A roving horde of the living dead -- followers of an evil cult headed by Russian mystic Rasputin -- attack a press conference and target Russian President Vladimir Putin for termination. With the help of an American sidekick, alcoholic and aggressive American tough-guy Mike, the Russian politician battles the infinite host of zombies with wit, style -- and a pen.
Putin plays the superhero in a new mobile phone game, "You Don't Mess With Putin," due to be released around Halloween this year. The role is perfect for the steely Russian president
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I went to My Obama App! and picked out the one which gives me the distance to pin, but is wrong by a factor of around 3. Also got the one which canges my ring to "I'm a Racist!"
(Helen) Thomas arrived in Washington in 1942, at age 22, shortly after graduating from Detroits Wayne State University. Already University of Dearbornistan?
United Press (later UPI) hired her in 1943.
While working for UP, she went on a date with John F. Kennedy, then a young Democratic congressman from Massachusetts, whom she subsequently covered in the White House.
How did it go? her friend asked her.
He was too fresh, Helen reportedly replied. So she was already 'old' in 1942. Just imagine how history might have changed with Helen Thomas presiding over Camelot instead of Jacqueline Bouvier.
Q: how can you tell Michael Kennedy really was a Kennedy?
A: check the family tree.
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Jeebus, Ricky. I bet she was a popular guest at Halloween parties
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What makes you think he looked at her face, USN
Barb, What makes you think that ugly stops at the neck.......?
Probably has more folds (below the neck) than a origami class.....
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If you date a Kennedy you might want to wear a bathing suit and a life jacket. If you date Helen Thomas you may want to do exactly what JFK did, keep it a secret for 60 years.
The U.S. will end 2013 as the worlds largest producer of petroleum and natural gas, surpassing Russia and Saudi Arabia, the Energy Information Administration said Friday.
The EIA estimated combined U.S. petroleum and gas production this year will hit 50 quadrillion British thermal units, or 25 million barrels of oil equivalent a day, outproducing Russia by 5 quadrillion Btu.
Petroleum production includes crude oil, natural gas liquids, condensates, and biofuels.
U.S. and Russian energy production over the past two years have been roughly equivalent. Since 2008, U.S. petroleum production has increased 7 quadrillion Btu, with dramatic growth in Texas and North Dakota, the EIA said.
U.S. natural gas production has risen 3 quadrillion Btu over the same period, the agency said, while Russia and Saudi Arabia each increased their combined petroleum and natural gas production by about 1 quadrillion Btu since 2008, the EIA said.
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...And we're being run by the one set of goons who absolutely can NOT appreciate what this means.
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I think they appreciate the fact that a conversation between a Harvard ethnic studies graduate and a kid with a petroleum engineering degree from LSU now includes the question "And do you want fries with that?"
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LOL and why aren't you preparing for Hell-Storm Karen Matt?
Champ almost got away with taking credit for it during the pre-election debate.
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Just think how much farther ahead we could be if Obama and the EPA hadn't done everything they could to stifle production!
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Rambler: Beat me to it. We have natural gas up the....well you know. Instead of this electric car crap, we could be running fleet vehicles and commuters on natural gas. Even can cogenerate for residential and commercial buildings.
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The "proper" sort of people aren't running those companies, AP.
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Imagine how much more we could do if there were not an obstructionist regime in power? Keystone, shale, more areas open for exploration and production...
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I told this to my guys here in our work unit out on the rig and they were pretty meh about it. In fact, there's still alot of hostility toward oil field workers out there. My wife gets no sympathy for the fact I am gone half or more of the month, people assume we make craptons of money, which I don't. And worse yet, they watch those horrid programs like Black Gold which pretty much has nothing to do with the real oilfield.
I should be happy about this I guess but it's hard to generate alot of whee while the rig is out here bobbing like a cork and I don't get to go home to my wife for another two weeks.
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Talked to an oily one day. To me he was a customer like anyone else. He told me a story about a town which had a rig go in, he worked on that rig. Said the store there increased all their prices and gave out community member discout cards. I was shocked, these guys bust their ass all day long in a dangerous occupation, I respect that.
But it does. not. help. when the drivers run across the highways without stopping, or a pipe truck slamming on its brakes and scalping a prominant family which failed to brake in time, then me and my neighboring associates have to go scrape their neighbor and friend and kids out from underneath a trailor because a driver was trying to make up 2 minutes.
I can seperate that out, know that shit happens, and the drivers should be extra careful when they see those trucks working. A lot of people can't, especially when its family involved.
Driver's safety would be a great place to start. Second would be somehow to show that shunning and poaching field workers, though there may be an immediate financial gain, will keep them and their wallets in the bunks. They have an oder? So what every hard working profession has an oder. Know what a feedlot smells like? Money. Know what petroleum smells like? Money, get some of that smell on ya.
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pipe truck slamming on its brakes and scalping a prominent family which failed to brake in time
A tragedy, but how does responsibility fall to the truck driver? Takes a long time to stop those rigs even if they 'slam' on their brakes (without jackknifing.) No ordinary vehicle should be unable to stop in time to not hit them. I must be missing something in your narration.
[Ynet] Success of Jews and Israel poses life-threatening challenge to worldview of leftist intellectuals
Most Jews are baffled by the reaction of leftist commentators to events in the Middle East. There is relatively little outcry when Syrians butcher Syrians, no outcry when Iraqis murder Iraqis, whereas any Paleostinian finger grazed by an Israeli bullet invites immediate outbursts of wholehearted indignation. The cognitive dissonance of leftist elites has reached such proportions, that many Jews have decided that perhaps anti-Semitism plays a role in generalized hostility towards Israel.
Claiming that criticism of Israel is a manifestation of anti-Semitic feelings is a risky business. After all, many Israel-bashers are deeply enamored of Jewish thinkers like Marx, Trotsky and Walter Benjamin and count as allies Jewish figures like Noam Chomsky ...intellectual and political theorist of a socialist persuasion. He is noted for being so far out in left field he can't see the shortstop on every issue he pushes... and Ilan Pappe. Thus, can we still classify their attitude as anti-Semitic? Or does one do a disservice to the Jewish people by labeling leftist foes of Israel the same way one would genocidal Nazis?
In order to address this issue one must recall that Nazi anti-Semitism was far more than an aesthetic aversion towards stereotypical Jewish facial features. Nazism loathed the values which the Torah and the Jewish tradition embodied, namely -- justice, compassion and love for the destitute and the stranger. It is no coincidence that those driven by the belief that the weak should serve the strong, saw in the Jewish ethos an intellectual and ethical threat of the highest order. Thus, one could say that the racial anti-Semitism of the Nazis was merely a pretext for a far more deeply-embedded spiritual and ethical anti-Semitism.
In our day and age the threat posed by rightwing anti-Semitism has been supplanted by the spiritual anti-Semitism of the left. In fact, the social success of Jewish minorities in the Western world, together with the astonishing economic and scientific achievements of the State of Israel is unbearable for leftists. The reason for this is simple: This reality shatters the cultural romanticism and social worldview of the left. If second- and third-generation North Africans of Jewish descent successfully integrate in European society while their Moslem peers populate urban ghettoes, it becomes hard to claim that racism, welfare-spending cuts and capitalist alienation are to blame for some of the most pressing social problems of the Western world.
Showcase selective strengths
Likewise if Israel as a democratic free-market economy vaunts impressive human development figures while its neighbors are mired in poverty and strife, it becomes hard to persuade people that Western political and economic institutions are to blame for the region's problems. It is thus evident that Jews and Israel pose a life-threatening challenge to the worldview of leftist intellectuals. This threat can only be countered by highlighting with disproportionate diligence every abuse and injustice committed by Jewish Israelis, since doing so is critical to the intellectual credibility of the left.
In order to reduce leftist antipathy to Israel it does not help to flaunt the Jewish state's economic and technological achievements. Doing so only exacerbates leftists' conviction that Israel is the spoilt child of the West. Instead, Israel should showcase selective strengths such as the few kibbutzim where communal property has flourished and highlight happy Arab-Jewish gay couples living in Tel Aviv.
In addition, in order to reassure intellectuals that Israel is another excellent example of how free-markets threaten the well-being of society, Israel should publicize domestic problems like pollution, poverty, alcoholism and drug-use. This approach is more likely to win over leftist hearts than boasting about achievements in the fields of high-tech and business.
Unless Jews realize that leftist anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiment is a phenomenon with far deeper roots than the presence of checkpoints near Ramallah or Hebron, they will misdiagnose the disease and the therapy needed to treat it.
Economic prowess and having more human rights than her heighbors isn't enough?
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Israel should showcase selective strengths such as the few kibbutzim where communal property has flourished and highlight happy Arab-Jewish gay couples living in Tel Aviv.
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Instead, Israel should showcase selective strengths such as the few kibbutzim where communal property has flourished and highlight happy Arab-Jewish gay couples living in Tel Aviv.
You sure that they just didn't forget the "sarc" tags?
[Dawn] Rangers and police personnel claim to have tossed in the clink Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! at least eight alleged hit mans during operations in several areas of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... on Saturday, DawnNews reported.
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[Dawn] An eyewitness identified Muttahida man Kazim Abbas Rizvi as the killer of Advocate Naimat Ali Randhawa during an identification parade held at 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... 's City Court on Saturday.
The senior lawyer Randhawa, who was also a leader of the Pakistain Moslem League -- Nawaz's (PML-N) legal wing in Sindh, was rubbed out in an attack in the city's Nazimabad area on September 26 that also left his lawyer son injured.
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[An Nahar] Pope Francis on Friday advised married couples not to go to bed angry "even if the plates fly" in a light-hearted address during a pilgrimage to the sites associated with St Francis of Assisi.
"Argue as much as you like, even if the plates fly that is fine, but never end the day without making peace," the pope said in Assisi Cathedral. Cheeze. He's been talking to my Mom.
"If married couples learn to say sorry, that is peace... It is a nice secret and that is life, rather than painful separations," he said.
Married couples who separate "have not managed to forgive each other in time," the pope said.
The pope also told priests not to give "endless and boring homilies that no one understands".
He told them to get to know their own parishes and said he had met clerics in Argentina "who even knew the names of the dogs in each family".
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A relationship advice from life long celibate---groovy!
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He told them to get to know their own parishes and said he had met clerics in Argentina "who even knew the names of the dogs in each family".
Not a bad idea... and one area takes it a bit further
A priest blesses a dog wearing a tutu outside Madrid's San Anton Church, where hundreds of pet owners bring their animals to be blessed every year on the day of San Anton, Spain's patron saint of animals.
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Pope Tells Bickering Couples not to Go to Bed Angry
And if you have to go to bed angry, try to go to bed without clothes on.
[WEEKLYSTANDARD] Via William Jacobson, NBC's affiliate in Washington, D.C. reports that police ordered tourists and Vietnam war veterans who were visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall to leave the memorial at one point on Friday.
After one group of veterans went around the barricade, "the park ranger told them the wall was closed," NBC's Mark Seagraves reported. "Later another group of vets showed up and moved the barricades. At that point, the memorial filled with vets and tourists. That's when police came and moved everyone out."
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall is a black granite outdoor wall on which the names of the 58,272 service members who died or were unaccounted for during the Vietnam war are inscribed.
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So, suppose USA was conquered by a foreign power. How'd things be different?
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Typical Obama, put hatred and government power against perceived enemies: veterans and the military, reward with government money your cronies -NPR funded nation guard, not.
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Soros, Obama, Reid, and the leftist press (editors and publishers), crony capitalists, come to mind as instrumental in providing the money and political cover, as well as the commission of evil acts.
[Al Ahram] Bahrain's prosecutor-general on Saturday said he had referred prominent Shiite opposition ex-MP Khalil Marzooq to court on charges of "inciting terrorist crimes."
Marzooq, a senior figure in the main Al-Wefaq opposition formation, who was tossed in the clink Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! on September 17, also faces charges of "promoting acts that amount to terrorist crimes," Abdulrahman Al-Sayyed said in a statement.
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This week it was reported that former head of the JCS Hugh Sheltor claimed that the US was behind the destabilization of both Egypt and Bahrain. In the latter case, Saudi Arabia had to save the situation when it sent its troops to Bahrain. Why this report has no legs, especially in the Middle East, is baffling.
[Dawn] With the Rangers-led '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... operation' entering the second month on Saturday, the law-enforcement agencies prepared themselves for more vigorous action following the arrest of over 800 suspects -- most of them said to be associated with political parties -- by the paramilitary force during the much publicised campaign against militancy, assassinations, extortion and kidnapping for ransom.
Amid criticism from certain quarters, bigwigs from the Pakistain Rangers, Sindh, and the Karachi police said they were determined to move fast after one month to achieve certain targets that they hoped would ensure a long-awaited sustainable peace in the metropolis.
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[Dawn] India's army, which says it has been locked in a nearly two-week battle with dozens of suspected Pakistain-backed rebels, said Saturday it killed seven faceless myrmidons in 24 hours in disputed Kashmire.
The military says it has been fighting 30 to 40 rebel infiltrators who crossed the heavily militarised Line of Control (LoC) dividing Kashmire between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistain last month.
"Four faceless myrmidons were killed in the Fateh Gali area" of Indian Kashmire on Saturday, Colonel Rajesh Kalia told AFP, adding three other rebel suspects were killed in another gunbattle in nearby Gujardur area the previous day.
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Beverly B. "Omg this is hysterical. I need to grab a beer and just keep watching the negative comments roll in. It's like a car wreck, you just can't help but stop and stare. Strong work, Obama."
I agree Beverly.... CHAOS sheer CHAOS....
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I clicked on the headline to go see and my computer froze... karma?
[An Nahar] An attack targeting Shiite pilgrims in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... killed 23 people and maimed at least 65 on Saturday, officials said.
Accounts differed as to whether the attack in the Adhamiyah area of north Storied Baghdad was a bomb followed by a suicide kaboom, or a suicide kaboom alone.
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[Ynet] In AP interview, US president expresses optimism about blossoming diplomacy between his administration and Iran's president, but stresses US won't accept 'bad deal' on Tehran's nuke program
So it is written, so it shall be. The One at whose ascension the climate stopped warming and the seas ceased to rise has spoken. (Do stop worrying about nuclear genocide, little Bibi!)
President Barack Obama Republicans can come along for the ride, but they've got to sit in the back... disclosed that US intelligence agencies believe Iran continues to be a year or more away from building a nuclear weapon, an assessment that is at odds with Israel, which contends Tehran is on a faster course toward a bomb.
Obama, in an interview with The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, expressed optimism about the blossoming diplomacy between his administration and Iran's new president, but said the US would not accept a "bad deal" on the Islamic republic's nuclear program.
The president spoke to the AP on Friday.
Obama has launched a diplomatic outreach to Iran, aimed at resolving the dispute over Tehran's nuclear program. Last week, he spoke by phone with President Hassan Rohani, marking the first direct exchange between US and Iranian leaders in more than 30 years.
"Rohani has staked his position on the idea that he can improve relations with the rest of the world," Obama said. "And so far he's been saying a lot of the right things. And the question now is, can he follow through?"
But Obama said Rohani is not Iran's only "decision-maker. He's not even the ultimate decision-maker," a reference to the control wielded by Iran's supreme leader, Ayotollah Ali Khamenei.
Khamenei said Saturday that some aspects of Rohani's trip to New York last month were "not appropriate," but reiterated his crucial support for the president's policy of outreach to the West.
The comments by Khamenei, summarized on his website, came after hard-liners criticized the 15-minute phone conversation between Rohani and Obama.
Hard-liners, including commanders in the powerful Revolutionary Guard, have said the president went too far with the phone call in reaching out to the US.
But Rohani's outreach has received broad support from Iranian politicians and it appears popular at a time when Iran is facing crippling economic sanctions due to the nuclear impasse.
Khamenei also said the US was "untrustworthy." He has previously said he's not opposed to direct talks with the US to resolve Iran's nuclear standoff with the West but is not optimistic.
"We are skeptical of Americans and have no trust in them at all. The American government is untrustworthy, arrogant, illogical and a promise-breaker. It's a government captured by the international Zionism network," said Khamenei, who has final say on all matters of state.
Given Khamenei's broad influence, some countries, most notably Israel, have questioned whether Rohani actually represents real change in Iran or just new packaging of old policies.
Obama also put distance between US and Israeli assessments of when Iran might have the capacity to build a nuclear weapon. Israeli officials have said Iran is just months away from being able to build a bomb, while Obama said Tehran was a year or more away.
But Obama said, "Our assessment continues to be a year or more away. And in fact, actually, our estimate is probably more conservative than the estimates of Israeli intelligence services."
The president used the same timetable in March, before traveling to Israel. The US and Israel contend that Iran's nuclear program is aimed at building a bomb, while Tehran says it is enriching uranium for peaceful purposes.
On the 12-year war in Afghanistan, Obama said he would consider keeping some American forces on the ground after the conflict formally ends next year, but acknowledged that doing so would require an agreement from the Afghan government. He suggested that if no agreement can be reached, he would be comfortable with a full pullout of US troops.
"If in fact we can get an agreement that makes sure that US troops are protected, makes sure that we can operate in a way that is good for our national security, then I'll certainly consider that," he said. "If we can't, we will continue to make sure that all the gains we've made in going after al-Qaeda we accomplish, even if we don't have any US military on Afghan soil."
All US forces left Iraq at the end of 2011 after no deal could be reached to keep some there longer.
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Seems reasonable, a win win situation. It gives the Juices 3 years to GTFO which is very humanitarian. Hell, I see a peace prize for the both of them.
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How would he know? Even assuming it's correct, is it sufficient? Either he's ok with them having it (this year or next) or he's not - if not, is there anything he can or will do to prevent it? Both we and Iran know the 'will' isn't there, so the Shiite nuclear bomb will be.
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"Either he's ok with them having it (this year or next) or he's not"
FTFY, Glenmore
And no matter what the Iranians say, Bambi, after they annihalate the Juices, they're coming after YOU.
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but said the US would not accept a "bad deal" on the Islamic republic's nuclear program.
Now why would anyone believe that statement? Seriously, name one good deal the Obama Administration has cut on the foreign stage. Anything anything at all?
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Less than a year later, Tel Aviv goes up in a mushroom cloud.
O will say, "well, I am mistaken. I got bad data. Sorry about that.....not my fault."
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E.G WAFF > AL-QAEDA INS SYRIA [aka "ISIL"] FIGHT TO DRIVE RIVALS OUT OF TURKEY, IRAQ BORDER ZONES.
Iff the Syria Crisis devols into one between baby Assad + Al-Qaeda, i.e. Foreign Jihadi/MilTerr Groups, then ironically the US may need BOTH BABY ASSAD, + SHIA IRAN = IRGC + HEZBOLLAH + QUDS FORCE, ETC. to counter the PRO-SUNNI QAEDA, FOREIGN GROUPS.
In lieu of the Debt, Sequester, + Shutdown? affected USA having to send in US ground troops, WHICH IN TURN MEANS THAT RUSSIA + IRAN [China?] WON'T SEND ANY OF THEIRS INTO SYRIA - THE PRICE, OBVIOUSLY, FOR THE US-ISRAEL-ALLIES IS THAT IRAN GETS TO KEEP MOST OR ALL OF ITS NUCPROG.
Iran is now our BFF - our "Pakistan/AFPAK II" in Syria + eastern Mediterranean.
That's sound you're hearing are anti-US OWG Globalists + aligned singing + skipping happily thru the tulips.
TO DETER OR PRECLUDE A MAINLY SUNNI-LED GLOBAL JIHAD, THE US-ALLIES MAY NOW WANT SHIA IRAN TO DEV INTO THE WORLD'S FIRST ISLAMIC SUPERPOWER, as consistent wid the Globalies' "Multi-Polar/
Polycentric" World precept + agendum.
[Al Ahram] President Barack Obama on Saturday called on the lower chamber of Congress to "stop this farce" and end the US government shutdown by unconditionally approving a federal budget. "Take that vote. Stop this farce. End this shutdown now," Obama said in his weekly radio and video address.
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The House of Representatives can end the farce by voting for Articles of Impeachment. Now. They have the votes. I don't give a $#!** what the Senate might do with that, they are all bought and paid for anyway. Sometimes, isn't it the "thought" that counts?
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Impeachment would definitely upset things for the rest of Champs term. Would keep him busy and off balance and give the rest of us breathing space. Anyway, he doesn't really seem to get (or doesn't believe in) the notion of the "separation of powers."
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Feds have claimed jurisdiction, and that there is no legal mechanism for states and towns to keep them open. Also that it would be 'unfair' for some to be open and not all.
[Al Ahram] Dubai unveiled plans on Saturday to become a centre for business that follows Islamic principles in areas from banking and insurance to food processing, tourism and education.
With a freewheeling commercial culture and a diverse population with cosmopolitan lifestyles, the booming emirate of 2.1 million people is not known for its Islamic scholarship.
But in the past few decades, Dubai has used its international ties to become the Gulf's main centre for finance, trade and travel. Officials said they would now focus on business related to the religious beliefs of the world's 1.6 billion Mohammedans.
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[BUSINESSINSIDER] A small band of up to six attackers carried out the Nairobi terrorist siege, police have confirmed -- contradicting their earlier claims that 15 attackers were involved.
Kenyan police named four of the bully boyz on Saturday. None of them were Western, contrary to their initial reports, and they were all men.
Amid the confusion of the four-day siege, Amina Mohammed, Kenya 's foreign minister, said that a British woman "who has done this many times before" was among the attackers, as were "two or three" Americans.
[BREITBART] Just before the weekend, the National Park Service informed charter boat captains in Florida that the Florida Bay was "closed" due to the shutdown. Until government funding is restored, the fishing boats are prohibited from taking anglers into 1,100 square-miles of open ocean. Fishing is also prohibited at Biscayne National Park during the shutdown.
Time for a regatta!
The Park Service will also have rangers on duty to police the ban. Of access to an ocean. The government will probably use more personnel and spend more resources to attempt to close the ocean, than it would in its normal course of business.
Make them do so...
This is governing by temper-tantrum. It is on par with the government's ham-fisted attempts to close the DC WWII Memorial, an open-air public monument that is normally accessible 24 hours a day. By accessible I mean, you walk up to it. When you have finished reflecting, you then walk away from it.
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FREE TRADE AND SAIORS RIGHTS! didn't we fight a war over that? Oh, my DC guy says the WWII Memorial Barrycades are now wired together so the next Honor Flight Veterans better bring those Bangalores left over from Omaha Beach
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I,the great Barack of Hawaii, via Chicago, do hereby command that my NPS servants close the Atlantic Ocean in Florida! Let it be so ....
I also command that the NPS servants close all the open air public monuments, which are within and out of my sight (Grand Canyon) for I must enforce the laws of the land ! Let it be so ...
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You know, I've only one explanation for Obama's behavior: he just curious how far he can push you people.
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...until that Lexington Commons moment, cause we're dealing with fools. Once that happens, it's like the detection of a nuke launch. Do you wait to see if its an accident and accept limited but significant casualties or do you take it as a precursor to a full volley at which time you lose your ability to respond fully in kind if you don't launch everything as well. Escalation is rapid and out of real control while deescalation is very hard to pull off. Given the skill of these clowns the latter is probably not an option.
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No, he isn't curious. He feels HE is the one being pushed to the limit. He believes his righteousness is so self-evident that there is no need to respect law, custom, or courtesy. There is nothing he won't hold hostage to extort concessions, which is ok because there is no legitimate reason anyone could disagree with him, fail to sympathize with him, or support his opponents. The only upside is that he is making new enemies where he previously would have encountered no resistance.
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Like a lot of the shutdown activity, it would seem that it's gonna take more resources to enforce the closure than it would to keep it open. Are they gonna send cops to stop all fishing boats headed out onto the ocean?
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The absurdity, ridiculousness and naivette of this administration is astonishing. I hope they don't do anything rash. On the other hand...
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I believe this is calculated and directed. I believe he is targeting traditional conservative Americans in an effort to start a fight. The Veterans, the few that live on govt land, fishermen, and tourists all come from the flyover states he so hates. They will very easily be identified as tea partiers by the liberal press when one group ends up in an altercation with police. Kicking 80 year olds out of their homes, blocking scenic overlooks, and closing an ocean bay show just how far and how absurd they are willing to go to start a fight. Soon they will close all farms that take gov subsidies. The minute one of these groups fight back, he will have his reason to enact marshal law and start down the path he has so wanted for many years.
I am just surprised the park service is dumb enough to try and enforce his mandate. But then his DOJ attacks did not start a fight, his IRS attacks did not start a fight, his NSA attacks did not start a fight, now he is down to the preverbal "kicking puppies and kittens" to try and get a violent response.
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"O" goes after "this group and that group". After a while as the groups grow in number, "this group and that group" constitutes a large majority of the people and then the show is over.
Judging by the weedhead worldsavers of his vintage I've known, I doubt he knows more than the name and the beach scene, totally out of context. In any case, he'd cast Boehner in that role. O and his bunch would be the rising tide, the inevitable progress of blah blah blah. Striding purposefully onto the stage at his umpteen-thousandth speaking date twenty years from now, he'll still think he's Robin Hood. Rich to the poor. Band of merry diverseniks. Partisan lair in Sherwood Forest. It'll never occur to him that he was the King John of his century. Hey, ya gotta dream.
[Dawn] An all parties conference convened by Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... (JI) has asked federal government to announce names of the negotiating team to hold peace talks with the Taliban without further delay.
A joint declaration issued after the conference held here at Al Markaz-e-Islami on Friday also called upon central government to distance itself from the US-led war against terrorism in the region. The conference issued six points declaration.
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[Al Ahram] Kenya's military spokesman confirmed the names of the four attackers implicated in the four-day-long siege at the Westgate Mall, which killed more than 60 people last month.
So we've got a Sudanite and a Kenyan and two of unknown origin.
He told The Associated Press: "I confirm those are the names of the terrorists."
Little is known about their identity.
Matt Bryden, the former head of the United Nations Monitoring Group on Somalia, said via email that al-Kene and Umayr are known members of al-Hijra, a Kenyan extremist group affiliated with Al-Shabab. He added that Nabhan may be a relative of Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, who was the most-wanted al-Qaida operative in the region until he was killed in a 2009 strike led by Navy Seals.
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[Al Ahram] Tunisia's ruling Islamist-led government on Saturday launched talks with the opposition aimed at implementing a roadmap to end a two-month political crisis.
The roadmap, drafted by mediators including the powerful UGTT trade union, calls for a one-month national dialogue to form a government of independents to replace a coalition led by the Ennahda movement.
[Al Ahram] An Egyptian military court has handed Sinai-based news hound Ahmed Abu Deraa a suspended sentence of six months in prison.
Abu Deraa is expected to be released from jail soon.
He was placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! 5 September 2013 and accused of taking photographs in areas prohibited to civilians and of being present in a prohibited military area.
Abu Deraa is an award-winning journalist who reports from northern Sinai for leading private daily Al-Masry Al-Youm and private satellite channel OnTV, in addition to other media outlets.
Military trials have stirred public debate recently as amendments to the constitution, temporarily suspended, are being considered. Activists are calling for a law prohibiting civilians standing before military courts.
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[Al Ahram] Iraqi officials say attacks across the country have killed five people, including two journalists working in a northern city.
Police say a news hound and cameraman for the private Al-Sharqiya TV channel were shot on Saturday while working on a report in the city of djinn-infested Mosul, about 360 kilometers (220 miles) northwest of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... . It was not immediately clear why they were targeted.
Three other people were killed and five were maimed when a roadside kaboom hit a checkpoint manned by Sunni forces of Evil opposed to Al-Qaeda in the town of Youssifiyah, 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Storied Baghdad, police officials said.
Hospital officials confirmed the casualties. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to journalists.
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[Dawn] A policeman was injured in a roadside blast, while a senior doctor was kidnapped here on Monday.
A Peshtakhara cop shoppe official said a police van was damaged when a roadside kaboom went off near the Tajabad graveyard. "Suspected snuffies had planted an IED near the graveyard to target the police. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... the attackers failed to blow up the van, and only windowpanes of the vehicle were smashed," he said.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Bangladesh Rukhe Darao, a platform of progressive and pro-liberation forces, yesterday reiterated its demand that the Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... be banned immediately under the Anti Terrorism Act, 2009 for "its criminal activities".
International Crimes Tribunal had identified Jamaat as a criminal organization that committed genocide, rape and atrocities in association with the Pak occupation forces in 1971, it said.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Rivalry within top security agencies has intensified ahead of the naming of a commission of inquiry to investigate security lapses that may have resulted in the Westgate Shopping Mall terrorist attack three weeks ago.
Top government sources on Saturday told the Sunday Nation that the inquiry is expected to point out who failed Kenyans between the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF), National Intelligence Service and the Kenya Police Service, since the three agencies seem to trade blame for being negligent in their duties to protect Kenyans.
The anxiety within the security agencies also comes ahead of investigations into the matter by a joint parliamentary team, scheduled to start Monday.
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Oddly comforting to know the post-screwup game is played outside the USG.
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At one time, a KDF commander ordered some senior coppers, who were not in uniform, to leave the scene. But one of the police bosses intervened and they resisted the move.
Sounds like the Navy Yard.
[AAWSAT.NET] Syrian forces loyal to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... continued shelling the Barzeh district in Damascus on Friday, Asharq Al-Awsat has learned. Several Free Syrian Army battalions are stationed in that part of the Syrian capital.
Anti-Assad activists told Asharq Al-Awsat that the "regime renewed its shelling of the neighborhood in the eastern part of the capital using heavy artillery, tank shells and heavy machine guns," with intermittent festivities erupting on the outskirts of the Damascus neighborhood as a result of regular forces trying to enter from several sides.
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[Dawn] A TRICKLE of information has started to flow about the all-party sanctioned and military-backed talks with the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP).
Rana Sanaullah, the Punjab minister and one of the beacons of the governing PML-N, told the media that talks with the Death Eaters have started. But it would have been much better had he also specified which talks he was referring to.
This would have been significant because Rana Sanaullah is the man widely believed to have been the go-between in more than five years of delicate negotiations with the TTP and its affiliates that have contributed to keeping Punjab safe.
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[Dawn] IF the last PPP-led government at the centre richly deserved the ridicule heaped upon it for not lifting the curbs it imposed on YouTube, the current set-up in Sindh has elicited an equally strong response to its proposal to ban internet chat and telephony apps including Skype, WhatsApp, Tango and Viber. If the reasoning behind the continuing blockade on YouTube is incomprehensible -- that it is not possible to filter out all objectionable material -- the logic given for blocking off Voice Over Internet Protocol applications -- ie instant messaging tools are used by criminals who cannot be traced -- is just as difficult to fathom. After Thursday's decision was taken at a meeting 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... , provincial Information Minister Sharjeel Memon said the blockade would make security operations more effective.
There is no doubt that Karachi's law and order situation requires urgent intervention, but is this the best way to tackle the situation? While criminals may indeed be using VoIP apps, their number is dwarfed by that of ordinary, honest citizens who use them for all sorts of legitimate purposes -- from keeping in touch with family and friends to conducting online interviews and conferences in lieu of their physical presence at a location. The Sindh government has asked that a ban be imposed for three months. If the authorities feel this move is vital to the success of security operations, they must make a strong case before the public for whom such restricted access amounts to a curtailment of civil liberties. There is a ray of hope though; the ban cannot be imposed unilaterally by the provincial government, and the request to do so has to be sent to the federal authorities. Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said that while such a request would be debated he was personally against a proposal that smacked of the previous government's intermittent shutdowns of mobile network services for similar reasons. This is a more sensible approach. Pakistain needs to find ways of countering criminals other than by declaring war on modern communications systems.
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MOGADISHU -- Foreign troops from an unidentified country raided a house in Barawe, a coastal town in Lower Shabelle region of southern Somalia, and Al Shabaab militants reportedly repelled the foreign troops, Garowe Online reports.
Local witnesses reported on VOA Somali Service that unidentified foreign troops came from the coast with boats and helicopters" and raided a house in Barawe around 2am local time Saturday morning. At least one person was killed in the raid, locals reported.
Sheikh Abdulaziz Abu Musab, spokesman for Al Shabaabs military wing, confirmed the raid and disclosed in a recorded press statement that the militants repelled a midnight raid by white infidel soldiers.
Abu Musab said: "We fought back against the white infidel soldiers with bombs and bullets, and they ran back to their boats. One member of Al Shabaab was killed and the white infidel soldiers failed their mission. We found blood and equipment near the coast in the morning, he added in a recorded press statement posted on militant websites.
Somali government officials have issued no public comment on the raid. Due to Al Shabaab' secrecy, it was not clear who was the target of the raid on the Barawe house. Barawe coastal town is home to Al Shabaab senior leaderhip, although no one knows the whereabouts of the militant groups chief Ahmed Abdi Godane.
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The raid was "repelled" the same way a drone strike is "repelled."
[BLOOMBERG] Bill de Blasio, who won the Democratic mayoral nomination vowing to tax New York's richest residents to pay for universal pre-school, called himself a "fiscal conservative" in a speech to business leaders.
Speaking before 800 executives hosted by the Association for a Better New York today, de Blasio, 52, was interrupted by applause at least 10 times as he told the civic group he would use the mayoralty to fight economic inequality. In a speech to ABNY exactly one year ago, a smaller audience sat in silence.
"I want to pleasantly shock the room and say I'm a fiscal conservative," de Blasio said, responding to a questioner seeking lower hotel-occupancy taxes. "I'm a progressive-activist fiscal conservative, but I'm still a fiscal conservative. We can't talk about tax cuts in any sector until we sort out our financial situation."
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The richest ones will leave. Maybe government services should be cut. But nobody will vote for someone that will put the city on an even keel.
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The richest ones will make the adjustments recommended by their oh so clever tax lawyers to pay no more than they did before, because living in NYC is fun when one is rich. The middle class will pay more taxes, and the poor will not be the ones to benefit from the enriched government coffers. No matter what promises were made.
So Attila the Hun and Ghangiz Khan were also, looting to fill the coffers of their form of government.
Let's review three principles that are not part of the Socialist-Marxist manifesto -
Thou shall not covet. Thou shall not bear false witness. Thou shall not steal.
BTW - universal pre-school aka Head Start has been shown to have no significant effect upon populations once they've reached the third grade. Just another AGW type Leftest hype that chooses to ignore reality.
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the Assoc for a better NY has very few actual businesse invovled; most of the executives at the Blasio event were from probably from public do-good type groups or private businesses that advocate for do-good causes
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I'm a progressive-activist fiscal conservative
At first glance that may seem like a contradiction in terms. Its not unlike Howard Dean routinely claiming to be a deficit hawk. The key, of course, is they want the ability to choose who has to pay for their spending and who gets special treatment. If you need further information consult your Progressive handbook for the term Fairness.
[Al Ahram] Clashes erupted between security forces and supporters of deposed 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... near Cairo Opera House and Rabaa El-Adawyia district on Saturday, Al-Ahram's Arabic website reported.
The Opera House, close to downtown, and nearby Cairo Club shut their gates as police forces fired teargas.
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's top leader hinted Saturday that he disapproved of the phone call between Presidents Hassan Rouhani and Barack Obama during the Iranian leader's trip to New York last month, but he reiterated his crucial support for the president's policy of outreach to the West.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's comments came after hard-liners criticized the 15-minute phone conversation between Rouhani and Obama, a gesture aimed at ending three decades of estrangement between the two countries.
Hard-liners, including commanders in the powerful Revolutionary Guard, have said the president went too far in reaching out to the U.S.
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[Al Ahram] Guinea's opposition coalition demanded the annulment of last week's parliamentary election on Friday, citing what it said were widespread irregularities in the voting process and threatening to call for protests.
The opposition's decision raised fears of a return to the political violence in which at least 50 people were killed in the months preceding the polls. The climate of instability has deterred mining investment in the world's largest bauxite exporter.
"The opposition demands the annulment of this election because of the scale of fraud witnessed," said a statement read by opposition front man Aboubacar Sylla during a news conference.
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BALI, Indonesia The United States isnt backing away from Asia, Secretary of State John F. Kerry insisted Saturday, as President Obamas canceled Asian trip set his policy pivot toward the region onto the back foot.
Acknowledging that Obama is missing opportunities for direct diplomacy with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and others attending a series of international trade and cooperation meetings, Kerry was at pains to tell Asian leaders that they should not read too much into the absence.
That left Kerry, as Obamas stand-in, arguing that the United States is every bit as committed to Asia as the presidents first-term promises led many in the region to believe, and that the government shutdown that led Obama to stay home threatens Americas reputation abroad.
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[Al Ahram] Egypt's Coptic Pope Tawadros II paid his first visit on Saturday to the headquarters of Al-Azhar, to extend good wishes to Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayeb as Eid El-Adha approaches.
The pope headed a delegation from the church to Al-Azhar, Egypt's highest Sunni-Islamic institution, visiting El-Tayeb, Grand Mufti Shawqi Allam and Minister of Religious Endowments Mohammed Gomaa before the Feast of the Sacrifice starts next Monday.
The Pope said that communication and activities between the Church and Al-Azhar are reflective of "the original character of Egypt," adding that this image should be spread to the "Egyptian streets for peace."
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[Dawn] The stance of Pak Talibs regarding attacks on Christian churches was contrary to the teachings of Islam, leading Pak holy mans belonging to different schools of thought said on Saturday.
"Taliban's view point that attacks on churches is in line with the principles of Islam is totally wrong and against the teaching of Islam," said the holy mans in a joint-statement.
Taliban were depicting a negative picture of Islam just to defame the peaceful religion, they said.
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[Dawn] Pakistain has shared with India evidence of foreign interference 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... and has raised the issue at every relevant forum, foreign secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani said Saturday.
Speaking to news hounds after a briefing of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Jilani on Saturday said that there was evidence of Indian interference in Balochistan, and that it was being raised at all forums.
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[Al Ahram] Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab said Saturday British and Turkish special forces staged a nighttime sea and air attack on one of its bases, but Britannia denied any involvement.
Are the Turks capable of operating so far from home? And why would they?
Leaders of the Islamist snuffies in the southern Somali port of Barawe said commandos rappelled from a helicopter and tried to storm a house belonging to a senior Shabaab commander, but the assault failed.
The assault comes two weeks after Shabaab gunnies attacked Kenya's Westgate shopping mall, massacring 67 people in a four-day siege. Six Britons were among the dead.
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Britain is officially denying their involvement???
[Bangla Daily Star] Gunmen have attacked a military checkpoint south-east of the Libyan capital 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... killing 15 soldiers, the authorities say.
A military official said the attack was near Bani Walid, a stronghold in 2011 of supporters of former leader, Muammar Qadaffy
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[Al Ahram] The command council of the rebel Free Syrian Army called for unity on Saturday after several prominent rebel brigades rejected the opposition National Coalition umbrella group.
The Supreme Military Council said it had decided to "issue a call for closing ranks, renouncing division, and... rejecting all kinds of dissension caused by trying to separate the political wing from the military one."
The statement came after 13 rebel brigades, including prominent groups that work with the Military Council, rejected the authority of the National Coalition -- the opposition's most prominent political institution.
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[Shabelle] 11 pirates have been convicted in the Seychelles Supreme Court of committing acts of piracy and operating a pirate vessel between 7 -- 11 May 2012. Their sentences ranged from 18 months to 16 years.
The pirates had been apprehended by the Royal Netherlands Navy frigate, HNLMS Van Amstel, on 11 May 2012, after the warship's Lynx helicopter sighted a suspicious fishing dhow towing 2 skiffs, 400 nautical miles off the Somali coast.
When the warship's boarding team approached the dhow, the Dutch Navy crew found 11 suspected pirates of Somali origin and a total of 17 hostages on board.
After taking the suspected pirates to HNLMS Van Amstel, the Dutch boarding team found significant evidence that linked the 11 men to an armed attack on Motor Tanker 'Super Lady' a few days earlier.
The 17 freed hostages, who were Iranian fishermen, were very grateful to the Dutch sailors for rescuing them from the armed pirates.
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[An Nahar] Miley Cyrus is grabbing headlines for the wrong reasons again. A public row with pop veteran Sinead O'Connor is raising questions over whether she may be the latest onetime child star heading for a fall. Old tasteless meets new tasteless.
The former "Hannah Montana" actress turned pop princess burst into the wider public's mind with her sexually suggestive twerking performance at the MTV video music award show in August. Didja ever notice how these dipsy doodles all play likable, commonsensical young women and then drop sixty IQ points about the time they're coming up old enough to vote?
Then came the video for her latest single "Wrecking Ball," in which she swings naked on a demolition ball and licks a sledgehammer in an almost laughably suggestive manner.
The 20-year-old has defended herself by saying she is merely growing up. Looked more like she's going the other direction.
And the publicity will certainly do no harm to sales of her records. Probably it won't hurt her sales. Madonna's been doing such things for years.
But others warn she could be following in the footsteps of the likes of Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, and more recently Zac Efron, Who?
as she makes the transition to the grown-up world. I know lots of grownups. None of them "twerk."
"There is such a thing as bad publicity," Robert Thompson, a professor of pop culture of Syracuse University, told Agence France Presse.
"Especially these child stars in their transition years, some of the publicity turns them from people who actually had promising careers to... objects of mockery.
"Lindsay Lohan really suffered that," he said, while Miley is "well on that path... Whenever you hear Miley Cyrus mentioned in the last couple of weeks, it's always been in a form of mockery, and often disdain."
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"South Park" predicted this would happen a while back.
http://youtu.be/ci4EAmF1bZo
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Mu daughter was racking her brain to think of who or what Ms Cyrus reminded her of, in her MTV video award show "performance" - and she finally remembered. Bill the Cat, from the Bloom County comic strip.
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"Whistle While You Twurk"
Ying Yang Twins
Thug Walkin', 2000
I was trying to figure out what is repulsive about her, despite the beehive dance crap. The tongue thing is just a schtik. Its her teeth, whoever did her teeth did a horribly unnatural job.
And yes, a person can have a head injury without an accident; its called drugs. I ain't talking about having a beer after a hard day or poking a smote to untangle a fishing line of difficulties - talking x or something similar.
[Dawn] PARITY. Now there's a word we haven't heard for some time. And yet it was a regular feature in Foreign Office statements not that long ago.
Its disappearance from our diplomatic lexicon is a sign of the growing realisation of our relative decline when compared with our giant neighbour. Until the 1980s, we demanded parity with India in our international dealings, but as our rival's economy -- and hence its influence -- increased, we began a slide that grows steeper by the day.
India always had an edge over Pakistain where soft power was concerned. It was seen as a culturally rich and colourful destination for foreigners, while Pakistain was viewed as a barren and joyless place dominated by the military and the mullahs. Our foul treatment of women and minorities did little to improve our image.
Rather the contrary, in fact. What an odd thing to say.
[Al Ahram] Somalian Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... snuffies said on Saturday Western forces had raided a coastal town under cover of darkness, killing a rebel fighter; officials said the target had been a Chechen leader of the Islamist group.
Foreign forces landed on the beach at Barawe, about 180 km (110 miles) south of Mogadishu, and launched an assault at dawn that drew gunfire from rebel fighters in one of the militia's coastal bases, Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, front man for Al-Shabaab's military operations, told Rooters.
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Back in 2006, I wrote about the artlessness of Hillary Clinton, who could have turned a story around to her advantage, and seemed masterful and above the fray at the same time. Hillary was artless.
Today were watching another display of political artlessness going down at the World War II Memorial, where 90-year old veterans of that war are being wheeled to that monument (and apparently the Lincoln memorial) by personal attendees some of whom, no doubt, are trained in CPR and the Obama government, who handled yesterday stupidly, is heading into a face off with them, by erecting spite fences around a completely open-air memorial*.
In denying the group of aged veterans permission to enter the memorial, Obama, like Hillary in 2006, missed an opportunity to turn the whole story around, and brilliantly: Instead of denying the veterans who are very old, unlikely to be making a second trip and who have damn well earned the right to see their memorial Obama should have personally greeted them there, respectfully toured the memorial with them, listened to a few stories and then made some remarks about how everything the veterans have fought for is now under attack and being threatened by politicking, and extremism and we must always fight for all Americans, rhetoric, rhetoric blah, blah, and the president should have posed for pictures with the vets and promised that any vet could always come to their memorials, whether the government is shut down or not, because we owe them that much.
The press would have eaten it up, and Obama particularly if he had been able to discipline himself (questionable) to speaking respectfully of the opposition, and not calling them his enemies, or terrorists would have absolutely defused this story, and made himself look masterful in the process. Instead of creating a bad-optics story out of stubbornness and spite, hed have completely owned the story, to his advantage.
Yes, I know, such a statement would properly have to go to congress, so funding for the parks could be re-instated, but Obama has no problem issuing Executive Fiats to laws outside of what is strictly required hes done it many times with the Affordable Care Act so I am sure he would be given a pass for letting the veterans through.
So, yes, Obama is artless. I believe Bill Clinton, or Ronald Reagan, facing a similar situation, would have taken control of it in the most positive way possible, and theyve have won the day.
But they were better at this presidenting thing, than Obama. If they hated the people who didnt vote for them, they never let it show. It was never so obvious. But were in a different world, now.
*Correct me if Im wrong, but I think the World War II memorial is privately funded and staffed by volunteers. Ill confirm that and get back on it.
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Obama should have personally greeted them there,
The danger with that is at best being heckled by a bunch of old guys and worse, being mobbed by them. These are guys that actually did something. Hard to imagine them idolizing an empty-suit community organizer.
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Steve S is right: Champ would have been boo'd and scorned. The One can't handle that.
The Anchoress is right on the principle and wrong on the details.
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Hanging out at Iwo Jima, greeting the corpse men? I'm not military, but made it a point to learn about the Armed Services. If I see someone in uniform, I can tell which service, rank, usually the unit, and some ribbons.
These guys took on fanatics with the bayonet, or the long lance, or the neibleworfer. This guy showed his ass to the military long ago, and is doing it again when just weeks ago he was offering to send this generation's greatest into a land war in Syria. Pro or con, how can a person lead the new warriors while dismissing the auld breed? No, this guy is a pusher.
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Those old veterans are leaving the scene in large numbers daily & soon they won't matter to the Free Lunch Party, the largest & most influential in American politics at the moment & for the foreseeable future. When the Free Lunches are discontinued, we will be in a world of trouble.
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the gullible are now getting sticker shock on Obamacare. Nothing hits like a financial hit, bitches! Hope and Less Change!
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He is on course with his plans. This whole event is working perfectly. He would be artless if one were to suppose he had America's best interests at heart. He wants to bring America down to Chicagoland/banana republic politics. With that in mind he is performing admirably. Stalin, Hitler, and Pol Pot would be proud...
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Stalin, Hitler, and Pol Pot would be proud...
Maybe they will soon share something else in common with The Won....
[An Nahar] A nine-year-old Israeli girl from a settlement near the West Bank city of Ramallah was at death's door after being shot late on Saturday, police and emergency services said.
Police front man Micky Rosenfeld told Agence La Belle France Presse the girl, from Psagot east of the Paleostinian political capital of Ramallah, was "shot while playing in the garden outside her house".
"She was shot in the upper part of the body," he said.
Rosenfeld said the girl was taken to a hospital in Jerusalem, and that police were looking at different leads, "including that it was a terrorist attack".
He said residents of Psagot had been ordered to stay inside their homes until further notice.
A front man for Israel's Magen David Adom emergency services said the girl was taken to hospital conscious but at death's door.
Last month an Israeli soldier was rubbed out in the southern West Bank city of Hebron in what the army believes was a Paleostinian sniper attack, although no suspects were later apprehended.
Israeli girl lightly maimed while playing in yard in settlement located north of Ramallah says terrorist was standing at point blank range from her; army suspects infiltration from nearby Paleostinian town
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[Bangla Daily Star] Brought up under the shadows of Syed Abul A'la Maududi, preacher of Sharia-based state in the subcontinent against secular democracy, Syed Haider Farooq Maududi managed to rise above his father's fundamental ideology.
A strong critic of his father's Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... , the Islamic revivalist party from which Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami
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A man suspected of being a leader of Al Qaeda and having a role in planning the bombings of the United States Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 was seized from the streets of Tripoli on Saturday by a team of armed men, officials familiar with the situation said.
The suspect, born Nazih Abd al Hamid al-Ruqhay and known by his nom de guerre Abu Anas el-Liby, has been high on the list of the United States government's most-wanted fugitives since at least 2000, when a New York court indicted him for his part in planning the embassy attacks. The F.B.I. had offered a bounty of up to $5 million for information leading to his capture.
The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of attempts to locate Abu Anas, declined to make public further details on his capture.
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Since he will be tried in civilian courts, he will probably walk. Much of the evidence against him is probably based on intel sources that the government won't dare use in open court. Plus, they probably forgot to read him his Miranda rights before capturing him.
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[Dawn] Rampant violence has terrorised 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... , Pakistain's biggest city and economic heartbeat, in recent years, but a recent security crackdown seems to have brought a lull in the bloodshed.
Kidnappings for ransom, sectarian attacks and gang warfare have spiralled since 2008, terrifying the city's 18 million inhabitants and prompting tens of thousands of businessmen to flee to the safety of Punjab province.
The city claimed a grisly record last year as 2,124 people were murdered on its streets, according to the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC), the highest number since records began nearly 20 years ago.
"The merciless killings have turned this 'bride of cities' into a city of ghosts and darkness," said Tauseef Ahmed Khan, a political analyst, referring to Karachi's Persian nickname.
But an operation by police and paramilitary government Rangers in the city's tangled maze of teeming streets, launched early September on the orders of the central government, seems to be having some positive effect.
The CPLC said that in September 155 killings were reported -- down from 280 in August. With a total of 2,058 murders up to the end of September 2013 it is on course to beat last year's record, but the crackdown appears to have at least slowed the killings.
Aftab Chunar, the head of the autopsy department of the city's largest state-run Civil Hospital, told AFP that before the operation he was receiving 16 to 18 bodies a day. Now the figure has fallen to three or four.
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[Dawn] Security forces launched a massive operation against anti-peace elements in Chilas after receiving a tip-off about the presence of two high-profile bully boyz in the remote northern town on Saturday.
The two bully boyz were tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! after forces cordoned off the entire town in a major operation, they claimed.
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[AAWSAT.NET] Congo's President Joseph Kabila pledged on Saturday to turn the recommendations from three weeks of national dialogue into policies to tackle the central African nation's daunting social, institutional and economic problems.
The talks in the capital Kinshasa were boycotted by some members of opposition political parties, who said they were denied the opportunity to discuss the validity of Kabila's disputed 2011 presidential election triumph.
Closing the meetings, Kabila said he would convene a joint session of the two houses of parliament on Thursday to discuss legislation based on the recommendations, which were not made public.
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[Ynet] A US Navy SEAL team seized a big shot of the al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... krazed killer group from a seaside villa in Somalia on Saturday in response to a deadly attack on a Nairobi shopping mall last month, the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... quoted US officials as saying.
The SEAL team seized the unidentified target in a predawn firefight after approaching the beachfront house in the Somali town of Barawe by sea, the paper reported on its website.
So is this a separate raid, or was it Americans instead of the Brits and Turks the Al Shabaab spokes-turban claimed?
I think this was the raid they were talking about, and that they were taking a wild guess at who the raiders were.
I'm impressed. Using a SEAL team to grab a Shaboob number three? Obama authorized that? Really?
U.S. forces take part in 2 Africa raids targeting alleged terrorists
U.S. military forces were involved in two separate operations in Africa - one of them targeting a member of the group Al-Shabaab that was behind last month's Kenya mall attack, and the other going after an al Qaeda leader tied to bombings of two U.S. embassies.
The Al-Shabaab raid took place in Somalia, where that terrorist group is based, sometime in the past 24 hours, a senior U.S. official said Saturday evening.
The team of U.S. Navy SEALs had to withdraw before it could confirm whether it killed the target because they came under fire, the official said. The SEALs made the "prudent decision" to withdraw rather than engage in further combat, according to the official.
The other mission ended in the capture of Abu Anas al Libi, who is suspected to have played a significant role in the August 7, 1998, bombings of American embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; and Nairobi, Kenya, U.S. officials said.
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Keep the troops busy, less time to biatch about the current pay situation and closed commissaries back home ( static from COMMATVAQHOUSEPAC can be a real morale buster)
Apparently the Libyans didn't understand any part of "We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them."
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By most accounts, US Army's DELTA FORCE captured senior "core" Al-Qaeda leader Abu Anas al-Libi in the Libya raid, while the USN SEALS struck AL-Shabaab/Shabab but the target wasn't found.
* WAFF > [Hurriyet] AMERICAN, BRITISH, + TURKISH SPECIAL FORCES HIT AL-QAIDA IN SOMALIA + LIBYA.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US COMMANDOS NAB AL-QAIDA LEADER LINKED TO 1998 EMBASSY BOMBINGS.
versus
* NAHARNET.LB > BRITAIN SAYS FORCES NOT INVOLVED IN SOMALI RAID.
* SAME > LIBYA, SOMALIA RAIDS SHOW [both] US REACH, MESS.
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COMMATVAQHOUSEPAC. Right - what does it stand for?
Yep,, us Airedales do do it different. pappy, thanks for omitting the required adjective regarding the F@@@ing airdales.
Anyway: COMmander Medium ATtack Electronic ATtack House PACific
(back when we had real attack airplanes and not plastic toys. don't know how they got VAQ out of Electronic Attack ( The EA6Bs) )
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] An uneasy calm returned to Mombasa on Saturday following festivities Friday between protestors and police that left four people dead and at least seven with serious injuries.
Musselmen, Christian and politicians roundly condemned the violence, calling for calm and a speedy resolution of the cold-blooded killing the previous night of a holy man and three others that provoked the violent protests.
Masjid Musa Mosque holy man Sheikh Ibrahim Umar Ismail, popularly known as Rogo or Logo, was killed together with three companions as they returned home late on Thursday evening.
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Procopius, do we really want politicians with backbone to stand firm with the unending stupid decisions they make, just to get the one or two good ones to stick? Need to repair the brains before the spines (zombies starve in DC.)
[WashingtonPost] Losing a hard-fought battle confers no dishonor, but losing a badly chosen battle is embarrassing.
And then theres ridiculous.
Into the last category goes the decision to close the nations monuments to make sure that the government shutdown strikes the hearts of all The American People, whose constant invocation by pandering politicians fills one with self-loathing. (Who wants to be an American People, given the quality of our spokesfolksen?)
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What about winning a badly chosen battle? Because that's what I see - no degree of idiocy seems to affect their ability to impose their will. If anything, the fact that they keep getting away with more and more outrageous things emboldens them: it may not be long before they conclude they can dissolve the Constitution and establish a new 'Republic.'
[Al Ahram] Syrian government forces shelled a vulnerable Sunni community in a coastal province dominated by Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... 's Alawite sect on Saturday, activists said, raising fears that residents of the isolated town could face mass killings by pro-Damascus militias.
Two Syrian rights groups said shelling of the town of Al-Mitras began at dawn, killing six people. The town lies near two other Sunni Mohammedan towns of Bayda and Banias. Rights groups charge that regime supporters killed at least 248 people in those two communities in May. They said regime forces shelled Bayda before militias entered and carried out the alleged massacre.
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The sad thing is, nobody cares anymore. Assad is an evil man, so are the Al Nusra and other Islamist elements he is killing.
Many Iranian youths are disappointed in the Shiism professed by the regime and traditional clergy but wish to maintain their Islamic faith, leading them to convert to Salafism. The Muslim Brotherhood and other Salafi trends tend to focus on the unity of god and the desacralization of all human beings and worldly things -- a unique way of secularizing and rationalizing Islam in order to attract young students, especially those who study science. Unlike traditional Sunnis in Iran and Salafis elsewhere in the world, Iranian Salafis tend to question the Islamic Republic's religious legitimacy and purposefully exacerbate Sunni-Shiite tensions.
Well, sure. Salafists in the rest of the world are too busy exacerbating tensions with their less observant Sunni neighbors, sparing barely a thought for the occasional massacre of the few Shiites in their midst. Iranian Salafists are in the enviable position of being an unnoticed minority, completely surrounded by targets.
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Security forces in Narathiwat province killed four terrorists insurgents on Saturday, including Abdul Roheng Da-eso, alias "Black Pele", in a 15-minute gun battle that left two policemen dead. About 50 police and soldiers raided a house after authorities were told by an informant that a group of key terrorists insurgents, including Abdul, were hiding there.
While approaching the house, the troops were spotted by the terrorists insurgents who opened fire, sparking a fierce exchange that lasted about 15 minutes. As the battle raged, Pol Lt Col Atipat Supanwiwat and Pol Sgt Maj Wichit Otthon were gunned down and Pol Sgt Yothin Chantaradet was wounded. The battle ended when seven terror insurgent suspects surrendered and exited the house.
In the house, four suspects were found dead, one of whom was identified as Abdul, who faced more than 10 arrest warrants for violent attacks in Rueso district.
In a separate operation, soldiers nabbed two men suspected of being involved in a bombing that killed four military officers on Oct 2 in Yala province. The two are Dolo Bueraheng and Aha Maso, who are suspected of having a role in a bombing that killed eight soldiers in June.
Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Pracha Promnok said Saturday the five demands made by Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) during peace talks were "acceptable overall", however he said the details still needed thorough review. Pol Gen Pracha, in charge of security affairs, said after meeting with 32 advisers that the next round of negotiations had been set for Oct 20 in Kuala Lumpur. He said, "The five demands of the BRN look acceptable overall, but agreement is not 100%."
Army chief Prayuth Chan-och, however, insisted the demands were unacceptable.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Dawn] Rangers and police personnel claim to have 
[Dawn] With the Rangers-led '
[Dawn] India's army, which says it has been locked in a nearly two-week battle with dozens of suspected Pakistain-backed rebels, said Saturday it killed seven 
[Al Ahram] President Barack Obama on Saturday called on the lower chamber of Congress to "stop this farce" and end the US government shutdown by unconditionally approving a federal budget. "Take that vote. Stop this farce. End this shutdown now," Obama said in his weekly radio and video address.
[BUSINESSINSIDER] A small band of up to six attackers carried out the Nairobi terrorist siege, police have confirmed -- contradicting their earlier claims that 15 attackers were involved.
[BREITBART] Just before the weekend, the National Park Service informed charter boat captains in Florida that the Florida Bay was "closed" due to the shutdown. Until government funding is restored, the fishing boats are prohibited from taking anglers into 1,100 square-miles of open ocean. Fishing is also prohibited at Biscayne National Park during the shutdown. 
[Dawn] An all parties conference convened by 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[Dawn] A TRICKLE of information has started to flow about the all-party sanctioned and military-backed talks with the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP).
[Dawn] IF the last PPP-led government at the centre richly deserved the ridicule heaped upon it for not lifting the curbs it imposed on YouTube, the current set-up in Sindh has elicited an equally strong response to its proposal to ban internet chat and telephony apps including Skype, WhatsApp, Tango and Viber. If the reasoning behind the continuing blockade on YouTube is incomprehensible -- that it is not possible to filter out all objectionable material -- the logic given for blocking off Voice Over Internet Protocol applications -- ie instant messaging tools are used by criminals who cannot be traced -- is just as difficult to fathom. After Thursday's decision was taken at a meeting in 
[Al Ahram] Clashes erupted between security forces and supporters of deposed president 
[Al Ahram] Egypt's Coptic Pope Tawadros II paid his first visit on Saturday to the headquarters of Al-Azhar, to extend good wishes to Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayeb as Eid El-Adha approaches. 
[Dawn] Pakistain has shared with India evidence of foreign interference in 
[An Nahar] Miley Cyrus is grabbing headlines for the wrong reasons again. A public row with pop veteran Sinead O'Connor is raising questions over whether she may be the latest onetime child star heading for a fall.
[Dawn] PARITY. Now there's a word we haven't heard for some time. And yet it was a regular feature in Foreign Office statements not that long ago.
[Dawn] Rampant violence has terrorised 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
