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Didn't think this sort of thing could be put in print.
It's Breitbart, Skidmark. Andrew Breitbart positively rejoiced in putting in print what others preferred not to be generally known, particularly others on the left, and his business heirs continue the practice.
#3
actually it is not in print - breibart is only on line
the flow upward to TV and print is controlled by mostly leftists (like the BBC in the case of the poll mentioned)
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#4
Multiculturalism is a lynch pin of the left's agenda. Multiculturalism doesn't work so long as assimilation doesn't occur. You don't just throw your borders open to everyone who wants to come here. You end up with jihadists in our cities waiting for the signal to stir up trouble. You end up with cartel affiliated gangs throughout our cities. You end up with rampant human trafficking and drugs problems. More and more, it appears the left is an enemy of the U.S. every bit as much as the jihadists and cartels. They have become "useful useless idiots." They have become obstructionists to everything that is good.
#9
the problem with not reigning in the excesses of multiculturalism - specifically islamic fascism
is it means that there will be a reaction - and when it comes it will be an overreaction.
to have harmony it's better to tackle these problems early and firmly
because if you let them run riot then so will the British and you are right, there will be pogroms or a civil war. An ugly sight and far crueller than simply reigning in Islamist fascism now.
#10
anon1, agree with one caveat. Civil war could be the desired interim goal with the ultimate goal of Islamofascism winning; or, it could be the excuse to implement a home-grown dictatorship.
#11
The reason the British have this multiculturalism problem is they do not have any real homegrown "redneck spirit" left in their bones, too many years of being politically correct, being pushed around by half wit politicians intent upon being "fair" to the "poor sods". The real Brits need to grow a pair and get cracking and send the baggers running for home, where ever that might be.
UK Independence Party might be the right fix for the UK.
[DAWN] In any Shakespearean tragedy, a soliloquy signifies a crucial point in the play: it usually comes when the hero is on the verge of committing to an act that will define him for the rest of his on-stage life.
So it was in Parliament on Tuesday that Javed Hashmi, the estranged Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... leader, delivered a speech of his own that certainly put to rest all speculation about what side he is on.
Arriving in the National Assembly during a speech by Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... to a tremendous reception, Hashmi minced no words during his allotted speaking time on the floor of the house. He clarified that despite his differences with the partys high command, he was still PTIs democratically elected president.
At times Hashmi's speech sounded almost like a history lesson, as he recounted key points from the past: the secession of Bangladesh; his own time in prison; the time he advised Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... against a safe-passage deal with General Musharraf; and, previous Nawaz regimes where, he said, the current PM had ample time to work for the countrys betterment but failed to do so.
His castigation of the prime minister for his aloofness from parliament rang true for most members and one could see that he meant it as his hands shook with rage (or possibly the physical strain given his frail health).
He defended Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... and praised his ability to mobilise the youth. He also maintained that the PM should listen to politicians, referring to the premiers reputation for having his own way before announcing his resignation from Parliament.
Before the main event, however, the impassioned Aitzaz Ahsan took the government to task, moving from parables to specifics. He made it clear that his party is continuing to stand by the ruling party at great personal cost.
The speech from the oppositions side is technically supposed to come from the leader of the opposition in the National Assembly. But, perhaps taking advantage of his oratorical skills, Aitzaz was entrusted the task of making the oppositions views known.
He recounted their many sins, from Model Town to administrative arrogance and urged the treasury benches to do some soul-searching.
Other speeches, such as the ones from Fazlur Rehman, the MQMs Khalid Siddiqui and Mehmood Achakzai, were a mixed bag of criticism for both the government and the protesting parties, in roughly equal measure.
Chaudhry Nisar, however, was his droning self as he opened proceedings on Tuesday, repeating the same speech he has been making over the past few weeks. Indeed, his tale of the protesters broken promises was only interrupted when he stopped to apologise to the media for the police highhandedness.
While the sincerity of the apology may be the stuff of speculation, it was clear that the interior minister was quite anxious and often slid over to an equally pensive PM during other speeches on the floor of the house.
For a joint-sitting, the attendance in the house was quite thin and among the notable absentees was also the chairman of the Senate.
But the session ended on a conciliatory note, as Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... shook hands with Javed Hashmi following the latters tirade against the ruling party, indicating that there is still a great deal of mutual respect in both their hearts for each other.
But the real question is, will Parliamentary pleasantries translate into practical measures?
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[IsraelTimes] The Islamic State, US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said, is a cancer that should not be allowed to spread. It advances a "genocidal agenda" and "no civilized country should shirk its responsibility to help stamp out this disease."
For the past week, the Israeli army has watched as a different strain of that same malady set up camp along the border, hoisting the black al-Qaeda flag over the Quneitra crossing on the Golan Heights. Israeli farmers have been ordered back from the border, as the ongoing fighting has occasionally spilled over.
And although it's probably wrong to speak of ideology, however odious, as disease, because the cure can be overly aggressive, there is no doubt that the fall of Quneitra, for now -- Assad's forces are battling to take it back -- represents a significant milestone en route to the destabilization of a border region that has been largely tranquil since US secretary of state Henry Kissinger pushed Israel and Syria to sign a disengagement agreement on May 31, 1974.
In the wake of this destabilization in the Golan, the defense establishment has grappled with two central questions: Who does Israel want to see emerging as the victor? And what should be done in the meantime?
The army, concerned primarily with the reality that has taken shape in the Golan -- less so with the geopolitical implications of jihadist instability versus a triumph of the Syrian-Hezbollah-Iran axis -- has re-hauled its deployment in the Golan Heights.
Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, the commander of the IDF General Staff, ordered a major shift last fall. He relieved Division 36, one of the army's only conscripted armored divisions, of its duties in the Golan Heights -- the threat of a Syrian ground assault seems to have expired -- and assembled, on the sloping plateau, a newly reconfigured regional division. These troops are focused not on ground maneuvers and firepower, the ingredients necessary to win wars, but rather on perimeter security.
The Bashan Division, operational in its new capacity since early 2014, is staffed with rotating infantry troops -- the Golani Brigade hustled back from Gazoo last week and took up its posts -- along with greater surveillance and a much-improved fence.
"In the past, our primary threat was the Syrian army," a regional officer told The Times of Israel during a 2013 tour of the border. "We knew it very well: when they wake up, what their days look like, the formation of their troop deployment."
Today, he said, the primary danger, as far as his division is concerned, is of cross-border infiltration.
Therefore, the surveillance teams along the Syrian border, he continued, were the first to receive what the army calls a "multiple-sensor system" -- a newly operational mechanism that synchronizes an array of radar and optical findings into one concrete warning. "It's a huge advance," he explained, and added that "it's the only one in the country."
The border fence itself, which is still under construction and is similar to the fence along Israel's southern border with Egypt, is dug deep into the ground. "The old one," the officer said, "could be knocked over with one kick and easily crossed with a ladder." The new one is protected by an anti-personnel ditch, is impassable to throngs of people, and is strong enough to detonate an incoming anti-tank missile before it reaches its target.
The irony in the construction of the fence is that it was spurred on by a 2011 Nakba Day demonstration along the Syrian border, in which hundreds of Paleostinians living in Syria rushed the border fence and, amid stone-throwing and Israeli fire, managed to cross the border and reach the Druze town of Majdal Shams.
The troops on the border were seen to have acted wisely in using their firearms in a discriminating way, killing four protesters, but concern about the violation of Israeli illusory sovereignty and the way an intifada along the border could shift the focus of the war in Syria, hastened the construction of the fence.
Today, clearly, the main purpose of the 15-foot-high steel barrier has little to do with popular uprisings; it is the face of a potent Israeli deterrence set on keeping IS and al-Qaeda at bay.
The collapse of UNDOF
In that, the army may soon be stripped of a useful tool: UNDOF. The United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... Disengagement Observer Force, at first untouched by the war in Syria, has again come under direct fire in recent days. The 46-mile-long area of separation between Israel and Syria, the corridor manned by UNDOF, has been violated repeatedly by rebel troops.
Last week, armed rebels surrounded 72 Filipino UNDOF blue helmets, who were later rescued and evacuated via Israel, and seized 44 additional Fijian peacekeepers, who are still missing and have not been heard from, the UN said Monday.
During the past year-and-a-half, ever since 21 Philippine peacekeepers were kidnapped from their posts in the Golan in March 2013, it would seem that the UNDOF troops have been given more tools to ensure their safety and allow the continuation of their mission, which was meant to be executed during, and only during, times of tranquility.
The collapse of the highly regarded force, a distinct possibility, would not fundamentally change the picture on the Golan Heights, but it would increase the friction between Israel and the jihadi forces in the region.
Those forces, hardened by war, still seem far less savvy than Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, or Hezbollah. They are not single-minded in their devotion to resistance first and foremost against the existence of the state of Israel and, therefore, have not equipped themselves accordingly, with weapons that target civilians and positions built amid civilian populations.
Additionally, the terrain works in Israel's favor, with the Israel Defense Forces positioned on the high ground, along the line of the hills, on the Golan. The possibility of the region becoming akin to the Jordan Valley during the one-thousand-day period between the close of the 1967 war and September 1970, during which PLO holy warriors repeatedly infiltrated into Israel, is certainly, regrettably, a possibility, if the organizations near the border choose to focus on Israel.
As to what outcome in Syria is preferable for Israel in the long run -- Sunni jihadists, very much at war with each other; or Alawite-backed Shiite Death Eaters -- the defense establishment is likely torn.
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, when asked last summer if the Israeli policy on Syria is akin to Kissinger's quip during the Iran-Iraq War -- it's a pity both sides can't lose -- responded, at a Washington Institute for Near East Policy address: "Might be."
He clarified: "The worst outcome in Syria is a chaotic situation... meaning a vacuum in which al-Qaeda elements, terror elements will come in and will challenge us, will challenge Jordan, will challenge the stability of the region."
Maj.-Gen. (res) Uzi Dayan, a former deputy chief of the IDF General Staff and a former head of the National Security Council, said at around the same time, "What really frightens me is a ring of Moslem Brotherhood nations from Turkey to Egypt. That's what I'm most concerned about."
Others, like Amos Yadlin, see the glass half-full. The erosion of Syria's "modern, formidable army," he said during a 2013 address, is a "positive strategic development" that overshadows the dangers of dwindling state control on Israel's northeastern front.
"The black headlines," added the former head of Military Intelligence and current director of the INSS think tank, are actually good news for Israel, because, amid the five possible outcomes of the war -- Assad survives; the war grinds on; Syria disintegrates along ethnic lines; a strong Sunni state emerges; the region collapses into a Somalia-like reality -- Israel, in each instance, "is less threatened than... when I was still head of Intelligence."
Al-Nusra Front priorities
Boaz Ganor, the founder and head of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terror at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center, said this week that the threat of al-Qaeda at the border was neither more, nor less, dangerous than what previously existed. "It is just a different sort of dangerous," he said.
He described the battles between jihadist leaders in Syria and Iraq today as "a situation of warlords," and said that the jihadists' perch along Israel's border fence was "a problematic and worrying development."
The chances of the al-Nusra Front turning its attention to Israel is increased both on account of proximity and the propaganda bounty inherent in an attack on the Jewish state, Ganor said. But, he stressed, the question is not whether the Nusra forces have the desire to do so, but where that desire stands on their priority list.
He suggested the jihadists' next attempt would be on Jordan, where the ideology already exists and where the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Syrian refugees already play a destabilizing role, followed by the Gulf States and 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 the hierarchy," Ganor explained, "those goals come before Jerusalem."
#1
Are you trying to tell me "multiple-sensor systems", persistent surveillance and monitoring, along with properly constructed fences and tank ditches DO work? Who knew ?
#2
Today, he [Gantz] said, the primary danger, as far as his division is concerned, is of cross-border infiltration. New and improved fence to prevent AQ and ISIS infiltration? Anti-personnel ditch?
Please send a memo to Washington re our southern border about these measures. Also note the "leading from the front" by Gantz. Note also that he is armed. Note also that this redeployed/retasked division doesn't have babysitting illegals as one of its duties. It also has combat experience in Gaza. Also note the anti-personnel ditch.
In his USA Today column, Jonah Goldberg exposes a national disgrace I was completely unaware of, one that is almost too heartbreaking to comprehend: the United State military sometimes reclassifies combat dogs as "equipment" and abandons them to languish in shelters overseas in war zones.
Other than the fact that combat dogs save an average of 150 American lives during their service, these living creatures form strong emotional attachments to the men assigned to them. But when their time is up -- when they become too old, combat fatigued or shall-shocked to be useful in combat -- rather than transport them home for adoption, they are sometimes heartlessly abandoned.
Goldberg writes that...
It is one thing to ask these warriors to say goodbye to their dog when it is still on active duty and is assigned a new handler, which often happens. It is quite another to ask them to leave these dogs behind when the dogs are effectively abandoned overseas, left to languish in shelters -- or worse. That's why handlers are sometimes forced to make incredible sacrifices to get their four-legged comrades home on their own.
Those "incredible sacrifices" made by the dog's handlers (also known as combat veterans), can mean an out-of-pocket cost of thousands of dollars.
Goldberg points out that there are a number of charities devoted to reuniting these dogs and their handlers but many animals still fall through the cracks; abandoned in a strange land after being cruelly separated from the one person they love and the only life they know. North Carolina Congressman Walter Jones is pushing legislation that would require retired military dogs be brought home for adoption, but it's gone nowhere for over two years.
CNN points out that thanks to a 2000 law signed by President Clinton, things are better for combat dogs than they were. Still, this is happening, even with "half-empty cargo planes transversing the globe daily," as Debbie Kandoll founder of Military Working Dog Adoptions told CNN.
"It would be more than feasible to place a retired military working dog on the transport plane back to the continental United States," she added. "Uncle Sam got them over there, and it's a point of honor for Uncle Sam to get his soldiers, whether they are four-legged or two-legged, back to the U.S."
No one, including Goldberg, is comparing the life of an animal to a human being. That's not the point. That's a different debate. The point is that this is wrong, morally wrong in every sense of the word. We are talking about a life. Not a human life, but the life of an innocent animal capable of selflessness, courage, loyalty, friendship and love. And an animal capable of such things is of course capable of feeling abandonment, heartache, and loss.
If you (in this case, meaning the military and our country) assume the responsibility for the life of a dog in order to benefit from all the rewards that come with such a thing, you have a moral obligation to see that duty through to the end.
#1
WTF? This is insane. It shouldn't be so hard to take a retired dog home. Let the handler have it and be done with it. Something deeper is wrong with the culture behind this kind of decision making.
#3
That's the problem - the dogs can't be hoodwinked into voting "D"".
Dog's were helping paleolithic hunters bring down mastodons back when there were only a few million human souls on this orb. They've "had pour back" for millenniums. One or more dogs went in on the Abbottabad raid to nail Osama.
I doubt that there is a US military crew chief in the world who would have a problem having a disciplined working dog added to the manifest at the last minute.
#4
Unless very ancient, the bringing home of war relic firearms is pretty much verboten as well. The war dog issue may be grounded in similar gov't concerns. Wouldn't want those crafty kanines falling into the wrong hands. It's simply for our own good.
If the VA wants you to have a dog for therapy or mobility assistance, they'll issue you one. Get in line.
#6
The same thing happened in Vietnam. Some possibly ended up on some family's dinner table. I'm a dog lover to the extreme and it breaks my heart to see this happen again.
#9
I really find this hard to believe. Working dogs are considered property and would not be abandoned. I'm gonna take this one with a grain of salt.
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I also find it hard to believe. The US military might be a mighty souless killing machine but it is still made up of people and I find it hard to imagine they'd do this when you coudl easily load them up on a C-130 or whatever and bring a bunch home along with other supplies or troops.
#11
Jonah Goldberg is extremely careful with his research and is not, by any means, a lefty looney. If you doubt his word, then prove him wrong.
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NO, it does not work that way Anice Nim. Prove that your not a pedophile now that I accuse you of it! I am very vary careful with my accusations too. He sites no references. Hew only sites a charity that works to bring the dogs home and they in no way accuse the DOD of neglect. Prove it to be right, prove that the dogs are euthanized because the big DOD hates dogs. This is crap. The dogs are cared for and loved. The stray dogs that are adopted are rarely allowed to come to the US, but the working dogs are US property, and there is a group of folks dedicated to their care.
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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