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Blast kills MP in Mogadishu, Militants claim responsibility
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Afghanistan
Study: WikiLeaked Data Can Predict Insurgent Attacks
Posted by: tipper || 07/17/2012 17:46 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That looks useful, but can our people officially become aware of things on documents labelled above their clearance, though now available in the public domain? I remember we had issues here with the first leaks, about providing more than the barest links to articles on the subject.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/17/2012 20:55 Comments || Top||


Economy
America's coming civil war -- makers vs. takers
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/17/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The 'burg community has speculated for some time on the fault lines of a looming civil war. It is clear that Obama and the donks have this as their goal, being the dedicated Marxists that they are. The fact they are confident of winning such a conflict clarifies the rot the Left has inflicted on OUR nation.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/17/2012 1:15 Comments || Top||

#2  I believe it's mostly going to come down to urban vs rural - especially large, coastal cities vs those who supply them with food, water, and power.

Personally, let's get it started so we can get it over with and get back to being a Constitutional republic again.

Orion
Posted by: Orion || 07/17/2012 1:52 Comments || Top||

#3  When the SNAP boodle stops....urban anarchy will begin. People will simply not queue up for the soup as they did in the 1930's. The intial shots may be being heard in Chicago as we speak. It is anyone's guess, but the tipping point may be a politically defeated, but still quite vocal Obama cadre.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/17/2012 3:38 Comments || Top||

#4  All civil wars are cultural.

There are lots of those in the "maker" who on closer inspection are takers, and vice-versa.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/17/2012 5:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Its good living in the fly over zone.
Posted by: bman || 07/17/2012 10:11 Comments || Top||

#6  Yahoo CEO/President is an Obamabot. If you go to Yahoo to do emailing, expect to be hit with a lot of pro Obama, anti-Romney propaganda.
Posted by: Eohippus Sninert8902 || 07/17/2012 10:33 Comments || Top||

#7  The public sector has been the engine of entitlement, stagnation, and decline -- and gave us Detroit and the South Bronx.

Add to that the wonderful progressive milestones (sarc) of Chicago politics, public sector unions who have broken local and State economies, huge Federal deficits, loss of freedom, destruction of the health care system, out-of-control public debt, destruction of the middle class, shipping of our manufacturing to China and other countries, industry strangling regulations, redistribution our wealth internally and abroad, social justice, political correctness, rampant gang activity throughout our cities,...and on and on.

I'm only surprised there hasn't been a civil war before this time between the haves and have nots or a rebellion against the government.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/17/2012 10:58 Comments || Top||


Europe
Is Europe a better security partner than assumed?
Posted by: ryuge || 07/17/2012 06:31 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Depends on what your ultimate goals are.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/17/2012 7:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Counting Danegeld as defence spending?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/17/2012 8:22 Comments || Top||

#3  NO, any further Questions?
We kicked their ass during WW2, they haven't forgotten.(Including the free french etc.)
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/17/2012 11:48 Comments || Top||

#4  It's the Brookings Insitute - one can pretty much assume what the answer will be.
Posted by: Pappy || 07/17/2012 17:50 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
JINSA: ‘Israel is winner of Arab Spring’
It must be breaking their heart for Aletho News, a leading anti-Israeli site, to have written this article.
Turkish President Abdullah Gul in a New York Times Op-Ed, warned both Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama that the “Arab Revolution is aimed at Israel”. However, later events in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Syria proved that Abdullah Gul was totally wrong.

Last week, Gabriel M. Scheinmann, a visiting Fellow at the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), admitted that the Zionist entity is in fact the winner of the so-called “Arab Spring”.

“The so-called “Arab Spring” has, paradoxically, made Israel stronger as Israel’s enemies have turned on each other. While Arab capitals burn, Jerusalem has calmly and carefully steeled itself against the possible immediate deleterious effects, building fences along its Egyptian and Jordanian borders and accelerating the deployment of its Iron Dome anti-missile system,” wrote Scheinmann. He then added: “Even as it rightly plans for the changes wrought by the “Arab Spring”, Israel should also recognize that as the Middle East convulses, it is more likely to be left alone. As Alawites battle Arab Sunnis and Kurds in Syria, as Kurds target Turks in Turkey, as the Imazighen fight Arabs in Libya, as the Army contends with Islamists in Egypt, and as Sunnis and Christians confront Shiites in Lebanon, people don’t have the time, energy, or resources to fight the Jews in Israel. The more the region tears itself apart, the more Israel floats to the top, unscathed economically, militarily, or diplomatically. While an Islamist ascent is undesirable, the intervening disorder only makes Israel stronger.”

Karen DeYoung, in Gen. Colin Powell’s biography, ‘SOLDIER: The life of Colin Powell’, has quoted Powell twice saying that “the Iraq war was the product of Donald Rumsfeld’s absorption in the “JINSA crowd.” By the way, Dick Cheney was on JINSA’s Board of Advisors before becoming vice president, where he was joined by Ledeen, Feith, Perle, James Woolsey, and John Bolton.

Both AIPAC and JINSA are behind Washington’s regime change in Tehran.” So far the Israel lobby has failed to make its dream come true, as Vali Nasr, author of The Shia Revival, wrote: “The wars of 2001 and 2003 have fundamentally changed the Middle East to Iran’s advantage.”

Lebanon’s interior minister, retired Maj. Gen. Marwan Charbel in a recent interview with RT has claimed that the Zionist entity is the only country which has benefited from the so-called “Arab Spring”.

The so-called “Arab Spring” is the defacto working of Zionist elements in the United States. The brainchild is within the Israel-Firsters, and by extension the Zionist entity.
Posted by: tipper || 07/17/2012 12:20 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The so-called "Arab Spring" is the defacto working of Zionist elements in the United States.

"You MADE ME poke myself in the eye..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/17/2012 13:26 Comments || Top||

#2  While an Islamist ascent is undesirable, the intervening disorder only makes Israel stronger."

If that ascent is completed, meaning most of the Arab Middle East is reconstituted into a single Ikhwan state (aka Caliphate, in which the Gulf's emirs and emirates are eliminated), Israel will face an existential threat.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 07/17/2012 18:16 Comments || Top||

#3  OTOH TOPIX > IRANIAN INSIDER: ISRAEL WILL BE DESTROYED IFF WEST ATTACKS SYRIA. Former Iranian INTEL Officer Hassan Abbassi.

ARTIC > ABBASSI = due to the ongoing "Arab/
Muslim Spring" led Regional Upheavals + Assad Crisis, Israel is actually becom steadily surrounded + INDRECTLY HELD HOSTAGE by anti-Zionist resistance movements in Syria, Lebanon, + Gaza. AS SUCH, "HOSTAGE" ISRAEL WILL BE KILLED IFF SYRIA IS ATTACKED + INVADED BY THE US, OR BY US, UN-LED COALITION.

IIUC, as per Artic the "OWS" Movement in the US is seen by IRAN as part of its perceived multi-phased "Islamic Awakening", + as such COULD ULTIMATELY BE USED AS A SPRINGBOARD FOR INITIATING ISLAMIST-LED JIHAD IN THE US PER SE [North AMerica].

* IIRC FREEREPUBLIC [paraph] > US GENERAL: SHARIA LAW ALREADY EXISTS IN THE US.

It has begun - the time for Ameris to stop the rise of Sharia + Islamic/Islamist America was yesterday + day(s) before, not today.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/17/2012 23:44 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Energy Revolution 2
h/t Instapundit
...By some estimates, the United States has more oil than Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran combined, and Canada may have even more than the United States. A GAO report released last May (pdf link can be found here) estimates that up to the equivalent of 3 trillion barrels of shale oil may lie in just one of the major potential US energy production sites. If half of this oil is recoverable, US reserves in this one deposit are roughly equal to the known reserves of the rest of the world combined.

...Domestically, the energy bonanza changes the American outlook far more dramatically than most people yet realize. This is a Big One, a game changer, and it will likely be a major factor in propelling the United States to the next (and still unknown) stage of development — towards the next incarnation of the American Dream.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/17/2012 06:16 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Ansar Dine

#1  Hmm, I doubt it. The economy really grows on comparative advantage, and a prerequisite of that is to control your own time (which is harmed by income based (and deferred income i.e. sales) taxes).
With the bureaucrats controlling so much of the economy I think the oil will be squandered.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/17/2012 6:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Disagree, BP. The current USA elites are neither smart, nor tough enough, to retain power in fluid Economy. In particular, given the fact that all of this new oil wealth/power is in private hands so far.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/17/2012 6:59 Comments || Top||

#3  The only way we're going to move forward is if we get rid of the power-hungry tics who are draining us dry from DC and Blue-Model state houses across the country.

Orion
Posted by: Orion || 07/17/2012 11:14 Comments || Top||

#4  There's a lot to read at the link, and a lot of interesting comments, including a bit of back-and-forth among the blue-sky and gloom-doom groups.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/17/2012 12:54 Comments || Top||

#5  US oil production after decades of decline began to rise in 2005.

Anyone who could read a graph knew something was happening.
Posted by: phil_b || 07/17/2012 17:53 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2012-07-17
  Blast kills MP in Mogadishu, Militants claim responsibility
Mon 2012-07-16
  US Ship Fires on Boat off Dubai, 1 Dead
Sun 2012-07-15
  At Least 83 Killed across Syria
Sat 2012-07-14
  NDS Chief Among Bombing Victims at Afghan Wedding
Fri 2012-07-13
  Defected Syrian Ambassador Calls on Countrymen to Join Him
Thu 2012-07-12
  Sudan university students hold major protest: Witness
Wed 2012-07-11
  Al Qaeda suicide bomber attacks Yemen police academy
Tue 2012-07-10
  Gang Linked to Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel Busted in Arizona
Mon 2012-07-09
  Nigeria raids, reprisals kill 37
Sun 2012-07-08
  Annan Admits Syria Mission Failure
Sat 2012-07-07
  Violence Kills 55 in Syria amid 'Liberation' Demos
Fri 2012-07-06
  17 Drone-zapped in North Wazoo, 17!
Thu 2012-07-05
  15th Syrian General Defects to Turkey
Wed 2012-07-04
  Pakistan opens Nato routes after US apology
Tue 2012-07-03
  Car bomb kills at least 25 in Diwaniya


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