when a group of gunmen showed up at their house in Cristo Rey, Sinaloa and dragged him out of the house, according to local newspaper Noroeste. But instead of helping the family, the officers showed up, saw they were outmanned, and ran away, cell phone video captured by the family shows. When you need to defend yourself NOW, the police are only minutes away. If they choose to respond.
The images show the officers running toward a state police vehicle and a municipal police patrol car, getting in and taking off.
"Puncture the tire, puncture the tire. These (profanity) are going to take off," a woman's voice can be heard saying on the video.
The gunmen take the man, later identified as 27-year-old EliĂĄs Constantino, to the middle of the street in broad daylight.
"They're going to kill him. They're going to kill him," people are heard shouting.
Shots are heard and a black vehicle is seen leaving town a few seconds later. Piercing screams could be heard as gunshots rang out.
Four state police officers and two municipal officers fled town, Escuinapa's police chief told Mexican media outlets.
The officers have given statements to prosecutors, telling investigators that they fled because they were outnumbered, the police chief said.
Constantino's body was dumped on the MazatlĂĄn-Durango highway.
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Bob: There are some sins that you commit that you can't come back from, you know, no matter how hard you try. You just can't. It's like the devil is waiting for your body to quit. Because he knows, he knows that he already owns your soul. And then I think maybe there's no devil. You die... and God, he says, Nah, nah you can't come in. You have to leave now. You have to leave and go away and you have to be alone. You have to be alone forever.
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Old Bob old boy, I'm currently watching "No Country For Old Men," and so can somewhat empathize with your literary take on death and the running officers.
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cops maybe never got any plato, but they made sure they never got any plomo. I judge not.
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Bob: People like this, they take
something from you and you let them...
and they just act like
they keep coming back.
And you still owe them something
and they never, never change.
You can never change their mind.
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JHH, I don't know about being alone but the company may not be the best.
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Then he replied: "I am Friar Alberigo;
He am I of the fruit of the bad garden,
Who here a date am getting for my fig."
"O," said I to him, "now art thou, too, dead?"
And he to me: "How may my body fare
Up in the world, no knowledge I possess.
Such an advantage has this Ptolomaea,
That oftentimes the soul descendeth here
Sooner than Atropos in motion sets it.
And, that thou mayest more willingly remove
From off my countenance these glassy tears,
Know that as soon as any soul betrays
As I have done, his body by a demon
Is taken from him, who thereafter rules it,
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Authorities in China's unruly far-western region of Xinjiang have reduced the sentences of 11 people jailed for threatening state security after declaring success of a de-radicalisation program, state news agency Xinhua reported.
Hundreds of people have been killed in violence in Xinjiang in the past few years. The government blames the unrest on Islamist militants who want to establish an independent state called East Turkestan for minority Uighurs, a mostly Muslim people from Xinjiang who speak a Turkic language.
Seven of the convicts had their life sentences reduced to jail terms ranging from 19.5 years to 20 years, including people convicted of instigating "secessionist activities" or participating in terror attacks, Xinhua said late on Tuesday.
The other four had their jail terms cut by six months from initial sentences ranging from eight to 15 years, it added.
A spokesman for the main Uighur exile group dismissed the report as "political propaganda".
Xinjiang's governor, Shohrat Zakir, was quoted by Xinhua as saying the region's jails had been very successful in recent years at their de-radicalisation efforts, with a majority of convicts becoming law-abiding citizens.
Efforts need to continue in this regard with a focus on those convicted for harming state security, he said.
Xinhua said this had been accomplished by inviting religious leaders and scholars to talk to prisoners about "correct religious belief". And rough men who reminded them what a shame it would for their families if the public were to find out what the prisoners had been up to.
One of those whose sentence was reduced was identified as Yushanjiang Jilili, the Chinese spelling for Huseyin Celil, a Uighur-Canadian jailed in 2007 for terrorism. China considers him a Chinese citizen.
"My crimes caused serious damage to my country, Xinjiang, my family and children that can never be made up for," Xinhua quoted him as saying.
In Ottawa, a Canadian official confirmed Celil's sentence had been reduced.
Canadian diplomats have been unable to get consular access to Celil, who was deported to China while visiting relatives in Uzbekistan.
Reuters was also unable to reach officials in Xinjiang for comment, or any family members of the convicts to verify their stories.
Exiles and many rights groups say the real cause of the unrest is heavy-handed Chinese policies, including curbs on Uighur culture, and a dearth of economic opportunity, rather than any cohesive militant group.
Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the main exile group the World Uyghur Congress, said news of the commutations was a "political propaganda tool" to cover up the government's use of the term extremist to repress the Uighur people.
[Iran Press TV] Oil prices in global markets have fallen sharply once again as poor economic data came out of the world's number one energy consumer, China.
Oil prices had seen some boost in recent days due to speculation about the possibility of Russia and member states of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) reaching an agreement to slash output in the oversupplied market, AFP reported on Tuesday.
However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... after skepticism about such a deal started to rise in markets, the upward momentum in global markets hit a snag starting in late Monday trading.
To add to the market misery, reports came in denoting that manufacturing activity in China had contracted at its fastest pace in more than three years in January.
At about 1725 GMT on Tuesday, US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for delivery in March stood at USD 30.32 a barrel, showing a decrease of USD 1.30 compared with Monday's close.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed his guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... Brent North Sea crude for April also shed USD 1.12 to be sold at USD 33.12 a barrel.
According to a market commentary by Capital Economics, last month's rise in prices "was based on shaky foundations, namely hopes that Russia and OPEC would agree to cut output."
The commentary added, "We doubt that there will be any coordinated agreement even though the market remains oversupplied. Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed his guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... US inventories of both crude oil and gasoline have continued to build over the last month. Indeed, US crude oil stocks are now at record highs."
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All economic data coming out of China has been manipulated by the party. So why is market reacting at all?
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After a brief hiatus, the unit oil trains are running just a frequent into the Anacortes refineries.
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Refiner's profits should be unaffected by feed stock prices. They make about a penny profit per gallon of gas. Refining costs are added to the feed stock price and passed on to the wholesalers.
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State government oil revenues and petroleum shares hardest hit.
[Iran Press TV] The European Commission has unveiled tight new security measures to detect and block the flow of funds to terrorist cells and organizations.
The Commission, which is the executive arm of the 28-nation European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , detailed the plans at the European Parliament in the French city of Strasbourg on Tuesday.
"We have to cut off the resources that bully boyz use to carry out their heinous crimes," Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans said in a statement.
"By detecting and disrupting the financing of terrorist networks, we can reduce their ability to travel, to buy weapons and explosives, to plot attacks and to spread hate and fear online," he said.
The measures include stepping up efforts to track the sources and channels of the terrorists' funds provided by certain countries .
Daesh [Islamic State]Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... snuffies not only receive financial aid from countries such as Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... , but also make money through the illicit trade of antiques and ancient artifacts, as well as the sale of crude oil.
Saudi Arabia's rulers backed by Wahhabi holy mans have directly and indirectly funneled billions of dollars to various terrorist organizations, such as the Daesh [Islamic State], al-Qaeda, Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , who are greatly influenced and derived by Wahhabi and Salafist teachings taught by Saudi holy mans.
The commission will put forward the new security measures for review to EU finance ministers next week.
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EU is the biggest terrorist financier in the World.
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But if you confiscate the funds that could be a big windfall. But bribes go into individual pockets while confiscation goes into government coffers.
Hmm, give the officials who find the illegal terror money a finders fee. That is, make confiscation competitive with bribes.
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[POSTBULLETIN] Greece's defense minister says the country's armed forces have been tasked to overcome delays in building screening centers for migrants and refugees reaching Greek islands from nearby The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... .
Panos Kammenos made the announcement Tuesday as Athens faces mounting European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... pressure to complete four screening "hotspots" this month after one opened on the island of Lesbos late last year.
The minister said local profiteering was in part to blame for the delays, and told news hounds: "No one any longer will be charging (migrants) 5 euros ($5.40) to charge their mobile phone or 4 euros ($4.35) for a bottle of water. That is over."
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is due to attend a Syria donors' conference in London this week and will discuss the refugee crisis with Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... and Prime Ministers Mark Rutte of The Netherland and Ahmed Davutoglu of Turkey.
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Why are all the migrant centers attached to north bound train stations.~
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[BREITBART] A retired media boss at a major German state broadcaster has admitted his network and others take orders from the government on what -- and what not -- to report.
National public service broadcaster Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), which was recently forced into a humiliating apology for their silence on migrant violence and sex assault is being drawn into a fresh scandal after one of their former bureau chiefs admitted the company takes orders from the government on what it reports. He said journalists received instructions to write news that would be "to Ms. Merkel's liking".
Former head of ZDF Bonn Dr. Wolfgang Herles make the remarks during a radio event (from minute 27) in Berlin where journalists discussed the media landscape. Moving on to the freedom of the press, the panel chair asked Dr. Herles whether things in Germany had got "seriously out of whack". With an honesty perhaps unusual in Germany, Dr. Herles replied that ordinary Germans were totally losing faith in the media, something he called a "scandal". He said:
"We have the problem that -- now I'm mainly talking about the public [state] media -- we have a closeness to the government. Not only because commentary is mainly in line with the grand coalition (CSU, CDU, and SPD), with the spectrum of opinion, but also because we are completely taken in by the agenda laid down by the political class".
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So sad. I'm sure we'll hear how F-35 development will be severely hampered by the loss of the tiny amount of money that this will cost the Air Force.
There is good news for Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. The Air Force will not retire A-10s until the year 2022.
Tuesday Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said the A-10 has been such a powerful tool in the fight against ISIS that plans to retire the warplane are on hold for another six years. That's what a lot of Southern Arizona was hoping to hear. The A-10 is a huge part of the local economy.
More life for the A-10 is good news for the local economy but bad news for ISIS.
The plane is built around a huge gun meant to slice open tanks so to an A-10 almost anything else is a soft target.
Troops on the ground love the plane because it can fly low and slow enough to tell good guys from bad, and make sure bad guys have a bad day.
As a former A-10 pilot and Squadron commander Congresswoman Martha Mc Sally has been fighting to keep the A-10 in the air. She's looking past the A-10s new 2022 retirement date---just six years away.
"And I've been advocating that until we have a suitable, proven replacement to keep our troops safe that we need to keep the Warthog flying and I'm going to continue to lead that fight."
The A-10 helps protect Southern Arizona's economy too.
As the main mission at Davis-Monthan it keeps the base open and active.
D-M's own analysis says the base puts almost one-point five billion dollars into the local economy through the impact of military and civilian workers, plus military retirees attracted by the services the base provides.
The Air Force actually spent more than a billion dollars to beef up the A-10 and upgrade it's electronics to keep it flying past 2022 to 2028.
But tight budgets and the itch to switch to the new more sophisticated short-winged turkey F-35 led the Air Force to try to retire the A-10 almost right away---until the fight against ISIS gave the A-10 new life.
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...And now - I'd say, spring/fall of next year - watch A-10 units have sudden, unexplained personnel and parts shortages. The USAF leadership was badly embarrassed by having to climb down on this, and they have very long memories.
Mike
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The USAF is strapped for cash. I think that the board of directors should got off their duffs, start doing the people's business and deal with it.
The F-35 is not a replacement for the A-10. No amount of wishful thinking will make it so.
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[Iran Press TV] The US presidential race is a “political theater” that is designed to create the appearance of an uncertain outcome although in reality the nominees are chosen beforehand, an American geopolitical analyst says. Like they say, even a dipshit is right twice a day.
“The election process in the United States itself at its very root is merely political theater, it is a Kabuki dance designed to convince the American people that they have some say in who rules over them, when the sad reality is they do not,” said Eric Draitser, the founder of Stopimperialism.com.
“The United States is ruled by one single ruling establishment, one political class that controls both parties and that is in fact subordinate to the financial elites on Wall Street and all throughout the imperial system,” Draitser said during an interview with Press TV on Tuesday.
“There is no such thing as democracy in the United States; it is an illusion today just as it’s been for many years before,” he added.
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[DAWN] Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) Chairman Maulana Mohammad Khan Sheerani has said that a 'review' of the blasphemy law does not mean that it could be changed or amended.
"It is the CII's responsibility to review and assess all laws formulated in the country," he told Dawn, adding, "if the government, through the relevant ministry, forwards any amendment(s) in the blasphemy law, then the Council will certainly look into it".
The CII is mandated to review all laws in the country and suggest amendments to bring them in accordance with the teachings of the Holy Koran.
Maulana Sheerani, who is also a JUI-F MNA, recently raised hopes among activists when he said in an interview that the CII would be willing to review the country's blasphemy laws.
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[DAWN] Lal Masjid ...literally the Red Mosque, located in Islamabad and frequented by all sorts of high govt officials. The proprietors, Ghazi Abdul Rasheed and Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi, unleashed their Islamic storm troopers on the city, shutting down whorehouses and beating people up who weren't devout enough. The Musharraf govt put an end to the nonsense by besieging the place. Abdul Aziz Ghazi was nabbed while he was trying to escape dressed up like a girl. BBC reported that the corpse count at 173, but other claims, usually hysterical, say there were up to 1000 titzup. Among their number was Abdul Rashid Ghazi. Everyone then said tut-tut and what a nice guy he had been... holy manMaulana Abdul Aziz ...nutball holy man who runs the Lal Masjid in the heart of Pakistain's capital. After instigating a rebellion against the state in 2007, he was caught trying to sneak away dressed in a burka. He rejects democracy as un-Islamic, which it probably is... has said that he is ready to forgive former military ruler Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... and all other figures for their involvement in the 2007 bloody siege of Lal Masjid.
Talking to journalists after an additional district and sessions judge granted him pre-arrest bail in two separate cases -- extending threats to the civil society and inciting sectarian hatred -- Aziz said he would make an announcement in this regard in a presser soon.
"I think Musharraf made a mistake. He is our Muslim brother ... I say we take the first step and forgive him," he said.
Aziz said he is in talks with his family members and will convince those who disagree on pardoning Musharraf "as an act of goodwill, for peace in the country, for the end of terrorism and for peace in children's schools".
"Nations quarrel, forgive and then unite. Why can't we unite for the application of Koran and Sunnah?" he said, after speaking about the importance of forgiveness in Islam.
"We are soon going to announce that we forgive all persons involved."
"Aside from me, sisters from my family are also ready to forgive him," he said, asserting that the decision has been taken without any sort of pressure or deal.
"If the teachings of Koran and Sunnah were implemented in the country, Musharraf would not have made the mistake [of Lal Masjid operation]."
Aziz claimed Musharraf had over 40 bogus cases registered against him and his family.
On request of a news hound, Aziz said he condemns the attack on Charsadda University "where our brothers were martyred", as he did the Army Public School attack.
Counsel for Aziz disagrees
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features.
If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!... Aziz's lawyer advocate Tariq Asad said even if Aziz forgives those involved in the Lal Masjid siege, he will have new First Information Reports (FIRs) registered in the name of "deaders of Lal Masjid".
He would even register an FIR against Aziz if he goes ahead with the decision to pardon Musharraf, Asad said.
Musharraf faces a string of court cases dating back to his 1999-2008 rule, including case over death of Abdul Aziz's brother Ghazi Abdul Rasheed, one of more than 100 people killed after army soldiers stormed Lal Masjid in Islamabad on July 10, 2007.
The mosque was the scene of a week-long military siege against turbans that unleashed a wave of myrmidon attacks across Pakistain.
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[Iran Press TV] President of Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Masoud Barzani has called for a non-binding independence referendum.
"That referendum does not mean proclaiming statehood, but rather to know the will and opinion of the Kurdish people about independence and for the Kurdish politicianship to execute the will of the people at the appropriate time and conditions," said Barzani in a statement published on his website on Tuesday.
He added that "the situation is now suitable" for Kurds to decide about their fate.
"If the people of Kurdistan are waiting for someone else to present the right of self-determination as a gift, independence will never be obtained. That right exists and the people of Kurdistan must demand it and put it into motion," Barzani noted.
Over the past few years, Iraq's Kurdish region has attempted to increase its semi autonomy by constructing an independent oil pipeline to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and conducting other oil exports. But the presence of the Daesh [Islamic State]Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group in Iraq and Syria and a global decline in oil prices have brought the region close to insolvency.
"Our region has witnessed too many disasters and change is on the way and the Kurds haven't caused any of it. The Kurds have only been the victims while others have brought disasters and conflict to the region," he said.
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[Iran Press TV] An Israeli arms company along with an American military contractor have won a $713 million contract to provide aircraft training for the UK military.
Media reports say, Elbit Systems Ltd. from Israel said in a statement that Affinity Flying Services Limited -its UK joint venture with Kellog, Brown and Root Limited (KBR)- has been awarded a fixed price contract for the support of Ascent Flight Training (Services) Ltd. from the UK Military Flight Training System (UKMFTS) program.
Each company holds a 50% stake in Affinity.
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During a memorial service Saturday for seven Hamas militants killed when the tunnel they were in collapsed on them, Hamas rolled out what it called a "locally-produced" tank it said was fashioned out of an Israel Defense Forces' tank captured two years ago...
... Netanyahu's spokesman Ofir Gendelman pointed out that the contraption appeared to be a mockup constructed of wood placed atop another vehicle whose wheels could be spotted poking out of the bottom.
Others suggested the gun turret was actually a sewage pipe. I think they mean the main gun, not the turret. The end of the "gun" looks like a piece of four-inch (101mm) plastic pipe, the kind used in toilet drains, of approximately the same diameter of a real tank's main gun. Running it at night probably made it look fearsomely realistic.
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That main gun looks like a big-a$$ cork gun. I'll bet it takes forever to pump it up.
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As many of the the previously used components may suggest, one of the many features of the (new?) Hamas inspired and produced MSS_ST-1, is that it is also deployable as a "mobile" septic system.
Built on a recently smuggled acquired 1971 Toyota mainframe, the final system testing has been temporarily suspended pending the location of an actual "working" toilet suitable for loading the ammunition chamber and other offensive Palestinian functions.
Equipt with an insulated 4" pvc septic pipe main gun barrel, the MSS_ST-1 should provide a "shit load" of firepower.
In addition to rendering it invisible to radar, the stealthy pilfered plywood and styrofoam exterior provides adequate buoyancy to give the MSS_ST-1 rare landing craft capabilities.
But due to Israeli restrictions on Mediterranean sea access, landing craft capabilities testing has also been delayed until the perpetually flooding and overflowing Palestinian sanitation reservoir recedes sufficiently for even a landing craft to approach or navigate the Turd Farm Bog Hole test area.
But unless overloaded with Hamas make-shift rockets it should test out reasonably well.
All in all, Palestinian make-shift ingenuity and stealth (in Palestinian stealth = stolen) technology should make the MSS_ST-1 (Mobile Septic System Shit Tank-1) a welcome addition to the Palestinian fleet.
Ship, you know better than to post ideas like that in a public forum! The Abrams is going to need to exploit these weaknesses in order to win if these two tanks ever go to battle against each other!
The golf club bag rack (rear) essentially doubles its mission profile. The addition of the front tether coupler increases its survivability on windy days and can also be utilized as an anchor for flash poo floods.
Seems to me a little Polonium inserted into the supply chain at some point couldn't do much harm. Highly-addictive Captagon pills keep terrorists awake for days and stop them feeling pain
A FACTORY making the highly-addictive drug used by terrorists and ISIS fighters has been uncovered by rebels in Syria.
Tablets and syringes were found inside hotel rooms used by the 'zombie-like' gang before last November's Paris atrocities.
French police believe the evil killers launched their killing spree while high on the lethal 'Terror Potion' which has also fuelled the war in Syria.
ISIS chemists are producing millions of the cheap, easy-to-make amphetamine pills that help keep fanatics awake for days, turning them into wide-eyed Jihadi junkies.
The small tablets, named Captagon, are produced in Syria and are widely available across the Middle East.
It is thought that the trade of the drugs brings in millions in revenue for ISIS, providing funding for weapons and ammunition.
Now the al-Nusra Front - a rebel faction fighting the Syrian government - has found a factory making the drug and confiscated thousands of the pills plus chemical equipment near the city of Aleppo.
The drug was first produced in the West in the 60s to treat hyperactivity, narcolepsy and depression, but by the 80s was banned in most countries because of its addictive properties and no longer has a legitimate medical use.
The "Terror Potion" nickname was gained because of its shockingly powerful effects.
It's usually taken in pill form but it can be dissolved into a liquid and injected.
Seifeddine Rezgui, the killer who caused carnage in Tunisia in the summer, took a Captagon pill before carrying out his shootings.
It has become the drug of choice for ISIS fighters -- who are bizarrely permitted to take it despite being strictly banned from drinking alcohol.
The drug's active ingredient, fenethylline, is metabolised by the body into the stimulants amphetamine and theophylline.
Lebanese psychiatrist Ramzi Haddad says the drug has the typical effects of a stimulant.
He explained: "It gives you a kind of euphoria. You're talkative, you don't sleep, you don't eat, you're energetic.
Syrian state media regularly mention Captagon pills, which sell for between as little as ÂŁ2.50 as one of the items government forces seize alongside weapons when they capture ISIS fighters or raid their bases.
A drug control officer in the central city of Homs said he had observed the effects of Captagon on protesters and fighters held for questioning.
He said: "We would beat them, and they wouldn't feel the pain. Many of them would laugh while we were dealing them heavy blows."
And a former fighter in the Syrian civil war spoke of the effects of the drug, revealing: "The brigade leader came and told us this pill gives you energy. Try it.
"So we took it the first time, and we felt physically fit, and felt like if there were ten people in front of you, you could catch them and kill them."
Photos of the drugs find were yesterday posted online by Terrormonitor.org.
[Iran Press TV] Russia has accused UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond of "dangerously" spreading misinformation about Moscow's role in Syria.
On Tuesday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova referred to Hammond's remarks on Moscow's air campaign against Lions of Islam in Syria as a "dangerous stove piping of disinformation."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also described as " completely groundless" the "statements from London and other Western capitals" claiming that Russia's "Air Force operations in Syria are not contributing to the resolution of the conflict."
Lavrov made the remarks in response to Hammond's comments that 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... is undermining international peace efforts in Syria by attacking moderate opposition forces and supporting Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... .
The Russian foreign minister, who made the comments following a meeting with Emirati Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan in the United Arab Emirates capital Abu Dhabi, added that such claims "reflect the anxiety of our Western partners that our Air Force is operating effectively in Syrian airspace," and that his country is used to the West's "unsubstantiated claims".
Kremlin front man Dmitry Peskov also noted that such "illogical and incorrect" claims "cannot be taken seriously".
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What part of Russia will attack pencilneck's enemies didn't London and Washington understand?
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Russia's "Air Force operations in Syria are not contributing to the resolution of the conflict."
F*cking spoiled children unable to deal with the real world.
[Iran Press TV] The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... special envoy for Syria has warned of a total failure of the Syria peace talks as the main opposition coalition announced that it would not attend a planned meeting with the envoy.
Failure "is always possible, particularly after five years of a horrible war, where the sides hate each other, where there is a huge lack of confidence," said Staffan de Mistura in an interview with the Swiss television RTS on Tuesday.
"If there is a failure this time after we tried twice at conferences in Geneva, for Syria there will be no more hope. We must absolutely try to ensure that there is no failure," he added.
His comments came as the so-called High Negotiations Committee (HNC) cancelled a scheduled meeting with the UN envoy, saying, "At this moment, there is no reason to repeat ourselves with de Mistura."
The gathering was to be the opposition delegation's second meeting with the Swedish-Italian diplomat as part of the UN-brokered Geneva negotiations aimed at finding a political solution to the deadly conflict in Syria.
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[Iran Press TV] The Pentagon has planned to double its military budget to battle the Daesh [Islamic State]Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group in 2017.
US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, making the announcement in Washington, DC on Tuesday, said, "Because we are accelerating the [anti-Daesh [Islamic State]] campaign, Department of Defense is backing that up and we need to back it up in our budget with a total of $7.5 billion in 2017, fifty percent more than in 2016."
He added, "This will be critical as our updated coalition military campaign plan kicks in."
Further reviewing the huge budget, Carter referred to drones and warplanes at the forefront of an 18-month-old coalition effort to allegedly fight ISIL in Iraq and Syria.
"We've recently been hitting ISIL with so many GPS-guided smart bombs and laser-guided rockets that we're starting to run low on the ones we use against Lions of Islam the most," he said, "So we're investing $1.8 billion in 2017 to buy over 45,000 more of them."
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I hope they added a line item for LoJack in the vehicles supplied to Iraq and our "friends" in Syria. Just think, you can switch it on and guide the bombs just where they need to go.
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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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[BREITBART] A retired media boss at a major German state broadcaster has admitted his network and others take orders from the government on what -- and what not -- to report.
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During a memorial service Saturday for seven Hamas militants killed when the tunnel they were in collapsed on them, Hamas rolled out what it called a "locally-produced" tank it said was fashioned out of an Israel Defense Forces' tank captured two years ago...
...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...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
