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The kind of people that end up as TSA employees scares you to death. Any one can be TSA. Even terrorists that can let terrorists through or even provide the weapons.
I first ran into Emerson in 1989. He's been at the terrorist thing for quite a while. I'd consider him one of the leading counterterrorism experts and writers.
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..an allegory for America when it discovers the cost of seeking immortality, as reported when the 'rubes' discovered their premiums skyrocketed and quipped they thought someone else was going to pay for it [just like the generous pension bonuses handed out in Detroit].
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His favoured white-shirt-blue-tie combo was swapped for yellow overalls as Australia's 28th prime minister joined his Davidson RFS brigade on a back-burning operation in Bilpin, near the Blue Mountains, for a night shift that began at 6pm Saturday and finished at 8am yesterday.
If not for a couple of photos circulating on Twitter, it's a fair chance that Mr Abbott's weekend exploits would have gone unnoticed.
His office did not issue a statement until the blurry image of the PM giving the thumbs-up from behind the wheel of a fire truck appeared on the social media site.
While many Twitter followers praised his volunteering spirit, others questioned the wisdom of the nation's leader putting himself in the line of fire. Perfora recti
Tajik State National Security Committee (GKNB) last month killed the Afghan leader of a trans-national crime group, media reported October 18, citing the GKNB press office, which released the news one month after it occurred.
The GKNB identified the dead man as Gulom Rabbani waladi Bekmuhammadnazar, born in 1981. GKNB forces killed Rabbani in a shootout in Farkhor District, Khatlon Oblast, Avesta.tj reported the GKNB as saying.
His accomplice was injured and escaped back into Afghanistan, the GKNB added, saying its forces found a Kalashnikov automatic rifle, ammunition, two mobile phones and 12.5kg of drugs at the scene.
Rabbani's crime ring smuggled drugs from Afghanistan for a long time, the GKNB said. Rabbani didn't pay his 'protection?' Or got outbid by a competitor?
Not literally bled dry yet, but working on it. After we leave they'll re-open the beheading stadia.
The militancy in Afghanistan is about more than killing innocent civilians; it's also about the Taliban keeping the country from making social and economic progress.
The Taliban has played a villain on the Afghan stage," Zurmati said, adding that their attacks have drained billions of dollars from the nation's coffers. The Afghan government also drains billions of dollars to their private benefit. If ANY slips through to the Afghan people, then somebody messed up.
Had even half that money gone to social development rather than to recovery from the Taliban's misdeeds, Afghanistan would have a far more advanced infrastructure than any other country in the region, parliamentarian Mohammad Nazir Ahmadzai said.
The challenge, though, lies in devising a way to overcome the Taliban's efforts to hold the country's social and economic development hostage.
Central Asia Online will be examining the problem and possible solutions Nuke 'em from orbit - it's the only way to be sure.
in the coming weeks.
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Hopefully, like the Seawolf class subs did for the Virginia class subs, this "class of three" will make a good tested for a more economical follow-on destroyer design...
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Testbed. I'm going to turn autocorrect off now...
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Damn things are frigates. Would you like to super size that Admiral?
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said it's been a challenging project with a new hull design, composite materials and new technology.
Cant say "Titanic", can you, hope it survives?
I recall the Titanic had a new "Hull design and Composite materials", (Brittle steel Hull) on it.
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The part that struck me about survivability was the reduced crew size. Automation is cool, and there are a lot of payoffs. But from my pitiful knowledge of WWII, it seems the thing that saved a lot of USN ships was heroic damage control efforts by live humans.
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It's a battle cruiser of the classic Jackie Fisher doctrine.
Crap it's over 100 feet longer than the last destroyer built?
It is a huge technology beast, the training programs are completely screwed up and they are penny rich and pound foolish on the training facilities.
If I was an Admiral, I'd retire so I wouldn't be around when this thing is sunk. Some nutjob with a silkworm would love to put that on their website.
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Needs to be big. Navy of the future is transitioning from guns and missiles to electromagnetic weapons. Ships that carry those are going to require ginormous electrical generation, and you can't fit a big power plant into a small hull.
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Actually you can.... but it's expensive as all get out. What I want to see is a carrier turn into the wind with it's own 20 1.38 megawatt wind-turbines, this would be win, win, win, green, green, green, and hilarious. Where? Just sponson 'em out a bit more, no big deal.
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Got to work on some of the parts at previous job. Specs were atrocious to comply with and agree w/ earlier; automation can't rig a patch or shore up a bulkhead. But with composites there won't be a lot of bulkhead to shore up. A convertible warship
Interesting tech details, including the fact that the first commanding officer will be Captain James Kirk. Hey, I wonder if you can fight the ship via Emacs?
Hattip Weasel Zippers
[IHS Janes] Free Syrian Army (FSA) units are receiving intensive training from US Marine Corps personnel in Saudi Arabia, a senior FSA source has told IHS Jane's.
The source said the United States and the KSA have agreed to train around 1,500 insurgents. The programme began a few months ago and most of the personnel will be trained by the end of 2013.
The courses last for 100 days and include fighting in built up areas (FIBUA). The most recent intake that arrived from Jordan on 13 October consists of around 40% from insurgent groups operating inside Syria, with the rest recruited from refugees in neighbouring countries.
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Any bets on how long before these trainees kill their first American?
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I tried to post this Jane's article on my facebook page and now Facebook refuses to post any comments I make anywhere... Must touch some raw nerves with the admin.
h/t Instapundit
Declining prospects for upward mobility, and the simultaneous social inequality, are the existential issues of our time. The percentage of adults who believe things will be better for their kids is at its lowest point in 30 years, with a majority now saying upward mobility for the next generation is not likely. The kids, God bless them, are still far more optimistic.
Despite President Obama's occasional class-warfare rhetoric, this gap has widened significantly under his watch; the top 1 percent of earners garnered more than 90 percent of the income growth in his first two years, compared with 65 percent under George W Bush.
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We simply can't wish away reality; the scar of racism and the impact of economic change, has made it tougher for less-educated minorities to rise in contemporary America.
The "less educated" tend to do less well nearly everywhere. Blaming a "legacy" of racism or [colonialism and apartheid as in Africa] along with "economic change" will only take one so far. This is particularly striking as in Africa, true when the alleged victim demographic [87-90%] far outnumbers the European oppressors. The struggle of culture and demographics has been around for a while. Good article on the whole.
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We simply can't wish away reality; the scar of racism and the impact of economic change, has made it tougher for less-educated minorities to rise in contemporary America.
Of course legalizing 10 million non-Americans with minimal skills who violated the law to add to the voter rolls will do nothing to help those Americans already with low skills in the labor market.
The present huge sum of $17 trillion in debt is serviced at the same cost that we paid over 15 years ago. Indeed, we are paying today about the same amount in aggregate annual interest payments, in non-inflation-adjusted dollars no less, as in 1997 — even though the 2012 figure of $17 trillion in debt is about three times larger than it was a decade-and-a-half ago.
That anomaly is possible only because todayÂ’s interest rate of about 2.2% is only a third of what it was back then. If interest ever returned to 1997 levels, at say 6.6%, weÂ’d be paying over a trillion dollars a year in debt service.
In crude terms, the winners of this Ponzi scheme are the very wealthy connected to Wall Street, which is flooded with foreign and domestic capital. It need not do much of anything more than outperform a pathetic 1% return on savings accounts. The poor benefit from the vast increase in federal spending and exemption from federal income taxes. In contrast, the middle class still pays high interest on its student loans, credit card, and, to a lesser extent, car debt, receives almost no interest on its meager savings accounts, and is not so ready, after 2008, to dabble in real estate and the stock market.
In some sense, holders of U.S. Treasury debt and passbook savers are giving up hundreds of billions of dollars in interest returns (cf. the difference, say, between 1% and a more normal 5%) to subsidize the redistributive policies of the federal government. The lack of interest, or de facto negative interest, keeps the near-retired working and hampers job prospects of the young; discourages thrift, savings and investment; and plays an underappreciated role in the slow economic recovery. The Democrats must deal with the contradiction of needing zero interest rates to service their recent extra $6 trillion in debt, and higher interest to encourage savings, investment, and job growth.
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The lack of interest, or de facto negative interest, keeps the near-retired working and hampers job prospects of the young;
It's a well known fact: I'm old and in the way. I'd like to retire but I'm afraid I can't afford it. I'm the old dog who keeps learning new tricks so some smart young programmer can't take my place. But sometimes I get soooooo tired. I can think of other things to do with my remaining years too.
Interesting article by CNN - note the only American in the hoosegow has a father who's a longtime civil rights activist. Shocker! I think you mean a longtime democratic voter entitlement activist
Bristol, Rhode Island (CNN) -- The Willcox family has long been accustomed to prolonged absences from their seafaring patriarch.
In fact, run-ins with the law were not unusual, given the fact that Peter Willcox had spent decades working for the environmental activist group Greenpeace, which is well-known for its provocative, headline-grabbing protests.
But no one expected the 60-year-old mariner to end up languishing in a Russian jail in the Arctic, facing up to 15 years in prison on charges of piracy. I'm digging this story...
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But no one expected the 60-year-old mariner to end up languishing in a Russian jail in the Arctic, facing up to 15 years in prison on charges of piracy.
I demand a congressional delegation fly there at once and remain there until he is released !
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It will only complicate matters if the Russians discover that the Greenpeace movement has been overtaken by a gaye 'extreme reality' vacation tour agency.
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I demand a congressional delegation fly there at once and remain there until he is released !
Jesse Jackson available? Bill Richardson? Dennis Rodman? Dennis Kucinich? How about Ted Danson? He's always going on about the ocean, and he's not doing much...
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"I think you mean a longtime democratic voter entitlement activist"
By George, I think the doctor's got it!
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They should be thinking of this as an opportunity to rite a fine book, maybe on the toiletless paper, cigarette skins (oh ick!) or skratch it into the walls with their broken canine toof. This is a call to greatness.
[An Nahar] British police on Sunday charged two men with terror offences after they were placed in durance vile I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! during a dramatic counter-terrorism operation in London last week.
A 25-year-old man is accused of preparing acts of terrorism while he and another 25-year-old man are suspected of gathering information which could be used in a terror act, London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
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Wait just a freakin' minute here.
Armed police--extremely rare for the Brits--shot out the tires of a car containing two guys who were released without charge.
WTF?
Is this just the way the Brits operate when they have some Bad Guys? Or did they get their intel so wrong the shooters felt justified in blasting away to stop the escape?
In this country, they'd shoot the driver and passenger and then visit the guy's home and shoot the dog. But this is the UK.
What does sovereign immunity mean when you have an actual Sovereign?
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Oh, yeah. How many bystanders did they hit?
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Like British cuisine, this could be the UK's version of a 'crossfire'. ( the food sux too)
[MYFOXNY] Prosecutors say a man was apparently beaten to death during a large brawl that broke out during a party at a central New Jersey bowling alley.
But it's still not clear what started the brawl, which began around 1:30 a.m. Saturday in Piscataway and involved roughly 250 people. Authorities say the combatants were fighting inside the alley and in the parking lot, but most of them fled when police arrived.
Acting Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew Carey says 23-year-old Jamount Atkins man was injured during the brawl and taken to a hospital, where he died shortly after. Autopsy reports haven't been disclosed, but Carey says it appeared Atkins was the victim of a beating.
No arrests have been made in connection with the brawl or Atkins' death.
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[Pak Daily Times] A self-proclaimed Philippine sultan whose followers launched a bloody incursion into the Malaysian state of Sabah earlier this year died of organ failure in a Manila hospital on Sunday, his wife said.
Jamalul Kiram III, 75 -- who described himself as the "Sultan of Sulu" after a group of islands in the southern Philippines -- died at a government hospital but remained defiant to the end, his wife, Fatima Kiram said.
"The sultan died a poor but honourable man," she told AFP, adding that his fight to reclaim Sabah as part of the sultanate's territory would continue.
"His last words to all his brothers and followers were, 'It has already begun. Let us continue it for the good of our people. Do not abandon our people,'" she quoted him as saying.
She said, however, this did not mean renewed violence, adding that the family was willing to enter into negotiations with Malaysia.
Her husband had been undergoing twice-weekly dialysis sessions for kidney disease before his death.
Reacting to the death, President Benigno Aquino's spokeswoman Abigail Valte said, "we offer our condolences to the bereaved family and to his loved ones".
In February, at least 100 armed followers of Kiram, who claimed to be the hereditary chief of the "Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo," entered Sabah to press his claim on the Malaysian state.
After the group refused to lay down their arms Malaysian security forces moved against them, resulting in deadly festivities that left dozens dead and sent the invaders fleeing.
The Sultan of Sulu once ruled over islands that are now parts of the southern Philippines, as well as Sabah.
However the sultanate lost control of Sabah to European colonial powers in the 18th Century. The former British colony became part of the federation of Malaysia when it was formed in 1963.
Kiram and his family, as heirs to the sultanate, still receive annual compensation from Malaysia -- the equivalent of about $1,700 -- but he had previously said this amount was far too low.
Aside from Kiram, there are other descendants of the sultanate who also claim to be the true sultans of Sulu.
Fatima Kiram said her husband's younger brother, Bantillan, would take over as sultan, stressing he had "the legal authority".
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Iff the Boy does convert to Islam, the Philippines wil be one of his early battlefields in his rise to become the Hidden Imam = Islamic Maddi.
[TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] Indian Mujahideen A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor... is now trying to grow up as a terror network like Al-Qaeda, keeping a close liaison with Pakistain based Qaeda network Tehrik -E -Taliban, admits locked away You have the right to remain silent... IM leader Yasin Bhatkal, during his recent interrogations by different intelligence agencies. Yasin Bhatkal claimed that their ultimate mission is to uphold Sharia in India like the Mujahideen in Afghanistan and Somalia. In both countries Islamic terror networks are believed to be a part of Al-Qaeda.
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Yokay, I'll say it - ARISE, RED STAR TURBAN, ARISE!
[An Nahar] Gunfire exchange took place in the northern city of 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... on Sunday evening amid heavy military deployment in the area, the state-run National News Agency reported.
"Gunfire was heard in the Tripoli neighborhoods of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen," the NNA elaborated, pointing out that gunnies were present in the region.
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[OLD.MEHRNEWS] A Friday prayer Imam in Iran's southern city of Charak has denounced Wahhabist fatwa of Jihad al-Nikah.
Mehr News reported that Masoud Rahbar, the Friday prayer Imam told the audience that in no Islamic source has any reference been made to Jihad al-Nikah. He also believed that war and insecurity in Islamic countries as unnatural and intentional. " during 2010 revolutions in Islamic countries such as Yemen, Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya, which brought forth Islamic Awakening, the dominance and Zionism to a larger extend succeeded to isolate and mislead the popular revolution and to weaken these countries," added Rahbar.
Commenting on the Islamic Awakening in Egypt, he said that Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... 's corrupt regime was toppled first by popular unrest and then a democratic government came to power. "but since west and the US feared fruits of Islamic Awakening, downed the democratic government through a coup by Egypt's army chief-of-staff, so that civil war and anarchy would weaken national resources of this Islamic country," he added. The Imam described violence and instability in most of Islamic country as 'unnatural,' and 'intentional,' adding that fostering an atmosphere of distrust among different tribes, waging war among different Islamic sects, and representing a bad face of Islam as a violent and blood-thirsty religion by Zionist agents who knew nothing of Islam were among objectives sought by US and Zionist spy networks in cooperation with Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... in the region.
Sheikh Rahbar believed that silence by Islamic countries against cruelties and violence in Syria as participation in the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... terrorists' crimes. "Wahhabist forces of Evil are no longer Mohammedans, let alone they dare to excommunicate others from Islam," he said, and that "those who do not grant merci on innocent woman and children, and tear out Syrian soldier's liver and eat; desecrate the shrines of the Prophet Mohammad's close companions; behead innocent people merely for their disbelief in Wahhabist faith; these are out of Islam, but even out of humanity."
On the fatwa decreed by Wahhabist mufti on Jihad al-Nikah, Sheikh Rahbar pointed out that in no place in Islamic tradition has a reference been made to this, but that "this devil plan is the fabrication of the sick imagination of these muftis to justify the Takfiri terrorists' lasciviousness and to use an Islamic guise for inhumane action to expedite their affairs."
Rahbar also pointed to Eid al-Adha terrorist blasts in Iraq. "Suicide attacks are carried out only to fire the hatred and animosity between Shiite and Sunni and to provoke the victim families for Dire Revenge™," he said, adding that they should answer to the question that where in Islamic tradition, Koran, and hadith (accounts of the Prophet's statements) depriving of a human being amounted to paradise. All wars in early Islamic period were for defensive purposes and not for killing and plundering. "Our faith is faith of peace, morality, and humanity; not a religion of savagery and wanton killing," the Imam continued.
He also condemned killings of Mohammedans in Islamic countries by Wahhabist sect. "Countries such as Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar see well the crimes, but since they are puppet regimes of the west, they would not do anything, but to implement orders of their Zionist and American lords," he added.
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[Ynet] An IDF force opened fire toward a Paleostinian suspected of attempting to sabotage the fence surrounding the Negev community of Meitar.
According to the IDF, the Paleostinian sustained light injuries and was taken for medical treatment in the Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheba.
A gunman wearing a clown costume has killed the oldest brother of one of Mexico's most notorious drug trafficking families in the resort of Los Cabos. Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix, 63, a former leader of the Tijuana Cartel, was shot in the head late on Friday at a family gathering in the southern tip of the state of Baja California Sur, state prosecutors said.
'A person dressed as a clown took his life,' the spokesman said, adding that the gunman fled the scene. An unnamed official said the killer was wearing a wig and round red nose. The motive and the gunmen's disguise were being investigated. Local media reported that the killer had two accomplices when he attacked the former drug lord at a rented beach house, but this was not yet clear.
[Al Ahram] Al-Azhar University's student union says students will hold additional protests following the Cairo demonstrations that ended in violence on Sunday.
In a statement issued after the chaos that erupted on the first day after the Eid holiday, the student union said they will mobilise to call for the release of those tossed in the clink Book 'im, Mahmoud! during Sunday's protest.
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Uhm. What good are for graduates of Al-Azhar? Do they build roads, design electronics, manage manufacturing plants, perform medical research?
If they don't and given that Egypt is not a ricjh country wouldn't it be more sensible to disband Al-Azhar, burn it to the grounds and send its students get st..d to their true country Saudi Arabia?
[Dawn] Director General (DG) Inter Service Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa in a press statement on Sunday stated that the security forces deployed in Awaran district and its Mashkay area were only carrying out relief operations.
The statement aimed at dispelling certain misconceptions created by some media reports, which stated that operations were being conducted against forces of Evil in these areas.
"There is no military operation in Awaran and Mashkay as is being propagated by myrmidons," said the statement.
Major General Bajwa stated that despite repeated attacks by myrmidons on troops, the security forces have exercised utmost restraint and concentrated on relief work.
He further said that the army was determined to carry out relief efforts in these areas despite repeated attacks on relief convoys.
He also warned the general public to beware of propaganda stirred by myrmidons, and invited the media to visit Awaran and Mashkay in order to witness the situation on ground for themselves.
A recent bad boy attack at a relief convoy left 12 soldiers injured, while another roadside Improvised Explosive Device (IED) killed six soldiers earlier this month who were distributing humanitarian aid to the quake-stricken people of Awaran.
On Sept 30, a convoy of the Chief Minister of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Dr Abdul Malik Baloch also escaped a rocket attack in Awaran as he was on his way to a camp office set up to carry out relief efforts.
Awaran is considered one of the most sensitive and troubled districts of Balochistan. According to the chief minister, Awaran has had no government for the past decade, which has led to myrmidons trying their best to compromise relief efforts in the area.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] At least three people were killed and nine maimed in Egypt's capital when gunniesshot up a Coptic Christian wedding ceremony on Sunday evening, according to Egypt's interior ministry. Nobody's called for Dire Revenge® for the Blood of Christians yet. Still.
Witnesses said that unidentified gunnies were riding a cycle of violence as they opened fire on a group of people as they exited a church located in Cairo's Al-Warak neighborhood.
It was not immediately clear if all casualties were Christians.
An eight-year-old girl, a woman and a man were killed in the attack, the health ministry said.
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The death toll from a shooting attack targeting a wedding party at a Cairo Coptic Church has reached four, an Egyptian health ministry official told AFP on Monday.
Ahmed al-Ansari, the head of ambulance services, said four people were killed and 17 others were wounded in the late Sunday attack, updating an earlier toll. Officials said an eight-year-old girl was among those killed.
[Pak Daily Times] Pakistain People's Party Patron-In-Chief Bilawal Baby Bhutto Zardari ...Pak dynastic politician, son of Benazir Bhutto and grandon of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. As far as is known, Bilawal has no particular talents other than being pretty and being able to memorize political slogans, but he had the good luck to be born into the right family and he hasn't been assassinated yet... paid a visit to the mausoleum of Abdullah Shah Ghazi 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 laid floral wreath on Sunday evening. He prayed and offered fateha at the mausoleum and paid glowing tributes to the Sufi saints of Sindh who spread Islam through love, peace, brotherhood and harmony. Syed Owais Muzaffar accompanied the young party leader during the visit to the shrine.
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[Ynet] Saudi newspaper Al-Watan quoted sources close to Hezbollah as saying that the organization is preparing for a decisive battle near the Leb-Syria border.
According to the report, 15,000 Hezbollah fighters will take part in the battles. The group is hoping weather conditions will hurt the rebel effort and that the campaign will be finished prior to the Geneva talks set to take place at the end of November.
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various MilBloggers proclaim that there is no such thing as FSA anymore, + that any remaining FSA elements are now so weak as to either join Al-Qaeda + other hardline islamist groups, or else re-swear allegiance to Baby Assad + fight alongside Assad's SAA + the Iran Boyz.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > ]WaPo] MODERATE SYRIAN FIGHTERS STRUGGLE FOR FUNDING [$$$], LOSE FIGHTERS TO HARDLINE ISLAMIST GROUPS.
* DAILY STAR > [Arab League Chief] BRAHIMI: NO
"GENEVA" WIDOUT CREDIBLE OPPOSITION | NO SYRIA CONFERENCE [peace talks] ... OPPOSITION PARTICIPATION.
Methinks its safe to say that Baby Assad is not counting on rapprochement wid the Al-Qaeda or other foreign militant groups.
* FARS NEWS AGENCY > ASSAD RULES OUT "GENEVA II", ROCKETRY POWER PROTECTS SYRIA.
* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > SYRIA: AL-QAEDA GROUP [Iraq-based ISIS] RE-ARRANGING SHAPE OF CIVIL WAR.
Wid the decline of the FSA + aligned
"moderates", ITS COMES DOWN TO ASSAD-VS-AL-
QAEDA, OR IN ALTERNATE ASSAD-VS-NOT-AL-QAEDA-BUT-JUST-AS-VIOLENT-FOREIGN-MILITANT-GROUP.
'Tis why IMO Shia Iran + Hezbollah, Quds Force is now Bad US-Global Econ, Sequester, + now Shutdown-affected Bammer Amerika's new [pseudo]BFF in the Middle East.
* PAYVAND NEWS > ISRAEL + GULF INCREASINGLY NERVOUS ON IRAN-US DETENTE'.
I suspect ISRAEL + KSA + ANTI-IRAN GCC = JAPAN + PHILIPPINES + INDIA, ASEAN, etal. = Ovama will behave roughly the same vee CHINA [Iran] over in East Asia + WESTPAC - I see nothing from the new GOP-Dem shutdown deal to change my view???
* TOPIX, DAILY STAR > JAPAN WELCOMES CAROLINE KENNEDY AS NEW US AMBASSADOR.
Iff ISRAEL, etal. = JAPAN, etal. WHAT KIND OF MAJOR OR SIGNIFICANT STRATEGIC CONCESSIONS CAN THE US [Allies?] ACCEPT OR TOLERATE TO AVOID MILITARY CONFLICT???
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So Hamas and Hezbollah are going to duke it out in Syria?
Great, I hope there are not enough left standing to write home. I know a lot of ME folks I correspond with are fed up with both groups.
Since no legitimate(?)sovereign state in the ME will deal with these misguided and manipulated souls, perhaps Darwin can kick in with the aid of some AK-47's and we can eject this mess from the gene pool.
Perhaps they can cripple each other to the point of becoming marginalized. I hope so.
I'm going to cheer the body count and not choose sides, I don't want any butter on my popcorn and pass me a diet DP.
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[Al Ahram] Egypt's interior ministry denied Sunday its forces raided Al-Azhar University, saying police only fired teargas at Islamist students after they rioted outside the university gates and blocked roads around campus to traffic.
In a statement Sunday, the ministry said around 3,000 students supporting deposed Islamist President Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... blocked Al-Nasr Road and verbally assaulted riot police.
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[Al Ahram] Iran's moderate President Hassan Rouhani named three new ministers on Sunday to replace nominees rejected by the conservative-dominated parliament in August, Iranian media reported.
Rouhani made a last-minute change to his pick for the science, research and technology portfolio for fear of a new rejection by MPs.
Interim minister Jafar Tofiqi had come under fire from hardliners in parliament for alleged involvement in the massive street protests that accompanied the controversial 2009 re-election of Rouhani's predecessor Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad as well as for allegedly dismissing conservative officials at the ministry.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iranians taking their dogs for "walkies" on the streets of the Islamic Theocratic Republic has been increasingly seen as a way to defy the government, Britannia's the Guardian reported this week.
Owning dogs has become an growingr trend in Iran's urban upper class over the past 15 years, despite the practice technically being prohibited by Islamic law.
Ordinances created three years ago have allowed authorities to seize dogs being walked outside in addition to imposing heavy fines from $100 to $500 for the "seditionist" or "un-Islamic" act.
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I don't usually go for dawgs that live up to the name ScrapeIron, but in this case I'd have one for sure.
[TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] Rebels in South Sudan killed at least 41 people and maimed scores in a gun attack in a remote part of the country's restive Jonglei state, a regional official said on Sunday.
The attack on Sunday morning is believed to have been carried out by rebels loyal to militia leader David Yau Yau helped by youth from his Murle tribe, according to Hussein Maar, the acting governor of Jonglei.
"Preliminary reports we got indicate that 41 people got killed and 63 got maimed, some of them critically," he said. "Some of the injured are in very bad condition and they will most likely die tonight or later."
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[VOA News] A truck bomb kaboom in Syria's fourth largest city of Hama killed more than 30 people Sunday, as the special envoy of the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... and Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... held talks in Cairo on fixing a date for a long-delayed peace conference.
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I've been waiting for years, in vain, for Paleosimians to start blowing each other up.
[An Nahar] Two Christian holy mans on Kenya's coast were killed in separate attacks over the weekend, witnesses said Sunday, two weeks after the killing of a Mohammedan preacher sparked deadly riots in port city Mombasa.
Charles Matole, a leader of Mombasa's Vikwatani Redeemed Gospel Church, was found dead in the church Sunday morning, sitting on a chair with a Bible on his lap -- apparently preparing his Sunday morning service.
"We found him with blood oozing from the head," said choir member Morris Ali, adding that no property had been taken from the curch.
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Hamas, its Gaza Strip stronghold cut off by the new government in Egypt, called upon rival Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to end their six-year schism and form a unity government.
Abbas's secular, US-backed Fatah faction lost a 2006 ballot to Islamist Hamas. They sat in an uneasy alliance until a civil war the following year left Hamas ruling Gaza while Abbas's authority was limited to the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Egypt brokered a Palestinian reconciliation deal in 2011 but it was never implemented. In Cairo, meanwhile, Islamist President Mohamed Morsi was toppled. The Army treats Egypt's Hamas neighbours as security threats.
"Our conditions do not allow for keeping up differences," Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister in the Gaza administration, said in a speech calling on Abbas and Fatah to renew dialogue with Hamas, schedule new elections and enter a temporary power-share.
"Let's have one government, one parliament and one president," Haniyeh said.
The overture was received coolly by Fatah, whose leader, Abbas, is engaged in a new round of US-sponsored peace talks with Israel. Hamas refuses coexistence with Israel. Ahmed Assaf, a Fatah spokesman, said Haniyeh's speech "included nothing new, neither a clear plan nor a certain timetable".
Pressured by the deterioration of ties with former regional backers Syria, Hezbollah, Iran, as well as by Morsi's fall and the ensuing Egyptian crackdown on Palestinian tunnels used to smuggle arms and commercial goods into Gaza, Hamas is in steep financial decline. Haniyeh sought to soften tensions with Cairo, denying Egyptian accusations the group had intervened in the internal unrest on behalf of Morsi's Islamist supporters.
Hamas has also tried to fend off allegations that it was aiding Islamist militants in the lawless Egyptian Sinai desert, which borders both Gaza and Israel.
"We have not intervened in internal Egyptian affairs, neither in Sinai nor anywhere else in Egypt," Haniyeh said.
Cairo's closure of some 1,200 smuggling tunnels on the Egypt-Gaza border has deepened Palestinian material shortages, adding to pressure from a long-standing Israeli embargo on the coastal strip, and denied Hamas a major source of tax revenue.
Haniyeh said Palestinians could do without the smuggling tunnels were Egypt to open up its border with Gaza rather than support the Israeli blockade. But he hinted that Hamas was hard at work digging a different kind of tunnel - under the border with Israel, to strike at the occupation in a future conflict. Israel and Hamas fought an eight-day war in November.
The Israelis unearthed one such tunnel last week, saying its Palestinian operators apparently planned to kidnap a soldier or set off underground explosives.
Hamas did not claim or deny responsibility for that tunnel. But Haniyeh said in the speech that "thousands of heroes have been working in silence, below ground, to prepare for the coming battles in Palestine".
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[FOXNEWS] A top Democratic senator said Sunday that Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius will testify before Congress about the problem-plagued ObamaCare website, amid a growing call for her to accept requests to testify.
"Ultimately, Secretary Sebelius will testify," Sen. Dick Durbin ...Senator-for-Life from Illinois and Democratic Party Whip. In April 2006, Time magazine identified Durbin as one of America's 10 Best Senators, so what's that tell you? He was the first United States Senator to support the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, then the junior senator from Illinois.... , D-Ill., the chamber's No. 2 Democrat, told "Fox News Sunday." "Whaddya mean 'ultimately?'"
"When you hear that trumpet sound, and you see yer Granny risen from the grave, you'll know it's gonna come soon. Maybe a coupla weeks after that."
Sebelius and the entire B.O. regime has declined requests to testify on Capitol Hill about the site, which has been plagued by crashes, slow responses and other glitches since it went online Oct. 1.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter directly to Sebelius last week asking her to testify Thursday on the matter.
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"Woes" are NOT what she needs to testify about, what about Obama's lies, deliberate falsehoods and outright "Misunderstandings".
(Deliberately, of course.)
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A resignation would spare us a great deal of drama. Of course that will likely not happen as a the media will be focused on Sebelius and her testimony as opposed to other, more egregious and deadly administration scandals. The goal of any OB regime crisis is to employ the event as a useful diversion. They've become masters of public relations manipulation and cover for action.
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Sebelius and the entire B.O. regime has declined requests to testify on Capitol Hill about the site, which has been plagued by crashes, slow responses and other glitches since it went online Oct. 1.
Health and Human Services has also been rather circumspect about the contractors who built "healthcare.gov" site as well. Apparently there was concern about the contractors receiving subpoenas from Congress.
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John Brennan took care of faulty and embarrassing contractors in the US Passport office of the State Department, perhaps he can take care of.... these ones.
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Durbin seems very certain of himself. There is a history of people getting thrown under the bus with Champ. Individuals as well as entire countries.
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They've become masters of public relations manipulation and cover for action.
Hardly the skill of masters when they have the Permanent Party Propaganda Machine in the full sheep choir mode baying their song. A legion of Wormtongues makes the required skill level basically pedestrian. Even then they're scared of Fox, Rush, and bloggers.
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She should blame it on Bush! Half the Senate will applaud her! The rest will be so stunned as winged monkeys fly, unicorns appear, and midgets, er, little people dressed as clown perform Hamlet.
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[Pak Daily Times] President Mamnoon Hussain Sunday promulgated the Protection of Pakistain Ordinance, which maintains that the writ of the state would be established at all costs.
The ordinance states that the security and law enforcement agencies would jointly investigate the incidents of terrorism, and the elements creating terror and fear would be considered as enemies of the state. The draft of the ordinance states that Pakistain and its people had been exposed to undeclared and thankless wars that proliferated from the country's neighbourhood since 1979. It says that "the elements hostile to our existence, in collaboration with unscrupulous locals, have since claimed the lives of 40,000 people of all ages and religious denominations in the second campaign that began in 2001; many more were maimed, disabled or uprooted. Over three decade long presence of many million aliens on our soil generated its own social complexities.
The people and its valiant forces have rendered unprecedented sacrifices: Over 4,000 soldiers and officers bit the dust to ensure that world on the lam remains at peace during the last 11 years alone. As a direct consequence, our economy and its production systems suffered enormously". The ordinance reads that a colossal damage of over $100 billion was inflicted to the social and physical infrastructure if the country. As unproductive expenses multiplies, for bare minimum subsistence and sustenance, additional loans of over $50 billion were added during the period, besides $8 billion/annum for debt servicing. The ordinance notes that the increasing reliance on imports has further squeezed and strained public books and private pockets.
Moreover, non-availability of adequate employment opportunities encourages resort to easy coping mechanisms, unearned easy money via crime that pays instantly. The twin issues of unemployment and rising population are compounded by individual and syndicated crime extensively spreading in settled urban areas exposed to depredation or "Kharaba". "Unfortunately, no serious attempt was made partly due to paucity of resources; lack of vision and political will, sense of insecurity and mistrust in the people's wisdom took its own claim at the cost of the nation suffering unprecedented inequality of income and opportunities," the ordinance states.
It further said that as state organs and judiciary faced legitimacy issues resurrected during most part of last 36 years, phased democratic transition in post-2009 era posed adjustment issues in the wake of eroded capacity of the executive branch as well. "The PML-N government, its allies and all democratic forces are cognisant of the historical responsibility to pull out the state and people out of the prevailing gloom and despair. To restore sense of security, through resort to all legal instruments, institutions and deployment of resources has been the top priority of national leadership in all branches, be that elected or permanent, is more than determined to move forward to minimise losses, explore productive potential of the nation by creating enabling environment for revival of faith in our ability to rise above our transient differences to restore our investment climate."
The ordinance reads that the extraordinary disposition dictates unusual dispensation. "New legislative initiatives have been proposed in line with international best practices, to declare that: The constitution and rule of law shall be our overarching umbrella. Security of life, property and dignified living of our own people shall be the prime goal for all functionaries of the state. All civil and military law enforcement agencies including CAF and their personnel where invited shall be given fullest protection of law to discharge their mission of restoration of peace in enabling environment within the parameters of Part V of the Constitution."
Moreover, it states, every possible state instrument and resource will be deployed to defeat and frustrate all or any nefarious attempt to create disorder in our peaceful life and living. Writ of the state shall be restored with full might of the law; those to pursue fruit of terror and fear, regardless of nationality, colour, creed or religion shall be treated as enemy aliens and dealt with strictly without any compunction. The ordinance says that "the cancer of syndicated crime in all its forms and manifestations shall be responded by proportionate use of state force under the law".
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[Al Ahram] Qatari authorities have restored several government websites attacked by hackers from the Syrian Electronic Army, who support Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's Light of the Alawites... regime, local media reported Sunday.
Qatar's Supreme Council of Information and Technology (ictQatar) said in a statement carried by local media that it has "recovered all government websites hacked on Saturday."
It said it is ready to "deal with any similar future operations."
"No financial losses have been caused" by the hacking that targeted websites with the "gov.qa" domain name, local media quoted ictQatar as saying on Twitter.
The Qatari interior ministry's page was among the websites hit. But the ministry said on Twitter that "data registered on the website was not affected."
Hackers who claim to support Assad, collectively known as the Syrian Electronic Army, have targeted high-profile websites in recent months, including one belonging to the US marines and the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... 's page.
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[An Nahar] An international anti-piracy force said Sunday it had captured nine Somali pirates suspected of two recent attacks in the Indian Ocean.
The Combined Maritime Forces -- naval patrols from 29 countries tasked with policing some of the world's most important shipping lanes -- said the pirates were picked up by Australian warship, HMAS Melbourne, some 500 nautical miles from the Somali coast.
After the suspects were jugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! , the boarding team destroyed two of their boats and associated equipment.
The anti-piracy force had been searching for the pirates since an attack and gunfire exchange with the supertanker Island Splendor last week. Three days later, the same group of pirates was suspected of attacking a Spanish fishing vessel.
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[TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] The Indian Space Research Organization completed integration of its Mars mission satellite on Sunday with the rocket while the heat shield is expected to be closed in couple of days, an official said.
"The 1,340 kg satellite was mated with the rocket today (Sunday). The heat shield will be closed in two or three days after tests. Everything is progressing normally on the rocket and the satellite side," an Isro official, who did not want to be identified, told IANS.
On Saturday Isro chairman K Radhakrishnan told IANS that the Rs 450 crore Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) will be delayed by a week as out of of the two ships -- Nalanda and Yamuna -- carrying rocket tracking systems, only the latter has reached Fiji.
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[TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] A Libyan security chief accused of involvement in Prime Minister Ali Zeidan's abduction 10 days ago said on Sunday he was behind the "arrest" and that he was "proud" of it.
Gunmen seized Zeidan from a 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... hotel on October 10, before he was released and appeared on television hours later to accuse a political party of being behind the attempted "coup".
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... gunnies dressed in military uniform on Sunday killed 19 people near the Nigerian border with Cameroon in the restive northeast where the Islamists have carried out deadly attacks, residents and a survivor said.
The cycle of violence-riding gunnies armed with Kalashnikovs blocked the highway near the town of Logumani, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from the border, shooting and hacking to death 19 motorists and burning three trucks, they said.
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[Pak Daily Times] The leader of the Punjabi Taliban and Junood-e-Hafsa, Asmatullah Moavia in his new message to the media has said talks are possible with the government on the basis of principles.
Moavia said talks could be held if the government resolves all those problems which are the cause of conflict. He explained that if the government reviews its foreign policy "which revolves around the US" and abolishes all such laws which are against Islam then rapprochement could be made quite easily. Moavia claimed that his outfit has deep roots in all parts of the country and the main purpose of the group is to serve the country's people and Islam. He said the Punjabi Taliban are active for implementation of sharia for which this country was achieved.
The Punjabi Taliban leader said talks could not be held through the media or talk shows. He said the Taliban will present their demands only if the government shows seriousness. However, ars longa, vita brevis... he said the media was presenting conditions for the talks from its side which is even against the ethics and principles of journalism. He said the Taliban will take the nation into confidence after the talks.
Moavia said Junood-e-Hafsa was established after the Lal Masjid military operation. He asserted that Maulana Abdul Rasheed Ghazi of the Lal Masjid raised his voice against vulgarity and obscenity, but under the US pressured the government launched an operation and caused massive bloodshed which caused the formation of Junood-e-Hafsa. The Punjabi Taliban chief said the implementation of sharia in the country was not a difficult task for the government. For this purpose, he said, the government should gather Learned Elders of Islam from all parts of the country who could give recommendations for the sharia system.
He said the Taliban cannot ignore the appeal of the Learned Elders of Islam for peace, but it has also appealed to the government to stop violence. He said the government should take the initiative for peace.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Around 200 Egyptian truck drivers held by an armed Libyan group have been freed, reported an Al Arabiya correspondent on Sunday.
Egypt's foreign ministry said on Sunday that the drivers are now on their way back to Egypt. Their trucks had not been confiscated.
Earlier this week, fighters had stopped more than 70 vehicles in Libya's northern city of Ajdabiya.
Libyan security officials said that the gang had demanded the release of their relatives tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! in Egypt on accusations of arms smuggling.
Since the overthrow and subsequent death of Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years until he was ejected from the gene pool by his indignant citizens... in 2011, the number of armed militias has increased dramatically in the country, while Egypt has been inundated with Libyan weapons.
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She is trying to make money being paid NOT to twerk.
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She may be comfortable but I'm a little uncomfortable with this little twerp being nekkid. Be careful what you do now for it may come back to haunt you later.
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I believe this is the last gasp of the 'can we sell anything with sex and shock value' means of selling music. It was hard to tell with Madonna and Gaga because some folks really seemed to like their music despite the headline antics.
I haven't heard any Miley music. She's doing this crazy stuff for attention but I'm not sure its translating into album sales. We will see.
I just hope she recovers from the stroke that makes her tongue hang out all the time because it's truly unattractive (oh and a decent haircut might also help the appearance Miley). There is more than just exposed skin to sexy.
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my point is her music now. Big album out, she's literally pimping and shocking and doing everything to sell it and I haven't heard a single song that I'm aware of.
[Al Ahram] One of the suspects accused of killing Shia leader Hassan Shehata and three other members of the Shia community was locked away Please don't kill me! on Sunday reported Ahram's Arabic website.
Last June, an angry mob led by Salafist sheikhs torched and attacked Shia residences in the small village of Zawyat Abu Musalam in Giza governorate, killing four citizens, including a prominent Shia figure.
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[Power Line] You knew this was coming. In fact, Power Line may not have been the first to do it, but we didn’t look. Anyway, from Power Line Productions, our latest original contribution to the “Hitler Learns About” oeuvre. (Hat tip to Richard Samuelson, for collaborating on the writing.) Ausgezeichneter !
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The Obummer administration is no longer saying that the computer program has a "few glitches." They are now saying it has "technical problems."
All that is a bunch of cow pucky. From the git-go, the law was bad. Most people did not want it. They especially did not want it shoved down there throat. They did not like SCOTUS' contorted decision to call it a tax rather a penatly and force people to buy Obamacare. Hillary Care, the forerunner to ObamaCare was soundly rejected back in the 1990s. I would have thought that stake driven into the heart of this vampire would have been the end of it but no, the Donks never, ever leave a pet part of their agenda--it always returns. Time to wake up to the fact that their diktak is still not popular and exacerbates rather than solves a problem.
[Rooters] An Afghan army special forces commander has defected to an insurgent group allied with the Taliban in a Humvee truck packed with his team's guns and high-tech equipment, officials in the eastern Kunar province said on Sunday.
Monsif Khan, who raided the supplies of his 20-man team in Kunar's capital Asadabad over the Eid al-Adha religious holiday, is the first special forces commander to switch sides, but undoubtedly not the last....
joining the Hezb-e-Islami organisation.
"He sent some of his comrades on leave and paid others to go out sightseeing, and then escaped with up to 30 guns, night-vision goggles, binoculars and a Humvee," said Shuja ul-Mulkh Jalala, the governor of Kunar.
Zubair Sediqi, a spokesman for Hezb-e-Islami, confirmed that Khan had joined the group, saying he had brought 15 guns and high-tech equipment.
The NATO-led coalition is grappling with a rise in "insider attacks" by Afghan soldiers who turn on their allies, undermining trust and efficiency. It has reported four lethal incidents over the past month taking the total number this year to 10, according to a Reuters tally.
Kunar, like all other provinces along the border with Pakistan, is among the more insecure and volatile parts of Afghanistan. Local security forces have started a manhunt for the commander and tribal elders have promised to help as soon as US funding arrives.
"We are trying our best to use elders' influence in that area to bring back all equipment," Jalala said. Has seldom worked previously. Perhaps this time will be different.
A record number of insider attacks - accounting for about one in every five coalition combat deaths - last year prompted the coalition to briefly suspend all joint activities and take steps to curb interaction between foreign and Afghan troops.
That has cut down the number of incidents, but some soldiers say the measures have further eroded the trust painstakingly nurtured between the allies over more than 12 years of war. Ask nearly any US soldier if he trusts the ANSF and the answer will be a resounding no.
All entrants to the Afghan National Security Force have to pass an eight step vetting process, which includes providing identification cards, letters of recommendation by village or district elders and undergoing tests.
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20 man team? Don't know how Afghan forces are organized but that would make this "commander" a senior NCO (or a 2ndLT at most) in most Western armies.
[Xinhua] At least 39 people were killed and 51 others maimed in three bombing attacks in the Iraqi capital of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... on Sunday, police said.
A jacket wallah detonated his vest of explosives in a popular cafe in the Amil area in southwestern Storied Baghdad, killing at least 37 people and wounding 42 others, a police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
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Islam is the Religion of Peace and we mustn't Profile.
Hummahumma. But I look at the brightside of all this. All the dead'uns were ..( wait for it ) ...Moslems.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Tunisia's Prime Minister Ali Larayedh said Islamist Death Eaters are exploiting anarchy in neighboring Libya to get training and smuggle weapons across North Africa's mostly non-existent borders.
His coalition government is grappling with an Islamist bad boy group known as Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Tunisia and Yemen, with the Tunisian version currently most active... , which is one of the most radical to emerge since Tunisia's 2011 uprising against autocratic President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali Ben Ali.
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With 12,000 civilians left, Moadamiyah is unique among opposition-friendly towns in Syria in that it's completely surrounded by the regime's divisions. According to Qusai Zakarya, a rebel spokesman in the town, the regime cut all humanitarian supplies to Moadamiyah ten or eleventh months ago, and local stores ran out in March. So the people have had to rely mainly on the largesse of Syrians living in the countryside who ran basic staples into the town - and by "ran," I mean they drove by it on the Damascus-Quneitra highway and tossed grocery bags from their moving cars in the general direction of Moadamiyah, which then had to be retrieved by the inhabitants, sometimes at great risk. Water pipes into Moadamiyah, he said, had also been "blocked" or destroyed by the regime, leaving residents to rely on a single unreliable source of hydration. Apparently the journalist in question has either not been to many of Earth's hell-holes, or he's still early in his career and he's eager to put into practice all the save-the-world muck they've jammed between his ears in J-school. Or, he's on someone's payroll. Anyway, it was fun editing it to read like a real reporter's article.
[Ynet] The Kuwaiti newspaper al-Qabas reported that the former Egyptian intelligence minister, Morad Moafi, said in his testimony in deposed President Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... 's trial that Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, members were present in Tahrir Square during the revolution.
Chief of the National Security Service General Mustafa Abd el-Nabi also took the witness stand on Saturday and confirmed that intelligence reports say Hamas members were involved in the deaths of protestors during the revolution.
Who needs Jooooooos when Hamas is so conveniently near at hand?
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Mais non! They were simple tourists, drawn from the seething confines of Gaza to revel in the wonders of Egypt, and merely were caught up in the drama of the moment.
[Pak Daily Times] Law enforcers claimed to have held around 152 suspects including alleged hit mans belonging to political parties and Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... gangsters during separate targeted raids across the city on Sunday.
In the first episode, Rangers claimed to have tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! around nine hardened criminals during various targeted raids in different parts of the metropolis, including Quaidabad, Green Town, Nazimabad, Nishter Road, New Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , Orangi Town, Shah Faisal Colony, Abidabad in Baldia, Gulberg, Gulshan-e-Iqbal and Manzur Colony areas. Officials also tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! suspects during snap checking at Lucky Star and Board Office Chowrangi. The officials recovered weapons from the possession of suspects.
Elsewhere, two political workers were apprehended during a targeted raid conducted by Rangers in Abul Hassan Isphani locality. According to Rangers sources, the raid was conducted on a tip-off. Officials also recovered weapons from the suspects' possession. The law-enforcing agency did not disclose the identity of the detainees, or their political affiliation. The arrested persons have been shifted to some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location for further questioning.
Likewise, a notorious hit man, affiliated with Lyari gang war, was arrested during a targeted raid conducted by Rangers on Nishter Road. The accused was identified as Mansoor Baloch alias Bublee. According to Rangers' spokesperson, the accused was affiliated with the outlawed People's Aman Committee and was wanted by the law enforcement agencies in a number of criminal cases, including murder. Spokesperson also claimed to have recovered weapons including .22 rifle, 7mm rifle, 9mm pistol, mixed ammunition and narcotics from his possession.
Separately, Karachi police claimed to have nabbed 73 alleged criminals including 42 absconders, 11 under arms ordinance, five under narcotics ordinance, 10 robbers and two murderers. According to Sindh police spokesperson, 18 weapons and narcotics were also recovered during the police actions for the prevention of crime.
Similarly, district east police apprehended 16 alleged criminals including two absconders during targeted raids and snap checking and also claimed to have recovered nine pistols, four cell phones and two cycle of violences.
As many as 48 alleged criminals, including 36 absconders were taken into custody by district west police. Police also claimed to have recovered weapons, including one repeater, six pistols, one dagger, four cycle of violences and narcotics from the possession of suspects.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... police arrested an alleged suspect Bakhtiar during an exchange of fire in Sultanabad area, however his three accomplices managed to escape under the cover of firing. Police officials said that the accused was wanted for attacking and injuring a police constable, Shafiq.
In another operation, two alleged criminals wanted by Karachi police in various cases of crime and terrorism were arrested from Swat. The accused persons were identified as Nawab and Ikram. According to police officials, the suspects were involved in various criminal cases in Karachi, including murders, attacks on law enforcement agencies and terrorism. The suspects hail from Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... and Mardan.
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[BBC.CO.UK] The discovery of a girl found living on a Roma settlement in Greece has given the family of a missing Sheffield boy "great hope", his sister has said. Ooh! Ooh! I seen dis operetta!
Ben Needham, from Sheffield, was 21 months old when he went missing while on a family holiday in Kos in 1991.
Ben's sister, Leighanna, said the girl's discovery, in a camp near Farsala, central Greece, was "very significant to Ben's case".
"It gives us great hope that one day this will be Ben," she said.
DNA tests revealed the child, called Maria and aged about four, was not related to the couple she lived with.
'Too, too long'
Officials believe she may have been a victim of abduction or child trafficking.
Police in Greece found the blonde girl living at a Roma camp
Ms Needham said this case was very similar to her family's and the Greek police's original thoughts about what had happened to Ben.
"Child trafficking and illegal adoption in Greece has been pretty high and that's exactly what they thought had happened to Ben - that he was taken for a childless family and passed through Gypsy camps."
A spokesman for Kate and Gerry McCann, whose daughter Madeleine went missing in Portugal in 2007, said the case also gave them hope that she would one day be found alive.
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[TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] The bid to cool down the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmire through regular exchanges between Indian and Pak Director Generals of Military Operations is not working and may need more time to prove its utility.
Speaking on background, a bigwig said although restoring peace and tranquility along the troubled J&K border was an important outcome of the recent meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pak counterpart 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... , the initiative had not yielded results.
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Wehell, for one how can such thingys work iff ...
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > INDIA DEPLOYED COMBAT JETS MISTAKING MIGRATORY BIRDS FOR PAKISTANI BORDER DRONES.
[VOA News] Egyptian security forces fired bird shot and teargas to prevent supporters of deposed Islamist President Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... from marching on Sunday to the site of a protest camp that was destroyed two months ago, a Rooters witness said.
The crowd of about 100 people were students from Al-Azhar University, the historic seat of Sunni Musselmen learning. They threw rocks at riot cop shoppeed outside the gates of the university, and police threw the stones back.
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[Al Ahram] Gunmen in a car rubbed out four coppers at a checkpoint in a restive northwestern Pak city on Sunday, officials said.
The shooting took place in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province, where Talibs are active.
"At least four coppers embraced martyrdom after unknown gunnies in a car fired at them when asked to stop for checking," senior police official Mohammad Ismail told AFP.
Nobody immediately grabbed credit, but Talibs, who have been waging a bloody insurgency against the state, routinely target police and security forces.
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I always thought she had no brain, OK I'm wrong.
Or maybe it's because she has money?
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Doubt if it had anything to do with insurance, but rather part of the standing FLOTUS and ValJar dust up the O had a while back. Some chicken Milano served a la Don Vito Corleone, would be newsworthy.
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According to The [NY] Post, Oprah has been at odds with the Obamas for some time now because she feels as if she has been cut out of their inner circle
Brains have nothing to do with it. This is sheer ego.
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Maybe she actually groked what Tavis Smiley said a week ago about African Americans being worse off in every measurable catagory since Obama took power. Hope my buttocks.
[FoxNews] The U.S. has quietly decided to release more than $1.6 billion in military and economic aid to Pakistain that was suspended when relations between the two countries disintegrated over the covert raid that killed the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now sometimes referred to as Mister Bones... and deadly U.S. Arclight airstrikes against Pak soldiers.
Officials and congressional aides said ties have improved enough to allow the money to flow again.
American and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... supply routes to Afghanistan are open. Controversial U.S. drone strikes are down. The U.S. and Pakistain recently announced the restart of their "strategic dialogue" after a long pause. Pakistain's new 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... , is traveling to Washington for talks this coming week with President Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... .
But in a summer dominated by foreign policy debates over the coup in Egypt and chemical weapons attacks in Syria, the U.S. hasn't promoted its revamped aid relationship with Pakistain. Neither has Pakistain.
The silence reflects the lingering mutual suspicions between the two.
The Paks do not like being seen as dependent on their heavy-handed partners. The Americans are uncomfortable highlighting the billions provided to a government that is plagued by corruption and perceived as often duplicitous in fighting terrorism.
Congress has cleared most of the money, and it should start moving early next year, officials and congressional aides said.
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See also BHARAT RAKSHAK > [TheNews.PK] PAKISTAN NEEDS US$76.19BILYUHN [Rs$8.0Trilyuhn] TP PAY OFF DEBTS: IMF.
Islamabad + other claim that while the situation in the country is far from ideal, Pakland is successfully holding its own despite serious national, foreign pressures.
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What's a billion $ now, nothing.
The Fed prints $85Billion a month for Wall St. to put in their crack pipe. Why not give the Paks a Trillion, and a Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier?
Now THAT would be headline material!
Lord knows, there's nothing that we could do with $1.6 Billion here in the States. Probably just sit in a Govt "Trust Fund" somewhere gathering interest dust.
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[MYFOXNY] Prosecutors say a man was apparently beaten to death during a large brawl that broke out during a party at a central New Jersey bowling alley.
[Pak Daily Times] A self-proclaimed Philippine sultan whose followers launched a bloody incursion into the Malaysian state of Sabah earlier this year died of organ failure in a Manila hospital on Sunday, his wife said.
[TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] 
A gunman wearing a clown costume has killed the oldest brother of one of Mexico's most notorious drug trafficking families in the resort of Los Cabos. Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix, 63, a former leader of the Tijuana Cartel, was shot in the head late on Friday at a family gathering in the southern tip of the state of Baja California Sur, state prosecutors said.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] At least three people were killed and nine 
[Pak Daily Times] Pakistain People's Party Patron-In-Chief 
[Ynet] Saudi newspaper Al-Watan quoted sources close to Hezbollah as saying that the organization is preparing for a decisive battle near the 
[Al Ahram] Egypt's interior ministry denied Sunday its forces raided Al-Azhar University, saying police only fired teargas at Islamist students after they rioted outside the university gates and blocked roads around campus to traffic.
Hamas, its Gaza Strip stronghold cut off by the new government in Egypt, called upon rival Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to end their six-year schism and form a unity government.
[FOXNEWS] A top Democratic senator said Sunday that Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius will testify before Congress about the problem-plagued ObamaCare website, amid a growing call for her to accept requests to testify.
[Pak Daily Times] President Mamnoon Hussain Sunday promulgated the Protection of Pakistain Ordinance, which maintains that the writ of the state would be established at all costs.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Somali pirates
[TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] The Indian Space Research Organization completed integration of its Mars mission satellite on Sunday with the rocket while the heat shield is expected to be closed in couple of days, an official said.
[TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] 
[Xinhua] At least 39 people were killed and 51 others 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Tunisia's Prime Minister Ali Larayedh said Islamist 
[Ynet] The Kuwaiti newspaper al-Qabas reported that the former Egyptian intelligence minister, Morad Moafi, said in his testimony in deposed President 
[Pak Daily Times] Law enforcers claimed to have held around 152 suspects including alleged 
[BBC.CO.UK] The discovery of a girl found living on a Roma settlement in Greece has given the family of a missing Sheffield boy "great hope", his sister has said.
[TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] The bid to cool down the Line of Control in Jammu and 
[VOA News] Egyptian security forces fired bird shot and teargas to prevent supporters of deposed Islamist President 
Nawaz Sharif
