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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Woman who shot alleged attacker may have slain a serial killer
[WASHINGTONPOST] A woman in Charleston, W.Va., may have saved her own life and the lives of many other women, as well, when she shot and killed an alleged attacker in her home last week.
If we had tighter gun laws this never would have happened.
Neal Falls showed up at the woman’s home on July 18 after answering an escort ad she had placed on Backpage.com, according to police. He showed up with a “kill list,” multiple pairs of handcuffs and a Subaru full of weapons and tools, including a shovel, knives, a bulletproof vest, a machete, bleach, trash bags, sledgehammers and axes, according to Fox affiliate KPTV.
Hah! That's no proof he was going to rape, murder, and dismember the hooker.
In Falls’s pocket, police said, was a list of names of potential future victims, all of whom are sex workers who advertised on Backpage, according to the Daily Dot.
Probably he was just really friendly.
Now investigators are trying to determine whether Falls, 45, was responsible for a string of slayings targeting sex workers in Ohio and Nevada, the station reported.
No doubt it was a case of mistaken identity. Probably the real rapist-murder-dismemberer was coming through the other window and shooting this guy, who was probably just asking directions, scared him off. The gun owner's guilty as sin, despite the fact that she's a Sex Worker, which would otherwise make her innocent.
Posted by: Fred || 07/27/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Doing the job the government won't.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/27/2015 9:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Chock up one (or more) for gun rights.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/27/2015 14:54 Comments || Top||


Three scientists investigating melting Arctic ice may have been assassinated, professor claims
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] A Cambridge Professor has made the astonishing claim that three scientists investigating the melting of Arctic ice may have been assassinated within the space of a few months.
Ooh! Ooh! I seen dis movie!
Professor Peter Wadhams said he feared being labelled a "looney" over his suspicion that the deaths of the scientists were more than just an 'extraordinary' coincidence.
Y'see, da hero, he knows one of the dead guys, see?
But he insisted the trio could have been murdered and hinted that the oil industry or else sinister government forces might be implicated.
Da bad guy is the guy the hero works for.
The three scientists he identified - Seymour Laxon and Katherine Giles, both climate change scientists at University College London, and Tim Boyd of the Scottish Association for marine Science - all died within the space of a few months in early 2013.
Da hero and the dead girl had dis passionate fling in Paris once...
Professor Laxon fell down a flight of stairs at a New year's Eve party at a house in Essex
He's, like, dis distinguished-lookin' guy with a gray beard dat looks like somebody's grampaw. Everybody sez he was a tea-totaller, even though he had some blood in his alcohol system when dey found da body. Did he fall, or was he pushed?
while Dr Giles died when she was in collision with a lorry when cycling to work in London.
... and den da truck driver moved into John Robie da Cat's old house in da south of France...
Dr Boyd is thought to have been struck by lightning while walking in Scotland.
Da secret government agency has dis satellite, see? It got dis powerful laser on it, and it can hit a fly halfway to da moon...
Posted by: Fred || 07/27/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  OK, let's look at the 'crime scenes'. One of them was drunk and fell downstairs on New Years eve. (I suppose it's a possible.) One of them was hit by a truck while bicycling to work. (Once again, a possible.) The third was struck by lightning. (If the oil companies can manage that, don't be screwing with them.)
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/27/2015 8:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Which just goes to prove the rational ability and "strong" connection to reality the infests the Global Warming "expert" community.

Whack-a-doodle on line one.
Posted by: AlanC || 07/27/2015 8:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Listen Bugsy, we can arrange for a fourth, see?
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/27/2015 9:49 Comments || Top||

#4  and hinted that the oil industry or else sinister government forces might be implicated. A real whodunnit Sherlock.

I'm betting it was someone who was just fed up and annoyed with these GW/Climate change nuts. The other explanation is the left did it to further their cause--sacrificial lambs for the cause. After all, with these apparatchiks, the end justifies the means. Another explanation--it never happened.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/27/2015 11:42 Comments || Top||

#5  The headline is the message. Most never actually read the articles on things like Drudge, so the message that someone is murdering climate scientists slides, snakelike, into the national awareness, despite being utterly untrue.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/27/2015 19:49 Comments || Top||

#6  JFK-style "Plausible/Reasonable Denial"???

* FYI BLOOMBERG [repost] > RECORD-BUSTING PACIFIC OCEAN SEEN AS STRENGTHENING EL NINO.

* INDIAN EXPRESS > SCIENTISTS WARN VICIOUS GLOBAL WARMING CYCLE, MORE PERMAFROST THAWING CLAIMS AT UN CLIMATE TALKS.

* IIRC YAHOO NEWS > EARTH NOW IN HOTTEST YEAR IN ALL OF RECORDED HISTORY.

As said before, the Sun will continue to slowly but surely intensify its heating up of the Earth - AFAIK what our mighty OWG-NWO Govts + GWCC Perts truly have to argue over is the degree or magnitude of Solar Heating the Earth will suffer thru this century, Human-Enviro affects, + what physical changes are occurring inside the Sun itself.

IFF OWG-NWO = AKIN/SYNONYMOUS TO SPACE GOVT-0ORDER, THESE QUESTIONS WILL HAVE TO ASKED + ANSWERED.

PERENNIAL, SUPER-PCORRECT "SAFE" POLITICS SERVES + SAVES NO ONE, + UNDER THE RIGHT CIRCUMSTANCES CAN BE SERIOUS OR EVEN EXISTENTIALLY VERY DANGEROUS TO ALL CONCERNED, INCLUD THE INNOCENT.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/27/2015 21:48 Comments || Top||


British Peer Resigns Over 'Cocaine and Prostitutes' Video
[THEDAILYBEAST] A UK tabloid published a video of the deputy speaker of the House of Lords allegedly snorting drugs off the breasts of a prostitute.
Posted by: Fred || 07/27/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lucky bastard
Posted by: Sneanter Uliger4939 || 07/27/2015 2:04 Comments || Top||

#2  He should emigrate to Canada.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/27/2015 2:53 Comments || Top||

#3  ...there's a career in Hollyweird for him.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/27/2015 11:36 Comments || Top||

#4  "Bitch set me up"
Posted by: Frank G || 07/27/2015 11:42 Comments || Top||

#5  ...there's a career in Hollyweird for him.

Only if the Prostitute is Transgender...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/27/2015 15:41 Comments || Top||

#6  ...or underage boy.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/27/2015 17:04 Comments || Top||

#7  One Hooker is now TWO, + POSSIBLY THREE???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/27/2015 22:11 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
India mourns its former president and "missile man"
Kalam served as president for five years from 2002, enjoying the support of both the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress.

Kalam was closely involved in the country's civilian space programme and military missile development efforts, earning him the sobriquet 'India's Missile Man'. He worked as a scientist and science administrator, mainly at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) before he became president.

He also played a pivotal technical and political role in India's Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, shortly after the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government came to power.

After his term, he returned to a life of education, writing, and public service. He received several prestigious awards, including the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honor.

The government is set to announce a national mourning of seven days.
Posted by: John frum || 07/27/2015 14:32 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Major League Baseball takes notice of 16-year-old French girl
[NEWS.YAHOO] When Melissa Mayeux first took the field, she wasn't looking to make baseball history. She was just following her older brother.

Now the 16-year-old shortstop from La Belle France is generating major league buzz in baseball circles as a prospect who could become the first female MLB player ever.

Mayeux plays on La Belle France's under-18 junior national baseball team and last month became the first female ever to be placed on Major League Baseball's international registration list, making her eligible to sign a contract with any of the 30 big league teams in the sport called "America's pastime."

"I've received a lot of messages from many girls who play baseball across the world and who told me that I had become their new idol," Mayeux told Rooters in a recent interview.

Prospects typically are placed on the international list at Major League Baseball-sanctioned events after verifying their dates of birth and citizenship. While anyone can be placed on the list, only those who have the potential to be signed are generally registered.
Posted by: Fred || 07/27/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Dirty Old Pastime
Posted by: Shipman || 07/27/2015 17:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Also minor league Islam.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 07/27/2015 19:01 Comments || Top||

#3  OOOOOOOO, this has got FUTURAMA's sexy slinky Cyclops Babe "LILA" all over hit.

Professional league performance was so bad she actually inspired Femmes all around the World to NOT be as bad as her + to always work on improving their athletic skills.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/27/2015 22:09 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Pak: Thousands displaced by floods; toll reaches 36
[Pak Daily Times]
Posted by: Fred || 07/27/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


-Land of the Free
Brownshirts are coming: #Blacklivesmatter founder threatens to shut down GOP convention
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/27/2015 12:14 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  To which the convention should rise and sing the Battle Hymn of the Republic just to remind them of who spent the blood and political capital to make their very self centered behavior possible.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/27/2015 13:45 Comments || Top||

#2  They wouldn't get it or care P2K. It doesn't fit the narrative and therefore their political agenda.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/27/2015 15:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Chicago '68 rewind. If the Dems think their racist violent fringe base on display will charm the nation, they've got another thing coming
Posted by: Frank G || 07/27/2015 15:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Someone should remind them that republicans carry guns.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/27/2015 17:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Just say and repeat saying all Lives matter. It annoys them, and shows the voters the left hate equality.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/27/2015 18:00 Comments || Top||

#6  ...Unfortunately, the Cleveland Police Department is working under one of the strictest 'guidance' decrees of any US PD because of its past incidents involving minorities. I see the CPD being ordered by the Feds to stand down and allow these monsters to run loose.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 07/27/2015 19:04 Comments || Top||

#7  The good news is that if we nominate some worthless establishment type like Jeb then no one will bother.
Posted by: Iblis || 07/27/2015 19:40 Comments || Top||

#8  How about this headline: Black Rioters Plan to Disrupt Convention
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 07/27/2015 19:55 Comments || Top||

#9  GOP better plan a 2nd venue just in case. Mackinac Island might be nice that time of year.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 07/27/2015 19:56 Comments || Top||

#10  Mitch McConnell and John Boehner will give them what they want. Problem Solved.
Posted by: Airandee || 07/27/2015 21:02 Comments || Top||

#11  The "CHICAGO 7" [Abbie Hoffman, etal.] save for being agz the GOP.

Missin' Teddy "Bully"! Roosevelt + his Bull Moosers???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/27/2015 22:01 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Half of Cuban field hockey team defects
[AFP] Half of the Cuban men's field hockey team at the Pan American Games in Toronto defected to the United States.

One player and other sources close to the Cuban delegation said eight of the 16 Cuban players had deserted, while team member Roger Aguilera put the number at seven, the latest in a series of Cuban defections across several sports.

"Everyone knows what happened to our team, we have seven of them in the United States," Aguilera said after the Cubans were hammered 13-0 by Trinidad and Tobago. Short of manpower, Cuba could only field eight players instead of the usual 11 plus five substitutes.

They are not the first Cubans to defect during the Pan Am Games. Four rowers disappeared last week, including silver medalist Orlando Sotolongo.

In January 2013, Cuba eliminated legal barriers to foreign travel, but that did not end the defections of artists and athletes, who are still susceptible to the lure of higher pay abroad. In an attempt to stop the losses, Cuba raised salaries of athletes, and began allowing them to sign contracts with foreign clubs. But the defections have continued, including at this month's football Gold Cup.
Posted by: ryuge || 07/27/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Champ will return the lot to Cuba and we will never see or hear from them again.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2015 3:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Half the team defected and the other half remained democrats.

Snark of the day, agreed.
Posted by: airandee || 07/27/2015 6:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Rumor is that the Pakistanis are offering citizenship.
Posted by: Pappy || 07/27/2015 8:26 Comments || Top||

#4  airandee for snark of the day.


Think Zero would request amnesty for these immigrants?
Posted by: AlanC || 07/27/2015 11:06 Comments || Top||

#5  They are leaving Castro's leftist paradise and coming to Obama's "transformed" ahem, cough, cough paradise?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/27/2015 11:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Only half?
Posted by: John frum || 07/27/2015 14:31 Comments || Top||

#7  Hi John, long time.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/27/2015 14:38 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Bill Johnson: How U.S. is training China's Military while inching toward conflict.
[Rooters] Despite tensions between the United States and China over the South China Sea, the two nations' militaries train together at a very high level. Current "mil-mil" engagements are robust, with China participating in the world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC 2014, which is hosted biannually by the U.S. Pacific Command. The drills allowed China to learn a great deal about U.S. tactics, techniques and procedures (in military shorthand, "TTPs").

But even as the United States provided China with its highest-level access to military drills, the U.S. military leadership consistently ratcheted up the level of confrontation in the South China Sea. Most recently, a top U.S. Navy admiral participated in a surveillance flight in the region. The United States is at once inching closer to armed confrontation, while at the same time training Chinese forces in the American way of war.

RIMPAC is one of many occasions when U.S. forces have trained their Chinese counterparts. China has participated in U.S.-led counter-piracy operations in the Indian Ocean since 2008. Initially, due to language difficulties and unfamiliarity with American and allied forces tactics, techniques and procedures, China was given a separate area to patrol. But over the last seven years, cooperation has become closer, as the United States sought greater coordination of operations and closer relations with Chinese ships, by conducting combined exercises in 2013 and again in 2014. This increased interoperability allowed Chinese forces to learn counter-piracy tactics, techniques and procedures, especially those relating to how to support ships that are deployed far from land, for long periods of time. They also learned how to properly run visits and time off for their troops in foreign ports, and how to configure ships to be both efficient and comfortable for the seamen. From the U.S. Navy, the Chinese learned that allowing telephone contact with family at home enhanced -- rather than hurt -- troop morale and discipline. The Chinese were also able to study American methods for destroying chemical weapons, as they aided the U.S. Navy in destroying Syria's surrendered weapons.

China has upped the ante by deploying a nuclear submarine escort for its ships engaged in counter-piracy missions -- an added level of protection. To get live training, the United States will track any Chinese submarines as hostile, even in a cooperative environment. China knows this, and is able to use its participation in the international effort to explore the anti-submarine warfare tactics of the U.S. forces stationed on Diego Garcia Island, south of India, as well as those of U.S. and allied forces in the Gulf of Aden.

In other news: March 3, 1939 - Chinese Americans picket scrap metal shipments to Japan.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2015 04:39 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The British and French trained with and trained Germans right up until WW1 too.

Posted by: DarthVader || 07/27/2015 10:17 Comments || Top||

#2  RIMPAC
Thats different than rimjob, right?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2015 10:34 Comments || Top||

#3  As said before, CHINA must decide what is or what are its National Priorities at this point in time, i.e. SHOULD IT CONTINUE ITS STRUGGLE FOR UNCONDITIONAL, UN-OPPOSED "STRATEGIC ACCESS" AGZ THE MAINLY PRO-US/WEST, ANTI-CHINA NATIONS IN EAST ASIA + IOR, OR IN ALTERN DELAY ITS DESIRED "POST-US" MANIFEST DESTINY = GEOPOL AMBITIONS KNOWING THAT SAIDSAME US ALLIES IN EAST ASIA WILL LIKELY BECOME MILPOL STRONGER VEE CHINA IN THE FUTURE, + THAT HENCE IT MAY BECOME MORE DIFFCULT FOR CHINA TO ACHIEVE ITS AGENDUM, IFF AT ALL.

* OWG GLOBALISTS = iff China is indeed to become a new "US-STYLE","US-PAR" OWG "Co-Superpower" sibling of the US, wid its own China-dominated "Sphere(s) of Influence", THEN ITS THE PHILIPPINES, VIETNAM, + JAPAN, ETC. = POTUS OBAMA + US WHOM MUST CONCEDE TO CHINA'S DEMANDS VEE THE SOUTH CHINA SEA + EAST CHINA SEA, ETC.

> SOLE SUPERPOWER OR CO-SUPERPOWER = CHINA, ETAL. M-U-S-T HAVE OVERSEAS MILBASES FOR PROTECTION OF TRADE + PROJECTION OF MILITARY OR MILPOL POWER.
> PEACE = CHINA WON'T BE A "US-STYLE/PAR" SOLE OR CO-SUPERPOWER FOR MANY YEARS OR DECADES TO COME.
> WAR = CHINA STILL HAS A CHANCE, OR FEW CHANCES, FOR SAME TO ACHIEVE A BETTER, MORE EFFECTIVE POSITION VEE THE US IN THE PRESENT ANDOR THE FUTURE.

Lastly, as a reminder China, etal. "ace" agz the US is NOTSOMUCH defeating the US Navy-DOD, BUT HAVING AN ANTI-AMERICAN AMERIKAN GLOBALIST POTUS IN THE WHITE HOUSE + #1 [Other?] ON THE US NATIONAL COMMAND AUTHORITY.

POTUS Bammer is responsible for the DIRECT US RESPONSE TO any MilPol or Natural Crisis around the World, or in alternat the LACK OF SAME.

HIS ANTI-US US-LED GLOBALISM ASIDE, WE SEE IT PCORRECTLY-DENIABLY VEE IRAN + NUCLEAR DEAL > OBAMA = "WE [US] EITHER MAKE PEACE AND SEEK COMPROMISE WID IRAN, OR ITS WAR [includ possible NUCWAR]".

IT WILL BE ROUGHLY THE SAME VEE CHINA + PUTINIST RUSSIA, OTHER GLOBIE-DESIRED CO-SUPERPOWERS?
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/27/2015 19:50 Comments || Top||

#4  In ADAM SANDLER'S new movie "PIXELS", Guam's Andersen AFB is attacked by "GALAGA" style Space Aliens - one of POTUS Kevin James' "Situation Room" Advisors is a SEEMINGLY ATTACK-EVERYONE-N-ANYONE-HAPPY USN Admiral = USN CNO/CoS? whom tells James, "MR. PRESIDENT, OUR MISSION IN GUAM WAS "ATTACKED"!.

In my mind, "MISSION" as used above in the Movie strongly inferred or implied that AAFB is a "DIPLOMATIC MISSION" = GUAM IS AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY, OR OTHER, + NOT A US TERRITORY ANYMORE.

It worried me given what is happening in the US-World wid Anti-US US OWG Globalist POTUS OBAMA, right now, espec as his "red lines", Crimea, China + SCS-ECS, ... ...etc. + China's desire to get 1/2 of the Pacific [include Guam-WESTPAC] by 2020 NLT 2025 vee the "Weak/Declining", Ex-Sole-Soon-to-Be-One-of-Many-OWG-Co-Superpower USA.

Hollyweird + MSM-Net starting to SUBTLY put out the notion that the US SSSSHHH ... CCCCC doesn't need Guam anymore, at least as a sovereign territory of the US. ALL THE ANTI-US GLOBAIES NEED IS THE PCORRECT, ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL EXCUSE OF AVOIDING NUCWAR WID CHINA IN EAST-SOUTH CHINA SEAS + IOR TO HAND OVER GUAM TO CHINA'S WESTPAC "SPHERE OF INFLUENCE"???

* Again, WORLD MILITARY FORUM > GLOBAL TIMES: EXPERT: GUAM + CNMI IS FAR AWAY FROM THE US, WHY DOESN'T THE US GIVE THEM UP!?

Guam-WESTPAC now by 2020 NLT 2025, Hawaii-EASTPAC + 1/2 of CONUS-NORAM later???

* FYI SAME > NEW US PACOM CHIEF ADM. HARRIS: CHINA-IMPROVED/CONSTRUCTED ISLANDS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA IS DEFINITEY FOR "MILITARY PURPOSES" [NOT just for PCorrect "Civilian" uses], I.E. EVENTUAL BASING OF PLA MILITARY AIRCRAFT, WARSHIPS, + SURVEILLANCE, ETC.

* SAME > SINA MILITARY: CHINESE BALLISTIC MISSLES CAN DESTROY ANY AIRFIELD OR AIRPORT IN THE MOSTLY PRO-US "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN". SIMULATED ATTACK AGZ JAPAN'S US-SHARED KADENA AIR FORCE BASE.

* SAME > CHINA'S CRUISE MISSLES CARRIER NEGATES/REMOVES NEED FOR PLAAF AIR BOMBING OVER JAPAN.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/27/2015 22:43 Comments || Top||

#5  More this AM ...

* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [Forbes] PHILIPPINE BUILDUP AT SUIC RELIES ON US AIR, NAVY TO STOP CHINA.

And iff Anti-US US Globie POTUS Obama = USA doesn't stop China???

* TOPIX > US "RETURN TO ASIA" [Pivot?] FACES MANY REGIONAL OPPONENTS.

* CHINA DEFENSE FORUM > BLOGGER: US' LR "BOMB RUN" TO AUSTRALIA SHOWS US DESIRE TO STRIKE CHINA'S ISLANDS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA WID B-52'S, CHINA SHOULD PLACE TACTICAL NUKES, ETC. ON DISPUTED ISLANDS TO DETER US AGGRESSION.

* SAME > WANT CHINA TIMES: BEIJING COULD DECLARE SOUTH CHINA SEA ADIZ AFTER XI'S US VISIT: EXPERT.

Peter Jennings of AUS Strategic Policy Institute to CSIS.

* PLA DAILY, BIGNEWSNETWORK > JAPAN'S [PM Abe's} DEFENSE POLICY [+ ForPol] OVERTURN "BRINGS ASIA CLOSER TO WAR".

Again, CHINA ideally may try to keep or prevent any US-specific mil intervention AMAP ALAP in any war in the SCS agz PH + Vietnam, ASEAN; andor ECS agz JAPAN, + even the IOR agz INDIA.

GOOD FOR ANTI-US GLOBIES + US-LED ANTI-US OWG-NWO, NOT GOOD FOR US ALLIES = US [pre-OWG]"SOLE" SUPERPOWER CREDIBILITY.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/27/2015 22:59 Comments || Top||


Europe
Uproar after French MPs visit Crimea, suck up to Putin
A photo of one of the MPs, Pozzo di Borgo, holding a T-shirt adorned with a phrase that roughly translates as "Obama, you're a schmuck" has been making the rounds on social media.
Posted by: ryuge || 07/27/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  'Bout time to discuss selling those helicopter carriers, is it?
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/27/2015 8:03 Comments || Top||

#2  In more Vladvedev News ...

* ITAR-TASS, BIGNEWSNETWORK > REVISED DOCTRINE ASSERTS RUSSIA'S STATUS AS A MARITIME [+ Naval] POWER.

Russia formally lists the CRIMEA + ARCTIC as its "Core" Interests = "Sphere(s) of Influence", ostensibly where the US-West is NOT allowed on pain of war???

* FYI FREEREPUBLIC [Repost = Israel Matzav] > EUROPE TO ALLOW IRAN'S IRGC TO OPERATE ON ITS TERRITORY, on or by circa Year 2023.

The Persians are Coming, the Persians are Coming!

VERSUS

* WAFF > YOUTUBE VIDEO: TURKEY TO BE THE NEXT SUPERPOWER AFTER JAPAN + US.

Yes, we know, 2030-2050 - its a good-to-know/have for the future US-born, US-raised, Convert-to-Islam/Radical Islam ISLAMIC MAHDI/MESSIAH/HIDDEN IMAM.

"Napoleonic Complex" = "Islamic Napoleon", but wid US, Western-approved/built OWG Caliphate + Nukulaar goodness???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/27/2015 23:45 Comments || Top||


Fury in France as Beach Closed off for Saudi King
[ALMANAR.LB] French authorities on Saturday closed off the beach in front of the Riviera villa of Saudi King Salman
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians....
, a move that has incensed many locals as the seaside is normally open to the public.

Authorities signed an order blocking access to about a kilometer (half a mile) of beach in front of the villa from 8:00 am on Saturday, with coppers blocking access.

Beach closure in La Belle FranceThe ban had previously been scheduled to take effect when the king arrives later Saturday, but was brought forward to prevent an occupation of the beach before its controversial closure.

Beach access is normally open in La Belle France, and tensions often flare when towns close them off partially by granting concessions for firms offering rentals of parasols and chairs.

More than 100,000 people have signed a petition protesting the "privatization" of the beach in front of the Saudi king's villa.

French authorities may close off beach access for security reasons, however.
A ban on approaching closer than 300 meters (yards) of the villa by sea goes into effect later in the day.

King Salman was due to arrive by private plane Saturday afternoon at Nice airport and head directly to the private villa in Vallauris, located between Cannes and Antibes, a source said.

He is being accompanied by an entourage of more than 1,000 people.
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#1  Much like Kenya chasing the beggars away for Obama's visit.
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