[PJ Media] President Obama is boxed in a state of paralysis--more so than typical lame-duck presidents.
His hard-left politics have insidiously eroded the Democratic Party, which has lost both houses of Congress and the vast majority of the state legislatures, state elected offices, and governorships. Obama has redefined the black vote, as a necessary, no-margin-of-error 95% bloc majority to offset his similar creation of an increasingly monolithic 65% bloc white vote. We are no longer individual voters, but, in Chicago-politics style, merely faceless "Latinos," "Asians," "African-Americans," "gays," "women," and now "whites."
Obama issues a new initiative--and the nation snoozes. He wastes the day on the golf links--and the nation snoozes. He smear his critics, invites a rapper to the White House whose latest album cover has a dead white judge lying in front of the White House--and the nation snoozes. He cozies up to America’s enemies and snubs our friends--and the nation snoozes. For the nth time, he blusters about closing down Guantanamo--and the nation snoozes. He opens the border even wider to welcome in more illegal aliens and future constituents--and the nation snoozes. Lame duckestry means not even being able to wake up your opponents.
[Daily Caller] Hansjorg Wyss, a billionaire Swiss citizen and multi-million dollar Clinton Foundation donor, gave 30 contributions to American political campaigns over a nine-year period, according to an investigation by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Federal law has imposed a strict, across-the-board ban since 1966 on foreign nationals giving to U.S. political campaigns. The ban was later included in the 1974 Federal Election Campaign Act. The only exception is for foreign nationals who possess a green card. The ban applies to all levels of political campaigns.
Wyss donated $41,000 to seven congressional candidates and to four national political action committees from 1998 to 2003, according to Federal Election Commission records under the name of Hansjorg Wyss.
Colorado campaign finance records also report that Wyss gave $50,000 to Coloradans for Responsible Growth in March 2000, a statewide environmental political action committee that closed its doors only two years later, in part because it reportedly never filed the required financial statements.
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Federal law has imposed a strict, across-the-board ban since 1966 on foreign nationals giving to U.S. political campaigns. The ban was later included in the 1974 Federal Election Campaign Act. The only exception is for foreign nationals who possess a green card. The ban applies to all levels of political campaigns.
Expect that 'if' Trump gets the nomination, that will be enforced like the rest of the laws governing illegal immigration.
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Colorado campaign finance records also report that Wyss gave $50,000 to Coloradans for Responsible Growth in March 2000, a statewide environmental political action committee that closed its doors only two years later, in part because it reportedly never filed the required financial statements.
So no one knows where the money ACTUALLY ended up. The follow-up IRS investigation will surely shed some light.
[Biznews.com] Two days after Nenegate, we reported that the UK’s largest retail bank Barclays Plc had decided to offload its R120bn South African subsidiary Absa. That marked a significant reversal in a strategy which has seen SA’s largest retail bank progressively change its image -- with the Absa red and name progressively giving way to Barclays blue -- including the listed company whose name was changed to Barclays Africa. But according to the Financial Times of London, the new Barclays management team has gone through the motions over the past three months and is set to confirm the biggest disinvestment in South Africa since the spate that hit the country during the mid 1980s. Sceptics are concerned that the Barclays sale will spark a similar exodus.
[Breitbart] Mark "Oz" Geist and John "TIG" Tiegen, two members of the security team that helped rescue dozens of Americans during the Benghazi terror attacks, have endorsed Donald Trump for president.
China expects to lay off 1.8 million workers in the coal and steel sectors as part of its efforts to reduce industrial overcapacity, an official at the human resources and social security ministry said on Monday.
Yin Weimin, minister of human resources and social security, said capacity cuts will lead to some layoffs in 2016, but added that he was confident of keeping employment stable this year despite downward pressure on the economy.
No timeframe was given for the 1.8 million figure cited.
China aims to remove around 500 million tonnes of coal production capacity within the next three to five years and halt approvals of all new projects.
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They should build 24 Iowas and put triple plates of armour on them. And heavy weight photon torpedoes and be fitted for, if not with, rods from gawd. Make it submusivul too, with hovering capability.
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I think they opted for building just plain islands to fit out with all the bobbles and tweaks their spies and hackers can pick up from American defense contractors (not to be confused with tech they get the White House just to turn over).
[Ynet] The United States and its allies conducted 24 strikes against 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.... in Iraq and Syria on Saturday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement on Sunday.
In Syria, near Tel Abyad, 10 strikes destroyed 23 Islamic State buildings, eight fighting positions used by the group, a rocket fire position and other targets. Strikes near Ar Raqqah and Manbij destroyed two buildings and struck an improvised weapons assembly area, it said.
Near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... in Iraq, five strikes destroyed five fighting positions, two rocket rails and suppressed a rocket fire position. Other strikes hit targets near Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... Ramadi, Sinjar and other Iraqi cities, it said.
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[Jpost] For the past presidential elections, the votes of the minorities -- not of the majority - were crucial in electing a president. It looks like, this time the situation is changing for good -- now the majority intends to elect the president.
Although the majority is mostly "white" and many among the minorities are "black or colored", the election result will not be defined by confrontation between different races. Rather this time, the election result will be defined by the confrontation between the majority believing in American-style Judeo-Christian principles as the foundation of a just society and the minorities supporting other principles.
From the news media of analytical mind-set:
A changing America: In 2012, blacks outvoted whites.
A Census report on the 2012 election finds that blacks were more likely to vote than whites for the first time. The number of white voters declined by more than 2 million, another first.
Besides a lower voting rate, the number of white voters declined in 2012. There were 1.1 million more eligible white voters in 2012 than in 2008, but their total votes cast dropped by more than 2 million -- the first time any racial group has shown a decline in net voting since the Census began tracking the issue, in 1996.
From the news media of minorities’ mind-set:
Donald Trump has a white supremacist problem. The only question is whether he will ignore it, deny it or do something about it.
From the Nevada 2016 primaries results:
In the Democratic Party primaries, just about 12,000 citizens of the state voted; in the Republican Party primaries, uncharacteristically high number, over 75,000 citizens of the state voted.
Interesting. Is this an open primary, or must one have previously chosen which primary to vote in?
The above quotes from the news media bring the following questions:
o Why the (presumably white) majority has not participated in the past presidential elections?
o Why Nevada 2016 primaries have attracted a negligible number of Democrats while Republicans have voted in mass?
o If the majority has decided to participate in the election, what it would demand from the government?
o Is this is true that the (presumably white) majority have white supremacist problem?
Below are most probable answers to these four questions.
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o Is this is true that the (presumably white) majority have white supremacist problem?
That's how the Left has always defined it. Never mind in a classical democracy/republic the interests of the majority are to come first and they themselves protected in their natural rights. Anything less is at best an oligarchy of special interests.
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Politicians deliberately import people from other cultures in an effort to dilute culturally American voices in elections - then call us racists. Too bad we can't vote to just hang them all.
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Once you lose it, you'll never get it back as long as the power and money remain concentrated. It has to come down, all too often unwillingly, for the opportunity to have a constitutional republic again. That's history.
...Netanyahu deplored efforts to explain Arab terrorism as a result of despair and frustration. "The despair and frustration is not from an inability to build," he said, "but rather despair and frustration at an inability to destroy."
Netanyahu said that saying terrorism is a result of despair and frustration absolves the Palestinians of responsibility for their actions, "for their terrorism that has accompanied us for almost 100 years."
This terrorism, he noted, predated the creation of the state, as well as the Six Day War and the settlements. The terrorism, he noted, takes place when there is a peace process, and when there is not.
"absolves the Palestinians of responsibility for their actions, "for their terrorism that has accompanied us for almost 100 years."
Self guilt, all around the Table?
So, will this end this now or make it more prolific fighting points to the racket of terror that is this fake palestine""?
Forgiven for 100 Years? Try 14,00 years, and try 6,000 years, and remember yours is not but a State, but a Kingdom. Do not swine pearl the reality.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF confirms that soldiers opened fire on Paleostinian stone-throwers south of Bethlehem.
"A force arrived on the scene in order to stop the attack. They shot at the suspects," an IDF spokesperson said, adding the army did not have information about Paleostinian injuries at this time.
Palestinian media reports say two people are critically hurt, including a middle-aged dentist.
[IsraelTimes] A border policewoman is taken for medical treatment after a group of Israeli coppers come under a stone and Molotov cocktail barrage in Issawiya.
"A border policewoman is hit in the head and taken for medical treatment," police say. "The troops, who were in real danger," opened fire with a .22 Ruger sniper rifle. "A hit in the leg was identified, and a 19-year-old resident of Issawiya was placed in durance vile You have the right to remain silent...."
[IsraelTimes] Suspect tossed in the calaboose Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! after fleeing scene; police officer taken to hospital for treatment.
Update from The Times of Israel at 10:30 a.m. ET: sometimes a hit and run is just a hit and run. The driver turned himself in.
[IsraelTimes] Cause of latest in series of cave-ins unclear; Zionist Union politician accuses government of remaining idle despite 10 tunnels reaching into Israel
Too much fly ash in the concrete from Israel?
Five Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, members were reportedly injured and an unknown number more missing after a tunnel they were digging in the Gazoo Strip collapsed overnight Saturday.
Paleostinian news website Al-Quds reported the cave-in happened in the Zitan neighborhood, southeast of Gazoo City, the latest in a series of collapses over recent months that have killed nearly a dozen Paleostinians.
Searches were made for other diggers believed to be trapped under the collapse.
Hamas officials did not confirm the reports.
The five injured tunnelers were taken to Shifa Hospital in Gazoo, according to al-Quds.
Israelis fear the tunnels being dug are preparations for attacks inside Israel, and last week Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said progress had been made toward finding a way to thwart them, though he did not give details.
The past months have seen at least five separate tunnel collapses in the Gazoo Strip, according to Paleostinian reports, and about 11 deaths of Hamas tunnelers.
Some have speculated the collapses were due to winter rains. The region saw heavy downpours early last week, though dry conditions have prevailed since Wednesday.
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No theory like how the Zionist entity has developed a process to ripple seismic waves using the planet's inner crust to cause these collapses. The only down side is that the foci are under Oklahoma.
[ARA News] ERBIL – U.S. fighter jets launched on Sunday fresh airstrikes on headquarters of the Islamic State (ISIS) radical group in Iraq’s northwestern Nineveh province.
The strikes hit an ISIS convoy and a weapons storage center in the eastern suburb of Mosul city.
“More than 30 ISIS jihadis were killed in Sunday’s strikes,” spokesman of the Nineveh media center Raafat Zarari told ARA News, adding that most of the ISIS members killed in the airstrikes were Syrian nationals.
“The U.S. strikes were conducted after several vehicles carrying weapons from Syria’s Raqqa arrived to the group’s weapons storage center in eastern Mosul,” the informed source reported.
Zarari confirmed that some 40 vehicles crossed the Syrian border into Iraq and entered the ISIS territory there, as the group continues its preparations for possible confrontations with the Kurdish Peshmerga army and allied Iraqi troops –who have recently launched a battle for regaining Mosul.
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The Yemeni army and popular forces continued their advances in the Southern part of Yemen, killing senior commander of fugitive resigned president Abed Rabbu Mansour Hadi in a tough battle.
Pro-Hadi commander, Ali al-Yafe'yee was gunned down by unknown assailants in Shalal military base in Ma'ala region in Aden province.
In a similar development on Saturday, the Yemeni forces continued their advances in Taiz, and killed a large number of forces loyal to Hadi, including his senior commanders, in the Western coastal province.
Many other Saudi-led aggression mercenaries were also killed in tough battle with the Yemeni army and popular forces in Beit Wafi in Habashi heights in Taiz province.
Meantime, the Yemeni army and popular forces attacked pro-Hadi militias' military positions in al-Ja'adan region in Ma'rib, killing a large number of them.
Also on Wednesday, the Yemeni forces killed at least 54 Saudi troops, including commanders, in a ballistic missile attack in the Northern Jawf province.
The Yemeni Army, backed by Popular Committees loyal to the Ansarullah movement, targeted a Saudi military installation in Beir al-Maraziq region with a Qaher-1 ballistic missile.
A large number of Saudi forces also sustained injuries in the attack.
[An Nahar] A strike by an unidentified aircraft hit a convoy outside a Libyan stronghold of 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.... jihadist group on Sunday, officials said.
"A convoy was hit by an air strike" outside the coastal city of Sirte, a colonel with the air force loyal to the Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... administration said.
"It is believed that it was an IS convoy, but the target has not yet been identified," he said.
"This air strike was not coordinated with our government," he added.
A member of the security committee of the city's municipal council said the convoy left Sirte and was then targeted "about 150 kilometers (95 miles) southwest of the city".
"It was completely destroyed," he said.
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You know, back in the Thirties, there were various wild adventure stories, mostly taking place in the Pacific or Africa which might feature "unknown aircraft" doing a strike.
Then, after Viet Nam and before Gulf I, the military technothrillers might have something as odd.
We're living in pulp fiction.
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Allies of Iran's allegedly reformist President Hassan Rouhani have won a landslide victory in Tehran, in the first parliamentary vote since Iran signed a nuclear deal with world powers.
The BBC, like all other western papers, think Rouhani is more of a reformer than Ted Cruz...
With 90% of the votes counted, the pro-Rouhani List of Hope is set to take all 30 parliamentary seats in the capital. The leading conservative candidate Gholamali Haddad-Adel is in 31st place.
Millions voted on Friday to elect the 290-seat parliament as well as members of the Assembly of Experts. The 88-member assembly appoints Iran's Supreme Leader and might end up choosing a successor to Ayatollah Khamenei, who is 76 and has suffered ill-health.
Early results gave former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a moderate conservative, and Mr Rouhani the most votes for the assembly, which is composed of mostly doddering elder and senior clerics.
Most of whom would be quite at home with North Korea's geriatric leaders...
This stunning election result will make a difference in Iran's engagement with the wider world.
In what way? More terrorism? A freer hand for Rouhani to fund Hamas and Hezbollah? More snookering of western newspapers?
President Rouhani's hand has been strengthened in parliament to help open his country to greater trade and investment. That will help him, and others in his reformist camp, to deepen the dialogue with the West, which began with negotiations on a landmark nuclear deal.
Yes, more trade, all the while completing their efforts to get nuclear weapons and ICBM delivery systems. A good deal for them...
The parliamentary result in Tehran is significant because lawmakers from the capital usually determine the political direction of the house, analysts say. However, reformists look to have done less well in constituencies outside the capital.
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So, what are they going to reform: Iranian nuclear weapons program or Iranian worldwide terrorism networks?
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Talibs have suffered heavy casualties in a series of air and ground operations in northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan, local officials said Sunday.
Provincial police chief Mohammad Qasim Jangalbagh said festivities are underway in Dasht-e-Archi district as the Afghan forces are busy in clearance operations against the anti-government armed myrmidons.
He said at least 61 murderous Moslems have been killed so far which include 3 of the group’s commanders and scores of others were maimed.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results... at least 10 murderous Moslems were killed in separate operations involving air raids in Chardara and Khanabad districts, the officials added.
The local officials are saying the anti-government armed murderous Moslems have been dispersed as a result of the military operations and it would be difficult for them to consolidate their activities due to the heavy casualties they have suffered.
The Talibs group has not commented regarding the reports so far.
Kunduz is among the volatile provinces in northern Afghanistan where anti-government armed murderous Moslems are actively operating and frequently carry out insurgency activities.
The Talibs took control of the strategic Kuduz city during the summer last year following an offensive but the Afghan forces retook its control with the support of the coalition Arclight airstrikes.
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As Sabrathan forces paraded this evening in the town’s Liberation Square, operations were continuing for a seventh day to flush out IS fighters. The Sabratha media centre expressed annoyance at reports from the authorities in Tripoli, that the fighting was over.
The centre also denied that the body of Tunisian terrorist, Noureddine Chouchane, the target of the US air strike nine days ago, had been stolen from the hospital morgue. It said it was still in a fridge. The centre did not however spell out if this was the body of the man killed on Friday, who was believed to resemble Chouchane, or the remains of the terrorist taken from the ruins made by the US warplanes.
There was also a denial that forces in Sabratha had fallen out with each other. Everyone was working together to cleanse the town of terrorists.
In operations today, two IS suspects, uncle and nephew Yusuf and Ahmad Yahya were arrested in what was described as a safe house, at a farm to the south of the town. There are unconfirmed reports that a captured IS suspect has been giving details of terrorist safe houses.
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It said [the body of Tunisian terrorist, Noureddine Chouchane]was still in a fridge
[ARA News] ALEPPO – Syrian Islamist rebels bombed Kurdish villages in the Afrin region of the northwestern countryside of Aleppo on Sunday, killing and injuring dozens of civilians.
Afrin region, which is held by Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG), was exposed to heavy mortar shelling on Sunday evening.
“At least 72 civilians were killed and dozens more wounded in the bombardment,” rights activist Rezan Hiddo told ARA News in Afrin.
Main groups that participated in bombing Afrin were the Ahrar al-Sham Movement and al-Nusra Front, Kurdish military sources reported.
The attacks targeted populated areas in the villages of Pashmera, Gunde Mazin and Basufan in Afrin countryside. Similar attacks were reported in the Sheikh Maqsoud district in Aleppo.
This comes just two days after a two-week truce came into effect in Syria.
“The Islamist rebels took the advantage of the current ceasefire to attack the Kurdish region,” a spokesman for the YPG told ARA News.
“We have announced our full commitment to the ceasefire. But we will not remain silent as our areas are being exposed to deadly offensives by the Islamists. If the bombardment continues, our forces will respond,” the Kurdish official said.
The U.N. Security Council approved Friday a US-Russian draft resolution endorsing the Syria ceasefire. A cessation of hostilities started across the war-torn country. However, several violations have been documented, especially at the hands of Islamists in the Kurdish region in northern Syria.
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"But we will not remain silent as our areas are being exposed to deadly offensives by the Islamists."
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar- The commander of Anbar tribal fighters announced on Saturday, that the security forces were able to repel ISIS attack using six booby-trapped cars on the security headquarters west of Ramadi (110 km west of Baghdad), while indicated to the death of nine members belonging to ISIS.
Falah Qaraghuli said in a press statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “The security forces were able to foil ISIS attack on the security headquarters in the areas of Kilo 18 and Hamdaniya west of Ramadi, using six booby-trapped cars,” pointing out that, “The security forces managed to detonate the car bombs, killing the suicide bombers on the spot.”
Qaraghuli added, “The security forces also managed to kill nine ISIS elements who tried to sneak to target the military troops in those areas,” indicating that, “ISIS is trying to carry out attacks in open areas in the axes of Ramadi.”
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The spokesman of the Emergency Regiment of Anbar police First Lieutenant Saud Harb Obeidi revealed, that the security forces are preparing to storm Heet and Kabisa Districts, while called the people of Heet and Kabisa Districts to leave their areas during the coming 48 hours.
Obeidi said in a press statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “The security forces advanced to the entrances of Heet and Kabisa areas and informed the residents through loudspeakers and leaflets to leave their towns and stay away from ISIS gatherings.”
Obeidi added, “The security forces completed all the needed preparations to storm Heet and Kabisa, after mobilizing military and police forces in all axes backed by the tribal fighters and emergency police regiments, as well as international coalition aviation.”
(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – A source within al-Hashed al-Sha’bi Directorate announced on Sunday, that Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq (League of the Righteous) militia repelled an ISIS attack on the area of al-Karma in al-Anbar province, while pointed out that the militia forces inflicted big losses upon the ISIS ranks.
The source said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq forces, one of the formations of al-Hashed al-Sha’bi militia, repelled an ISIS attack on an area located southeast of al-Karma,” noting that, “Asa’ib forces inflicted heavy losses in lives and equipment upon the ISIS [ranks].”
The statement added, “The attack is considered to be the widest attack on the area.”
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Deadly twin suicide explosions targeting a popular restaurant, have killed at least 7 people and wounded several others in Baidoa town, lies 256Km northwest of Mogadishu, witness said.
The 1st explosion used by car laden with explosives targeted a popular restaurant in the town, sending huge flames into the sky, according to a witness. The 2nd blast came after suicide bomber, blew himself up near the exploded restaurants in the town of Baidoa, causing the death of several other people.
Hundreds of security soldiers arrived and sealed of the blasts scene.
Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabaab militants have claimed responsibility for the bombing that targeted restaurants popular with south west state officials and soldiers in Baidoa, some 256Km north-east of Mogadishu, Somali capital.
At least 20 people, including disarmament minister of the South-west State were killed while 45 others wounded after an attacker, strapped with explosives, walked into the restaurant and set off the explosives tied around his waist around 5 p.m., according to police.
The second bomb was caused by a car laden with explosives that was parked at a parking lot at a nearby restaurants, where fans were watching a soccer match, according to a survivor who witnessed the horrible situation.
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ADEN, Yemen : Yemeni militiamen clashed with soldiers guarding the presidential palace in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Sunday, a local official and residents said, in a rare confrontation between the previously allied forces.
The embattled Yemen government is based in Aden and has struggled to build up a national military and pay its bills, including to fighters who have fought on its behalf, as Al Qaeda and Daesh militants have taken advantage of 10 months of civil war to expand their presence in the city.
A local official said the attackers, affiliated with a local militia called the Popular Southern Resistance, sought an audience with top officials inside the palace over unpaid medical bills for guards wounded in an attack there last month.
Six guards were killed and several were wounded in the attack on Jan. 28 at the Maashiq palace in the crater district, for which Yemen’s branch of Islamic State claimed responsibility.
“They wanted to discuss compensation for those killed and paying the medical bills for the wounded ... When the guards blocked them, a gun battle erupted involving light and medium weapons,” the official said.
Residents in the area reported several casualties in the fighting but could not give precise figures.
A series of attacks by militants have for months rocked the city, where the Saudi-backed President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and his government are trying to oversee a campaign to dislodge Iran-allied Houthis from the northern half of the country they seized in 2014.
In a separate incident on Sunday, residents said that unidentified gunmen fatally shot a prominent Muslim cleric, Abdulrahman Mara’i Al-Adeni, while heading for afternoon prayers in an Aden mosque.
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[An Nahar] Masked gunniesrubbed out an Egyptian police officer Sunday in Sinai, the interior ministry said, in an attack claimed by 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.... group which is leading an insurgency in the peninsula.
Gunmen opened fire on Captain Abdullah Khalil in the early hours of Sunday as he stood in front of his house in El-Arish, the placid provincial capital of North Sinai, the ministry said in a statement.
The Sinai Province, the Egyptian affiliate of IS, claimed the attack.
"A security detachment was able to eliminate the apostate Abdullah Khalil... in the center of the city of El-Arish," it said in a statement posted on the group's Twitter accounts.
The IS affiliate is waging an insurgency in the restive peninsula that has killed hundreds of soldiers and coppers since the military overthrew Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in 2013.
It has also claimed the downing of a Russian plane over Sinai on October 31, which killed all 224 people on board.
The Sinai jihadists pledged allegiance in November 2014 to IS, which controls parts of Iraq and Syria.
[An Nahar] A group of Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... supporters erupted into the streets late on Saturday, burning tires and blocking roads around Beirut and east Leb to protest a short comedy TV program impersonating the party chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... .
On Saturday evening, a group of young men gathered in Msharrafieh in Beirut's southern suburbs and moves escalated afterward to burning tires and blocking roads in several areas including al-Saadiyat, Choueifat , Airport road, Spears, Bekaa, Baalbek, Brital and Douris.
They protested a short comedy sketch that was broadcast on a Saudi-owned TV station, MBC, which impersonated their leader.
The army issued a statement late on Saturday, reassuring that the situation was controlled and that it had set up checkpoints and deployed troops to several areas around Beirut to contain the protests.
On Sunday, several roads were also blocked in various regions before being reopened by security forces.
During the day, protesters blocked the Taalbaya-Chtaura road in the Bekaa and the Choueifat-Kfarshima and Choueifat-Khalde roads outside the capital. And in the evening they blocked the Mar Mikhail Church-Shiyyah-Hazmieh road in Beirut's suburbs and security forces were trying to reopen it.
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[Dhaka Tribune] A court here on Sunday sentenced a member of banned Islamist Lion of Islam outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to five years’ imprisonment in a case filed under the Explosive Substance Act.
The court also fined the convict -- Mufti Mohammad Kutubullah, 35, son of Abu Bakar Siddique of Rasulpur village in Baliakandi upazila of the district -- Tk5, 000, in default to suffer six months more of rigorous imprisonment.
According to the prosecution, members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)-8 in a drive incarcerated Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! five people, including Kutubullah, along with some explosives from Anandabazar area of Baliakandi upazila on June 1 in 2008.
The Rab team handed over the arrestees to Bailakandi cop shoppe and filed the case against them on the same day.
After examining witnesses and documents, Judge of Additional District and Session Judge’s court Mohammad Osman Haider passed the order acquitting four other accused as the allegations brought against them could not be proved.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Law enforcers have found a new den of Ansarullah Bangla Team in the capital’s Dakkhinkhan area and recovered hand bombs and a sizeable cache of bomb-making materials from there.
Mashruqure Rahman Khaled, deputy commissioner of DB Police (South), confirmed the news to the Dhaka Tribune.
"As part of our ongoing crackdown on holy warriors, a joint team of detectives and members of Counter-terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit raided a house in Dakkhinkhan and recovered two hand bombs and a large cache of bomb-making materials," he said.
Detectives suspect that the house was being used as a bomb-making training centre of the banned outfit.
The raid was carried out around 11pm Saturday and the two bombs were defused yesterday morning by the Bomb Disposal Unit, Khaled said, adding that forces of Evil living in the house might have fled after sensing the presence of law enforcers.
In a similar raid on February 19, police nabbed Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! two members of the banned holy warrior outfit in Badda and busted an Ansarullah explosives den in Mohammadpur.
Saturday’s raid was carried out based on information extracted during the remand of those two suspects, Deputy Commissioner Khaled said.
He said the two-bedroom flat was rented three months ago by two persons identifying themselves as students. One of the rooms was being used to make bombs, while many others used to visit the flat as well.
The security guard of the building has been detained for questioning.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The shadow governor of Taliban Death Eater group for Khwaja Sabz Posh district of northern Faryab province has been killed by army, an official said on Sunday.
Sayed Anwar Sadat, the province’s governor said Mullah Noor-ul-Haq was killed along with a number of his lover companions when army targeted their position with a rocket in Gaday Qala area of Pashton Kot district last night.
Pashton Kot is among the districts of Faryab where Taliban have a strong presence.
Reports suggest that severe festivities erupted between security forces and Taliban in parts of Pashton Kot in which both sides suffered casualties.
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[DAWN] LAHORE: A man who had delivered a lecture at a premier educational institution, impersonating an army captain, has been taken into custody.
Sajjad Rao went to the Forman Christian College introducing himself as an army captain and ended up delivering a lecture to the students on Feb 17, says a source in a sensitive state organization.
He capped his expedition with a flourish -- by asking for funds for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of Fata.
The fraud started to unravel after an officer from the ISPR on a visit to the college was told about the suspicious lecture-cum-fundraising event that had recently taken place.
In an unexpected break, the officer got the telephone number of the man posing as the army officer from the college administration. Investigation revealed the impersonator had two accomplices.
FC College’s student affairs director was not available for comment despite various attempts to reach him. However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... another senior faculty member told Dawn the matter was brought to the knowledge of the college administration by the ISPR.
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[DAWN] An army officer, four soldiers and at least 34 suspected hard boyz were killed in a clash, air strikes and a landmine kaboom on Saturday as the security forces kicked off a ground offensive in Shawal and Dattakhel area ... which is owned and operated by Hafiz Gul Behadur... s of North Wazoo Agency (NWA). The offensive has been dubbed the last phase of Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... operation.
According to an Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement, the clash took place after troops surrounded a group of fleeing hard boyz in Mangroti, near the Afghan border.
At least 19 hard boyz were killed and an unspecified number injured in an intense exchange of fire. An officer, Captain Umair, and three soldiers bit the dust in the clash.
The ISPR said the ground operation in Shawal was progressing smoothly.
According to reports, air force planes destroyed four hideouts and killed at least 15 suspected hard boyz in bombing raids in Dattakhel.
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[APS.DZ] Two bunkers used as shelters for snuffies were discovered and destroyed by detachments of the People’s National Army (ANP) in corpse-littered Boumerdes and Constantine, said Sunday the Ministry of National Defence in a communiqué.
As part of the fight against terrorism and criminality, a detachment coming under the operational sector of corpse-littered Boumerdes (1st military region) "discovered and destroyed, on 27 February 2016, a bunker containing 500 kilograms of kabooms and 100 liters of nitric acid. Also, and in Constantine (5th military region), a bunker and a homemade bomb were discovered and destroyed," added the Ministry.
Furthermore, units of the National Gendarmerie "apprehended, in Biskra (4th military region), three gun smugglers and seized a semi-automatic rifle with a precision sight and a silencer, two shotguns, an automatic pistol, as well as a quantity of munitions of 1,117 bullets of various calibers and a sum of money amounting to DZD167,000," said the statement.
At the level of the 6th military region, units coming under the operational sectors of Tamanrasset and Ain Guezzam "tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! three (03) smugglers and seized a truck, five (05) all-terrain vehicles, 4.93 tons of foodstuffs, 740 litres of fuel and two (02) metal detectors," said the communiqué.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A kaboom has claimed the lives of two coppers in Lashkargah, the capital of southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province.
Omar Zwak, spokesperson for the province’s governor said it was a planted Improvised Explosive Device (IED) that detonated on a police vehicle in Bolan area of the city late yesterday.
The governor’s spokesperson added that the ford-ranger police vehicle badly damaged and two coppers embraced martyrdom in the kaboom.
No group has grabbed credit for Saturday’s kaboom but Taliban have been held responsible for this kind of attacks in the past.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] It is always shocking when someone loses a beloved one. But it is not less than doomsday for a family when its bread-winners who were sent to bring food for hungry children return in coffins.
The poor Afghan family lives in Marawara district of eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... that lost its bread-winners in yesterday’s suicide kaboom.
Rohullah, Habibullah and Ehsanullah left home early in the morning on Saturday to sell goods in the bustling provincial capital Asadabad as costermongers. But they did not know that this time their kids are not receiving food and instead they will get shrapnel-riddled bodies and fleshes of their fathers.
The merciless snuffies had sent a jacket wallah to Asadabad that claimed lives of the three brothers and 11 others.
Those close to the family say the three brothers were making efforts days and nights to fulfill all needs of their children and hoped that one day they will become doctors and engineers.
But the heartless suicide bomber ruined their dreams and future of their children.
The innocent kids even don’t know how life is going to treat them and who would bring food for them.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan intelligence operatives foiled a suicide kaboom plot by the anti-government armed bully boyz in capital Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... by arresting a teenage boy assigned for the attack.
The National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) said the 14-year-old would-be jacket wallah was locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! by the intelligence operatives from capital Kabul.
No further details were given regarding the exact location where the teenage would-be bomber was arrested.
NDS said the detained teenager has been identified as Nabiullah son of Aminullah who had received terrorist attack trainings and was deployed to Kabul city from Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
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Deputy Interior Minister for Security Affairs Hossein Zolfaqari said on Sunday that a terrorist plot in border town of Sumar, west Iran was discovered and neutralized, IRNA reported.
Speaking to reporters on the measures adopted to maintain security during nation-wide elections on Friday, the official said, 'A terror team which had infiltrated the Iran-Iraq border and was approaching its destination on foot was spotted and prevented from its targets.'
'There were two agents who were exterminated and their arms were seized,' he added, 'We are working on identifying them which will be announced.'
'It will be determined what was their target, but there is no doubt that they had a terrorist intention,' Zolfaqari said.
The official hailed the efforts of law-enforcing personnel saying that they managed to provide an overwhelming security all over the country during the elections.
He did not confirm that the two terrorist killed on Sunday in the western province of Kermanshah bordering Iraq were connected to the Daesh terrorist group suggesting that the question can be directed to the Minstry of Intelligence.
'Before the elections, there was a terror attempt to the east of the country,' he added.
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[An Nahar] Participants in a fragile ceasefire in Syria need to give peace a chance, U.S. officials said Sunday, following reports of truce violations on its second day.
"Setbacks are inevitable," the senior administration official said. "Even under the best of circumstances, we don’t expect the violence to end immediately. In fact, we are certain that there will continue to be fighting, in part because of organizations like ISIL and al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... ."
The ceasefire deal brokered by Moscow and Washington excludes territory held by the jihadist groups 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.... , also known as ISIL, and the al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra. The two groups together control more than half of Syria.
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[APS.DZ] A cache containing a batch of weapons and an important quantity of ammunitions of various calibers have been discovered Sunday in Tamanrasset, by a detachment of the National Popular Army (ANP), said a communiqué of National Defence Ministry.
"As part of the efforts for border security, counterterrorism and thanks to the proper use of intelligence, a detachment of the Popular National Army under the operational sector of Tamanrasset (6th Military Region) discovered on 28th February 2016, a cache containing a batch of weapons," the same source added.
The cache contained "four machine guns, three Kalachnikov machine pistols, accuracy rifle and an important quantity of ammunitions of various calibers," added the MDN communiqué.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan National Police (ANP) forces thwarted a plot by the anti-government armed turbans to carry out a deadly kaboom in northern Baghlan province of Afghanistan.
Provincial police chief Gen. Ewaz Mohammad Nazeri said the turbans were looking to detonate a motorycle packed with explosives in Baghlan-e-Markazi district.
He said the cycle of violence was confiscuated and explosives were defused before the turbans manage to execute the attack in the central city of the district.
The anti-government armed turbans including the Taliban group have not commented regarding the attack plot so far.
Baghlan is among the relatively volatile provinces in northern Afghanistan where anti-government armed turbans are actively operating in a number of its districts and often carry out insurgency activities.
The Afghan national security forces are busy with the clearance operations in Dand-e-Ghori district where the Talibs were actively operating earlier.
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Iran has never stopped sending arms to the Houthis in Yemen since they launched their coup nearly 12 years ago
Goodness, has it been that long?
and such support was coupled with training and media campaigns along with direct involvement of Iranian experts in fighting near the Saudi border, according to the Dubai-based Arabic language daily ‘Al Bayan’.
US Secretary of State John Kerry revealed such continuous support in recent statements, when he said in an address in Washington that US naval forces in the Gulf have recently stopped an arms shipment sent by Iran to Yemen, adding: “This is evidence that Iran is continuing arming some groups in the region.”
And yet these are the people the honourable secretary of state's boss chose to make his own treaty with. Fascinating.
Yemeni legitimate authorities have also disclosed that the Houthis have smuggled a large quantity of Iranian weapons through Red Sea islands and that this has prompted the Saudi-dominated coalition to take control of those islands.
“The coalition and national army also foiled many attempts by the Houthis to smuggle weapons through Shabwa via small boats.
“Before they were discovered, some of the weapons were transported by the Houthis to Baidah province through the desert,” ‘Al Bayan’ said in a report from Sanaa.
A few days ago, Yemeni military sources said a number of Houthi leaders, including Iranian experts, were killed by coalition jets in the Northern Saada governorate while this week, an Iranian revolutionary guard was killed by a Houthi militia man at a training camp in Saada.
Two other Iranian experts were killed by coalition jets which targeted their car in Aljouf near the Saudi border on Thursday.
In Saudi Arabia, authorities have released recordings by a Lebanese Hezbollah leader who was training Houthis to attack the Kingdom.
“This shows that Hezbollah is directly involved in Yemen and confirms statements by President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi that the September 2014 coup was carried out with Iranian assistance and sponsorship so Yemen will be ruled by the Houthis and forces loyal to deposed President Ali Abdullah Saleh.”
The paper said plan, revealed by Hadi, was that the Houthis’ top leader Abdul Malik Al Houthi will be the spiritual leader of Yemen as is the case in Iran while Saleh’s son Ahmed Ali Saleh will be the political leader.
“All these plans sponsored by Iran were sabotaged by the ‘Storm of Decisiveness’.”
The paper quoted sources as saying that Iran has recently stepped up arms smuggling to the Houthis through Hijja province close to Saada.
It said a weapons shipment was seized aboard two vessels, Jihan 1 and Jihan 2, and that the crew men confessed that they were hired and were taken from Yemen to Damascus then to Iran.
“Yemeni government sources affirm that Iran has sent many experts to Yemen to support the Houthis from the early days of the coup.
“Their mission was to train the Houthi fighters, set up ammunition, weapons and explosives factories and organise arms smuggling.
“Despite the naval blockade imposed by the UN Security Council to prevent weapons smuggling to the Houthis, Iran’s attempts to send arms to those militias have never stopped,” the paper said.
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Master of the Obtuse Obvious graphic?
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Here ya go, Frank.
Here's another (almost forgotten)Master of the Obvious -
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The case of the Navy engineer's alleged double life seems as though it was ripped from the pages of a spy novel.
An Iranian-American engineer, naturalized in 1985, gets a job with the Navy and holds a secret clearance. All the while he’s allegedly maintaining a sophisticated web of intermingled identities to shuffle money from foreign bank accounts, hold addresses in at least four states and lie about hisIranian passport. And elements of that scheme evaded detection for 30 years.
James Robert Baker
Good old American name. Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas. Maybe Indiana.
is alleged to have lied to the Navy about his continuing ties to Iran during his entire career, which started in 1985 at the Naval Surface Warfare Center and was suspended last summer when U.S. Marshalls raided his small Springfield, Va., home. He was indicted on fraud charges in early February.
Security experts said they were troubled by authorities' repeated failure to thoroughly investigate Baker, especially after red flags like his return to Iran only days after Navy officials told him to prove that he had turned it in. Facts about what motivated Baker's alleged three-decade ruse remain unclear, but several experts who reviewed the case said it bore hallmarks of espionage.
“When you look at an individual in place for that many years under an assumed identity, it reeks of a foreign counter-intelligence operation,” said Fred Burton, a former State Department counter-terrorism agent and analyst for intelligence firm Stratfor. “It rings almost every alarm bell you’d look for. It’s an almost textbook espionage case.”
Then again, who reads textbooks these days? Perhaps the Navy should create a YouTube video...
Baker's employer, Naval Sea Systems Command, and the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, which filed the Feb. 4 indictment, declined to comment on the case. Baker’s attorney, Tom Walsh of Petrovich & Walsh P.L.C., did not return repeated emails and phone messages seeking comment.
Baker's secret clearance gave him access to less sensitive information than that available to Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst with top-secret access convicted for leaking reams of classified information to Wikileaks. But the fact that Baker was in the job for three decades opens the Navy to enormous damage if he was spying, Burton said.
“It’s not just the information he had access to,” Burton said. “It's things he heard on work trips, around the water cooler, at lunch with co-workers: Human intelligence. We know those things aren’t supposed to go on but we all know they do.”
Two facts jump out as classic spy moves, Burton said. The first is Baker’s sophisticated routing of $133,902 from foreign bank accounts to accounts set up under his four separate identities to conceal it. The other is his use of safe deposit boxes and post office boxes in no fewer than four states. Both are classic examples of spy fieldcraft, he said.
$133K for 30 years worth of secret intel? The guy worked cheap...
“Those boxes — located a long way from his place of residence — are places a spy could use for clandestine communications with handlers,” Burton said.
Experts were also in agreement that Baker, also known as Majid Karimi, should never have been granted a security clearance.
One security law expert said it was strange that the Navy reinstated Baker's clearance even after learning that Baker had kept a Iranian passport that he used to travel to Iran.
“I don’t understand how that wasn’t picked up as a red flag,” said Greg Rinckey, a partner with firm Tully Rinckey who works on security clearance cases. “This is exactly what you are concerned about when you are looking at security clearance adjudication: Foreign passports, foreign bank accounts that a foreign government could transfer money into. Why this didn’t happen is very concerning.”
Chris Graham, an attorney at the Federal Practice Group who has worked as an administrative judge at the Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals on clearance cases, agreed that the signs were missed.
“Whoever was doing the security clearance investigations was asleep at the switch,” Graham said.
Investigators, he said, have access to databases that with a name and a Social Security number could have busted the fraud years ago. Baker, who had a secret clearance for more than 30 years except for a one-year suspension in 2001 after his Iran trip, would have been investigated at least four times because secret clearances are re-investigated every 10 years.
“Here’s a guy who legally changed his name in 1985,” Graham said. “Seems to me you run his old name to see if it’s still being used. Nobody was doing anything here but a cursory investigation.”
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“I don’t understand how that wasn’t picked up as a red flag,” said Greg Rinckey, a partner with firm Tully Rinckey who works on security clearance cases. “This is exactly what you are concerned about when you are looking at security clearance adjudication: Foreign passports, foreign bank accounts that a foreign government could transfer money into. Why this didn’t happen is very concerning.”
Why is happening? Please have a quick look at the Oval Office.
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Back in the day, at Chattahoochee High, one of my platoon buddies was turned inside out by the FBI. His crime....? He'd been in a college choir which toured the USSR for a week.
My father, in his turn at the Benning School for Boys, was investigated because the town in which his father "claimed" to have been born didn't exist. Simple, things were tough in upstate NY and the town went out of biz with the records going to the county. Not a bad gig for the FBI guys, what with the draft and Tarawa and the Bulge and all.
Maybe this clown was so obvious everybody figured he couldn't be a spy being this obvious.
Perhaps all the resources went to vetting the Tsarnaev clan.
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“Whoever was doing the security clearance investigations was asleep at the switch,” Graham said.
...or did they receive a handsome performance award for 'spotting and assessing?"
Been a while now, but I don't seem to recall any mention made of MAJ Nadal Hasan's last security clearance periodic update.
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Besoeker:
WRT Hasan: About a year after he cut loose, the
Army announced it was going to investigate nine officers who--perhaps--had been in a position to stop Hasan's greased slide to Ft. Hood. So I suppose there were OER, letters for the file, etc.
A couple of guys who had just demobbed said that won't get you anyplace. Nobody can afford to give a Muslim soldier anything but "perfect", and keep his own career. Now, you'd think we'd like to see moral courage anyway. Problem is, once a Muslim soldier gets something other than "perfect", he's a victim of Islamophobia and his Teflon gets another layer.
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When they asked me if I had ever belonged to a paramilitary organization, I said "Sure, I was in the Boy Scouts!"
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Pappy
I have to hope somewhere I the bowels of the IC a tracking of ValJar has been kept for future reckoning. As sure as God made little green apples she's a traitor.
Anti-government rebels and Russia have both reported breaches of the fragile truce in Syria - now in its second day.
Russian planes have attacked several sites in northern Syria, activists say. Russia has not confirmed any sorties on Sunday and says it has also identified nine breaches of the truce.
A cessation of hostilities was agreed as part of a US-Russian plan. Russia says that in general it is holding. It is the first major cessation of hostilities in the five years of war.
The Syrian opposition has complained of 15 violations of the ceasefire by the government side, which is supported by Russia. The Syrian opposition umbrella group the High Negotiations Committee (HNC) said it would be sending a formal letter of complaint about the breaches to the UN and other world powers.
However, the HNC said that despite violations "here and there", it was "positive to see people getting relief …to be safe, and free from fear".
Some Syrian activists say the target of the air strikes in the north, near Aleppo, was the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front.
The truce involves Syrian government and rebel forces, but not the so-called Islamic State group (IS) or the Nusra Front, so an attack on them would not count as a breach. But the villages also contain fighters from the Western-backed opposition as territorial control in Syria is often blurred, reports the BBC's Mark Lowen from the Turkish border.
Given the terms of this ceasefire deal, it is conceivable that the rebels were targeted under cover of striking the Nusra Front, he adds.
How very Rooshun...
The HNC said two of the strikes were in areas where designated terrorist groups were not operating.
Meanwhile, among the breaches reported by the Russian military was what it described as a "cross-border" attack from Turkey near Tal Abyad. Russia has asked the US to investigate.
The US military told the BBC that it had continued to attack IS targets in Syria on Saturday, including 10 air strikes near Tal Abyad.
The "cessation of hostilities" began at midnight on Saturday (22:00 GMT Friday).
The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov and the US Secretary of State John Kerry spoke by phone on Saturday welcoming the ceasefire and, Moscow says, discussing ways of supporting it through military co-operation.
UN special envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura has said that peace talks will resume on 7 March if the truce "largely holds", adding that he had no doubt there would be "no shortage of attempts to undermine this process".
The cessation was brokered by the US and Russia, and is backed by a UN resolution. Previous talks in Geneva collapsed in early February after making no progress. The UN resolution names about 30 areas in dire need of aid, including eastern and western rural Aleppo and the eastern city of Deir al-Zour, which is under siege by IS.
Almost 100 rebel factions have agreed to respect the truce, the HNC says. However, the HNC warned the Syrian government and its allies not to use the "proposed text to continue the hostile operations against the opposition factions under the excuse of fighting terrorism".
Russian President Vladimir Putin says his forces are targeting IS, Nusra Front and other extremist groups designated as legitimate targets by the UN Security Council. However, over the course of its campaign in Syria, Russia has been widely accused of also attacking more moderate rebel groups fighting President Bashar al-Assad, an ally of the Kremlin.
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Up to 70,000 migrants and refugees could soon be stranded in Greece, the leftist-led government has said, as it considers enlisting the help of the army to deal with the emergency.
The notion of sending them back to their countries of origin apparently was never considered as a means of solving the 'stranding' problem...
According to Breitbart, Germany has budgeted 10 mil. euros to send some of their willing migrants home, though not all who take advantage of it will be from the Ummah.
The alarm was sounded as the EU’s top immigration policymaker said the situation was at risk of becoming uncontrollable unless member states “assume their responsibilities”.
Greece’s migration minister, Yannis Mouzalas, said: “In the next month between 50,000-70,000 will come and then I believe [the flows] will stop there.”
Admitting it would “be hard and very difficult”, Mouzalas said it was likely that the Greek armed forces, recently brought in to build “hotspot” screening centres, would be deployed to tackle the crisis.
“Wherever the army is needed it will play a role, just as it does in all western democracies,” he said. “Now we use it to build [camps and centres] and to distribute nutrition; tomorrow we don’t know, we may deploy trucks and use it in several other services.”
The leftists, in power with the small rightwing Independent Greeks party, have so far resisted giving armed forces a more prominent role in handling the influx of people entering Europe across the Aegean from Turkey. In a country that experienced seven years of military dictatorship until 1974, many leftists have expressed consternation.
By Sunday 22,000 people were trapped in Greece with an estimated 6,000 stuck at the Macedonian border after restrictions were tightened – and frontiers effectively sealed to all but Syrians – by Balkan nations along the migrant route.
While Mouzalas insisted the increased numbers would be manageable, the EU’s migration commissioner, Dimitris Avramopoulos, spoke of an imminent humanitarian crisis if the 28-nation bloc continued to indulge in “unilateral actions”. He said: “There is no point in playing the blame game any more. We simply have to do everything possible to control the situation.”
That would mean shutting down new migration to zero, sifting through the current refugees to send back all the ones who aren't from an active war zone, and staging an intervention in said war zones to create safe havens there. Until you've done that you haven't controlled anything.
Enmeshed in its worst economic depression in modern times, debt-stricken Greece has requested emergency aid from the EU. As part of urgent plans to be put into immediate effect, Mouzalas said impromptu camps would be established and tents erected in local sports grounds.
A further four hotspots will be set up in the northern Greek province of Macedonia. In anticipation of the influx, Athens has asked for tents, blankets, sleeping bags, transport vehicles, ambulances and other supplies.
At an economic forum in Delphi, Berlin’s ambassador to Athens, Peter Schoof, announced: “In Germany we have taken the decision that we have to support Greece.”
Germany’s hardline finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, hinted that Europe’s powerhouse might be willing to cut Greece some slack as it struggles with the dual task of dealing with the refugee crisis and enacting punishing reforms.
With divisions widening before an emergency EU summit to discuss the crisis on 7 March, anger is mounting, with Berlin enraged at the way Balkan nations led by Austria have closed the refugee transit route.
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To paraphrase something I read earlier today: One or two bunnies munching grass in your front yard are cute. 500 not so much.
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Are all these clowns too young to remember the Berlin Airlift? They could evacuate all those refugees from Athens to Templehof in C-47s and C-54s.
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Bobby, that wouldn't accomplish anything useful for either Germany or Greece; I suggest sending those C-47s & C-54s south out of Athens - maybe to Mitiga International Airport (aka Wheelus AFB).
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angeris mounting, with Berlin enraged at the way Balkan nations led by Austria have closed the refugee transit route.
You know there is an affinity between the lot, formerly known as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, not counting the very short period since when it was part of Germany proper, due to the actions of another socialist.
I see a potential movie right there in the title...
[Dhaka Tribune] The government plans to release genetically modified (GM) potato, reportedly capable of resisting late blight disease, during the upcoming season. Our story opens in the laboratory of the famous scientist, Doctor Rafiqul Islam...
"We are planning to apply for the approval for releasing one variety of GM potato at the end of this year," said Rafiqul Islam Mondol, director general of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI). "There's really nothing to worry about. Not much, anyway. We've spliced in genes from the sperm whale give a larger yield, and the pit bull to make the potato less likely to succumb to disease..."
BARI has developed GM potatoes by inserting pest and weather-resistant gene in two local potato varieties -- Cardinal and Diamond. "We had to rearrange a bit of DNA, but we got everything to fit..."
"Of the two, we are planning to release only the Diamond variety at the field level this year as we are satisfied with the results," said Rafiqul. "We still have a few concerns about the Cardinal variety."
Late blight is one of the major diseases that damages potato plants and also its production. A resistance gene named Solanum bulbocastanum found in a wild potato variety in Latin American has been used to develop the genetically modified potato varieties in Bangladesh. "What kind of concerns, Doctor?"
"Well, chiefly its size."
"How big is it?"
"One's thirty-two stories tall. The other is a little bigger."
"That's a lot of French fries!"
BARI has cultivated the varieties at its six research centres in Rangpur, Gazipur, Jessore, Bogra, Comilla and Hathazari. "The Cardinal variety was being tested at the Bogra facility, but we don't know how the tests came out."
"Why's that?"
"We haven't been able to contact the facility for the past two weeks."
Rafiqul said: "We will send the necessary documents seeking the approval within the next two to three months to the National Bio-safety Committee under the Ministry of Environment and Forests. The variety will be released to the farmers." "Really, nothing could go wrong. Not much, anyway..."
The government has been trying to develop GM potato varieties since 2006 from American potato variety transgenic Katahdin SP 951 developed by Colonel University. "Try and hold it!... [THRASH! THRASH!]... It's getting away! Shoot, for the love of Allen! Shoot it!"
"Where are a potato's vitals?"
"I don't know! Aim for the eyes!"
Initially, more than 300 clones of Cardinal and Diamond varieties were developed in an Indonesian laboratory, and confined trials have been being run for the last three seasons. "My Gawd, doctor! The whole herd has broken out!"
Of them, only six clones were selected for the final trial. "Yes! The others got away! Call out the air force!"
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Nope. Almost nobody has. Or a wild type tomato. Or corn. Or a wild boar. Or cattle (aurochs went extinct in the 1600's, I believe). Or a jungle fowl vs a chicken.
It's a measure of how poorly educated a lot of college grads are that they don't know that almost every type of domesticated food plant is genetically modified.
It's called hybridization.
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These sexual lovers of science
Insist that we place our reliance
On hissy splenetics
Instead of genetics
Or presence of giant appliance.
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I was going to ask if it had served its full sentence or been released early for good behavior, but the provided snark was better.
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There was an old Dilbert bit about this kind of thing. Scott Adams didn't like the way it turned out so the vegetables were offed by Dogbert with a Salad Shooter that turned them all into cole slaw.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad- A source in the Iraqi Minidtry of Interior announced on Sunday, that eight soldiers had been either killed or wounded in an armed attack on a checkpoint of the Iraqi army west of Baghdad.
The source said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com,” Unidentified gunmen opened fire, this morning, at a checkpoint belonging to the Iraqi army in Zaidan village in Abu Ghraib District west of Baghdad, killing two of its members and wounding six others.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added, “A security force rushed to the area and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital to receive treatment and the dead bodies to the forensic medicine department, while a raid and search operation was carried out to find the attackers.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior announced on Sunday, that ten people had been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast south of Baghdad.
The source said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “A bomb exploded, before noon, near a popular market in Syed Abdullah village in Mahmudiyah District south of Baghdad, killing two people and injuring eight others.”
The source, who requested anonymity, added,”The security force rushed to the area and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment, and the dead bodies to the forensic medicine department.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Sunday, Baghdad Operations announced the killing of 14 fighters belonging to ISIS in a security operation while trying to sneak into areas in western Baghdad.
Baghdad Operations said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “The security forces killed 14 ISIS terrorists while trying to sneak into the areas of al-Sacrab and Silo Khan Dari in western Baghdad.”
The statement added, “Fire broke out in al-Sacrab area in western Baghdad as a result of ISIS attempt,” pointing out that, “The situation is now under control.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi police in Baghdad province said on Sunday, that five people have been wounded in a bomb blast west of Baghdad.
The source said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “An explosive device emplaced inside a house in the area of al-Zaidan in the district of Abu Gharib (west of Baghdad) has went off, resulting in the injury of five people, including two children and one woman,” adding that, “A security force transferred the injured to a hospital for treatment.”
[BBC] At least 31 people have been killed in bombings near a market in eastern Baghdad, Iraqi officials say.
The blasts happened at the Shia district of Sadr City and were caused by two suicide bombers. The so-called Islamic State (IS) group says its militants had carried out the attacks and more would follow. The mainly Sunni group, which controls large swathes of northern and western Iraq, has attacked numerous Shia targets in the country recently.
Sunday's blasts, the worst to hit Baghdad in recent months, injured at least 50 other people, Iraqi officials said. Pictures showed pools of blood on the ground with slippers, shoes and mobile phones at the site.
According to Ynet, the death toll has risen to 73, with 112 still hospitalized.
Gunmen killed a pro-government Sunni Salafist cleric on Sunday in Yemen’s main southern city of Aden, home to a growing militant presence, a security official said.
Sheikh Abdulrahman al-Adani was shot dead as he was heading to a mosque near his home, the official said. Adani headed a Salafist religious school which attracts both local and foreign students.
So, no big loss...
He was known for his stance against the Shiite Houthi rebels as well as against ISIS and Al-Qaeda which are becoming increasingly active in Aden, sources there said.
According to Zaid al-Sallami, an Aden-based expert on Islamist groups, Adani was known for “rejecting violence and terrorism.”
His murder was an attempt to “push moderate Salafist youths towards violence,” Sallami said.
Al-Qaeda and ISIS have stepped up attacks in Aden despite the efforts of the government and its backers in a Saudi-led coalition battling the Houthis and their allies to secure it.
In another sign of growing unrest in Aden, clashes broke out near the entrance to the presidential palace in the port city’s Crater district between presidential guards and soldiers demanding their salaries, an official told AFP. The fighting spread to nearby residential districts and there were casualties, the official and residents said.
President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi’s internationally recognized government has declared Aden the country’s provisional capital after the Houthis and their allies drove it out of Sanaa and much of northern Yemen since September 2014. The rebels controlled Aden for months before government loyalists pushed them out in July.
Because of the unrest gripping Aden, Hadi himself and many senior officials in his government spend most of their time in comfortable Riyadh, which has led an anti-rebel coalition since March 26 last year.
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KOBANE – The Islamic State (ISIS) radical group has banned private internet access in the city of Manbij in Syria’s northern Aleppo province, activists reported on Sunday.
The ISIS-affiliated Sharia Court issued a decision to close all private internet cafés across Manbij city. It also banned the residents from using any internet devices at home.
“The ban comes after the group carried out a campaign of arrests targeting media activists in Manbij,” local activist Nassir Taljbini told ARA News on the phone.
“ISIS tries to prevent media workers and rights activists from reporting on its atrocities in Manbij city. That’s the main reason for the new decision,” the source said.
The Sharia Court has vowed that anyone who violates the decision will be “mercilessly” punished.
Activists said that only ISIS-linked internet cafés are allowed to operate in Manbij, as the terror group can monitor online activities of the clients there.
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[DAWN] Jamaat-e-Ulema Islam (Fazl) chief Fazlur Rehman remained highly critical of 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.... Assembly’s recent pro-women enactment and termed it a law which is in conflict with the constitution and certain Shariah laws simultaneously.
While talking to journalist in Hyderabad on Saturday, the JUI-F chief described it as an NGO-driven legislation, saying "NGOs follow the west for their pecuniary interests".
Fazl maintained that this law seeks to intrude the privacy of every individual and it would torment Pakistain’s strong family structure which is something lacking in the West.
"Husband and wife are considered partners in the West, but it is not the case in Pakistain," he said and explained that the protection offered under this law is already available in the existing laws.
"Islam gives respect to women in a manner that no other law in the world ensures," said the JUI-F chief, adding that "this law makes a man insecure".
Fazl wondered "it is the same PML-N which didn’t sign pro-women legislation in Musharraf era but now it has gone even many steps further to introduce a controversial law".
What kind of distortion is this and what it wants to make of Pakistain? he asked and said "it is an attempt to make Pakistain a colony again".
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A policeman was killed and another 30 were detained during a joint operation between Afghan troops and U.S. forces last week against police suspected of supporting Taliban Death Eaters in embattled Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province, officials told Rooters on Sunday.
Reports of fighting between police and soldiers add to the upheaval in the southern province, long a stronghold of the insurgency, where the military has abandoned several outposts. The NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... -led coalition and the Afghan government are trying to overhaul security forces and reverse krazed killer gains there.
The incident on Friday was in Sangin district, the scene of some of the heaviest fighting in Afghanistan’s long war, Helmand police chief Abdul Rahman Sarjang told Rooters.
"Army forces detained the police and took them to the military corps in Helmand," Sarjang said. "An investigation is ongoing at the moment."
The acting Sangin district police chief was among the detainees, Sarjang said.
Sarjang refused to confirm the reason for the operation but a senior Afghan army official in Helmand told Rooters the army and U.S. advisers suspected the police of providing weapons and ammunition to the Taliban and that they had planned to eventually surrender to the krazed killers.
"During our investigation we found some evidence they were helping the Taliban and we were afraid they may submit the district to the Taliban," said the officer, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to discuss the operation. "We launched a joint operation with Americans and detained all of them."
The full extent of American involvement was not clear and a front man for the U.S. military in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The coalition recently deployed several hundred more troops to Helmand in a bid to increase security for the advisers helping Afghan forces. U.S. air strikes have also played an important role in trying to blunt Taliban offensives.
Almost 100 Afghan army officers were removed or reassigned in Helmand in recent months, and the army abandoned its outposts in several of the most hotly contested districts to redeploy elsewhere.
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(IraqiNews.com) Maysan – Maysan Police Directorate announced on Sunday the arrest of 15 wanted individuals on a variety of criminal offenses in the province.
Maysan police chief, Hussein al-Lami, said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “The police forces arrested 15 wanted individuals on various criminal offenses ranging from terrorism, premeditated murder and fraud crimes,” adding that, “This came through the police’s pursuit of law enforcement and implementation of the arrest warrants,” pointing out that, “The accused persons were referred to the concerned authorities.”
Life did not permit an appropriate review of Ian Toll's Six Frigates.
This is a follow-up to a previous This Week in Books:
The Food of Sante Fe
Dave DeWitt and Nancy Gerlach, et el.
Periplus, 1998
There is a photograph on Page 71 of a side dish which kept catching my eye, and finally had an opportunity to test it out, with variations.
Venison Red Chile Stew
Page 133
This is a recipe that has its roots in old Pueblo Indian cooking and is basically meat in a seasoned chile sauce. Pork and beef are more commonly used, but venison is a tasty variation.
(three (out of three possible) 'how much time?' emblems)
6 to 8 dried New Mexican red chiles
1 ancho chile
1 pasilla chile (optional)
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 pounds venison, cut into 1 1/2 inch cubes
1 large onion, chopped
3 garlic cloves, minced
3 cups beef broth
salt
Place the chiles on a baking pan and toast for 15 minutes, or until fragrant, being careful not to let them burn. Remove the stems and seeds from the chiles and crumble them into a bowl. Cover them with hot water and let them steep 15 minuts, until soft. Drain them and discard the water.
In a heavy skillet, heat the oil over medium heat, add the venison, and brown. Remove the meat and add the onion to the pan. Add more oil if necessary and saute until the onion begins to brown, 5 to 10 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for 1 to 2 minutes.
Place the chiles and onion mixture in a blender or food processor. Add 1 cup of the broth and puree until smooth, adding more broth if necessary. Strain the mixture through a sieve.
In a large saucepan, combine the chile mixture, venison, and remaining broth. Bring it to just below boiling, reduce the heat, and simmer until the meat is very tender and the sauce has thickened, 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Serves 4 to 6.
First, the 3/3 time requirement is an understatement. Even though I scaled the recipe, it still takes time to roast the chiles, de-seed, use the sieve, so forth. There are places to save time: the sauce ingredients all go into a blender, so mincing garlic and crumbling chiles is not a necessity. Chopping the onion does not require nice uniform pieces. Meat can be purchased already cut.
Me, I was immediately off recipe not only with my choice of meat, but also availability of the prescribed chiles. The process, though, was very similar. Overall, it is a doubling of what the recipe calls for with slight changes:
16 dried New Mexican red chiles
2 pasilla chiles (dried)
2 poblano chiles
2 habanero chiles (optional)
chili powder
corn oil (as needed)
5 pounds bison tenderloin, but into 1" pieces
2 large onions, cored and sliced
6 garlic cloves, crushed and peeled
5 cups beef broth
In the interest of letting the ingredients get to know each other, and a general lack of block time, I did this is three chapters.
Chapter 1 - sauce
This took all of 2 hours to complete.
Preheat the oven to 250F. Roast same kind chiles to the capacity of the oven. 15 minutes was right to roast but not burn them. As they are completed, remove from the oven, open, and de-seed. I just tore them into strips and set aside as completed.
The onion and garlic were prepared as I had time in between oven sessions. Also, a large pot of water was put on the stove and heated. With care, the onion can be sauteed with corn oil, then garlic added, while chiles are in the oven, but be careful not to burn the garlic.
When all the dried chiles are prepared, place them into the hot water for about 5 minutes then drain, reserving 1 cup of the water.
Place the ingredients into a food processor as capacity dictates; this may require several batches. Process into as thin a liquid as possible, then run the liquid through a sieve to eliminate any lumps.
Cover and store overnight.
Chapter 2 - Meat
Cube the meat as uniformly as possible. Pour sauce into a stock pot or other large pot, taking into account the volume the meat will add to the capacity. Warm the sauce but do not boil.
In a skillet, add corn oil, heat, and brown the meat. Drain. Add the meat back into the skillet and saute while dusting the meat with chili powder until all sides are coated and cooked.
Add the meat to the sauce and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer, covered, for 1 1/2 hour. Allow to cool, uncovered, and store in the refrigerator overnight.
Chapter 3 - Final Prep
Heat the mixture uncovered to allow further thickening of the sauce, serve in a bowl, or possible as a filling for tortillas.
Conclusion
Bison is normally a tough meat, but the tenderloin was soft. The cooking made the tenderloin fall apart to the bite and I was glad to have further sauteed the meat with the chili powder. Also, I initially did not add the habaneros until tasting the sauce. I added them, with very little addition to the spiciness.
To be clear, this is not a spicy recipe. I thought it needed a little something, and the habaneros add a bit of taste. Still, optional. Many in my family think ketchup can be spicy, and they were able to eat this comfortably. There was an incredibly complex taste which built upon itself bite after bite. It was well received by the participants, though one commented, "It looks like a can of dog food." Well, yeah, guess it did. Perhaps some work on the presentation would help, maybe some corn and pimento for some visual texture, or the leafy part of green onion.
I probably ended up with about a gallon of final product. I needed to make more but was restrained by the price of bison tenderloin. With the amount of cooking, a roast cut could likely be used with the same effect. I am sure beef or pork would be tasty as well, but am looking forward to trying venison.
This recipe, and the previous Mexican Corn Chowder, are side dish recipes. The main course recipes read like they would taste good, and I am interested in trying them and other locations offered with this series of books.
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I'd guess to get The Spice with habaneros, for me, I would at least quadruple the amount.
If ketchup is 1, and your mouth going the way of black hat guy at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 10, I live at about 7. My recipe is about a 3, and the original a 2.
I could see bell peppers with Big Spice.
Yes, the house smelled phenomenal for about a week. Wife was joking it was what brought all the coyotes into town.
Bison meat from northstarbison.com - it is a couple dollars and is good quality; smelled like someone was steeping a cup of sleepytime while I was browning.
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*and I am not drying the chiles, just warming them to aromatic.
If it were cooking outside weather, and I had a good cooker able to put out a consistent low temperature, that would add a different flavor to the sauce, especially something like a traeger or other low cooking smoker, and then maybe only those chiles which are fresh.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A local source in Nineveh said on Sunday, that the so-called ISIS executed 35 of its elements on charges of treason by firing squad west of NIneveh.
The source reported for IraqiNews.com, “Today, ISIS executed 35 of its elements by firing squad at Gazlani Camp west of Nineveh,” noting that, “The execution was carried out after the sentencing of the so-called legitimate judge in Nineveh Court,” adding that, “ISIS handed over the dead bodies to the forensic medicine department in Nineveh hospital.”
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[An Nahar] Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Wally Jumblat ... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... on Sunday warned 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... that its halt of military aid to Leb would only "weaken the Lebanese state" and that any "economic siege" on Leb would "impoverish all Lebanese."
"The response against Lebanese institutions will weaken the institutions and the State. Suspending the military aid will weaken the State and they (Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... ) will benefit from this," Jumblat cautioned during an interview with Orient News TV, which supports the Syrian opposition.
"An economic siege on Leb would impoverish all Lebanese and will not be useful, unless there are plans to undermine Lebanese stability and the Lebanese entity," Jumblat added.
His remarks come amid an unprecedented rift in the ties with Riyadh that has seen the kingdom halt around $4 billion in aid to Leb's army and security forces and advise its citizens against visiting the country.
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[An Nahar] Syria's main opposition grouping recorded 15 violations by government troops and allied forces on the first day of a landmark truce, a front man told news hounds on Sunday. Sounds like a replay of the Leb civil war.
"There were 15 violations by the regime forces on day one of the ceasefire, including two attacks by (Lebanese group) Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... in Zabadani" west of Damascus, said Salem al-Meslet, front man for the High Negotiations Committee.
Speaking by telephone from Riyadh, Meslet said the HNC would be lodging a formal letter of complaint with U.N. special envoy Staffan de Mistura, U.N. chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon and the foreign ministers of the International Syria Support Group.
The U.N.-backed deal came into effect on Saturday, with battle zones across the country going largely quiet despite some accusations of breaches.
The HNC announced earlier that 97 opposition factions had agreed to respect the truce, for two weeks initially.
Meslet said none of those groups had responded to the violations on Saturday.
"For the opposition forces there, nobody reacted because the decision is to remain quiet and I believe they will stick to the truce."
Meslet said the deal was "the first step in the right direction" to bring an end to the bloody conflict in Syria.
"The thing is, it is positive for us to see people relieved... We have violations here and there, but in general it is a lot better than before and people are comfortable," Meslet said.
"That is our main objective -- for our people there to be safe from this fear that has been there for five years now."
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Kingdom of 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... has reportedly condemned deadly attacks carried out by the Taliban group in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... and capital Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... which left scores of people dead.
According to the local media reports, citing official sources, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Saudi has strongly condemned the deadly attacks in Kunar and Kabul, branding them as terrorist attacks.
"The source reaffirmed the Kingdom’s solidarity with sister nations in the fight against terrorism, which targets the security and stability in all parts of the world without exception," the report said.
At least eleven people were killed and around 40 others were maimed after a jacket wallah targeted a local tribal elder in Asadabad, the scenic provincial capital of Kunar province.
Hours later, a suicide bomber targeted the military personnel close to the Ministry of Defense in capital Kabul, leaving at least 15 dead and 31 others maimed.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said 3 Army Sergeants, 3 servicemembers, 1 civilian worker, 1 civil engineer, serving with the Ministry of Defense were martyred along with 4 civilians in today’s attack.
MoD further added at least 31 people, including 9 army officers, including a woman, 3 army sergeants, 3 soldiers, and 11 civilian workers were maimed in the attack.
The Talibs group grabbed credit behind the attack in capital Kabul.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A distressing video has emerged from the northwestern Badghis province of Afghanistan which purportedly shows horrific torture of a tribal elder by the Talibs before he is executed.
Local police officials have confirmed that the tribal elder Haji Allah Dad was recently captured by the Talibs after he visited the Taliban-controlled area.
Provincial police chief Abdul Halim Saberi said the Haji Allah Dad was cooperating with the Afghan Local Police (ALP) forces in Khana Neshin area.
Saberi told BBC that the perpetrators involved in the brutal torture and murder of the tribal elder have been identified and efforts have been put in place to detain them.
He admitted that the arrest of the perpetrators would be difficult as Talibs are having major influence in Qads area where the tribal elder was tortured and killed.
The video was widely shared online on social media websites which purportedly shows humiliation of the elder besides he was brutally tortured.
The Talibs group has not commented regarding the execution of the tribal so far.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) have discovered a huge cache of Taliban weapons from the central Bamyan province of Afghanistan, local officials said Sunday.
The cache included various types of explosives and weapons, including the ones left from the Soviet era and the newly-supplied Iran-made weapons and explosives.
Provincial governor Mohammad Zahir Zahir told news hounds that the cache was discovered during a special operation conducted by the Afghan Intelligence -- National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) operatives.
The explosives and weapon were put on display which included 39 Improvised Explosive Device (IED), 31 rockets, 2 boxes of PK machine gun ammunition, and 25 rounds of RPG-7 rockets.
Zahir said the Iran-made weapons and explosives were also among the cache discovered by the security forces.
This comes as the Afghan government officials have long been criticizing the neighboring countries of the country, including Iran and Pakistain for supporting certain anti-government armed Lion of Islam groups.
The officials had earlier accused Iran for supporting the Taliban group, however the Iranian officials denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not!
The Iranian authorities have not commented regarding the discovery of Iran-made weapons and explosives from the Taliban weapons cache so far.
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[DAWN] Terrorism is a threat to both Pakistain and India and their cooperation in fighting the menace is helpful to the region, a State Department front man said on Friday.
In reply to a question at a regular briefing about cooperation between the two countries, especially in dealing with terrorist incidents, front man Mark Toner said that the United States had been very vocal in the past in encouraging cooperation between India and Pakistain.
"Clearly, terrorism is a threat to both countries, and if they can cooperate on these kinds of issues, we see it as helpful to the region," the front man said.
He described the Pakistain-US Strategic Dialogue, which will take place on Monday, as "very important" and said the US administration looked forward to it. The dialogue is about strengthening security and stability in the region.
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[DAWN] GUJRANWALA: Anti-Terrorism Court No 2 Judge Bushra Zaman on Saturday granted six-day physical remand of three suspects said to be involved in the Pathankot airbase attack and handed them over to the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD).
The suspects had been tossed in the clink You have the right to remain silent... by the CTD from a rented house near Chand Da Qila bypass over suspicion that they were controllers of the attack.
Suspects Khalid Mahmood, Irshadul Haque and Muhammad Shoaib denied charges and were shifted to some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location for investigation.
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[An Nahar] The Paleostinian Authority on Sunday said direct financial assistance by Iran to the families of Paleostinians killed in a five-month wave of violence would be unacceptable.
Tehran announced last week assistance would be offered to families of Paleostinians killed in the wave of violence that erupted in October, but the PA says such aid must follow official channels.
Paleostinian presidency front man Nabil Abu Rudeina, cited by local media, said bypassing the authority in handing out such funds would constitute illegal interference in internal Paleostinian affairs.
Iran should "send this money through official channels to the (PA's) Martyrs and Prisoners Foundation rather than relying on informal and circuitous routes," Abu Rudeina said.
Iran's ambassador to Leb, Mohammad Fathali, said Wednesday that Tehran would offer $7,000 to the families of each Paleostinian killed in what he called the "Jerusalem intifada."
Iran will also give $30,000 to Paleostinian families whose homes have been destroyed by Israel because a member is accused of carrying out an anti-Israeli attack, he told a news conference in Beirut.
The money pledged is in addition to the monthly aid paid since 1987 by an Iranian institution to families of Paleostinians killed, he said.
The wave of violence in Israel and the Paleostinian territories since October has killed 177 Paleostinians as well as 28 Israelis, an American, a Sudanese and an Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... n, according to an AFP toll.
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It's the direct (no graft) part what bother them.
[ELUNIVERSAL] Power rationing is not new for Venezuelans. Over the past fifteen years there have been some crises, such as that of 2009-2010, that have forced Venezuelans to adapt their lifestyle to power outages. What is new, however, is the seriousness of the current situation which, according to some experts, is expected to get worse over the next two months if the necessary measures are not taken immediately.
To major general Luis Alfredo Motta Domínguez, the Minister of Electricity and President of the National Electricity Corporation (Corpoelec) - a state-owned holding company created in 2007 to consolidate the power sector - the current crisis is a one-off problem due to the extensive drought associated with the recurring weather phenomenon commonly known as El Niño, which has caused water levels in the Central Hidroeléctrica Simón Bolívar (aka the Guri Dam) to drop to record-low levels.
It is worth noting that that the Guri Dam (with an installed capacity of 10,000 MW), located in Bolivar state, is the largest reservoir in Venezuela. Some 60% of all electrical power generated in Venezuela originates in the Guri dam and the other hydroelectric plants built across the Lower Caroní River, namely: Caruachi (2,200 MW) and Macagua (2,200 MW).
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So we should be seeing cracks, shifts and settling of the ground surrounding the water basin due to the 'drought'?
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Um, how many turbines are down due to laka maintence? El Niño, again? No, wait, the empire is stealing our 'lecktricty! They come at night to Puerto Cabello and load it from secret wires they placed for just this eventuality during the despicable reign of the ogliarchs during the 4th Republic.
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.
[Biznews.com] Two days after Nenegate, we reported that the UK’s largest retail bank Barclays Plc had decided to offload its R120bn South African subsidiary Absa. That marked a significant reversal in a strategy which has seen SA’s largest retail bank progressively change its image -- with the Absa red and name progressively giving way to Barclays blue -- including the listed company whose name was changed to Barclays Africa. But according to the Financial Times of London, the new Barclays management team has gone through the motions over the past three months and is set to confirm the biggest disinvestment in South Africa since the spate that hit the country during the mid 1980s. Sceptics are concerned that the Barclays sale will spark a similar exodus.
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Deputy Interior Minister for Security Affairs Hossein Zolfaqari said on Sunday that a terrorist plot in border town of Sumar, west Iran was discovered and neutralized, IRNA reported.
[An Nahar] Participants in a fragile ceasefire in Syria need to give peace a chance, U.S. officials said Sunday, following reports of truce violations on its second day.
Up to 70,000 migrants and refugees could soon be stranded in Greece, the leftist-led government has said, as it considers enlisting the help of the army to deal with the emergency.
Gunmen killed a pro-government Sunni Salafist cleric on Sunday in Yemen’s main southern city of Aden, home to a growing militant presence, a security official said.
[DAWN] Jamaat-e-Ulema Islam (Fazl) chief Fazlur Rehman remained highly critical of
Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling...
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
