[Dhaka Tribune] Even though the Holey Artisan attack took place almost three years ago, it is not a tragedy we can afford to forget.
The incident revealed the extent to which Death Eater ideologies had infiltrated our society and serves to remind us of the innocent lives which may be lost if we cease to be careful.
Indeed, when it comes to the corrupting forces of extremism, we as a nation must always remain vigilant.
The fact that, last Thursday, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Counter-terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit seized an alarming cache of firearms, ammunition, and explosives from a residence in Baridhara DOHS further illustrates the need for law enforcement to continue to prioritize the fight against militancy and extremism.
In a country that was founded on the values of secularism and tolerance, there can be no room for ideologies which spread hatred and violence.
At the same time, we must remember that it is not enough to merely capture the gunnies which exist, but ensure that individuals are not radicalized in the future.
In this regard, the CTTC’s capacity building program -- which focuses on building awareness, de-radicalization, counter-radicalization, and rehabilitation -- is a praiseworthy step which focuses on the long-term efforts required to ensure that militancy ceases to be a threat in the future.
The government’s efforts to root out militancy so far have been commendable, and it is heartening to see the PM’s assurance that countering such violent extremism will remain a priority for the adminstration moving forward.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Visits to the Black Sea by U.S. warships have nothing to do with U.S. security and are motivated by domestic politics, prominent Russian senator Alexei Pushkov said on Sunday, warning they should stay away from the Russian coast.
The U.S. guided-missile destroyer Donald Cook began moving towards the Black Sea on Saturday, "to conduct maritime security operations and enhance regional maritime stability, combined readiness and naval capability", a U.S. navy statement said. www.navy.mil/index.asp
The Russian Black Sea fleet began monitoring the warship once it entered the region, RIA news agency cited Russia’s National Defence Control Centre as saying on Saturday.
"U.S. warships are becoming frequent visitors to the Black Sea. These visits have nothing to do with U.S. security," Pushkov, a member of Russia’s Upper House Commission on Information Policy, wrote on his Twitter page.
"They flaunt their flag, send us a signal, and appease their own senators, who are demanding they send a whole military fleet to the Black Sea. They should keep away from our coastline," he wrote.
This week a court in Russia extended by three months the arrest of 24 Ukrainian sailors captured along with their ships in November in the Kerch Strait, which links the Black Sea with the Azov Sea. They stand accused of illegally crossing into Russian territory.
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The usual crop of warmongers in the unelected government, trying to start some shit. How would we feel about foreign warships cruising up and down the Gulf of Mexico "to conduct maritime security operations"?
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Herb, as long as they conduct their "Maritime Operations" 12 miles out and observing the proper safety protocols for the sea, I don't have a problem with tit for tating. The Ruskies want the 12 mile limit here and 500 miles out at their place however. Ain't gonna work that way.
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Remember the 4th ID and Gulf War I? I really don't like having a US Navy ship on the "other side" of the Bosporus and in the Black Sea unless there is a really, really good reason for it being there.
[American Thinker] Mueller, the wall impasse, the shutdown, the "postponement" of the SOTU ‐ all are skirmishes in the undeclared war on President Trump waged by Democrats, the Deep State, and the compliant media. A decisive battle will be enjoined if Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies or resigns this year.
Nothing scares the left more than the prospect of Trump filling another seat on the SCOTUS with a young, fire-breathing constitutionalist who would join with Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh to form a conservative bloc for the ages.
Pelosi and Schumer are praying that Justice Ginsburg survives and remains on the bench until January 1, 2020, when their concern for her well-being ceases. They know that Senate majority leader McConnell could not persuade his entire caucus to abandon the principle he championed in 2016 that a nomination to the Supreme Court in a presidential election year is inappropriate.
Here's how it may go if RBG vacates the bench or the Earth soon, as seems likely: Pelosi will immediately schedule a vote to launch a formal impeachment inquiry, pre-empting the president's announcement of his choice to fill Ginsburg's seat. It will pass along partisan lines, swamping other news. Next, the House Judiciary Committee (Jerrold Nadler, chair) will draw up charges against the president. Eventually, the committee will vote out articles of impeachment. At some point after this, the entire House votes on the articles. Trump is impeached.
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I agree. Trump will be impeached at some point in the next couple years by the house. Pelosi is waiting for maximum impact of the event and I also think that RBG kicking the bucket will kick off the impeachment circus.
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It will start the civil war. Impeach maybe, but if they vote to remove from office, the clouds of war will come...
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House impeaches, Senate convicts. Can't rule out Collins and a couple others going to the other side, but it's unlikely. Can't rule out 1-2 dems in the Senate voting "no" either. So it ain't happening (prolly) Aftermath will be quite different from what came after Billy Jeff dodged. The future of the Clinton Crime Cabal was at stake then. Nothing like that this time...
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Clinton impeachment sent him soaring in the polls.
I'm pretty sure Trump could turn impeachment into re-election and a massive majority in the House.
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The Senate tries, and it requires a 2/3rd supermajority to convict. No way that many Republican senators side with the Democrats, not even if Mitt Romney makes noises.
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Only requires 2/3rd of the states to call for a national convention. Given the choice to be ruled by 10 metropolitan areas or live free of your own choosing, some people are making a good case for the latter.
[American Thinker] Saturday was National Popcorn Day, but I’ve been nibbling on popcorn all week as Nancy Pelosi learned a lesson about presidential power and the media was gut checked by the special prosecutor. I haven’t had this much fun since election night 2016.
While she might have thought otherwise, the power of the commander-in-chief is far greater than that of the speaker of the House, and the humiliating way this was brought home to the congressional equivalent of Maerose Prizzi (h/t Michael Walsh) was something. She anticipated that she and her posse of cronies and their families (reports of a ninety-some entourage in all) would hop a military plane for a free trip to Brussels, Afghanistan, and Egypt, doubtless with fawning media coverage, leaving the president to sit alone in the White House hoping fruitlessly they’d toddle in there to negotiate an end to the shutdown. Reports vary as to whether she was on the tarmac or on her way there when the president cancelled the flight as incompatible during a shutdown when federal workers were not being paid and illegal aliens were continuing to invade.
The president twisted the knife, suggesting she was free to fly commercial, which served as a reminder of the enormous tab she ran up on such flights the last time she was speaker. She thought she had the upper hand in this. She learned she certainly didn’t, and was last seen at Reagan Airport, with one aide and a single security agent, heading out of town to somewhere on a commercial flight. The president cancelled his own trip to Davos and required other similar travel on military airplanes be made only at the approval of the secretary of defense until there is a budget he can sign that provides for a secure border barrier.
This may well have been a tit-for-tat response to Pelosi’s claim that the president should postpone his State of the Union address because the House chambers in which such things normally occur could not provide adequate security, something the Secret Service decried as untrue. Nevertheless, nothing could have better revealed the speaker’s callous disregard for the unpaid government workers who vote overwhelmingly Democrat or for the others whose lives have been disrupted by the shutdown and the inadequate security at our southern border. Or the superior power of the commander-in-chief.
What is this eerie power Donald Trump has to select the perfect enemies, enemies whose own myriad failings often cause them to commit ritual suicide whenever they face him? He usually doesn’t even have to do anything ‐ these goofs do it to themselves.
His latest victim is BuzzFraud, that listcicle-curating web site for millennial geeks that had the mainstream media in a 24-hour festival of onanism over a report so full of Schumer that even Mueller and his pack of Democrat activists had to shout, "Yo, chill."
...Nancy Pelosi made the mistake of buying her own hype and thinking she could go troll-to-troll against him. Big mistake. She thought she could high-hat him by kinda/sorta rescinding her State of the Union address invitation.
...So, Trump waits until she and the rest of her pals are on a bus ready to jet off to party in Europe with a fig leaf stopover in Afghanistan and then he pulls the plug. We get delightful footage of dejected ugly Americans filing off the bus, their boondoggle delayed until they do their damn job. Glorious.
...See, Trump’s an equal opportunity brawler. It’s not just Democrats he smashes. It’s the Fredocons too. Take Mitt Romney, please, preferably to one of the Third World hellholes where he outsourced American jobs.
...Remember Michael Avenatti? We don’t, but his creditors do. And Stormy Daniels? Last we heard she was at the Peppermint Hippo gentleman’s club in Rancho Cucamonga, trying to pay off her judgment to Trump a dollar-bill at a time shimmying to "Pour Some Sugar on Me."
They keep lining up to take Trump out, and he keeps knocking them down. Name a significant feud he’s lost. You really can’t. It’s actually quite remarkable...
The Weekly Standard, dead. Trump, still president.
Kathy Griffin, career dead. Trump, still president.
Michael Cohen, aka No. 9575864, envying the dead. Trump, still president.
And thank goodness that Trump not only likes to fight but knows how to win. The GOP softies would have folded long ago in the face of media finger-wagging and howling Democrats. But not Trump. He enjoys crushing his enemies, seeing them driven before him, and hearing the lamentations of those who identify as women, as well as woke males who use Gillette products.
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We get delightful footage of dejected ugly Americans filing off the bus, their boondoggle delayed until they do their damn job.
It doesn't have to be delayed. If it was so important they could always pay for it themselves. Heck, somehow Nancy parlayed her six figure job into something that easily makes her part of the 1%. She could probably pay for the whole thing herself and not even notice it.
[Breitbart] In his Sunday appearance on New York AM 970 radio’s "The Cats Roundtable" with John Catsimatidis, Rep. Lee Zeldin’s (R-NY) commented on the ongoing partial government shutdown, saying if pay for Congress were to be cut off, there would be a budget deal for border wall funding in as soon as 45 minutes.
"It’s difficult to miss one paycheck. It becomes increasingly difficult to miss a second paycheck," Zeldin told Catsimatidis. "I really do believe that you should lock every member of Congress in a room, bring the president in, no phones, no pay, you’re not leaving until there’s white smoke; you need to negotiate, compromise with each other, with the president. And I think you can have a deal within maybe it’s 45 minutes, maybe it’s four hours
"It’s crazy to me that you have members of Congress getting paid while ... you have Coast Guardsmen who are not," he added.
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Support a Constitutional Amendment - if Congress fails to pass appropriations by the end of the fiscal year, all members are barred from elected or appointed offices for no less than 10 years.
[Right Scoop] Democratic Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security Congressman Bennie Thompson admitted that they are considering giving funding to Trump’s border wall ‐ despite what Nancy Pelosi and others have said.
I think the blogger is reading more into this than is there at this point, but I would be very happy to be proved wrong.
[FOX] President Trump is right to continue his drive to remove combat troops from Syria and Afghanistan and can cite the success of the privatized Flying Tigers in World War II as a way of finding economy of force during transition operations.
U.S. troops have been carrying the lion’s share of these fights and have mostly accomplished the original missions of each. In Syria, ISIS is largely defeated, save rogue terrorists that will continue to attempt asymmetric attacks. In Afghanistan, Coalition forces have trained and equipped 175,000 Afghan National Army and 150,000 Afghan National Police Forces that can secure their country.
To be sure, we maintain strategic interests in each of the regions. In Syria, we need to deny an Iranian land bridge to Israel and the Mediterranean Sea. In Afghanistan we need to ensure the Afghan government can deny sanctuary to terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda to prevent planning of attacks against the homeland.
Other threats, though, loom on the horizon, and the United States can husband its military forces, reduce operational costs, and prepare for future combat by employing private Military Mentor Teams (MMT), Aviation Support Units (ASU), and Governance Support Elements (GSE). We can do this first in Syria with an economy of force and then review the lessons learned as we transition into Afghanistan.
The private force will be almost entirely former military and law enforcement from multiple countries. Veterans serving again ensures experienced combat-seasoned personnel will be coaching, teaching, and mentoring indigenous forces. The historical case study for this common-sense, cost-saving action that bolsters our alliances and ensures achievement of our enduring strategic interests is the Flying Tigers in the pre-World War II era.
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Renault: My dear Ricky, I suspect that under that cynical shell, you're at heart a sentimentalist...Oh, laugh if you will, but I happen to be familiar with your record. Let me point out just two items. In 1935, you ran guns to Ethiopia. In 1936, you fought in Spain on the Loyalists' side.
Rick: And got well paid for it on both occasions.
Renault: The winning side would have paid you much better.
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“In Afghanistan, Coalition forces have trained and equipped 175,000 Afghan National Army and 150,000 Afghan National Police Forces that can secure their country.”
If they are capable, why don’t the Aghans take care of the security of their country?
“The move makes sense in every respect. The U.S. has invested nearly $1 trillion in Afghanistan since the war’s inception and has another $50 billion on tap for 2019. The privatized force can do the job about 85 percent cheaper with the prospect of being more effective.”
A privatized mercenary force is 85% cheaper and has the prospect of being more effective. The operative phrase is prospect of being more effective.
What recent experiences can be pointed to that support that idea? Africa? Weapons and Warfare.
There are some attractive features of mercenary forces: cost (already mentioned), latitude in recruiting a combat-experienced army, and keeping the force free from social engineering “engineers.” The U.S. can use the money saved for building a wall, building infrastructure and reducing the debt.
On the other hand:
1. Recruiting combat-experienced mercenaries might be a problem as fewer and fewer Americans have combat experience. That leaves recruiting mercenaries from other armies which can be problematic.
1.What happens when mercenaries break laws? Who is on the hook for that?
2.There are likely to be support, logistics and intelligence issues.
3.What happens when the SHTF. Does the U.S. intervene? Not so easy to drop forces into a gone-south situation.
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HIMMM. "Flying Tigers in the pre-World War II era". I am only familiar with WW11 and post. My uncle went on to Pam Am as a pilot and helped with the air lift out of Castro's Cuba. He never talked much about it but he was never asked as I recall. I envied him I must say. He and his small family traveled the world. Portugal sounded interesting. Mentioned the loading of sardines on the backs of burros spilling many and gathering then up lastly so as not to waste. Yep, poop and all.
[Spectator] Will journalists apologize if their portrayal of the Covington students vs Indian Elder incident turns out to have been wildly wrong?
I have bad news for you. Somewhere in the this country, right now, teenage boys are acting like jerks.
Yes, it’s true. Some are taunting their little sisters. Others are picking on a funny looking kid in their class. Still others are grandstanding for the benefit of the cute girl who happens to be part of their clique.
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The way to deal with this is easy, track down all the people pushing the narrative and do it to them. Get in their face screaming and ask them "How many people will you lie about today to get what you want?" Expose their lies, their lives and their sins. Red flag them to the police as a danger to themselves and others because they are. Destroy their lives and it will stop. It doesn't need to be all of them, just 5-6 before the rest learn the lesson.
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Silentbrick, there are a few problems with this. Your side (& mine) mostly consists of people who just want to live their lives. Theirs has tens of thousand for whom "der struggle" is the only life.
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I've always believed there should be a tabloid like National Enquirer dedicated to stories about the lives of journalists. If they put it next to the National Enquirer at the checkout stand in my supermarket I might even buy it.
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Just takes a little bit of money.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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Journolists are expendable. Martyrs to The Greater Troofs™
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Reminds me of Dan Rather and his fake memo.
I have a college friend on facebook who constantly posts Dan Rather comments. I nearly always respond that Dan Rather is untrustworthy and dishonorable and include a link tot he wiki page on the scandal that cost Rather his career.
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.
[FOX] President Trump is right to continue his drive to remove combat troops from Syria and Afghanistan and can cite the success of the privatized Flying Tigers in World War II as a way of finding economy of force during transition operations.
Renault: My dear Ricky, I suspect that under that cynical shell, you're at heart a sentimentalist...Oh, laugh if you will, but I happen to be familiar with your record. Let me point out just two items. In 1935, you ran guns to Ethiopia. In 1936, you fought in Spain on the Loyalists' side.
