[DW] Such a display of unity is quite rare. European and African leaders attending a summit in Gay Paree agreed that migration must be stopped - if the price is right.
After the long summer break, the French president kicked off the first major political event of the season with a tea party of sorts in the garden of the Elysee Palace. If the topics discussed were not so cold-hearted, one could be forgiven for thinking Emmanuel Macron invited leaders from Germany, Italia, Spain, Libya, Niger and Chad to talk about their holidays. But this afternoon in Gay Paree was dedicated to the fate of hundreds of thousands of people - migrants colonists from Africa who are waiting to travel to Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... from Libya or other countries on the continent.
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Archery, yes possibly. Golf, French, and synchronized swimming may take a bit longer.
Bloody hell! It should be quite obvious by now. Disrupting the natural order has consequences. Foking everyone 'pays' for African migrations, either voluntary or involuntary.
[Capital Research Center] During the salad days of the Cold War, communists developed a clever tactic for infiltrating the mainstream of American society. Whenever they founded an organization, they almost never used the term "Communist" in the name. Rather, communists would give the organization a professional-sounding title.
Groups like American Youth for Democracy, League of American Writers, and National Lawyers Guild were either fronts for the Soviet Union or established by American-born communists. By using an innocuous title, these groups were able to make themselves appealing to mainstream America. Avoiding the term Communist, they were able to hide their true aim, the spread of an ideology that destroyed liberty and caused the deaths of tens of millions of persons.
After the Cold War, communists replaced the veneer of professionalism in their titles with a hefty dollop of sanctimony. Otherwise, the tactic is the same: employ a name that, on its face, few will find objectionable and that hides the group’s true goals.
One of the better known such groups is International Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER). This group came to prominence during the Iraq War of the last decade. ANSWER is an umbrella group that organizes anti-war protests. About the only objection one could have was to point out how sanctimonious its name was.
[DAWN] THE JIT report of Mufti Shakir’s interrogation 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 Central Prison in March 2014 offers a chilling insight into the mindset of a violent murderous Moslem, while the events that followed illustrate the terrible failings of our criminal justice system. Mufti Shakir was enjugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! on suspicion of having criminal masterminded the bombing that had killed Sindh’s counterterrorism chief Chaudhry Aslam in January that year. During his interrogation -- which included the confession that he had also murdered 10 coppers and an army soldier -- Mufti Shakir claimed he had offered to undertake the suicide mission against SP Aslam himself. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... a Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... accomplice dissuaded him, saying that as a ’religious scholar’ his skills as a preacher were too important to be sacrificed. So Mufti Shakir, says the JIT report, mentally prepared a 25-year-old named Naimatullah over the course of a week for the task. The success of the operation was a huge morale booster for the many murderous Moslem groups fighting the state and, conversely, a major setback for law-enforcement authorities.
If given credence, the account confirms in several ways what is thus far known about the ’traditional’ path to militancy for many in the ’90s: poverty, a madressah education with a lack of any substantial formal schooling, and a family with equally hard-line religious beliefs. To this country’s enduring misfortune, there were at the time numerous jihadi outfits that young men with murderous Moslem mindsets could join and where their inclination to violence would be nurtured and given an outlet. Having worked his way through several of them, Mufti Shakir joined the TTP in 2012. As a ’commander’ he proceeded to radicalise the next generation of recruits -- such as the young man who was cannon fodder in the elimination of SP Aslam. With his violent past and clear potential for further mayhem, not to mention the findings of the JIT report, it can scarcely be comprehended how this high-level hard boy managed to get bail. The abject failure by investigative authorities to build a prosecutable case against him has had deadly consequences. It is believed that having fled to Afghanistan where he is running a training camp for hard boys, Mufti Shakir has since dispatched operatives to target police officials in Karachi. The confluence of single-minded bandidosbandidos hard boys and a criminal justice system whose weaknesses defy belief amounts to a scenario in which it will be near impossible for Pakistain to win its battle against terrorism.
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If given credence, the account confirms in several ways what is thus far known about the ’traditional’ path to militancy for many in the ’90s: poverty, a madressah education with a lack of any substantial formal schooling, and a family with equally hard-line religious beliefs.
Funny how they don't mention the non-traditional route.
[DAWN] A CATACLYSMIC event in the country’s history appears to have ended with a whimper in court. Nearly a decade since 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... ’s tragic liquidation, an anti-terrorism court has delivered its questionable verdict in a case that was controversially investigated and prosecuted. Five suspects accused of involvement in the planning and execution of the attack on Bhutto in Rawalpindi on Dec 27, 2007, have been acquitted; two senior coppers responsible for protecting her on that fateful day and, later, securing the site of the attack for evidentiary purposes have been convicted; and former military dictator and then president retired Gen Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... has been declared an absconder in the case.
Eh? Do people seriously believe former president General Musharraf was involved in the death of Benazir Bhutto?
It is a thoroughly unsatisfactory conclusion to a case that raised more questions than it purported to answer. While criticism has been directed at the court, the problem originated with a weak prosecution. The possibility that the state may appeal the verdict should be considered seriously, and this time the state should assemble a stronger case that is scrupulously backed up by evidence and the law.
The Bhutto liquidation consisted of a number of tragedies wrapped into a single traumatic episode. Surely, a broken criminal judicial and policing system must bear a great deal of the blame for the failure to identify and punish the architects of the former prime minister’s liquidation. Similarly, the Musharraf regime ought to be held accountable for appearing to use Bhutto’s security as a negotiating tool in the political deal-making that was being attempted at the time. But there is another inescapable fact: the PPP won power in 2008, manoeuvred Mr Musharraf out of office and then proceeded to do virtually nothing to try and identify and hold accountable the perpetrators of Bhutto’s murder. The party and its sympathisers argue that the responsibility to sustain a nascent transition to democracy forced the PPP government to make unpleasant choices. While that may be true -- the Asif Ali Zardari-led PPP was under pressure on many fronts -- it is also the case that the PPP itself opted to relegate the murder of its iconic leader to the bottom of its list of governance priorities.
Notions of self-survival and having to make unpleasant compromises tend to characterise politicians’ accounts of their time in office. But Bhutto was no ordinary leader and her death should never have been treated as merely another dark chapter in the history of a country that has seen many such incidents. The PPP government owed it to the nation, its own party and its assassinated leader to identify and prosecute those responsible for her death. The laments of PPP leaders today may be real, but so was their conscious decision to turn their back on their slain leader for the sake of power and public office. It is a heartbreaking disgrace to the memory of one of the country’s greatest leaders.
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[DAWN] IN the introduction to Pakistain at the Crossroad, Christophe Jaffrelot labels Pakistain as a "client state" and a "pivotal state". For long, we had been dubbed an ideological state and a security state.
None of these titles are too flattering, but they are not inaccurate. The status of being a client and a pivot stems from Jaffrelot’s observation about Pakistain’s "ability to navigate at the interface of domestic and external dynamics".
This has been increasingly in evidence with the passage of time as the country is sucked deeper into the quagmire of external and internal conflict and instability. The two are intricately intertwined. That is what we are witnessing today in the wake of President Donald Trump
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[AmGreatness] Today, the bipartisan ruling class, which the electorate was trying to shed by supporting anti-establishment candidates of both parties in 2016, feels as if it has dodged the proverbial bullet. The Trump administration has not managed to staff itself--certainly not with anti-establishment people--and may never do so. Because the prospect of that happening brought the ruling class’s several elements together and energized them as never before, today, prospects of more power with fewer limits than ever eclipse the establishment’s fears of November 2016.
But the Left’s celebrations are premature, at best. As I explained a year ago, by 2016 the ruling class’s dysfunctions and the rest of the country’s resentment had pushed America over the threshold of a revolution; one in which the only certainty is the near impossibility of returning to the republican self-government of the previous two centuries. The 2016 election is not reversible, because it was but the first stage of a process that no one can control and the end of which no one can foresee.
[BBC] While many African traditions and cultures are under threat from modern life, there is one which is holding its own - voodoo.
It has suffered from a bad press internationally but is an official religion in the West African country of Benin. In the voodoo heartland of Ouidah, the sound of drums fills the air, while men and women dressed mainly in white take turns to dance around a bowl of millet, a freshly slaughtered chicken and alcohol.
These are the day's offering at the Temple of Pythons. They have an audience of about 60 people who have gathered from nearby towns for an annual cleansing ceremony.
Inside the temple, where more than 50 snakes are slithering around a custom-made pit, local devotees make amends for sins of the past year.
Blood, snakes and power.
In voodoo, the python is a symbol of strength - the devotees explain they are relying on Dagbe, the spirit whose temple this is, to give them the power to change. And to make that change happen, blood must be spilled.
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It seems they forget the mutilated torsos of young boys found in the Thames after some African "magicians" parted them out.
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Yeah, there's that. And who's gonna splain (Blood, snakes and power.) the BBC? [Jimmy S as Baron Whatsit here]
For Beatrix Potters and Babbages,
The British are thought to be savages
By barbarous races
From Tartarous places
Who chop up their daughters like cabbages.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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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.
[DW] Such a display of unity is quite rare. European and African leaders attending a summit in 
[Capital Research Center] During the salad days of the Cold War, communists developed a clever tactic for infiltrating the mainstream of American society. Whenever they founded an organization, they almost never used the term "Communist" in the name. Rather, communists would give the organization a professional-sounding title.
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