[Daily Caller] Former NSA Director (1999-2005) and CIA Director (2006-2009), retired General Michael V. Hayden told The Daily Caller News Foundation that he believes Donald Trump is "erratic" and that relations between China and the U.S. represent "the most important geo-strategic question facing us."
In a brief Q&A with The DCNF, Hayden discussed Wikileaks, Russian intelligence, and what he thinks about the nominees.
TheDCNF: Do you think it is likely that Russia, Russian intelligence specifically, have seen Secretary Clinton’s emails and whether or not they have, why do you think they are targeting her?
Hayden: So, without concrete evidence, which I don’t have, and apparently the FBI doesn’t have either, what I have felt comfortable saying about this is that I would lose a whole lot of respect for a whole bunch of intelligence agencies around the world, if they hadn’t penetrated that server and gotten access to the emails. It’s what nation-states do to one another, and with emails of such an official, in that circumstance, I just think that would have been a natural magnet for a whole bunch of intelligence services, and the Russians are quite good at this.
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But General Hayden, have you lost any respect for Hillary Clinton for opening the door and putting out the "Welcome" mat to Russia, China and anyone else who might want to look at secrets on her server?
Contentious as it might sound, And yes, it sounds mighty contentious...
there are significant similarities between the Islamic State terrorist organization, ISIS, and the National Rifle Association (NRA). Of course there are differences as well, but examining issues of congruence adds another dimension to the gun violence controversy. No controversy. Bad Guys cause gun violence, Good Guys help end it.
The most important parallels between ISIS and the NRA are:
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I'm glad for the many comments by R-Burgers as the article is full of mucho crapola. A Hit piece. If the Huffington Post doesn't see the differences between the NRA and ISIS they are very disturbed individuals. Obviously they do not belong to the NRA. They might just have a membership in ISIS. JQC, A proud lifetime member of the NRA.
[Wash Times] Former acting CIA Director Michael Morell has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, saying Donald Trump is an "unwitting agent" for Russia who will threaten America’s national security. If you can't believe Mike Morell, who can you believe ?
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Michael Morell, who worked under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, wrote in an op-ed Friday for The New York Times that he will do everything he can to ensure Mrs. Clinton wins the White House.
"Two strongly held beliefs have brought me to this decision," he explained. "First, Mrs. Clinton is highly qualified to be commander in chief. I trust she will deliver on the most important duty of a president -- keeping our nation safe. Second, Donald J. Trump is not only unqualified for the job, but he may well pose a threat to our national security."
Mr. Morell said that in the four years he spent working with Russian witting agent Mrs. Clinton when she was secretary of state, he never saw her bring politics into the Situation Room.
"In these critically important meetings, I found her to be prepared, detail-oriented, thoughtful, inquisitive and willing to change her mind if presented with a compelling argument," he wrote. "In sharp contrast to Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Trump has no experience on national security. Even more important, the character traits he has exhibited during the primary season suggest he would be a poor, even dangerous, commander in chief."
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Employee of Clinton Foundation endorses a Clinton, news at 11.
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It's just a little 'Think Tank' Phil Reines started. You remember Phil right? ....Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Strategic Communications & Senior Communications Advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Senior Advisor & Press Secretary to Clinton.
[DAWN] BY all accounts, over the last two decades ’honour’ killings have increased manifold; they are going to increase even more in the foreseeable future. This is because a gender-segregated patriarchal society, which has traditionally used violence for settling even petty disputes, is finding it difficult to come to terms with new realities.
These include working women, adult female students, ’free-will’ marriages, women in sports, a media landscape that is both loved and hated, emancipated role models, and aspirations for greater freedoms. Observations, surveys and available statistics all show that Pak society is changing rapidly and that these changes cannot be digested by a conservative establishment and its support groups.
I started working in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... ’s informal settlements in the mid-1970s and since 1981 with the Orangi Pilot Project in katchi abadis (slum areas). In Karachi at that time, katchi abadis were purely working-class settlements in which women did not work outside their homes.
Today, Suzuki-loads of women are taken to garment, packaging and pharmaceutical factories, to return late in the evening. Thousands more take the long bus ride to affluent areas of the city to work as domestic staff; they are forced to deal with men during the journey and at their workplaces. Over the last decade, they have become well groomed and many today are indistinguishable from their female employers. Without their income, the kitchen at home could not function.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Kinnison began his slow infiltration of the sewer system... most of the older settlements are now multiclass as an increasing number of their residents, both male and female, have white-collar jobs in which women work alongside men. Also, private schools used to be rare in these settlements and there were no beauty parlours. Now almost every neighbourhood in the older settlements has at least one of each and the vast majority of teachers, and sometimes education and other entrepreneurs, are local women.
Marriage halls also exist in these settlements today and over the years, the strict gender segregation at marriage ceremonies has relaxed considerably. All this is in spite of the fact that these changes have been opposed, often with violence, by the more conservative residents and activists of hard boy groups created as a result of the Zia era and our involvement in the Afghan war.
Census statistics tell us that other changes at the overall city level are also taking place. The most important age group in any census is between 15 and 24 years. This is because it is both the present and the future.
In Karachi in 1961, 66.71 per cent women and 23.38pc men were married in this age group. If we extrapolate the statistics of the 1998 census to 2016 (keeping all things constant) then the percentage of married women in this age group today is 17 and married men 7pc. So, for the first time in Karachi, we have an overwhelming majority of unmarried adolescents which any sociologist knows is enough to change gender relations and family structures.
Surveys conducted for the Karachi Strategic Development Plan 2020 tell us that 82pc of Karachi families are nuclear. This is an over 80pc increase from some area-specific surveys of the 1990s. Though no reliable data for free-will marriages is available, lawyers dealing with court marriages say that they have increased in geometric progression over the last decade and half.
These changes are taking place all over Pakistain. The figures for even small Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... towns such as Chiniot and Kasur, for the age group of 14 to 24 years, are similar to those of Karachi. (In the rest of Sindh apart from Karachi, the trends are similar but somewhat slower than those in Punjab.)
Women dominate universities in Karachi and many other cities in Pakistain, and their presence is increasing. Critics point out that once educated, women do not work. However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... alumna and university reports suggest that this is changing rapidly. What policymakers should be made to look at are societal trends, and not simply existing conditions.
The trends discussed are nothing short of a revolution for a country like Pakistain. They will change Pakistain in the coming decade, whether the country becomes a ’secular’ democracy or not. However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... addressing or even recognising these trends in clear terms does not figure in the state’s development policies. Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Kinnison began his slow infiltration of the sewer system... civil society is waging a battle against oppressive tradition and the ugly incidents it creates, and for appropriate legislation.
Still, there is a dire need to understand the changes taking place, their causes and repercussions, and to see how new societal values can be built and promoted around them. For this the most important role is that of the media and the more liberal right-wing groups in society. In the absence of these values, change will only consolidate itself through a long process of which pain and frustration, mainly for women, will be an integral part.
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and this country, with all its disfunctions, all its poverty, all its islamic fanaticism actually has nuclear weapons
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[DAWN] SEVERAL Pak commentators have concluded that Pakistain is isolated because its relations with three of its four immediate neighbours are hostile. Some have ascribed this ’failure’ exclusively to the absence of a fulltime foreign minister and the hydra-headed leadership at the Foreign Office.
Pakistain is far from isolated. It enjoys a very close strategic relationship with its largest neighbour China, the emerging superpower. Relations with Iran are complex, but not hostile, and can become cooperative. Relations with regional neighbours 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... , the GCC and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... remain friendly, with considerable potential for collaboration. Pakistain enjoys influence within the wider international community due to its size, strategic location, military strength and economic potential.
That Pakistain’s relations with India are tense should come as no surprise. This is almost a historical norm. The hostility of a Hindu supremacist BJP government was anticipated by most Paks, except the purblind. But Modi’s arrogance and belligerence towards Pakistain have outstripped anticipation, partly because of the perceived weakness in Islamabad, but mostly due to the shift in the global and regional strategic environment and India’s growing alignment with the US in the context of its rising rivalry with China.
This emerging US-Indian alliance has not only encouraged New Delhi’s belligerence, it has exacerbated Pakistain’s security challenges, reflected in American support for India’s massive arms build-up; wide-ranging US attempts to contain and neutralise Pakistain’s nuclear and missile deterrence capabilities; and growing US pressure on Pakistain to act against ’terrorists’.
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[Wash Times] In a wide-ranging interview on the racial climate in America, Baltimore Ravens tight end Benjamin Watson brought up Planned Parenthood’s founding, saying the organization was created to "exterminate blacks."
Mr. Watson said black support for Planned Parenthood is "ironic," given that the organization was founded by eugenicist Margaret Sanger in order to control "unfit" populations.
"I do know that blacks kind of represent a large portion of abortions, and I do know that honestly the whole idea with Planned Parenthood and Sanger in the past was to exterminate blacks, and it’s kind of ironic that it’s working," he said in an interview with Turning Point Pregnancy Resource Center.
"We support candidates, and overwhelmingly support the idea of having Planned Parenthood and the like, and yet, that is why she created it," he added. "We are buying it hook, line and sinker, like it’s a great thing."
Mr. Watson, who is promoting a new book about racial reconciliation, "Under Our Skin," has previously been outspoken about his Christian beliefs.
He said it’s difficult for black people to climb the socioeconomic ladder when abortion is so prevalent in the black community.
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He said it’s difficult for black people to climb the socioeconomic ladder when abortion is so prevalent in the black community.
Yes, abortion and BoB (Black on Black) crime make climbing the socioeconomic ladder very difficult indeed. Something about being dead that appears to inhibit the ladder climbing process.
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...they obviously suppress it very well. Given his position doesn't fit the Inner Party narrative, he'll be officially classified as not a 'real black'. He now joins the likes of Justice Thomas.
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Make it easy for blacks to get abortions and drugs. Encourage single parent, fatherless families. Yep. Then import low end workers from another part of the Third World to replace them.
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I don't know, I think legalized abortion has pretty well wiped out the white population. Certainly the most intelligent, college educated whites.
It was certainly a dark and nefarious decision on the part of politicians and the legal system.
Now we get to be invaded by the third world who cares not about population control other than to conquer and control others with their high birthrates.
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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
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.
[Wash Times] Former acting CIA Director Michael Morell has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, saying Donald Trump is an "unwitting agent" for Russia who will threaten America’s national security.
[DAWN] BY all accounts, over the last two decades ’honour’ killings have increased manifold; they are going to increase even more in the foreseeable future. This is because a gender-segregated patriarchal society, which has traditionally used violence for settling even petty disputes, is finding it difficult to come to terms with new realities.
[Wash Times] In a wide-ranging interview on the racial climate in America, Baltimore Ravens tight end Benjamin Watson brought up Planned Parenthood’s founding, saying the organization was created to "exterminate blacks."
