[NATION.PK] The year was 2009 when Christian Asia Noreen, better known as Asia Bibi got into an argument with a group of Muslim women after she drank water from their glass. Her neighbor who she had been in a continuing feud regarding a property was the one to ’inform’ her that as Christians are unclean, they are forbidden to drink from the glass of a Muslim.
This way of thinking is uncomfortably common in Pakistain. Many Muslims do not allow Christians to touch their plates, let alone drink from their glass. (No this is not about germs being passed by sharing a drink.)
In 2010, Asia Bibi was subsequently accused of blasphemy with an additional charge that she had insulted the Prophet, securing the death penalty by hanging.
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The Duke lacrosse team, the university of Virginia fraternity, et al could not be reached for comment on the penalty for false accusers.
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Same goes for false accusers of Rape or 'Racism'. If it were so the Racist Twins (Sharpton and Jackson) would be behind bars for a long, long, time.
[DAWN] HUMAN rights organizations and even some former US military commanders argue that drone strikes inadvertently increase terrorism by exerting a "blowback" effect. Their logic is simple. Drone strikes kill more innocent civilians than terrorists, which radicalises affected populations and motivates them to join terrorist groups to retaliate against the United States.
The perfect case for testing the blowback effect is Pakistain, where, since 2004, the CIA has launched an estimated 423 strikes, constituting 75 per cent of the agency’s drone strikes worldwide.
The strikes were carried out in the country’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) bordering Afghanistan, where Al Qaeda and Talibs found a safe haven after the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
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The faux outrage will continue as long as the cheques continue to be cashed. Nothing personal mind you, it's just business.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] I was supposed to be in Berlin to attend the discussion of a book written by my colleagues Hassan Abu Haniya and Mohammed Abu Ruman entitled "The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Organization: Sunni Crisis and the Struggle of Global Jihadism."
#2
"The Salafism that is raging in Europe and feeding the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is not ours."
Like Hell it isn't! You funded the Islamic Centers and mosques like Munich, Aachen, Milan, Birmingham, etc., that have been the breeding ground for Islamist terrorism.
Thomas Lifson argues that Bernie Sanders presents "a mortal danger to not only the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, but the continued viability of the party’s strategy of mouthing populist rhetoric while practicing crony capitalism. Too late, they now realize he actually means what he says."
...We expect revolutionaries to be indifferent to money. Yet in reality the Left thinks about nothing but money as the Venezuelan socialists who have stolen $350 billion from the treasury, according to the Basel Institute on Governance, should have proved to the world. If it's any consolation to the Democratic Party, Bernie Sanders is not as indifferent to lucre as he seems. Sanders' filings show he's received money from Super PACs and donors with links to Wall Street -- so he may be normal after all.
Perhaps the first major 20th century writer to realize that the ambition of all true Communists should be to become billionaire revolutionaries was Hilaire Belloc. In his 1912 book, The Servile State, Belloc argued the then-burgeoning Communist movement would find more success ditching Leninism in favor of an alliance with Crony Capitalists to reinstate Slavery. "Slavery, or a Servile State in which those who do not own the means of production shall be legally compelled to work for those who do, and shall receive in exchange a security of livelihood."
...Belloc argued that the only two exits from the evils of crony capitalism were an expansion of property holdings to the great majority of the people (the classic conservative program) or collectivism. Of the two alternatives, the elites would find collectivism far the easier path.
...Best of all, the socialist agitator was free under the arrangement to engage in his favorite project of remaking mankind to free him from "the ravages of drink: more fatal still the dreadful habit of mankind of forming families and breeding children." Belloc's Servile State anticipated the carnival at Davos with its weird hodgepodge of moralism, pseudo-scientific causes and economic diktat precisely because it understood what the power coalition of the future would look like.
#3
"What will you be having, sir?"
"I'll be having the Western sandwich..."
"If he's having a Western Sandwich, then I want an Eastern Sandwich!"
"Premier, I'm sorry, there is no Eastern Sandwich."
"Then I want the eastern portion of his Western Sandwich!"
[Ploughshares] On the radar: Time to work with Russia; Michael Douglas on Hiroshima; NDAA highlights nuclear costs; Making the Iran Deal work for Iran; Iran hearing is political theater; and Asian MIRVs pose strategic challenge.
THE WORLD’S BIGGEST PROBLEM IS YOUR PROBLEM TOO.
The threat of a nuclear weapon being used today is greater than it’s been in 50 years.
Ploughshares Fund supports the smartest minds and most effective organizations to reduce nuclear stockpiles, prevent new nuclear states, and increase global security. But, but, but, I thought 'nuclear counter proliferation' was on someone else's plate? Oh, wait !
But they won't, because in the case of Israel they will get nuked right back, and in the case of the USA, if they are not nuked back, there will be regime change in short order.
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Doesn't matter Phil. They firmly believe that by nuking Israel and having Israel nuke back they will bring out the 10th Iman from his hidey-hole in some well somewhere.
Well worth the price of a few million of their fellow Muslims in their opinion.
[LI] In his testimony last week before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, concerning the grand Iran deal deception described in a recent New York Times article that was carried out by Obama and Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, Michael Doran, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, laid out five areas where the White House deceived the American people.
First, Doran in his testimony established that even before he became president, Obama had expressed an interest in rapprochement with Iran. He cited former CIA chief and Defense Secretary, Leon Panetta, from The New York Times expose on the echo chamber saying that the administration knew that "They’d have gotten "the [expletive] kicked out of them," if they had been upfront about their intention to engage Iran.
Doran summed it up:
To avoid that fate, Obama proceeded surreptitiously. In 2012, he opened secret, bilateral negotiations with the Iranians on the nuclear question in Oman. Simultaneously, he quietly brought his policies in Lebanon, Iraq, and, especially, Syria into alignment with Iranian interests. In November 2013, the administration announced that it had reached an interim agreement on the nuclear question. Shortly thereafter, the existence of the secret Oman channel became known, but few observers understood just how active the Oman channel had been, or what it portended for the future of American foreign policy.
Next, Doran explained the five points of deception and their significance, using his terms:
1) Conjuring Moderates.
2) Falsifying the Chronology.
3) Erasing American Concessions.
4) Hiding the Regional Cost.
5) Blaming Allies.
Article provides detailed explanation of the 5 categories listed above, which are little more than a psychological operations template for everything emanating from the White House. Benghazi being a classic example, which quickly comes to mind.
[Breitbart] As retailer Target sees its stock plummeting and sales dropping in the midst of a boycott over its recently announced pro-transgender bathroom policy, the company’s CEO is insisting the weather is the cause of falling sales, not the company’s bathroom policy.
In a recent Wall Street Journal interview, Target CEO Brian Cornell pegged the downturn in the company’s fortunes to the cold weather as opposed to anything the company itself is doing or not doing.
"It’s been a very wet and cold start to the year and it’s reflected in our sales," Cornell told the paper. "We haven’t seen anything from a structural standpoint that gives us pause."
In other words, the weather is responsible for the downturn, not Target’s "structural" transgender bathroom policy.
Indeed, a month after the initial announcement, the Target CEO came out to double down on the transgender agenda, so it appears the company is digging in heels instead of looking for ways at appeal to customers.
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Its hard to feel sorry for fools.
Some people are too stupid to live to be old.
TARGET seems to have petted a burning dog.
A fight they didn't need to get into. The worst kind.
And the Transgender folks won't even thank them.
This is HOW it feels to be a Loser. TARGET is a Loser.
#8
If you've got Target stock - better unload it now if you haven't already
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
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I blame global warming because there's nothing I can do but posture about it. Now give me my $28 million in executive comp -- Target CEO Brian Cornell
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The SEC should put him in jail for conspiring with hedge funds to lower the value of Target stock.
#12
Getting more customers is good. They teach that in business school. Getting more customers at the expense of your existing customer base is not.
This suggests the payoff for getting involved in this mess is coming from somewhere beyond Target. (unless Brian's mum is shorting the heck out of Target stock)
[TruthRevolt] Natonal Security Advisor Susan Rice told graduates at Florida International University that the presence of too many "white, male, and Yale" staffers is posing a threat to the security of America.
"Too often, our national security workforce has been what former Florida Senator Bob Graham called 'white, male, and Yale,'" Rice stated. "In the halls of power, in the faces of our national security leaders, America is still not fully reflected."
Rice, like her liberal cohorts, want to force the government and companies to hire the same demographic percentages that are represented in their various communities. But it's not just for the sake of diversity; lives are at stake, the warning goes.
"I’m not talking about a human resources issue," she stressed. "I’m highlighting a national security imperative."
Apparently hiring someone with the right qualifications isn't as important as their skin color for the Obama administration.
Rice also described several potential scenarios where she feels diversity will make all the difference in diplomacy: When, may I ask, will we be rid of this insufferable human hairball ? I'd like to say January 20th of next year, but I can envision scenarios in which either the Buffoon or the Witch would keep her on...
Ms Rice was a Stanford girl, which is why the Yale monopoly annoys her so.
#5
This woman has been a screw-up ever since she received a Clinton admin EEO appointment in the State Department. She screwed-up the capture of Bin Laden. She pulled the US embassy out of Sudan on the flimsiest (and false) evidence. She was loved by the Islamists and hated by the equatorial Africans. Well might it be said that there are too many "black, female, and EEO hires" and they pose "a threat to the security of America."
#6
So many white males buried at Arlington and other national cemeteries put America at risk (not idiotic self serving victimhood harpies). /s
In the final battle scene from the World War II film, Saving Private Ryan, mortally wounded Captain John H. Miller whispers his last words into Private James Ryan's ears: "Earn this".
#8
I'm pretty much to the point where anyone spouting this shit goes on a list of people to go after first for supplies and baked beans when shit hits the fan.
#9
"Been there, done that" does not make her an expert automatically on any aspect of national security.
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Wrong aurgument Rice. The folk volunteering to defend this country are the crackers. Your race is too busy attacking the local police officer and smoking crack.
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There's one race, humans. Anyone claiming anything else should be having exploratory surgery on a vivisection table to determine what sort of non-human vermin they are.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Breitbart] As retailer Target sees its stock plummeting and sales dropping in the midst of a boycott over its recently announced pro-transgender bathroom policy, the company’s CEO is insisting the weather is the cause of falling sales, not the company’s bathroom policy.
[TruthRevolt] Natonal Security Advisor Susan Rice told graduates at Florida International University that the presence of too many "white, male, and Yale" staffers is posing a threat to the security of America.
