On Thursday afternoon, a man walked into Discount Gun Sales in Beaverton, Oregon. He was carrying a baseball bat and a knife. He proceeded to smash a display case with the bat, and grab a handgun. The manager promptly grabbed his own gun, told the suspect to drop the weapon, the bat, and the knife, and then held the suspect at gunpoint until the police came and arrested the 22-year-old. Either he's got an IQ lower than a geranium or it's a call for help.
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A serious point: if replacing lead with [insert material here] means a better and lower-cost bullet (won't weigh less because its mass is an integral part of its stopping power), and along the way it turns out to be eco-friendly, who's to complain? Not me.
That's the way technology works.
But if it's a more expensive bullet that doesn't work as well then it's a problem.
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Did some quick research.
M855A1 - Enhanced Performance Round. It replaces the M855.
From Guns&Ammo: They juiced the round up so that it will fly at 3,100 fps. This would be a great achievement except for the fact that they did it by increasing the chamber pressure from 55,000 psi to 63,000 psi... I would be remiss if I didnt mention that the new round cuts barrel life by almost 50 percent.
But no amount of tuning is going to alter the fact that the EPR has a 5.5 MOA accuracy standard. 5.5 MOA? Seriously? The Mk 318 SOST round that the USMC has fielded in Afghanistan is held to a 2 MOA standard, but the latest and greatest round that its being replaced by is held to a 5.5 MOA standard?
Additionally, the Mk 318 has better terminal ballistics against soft targets, holds together better through intermediate barriers and costs half what the M855A1 costs. In this era of dramatic cost-cutting, it is absolutely mind-boggling as to why they are insisting on fielding a round so inferior in just about every aspect to one thats already in theater and pay twice as much for it! ... fares very poorly against windshield glass and other intermediate barriers. It also does not penetrate SAPI body armor or its equivalent.
You do know the California Assembly passed a resolution to ban lead ammo. J.Brown IIRC only needs to sign it.
Lastly if I read correctly, the slug is copper with a steel core. I hope it is - environmentalists be damned, muhahahaahaha. My grandfather warned me not to use copper nails when building my tree forts. Copper nails kill trees. And yup - a quick www search shows its true.
The report states that the gas exhausted from the rifles contained high levels of copper and zinc which account for all the symptoms suffered by the riflemen. A few, quite comical, short term solutions have been recommended. These include only shooting outside, slower rate of fire and spacing the shooters out more when at the range!
Most of these rounds will be fired on the range, and keeping lead out of them will avoid a lot of problems. However, in the field, I am not so sure they are a good deal for the solder.
A top Egyptian court has ordered the detention of ousted president Mohamed Morsi for 15 days pending investigations into suspected collaboration with Hamas. Morsi is accused of collaborating with Hamas to escape, along with other political prisoners, from prison and destroy prison records during the 2011 uprising; collaborating with Hamas to attack police stations during the uprising; the intentional killing and abduction of police officers and prisoners during the uprising, and espionage.
The alleged crimes are being investigated by a Cairo court that was given the task of determining how inmates -- including Morsi and other senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood -- escaped from prison in late January 2011 during the revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
Brotherhood spokesman Ahmed Aref said that he believed that the decision to detain Morsi was meant to show the international community that Morsi is being prosecuted. He asked, "Is there a lawyer attending the investigations with Dr. Morsi? Was Dr. Morsi given a chance to defend himself? Where is Dr. Morsi in the first place? And was he transferred to the investigating judge or did the judge go to him?"
Leading Brotherhood member Essam El-Erian said that the decision to detain Morsi exposed the true "fascist military regime" currently in Egypt. On his Facebook page, he said, "Announcing a decision to detain a legitimate president who has immunity, who should not stand a trial except under specific constitutional procedures, under very suspicious timing in the absence of the simplest concepts of the state of law as well in the absence of his lawyer, shows the nature of the current struggling fascist military regime. The answer to this will be peaceful million man protests in the squares. Our strength is in our peacefulness and our unity as a people against fascism, oppression and corruption."
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said, "Hamas condemns this move since it is based on the premise that the Hamas movement is hostile."
That might have something to do with all the little jihadis and weapons that have been pouring through the tunnels of Gaza into the Sinai, where they have been attacking the Egyptian army and civilians. Sane people consider such behaviour hostile.
Didn't they try this back home? Called it something like Quick'n'Angry...Anyone remember how that worked out?
WASHINGTON (Rooters) - The United States has quietly been testing the Syrian opposition's ability to deliver food rations, medical kits and money to rebel-held areas as Washington prepares to send arms to the rebel fighters. Lots of logistical "testing" since Benghazi, one would assume. I don't think anyone's ever had trouble 'delivering' money...
U.S. officials meet weekly in Turkey with Syrian opposition leaders to work out how best to keep supply lines open to rebel fighters and war-ravaged towns and districts. Ah yes, the old personal meeting with the Turk embassy fellow again.
One of the Syrian opposition's best-known female formerly clandestine operators leaders, Suhair al-Atassi, attends the meetings as coordinator of the "non-lethal" aid that includes equipment for rebel fighters and local councils, as opposed to humanitarian aid for the displaced. The diplaced, councils, fighters....What differences does it make, and thanks for outing me fokwads ?
Supplies are handed to officers of the moderate Free Syrian Army (FSA) at clandestine locations that cannot be divulged for security reasons. "Moderate" meaning.... non-cannibal ?
"I sign the paperwork, and shake the hands of the FSA official," said a U.S. State Department official involved in the effort. "I wish them well and walk away." Lucky you, State Dept. person.
The rebels take aid for their own units and also distribute some of it to schools, clinics and local councils. At least that's what they tell me they're doing with it.
Interesting, because PRISM like surveillance led to the capture of the terrorists.
NEW DELHI: The bombers from Indian Mujahideen's Azamgarh cell who were tracked down to Batla House in Delhi would have carried on with their murderous campaign had it not been for a blunder by a key member of what is essentially a Lashkar-sponsored gang.
Sources familiar with one the most successful counter-terror operations said the hunt for the terrorists responsible for slaughtering hundreds of innocents appeared to be heading nowhere until Dr Shahnawaz, a leading member of the Azamgarh cell of IM, broke the standard operating procedure to contact the chief bomber of the module, Atif Amin, on the mobile that the latter had acquired for carrying out serial bomb attacks in Gujarat in 2008.
The number, 9714552899, was one of four that Atif and other IM members involved in the Gujarat operation had acquired. The four numbers would take calls only from each other and from PCOs. The protocol, put in place to dodge surveillance, was strictly followed, except on one occasion when Dr Shahnawaz let his guard down. Breaking from the agreed operational code, he used his mobile phone 9415835381 to contact Amin who had assumed the alias of Bashir Bhai for engineering the attacks in Gujarat.
The solitary deviation would by itself have not led to a breakthrough if the Intelligence Bureau, working with counter-terror agencies in Gujarat and Mumbai, had not chanced upon Afzal Mutaliq Usmani. A car thief from Navi Mumbai, Usmani was arrested after being identified as the person who had delivered two cars to be used in the Gujarat bombings.
Usmani provided a chest of information about the operation, including that Bashir Bhai, "a bucktoothed man with his hair slicked back" and the team leader of the Gujarat bombers, used the mobile number 9714552899. Luckily for the investigators, Usmani had traveled with Atif alias Bashir and the other alleged bombers when they returned to their base. He also disclosed that he accompanied the bombers to Batla House before catching a train for Pune.
Although Atif did not take them to L-18, their hideout, the information about Batla House emerged as the probe progressed. Especially because an analysis of the details of mobile towers showed up the location of the phone number 9714552899 in the Batla House locality between July 16-23. The analysis also showed that the phone, which had become inactive on July 27, a day after the Ahmedabad serial blast, was active for a long time around New Delhi's Nizamuddin railway station on July 21: the day, as subsequent investigations showed, Atif and other members booked return ticket for Ahmedabad.
This presence in Delhi of a mobile registered in Gujarat struck the counter-terror wing of the IB and other agencies. A trawl through its call details threw up Shahnawaz's number -- 9415835381. Soon, the investigators mining the data of this BSNL number from UP came across the fact that the leading member of IM would regularly call 9811004309.
A quick investigation showed that the Vodafone number was registered in the name of Atif Amin. On the face of it, nothing seemed to be amiss. It was a post-paid number and the address given, L-18, Batla House had even been verified. However, noting the coincidence of the presence of Gujarat number 9714552899 in the immediate vicinity of 9811004309 around Batla House, IB advised Delhi Police to check the address.
"We had a suspicion of sorts that either the gang itself had hired the premises or the occupant was providing shelter to the bombers. But we were far from sure," said a senior police officer who monitored the operation and coordinated with counter-terror units of different states.
The suspicion was the reason why a Delhi Police special cell personnel visited L-18 posing as a customer care representative of Vodafone. While he heard many voices coming from inside, the cop was intrigued when his knocks received no response. He alerted Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma, waiting downstairs, who walked in, least suspecting that he would soon be faced with one of the deadliest bunch of terrorists.
[Ynet] Protesters set fire to the headquarters of Tunisia's Islamist ruling party Ennahda in the city of Sidi Bouzid after the liquidation of opposition figure Mohamed Brahmi on Thursday, witnesses said.
Brahmi, who belonged to the nationalist and secular Popular Party, was rubbed out outside his house in the capital Tunis. Ennahda strongly condemned the killing.
[Ynet] In response to the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's decision to ban contracts with Israel pertaining to disputed territories, Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon instructed the IDF and the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories to stop cooperating with EU representatives in the West Bank and Gazoo.
So because some Europeans (but not Germany) have decided to be pissy, their little pets the Palestinians will no longer get EU money for nothing.
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While not stated, the West Bank and Bazoo may not be the only areas where "cooperation" ends. Good luck with your little elephant on the room Euros.
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As I said yesterday, I hope Israel does this on a country by country rather than EU basis. Anything that puts stress on the structure of the EU the better.
[AnNahar] Fears of an outbreak of the deadly MERS virus in 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... and construction in the holy city of Mecca have forced cuts in the numbers of pilgrims permitted to perform this year's hajj.
Millions of Musselmens during the annual pilgrimage head to Mecca and Medina, Islam's two holiest sites, providing a possible means for MERS to spread around the globe as pilgrims who may become infected return to their home countries.
Fearful of such a scenario, the authorities have reduced by half the number of pilgrims coming from within Saudi Arabia, and by about 20 percent those from abroad.
"This is an exceptional and temporary decision," Hajj Minister Bandar Hajjar announced last month.
MERS, short for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus which can lead to acute pneumonis and renal failure, claimed its first victim in Saudi Arabia in June 2012.
Saudi Arabia, which has already recorded 69 MERS cases, 38 of whom have died, has urged the elderly and chronically ill, as well as children and pregnant women, not to perform the annual hajj that falls this year in October.
But the health ministry so far has not taken any special measures at airports to detect visitors who may be infected with MERS, deputy health minister Ziad Memish told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"We have not taken any precautionary measures at airports since the World Health Organisation has not recommended them," he said.
WHO health security chief Keiji Fukuda said the organization would issue general guidelines aimed at minimizing the risk of infections spreading.
"We do recognize that this is a risk for travelers and that there are certain steps that individual travelers and countries can take, for example for people who have serious medical conditions," Fukuda told news hounds.
Since then, a total of 90 cases and 45 confirmed MERS deaths have been recorded worldwide, in countries including Jordan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, Tunisia, Britannia, La Belle France and Italia.
But most cases have been reported in Saudi Arabia.
Experts are struggling to understand MERS, for which there is no vaccine.
MERS does not appear to spread easily but currently has an extremely high fatality rate of 55 percent. It is a cousin of SARS, which erupted in Asia in 2003 and infected 8,273 people, nine percent of whom died.
Like SARS, MERS is thought to have jumped from animals to humans, and shares the former's flu-like symptoms -- but differs by causing kidney failure.
The 2012 hajj drew 3.1 million people -- and this year's event likewise occurs in October, as the northern hemisphere slides into the season for coughs and sneezes.
-- 'We have to be worried' --
So far, MERS has essentially been found in nations with health services capable of tracing and tackling such diseases. But the hajj draws a broad spectrum of Musselmens, including from poor countries which struggle to cope even with commonplace diseases.
The hajj has successfully ridden out two previous viral episodes in the past decade -- SARS in 2003 and H1N1 influenza in 2009.
The difference this time is that Saudi Arabia itself is the apparent incubator of MERS.
Leading virologist Laurent Kaiser of Geneva University Hospitals told AFP: "It's really a balance between too much precaution and no precaution. At this time, we have to be worried, we have to be careful."
So far no outbreaks of the virus have been reported in Mecca where millions of Musselmen faithful have for months been performing the minor pilgrimage umrah that takes place all year round.
"Their numbers have reached five million since the beginning of the umrah season" 10 months ago, Mecca governor Prince Khaled al-Faisal said on Sunday.
"There are currently 400,000 pilgrims" in the kingdom's holiest shrines Mecca and Medina, Faisal added.
Aside from the virus fears, Saudi authorities have also cited construction work to expand the Grand Mosque in Mecca as reason to keep down the number of pilgrims being allowed to perform this year's hajj.
Hajjar said the expansion work would increase the area of the mosque by 400,000 square meters (4.3 million square feet), raising its capacity to accommodate 2.2 million people at the same time.
The mosque houses the Kaaba -- the cube-shaped structure towards which Musselmens worldwide pray.
Hajj officials have also reported a decrease in the numbers of pilgrims performing umrah during the Musselmen fasting month of Ramadan that began on July 10, compared with past years, due to the expansion work.
"Companies here have received permits for 500,000 pilgrims from all over the world for Ramadan, while this number was one million last year," a board member of the Mecca Chamber of Commerce, Saad al-Qurashi, told AFP.
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The broadest probe yet into the deadly MERS virus that erupted in Saudi Arabia last year says older patients, men, and people with underlying medical conditions are particularly at risk.
[AnNahar] More than 100,000 people have now been killed in the Syria civil war, U.N. leader the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... said Thursday as he appealed for new efforts to convene a peace conference.
On the ground, violence raged in the flashpoint city of Homs and a boom-mobileing in Damascus killed 10 people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The U.N. chief and U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... told news hounds at the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... that there could be no military solution to the 28-month-old conflict.
The Britannia-based Observatory has previously reported that the corpse count had crossed the 100,000 threshold.
On Thursday, Ban said: "More than 100,000 people have been killed, millions of people have either been displaced or become refugees in neighboring countries.
"We have to bring this to an end. The military and violent actions must be stopped by both parties, and it is thus imperative to have a peace conference in Geneva as soon as possible."
The United States and Russia vowed in May to press for a follow-up to a peace conference held in Geneva last year, which set out a transition plan.
However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... divisions in the international community and disagreements between the Syrian regime and opposition about the goals of such a conference have blocked efforts.
Syrian National Coalition president Ahmad Jarba was in New York on Thursday for talks with Kerry ahead of a Friday meeting with U.N. Security Council envoys.
Kerry said there are "enormous levels of suffering".
"There is no military solution to Syria, there is only a political solution. That will require leadership in order to bring people to the table," he added.
Kerry said he spoke on Wednesday with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
"We remain committed to the effort to bring the parties to a Geneva II, to implement Geneva I, and we will try our hardest to make that happen as soon as is possible," he said.
Ban has previously said he would like a peace conference in September. But U.N. diplomats say the conflict is now so bitter that they doubt the two sides can be brought to the negotiating table.
"The chances of a meaningful peace conference are now zero, but the U.S. and U.N. can't admit that," said Richard Gowan of New York University's Center for International Cooperation.
U.S. President Barack Obama I am not a dictator!... 's plan to provide vetted Syrian rebels with weapons and strategic military aid is gaining traction in Congress, according to U.S. politicians.
Washington is currently providing humanitarian and non-lethal military aid to rebel groups.
The U.S. government promised an expansion of military aid to Syria's rebel forces in June after accusing Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... 's forces of using chemical weapons, but such aid has yet to be disbursed.
Ban also said that two U.N. envoys had completed talks in Damascus on seeking access for U.N. inspectors for an inquiry on the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
Ake Sellstrom, head of the inquiry, and Angela Kane, the U.N. high representative for disarmament, arrived in Damascus on Tuesday.
"They are coming out of Syria now, we will get the report soon," Ban said.
On the ground, the fighting was intense, especially around rebel areas of Homs in central Syria, which the army has besieged for more than a year, said the Observatory.
Homs-based activist Yazan said the current army offensive was entering its fourth week, and added that for the second time this week, the historic Khaled Bin Walid mosque was hit by regime shelling.
The Syrian Observatory said a car kaboom in Jaramana, a Christian-Druze suburb of Damascus, killed 10 people. State television had earlier reported a toll of seven dead.
Thursday's violence comes two weeks into the Mohammedan fasting month of Ramadan. During this fortnight alone, at least 2,014 people, mostly combatants, have been killed in the conflict, the Observatory said.
More than 1,323 of the dead were pro- and anti-regime fighters, it said.
The toll for combatants killed has spiked "because the intensity of the fighting is escalating", Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse.
[Real Clear Politics] House Minority Leader Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... Bay Area, born into a family of politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace... smacked two of her former male fellow wardheelers currently embroiled in sex scandals with some tough advice: "Get a clue."
Looks like the internal polls are back and it's not looking good for the Democratic brand right now...
Pelosi called the recent actions of New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Carlos Danger Weiner ...aka Hot Dog Tony, the remarkably offensive sex maniac New York congressman who resigned in 2011, then decided everybody had forgotten by 2013, when he decided to run for mayor of New York City... , who admitted to sending lewd pictures and messages to a young woman after he resigned from Congress for similar behavior, and San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, who is accused of sexually harassing female staffers and colleagues, "reprehensible."
"It is so disrespectful of women. And what's really stunning about it is that they don't even realize it," the first woman speaker of the House told news hounds at a presser Thursday. "They don't even have a clue. If they are clueless, get a clue. If they need therapy, get it in private."
Weiner served six terms in Congress before resigning in 2011 after tweeting pictures of his privates to women online. This week, a blog called "The Dirty" revealed that Weiner had continued the behavior, sending sexually explicit messages under the pseudonym "Carlos Danger" nearly a year after he left Congress and a few months after his son was born. Weiner addressed the issue in a presser this week, but said he had warned upon his resignation that such information would come forth.
Weiner has refused to drop out of the race, even amid calls to do so by the likes of the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... editorial board.
A new Wall Street Journal-NBC4-Marist poll taken after the most recent revelations found Weiner slipping to third in the race for the Democratic nomination, 10 points behind City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
In 2011, Pelosi and other Democrats called for Weiner to leave Congress. But the minority leader stopped short Thursday of encouraging the disgraced candidate to leave the mayor's race. "That's up to the people of New York," she said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the entire 614th quadrant searched. The Green Lensman must be found!... a third woman came forward this week to accuse Filner, Pelosi's former Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, colleague, of sexual harassment. Filner, who left Congress in 2012 after 10 years to run for mayor of San Diego, has refused to resign, saying only that he has "failed to fully respect the women who work for me and with me." He has also admitted, "I need help."
Pelosi has previously refused to weigh in on Filner's actions until now, though she told news hounds last week, "Don't identify him as my former colleague."
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Yokay, I'll bite - "Carlos Danger" = "Danger Close", as oppos to "Clueless Danger" or "Clothesless Danger", "Cloth Daaanger", etc.???
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remember she was going to "drain the swamp". This is obviously decades of exposure to swamp gas
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Pelosi has previously refused to weigh in on Filner's actions until now, though she told news hounds last week, "Don't identify him as my former colleague."
Because he (and Weiner) are not in a position to benefit her.
At least two people were killed during the skirmishes in the Lower Shebelle region, on Tuesday night.
Al Shabab fighters targeted government troops in Balidoogle area, according to military officials, two attackers were killed in the battle. This week, at least 10 people have been killed in night time attacks in the capital Mogadishu.
[AnNahar] Bombs went kaboom! near shops and cafes in Iraq on Thursday night, killing at least 17 people and wounding at least 25, officials said.
The blasts struck after the iftar meal that breaks the daily fast during the Mohammedan holy month of Ramadan, at a time when many people go shopping or relax in cafes.
[AnNahar] The Taliban poisoned and captured at least 12 coppers as they broke their fast during the holy Moslem month of Ramadan in an attack in southern Afghanistan, officials said Thursday.
The attack took place in Zabul province, where the Death Eater militia is believed to have a strong presence despite numerous operations by Afghanistan's Western-backed government security forces.
"Tragically, 12 coppers were poisoned and then taken away in a mini-van after breaking their fast yesterday evening in Shahjoy district of Zabul," Shah Nazanin, the district police chief, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"The incident happened at a police check post. It was the work of Taliban gunnies and probably one of their infiltrators was behind this attack," Nazanin added.
The militia, which ruled in Kabul from 1996 to the 2001 U.S.-led invasion, has frequently claimed to have infiltrated the ranks of the Afghan army and police, being trained by U.S.-led NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... troops.
Zabul provincial police chief, Ghulam Sakhi Roghliwani, confirmed the attack and said the coppers went missing after they were poisoned.
The Taliban grabbed credit.
Spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said Taliban fighters attacked the check post with the help of infiltrators and captured 12 coppers.
He said in a statement that they would be punished under sharia law over complaints from residents that police allegedly tortured people.
Government forces have formally taken responsibility for security from U.S.-led NATO troops due to leave the country next year. But there are concerns about their ability to stand against the Taliban unaided.
Afghanistan's 350,000-strong security forces are suffering a steep rise in attacks as the NATO combat mission winds down.
[AnNahar] Russia has received a letter from the United States spelling out its position over intelligence leaker Edward Snowden whose month-long stay in a Moscow airport has led to new tensions in diplomatic ties, the justice ministry said Thursday.
"On July 24, 2013, the Russian justice ministry received a letter from U.S. Attorney General Eric Inaction Jackson Holder ... aka Mister Fast and Furious... which explains certain aspects of the U.S. position on the issue of ex-CIA employee Edward Snowden's status," the ministry said in a written statement sent to Agence La Belle France Presse.
"The document does not contain requests about extradition or deportation," said the statement without providing further details.
The letter arrived Wednesday, the same day Snowden was widely expected to leave the transit zone of Sheremetyevo airport but failed to emerge at the last moment.
Washington wants to prosecute the former National Security Agency contractor on espionage charges for revealing details of a vast spying program and has repeatedly pressed Moscow to send him back to the United States.
The Kremlin has defied calls to extradite him, saying there was no such agreement between the two countries, but also indicated it does not want to see ties damaged over Snowden.
The now famous runaway has been marooned in Sheremetyevo airport since arriving from Hong Kong on June 23. He applied for temporary asylum in Russia last week and had been widely expected to be given a pass to enter into Russia proper on Wednesday.
A pro-Kremlin lawyer assisting Snowden with his asylum request, Anatoly Kucherena, told news hounds however that Snowden was so far staying at the airport and the legal process was taking longer than expected.
[AnNahar] A second Syrian suspected of involvement in a bombing of a Hizbullah convoy in the eastern Bekaa Valley earlier this month was tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! by the Army Intelligence on Thursday.
Media reports said the Syrian was seized during a raid in the town of Majdal Anjar. He is a relative of another Syrian who was arrested by the army on Monday.
The two Syrians are suspected of planting the explosives that targeted the convoy near al-Masnaa border crossing with Syria on July 16.
The bombing is the fourth time that a vehicle has been targeted by an bomb in the Bekaa region, which is a stronghold of Hizbullah.
The attacks come as the party gets increasingly involved in the war in Syria. It has sent its members to bolster Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... 's forces in their assault on some rebel-held areas.
Since then, Leb has seen a spike in Sunni-Shiite tensions that has sparked gunbattles in several cities around the country.
Many Lebanese Sunnis support the overwhelmingly Sunni uprising against Assad in Syria, while Shiites generally back Hizbullah and the regime in Damascus.
[AnNahar] The bodyguard of Salafist holy man Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir, a Paleostinian, was tossed in the calaboose Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! on Thursday at Beirut's Rafik Hariri International airport, media reports said.
Security agencies opened an investigation with 30-year-old Ali Abdul Wahad, who was heading to an African country aboard Egypt Air.
According to the reports, Abdul Wahad was detained at dawn.
State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr had ordered his arrest.
Abdul Wahad was referred to the army intelligence for preliminary interrogation.
Asir's supporters opened fire on an army checkpoint, late last month, leaving around 18 soldiers and more than 20 gunnies dead.
The gunbattles concentrated in the area of Bilal Bin Rabah Mosque and nearby buildings in Abra.
Asir, a 45-year-old holy man who supports the overwhelmingly Sunni rebels fighting to topple Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... , is no where to be found along with Fadel Shaker.
Asir teamed up with Shaker, a onetime prominent singer, when around two years ago he began agitating for Hizbullah to disarm.
[AnNahar] Bulgaria released pictures Thursday of two suspected helpers of a bomber who blew up a bus packed with Israeli tourists last year, identifying them as an Australian and a Canadian.
"A year after the kaboom on a bus with Israeli tourists that killed five Israelis and one Bulgarian citizen, the authorities are seeking public assistance for information on two people suspected of having links to the attack," the interior ministry said in a statement.
The two were identified as 32-year-old Australian Maliad Farah, also known as Hussein Hussein -- a bearded man with dark hair, thick black eyebrows and brownish eyes -- and 25-year-old Canadian Hassan El Hajj Hassan -- a man of lighter complexion, with a closely shaved head and a goatee.
Bulgaria had already announced that an Australian and a Canadian linked to the military wing of Hizbullah had aided the still unidentified bomber, who was killed at the scene of the July 18, 2012 attack at the Black Sea airport of Burgas.
The interior ministry said Thursday the men had been spotted several Black Sea resorts between June 28 and July 18 last year.
Prosecutors suspect them of registering in hotels and renting cars under three fake identities -- Brian Jeremiah Jameson, Jacque Philippe Martin and Ralph William Rico, it added.
Two identical counterfeit U.S. driver's licenses in the names of Martin and Rico were recovered by police shortly after the attack, both carrying traces that matched the DNA profile extracted from the remains of the bomber, allowing Sherlocks to track down the people who used them and establish their link to the attack.
Israel blamed Iran and its Lebanese "terrorist proxy" Hizbullah for the bombing, the deadliest attack on Israelis abroad since 2004 and the first in a EU member state.
It took Bulgaria six months to make what it called a "justified conclusion" that Hizbullah was behind the attack.
More than a year on, the investigation is still bogged down by lengthy procedures for collecting witness testimony from Israel and legal assistance reports from abroad.
The case, however, played a role in the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... decision on Monday to blacklist Hizbullah's military wing as a terrorist organization.
An Ivorian army officer close to ex-president, Laurent Gbabgo has been arrested in Niger and extradited to Abidjan, where he is being detained upon directive from the body in charge of security (DST), judicial sources confirmed to APA.Captain Urbain Bley, an ex-presidential guard under Gbagbo was caught on 15 July in Niger and extradited to Cote dIvoire on 20 July.
He is being held at the DST and we do not know the reason behind his arrest, one of his lawyers Rodrigue Dadjé declared.
38-yr-old Captain Bley was an aide-de-camp to the Army Chief of Staff, Philippe Mangou under ex president Laurent Gbabgos rule.
Several pro-Gbagbo officials who had found refuge in neighboring Ghana have also been arrested, including Charles Ble Goude caught on 17 January and extradited, Jean Noel Abehi, an ex-gendarmerie commander and Jean Yves Dibopieu the former leader of the youth vigilant group Patriotic Galaxy.
The Second Smartest Man In The Room Strikes Again.
[AnNahar] U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... appeared to have flubbed his lines on Thursday when he referred to the Paleostinian territories as a country.
Speaking at the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... ahead of talks with U.N. chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... , Kerry praised the "courageous decision" by Israeli and Paleostinian leaders to try to resume direct negotiations.
"It's my hope that that will be able to happen as procedures are put in place by both countries in order to empower that," Kerry told news hounds.
The final status of the Paleostinian territories has yet to be determined, although the U.S. goal is two states -- one Israeli and one Paleostinian -- living side by side.
State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf assured news hounds later that U.S. policy had not changed.
"Our position has not changed not on the status of the Paleostinian territory. The secretary was in no way indicating a change of policy," she said.
Later asked about his comment, Kerry replied: "Did I say that?"
Last week, Kerry appeared to have achieved a breakthrough deal to get the two sides to return to the negotiating table after a three-year break.
No date has yet been set, although an Israeli minister said that the talks would begin on Tuesday in Washington.
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If Jahwn and Champ had a choice they'd destroy Texas first, then Israel...
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Clearly that is Eric Holder's job. They thought they had some momentum after Windy, but sticking tampons in your ears is a levels of stupid not even Snooki reaches on a two bottle night.
Jawn is the natural choice for this front; I'm quite certain he would broker a peace for Israel based on his success with South Vietnam.
[Ynet] Emboldened forces of Evil in Iraq set up their own checkpoint to kill drivers and bombed crowded cafes Thursday in the deadliest of a series of attacks that killed at least 42 people, authorities said.
More than 550 people have been killed in violent attacks so far this month, according to an News Agency that Dare Not be Named count, as violence continues during the Mohammedan holy month of Ramadan. The speaker of Iraqi parliament even has acknowledged that insecurity in the nation likely will get worse after a massive al-Qaeda-claimed prison break freed hundreds of inmates.
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Being rude to the President of La Belle France is no longer an automatic criminal offence, La Belle France's parliament agreed today.
In the interests of free speech, MPs revoked legislation dating back to 1881 when anything judged to have 'offended the head of state' risked an automatic fine.
The change followed the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling in March that La Belle France violated a demonstrator's right to freedom of expression when he referred to Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd President of the French Republic. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... as a 'jerk'.
Mr Sarkozy, the notoriously aggressive 5ft 5ins conservative, became the butt of numerous jokes during his five years in office, which ended last year.
But when a demonstrator held up a placard reading 'Get Lost Jerk' at a Sarkozy meeting in western La Belle France in 2008, he received a criminal conviction and a fine of around 25 pounds.
This was despite exactly the same expression being used by Sarkozy himself months earlier while he was attending an agricultural show in Gay Paree.
Last year ECHR deemed the punishment handed down to Sarkozy's tormentor as being disproportionate and a violation of freedom of expression, as the act was a 'satirical remark.'
The ECHR acknowledged that the insult constituted 'criticism of a political nature' for which 'freedom of expression was of the highest importance.'
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On Saturday night, Israelis were among those who attended a British musician and former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters' concert in Belgium. Even as Waters is a known activist pushing for the boycott of Israel, Israelis were still amazed to see that the show included a blatantly anti-Semitic display.
Toward its end, a black balloon in the shape of a wild pig was released to the sky, on it a Star of David, in the company of symbols of dictatorial organizations and regimes from around the world.
"I came to the concert because I really like his music, without any connection to his political stance toward Israel," says Alon Onfus Asif, an Israeli living in Belgium. "And I had a lot of fun, until I noticed the Star of David, on the inflatable pig. That was the only religious-national symbol which appeared among other symbols for fascism, dictatorships and oppression of people. Waters crossed the line and gave expression to an anti-Semitic message, beyond all his messages of anti-militancy." Pic of Pig with Star of David at link
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That's idiocy, but it's not anti-semitism. We shouldn't imitate liberals by grandstanding and making false accusations of bigotry.
By the way, I hate Waters. He hasn't done anything good since Dark Side. The Wall and Wish You Were Here are overrated. Even as an ignorant, apolitical junior high schooler, I recognized that The Final Cut was awful dreck with its mewling about evils of Margaret Thatcher. He's a dumb lefty and an overrated artist.
But I'm against accusing people of bigotry for actions that can be ascribed to (bad) ideology. It's sad that he and other musicians feel the need to oppose the one country in the region where their music is appreciated. But that's what leftardism does.
Seven international peacekeepers were killed Saturday when they came under heavy fire while on patrol in Sudan's Darfur region, a spokesman for the United Nations Mission in Darfur said. As many as 17 peacekeepers were also injured in the ambush.
Two of those wounded were female.
The "extended firefight" happened near Khor Abeche in South Darfur, the African Union/United Nations-led force said in a statement.
Arson investigators were called to the scene of an explosion and fire at a vacant Akron house on the city's north side Thursday morning. There was no one in the residence when it caught fire, officials said.
Investigators had not determined there had been an explosion, but said witnesses described hearing "a kaboom" before they saw flames. He noted it was strange to get that kind of call in the middle of the day.
A car bomb killed at least seven people and wounded 62 on Thursday when it exploded on the edge of the Syrian capital Damascus, state media said.
State news agency SANA said the bomb hit the Al Siyouf Square in Jaramanah. It blamed terrorists, a term the Syrian government uses for rebels who are fighting a two-year-old civil war against President Bashar Al Assad.
Bombs have previously hit Jaramanah, a religiously mixed area that houses supporters and opponents of Assad but which is under army control.
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A fresh wave of violence in Sudans western region of Darfur has prompted more than 250,000 people to flee their villages and abandon their livelihoods since the start of the year, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said Tuesday. The decade-long conflict has escalated recently, due to inter-tribal conflicts over agricultural land and resources, creating the largest wave of population displacement that the region has seen in recent years and straining WFPs ability to feed vulnerable families.
We are deeply concerned with the developing situation which threatens fragile food security in this region, said WFP Sudan Country Director Adnan Khan in a statement issued in Nairobi.
Nigers interior minister said a body fell from an Air France plane as it approached the West African countrys capital, Niamey, and was discovered lifeless.
They usually are quite lifeless-like after falling out of a plane...
Abdou Labo said a resident was standing just a few metres from where the body landed around 5am on Thursday. He said police arrived and found the lifeless body of a black person, lying in blood.
He also said blood had been spotted on the left wing of the plane.
Labo said the plane was coming from Burkina Fasos capital, Ouagadougou, and was scheduled to continue to Paris.
Officials were holding the plane in Niamey so crew members and passengers could be interviewed. Investigators in Ouagadougou are also looking into the conditions in which the passengers boarded.
Sounds like someone wanted to smuggle himself to Europe and hid in a wheel-well...
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- A spooked cow killed a Palestinian man who was trying to slaughter the beast on Saturday during the Muslim celebration of Eid al-Adha, a Gaza health official said.
Muslims around the world slaughter sheep, cows and goats, during the four-day holiday that began Friday, giving away much of the meat to the poor. The Muslim holiday commemorates the sacrifice by the Prophet Ibrahim, known to Christians and Jews as Abraham.
But accidents are common as people frequently buy animals to slaughter themselves instead of paying professional butchers. The festive atmosphere at the site of the slaughtering also tends to make the animals fidgety.
The 52-year-old man who died was trampled to death, and another three people were seriously injured when the cow ran wild in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, said health official Ashraf al-Kidra
The UN Security Council Wednesday condemned the flow of weapons and ammunition to and through Somalia and Eritrea in violation of arms embargoes against both countries.
A resolution adopted unanimously by the council called the arms flow "a serious threat to peace and stability in the region."
The council reaffirmed the arms embargoes on Somalia and Eritrea but gave a green light for Somalia to import some military equipment and provide assistance or training for its security forces until March 6, 2014.
North Korea on Thursday threatened to re-station troops at a stalled inter-Korean factory park located just across the tense border separating the two Koreas, as minor scuffles reportedly broke out between delegates from the rivals after failed talks meant to restart the complex.
Time for South Korea to leave the Kaesong complex for good ... and burn it down...
Pyongyang has warned Seoul before that it would bring back the military units that were stationed at the North Korean border city of Kaesong before the factory park was set up there in 2004 during a previous period of detente between the rivals.
Analysts said the latest threat was an effort to pressure Seoul to agree to a quick reopening of the industrial complex, which provided badly needed hard currency to Pyongyang. The complex was shut in April amid dueling threats of war following UN sanctions against North Koreas February nuclear test.
Pool reports from South Korean media stationed outside the closed-door meeting at Kaesong between the Koreas said frustrated North Koreans issued the warning directly to South Korean reporters after the talks ended without a breakthrough. The reports said that brief scuffles erupted as Seoul officials tried to stop North Koreans from talking to journalists.
The pool reports said the North Korean delegates also distributed documents about speeches and proposals they made during the talks with South Korea. South Korean officials tried to retrieve the documents from South Korean reporters, triggering protests from the reporters, the reports said.
They can't be that worried about Pudgy's speeches getting out, can they?
South Korean officials took the North Korean delegates out of the room, and a North Korean delegate insulted South Korean officials, reportedly calling them bums and gangsters. Chief North Korean delegate Pak Chol Su told reporters that North Korea made sincere efforts to resume operations at the complex, according to the pool reports.
Later on Thursday, South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Hyung-suk told reporters that Seoul would make a grave decision if North Korea doesnt provide a guarantee that it wont engineer future unilateral Kaesong shutdowns.
Would you believe them if they did provide such a guarantee?
He didnt elaborate, but said he believes Kaesongs fate is now at a serious crossroads after the end of Thursdays talks.
Chief South Korean delegate Kim Kiwoong told reporters that there were big differences between the Koreas on the matter of Seouls desire for the guarantee.
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It's like visiting weird Uncle Earl who still lives on the family farm.
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* ION DAILY TIMES.PK > DREAM OF [Inter-Korean] REUNIFICATION FADES IN SOUTH KOREA.
As said or inferred times before, as per empowerment of DPRK-ROK Reunification it may be in the strategic interests of the US + ROK + UNCOM, etal. to allow the DPRK to have indigenous Nukes in complementary wid the ROK.
REMINDER > YEAR 2018 = may see not only the formal establishment of US-led GMD-TMD in both Japan + ROK, etc. East Asia allies BUT ALSO THE AMENDMENT OF JAPAN'S POSTWAR CONSTITUTION TO ALLOW FOR A STRONG NIPPON MILITARY + ESPEC JAPAN'S DEV OR PROCUREMENT OF NUCWEAPONS.
Another way of saying the above is that "post-US" wannabe China has roughly until 2018 = end of the Bammer 2nd POTUS term [Jan 2017] to reunify wid Taiwan + break the barriers of the "First Island Chain" LEST IT GIVE UP ITS ANTI/POST-US "MANIFEST DESTINY" UNTIL 2080-2100 [iff not later].
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > PACIFIST JAPAN NO MORE? TOKYO TO CONSIDER PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE CAPABILITY? RT NEWS.
* SAME BLOGGER > reminded that the China considers the "First Island Chain", espec the waters between mainland Japan + Taiwan + Northern Philippines as its ALL-IMPORTANT "FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE" AGZ THE US-ALLIES.
* TOPIX > JAPAN INTERIM DEFENSE PAPER [White Paper] SAYS DRONES, MARINES [Nippon Marine Corps = potent RRF/RDF Amphibs]NEEDED AGZ THREAT FROM CHINA, NORTH KOREA.
* Also from TOPIX > CHINA'S "SALAMI-SLICE" STRATEGY".
Sniff, sniff, is there no love for Bologna???
* SAME = ABE SEEKS TO "CONTAIN" BEIJING, SAYS EXPERT.
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > CHINESE FLEET THROUGH SOYA STRAIT INTENDED TO OPEN UP DIFFICULT NAVAL ROUTES INTO NORPAC, WESTPAC + ARCTIC VEE WATERS CLOSELY MONITORED OR CONTROLLED BY US, RUSSIA, + JAPAN.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > MURDER SHEDS LIGHT ON CHINA EXPANSION, ENCIRCLEMENT OF INDIA, i.e. projection of PLA power to the Persian Gulf, Arabian Peninsula [KSA], + IOR vee Pakistan + Sri Lanka ports | [Toronto Sun] IS CHINA SLOWLY TIGHTENING THE NOSE AROUND INDIA'S NECK?
* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > CHINA UNVEILS [revamped = reorg, ARMED] COAST GUARD TO HANDLE SEA CONFLICTS.
* SAME > RETIRED USCNO GARY ROUGHEAD TELLS US CONGRESS THAT AMERICA WILL SEE RISE OF THE PLA, + INTENSIVE BUT "INEVITABLE" SINO-US MILITARY COMPETITION. ROUGHEAD + OTHER US EXPERTS WARN THAT THE US RELATIONSHIP WID CHINA WILL ULTIMATELY DETERMINE OR DEFINE THE STRATEGIC SITUATION, US-VS-CHINA + GEOPOL BALANCE OF POWER IN ASIA-PACIFIC.
* SAME > JAPAN MUST ADAPT TO CHINESE MILITARY WARSHIPS + AIRCRAFT FREQUENTLY CROSSING THROUGH THE "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" INCLUDING JAPAN-CLAIMED DISPUTED ISLANDS.
* SAME > RENOWNED 20TH CENTURY FORMER US SECSTATE JOHN FOSTER DULLES' CONCEPT OF ANTI-CHINA "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" NOW IRREVOCABLY "TORN TO PIECES: US + ITS EAST ASIA ALLIES ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO STOP, PREVENT, OR CHALLENGE PLA MILTARY ASSETS FROM TRAVELING THROUGH THE "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" AT WILL. CHINA + PLA SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENTS
"UNIVERSAL LINKAGE" OF SOUTH CHINA SEA, EAST CHINA SEA, YELLOW SEA, + SEA OF JAPAN WID WESTPAC + NORPAC OCEANS.
* SAME > USDOD "SURGES" IN ASIA-PACIFIC WID SE ASIAN ALLIES ALREADY HALF-DESTABILIZED BY CHINA.
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday led calls at the United Nations for an end to foreign backing for rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Without naming any country but in a message aimed at Rwanda Kerry told the UN Security Council the United States is deeply concerned about reports of new external support for M23 rebels battling government forces.
I want to be emphatic here today, all parties must immediately end their support for armed rebel groups. All governments must hold human rights violators and abusers accountable, Kerry told a special meeting on the region where millions have died in conflict in the past two decades.
The 15-nation Security Council, which currently includes Rwanda, also agreed a statement calling for all countries to stay out of DR Congo affairs and support a UN-brokered regional peace accord signed by 11 countries in March.
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I dunno. We're incessantly lectured to that it's up to Africans to solve Africa's problems. Then some big-shot Franco-Irish-American millionaire tells them what they should do. In front of the UN, no less.
Some days one can't make heads or tails of things.
Authorities in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Thursday closed local offices of Al Arabiya TV and Palestinian news agency Maan for alleged false reporting of Hamas help for Egypts Muslim Brotherhood.
Slipped the leash a tad, did they?
The Attorney-General decided to close down Al Arabiya and Maan offices in Gaza for distributing false news regarding the smear campaign against Hamas and Gaza about whats happening in Egypt, a Hamas official told AFP.
A Maan staffer and a Hamas official, who both requested anonymity,
"Please don't tell them! They'll kill me!"
told AFP the agency was being temporarily closed for a report citing Israeli sources saying that Hamas gave refuge in a Gaza hotel to fugitive leaders of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.
Just a little too public in their canoodling...
Saudi-owned pan-Arab channel Al Arabiya did not immediately reveal the reasons for its office closure.
We received the closure notice and an official statement from Al Arabiya will be published to respond to this decision, its Gaza correspondent, Islam Abd Al Kareem.
On July 14, Egyptian investigators began questioning ousted president Mohammed Mursi and members of his Muslim Brotherhood over their escape from jail during the 2011 uprising that put them in power. The inquiry relates to the escape by Mursi and dozens of Brotherhood members from Wadi Natrun prison during the revolt that ended former president Hosni Mubaraks three-decade rule.
An Egyptian court in June found that the Hamas rulers of Gaza and Lebanons Shia Hezbollah movement helped prisoners.
Of course they did, they're on the same side...
Mursi, Egypts first freely elected president, was toppled in a military coup on July 3 after millions of people took to the streets calling on him to step down.
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this is the periphery of the conflict between Qatar and the Saudis
Egypt is putting pressure on Al Jazeera(the Qatar owned station) so Hamas puts pressure on the Saudi owned station.
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The Syrian regime was accused yesterday of using civilians as human shields, as the Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, pledged his nation's full support for Kofi Annan's plan to end the turmoil in the country.
The Russian leader said the former UN chief's proposal could be the "last chance" to avoid a long and bloody civil war.
He spoke as details emerged of the way Syrian forces have allegedly used civilians to shield troops advancing on rebel towns. Ghalib, an activist from a village in Idlib province, told The Independent how he had watched with binoculars from a hillside as President Bashar al Assad's forces rolled in earlier this month to wrest control from the Free Syrian Army.
Deploying the rhetoric of class warfare against congressional Republicans, Champ warned Wednesday that "social tensions will rise" if Washington doesn't take steps to reverse the growing gap between wealthy Americans and the middle class. The only rhetoric Champ knows.
In a campaign-style speech at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., the president proclaimed that America during his presidency has "fought its way back" from a recession and called on voters to "pressure Congress to invest in our future" by spending more on such items as education, clean energy and infrastructure. "Invest" = regime codespeak for more TAXES.
If congressional Republicans resist his plans, he said, the nation's social fabric will begin to fray as resentment builds among lower economic groups. Begin to fray ?"
The position of the middle class will erode further," Champ said. "Inequality will continue to increase, money's power will distort our politics even more. Social tensions will rise as protected groups various groups fight to hold on to what they have, start blaming The Man somebody else for why their position isn't improving. That's not the America we know."
The address was the first in a series of planned presidential speeches on a common socialist theme focusing on fear and intimidation the economy as Mr. Obama sets his terms for looming battles this fall with House Republicans over spending priorities and raising the country's debt limit. It was also an attempt to breathe new life into his second term, which has been sidetracked by phony scandals including surveillance by the National Security Agency and abuse of power by the Internal Revenue Service.
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At some point in the future, it won't make any difference. The Left has already launched the country to an end state that will result in a major social civil war. They overestimate their abilities to win. Special interests groups can only provide so much cannon fodder. Urban areas, like New Orleans in Katrina, are unsustainable without the constant flow of resources which will shut down as soon as things go south. NIMBY bites hard. Real bases of power will reveal themselves and it won't be stuffed or rigged ballot boxes. Let the Plantation owners bring it on.
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One of the key problems in history is the ruling class/cabal/tribe/interest group that believes that crisis will deliver them power, only to have their 'dogs' turn and say 'why should you have power and not us'. The 'dogs' far more often then not, are the ones that end up running things.
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Just today I got an e-mail from Michelle thusly - There's a lot of noise and talk and back-and-forth going on in Washington, but hardly any of it seems to be about the struggles that middle-class families face.
When I was growing up, a family like mine -- living on my hard-working father's salary at the city water plant -- could build a solid life without much debt and without relying on any form of public assistance. Today, for too many families, that American promise is no longer within reach.
Barack is working to fix that, to give all families a fair shot. And he needs solid Democrats in Congress to help him.
I was touched by her plea. So I sent her every dime I could afford - after taxes. Sorry Moochelle, It's tough in the middle class!
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Social tensions will rise as various groups fight to hold on to what they have, start blaming somebody else for why their position isn't improving. That's not the America we know."
Isn't this what 'Community Organizing' is all about?
Find some real or imagined slight. Doesn't really matter what it is but extra points of its about something the 'victim' cannot control (race/gender) but anything (like lack of a job) would do.
Blame 'the man' - corporations, religions, conservatives, whatever your enemies are. Don't take any personal responsibility yourself! (For example it is not your fault you are too damn lazy to get off your ass and get a job, get educated, apply yourself!)
Threaten 'the man' with 'Social Tension to Rise unless....' they give you want you want
Profit!
Repeat! You can even use the same imagined slight.
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Now its not very veiled threats about race war if he doesn't get what he wants!
Every tired, shopworn plea for more stimulus and "investment" is rife with hidden taxes and all, all of the expenditures are for Democrap allies, especially the unions, requiring union scale and union bidding and a whole range of disclosures to bid major contracts. Every tool of public power has been turned to the advantage of this devious, narcissistic adolescent. I never imagined the depth of the rot he could and already has accomplished. God save the Republic, cause this POS certainly won't.
A leading opposition figure and critic of Tunisias ruling Islamists, Mohamed Brahmi, was shot dead outside his home near the capital on Thursday in the second such assassination this year. The murder by unknown gunmen sparked angry street protests in central Tunis and Brahmis birthplace of Sidi Bouzid where he served as MP, AFP correspondents said.
Mohamed Brahmi, general coordinator of the Popular Movement and member of the National Constituent Assembly, was shot dead outside his home in Ariana, Watanya state television and the official TAP news agency reported.
He was riddled with bullets in front of his wife and children, Mohsen Nabti, a fellow member of the small leftist movement, said in a tearful account aired on Tunisian radio.
The interior ministry, cited by TAP, said that Brahmi, a 58-year-old MP and vocal critic of Tunisias ruling Islamists, was assassinated as he left home. Watanya said Brahmi was struck by a hail of 11 bullets fired from point-blank range.
Condemning the latest killing, lawyer Mabrouk Korchid told AFP that Brahmi was assassinated in cold blood on the day that Tunisia is marking the 56th anniversary of the republics declaration.
Brahmi, a man with a bushy moustache and weather-beaten complexion, was elected MP for Sidi Bouzid, birthplace of the 2011 revolution which toppled president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. On July 7, he resigned from his post as general secretary of the Popular Movement, which he founded, protesting that it had been infiltrated by Islamists.
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Eritrea is undermining stability in conflict-ravaged Somalia by paying political agents and a warlord linked to Islamist militants to influence the Mogadishu government, U.N. sanctions experts said in a confidential report.
The Eritrean government has long denied playing any negative role in Somalia, saying it has no links to Islamist al Shabaab militants fighting to overthrow the Somali government. It says the U.N. sanctions imposed on it in 2009 for supporting al Shabaab were based on lies and has called for the sanctions to be lifted.
LOS ANGELES - A California gang member was convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder after authorities say a tattoo on his chest depicting the murder scene led to his apprehension. 25-year-old Anthony Garcia (pictured above) could face life in prison for his role in the 2004 shooting at a Pico Rivera liquor store.
Garcia eluded police until 2008 when he was picked up for driving with a suspended license. Suspecting that he was an active member of the Rivera-13 gang, police then photographed his tattoos and took a mugshot.
While looking for leads on an entirely different crime, Det. Sgt. Kevin Lloyd came across Garcia's picture in the mug book when something struck him: "it looked like a murder from way back when." He then drove to the liquor store named on Garcia's tattoo and cross-referenced with the old case file.
Lloyd was so struck by the detailed accuracy of the tattoo that he called it a "crime scene sketch and a confession."
Garcia's tattoo captured the night of the shooting, from the Christmas lights outside the liquor store to the bent light post in the store's parking lot to the convalescent home called the Rivera, next door to the liquor store. The scene shows a chopper spraying bullets on a victim. Garcia's gang nickname is "Chopper." The victim, John Juarez, is depicted as a Mr. Peanut. The peanut is commonly used as a symbol of a rival gang in Pico Rivera, Lloyd said. The crime scene is under a tattoo on Garcia's neck that reads "Rivera Kills."
Garcia was arrested in October of 2008 and charged with the murder. While behind bars, he reportedly confessed to officers posing as gang members.
Deputy District Attorney Brock Lunsford called Garcia's tattoo a "non-verbal confession."
"It was offensive, the brazenness of it," Lunsford said. "I would never say that he's not intelligent. He was able to avoid detection for four years ... his arrogance got the better of him, not a lack of intelligence."
Los Angeles police and experts on gang tattoos said they can't recall another example of a criminal tattooing such a literal depiction of a crime.
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Well, this is good but how do you pick Today's Idiot?
1) The Kaboom guy
2) The flying without an airplane guy
3) The Jewish guy at the Jew hater's concert
4) The WMD guy in Syria
They're all classics
[AnNahar] Two U.N. envoys on a mission to persuade Syria's government to allow inspectors to probe alleged chemical weapons attacks ended a 24-hour visit Thursday, the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... said in Damascus.
Swedish scientist Ake Sellstrom and Angela Kane, the U.N. high representative for disarmament, "have left Damascus after an official two-day visit, during which the experts met with Syrian officials" including Foreign Minister Walid Muallem, said U.N. media and communications analyst Khaled Al Masri.
The Damascus-based U.N. official gave no details on the discussions.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido stepped from behind the suit of armor, rapier in hand. Ciccolini snarled and reached for his own weapon... U.N. Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... told news hounds in New York: "I will get the report, since they are coming out of Syria now; we will get the report soon."
According to a source close to the Syrian government, the authorities reiterated their demand that the U.N. focus on investigating the alleged use of chemical weapons in Khan al-Assal, near the northern city of Aleppo.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... 's regime has insisted that the rebels were responsible for the alleged chemical attack there in March.
Khan al-Assal fell from regime control and into rebel hands on Monday, complicating any effort to send in inspectors to visit the site.
The United Nations says Damascus has refused bids to investigate British and French claims that chemical attacks have also hit Homs in central Syria.
In all, the United Nations has received 13 allegations of the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
Syria's regime and rebels fighting to topple it have accused each other of using chemical weapons in the drawn-out conflict which has seen more than 100,000 people killed.
[AnNahar] Egypt was on edge Thursday ahead of rival protests by the military and Islamists, as the government declared a "war on terrorism" to end violence convulsing the country since president Mohammed Morsi's overthrow.
Police said they were planning massive reinforcements to secure Friday's rallies, which raise the prospect of further bloodshed between Islamists demanding Morsi's reinstatement and an array of opponents including the military.
The runaway leader of Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund Mohammed Badei urged Egyptians to peacefully make a "stand for freedom and legitimacy, and against the bloody coup," in a statement on Thursday.
The United States said on Wednesday it was "very concerned" by military chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's call for a rally to justify a crackdown on what he called "terrorism and violence."
Washington, which has close ties with Egypt's military, also announced it had decided to suspend a plan to supply its ally with F-16 warplanes.
The Brotherhood and allied Islamist groups had denounced Sisi's call as "an announcement of civil war" and said they would press on with their own demonstrations on Friday.
Egyptian newspapers, mostly hostile to the Brotherhood, featured Sisi's call, made in a Wednesday speech, in their front page headlines.
The state-owned Al-Akhbar ran a banner, partially in large red font, reading: "Sisi's message has been delivered. And the people respond: We mandate you."
"Sisi calls. And the people respond," reported the leading independent daily, Al-Masry al-Youm.
In Qatar, a Mohammedan organization headed by the influential Egyptian-born holy man Yusuf al-Qaradawi ...crackpot Egyptian Islamist theologian. He is best known for his program Shariah and Life on Al Jazeera, with an estimated audience of 60 million kindred souls worldwide. He is also well-known for IslamOnline, which occasionally advocates things like slavery and thumping the old lady with a rod no thicker than an inch, and has published more than 120 books, including Islam: The Future Civilization. Joe has long had a prominent role within the intellectual leadership of the Moslem Brüderbund. Some of his views have been controversial in the West, though less so among the rubes of the Mysterious East, and he was refused entry to the United Kingdom in 2008. In 2004, 2,500 Muslim academics from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and from the Palestinian territories condemned Qaradawi, and accused him of giving Islam a bad name.... issued an edict against obeying Sisi's call, saying it could lead to "civil war."
The general's unusual demand -- the military insists he is merely a defence minister and deputy premier in the army-installed cabinet -- came after calls for a crackdown on Islamists staging sometimes bloody protests since the July 3 coup.
"Next Friday, all honorable Egyptians must take to the street to give me a mandate and command to end terrorism and violence," the general said, wearing dark sunglasses as he addressed a military graduation ceremony near Alexandria.
A front man for army-installed interim president Adly Mansour later said Egypt "has begun a war on terrorism".
Hours before Sisi's speech, a crude time bomb placed outside a cop shoppe in the Nile Delta city of Mansura killed a police conscript, the interior ministry said.
In the restive Sinai peninsula, where hard boyz have staged daily attacks on security forces, two soldiers were rubbed out in separate ambushes on Wednesday.
More than 170 people have died in political unrest since the end of June, according to an Agence La Belle France Presse tally, many of them in festivities between Morsi's supporters and opponents.
Huge crowds of Egyptians protested against Morsi on June 30, after just one turbulent year of his presidency.
Senior Brotherhood leader Essam al-Erian said Morsi loyalists would not be intimidated by the army chief's call for mass rallies.
"Your threat will not prevent millions from continuously protesting," Erian wrote on Facebook.
Tamarod, the movement that spearheaded the mass anti-Morsi rallies that led up to the coup, called on supporters to take to the streets again on Friday to support the army.
"We call on the great Egyptian people to rally on Friday across Egypt to demand... Morsi's trial and to support the military in its upcoming war on terrorism."
Morsi's detention, and the subsequent arrests of senior Brotherhood leaders, have hardened his supporters' stance.
His family said it would sue Sisi and also take legal action outside Egypt.
The United States has joined other Western nations in calling for Morsi's release, although it has declined to characterize his overthrow as a coup, which would force a suspension of U.S. aid.
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Anthony Carlos Danger Weiner ...aka Hot Dog Tony, the remarkably offensive sex maniac New York congressman who resigned in 2011, then decided everybody had forgotten by 2013, when he decided to run for mayor of New York City... told his sultry young sext partner that he loved her -- and she believed the serial online cheater.
"It literally disgusts me," teary-eyed Sydney Leathers said, of the pack of lies she bought from the horny pol. "It makes me feel physically ill. I'm disgusted by him. He's not who I thought he was. "
That does rather depend on what you thought he was...
Leathers, in an exclusive sitdown with Inside Edition that will air in full tomorrow, said she's "barely been able to eat" since news of her illicit cyber tryst with the married mayoral candidate broke earlier this week.
She said she and Weiner grew so close during their online fling --
...and you can imagine just how close two people can be in an online fling...
which began after he resigned in disgrace from Congress and ended late last summer -- that the politician even consulted with her before deciding to run for mayor.
He was in love with her for ... her political acumen. Yeah, that's it, her political acumen!
"I cared about him a lot. He was very important to me," the 22-year-old former tanning salon employee and political blogger said.
"He was my meal ticket!"
"You told Anthony Weiner that you loved him?" asked Inside Edition's Jim Moret.
"Yes," Leathers said.
She lied...
"Did he tell you he loved you?"
"Yes."
...and he lied too. They're perfect for each other.
Leathers said Weiner described himself to her as "an argumentative, perpetually horny middle-aged man."
Where's the lie in that?
"Yes, he is," she told Moret.
Friends and coworkers of Leathers have said the former Obama campaign organizer talked about selling details of her relationship with Weiner for as much as $100,000.
Weiner should get into licensing...
Asked if Inside Edition ponied up cash for the Leathers interview, a show spokeswoman said, "Like most media outlets, we occasionally license photos and other material from an interview subject and we have in this case."
Shorter answer: yes...
Leathers believes Weiner should bail out of the mayoral race.
If she could speak with him, Leathers said, her message would be, "Stop lying, embarrassing his wife and get help."
"And stop texting women like me."
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I have to wonder how Huma feels about one of her [many?] prospective rivals being just 22-years old???
The legendary Carlos Danger may be a boiling cauldron of masculinity on the outside, but on the inside, he has some insecurity issues. One might even say hes Mucho Desperado. Hes also apparently a glutton for punishment, reportedly asking Leathers, who is a progressive activist and blogger, If I met you in a bar and tried to talk to you, would I have a chance?
Here, Weiner is no doubt looking for a validation of his smoking looks and his smoldering sexuality, not the content of his character. Again, poor Sidney disappoints: Absolutely! Youre such an amazing man. I still cant believe someone like you would pay attention to someone like me. Its literally a dream come true.
Here is where I call shenanigans. We all know that if Anthony Weiner was not a prominent national political personality, and was instead, say, an accountant from French Lick, Ms. Leathers would be running for the exits, hiding in the bathroom, or maybe even calling the police. She was attracted to power, pure and simple.
That's the only part I don't understand: what power? Presently, he's an unemployed git, on the fast track to his mom's basement.
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This is why we are doomed. There are too many of these zombie freaks who think and say things like: "your health care rants are sooooo sexy." Like the woman reporter some years back who said she'd be glad to service Clinton for "keeping abortion safe." Doomed, I say...
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The potential for power. He was an up and coming all star brought up from the minors, with a weird media blitz all of a sudden while he was still fed. He has to potential to be mayor of one of the premier world cities.
All she was doing was putting chips down on the chips table, just in case. Official mistress to the mayor of New York City would make a lot of money in cush jobs and blackmail, with proof of misconduct lawsuits in case the checks stop coming.
[NEWS.CNET] The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet companies divulge users' stored passwords, according to two industry sources familiar with these orders, which represent an escalation in surveillance techniques that has not previously been disclosed.
If the government is able to determine a person's password, which is typically stored in encrypted form, the credential could be used to log in to an account to peruse confidential correspondence or even impersonate the user. Obtaining it also would aid in deciphering encrypted devices in situations where passwords are reused.
"I've certainly seen them ask for passwords," said one Internet industry source who spoke on condition of anonymity. "We push back."
A second person who has worked at a large Silicon Valley company confirmed that it received legal requests from the federal government for stored passwords. Companies "really heavily scrutinize" these requests, the person said. "There's a lot of 'over my dead body.'"
Some of the government orders demand not only a user's password but also the encryption algorithm and the so-called salt, according to a person familiar with the requests. A salt is a random string of letters or numbers used to make it more difficult to reverse the encryption process and determine the original password. Other orders demand the secret question codes often associated with user accounts.
A Microsoft ...producers of Windows, Office, and the late Microsoft Bob, contributed $852,167 to the 2008 Obama campaign... spokesperson would not say whether the company has received such requests from the government. But when asked whether Microsoft would divulge passwords, salts, or algorithms, the spokesperson replied: "No, we don't, and we can't see a circumstance in which we would provide it."
Google ...contributed $814,540 to the 2008 Obama campaign... also declined to disclose whether it had received requests for those types of data. But a spokesperson said the company has "never" turned over a user's encrypted password, and that it has a legal team that frequently pushes back against requests that are fishing expeditions or are otherwise problematic. "We take the privacy and security of our users very seriously," the spokesperson said.
Apple, Yahoo, Facebook, AOL, Verizon, AT&T, Time Warner ...contributed $624,618 to the 2008 Obama campaign... Cable, and Comcast did not respond to queries about whether they have received requests for users' passwords and how they would respond to them.
Richard Lovejoy, a director of the Opera Software subsidiary that operates FastMail, said he doesn't recall receiving any such requests but that the company still has a relatively small number of users compared with its larger rivals. Because of that, he said, "we don't get a high volume" of U.S. government demands.
The FBI declined to comment.
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Hallo I am calling from the govermet we know what you thnk, and we approve.
(Mis-speinngs intentional, speaking in a thick accent, probably Indian)
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A second person who has worked at a large Silicon Valley company confirmed that it received legal requests from the federal government for stored passwords. Companies "really heavily scrutinize" these requests, the person said. "There's a lot of 'over my dead body.'"
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legal requests
Warrants? They have to be filed someplace. As much as the bureaucrats, to include LE, may like to say 'such and such a law' gives me authority, if it's not Constitutional, it's not legit. The problem is latter when they try the old "I was just obeying orders" defense. It'll mean something when they're caught up to later and their pension disappears. Particularly middle managers who don't have 'friends' to take care of them in their old age.
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P2k, Warrants?? We don't need no steenking warrants!!
Due to the current level of my cynicism I am not surprised by this. I do think that we are getting closer to the point where the liberty tree will get watered.
[AnNahar] Turkey sent a new signal of pressures squeezing its economy on Wednesday, warning it may cut the growth outlook a day after a juggling act with interest rates to shore up the lira.
The moves came just a week after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan sought to reassure investors that their capital was safe in Turkey, where weeks of deadly protests had posed the biggest challenge faced by the Islamic-rooted government during its decade-long rule.
It's not the protests that threaten the Turkish economy, it's Erdogan's policies...
Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek said that the growth forecast of 4.0 percent this year, half the rate two years ago, might have to be lowered because of U.S. monetary policy and recession in the eurozone. The minister, speaking on news channel NTV, referred to signals from the United States that the Federal Reserve will eventually wind down special injections of money to stimulate the U.S. economy.
Some of this money had gone into emerging markets in search of higher returns, but has now begun to flow out, pushing down emerging stocks and currencies and raising their borrowing rates.
Simsek said: "Fed decisions and the international market conditions have triggered risks for a (growth) downgrade."
Weak demand from the debt and recession-hit eurozone, Turkey's biggest trading partner, was also hurting Turkish exports, he said.
Turkey, which has grown to become about the 17th-biggest economy in the world in the past decade after a severe financial crisis and IMF rescues, remains extremely vulnerable to rapid flows of foreign capital. Investors were also jittery after weeks of protests which began on May 31 after police brutally broke up a peaceful sit-in in Istanbul.
The minister's warning came the day after the central bank raised the overnight rate by 0.75 percent to 7.25 percent but held the key rate at 4.5 percent to which it was reduced in May.
The lira then rallied.
The bank had already signaled a change of direction on rates, which would normally raise the attractions of the lira and retain capital but also crimp economic activity, and its solution had been broadly expected by analysts. The policy statements are seen as reflecting various pressures: the government wants low rates to support growth, while some circles in Turkey have argued for a rate rise to support the lira.
In May, the prime minister attacked them as "speculators" and the "interest rate lobby".
Boy howdy I bet that reassured the investors...
But foreign analysts have been strongly skeptical for weeks that Turkey is on top of external pressures, a balance of payments deficit and unease over serious civil unrest in May and June.
Meanwhile the bank, formally independent on monetary policy, is committed to selling foreign currency to bolster the lira and reassure investors. This unorthodox measure was launched two weeks ago when the lira fell to a record low level of 1.9740 to the dollar. Late on Wednesday the lira was being traded at 1.9171 to the dollar.
The latest reported figure for the amount of this intervention was about $6.0 billion.
Analysts at Societe General bank in London said on Wednesday that this policy had "appeared unable to stop" heavy selling pressure while depleting valuable reserves of foreign exchange, which another analyst had put at about $45 billion when the intervention began.
Analysts at Barclays bank said that the central bank might now hold its rates in August. But if the U.S. Fed began to tighten its policy in September, Turkey may have to raise its rates by 1.0-1.5 percentage points in the following months.
Capital Economics commented that the lira and Turkish dollar bonds had switched from being among the best performers in the emerging Europe region earlier this year to become the worst performers.
"We think rising external financing needs will keep the lira under pressure and we expect it to drop to 2.05 to the dollar by the end of 2014."
Capital Economics had noted on Tuesday "government pressure to keep interest rates down" and that "a severe sell-off in the currency could see rates raised by up to 500 basis points (5.0 percentage points) in this cycle."
Well yes, some of the Erdogan appointees have turned out to be crooks also. However, it took them a few years to learn the ropes and during that time the economy operated pretty well.
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LG, ahhh that explains it. The rookies, be they ball players or crooks, need some seasoning to learn the ropes.
[AnNahar] Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region is preparing to host a conference that will bring together Kurdish parties from Iraq, Syria, Iran and Turkey, an official said on Wednesday.
In all of which countries the Kurds have a significantly higher birthrate than the majority population. President Erdogan and former President Ahmadinejad are keenly aware if this, though possibly not other non-Kurdish leaders, what with having more important things to worry about than babies not being conceived.
"The general conference will be held within a month from now," Adnan al-Mufti, a senior member of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
A preparatory meeting was held in Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, on Monday, and was attended by 39 Kurdish parties.
"We want a complete agreement and a just and peaceful solution for the Kurdish issue," Kurdistan region president Massud Barzani told the meeting.
Major Kurdish populations are spread across four countries -- Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran.
One of the most pressing issues is that of the Kurds in war-torn Syria, where they make up about 15 percent of the population and are mostly concentrated in the north.
Kurdish regions of Syria have been run by local Kurdish councils since Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... 's forces withdrew from the areas in mid-2012.
The Kurds have walked a fine line, trying to avoid antagonizing either the Assad regime or the rebels seeking its overthrow, but fierce fighting has recently broken out between Kurdish forces and jihadists opposed to Assad.
And Syrian Kurdish officials said last week that they are planning to create a temporary autonomous government to administer Kurdish regions in the north of country.
So is it the White House staff who are the fascists here, or merely the university's senior management?
[CAMPUSREFORM.ORG] A group of college republicans say they were denied entry into President B.O.'s speech at the University of Central Missouri on Wednesday for security reasons.
Missouri College Republicans State Treasurer Courtney Scott told Campus Reform on Thursday that an unidentified police officer told the group they were barred from the event for "security reasons and for the president's protection."
"You will not be allowed any further," the officer allegedly told the group of six College Republicans, dressed in republican and tea party clothing, as they attempted to enter the event.
Scott said each member of the group had a ticket to enter the event and that they arrived early complying with all rules.
"Obama was scheduled to speak at around 4 p.m., so around 3:30 pm we gathered our stuff up," said Scott. "They had announced that there were to be no posters or anything so we dropped our stuff off. We were not carrying anything. We followed all the rules."
Scott said the officer's reasoning for stopping them seemed a bit odd.
"I hate to make allegations but it was just very suspicious that we were not allowed in," she said.
Scott added that she was disappointed she was unable to hear President B.O. speak in person.
"Regardless of one's political party it would have been a great opportunity to hear from the president. I would never want to turn down that opportunity and am disappointed we didn't get to see him in person."
A spokesperson for the university was not available for comment by the time of publication.
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That's normal. (For a shithead like Obama, EVERYONE who's not a certified Dem gets on his shit list.)
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We followed all the rules."
Don't take it personally Ms. Scott. Champ changes the "rules" as he goes along.
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besoeker says: Champ changes the "rules" as he goes along.
There ARE no rules under this regime. Rules are determined before hand, this clique does whatever they want whenever they want. Rules and laws are for doofuses, not the elite.
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The college republicans should astroturf a few members as Democrats for this sort of thing.
The CRs at my school suggested that, but I don't think anyone was willing. Just having to sit through another communitard lecture is painful enough. It's not like they'll miss anything new or surprising.
The main value in attempting to attend is to publicize how often CRs are barred from leftie speeches on "security" grounds. Which is very often - and very curious, given lefties' proclivity to burn, harass, intimidate, demonize, sabotage, and shut down every instance of unorthodox speech on campus - with zero consequences. Death threats from "pacifists" were especially entertaining.
As they say, Projection isn't just a river in Egypt.
[AnNahar] Militants killed two Egyptian soldiers and maimed four in a shooting in north Sinai on Thursday, as the military vowed to crack down on "terrorism", officials said.
The army officer and conscript were killed when gunnies opened fire on a military checkpoint near the town of Sheikh Zuwayid, security officials and medics said.
Two Spanish aid workers kidnapped almost two years ago in Kenya and then held in Somalia have been freed, their employer Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Thursday.
Montserrat Serra and Blanca Thiebaut, 40 and 30 respectively at the time of their kidnapping from the Dadaab refugee complex near the border with Somalia in October 2011, are both safe and healthy, MSF said.
[AnNahar] A United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... body that handles war reparations for Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait said Thursday it had handed over a further $1.07 billion (810 million euros) to the emirate.
The payment, related to damage to oil facilities and resulting financial losses, brings to $42.3 billion the total sum handed out by the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC).
Some $10.1 billion awarded by the UNCC to a string of claimants still remains to be paid out.
In addition to Kuwait, more than 100 governments and international organizations have been allocated funds by the UNCC for distribution to 1.5 million successful claimants.
The UNCC was set up by the U.N. Security Council in 1991, the year that a U.S.-led coalition drove then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait.
Its funds are drawn from a U.N.-mandated levy of five percent on Iraqi oil exports, whose continued existence has come in for criticism given that Saddam was ousted in 2003 in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
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.
On Thursday afternoon, a man walked into Discount Gun Sales in Beaverton, Oregon. He was carrying a baseball bat and a knife. He proceeded to smash a display case with the bat, and grab a handgun. The manager promptly grabbed his own gun, told the suspect to drop the weapon, the bat, and the knife, and then held the suspect at gunpoint until the police came and arrested the 22-year-old.
[AnNahar] Fears of an outbreak of the deadly MERS virus in 
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[AnNahar] The bodyguard of Salafist 
On Saturday night, Israelis were among those who attended a British musician and former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters' concert in Belgium. Even as Waters is a known activist pushing for the boycott of Israel, Israelis were still amazed to see that the show included a blatantly anti-Semitic display.
A car bomb killed at least seven people and wounded 62 on Thursday when it exploded on the edge of the Syrian capital Damascus, state media said.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- A spooked cow killed a Palestinian man who was trying to slaughter the beast on Saturday during the Muslim celebration of Eid al-Adha, a Gaza health official said.
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[NYPOST] He broke her heart.
[NEWS.CNET] The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet companies divulge users' stored passwords, according to two industry sources familiar with these orders, which represent an escalation in surveillance techniques that has not previously been disclosed.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
