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Caribbean-Latin America
Peru’s Hezbollah trial spells both warning and opportunity
From this past Tuesday.
[IsraelTimes] The trial of a Hezbollah operative in Peru, together with the Iranian-backed group’s unprecedented political overtures and religious indoctrination efforts there, illustrate how far Tehran is willing to go to spread its influence in Latin America.

Thursday a Lima court will have the unique opportunity to say basta! ‐enough! -- to Iranian influence in their country as it delivers the verdict in the case of Muhammad Ghaleb Hamdar.

Police found bomb making materials and sensitive photos of Israeli and Jewish targets in Peru at Hamdar’s home when they placed in durance vile
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Posted by: trailing wife || 04/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  Hezbollah is working alongside other extremist groups in order to wield influence in local politics with an eye on impacting the affairs of the Lima government at home and abroad. Just last year Hezbollah registered as an official political party in Peru.

Best to cut off the nose of this camel before it gets too far into the tent; excise this cancer before it's too late; nip it in the bud.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/23/2017 8:24 Comments || Top||


Europe
Islam in the Heart of England and France
[Gladstone] The city of Birmingham in the West Midlands, the heart of England, the place where the Industrial Revolution began, the second city of the UK and the eighth-largest in Europe, today is Britain's most dangerous city. With a large and growing Muslim population, five of its electoral wards have the highest levels of radicalization and terrorism in the country.

In February, French journalist Rachida Samouri published an article in the Parisian daily Le Figaro, in which she recounted her experiences during a visit there. In "Birmingham à l'heure islamiste" ("Birmingham in the Time of Islam") she describes her unease with the growing dislocation between normative British values and those of the several Islamic enclaves. She mentions the Small Heath quarter, where nearly 95% of the population is Muslim, where little girls wear veils; most of the men wear beards, and women wear jilbabs and niqabs to cover their bodies and faces. Market stalls close for the hours of prayer; the shops display Islamic clothes and the bookshops are all religious. Women she interviewed condemned France as a dictatorship based on secularism (laïcité), which they said they regarded as "a pretext for attacking Muslims". They also said that they approved of the UK because it allowed them to wear a full veil.

Another young woman, Yasmina, explained that, although she may go out to a club at night, during the day she is forced to wear a veil and an abaya [full body covering]. She then goes on to speak of the extremists:
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2017 05:54 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Much as a stake.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 04/23/2017 22:51 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Congressman Says Corruption in Washington Is ‘Worse Than You Think'
[Daily Signal] Corruption on Capitol Hill is "worse than you think," Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., insists.

"When you first get here, you think that you are in some sort of fairy-tale novel," Buck said. "They wine and dine you and they show you just exactly what it’s like if you play the game. It’s a wonderful life."

Things quickly change, however, if "you don’t play the game."

"If you don’t play the game ... it becomes a much less conformable existence here," Buck said.

Buck, who has served Colorado’s 4th Congressional District since 2015, previewed his new book, "Drain the Swamp: How Washington Corruption is Worse Than You Think," published on Tuesday.

Chapters in Buck’s book include "Why Washington is a Swamp," "Play the Game‐Or Else," "Beating the Beltway Bullies," and "What You Can Do To Drain the Swamp."
Worse than I thought? How does one increase a perceived 100% level of corruption ?
Buck said his book addresses corruption present in government today that he was not prepared for after being elected to Congress in 2014.

"One of the things that I found startling when I got here is that you have to pay dues to be on a committee," Buck said.

During the time he served on the House Judiciary Committee, Buck said he had to pay periodic dues of $200,000 to the National Republican Congressional Committee, the campaign committee of the House of Representatives.

Now, as a member of the House Rules Committee, Buck’s periodic dues are $450,000.

The obligation to pay dues, Buck said, forces members of Congress to hold fundraising receptions and encourages corrupt influences from special interest organizations who attend the fundraisers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2017 14:37 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And anyone wonder why we refer to it as the Beltway Party? /rhet question

Term limits but the people who profit by not having them are not going to let it happen. Short of a proper revolution.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/23/2017 16:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Actually, no it's not worse than I think.
I think it'd be a dandy place for a neutron bomb.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/23/2017 18:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Wont't work, Ed. Cockroaches can survive extreme radiation. They'll probably just be more annoying owing to their new propensity to glow in the dark.

Careful with the thought, though. You might get the "Madonna Thinking About" interview."
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 04/23/2017 22:48 Comments || Top||


The Democrats Were Here Before and Tore the Nation Asunder – Consider Lincoln
[American Thinker] The Democrats, through their rhetoric and their actions, are opposing the Trump administration at every turn. Through Obama administration government holdovers, they intend to bring down the present government and maintain and expand the bureaucratic Administrative State which is destroying federalism, taking away Americans’ individual rights, and nullifying large swaths of the Constitution of the United States. Their presidential candidate failed to win the office, and the Democrats’ expected triumph of the Administrative State will at best be postponed and at worst be dismantled to a great extent by President Trump and his appointees.

The Democrats are furious, and, as has been reported in these pages and in other sources, their reaction has been militant, irrational, and destructive to our nation.

We have seen this before. Over 150 years ago the issues were cogently examined and argued by presidential hopeful Abraham Lincoln in his Feb. 27, 1860 address at Cooper Union in New York City. The issue then was slavery, whether the federal government had a right to prevent its expansion into U.S. territories not yet organized into states. Because of the Dred Scott U.S. Supreme Court decision, Lincoln predicted that the right to own slaves would spread to the entire nation if Democrats had their way.

Today the issue is the Administrative State and whether it will destroy federalism and our citizens’ G-d given individual rights, some of which are enumerated in the Constitution as amended, and our representative republic.

In 1860 the Democratic Party was divided. The slave states were the exclusive territory of the Democratic Party. It was, without argument, the party of slavery. In the North, the policy of the Democratic Party as to slavery was expounded by its leader, Sen. Stephen A. Douglas, who refused to express an opinion as to whether slavery was good or bad, or whether it should or should not expand into the territories. In the end, the Democrats attempted to take their slave-holding states out of the Union and tore the nation apart because they held that slavery was a wonderful condition for the slaves, and that some men had a G-d given right to earn their living in leisure at the expense of other men’s sweat and toil. In consequence, over 600,000 Americans lost their lives in an armed struggle to restore the Union.

Today the Democratic Party would intentionally ruin our unique-in-history federalist and constitutional republic in order to replace it with an Administrative State not far removed from what we read about in Brave New World, 1984, and Darkness at Noon. Dr. Larry Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, teaches a course on tyranny which, for good reason, incorporates these books, among others, in its syllabus.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2017 04:46 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  they intend to bring down the present government and maintain and expand the bureaucratic Administrative State which is destroying federalism, taking away Americans’ individual rights, and nullifying large swaths of the Constitution of the United States.

If this were a 5th column effort, one would think they were engaging in treason, subversion, and sedition---but that can't be (sarc); they are one of our major political parties.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/23/2017 8:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Both parties in the last decades have been hard at work on the Administrative State. Liberty is an obsolete word with them.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 04/23/2017 12:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Both parties in the last decades have been hard at work on the Administrative State. Liberty is an obsolete word with them.
Posted by Alaska Paul


"Repeal and replace, repeal and replace, repeal and replace, repeal and replace, repeal and replace"


All they (Pubs) could plan for in eight long years was their annual pay raise.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2017 14:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Democrats = Demons
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 04/23/2017 17:43 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Ralph Peters: 'We'll have small scale terror attacks unless we turn into a police state'
[Right Scoop] Ralph Peters had another great interview, this time on The non-O’Reilly Factor with Greg Gutfeld.

He explains why we’re bound to continue to have small scale terror attacks in a free society, unless we abandon freedom and turn into a police state.

Peters makes it clear that he wants to destroy every terrorist, but he thinks this is just a reality we have to deal with. He also goes on a mini-rant about what a "nutcase" Marine Le Pen is. She’s the far right alt-right favorite in the French election, and she’s only down by a few points with a terror attack that might help boost her into the French presidency....
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2017 05:31 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Many states have "open season" on varmints.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/23/2017 8:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Or... stop letting any one into the country that does not wish to participate and protect western civilization mores and rules.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 04/23/2017 9:38 Comments || Top||

#3  He also goes on a mini-rant about what a "nutcase" Marine Le Pen is.

The reason we're facing the prospect of these attacks is because we've allowed a flood of these animals into the West.

If the "respectables" won't do anything about the problem, then the deplorables will.
Posted by: charger || 04/23/2017 10:38 Comments || Top||

#4  A "police state" is a large scale and continuous terror operation, replacing politics almost completely.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/23/2017 10:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Mumbai wouldn't have been nearly as bad had the jihadis had to worry about gunmen everywhere.

We don't need a police state -- we need our inherent right to self-defense respected. Turning off the flood from the Third World, admitting the truth about Islam, and recognizing we're all better off as free citizens of Western Civilization than as subjects in some leftist fantasy will take care of the rest of the problem.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/23/2017 14:24 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm surprised Peters is going this route. Missing all these years, and still, is a strategic "counter-narrative" against Jihad itself. Here is a candidate: http://theological-geography.net/?p=28938
Posted by: TopRev || 04/23/2017 15:11 Comments || Top||

#7  Link to number 6
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2017 15:16 Comments || Top||

#8  You mean he wasn't talking about campuses?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/23/2017 16:01 Comments || Top||

#9  I'm not a bug eyed Ralph fan...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2017 16:38 Comments || Top||

#10  Mr Peters probably thinks a police state is what's needed in the situation, from what I've read of his commentary.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/23/2017 18:25 Comments || Top||

#11  A Nob Orders man?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/23/2017 19:22 Comments || Top||

#12  'Nob' as in Nobility? No, I really don't think the term applies to Peters. Recovering intelligence analyst more likely.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2017 19:25 Comments || Top||

#13  It is utter nonsense that we need to give up freedom to fight terrorism.

What we need to give up is privacy. And this applies to combating all forms of crime.

I sometimes think that many of those who promote privacy do so precisely because it is so damaging to our societies.
Posted by: phil_b || 04/23/2017 20:10 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Where we stand
[DAWN] MASHAL Khan was murdered by a mob. The students were worked up into a frenzy, with the knowledge that they will harm Mashal, and then they were led to him and they killed him. The issue used to work students up was an alleged instance of blasphemy.

Blasphemy charges have been similarly misused before this incident too. But this was a particularly blatant and odious use of an emotive issue to settle scores and to get rid of a young person -- all because, it seems, Mashal was asking awkward questions of the university administration.

The blasphemy law, religiously and legally right or not, has been misused many times now. The law needs to be changed. Even the unanimous resolution passed by the National Assembly has said that safeguards against the misuse of the law need to be built into the law itself. But that is another debate.
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Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Khan was murdered by a mob. A warning to Berkeley.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/23/2017 8:26 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
The Outrages of Sharia
[The American Thinker] As sharia continues to make inroads in America and Europe, we should take heed of Ralph Waldo Emerson who once wrote:
"[w]e began well. No inquisition here. No kings, no nobles. No dominant church here, heresy has lost its terror."

If only that founding reality of the American experience were understood by those who foolishly claim tolerance and acceptance for sharia law in this country -- sadly, it is not.

The fact is, sharia is well entrenched in the Middle East and creeping forward to the West. The charge of heresy is imposed on any who would counter its mandates. In the Muslim world, those who speak out for reformation have placed a bull's-eye on their chests. Consequently,
Ayatollah Boroujerdi has spoken out against political Islam and [has] been [a] strong advocate of the separation of religion and state, for which Iran sentenced him to 11 years as an Iranian political prisoner.

On September 23, 2014, Mohammad Mohavadi, prosecutor of the Special Clerical Court visited Ayatollah Boroujerdi in Ward 325 of Evin prison. Mohavadi informed him that the contents of Boroujerdi's book were 'heresy' against the leadership and insulted the Supreme Leader of Iran.

Mohavadi continued that the punishment for these crimes is execution, and stated that all those who had a hand in publishing the book will also be killed. When Ayatollah Boroujerdi suggested an open, public debate with the Special Court regarding his views, Mohavadi announced that his office did not participate in debates, just trials and punishment [execution].

Iranian Kurdish prisoner Zeinab Jalalian was arrested on March 16, 2008 by the Iranian secret police. An Iranian court charged Jalalian with being a member of the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), a banned Kurdish group, found her guilty and sentenced her to death. Based on her alleged membership of that Kurdistan political party, she was accused of fighting God (mohareb) and given the death penalty.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2017 04:49 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The fact is, sharia is well entrenched in the Middle East and creeping forward to the West.

Cancer def.-- Cancer's two main characteristics are uncontrolled growth of the cells in the human body and the ability of these cells to migrate from the original site and spread to distant sites. If the spread is not controlled, cancer can result in death.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/23/2017 8:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Sharia is not making inroads in America, it's being wholeheartedly invited by leftist mayors and city councils who want to check the multi-culti box on their political CVs. These are people who feel a terroristic act and handing out The Watchtower are morally equivalent.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2017 15:37 Comments || Top||



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Sun 2017-04-23
  5 terrorist suspects arrested in Brussels after arms, ammo & drugs seized in police raids
Sat 2017-04-22
  Dozens of About 140 Afghan troops dead in Taliban base attack
Fri 2017-04-21
  ISIS Media Chief dies in airstrike
Thu 2017-04-20
  Paris - cops shot, 1 killed. Suspect dead, Suspicious package left
Wed 2017-04-19
  US: Man screams 'Allahu akbar!' and kills three civilians
Tue 2017-04-18
  Pakistani Taliban leader Ehsanullah Ehsan 'surrenders'
Mon 2017-04-17
  Pirates killed while trying to hijack ship near Somalia
Sun 2017-04-16
  At least 43 killed as car bomb hits Syria evacuees
Sat 2017-04-15
  Islamic State mufti killed in Mosul air strike, Iraqi forces say
Fri 2017-04-14
  Iraqi command says controls 60% of western Mosul
Thu 2017-04-13
  US drops MOAB on ISIS tunnel complex in Afghanistan
Wed 2017-04-12
  Bomb attack on Dortmund team bus
Tue 2017-04-11
  ISIS shells east of Mosul with chlorine gas, 10 casualties
Mon 2017-04-10
  Man steers car into town hall in Germany, fire breaks out
Sun 2017-04-09
  Church bombing north of Egypt's capital kills 26

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