From an e-mail I got earlier this week. Interesting hypothesis. Storming the Barricades in Washington
I have worked in the government on and off for 40 years. During that time I became quite familiar with requisitions, bidding, awarding contracts etc. It is a time consuming process with bean-counters and pencil-necked bureaucrats every step of the way. The simplest request takes months not days or hours. I gotta believe that! Unless the Prez can cut all the red tape.
In less than 8 hours of the shutdown, miraculously, professionally printed 3X4 foot signs appeared all over the country in the tens of thousands saying-"this [park, facility, etc. with custom logos] closed due to government shutdown.
There has not been a government shutdown in 17 years. These signs were designed, specifications were determined, signs were then requisitioned, bids were posted and vetted, government contracts were awarded. The materials were then ordered and the signs manufactured then distributed U.S. Mails or freight companies.
This shutdown was orchestrated and planned well in advance at least 6-8 month ago. Millions of tax dollars were appropriated and spent in this process. There is a paper trail a mile long leading directly to the White House.
People do not realize just what we are dealing with! Some of at Rantburg do, Bub!
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I imagine if you did a FOIA on the RFP for the signs you'd be stonewalled "for national security issues"
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I asked this earlier this week. Then I watched the congressional hearing on the national parks. The parks started to prep for it late sept.
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With little fanfare, Texas is just weeks away from wrapping up a nearly $7 billion effort to add vast amounts of wind power to its energy grid. Texas, you recall, has its' won energy grid - east part, west part, and Texas part.
By the end of December, developers expect to flip the switch on the final electrical transmission projects built under the state's Competitive Renewable Energy Zone, or CREZ, initiative -- the yearslong effort to connect windy, largely secluded West Texas to growing cities that demand more power. Was (the late) House Speaker Jim Wright from west Texas? Is his wind still blowing around?
Once finished, the build-out will stretch nearly 3,600 miles and will be able to send 18,500 megawatts of wind power across the state. That's about 50 percent more capacity than is currently installed in Texas -- the country's leader in wind energy production -- and more than three times as much as any other state. But...Texas is a RED state. How can they lead in wind power when Harry and Nancy are a thousand miles away?
The new transmission projects don't run cheap. Texans will eventually shell out $6.8 billion to finance the project update released this week by the PUC. Electric ratepayers will bear the burden, but the commission has approved CREZ fees from just three transmission service companies, with other filings winding through the system. The new fees will likely add several dollars to a residential customer's monthly bill.
The projects' estimated price tag has changed little over the past two years, but it is far higher than the $4.93 billion projection made in 2008. Inflation drove some of that increase, while the projects' changing shape was a bigger factor. In calculating the original estimate, researchers assumed the power lines would follow the most direct routes. As the process played out, however, regulators minimized intrusion by redrawing the routes to follow fences or roads. Those decisions added more than 600 miles of power lines that weren't originally planned. Ah, regulators - making everybody happy by making everybody pay more!
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driven by, among other things
- a 2 cents per kwh federal subsidy (tax offset)
- a complicated State subsidy that isn't easily calculated
- heavy support from Texas farmers and ranchers who lease out their 'wind' to power companies
- complicated regulatory mandates which are directly borne by power companies and indirectly by the customers of such companies
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...and dead eagles, no doubt. Here in Californy, you can slaughter untold masses of eagles with your giant fans, but woe be on the poor soul who finds an eagle feather on the ground and puts it in its pocketses.
After months of anguished debate over mass shootings, gun control and Second Amendment rights, the Justice Department finds itself on the defensive after a training manual surfaced that suggests federal agents could face a firing squad for leaking government secrets. Seems rather extreme to me but then I'm not surprised at the Gestapo-like tactics.
The online manual for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives complete with a photo of a turn-of-the-century firing squad was obtained by The Washington Times from a concerned federal law enforcement official, and it immediately drew protests from watchdogs who said it showed a lack of sensitivity to gun violence and the continuing hostile environment toward whistleblowers. More at the link.
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So someone leaked a document that will be embarassing, if not humiliating, to the gov't.?
Wonder what happens to this leaker? Do they still offer cigarettes with the blindfold?
[Wash Examiner] Senior executives from CGI Federal -- the company that won the Obamacare website contract -- enjoyed high-level access to top Obama administration officials, according to White House visitors' logs. Shocking! Bring me the Captain Louis Renault graphic at once !
CGI Federal is the U.S. subsidiary of CGI Group, the Canadian company based in Montreal that won the $93 million contract from the Department of Health and Human Services in December 2011 to build Healthcare.gov, the main Obamacare web site.
Prior to the official award, senior CGI executives met with top White House officials and attended a number of invitation-only addresses by President Obama. So much for the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and competitive bids.
According to the logs, CGI Federal President Donna Ryan visited the White House six times prior to her company being selected to do the IT design work behind the high-profile website. Bringing many gifts no doubt.
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Obamacare costs is so high because it is tantamount to a covert US Debt, Deficit reduction or payment plan, AKA A PUBLIC PSEUDO-TAX, OR A TAX-BY-ANY-OTHER-NAME/DESCRIPTION.
Obamacare = legally or formally committing the US Mainstream = Taxpayers to paying off BOTH the National Debt + the COMING "GLOBAL DEBT" UNDER POST-2015 OWG NAU.
Remember, I've argued that the anti-US Globies + aligned intend to transfer a large part of the National Debt to the OWG NAU + related come 2015 or ASAP after, under the guise that Amerika's fellow NAU,etal Member-States [e.g. Mexico, Canada] will help to pay off the debt - WHAT IS NOT BEING SAID IS THAT MAINSTREAM AMERIKANS WILL STILL HAVE TO PAY OFF THE BULK OF NOT ONLY OUR FUTURE NEW OWG "GLOBAL DEBT" BUT THAT OF THE OTHER NAU, ETC. MEMBERS AS WELL, + OUR OTHER POST-2015 NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS AS WELL.
Obama care is not only immoral, but it is illegal + unconstitutinal because it commits americans = Amerikans to pay for a ...
> FUTURE TAX THAT HAS NOT BEEN SET OR MANDATED.
> VIOLATING NOT ONLY AMER SOVEREIGNTY BUT ALSO THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE NAU, ETC STATES BECAUSE NAU HAS NOT BEEN FORMALLY OR PUBLICLY VOTED ON IN POPULAR VOTER REFERENDUM, NOR THE CONGRESS AS ASLO APPORVED BY THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, BE IT IN 2013 OR AFTER JAN 2017.
America is once again being committed to anti-Constitutional, anti-Electoral, immoral + illegal "Globalism" + OWG-NWO widout being asked to vote on it, nor to explain why, nor to being given the truthful intentions.
E.G. INSTEAD OF BEING TOLD THAT THE US IS GIVING UP 1/2 OF THE PACIFIC AS DUE TO PRO-OWG, PRO-GLOBALIST WILFUL-N-DELIBERATE PRE-PLANNING, AMERIKANS WILL BE PCORRECTLY TOLD ITS BECAUSE THE USA IS GETTING WEAK + CAN'T ECONOMICALLY AFFORD TO BE A "SOLE" GLOBAL SUPERPOWER WID SAID "SUPERPOWER-STYLE" INTERESTS ANYMORE.
[UK Daily Mail]'Joe the Turd Way Maker Plumber', the everyman used by John McCain in the 2008 presidential campaign, has sparked outrage with an online comment piece claiming 'America needs a non-Rhino white, Republican president'. "Outrage" among some possibly.
In an article posted to his website on Thursday, Joe Wurzelbacher assured readers that wanting a 'white Republican president doesn't make you a racist, it just makes you American.' The operative word his is not white, it is actually 'president' and leader as opposed to dictator.
The controversial post contended that '[i]n the pre-black president era, criticizing the president was simply the American thing to do. An exercise of one's First Amendment right. Criticism had nothing to do with color, because there had never been a black president.'
The lid eyebrow-raising opinion piece questioned why nobody accused black people of racism 'when blacks had sanity and disagreed with the policies of racist white Democrat presidents.'
The conservative activist also brought Mexicans into his argument, saying 'many deranged Mexicans' who fight for immigration rights 'are not called racist.'
The scathing post has triggered a social media flushing backlash, with users accusing Republican party member Wurzelbacher of racism. The race card? Not again !
However Wurzelbacher has hit back, saying he did not author the piece but merely copied an article written Kevin Jackson and posted to theblacksphere.net on October 9.
According to his profile, Jackson 'believes that empowerment comes when you know who you are and what you stand for. On Saturday night, Wurzelbacher, 39, wrote on his Facebook page: 'Let no chance to find a boogey man in a non-racist's closet go by without first taking time to blame a white guy for repeating something a black guy said...about a black guy.' Wurzelbacher, Wurzelbacher, Wurzelbacher....sounds Confederate to me.
Joe the Plumber gained national prominence when he asked then presidential candidate, Barack Obama, a question about his tax plan in 2008.
Obama's response included the statement, 'when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody.' The revealing ten word communist manifesto to which apparently many paid little attention.
Obama's response was seized upon by conservative media, as well as by Obama's rival, Republican nominee Senator John McCain, as an indication that Obama was interested in the redistribution of wealth, and had a socialist view of the economy. He [the Champ] said it, right there on teevee.
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Of course he is being accused of racism with a headline like that. Whatever point he had is flushed when you bring race into it in a way that if not racist is so easily construed as so.
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Tavis Smiley has already said Obama has set back the blacks by five years...so if a screaming lib like Smiley (who is Black) says that, we can add an exponential value to the set back...I'm thinking we are on the verge of 1953 again.
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ACtually, I see his point, and he was being deliberately provocative.
Nobody is perfect, so everyone can be improved by criticism. However, if you are a reverse racist/feminist, then any criticism is regarded as invalid if it is directed at a black/mexican/woman. The point of playing the race card is to divert attention away from the validity of the criticism. Given this, the only person who people can feel safe to constructively criticize, and thus actually improve the situation, would be to elect a white male as president.
The problem. The REAL problem, is that ALL FORMS OF RACISM, forward AND reverse, are evil. Like everything else they undertake, Leftist liberals and leftist democrats believe themselves above natural and moral law, and thus believe that they can "do evil that good may come."
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I was listening to NPR, they stated that EVERY measure Obama has pushed has 'HURT' blacks.
I hope they're listening.
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NPR said that. Wow! Tavis Smiley also said this. Bob Gibbs said Obamacare rollout has been a failure. For some reason, there are too many people who are vested in keeping "O" in power for whatever reason. He is clearly incompetent but has gotten a pass on everything that he has screwed up. Had this been a white Republican Prez, there would have been a loud cry for impeachment long ago. This is clearly a failed Presidency but there is no momentum for impeachment--maybe liberal white guilt and fear of a black backlash?
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"NPR . . . stated that EVERY measure Obama has pushed has 'HURT' blacks.
I hope they're listening."
If you mean you hope blacks are listening to NPR, I doubt it, RJ. Except the black upper middle class "elites" who listen (NPR is the soporofic of choice for the upper middle class "elites" - who aren't hurting - of any color).
I doubt regular black people spend a lot of time listening to NPR, any more than regular white people do. :-(
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On the Democratic side of the aisle, two thirds (67 percent) say it is absolutely essential to raise the debt limit by Thursday. These numbers show the Democrats under more pressure than Republicans to strike a deal: Democratic constituents think their leaders need to and must come to an agreement, Republican constituents feel less overall urgency about raising the debt limit in the next two days. I don't think I believe that, or they are better actors than I give them credit for.
According to a Pew Research Center poll released Tuesday, 52 percent of self-identified "Tea Party Republicans" believe the debt limit does not need to be raised at all. More broadly, the poll found that just over half (51 percent) of the whole public believe raising the debt ceiling in the next two days is "essential" while 36 percent say nothing serious will happen if lawmakers fail to act. I think it didn't need to be raised, if we had a Congress worth spit and a leader who was not intent on making the US a third-world country. But now, it is too late. The linked article, BTW, has a decidedly different slant, mocking the Tea Partiers - "arguing, falsely, that the United States will not default nor will economic catastrophe result if the debt ceiling is not raised." I have not been able to pay my bills before - not all of them. I paid the important ones and did not "default". Others got delayed until I could adjust. Too simple a concept for Congress and the media.
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If your political power/influence is directly tied to dispersal from the public Treasury, you can understand the underlying belief of 'doom' by the Donks. Unfortunately, the reality is that the party does end either in a Wiemar inflation with worthless paper or a collapse of the ability of the central government to support the flagrant spending.
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The "doom" they speak of is actually their hoped for.... "doom" of the Republican party. Single party, unquestioned dominance is the key to socialism.
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The "doom" they speak of is actually their hoped for.... "doom" of the Republican party. Single party, unquestioned dominance is the key to socialism.
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Too many of our politicians pander to the voters and don't base their actions on the principles embodied in the Constitution. Instead, they have engendered the "hungry baby robin" syndrome in a larger and larger segment of the voting population. The cry from this segment of the populace is "Where's my boodle?" The elitist politicians willingly trade government dispersed largesse for votes to continue their lifetime posh government jobs with all the perks and exclusions from the laws they pass. But then, I am probably being cynical today.
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Not increasing the debt limit is the way to control spending. It will happen sooner or later. Either the market will say no more, or we can demonstrate self-discipline. This is a good tactic for the Republicans and they should wash, rinse and repeat every time the executive wants to run up more debt. They just need to do it in a more organized, unified fashion. I hope the post-Boehner leadership will find a way to bring the trunks together so they have a unified front, at least in the house. There's really no hope for senate rinos like McPain and Grahamnesty. But they are also unnecessary for the tactic to work.
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Meh, just make the shmucks an offer, 25 cents on the dollar or wait March and STFU. See what happens, hell, I'm bored and I've always wanted to see a Chinese Fire Drill.
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The "DOOM" they fear is the mid-term elections, "VOTE FOR NOBODY, A CLEAN SLATE".
(No Democrats)they want to steal, well let them starve without a job.
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The 14th Amendment says the US m-u-s-t pay its debts, which IMO should not + never be interpreted to mean perennially having Gross or Net Debt > Revenues at any time, or an un-balanced Budget - THAT GOVT. IS BEST whICH GOVERNS [e.g. spends] LEAST, CORRECT???
As a general rule, the only reason to have a "Debt Ceiling" is to engage in PORK = EXCESSIVE SPENDING, WHERE THE DEBT BROADLY OR SEPCIFICALLY ALWAYS GOES UP, NOT-N-NEVAR DOWN.
The US will never be truly out of excessive or prohibitive debt - AT BEST YOU CAN ARGUE CURRENT-VS-FUTURE-DEFAULT.
What that you say - what happens when the above collides wid SNAFU + FUBAR, ETC. collides wid Special Interest collides wid anti-US Globalism + OWG-NWO ...
* FREEREPUBLIC > [CNS.com] 150 STRAIGHT DAYS [ + counting]: TREASURY SAYS DEBT STILL STANDS AT US$16,699,396,000 [Trilyuhn].
US$16.75-16.8-PLUS, + even higher, as per various select Pert Klakulators.
* TOPIX > ANALYSIS: NO REASON FOR US TO RAISE DEBT DEILING EXCEPT PORK SPENDING.
* PRAVDA > SHOULD RUSSIA FORGIVE USA'S DEBT OF US$315.0BILYUHN [US$157.0B - same], + SELL ARCTIC?
Ditto the US vee CHINA as per any + all Unincorporated Territories e.g. GUAM + AMERICAN SAMOA??? ONE-HALF OF CONUS-NORAM???
* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > [Telegraph Blogs]WATCH WHAT CHINA DOES WID US DEBT, NOT WHAT IT SAYS!?
See above.
* BREAKING DEFENSE > CHINA'S FEAR OF US MAY TEMPT THEM TO STRIKE PREEMPTIVELY: SINOLOGISTS.
Up to or including engaging in LIMITED NUCLEAR WAR = LIMITED TACTICAL NUCLAR WAR [LTNW].
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The USA giving up East Asia + 1/2 of the Pacific because it $$$ can't afford to do anymore - TRUTH? or PRE-PLANNED = INTENTIONAL?
GOOD GLOBALISM = GOOD 1990'S CLINTONISM = after all, POTUS BILL BACK IN THE DAY SAID HE RLY RELY REELY REALLYRRREEEEEAAAAAAALLLLLLYYYYYY, D **** YOU, TOLD THE TRUTH WHEN HE KNOWINGLY + WILFULLY LIED + DECEIVED EVERYBODY!
LEST WE FERGIT, IT TWAS THE CLINTON ADMIN,NOT THE BAMMER ADMIN, WHOM SAID OR ARGUED THAT THE US "MUST BE RESTRAINED OR CONTROLLED".
D *** NG IT, MUST, MUST - spelled M-U-S-S - MUST!
The Bammer may be a US Democrat, but he's also a Marxist-Globalist.
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No, Grom, I guess I'll have to go look it up. The article does make me wonder if the mess last weekend was a (successful) trial for the outage - and outrage - to come.
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a campaign of confiscation of grain and other agricultural produce from peasantry for a nominal fixed price
So all those stockpiled bullets would come in handy on the way to Obama's Marxist paradise.
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Holodomor - literally means 'Death by hunger'. Millions died during the 'man made' famine in the Ukrane in 1933-34. Some claim it was a deliberate act of the Soviet Government to crush Ukrainian nationalism.
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D *** NG IT, I'M NOT SHOCKED, I TELL YA, I'M NOT SHOCKED!
As I'd said times before, one way to justify or validate the future OWG + NAU, etc. that no American = Amerikan voted for nor been asked to is having or forcing World Govts-States to rely + depend on one another just for the sake of simple survival - THE MORE ANARCHY + CHAOS, ETC, THE BETTER FOR OWG + "GLOBALISM".
Starting in 2015 thru 2047? [2020-2047]when the Sun will repor explode in the "Mother/GrandDaddy of all Solar Flares" causing Global temps to "go off the charts", I.E. WHEN "SEMI-INTEGRATED", SEMI-FEDERAL OWG GOES FULLY INTEGRATED + FULLY FEDERAL!
D *** NG IT, AMERIKA, AS GOOD GLOBALISTS YOU M-U-S-T STARVE YOUR KIDS FOR THE FUTURE BENEFIT OF THEIR KIDS!
Now wid RFID CHIPS for that Kindler, Gentler, DOMESTIC DRONE STRIKE - YEAH!
Never let a crisis go to waste.
Many conservatives view the past seven months of lower spending levels as one of their accomplishments in dealing with Obama and want to continue them. However...
But GOP defense hawks complain that the next round of automatic cuts falls almost entirely on the Pentagon, and many Republicans want to shift that burden to domestic programs.
Obama and Democrats would do away with them altogether, substituting new taxes and maybe some spending cuts elsewhere in their place. Let's get what we want into this package before Thursday, boys; we got 'em on the run!
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Spend! Spend! Spend!
In 2005, it cost the Treasury one dollar to produce 100 pennies. Today one dollar buys the Treasury about 42 pennies. That's why gas is not going to get cheaper. Commodities generally stay relative to each other. It's the paper funny money that loses value when the print it without backing. It's just another form of tax removing value from the product of your labor, skills, and entrepreneurship.
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Of course the Dems do. They do not want to make any compromises. They believe the President should have the power of the purse. The Pubs better be careful or they will get rolled again. I hope they don't cave. Unfortunately, many of the voters only watch Obama press conferences, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC and are not well-informed regarding what's going really on. The left seems to be winning the blame game (although how can one really tell with all the lies, distortions and bought polls put out by the left).
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if the healthcare.gov site continues its non functioning for the next month or so, it will be a historic opportunity to call attention to the incompetence of leftism
even if the site is fixed, if it doesn't get the healthy people who don't need health insurance to buy it anyway, Obama care is in a world of difficulty and with it, the leftist worldview
even many leftists know this
how well the non leftists can make this point remains to be seen of course
and, in any event, the current Reid-McConnell bill leaves the sequester in place until Jan 2014
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The DemoLeft nearly always wins "The Blame Game" because the MSM = Left Medias never NOT blames the GOP-Right.
The only time a Democrat Donk is blamed is iff a GOP Trunk is right next to him being blamed also - anything else is all GOP Trunks.
THE ABOIVE IS CALLED "MEDIA ETHICS/
PROFESSIONALISM", "FAIR-N-BALANCED", ETC.
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"He doesn't know his history,"
Yes, well, most history has been shoved down the Orwellian Memory Hole. People rely upon memory now rather than the true written record. Victim studies have replaced history in school and academia. So, buckle up people, we're in for a rocky ride in making the same mistakes humans and society have made for several thousand years because no one who has their hands on the levers of power in this society has learned those hard lessons through appreciative study. We and our progeny are about to repeat the process all over again.
h/t Instapundit
Americas nuclear industry isnt healthy. Thanks to the rise of cheap shale energy, four nuclear plants have closed so far this year. Older reactors cant compete with todays energy market conditions, but a new generation of nuclear technology promises to breathe new life into the industry. NuScale Power has plans to shrink containment vessels down to just two-fifths the height and an eighth of the diameter of industry standards. Its a move that reflects a potential sea change in nuclear power: smaller, cheaper, less powerful reactors that would compose a more distributed (and therefore more robust) energy network. And, as the New York Times reports, these new reactors would be safer:
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Unfortunately, they are not 50% less scary to most of the public and the media pit bulls. No disrespect to the canine breed intended.
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Exactly, Bobby. If the global warming alarmists were sincere, they would back this. Nuclear reactors produce zero CO2. Instead,they hear "nuclear" and all they can think is "EVIL!".
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As said times before, as per OWG-NWO = Space Govt-Order, so-called "Green Techs" is for those humans whom stay behind on Old Earth or other Planet while the "Nuclear Techs" + higher is used for deep space travel [trade?] + exploration, TO INFINITY + BEY-O-O-O-O-N-D.
["MACHETE KILLS AGAIN ...IN SPACE" SEXY SLINKY ONE-EYED BATTLE BABE MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ = "EAT DEATH LASER, SPACE BITCHES!" here].
[Ynet] In special operation by Gazoo Division, IDF exposes hidden barrels of explosives in burrow of tunnel found last year
During a Gazoo Division operation, an extension of an explosives tunnel that was discovered a year ago was exposed in the vicinity of the Gazoo Strip border, in the area of Kissufim.
In a joint operation of IDF 's Yahalom Unit (Special Operations Engineering Unit) and the Gazoo Division's engineering forces, the soldiers encountered barrels containing explosives that were hidden in the burrow. On Tuesday morning, the engineering forces carried out a controlled detonation of the burrow that was designed to eventually be part of an attack against IDF soldiers.
The scene was cleared in order to prevent possibility of terrorist activity against the forces, while neutralizing the threat. There were no injuries in the event and the Gazoo Division intends to continue the initiated activity in order to uncover advanced terror tunnels and neutralize them.
According to IDF estimates, there are still several underground tunnels that cross the border between the Gazoo Strip and Israel.
The operation to expose tunnels is based on an innovative concept that was developed in recent months within the Gazoo Division, based on experience and studying of an advanced terror tunnel that was discovered by chance in January following heavy rains.
The IDF reported that the tunnel was blown up Tuesday morning in order to destroy another one of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,' terror infrastructures, and further noted that this tunnel was discovered about a year ago, when an explosives barrel that was set up in it detonated under an IDF jeep, an event in which a soldier was lightly injured.
Earlier this week, a terror tunnel from Gazoo to the border-adjacent Kibbutz Ein HaShlosha was uncovered. According to the defense establishment's assessment, the tunnel was dug in order to carry out a large-scale terrorist attack on one of the nearby communities.
[Al Ahram] A Russian military court on Tuesday sentenced to life in prison a suspected Islamist militant accused of organising terror attacks that killed 26 people and wounded 344.
Ali Taziyev -- known in the Russian media by his nom de guerre, Magas -- was believed to be the righthand man of Doku Umarov, the leader of Russia's Islamist rebels and one of the primary plotters of bombing attacks against Russian targets.
Taziyev was also accused of organising a failed June 2009 assassination attempt against Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, head of the impoverished North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, which neighbours Chechnya.
Russian media said Taziyev had served as the top military commander in Umarov's Caucasus Emirat movement, which seeks to create an Islamic state along Russia's volatile southern rim.
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[Breitbart] As Gabby Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly were introduced at a gun show in upstate New York over the weekend, the sound of light applause was interrupted with boos. Gun show producers, what were they thinking ? Wonder if it was a set-up, and whether it was done to help burnish Kelly/Giffords street cred with the NPR tote-bag crowd...
It appears that even after making it clear they plan to be the anti-NRA in 2014, Giffords and her husband wanted to attend a gun show to continue to project the image that they are average American gun owners like the rest of us.
Gun show attendees did not seem to buy it. Proving once again that upstaters are VERY different than NYC folk.
The Aypee reported the boos, and said there were also persons who picketed the appearance of Giffords and her husband by holding signs emblazoned with a swastika that read, "Gun control made the Holocaust possible."
One of the persons picketing said, "I believe this is a publicity stunt for Mark Kelly and Gabby Giffords. They say they're Second Amendment supporters, I don't believe they are." Nor does anyone else.
[An Nahar] A police officer was bumped off in a cycle of violence drive-by shooting Tuesday in a region of southeast Yemen where al-Qaeda carries out frequent attacks, a local official said.
"Two gunnies suspected of belonging to al-Qaeda shot up the officer, Mahmoud al-Nakhii, who was in a police car in the main street of Ghayl Bawazir," a town in Hadramawt province, he told Agence La Belle France Presse.
He said the officer was killed on the spot and the assailants on a cycle of violence fled.
In the neighboring province of Lahij, six soldiers were maimed as suspected al-Qaeda gunnies attacked a camp for the security forces in Huta, a security official said.
Last Thursday, an intelligence officer was assassinated in another drive-by shooting by assailants on cycle of violences in the Hadramawt thriving provincial capital of Mukalla.
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[TOLONEWS] A number of Pak political and military experts have said that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's former second-in-command, was in fact freed from imprisonment, but remains under close supervision by Pak security forces.
"Mullah Baradar has been released from the custody of government of Pakistain. Due to security issues, however, security has been provided for him so he can go to Afghanistan and talk with the leaders and elders of the Taliban," said Mahmood Shah, a retired Pak Army officer.
The news comes a week after the Taliban claimed Baradar remained in Pak military custody, in contradiction to what had been promised by the Pak government in an attempt to contribute to a reconciliation deal between Kabul and the myrmidon group.
"Mullah Baradar is an important person and Americans didn't wanted him to be released unconditionally," Rahimullah Yousufzai, a Pak political expert told TOLOnews. "The Americans had made it clear they didn't want him released, but even if he was to be released, steps needed to be taken so that he would be followed all the time, to prevent him from joining the Taliban again."
Kabul has been pushing for Baradar's release since late August, when President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... visited Islamabad to recruit newly elected Pak 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... to help get the grinding of the peace processor with the Taliban back on track after it derailed in June. Despite U.S. anxieties about the release of Baradar and other imprisoned Death Eaters, officials in Afghanistan have been confident that freeing former Death Eaters would serve peace talks well by providing a sign of good will to the Taliban and making available key leaders who would otherwise be unable to participate in them.
Since Pak government officials announced they would go ahead with the release of Baradar back in September, however, speculations about whether or not it would be done, or if so with what conditions attached, have abounded.
"Our position is this: Mullah Abdul Ghani has been released and anyone member of his family can see him," Ejaz Ahmad Chaudhary, a front man for Pakistain's Foreign Ministry told TOLOnews in a phone interview. "He was released in order to facilitate the Afghan reconciliation process."
Pakistain's release of Baradar, following President Karzai's trip to Islamabad, has been considered a major step toward improving relations between the estranged Kabul and Islamabad. Last week at a presser in Kabul, Karzai welcomed Pakistain's announcement about releasing the former myrmidon deputy.
The precautions taken in Baradar's release that experts have discussed, however, indicate pressure from the U.S. has played a role in the way things have unfolded.
American officials have justified their concerns by pointing to examples from the past of former Death Eaters being released by Afghan authorities upon the transition of power over detentions centers, like Bagram prison, to then only rejoin the Death Eater fight against coalition and Afghan forces.
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He is free as long as he does what the Paks want him to do re dialogue over Afghanistan.
The Paks have the same arrangement no doubt with Mullah Omar, Haqqani and Zawihiri.
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"I know she's running for president now, because toward the end, she was asked about the Osama bin Laden raid. She took 25 minutes to answer," Taylor said. "Without turning the knife too deeply, she put it to [Vice President Joe] Biden." ...OK, so my metric is to vote for the candidate who has bedded more women than myself. Therefore, allow me to say "Hillary in 2016!" /s...
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Brave Hillary who dodged live fire in Bosnia (and blame in Benghazi). There are far too many uninformed liberal voters out there who will vote for her because she would be the first female President. We know how well this went the last election. Can anyone name anything significant which she has accomplished as Secretary of State or the Senator from New York? Biden is being deep-sixed by the Party as a possible candidate. They must think he is too dim to be electable.
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I don't think even the MSM can hide Biden's stupidity.
They hide BHO's, don't they? It just depends on how motivated they are. Biden's primary qualification for VP was that he wouldn't steal Bozo's thunder. Chosen precisely for his blandness. Worked out well, except for the dementia, which will only get worse. By the time 2016 rolls around, poor Joe will probably insist that he was in Abottabad with the SEAL team.
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RandomJD, personally, I think O picked Biden as a protective measure. I mean, do you think anyone would do something that would result in a Biden presidency?
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Say what you will, but I've always liked Joe, he's not to quick but he seems mostly honest.
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I mean, do you think anyone would do something that would result in a Biden presidency?
I dunno, LOL. Certainly, the nation would be better off with Joey sitting on the White House steps in his underwear, making decisions by flipping a coin. At least he'd be right half the time; and the other times, the damage would be random rather than calculated and systematic.
I'd rather live in Biden's America, than the one we have now. Surely I'm not the only one who's had the same thought.
[Ynet] Analysis: Uncovering of huge tunnel leading from Gazoo to Israel proves to int'l community that Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, has not abandoned its terrorist ways
Terror tunnels are not a new invention in the field of combat. In the 1960s the North Koreans dug nearly 20 huge tunnels leading to South Korea. Entire divisions could pass through some of these tunnels in less than half a day.
Hamas resorted to this method of terror after realizing that it had pretty much exhausted the possibilities of rocket, mortar and even missile attacks. Hamas discovered the potential of these tunnels as a means of carrying out terror attacks during the second intifada, when the IDF still held positions in Gazoo. Such tunnels were used to carry out the underground attack on an army position in the Kerem Shalom area and on at least one other IDF post in the area.
But the most successful tunnel attack took place in 2006, when Death Eaters managed to kidnap IDF soldier Gilad Shalit into Gazoo. Since then, the Paleostinian factions have been digging large tunnels through which fighters can pass without even having to crouch. The purpose of these tunnels is not only to infiltrate Israeli territory in order to kidnap, but also to plant bombs, gather intelligence and relocate members to the West Bank.
In order to disrupt the construction of these tunnels, Israel prevented the transfer of building material into Gazoo, but due to international pressure it was forced to lift the ban and allow aid organizations to transfer building material into the Hamas-ruled territory. The material was supposed to be used in various welfare projects benefiting the community. Israel initially demanded that the aid groups make certain that the material is used solely for these projects, but lately, in order to ease some of the economic pressure on Gazoo, Israel decided to allow the transfer of construction materials for use by private builders in Gazoo.
As expected, Hamas used these materials for fortification and the construction of tunnels running from Gazoo into Israeli territory. The terror tunnel that was exposed to the public on Sunday was filled with building material that originated in Israel and Egypt. The army revealed the discovery of the tunnel in order to show the international community, including Turkey's Erdogan, that Hamas is taking advantage of Israel's decision to ease restrictions on Gazoo in order to build terror tunnels.
This may also have diplomatic repercussions. Hamas is in desperate need of donations from the international community now that it is no longer receiving monetary aid from Iran, which financed a large part of the Hamas regime's activities and contributed to its survival. Now that this connection has been severed, and in light of the developments in Syria, Hamas needs civilian aid from the international community more than ever before. This is one of the reasons why Hamas is working to prevent rocket fire on Israel. The uncovering of the terror tunnel indicates that Hamas has not stopped its violent terrorist activity; it has merely replaced one method with another.
The exposure of the tunnel was also meant to show the Israeli public that after years of failed efforts, the IDF has finally developed a system that allows it to unearth these tunnels and neutralize the threats they entail.
Let's not get carried away. The new system is actually a combination of old methods and means which, together with intelligence information, increases the chances that such tunnels will be discovered. This is good news, but it does not indicate that the army has found all of the terror tunnels. This system must be perfected; otherwise, one day we may see dozens of armed Death Eaters carrying bombs infiltrating one of the Israeli communities near Gazoo. This is the greatest threat. All they need is one tunnel that will not be uncovered by the IDF.
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A total of 13 individuals were killed or were found dead in drug and gang related violence in the northern Mexican border state of Coahuila, according to various Mexican news accounts.
Four unidentified individuals were shot to death in an armed encounter with Mexican security forces Monday night near Monclova.
According to a news report which appeared in the online edition of Milenio news daily, a group of state police agents traveling aboard a Dodge Ram were fired on by a group of armed suspects who were traveling aboard a Lincoln Navigator SUV.
The incident took place on Kilometer 23 of Mexico Federal Highway 57. According to the report, towards the end of the encounter the armed suspects abandoned their vehicle and continued firing on the police agents.
The incident took place as state and local police agents flooded the highways around Monclova attempting to catch suspects who earlier in the day had attempted to kill the local Monclova municipal police chief, General Victorino Resendiz Cortez Monday afternoon.
According to a separate news report which appeared in the website of El Diario de Coahuila news daily, General Resendiz Cortez had been investigating carjackings in the region when he was fired on. The shooters then fled north, but were found that evening.
General Resendiz Cortez was wounded in the encounter, but it was not reported that the wound was life threatening.
According to another report which also appeared in El Diario de Coahuila, car thefts including carjackings are down, now averaging 10 per day as opposed to 13 per day from the same period January to August in 2013. The decline is reportedly 22 percent year over year.
Meanwhile four individuals were found shot to death Saturday night in two separate locations in Coahuila, according to a news report in El Diario de Coahuila.
Two of the victims were identified as Armando Padilla Gaona, 68, and Norberto Carlos Dominguez Trejo, 33. One other victim has been identified, but the name was not disclosed.
Two victims, including Sr. Armando Padilla Gaona were found in the bed of a pickup truck in Ramos Arippe in Manantiales del Valle colony, while the other two were found on Bulevar Venustiano Carranza in Saltillo.
According to a news account, ransom had been paid for the release of the victims by family, but the victims were killed anyway.
Finally in Monclova, four unidentified victims were found in a grave Monday, according to a news account which appeared in Milenio news daily.
The victims were found in Posada del Sol in a partial state of decomposition. Reports are the victims were killed only days before the discovery of their bodies.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com.
The head of a Russian forensics agency said on Tuesday that samples from the body of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had revealed no traces of radioactive polonium, a Russian news agency reported.
However, the government scientific body later denied that it had made any official statement about the research, saying only that it had handed its results to the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Nice way to keep us all in suspense. It's like a Lifetime movie...
If confirmed, the findings would deal a blow to Palestinian suspicions that Arafat was assassinated by Israel - a theory fuelled by a Swiss lab report last year which found unusual amounts of the deadly isotope polonium on his clothes.
A Palestinian medical team took samples from Arafats corpse in the West Bank last year and gave them to Swiss, French and Russian forensic teams in an attempt to determine whether he was murdered with the hard-to-trace radioactive poison.
Are we going to go two out of three?
He could not have been poisoned with polonium. The research conducted by Russian experts found no traces of this substance, the Russian news agency Interfax quoted Vladimir Uiba, who heads the Federal Medico-Biological Agency (FMBA), as saying.
And who knows more about polonium poisoning than the Russians, I ask you?
Uiba said experts from the FMBA had conducted a detailed study of Arafats remains.
The agency later sought to distance itself from the comments. The FMBA of Russia has made no official statement about the results of research on the remains of Yasser Arafat, the FMBAs Press service said. It added that it had completed its tests and given the results to the authorities.
Have to give Putin time to play this for the best advantage...
The Russian Foreign Ministry declined immediate comment, but state-run news agency RIA cited a source in the ministry as saying it was up to the Palestinian authorities to release any information about the tests.
Arafat died aged 75 of complications from AIDS an unexplained ailment he developed while confined to his Ramallah headquarters by Israeli tanks at the height of an armed Palestinian uprising in 2004. Palestinians saw the veteran guerrilla as a hero of their national cause. Israel correctly regarded him as a terrorist, though it denied responsibility for his death.
A negative result from the samples may not totally preclude a poisoning, as experts warned last year that his partial exhumation might have occurred too late to detect polonium.
The Lausanne-based hospital which first found the isotope on Arafats clothing said that eight years would be the limit to detecting it on his remains and questioned whether such a late examination would provide conclusive results.
A spokesman for the hospital said at the time of the exhumation that findings might be reached by early this year. No explanation has been given for the lengthy delay in presenting the results.
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[An Nahar] The army said it incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! on Tuesday three suspects in connection with a shootout between rival gunnies in the Beirut neighborhood of Tariq al-Jedideh.
The army communique did not identify the gunnies but said that they exchanged gunfire with light arms during a dispute near al-Makassed hospital at 9:15 am.
It said the army drew a tight dragnet in the area and raided several locations that led to the arrest of three people.
The military is pursuing the rest of the suspects to apprehend them and refer them to the judiciary, the communique added.
The state-run National News Agency described the dispute as "personal."
Some media reports said however that the parties involved in the clash included members of Hizbullah's Resistance Brigades and gunnies from Tariq al-Jedideh.
They did not provide details as to why the two sides fought.
But LBCI TV said the dispute was between supporters of Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani and parties that oppose him.
It said a man identified as Abu Ali Shamleh, an official who is in charge of groups allied with Hizbullah, had opened fire and used hand grenades during the clash.
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An activist group says Syrian warplanes have been bombing the suburbs of Damascus while rebels have fired mortar shells at the capital on the first day of a major Muslim holiday.
Tuesdays fighting shows how entrenched both sides in Syrias civil war have become. Earlier in the fighting, the sides occasionally attempted to observe holiday cease-fires.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says rebels fired rockets and mortar rounds at three Damascus neighbourhoods. An amateur video posted online shows three rockets being fired, leaving a trail of dark smoke.
The Observatory says the regime bombed rebel areas near the city of Hama, killing three children, and Damascus Eastern Ghouta district.
Meanwhile, state TV showed Syrian President Bashar Assad attending Eid Al Adha prayers at a Damascus mosque.
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sounds like the perfect way to celebrate a Muslim holiday - killing other muslims
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Two of the four found unexploded outside the terminal near airplanes, so the lab johnnies have something more to work with. No harm done, no one hurt, but bombs set in restricted areas where special clearance is required. So the question must be asked: harmless practical joke or dry run for something worse?
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there is an issue with some of the restricted areas, Downing said. They dont have cameras, so this produces a bit of a challenge.
Watch the passengers, don't watch the watchers.
I suspect one of the air 'meal' catering truck operators.
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Try one in a sheet metal mailbox RJ, see if it's real blood or merely red dye.
Or a metal trashcan, like in the restrooms.
Or on the tarmac, where someone might pick it up to prevent FOD.
they're over reacting and definitely over-charging.
It's an airport. You know, with aircraft and passengers. If "it's a simple bang and not loud or destructive:, what happens when it eventually is "loud and destructive"? Are you going to complain about lousy airport security?
[Al Ahram] In Giza's Istiqama mosque, which lies in the district's main square, rival protests broke out after Eid prayers early on Tuesday morning, as supporters of 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... exchanged chants with supporters of army chief and Defence Minister Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi.
Worshipers observing the holy Eid Al-Adha feast, where Musselmens commemorate Prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Ismael for God only to be given a lamb to sacrifice instead, broke out in pro-Morsi and Islamist chants while their opponents chanted in support of El-Sisi -- the army commander who led Morsi's removal from office in July after mass protests against his rule.
The protest erupted when some worshipers exiting the mosque flashed a pro-Morsi hand sign to camera crews gathered on top of an overpass covering the prayers.
The sign remembers the pro-Morsi sit-in at Cairo's Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square, which was dispersed by police in mid-August leaving hundreds dead. Protesters either gesture it or carry a famous yellow poster bearing a black hand making the sign.
As a crowd spontaneously formed below the cameras, chants broke out repeating the name Rabaa and against the army.
"Abdel-Fattah [El-Sisi] is the slayer," they chanted, while opponents of Morsi gathered on the other side of a metal railing encircling the mosque and started shouting, "We love you Sisi."
Both protests constituted a small fraction of worshipers. Eventually dozens more joined the pro-Morsi protest and yellow signs started appearing.
"When something is stolen from you you must bring it back peacefully," Asmaa Abdel-Aziz, a state employee, told Ahram Online, saying that Islamists are not forces of Evil and insisting that Morsi was on his way to doing great things for Egypt.
Ramy, a young man standing in between both groups wearing an expression of consternation, disagreed with Asmaa and said he did not approve of the actions of Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund during its year in power.
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... Ramy was worried protesters on both sides would engage in violence.
"Everyone should have the right to freedom of expression, I just hope this remains peaceful," he said.
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"We're Numbah One!"
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What an idiotic piece! Fixing the website should be the least of anyone's concerns. Even when ObamaCare is chugging along at 100% IT IS STILL BROKEN.
Delays won't help. Fixing the website won't help. Just end the damn thing. Pass a budget which defunds it, pass a 1 year debt ceiling increase and GO HOME.
Also, thought the comment yesterday that the website will suddenly start working fine the second O-Care is funded was pretty cynical, and not at all unlikely. Dems hiding the true costs until it's too late to fix? Nah, those guys would never do anything like that...
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I have a more fundamental issue: putting a set of business rules into a form that will be slavishly followed without fail by a computer reveals contradictions and inconsistencies. The rule set for Obamacare are now eight times the size of the Bible, and were designed by people whose main mental goal was not logical consistency but the implementation of a fantasy that is logically unattainable. Let me go further: the fact that the law was written by Liberals and proving difficult to implement in a program, is proof of the mental inability of Liberals and the realistic impossibility of attaining the ends they desire.
The plans of a Liberal never succeed in real life, but the Liberal himself can prosper by way of the the "float" between proposal and recognized failure: In real life, the money runs out eventually, but that "eventually" takes many decades, enough time for people to forget, for the scoundrels to cover their tracks, and for the media to doctor and airbrush the past.
That doesn't happen in a computer program, where the internal logic (or illogic), of a scheme that would last decades in real life before crashing, runs to a crash or failure in a matter of minutes. In the real world, the scheme's life-time is extended by corruption: deliberate violation of the rules to satisfy or placate or "work around" a perceived violation of the desired end. The numerous exemptions Given by the White House to placate those who would otherwise crash the system is the only way to keep it going. In a computer program, there will have to be overrides numerous IF statements, each of which, by their very existence, say "this individual is more privileged than another, not equal."
In short, Liberalism is a "program" that can only run on a flawed cpu that cannot produce consistent results, and would crash on one that requires consistency.
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Oh, another thing: I pointed out in the earlier comment that it is possible for a set of business rules to be contradictory, and since it is desired to deliver the graft/loot/bribes reliably, the contradiction must be resolved one way or another by adding another business rule or modifying one or both of the rules that are contradicting each other.
Here's the kicker: There are business rules in Obamacare that are there for political, not logical, reasons. I cannot emphasize this enough: You cannot logically determine how to reconcile any pair of rules without consulting the customer. The customer is a government toady charged by politicians to ensure reliable delivery of the graft/loot/bribes. Before the "customer" can resolve the contradiction, he has to determine which ones are political or logical, determine who the political players are that are benefitting from the rules being in there in the first place, determine the power relationship between conflicting political players if BOTH rules are there for political reasons, and create a new business rule that specifies which rule takes precedence. The bureaucrat "customer" has to do this, aware that hell will come down on him when someone promised graft/loot/bribes don't get their cut and scream at the politician who inserted the business rule into the law in the first place.
Oh, and what keeps the bugs alive, flourishing, and multiplying, are the cases where a political rule contradicts a logical one: it takes no brains to realize how a leftist bureaucrat would decide THAT one. The negation of the logical one creates a latent bug/contradiction that keeps the program buggy.
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Darn... forgot to mention: The Bureaucrat "customer" sure as heck ain't gonna make a snap decision until he figures all that stuff out and talks to a superior. An insider programmer at CGI suggested the site would be ready in between 2 weeks to two months.
Heck, I am sure resolving ONE contradiction would take a bureaucrat a week...
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...sounds like a real who-done-it to me, although interesting that the beautiful and charming Suha would not allow the autopsy. Maybe she has a little something to share? Or, should we just blame the Jooooooos...
[An Nahar] A booby-trapped car seized Monday by the army in Dahieh contained around 50 kilograms of explosive material, an army statement said, as President Michel Suleiman hailed the military institution for its achievement.
The vehicle turned out to contain "around 50 kilos of explosives: three landmines, six anti-vehicle grenades, a quantity of TNT, and some 20 kilograms of aluminum powder that is mixed with yellow sulfur and electric fuses," according to the statement.
"It turned out that the aforementioned car had been sold several times in the past," the statement added.
The Army Command noted that investigations are ongoing under the supervision of the relevant judicial authorities "with the aim of identifying those involved in this criminal act," urging citizens in all Lebanese regions to immediately report any suspicious activity.
Meanwhile, President Suleiman hailed the army for seizing the car and lauded its efforts.
"Eid (al-Adha) for the officers and soldiers takes its true meaning from their sacrifices for the sake of the country and civil peace," Suleiman saiad, slamming "the plots against the innocent citizens that are aimed at undermining the stability that we are all seeking."
On Monday evening, the army said an explosive-rigged Grand Cherokee was found in the Beirut southern suburb of al-Maamoura and that military experts dismantled the bomb after cordoning off the area.
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[Dawn] It was 6 O'clock on Monday morning as this correspondent suddenly woke to the loud sounds of kaboom in the otherwise sleepy town of Mashky-Gajjar, as the army troops entered the town centre to take control where the 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... Liberation Front (BLF), a banned separatist Death Eater group, had been quite active and in recent weeks many separatists organizations had remained involved in helping thousands of quake-affected residents.
As all hell broke loose this correspondent witnessed residents of earthquake-hit Mashky-Gajjar fleeing the city on cycle of violences and taking shelter in makeshift huts as army troops entered the town. When this correspondent left the scene at around 5.30pm, foot soldiers were seen on the streets of Mashky, and helicopters were seen making rounds above the area. According to local contacts, the operation continued on its second day on Tuesday. The ongoing skirmishes are reportedly taking place in the outskirts of Mashky-Gajjar, a town in Balochistan's southern Awaran district, which is one of the epicentres of a series of earthquakes that hit between Sept 24 and Sept 28, leaving more than 500 dead, 25,000 families homeless and 300,000 people affected.
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[Dawn] THE idea of bringing the government of the United States of America to its knees has a certain appeal in various parts of the world.
Broadly speaking, though, the reasons for this are very different from the motivations that guide the hardcore conservatives who bear primary responsibility for driving the dysfunctionality that has been evident in Washington over the past couple of weeks.
And it could get much worse unless tomorrow's deadline for raising the nation's debt ceiling is met. Negotiations were under way at the time of writing, and it seemed probable that some sort of agreement would be worked out to forestall a crunch that threatened not only to halt the US economic recovery but to undermine the intricately interconnected international financial system.
Theoretically, that wouldn't necessarily be an undesirable outcome. It is not particularly difficult, after all, to picture global capitalism as an insatiable beast that invariably preys on the weak. But is there a short-term alternative other than complete chaos -- which, in many cases, would enhance the pain of the most vulnerable sections of society?
In the American domestic context, the most disturbing implications of a default would be a potential inability to issue social security cheques or pay medicare bills. Somewhat perversely, that goes to the heart of the issues at stake in the congressional negotiations over the shutdown and the borrowing ceiling.
An irrationally conservative core in the Republican caucus is determined to somehow kill the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, notwithstanding its approval by both houses of Congress and, just last year, its endorsement by the Supreme Court.
Even in its initial form, the proposed law fell short of the universal healthcare provisions that have been the norm in most Western democracies for decades. Then it was further watered down, disqualifying the government from competing as a health insurer on an equal footing with private entities.
The aim was to reduce the proportion of Americans who find themselves unable to pay their medical bills. The act also entailed the expansion of Medicaid, which offers health coverage of those too poor to afford insurance.
But it seems two-thirds of those who would have been covered by this extension will be left out, as they happen to live in Republican-controlled states that have refused to participate in the programme -- despite the fact that it would be completely covered by the federal government for the first three years, and to the extent of at least 90pc thereafter.
This sort of bloody-mindedness is one of the aspects of American exceptionalism that foreigners find hard to grasp. The naysayers cite the principle of individual liberty. But in most cases their understanding of the concept is convoluted.
It encompasses the right to bear arms, never mind that the ubiquity of gun ownership leads to the periodic massacre of innocents. But it does not extend to the right to medical care for everyone who needs it.
It could, of course, be argued that the US sustains similar hypocrisies on a worldwide scale, ostensibly supporting democratic trends but quietly slipping into bed with dictatorships wherever and whenever it suits its purposes to do so.
It is also hard to ignore the fact that the opponents of big government in the US tend to shut their eyes to Washington's more egregious transgressions on this score.
The revelations facilitated by Edward Snowden, for instance, about the scale of the National Security Agency's domestic spying operations have not prompted any Tea Party protests.
Some commentators attribute the current impasse to the increasing degree of political polarisation in the US, which is a valid point. On any conventional scale, though, the divide is not between left and right so much as between the centre-right and the far right, between a degree of reason and complete irrationality, with the banner for the latter tendency being held up by fanatics such as Texan Republican senator Ted Cruz.
It is not entirely surprising that Cruz and others of his ilk are being referred to as Banana Republicans or being compared with jacket wallahs. What's scary, though, is the degree to which Tea Party stalwarts are able to intimidate the Republicans as a whole.
It is widely presumed that were the House of Representatives speaker John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner ... the occasionally weepy leader of House Republicans... to introduce a resolution lifting the debt ceiling and ending the government shutdown, it would readily pass, notwithstanding the House's Republican majority -- based more on the gerrymandering of congressional districts than on the popular vote -- because many Republicans are wary of the Tea Party's extremism.
But Boehner has been reluctant to do so for fear of igniting the wrath of his party's Taliban tendency.
The latter, meanwhile, has been so adamant about defunding or postponing the Affordable Care Act because it realises that once it is implemented, it would become much harder to oppose.
As this week began, both sides were reportedly anticipating a negative market reaction, in the hope that it would make their adversaries more amenable to a compromise. Yet the markets remained steady in the expectation of an imminent deal.
Although there are better than ever chances of some sort of accommodation being hammered out at the eleventh hour, it is likely to be a time-constrained modus vivendi. If so, the prospect of a US default will rear its head once more a few weeks hence, and the shutdown may only be temporarily suspended.
Voters, who polls suggest are more inclined to blame the current impasse on the Republicans, will have the opportunity to offer a verdict in the November 2014 midterm elections. Should the status quo indefinitely persist, though, the international perception of the US as a potentially failed state can only grow.
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The Stupid Party has more than earned its nickname during this clusterfarg. Better for the House to have passed a "clean CR" - with spending remaining set at sequester levels - and then sit down, pop some popcorn, crack open a couple of brewskis and watch the Obamacare rollout disaster unfold. Even the MSM couldn't have kept that covered up for too long. But noooo...the Trunks had to pretend that they could draw lines in the sand, with their principled stands finally getting honest media coverage and swinging public opinion their way. Got news for you, guys - the Low Information Voters haven't discovered a Tocquevillesque passion for public affairs in the past eleven months. They're still mostly ignorant and mostly spoonfed their political opinions via the corrupt news/entertainment media.
And now the Trunks are getting their testicles handed to them by a relentless shitstorm of negative media coverage and disastrous polling (yeah, I know the polls are rigged and front-loaded with Quislingrats and government employees. Like knowing that made a difference for our side last November??), they're going to have to swallow a CR deal that allows the 'Rats to throw away the sequester cuts and go wild with the credit card yet again, and they're setting up a damn strong likelihood of the 'Rats retaking the House next year.
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Basically, the Permanent Party Propaganda Machine is forcing a return to the choice of King or Parliament. Too many want a King with the facade of a 'republic'. Go ahead and panic. IIRC at this time out from the last election the PPPM was reporting that the one was ahead by double digits by their polls and the election in 12 or 13 months was just a formality. Who was panicking those last couple of months?
BTW - hardcore conservatives who bear primary responsibility for driving the dysfunctionality that has been evident in Washington over the past couple of weeks.
As opposed to your Imans in the Taliban territories who push death and intolerance in your little region? The actual body count seems rather higher over there.
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I'm still optimistic. It is better to fight something that you know is wrong and then later when it fails say 'we tried but they villified!' than to let everything fall to pot and say 'we knew but felt you had to suffer before we'd do anything.'.
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Anybody doubt that if not funded soon, Obama will make the Shutdown look like a party. The NPS will close all parks, everywhere, no checks will go out to anyone, while the gubbamint continues to rake in the coin, while they decide what is the correct priority for paying the bills.
Lessee - Air Force One and the golf course would come first...
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We fought a Revolutionary War with the Brits over taxation without representation which is basically what we have now. Our government has been a clusterf&*$ for some time now; an elitist mutual admiration society consisting of basically one party--the liberal (or radical) democrats and the rhino republicans being in charge. Neither of these groups work to the benefit of the American people. They seem to care only about creating a cushy job for themselves and re-election. We really need term limits to break-up this structure. I don't know how these limits should be created--maybe on the basis of total time at the trough.
[Dawn] On the request of the capital police, the city administration has ordered the jail trial of former president Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... in the murder case of a Lal Masjid holy man and his mother during the 2007 operation.
The case was registered with the Aabpara police on September 2, 2013, sources in the police and administration said.
They added that the request for the jail trial was made in view of threats to the former president.
"According to the intelligence report, Death Eater outfits have planned to assassinate the former president," they added.
On April 23, a car loaded with 45 kilogrammes of explosive, was found near Musharraf's farmhouse in Chak Shahzad which has been declared a sub-jail.
Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Irene was indignant at the thought of doing such a thing without benefit of clergy... sources in the police claimed that the Aabpara police on Tuesday refused to collect evidence and record the statements of witnesses against the former president in connection with the killing of the Lal Masjid holy man and his mother.
After the refusal of the Aabpara police, the Lal Masjid Shuhada Foundation and Haroon Rasheed, the complainant in the case, sent a letter to the inspector general of the police.
The sources said the complainant visited the Aabpara cop shoppe on Monday and Tuesday to hand over the evidence to SHO Qasim Niazi. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... the SHO was not available on both the occasions, they added.
In response, the complainant approached the investigating officer and other staff but they refused to entertain them.
Ihtesham Ahmed, a front man for Lal Masjid Shuhada Foundation, when contacted, claimed that the SHO and the investigating officer had deliberately refused to receive evidence and record their statement to give benefit to the former president.
"We have documents and proof against Musharraf to establish his guilt in the 2007 Lal Masjid operation and the killing of people, indulging Ghazi Abdul Rasheed and his mother Sabiha Khatoon." He added: "We also wanted to give the list of witnesses who will give statements against Musharraf."--
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[Ynet] Op-ed: Rather than suspend aid, US should support army fighting to prevent Egypt from becoming Islamic state
The United States is in the process of losing its longtime ally Egypt and the one to blame is still clueless. President B.O.'s recent action of cutting hundreds of millions in military aid to Egypt reminded the Egyptians again that he is not a loyal and reliable ally.
Amid the renewed violence in Egypt, Obama must rethink his decision to turn against a long term ally. Instead of trying so hard to appease Iran, he must spend time trying to reverse the growing anti-US sentiments in Egypt and rebuild the bridges with the Egyptian army and General al-Sisi before it is too late.
Otherwise, the Russians will be welcomed back to Egypt after being expelled in 1972 by Sadat. With the help of Obama and Kerry, Putin was able to reinforce his image as a loyal ally by standing by his long term murderous client Assad and creating an agreement to get rid of Syria's chemical weapons to assure his survival. Russia by example could be seen as an attractive alternative to a country that still feels betrayed by Obama.
Maybe Obama has forgotten that the US obtained its hegemony over the Middle East only after Egypt switched to the US side in the Cold War after the 1973 war with Israel. Until then the US and Russia were on equal footing in their influence and consequently an intense arms race and many wars broke out between the Russia's clients and Israel. Only when the US got Egypt as an ally did Israel get its peace agreements with Jordan and Egypt.
Empowering Russia to be a deal maker in the Middle East is not good for the US, Israel, or the Middle East.
Putin is trying to be the patron and sponsor of the anti -Western Shiite axis including Iran, Syria's Assad regime and Leb's Hezbollah. By saving Assad through diplomatic means from an imminent US military attack for using weapons of mass destruction, Putin is auditioning for a similar role and outcome with Iran, the head of the axis. Putin needs the axis to challenge the pro-American Sunni Arab Middle East which consists of moderate Arab states like the Gulf states, Jordan and Egypt, who are terrified of a nuclear Iran.
Bringing Egypt to the axis of evil will be Russia and Iran's greatest win and Israel and the US's greatest loss.
Since being elected, Obama has made several monumental strategic mistakes concerning Egypt. After abandoning President Mubarak and calling for him to leave, and encouraging a quick election which guaranteed the Islamic parties' win since they were by far the most organized, Obama has been perceived to favor the Brotherhood. Moreover, Obama was silent when Morsi and the Brotherhood gradually expanded their power by imposing Islamic law on the population, suppressed the media and, allowed incitements against non-Sunni Mohammedans and Coptic Christians.
In the aftermath of President Morsi's removal by the army, Obama ignored the Brotherhood's violence and only condemned the army's violent crackdown while suspending a planned joint military exercise with the army and the delivery of F-16 fighter jets.
Since then, there are escalating anti-US and more specifically anti-Obama public attacks in Egypt, including declarations by senior Egyptian government officials, articles in the newspapers identified with the regime and the army, and political and popular campaigns in social media and the street. The Egyptian pro-army press notably published articles vilifying President B.O. himself, insulting his mother, and calling him mentally deficient. His administration was even called "the Adolf Obama Reich."
Many articles argued that Egypt was better off without the US aid and contended that Obama supported terror by virtue of his support of the Brotherhood. Furthermore, many articles dealt with the decline of American influence in the Middle East and in Egypt in Russia's favor. They called for inviting President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... to Cairo, with a lavish reception to be held in his honor.
Now, the US move of cutting aid to Egypt in response to the recent violence crackdown and the July 3 ouster of Morsi will only exacerbate the perception in Egypt that Obama has been siding with the Brotherhood.
US State Department officials stated the aid is suspended temporarily with the hope that the Egyptian military will take steps toward restoring democracy.
It seems that President B.O. still does not realize that his efforts in trying to save the illusion of democracy in Egypt are going nowhere. Egypt will never be a true democracy. The army will never let the Moslem Brüderbund win an election again and will prevent it by any means possible. It is now in the final steps of the process of decapitating the Islamists' political power. The army has been fighting for a secular Egypt and to prevent it from being transformed into an Islamic state similar to Iran.
A stable, secular, military ruled Egypt should be more important to the US than a false, temporarily democratic Egypt controlled by Islamic Death Eaters, who eventually would transform the country into an Islamic dictatorship.
The US must embrace the Egyptian army without setting any preconditions, because keeping Egypt in the pro-Western bloc is in the best national interests of the US and Israel.
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Obama isn't clueless, it is strategery.
We'll defeat terrorism by giving in to the non-terroristic islamofascists' demands. Then they will disown the terrorists because they just don't need them anymore. Voila, the war on 'terror' is won!
This is the Western political classes' consensus approach. Obama is executing consensus policy as McCain would have done.
The Dems put Slow Joe at VP because he was supposed to be the foreign policy expert to counterbalance Obumble's inexperience...geez louise, BIDEN for goodness sake!!!
We should have known this from the beginning. All of those fawning crowds should have realized that Biden on the ticket was an ADMISSION by the Dems that Obambi, the empty suit hiding under his desk in the Oval office when he is not playing golf and going on elaborate vacations, was in over his head.
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The real president is aValJar. Obumbles is just window dressing.
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Egypt has been doing a bang up job cleaning house. I'm happy with them. I believe he is doing damage control because of his ties to the Moslem Brotherhood. Hes been trying very hard to grant Morsi, Al Haddad & Al Shater release. Apparently they plan to spill the beans during the trials in the next few weeks.
[Ynet] Russian security forces announce they prevented an attack on a chemical disarmament facility some 900 km (650 miles) west of Moscow.
A bigwig noted that the attack was planned to be carried out in September, and that its two planners, aged 19 and 21, were locked away Please don't kill me!.
[An Nahar] Iranian and U.S. delegations held "useful" bilateral talks Tuesday evening on the sidelines of high-profile nuclear talks in Geneva, a senior State Department official said, as
"As had been expected, Under Secretary (Wendy) Sherman and members of the U.S. delegation held a bilateral meeting with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister (Abbas) Araqchi and members of the Iranian delegation tonight," the U.S. official said.
The meeting lasted nearly an hour, the source added.
A figure close to Iran's nuclear negotiation team also confirmed the talks, but did not provide details.
The rare meeting came after Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his U.S. counterpart John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... held a 30-minute face-to-face discussion in New York last month on the sidelines of talks within the framework of the so-called P5+1 group.
The last time Iranian and American delegations held bilateral meetings was in October 2009.
Iran's two-day Geneva talks with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... -chaired P5+1 group -- the United States, Britannia, La Belle France, China and Russia, plus Germany -- ends a six-month freeze sparked by its refusal to curb uranium enrichment in exchange for the easing of punishing international sanctions.
Tehran said it had presented a potentially "breakthrough" proposal to end a decade-long standoff with world powers on Tuesday, noting that the offer
Despite the upbeat tone, Iranian state news agency IRNA quoted senior Iranian negotiator Abbas Araqchi as saying that snap inspections of the Islamic republic's nuclear facilities were not part of the new proposal.
"It does not exist in the offer," Araqchi told IRNA.
Iran has drawn other red lines, saying it will not accept any demand to suspend uranium enrichment or ship out stockpiles of purified material.
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Can I insert this Groundhog Day picture from the Burg's Art Department?
Yes, I can!
Can anyone count the number of breakthroughs that were not?
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1999 - The U.S. Monday announced a new breakthrough with North Korea, after the two sides agreed at talks in Berlin that Pyongyang would suspend missile tests in exchange for Washington's moving to ease economic sanctions on the impoverished communist state.
You'd figured we've learned the lesson having done this dance with N.Korea.
WASHINGTON - An elite U.S. interrogation team abandoned its questioning of an al-Qaeda militant who was snatched in Libya after he stopped eating and drinking regularly on board a U.S. Navy ship where he was being held, a U.S. official familiar with the matter said.
As his health deteriorated, U.S. authorities decided to fly the suspect known as Abu Anas al-Liby to New York last weekend, where he was taken to a hospital for treatment.
Put an NG tube down, put down four cans of nutritional supplement a day, and continue questioning him. This isn't hard.
Al-Liby, whose real name is Nazih al-Ragye, was expected to be arraigned in Federal Court in Manhattan on Tuesday on long-standing charges related to the bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998.
Upon arrival in the United States, al-Liby became subject to the rules of the civilian American court system. That means he can no longer be interrogated without being advised of his constitutional right to avoid incriminating himself, the official said.
What do we give him next time he stages a hunger strike?
Last week, U.S. officials said one of the principal reasons U.S. Delta Force commandos staged a risky raid to capture al-Liby at his Tripoli residence was so the United States could gather intelligence from the former senior operative of the core al Qaeda organization founded by Osama bin Laden.
Best done at Gitmo, where we can take our time and cross-check everything he says. Now he'll have a mouthpiece (likely provided by the CCR), and he'll clam up. Why bother doing the raid in the first place?
An interagency team created by the administration of President Barack Obama, the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG) was deployed to the USS San Antonio, the Navy ship to which al-Liby was taken after being captured earlier this month.
At the time of his capture, U.S. officials said the plan was to keep al Liby on board the ship for weeks so the HIG, which can question detainees without advising them of their U.S. constitutional rights, could extract as much intelligence as possible regarding what he knew about current and past al Qaeda plans, personnel and operations.
However, said the official, who asked for anonymity when discussing sensitive information, al-Liby, whose family has said he suffered from Hepatitis C, stopped eating and drinking regularly once on board the ship. Although al-Liby did not stage a total hunger strike, the official said, his health continued to deteriorate and U.S. officials decided that shipboard medical facilities did not offer adequate care.
It is unclear what intelligence, if any, the interrogators managed to extract from al Liby after his capture.
This has blown up on Champ. He wants to close Gitmo and can't admit that a place like Gitmo (or Ice Station Zebra) is needed. He also didn't want to put guys like al-Libi into the civilian criminal justice system. So he sought to be cute and have our Navy ships serve as a Gitmo-equivalent. Now he's lost his nerve since he doesn't want to explain how a prisoner died on a Navy ship.
al-Libi is an illegal combatant. He was captured on foreign soil in a military operation, and he's accused of terrorist activity. He enjoys none of the protections of the US Constitution.
Now, of course, every mook captured in the future will pull the same stunt. And likely will be rewarded.
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Now, of course, every mook captured in the future will pull the same stunt. And likely will be rewarded
As long as the mook groupie in the WH (or others of the same ilk) are running the joint, bet on it.
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Can't figure out for the life of me why we don't just let him starve himself to death. Keep records and backup evidence. Let him drop dead from malnutrition just like he wants.
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"None of the protections of the US Constitution" > I suspect that will change wid the Globalists come 2015 or ASAP afterward, as per OWG + "borderless", "anti-sovereign", etc. Amerika.
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Fuck him. Let him starve/dehydrate to death, and make it known what a slow painful way it was since he gave up the intel we needed in his weakened state.
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I figured (hoped ... no dreamed is more like it!) that he caved and gave us everything we wanted, then we fed him.
Is our CIA so retarded they can't leak that 'information' in a believable way?
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Continue the questioning until he starves. It's gonna be a circus when he gets to New York. It's gonna be one giant squirrel.
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In the.future:
1. Do not announce the capture.
2. Interrogate him using whatever non torture methods we have.
3. After wringing him dry of useful intelligence, turn him over to civilian courts. Don't use the Intel to prosecute, so he can't get the evidence excluded.
4. If he tries the hunger strike, let him starve to death, then toss the corpse overboard. If anybody complains, just deny, deny.
By the way, there is enhanced interrogation, and then there is torture. John McCain and other LOWs were tortured - beatings, etc. Torture is rarely effective. Enhanced interrogation, when done right, can be very effective.
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[Dawn] The Lahore High Court (LHC) has directed the Pakpattan district and sessions judge to file a fresh report related to the police report under Section 173 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) before the trial court regarding the gang rape of a girl.
According to a handout issued on Tuesday, the LHC sought a report from the district and sessions judge within a week in order to get the investigation of the case done in a transparent manner.
The handout says the alleged rape victim, a resident of village 25-EB, went to Arifwala with the suspect to get financial assistance of the Benazir Income Support Programme. The suspect took her to some unidentified place where he along with two other accomplices raped her.
After cognizance of the LHC Complaint Cell on administrative side, the district and sessions judge submitted that the police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against the suspects declaring them innocent.
"But the complainant is completely dissatisfied with the investigation of the case as well as conduct of the investigation officer," says the handout.
It says: "The police claimed holding of investigations fairly. The victim could not substantiate her allegations against the nominated accused. However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... the police record reveals that the victim was medically examined after a lapse of two days and the samples were obtained by the concerned medical officer for chemical examination as well as DNA test. But without receiving the reports, local police declared the suspects innocent merely on the basis of circumstantial evidence, which cannot be called fair investigation."
The sessions judge observed that the investigation officer should have waited for the report and then in the light of that report, he could form any definite opinion regarding innocence of the culprits.
The judge has directed the Pakpattan district police officer to take notice of the incident as well as the defective investigation and to proceed against the investigation officer in accordance with law.
The complaint cell has directed the Pakpattan D&SJ to immediately comply with the orders regarding submission of a fresh report within a week."
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[Al Ahram] Poland's Mohammedan community decided Tuesday to refrain from the ancient tradition of animal sacrifice for the Eid al-Adha holiday amid protests by animal rights activists and a controversial ban on halal slaughter.
"For the first time in hundreds of years, there was no ritual slaughter here today for the Eid feast," Michal Adamowicz, a front man for the community, said Tuesday in the Mohammedan Tatar village of Bohoniki, eastern Poland.
The country's top Mohammedan leader, Mufti Tomasz Miskiewicz, said his community was suffering a "witch hunt" as activists protested against halal slaughter near a small wooden mosque in the village, where other Mohammedans appeared ready to slaughter sheep.
Several hundred descendants of Mohammedan Tatars, who arrived in Poland three centuries ago, live in the area.
Mohammedan and Jewish ritual slaughter was banned in overwhelmingly Catholic Poland on 1 January after the Constitutional Court deemed it incompatible with animal rights legislation.
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Can't they just sacrifice a (rubber) chicken like Cerrano did in Major League?
[An Nahar] French authorities have tossed in the calaboose Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! a former Georgian defense minister wanted in his homeland on corruption charges, Georgia's interior ministry said Tuesday.
Davit Kezerashvili, a close ally of outgoing president Mikheil Saakashvili, was detained Monday in Gay Paree and is set to face an extradition hearing to determine whether he should be sent back to the Caucasus nation.
"The French prosecutor's office is currently conducting legal procedures," Georgia's interior ministry said in a statement.
Georgia's ambassador to La Belle France, Ekaterine Siradze-Delaunay, said Kezerashvili was tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! on Monday and placed in jug in Aix en Provence, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of Marseille.
"I do not know when he arrived in La Belle France or whether he resides in La Belle France," Siradze-Delaunay told Agence La Belle France Presse.
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[Dawn] Four months since they were set up, none of the 14 election tribunals across the country has adjudicated upon a single complaint against alleged poll rigging in the 2013 general elections. Some 400 such complaints are pending in the tribunals.
The law requires the tribunals to decide the cases within 120 days, but this has never happened in the electoral history of the country.
This time there were hopes that the cases would be adjudicated upon within the stipulated period as the tribunals comprised retired judges who were to hear the cases on day-to-day basis free from the pressure of routine judicial workload.
Five election tribunals were appointed in Punjab and three each in the other provinces on June 3. These tribunals comprising retired district and sessions judges have been drawing salaries equivalent to BPS-22 officers since May 1, 2013, but have not decided a single case.
Only two of the total three tribunals in Sindh have reached the stage of ordering biometric verification of voters in around eight constituencies 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... and Sukkur.
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[Breitbart] DETROIT -- An autopsy is expected on the remains of a Detroit man who police say was partly devoured by an animal, zombie, or something in his home.
The Detroit Free Press reports Tuesday that part of the man's leg was chewed off. The badly decomposed body was found Monday afternoon on the city's northwest side by infrequently visiting relatives.
Sgt. Michael Woody says the body's condition makes it difficult to determine if he died of natural causes or from foul play.
Woody also says investigators aren't sure if a dog or another animal gnawed on the remains.
Thousands of stray dogs reportedly roam Detroit's streets, living in vacant houses and buildings. But raccoons, opossums and other wild creatures are finding refuge in the city which has lost more than one million people since the 1950s.
A group of Syrian clerics have issued a ruling - or fatwa - allowing people living in besieged suburbs of Damascus to eat meat that is normally forbidden.
In a video, the Muslim clerics said people could eat cats, dogs and donkeys to stave off hunger.
The fatwa comes amid reports of starvation in the besieged, rebel-held Damascus suburb of Muadhamiya.
In a message to coincide with the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha - normally a time for celebration and feasting - the religious leaders authorised those left in the Ghouta agricultural belt around Damascus to eat animals usually considered unfit for human consumption in Islam.
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Muadhamiyans, they would be silly
To ask what went into the chili
Fido or a filly
A cat or a billy
"Bismillah, an infidel's willy!"
(though that might be gilding the lily)
That poem wuz really high-class
Please to notice I didn't say "ass"
My genteel demeanor
Interdicts any "wiener"
And reports of postprandial gas
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Your dog-loving genius, James Thurber
Was known to us pups as "the curber"
He held us all prisoner!
Do I shock you, dear listener?
We were chained, hostages to his fervor
When Thurber was took for a raper
Grand Forks folks sure cut up a caper
For his two abuses,
Choked him dead with two nooses
Then poetically bragged in the paper
[An Nahar] An Libyan al-Qaeda suspect arraigned in a New York court pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." Tuesday to conspiracy charges over the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa that killed 244 people.
Anas al-Libi was snatched from the streets 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... by U.S. commandos on October 5 and at the weekend was brought to New York, where he he had been indicted by a grand jury.
The 49-year-old was on Tuesday escorted into New York Southern District courtroom 24A wearing a black sweater and grey jogging pants, with a bushy grey beard and closely cropped black hair.
Judge Lewis Kaplan read out a list of charges him that accuse Libi of conspiring to murder, kidnap, maim, kill, destroy property and attack U.S. defense buildings.
The charges do not carry the death penalty.
Libi, who looked tired, spoke in a gravelly voice only to confirm his name and age, and that he understood the proceedings. Speaking in Arabic, he was given a translator to follow the hearing.
The prosecution said Libi, whose given name is Nazih Abdul Hamed al-Raghie, was a clear danger to the public and a flight risk with no family in the United States.
The judge ordered him tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! and, after a session of less than 15 minutes, adjourned the next hearing until October 22.
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Mr. al-Libi's appointed lawyer sez he was 'snatched illegally', ie, kidnapped. If that logic or defense holds, Ben Laden's fate could well be characterized as murder.
[Dawn] The body of a girl who had been found dead in a ditch on the edge of Islamabad on Monday has been identified as a model and beauty queen from Singapore, police said on Tuesday.
Fehmina Chaudhry, 27, a Singapore-based model originally from 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... , went missing last Thursday while visiting Islamabad to buy property, police said.
"Police locked away Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! the real estate broker and after interrogation, he told officers that he had murdered the model and dumped her body in a stream at the outskirts of the city," Islamabad police front man Muhammad Naeem told AFP.
Her promoter in Pakistain, Asif Hashmi confirmed Chaudhry's death, and said she was married with a son and a daughter.
"She was a dedicated philanthropist and she was planning to set up a fashion school in Pakistain," Hashmi said, adding that she had won several beauty contests.
The officer leading the investigation, Yasir Afridi, said Chaudhry's mother had contacted her for the last time on the evening of October 10, after which she received a text message saying her daughter had been kidnapped.
"She used to visit Pakistain often to see her mother and was staying at a private hotel in Islamabad where she came to buy real estate for her mother," Yasir said.
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The Syrian National Coalition opposition group said it backed the UN-OPCW mission but insisted none of the weapons sites were under rebel control.
"Wudn't us."
None of Syrias chemical weapons sites are under rebel control, the key opposition National Coalition said on Tuesday.
The assertion came after the head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said one abandoned site was in a rebel-held area and that inspectors from a UN-OPCW team were hoping to visit it.
In a statement, the Syrian National Coalition opposition group said it backed the UN-OPCW mission but insisted none of the weapons sites were under rebel control.
There are chemical sites under regime control that Free Syrian Army brigades are laying siege to but there are no chemical sites at all that are controlled by the rebel brigades, the Coalition said.
The statement said the coalition and rebel command sought full cooperation with all international missions to facilitate their work and ensure their full protection.
On Monday, OPCW director-general Ahmet Uzumcu told the BBC that inspectors from the mission had visited five out of at least 20 Syrian sites where chemical weapons could be produced. And he said one abandoned chemical weapons site was in rebel-held territory and that routes to other sites went through opposition-held areas.
The first members of the UN-OPCW team arrived in Syria on October 1 to carry out the terms of a UN Security Council resolution on the verification and destruction of Syrias chemical arsenal.
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[Shabelle] Sunday's arrests of four terror suspects in London allowed Britannia to avert a plot to orchestrate a large-scale terror attack similar to the assault on Kenya's Westgate mall, reportsThe News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
Police were questioning four men in their 20s on suspicion of terrorism after they were tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! Sunday in pre-planned, intelligence-led raids.
A British security official said on Monday that the men were planning a shooting spree akin to the Westgate attack in Nairobi, in which at least 67 people died.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said it was not clear how advanced the planning was but that any attack was not imminent.
Metropolitan Police did not identify the suspects or say what, if any, charges, they may face. The men were all British nationals between the ages of 25 and 29, with roots in Turkey, Pakistain, Algeria and Azerbaijan.
The force confirmed that the London police firearms unit took part in the arrests. British police rarely carry weapons and their involvement suggested concern that men might have been armed.
Dramatic CCTV footage has emerged of one of the arrests, in which counter-terror police are seen tackling a suspect on the street in an upscale west London neighborhood.
Recently, Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... , the terrorist group which carried out the recent attack in Nairobi, said it was planning to target Britannia next.
A hate preacher wanted for recruiting gunnies to the group warned in a newspaper interview that Britannia was the next target for the Somali Al-Qaeda affiliate.
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> British police rarely carry weapons
Not true. They don't routinely carry weapons openly outside central London.
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