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Definitely time to ARCLIGHT Raqqa. I'm sure that might get their attention. Whoever complains gets nuked. Time to quit playing games, getting OUR people killed. It needs to become common knowledge again that if you f$$$ with the US, you will die.
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Sorry, OP. That ship sailed a LONG time ago.
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Folks felt tgat way under Carter but things changed when a new President came into office. Its too late for this guy though.
Unexpectedly. Will Champ lecture him like he does the MSM?
Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan, a former ambassador to Washington, has said in an opinion piece for Elaph newspaper that the United States moved forward with the Iran nuclear deal despite predictions of the situation developing into a North Korean-style scenario.
In a column published by the London-based Arabic news website Elaph, the former chief of intelligence said the nuclear deal "will wreak havoc in the Middle East," a region already plagued by major conflicts.
President Clinton's decision was based on strategic foreign policy analysts, top secret national intelligence, and the desire "to save the people of North Korea from starvation," wrote Prince Bandar, in reference to the 1994 "Agreed Framework" between North Korea and the United States that aimed to freeze the country's nuclear power program.
The agreement finally broke down in 2003 when North Korea announced its withdrawal from the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and later declared it had manufactured nuclear weapons. The country now has as many as 20 nuclear warheads, according to Chinese intelligence.
President Clinton "would not have made that decision" had he known it was based on "a major intelligence failure" and "wrong foreign policy analysis," wrote Prince Bandar, nephew of Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz. One would hope you are correct, Prince, but when you're building your legacy or trying to get your roommate elected President, sometimes you do weird things.
But "President Obama made his decision to go ahead with the Iran nuclear deal fully aware that the strategic foreign policy analysis, the national intelligence information, and America's allies in the region's intelligence all predict not only the same outcome of the North Korean nuclear deal but worse - with the billions of dollars that Iran will have access to," Prince Bandar stated. So how long will it take for Champ's deal to unravel?
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So how long will it take for Champ's deal to unravel?
It's not going to unravel, because Israel can't afford to wait so long.
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I count Israel's attacking the Iranian sites as unraveling the Peace-in-our-time deal the Champ and Lurch negotiated. Other less desirable hostile acts would also prove the stupidity of the deal.
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I'm just sure any Team Not Assad is super excited about the bolster to Assad.
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There will be mountains of bodies piled on the alter of the progressive movement. The cost of human lives and suffering is worth the ideological achievement to the left.
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Another thing women are challenged at: climbing the 30 meters Pointe du Hoc ion order to destroy guns who could have converted the landings at Omaha Beach from bloody success to bloody failure. While the politically correctr is "waht was needed was string persons" the fact is last time I looked the women's heavy weight world record for weight lifting is about half from the men light weight world record. In other words a man half her weight was lifting about a load tow times heavier. In other words there are hundreds of thousand men in the world who can lift a heavier load than the woman world record.
So for climbing Piinte du Hoc, thousands of Americans could have with due trining climbed it. How many woimen? How many womenin the whole United States who in addition to climbing Pointe du Hoc could have met basic military requirements like being ablte to run fast, walk 40 miles ijn day (Wight lifters can't) and shoot reasonably straight?
And if landings at Omaha Beacjh had failed the whole D-Day would have been a failure and another landing would have been need in 1945...
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There will be mountains of bodies piled on the alter of the progressive movement.
See: USSR, Ukraine, Cambodia,....
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The thing is there are a lot of jobs they'd be just as qualified for. But women seem to want the jobs that require strength and masculinity for some reason.
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Anyone watch women's world cup? Now of you, did you catch a men's Gold Cup game (I saw USA/PAN)?
Night and day. I'm not just talking about the speed, but the tactics. The men ran a 5 yard triangle offense all the way down the field - didn't see anything like it in the entire women tourney.
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According to Strategypage, liberal politicians already know this is a clusterf**k in the making, but are counting on their superior lying political skills and a compliant press to get them through.
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Back in the old Roman Republic, senators had to accompany a legion. If the legion got destroyed, so did the senators. Nice QA. Time to make a list of all the hacks and bureaucrats involved. The day the balloon goes up, a team will pick the a*holes up and escort them to the front to be with their newly designed diversity units in a real world environment.
HT to Insty and Gabriel Malor. The WI Dems ran a criminal enterprise via the State's Prosecuto, handpicked corrupt Judge and Milwaukee County DA John Chisholm. They all need jailtime and civil fines
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday ended a secret investigation into whether Republican Gov. Scott Walker's campaign illegally coordinated with conservative groups in winning his 2012 recall election
The court's action is a major victory for Walker as he pursues the presidency, though one expert said prosecutors could appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. No one has been charged in the so-called John Doe probe, Wisconsin's version of a grand jury investigation where information is tightly controlled, but questions about the investigation have dogged Walker for months.
The case centers on political activity conducted by Wisconsin Club for Growth and other conservative organizations during the 2012 recall, which was spurred by Democrats' anger over a Walker-authored law that effectively ending collective bargaining for most public workers.
Prosecutors accused Walker and the groups of illegally coordinating their campaign efforts in violation of state law. They denied wrongdoing.
Republicans called the investigation, launched by Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm, a Democrat, a partisan witch hunt. Wisconsin Club for Growth and its director, Eric O'Keefe, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit last year seeking to halt the probe, arguing the investigation violates their free speech rights. U.S. District Judge Rudolph Randa sided with the club but a federal appellate court later tossed out the lawsuit, saying the issue belonged in state courts
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People need to go to jail over this.
But they will be promoted to the justice department instead.
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If the Court's order that all seized items be returned and all copies be destroyed, there won't be any evidence to show wrongdoing for prosecution, will there?
[Ynet] US President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... said on Wednesday it was likely that Iran would have more resources for its military and other threatening activities once sanctions are pulled back due to a nuclear deal, but he said it wouldn't be a "game changer."
Obama said Iran could potentially put more resources toward assisting the hard boy group Hezbollah. "Should we put more resources into blocking them from getting that assistance to Hezbollah? Yes," he said during a news conference.
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Russian and Iranian collusion from the Geneva talks ensures the Ruskies get lots of arms sales and the Snap Back committee is meaningless. Lurch is a rube and the vile Champ and his ValJar ego-boost have given Iran the path to regional hegemony. He sold out the Saudi's the Israeli's and the US for his "legacy" and in fact doomed the region to an arms race and eventual nuclear exchanges. What a fool elected because of skin color, not character.
"They will be subsidizing scroungers, lounging in cafes on the Mediterranean beaches.
Monetary union, in the end, will result in a gigantic blackmailing operation.
When we Germans demand monetray discipline, other countries will blame their financial woes on that same discipline, and by extension, on us. More they will perceive us as a kind of economic policeman.
We risk once again becoming the most hated people in Europe."
[PJ Media] Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) warned today that austerity measures in Greece could lead to a Hitler-style rise of Nazis in Europe.
Greek lawmakers approved a bailout plan today despite voters rejecting similar measures last week, sparking violent protests in Athens. They'll have to institute tax reform, pension overhaul and spending cuts to qualify for some $96 billion in bailout aid.
Sanders called the situation "a tragedy of enormous proportions."
"In the last five years, as a result of austerity measures, the Greek economy has contracted by 25 percent. Today, unemployment is 26 percent, youth unemployment is near 60 percent and 30 percent of the people in Greece are living in poverty," he said in a statement.
"Tragically, Germany and other European creditors are trying to squeeze blood out of a stone. Instead of providing an agreement with Greece that allows its economy to grow and create jobs, generate more tax revenue and eventually pay back their debt, Greek creditors have insisted upon even greater austerity: cutting jobs, making deeper pension cuts, increasing regressive taxation and privatizing important parts of the Greek economy."
The Democratic presidential candidate and self-described socialist added that "of all countries on earth, Germany, whose economy was destroyed as a result of the Treaty of Versailles and the harsh measures associated with it, should understand that a nation in deep depression should not be squeezed even more." Sanders is more than a 'self described' socialist, he's a full blown communist. I believe we've seen the Nazi meme previously.
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"In the last five years, as a result of austerity measures, the Greek economy has contracted by 25 percent."
In other words, it is returned to the actual value of its productivity.
Why is that a bad thing?
And if they wanted more material stuff than the worth of their labor and were trying to finance it against a future time of more productivity, could they please give an exact date for that future productivity and factual evidence of how it will come about?
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So if they're not allowed to live off the labor of others, involuntarily confiscated (slavery), they'll become socialists.
Same thing either way, innit?
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Covet thy neighbors wealth, bear false witness, steal. Key tenets of socialism to which Sanders is an acolyte. To take something without intention of returning without the consent of the owner is still stealing regardless of the spiel of politicians.
Now you witness how socialists and plantation owners rationalize their behaviors of taking the product of labor, skill, ability of others for themselves without proper compensation.
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Sigh. Still the same old meme that Nazis aren't socialists.
The only real difference between Socialists, Communists and Fascists are the hair splitting details about the verbiage and methods of total control over the economy and society.
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AlanC, the main difference is national character. The Nazi's were Germans and thus well motivated in everything they did. Even the German brand of Communism was nearly successful compared to the other communist states. Lay facism ontop of Italia and you can't tell it from Socialism or Communism without studying the numbers and determining the relationships with other nations.
[Rudaw] HALABJA, Kurdistan Region-- Iranian artillery bombarded a Kurdish village at the foot of the Surin Mountain early Wednesday morning. No casualties have been reported.
"Today Iranian artilleries began shelling Komirsi village before dawn at three in the morning, the village is located in Nawbariza township in the outskirts of Penjuin district," the information center of Penjuin told Rudaw.
The center added, "Iran's Revolutionary Guards fired three artillery shells into the village, which lies at the foot of Mount Surin, leading to a fire in the region; however, the residents were able to put out the fire without causing major damages."
The source also told Rudaw: "Iranian warplanes constantly fly in the area."
[AnNahar] More than 50 child soldiers recruited by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group in Syria have been killed since the beginning of this year, a monitoring group said Wednesday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had documented the deaths of 52 child soldiers, all under the age of 16, who had been part of IS's "Cubs of the Caliphate" program.
The program provides intense military and religious training to children throughout IS's areas of control in Syria, the Britannia-based Observatory said.
As many as 31 were killed in July alone, in kabooms, festivities, and air strikes by Syria's regime and the U.S.-led coalition.
The child soldiers are used to man checkpoints or gather intelligence from areas outside IS control, but IS has been increasingly using them to execute prisoners or conduct suicide kabooms.
So far this year, IS has used 18 children as jacket wallahs, most recently in its fight against Kurdish militia in northeastern Syria.
"This shows that Daesh is exploiting the suffering of the Syrian people," said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman, using the Arabic acronym for IS.
"When a child reaches the point of becoming a suicide bomber, this means that he's been completely brainwashed," Abdel Rahman told AFP.
The Observatory said it had received information on dozens more children killed, but that it could not confirm their deaths.
Since the beginning of 2015, IS has recruited more than 1,100 children.
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[Ynet] Shooter, a member of the PA's elite Force 17 unit, incarcerated Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! after calling police and boasting of attack; four other accomplices also arrested.
Israeli security forces arrested the terrorist who killed Israeli hiker Danny Gonen near the settlement Dolev in the West Bank, along with four other suspects, it was cleared for publication on Wednesday.
The shooter was identified as Muhammed Abu Shaheen, 30 years old from Qalandiya, is a member of the Paleostinian Authority's elite Force 17 unit. He was imprisoned between 2006-2008 after confessing his intention to carry out a terror attack.
During questioning, Abu Shaheen confessed to the shooting and said he had collected intelligence before committing the attack. He also admitted to six other shooting attacks in the last year, including one in November 2014 in Al-Ram, in which a soldier was maimed.
The five were arrested about a week and a half after the attack, when troops raided the suspects' homes.
According to Sherlocks, there was no connection between the arrested cell members and the cell that committed the terror attack near Shvut Rachel, in which Israeli Malachi Rosenfeld was killed, or the shooting at an ambulance near Beit El. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... the Shin Bet reportedly made new discoveries about those attacks over the last few days.
The attack took place on June 19, when Gonen and a friend were driving away from a spring near the Dolev settlement in the Binyamin area of the West Bank. A Paleostinian man signaled for them to stop as if to ask for help before firing at them from point-blank range, critically wounding Gonen.
The case reached a turning point when the Judea and Samaria District emergency center received a call from the attacker, saying he committed a terror attack and shot Israelis. The Shin Bet then traced the call, leading them to Qalandiya. One of the arrestees was Amjad Aduan, 35, who was previously detained for planning terror attacks. He is suspected of supplying Abu Shaheen with ammunition and served as a lookout at several shooting attacks.
The other suspects who were arrested are Asraf Amar, a 24-year-old member of PA military Intelligence, Fatah member Osama Assad, 29, who was released in the Shalit deal and is suspected of hiding the gun that Abu Shaheen used for the attack in his home; and Muhammed Aduan, 37, who has no history of security offenses, who is also suspected of hiding weapons for Abu Shaheen.
The terror cell belongs to the Tanzim militia founded by Fatah, which has been working to rebuild its infrastructure in the West Bank over the past year. These are young terror operatives, who do not answer to Fatah or the Paleostinian Authority.
[Ynet] Rawan Abu Matar stabs Netzah Yehuda soldier in back near Nahliel in Binyamin, inflicting light-to-moderate wounds; security forces apprehend attacker.
A Netzah Yehuda Battalion soldier was stabbed by a young Paleostinian woman near the settlement of Nahliel in the Binyamin area of the West Bank on Wednesday afternoon.
The soldier was taken to Tel HaShomer Medical Center in Ramat Gan in light-to-moderate condition.
The IDF front man said the Paleostinian arrived at a military post and stabbed the soldier in the back. She was apprehended and taken for questioning.
She was identified as Rawan Abu Matar, 22 years olf from the village of Beitillu, northwest of Ramallah. She is not a member of any particular group and is not known to security forces.
In her interrogation, Abu Matan said her intention was to murder a soldier.
[AnNahar] Kuwait's public prosecution has demanded the death penalty for 11 of 29 suspects charged over the suicide kaboom of a Shiite mosque last month, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
Al-Qabas, citing informed sources, said two of the suspects are currently fighting with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... jihadist group which claimed the attack.
The June 26 bombing, carried out by a Saudi, was the bloodiest in Kuwait's history and left 26 people killed and more than 200 maimed.
Those charged are seven Kuwaitis, five Saudis, three Paks, 13 stateless people known as bidoons, and another person on the lam whose identity is unknown, the prosecution said Tuesday.
Twenty-four suspects are detained in Kuwait and the other five are to be tried in absentia, including two Saudi brothers who allegedly transported the explosives and are being held 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... Al-Qabas said some of the suspects were also charged with joining a "terrorist" organization fighting against the state.
Two of the suspects have been charged with premeditated murder and attempted murder.
Two others were charged with training in the use of explosives, nine with assisting in the crime and the rest with knowing of the attack without informing the authorities.
An IS-affiliated group calling itself Najd Province claimed the bombing and also said it carried out suicide kabooms on two Shiite mosques in Saudi Arabia in May.
IS considers Shiites to be heretics and has targeted them across the region.
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[AlAhram] Twenty bandidosbandidos bully boys were killed and 25 injured as security forces repelled an attack on a checkpoint in North Sinai on Wednesday, Aswat Masriya said.
The reported attack took place to the south of Sheikh Zuweid.
Jet fighters and troops on the ground repelled the attack, a security source said.
The army has intensified its anti-insurgency operations in the Sinai Peninsula since early July after Islamist bandidosbandidos bully boys killed at least 21 soldiers in simultaneous attacks on army and police posts in North Sinai.
The decade-long Lion of Islam insurgency in North Sinai has intensified since Islamist president Mohammed Morsi was ousted from power in 2013.
Hundreds of army and police personnel have been killed. The army has also announced the killing of hundreds of terrorists.
In November 2014, the most active Islamist Lion of Islam group in Egypt, Sinai Province - previously called - Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, is affiliated with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, which controls large swathes of Syria and Iraq.
[Ynet] The United States and its coalition partners targeted Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... forces with 33 air strikes in Iraq and Syria on Tuesday in the latest round of daily attacks on the krazed killers, a coalition statement said on Wednesday.
Sixteen of the strikes were in Syria with the greatest concentrations around Al Hasakah and Aleppo with six strikes near each city, according to the statement. Islamic State was targeted near four other Syrian cities with tactical units and fighting positions being hit, according to the statement.
In Iraq, 17 attacks were reported by the Combined Joint Task Force near six cities, striking tactical units, weapons, fighting positions and vehicles.
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[Ynet] NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... and its allies will hold their biggest military exercise in more than a decade from October, deploying 36,000 personnel across the Mediterranean to counter the threat of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... on the alliance's southern flank.
Briefly turning attention away from Russia, NATO commanders said on Wednesday the alliance would carry out some of its toughest training yet in a complex "artificial threat scenario" in which forces of Evil attack on land, from the air and at sea.
"We cannot choose between the eastern threat and the southern threat, we have to train for both," said General Hans-Lothar Domrose, commander of the NATO military command in Brunssum, the Netherlands, who is preparing the exercise.
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NATO commanders said on Wednesday the alliance would carry out some of its toughest training yet in a complex "artificial threat scenario" in which forces of Evil attack on land, from the air and at sea.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A kaboom took place near a school in Lab-e-Jar area of Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... city but luckily did not have casualties.
Eyewitnesses say the bomb was placed under a culvert in Aspha square that went kaboom! around 01:00 pm this afternoon.
The kaboom shook the windows of the nearby buildings and spread panic in the area.
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[DAWN] There can be no two opinions on the relief afforded to the citizens of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , especially its large industrial/business community, by the Rangers' crackdown on forces of Evil and criminal gangs. A perceptible decline in street crime, including kidnapping for ransom and extortion, is conceded by all parties. But there is a limit to which use of force alone can eradicate lawlessness in a metropolis, to say nothing of its need for peace and order that could allow its citizens an environment conducive to the flowering of their genius.
The main issue in Karachi is its need for a political understanding between the provincial government and the city's representatives on the one hand and among the latter's various ethnic groups on the other.
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[Libya Herald] Senior officers from the Libyan National Army (LNA) in the west of the country as well as commanders from local brigades met yesterday in the Jebel Nafusa town of Jadu to discuss tactics to secure the Jebel as well as bring an end to all the various differences between communities and towns both there and in the coastal area.
The discussions were led by Colonel Idris Madi, formerly commander of the Western Operations Room based in Zintan but who now heads LNA operations for the entire west of the country including the Sirte district.
The location is seen as both strategically as well as symbolically important. Jadu has tried to take a neutral position in the conflict between Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... and the LNA but, as an Amazigh commnunity, is closely tied to Zuwara which has stayed firmly associated with Dawn.
The meeting had been planned to take place last week. Reasons for the delay have not been disclosed.
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[ARABNEWS] A man accidentally went kaboom! as he tried to plant a bomb targeting police in a village in Bahrain, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.
Several coppers have been killed over the past year in a series of attacks in the kingdom.
One officer was killed after a bomb went off near East Eker, south of the capital Manama, in July last year.
"A person killed himself in blast while trying to plant a bomb in East Eker. Bomb was meant to target police. Investigation opened," the ministry wrote on its Twitter feed.
The country, which hosts the US Fifth Fleet, says it has made strides in political reform and is increasing monitoring for abuses by security forces.
Bahrain freed prominent dissident Nabeel Rajab on health grounds on Tuesday, more than two months into his six-month jail term for insulting the authorities.
Manama hit back at US expressions of concern over the Gulf Arab kingdom's treatment of opposition figures on Wednesday, saying all its actions followed due legal process.
Bahrain's Foreign Ministry said in a statement the individuals were detained on the basis of criminal acts not political expression. "The government of Bahrain will not tolerate incitement to violence, and it is the government's duty to protect citizens, residents and visitors alike," it said.
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[THEHILL] Democrats have been mostly silent on the issue as details continued to emerge Tuesday evening, when Planned Parenthood ...has received federal funding since 1970, when President Richard Nixon signed into law the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act. It is sometimes described as the gynecololgical wing of the Democratic party. released 11 pages of attack points against the makers of the video.
The rapid rise of what has widely been called a "sting video" has surprised some Democrats on the Hill, including one aide who called the attention "unexpected."
When asked about Republicans' planned investigations into Planned Parenthood, Schakowsky said she wanted an investigation, instead, into the Center for Medical Progress, which she called "a phony company." As opposed to an organization that is actively violating federal law over the use of aborted fetal tissue...
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), another prominent supporter of abortion rights, also dismissed the latest attacks against Planned Parenthood.
"They've been attacking Planned Parenthood for years," she said. "They've been calling for investigations for years, and they surface videos and they come on the attack ... and I think it's outrageous."
Lee also said she has not seen the video. Nor will she...
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), who is also a member of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, said she had not heard of the video and could not comment.
"I'll take a look at it, but I did not see it so I have no idea what's in it," she said.
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MSM on selling parts of aborted babies? /crickets
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The video is chilling for the nonchalance with which the PP doctor describes the crushing locations of the fetus to preserve the desired parts, while eating her lunch. Pure inhumanity on display. Wicked evil sealed seed up as science.
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Yes, rally nothing quite as revealing as watching someone casually munch starters and sip merlot whilst discussing such a topic. Move over Caligula, you've met your match.
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The #3 comment referencing Pope Gramsci I is even better.
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De Lauro will NEVER watch the video. Nothing must be seen or heard that might give lie to The Narrative™.
From a comment on another blog yesterday:
"She is such a rabid pro-choice advocate that I often wonder if it is because she is still trying to defend that choice from so long ago. If it becomes illegal again, it is just more proof that what she did was wrong."
I think this sums up the vast bulk of the pro-abortion thing. Perhaps the worst and most deadly manifestation of the hamster.
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I agree nmu. I would also add that the current state of affairs regarding Roe v Wade is not much different than events and outcomes of the Holocaust. Same dead souls, same class of deniers.
"Rep. Tim Murphy (R-A$$hole), a member of the House Pro-Life Caucus and chairman of the Energy and Commerce subcommittee looking into the video, said at a Wednesday news conference he’d seen the clip weeks before. Asked afterward why he and others waited until this week to take action, Murphy struggled for an answer before abruptly ending the interview with CQ Roll Call, saying he should not be quoted and remarking, 'This interview didn’t happen.'"
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Typical - GOP pol trying to use this rather than simply do the right thing for the right reason.
Shows teh GOP in DC has become pretty much the same as the Dems, ethically. Its all about the power and playing gotcha with the other side - they have lost their moral compass.
The official who spearheaded the disastrous rollout of HealthCare.gov is now a top lobbyist for the health-insurance industry. Marilyn B. Tavenner was chosen Wednesday as president and chief executive of America's Health Insurance Plans, a trade group that includes companies like Aetna, Humana, Kaiser Permanente, and Blue Cross. Tavenner will assume her new position Aug. 24.
"This is a great opportunity," Tavenner said. "AHIP has a longstanding reputation as focused on consumers and consumer advocacy, and being a leader in the transformation of health care."
[DAWN] KARACHI: The number of people killed in police encounters in the city has shown an increase of over 64 per cent in the first six months of the current year as compared to the same period during the last year, says a report released on Tuesday.
The report comprises comparison of the data relating to the first six months ---- January to June ---- of 2014 and the same period of 2015 and is prepared by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistain. The report says that while 191 people were killed in police encounters in 2014, the number of those killed in police encounters jumped to 255 during the same period in 2015.
The report, however, says that the overall number of those killed in the first six months of last year was 1,558 and the number of those killed during the corresponding period this year was 1,040 ---- a drop of over 34 per cent.
There has been a drastic drop in the number of assassination of non-political people. While 403 such people were killed last year, the number of such people killed during the current year was 128 ---- a drop of around 68pc.
The report says that 79 political activists were killed last year while the number of those killed during the current year was 33, 58pc less than those killed last year.
The number of dead bodies found this year also dropped by over 46pc as compared to that of last year, when 201 bodies were found, while 109 bodies were found during the current year.
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Could it be that those killed in police encounters were murderous nasties, and so the murders they would have committed were subsequently not?
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Frank - you made me look it up. From Wikipedia -
Butterfield was noted for writing a sequence of articles discussing the "paradox" of crime rates falling while the prison population grew due to tougher sentencing guidelines, without ever considering the possibility that the tougher sentencing guidelines may have reduced crime by causing criminals to be imprisoned. "The Butterfield Effect" is often brought up by James Taranto in his column for the online editorial page of the Wall Street Journal called Best of the Web Today, typically bringing up a headline which displays the effect with the joke "Fox Butterfield, Is That You?".
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[DAWN] An Indian spy drone has been shot down by Pak military forces along the Line of Control (LoC) in Bhimber, Azad Kasmir, according to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement.
According to the military, the drone had violated Pak airspace after which it was targeted by Pak forces and brought down for "violation of Pakistain's territorial integrity".
The military maintains that the 'spy drone' is used for aerial photography.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... Islamabad has summoned the Indian High Commissioner to Pakistain T C A Raghavan to lodge protest over intrusion of its airspace by the Indian spy drone today near the Line of Control.
"The Indian High Commissioner to Pakistain has been summoned to the Foreign Office on Thursday," Foreign Office spokesperson Qazi Khalilullah said.
In July, another drone had crashed near the working boundary in Shakargarh sector, which was taken into custody by Pak security forces. The drone was operated by Pakistain Rangers, it was later clarified.
Earlier in May, a pigeon which crossed the Indo-Pak border into India's Pathankot area was captured and detained for being a 'suspected spy'.
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[DAWN] LAHORE: At least 50 holy mans have issued a fatwa (religious decree) against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... 's act of banning observance of Eidul Fitr in Iraq.
The Tanzeem Ittehad-e-Ummat Pakistain claimed in a statement here on Tuesday that the fatwa was issued on its request. It said by banning offering of Eid prayer the Daesh committed an act of infidelity because "offering of Eid is wajib (an obligation) and preventing someone from offering a wajib is the severest atrocity... and in the light of Shariah Daesh stands expelled from Islam."
The statement demanded that the Iraqi government in collaboration with other forces should make foolproof arrangements for offering of Eid prayers in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , a city of Iraq presently in control of Daesh.
Referring to a previous fatwa, the statement said the Jihad methodology of Daesh was un-Islamic.
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[RUDAW.NET] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) has tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! hundreds of shopkeepers in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... for failure to pay a religious tax to the fanatical group that has occupied the city in northern Iraq for more than a year, a Kurdish official said Wednesday.
Businesses in the vast territories that ISIS controls in Iraq and Syria must pay their "zakat," or Islamic alms that practicing Moslems usually give to the poor, to the myrmidon group, known as "Daesh" in Arabic.
"Daesh arrested 355 shop owners in Mosul after they refused to pay zakat to the group," said Saad Mamuzin, front man of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Mosul, who lives in the Kurdistan Region since ISIS seized the city in June last year.
He added that ISIS had previously warned it would punish violators.
"Anyone who violates the ISIS decree is imprisoned by the group," Mamuzin said, explaining that detainees have been taken to unknown locations and their fate is unknown.
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[InterAksyon] A clash between the New People's Army and Philippine soldiers in Gingoog City Saturday afternoon left several women and children in Alagatan village traumatized.
Gem,who asked that her full name not be revealed, said, "My 4-year-old daughter kept on saying 'God help us, please God help us' while she cried. As the gunfight ensued, we thought we were about to die as we crawled on the bamboo floor. I held my two children tightly and just prayed for our lives with our neighbors who were with us.
"The frightening part was that the NPA rebels were hiding underneath the bamboo floor where we were. If the soldier on the CVO outpost had fired back, I am sure we would have all been dead. The soldier just shouted to [the rebels to] let the civilians get out of the house until the time he [the soldier] surrendered to save us," said another woman who survived the encounter.
From their accounts, it appears that Pfc Adones Jess Lupida, the soldier who avoided firing at the NPA militants hiding beneath the civilians' bamboo floor, was eventually taken by the communist guerillas as a prisoner of war. The residents said Lupida is their hero because he surrendered to save their lives.
Residents said there were 15 people, including five children and two pregnant women in the house when the incident happened. All of those who survived while hiding in the house said they were grateful to the soldier who surrendered to the NPA in exchange for their lives.
Greg, who requested that his real name not be revealed, said, "For us he is a hero, he exchanged his life for our safety. He could have killed several NPAs from his vantage point above the CVO outpost, but he did not fire back or even throw a grenade towards the house."
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Syrian regime air strikes killed 12 people and maimed dozens across northern province of Aleppo on Wednesday, activists and Zaman al-Wasl news hound said.
At least 8 people, including 3 children, have bit the dust in Darret Ezzat town due to 4 vacuum missiles stormed their neighborhood.
Also, regime barrel bombs attacks have killed 4 children and one women in Nadef village in the eastern countryside of the war-torn province.
More raids have carried out on the southern countryside, targeting Shwailiekh, Qasis and Abu Sousa villages, one woman reportedly killed.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] A fierce fighting flared up on Tuesday between rebels and Syrian regime army backed by paramilitary National Defense group in the western countryside of Damascus, leaving dozens killed and maimed, a rebel media center said.
The Unified media Center in the Western Ghouta said Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... had launched a counter attack on army checkpoints near Deir Khabiya town, killing dozens of soldiers and NDF murderous Moslems. Activists said Syrian air force bomib led to huge fire in the neighboring farms of the town, the fire has damaged vast hectares of fruitful trees.
Separately, the Fist Army, or al-Jaish al-Aw-Wal, said in statement. it's fighters has thwarted regime's attack on Masehara village in Quneitra countryside near the Occupied Golan Heights. The First Army has also targeted Tal Bazzaq and Manat al-Faras hills by mortar rounds, the FSA unit said.
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[RUDAW.NET] An international human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... group says Syria's main Kurdish militia is still violating the ban on child soldiers, despite some progress to stop using boys and girls under the age of 18.
Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... says the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), and its women's branch, YPJ, are not the only offenders among Syria's gangs. The Kurdish militia has been the main force fighting the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group in Syria.
HRW says that YPG in 2014 signed a "Deed of Commitment" with the non-governmental organization Geneva Call, pledging to demobilize all fighters under 18 within a month.
HRW said Wednesday it has compiled a list of 59 children -- 10 of them under 15 -- who were recruited by or volunteered for YPG or YPJ since July 2014.
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[FOXNEWS] President B.O. on Wednesday staunchly defended the newly struck Iran nuclear deal, using a presser to lecture critics and assembled media on the agreement -- even admonishing a news hound who questioned his resolve on U.S. prisoners left behind that "you should know better."
The president met the press as his national security team, and Vice President Biden, began to lobby skeptical politicians in Congress to back the agreement. Obama already faces bipartisan resistance to the deal, but on Wednesday challenged critics to present an alternative.
"I'm hearing a lot of talking points being repeated about 'this is a bad deal,'" Obama complained, speaking at the White House.
He said he doesn't expect Republicans to get behind the deal, but asked of critics, "What is your alternative?" Obama claimed the alternative is war.
House Speaker John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner ... the occasionally weepy leader of House Republicans... 's office pushed back on the president's comments. Spokesman Cory Fritz said in a statement that "there's little reason for Americans to believe this nuclear deal will do anything to stop Iran's drive for a bomb, or stop its efforts to promote terror and violence throughout the Middle East."
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[ARABNEWS] Climate change is a big worry in Latin America, Asia and Africa, but the Daesh group spells more anxiety among Europeans and North Americans, a global opinion poll released Tuesday suggests.
The Pew Research Center in Washington said it interviewed 45,435 respondents in 40 countries to see what issues were most likely to keep them awake at night.
Sixty-one percent in Latin America identified climate change as their biggest worry, the highest proportion of any region, said Pew in a summary of its findings.
Concern was greatest in Peru and Brazil, running at 75 percent in both nations, it said.
Climate change was similarly the top concern for 59 percent of Africans surveyed in nine countries, with fear expressed most frequently in Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... (79 percent), Uganda (74 percent) and Ghana (71 percent).
In the Asia-Pacific region, a majority in half of the 10 countries surveyed identified climate change as the top issue, with the proportion running as high as 73 percent in India and 72 percent in the Philippines.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed his guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... the Daesh group was the leading worry in Europe, where 70 percent expressed serious concern about the threat that it represents, Pew said.
Sixty-eight percent of Americans and 58 percent of Canadians felt likewise, and IS was also the top concern for a majority of respondents in South Korea, Japan, Australia and Indonesia.
Fear of Daesh was shared by respondents in the Middle East, where 84 percent of Lebanese, including 90 percent of its Sunnis and 87 percent of its Shias, said they were very concerned by the group's proliferation.
Sixty-two percent of respondents in Jordan and 54 percent in the Paleostinian territories agreed with that concern, Pew said.
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So nice to terrify the third world with fake global warming, climate change, cooling.
No one could do anything if they wanted to, but make sure everyone believes in the scam.
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For example. If a 30 years old African-American has "voluntary" sex with a 14 years old white male student: who is the rapist and who is the victim?
[Libya Herald] Flanked by some of his top commanders, Armed Forces commander-in-chief, General Khalifa Hafter tonight delivered an ambiguous analysis in the wake of the UNSMIL peace accord.
Speaking in a broadcast presser, he touched on both the political and the military positions. He began by saying that the armed forces should be above the political process. They drew their legitimacy, he said, from the elected parliament.
However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... when he turned to the need to ensure national security, he added that politicians should be prevented from interfering in army affairs. He also said that he did not want politicians from going into combat zones and making statements to camera.
In the formal setting of a meeting room at his Marj headquarters, Hafter had commanders ranged along tables on either side of him. They included army chief of staff Major-General Abdul Razzaq Al-Nazhuri, Saiqa special forces head Wanis Bukhamada, air force commander Saqr Geroushi, Colonel Jamal Zahawai Commander of 21 Brigade, Colonel Mahdi Bargathi commander of 204 Tank Brigade and Colonel Abdulsalam Hassi commander of Omar Mokhtar Room for the East of Libya.
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[RUDAW.NET] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) launched a coordinated assault Wednesday against Peshmerga positions in Khurmatu, 88 km south of Kirkuka. After several hours of intense battle the Death Eaters were repelled.
"The attack was launched at 00:10am in Zargah bridge and stretched across different areas and lasted till 03:00 am," said Ahmed Besheyi, Peshmerga commander.
According to Besheyi, the attack was coordinated and was launched from several directions, "But due to the well-positioned strongholds and the fighting will of the Peshmerga forces, the attacks failed to achieve any territorial gains or inflict damages," said the Peshmerga commander.
"The Death Eaters managed to reach the area by crossing the Rokhana waters using rafts from one direction, and on foot from another direction, but they were repelled and could not achieve their goal," added Besheyi.
Khurmatu was detached from Kirkuk and became part of Saladin Province in 1976 with a decree from the Iraqi government. The town is currently under Peshmerga control.
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[DAWN] Army Chief General Raheel Sharif said that the military operation will not stop until the last terrorist is eliminated from the soil of Pakistain. He added that most of the turbans involved in the attack on Army Public School (APS) Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. have met their fate.
The army chief was speaking at a ceremony hosted at Corps Headquarters Peshawar to honour the families of the deaders of APS Peshawar.
General Raheel reiterated his commitment to eliminate terrorism from the country. The army chief met the families of the deaders on the occasion and expressed his solidarity and profound grief.
He also paid tributes to the deaders and those who were maimed in the December 16 attack.
He acknowledged the great sacrifice the families have paid, and assured them that the entire nation is united and stands with them.
"The sacrifice of our young deaders has united the nation. The tragic incident will never be forgotten. No religion or society allows such an heinous act," he said.
Sharing details of the incident, General Sharif informed the parents of the deaders that most of the turbans involved in the incident have met their fate.
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Macy's is paying the price for sacking Donald Trump, because we've learned thousands of customers are cutting up their Macy's credit card in protest.
Sources connected to the department store tell TMZ, Macy's has received complaints from approximately 30,000 customers since ending its relationship with Trump nearly 2 weeks ago.
We're told the store has been "inundated with complaints" from customers who believe the department store is unfairly punishing Trump for his views on immigration.
Our sources say thousands of customers have vowed never to shop at Macy's again and many of them say they're cutting up their Macy's credit card to make a statement.
We're told the complaints have come in various ways, including phone, Facebook and email. A Macy's spokesperson would only say, "Our Facebook page is often times used by our customers to express their feelings or points of view. Many times it does not correlate to any action." Leave it to TMZ to come up with the scoop. If you want to get the real news, don't bother with ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS or BBC. Question for the Donald at his next presser: would you short Macy's?
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It's so small. Why would anyone want to visit such a Mikey Mouse planet?
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Deacon, seen some interesting arguments about why the Kuiper Belt Objects could be great places to live work, mine and geo-engineer. In some ways it might be easier to colonize than Mars.
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The leadership of the GOP is in bed with Ovomit and the dhimocrats. They want what they want. Power. They need to be removed or nothing will change. Well, nothing will change peacefully if they don't leave.
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I remember the old timers, the 'spit and whittle club' bunch at the gas station saying there was no difference between the politicians in Washington. That was 50+ years ago.
Appears a contemporary confirmation must have been the pub's disdain for the populist Tea Party crowd.
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Obamacare is a tax and may be repealed.
All executive orders regarding Obamacare may be reversed by the next president.
Obamacare may be totally eliminated by EA by the next president...or not.
Congress is making too much $ now to change anything. Got to pay Boners $80K gate fee to make legislative change.
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Right on Mr. B." the 'spit and whittle club'" I remember many such conversations. "In my day we would have strung-em up". 90+ old timer said that about politicians. His 90+ plus friend was called Crackers because candy was too expensive at the general store. That's all he could afford. Wood stove in the center of the room with benches or chairs to sit on. Many stories told. Husband and wife fighting about a mouse. He's commin in by the nut barrel. No he's commin in by the apple barrel. OK. man sets trap at each barrel. Later that night a snap is heard. Wife asks well you gonna check to see who is right?. Naw you check. She checks and comes back upstairs and doesn't say a thing. Well, asks the husband?. We caught-em by the nuts!. Of course the wife was right. Dats why they never should have let women vote.
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Back in 1972 I asked my grandfather how he could vote for George Wallace. He said by the time they get to the presidential level they're all crooked and he figured maybe Wallace was a little less crooked than the other two.
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At the time Wallace said, "There'S not a dime'S worth of difference between the two parties". A lot of people still which party paid to have him shot.
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At that time Wallace said, "There is not a dimeS worth of difference between the two parties". Some people are still wondering if one or both parties paid to have him shot.
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Besoeker, I like that quote. But I would add that the Tea-Party Republicans are threatening to take over the right. The old guard will fight and complain and try to cut them off at the knees whenever possible but I believe the population supports some serious reform/restoration.
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The traditional Democrat no longer has a party. The traditional Republican is seeing the same thing happening to them. This onerous vacuum will allow the most unexpected results. Elect a strong person to the presidency. The Republican leadership will follow along as they have with O. As long as he or she has the popularity. They will bide their time and strike at the most opportune moment. Strike as they see fit. Like Tip O'Nell, he being the true power under Carter. The media will provide cover as well. This time I don't believe things will go as planned. Too many chiefs in the mix jockeying for power for their own groups. This is no longer a country united together for the betterment of all. Each group vies for power among their own.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] The Syrian army backed by Lebanese ally Hezbollah has advanced deeper into the besieged Syrian city of Zabadani two weeks into a campaign to capture it from bully boys, Rooters said.
The control of the city, about 45 km (30 miles) northwest of the capital Damascus, is seen as crucial to consolidate government-held areas linking Leb and Syria. Zabadani is a former popular resort on the main Beirut-Damascus highway.
Activists said 5 Hezbollah bandidosforces of Evil had been killed on Wednesday, saying the dead of Iran proxy reached 75.
Bashir al-Assad army and Hezbollah captured the western mountains overlooking Zabadani last March but rebels who control the eastern hilltops have used rocket launchers to hit their positions.
Rebels have destroyed a rocket launcher set by Hezbollah in al-Zahraa citadel west of Zabadani, field sources said.
Hezbollah bully boyz and the army, aided by reinforcements, advanced closer to Zabadani's center under cover of heavy artillery fire and intense aerial bombardments of bully boy hideouts, according to Rooters.
Footage released by the Syrian army showed troops in the heart of the southeastern district of Sultani, the focus of street fighting. Rebels said some 500 families were still inside Zabadani and had taken shelter but the city was mostly deserted.
ZABADANI STRATEGIC GAIN
Its capture would be a strategic gain for al-Assad, whose army is battling on several other fronts with groups including non-jihadist rebels and hardline Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... myrmidons.
A victory over the rebels would also secure a corridor for Hezbollah to transport fighters and arms. The Shi'ite Moslem group's military role inside Syria has been growing steadily since the start of the conflict in 2011.
Rebels contacted by phone said although they had lost some ground in parts of the city in the last few days, they have so far repulsed advances deeper inside their stronghold.
"They have now secured what they want...any more advances would be very costly in human terms for them," said Abu Abdo, a field commander from the Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... bully boy group.
Around 1,500 to 2,000 fighters from Islamist groups including Ahrar al-Sham and al-Qaeda's Syrian offshoot Nusra Front alongside local fighters have dug inside the city that was besieged by the army even before the last assault.
The army cut an bully boy supply route from neighboring rebel held town of Madaya to Zabadani two days ago, part of a move to further tighten the siege around the city and to sever supplies to forces of Evil from outlying areas.
The Sunni Moslem rebels in Zabadani have appealed to their counterparts in the Ghouta suburbs of Damascus further southeast to escalate attacks to relieve pressure on them.
The area around Zabadani was part of a supply route for weapons sent by Syria to Hezbollah before the outbreak of the Syrian conflict, which has killed more than 230,000 people.
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[Libya Herald] Bangladesh has closed its embassy in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... and warned its citizens not to come to Libya.
Officially there are some 40,000 Bangladeshis working in the country, though the figure is probably far higher. During the Revolution, 36,000 citizens were flown back to Dhaka, though many more are believe to have remained. There has since been a flourishing trade in fake visas.
The majority of the community is working in low-paid menial jobs, street cleaning and collecting rubbish. There are also Bangladeshi health professionals and oil field workers, two of whom were kidnapped for two weeks and then released this March, allegedly by Daesh.
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North Kore had to starve its people to pay for the bomb. Iran already has billions in oil revenue, and hundreds of billions in newly released assets. The can spend like crazy on the bomb.
I would suggest that if you ever want to visit Israel, you do it soon.
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The Islamic State having reared its ugly beturbanned head in Nangarhar, the Commander of the Faithful has decided to bury the hatchet for now and fight it out when the immediate danger (in the form of a competing Amir al-Moumineen) is dealt with.
[CNNPHILIPPINES] Secretive Taliban leader Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... signaled support for Afghan peace talks in a message to supporters Wednesday (July 15).
"Concurrently with armed jihad, political endeavors, and peaceful pathways for achieving these sacred goals is a legitimate Islamic principle and an integral part of Prophetic politics," he said in a message released on the eve of Eid celebrations to mark the end of Ramadan.
The Taliban leader said he had ordered the formation of a "Political Office" that was "entrusted with the responsibility of monitoring and conducting all political activities."
"The objective behind our political endeavors as well as contacts and interactions with countries of the world and our own Afghans is to bring an end to the occupation and to establish an independent Islamic system in our country," he said, after explaining at length why negotiating with "infidels" is permitted by the Koran and actions of the Prophet Mohammed.
His message comes a week after the Afghan government held face-to-face talks with Taliban representatives for the first time in an attempt to work toward a grinding of the peace processor.
Mujahedeen told to stay united
Mullah Omar also sent an apparent warning to ISIS, the Sunni holy warrior group that has seized a swath of territory across Syria and Iraq, not to create a new front in Afghanistan.
"Since maintaining the unity of jihadi front in our country is a religious obligation, we have therefore directed all our mujahedeen to preserve their unity and forcefully prevent all those elements who attempt to create differences, damage this jihadi front or try to disperse the mujahedeen," he said.
His words come after ISIS published a long interview in its English-language propaganda magazine, Dabiq, in which a Moslem scholar argued that jihadi forces should back the self-declared caliphate of leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... over the "regional" leader Mullah Omar.
Insurgency rages
The Afghan government described last week's talks, hosted by Pakistain, as "the start of the first ever official peace talks" between the two sides.
Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. had been seeking dialogue with the Taliban with the encouragement of the United States.
But finding a peaceful resolution to the country's lengthy conflict will be challenging, to say the least.
As U.S. and other 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 are drawing down their numbers in Afghanistan, the Taliban insurgency continues to rage across wide areas of the country. The Lions of Islam attempted a brazen attack on the national parliament last month.
The U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan ended last year, leaving the Afghan military to lead the fight against the Taliban. The thousands of NATO troops that remain in Afghanistan are there in a training and support role.
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So, Blinky blinked?
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HUDUR, Somalia -- At least 5 people were killed while more than 4 others injured in a deadly battle between Somalia army along with Ethiopian troops in south of Somalia’s Bakol region.
The incident happened after a group of Al Shabab militants launched an ambush assault on military vehicle carrying Ethiopian troops an area sandwiched between Rabdhuure and Wajid towns. The ambush attack launched by Al Shabab has left at least 5 militants dead and 4 government soldiers were wounded, military sources have told Shabelle Media in Mogadishu.
Meanwhile, Somalia’s Hudur DC, Mohamed Mo’alin Ahmed told Shabelle Media that government troops had repulsed the attack and inflicted heavy losses upon militants during the raid.
Somalia government troops backed Ethiopian forces serving under Africa Union Mission for Somalia (AMISOM) are on high alert, in a bid to thwart Al Shabab fighters’ attempts in Bakol region.
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[InterAksyon] An Abu Sayyaf sub-leader, long sought on charges of kidnapping and murder, was killed by government troops in Indanan, Sulu Wednesday afternoon. Killed in the clash with Joint Task Group Sulu was Mahmur Jupuri, alias "Mahmur".
Jupuri is known to have been involved in the kidnapping of a Malaysian couple in Sandakan, Malaysia on May 14.
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These were real slaves in our lifetime, not something that ended over 200 years ago. A few are still alive. It was a segregated army, so the 'desperate impact' fell upon whites, not your usual victim class. You'll never hear this story in the indoctrinations in our public schools that passes for 'studies'.
[Libya Herald] In the latest in a series of local peace deals, elders from Zintan, Zawia and Rujban agreed to an immediate ceasefire and a mutual pullback of fighters.
The agreement was concluded this afternoon at a meeting in Bir Ghanem. It contained a pledge that all three towns would never attack each other again. It also provided for an end to arrests at checkpoints. It was further agreed that there would be no pursuit of rival fighters, except for those who were suspected of crimes.
Rujban had already reached a peace deal with Zawia a month ago.
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[ARABNEWS] Egypt's military said Wednesday its troops foiled a suicide car kaboom targeting an army outpost on a highway between Cairo and the canal city of Suez.
The Egyptian affiliate of Daesh group known as the "Sinai Province" claimed the attack on a Twitter account affiliated to the group.
A jacket wallah driving an explosives-laden vehicle attempted to strike the outpost on a highway leading to Suez, the military front man said on his Facebook page.
He said the explosives-laden vehicle was destroyed and its driver killed.
The front man said the bomber tried to drive through a checkpoint and ignored warning shots, prompting soldiers to open fire, blowing up the vehicle.
"There were no losses among troops, and preliminary inspection shows that about half a ton of TNT" was used, he added.
Daesh has stepped up attacks targeting security forces since the army's ouster of President Muhammad Mursi in July 2013.
Most of their attacks have been in the restive Sinai Peninsula, but deadly attacks have also been carried out in Cairo and other cities.
On Saturday, a car kaboom struck the Italian Consulate in Cairo killing a passer-by and wounding nine others, in the first against a foreign mission since Mursi's ouster.
That attack came days after a car kaboom in Cairo killed the country's top state prosecutor.
The Sinai Province group, which pledged allegiance to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... last November, claimed the attack on Twitter and said that it killed a number of military personnel early on Wednesday.
The statement added that the attack was carried out by a jacket wallah identified as "Abu Degana."
The claim was, perhaps, a tad premature, given actual events.
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[DAWN] An eyewitness rightly picked out two Bohra community mosque blast suspects during an identification parade held by a judicial magistrate on Tuesday.
Saad Aziz alias Tin Tin alias John and Tahir Hussain Minhas alias Sain, who were incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... for their alleged involvement in the brutal gun attack on a Shia Ismaili bus near Safoora Goth, were also booked in the case pertaining to the cycle of violencekaboom outside Saleh Mosque near Haqqani Chowk in the Arambagh area during Friday prayers on March 20.
At least two people were killed and five others injured in the kaboom.
The police produced the suspects before the court amid tight security arrangements. The judicial magistrate (south) conducted the identification parade after completing legal formalities.
The suspects were lined up in a row of dummies when the magistrate called the witness, who was one of the injured victims, thrice during the identification parade before changing their previous positions. The witness managed to rightly pick out both the suspects among the dummies on all occasions and deposed that the suspects were seen at the scene of the crime before the incident.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the gondola was dangling by a single thread of rope.
Jack! Cynthia cried. I just realized I'm afraid of heights! I don't even like high heels!... an antiterrorism court remanded both the suspects to prison till July 22 in the case and asked the investigating officer to submit an investigation report till the next hearing.
Safoora Goth carnage
Another ATC extended the physical remand of Saad Aziz, Tahir Minhas and their accomplice Asad-ur-Rehman alias Malik in the Safoora Goth bus carnage case till July 15.
The suspects along with their absconding accomplices were booked for allegedly killing 47 Shia Ismaili community members, including women, in a targeted attack on their bus near Safoora Goth on May 13.
Five eyewitnesses recently identified Saad and Tahir during an identification parade held by a magistrate.
The same set of suspects were also booked in the murder of social media campaigner and rights activist Sabeen Mahmud in April and in the grenade attack on a private school in North Nazimabad in March.
Besides, Saad was booked for allegedly shooting and wounding an American citizen and vice principal of Jinnah Medical and Dental College Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , Debra Lobo, on April 16.
Saad along with his absconding accomplices was also allegedly involved in a grenade attack at Islamic Research Centre Imambargah ...since Pakistain is very religiously correct, Shia Moslems can't call their houses of worship 'mosques,' which are reserved for Sunnis. It's not clear if imambargahs are used for explosives storage like mosques are... , during a majlis in October last year. A minor girl was killed and many other children and women were maimed in the grenade attack.
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[DAWN] PESHAWAR: Local residents on Tuesday blocked Kohat Road for over two and a half hours in protest against the death of a youngster in an alleged police encounter in the quiet provincial capital.
Qaisar Shah of Ghari Saydan locality on Kohat Road was killed in the alleged encounter late on Monday.
The police claim the youngster died in exchange of fire while trying to escape and that he was asked to stop at police checkpoints.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... locals deny the charge asserting the police potted Qaisar in cold blood.
They said Qaisar Shah slowly hemorrhaged to death as the police took around two hours to take him to the hospital. On Tuesday, family members of Qaisar along with area residents placed the body on Kohat Road to protest what they called the 'murder'.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... they dispersed after police officials led by SP Rural Circle Shakir Bangash assured them of free and fair investigation into the alleged encounter.
Local elders later met Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. SSP (operations) Dr Mian Saeed, who assured them that the police would hold a fair investigation into the circumstances, which led to the killing of Qaisar, and punish the suspects if found guilty.
PML-N councillor Rehamdil Nawaz claimed the police had killed Qaisar in cold blood. According to him, after being shot by the police, Qaisar had contacted his family and apprised them of his bullet injuries.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... the family road blocked over youth's killing in 'encounter' received his body at the Lady Reading Hospital."The body had several bullet marks. The coppers put the injured boy in a mobile van before killing him by firing several bullets in his body," he claimed.
The councillor said the police took over two hours to take the injured to the hospital.
He said the dear departed was a third-year student and also ran a spare parts shop on Kohat Road.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Fatah Army on Wednesday announced a major offensive on two Shiite-dominated villages in the northern province of Idlib after two years of siege, the rebel group said.
The new battle is in support and solidarity with rebels of Zabadani in order to ease two week of bombardment by Syrian army and allied Hezbollah militia on the Syrian border city with Leb.
The powerful alliance of Islamist groups warned in statement of Zabadani fallout as it happened to Qusayr town in May 2013, assuring the new battle on al-Fou'a and Kefraya villages is a clear response to the Syrian army brutality in Zabadani city.
Army of Fatah, a reference to the conquests that spread Islam across the Middle East from the seventh century, has seized swathes of territory northern Syrian since late of March 2015 including Idlib city, Ariha and Jisr al-Shughour.
On Wednesday, regime army backed by Hezbollah has advanced deeper into the besieged Syrian city of Zabadani two weeks into a campaign to capture it from Lion of Islams, Rooters said.
Rebels contacted by phone told Rooters although they had lost some ground in parts of the city in the last few days, they have so far repulsed advances deeper inside their stronghold.
"They have now secured what they want...any more advances would be very costly in human terms for them," said Abu Abdo, a field commander from the Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... Lion of Islam group.
The control of the city, about 45 km (30 miles) northwest of the capital Damascus, is seen as crucial to consolidate government-held areas linking Leb and Syria. Zabadani is a former popular resort on the main Beirut-Damascus highway.
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[ARABNEWS] There is no shortage of protein in Kinshasa's Gambela Market, from cows to antelope and snakes. But it is the blue and silver bowls brimming with twitching crickets, termites and slithering mealworms that do the briskest trade.
Experts hope that the love of edible insects in Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... may hold the key to tackling widespread hunger among its roughly 65 million people by scaling up a millennia-old consumption habit.
Six-and-a-half million people live in food insecurity in the giant central African country, according to the World Food Program (WFP), largely due to low agricultural productivity and persistent violence in its volatile east.
Edible insects, which are just starting to win acceptance in the West, have long been one of Congo's most popular dishes. Often served as bar food or on special occasions, they are grilled and commonly served with hot pepper, lemon and onions.
"This is the main food of Congolese," said Marie-Colette Bena, who sells clothing at the market, "I'm proud to eat that food." The average household in the capital Kinshasa consumes about 300 grams of caterpillar a week, according to a UN study but insect supplies can be seasonal and are generally more expensive than other types of food. In Kinshasa a kg of crickets costs about $50, more than twice the price of beef.
Congo's Environment Ministry and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) hope to capitalize on Congo's affinity for the crunchy fare with a new programme to promote insect cultivation, a plan that could make them more widely available and bring down prices.
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tl;dr: We are crappy farmers and spend too much time killing each other, so the UN wants us to eat bugs.
[DAWN] At least 30 people were killed in three attacks by bandidosLions of Islam in northeastern Nigeria, local officials and inhabitants said on Wednesday.
The three assaults were carried out simultaneously on Tuesday. In the deadliest, over 20 were killed outside Ngamdu, a local politician, Mohammed Sando, told AFP.
"Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... gunnies... yesterday set up a barricade on the Damaturu-Maidiguri highway just outside Ngamdu, and attacked motorists. They killed over 20," Sando said.
"They then moved to Ngamdu and began to set houses on fire. Last week they burnt almost half the vilage in a similar raid," he added.
Haruna Kabil, a bus driver, said a large number of people from Ngamdu fled their homes after the attacks.
"Some houses in Ngamdu were smouldering when I passed this morning. I learned from some passengers I took from Ngamdu that Boko Haram invaded the village in the evening and began burning homes after attacking motorists on the highway. They said that many people were killed on the highway, by the attackers," Kabil told AFP.
Near Baga, which is located northeast of Ngamdu, Boko Haram attacked residents who had decided to return home from Maiduguri, where they had been living in forced displacement since January.
"Yesterday, they chartered a lorry to (take) them to Baga. On reaching Garin-Giwa, which is just four kilometres from Baga, they were ambushed by Boko Haram gunnies who opened fire on the vehicle, forcing dozens of men inside to flee into the bush," said Abubakar Gamandi, head of the fishermen's union in Borno state.
"The gunnies however apprehended eight of the passengers and shot them in the head," he added. In Damasak, Boko Haram assailants set fire to the town and "opened fire on everyone they saw," said local resident Buba Ari.
"We are now going through the burnt area looking for bodies. So far we have covered five. "The attacks underlined the threat still posed by the krazed killers, despite the authorities' pledges to crush Boko Haram's insurgency and with a new regional force set to deploy at the end of the month.
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[DAWN] THE Muttahida chief is no stranger to making impolitic remarks. With legal troubles in the UK and a barely hidden confrontation with the government and security establishment in Pakistain, the party is under pressure, which has led to a number of unguarded, ill-advised public outbursts from Altaf Hussain ...think of the head of the Barzini clan, only in Urdu... . In its defence, the party has pointed out on several occasions that the ongoing security operation in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... is unfairly and lopsidedly targeting its cadres. Indeed, this is a valid complaint, judging by the law enforcers' actions against the party of late. The most recent manifestation of this has been the registration of a number of cases against Mr Hussain in several cities across the country, after the MQM supremo passed biting comments critical of the Sindh Rangers' director general. The charges include waging war against Pakistain and committing acts of terrorism. Adding to the pressure, some of the MQM's political rivals, too, have jumped into the fray; the PTI filed an application at a Karachi cop shoppe against Mr Hussain for 'hate speech' against the armed forces, while on Wednesday both the PTI and MQM moved rival resolutions in the Sindh Assembly against each other's leadership.
The MQM's alleged links with militancy are no secret: it has been accused of a variety of crimes, ranging from extortion to assassinations, to the murder of its own leaders. As such, all criminal elements affiliated with the party must be apprehended and brought to justice -- and the same must be done to all Lion of Islam actors, regardless of their political and religious affiliations, whose violent tactics have spread fear in Karachi. But angry statements do not fall into the same category as militancy. They must be handled deftly and the response to them should not give the impression of a state-orchestrated action against a political party. This is not for the first time that attempts have been made, apparently by state-backed elements, to create difficulties for a particular political party. Our history is full of similar instances, but such efforts have largely backfired, often causing a rise in the popularity of the targeted politicians. If the state's actions strengthen the perception that the MQM is being victimised, it will only add to the ethnic and political divide within the province and hamper efforts to comprehensively tackle all types of militancy in Karachi and beyond. The state must stick to a broad-based strategy while conducting the operation, and refrain from demonising any one party.
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[The Nation] A paramilitary ranger was killed and six others seriously wounded by a roadside bomb in Narathiwat province yesterday morning. The blast instantly killed Master Sergeant First Class Wattana Muangkaew and destroyed the team's truck.
Officials believe insurgents detonated the bomb from bushes along the roadside as the teacher protection unit's truck passed it. The militant group believed to be involved is led by Amran Ming, Hasaree Ming and Usman Aesa.
Later in the morning a second roadside bomb went off, but none of the targeted rangers was wounded. In the afternoon, another bomb attack hurt four defense volunteers.
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] As head of the Quds Force in Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Qassem Suleimani is widely regarded as one of the world's leading terrorists. Now Barack Obama has effectively granted him an amnesty. Leafing through the more obscure annexes of President Barack Obama’s “historic” deal with Iran (page 86 of the annex, to be precise), I found that Mr Suliemani – as the White House no doubt now refers to him – has been granted an amnesty and taken off the list of proscribed Iranians – together with a number of senior members of the Revolutionary Guards.
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[UPI] Chinese police on Monday gunned down three knife-wielding men they called "terrorists" from Xinjiang province. The men brandished knives and shouted jihadi slogans as officers entered their apartment in the city of Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning Province, according to officials.
After an initial retreat, officers called in reinforcements and cordoned off the building before returning and shooting four people who confronted them with knives and clubs.
Police say a 28-year-old woman assailant was injured in the encounter. She and three children were taken into custody. Another woman bystander was injured by police gunfire.
Security forces reportedly conducted the raid while investigating a group known as Hijrah Jihad and described the four attackers as "Xinjiang terrorists," according to a statement posted on a provincial government social media account and later removed.
Uighur rights groups have questions about the official police account.
[DAWN] The family of a wealthy old man, accused and later acquitted of blasphemy charges, has approached a civil court of Rawalpindi, seeking ownership of Rs127 million worth of saving and income certificates.
Seventy-year-old Dr Iftikhar Ahmed Sheikh was booked for blasphemy in December 2012 after a complaint was lodged against him by his nephew Usman Rashid Sheikh, at the Industrial Area Police Station. Dr Sheikh was accused of authoring books in 2001 with alleged blasphemous content.
Before his nephew lodged the complaint, Dr Sheikh had reportedly served a Rs5 billion notice to his nephew in a civil matter. Additional district and sessions judge Rafaqat Awan acquitted Dr Sheikh on February 2, 2013 from the blasphemy charges.
Following the acquittal, Dr Sheikh along with his family members sought asylum in the United States citing threat to his life as the reason, but his asylum case was not finalised as his children refused to go with him.
His wife, two daughters and son have now petitioned before the civil court in Rawalpindi, seeking ownership of saving and income certificates worth Rs127 million. According to the petition, Dr Sheikh is a millionaire with "different properties, cash deposits in foreign banks in US and UAE, and he owns regular income certificates and special saving certificates under his name".
The petition claimed that since his children and wife do not agree with Dr Sheikh's opinions, they refused to seek asylum with him anywhere as this would be akin to supporting his past blasphemous views.
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Blood is thicker than water, but money is thicker than blood...
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[RUDAW.NET] The Ministry of Peshmerga in the Kurdistan region recently ended its recruitment campaign in Erbil, Duhok, and Suleimani provinces.
The ministry is planning to form two Peshmerga brigades consisting of 4,400 members. The recruitment campaign, which lasted for a month, recruited 3,500 only.
On the last day of the campaign, Rebin Abdulla, a graduate student, came to register his name in order to become a peshmerga. "I tried several times to get employed, but my attempts failed," said Abdulla.
"I was jobless and I did not have other options. I could either illegally go abroad or become a Peshmerga. Being a Peshmerga is a sacred occupation but I prefer to work in the field of my specialty," said Abdulla.
"I would rather sacrifice my blood to my country than abandon it and depart to Europe, what the youth does is wrong, they better serve Kurdistan," Mohammed Farouq, a Peshmerga volunteer told Rudaw.
The Peshmerga ministry consists of 16 brigades, each brigade composes of 3200 Peshmerga. The Peshmerga ministry decided to form three more brigades for volunteer Peshmerga, only two have been formed so far.
"These two brigades will alleviate the Peshmerga shortcomings, but they cannot be considered as a main backup force for a long-period in major battles against the enemy," said Bapir Kamala, member of the Kurdistan Parliament's Peshmerga committee to Rudaw. "I call upon the government to expedite preparing these two brigades and form the third brigade as well," he continued.
"The volunteer brigades are going to be trained directly by the United States of America (US), which will be sending experts for that purpose," said Anwar Haji Osman, the deputy minister of the Peshmerga.
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[RUDAW.NET] The People's Protection Units known as the YPG have mobilized its forces to recapture the southeastern areas of the Syrian Kurdish town of Hasaka. Fierce fighting is currently ongoing in some areas.
"The People's Protection Units have regained control over an International school and their forces advanced to control some areas inside Hasaka," a YPG source told Rudaw.
The US-led coalition is supporting YPG by attacking Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... bases and positions.
The source added, "the YPG has been able to recapture Makeef district in southeastern neighborhood of Nashwa and Hwjiarah village in Hasaka."
The US-led coalition has carried out Arclight airstrikes in the south, east, and west of Hasaka. Coalition warplanes have halted the Islamic State (ISIS) in Shadadia town in Hasaka and carried out more Arclight airstrikes in Al-Zhour, East Nashwa, and Gweran against the positions of ISIS.
Hasaka was previously controlled by both YPG forces and the Syrian Army, each had control over different parts of the city
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] President Barack Obama If I had a son he'd look like Trayvon... , seeking to sell the Iran nuclear deal to skeptical U.S. politicians and nervous allies, insisted on Wednesday the landmark agreement was the only alternative to a nuclear arms race and more war in the Middle East.
Obama made his case in a nationally televised news conference responding to critics at home and abroad after Iran and six world powers sealed an accord in Vienna on Tuesday to restrict Tehran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.
"Without a deal," Obama said, "there would be no limits to Iran's nuclear program and Iran could move closer to a nuclear bomb ... Without a deal, we risk even more war in the Middle East."
Obama, who must still overcome a congressional hurdle to enact the accord, said that if the United States does not seize the opportunity, "future generations will judge us harshly."
The agreement is a triumph for Obama, who has made outreach to America's enemies a hallmark of his presidency, but it is also seen as his biggest foreign policy gamble since taking office in 2009.
In his first public comment, Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the deal should be scrutinized and legal procedures taken so the other side does not breach it.
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and with this deal, we can all now wonder which ME city will be the first to go up in a radioactive cloud.
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his biggest foreign policy gamble
amble? He doesn't gamble. If it somehow succeeds, he's a hero and if it should not succeed, by whatever standard, it ain't his fault!
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Here is how the deal is structured (IMHO).
1. Iran goes balls out to get nuclear weapons but can't get them on Obama's watch by most guesses.
2. Israel bombs Iran to stop their nuclear program. Possibly with assistance from Saudi Arabia.
3. The left blames Israel for disturbing the peace and ruining our only chance at peace in the Middle East.
4. Hate Israel goes into overdrive with the left.
A jacket wallah targeted the Afghan police forces during Ramadan Iftar in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province of Afghanistan, local officials said.
The incident took place in Lashkargah the capitla city of southern Helmand province with security officials saying at least four copperswere maimed.
The provincial police front man Nabi Jan Mullah Khel confirmed that a suicide bomber attacked the police forces in Ahmad Wali Khan area.
He said at least copperswere maimed in the attack. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... the provincial public health officials said at least four coppersbit the dust in the attack and their bodies were transferred to Lashkargah state hospital.
The officials further added that four coppers were also injured in the attack and were shifted to hospital for treatment.
No goup including the Talibs has so far grabbed credit behind the incident.
This comes as at least 29 people were maimed after an kaboomdestroyed a mosque in Pul-e-Khumri, the capital city of northern Baghlan province on Tuesday evening.[Khaama (Afghanistan)]
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Five civilians have been killed by unknown gunnies in southern Zabul province, the second such incident in one day.
Officials say the dear departed were setting in a shop in Babu area of Nawbahar District when they came under indiscriminate fire by unidentified gunnies yesterday.
Mirwais Noorzai, police chief of Zabul province says that five civilians lost lives in the incident and three others sustained injuries.
He said following the incident police arrived at the scene to chase the culprits but a shootout erupted between the two sides.
According to Noorzai two attackers were killed and a policeman embraced martyrdom in the clash.
This was second incident of its kind in Zabul province yesterday.
The first incident took place in Zabul's Shah Joy District. Hameedullah Noori, a civil society activist and a policeman lost lives in the incident.
The gunman who attacked Noori and later began to fight with security forces was also rubbed out in the exchange of fire.
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Crimean Prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya said that the document of abdication of Nicholas II from the throne lacked a legal force. Such a statement she made at the ceremony of unveiling a monument to the last emperor of the Romanov House in Livadia.
"This is a copy paper, signed in pencil, without complying with all necessary legal and procedural procedures, forms, so this paper does not carry any legal force. All this is well understood ", - said the prosecutor.
Poklonskaya also drew an analogy with some attempts to rewrite the history of the Great Patriotic War. She emphasized that the document was signed by Nicholas II in the history books is "presented as alleged abdication."
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By extension, iff the Royals get wiped out by Islamist-Jihadist Terror, Russia will have a legit or credible claim to the throne of Britain, besides the Royal's other local or overseas relations of course.
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By extension, iff the Royals get wiped out by Islamist-Jihadist Terror, Russia will have a legit or credible claim to the throne of Britain
Russia doesn't have the Romanovs anymore. The last sprigs of the family live in Paris and New York, as I recall, and seem remarkably unsuited to either reign or rule, though perhaps the younger generation has developed skills other than pretentions to the throne. Nor can I imagine Russia successfully enticing the head of the family to move back to Moscow, given the proclivities of the current ruler.
As for the abdication being legal or not, the fact is that the Russian branch of the family was slaughtered, so it was certainly a de facto removal from power, if not de jure -- and with centuries of historical precedent, both at home and abroad.
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Perhaps old spook is on to something. The idea of a permanent monarch like Western European democracies, but with real power and a puppet Prime Minister.... so perhaps the idea is to paper his way to the top and enable his plan for Imperium to be legitimized?
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Crimean Prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya said that the document of abdication of Nicholas II from the throne lacked a legal force. Such a statement she made at the ceremony of unveiling a monument to the last emperor of the Romanov House in Livadia.
[RAPSI] The North Caucasus District Military Court has sentenced a group of terrorists that were convicted of attacking a police station in December 2013 to long prison terms, the court's press secretary, Alyona Katkalo, said on Tuesday.
