Whats about to happen, if the United States and allies do go through with the strikes, is less of a war and more of a ritual. This isnt about defeating Assad, its about punishing him. And that calls for being really precise about how much punishment the United States imposes.
This is what the Clinton administration did in 1998 with Operation Desert Fox, when it and the United Kingdom bombed Iraq as punishment for cheating on weapons of mass destruction disarmament. The strikes were also intended to degrade Iraqs WMD production capacity. The 100 or so targets were, as now with Syria, telegraphed ahead of time. Many of them were empty. Iraq knew it was coming and was mostly unsurprised, which meant that it didnt escalate. The campaign was limited in scope and, although the history of Iraq and WMDs is obviously a thorny one, appeared to be largely successful at least at punishing Saddam Hussein. The writer has a very strange definition of "success". Here's my 2 cents on what the big O is going to do: nothing. He'll find some way to punt. From now on they're on double secret probation!
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Right. "Mr. Big" from Chicago doesn't even get how street violence works, where the gun is waved around immediately on the slightest pretense and usually is fired in short order, even if just for show...
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Testimony from victims strongly suggests it was the rebels, not the Syrian government, that used Sarin nerve gas during a recent incident in the revolution-wracked nation, a senior U.N. diplomat said Monday.
Carla del Ponte, a member of the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, told Swiss TV there were strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof, that rebels seeking to oust Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad had used the nerve agent. So now the light worker is going to ignore UN?
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General "Buck" Turgidson: Ahem... The Duty Officer asked General Ripper to confirm the fact that he *had* issued the go code, and he said, uh, "Yes gentlemen, they are on their way in, and no one can bring them back. For the sake of our country, and our way of life, I suggest you get the rest of SAC in after them...
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But, but. The rebels are Hussein's friends. And Linsey Grahmnasty's and John McShame's. They'd (the rebels) never let their American supporters down...
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Just a friendly reminder Iraqi army, security, and intelligence services captured an al-Qaeda cell this July that specialized in manufacturing chemical weapons.
Two plants were shut down, one in Baghdad and the other in an area near the capital. Chemicals weapons, their precursors, and the equipment used to manufacture them, were confiscated.
The cell had reached an advanced stage in the manufacture of extremely dangerous chemical weapons sarin, mustard and VX nerve gases -- as well as a highly toxic, incendiary chemical liquid.
The plants had been set up to produce chemical weapons and the five men had conducted experiments there on how to use the weapons, he said.
During the investigation, the men revealed plans to use the chemical weapons they manufactured in terrorist strikes in Iraq and neighboring countries, as well as in Europe and North America, he said.
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The Aum Shinrikyo cult in Japan killed about a dozen people with sarin in the Tokyo subway back in 1995. No artillery or nation-state support involved.
[Ynet] Army to recruit limited number of reservists (1,000 to start) ahead of possible American strike against Assad regime. Ya'alon: Syrian attack on Israel unlikely
The Cabinet on Wednesday authorized the IDF to call up a limited number of reserve soldiers ahead of a possible US-led attack on Syria, which may be launched as early as Thursday.
"We've been given a mandate to recruit thousands of reservists, but we will recruit only up to 1,000 to vital arrays in the Air Force, Home Front Command and IDF Intelligence," a senior IDF official said. "We've instructed the relevant units not to allow soldiers to go on leave tomorrow morning."
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... will most likely not order his forces to attack Israel in response to any military operation against his regime. "Our borders are stable despite momentary anomalies. Our responses clarify our red lines and are based on deterrence. This is why our borders are quiet and the situation in the territories and Sinai is claim," Yaa'lon told an economic conference in Tel Aviv Wednesday.
In preparation for a possible American attack in Syria, the IDF has decided to deploy another Iron Dome missile defense battery in northern Israel within the next 24 hours in addition to the one already deployed in the Haifa area.
In preparation for a possible American attack in Syria, the IDF has decided to deploy another Iron Dome missile defense battery in northern Israel within the next 24 hours in addition to the one already deployed in the Haifa area. The army may place another battery in central Israel. the Israeli Air Force may also deploy Patriot batteries in the Galilee region.
Senior American officials told NBC News the US could hit Syria with three days of missile strikes, perhaps beginning Thursday, in an attack meant more to send a message to Syrian President Assad than to topple him or cripple his military.
Defense Minister Ya'alon, "In Syria a process is taking place that is part of a historic event which occurs once a century -- the dissolution of a nation state. The situation in Syria is the result of Western mistakes. There were people in the West who thought they knew what was best for the Arabs and created a nation state. What we saw in Tunis, Egypt, Libya and Iraq is a situation of the dissolution of the nation state and future wars."
Ya'alon warned that in the near future the Middle East will be characterized by "chronic instability. During this period tensions will surface, among other things due to global jihad forces. This situation creates tensions that may be turned against us.
"The Syrians crossed a red line set by the Americans -- the use of chemical weapons. These are horrific scenes, but the matter is being dealt with by the West and the US, not us," he said. "We are prepared, but there is no panic or escalation. Our (finger) is not light on the trigger, but anyone who assumes he can threaten us will be met by our force."
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Iff-n-when SHTF proverbially, IMO the IDF's real focii for its Ground Forces will be agz Hezbollah in Lebanon, while the IDAF's will be CAS, AL-Qaeda in Syria + anything coming in from Iran ways.
[Ynet] A senior Jordanian official told Sky News in Arabic that special forces are positioned along the border with Syria ahead of an operation to seize chemical weapons sites. The source said the military operation will not be launched from Jordanian territory.
Whose special forces? Jordanian or... someone else?
[Ynet] US intelligence has intercepted an urgent phone call placed by a senior Syrian defense ministry official with a commander in a chemical weapons unit, Foreign Policy has reported.
According to the report, the official contacted the commander to demand answers for the alleged chemical attack that killed more than 1,000 people in a Damascus suburb. The call is the US' main proof that Assad's regime is responsible for the attack.
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See also ABC NEWS > OBAMA: US HAS CONCLUDED THAT THAT SYRIAN GOVT [read, ASSAD per se] CARRIED OUT CHEMICAL WEAPONS ATTACK.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS. FREEREPUBLIC > OBAMA SET FOR HOLY TOMAHAWK [SLCM, ALCM] WAR.
And ONLY a LR Tomahawk war???
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OTOH YAHOO NEWS, AFP > US: ASSAD RESPONSIBLE EVEN IFF DIDN'T ORDER GAS ATTACK.
En "Ultimates".
Bashir is the Head of State + Commander-in-Chief, hence is directly or indirectly responsible for any + all actions State Employees, Military, + Agencies + Orgs under his wing.
VERSUS
* BIG NEWS NETWORK > SECURITY COUNCIL FAILS TO AGREE TO AUTHORIZE MILITARY STRIKE AGZ SYRIA.
* SAME > ISRAEL SEES LOW PROBABILITY OF SYRIA ATTACK [counter-attack/response] AS US PREPARES STRIKE.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > RUSSIA SENDS AT LEAST TWELVE WARSHIPS TO SYRIA, ostensib to patrol in waters near its Tartarus Base.
The Obama administration has delayed a step crucial to the launch of the new healthcare law, the signing of final agreements with insurance plans to be sold on federal health insurance exchanges starting October 1.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) notified insurance companies on Tuesday that it would not sign final agreements with the plans between September 5 and 9, as originally anticipated, but would wait until mid-September instead, according to insurance industry sources.
Are they allowed to delay signing per the law or is this just more executive over-reach?
Nevertheless, Joanne Peters, a spokeswoman for HHS, said the department remains "on track to open" the marketplaces on time on October 1.
The reason for the hold-up was unclear. Sources attributed it to technology problems involving the display of insurance products within the federal information technology system.
Peters said only that the government was responding to "feedback" from the companies, "providing additional flexibility and time to handle technical requests."
Coming at a time when state and federal officials are still working to overcome challenges to the information technology systems necessary to make the exchanges work, some experts say that even a small delay could jeopardize the start of the six-month open enrollment period.
U.S. officials have said repeatedly that the marketplaces, which are the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare reform law, would begin on time.
But the October 1 deadline has already begun to falter at the state level, with Oregon announcing plans to scale back the launch of its own marketplace and California saying it would consider a similar move.
Tuesday's notification by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the HHS agency spearheading marketplace development, affects insurance plans that would be sold in federal exchanges that the administration is setting up in 34 of the 50 U.S. states. The remaining 16 states, including Oregon and California, are setting up their own marketplaces.
"It makes me wonder if open enrollment can start on October 1," said a former administration official who worked to implement Obama's healthcare reform.
"But having everything ready on October 1 is not a critical issue. What matters to people is January 1, which is when the coverage is supposed to start. If that were delayed, it would be a substantive setback."
Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is expected to extend federally subsidized health coverage to an estimated 7 million uninsured Americans in 2014 through the marketplaces.
But insurance plans must be qualified to meet specific standards if they are to be sold on the exchanges. And each insurer must sign a contract with the federal government.
The new timetable for qualified plan agreements is the latest in a series of delays for Obamacare.
The most significant came in early July when the White House and the Treasury Department announced a one-year delay in a major Obamacare provision that would have required employers with at least 50 full-time workers to provide health insurance or pay a penalty beginning in 2014.
Legal and political opposition from Republicans and their conservative allies have already fragmented Obamacare's original vision.
Only about half the states have opted to expand Medicaid program for the poor to uninsured families living below the poverty level, and Republicans in Congress have denied nearly $1 billion in new implementation funding this year alone.
The Government Accountability Office cautioned in June that the law known as Obamacare could miss the October 1 enrollment deadline because of missed deadlines and delays in several areas including the certification of health plans for sale on the exchanges.
Another U.S. watchdog, the HHS Office of the Inspector General, warned earlier this month that the government was months behind testing data security for the federal data hub that represents the information technology backbone of the new marketplaces.
The state of Oregon has already scaled back the October 1 debut of its own healthcare exchange by preventing state residents from signing up for coverage on their own until mid-October. California said last week that it, too, would consider a soft launch of its exchange if tests show it is not ready to accommodate wide public access.
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The "People in Charge" have realized , "It's a cluster fuck" and are delaying as hard as they can, Obbullshit will be out of office relatively soon.
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I have a feeling the insurance companies and their attorneys may also be providing input to the government that is less than helpful to those in charge. The insurance companies have to feel like they got rolled by The Won. Now is the time for clawbacks.
I removed the "First Fruit Tree" post this morning. A commenter pointed out that the link for the post pointed to absolute crap. The commenter was right.
Please make sure, if you post, that your link goes to an actual article and not a page full of ads and spam.
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Do not attempt to blame ipad's, technology, etc. Your Affordable Healthcare Application is now on administrative hold. This is your last warning. :-P
[WSJ] A pro-Syrian government group appeared to attack more than 10 websites, including Twitter, the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... [NYT -2.93%] and HuffingtonPost.com, said security researchers citing digital evidence.
The attacks by the Syrian Electronic Army, a group of hackers that supports Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... , come as the U.S. is considering action against Syria. In the past, the group has taken action against media organizations and websites it believes are sympathetic to Syrian rebels.
The websites, including the Huffington Post's U.K. website, appeared to be compromised Tuesday by the group, said a security researcher who had seen digital evidence. HuffingtonPost confirmed the attack and said there was a "minimal disruption of service."
The hackers, meantime, repeatedly claimed they had taken over Twitter's Internet address, though they appeared to be unsuccessful.
The social media site never appeared to lose service. (The hackers used their own Twitter account to claim they had hacked the social-media website.)
But for a brief time Tuesday evening, twitter.com, one of the most trafficked U.S. websites, at least appeared to be owned by a group called SEA, also the hacking group's acronym. The website appeared to be registered to sea@sea.sy, according to a security researcher with knowledge of the digital evidence.
Multiple security researchers with firsthand knowledge of digital evidence said all of the websites hacked shared a common feature: They were registered through a company in Australia.
The firm, Melbourne IT, said the credentials of one of its resellers were used to access its systems. The hackers were then able to change the records for several websites, a company front man said.
The company then locked those records from future changes after the problem was resolved, the front man said.
Similar digital evidence showed the New York Times's website had been hacked by the SEA, said Johannes Ullrich, a cybersecurity expert at the SANS Institute in Washington. Ullrich, who doesn't work for the Times, found digital evidence that shows the newspaper's website was redirecting to a different server. When Ullrich, who has tracked the hacker group in the past, checked which new server nytimes.com directs to, he received the message "Hacked by SEA. Connection closed by foreign host."
The Syrian Electronic Army has targeted several media organizations in the past, including the Washington Post, Rooters and the Onion, a satirical newspaper. When the SEA hacked the Twitter account of the News Agency that Dare Not be Named earlier this year, it posted a false headline to the account that said the White House had been attacked. The hoax caused U.S. stock markets to briefly lose $200 billion in value.
The website was down for several hours. As of Tuesday night, the Times was publishing on a different Web address.
There is little logic in the Netanyahu government's public assurances that the Syrian ruler Bashar Assad would not risk a major showdown with Israel for fear of an IDF response powerful enough to overthrow his regime. This argument fails to take into account the calculus in Washington: President Barack Obama would not countenance, at least in the initial stage, an Israeli military strike on a scale greater than the limited operation he is contemplating for his own armed forces in the wake of the Syrian government's chemical weapons attack on Damascus last Wednesday, Aug. 21. Israel would therefore not be allowed to endanger Assad's rule.
Israel doesn't want to endanger Assad's rule, fully realizing as they do what would replace him.
Assad's Russian advisers are no doubt briefing him on this Israel-Syrian equation.
According to military sources, Israeli strategists prefer to believe that Syria will choose Jordan for a conventional missile strike in reprisal for a US attack - rather than go for Israel.
This assumption was refuted by the words of Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem Tuesday, Aug. 27, at a press conference he held in response to US allegations of his government's responsibility for using chemical weapons in East Damascus.
Accusing the US Secretary of State John Kerry of telling lies and fabricating evidence against his government, Moallem insisted it had not used chemical weapons or delayed permission for the UN team to launch its investigation under guaranteed security in government-controlled sites. That team only arrived Saturday, Aug. 23, and was not ready for its mission before Monday, Moallem insisted.
Possibly all true. It could have been Al Qaeda creating an incident, whether deliberately or accidentally -- there have been rumblings that they made off with contents of captured warehouses for quite some time.
He went on to question US objectives in seeking to attack Syria, and answered his own question by saying: "Anything that happens in this area is in Israel's interest. Such aggression will first of all benefit Israel, secondly, the military efforts of Al Nusra, al Qaeda's armed group in Syria. "So the Americans would be serving Israel first and Al Qaeda second."
Yeah, yeah. It's always those damned juices.
As for Jordan, Moallem stressed Syria's friendly and neighborly ties with the Hashemite kingdom. "We have no thought of acting against Jordan," he said, and advised Amman not to let itself be persuaded to give up its friendship with Damascus.
When Moallem said Tuesday that Syria would defend itself in the case of a US strike "using all available means," he felt safe in including Syrian allies in this category.
Those allies are evidently resolved not to stand by idly if Syria is attacked.
Much more likely that Hizb'allah will attack Americans or Israelis out in the great big world than that Assad will trigger open war with Israel -- they're already out there and ready to rock.
The nature of their promised assistance to Bashar Assad was no doubt conveyed to Barack Obama's intermediaries, UN Deputy Secretary Jeffrey Feltman and Oman's Sultan Qaboos, Monday, when they met Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani Monday, to promote the US president's bid for an understanding on Syria --
Cargo Cult diplomacy.
So the US president must by now know how many players will jump in and where, in consequence of an American attack on Syria. This means that Washington may find it impossible to keep the operation within the predetermined confines desired by the US president.
Jerusalem as well as Washington realizes how widely the fallout may spread, but Israeli leaders are keeping this prospect under their hats to avoid public panic.
Most everyone in Israel has figured it out, which is why there's a run on gas masks over there, and construction on the various security fences continues apace.
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So why are Israeli officials so pro-rebel? My guess is that Israeli officials are afraid of Syria playing the Cuban role in a new missile crisis, once Iran gets its nukes up and going. That would reduce Israel's reaction time significantly in the event of a Syrian launch. If online commentary from English language Israeli news sites is any indication, popular opinion in Israel does not favor the Syrian rebels. However, the Israeli leadership is trying to get Assad toppled by hook or by crook before the Iranians get their nukes on line, on the assumption that the Iranians wouldn't place them in a Syria dominated by Sunni Islamists who view exterminating Shiites as the first order of business before embarking on a world tour with Allah's personal assistance (i.e. Koranic catastrophes like plagues, floods, et al, inflicted on the non-Muslim heathens).
Ultimately, the way to deal with Iranian nukes is to bomb the Iranian nuclear program, not create an al Qaeda government in Syria. Obama doesnt want to bomb Iran, so this is the alternative were left with.
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ZF, I'd agree with that, because otherwise its in Israel's interest for the war to drag on for years with Assad eventually winning, but the country wrecked for a generation.
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I can't imagine Assad or anyone else on the international scene trusting Obama. And I'm pretty sure the Israelis would not bet their survival on him either at this point.
[OMANOBSERVER] A UN inquiry gathering harrowing testimony of human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... abuses in North Korea appealed yesterday for access to the country, even as Pyongyang condemned its work as slanderous and provocative. The three-member Commission of Inquiry chaired by retired Australian judge Michael Kirby has just wrapped up five days of disturbing hearings in the South Korean capital Seoul -- mostly testimony from North Korean defectors. As Kirby prepared to give a final presser yesterday, the North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) launched a bitter attack on the UN panel, calling its witnesses "human scum" manipulated by the South Korean authorities. The commentary said the commission's work would only set back recent progress towards engagement between North and South Korea after months of heightened military tensions.
The North, which strongly denies allegations of rights abuses, has refused to recognise the commission and barred it visiting the country.
Despite the KCNA attack Kirby issued another in a long series of formal and informal appeals to North Korea to grant his three-member panel of experts access. "We will act with respect, we seek to find facts, we will provide due process, we will have no preconceptions," he told news hounds.
"We are not a prosecutor. We are not a judge. An ounce of evidence is worth many, many pounds of insult or attack. "The best way for North Korea to respond is with evidence... and by letting us inspect sites where abuses are alleged to have taken place." The commission's repeated requests for access included a formal written letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, but it has had no direct response.
The Commission of Inquiry is the first United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... expert panel to officially examine North Korea's human rights record, and plans to collect witness testimony in Japan, Thailand, Britannia and the United States. The final report is due to be submitted to the UN Human Rights Council in March next year, and Kirby said he expected the UN to act on any recommendations it might make. "It's difficult to accept that the international community established this commission without the intention that it would lead somewhere," he said. Much of the testimony gathered from the dozens of witnesses who participated in the public hearings in Seoul has been documented before, by rights groups, NGOs and in books written by the individuals themselves. Kirby said he had been "greatly affected" by the testimony, but stressed that it did not always amount to evidence of alleged wrongdoing.
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Pyonyang says, is a tune out, IMMEDIATELY.
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[Ynet] Given situation in Syria and Egypt, why does Obama believe Israeli withdrawal from West Bank will bring peace?
As Israel releases Paleostinian prisoners with blood on their hands just so that the Paleostinian Authority (which doesn't even represent Gazooks) agrees to talk peace, the Israeli public is left to wonder what these painful concessions will produce. The current grinding of the peace processor is predicated on the conventional wisdom that if Israel just relinquishes enough territory to its enemies, peace will arrive. But on most of Israel's borders, history has revealed the naïve folly behind an idea that could just as aptly be called "land for war."
Consider Syria. From 1948 to 1967, the Syrians regularly fired artillery shells from their dominant positions on the Golan Heights down at Israeli border communities and Fatah used the territory to launch terrorist raids into Israel, until Israel captured it in 1967. But since the US-brokered talks between Israel and Syria began in 1999, peaceniks have posited that a full withdrawal by Israel from the strategic plateau in exchange for peace with Syria involved a risk worth taking. Their rationale was that -- in an era dominated more by aerial threats (jets and missiles) than terrestrial ones (soldiers and tanks) -- the territory was no longer vital to Israeli security and could be traded for a double boon: Peace with Syria and elimination of Iran's greatest strategic ally.
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Along the same lines, why is INDIA claiming or alleging that rival CHINA is clearing out forest cover in Arunuchal-Pradesh in a bid to sneakily steal more of India's proclaimed sovereign territory???
[Al Ahram] Two supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi were reportedly rubbed out on Tuesday evening as military forces attempted to disperse a pro-Morsi rally in the Upper Egyptian city of Beni Suef.
An eyewitness told Al-Ahram's Arabic news website that hundreds of Morsi supporters had gathered in front of a mosque to begin a pro-Morsi march when a passing military patrol attempted to disperse the crowd, leading to violent festivities.
Medical sources said that the two slain protesters had sustained gunshot wounds and that two out of eight other injured protesters, who are all suffering from bullet wounds, are in a critical condition.
A senior military official in Beni Suef told Ahram Arabic that security forces had not fired at protesters.
The last week has seen comparatively few violent festivities between Morsi supporters and security forces, following the upheaval spurred by the violent dispersal of the pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo on 14 August which resulted in hundreds of deaths.
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[DAILYCALLER] Students in a rural Kentucky county -- and their parents -- are the latest to join a growing national chorus of scorn for the healthy school lunches touted by first lady Michelle Obama.
"They say it tastes like vomit," said Harlan County Public Schools board member Myra Mosley at a contentious board meeting last week, reports The Harlan Daily Enterprise.
The growing body of USDA meal regulations implemented by the Department of Agriculture under the "Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010″ has long been a signature issue for the first lady.
Denizens of Harlan County don't much care, though. Their primary concern at the board meeting was a bevy of complaints that local children are starving at lunch -- and for the remainder of the school day -- because the food on offer in the cafeteria is crappy and there isn't nearly enough of it.
"Kids can't learn when they're hungry!" parents shouted to the board, according to the Enterprise.
Other gripes involved the new bread, which students don't want to eat because it's brown wheat bread, and the new milk, which is skim or one percent fat, not two percent or whole. The cafeteria's chocolate- and strawberry-flavored milk offerings are now nonfat.
Jack Miniard, the school district's director of school and community nutrition, was on hand to explain that the federal government now governs both food choices and portion sizes in most American school districts including Harlan County.
Under the National School Lunch Program, Under the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, participating schools must provide lunches -- including free or reduced price lunches -- with minimum amounts of fresh fruits, fresh vegetables and whole grains. Also, in what presumably falls outside the hunger-free aspect of the act, there's a calorie cap: 850 for high school lunches, 700 for middle schools and a mere 650 calories for kids in elementary school.
Students can only have one serving of meat or other protein. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... rich kids can buy a second portion each day on their own dime.
Servings of carbohydrates such as potatoes are limited to just a single serving of three-fourths of a cup per student.
On the plus side, students can eat as many fruits and vegetables as they want.
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The point is rarely made that Mooch has absolutely NO experience with the subject at hand. NO, NADA, NONE.
She is not a dietitian or food expert in any way. (except planning for White House banquets)
She just pulled stats out of her huge ass and proceeded to inflict standards on our children without any skillset in the subject of the nutritional diets for our children.
Yet EVERY school administrator bowed to her expertise and forced our kids to eat this idiot's meal plan.
Goes to show you, you can fool Democrats and school administrators, but can't fool kids
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Normal children need at least most of those fats and sugars, &c. They've got lots of energy to maintain. An obese child is usually a glandular problem.
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But I doubt the food tastes like vomit. Eating mystery meat if part of the process of growing up.
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SPAM is very popular in the Pacific Islands. I like mine fried, with crispy edges. :-)
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Perhaps this is all part of a larger plan which will herald the return of the brown bag, PB&J, apple, and cookie. Make the stuff unfit to eat.... end the costly subsidies due to lack of interest.
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This issue is near and dear to my heart. Since my wife works at the local elementary school cafeteria. Over the last few years the only kids not packing were the kids on the free or reduced lunch. Families paying full price feel the meal is not worth the cost. Kids do not like it.
The kids on free or reduced lunch routinely try and trade the GIvernment lunch for real food.
Once a mom came into the cafeteria to have lunch with their child. She carried in an 'unhealthy' happy meal. When the kid sat down they swapped lunches and mom at the free lunch.
I have said this before. This new program has created the healthiest trash cans in schools. Kids routinely dump 1/2 their lunch in the trash.
Lastly. When kids run up a tab they still get a free lunch. Usually a grill cheese. Use to be peanut butter and jelly but now peanuts are 'poison' for all children and is banned from the cafeteria.
[Al Ahram] On Tuesday, Egyptian prosecution levied a new charge for incitement of murder against Islamist preacher and Moslem Brüderbund supporter Safwat Hegazy.
Hegazy, who was nabbed Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! on Wednesday pending an investigation that started on Saturday, was slapped with a fresh incitement charge regarding the 15 July festivities between supporters of ousted President Morsi and police forces in Ramsis Square, Downtown Cairo.
Prosecutors extended Hegazy's detainment for 15 more days following Tuesday's accusations. He had already been given a 15-day extension on Monday.
Hegazy was accused of inciting an attempt to storm Al-Azbakeya cop shoppe near Ramsis Square, as well as for targeting coppers with firearms.
He currently faces several charges, including attempted murder and incitement of violence against opponents of deposed president Mohamed Morsi within pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo's Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square and Giza's Al-Nahda Square, as well as for his role in earlier festivities between supporters and opponents of Morsi at the Presidential palace in December.
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[Dawn] Hurriyat leaders in Indian Administered Kashmire are demanded the cancellation of a concert by celebrated conductor Zubin Mehta to be staged in the disputed territory next month, saying it would legitimise Indian "state repression". Beethoven, Haydn, Tchaikovsky = legitimization of repression. Probably that makes sense in Urdu.
The concert by the Mumbai-born Mehta on September 7 was being organised by the Istate tourism department in Indian Administered Kashmire and the German embassy in New Delhi.
Veteran Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Geelani appealed to Germany to call off the concert, saying it "legitimises state repression" in the conflict-riven territory.
Another senior Hurriyat leader, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, echoed Geelani's call and suggested money for the concert would be better spent on a "Kashmire-German friendship hospital".
"Musical concerts and killings can't go hand-in-hand... Germany has to understand the ground situation," he told news hounds.
Civil society and human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... activists in Kashmire also urged Germany to call off the concert, saying in a letter it "must not allow itself to be party to activities that seek to further legitimise the Indian occupation".
Both the Kashmire state government and the German embassy declined comment.
Mehta, 77, will conduct the Bavarian State Orchestra in works by Beethoven, Haydn and Tchaikovsky for an invited audience of 1,500.
The event will be held in the sprawling Shalimar Mughal gardens under the mighty Chinar trees on the banks of the picturesque Dal Lake in the state's summer capital Srinagar.
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[Al Ahram] On Tuesday, Egyptian prosecution formally charged tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! Moslem Brüderbund leader Mohey Hamed with inciting murder and arming supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi during the deadly festivities that broke out near Cairo University on 30 June.
Hamed was tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! on Saturday after he was found in an apartment in the east Cairo district of Nasr City. He is a member of the Brotherhood Guidance Bureau, the highest authority in the 85 year-old group's hierarchy.
On Monday, Egyptian prosecutors implicated the Islamist group's second-in-command, Khairat El-Shater, and Islamist preacher Safwat Hegazi in the same investigation.
At least 16 died during the festivities near Cairo University, close to Al-Nahda Square, where a pro-Morsi sit-in was being staged.
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[Libya Herald] Three men were incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... today in Benghazi on suspicion of involvement in the campaign of booby-trapped vehicles, which has seen present and past-serving military and coppers assassinated or seriously injured.
The front man for the city's Joint Security Room, Abdullah Al-Saidi told the Libya Herald that not all of the suspects were Libyan. He said that one of the men was injured during the arrest but did not give details of how, nor where this had happened. He did say however, that the arrests had come about in part because of information supplied by members of the public.
It is unclear if there is any connection between the capture of these individuals and yesterday's pursuit of a vehicle thought to have been used by the two masked killers of Col Mustafa Agela Almugrbi, shot outside the Al-Ansar mosque as he left Friday prayers with his ten-year old son.
Last night, Sunday, the four occupants of a white Mitsubishi Lancer with tinted windows were chased until they abandoned the vehicle, reportedly, along with weapons and a phone, and fled into "wild country". The security forces were said to have then surrounded the area.
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[Dawn] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... Chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... on Monday said the people of Kalam valley would get electric supply at half the Wapda price in the next summer after the revival and upgradation of the local hydropower unit.
He was speaking at a public meeting here following the inauguration of work on Kalam and Ashuran hydropower projects.
Provincial Chief Minister Pervez Khattak inaugurated the project by unveiling the plaque.
The two projects dysfunctional since 2008 are to be mostly funded by the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... . The local population will also contribute funds to them.
Sarhad Rural Development Programme (SRSP) will execute the projects, which were earlier overseen by Small Hydel Development Organisation, recently made Pakhtunkhwa Hydel Development Organisation.
Under the plans, Kalam and Ashuran hydropower units will be functional after upgradation in the next six months and a year respectively.
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[MotherJones] Nearly a year before the massacre, the bureau intercepted emails between Nidal Hasan and radical holy manAnwar al-Awlaki ... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, zapped in Yemen, al-Awlaki was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He was an Islamic holy man who was a trainer for al-Qaeda and its franchises. His sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers, by Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hussein, and Undieboomer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He was the first U.S. citizen ever placed on a CIA target list... that officials called "fairly benign." They are anything but.
As it turns out, the FBI quietly released the emails in an unclassified report on the shooting, which was produced by an investigative commission headed by former FBI director William H. Webster last year. And, far from being "benign," they offer a chilling glimpse into the psyche of an Islamic radical. The report also shows how badly the FBI bungled its Hasan investigation and suggests that the Army psychiatrist's deadly rampage could have been prevented.
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No, we simply couldn't connect the dots with this here American jihadist al-Awalki, hard to find good Special Agents and intel people these days.... you know the deal. We didn't think it meant anything.....but figured it could eventually become ....."politcally sensitive"....especially with other gov't agencies involved.... so we kept each and every Hasan to al-Awlaki communiques over here in this Secure Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) in a nice file all it's own. That way if something came up, we wouldn't look quite as stupid. But then al-Awlaki got himself coincidentally drone zapped, and we thought watzit matter..... but we kept it all anyways, just in case.
No need to bring any of this stuff up at trial is there COL Osborne? Your decision COL, nasty old islamafobe Judge Gross is gone.....'you the man' er huh, so to speak. We're here for you on this one. All very "politically sensitive".... you know the deal.
By the way, good luck with your upcoming promotion board.
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I want to hear from the reviewers and raters.
This guy shouldn't have been boarded before he made O3 on performance alone. Probably would have been had not his demonstrated Islamic nutcasery made him invulnerable because his superiors didn't want to be accused of Islamophobia.
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Hopefully 'raters and reviewers' are contemplating pistol eating, and have a difficult time with sleep and mirrors.
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Another case of Affirmative Action vs competency. However, his chain would be composed of medical personnel. So, you understand - IAW Army regs (at least of the time when I left), doctors, nurse, lawyers and chaplains hold rank because of their skill and do not have inherit 'command authority'. They may have positional authority based upon the specific TO&E/TDA organization assignment. If you find yourself in the fantasy world of a POW camp (who takes Americans prisoners?), even though you'd have majors and colonels of those branches among you, the lieutenant or captain from other combat, combat support and even some other combat service support units would be senior in legal command authority.
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July marked the 40th anniversary of the end of the Draft. During the Draft years medical personnel came and went, fulfilling their service obligations. As I recall, they were a pretty good lot. We've not been able to recruit enough medical professional since. As a result, we get 'contract people' civilians who attended medical school in some island nation. Of course this strengthens diversity and the integration of misfits like Nidal Hasan. The Draft had some downsides, but the commissioning of newly graduated medical professionals wasn't one of them.
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Wouldn't make any difference today. There are already in place programs for subsidized medical education programs in return for government service obligations. Given Obamacare, the return on investment is going to drop for incentive to follow the medial path who don't want to take that path. As long as the AMA maintains the certification authority on medical schools, you can count on the guild (unlike businesses) in making sure the market is not flooded with cheap labor. So, a doctor shortage is going to become very acute among the civilian population, let alone among the uniform services.
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you've got places like chicago for medics to learn about dealing with bullet wounds
That actually is the the case, though usually it's places with Military Treatment Facilities nearby.
For a long time it was George Washington University; the Royal Navy would send its docs there.
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The report also shows how badly the FBI bungled its Hasan investigation and suggests that the Army psychiatrist's deadly rampage could have been prevented
Yes, an investigation. We were picking at threads; sorry for the whole garment falling apart...
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as I recall, over the years the good psychiatrist's colleagues and supervisors did complain -- verbally. They were either told to shut up or that it would be taken care of... and then it wasn't. Possibly because the FBI/CIA wanted to continue gathering information?
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It was not bungled. It was deliberate. ROP was the meme to be maintained. At all costs. From the top down. Good people got killed. No responsibility at the top. Congress critters and the exec are easy to buy.
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Al-AwLaki is only a recent or near-term part of the story.
As usual the FBI-CIA = FED Agencies is at least 10 years [more?] behind the truth.
[Dawn] Another Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) politician may face disqualification as an election tribunal on Monday fixed August 28 for the 'framing of issues' against its MPA Raja Rashid Hafeez from Rawalpindi for defaulting on Rs4.8 million of the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines (SNGPL).
It may be noted that on July 18, the Supreme Court suspended the membership of MNA Ghulam Sarwar Khan of the PTI for having a bogus educational certificate. On July 29, the Lahore High Court (LHC)'s Rawalpindi bench disqualified Ayla Malik from contesting by-elections from NA-71 Mianwali, the home seat of PTI chief Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... , for having a fake degree.
On May 11, Mr Hafeez won the PP-11 Rawalpindi seat bagging 44,430 votes against 43,267 of Ziaullah Shah, a candidate of the PML-N.
Mr Shah has sought disqualification of his rival, alleging that in addition to the Rs4.8 million default, Mr Hafeez had also concealed foreign currency bank accounts of his own and his spouse in his nomination papers.
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Eleanor Boardman (August 19, 1898 December 12, 1991) was an American film actress, popular during the era of silent movies.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Boardman was originally on stage but, after temporarily losing her voice, in 1922, she entered silent films. There followed months of fruitless effort until one day Rupert Hughes saw her riding a horse and gave her a part in a film and she quickly began to attract audiences. She was chosen by Goldwyn Pictures as their "New Face of 1922," through which she signed a contract with the company. After several successful supporting roles, she played the lead in 1923's Souls for Sale.
Her growing popularity was reflected by inclusion on the list of WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1923. She appeared in fewer than forty films during her career, achieving her greatest success in Vidor's The Crowd in 1928. Her performance in that film is widely recognized as one of the outstanding performances in American silent films.
Unable to make the transition from silent to talking pictures, Boardman retired in 1935, and retreated from Hollywood. Her only subsequent appearance was in an interview filmed for the Kevin Brownlow and David Gill documentary series Hollywood in 1980.
Marion Davies (January 3, 1897 September 22, 1961) was an American film actress, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist.
Davies was already building a solid reputation as a film comedienne when newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, with whom she had begun a romantic relationship, took over management of her career. Hearst financed Davies pictures, promoted her heavily through his newspapers and Hearst Newsreels, and pressured studios to cast her in historical dramas for which she was ill suited. For this reason, Davies is better remembered today as Hearst's mistress and the hostess of many lavish events for the Hollywood elite. In particular, her name is linked with the 1924 scandal aboard Hearst's yacht when one of his guests, film producer Thomas Ince, died.
In the film Citizen Kane (1941), the title character's wifean untalented singer whom he tries to promotewas widely assumed to be based on Davies. But many commentators, including Citizen Kane writer/director Orson Welles himself, have defended Davies' record as a gifted actress, to whom Hearst's patronage did more harm than good. She retired from the screen in 1937, choosing to devote herself to Hearst and charitable work.
In Hearst's declining years, Davies provided financial as well as emotional support until his death in 1951. She married for the first time eleven weeks after his death, a marriage which lasted until Davies died of stomach cancer in 1961 at the age of 64.
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] A Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, bill that could strip tax-exempt status from Little League, the Boy Scouts of America and other "discriminatory" nonprofit youth-serving groups could come up for a final vote this week.
The first-of-its-kind bill, SB 323, passed the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Senate and sailed through Assembly committees to a floor vote, possibly this week.
But opponents are taking heart that there might not be enough votes in the state Assembly to pass the bill.
The chamber did not consider the bill in its Monday session, but may take it up when it convenes Friday.
The bill, introduced by State Sen. Ricardo Lara, names the Boy Scouts, Little League, Future Farmers of America and 19 other organizations as examples of groups that could be stripped of their tax-exempt status if found to discriminate based on gender identity, sexual orientation, nationality, race, religion or religious affiliation.
The measure also threatens retaliation tax-exempt status for public and private schools found to sponsor discriminatory youth groups. One critic said it could even threaten an exemption status held by a church. "The power to tax is the power to destroy."
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The Future Farmers of America (FFA) is a particular dire threat to progressive socialism democracy. How dare they wear those racist blue corduroy jackets, study animal husbandry [even the term seems homophobic], feed livestock and then EAT THEM!.....Assuming they will one day have land to farm, how vulgar and crass. That's the people's land !
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This bill is bad for California and its citizens. But, it may be good for the Boy Scouts, Little League, and the Future Farmers of America, that will be shining lights in a dark and perverted land.
My guess is that they will get a pass and every group that espouses "American" or "Traditional" values will get pilloried, sued and taxed into oblivion.
[Dawn] Pakistan government is set to bring Dr Aafia Siddiqui back home from a US prison as the interior ministry Tuesday dispatched a summary to the cabinet division seeking approval of the federal cabinet scheduled to meet on Wednesday.
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Sniff, sniff, how cute, Penn State + Carlyle Army miss their little Aafia.
[DETROIT.CBSLOCAL] An exotic-looking "big cat" is no longer roaming a northwest bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... neighborhood.
Several residents called animal control officers after seeing the feline -- by some reports described as nearly four feet tall -- roaming the streets.
"It got out of its owner's home about a month ago through a screened-in window. So, we have been out there day and night, trying to set traps out to get this cat," Laura Wilhelm-Bruzek, with Paws for the Cause Feral Cat Rescue, told WWJ Newsradio 950.
Wilhelm-Bruzek said she spoke to news hounds on Saturday who said the cat was killed.
"They gave me a picture of a cat that was deceased, that was shot by a neighbor. So, we already had a good suspicion that the cat was deceased," she said.
Wilhelm-Bruzek said after word spread about the big cat sightings, she was contacted by people who claimed to be the animal's owner.
"Yesterday, we finally were contacted by the people that thought this might be their cat. They had heard that I had pictures of the dear departed cat and wanted to know if it was their cat," she said.
Wilhelm-Bruzek met up with the couple, traded pictures and determined they were in fact the cat's owners.
"They were just hysterical, I mean, they're heartbroken. They had to watch this unfold over the news and all the lies with people saying this cat is dangerous, you know, when those of us that know the breed know that it was not. I mean, the neighbors have pictures of them petting the cat," she said.
Wilhelm-Bruzek said the feline is a Savannah, which is a hybrid domestic cat breed.
"It was simply ignorance. A Savannah cat is a cross between an African Serval and a domestic cat, and that is it. They're larger cats, they're very beautiful, they have a lot of stripes and spots, which I think was more intimidating to people than even the size of the cat, because the cat wasn't overly huge, about 25 pounds and maybe when it was sitting was probably two feet tall. But they're very sweet animals, they're kind of like the dog of the cat world" she said.
They also are quite, quite expensive. Queens can cost up to $35,000. See here for pictures and information.
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Damn, One beautiful cat.
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Ah yes, the pillaging, looting, mismanagement and destruction of a long-time Democratically controlled city. There is not much left except the bones. That's what happens when a large city gets serially raped over a long period of time.
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It was simply ignorance. A Savannah cat is a cross between an African Serval and a domestic cat, and that is it. Theyre larger cats, theyre very beautiful, they have a lot of stripes and spots, which I think was more intimidating to people than even the size of the cat, because the cat wasnt overly huge, about 25 pounds and maybe when it was sitting was probably two feet tall. But theyre very sweet animals, theyre kind of like the dog of the cat world she said.
Please don't forget a Maine Coon Cat, also thought to be a cross between, an exotic breed and an European cat.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
- Thomas Paine
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Gott'm a Maine Coon Cat ourselves. Glad we don't live in Detroit (reason #10 billion and one).
[Dawn] An EU human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... delegation on Tuesday warned Pakistain that resuming executions would be seen as a "major setback" as the European parliament considers the country's application for preferential trade status.
The government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... scrapped a five-year moratorium on the death penalty in June in a bid to crack down on criminals and bully boyz in the violence-torn country.
Hangings were due to resume last week until a temporary stay was ordered following objections from the president and rights groups.
European officials are visiting to assess the human rights situation as the bloc considers whether to grant Pakistain access to the so-called GSP-plus scheme of preferential trade tariffs.
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Another reason for the UK to leave the despicable EUSSR
[Dawn] After much deliberation, Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal has decided to take oath as member of the provincial assembly on Wednesday.
Sardar Akhtar Mengal and Mir Hamal Kalmati are likely to take oath as members of Balochistan Assembly during the current session on Wednesday.
"Yes i have decided to take oath as member of Balochistan Assembly," Sadar Mengal told Dawn.com on Tuesday. He said the central committee of BNP-M had decided to raise voice for Baloch rights and protection of resources within the parliament as well.
"That is why, we are taking oath as members of assembly," he added.
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[CNSNEWS] This week begins my 34th year serving on George Mason University's distinguished economics faculty. You might imagine my surprise when I received a letter from its Office of Equity and Diversity Services notifying me that I was required to "complete the in-person Equal Opportunity and Prevention of Sexual Harassment Policies and Procedures training."
This is a leftist agenda for indoctrination, thought control and free speech suppression to which I shall refuse to submit. Let's look at it.
Ideas such as equity and equal opportunity, while having high emotional value, are vacuous analytical concepts. For example, I've asked students whether they plan to give every employer an equal opportunity to hire them when they graduate. To a person, they always answer no. If they aren't going to give every employer an equal opportunity to hire them, what's fair about forcing employers to give them an equal opportunity to be hired?
I'm guilty of gross violation of equality of opportunity, racism and possibly sexism. Back in 1960, when interviewing people to establish a marital contract, every woman wasn't given an equal opportunity. I discriminated against not only white, Indian, Asian, Mexican and handicapped women but men of any race. My choices were confined to good-looking black women. You say, "Williams, that kind of discrimination doesn't harm anyone!" Nonsense! When I married Mrs. Williams, other women were harmed by having a reduced opportunity set.
George Mason's Office of Equity and Diversity Services has far more challenging equity and diversity work than worrying about the re-education of Professor Williams. They must know that courts have long held that gross racial disparities are probative of a pattern and practice of discrimination. The most notable gross racial disparity on campus, and hence probative of discrimination, can be found on GMU's fabulous men's basketball team. Blacks are less than 9 percent of student enrollment but are 85 percent of our varsity basketball team and dominate its starting five.
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The post is all buzzwords, not worth my reading.
I got halfway, that's enough.
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RJ, the writings of Dr. Williams are almost always worth reading. If you read it and found that it seemed a waste of time you most likely read it wrong.
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Maybe Comrade RJ needs some diversity training. If he's smart he'll catch on to the fact that if you want to pass the test you have to give all the wrong answers.
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RedNeck Jim. Have you noticed he was speaking about "marital contacts"? In other words he found Black women more attractive and defintely didn't want to have sex with men.
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Oh I comprehend just fine.
Bullshit is Bullshit regardless of the people who loudly declare that it's Equine Manure and it's GOOD to losten to.
I'm told "You might learn something", Yup I learned.
NOT to listen to other people.
KEEP my own council.
DON'T listen to all the "Other" People.
Oh I learned.
I'll decide what's shit myself, don't need your help.
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It's not Redneck Jim's style of joke. We don't all have the same sense of humour, which is no doubt just as well. After all, I think it's hilarious that fish knives are sterling silver; this seems to puzzle most people, including Mr. Wife.
It is a subtle joke if you are not familiar with the nonsense coming out of our universities and corporate HR departments these days. Unlike the people producing it, he knows bullshit when he sees it..
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RJ- Just curious, how familiar are you with Walter Williams and his other writings, which include several books and countless essays and columns? If not very, you may find his stuff worth your while (or not as the case may be).
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Western values are under ruthless attack by the academic elite on college campuses across America. They want to replace personal liberty with government control and replace equality before the law with entitlement. The multiculturalism and diversity agenda is a cancer on our society, and our tax dollars and charitable donations are supporting it.
Perhaps you need to read the entire article to understand that Walter Williams is citing examples of the hypocrisy of the political agenda enforced at George Mason University.
The article is Walter Williams push back and explanation why after 34 years of service he is refusing to submit to the requirement that he "complete the in-person Equal Opportunity and Prevention of Sexual Harassment Policies and Procedures training."
Which he calls a leftist agenda for indoctrination, thought control and free speech suppression.
It is generally a good idea to read the entire article before attempting to criticize the author.
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Junkiron, you have not been to the re-education camp yet, Walter Williams has been summoned to this loathsome affair and he knows it is odious to his senses.
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other women were harmed by having a reduced opportunity set
[THEHILL] Senator Barbara Call me Senator! Boxer Senator-for-Life from Caliphornia... (D-Calif.) said Monday night she wants the minimum wage increased to $10, a nearly $3 boost from its current level of $7.25.
Babs may well be in the running for dumbest Senator now that Joe Biden is Vice President...
"I think about $10. I think that would be right," Boxer said in an appearance on MSNBC's "The Ed Show."
Boxer said that a boost to the minimum wage would "make a huge difference."
"People are struggling," she said. "The difference between the very wealthy and the working poor has grown."
Boxer also said an increase in the minimum wage would advance the core causes of the Obama presidency.
It will certainly advance the core causes of the labor unions who have contracts that increase wages whenever the minimum wage increases...
"We raise that minimum wage, and we move forward with the vision of this president that we have, which is everyone pays their fair share; we make investments where it matters. It's going to be a great century for us.
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Personally I think boxers should only make money if they win the bout, otherwise they should get nothing.
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She is a cheap B-tch.... Minimum wage should be 16 BUCKS.... Shock and Awe has been the hallmark of the Big O administration..... " Spread the wealth around " nes pas ?
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Actually it should be much higher than 16 BUCKS....possibly as high as 31 BUCKS....owing to the need for restorative measures resulting from discriminatory retroactive impacts, etc. I recommend lump-sum retro, katch-me-up payments or free Obamamobiles.
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I agree Besoeker but lets pull ou all the stops - F the 40 ACRES and a mule.... you need a DOLLAR a minute, $60 an hour, $2400 a week,$108 Thousand a year, flip them burgers for a "liveable wage". ---- Spread the wealth around -- FiNger --- to the O ---- OHHHHH I missed and it ended up in the boxers ---- OHHHH --- She had her Thrill for the year...
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Yes, 40 acres sounds like a lot of weed eating and work. And a mule.... no air conditioning on one of them, and they don't breed well either. Take the cash and lump sum. Like winning Powerball, prolly need a 'good lawyer' [pardon the oxymaroon].
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You can grow a lot of weed on 40 acres. Way more than $108,000 a year. But you'll sweat!
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10 plus unemployment insurance, disability insurance, employers portion of social security, etc.
More central planning. Cause the right people weren't in charge last time (never understanding, there will never be the 'right' people)
Wonder why the economy sucks and is flat, just keep lying to yourselves about the real world around you. Taking actions based upon falsehoods usually doesn't generate the intended result.
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P2K you have given me an idea. I am a story teller or try to be. Remember the Bible story of the three sons who are given money to manage. Then the results after a time. We have people in power with similar difficulties. They attack the one who has grown his money.
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So companies hire illegals because they don't want to pay minimum wage.
So we make the legals legal so they hvae to be paid above the table and then we raise the minimum wage to ensure that the illegal workers are still doing the work as before, cutting the newly legal folks out of their jobs. Did I get that right because it makes little sense to me.
[SACRAMENTO.CBSLOCAL] Sacramento County's health department will begin distributing a take-home STD test for women that won't cost users a penny.
The city has one of the highest rates of STDs in the state, and it keeps going up every year. Now a new online program will hopefully get more people to get tested.
"We definitely need all the help we can get," said Sacramento County Public Health Officer Dr. Olivia Kasirye.
The division of public health says STDs are spreading like wildfire in Sacramento, with chlamydia and gonorrhea considered an epidemic.
"Many people who have STDs do not have symptoms. So they would not know otherwise, unless they do the testing," said Kasirye.
STD tests can be costly and uncomfortable for some. So now the county is offering in-home tests for women, which are paid for by the state.
"More like a swab in the private area and then they put it in the tube. The tube is then sealed and mailed off to the lab," said Kasirye.
You can sign up online and a few days later you'll receive a kit in the mail. It won't cost a thing.
"Free, anonymous, at home, yeah sounds good," said one Sacramento woman. "I can imagine a lot of women signing up for that."
After about a week later, results are posted online where only users can see them with a confidential code.
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[BREITBART] North Korea tried to export gas masks to Syria but they were seized in Turkey along with arms and ammunition, a Japanese daily said Tuesday, as the US threatened action over an alleged chemical weapons attack.
A Libyan-registered vessel, identified as Al En Ti Sar, left North Korea for Syria earlier this year with the consignment, the Sankei Shimbun said, quoting unnamed sources from the US military, Japanese and South Korean intelligence.
The US military, which obtained the information, was tracking the ship in coordination with other countries, the daily -- which is known for its North Korea coverage -- said in a detailed report.
The vessel sailed through Dardanelles in Turkey on April 3 and was searched shortly after by Turkish authorities, who had been tipped off by the US.
Turkish officials seized 1,400 rifles and pistols and some 30,000 bullets as well as gas masks apparently for chemical protection, the daily said.
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If confirmed, Pyongyang could face additional UN sanctions over the shipment.
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You know Obullshit, it'l never "Be Confirmed".
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With bad guys all rounded up and accounted for. Klingons leave Afghanistan and pull out of Benghazi just a few weeks ago, awaiting further assignment NFI.
UN Chem/Bio weapons inspectors and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) arrive Damascus and link-up just prior to alleged chemical release.
Congress goes on recess, less McShame who ramps up attack narrative. Encourages Assad to declare 'snow day'.
Ralph Peters claims no threat to US national security, sez nothing in US Constitution which precludes us from permitting our enemies to destroy our enemies. [unless of course they really are not our enemies]
[Al Ahram] Israel will strike back "fiercely" if Syria attacks the Jewish state, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday, as the US mulled military action against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's Light of the Alawites... regime.
"The State of Israel is prepared for every scenario," he said following consultations on the crisis in Syria. "We are not part of the civil war in Syria, but if we detect any attempt to hurt us, we will react, and react fiercely."
Netanyahu's remarks came as Syria vowed to defend itself if the United States and its allies attacked the Assad regime, which allegedly used chemical weapons against its own citizens last week.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said their capabilities would "surprise" the world, and warned that any military action against it would serve the interests of Israel and Al-Qaeda.
Washington has accused Assad's regime of a cover-up, and has said it will provide more evidence of who was behind the attacks. US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said the military was prepared to act if Obama called for it.
Meanwhile, ...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell... Israelis were rushing to replace old gas masks. A spokeswoman for the Israel Postal Service, which distributes the masks, said there has been a 300 percent increase in delivery orders in recent days.
Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz on Monday called the notion of Assad attacking Israel "insane".
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Don't fergit LEBANON, Benji!
To wit,
* DAILY STAR LEBANON > HEZBOLLAH WILL ATTACK ISRAEL IFF [US-led] SYRIA STRIKE AIMS TO TOPPLE ASSAD.
and
* MIAMI HERALD > ONE STEP CLOSER TO WAR: US WINS FULL ARAB LEAGUE BACKING AS PLAN EMERGES FOR STRIKE ON SYRIA.
GALKAYO, Somalia -- Three people were reportedly killed and two others were wounded after armed militiamen attacked Qaydare vicinity which situates 90 KMs northeast of Mudug regional capital of Galkayo on Monday afternoon.
If you've read this far you're wondering, "who?" and more importantly "where???"
Reading further, it apparently is somewhere in the tan bit. Beyond that, deponent sayeth naught.
The attack on Qaydare relates to along running bitter feud between two clans who fought each other over the killing of men belonging to one of them.
Galmudug authorities in Barahley neighborhood of Galkayo city said efforts to defuse the tensions are underway.
Galkayo is a town connecting Puntland's vast northern side to south Galkayo where Galmudug authority operates. Puntland Government officials say following a massive security operations by Puntland forces, Galkayo is secure and the level of violent crimes reduced effectively.
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and more importantly "where???"
Mudbug clan revenge attack? My money was on Louisiana, somewhere in the Atchafalaya. Pass me a beignet.
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Café Des Amis in Breaux Bridge (Pont Breaux) has great beignets for their Sunday brunch and a 'Zydeco Breakfast' on Saturday mornings. Great local talent
Great fun!
And the food is excellent. (Service too!)
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GAROWE, Somalia --- Puntland government in northern Somalia has responded threatening statements made by the Interior Minister of Somalia's separatist administration of Somaliland on Tuesday, Garowe Online reports.
Just when you think there's one small part of Somalia that has the slightest bit of sanity...
Speaking on BBC Somali Service, Puntland Member of Parliament and member of a delegation led by Puntland Vice President Gen. Abdisamad Ali Shire who is on second day visit to Sool regional district of Taleh, Sadik Abshir Garad condemned Somaliland for stirring insecurity in peaceful areas in Sool and Sanaag regions.
"It is strange that Ali Mohamed Waran Ade [Somaliland's Interior Minister] whose clan's constituency is known to claim the ownership of Taleh, it is unfortunate, clear and provocative violation," said MP Garad.
Continuing, MP Garad said: "We came here [Taleh] to learn the needs of our people and to reconcile the local communities of Sool region; these people showed us their support and Puntland Defence Forces are tasked with protecting Puntland citizens in every constituency".
He noted that the border of Somaliland is demarcated on the outskirts of Buroa and that Sool and Sanaag regions are home to Harti communities who share kinship with Puntland clans.
Puntland Government's response comes after Somaliland Minister of Interior Ali Mohamed Waran Ade threatened attack on Puntland as welcoming rallies held for Puntland Vice President Gen. Abdisamad Ali Shire in Taleh district of Sool region last Tuesday.
Threats of Instability have lingered over the region since Somaliland forces militarily seized control of Lasanod in October 2007 and Puntland previously declared that it would firmly deal with any provocative measures by Somaliland.
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Threats of Instability have lingered
What a piquant phrase for such a g*dforsaken place.
WASHINGTON -- A ranking U.S. government official will visit North Korea later this week in an effort to secure the release of a Korean-American man held there, the State Department announced Tuesday.
Amb. Robert King, the U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights issues, will travel to Pyongyang on Friday at the invitation of the North Korean government, it said in a press release.
Can't be for a hostage release -- we usually send Jimmuah for that...
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Ambassador Rodman isn't available?
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There's a UFO convention in Las Vegas this week.
For a map, click here. For a map of Chihuahua state, click here
By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com
A total of six individuals were killed in ongoing drug and gang related violence in southern Chihuahua in two separate incidents, according to Mexican news accounts.
A news account in the online edition of El Diario de Juarez reported that five men were shot, four of them found dead near the village of San Ignacio de los Almanzan in Guadalupe y Calvo municipality Sunday.
Citing the source, a spokesman of the Chihuahua state Fiscalia General del Estado, or attorney general, state police were advised via an anonymous phone call that the victims had been wounded near the San Ignacio de los Almazan River on Sunday.
The victims were identified as Gonzalo Alvarez Lopez, 38, Obier Macías Carrillo, 30, Saul Lopez Macias, 28, Jesus Noel Cardenas Macías, 43 and a fourth unidentified man. Cardenas Macias was not present at the scene because reportedly his family had taken him to receive medical care, but he died before reaching help.
The five victims were all shot with AK-47 and AR-15 rifles.
According to a separate account in El Diario de Juarez, southern Chihuahua Fiscalia Jesus Chavez said that the five were killed in an armed encounter between two local rival criminal groups.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in Guadalupe y Calvo municipality a 60 year old man was found strangled and beaten to death, according to a news account which appeared on the website of El Sol de Parral news daily.
Tomas Garcia Zuñiga was taken from a residence during a home invasion in Hiela Mucho Sunday. Hewas later found dead nearby.
The news report said that four armed suspects carrying AK-47 and AR-15 rifles broke into the residence and threatened to take everyone present prisoner. The family members instead fled, so the suspects took Garcia Zuñiga.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
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President Obama must attack or lose what credibility he has now.
Can't really disagree with that. He's in a spot where he has to walk on the paint or wait till it dries. Politically. He's not going to risk death driving an Eagle from Sicily for some CAS on some ridge where the My Heros could shoot back too.
Its going to be an awesome failure when the first strikes end up hitting Iranian or Russian advisors stray kitten rescue workers. Independent of if it really happened.
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I didn't know the U.S. EVER had any good options in Syria.
The US had a less-bad option:
At the outset of the Syrian civil war two-and-a-half years ago... [a] consortium of Syrian Kurds, moderate Sunnis, Christians and others came to Washington and begged for US assistance. But they were ignored.
Not a perfect option, but reality rarely provides those.
Amazing that, for an administration that's was supposed to be so smart, talented, and laden with 'thousands' of foreign policy experts during its presidential campaign, it has consistently dropped the ball.
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But, as Glick notes, the ascent of the radicals leaves the U.S. with no good options in Syria and with egg on its face for proclaiming a red line that turned out to be meaningless.
No, no and Hell No! President Obama has no good options and it is he who has egg on his face - not the U.S. The US will be just fine by letting the Syrian savages kill each other. On the other hand, regardless of Obamas decision, he will be glaringly exposed as the small predictable man who is primarily motivated by his own selfish interest.
MOGADISHU -- Several bomb explosions targeted trucks carrying the Somali Federal Government soldiers in Yaqshid district of Mogadishu on Tuesday, Garowe Online reports. At least five soldiers died in the explosions which were landmine attacks on two separate convoy, according to witnesses.
The first roadside bomb was timed to go off when the first truck touch it, after few minutes lapsed another bomb went off; we have seen five bodies dressed in military uniform, said a nearby resident.
Nobody claimed the responsibility for the attacks but Mogadishu has been hotbed for violence, planned assassinations, military-style ambushes and bombings which made the security situation extremely volatile and poor.
Despite looming threats of instability in Mogadishu, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamed announced a National Security Council which is tasked with introducing security plans in Mogadishu on Tuesday.
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The U.S. government will fund $313 million in home mortgages for Palestinians living on the West Bank, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Monday. The U.S. will also guarantee $110 million in loans to small- and medium-sized businesses located on the West Bank.
Don't we have people in the U.S. who could use a little help?
The mortgage and business-loan activities will be conducted by the federal Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). OPIC is the U.S. Governments development finance institution, says OPICs website. OPIC provides financial products, such as loans and guaranties; political risk insurance; and support for investment funds, all of which help American businesses expand into emerging markets.
Because you all know the West Bank is going to be a booming market...
The GAO report released Tuesday described some of the actions OPIC is taking in the emerging market of the Palestinian territories.
U.S. agencies and implementing partners participate in various programs with the Palestine Investment Fund (PIF) or PIF-owned entities that include home mortgage financing, loan guarantees, and educational initiatives, says the report. First, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) along with PIF and other entities have committed to lend $485 million to the Affordable Mortgage and Loan Company (AMAL) to support mortgages for low- and medium-income borrowers in the West Bank.
OPIC has committed to lend about $313 million; PIF has committed about $72 million, and two banks account for the balance of the committed lending, says the GAO. However, as of April 2013, OPIC and PIF had not yet disbursed any funds. Second, OPIC and PIF are co-guarantors in a Loan Guarantee Facility (LGF) program in the West Bank, guaranteeing up to $110 million and $50 million in loans, respectively, to nine regional banks to support lending to small- and medium-sized enterprises.
The PIF is an entity that was created by the Palestinian Authority president.
So the money goes straight to his account in the Caymans. It's much cleaner that way...
PIF is governed by a board of directors and a general assembly appointed by the Palestinian Authority President, and manages investments throughout a number of sectors, including real estate and hospitality, infrastructure, finance, capital markets, small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and manufacturing, says the GAO.
And each gets to wet his beak...
The GAO reported that OPIC says it has checked the foreign bankers and executives it is dealing with in its West Bank loan program for terrorists connections. OPIC says it has also checked borrowers.
No terrorists, thank goodness, just grifters and crooks...
OPIC officials stated that OPIC has vetted PIFs board of directors and senior executives, the non-U.S. board members and shareholders of AMAL, and key officials of the banks against information sources such as the FBI Terrorist Screening Center database, OFAC list, and OPICs Information Center databases, says the GAO report. For the LGF program, OPIC said that, based on OPICs procedures and the LGF agreements, it has vetted all the participating banks and has vetted key officials of each borrower and guarantor before loans are approved using information sources such as Treasurys Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes and FBIs Terrorist Screening Center databases.
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Almost exactly equals the amount of money taken away from commercial manned space.
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Probably little more than an amazing coincidence.
The delegation accompanying the president on the trip reflects this mentality. Along with Froman, it will include American CEOs and business leaders; Valerie Jarrett, a close personal friend and advisor to President Obama who serves as the White Housesliaison to corporate America; and the heads of the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank), U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).
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313 Millions for fat people while in worls there is people far more friendlier to America who are starving.
65 years and they are still being provided by the Western tax payer instead of by thir own work. Whjy should they avccept a peace settlment when they can makez war for free and be fed by us?
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let's see if we are aggressively giving mortgages to Paleos in Jerusalem to try and firm up their claim to Jerusalem as their capital. I could see that from this group of asshats
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No matter how much money we give they will still hate us and still want us dead.
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will the homes come with 'rock and stone' driveways?
[Al Ahram] Two attacks by suspected 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... snuffies have killed 24 people in Nigeria's northeast in the latest violence believed to be in Dire Revenge™ against vigilantes, residents and officials said Tuesday.
A survivor and a hospital source spoke of 18 people killed in the town of Bama on Sunday. A resident and a military source said six people were killed in Damasak on Monday.
The two locations are in Borno state, but are some 200 kilometres (124 miles) apart.
The military has encouraged the formation of vigilante groups to help it track down Boko Haram members as it pursues an offensive in the northeast aiming to end the Islamist hard boys' four-year insurgency.
"They came in military uniform and pretended to be members of the JTF," survivor Mallam Bakura Module said of the attack in Bama, referring to a security task force.
"They asked after members of the vigilante group ... but they opened fire on members of the group as we assembled for an address, killing 14 persons and injuring 10 others."
An official at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital said on condition of anonymity that four others had died on Monday night, bringing the corpse count to 18.
In Damasak along the border with the neighbouring nation of Niger, relatives said vigilantes were traced there after travelling to the community to sell goods at the local market.
"They were shot in the middle of the night while sleeping in the (guest) house," said one relative, Mallam Ali Abdullahi.
A military official speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... confirmed the attack.
The violence was the latest in a spate of such attacks apparently targeting vigilantes and local residents' cooperation with them.
Vigilantes have been credited with helping to push the snuffies out, but security analysts have warned that the situation risks spiralling out of control and resulting in further violence in the future.
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[Dawn] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) Punjab's protest against alleged rigging and police action against party workers at Faisal Chowk was marred by a controversy after several cameramen and news hounds were thrashed by 'party workers'.
The PTI initially said it was a conspiracy to sabotage party's peaceful protest. A party leader alleged that some hidden hands took action against journalists who were highlighting PTI's concerns.
The waves of violent act against journalists reached the Punjab Assembly Press Gallery, where journalists announced boycott and law minister Rana Sanaullah immediately expressed solidarity and requested adjournment of the session. The speaker adjourned the session till Tuesday morning.PTI workers led by provincial president Ejaz Chaudhry began their protest at Faisal Chowk in front of Punjab Assembly at around 3pm against alleged rigging in the by-election in the PP-150 constituency. PTI MPAs were supposed to join the protest after boycotting the session over rigging.
At around 5pm, some young men armed with clubs and iron rods thrashed journalists, including a private TV channel's cameraman who suffered an eye injury. A large number of journalists gathered there and condemned the action. Journalists accused PTI leaders and workers of torture on their colleagues. Some of them also stopped coverage of the PTI protest.
A number of journalists told Dawn that PTI's youth equipped with clubs and iron bars attacked TV cameramen and injured many of them. A Capital TV cameraman sustained eye injuries and was taken to Services Hospital for treatment. Journalists covering the protest raised slogans against the PTI leadership and accused party workers of mistreating them.
Later, PTI leaders, including Punjab president Ejaz Chaudhry and Opposition Leader in Punjab Assembly Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed, apologised to journalists. Expressing solidarity with them, the party leaders said they would conduct an inquiry into the incident and cancel the party membership of those linked to it. Chaudhry said he visited the injured journalist in the hospital and assured him of action against his tormentors.
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[Dawn] A meeting between representatives of the Baloch and Kutchhi communities held here on Monday at the commissioner's office agreed on an operation cleanup to rid old city areas of illegal arms but concluded without reaching a decision on where and when to start the process.
Sources privy to the meeting told Dawn that another Baloch-Kutchhi meeting would be held within the next few days at the office of the deputy commissioner of south to fix the date and identify the areas, with agreement of both the communities, to launch the operation from.
The sources said that representatives of both the communities were insisting at the meeting chaired by Commissioner Shoaib Siddiqui that the operation be started from the area inhabited by the other community.
Police suggested the operation be started in a straight line from one side and pushed ahead till it reached the other side in order to comb all areas in between, said the sources.
Zafar Baloch who represented the Baloch community at the meeting said that he suggested the operation be launched from Mandra Mohalla and Alfalah Road which were recently affected by gang warfare and people felt threats to their lives.
But, he said, Kuchhi representatives did not agree to the suggestion. He hoped they would soon come round and help rid their area of illegal weapons.
He said the date to start the operation from had not yet been fixed. It would start only after a consensus was reached between the two communities, he said.
He said the Baloch fully supported the operation and believed that it be launched not only in Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... but in the entire city to cleanse it of illegal weapons and restore much-needed peace to 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....
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The B.O. regime continues to discount the huge impact its health overhaul law is having in turning America into a part-time nation, calling reports anecdotal and not based on complete data.
To paraphrase Groucho Marx: Who are you going to believe? Me, or your own eyes?
An avalanche of "anecdotes" continues to pile up as workers across the country are having their hours cut and their health benefits slashed across a broad range of industries.
Loren Goodridge, the owner of 21 Subway franchises, says he has no choice but to cut the hours of his employees to 29 a week to avoid the law's penalties.
The negative effects of the law reach the education industry as well. St. Petersburg College, a public university in Florida, is reducing the hours of 250 faculty members because the college says it cannot afford to provide them with health insurance.
Joseph Hansen, the president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union that originally supported the law, says the health law will have a "tremendous impact as workers have their hours reduced and their incomes reduced."
Bureau of Labor Statistics data show that the ratio of part-time to full-time jobs has completely flipped this year from historical trends. Last year, six full-time jobs were created for every one part time job. This year, only one full-time job is being created for every four new part-time jobs.
The shift to part-time has accelerated over the past several months because of the "look back" provision in ObamaCare that sets the baseline this year for the number of full-time workers a company employs to determine their compliance with the employer pay-or-play mandate.
The administration may have been trying to stop the damage when it announced in July it would delay for a year the reporting requirements for the health law's employer mandate -- the requirement that businesses with 50 or more employees provide health coverage that is acceptable to the government or pay a fine of $2,000 to $3,000 per employee per year.
The statute is very clear that the employer mandate is to take effect on January 1, 2014, not a year later as the White House now has directed. The House of Representatives was more than happy to give the administration legal authority to delay the employer mandate and passed legislation in July to make the delay legal. But, astonishingly, the president vowed to veto the legislation if it were to reach his desk -- which it will not because Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid ... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ... will not bring it up for a vote. The president would rather rewrite the law by administrative edict instead of following the Constitutional route of asking Congress to change it.
The damage is real, and the one-year delay is unlikely to have a significant impact on hiring. Businesses are not going to hire full-time workers for year or less only to have to fire them next year.
According to a survey by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 71% of small businesses say the health care law makes it harder to grow. One-half of small businesses that must comply with the employer mandate say they will either cut hours of full-time employees or replace them with part-time workers. Twenty four percent say they will reduce hiring to stay under 50 employees.
Not only is the law taking a toll on part-time workers, but it also is increasing costs for families. ObamaCare's new health insurance tax alone will raise premiums by $8 billion next year, increasing an average family's premium by more than $350.
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I have been telling you people for the last two months under various psuedos... CHAOS ..... He and Pelosi are going to kill you one way or the other.../ the economy, jobs, you or your mother thst has alzhiemers with his death panels, the F-kin guy and his democrat party should be made to eat their own S-it. If you vote for a Dem in 2012, you are the enemy, I have already cut off my daughter ... F-U and that Pr-ck you voted for you are out of the will = You just pissed off 2 Million.
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If you vote for a Dem in 2012 in 1932 or any year thereafter, you are the enemy
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Home Depot is also rumored to be dumping the full time staff and hiring part timers. The full time staff they are keeping will only get employee benefits, nothing for families. I can hear the middle class being flushed away. Obama will be successful at destroying the very heart and soul of our national economy, the middle class.
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It is OK. Besoeker I was too connect to the present to consider the L-O-N-G term, only because most of those voters are long term dead .... by natural causes and time... not the Obama Death panels....Defund these programs or Die America !!!! Do it now before it is too late.
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Unfortunately Double-AA, Cruz probably will not get enuf French Republicans to vote down the funding of Obamacare. It is beginning to appear that the old guard in both parties are aware that without the influx of the Obamacaretaxes, the federal Ponzi scheme is up on their collective watch.
With the obvious cock-up that it has become, why would anyone fund it....for any other reason than an increase in tax revenues. The insurance industry is big business, and now the gummit owns it.
Ultimately Obama or Hillary will issue and executive order calling a thirty hour week "full time".
That is the goal towards which he and his union supporters are working. That is why the union objections to Obamacare have been so tepid. They are playing the long game towards working less for the same total amount of money plus benefits. That give them all a de facto
pay raise of 33%.
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And, an under-the-table nation. Suckahs...
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Glad you decided to resume your old nym, Au Auric. I was getting dizzy.
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Go thirty and business will go 25 hours. That is what they are doing now. They don't want anything close to full time people. 25 is now the figure they limit hours to. On call. As needed. Like standing on the corner waiting for someone to have you work for the day. That was done for years in DC. I understand it still is being done. Don't ask don't tell who is even legal, if that matters anymore.
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If you vote for a Dem in 2012 in 1932 or any year thereafter, you are the enemy
I'm glad to report I didn't.
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Redneck the Democrat elites have abandoned the core of their party. The conservative Democrat is excluded. This will become more of an issue in times ahead. I realize this is not spoken of but that's our media. In my opinion that's why Regan won. Many crossed over. The special interest groups of the Democrats are in it for their own group. Not the country. One tell tale sign will be running out of money, takers not givers.
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Walmart loves obamacare. They have 2 million employees and soon our taxes will pay for their healthcare. Even the few big business' that will try to keep full time employees will eventually not be able to compete. Just like outsourcing, ver time low cost approach wins out.
Bandar told Putin, There are many common values and goals that bring us together, most notably the fight against terrorism and extremism all over the world. Russia, the US, the EU and the Saudis agree on promoting and consolidating international peace and security. The terrorist threat is growing in light of the phenomena spawned by the Arab Spring. We have lost some regimes. And what we got in return were terrorist experiences, as evidenced by the experience of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the extremist groups in Libya. ... As an example, I can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics in the city of Sochi on the Black Sea next year. The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us, and they will not move in the Syrian territorys direction without coordinating with us. These groups do not scare us. We use them in the face of the Syrian regime but they will have no role or influence in Syrias political future.
Then Bandar discussed the potential cooperation between the two countries if an understanding could be reached on a number of issues, especially Syria. He discussed at length the matter of oil and investment cooperation, saying, Let us examine how to put together a unified Russian-Saudi strategy on the subject of oil. The aim is to agree on the price of oil and production quantities that keep the price stable in global oil markets.
Bandar discussed the Syrian issue at length. So you have to stop giving [the Syrian regime] political support, especially at the UN Security Council, as well as military and economic support. And we guarantee you that Russias interests in Syria and on the Mediterranean coast will not be affected one bit. In the future, Syria will be ruled by a moderate and democratic regime that will be directly sponsored by us and that will have an interest in understanding Russia's interests and role in the region.
Regarding the Syrian issue, the Russian president responded to Bandar, saying, Our stance on Assad will never change. We believe that the Syrian regime is the best speaker on behalf of the Syrian people, and not those liver eaters.
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I can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics in the city of Sochi on the Black Sea next year. The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us,
Bandar's a lot of things, but "stupid" for sure ain't one of them. Threatening a Russian strongman who's ex-KGB would be right up there with...oh, I don't know, electing a communist rabble-rouser with a dubious background, a quarter-page resume and a horde of shady associates as President of the United States?
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also: did Bandar just admit the Chechen terrorist were tools of the Saudis?
Wouldn't that also imply admitting guilt for Beslan and other Chechen atrocities?
I would say Putin has a Casus belli to take out Saudi based on that.
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Even if the Chechens were getting support from the Saudis (hardly an impossible concept), Bandar realizes that using it as a negotiating point with Putin = really good chance that various members of the Saudi royal family will suddenly start experiencing unfortunate interactions with windows, balconies and elevator shafts.
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...as opposed to the usual car accident in the desert.
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#9 Yes, you don't mess with the Russians. You will pay. Pappy you are correct he is a clever fellow. With him I would side with you but others not so much.
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1. As Safir is a Lebanese daily, affiliated with the Left. Hardly a friend of the Saudis.
2. I'd say, judging by the article, it appears to be a transcript of the meeting. I'd also hazard that the transcript is a Russian one. The Russians are quite thorough when it comes to things like recording meetings.
3. Bandar is currently in charge of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's support for the Syrian rebels.
4. The Russians are supporting the Syrian government.
5. Badar has long had social and political ties with various figures, agencies, and departments within the US government (USG).
6. The USG and the Russians are currently at odds over Syria.
7. There is currently a situation where the USG is considering intervention of some sort in the Syrian theater, something the Russians oppose.
It would not be a stretch to say that this was 'leaked' by an area of the Russian government close to Mr. Putin, to a sympathetic source in the Arab media, in particular a media outlet close to the Syrian theater, to influence events within the Syrian theater.
I'll leave it to the reader to further deduce motives and implications.
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In English - the Russians are now playing hardball. This is the diplomatic equivalent to an 'open' (i.e., not "total-black")assassination-by-polonium.
[Al Ahram] Obama has not made decision to take military action against Syrian government after chemical weapons attack
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See also WORLD MILITARY FORUM > CHINA CAN NOT CONTINUE TO TOLERATE "SMALL COUNTRY [e.g. Japan, Philipines] BULLYING BIG COUNTRY" [China] PHENOMENON.
Come on, now, Regional power RISING IRAN has only given Global Superpower OBAMERIKA a mere three "red lines" thus far - WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG???
To paraph KRAUTHAMMER = SAY IT WID ME, AMERIKA, KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED.
FYI as per WW2, We all know NOT-CHINA Adolf Hitler + Wehrmacht Boyz took over VICHY FRANCE anyway as the Allied invasion of Europe loomed.
#4
I think since they have the extra help and resources they should send NSA, IRS and a few Hollywood types. OH, that might not work. They would forget which side they're on. Make for a long term infestation however.
Gas prices skyrocket.
White House scandals disappear from the news.
Stick in the eye to the US Congress in recess.
Stick in the eye to Vlad.
Cookies and milk to the AQ and the Broederbond.
White House scandals disappear from the news.
Polls could level off or escape the news.
White House scandals disappear from the news.
Debt ceiling rises to cover cost of strike/war.
#15
I'm kinda hoping McCain goes in with the first wave in a Skyhawk, with Lindsay Graham in the rear seat, and just enough fuel to make it over Damascus.
[TOWNHALL] Back during Barack Obama's first year in office, he kept repeating, with great apparent earnestness, that there were "shovel-ready" projects that would quickly provide many much-needed jobs, if only his spending plans were approved by Congress.
He seemed very convincing -- if you didn't know how long it can take for any construction project to get started, after going through a bureaucratic maze of environmental impact studies, zoning commission rulings and other procedures that can delay even the smallest and simplest project for years.
Only about a year or so after his big spending programs were approved by Congress, Barack Obama himself laughed at how slowly everything was going on his supposedly "shovel-ready" projects.
One wonders how he will laugh when all his golden promises about ObamaCare turn out to be false and a medical disaster. Or when his foreign policy fiascoes in the Middle East are climaxed by a nuclear Iran.
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The beauty part is, the gummint is a victim of its own success. The only thing not choking on red tape is the SWAT team send to the wrong address to shoot your dog...
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Deleted my comment. Gave myself an administrative 'time out'.
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A talented con man, or a slick politician, does not waste his time trying to convince knowledgeable skeptics. His job is to keep the true believers believing. He is not going to convince the others anyway.
There are many unquestioning Kool-Aid guzzlers. Fortunately, most Rantburgers are the others.
I heard it was donations from abroad, from the wrong countries. His wife really was more influential than you might think, "I have a dream",for whats its worth. Dustbin of history.
[Ynet] Why would anyone truly interested in peace demand early release of radical terrorists?
For years, political scientists and anthropologists have contemplated, analyzed and debated whether there is a 'clash of civilizations' between the 'developed world' and the fundamentalist 'Islamic world' or whether the clash is 'within the civilizations' of Islamic states that suffer from an internal dissonance between those that want peace with the West and those that want war with the West.
The recent footage shown in Ramallah and Gazoo of politicians and their mobs, rejoicing the release of 26 convicted murderers, leads to the conclusion that it is neither the case of a 'clash of civilizations', nor a 'clash within civilizations', but rather a horrific case of lack in civilization.
Beyond being legally and morally despicable, the release of these murderers and Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... ' demand to release additional child slayers, illustrates more than anything else that we are dealing with crude and uncivilized people. Surely, not partners for peace.
Abbas, who laid a wreath at Yasser Arafat's grave immediately after the release of the terrorists, gave us an indication of who he truly is and what he really represents as he said he vowed to release all the incarcerated terrorists. What a shame that a generation of talks has been wasted with the PLO, instead of finding grassroots genuine representatives that do not have innocent blood on their hands. Those that think Paleostinians cannot generate such leadership, or that it won't be worth the wait, are wrong.
The early release of remorseless bully boyz has proven time and again that it invites more terror. The Jibril bully boyz released in 1985 formed the foundation for the first intifada in 1987, the PLO bully boyz released after the ill-fated Oslo Accords of 1993 became the backbone of the bloody 2000 intifada and even some of those released in the recent Shalit Swap have returned to their old ways. It is only a matter of time, some signs show it to be a very short time, before some of the 26 bully boyz released last week, will also return to terrorist activities.
Why would anyone truly interested in peace demand the early release of radical terrorists?
Abbas is not alone in his lack of civilization. State authorized slaying of citizens on the streets of Cairo is not a clash within civilizations -- it's a lack of civilization - even if the demise of Morsi and the Moslem Brüderbund is in the short-term interest of peace seekers.
The use of chemical agents by the Syrian army against its own citizens, and the killing of nearly 100,000 civilians, is not a clash within civilizations -- it's a lack of civilization - even if Syria's preoccupation with al-Qaeda affiliates and Hezbollah's involvement in the chaos leaves Israel's Northern front relatively quiet.
Cynics will say that violence, persecution and terror are in the region's DNA. That is nonsense at best or bigotry at worst. The Middle East needs civilized leaders. Until that happens, true peace will remain a forged dream.
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The pathetic thing is terrorists are compulsive murderers who have figured out that mumbling a few leftist buzzwords while they kill people will get them sympathy from the ignorant.
The ignorant do not realize these monsters are killers, and if they can't kill a jew or infidel, they'll kill whoever is handy.
This is something the Iraqi sunis learned the hard way.
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Abbas, who laid a wreath at Yasser Arafat's grave immediately after the release of the terrorists,...
Our elected politicians (No, I shall NOT call them "leaders".) look upon the laying of the wreath as political theater, much like they themselves would engage in (see Obama, Sharpton, Jackson, etal re: Dr. King, etc.) not wanting to acknowledge that the Paleos are very sincere (There's a word not bandied about sincerely in DC.) in their internalizing the policies of Arafat.
The Paleos (and Pakis) as a whole are not civilized. They have been steeped too deeply and it would take generations (Centuries?) to housetrain 'em. In the meantime, I'm good with never-ending civil wars....
[Libya Herald] Prime Minister Ali Zeidan denied that there were foreign troops crossing Libya's borders and within its territory.
Speaking at Sunday's presser, Zeidan said that there was "no truth" in this allegation. He added that he was in contact with Niger and that he was recently in Algeria where he discussed these issues. "There is no threat to the illusory sovereignty of Libya", stressed the Prime Minister.
Zeidan said that on Saturday a rumour surfaced that there were 1,500 vehicles heading to Brega and the south and that the air force were scrambled to sweep all the area and there was no truth in the reports.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Ynet] Army to recruit limited number of reservists (1,000 to start) ahead of possible American strike against Assad regime. Ya'alon: Syrian attack on Israel unlikely
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