A steadfast Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made clear in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that Israel would not accept a nuclear armed Iran, and would "stand alone" if necessary to achieve that aim.
"Israel will not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons, even if we have to stand alone. Yet in standing alone, Israel will know that we will be defending many, many others," he said.
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See also TOPIX, TIMES OF ISRAEL > ISRAEL NO LONGER CERTAIN OBAMA WOULD EVER USE FORCE AGAINST IRAN, LIKUD MK INDICATES, after Israeli PM Netanyahu appearance before the UNGA.
Again, residing out here in GUAM-WESTPAC my concern is whether the Bammer will do a PCorrect-Deniable, pro-UN Mediation/Resolution "Syria" not just on Iran, but espec as per "post-US", Pert-proclaimed "Mahanist" CHINA ALA CHINA-VS-JAPAN, PHIL/ASEAN, INDIA WHERE CHINA ULTIMATELY GETS MOST OR ALL OF WHAT SHE WANTS WHILE THE US UNILATERALLY ROLLS ITSELF BACK ACROSS THE PACIFIC TOWARDS EASTPAC [Hawaii + West Coast]???
* TOPIX > [Daily Times.PK] WAR DRUMS OVER SYRIA NOW SILENCED BY US-MOSCOW DEAL.
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* STARS-N-STRIPES > US BASES IN EUROPE SUSPEND WORK AS SHUTDOWN BEGINS. Approxi 50% of USDOD Civilian Employees under USFE to be furloughed until further notice.
* RELATED TOPIX > [Daily Star Lebanon] US SHUTDOWN AFFECTS OPERATIONS ABROAD.
* SAME > [Daily Tribune] SHUTDOWN COULD UNDERCUT OBAMA'S "ASIA PIVOT".
* CHINA DAILY FORUM > CHINA STEADILY GAINS DE FACTO CONTROL OVER DIAOYUDAO [Japan = Senkakus, China = Diaoyu Islands].
Nippon PM Shinzo Abe's recent statement that Sino-Japanese dialogue on disputed ECS islands remains open despite repeated Chinese intrusions intrepreted by Beijing as a sign of Tokyo's slowly weakening resolve.
[1960's GUAM TAOTAMONAS + LATE HUGO "RED BERET" CHAVEZ'S = "THE US HAS LAND-DESTROYING [island-sinking?] EARTHQUAKE/TECTONIC BOMBS" here].
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20 minutes ago on Jerusalem Post:
"In Tripoli ...a shooting occurred and there was an attempt to enter the territory of the Russian embassy in Libya," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich, speaking on Russian state television.
"According to the most preliminary information there were no injuries among members of the Russian diplomatic mission."
Former Afghan National Army sergeant Hekmatullah was captured by Pakistans Inter-Services Intelligence in February and recently deported to Afghanistan, Defense Force Chief Lt. Gen. David Hurley said.
Overnight, he was deported to Afghanistan where he is expected to face trial charged with three murders, Hurley said in a statement.
We have been relentless and determined in our efforts to pursue those who have murdered and wounded our people, he added.
Hekmatullah allegedly fired 10 to 15 shots within a patrol base north of the Australian military headquarters at Tarin Kowt on Aug. 29. He is accused of killing three Australian soldiers and wounding another two as they were playing cards, then fleeing.
An Australian Defense Department inquiry said last week that security before the attack was too weak given the Afghan armys open access to the administration area where the shooting occurred and the Australian soldiers relaxed disposition. Many Australians were not wearing body armour.
A new fighter plane built by China is drawing more snickers than raves from aviation experts, and the People's Army is now saying the jet was really ticketed for export all along.
The J-31 "Falcon Hawk," likely designed by reverse-engineering a downed U.S. stealth fighter, was supposed to become Chinas next generation of carrier-based aircraft and take its place next to the U.S.-made F-35 Lightning II as the gold standard in air force weaponry, according to a report last month in Peoples Daily. But now it looks like China, which has exactly one aircraft carrier, has scaled back the hype and will peddle the aircraft to second-tier air forces like Brazil, Pakistan and some Middle East countries.
Even the Chinese press has been critical of the jet, with Bejing-based Sina Military Network calling the J-15 a flopping fish, and claiming that the plane could not take off from a carrier with heavy ammunitions which could cripple its attack range as well as firepower.
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In all fairness the USN has also had the problem of getting fully loaded birds off the deck. The canceled a12 would have required a fuel top off after the cat shot if it were fully loaded. The cats could not handle the GTOW
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It sometimes happens with (capitalist running dog) novices writing contracts to overlook little things like ordnance loads included in the aircraft specs.
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It's twin engined; it looks like it's halfway between an F-35 and an F-22, with the F-35's intake and engine nozzles but a F-22 fuselage between them. (with something that looks Sukhoi-ish between the two nozzles).
It's worth considering the risks and rewards in the budget standoff, which is first and foremost a battle for control of the Republican Party and the shape of the 2014 and 2016 primaries. The Republican Party of John McCain and Mitt Romney lost two presidential elections, the second to a weak candidate in a weak economy. Left to its own devices, it will lose the next presidential election and all the following ones.
By picking a fight on Obama's least popular position, namely health care, the conservative wing of the party galvanized the party base and forced the House leadership into a fight. In a June 27 poll, the Gallup organization found that just 22% of Americans expected Obamacare to improve their family's health situation, while 47% expected it to make it worse. As my old partner Jude Wanniski used to say, the electorate is like a diamond, waiting to be cut at exactly the right spot. Ted Cruz pointed the chisel correctly.
Opposing a bad program, to be sure, is not the same as building a national majority around a good program. The Republican Party is a long way from that. Just as the conservative wing of the party needed its chance after the Nixon and Ford debacles of the 1970s, the conservative wing of the party needs to take its shot after the abysmal performance of the McCain wing--or there will be no party at all.
It well may be true that shutting down the government hurts the Republicans in the short run. That is immaterial; there is no way to get from here to there except by making a stand against Obamacare. There is no downside, for the Republican Party as presently configured already is a guaranteed loser. A reinvigorated conservative leadership has a chance of leading the party to victory. And then what?
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"A reinvigorated conservative leadership has a chance of leading the party to victory".
This will be Democrat and Republican and Independent conservatives. The real tea party.
The left and media want to squash them but they can't. They are so outnumbered. They only need a voice to focus their energy and drive. The tropical depression is developing. Perhaps a hurricane. We will have to keep watch. This could be a cat 5. :) Another Regan event with no Tip O'Neil to bugger things up.
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The "Constitutional Crisis" began in January of 2008. What we are seeing today are simply more nails in the coffin of liberty. It was reported that mounted police will be patrolling the WWII memorial today. Symbols of American greatness and heraldry were the Champ's first targets. Sending back to England, the Oval Office bust of Churchill on his first day in office, an early indicator of things to come.
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It was reported that mounted police will be patrolling the WWII memorial today.
Amazing how an open monument that didn't require any attention 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year suddenly needs mounted police. Can you say 'police state' boys and girls?
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If I weren't working, I would go up to DC just to defy them.
It should be interesting if the government starts arresting these veterans. The news pictures would be interesting "There is James Jones, age 88, who was an 18 year old infantryman at the Battle of the Bulge, being arrested for visiting the WW II memorial".
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What do you suppose would be the effect of a taser on a horse?
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What do you suppose would be the effect of a taser on a horse?
At best, a thrown rider. At worst, a hoof through your skull. Rather risky. Cattle prods pack more oomph and its best to get them just behind the front legs.
Don't ask how I know this.
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At the end of the article: That isnt enough: they have to present a credible program to restore economic growth and opportunity.
Good luck with that. Even with restored opportunities, economic growth may be minimal.
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As part of the Honor Flight project, World War II veterans have been taken to Washington DC, cost free, to see the memorial erected in their honor on the National Mall.
Due to the government shutdown, National Park Service police put up barriers preventing access. According to Leo Shane III, White House and Veterans Affairs reporter for Stars and Stripes, the veterans knocked over those barriers.
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I'm still telling Guam locals to expect the US, World Econ to remain bad, iff not worsen, until such time the structures, etc. for OWG is permanently emplaced - IMO widin circa 15-20 years???
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Now the Park Service is building concrete barriers. There is money for forklifts, workers, and concrete barriers but not any to keep the memorial open? This political pure and simple.
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Those barriers is where the Democrats lose if the Republicans have anyone that can create a decent campaign commercial.
This will be a good show on how we can run with a minimal government and the Democrats know it so they are acting spiteful to give a false impression.
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I understand they are bringing in horse mounted patrols to keep the veterans out,
Obama's committing suicide here, Real Vets won't stand for this, they faced Germans and Japanese, a wooden barrier is nothing, a horse is food, and I wouldn't want to be riding one.
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IIRC, the WWII memorial is basically an open plaza. Putting barriers around an open plaza is beyond stupid.
Maybe Rolling Thunder & their buddies can simply roll into DC and BLOCK THE PUBLIC ROADS UNTIL THE MEMORIAL BARRIERS ARE REMOVED.
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Maybe Rolling Thunder & their buddies can simply roll into DC and BLOCK THE PUBLIC ROADS UNTIL THE MEMORIAL BARRIERS ARE REMOVED.
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YES! RT's time has come. Bring sleeping bags and large capacity personal protection devices as well.
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Only $900k for over 13 years of service with the Klingon Directorate of Operations? No scandals, no leaks, maintained a solid cover, kept good books, no one died, what a bargain !
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You have to go to CSPAN and watch these hearings...
Both parties were appalled.
This guy was #3 in EPA and claimed he was CIA so he didn't need to come into work for 3 or more years and it gets so so much worse.
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And his boss (who speaks with a lisp while married) share ownership of a vacation home with him from 1983 to maybe 1998 (he can't recall and maybe its partial ownership and there was never a bit of paperwork) and this boss saw nothing wrong getting and $8K VIP discount on his Mercedes while being the man in charge of setting Cafe stds for Benz and others... oh and John's living at his house while facing charges .... and and...
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g(r) - the whole top of the agency is a bunch of posers. You should have seen the agencies IG folk smiling as they gave truthful answers to the House that contradicted what the top agency people said seconds before... time after time.
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A few of the democrats wanted to grandstand about the shutdown and portray him as minor. They would start but kept thinking about the guy and getting mad. All grandstands ended quickly and turned into strong questions for the EPA.
[TRIBUNE.NG] AS the military assault against the 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... sect continues in some Northern states, members of the sect might have concluded plans to infiltrate the South-West to seek traditional medicine protection from gunshots.
Sunday Tribune gathered that the last few weeks have seen large-scale efforts being made by people believed to be members of the sect to contact native doctors in Oke-Ogun area of Oyo State, especially Saki, for bulletproof charms.
Incidentally, Saki and some other Oke-Ogun towns have a very strong Islamic orientation with a large population of northerners, especially cattlemen, already making the area a home.
According to a source who claimed to be in the know about the recent attempt to seek Yoruba traditional protection by the Boko Haram members, a huge amount of money ranging from N5 million to N10 million was said to be on offer "if the amulet is made and tested okay."
"Recently, some strange people have been coming to Oke-Ogun for traditional bulletproof and most of these people are Northerners, though their contact persons are Yoruba. What we learnt was that anyone that facilitates the Boko Haram's contacts' meeting with a herbalist, who could make a potent charm would also get a commission of 40 per cent, with the remaining 60 per cent going to the herbalist," the source said on condition of anonymity.
He noted that the state of emergency in some states of the North and the strict surveillance on the sect coupled with the widely known efficacy of Yoruba bulletproof charms could have been responsible for the sect's search in Oke-Ogun, warning traditionalists to be discerning "so as not to empower destroyers who will return to haunt them and their communities in the distant future."
When contacted on the development, the Oyo State Director of State Security Services (SSS), Mr Charles Ugwu, told Sunday Tribune that he was not aware of it.
He added that he believed the native doctors knew what had been going on in the nation, and if approached by suspected Boko Haram members, they should give information to their community leaders or approach the security agencies in their zone.
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[Dawn] President Thein Sein traveled to Myanmar's conflict-torn west on Tuesday as a new spate of sectarian violence gripped the state of Rakhine, with police saying Buddhist rioters killed a 94-year-old Mohammedan woman and torched more than 70 homes.
Police officer Kyaw Naing said festivities broke out in Thabyachaing village, about 20 kilometres north of the coastal town of Thandwe, on Tuesday afternoon.
He said the 94-year-old woman, Aye Kyi, died of stab wounds and that between 70 and 80 houses were set on fire.
The visit by Thein Sein to the divided region was his first since sectarian violence broke out more than a year ago. He arrived in the Rakhine state capital of Sittwe and was scheduled to travel to several more towns in the area, including Maungdaw to the north and Thandwe to the south, where Buddhist mobs started torching Mohammedan homes Sunday, a bigwig in the president's office said.
He declined to be identified because he was not authorized to speak about the sensitive trip.
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It ain't about Buddhism or Islam. It's about a country that's been totalitarian for the last fifty years.
[An Nahar] North Korea warned rival South Korea it risks triggering a "destructive" showdown and accused the United States of abusing its power on the U.N. Security Council, in a fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... address Tuesday.
Hours after South Korea paraded a missile capable of pinpoint strikes across the border, North Korea's Vice Foreign Minister Pak Kil-Yon said his government's "generous" efforts to improve relations had hit a "confrontational approach" from the South.
Pak told the U.N. General Assembly meeting of world leaders and senior ministers that the South's attitude is "creating the danger of driving relations back into a destructive stage again."
Amid signs that North Korea is expanding production of weapons grade fissile material, South Korea's President Park Geun-Hye said earlier in Seoul that the North's nuclear bombs pose a "grave threat".
To reinforce the state of alert, South Korea showed off a new missile capable of high-precision strikes at a parade in the capital which was attended by U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
The North Korean minister said "U.S. hostile policy" was the cause of tensions on the Korean peninsula and accused the United States of forcing through U.N. sanctions over a ballistic rocket launch.
The U.N. Security Council extended sanctions against the North in January for launching a rocket considered equivalent to a long range missile and after the North's third nuclear arms test in February.
"It represents a typical example of how and for what purpose the power of the U.N. Security Council is being abused," Pak said, accusing the United States, one of five permanent members of the council, of "manipulation".
"The instances of the U.N. Security Council being abused by a certain state as a tool of its strategic interests should never go unchallenged," Pak said.
The sanctions followed weeks of talks between the United States and China, the North's key ally.
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[An Nahar] U.S. President Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... on Tuesday slammed Republicans for shutting down the government as part of an "ideological crusade" designed to kill his signature health care law.
"I urge House Republicans to reopen the government," Obama said at the White House, as he highlighted a major portion of the health reform program which came into force on Tuesday.
The first government shutdown in 17 years took place because House of Representatives Republicans repeatedly made funding for government operations for the new fiscal year contingent on defunding, delaying or dismantling Obamacare.
Each attempt was turned back by the Democratic-led Senate, which must also agree budget legislation.
But the clock on already agreed government financing ran out at midnight. Hundreds of thousands of federal workers faced layoffs, and national parks and large swathes of government operations were closed down.
"This Republican shutdown did not have to happen -- I want every American to understand why it did happen," Obama said in the White House Rose Garden.
"They have shut down the government over an ideological crusade to deny affordable healthcare to millions of Americans."
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..versus the 'transformative' ideological crusade to establish a workers paradise single party system?
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I wanted to see what Rasmussen poll numbers showed. Unexpectedly ...
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 52% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Obama's job performance. Forty-seven percent (47%) disapprove.
The presidents job approval ratings continue to improve and now mark his best showing since mid-April.
Democrats have now extended their lead over Republicans to four points 42% to 38% - in the latest Generic Congressional Ballot. This is their biggest lead and highest level of support since mid-April.
Just 46% of voters now favor a government shutdown until Democrats and Republicans can agree on what spending for the new health care law to cut, down from 51% two weeks ago. Forty-five percent (45%) want to avoid a shutdown by authorizing spending for the law at existing levels.
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Grant sat before Richmond for months while the action went on elsewhere holding Lee and troops in place. As more and more Americans make personal contact with Obamacare they'll find its just another MVD on steroids. That initial bump will drop accordingly.
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IIRC, all that will happen to Federal workers is that their paychecks get delayed, not canceled. Unlike most workers who get nothing if their place of employment is shut down.
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Depends on how long this goes on. The if House only operates on 'by crisis' funding, could be a long time.
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IIRC, all that will happen to Federal workers is that their paychecks get delayed, not canceled. Unlike most workers who get nothing if their place of employment is shut down.
You recall wrongly. Only ones who get a delayed paycheck are the ones who have been listed as 'excepted.' Right now, that's about 20% of the civilians at my command, mostly providers and vital support staff. If you're furloughed, you don't get paid.
That said, the shutdown is only way you're going to get the regime and its Senate and media cronies to listen.
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S'okay.
I had someone tell me since I was 'exempted', I'd still be getting paid. There's a difference between the two. I still work 50+ hours, only I don't get paid until this is over.
[Dawn] Unidentified people attacked a plaza near DHA (Defense Housing Authority) Phase-II with two hand grenades on Monday night, police sources said.
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... the police refused to officially comment over the incident.
When contacted, the station house officer (SHO) of Sihala cop shoppe, Inspector Masood Kasuri, confirmed that Mohammad Imran, a security guard deployed at the plaza, was injured in the attack.
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... he neither denied nor confirmed that the plaza had been attacked with hand grenades.
He said the lone injured was shifted to the hospital for treatment and was accompanied by the duty officer of the cop shoppe.
The SHO added that the security guard would be brought to the cop shoppe to record his statement once he healed.
Only then would the police establish whether hand grenades were used in the attack or not.
He also expressed ignorance over the motive behind the attack.
On the other hand, some police officials, requesting anonymity, said the place was owned by Raja Asif, a businessman, who was receiving threats from an extortionist gang which was operating in the area with the support of bully boys.
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[WEEKLYSTANDARD] Virginia-based trade publication Politico says that President B.O. is winning by shutting down the government.
"President Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us... started September in an agonizing, extended display of how little sway he had in Congress. He ended the month with a display of resolve and strength that could redefine his presidency," say Politico writers Edward-Isaac Dovere and Reid J. Epstein. "All it took was a government shutdown."
This was less a White House strategy than simply staying in the corner the House GOP had painted them into -- to the White House's surprise, Obama was forced to do what he so rarely has as president: he said no, and he didn't stop saying no.
To affirm the position that Obama's showing strength by shutting down the governement, Politico quotes Obama himself, White House front man Jay Carney, OMB deputy director Brian Deese, Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg, and Democratic strategist Jim Manley. All of the quotations in the story are in support of the president and all are from Democrats.
Indeed, one even uses Politico to tell the president to continue blaming Republicans. "Manley advised Obama to make sure people continue to see Boehner and the House Republicans as the problem and not rush into any more negotiations until public outrage forces them to bend," writes Politico.
By contrast, no Republicans are quoted in the story. And not one person skeptical of the president's strategy not to negotiate with Republicans is quoted in the story.
"Best DNC blurb ever," says one longtime Washington news hound. "Brad Woodhouse [the former DNC front man] should take notes."
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beginning tomorrow the House will be passing single agency or single department funding bills
we'll see what the Senate does
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Obama Shows 'Resolve and Strength' By Shutting Government
Taking the Tea Party's approach to government. However, as long as 'he' does it, it's OK.
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Politico: Obama Shows 'Resolve and Strength' By Shutting Government
BULLSHIT.
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Virginia-based trade publication Politico says that President B.O. is winning by shutting down the government.
Well, alright. Doesn't the 'shutting down' of big government actually make us all winners? The stock market appears to be reacting positively, at least initially.
the drop is mostly based on the debt limit issue rather than the govt shutdown
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Agreed on the stock market drop being tied to no debt ceiling increase: the market dropped when Bernnake indicated he was going to ease up on Quantitative easing. The market is riding a bubble, so anything even remotely threatening the bubble will cause a downturn.
Expect the Wall Street supporters of the GOP to make some phone calls today...
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Does he show "Resolve and Strength" Using the people as pawns?
Shutting down "Open Air' tourist attractions is simply whiny, petty, spite, like closing the Veterans Memorial,(People whostormed the Japanese aren't fazed by barracades, this pettiness has already backfired once on him once.
Let's make it well known,and watch (And publicize) any future fuckups. (There WILL be more, he's hard of learning)
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You know these moonbats with their lightworker remind me of a father of a "special" child "mainstreaming" in my son's class. The poor kid is driven psychotically violent by stress: he understands neither the teacher in class, nor the rules governing other kids' games during the breaks. Nevertheless, his loving father remains convinced that his offspring is both bright and good. And it's all the fault of bad kids who tease him. He actually took to lecturing the children about how bad they are until told to shut up or meet the cops.
[An Nahar] Female university students in Sudan protested for a second day running on Tuesday, their campus president said, on the ninth day of anti-government demonstrations that sparked a deadly crackdown last week.
The protest, with 100 students at most, was "on a smaller scale" than Monday's rally, Ahfad University for Women president Gasim Badri told Agence La Belle France Presse.
On Monday police lobbed tear gas into the campus in Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman. They did not intervene in the latest rally, Badri said.
The intensity of demonstrations has eased since last week when thousands erupted into the streets after fuel prices jumped by more than 60 percent.
Authorities say 34 people died during the protests, many of them in poor neighborhoods, which were the worst in the history of President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. 's 24-year rule.
Activists and international human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... groups say at least 50 people were bumped off, most of them in the greater Khartoum area.
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[MAIN.OMANOBSERVER.OM] Peaceful anti-government protests that shook Turkey in the summer were a sign of the country's democratic maturity but they took a wrong turn by becoming violent, President Abdullah Gul said yesterday.
Gul urged Turks to show respect for other points of view and to work together to strengthen Turkey's democracy.
"Some groups attempted to exploit the peaceful protests by using violence and vandalism. The protests that started with good intentions took on the wrong characteristics in time that disrupted public order," Gul told parliament.
"We must, as a nation, learn the necessary lessons from these incidents and must display sensitivity to understand the feelings of our young people through detailed sociological studies," he said.
The summer protests presented one of the biggest challenges to Erdogan's rule since his AK Party first came to power a decade ago, spiralling out of a demonstration in late May against plans to redevelop an Istanbul park into a broader show of defiance.
Four protesters and a police officer died as demonstrators, some armed with rocks, fireworks and
Molotov cocktails, clashed with police firing tear gas, water cannon and pepper spray in outbreaks of violence around the country.
Erdogan, who remains Turkey's most popular politician despite the protests, branded the protesters as "riff-raff" and coup plotters bent on wrecking
the country's political and economic stability.
He mobilised hundreds of thousands of his supporters at rallies meant as a show of strength and said the public would give their answer to the protesters at the ballot box.
Sporadic protests continued in September, just six months before local elections, the start of a voting cycle which also includes a presidential election next August -- in which Erdogan is expected to run -- and parliamentary polls in 2015.
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[Dawn] Welcoming suggestions of Pak holy mans regarding a ceasefire prior to peace talks, the Pak Taliban Tuesday night announced that they would reconsider their stance if the government was ready for a break in fighting.
Ulema (holy mans) and representatives of various religious seminaries functioning under Wafaqul Madaris had expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... Monday over the "civil war-like situation" in the country and appealed to both the government and the Taliban to observe a "complete ceasefire" till the completion of the process of talks.
The appeal was made in a joint statement issued after a "consultative meeting" of the Ulema and teachers of seminaries held at a local hotel in Islamabad. It was presided over by Wafaqul Madaris chief Maulana Salimullah Khan.
Speaking to Dawn.com from some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location, the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) front man Shahidullah Shahid said the TTP welcomes Ulema's suggestion for a ceasefire.
He, however, claimed it was the government which is launching the offensive against them, saying if it can take the lead in stopping the war, then they were also ready to follow it.
"We are ready to proceed with the APC suggestions and willing to have peace, there is no ill-will to the grinding of the peace processor among the Taliban leadership," he added.
The welcoming gesture of the Talibs can be considered as a major breakthrough for potential peace talks as the TTP front man on Saturday assailed 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... for changing his mind and giving a precondition of laying down weapons, saying his government was not serious about holding the dialogue.
"By telling us that we will have to lay down arms and respect the constitution, the prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, showed that he is following the policy of America and its allies," the front man had said.
About 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) chief Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... 's offer of opening Taliban offices in the settled areas, Shahid said: "We welcome the offer but we feel at this moment there is no need of opening any office any where."
Punjabi Taliban chief Asmatulah Mauvia, in a relevant development, reiterated to hold unconditional talks for peace and said the outfit would respond to the APC offer within three days.
Speaking to Dawn.com, Mauvia said that they were willing for unconditional talks and would respond within the next three days.
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[MAIN.OMANOBSERVER.OM] The presidents of La Belle France and Mali warned of a possible "terrorist" resurgence in the Sahel as they met in Gay Paree yesterday after fresh fighting between faceless myrmidons and the military in the African nation.
Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita is cutting short his visit to La Belle France after the festivities with Tuareg fighters fighting for autonomy in the north of his country.
On Tuesday he told his French counterpart Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... that reconciliation was his priority, after talks with the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) collapsed.
"The Franco-African intervention put an end to the terrorist threat, but it could try to rebuild... we must remain vigilant," the two leaders said in a joint statement released by Hollande's office after the talks.
The meeting between the two leaders came against a backdrop of deteriorating security in Mali, where a car kaboom claimed by Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb (AQIM) killed two civilians and maimed several soldiers on Saturday.
Calm returned yesterday to the rebel bastion of Kidal after fighting between the MNLA and the army, but tensions remained high, a military source from the UN's MINUSMA peacekeeping force in Mali told AFP.
The MNLA, the main Tuareg group involved in peace talks between rebels and the government which broke down on Thursday, said three of its fighters had been maimed during a shootout on Sunday which lasted more than an hour.
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[Dawn] Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that as a result of the ongoing targeted operations in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... targeted killers were fleeing the city, but they were being chased and captured in various parts of the country.
He made these remarks while talking to media men in Sukkur, where he had come to offer Fateha at the Lal Mashaikh graveyard on Sunday. He said conduct of elections was not his job but that of the Election Commission. He said his government was implementing the apex court directives on delimitation.
He assured all parties that nobody would be allowed to rig the local bodies elections. He added there was no justification for the demand to involve the judiciary.
Mr Shah said the Pakistain Moslem League-Functional wanted to escape from local government election as it raised objection to delimitation, though it had remained silent on the 2001 delimitations.
He said it was his desire that peace prevailed not only in Karachi but in whole Sindh, for which the government was doing its best. He said cases were being opened of the police officials who were killed in Karachi.
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion... the chief minister offered to a four-member delegation of the Pak-UK Chamber of Commerce and Industries, which called on him at the CM House on Monday, that foreign educational institutions, especially from Britannia, impart training in language and technical skills to youths in Sindh, adds Our Staff Reporter in Karachi.
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[An Nahar] Russia said on Tuesday that Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... could engage in peace talks with the more moderate elements of the armed opposition at a meeting in Geneva next month.
"I do not rule out that the armed opposition, if it does not stand for bad boy or terrorist views, could very well be represented," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told news hounds.
"By the way, this is something that President Assad has said as well."
World powers agreed last month to schedule the first direct negotiations between Assad's regime and the rebels in Geneva in mid-November.
The so-called Geneva 2 talks follow a failed round of negotiations between world powers over the crisis in the same city in June 2012.
Russia has backed Assad's government throughout the 30-month conflict and is the chief architect of a Syrian chemical weapons disarmament plan that was backed by the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Security Council following the August 21 nerve agent attack near Damascus.
This year's Geneva meeting has been repeatedly delayed because of disagreements between Moscow and the West about who should be party to the talks.
Lavrov stressed that it was up to Western and Arab governments to make sure that representatives of the armed opposition agreed to attend the Geneva meeting despite growing differences among their ranks.
But he questioned whether the West could manage to do this by November.
"Until recently, we expected our Western partners, who committed themselves to bring the opposition to the conference, that they would be able to do this fairly quickly," Lavrov said.
"But they did not manage to do it quickly. I do not know if they will manage to do it by the middle of November."
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Russia knows Al-Qaeda, etc. foreign Hard Boyz are hell-bent on dominating the Syria fight vee the domestic Rebs.
TO PARAPH POST-CHINESE INTERVENTION GEN. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR = "WE [may] FACE AN ENTIRELY NEW WAR"!
"AFPAK II", wid Iran = substituted for US BFF INDIA, + Russia in place of Pak BFF CHINA???
[Dawn] Admitting hindrances being faced due to security situation in the area, Chief Minister 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... Dr Abdul Malik Baloch Tuesday briefed the media on the ongoing relief work in the troubled Awaran district of Balochistan.
Dr Baloch reached here on Tuesday after spending five days in Awaran, affected by an earthquake measuring 7.7 magnitudes on reactor scale on September 24.
Parliamentary leader Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) Rahim Ziaratwal, Chief Secretary Balochistan Babar Yaqoob Fateh Muhammad and others flanked the CM during a presser he was speaking to.
The chief minister said the earthquake has affected 25,000 families in Awaran district and left more than 100,000 people homeless. "Mashkay is the worst affected area of Awaran district," he added.
Dr Baloch said people of the areas were extremely poor and their rehabilitation was indeed a difficult task for the government. "Their complete rehabilitation was difficult for government."
Referring to security situation in Awaran, he admitted, "there is no ideal situation, yes there are problems." He said relief and rescue workers were facing obstacles in their operations in Awaran's most troubled part of Mashkay.
"For ten years there was no government in Awaran," Dr Baloch said while referring to presence of Baloch forces of Evil in the area. "Despite all odds, we launched a successful operation in the area," he added.
He said the provincial government has given clear instructions to the government employees of remaining in Awaran district at all cost, adding that failure to abide by will result in their disposal.
The chief minister admitted that tents provided by relief workers in Mashkay were burnt down by the myrmidons. "Yes some people burnt tents," Dr Baloch said cautioning the media about plight of the earthquake survivors rather than highlighting bully boy attacks in the sparsely populated troubled district of Balochistan.
He said there were security problems and the situation was different from other parts of the province.
Informing about the relief work, Chief Minister Baloch said 2,700 food packets, 25,000 tents and other relief goods were provided to the earthquake affected people in Awaran. He said there was zero tolerance for those plundering relief goods for the earthquake survivors.
Dr Baloch said if relief goods were recovered from any shop or person, he or she would be tried in an anti terrorist court. He urged upon all political parties to come forward and support the earthquake survivors in this hour of trouble.
Urging for foreign aid, the chief minister reiterated that rehabilitation of the earthquake-affected people was not possible without the support of international community and the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
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[NYPOST] Rampant fraud on a New York City contract last year didn't stop a major nonprofit from landing a slew of federal contracts to sign people up for ObamaCare.
Seedco, a New York-based community-development organization, was sued by the federal government for faking at least 1,400 of 6,500 job placements under a $22.2 million federally funded contract with the city.
Eighteen months later, the feds and Seedco are teaming up again, this time to help medical-insurance seekers maneuver through the maze that is the Affordable Health Care Act.
When ObamaCare's open-enrollment period starts Tuesday, among the frontline agencies will be Seedco, which is partnering with dozens of agencies, such as the Gay Men's Health Crisis, Food Bank for New York City and the Chinese American Planning Council, in each of the five boroughs.
The national nonprofit has also lined up federal contracts with agencies in Georgia, where it has a $2.1 million contract, and Tennessee, where it has a $1.2 million contract.
Seedco said in a statement that important changes, including a new leadership team, were made at the agency following the job-placement scandal, and that workers and managers involved in the misconduct had been fired or resigned.
"As a result of these and other operational changes, we strongly believe that Seedco has the experience, integrity and commitment to carry out this work," the statement said.
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It's all a fraud, what's the difference.
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[Dawn] 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... police chief Shahid Hayat has said a man suspected of involvement in the killing of Naimat Ali Randhawa, a lawyer involved in the Wali Babar murder case, has been placed in durance vile Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! on Tuesday.
Speaking to a presser, Additional Inspector General of Police (AIGP), Karachi Shahid Hayat named the suspect as one Kazim Abbasi Rizvi and said he was associated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... 's Unit 178.
The senior lawyer was rubbed out in an attack in the city's Nazimabad area on Thursday that also left his lawyer son injured.
Hayat was asked whether Randhawa's killing had a sectarian dimension, responding to which, the police chief said the lawyer's killing was of a political, not sectarian, nature.
He said that during initial investigation, the accused had confessed to killing Randhawa.
The accused is also involved in murders of eight other people, said the AIGP. Raids were being conducted to arrest three other accomplices of the accused, he added.
To a question, he said that the ongoing targeted operation by police is against criminals and not any political party.
Police claimed to have recovered a 9MM pistol with five rounds from his possession. The accused was arrested under the Sindh Armed Act.
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[Dawn] The US government began a partial shutdown on Tuesday for the first time in 17 years, potentially putting up to 1 million workers on unpaid leave, closing national parks and stalling medical research projects.
Federal agencies were directed to cut back services after politicians could not break a political stalemate that sparked new questions about the ability of a deeply divided Congress to perform its most basic functions.
After House Republicans floated a late offer to break the logjam, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ... rejected the idea, saying Democrats would not enter into formal negotiations on spending "with a gun to our head" in the form of government shutdowns.
The political dysfunction at the Capitol also raised fresh concerns about whether Congress can meet a crucial mid-October deadline to raise the government's $16.7 trillion debt ceiling.
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Obama complains that he "Wont negotiate with a gun to his head", well that's the only way he WILL negotiate, it looks like Obama will blame Republicans regardless, so "Negotiate or we shoot". seems the only way .
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[An Nahar] Where once she welcomed immigrants pursuing the American dream and more recently hordes of tourists, the Statue of Liberty stood alone Tuesday, victim of the U.S. government shutdown.
Thousands of frustrated tourists had the choice of a one-hour boat trip around New York harbor or their money back, with one of the most iconic monuments in the United States closed.
Dozens of people working on the boats taking people to and from Liberty Island, run by U.S. National Parks, were on hand with infinite patience and multiple languages to help marshall the baffled tourists.
"No statue today, nobody is going on the island," said Brian Fahey, who works for Statue Cruises at the Battery Park pier in southern Manhattan.
"But you can join a one-hour harbor cruise that goes by the Statue, Ellis Island, Ground Zero, the Brooklyn bridge," he added.
Large notice boards everywhere repeated the same information.
"The government has temporarily shut both the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Please join our one hour sightseeing tour and see the magnificent sights of New York harbor."
But many visitors were reluctant to be fobbed off with a boat trip.
"I just arrived yesterday from Seattle, I bought my tickets yesterday, they could have suspended the sales, or sent notifications," said Shriram Parameshwaran, a 26-year-old engineer.
He was uninterested in the cause of the shutdown -- the latest ideological skirmish between President Barack Obama and House Republicans over the scope of the U.S. government.
"I have no idea what this is about," he told Agence France Presse.
He wanted his money back. He wasn't interested in the mini cruise.
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Traditional symbols of American freedom and greatness are selected for closure whilst simultaneously, gov't linguists assist untold thousands, possibly millions [speaking 150 different languages from who knows where] sign up for medical boodle care. Indeed telling.
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This just the Washington Monument strategy writ large: every time Congress threatens to cut the National Park Service's budget, they respond by threatening to close the Washington Monument, rather than Pipestone National Monument in Minnesota. The Park Service knows that more people will complain and Congress won't dare cut their budget.
Obama is doing the same thing here: causing as much pain to as many people as he can, blaming the Republicans, hoping they will complain.
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I went to Europe once to find everything worth seeing covered in scaffolding because the World Cup was coming the following year. They can bite me, that's the risks you run in this big world.
[An Nahar] Torture is widespread in Libyan detention centers run by brigades which emerged during the 2011 revolution, a U.N. report said Tuesday, urging Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... to bring all facilities under full state control.
"The report indicates that torture is widespread and most frequent immediately after arrest and during the first days of interrogation to extract confessions and other information," Ravina Shamdasani, a spokeswoman for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, told news hounds.
"In some cases, members of the armed brigades freely admitted, and even tried to justify, the physical abuse of detainees," she said.
The authors of the report visited 30 centers over two years.
Libya's young post-revolution administration has made some efforts to revamp the prisons system but the estimated 8,000 people still held in connection with the conflict are under the control of armed brigades.
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[Dawn] A politician of the opposition in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Assembly on Monday contradicted official figures about the corpse count of All Saints Church, Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. attack and claimed that twin suicide kaboom had killed 123 churchgoers on Sept 22.
Minority MPA Askar Pervaiz of Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... -Fazl told the House that the list issued by the provincial government about the corpse count of church attack was not correct and that total 123 people had been perished in the bombing attack instead of 83 as claimed by the government.
The assembly session has been convened on the requisition of the opposition parties to discuss security situation in the province in the aftermath of twin suicide kaboom attack on the church near Kohati Gate and express solidarity with the bereaved Christian Community.
Deputy Speaker Imtiaz Shahid presided over the proceedings.
Former Bishop Mano Roomal Shah and other representatives of the Christian Community were present in the Speaker's gallery.
A clash between 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.... MPA Soran Singh and Pakistain Peoples Party politician Nighat Orakzai disrupted somberness of the floor and turned the House into a fish market.
Both politicians used unparliamentary language as the chair was looking helpless in restoring order in the House.
Soran Singh, who is also a special assistant to the chief minister, blamed that opposition was trying to draw political mileage from current wave of terrorism in Peshawar and had no sympathies with affected families.
He alleged that former information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain and MPA Nighat Orakzai had tried to provoke people after attack on the church.
"They should be ashamed of doing politics over the dead bodies," he remarked. He also accused MPA Askar Pervaiz of exaggerating situation. His remakes irritated opposition benches.
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[BANGLANEWS24] Iranian president Hasan Rohani has asked authorities to study the possibility of resuming direct flights between Iran and the United States for the first time over the past 35 years.
A senior Iranian official announced on Monday, Tehran Times prints this report on Tuesday.
Akbar Torkan, the acting head of the High Council of Iranian Affairs Abroad, said Rohani issued the order to facilitate the visits of Iranian expatiates residing in the United States.
Tehran and Washington cut their diplomatic relations after Iranian students took hostage the US embassy's staff in Tehran following the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... the two sides have shown interest in a thaw in relations. On Friday, US president Barack Obama I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody... and Iranian president Hasan Rohani spoke by telephone, the highest-level contact between the two countries in decades and the culmination of a dramatic shift in tone that began in August.
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Speaking of the US' new Ally = BFF in Syria ...
[An Nahar] Six copperswere maimed in festivities between rival communities in the Algerian oasis town of Ghardaia, a security source and a human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... activist said on Tuesday.
Four people were nabbed You have the right to remain silent... in connection with Monday's violence between young Chaambas of Arab origin and Mozabites, a Berber minority group which adheres to the Ibadi faith, an offshoot of Shiite Islam
There were conflicting reports of the unrest.
A source with the national security service (DGSN) told Agence La Belle France Presse the six coppers were hit by stones thrown during a protest against water shortages in Ghardaia.
But according to Kameleddine Fekhar, a human rights activist in the M'zab region, 600 kilometers (400 miles) south of Algiers, some 50 Chaambas armed with stones and knives attacked residents of a Mozabite district, "with the full knowledge of the police."
"The assailants passed in front of two lorries packed with police, who did nothing," said Fekhar, who belongs to the Berber community.
"It was only hours after the attack that they were told to intervene, and then not to arrest the assailants but to hurl tear gas canisters at the Mozabites," he added.
The DGSN source denied the claims and said police intervened to break up a protest by Mozabites who had occupied the street to demonstrate against a four-day water cut in their neighborhood.
The Chaamba youths left the area left, but the Mozabites began harassing the security forces and throwing stones, the source said.
"They torched vehicles and ransacked the headquarters of the local branch of the Algerian water agency," he said, adding that four Mozabites were arrested for disturbing the peace and for damaging public and private property.
In May, a dozen people were maimed during unrest that erupted between the two communities in Ghardaia following a dispute over a Mozabite cemetery.
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[Dawn] Thirteen people, including three members of a family and an Imambargah trustee, were rubbed out in targeted attacks in the city on Monday, officials said.
They said that the trustee of an Imambargah and his driver were rubbed out in a New 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... locality in an attack apparently on sectarian grounds.
Hasan Ali, 35, was on his way to his Pakwan Centre in New Karachi's Sector-13 in his chauffeur-driven car when four gunnies riding two cycle of violences sprayed the vehicle with bullets and rode away.
Mr Ali and his driver, Mujeeb Rehman, 40, sustained multiple bullet wounds and died before any medical aid could be provided to them. The bodies were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities.
"Ali Hasan was a trustee of Aal-e-Muhammad Imambargah in the area and his murder could be linked to sectarianism," said Karachi Central SSP Amir Farooqi.
He said that a relative of the slain Mr Ali, who was also a trustee of the Imambargah, was killed in a sectarian attack in the same area around a year ago.
Man, two sons killed in Lyari
A man and his two young sons were rubbed out by armed motorcyclists 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.... in a suspected targeted attack on Monday morning, the police said.
They added that four gunnies riding two cycle of violences attacked the three family members who as a matter of routine were selling cooked breakfast on pushcarts in Jhat Pat Market.
Kalakot SHO Saleem Marwat said the victims identified as Abdul Shakoor, 55, and his two sons, 24-year-old Zahid and 20-year-old Abid, sustained multiple bullet wounds in the attack. They were rushed to the Civil Hospital Karachi, where doctors declared them dead on arrival, he added.
The police officer said that the victims, residents of Oqal Bunga compound of Ranchhore Line, originally hailed from Bahawalnagar, Punjab.
"Investigators are probing mainly two possible motives for the attack," said Lyari SP Shahnawaz.
He said the three men might have been targeted by criminal elements over the suspicion of their being police 'informers'.
The other possible motive could be their ethnic identity, as people hailing from Punjab were being targeted in 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... also, he added.
The officer said the vendors had been selling cooked breakfast for the past 16 years in the same area.
Three found rubbed out
Three young men were found rubbed out in a car near Haroon Royal City, Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Block-17, in the early hours of Monday, according to the Sharea Faisal police.
Wrapped in polythene bags, the corpses also bore torture marks, they said.
Shah Faisal SP Syed Ali Asif told Dawn that the three men, in their 30s, might have been kidnapped, subjected to torture before being bumped off.
He said each victim was hit by a single bullet in the head.
The senior officer said the car in which the bodies were found had been snatched in the vicinity on Sunday. "The car was snatched from Waqar Ahmed near Rabia City in Gulistan-e-Jauhar," the police said.
They said the bodies were shifted to the Edhi morgue for want of identification after a post-mortem examination at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC).
Man bumped off outside KU
A young man was bumped off outside the University of Karachi on Monday morning, the Mobina Town police said.
They added that Saleem Rahat Bhatti, 40, was on his way from his residence in Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Block-8, on his cycle of violence to his office in a factory in SITE when suspects also riding a cycle of violence attacked him on the main University Road. He sustained two bullet wounds and died. Mobina Town SHO Jamal Muhammad Leghari said circumstances suggested that the suspects had been chasing him and targeted him at a deserted place outside the university early morning.
He said the victim's family had hinted at some personal enmity behind the murder but did not nominate anyone in the FIR.
Watchman killed in Sohrab Goth
A watchman was rubbed out in a commercial area of Sohrab Goth, police said.
They added that Amir Khan, 45, was bumped off in Super Market. He sustained three gunshot wounds in his head.
The police said the victim was the watchman in the same market and originally hailed from Wazoo.
Killing in Korangi
A young man was bumped off in Korangi on Monday.
Police said that the perforated carcass of Haris Arif, 25, was found near the Coast Guard Chowrangi.
The corpse was shifted to the JPMC for a post-mortem examination.
Zaman Town SHO Sarfraz Gondal said a pistol was found on the body.
He said that the police believed that he was killed by his accomplice(s) over some dispute.
He was a resident of Landhi.
Trader rubbed out in Kalri
A fish trader was rubbed out in the Kalri area, police said.
They said that Iqbal Niazi, 50, was going on his cycle of violence when gunnies targeted him near the old truck stand on Mauripur Road.
The police said that the victim was going to the Fisheries area when he was killed.
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[An Nahar] Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has unveiled sweeping reforms in a bid to repair his image, bruised by mass protests and a stalled grinding of the peace processor with Kurdish rebels, analysts said Tuesday.
But Erdogan failed to appease his critics who said the long-awaited reform package did not go far enough and was merely a bid to shore up support ahead of elections next year.
Many of the reforms are aimed at enhancing the rights of minority groups including Turkey's 15 million Kurds, in a bid to revive a deadlocked grinding of the peace processor with the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
However the PKK said in a statement that Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) had not consulted them on the reforms and was merely resorting to delaying tactics with the goal of "winning another election."
The country votes in local elections in March, a presidential election in August and parliamentary polls in 2015.
"The package shows that instead of a solution, the AKP has adopted the lack of a solution as its policy," the PKK said.
Erdogan also announced the lifting of a long-standing ban on women wearing headscarves in most public offices, however judges, prosecutors, police and military personnel will still be forbidden from wearing them.
While the lifting of the ban gives Turks greater religious freedom, it touches a nerve among those who accuse Erdogan of trying to Islamize the predominantly Mohammedan, but traditionally fiercely secular, country where laws on alcohol sales and advertising have also been tightened.
Erdogan's government was hit by a wave of unrest in June as tens of thousands of protesters calling him a "dictator" raged against what they alleged is his increasingly iron-fisted, conservative-leaning style of governance.
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A group of notable Canadian women has launched a campaign for gender-neutral language in the English lyrics of 'O Canada'. The group says the change would restore Canada's English national anthem to its original gender-neutral intentions.
The coalition -- which includes author Margaret Atwood and former prime minister Kim Campbell -- has set up a website to promote the idea. It calls on Canadians to join the campaign and encourage Prime Minister Harper's government to change the line "in all thy sons command" to "in all of us command."
The group says for no documented reason the lyrics were changed in 1913 from "thou dost in us command" to "in all thy sons command" and that it is time to make a change to reflect the inclusive intentions of the original lyrics.
Atwood said, "The words 'All thy sons command' in the English national anthem suggests that only male loyalty is being invoked. Restoring these lyrics to gender-neutral is not only an easy fix to make our anthem inclusive for all Canadians, but it's also long overdue."
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Ahhhhhh Jeeeez! I would love to find Margaret Atwood and/or Kim Campbell and/or any of the others stranded on the road side with say, a flat tire, or such. The discussion would be intense. AND VERY LOUD. Gah!
Maybe I could just invite them to come along on a moose hunt. No, that might lead to something productive for someone, like a meal.
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One of the five Normandy beaches, Juno, was Canada's. Carried well above its weight. Weren't too many women among the 50% casualties that first day. Strangely, that's the dirty end of the stick these advocates never demand.
[An Nahar] Three Jordanian men have been tossed in the calaboose Please don't kill me! for carrying posters supporting Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund and ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... , a judicial official said on Tuesday.
"The three men were arrested last week. They were carrying posters with the slogan of Rabaa," he told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The yellow posters show a black hand with four fingers raised, symbolizing Cairo's pro-Morsi Rabaa al-Adawiya protest camp, which was broken up on August 14, sparking festivities that killed hundreds of protesters.
"The state security court charged the suspects on Monday with acts the government does not approve that would harm Jordan's relations with a brotherly Arab country," the official said.
"One of the suspects was accused of insulting heads of states. The authorities found text messages on his mobile phone's Internet messenger application WhatsApp that insult the Jordanian regime and other regimes."
The three face up to three years in jail if convicted, the official said, adding that the court refused to release them on bail.
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[DAILYCALLER] At an event in Birmingham, Ala. Monday night, former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Ben Carson revealed that he had received a visit from the Internal Revenue Service following his much-noted remarks at a National Prayer Breakfast earlier this year.
"I had my first encounter with the IRS this year, unsurprisingly after the prayer breakfast," Carson told an audience that at the annual Business Council of Alabama Chairman's Dinner, according to a report from Cliff Sims of the Montgomery, Ala.-based Yellowhammer News.
Carson's February speech February made him a conservative darling for criticizing President Barack Obama's 2010 health-care reform law, while Obama was sitting just a few feet away.
During the event, which also featured former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Carson spoke about the potential presidential candidacy of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, U.S. relations with Russia and the Environmental Protection Agency.
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in a fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... and dramatic television speech broadcast Monday, accused U.S. diplomats of "acts of sabotage" and ordered them to leave the country.
The socialist leader said government officials had tailed three U.S. diplomats for months, and authorities had witnessed them tampering with the country's electric system, NBC reported.
They now have 48 hours to get out of Venezuela, he said.
"We detected a group of U.S. Embassy officials dedicated to meeting the far-right and to financing and encouraging acts of sabotage against the electrical system and Venezuela's economy," Mr. Maduro said in his speech. "I have the proof here in my hands. ... Yankees go home. Get out of Venezuela. Get out of here. I don't care what actions the government of Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us... takes."
He also added: "I'm not going to allow any action that stirs violence in this country."
Among the expelled are Kelly Keiderling, the senior American diplomat in the nation; Elizabeth Hunderland; and David Mutt, NBC reported.
Officials with the U.S. Embassy did not comment. But opposition leader Henrique Capriles laughed at the announcement.
"It's just smoke to cover up that they can't manage the country," he said, in a Twitter posting.
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Where's the bumwad (toilet paper) coming from, Nikki?
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FAMOUS LAST WORDS?, as I hope Maduro's Govt. reads those blogs whom repor there are South Americans now fighting in Syria agz Assad.
Reminds me of Robin Williams' great post-9-11 skit ...
> WHEN THE GERMANS DON'T INVADE FRANCE, FRANCE = YANKEES GO HOME!
? WHEN THE GERMANS DO INVADE FRANCE > YANKEES, WE LOVE YOU - COME BACK, WHY DID YOU EVER LEAVE US!?
Even before the Assad-Syria Crisis, IRAN + HEZBOLLAH + QUDS FORCE + IRGC SETTING UP BOTH CENTRAL + SOUTH AMERICA.
[BANGLANEWS24] BNP lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury was sentenced to death for his involvement in crimes against humanity during liberation war in 1971.
International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 found BNP lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury guilty of nine charges out of total allegations of war crimes including genocide and killings.
Out of total 23 charges, SQ Chowdhury was, however, acquitted of eight charges while the prosecutions failed to prove six other allegations.
ICT read out the verdict and made the observation on Tuesday.
Nine charges in which the BNP leader was found guilty are - Charge No.2- Maddhaya Gohira Genocide; Charge No.3- Murder of Nutun Chandra Singha; Charge No.4- Genocide at Jogotmollopara; Charge No.5- Murder of Nepal Chandra and three others; and Charge No.6- Genocide at Unsuttarpara; Charge No.7- Killing of Satish Chandra Palit; Charge No.8- Killing of Mozaffar and his son; Charge No. 17- abduction and torture of Nizamuddin Ahmed; and Charge No. 18- abduction and torture of Saleh Uddin.
He was awarded death penalty for charges No. 3, 5, 6 and 8.
Earlier in the day, ICT-1 Justices ATM Fazle Kabir, Justice Jahangir Hossain and Justice Anwarul Haque read out the verdict.
On December 16, 2010, BNP Standing Committee Member Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury MP was arrested from a Banani residence in the city, a day after investigators petitioned the International Crimes Tribunal for issuing arrest warrant against him on war crimes charges.
Later, police showed arrested him for crime against humanity during liberation war in 1971.
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[BANGLANEWS24] Chittagong BNP has called daylong hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... for Wednesday in Chittagong protesting the verdict that awards death penalty to Salauddin Quader for war crimes.
BNP politician Salauddin Quader Chowdhury was sentenced to death for his involvement in crimes against humanity during liberation war in 1971.
International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 found BNP politician Salauddin Quader Chowdhury guilty of nine charges out of total allegations of war crimes including genocide and killings.
Out of total 23 charges, SQ Chowdhury was, however, acquitted of eight charges while the prosecutions failed to prove six other allegations.
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[Real Clear Politics] Ex-Nevada power broker Harvey Whittemore admitted he was "arrogant and naive" but insisted "I'm not greedy" before a judge sentenced him Monday to two years in prison for funneling more than $130,000 in illegal campaign funds to Sen. Harry Reid ... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ... 's re-election committee in 2007.
U.S. District Court Judge Larry Hicks also ordered Whittemore to pay $100,000 in fines for his three felony convictions and serve 100 hours community service upon his release from a yet-to-be determined prison that houses white-collar criminals.
The 61-year-old former lobbyist and wealthy developer is to surrender on his own to federal authorities on Jan. 31, 2014.
"These offenses go to the very heart of our electoral process," Hicks said.
Prosecutors said Whittemore gave money to family members and employees in 2007 to make contributions he had promised to Reid while concealing himself as the true source to skirt campaign finance laws.
Reid has not been accused of any wrongdoing. He has said he was unaware of any potential problems with the money he received.
Whittemore insisted through his lawyers he didn't know he was breaking the law. He tearfully addressed the court for the first time directly for more than a half-hour of Monday's six-hour sentencing hearing, halting several times to compose himself, remove his glasses to wipe his tears, and at one point check on a daughter who was crying in the courtroom gallery.
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Hmmm, two years,$130.000, 'd take that deal too.
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Reid has not been accused of any wrongdoing. He has said he was unaware of any potential problems with the money he received.
[Ynet] Al-Qaeda's local franchise in Iraq has grabbed credit for a string of boom-mobileings in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... that killed 55 people.
In a statement posted late Monday hours after the bombings that mostly targeted Shiite neighborhoods, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant says the attacks were in retaliation to the "arrests, torturing and targeting of Sunnis" by the Shiite-led government.
* WAFF >[BreakingNews] AL-QAIDA TAKES RESPONSIBILITY FOR REGHANLI + THREATENS TURKEY | ISIL THREATENS ERDOGAN: WATCH YOUR BACK, OUR SUICIDE BOMBERS WILL HIT ANKARA + ISTANBUL.
As part of its demands, ISIL also wants Turkey reopen key border-crossing points into Syria.
* TOPIX > [AlertNet] SAUDI ARABIA BOOSTS SALAFIST RIVALS TO AL-QAEDA ["Army of Islam"] IN SYRIA.
RELATED DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [YouTube] VIDEO:A TOTAL OF 43 ISLAMIST GROUPS UNITE IN SYRIA, under the auspice of the new "Army of Islam" coalition group.
* SAME > [Real Clear Politics = World] AL-QAEDA'S PLAN TO SWALLOW ISRAEL, LEBANON, AND SYRIA, eventually in time to attack the US-West.
* SAME > WEST'S FAILURE TO SUPPORT MODERATE SYRIA REBELS LED TO RISE OF AL-QAEDA GROUPS.
[An Nahar] Iraq executed 23 people during two days in September, most of them convicted on terrorism charges, the justice ministry said Tuesday.
Twenty of the 23 were either al-Qaeda members or otherwise involved in terrorism, while three were convicted of unspecified "criminal charges," a ministry front man said.
The executions were carried out on September 22 and 26.
They take to at least 90 the number of people who have been put to death in Iraq this year, according to an Agence La Belle France Presse tally based on reports from the ministry and officials.
Executions in Iraq, which are usually carried out by hanging, have drawn widespread condemnation from the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... and rights watchdogs.
"The Iraqi authorities have chosen to defy repeated calls not to execute prisoners and to rely on tainted 'confessions' obtained under torture," Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui of Amnesia Amnesty International said last month.
"That a death sentence could be imposed after obviously grossly unfair trials beggars belief."
U.N. human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. chief Navi Pillay said this year that Iraq's criminal justice system was "not functioning adequately".
She highlighted "numerous convictions based on confessions obtained under torture and ill-treatment, a weak judiciary and trial proceedings that fall short of international standards."
"The application of the death penalty in these circumstances is unconscionable, as any miscarriage of justice as a result of capital punishment cannot be undone," Pillay said.
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most of them convicted on terrorism charges,
Twenty of the 23 were either al-Qaida members or otherwise involved in terrorism, while three were convicted of unspecified "criminal charges,"
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What is it about Islam that breeds Wolverines in Turbans and Tasmanian Snapbiters in excess of profusion?
[An Nahar] The United States' federal government shutdown could endanger the fragile world economy, British Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... warned on Tuesday.
"It is a risk to the world economy if the United States can't properly sort out its spending plans and its deficit reduction plans," Cameron told BBC radio after the U.S. Congress failed to agree a budget, forcing the first federal government shutdown in 17 years.
Economists have warned that the shutdown, forcing 800,000 federal workers to go on leave and closing museums and national parks until the row is resolved, could slow growth in the world's largest economy.
Cameron added: "I think also it's a reminder to us here that you have to have a multi-year, long-term plan for getting deficits down."
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..and the economic collapse of the US along the lines of Greece or Argentina doesn't place the world economy at risk? Or are you gambling you won't be around when the music stops, just like the city fathers of Detroit?
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The effect on the Global Economy will be much worse iff China opens fire on US Allies in East Asia, + the Bammer pulls a feel-good, pro-UN Mediation/Resolution "Syria" in response where China gets most or all of what it wants, while the US falls back across the Pacific + getting another Debt-busting QE(S) to boot.
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A master of distraction, never at a loss to fill a void with feckless comments. Sorry David. Albion's historical record fails to warrant a right to comment. Please STFU.
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Hmmm, link won't work, wonder if Obama's trying to keep the truth quiet?
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If I was an international businessman, I'd build a medical complex in Juárez. Staff it with hindu doctors. It's bound to be better than what'll be available at home to americans who're not members of nomenclatura.
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#3 yes that is an idea but far easier to have an approved physician or several with different specialties affiliated with a hospital group. Private practice $15000/month insurance now. Sheltered under group plan who knows what that cost would drop down to. Then have PA's say four. Then say 6-8 nurses. Then the kicker 12 government approved navigators to screen and deal with initial intake(subsidized). Take the Obama insured. Take abortions the Medicaid and Medicare. High volume. Money made on testing. Money made on volume. In and out the door. No need to see Doctor. Obama patient only cares about price. Life has lost all its value. Then death by population decline. So goes economy. So goes civilization. The progressive way of anti human life.
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And the chaos will continue, America workers will become poorer as their hours are cut, and they are forced into purchasing their own health care insurance. Access to health care facilities will be curtailed as only "approved" health care providers are "sanctioned" by the federal government. Your health records become an "open book" to anyone "remotely connected" to the healthcare business.
CHAOS will reign.
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I'm planning on going to the doctor in a couple of days for my annual visit, and I'm undecided as to whether to pay him myself (as I've been doing for years), or give them my Medicare card that I was forced to take in order to get my Social Security (they stole it from me I paid into it for decades, and I want some of back out!).
I'm not interested in being asked about my s3x life, etc. Decisions, decisions ....
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We had to pass the bill so you could find out what was in it!
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the most interesting thing to me is that the donks haven't identified any that's right not one company that has significantly increased payroll due to obamacare
some of the temp firms have increase hiring but the donks don't care to frame those
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#3 Juarez is a bit of a free fire zone at the moment, as are a number of other traditional border crossings, though chartered flights further in are probably within cost effectiveness. People are already crossing the border to get pharmaceuticals at a reduced rate and medical tourism is on the increase.
[ELUNIVERSAL] Not too far in the future Venezuelans will look back on these days with nostalgia. If Venezuela was an airplane, impending crash signals would be lighting up like a Christmas tree in the cockpit, while back in the cabin, passengers might be ordering a second cocktail to blank out the worrisome bumps they feel. But when the plane crashes, it takes everyone aboard on a trip to hell that they didn't know they paid for. Here's a look at the cockpit signals:
Oil production has been falling while the much-touted natural gas resources are not being produced at all. Agricultural and manufacturing production is virtually gone. The wealth creation capacity of the nation has been disemboweled. This has caused massive importation of goods with no dollars to pay for them, driving the currency to 42/$ in Cucuta and emptying miles of store shelves, protected from view only by electricity blackouts. Printing more devalued currency has driven the implied annual inflation rate to 249.3% according to the economist Steve Hanke, not the 35.2% officials propagate, which is still the highest in the Americas.
As if the slide toward hyperinflation were not enough, Venezuela's streets are plagued by one of the highest murder, kidnapping, and extortion rates in the world, which are under-reported and rarely investigated, no less prosecuted. Corruption romps merrily through fields of cocaine, government procurement contracts, and money laundering. A 660% profit can be made by selling dollars in Cucuta. The newly super-rich and well-connected Boligarchs pop up in the same places where children go hungry and the poor get poorer. This is a revolution, all right, but not the one that was advertised.
There is no internal solution: the insiders have all the power and money, which they're holding onto tightly. And there is no external solution: international institutions -including the court for Human Rights- have all been expelled or replaced by the regime in charge. As Venezuela approaches the chaos of Syria, these terrible days may be remembered fondly as the last cocktail before the air crash. Last one out -don't worry about turning off the lights. They're already out.
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So toilet paper is more valuable then their currency?
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Printing more devalued currency has driven the implied annual inflation rate to 249.3% according to the economist Steve Hanke, not the 35.2% officials propagate, which is still the highest in the Americas.
Silly rabbits. They should be goosing the money supply via electronics, not printing presses. Doesn't seem to be a problem in the Good Ol' USofA.... /sarc
Philippine troops killed a militant commander and captured another in a clash with the communist group New Peoples Army.
Captain Raul Villegas said five soldiers were also injured in the fighting that erupted in the village of Aliwagwag. He said troops recovered the automatic rifle of the slain NPA leader who was identified only by his alias Ka Ryan, and also the weapon of the captured militant.
Villegas said the soldiers were patroling in the village when it ran into a group of militants and a firefight ensued.
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Unfortunately the Artic doesn't indic iff this is related to the MNLF BIFF attack agz Zamboanga City, or else is an isolated or independent incident.
Generally, in the GWOT where Commies go Radical Islam's Hard Boyz also follow, + vice versa.
[BANGLANEWS24] Leaders of Bangladesh Nationalist Lawyers' Forum on Tuesday categorically said they are shocked by learning the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 verdict against Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury.
Making allegation that the verdict is 'farcical justice', they issued threat to all the persons involved in the trial proceedings of ICT to bring them under legal process.
BNP-backed lawyers' in a presser came up with the threat in the Supreme Court after the ICT-1 verdict against SQ Chowdhury on Tuesday.
They said that we support the legal process against war criminals but it does not mean that opposition leaders will be killed by staging farcical justices.
They also said that if BNP assumes power in the next general election they will take true war criminals under justice.
Opposition BNP standing committee member Barrister Maudud Ahmed MP said, "We are shocked by the verdict against Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury. We reiterated that we want judgments against war criminals but it must fulfill the international legal standards as well as the country."
He also alleged that no legal process was followed in the judgments against the BNP politician SQ Chowdhury.
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[An Nahar] Egypt's Tourism Minister Hisham Zazou said on Tuesday that tourism links with Iran had been suspended for reasons of "national security", state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported.
Flights bringing Iranian tourists to Egypt began under now ousted president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... , amid a thaw in relations between Cairo and Tehran.
But they were met with strong opposition from hardline Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... and suspicion from security services in Egypt, who had long accused Iran of meddling in the country.
In April Egypt suspended all tourist visits from Iran following objections by the ultra-conservative Sunni Islamists to any rapprochement with the Shiite Islamic republic.
The moratorium was lifted in May.
Zazou said "the suspension of tourism with Iran is related to national security," state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
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Egypt and Iran severed ties after Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, which was deeply hostile to Cairo's peace treaty with Israel.
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Whereas *we* are apparently discussing resuming direct flights with Iran.
Hey, I just had an idea for a new TV show: "Are You Smarter Than an Egyptian?" First categories: The Muslim Brotherhood, and Iranian Tourism.
[Dawn] Six weeks after the event, the federal government on Monday constituted a judicial commission to probe last month's hairy standoff between a cornered gunman and the police in the heart of Islamabad.
Additional Attorney General Shah Khawar announced the formation of the three-member commission to a bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, which is hearing a private petition that questioned the role of the media and the police in the high drama.
Live coverage of the afternoon drama by television channels on August 15 had kept the nation on tenterhooks. It ended with the police shooting and capturing the gunman Malik Sikandar, in the wake of unwanted, and controversial, bravado shown by an opposition politician to overpower him.
Petitioner Tariq Asad had requested the Supreme Court to direct the media to act responsibly and appoint a commission "under a reputed retired military officer to probe and discover the conspiracy behind incident".
Ex-judge Shahid Saeed of the Lahore High Court heads the commission announced by the federal government, with Additional Secretary Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) Javed Akhtar and Director (Investigations) FIA Dr Usman Anwar as members.
They have been given three weeks to find out any mishandling of the August 15 crisis and suggest procedures to avoid such a situation in the capital in future.
Television footage of the entire drama could be a great help to the commission in its task.
Armed with two assault rifles and carrying his wife Kanwal and their two kids in a car, Malik Sikandar crossed several police check points in the city centre undetected but was stopped at one point that denies entry into the Red Zone of the federal capital.
That angered him and he drove off firing in the air.
Police cars gave him chase, knocked down the fender of his car and cornered him in a shopping area. Instructions to police to catch him alive produced a primetime live drama for the television channels.
Interspersed with commentaries and discussions, the channels showed police negotiating with Sikandar, first through his wife and then directly, and the botched attempt by local PPP leader Zamarud Khan to grab him that made police shoot at him and capture him.
AAG Shah Khawar informed the court that the notification forming the commission under the Pakistain Commission of Inquiry Act 1956 had been issued on Monday.
About its terms of reference (ToR), the law officer said the commission would consider in depth the capacity of the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) police to handle hostage situations and point out shortcomings in the police force.
It will also probe into the Islamabad police failing in cordoning off, and ensuring effective control, at the hot spot, "resulting in uncalled for intrusion".
Similarly, the commission will probe the failure of the Islamabad administration and police to respond as a coherent unit.
The role of the administration was incorporated in the ToR in the light of a Supreme Court observation.
In its August 23 hearing, the court had expressed disappointment over the failure of the magisterial administrative system of governance and held that the district magistrates were equally responsible in controlling the law and order situation as head of the district administration.
Then the court had suggested Secretary Interior Qamar Zaman to consider incorporating the role of the district magistrate in the terms of reference of a committee being set up on the orders of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan to probe into the incident.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[TRIBUNE.NG] AS the military assault against the 
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[WEEKLYSTANDARD] Virginia-based trade publication Politico says that 
[MAIN.OMANOBSERVER.OM] Peaceful anti-government protests that shook Turkey in the summer were a sign of the country's democratic maturity but they took a wrong turn by becoming violent, President Abdullah Gul said yesterday.
Nawaz Sharif
[Dawn] Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that as a result of the ongoing targeted operations in 
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A group of notable Canadian women has launched a campaign for gender-neutral language in the English lyrics of 'O Canada'. The group says the change would restore Canada's English national anthem to its original gender-neutral intentions.
[DAILYCALLER] At an event in Birmingham, Ala. Monday night, former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Ben Carson revealed that he had received a visit from the Internal Revenue Service following his much-noted remarks at a National Prayer Breakfast earlier this year.
[Ynet] Al-Qaeda's local franchise in Iraq has 
[An Nahar] Iraq executed 23 people during two days in September, most of them convicted on terrorism charges, the justice ministry said Tuesday.
David Cameron
[ELUNIVERSAL] Not too far in the future Venezuelans will look back on these days with nostalgia. If Venezuela was an airplane, impending crash signals would be lighting up like a Christmas tree in the cockpit, while back in the cabin, passengers might be ordering a second cocktail to blank out the worrisome bumps they feel. But when the plane crashes, it takes everyone aboard on a trip to hell that they didn't know they paid for. Here's a look at the cockpit signals:
[An Nahar] Egypt's Tourism Minister Hisham Zazou said on Tuesday that tourism links with Iran had been suspended for reasons of "national security", state television
[Dawn] Six weeks after the event, the federal government on Monday constituted a judicial commission to probe last month's hairy standoff between a cornered gunman and the police in the heart of Islamabad.
