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Ballistic missile intercepted over Saudi Arabia capital Riyadh just seconds before it slammed into royal palace
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Africa Subsaharan
Jihadists claiming to be 'Islamic State in Central Africa' call for militants to join them in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as Middle East 'caliphate' crumbles
[DailyMail] A video circulating on extremist sites purports to be a message from dedicated jihadis, although ISIS has not expanded its official media output to the central African country.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Arabia
Claim of Iran military aid to Yemen sheer lie: Larijani
[PRESSTV] Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says the Islamic Theocratic Republic is not providing military assistance to Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
and all claims to this effect are false.

Larijani made the remarks while addressing the extraordinary meeting of the Paleostinian Committee of the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Member States (PUOICM) in the Iranian capital Tehran on Monday.

"We are not a country that would deny providing military assistance to anybody," Larijani said.

He added that Iran was providing military assistance to Paleostine, but had not helped Yemeni fighters in their war with 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...
in military terms, dismissing any claim to this effect as a lie.

"The Yemenis' missiles belong to themselves and some countries cannot achieve their goals by making such claims," the top Iranian parliamentarian said.
Posted by: Fred || 12/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Al-Thani family members hold first opposition meeting against Emir of Qatar
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Twenty members of the ruling al-Thani family in 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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
held an important meeting, the first of its kind, in which they rejected the policies of Sheikh Tamim.

The meeting was hosted by Sheikh Sultan Bin Suhaim al-Thani, who has already announced his opposition to Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thani’s policies, on the occasion of the National Day of the State of Qatar.

Bin Suhaim said during the meeting: "Soon we will celebrate with our family in Doha."

Sultan bin Suhaim added that Qatar would soon return to its Gulf origins.

The meeting rejected decisions to withdraw nationalities from the elders of the tribes.

Sheikh Suhaim said that the tribal stance is historic and that Qatar will never back-stab its neighbors.

The meeting commended the role of the Kingdom of 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...
and sister countries to support the people of Qatar.

Posted by: Fred || 12/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Qatar (MB)


Bangladesh
Family Claims NYC Bomber Visited Bangladesh to Do Charity Work for Rohingya Muslims
[Breitbart] Bangladesh’s Dhaka Tribune reported Thursday that Akayed Ullah, the jihadist responsible for a failed suicide kaboom in New York’s Port Authority Bus Terminal, visited a Rohingya refugee camp during his last trip to the country to conduct charity work.

The Tribune cites Ullah’s mother-in-law, Mahfuja Akhter, as the source for the story tying Ullah to the Rohingya camp. Ullah last visited Bangladesh in September. According to Akhter, "He stayed in Cox’s Bazar for a day and distributed first aid medicines among the displaced Rohingyas in Kutupalong." She insisted that he refused to stay in a hotel "in order to save money to purchase more medicines for the helpless people."

The Rohingya are a majority-Moslem ethnic people from Burma. Human rights NGOs monitoring the situation estimate that hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled the country, following the launch of a nationwide campaign to eradicate them, and traveled to Bangladesh where many suffer in refugee camps with no sign of being able to return home in the near future.

The Dhaka Tribune notes that Bangladeshi counterterrorism officers confirmed that Ullah had visited the camp in question in October, but could not definitively say that he went alone and did not provide any details as to how he decided to make the trip or if anyone invited him.

He entered the country after being sponsored for an immigrant visa by an uncle.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Is that what they're calling terrorist training camps now?
Posted by: Raj || 12/19/2017 13:26 Comments || Top||


Europe
Swedish police retract safety advice to women despite 3rd gang rape in 1 month
[RT] Police in the Swedish city of Malmo have retracted advice given to women in the city following the brutal gang-rape of a 17-year-old girl. The force advised women not to go out alone after dark following the vicious attack.

Officers issued the warning over the weekend following the assault, which occurred on Saturday, and marked the third such vicious rape committed by unknown perpetrators in the city in less than a month.

The original warning, reported by various Swedish media outlets, said that women should avoid venturing out after dark without someone for company. Considering it gets dark quite early in Sweden at this time of year, that would mean women should avoid being in the streets alone after approximately 3pm local time.

However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes...
following criticism, Malmo police issued a formal statement on Monday retracting those remarks, describing them as "unfortunate and unclear."

"My advice is to behave as usual and not act on fear," said police spokesperson Mats Karlsson, as cited by SVT.

So far, police have not linked this most recent incident to the previous two but are also not ruling out a connection. In this latest case, there is no CCTV footage to analyze but police are attempting to recover footage from surrounding areas in a bid to catch the attackers.
Posted by: Fred || 12/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  I wonder what these same officials are telling their wives and daughters to do.
Posted by: gorb || 12/19/2017 3:34 Comments || Top||

#2  gorb, are their wives and daughters allowed out without a male relative to chaperon?
Posted by: AlanC || 12/19/2017 7:32 Comments || Top||

#3  "unknown perpetrators "

I'm sure there's DNA and I'm sure they can tell you a lot about the perps from that...

But they haven't.

Sweden, is a country sized Rotherham.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/19/2017 8:05 Comments || Top||

#4  gorb, are their wives and daughters allowed out without a male relative to chaperon?

Less so these days.
Posted by: gorb || 12/19/2017 9:33 Comments || Top||


Austria's new government to impose ‘sanctions’ on immigrants who refuse to assimilate
[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] Austria’s new government has unveiled plans for financial "sanctions" on immigrants colonists who keep their own culture and do not "integrate" with mainstream society.

The government, a coalition between the conservative People’s Party (OVP) and the far-right Freedom Party (FPO), agreed a deal at the weekend with provisions set to make life more difficult for foreigners in the country.

The two parties’ agreed policy programme says that immigrants colonists who are judged to be "refusing to integrate" should expect "sanctions".

One specific policy outlined in the agreement includes a cut to the basic level of support payments for asylum seekers. The reduction can be recouped by families by earning an "integration bonus" if they are deemed to be adopting Austrian culture, as defined by the government.

The programme also calls for faster deportations of asylum seekers and says undocumented immigration will be halted, as well as vowing to stop the creation of "parallel societies".
Posted by: Fred || 12/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Does this include being willing to go to war over beer, refraining from raping or blowing up the locals and no more honor killings?
Posted by: gorb || 12/19/2017 9:54 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkish authorities issue detention warrant for 106 over links to failed coup
[PRESSTV] Ottoman Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 106 people, believed to have worked as matchmakers for the so-called Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), which is accused by Ankara of orchestrating last year’s failed military coup, Istanbul police say.

According a front man for the Istanbul police on Monday, 62 of the suspects had been nabbed
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
in a counter-terrorism operation centered in Istanbul but spread over 20 other provinces in the Anatolian country.

He further said that further operations to locate the remaining 44 suspects were ongoing, adding that they were "marriage officials" for supporters of the US-based opposition holy man Fethullah Gülen
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
, who Ankara says was behind the botched mid-July 2016 putsch.

Gulen has since strongly rejected any involvement in the coup attempt against Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
, however, Ankara labeled his transnational religious and social movement, Gulen Hareketi, as a terror organization, the so-called FETO. The Ottoman Turkish government has so far submitted a total of seven requests to US officials concerning the extradition of the Pennsylvania-based figure.

The police front man further said that the suspects had allegedly helped set up arranged marriages for some of Gulen’s followers. Ottoman Turkish authorities claim that the Gulen network closely monitored the personal and professional lives of some followers, including their education, career and marriages.

Ottoman Turkish police and the country’s intelligence officials managed to identify the suspects via using conversations traced on ByLock, an encrypted messaging application that was allegedly used by Gulen’s supporters for communication, the police official said.

Posted by: Fred || 12/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  And the fallout from the Reichstag fire continues.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 12/19/2017 18:10 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Anarchists Bragged in April about Sabotaging Railroad Tracks to Block Fracking
[PJMEDIA]
Posted by: Fred || 12/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Make some reservations at Gitmo.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/19/2017 0:52 Comments || Top||

#2  I would check the possible Evergreen College students involvement. Evergreen College is just down the road.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 12/19/2017 1:41 Comments || Top||

#3  ...It's appearing now that the train may well have been traveling almost three times as fast as the limit for that part of the track, but as always let's wait for the NTSB to do their thing.

On the other hand, it's amazing how fast those little Antifa angels scrubbed their website when they thought they might actually get nailed for this.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/19/2017 9:06 Comments || Top||

#4  A good reason to rattle their cage.
Posted by: Grunter || 12/19/2017 22:55 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Drone strikes: Senate tells govt to seek ‘compensation’ from US
[DAILYTIMES.PK] Legislators in the Upper House of parliament on Monday adopted a resolution urging the government to demand financial compensation from the US on account of lives lost and damages done to the properties of innocent citizens of Pakistain as a result of drone attacks inside the territorial limits of the country since 2000.

The Senators urged the government to send copies of the resolution adopted by the House to the UN General Assembly, NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
, EU, Commonwealth and Asian Parliamentary Assembly in order to highlight impact of drone attacks on the social, economic and psychological conditions of the victims.

Ruling PML-N Senator Javed Abbasi presented the resolution which was adopted unanimously.

In another resolution, the government was urged to lay all international conventions, treaties, covenants, commitments and agreements signed or ratified by the government of Pakistain before both parliament.

Posted by: Fred || 12/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Arabs said unhappy at India’s tepid response to Trump’s Jerusalem move
[IsraelTimes] Saudi, Egyptian, and other Arab diplomats urge New Delhi to speak forcefully against US recognition of Israeli capital, but plea unlikely to prompt condemnation.

Minister of State for External Affairs MJ Akbar reiterated India’s statement, which only said that the country’s policy would be unaffected by the Trump declaration. "India’s position on Paleostine is independent and consistent. It is shaped by our views and interests, and not determined by any third country," the statement said.

Netanyahu is set to visit India in January, following the high-profile visit of Modi to Israel in July, when he spent three days being shown the country by Netanyahu, but didn’t go to Ramallah, the seat of the Paleostinian Authority government. It was the first-ever visit to Israel by an Indian prime minister.

Abbas visited India in May, meeting with Modi to discuss cooperation and strengthening ties.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Translation: having Pakistan for neighbor, we want Iron Dome.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/19/2017 2:51 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iran reopens border posts with Iraqi Kurdistan
[IsraelTimes] Iran reopens all its border crossings with Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, a foreign ministry front man says, after their closure over a controversial independence vote.

Bahram Ghassemi says the two frontier crossings of Haji Omran and Parwezkhan had been reopened, without giving a specific date, after the Bashmaq frontier post began working again in October.

Iran closed the border crossings after Iraqi Kurds on September 25 voted overwhelmingly in favour of independence at a referendum Baghdad insisted was illegal.

Iran and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, which have Kurdish communities of their own, were also against the poll.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


German jihadi schoolgirl facing execution visited by mom and sis in Iraq
[DailyMail]
  • Linda Wenzel, from the town of Pulsnitz in Saxony, joined ISIS when she was 15

  • Said to have worked for a female-only brigade that whipped women over clothes
    Not exactly the house-bound innocent she claims, then.
  • She was captured in Mosul as Iraqi troops liberated the city earlier this years

  • Now her mother and sister Miriam* have flown to Baghdad, where she faces execution, to see her

  • Her jihadist husband was a Chechen fighter from Austria named Abu Usama al-Shishani
* In Germany that may read as a Jewish name, not a German one...
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Sure, now family is concerned.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/19/2017 0:23 Comments || Top||

#2  her mother and sister Miriam have flown to Baghdad, where she faces execution, to see her

They have my sympathy.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/19/2017 3:07 Comments || Top||

#3  In Germany that may read as a Jewish name, not a German one...

'Miriam' is not an exotic name in German speaking countries.

I would infer no political statement or a statement re religious or ethnic affiliation from that name alone.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 12/19/2017 3:54 Comments || Top||

#4  ‘Miriam' is not an exotic name in German speaking countries.

No? When we lived there in the 1990s, we were assumed to be Jewish because the trailing daughters are named Sarah and Rachel. The entire village was talking about it, I was told later, once they’d got to know me and become proud of how well they’d taught me to speak German. They were right to be proud, too.

The more sophisticated of Mr. Wife’s colleagues made the same assumption.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/19/2017 11:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Rachel would be more likely to be perceived as a Jewish name in Germany. However the spelling variation Rahel is not an uncommon name in Switzerland.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 12/19/2017 12:38 Comments || Top||

#6  That I didn’t know, Elmerert Hupens2660. We only ever skied and ate fondue in Switzerland. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/19/2017 12:59 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Palestinians slam ‘unacceptable’ US veto of Jerusalem UN resolution
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Paleostinian government slammed as "unacceptable" Monday a US veto of a draft UN resolution against President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

A front man for Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
said the veto was "unacceptable and threatens the stability of the international community because it disrespects it".

The 14 other countries on the Security Council voted in favor, but US Ambassador Nikki Haley
...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems...
exercised the American veto.

Nabil Abu Rudeina told AFP in Arabic that the support for the resolution, which included US allies La Belle France, Italia and Japan, "showed the (American) isolation. The international community must work now to protect the Paleostinian people."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu immediately thanked Haley for her stance.

Posted by: Fred || 12/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  A veto can not be "unacceptable" without declaring yourself an outlaw to the system.
It can be "unapproved by you" but unacceptable is say you are denying the rules of the the system and don't accept the rules. That puts you in the wrong.
Posted by: 3dc || 12/19/2017 0:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Throw USA aid back in America's face?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/19/2017 3:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Yah g(r)om, that'll happen.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 12/19/2017 9:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Works for me. Cut off all aid then.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/19/2017 10:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Works for me. Cut off all aid then.

Given the Don's record...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/19/2017 11:36 Comments || Top||

#6  Perhaps they would find a present sent their way from a North Dakota wheatfield to be more to their liking?
Posted by: Rivrdog || 12/19/2017 20:07 Comments || Top||


Russia ready to become ‘mediator’ in Israeli-Palestinian peace process -- Russian envoy to UN
[RT]
Posted by: Fred || 12/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  LOL
Posted by: newc || 12/19/2017 0:37 Comments || Top||

#2  IDF has several artillery regiments, and - as you Russians know so well - that's the only way to negotiate with Arabs.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/19/2017 2:49 Comments || Top||


Israel will no longer take part in 'ping-pong' game of rocket attacks with Hamas - defense minister
[RT] Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman says Tel Aviv will no longer allow a game of "ping-pong" rocket exchanges to take place with Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood.

"In the next few months all existing tunnels will be blown up and destroyed" by new technologies invented by Israel, Lieberman said during an interview with RTVI, adding that Israel is aiming to put an end to the "ping-pong" of rocket exchanges.

His comments come amid increased tensions between Israel and Paleostinians - who are supported by Hamas - after US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
's official recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

According to Lieberman, Hamas is solely responsible for the escalating violence in the Gazoo Strip and argues that a large-scale attack from Hamas is inevitable, stating that "should Hamas be faced with the alternative of losing power or attacking Israel, without a doubt, Hamas will choose another conflict with Israel."

The defense minister also claims that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
has been tacitly supporting Hamas, and that "we should revisit all our ties" with Ankara, to sever any dependence from Turkey and to discontinue a proposed gas project with Ankara which would give a "key to our whole gas pipeline" and Israel's energy security to Erdogan - a situation which would have "far-reaching consequences."
Posted by: Fred || 12/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US-backed Kurdish armed militants ‘traitors’ to Syria: Assad
[PRESSTV] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
says all US-backed Kurdish armed bully boyz are "traitors" to the Syrian nation, ramping up the rhetoric particularly against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), which are mainly active in northeastern areas of the Arab country through receiving vital substantial air and armament support from Washington.

The Syrian leader made the remarks in a meeting with a high-profile official and economic delegation from Russia, led by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Monday, Syria’s official news agency, SANA, reported.

"When we talk about those referred to as 'the Kurds', they are in fact not just Kurds. All those who work for a foreign country, mainly those under American command... are traitors" regardless of their names, Assad said.

The YPG is the main part of a larger coalition of fighters ‐ the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) ‐ which was engaged in operations aimed at liberating Raqqah, the former de facto capital of the ISIS 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 the war-torn country. Washington considers the SDF, which also includes Arab Death Eaters, as its main proxy force fighting on the ground in Syria.
Posted by: Fred || 12/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Lebanon detains Uber driver in killing of British diplomat
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Lebanese Uber driver with a criminal record has confessed to killing a British woman who worked at the British Embassy in Beirut, a Lebanese security source said on Monday.

The security source said preliminary investigations into the murder of Rebecca Dykes showed the motive was purely criminal, not political, and that the suspect had immediately confessed to the crime, which took place early on Saturday.

A front man for Uber said in an email: "We are horrified by this senseless act of violence. Our hearts are with the victim and her family. We are working with authorities to assist their investigation in any way we can."

The incident is the latest to highlight the issue of safety at Uber, which was stripped of its operating licence in London in September over concerns about its approach to reporting serious criminal offences and background checks on drivers.

London police complained in April that Uber was either not disclosing, or taking too long to report, serious crimes including sexual assaults and this put the public at risk. The firm’s boss has promised to make things right in the British capital.

And globally, the app has suffered a series of scandals in 2017 as a stream of executives left amid controversies involving allegations of sexual harassment and issues surrounding data privacy and business practices.

The company, valued at around $70 billion with investors including Goldman Sachs, has faced bans and protests in countries around the world as it disrupts traditional players who have accused it of cutting corners on safety.

A second security bigshot in Leb said the suspect was aged 41 and had been locked away
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
on drug-related charges in the period 2015-17.

Leb’s state news agency NNA said the suspect had picked Dykes up in his taxi in Beirut’s Gemmayzeh district on Friday evening before assaulting and killing her. Police traced his car through surveillance cameras on the highway, it said.

Lebanese police only said they had arrested a suspect and that it was not a political crime.

Dykes’ body was found strangled by a main highway outside Beirut, a security source said on Sunday. She worked at the British Embassy for the Department for International Development, her LinkedIn page said.

"The whole embassy is deeply shocked, saddened by this news," British ambassador to Leb Hugo Shorter said on Sunday.

"We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Rebecca," Dykes’ family said in a statement issued by Britannia’s Foreign Office. "We are doing all we can to understand what happened."
Posted by: Fred || 12/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


Government
National Security Strategy of the United States of America (December, 2017)
[WhiteHouse.gov] Here it is, dear Reader, all 51 pages of clearly organized text, so you can draw your own conclusions instead of being told by this journalist or that pundit what it means.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/19/2017 00:18 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Spengler's comments.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/19/2017 16:43 Comments || Top||

#2  strength and confidence deters war and promotes peace
Or 'Si vis pacem, para bellum.'
Posted by: Glenmore || 12/19/2017 18:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Spengler is always worth reading.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/19/2017 22:01 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2017-12-19
  Ballistic missile intercepted over Saudi Arabia capital Riyadh just seconds before it slammed into royal palace
Mon 2017-12-18
  Senior Al-Shabaab Militants Killed In Somalia Drone Strike
Sun 2017-12-17
  Suicide bombers attack Pakistan church, killing at least 9, officials say
Sat 2017-12-16
  Judge Lori Walkley hands down death penalty to convicted Islamic murderer
Fri 2017-12-15
  Yemen Islah party sever ties with Muslim Brotherhood
Thu 2017-12-14
  Afghan forces foil deadly blast, US drone strike kill 3 IS militants in Nangarhar
Wed 2017-12-13
  Newspaper: Saudi members of Islamic State arrested in Iraq up to 50
Tue 2017-12-12
  Scores of Islamic State militants surrender to security forces in Mosul
Mon 2017-12-11
  Several injured after device explodes at New York City’s Port Authority, one arrest
Sun 2017-12-10
  Coptic pope cancels Pence meeting over Jerusalem
Sat 2017-12-09
  Ahrar al-Sham commander eliminated in Idlib
Fri 2017-12-08
  Egyptian grand mufti affirms death sentences for 13 Ajnad Misr terrorists
Thu 2017-12-07
  Houthis execute ‘thousands’ in two days: UN’s Yemen envoy
Wed 2017-12-06
  Islamist suicide plot to assassinate Prime Minister Theresa May foiled
Tue 2017-12-05
  Iranian Embassy In Sana’a Has Been Attacked


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