CBS Mark Knoller tweets that Senate Intelligence Committee says Petraeus will not testify at next weeks closed hearing on the events in Benghazi.
Perhaps there is some protocol Im unaware of, but I dont see why resigning should affect whether Petraeus testifies or not. He was in charge of the CIA when the Benghazi attack occurred, and the CIA has been under plenty of fire for how the attack was handled.
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NBC reported Friday that CIA director David Petraeus has resigned from the CIA, citing an extramarital affair.
NBC's Andrea Mitchell said the resignation was submitted in a letter dated Friday and was accepted by the White House.
In a letter, Petraeus noted that he had been married for 37 years and had exercised "extremely poor judgment' in conducting an extramarital affair.
Petraues took over as head of the CIA in September of 2011 following his tour as head of allied forces in Afghanistan. Added
The move comes amid the unfolding controversy surrounding the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya. Scrutiny has fallen on a range of agencies including the CIA. But Petraeus, in his resignation message, cited strictly "personal reasons" surrounding his affair which until now had not been disclosed.
Mike Morrell, the deputy CIA director and a long time CIA officer, will likely be offered the job as acting director, multiple sources told NBC News.
The letter in full:
Yesterday afternoon, I went to the White House and asked the President to be allowed, for personal reasons, to resign from my position as D/CIA. After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair. Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours. This afternoon, the President graciously accepted my resignation.
As I depart Langley, I want you to know that it has been the greatest of privileges to have served with you, the officers of our Nation's Silent Service, a work force that is truly exceptional in every regard. Indeed, you did extraordinary work on a host of critical missions during my time as director, and I am deeply grateful to you for that.
Teddy Roosevelt once observed that life's greatest gift is the opportunity to work hard at work worth doing. I will always treasure my opportunity to have done that with you and I will always regret the circumstances that brought that work with you to an end.
Thank you for your extraordinary service to our country, and best wishes for continued success in the important endeavors that lie ahead for our country and our Agency.
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Equally serious question: how is it that General Petraeus happened to get caught in an affair at this moment? affairs are not the kind of thing senior executives suddenly decide they must make a clean breast of to the entire world, though they may confess to their wives.
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He had discovered he was sleeping with a woman more lethal and deadly than any other. His affair was with the Obama lie. He could no longer deceive his family and his country and in an effort to clense his soul he stepped up and did the honorable thing. Now he is home with the truth...
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Wondered why he wasn't saying anything over Bengazi.
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Why would the Democrats care about an extra-marital affair? Clinton had many extra-marital affairs and is well-liked by Democrats. The Kennedy's actively pursued their libidos and more than a few women.
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My condolences to Mrs. Petraeus. A military wife has a career almost as hard as her husband. It is a shame to have it end thus. And my deepest enmity for whoever made it so.
He was caught in a honey pot operation designed to keep him in line. He was a weak link, had some vestiges of morality. Resignation may be his escape route.
Wilder speculation; Obama's buddy Vlad helping out so he gets what he wants.
Have fun with this idea.
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#7: exactly my thought. I presume an affair is a trivial blip compared to whatever is really going on.
CBS Mark Knoller tweets that Senate Intelligence Committee says Petraeus will not testify at next weeks closed hearing on the events in Benghazi.
Perhaps there is some protocol Im unaware of, but I dont see why resigning should affect whether Petraeus testifies or not. He was in charge of the CIA when the Benghazi attack occurred, and the CIA has been under plenty of fire for how the attack was handled.
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Well this bums me out. I considered Petraeus a great American. I was hoping for him to help provide sanity to the government.
The big question is was he threatened with political blackmail. And his FU! was to resign instead?
I'm hoping he starts hitting the talk shows so we can really know what's going on.
It's probably true he probably did commit adultery. My bet it's either a woman he has worked very closely with or some manipulative sociopath (who is probably pretty hot)
I just hope we don't see pictures in the U.K. Daily Mail.
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Shocker but what I feared most about a second term! Petraeus was the one expected to stay, one of the few capable in the admin, with Geithner (good riddance), Hillary, Panetta, and several others expected to go, leaving only Commies and Islamists and NBPs in control. With globalist leftards gutting the Constitution and signing UN treaties, surrendering our sovereignty as a nation, we're all screwed by King Obama, an impotent Congress, and ignorant populace. We won't survive four more years and any hope I had has been snuffed out. Petraeus was honorable and competent and now we are stuck with an incompetent amateur that can't do 7th grade math, Jarrett, Holder, Reid and Pelosi. Yep, I'm still pouting over the election and gonna go out and eat worms.
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NBC's Andrea Mitchell said the resignation was submitted in a letter dated Friday and was accepted by the White House.
I understood cabinet level personnel filed resignation letters upon their appointment.
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Before I repeat the comment below - let me say that it took David Petraeus a lot of personal courage to jcome right out with this public admission. That's a tough one to live thru. He deserves some respect for that - although the pain in his relationships will be considerable.
And now I will repeat a comment from a Yahoo reader on this topic ...
Well, if he couldn't even keep a secret from his wife - does he really belong at the top of the CIA???
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The CEO-in-waiting of the defense contractor who declined to issue WARN Act layoff notices on the urging of the Obama administration sequestration-related notices mandated by law that would have gone out just before the election has resigned, citing an affair.
Two in one day -- third day after the election -- Nothing to see here -- just the Chicago Way
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This shouldn't help him dodge testifying, it just means Issa has to ask a civilian to testify instead of a General. Otherwise Holder would have pulled that one. Being a non-General might relieve him of some difficulties (or shield some friends or something).
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His biographer wanted all the data, and who knows, she was probably a honey pot. Oldest play in the book.
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He resigned at CIA Director. He did not resign his commission as an Army Officer. That would be insane - he would lose his retirement pay. He will presumably be filing military retirement papers - and they take a while to process.
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I had heard rumors about a female reporter who pumped a military official in Iraq for information in exchange for sexual favors. Now I know the parties involved.
Personally I gave a Romney pushback circa 4-6 years - now, who knows for sure as many Perts deem the time period thru 2020-2025 as a likely time of "troubles"???
Iff the Bammer + Admin is seen as weak as per Iran, what more iff a shooting war between China + Japan [ECS + SCS, etc.]???
* WORLD NEWS [old] > ASK OBAMA AND ROMNEY THIS: WHAT IFF CHINA SQUARED OFF AGZ JAPAN?
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You know in upstate New York is all sorts of cold weather field equipment [tentage, generators, etc] at the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum. Of course, it would come with the uniform personnel which apparently the mayor wants no presence of.
In New York, NBC News' Chriso Glorioso reports that as a result of the problems at Bayway and other storm-damaged petroleum terminals, many delivery trucks must fill up with wholesale gasoline at terminals in the Philadelphia area, severely delaying shipments to New York and New Jersey gas stations.
The south Jersey terminals are so overwhelmed that they are finding there is a three-, four- and five-hour wait to pull the truck under the rack and fill and then another two-hour trip back, said Sal Risalvato, executive director of the New Jersey Gasoline Convenience Store Automotive Association.
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I've read that Panama, Ecudor, Thailand, Belize, and Costa Rico are good places to retire. There are states in the U.S. which are better than others to ride things out--if riding things out is still an option. Maybe, this country has gone over the edge of sanity and committed suicide. I love this country but I feel like the country is leaving many of us--not the other way around. Maybe time for a John Galt.
[Philly] Some Philadelphia neighborhoods outdid themselves in Tuesday's presidential election.
In a city where President B.O. received more than 85 percent of the votes, in some places he received almost every one. In 13 Philadelphia wards, Obama received 99 percent of the vote or more.
Those wards, many with large African American populations, also swung heavily for Obama over John Maverick McCain ... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution... in 2008. But the difficult economy seemed destined to dampen that enthusiasm four years later.
Not to worry. Ward leaders and voters said they were just as motivated this time.
"In this election, you had to point out to the people what was at stake. And in many cases, they felt that the Romney doctrine was not going to favor the working man," said Edgar "Sonny" Campbell.
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"In this election, you had to point out to the people what was at stake. And in many cases, they felt that the Romney doctrine was not going to favor the non-working man," said Edgar "Sonny" Campbell.
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State Sen. Vincent Hughes (D. Phila.) responded swiftly. He said Philadelphians came out to vote because they were tired of the "hard-right" Republican agenda. "If they believe there was a corruption of the process, then go to court and challenge it. Show the people of Pennsylvania," Hughes said. "Beyond that, shut up."
Why give Holder more stuff to cover up?
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I thought I was going to read that Obama got 120% of the vote in some areas of Philadelphia.
The US has more in common with heavily indebted southern European countries than it might like to admit. And if the country doesn't reach agreement on deficit reduction measures soon, the similarities could become impossible to ignore. The fiscal cliff looms in the near future, and its not just the US that is under threat.
Indonesian police said Friday that they would increase security checks on burqa-clad visitors at prisons in the capital after a convicted terrorist apparently escaped under the Islamic veil.
Roki Aprisdianto, 29, sentenced to six years behind bars in 2011, managed to escape undetected Tuesday from the Jakarta Police detention center home to 70 terrorist inmates when 23 burqa-clad women came to visit their husbands.
The convicted militant allegedly put on a burqa smuggled in by a visitor, said Jakarta police spokesman Col. Rikwanto. Another inmate told police he saw Aprisdianto wearing a burqa, but no one was recorded visiting him.
Police will staff additional female guards at prisons in Jakarta to conduct security checks in a closed room for women wearing burqas, said Rikwanto, who like many Indonesians uses one name. He said women previously were never asked to lift their veils.
From now on, all burqa-clad visitors who enter and leave the prison will be checked thoroughly, Rikwanto said. We dont want to neglect this again.
Police are still searching for Aprisdianto, who led a small terrorist cell and was arrested in 2010 for masterminding a series of bombings that targeted churches and police stations in Central Java province. There were no reports of injuries in the attacks.
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With these 3D Finger Print Scanners Nobody needs to touch the burqa-clad visitors to get a rolled equivalent fingerprint with liveness active sensing.
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It's currently liked by Homeland Defense but the FBI fingerprint folks insist on the impossibility of calibrating a 3D device with 2D flat slides with no 3D features.
A 3D scan of a 2D slide results in a flat surface.
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I'm going to quess that the guards never noticed the Adam's Apple or the Long Beard???
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Where can you go when you've gone too far? Hard to enjoy lounging by the pool at the Dubai Motel 6 if you're worried about the waiter putting a bullet behind your ear as payback for your rat-bag dictator ways.
We really need some sort of theme park or wildlife preserve where superfluous dictators can retire to live out their days in safety.
For Republicans unhappy with Tuesday's election, we have good newsat least most of you don't live in California. Not only did Democrats there win voter approval to raise the top tax rate to 13.3%, but they also received a huge surprisea legislative supermajority. Look out below.
So now Californians will experience the joys of one-party, union-run progressive governance. Mr. Brown is urging lawmakers to demonstrate frugality and the "prudence of Joseph." As he said the other day, "we've got to make sure over the next few years that we pay our bills, we invest in the right programs, but we don't go on any spending binges." That's what all Governors say. Trouble is, merely paying the state's delinquent bills will require tens of billions in additional revenues if lawmakers don't undertake fiscal reforms.
With no GOP restraint, liberals can now raise taxes to pay for all this. They'll probably start by repealing Proposition 13's tax cap for commercial property. Democrats in the Assembly held hearings on the idea this spring. Then they'll try to make it easier for cities to raise taxes.
The silver lining here is that Americans will be able to see the modern liberal-union state in all its raw ambition. The Sacramento political class thinks it can tax and regulate the private economy endlessly without consequence. As a political experiment it all should be instructive, and at least Californians can still escape to Nevada or Idaho.
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...and bring their Califiorniasims with them. It's not stopping expansion, it's just metastaism. Spreading the disease elsewhere. Californians don't stop being Californians just because they move away.
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Interesting you should say make that point gromky. I was just talking to a friend who lives in a lovely inlet, coastal community in SC. Over the past few years, they've been facing an influx of new retirees from NY and NJ. Quite a WTF moment for the locals. No, they ain't a'changin!
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There are a number of californias that are fleeing because of the liberal nonsense and would not bring it with them. If I wasn't trapped with a mortgage i couldn't unload if I tried I'd be packing for Texas already.
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One little known aspect of Prop. 13 (which I believe was carried out years later): real estate which was largely made tax-exempt (for all intents & purposes) is now allowed to be bequeathed to descendants of the original owner, along with the tax-exemption. This is setting up a feudal aristocracy.
I live pretty close to the bone, am retired, own a low-price home, bought a new car this year. I still pay more for real estate taxes than I pay in either income or sales taxes (including tax on new car).
I drive 15 miles north on I-81 every morning. For the last two days from roughly 7:30 am to 8:00 am I have seen 5 or 6 convoys of 4-6 utility or tree trucks heading south. They are leaving a lot sooner than they did for last year's Halloween snow storm. Or are they being turned away? I sure don't get the impression from the news that they are no longer needed.
BALI: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ridiculed the expense of the US election, mocking it as a battleground for capitalists while speaking at a democracy forum.
Ahmadinejads own government has been criticized for human rights abuses and sanctioned for pursuing a nuclear program many suspect is aimed at obtaining weapons.
A day after Americans re-elected President Barack Obama, the Iranian president told the forum in Indonesia that democracy has become a system where the minority rules over the majority.
Just take a look at the situation in Europe and the US, Ahmadinejad said as the forum opened Thursday on the resort island of Bali.
An election, which is one of the manifestations of the peoples will, has become a battleground for the capitalists and an excuse for hasty spending.
Spending on the 2012 US presidential campaign was the highest ever, soaring beyond $2 billion as independent fundraising groups financed advertising to promote their favored candidates.
Ahmadinejads criticism contrasted with other gathered leaders calls for more democracy and freedoms for citizens around the world.
He's absolutely right, the Presidency is now being sold to the highest bidder...just like Rome during the decline.
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..actually it was auctioned off during the year of the four emperors, but the empire would still ascend with Vespasian, Trajan, Hadrian, Constantine I. We're pretty much in Gracchi brothers period undermining the old constitution, awaiting our Marius, Sulla, Pompey and Caesars. They played factions (the tribes of Rome) against each other, we have our players using class and race (our tribes) to the same ends.
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When firms begin dropping private insurance plans and the insurance industry takes it's last dying gasp, Obamacare will be all that remains. This was always the plan, the speed of execution is what astounds me.
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The Obamacare bills have not come in yet Besoeker. A CEO was interviewed the other day and said there there is a little box on a person's W2 form that allows the government to tax health benefits as income--that is if they are fortunate enough to have a job. Many of the people who voted for Obama have not been well-informed by this transparent government (sarc). The free lunches will last for a little while and then chaos. The buying of votes works only in the short run so long as enough workers are working. We are witnessing the killing off of the premiere medical system in the world. "Greece (not the musical) can be seen on any street corner soon. This is not the country that I knew where there were opportunities and not give-aways of other people's earnings. Communism has not worked anywhere else in the world and it will not work here. It is an incentive-destroying system for the ordinary person. It works fairly well for the union elites and the elected elites in government.
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Snowy, yes!. Do it soon. You will be in good company. Have them subcontract or use a skin company so they are not your employee's. Hey if they quit, the skin company will send another and another. Not your problem anymore. Loyalty is gone these days. Your in a street fight to exist. The government is not there helping you succeed.
Like trying to merge into heavy traffic, what? are they gonna play nice and let you in? no way Jose!.
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I attempted to explain this insurance stuff to a fellow co-worker (black) before the election, that Mr Bill will stop paying your insurance, because the penalty is less than the premiums he is currently paying (and believe me, it's a big bill he pays)... Our HSA's -- great deal -- after my deduction $1,500, everything, and I mean, everything is a total cost of $00.00. He pays $1,200 of that deduction, so our insurance costs us only $400 a year.
We also have dental and vision insurance at no cost.
And that she and her family, as a result, would get lesser benefits and big costs.... she still refuses to believe it and was H888 bent on voting for Obama, and yes, she liked Ryan, but "Romney just scares me to death." She got the message alright.
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Besoeker,
You are missing the entire point of Federally mandated health coverage. You must have employer furnished coverage, pay for coverage from an insurance company (big $$$) or go to the Govt clearinghouse and select a policy for 7% of your (gross?) income.
Those all sound like they will involve an insurance company to me. I haven't heard a peep out of the insurance lobby lately, I will continue to assume it's because they are going to make a ton of money off this new requirement.
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I've been a 'Free Agent' IT worker (Project Planning and Management) for over three years now. I have solid contacts, good reputation and a decent amount of work.
This, is what a LOT of people are going to have to come to grips with. If they want to work they're going to have to become free agents. I also have tried to explain the coming chaos to several people, it's of no use. Stupid can't be fixed, and stupid combined with Leftist denial is fatal.
Going to be an interesting ride. I've started looking for a small acreage and will be selling my place in Fort Worth. Going back to the country...got to get away.
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Dale, I use subcontractors a lot already, but for the people who spend most of their time working for me, I'm not sure I can any more.
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Govt clearinghouse and select a policy for 7% of your (gross?) income.
Just checked - my current medical out-of-pocket expenses plus company contribution run about 9% of gross income.
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Good story. The money will run out soon and all those dependent will go nuts. No control over that crowd especially in Urban areas. LBJ really managed this problem. Put it on the back burner.
Only works if you can buy them off.
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Movies often serve as a useful shorthand for how to address some of lifes issues. Sometimes the only way out of a dilemma is by clearing the table and starting again from scratch.
I dunno, it sounds like a suicide pact. On the other hand, proceeding in the direction we are going also seems like a suicide pact.
[An Nahar] Turkey's President Abdullah Gul said Thursday that the country reserved the right to defend itself against any threat from neighboring Syria, amid discussions about the possible deployment of U.S. Patriot missiles.
"Patriots... are being discussed within NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... . It is only natural for us to take any measure for defense reasons," Gul told news hounds, but insisted that it was "out of the question for Turkey to start a war with Syria.
And he also hoped that Syria would not act "illogically."
On Wednesday, Turkey said it is in talks with NATO over the possible deployment of Patriot missiles on its soil as part of contingency planning on the security of Turkey and NATO territories.
Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told news hounds in Brussels that it was only "normal" to discuss any defense measures in the face of potential risk from Syria.
Turkey has already beefed up border security with tanks and anti-aircraft batteries in the face of the deadly 20-month conflict in Syria, which has occasionally spilled over onto Turkish soil.
Turkish border units have systematically retaliated to cross-border shelling since Syrian fire killed five Turks on October 3.
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[Tolo News] The Jihadi Council led by Afghanistan's Energy and Water Minister Mohammad Ismail Khan has started distributing weapons to its members in western Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province, the provincial front man Mahiuddin Noori said Wednesday.
Noori warned that gangs apart from the Afghan cops are against the law and the distribution of weapons is a criminal offence.
"In the past several months, the non-government Council of the Mujahedeen [Jihadi Council] has distributed weapons to the residents which is against Afghanistan's laws," Noori said on Wednesday, adding that there is proof of this claim.
He showed a signed piece of paper with the Jihadi Council's appointment of a commander or "security official".
"Anyone who distributes weapons apart from the government commits a crime. It is against the national interests of the government and the country and it will be prosecuted. The justice and security organs are investigating this issue," he said.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... Jihadi Council leaders denied the claim, although they confirmed that the men have grouped into "units" and appointed commanders.
"According to the order from Ismail Khan, we have already inaugurated 30 to 40 Mujahedeen units and assigned their commanders. Weapons were not distributed by unit commanders," Jihadi Council deputy chief Khuwaja Shamsuddin said Wednesday.
Herat's provincial governor Dawood Shah Saba emphasised yesterday that the residents of the western province will not accept militias.
"I want to clearly say that the people of Afghanistan rely on their sons as the police and army and national security department, which have the ability to protect the national illusory sovereignty and honor of the country. They do not need any more for the agents of outsiders," the governor said in a gathering in Herat on Tuesday.
The Jihadi Council was formed in Herat last year under the leadership of former Jihadi commander and current Energy and Water Minister Mohammad Ismail Khan.
Last week he revealed that plans were underway to re-form the army which had fought the Soviet Russians in the 80s, claiming that because NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... had failed to secure Afghanistan against the bad boys, the Mujahedeen would do it themselves.
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Send in the IDF.
NATO has had 11 years and still can't beat these guys. That's embarrassing.
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I'd say just let Ismail (and Dostum and the others) round up their boyz, give them arms, ammunition, and a few tanks, and let them clean out the Talibs. It's pretty obvious the ANA isn't going to do it.
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Give 'em everything we can leave behind. Makes it easier and quicker to leave that place; Dostum and the others will make better use of it anyway.
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We beat them with special forces - the failure was that we tried to nation build from a culture that is not college educated, is majoritily illiterate, number one export is heroin, does not respect women's rights, and is trapped in a 800AD theocracy mentality.
[al Ahram] Egyptian Prosecutor-General Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud officially restored possession of a parcel of land owned by Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo's Shubra Al-Kheima district to Bishop Morcos, Coptic Bishop of Shubra Al-Kheima, after the land was briefly occupied by Salafist Mohammedans earlier this week.
After entering the land illegally on Monday, a group of Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... erected a sign bearing the words 'Al-Rahma Mosque' and performed Islamic prayers on the premises.
The Salafists only left when church authorities informed the interior ministry of the incident. Security forces took down the sign on Tuesday morning.
Subject to disputes between Mohammedans and Coptic-Christians, the land in question was formally restored to the latter after investigations by the prosecutor-general's office confirmed Bishop Morcos' ownership of the land.
Mahmoud also ordered police to adopt any security measures necessary to protect the disputed land.
In a statement to Al-Ahram's Arabic-language news website, Bishop Marcos expressed his gratitude to Mahmoud for the latter's swift response to the incident, saying the prosecutor-general's actions indicated his impartiality.
On Tuesday, the Egyptian Coptic Coalition issued a statement holding President Mohamed Morsi responsible for the episode and urging him to impose harsher punishments for such incidents. The group also called for an investigation into Monday's episode.
In an earlier statement, Egypt's Maspero Copts Youth United also denounced the incident, attributing it to the state's failure to respond to earlier outbreaks of sectarian violence, including the burning of Christian churches in the wake of last year's Tahrir Square uprising.
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If I remember right, there was a game of 'winners & losers' 60 or 70 years ago. The losers were some 400 unfederated clusters of primitives who have been fed and watered by their neighbors since then. Something like pets.
Maybe I got the story wrong. Winners write history, right?
[Dawn] Iraqi officials say two car booms have killed three people and maimed at least seven in a town south of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... Police officials say the first bombing took place in a residential area of the predominantly Shia town of Mohmoudiya early Thursday, killing two people and wounding four.
Another car boomwent kaboom! seconds later at a parking lot near the town's electricity directorate, killing one person and wounding three.
Mahmoudiya is about 30 kilometers south of the Iraqi capital.
Health officials at the town's general hospital confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorised to talk to the media.
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Just three?
Either the bomb makers are getting inept or the populace is getting more careful...either way, I am glad so few were killed.
Boy I just don't know what on earth to think of Iraq right now, both sides have, essentially, gotten what they wanted in the form of government and regional authority. I guess the 1200 year old blood feud over the succession to Mohammed still lives...
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[Al Ahram] In her first official presentation to the U.N. security council, top persecutor Fatou Bensouda said Libya shouldn't grant amnesty for war crimes committed during the uprising against Gaddafi regardless of who committed them
...because then she wouldn't have a job.
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[Tolo News] 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... on Thursday criticised the structure of the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Security Council, saying at the 5th Bali Democracy Forum in Indonesia that it was not democratic.
Karzai said the UN Security Council cannot represent all of the world when the relationship between the Council and the UN General Assembly is not democratic.
"The Security Council does not represent all of us," Karzai told the forum in his address.
"The five permanent members of individual powers aren't democratic, the relationship between the Security Council and the General Assembly is not democratic and of course we all wish it to be democratic. How do we get there? Afghanistan is too small and insignificant to make an impact, but we will talk. Democracy allows us that the freedom of speech," he said.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan also slammed the power of the council, citing the conflict in Syria.
He criticised its structure of only five individual countries holding veto powers and 10 non-permanent members with no veto power which meant the "fate of humanity" was in the hands of only five countries.
"If you leave the decision of the whole world to only five countries, it will eliminate the world. Conflicts between the UN structures have encouraged the Syrian regime to kill its people," he said. "It's a shame for all the globe to see dozens of people getting killed," he added.
Two of the veto five, China and Russia, have voted against resolutions for the UN to take action in Syria.
Iranian president Mahmood Ahmadinejad said in his address at the conference that the US election has turned into a "battleground for capitalists", pointing to the amount of money spent on running the election.
"An election, which is one of the manifestations of the people's will, has become a battleground for the capitalists, and an excuse for hefty spending," Ahmadinejad said a day after Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... was re-elected as US president.
"Look at the situation in Europe and the US: elections should be democratic but only a number of wealthy people run for the election and spend millions to gain power and prevent the independent, honest and hard-working people from running for election," he said.
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That's because they are POWERS dipshit!
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"If you leave the decision of the whole world to only five countries, it will eliminate the world"
Make it only four countries and the UN headquarters in Istanbul. Maybe the elimination will go a little faster.
[Al Ahram] A roadside kaboom killed 10 civilians, including women and a child, heading for a wedding party in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, officials said. Prob'ly had wimmin in it without their faces covered or somethin'...
"Ten civilians, including four women and a child were killed in a roadside kaboom as they were going to attend a wedding party in Musa Qala district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province," the provincial governor's front man Ahmad Zeerak told AFP.
Seven children were maimed in the blast, which police blamed on Taliban turbans.
The attack took the day's toll in the Afghan war to 18, with a jacket wallah on a cycle of violence killing three coppers in a pre-dawn attack and five Afghan troops dying in a roadside kabooming.
The blasts came as Afghan forces take increasing responsibility for the fight against Taliban hard boyz as US-led NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... combat troops prepare to pull out by the end of 2014.
The suicide kaboom came in Kandahar city in the south of the country while the soldiers died in Laghman province in the east.
"Around 5:00 am, a suicide bomber on a cycle of violence detonated his explosives at a police checkpost, leaving three Afghan coppers killed and two others maimed," the provincial governor's front man, Javed Faisal, told AFP.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but similar attacks have been claimed by Taliban Islamists fighting to bring down the US-backed government of 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... The roadside kaboom hit a pick-up truck carrying Afghan army soldiers, killing five and wounding one in Mehtarlam, the Laghman placid provincial capital, Sarhadi Zwak, the provincial governor's front man, said.
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D *** NG IT, the Hard Boyz have once again made it quite clear - they hate CHIFFON/ANGEL FOOD WEDDING CAKES + aren't taking "no" for an answer!
[Dawn] A security man was killed and 14 persons received injuries in a kaboom at Sadda Bazaar in Kurram Agency ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... on Wednesday.
Official sources said that an improvised bomb (IED) was planted by faceless myrmidons at Ajab Khan Chowk in Sadda Bazaar that went off at 11:15am. A security man identified as Khial Bacha was killed and 14 persons, including three security personnel and two children, were maimed in the blast, they said. They added that two shops were also destroyed partially in the kaboom.
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Governor Barrister Masood Kausar expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... over the attack and said that such acts should be thwarted. He said that government with the cooperation of local people would take necessary measures to overcome the situation.
In North Wazoo Agency, a woman was killed and a man received injuries when mortar shells were fired from across the border on Wednesday.
Sources said that NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... forces fired 17 mortar shells from Paktia province of Afghanistan at Wacha Bibi area of tehsil Dattakhel in North Waziristan Agency. They said that several houses were destroyed in the shelling.
A woman was killed and a man identified as Mir Wali received injuries when mortar shells hit the area, they added.
Also, NATO forces fired two mortar shells from Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... of Afghanistan that landed in Ghulam Khan area. However, you can observe a lot just by watching... no casualty was reported in the incident.
In Mohmand Agency ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... , faceless myrmidons blew up two government-run schools in the small hours of Wednesday.
Local sources said that faceless myrmidons planted improvised bombs at a government primary school in Tora Garai area of tehsil Pandilai and government primary school in Shah Baig Yaseen Kore area of tehsil Haleemzai. The bombs went kaboom! and destroyed buildings of both the schools, they added.
About 111 educational institutions have been destroyed by suspected faceless myrmidons in Mohmand tribal region so far.
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[Yemen Post] The Interior Ministry has directed to ban cycle of violences with no registration plates in all Yemeni governorates after several Yemeni officers were assassinated by gunnies on cycle of violences.
The ministry stated that security campaigns will be conducted to pursue those cycle of violences which have no registrations plates.
Al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula had called its members to use cycle of violences and avoid using vehicles after US drones increased against them.
It further cautioned its operatives against using cell phones, urging them to use internet under coded names.
On Wednesday, a Yemeni officer was assassinated by a gunnies on cycle of violence nearby the Interior Ministry.
Yemeni security sources said that the incident carries the hallmarks of al-Qaeda, pointing out that they have no evidence about that.
A Yemeni analyst and specialist on terror groups, Saeed al-Jomahi, has said that Al-Qaeda will continue carrying out liquidations against Yemeni military officers.
Most liquidations focus on individuals working in counterterrorism operations, particularly officers of the Political Security, an intelligence service.
The Interior Ministry has recently launched a anti-weapon campaign in which it focused on combating gun spread and carrying in main cities.
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So you steal a cycle before you commit the crime. Thats like banning 32 ounce sodas and thinking nobody will figure out they can refill (or buy two).
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They should ban public explosions. That's the real problem, not the lack of license plates. Prolly need a law saying everyone must obey the law, too.
Following the re-election of President Obama earlier this week, U.S. stocks have fallen sharply as investor shift their attention to the looming fiscal cliff, and the potential consequences for the U.S. and global economies if Congress fails to avert it.
U.S. stock futures were lower Friday, as disappointing corporate results weighed on sentiment, setting the market up for a third straight day of declines.
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[Al Ahram] Islamist groups - excluding Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Nour Party - to protest at Tahrir Square demanding the inclusion of Sharia as the main source of legislation in Egypt's new constitution
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[Bangla Daily Star] West African army chiefs have adopted a military plan to expel beturbanned fascisti controlling northern Mali, as one krazed killer group pushes for a negotiated solution to the crisis.
Mali has slid into chaos since a March 22 coup overthrew the government of president Amadou Toumani Toure, creating a power vacuum that enabled beturbanned fascisti to seize the vast desert north.
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[Dawn] The roars celebrating the re-election of US President Barack Obama Republicans can come along for the ride, but they've got to sit in the back... on television give Mohammad Rehman Khan a searing headache, as years of grief and anger come rushing back.
The 28-year-old Pak accuses the president of robbing him of his father, three brothers and a nephew, all killed in a dronezap a month after Obama first took office.
"The same person who attacked my home has gotten re-elected," he told Rooters in the capital, Islamabad, where he fled after the attack on his village in South Wazoo, one of several tribal areas near the Afghan border.
"Since yesterday, the pressure on my brain has increased. I remember all of the pain again."
In his re-election campaign, Obama gave no indication he would halt or alter the drone program, which he embraced in his first term to kill Al Qaeda and Talibs in Pakistain and Afghanistan without risking American lives.
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[Al Ahram] THe country's annual inflation reaches 45.3 per cent in October, up from 41.6 per cent a month earlier mainly driven by large increases in food prices
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Pak Taliban claimed the responsibility of a high-intensity blast targeting the Rangers Headquarters in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's North Nazimabad area early Thursday.
Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP) Spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said that they have more targets on their list and those who would raise voices against them, the Taliban would target them.
He said that the Pak Taliban have their network in the country and would operate from wherever they wanted from.
According to media reports, a truck slammed into one of the entrances of the Rangers compound killing one person and leaving more than a dozen, including civilians, injured.
The injured were shifted to the city's Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
The blast was heard across the city and fear and panic gripped the citizens. It caused damage to nearby buildings and shattered windows in the vicinity.
Senior police official Javed Odho told a television channel that the bomber had used more than 100 kilograms of explosives in the attack.
Witnesses reported seeing a large plume of smoke in the sky.
Television footage of the blast site showed what appeared to be an apartment block with a gaping hole in the middle where the bomb went off and part of the two-story building was razed.
Emergency and rescue teams had reached the site of the kaboom.
A portion of a building inside the Rangers compound collapsed and caught fire and efforts were being made to put out the blaze.
Rangers created a perimeter around the building to hold off journalists and bystanders.
One of the Rangers, Muhammed Farooq, said he was preparing for work when he looked out the window and saw a vehicle smash through the main gate and into the building.
"Then there was a really big bang and I lost my balance and I saw a lot of smoke and then I lost consciousness," he said, speaking from the hospital.
The area was cordoned off by security forces as investigations into the incident went underway.
Governor Sindh Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan and Interior Minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. condemned the attack and sought a report from IG Sindh on the incident.
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See also DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > MQM CHIEF ALTAF HUSSAIN STRONGLY CONDEMNS BLAST AT RANGERS HQ IN KARACHI.
Hussain claims that terrorists are trying to foster instability in Pakistan to propagate their activities.
[Dawn] Pakistain Foreign Office (FO) said Thursday that a dossier has been sent to the Afghan officials and International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) on the issue of Maulvi Fazlullah. The foreign office has also received response from them; it would be soon shared with the people, the FO added.
Pakistain's FO front man Moazzam Khan was giving a weekly press briefing in Islamabad.
He congratulated the President of the United States Barrack Obama on his second time election in the White House. He said that the foreign office was in negotiations with the B.O. regime over the issue of drone attacks in Pakistain.
He said that Pakistain's policy has not been changed on the issue of US drone strikes in the country. The solution to the problem should be acceptable to the both parties.
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[Jerusalem Post] No one was injured by the blast, but a jeep which was in the area was blown sideways by the force of the blast.
Terrorists on Thursday blew up a massive tunnel they had dug from southern Gazoo toward Israel, the IDF said.
No one was injured, but a jeep that was in the area was blown sideways by the force of the kaboom. The blast may have been set off by remote control.
Earlier on Thursday, Brig.- Gen. Micky Edelstein, the new commander of the Gazoo Division, led soldiers into Gazoo to investigate the area, following a string of kabooms in recent days, including one on Tuesday that maimed three soldiers.
The soldiers uncovered several bombs after crossing the border, some of them very powerful, IDF Spokesman Brig.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai said.
"As soldiers worked to fix the fence in the area, the tunnel blew up under the [fence] route," Mordechai said. "It was a very large kaboom, leaving a four- to five-meter crater. We believe the blast is a result of the work carried out by the army west of the border, though this needs to be confirmed."
The IDF does not yet know how the tunnel was intended to be used. "It was a very big tunnel, of the likes we haven't seen in a long time," Mordechai said.
On Tuesday morning, an kaboom tore through the Gazoo border, wounding three soldiers.
Last month, Paleostinian gunnies detonated a bomb on the border, seriously wounding an IDF company commander, who lost his left hand. Both incidents occurred in the same area of southern Gazoo where Thursday's bombfilled tunnel exploded, and where the bombs were found by the Israeli force inside the Strip.
There are frequent attacks on the border by a host of Gazook terrorist factions -- Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... and smaller organizations. The attacks often take the form of mortar fire, bombs, rocket fire and machine-gun attacks, as well as attempts to enter Israel.
[Al Ahram] After a successful small surgery in Saudi Arabia, Sudan's president Bashir says he is in good health and his country's reaction to Israel will be painful after Khartoum accused it of bombing a military factory on 23 October
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See also RELATED DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > ISRAEL IS ENEMY NO.1, SAYS SUDAN'S BASHIR. PRESIDENT BASHIR PROMISES THAT SUDAN'S RESPONSE TO ISRAEL'S KHARTOUM ARMS FACTORY [Yarmouk] STRIKE WILL BE "PAINFUL", SAYS COUNTRY IS TRYING TO OBTAIN TECHNOLOGIES TO MATCH IDENTICAL STRIKE AGZ ISRAEL.
OTOH iff regional MilPol history is any measure thats not going to make EGYPT or ETHIOPIA happy, but espec EGYPT.
Obama was "fired up" and so were the voters, and so now, the mass firings begin. Here's a collection of today's headlines. Please say a prayer for the families who will be suffering. Had Romney won, many of these companies would now be hiring.
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I saw other companies on another list, many were the same though. Probably they had this in the works for a while but were just trying to hold out against hope for the election. I think the Author is correct, if Romney had won they would have tried to tough it out. As it is, they are just throwing their hands up.
[An Nahar] State commissioner to the military court Judge Saqr Saqr charged on Thursday a Lebanese man and two Syrians with helping three Fatah al-Islam A Syrian-incubated al-Qaeda work-alike that they think can be turned off if no longer needed to keep the Leb pot stirred. inmates escape from Roumieh prison, the oldest and largest of Leb's overcrowded prisons.
The National News Agency reported that the three men were also charged with facilitating a prison break attempt for another inmate.
On November 1, Internal Security Forces thwarted a jail break attempt by a Fatah al-Islam inmate from Roumieh prison, who was planning to wear a black Islamic veil chador and climb down using a rope from bloc B that the Islamist inmates are held in.
In October, it was discovered that three Fatah al-Islam prisoners had fled the jail at least a month ago.
Sixteen security forces members have been jugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in the scandal amid reports that the wide security and judicial purification operation of the prison will be carried out soon.
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CAIRO -- American Mohammedans have hailed the downfall of candidates known for their hostile tone against the sizable minority and their religion in Congressional elections this week.
"These encouraging results clearly show that mainstream Americans reject anti-Mohammedan bigotry by candidates for public office and will demonstrate that rejection at the polls," Nihad Awad, National Executive Director of the umbrella Council on American-Islamic Relations ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... (CAIR) said in a statement obtained by OnIslam.net.
Congressional election on Tuesday, November 6, saw the fall of candidates known for their hostile rhetoric against Mohammedans.
In Florida, Republican Representative Allen West lost to his Democrat challenger Patrick Murphy.
West has once described Islam as a "totalitarian theocratic political ideology" that is a "very vile and very vicious enemy".
Another Islamophobic politician, Republican Adam Hasner, was voted down by voters in Florida.
Hasner is known for championing events to taint the image of Mohammedans.
In 2009, he sought to block a day, "Florida Mohammedan Capitol Day", that marks Mohammedan achievements.
Two years earlier, he sponsored the screening of a documentary that scares Americans away from Islam and Mohammedans for state politicians.
The documentary "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against The West", which presents what it describes as radical Islam's campaign against Christians, America and the West, was shown on college campuses across the country.
It features interviews with commentators famed for their notorious anti-Islam views, including Martin Gilbert, Daniel Pipes and Steve Emerson
A third Islamophobic candidate, Terry Kemple, was also defeated in his bid for the Hillsborough County School Board.
Kemple's main issue in the race was seeking to keep Mohammedan speakers out of local schools.
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This is more of a worrying trend of anti semitism.
In Europe it's illegal to Deny the holocaust or criticise Israel. But in the US you're letting people vote against friends of Israel.
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I seem to remember that assman-johnnie was as well. Albeit by their version of the Electoral College. I suppose thay haven't got that right yet either.
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The left-wing has demonized religious people and evangelicals in the U.S. Wait until the left experience a Taliban-like or Iranian theocratic nightmare. They will love it. No music, no Springsteen, no rap or hip hop, no Hollywood films, no women rights, no art.
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Wait until the left experience a Taliban-like or Iranian theocratic nightmare
Of course the left firmly believes that they will somehow be exempt. That the same Islamists who hoist up homosexuals by their necks in Iran and elsewhere will suddenly develop a love of Homosexuals when it comes to them. That the same Islamists who allow for the beating, torture and rape of women and banning them from driving or being outside without their owner will somehow come to love the so called 'feminist'. That the same Islamists who abhor atheists and treat them even worse than the 'people of the book' (Christians and Jews) will suddenly develop some deep understanding and respect for the godless left.
[Yemen Post] Unknown gunnies attacked and left at death's door a Yemeni officer in downtown the capital Sanaa amid a series of liquidations targeting senior army and intelligence officers in the country.
Officials at the interior ministry said on condition of anonymity he gunnies fired at Major. Muhammad Hussein Al-Feel while he was at the local administration ministry in Al-Hasaba area before noon Wednesday.
"The gunnies were on a cycle of violence and they shot Hajib in his head and bravely ran away," the officials continued.
The officer suffered serious injuries and he was taken to the intensive care unit of the police hospital immediately, the officials adding, the officer worked as a central security delegate to the interior ministry.
Tens of Yemeni senior officers, mostly intelligence detectives, have been assassinated in Yemen this year amid security disorder which is part of big challenges that were deepened by the latest events in the country including the 2011 popular uprising.
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When the population of a nation, or a significant majority of it, no longer know what their own national identity is, then the principles on which the country was founded cease to be their principles. The decay of the foundation results in the collapse of a nation.
Rome fell because eventually the majority administering and defending her, at all levels, no longer understood what a Roman was, what it meant to be Roman. Those remaining real Romans where so corrupted they did not care.
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Romney wears magic underpants because he believes in Jesus... Says it all.
Jesus was born a Jew, and chose to turn against god. Most people aren't lucky enough to be part of the chosen race. But if you are one of the few god chooses, how do you think he feels if you throw it back in his face?
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#4 Jesus was born a Jew, and chose to turn against god. What?
The one kid isn't too good at math but then he doesn't really need math in the new world does he?
A widespread social and educational Hurricane Katrina and Sandy on a widespread. The country is screwed.
One thing to consider is what happens when the jihadists (or anyone else) decides to attack the US and there is no military to respond because no one is re-upping and it has been gutted? Conflict resolution? Negotiation? Kumbaya.
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I believe this election was about a black President. Dems are trying to demoralize and libertarians and social conservatives are blaming each other hoping for control over the GOP. Having said that I would like to see a few modifications to GOP positions.
(1) Republicans need to accept Gay marriage. Younger generation believes in it so strongly it is only a matter of time. Cut the losses and draw a line where it intrudes upon church freedoms.
(2) Republicans need to accept cannibas legalization as well. It is harmless in the eyes if most and hurts nobody but the user. Draw the line at harder stuff and otherwise treat it as booze as far as laws go (in states thst legslize it).
(4) Republicans need to draw the abortion battle differently. Insist that mothers get an ultrasound for health reasons before an abortion. Mothers that see am ultrasound tend to see a baby and change their mind. Force Dems into fighting against this, make them explsin that an ultrasound shows a baby and not tissue. Yes many doctors would break the rule and not do thevultrasound but the arguement iscwinnable as ultrasounds get better and better.
(5) Republicans need to hammer the immigration issue by attacking red tape that make it tough for legak immigrants to get work visas and citizenship and push for civics and English to help them prosper. Turn the illegal argument into one about cutting in line, they can get to the end and try like everybody else. Then position the dems as niave tools of Mexicsn oligarchs and sex trafficers.
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#7 Klik hier. Besoeker, the D-bomb has dropped and exploded. The D-Bomb being the "dumb bomb?" The D-bomb is the enemy of a free society. Politicians who get elected such as recently rely upon an uninformed electorate--in fact they promote such a society.
Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.
So it goes.
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The Big Board - by Kilgore Trout
It was about an Earthling man and woman who were kidnapped by extra-terrestrials. They were put on display in a zoo on a planet called Zircon-212.
These fictitious people in the zoo had a big board supposedly showing stock market quotations and comodity prices along one wall of their habitat, and a news ticker, and a telephone that was supposedly connected to a brokerage on Earth. The creatures on Zircon-212 told their captives that they had invested a million dollars for them back on Earth, and that it was up to the captives to manage it so that they would be fabulously wealthy when they were returned to Earth.
The telephone and the big board and the ticker were all fakes, of course. They were simply stimulants to make the Earthlings perform vividly for the crowds at the zooto make them jump up and down and cheer, or gloat, or sulk, or tear their hair, to be scared shitless or to feel as contented as babies in their mothers arms.
The Earthlings did very well on paper. That was part of the rigging, of course. And religion got mixed up in it, too. The news ticker reminded them that the President of the United States had declared National Prayer Week, and that everybody should pray. The Earthlings had had a bad week on the market before that. They had lost a small fortune in olive oil futures. So they gave praying a whirl.
It worked. Olive oil went up.
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Then there is: "Venus on the Half-Shell is a science fiction novel by Philip José Farmer, writing pseudonymously as "Kilgore Trout">
In this version one of the stops is the planet of free lunch...
Another disaster area was the planet with such wide ranging laws with strong sentences that everybody on the planet was in jail.
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The election was about none of those things Richard.
Mitt Romney could have been a single, gaye republican, pot smoking black transvestite from Mexico (with questionable birth certificate and secret college transcripts) and he would still have been defeated by the Chicago machine. The election was simply about control.
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I second most, if not all, of Rjschwarz's points.
No question this election was about re-electing the first black president. How else do we explain the record high voter turnout for the Dems despite most polls showing an enthusiasm gap favoring the Repubs? Those who elected 0bama in 2008 had a lot to lose in this election. Among the obvious government programs, hand-outs, and what-not that they favor, their pride was at stake and pride can be a strong motivator. There was no way they were going to let the first black administration go down as a failed, one-term presidency on their watch, lest they look like fools for voting him into office in the first place.
Re #1: Long term, opposition to gay marriage is a losing issue for the GOP for two major reasons: 1) Younger generations like myself (I'm in my late thirties) have been exposed to gay relationships and have no inherent problem with them. Some of the most stable and loving relationships that I know of happen to be gay couples. 2) The population growth of most urban areas is outpacing suburban and rural areas (Detroit being one obvious exception, among a few others). The demographics of these urban areas happen to be more diverse and liberal. Just look at the map of red/blue voting results by county and it's fairly obvious that the more populous urban counties pushed swing states into the blue column. Whereas 20-30+ years ago, people were moving out of cities and into the suburbs, the reverse is now true.
Re #2: Totally agree. Anyone who has been around cannabis at all will tell you that it is no more/less harmful than alcohol, both in it's impact on the individual and society at large. If properly regulated and taxed, it could prove to be a decent source of revenue (and God knows we need all the revenue we can get).
Re #3: The abortion battle needs to recognize that most women today are pro-choice and the chances of that ever changing is slim to none (and I think slim just left town). How else do we explain the huge gap in the female vote between 0bama and Romney? For better or worse, abortion is here to stay. Which means, in my opinion, that Repubs must put the emphasis on choice. Let me explain. If abortion is a choice, then it should not be funded in any way by the government (i.e. the taxpayer). Furthermore, religious institutions, employers, and other private enterprises that choose not to fund or offer abortion are exercising their choice. It is not discrimination, as much as the liberals want to claim so. If conservatives agree not to infringe upon an individual's choice to get an abortion, then liberals must agree not to infringe upon an individual's choice not to provide for it.
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Judeo-Christian values is what made this nation the most blessed nation in the history of mankind. Cesspool values are returning this nation and the world back to a spinning ball of hell.
But that is predicted in the prophetic scriptures associated with Judeo-Christian values.
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I don't discount Besoeker's point about Chicago-style, machine politics at the national level here. At the same time, if the Republican's can't convince voters in the more populated urban areas of swing states to vote for them, despite the economic challenges in front of us, they have a problem on their hands and it's not a small one.
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The Urban political party understands control eltoroverde. They've been exercising it in Chicago and surrounding counties for nearly over one hundred years. Republican voter apathy runs rampant when the urgan megalopolis and electoral college renders their vote of no consequence. The democratic party is fully aware of the dynamic and advantages it at every opportunity. So-called Swing States were specifically provided long-term targeting and those already in the collective bag (such as, California, Washington, Vermont, Oregon, New Mexico) were little heard from.
The Framers of the Constitution never envisioned huge city states or an ethnically fractured population. Their vision was that of America being Americans, not some collection of divided and hyphenated subspecies.
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I think some of the points raised here are just dancing around the margins. Legal pot, ok, fine. I'm for legalizing everything--but no one cares.
The Tea Party was a spontaneous uprising over what? Pot? No! Lower taxes, less spending, smaller government. Those are our issues. Everything else is on the margin. Problem is that no one is the mainstream GOP believes in any of this. Just listen to that idiot Boehner wrapping his lips around Champ's anus. It's maddening (though, if the rumors are true, Barack is enjoying it).
The Tea Party represents the greatest threat to American politics today. Why? Because its ideas are not ideology based and transcend both parties. This is Power! That is why the Dem's demonize it so strongly. The Republicans didn't see this soon enough. The best thing that can happen is for the Tea Party to somehow "infect" the Dem's. But it will be difficult because their propaganda campaign really hurt the Tea Party.
If my party changes it values, it is no longer my party! This is what the opposition wants. IT is decay and the slow death, because the opposition dictates your position.
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After this election, I said well the Republicans had a reasonably good candidate, a good man who fought the good fight. Unfortunately, Obama did not observe the good fight rules. The Democrats left their election machine in place across the country after the 2008 election. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Meanwhile, the Republicans were going through the primaries trying to decide upon a suitable candidate. Meanwhile the Democrats set out to kill any Republican who started to emerge as a viable candidate. If they could not dig up dirt, they made it up. Bimbos who thought they had sex with one of the Republican candidates came out of the woodwork and disappeared just as quickly after the damage was done. A person's sealed divorce records--no problem. A person worked hard all his life and did everything right--no problem, that can be easily turned into a negative. The MSM went along with all of this. This is the machine is what the Republicans are dealing with. The Republicans showed up late for a boxing match and the Democrats showed up early for an eye-gouging, ear-biting, sucker-punching nut grabbing street fight. If I believed in the devil, I would think he looked like the Democratic Party.
The Democrats have won elections by promising people things--no matter than many of the promises were so much hot air to get elected. That said, I sat back and asked myself, suppose a third party emerged which was the party of everything. It even made the current crop of leftist Democrats appear to be conservative. It would be the party of everything for everybody. I started to think about this and frankly, the thought was frightening. Open borders, unlimited pot and yes why not other drugs too? Abortion on demand anytime? Fine. Just let your mind roam and consider all the possibilities. Who could refuse such a party (sarc on)? The Democrats would be hard-pressed playing catch up.
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Ebbang Uluque6305 consider this song from the 1920's... or earlier.... Then consider that every block in major cites used to have a whorehouse... It's never been that mythical upright country...
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What is different Ebbang Uluque6305 is that voting was once the sole privilege of property owning men.
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Put in other words... if you were successful enough to own property you had your own castle and full rights.
If you were not able to own property... tough titties. That was the whole game.
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once the electorate was expanded "Free Lunch" was only a matter of time.
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So what you're saying, Water Modem, is that all we can have in a society is either pre-Arthurian chaos Briton or Edward Longshanks?
Sorry, there are more choices than that. History is full of them.
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no mo uro - then it needs to be designed not to be chaos. It isn't our society was designed for the castle model. When the serfs/slaves were freed the model was not changed. In a sense the end is just at matter of time. I am not advocating one or another just making the point. It wasn't well thought out.
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This guy talks about how he and his artist friends are getting government grants and funding. Who is paying for all this?
*THAT* is where the Stimulus money went. To literally buy votes for Obama.
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Personally I kind of like the 'Starship Troopers' model.
If you want to be a citizen and be able to vote you have to *earn* it - by doing joining the service or doing some significant personal contribution (and not simply buying it).
Be a Producer and not a Moocher (like the people in the video) or a Looter or Destroyer.
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Impressive results. I have an idea. If you are conservative and unemployed, move to a blue area. Change the demographic, change the result. We are only really talking about one or two counties in each state. Conservative parents send your kids to targeted schools in blue areas where the college is a significant voting populace compared to the locals. Change the demo of the college and affect the local vote. It is not necessary to change the party platform, only change the voting demographic in targeted counties. This should have started on Nov. 7.
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Interesting... so the Jersey shore that was trashed by the storm voted red.
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CrazyFool, the problem with the Starship Troopers model is the military still has its REMFs and they can protect the elites so it would be a matter of them suffering through a safe 2 year desk job. The military would be worse for it as the tail grew ten times larger than the teeth as the march through the institutions continued into the military.
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That map carries an and significant historical feature. The blue swath thru the middle of the otherwise Red South. That's the Cotton Belt. It has persisted since Eli Whitney tried to destroy the country.
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Iblis, In my four point post (with the misnumbering) I didn't include economic issues because the Republicans should not change their stance on that very much. I would suggest they agree to increase taxes on those making over 500k (as 8 of the 10 wealthiest counties voted for Obama) and demand a tax on wealth and not earnings so as to save the budget. Thus turning the Dems into the 1% and the ones fighting the tax increase. Read that idea somewhere recently and I really like it.
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If the Republican Party becomes pro-abortion, I will leave the Republican Party. Simple as that. This is a foundational belief and I will not abandon it.
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I never suggested that the Republicans become pro-abortion, just that they fight the battle using ultrasounds as the better ultrasounds become the less likely a woman is to abort. Dems know this which is why they fight mandatory ultrasounds.
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While I may have used the word "I" twice in the above statement CrazyFool, it has never been in my personal interests to oppose abortion. Quite the contrary: it has cost me friends and customers over the years. But killing children for the crime of being inconvenient always has been, and always will be, wrong.
With that said, Rjschwarz's point about fighting intelligently is an intelligent one.
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I do not think these points address the problem. It is bandaid politics. The countries demographic is changing. The population growing the fastest is hispanic. Hispanic's are social conservatives. Yet hispaanics, which should be in Rep camp are not. The first 3 of RJ's points don't matter to them, the 4th does. The Rep's have let the Dem's define them for to long. The Rep's need a real effort to fix the Dem definition. 2 years ago in a suburb of Seattle, next to boeing, Dem's (who were white old ladies and did not speek Spanish) were canvassing with spanish language newspapers in a hispanic neighborhood in Seattle. I never saw a Rep in the 4 years prior to the election in any neighborhood.
[Al Ahram] Rebels in Sudan's main oil state said on Thursday they had shot down a government Antonov military aircraft after it had bombed targets in the Nuba mountains, part of South Kordofan state.
Sudan's armed forces front man did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Insurgents of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N) said in an emailed statement they had downed the aircraft around 5 p.m. (1400 GMT) on Wednesday in South Kordofan's Jau area, near the border with South Sudan.
It was not immediately possible to verify the claim. Sudan restricts access for journalists to South Kordofan, where fighting between rebels and government forces broke out shortly before South Sudan seceded last year.
"Before it was downed, it (the Antonov) carried out air strikes on various areas in the Nuba mountains," the SPLM-N statement said, referring to an area in South Kordofan.
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Given their history it may have crashed on its own.
[An Nahar] Two guards of vice president Tareq al-Hashemi were Thursday sentenced by an Iraqi court to death for planting a roadside kaboom, at a hearing boycotted by defense lawyers who said it was unfair.
Hashemi, a top Sunni official and a prominent critic of Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party.... , has himself being handed four death sentences in absentia. He dismisses the charges against he and his staff as politically-motivated.
Thursday's rulings follow death sentences for six other bodyguards at a hearing on Tuesday. Defense lawyers stayed away from both trials to protest what they alleged were pre-arranged verdicts.
"The court issued death sentences for two bodyguards of Tareq al-Hashemi because they were accused of being responsible for a bomb kaboom at Mustansariyah intersection" in east Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , said Muayad al-Izzi, who heads Hashemi's defense team.
"Defense lawyers boycotted the case, because it seems the rulings of the court have already been decided," he added.
Izzi said his team were considering boycotting further hearings on charges against Hashemi scheduled for December 2 and December 5, but had not yet made a final decision on whether or not to do so.
Judicial front man Abdelsattar Bayraqdar did not respond to requests for comment.
Hashemi, his secretary and his guards were originally accused of running a death squad in mid-December 2011 as the last U.S. troops left the country.
He fled to Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, which declined to hand him over to the federal government, and then embarked on a tour that took him to Qatar and 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 their national face... , and finally to Turkey.
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[Dawn] President of Quami Wattan Party and former federal minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao on Thursday said that the Awami National Party (ANP) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM) wanted an operation to take place in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... on the pretext of the notion that the Taliban were present in the city, DawnNews reported.
Speaking at a presser 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. , the former interior minister claimed that there was no Taliban presence in Bloody Karachi, adding that, the issue in the city was one of law and order.
Sherpao further said that certain individuals and groups were using the name of the Taliban to take extortion money.
He added that the ANP and the MQM were using the Taliban's name to play politics.
Sherpao moreover demanded of the government to carry out a transparent census in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), adding that, the government should take steps for the resettlement of the 800,000 people who had been displaced in the wake of military operations in the tribal areas.
On the re-election of US President Barack Obama B.O.... , the former minister said that it would not bring any significant change with regards to the issues of peace and security in the region.
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OTOH DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > KARACHI TAKEN HOSTAGE BY 25 [typo = 28?] JIHADI GROUPS, wid Al-Qaeda + Taliban links.
[Al Ahram] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... on Thursday rejected calls that he seek a safe exit, vowing he would "live in Syria and die in Syria" in an interview with Russian-backed international channel RT.
"I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country," Assad, who is facing a nearly 20-month revolt against his rule, told the channel in English, according to transcripts posted on the state-backed Russian news channel's website.
"I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria," he said.
British Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... on Tuesday floated the idea of granting Assad safe passage from the country, saying it "could be arranged" though he wanted the Syrian leader to face international justice.
Assad also warned against a foreign intervention to deal with Syria's escalating conflict, saying such a move would have global consequences and shake regional stability.
"We are the last stronghold of secularism and stability in the region... it will have a domino effect that will affect the world from the Atlantic to the Pacific," he said.
"I do not think the West is going (to intervene), but if they do so, nobody can tell what is next," Assad said.
In a separate video extract of the interview, Assad also said: "The price of this invasion, if it happens, is going to be big, more than the whole world can afford."
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will live and die in Syria. right on both counts. hopefully soon.
why didn't he just take the cash and join his beautiful wife in Moscow??? DUMB and DUMBER.
[Al Ahram] Despite he said he had no intention of going to war with Syria, President Gul confirms Turkey is in talks with the NATO about deploying a defence system in the Turkish soil to counter a potential missile threat from Syria
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[Dawn] Registrar Supreme Court Dr Faqir Hussain on Thursday read out the detailed verdict of 1990 election rigging case to the media representatives, DawnNews reported.
The apex court had issued a landmark short verdict on October 19 ordering legal proceedings against former head of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) General (Retd) Asad Durrani and former army chief General (Retd) Aslam Beg ...occasionally incoherent retired four-star general who was the Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army, succeeding the creepy General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, after the latter was rubbed out died in an air crash in 1988. The general was involved up to his hairy ears in the Mehran bank scandal, shuffling millions in public money to buy or lease politicians, and is believed one of the prime movers in the sale of Pak nuclear technology to Iran. He ranks second only to Hamid Gul in the volume and flavor of his anti-Western vitriol.. They had allegedly bankrolled politicians to stop the current ruling Pakistain People's Party (PPP) from winning the 1990 election.
The case was filed 16 years ago by Air Marshal (Retd) Asghar Khan .
The detailed verdict of 141 pages is drafted by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
The verdict declares that both the accused former generals of the armed forces defamed their institution, adding that doling out money to a group of politicians was an individual act rather than of the institution itself.
The verdict also said that the duty of secret agencies was to protect the borders instead of forming election cells.
The diary of Brigadier (Retd) Hamid Saeed is also included in the detailed verdict which carries names of the politicians who received money and the amount they accepted.
Political cell, if any, of the President House should be abolished, stated the verdict, adding the then president, army and ISI chiefs unfairly used authorities bestowed upon them and also violated the constitution.
The court, in its short verdict, had directed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to conduct a transparent criminal investigation against all the politicians involved and if sufficient evidence was collected, they should be sent for a trial according to the law.
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[NY Post] Looks as if FEMA is just a fair- weather friend.
Yesterdays noreaster proved too much for the Federal Emergency Management Agencys aid location in Tottenville, SI which hung a sign reading Closed due to weather as the wintery storm blew into town.
Ten FEMA centers in the area reportedly suspended operations because of the storm, although the location with the sign at the Mount Loretto Community Center did open at noon.
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Hopefully the Regime has taken steps to keep our FEMA biscuits dry. These non-transferable soylent coupons will be worthless if the biscuits are spoiled.
[Bangla Daily Star] A drone strike near the Yemeni capital killed three suspected al-Qaeda members including a orc wanted for a deadly attack on the US embassy in Sanaa, security officials said yesterday.
They said the drone strike, believed to have been carried out by the United States, targeted a car near the village of Beit al-Ahmar in the Sanhan region, 15 kilometres southeast of Sanaa.
Three people were killed and two maimed, they said.
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[An Nahar] A New Zealand judge on Thursday threw out an attempt to prosecute a dead South Korean fisherman, comparing the case to a Monty Python sketch, reports said.
Trawler officers Soon Ill Hwang and Dae Jun Lee were accused in Christchurch District Court of illegally dumping dead fish at sea in a case brought by the Ministry for Primary Industries, the New Zealand Herald reported.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... shortly after charges were laid against him earlier this year, Soon was killed in a car crash and may not have been aware that he was facing legal proceedings, a lawyer for his estate told the court.
Unperturbed by the death of the fisherman, a solicitor representing the ministry reportedly told the court there were still valid reasons for the prosecution to go ahead -- although judge Gary MacAskill rejected the argument as "absurd".
"It reminds me of Monty Python and his dead parrot," Fairfax Media quoted the judge as saying, referring to the well-known comedy sketch.
"I would have thought that the death of the accused is pretty fundamental."
"We can't try dead people," he reportedly said, sarcastically suggesting that the only way to obtain evidence from the accused would be through a seance.
The case against Soon's co-accused Dae, relating to dumping fish and making false fisheries returns, is proceeding. He has indicated he will defend the charges.
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Judge's like that are waaaaaay too rare.
Seance... LOL.
US judge allows Ohio voting software, alleged to be vulnerable to fraud What could possibly go wrong?
On Election Day, a federal judge said the plaintiff failed to show any 'actual and imminent harm' from voting software used in almost a third of Ohio's counties. The concern was of a digital 'back door' that someone might exploit to alter vote totals. And who knows more about software than a federal judge?
A federal judge on Tuesday refused to grant a temporary injunction to prevent Ohio election officials from using new election software installed recently in county computers to format vote totals and transmit them to the Secretary of State's Office. "Here! What are you men doing?"
"Software update, boss!"
"I didn't order a software update!"
"Sez right here y'did. So we update yer software!"
In his ruling, US District Judge Gregory Frost said the motion filed Monday in Columbus failed to show any "actual and imminent harm" from the software, which an expert witness for the plaintiff had claimed would created a digital "back door" that someone might exploit to alter vote totals. "Really, there's nothing to worry about. A very nice fellow called from the union hall and explained it all to me. So I'm ruling against you."
The suit alleged that the Secretary of State's Office used a legal loophole to install software on electronic voting systems in county vote-tabulation machines without having it checked by the Ohio Board of Voting Machine Examiners, the state's technical board that is charged with reviewing election software. State officials say that they have followed federal guidelines and that the equipment is secure. "Yeah. We don't need no Board of Voting Machine Examiners! The guys from the union fixed everything."
Bob Fitrakis, the Green Party candidate for Congress who filed the suit, has alleged that the Secretary of State's Office eluded the Ohio Board of Voting Machine Examiners by deeming the software "experimental," because last-minute fixes under that moniker do not require certification and testing. And God knows there's nothing that works better or is more secure than experimental software.
Mr. Fitrakis says the contract with the firm that sells the software was leaked to FreePress.org, of which he is editor. Thirty years working as a computer programmer tells me that an untested patch at the last minute before going live is a recipe for disaster.
In an affidavit supporting the filing, James March, an expert witness on voting machines, testified that the 28-page contract describes in detail the requirements for the software -- showing that a third party could gain access to county vote totals.
During the hearing, computer security expert Michael Duniho of Pima County, Ariz., testified by phone that the installed software, called EXP software, could make county vote-tabulation computers vulnerable to a virus that could change vote counts.
But Judge Frost said Fitrakis's experts did not show sufficient familiarity with the software in question and were merely "speculative."
"Fitrakis has failed to demonstrate actual and imminent harm," Frost wrote in his 10- page decision. "His claim to injunctive relief is based on a series of speculative assumptions about what the EXP software might do to the county vote tabulation computers and how someone might be able to use the EXP software to alter election results. Fitrakis has not provided actual evidence that demonstrates how this harm is a realistic possibility, much less how it is actual and imminent."
Fitrakis has filed a similar motion to halt tabulation using the software with a state court, whose ruling on matters of state law is expected soon.
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I think electronic voting is a bad idea but assuming we are going to have it going forward their should be a law saying that nothing can change for the month before the election and that all political parties have access to a voting machine for the month prior to that to ensure they feel it is fair and accurate.
This is nonsense. We are a first world nation that is turning into a third world klepotcracy really, really fast.
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The point of the electronic machines was to prevent the kind of mischief that paper ballots are prone to: disappearing bags of votes, shredded ballots marked for the wrong candidate, extra ballots marked for our guy...
The machine I voted on is electronic, but also creates a paper tape of the ballot choices and demands agreement that the choices are correct before the vote is registered, in an effort to put those concerns to rest.
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They should move voting to a weekend. Get rid of early voting and just give everyone 48 hours. End mail in votes. Have ballots that can be filled in at home and a fast pass line to get you through quick if you've already done the work. They should have ballots in scantron form (cause all americans know how that works) and have you drop it in a machine and confirm visually. Three reciepts provide your vote info. One for each partys poll watcher and one for the voter. They should clean the voter rolls after every presidential election and have you register again. You should get a picture voter id card and that should be checked prior to casting your vote. Those voter registration deals should be able to provide copies of each voter id card they gave out so that the two cards can be matched up at the voter booth instead of using a list. Anyone tampering with the process should get serious jail time.
Many of these ideas should be put on the bsllots of the 50 states so folks can vote on them and change the dystem on a grass roots level. Force the cheaters to defend themselves.
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Someone really needs to leak the source code. Lets take a look and see if there are any 'back doors'.
Rjschwarz - very good ideas. Get rid of motor-voter and voter-registration drives - make them register, in person, with photo-id and proof of citizenship.
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Trailing wife: In Europe ballots just don't disappear and Al Franken would have et best be laughed out of the country and at wors gone straight to jail.
Also, at thevery beginning of compters when these still used electronic valvbes on of the programing pioners said: "Computers should nevr bne used for vote coiunting, the rislk of fraud iss just too high
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One more lesson to be learned from this article, perhaps the most important lesson of all, is that the state Secretary of States offices are extremely important. Republicans should seek these offices with all the dirty tricks employed by Democrats. Hire detectives to dig up dirt. Investigate the hell out of Democrat secretaries of state or any Democrat who aspires to such a position. If they do get elected, watch them like hawks and sue their asses off at the drop of a hat. If they wanna fight that way, give them hell.
[Dawn] Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Governor Masood Kausar on Wednesday said no timeframe could be fixed for withdrawal of combat troops from Federally Administered Tribal Areas to peacetime position.
"I can't say anything about the timeframe to withdraw security forces from the fighting positions to peacetime positions as long as peace is not achieved in Afghanistan," he told news hounds at the conclusion of his two-day visit to Kurram Agency ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... The governor said security forces would remain in Fata even after restoration of peace in tribal borderlands. He said there was instability in Afghanistan and its fallout was directly affecting nearby tribal areas.
Pakistain has over 100,000 army and paramilitary troops in Fata fighting militancy.
"I cannot give any date for the pull out of troops as well as return of the internally displaced persons to Fata," he said.
Mr Kausar said normality was returning to tribal agencies and IDPs were gradually returning home. He added that around two million people had been displaced in Fata.
He expressed satisfaction over the prevailing situation in Kurram Agency and said no major incident of violence had happened during the last two years in the valley.
He said political administration with the cooperation of elders would take more steps to keep Thall-Parachinar Road safe and secure for traffic. He said he was optimistic that Muharram would be observed peacefully in Kurram and Orakzai agencies and Kohat division.During interaction with the elders and other segments of the society in Parachinar, Kurram headquarters, Mr Kausar said the government could not maintain peace and stability unilaterally without the cooperation of local population.
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[Tampa.CBSLocal] A failure to understand English at a Chinese restaurant has led to a botched robbery attempt. "Gimme yer dough!"
"Ahhh! You rikey lice?"
Orange County authorities are looking for three masked suspects who attempted to rob a local Chinese restaurant late Monday, but who left empty-handed after the restaurant workers who only spoke Cantonese couldn't understand what the English-speaking suspects were saying. "Yer money! We wantcher money!"
"No soup! Egg loll!"
The Orlando Sentinel reports that three masked men attempted to rob the New China restaurant. The workers at the restaurant, however, could not properly respond to the robbers' demands because the employees only spoke Cantonese, according to police. "You talkee manager, hokay, Joe?"
According to the Sentinel, one robber, wielding a gun, pointed the gun against the head of one male worker. "I'll blow yer brains out, slant!"
"No blains. Only egg loll!"
From there, the robbers attempted to bang against the cash register to get it to open, but would accidentally set off the gun in the process, according to police. The men would leave the premises empty-handed. "So long, suckers!"
"Cheeze, Wong. You scared the spit out of me! Where'd you learn all that stuff?"
"Jackie Chan movies. You guys want to go out for spaghetti after we close up?"
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Next time, use the fire extinguisher to open the register.
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Back in my office days I sometimes served as interpreter for the secretary calling the Chinese restaurant with a phone order. "Sh'lim?" "That means 'shrimp'".
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D *** NG IT, clearly these guys need to be reported to the Prowler's Union of Bedrock for missing their meeting, classes on international relations, + trying to rob people whom don't understand you.
[An Nahar] An Armenian plane carrying humanitarian aid for Syria was forced to land in Turkey on Thursday for an inspection of its cargo, the Anatolia news agency reported.
The cargo plane landed at Erzurum airport in eastern Turkey where teams of police and troops with sniffer dogs began their searches, it said.
The plane was allowed to take off for Syria after nothing suspect was found aboard, NTV television reported.
The Armenian foreign ministry said the landing was planned.
"It was a planned landing. The plane is carrying humanitarian cargo for Syrian Armenians in Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... ," Armenian foreign ministry front man Tigran Balaian told Agence La Belle France Presse in Yerevan.
It was the second time in a month that the Turkish authorities have ordered an Armenian plane heading for Syria to land for security checks.
On October 15, another Armenian plane carrying humanitarian aid to Syria's battered second city of Aleppo was forced to land at Erzurum airport but the plane was allowed to resume journey after officials said no suspect cargo turned up during searches.
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Another episode of Friends.
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[An Nahar] Syrian rebels and forces loyal to Damascus ...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations... were fighting Thursday for control of a military border crossing in the north of the country on the Turkish frontier, Turkish media reported.
The festivities near the town of Ras al-Ain erupted late Wednesday and were still going on Thursday, the reports said.
Two Turks were maimed by ricocheting bullets from the Syrian side, Turkey's private NTV television reported.
Shell fragments also hit a hospital in the border town of Ceylanpinar which lies across from Ras al-Ain, causing panic among residents, and local schools were closed for the day, the Hurriyet newspaper said.
About 200 Syrians have fled Ras al-Ain into Turkey, where local authorities have warned people to avoid the border, according to Hurriyet, which added that Turkish armed vehicles and howitzers were sent to Ceylanpinar.
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[Al Ahram] A mortar bomb fired from Syria hit the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Thursday, the Israeli military said, with spill-over from the conflict in the Arab country on the rise.
An Israeli military source said the mortar bomb landed in an Israeli village and had not gone off. No casualties or damage were reported. A military front man added that a few mortars had been fired, all of them errant and not aimed at Israeli targets.
The incident follows several similar events in the past week, as fighting has flared in close-by Syrian villages between Syrian rebels and forces loyal to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... .
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[Ynet] French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, and a fine job he's doing of it... was quoted Thursday by French magazine Le Canard Enchainé as expressing regret that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "turned the Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... memorial into an election rally."
According to the report, Hollande said that he thought Netanyahu "was careful because I was there," adding that the Israeli PM was "Obsessed with Iran."
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Apparently the French have forgotten the eminent threat posed by an enemy in close proximity.
"...the French haven't the nature for war. Their Gallic laziness combines with their Latinate voluptuousness with the result that they would rather eat and make love with their faces than fight."
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An Englishman, a Frenchman and an American are out walking along the beach together one day. They come across a lantern and a genie pops out of it. "I will give you each one wish, " says the genie. The American says, "I am a farmer, my dad was a farmer, and my son will also farm. I want the land to be forever fertile in America." With a blink of the genie's eye, 'FOOM' - the land in America was forever made fertile for farming. The Frenchman was amazed, so he said, "I want a wall around France, so that no one can come into our precious country." Again, with a blink of the Genie's eye, 'POOF' - there was a huge wall around France. The Englishman asks, "I'm very curious. Please tell me more about this wall. The Genie explains, "Well, it's about 150 feet high, 50 feet thick and nothing can get in or out." The Englishman says, "Fill it up with water."
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Dogs turning on their owners GG.
Funny, everywhere you look, when the US tried to advance a culture so the folks weren't drinking shit water, the next generation resents it. I propose we should support(and in some cases, enable) the collapse of a society if the population votes for same. Of course it may take another generation to get the cave dwellers to understand socialization.
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My luck Tu would be while walking along the beach I found a bottle. Excitedly I rubbed the bottle and an angry Genie came forth from the bottle. I trembled and piddled myself as the Genie spoke in a booming voice,"at last!, I have lain in that bottle for two thousand years and now I am free. Now I shall destroy you". But, but what about my three wishes?. "Yes, for the first thousand years I would have granted you three wishes but I had lain in that bottle for another thousand years. I then swore I would destroy whomever released me". I then said(yes, I was able to speak)before I die, I just can't believe something so big and powerful could have come out of that bottle. "Foolish bug watch and learn", back into the bottle he goes and I closed the lid. Goodnight Irene. I thought I saw Harry Reid in the distance so I left it for him to find. Good deed for the day, well its the thought that counts.
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Weird how decades of threats of genocide, state-sponsored murders, and a national policy focused on bringing about the genocide leads someone to be "obsessed".
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Hollande obsessed with socialism.
Netanyahu obsessed with Iran.
French Justice Minister obsessed with cute men.
Obama obsessed with re-election.
"I hear babies cry...... I watch them grow
You know their gonna learn
A whole lot more than I'll never know
And I think to myself .....what a wonderful world
Yes I think to myself .......what a wonderful world."
Louis Armstrong
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That appeasing E.U. frog had the tyranical Islamic fanatics of Iran threatening to wipe France off the map, maybe he would not be verbally attacking Bibi, maybe.
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JFM, I don't recall the french seizing much of anything in the last 100 years. How many foreigner soldiers died and are buried on their soil in a fight for their countries sovereignty from evil, real evil?
How easily the French remember their arrogance and quickly they forget their humility learned in history.
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JFM, both the crusaders who entered Jerusalem in 1099 and many members of the Grande Armée who entered Moscow in 1812 were actually Germans (24000 Bavarians). 95000 were Polish.
And Napoleon abandoned his "international" troops, fled to Paris and left them to die in the icy cellars of Vilnius.
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Well said, Shipman. I did not post the article to trigger anti-France effusions, but just another datum of the world as it is today. Given that the French president is a Socialist, this kind of thing is only one of a sheaf of transgressions we can expect from him and his government -- our pity should go rather to JFM and the rest of the clear thinking Frenchmen and women who got outvoted and now are several months ahead of us on the distinct unhappiness curve.
[Al Ahram] In a report published Thursday by pan-Arab daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, a military source in North Sinai claimed that well-planned attacks are being carried out in North Sinai against senior officers who have been leading a campaign against jihadist elements in the peninsula.
On Tuesday, the inspector of general security in North Sinai was shot in Al-Arish, sustaining injuries to his jaw and arm.
The source further stated that there is proof to link the perpetrators of Saturday's attack that killed three coppers and the group that targeted the security head Tuesday.
Late Wednesday, an Egyptian military official announced that a new set of military personnel and apparatus reached Al-Arish, MENA news service reported.
The source stated that it was part of an attempt to assist the police forces in their "intensive campaign against terrorism" that for the past several months has targetted police forces in the peninsula, MENA reports.
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[An Nahar] Washington on Thursday unveiled sanctions against four Iranians and five Iranian bodies, including the communications minister and the culture ministry, for censoring the media and the Internet.
The move against Communications Minister Reza Taghipour came after he was blamed for ordering the jamming of international satellite TV broadcasts and restricting Internet access, a State Department official said.
The United States was determined to stop the "Iranian government from creating an 'electronic curtain' to cut Iranian citizens off from the rest of the world," said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.
All those placed under sanctions were "engaged in censorship or other activities that prohibit, limit or penalize freedom of expression or assembly by citizens of Iran," she added in a statement.
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If we couldn't do it with China, why does Victoria think it can be done to Iran?
Who comes up with these stupid ideas?
(why do you think its called Hilarity?)
[Online.WSJ] In approving a ballot measure sought by Gov. Jerry Governor Moonbeam Brown ... those who ignore history are bound to repeat it ... to raise taxes for several years, Caliphornians took a step toward improving the state's fiscal situation and avoiding education cuts.
According to the Caliphornia Secretary of State's website, 53.9% of voters backed the measure, Proposition 30, while 46.1% voted against it, with all votes counted except for provisional and some mailed-in ballots.
The approval is a significant victory for Mr. Brown, a Democrat, who has staked his governorship on a campaign to raise taxes to ease the effects of the state's budget crunch.
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would love to see the tax returns of those who voted for and against this...an Alexis de Tocqueville quote comes to mind
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Prop 30 was presented as a way to fully fund schools. The dirty secret was the only thing in education that was going to get money was the teachers retirement pension fund. I don't mind that, teaching in this PC society with all of the liberal agenda crap is hard even for a liberal.
The irony in all of this is that Brown was talking about what winning Prop 30 meant and he was talking about closing the budget deficit, funding the bullet train to nowhere, and several other liberal agenda programs and NEVER mentioned schools in his interview with the Left Coast Times...
I think Prop 30 will go down as the biggest screw job ever pulled on a state AND a state union in history.
I can't wait for the bloodbath as Jerry spends the money on every thing but education.
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[Dawn] Security forces on Wednesday cooled for a few years Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! two suspected beturbanned goons and demolished three hideouts of a banned gang in Bar Qambarkhel area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency, sources said.
They said that a heavy contingent of security forces plugged all entry and exit routes to Bar Qambarkhel area before launching a search operation. An indefinite curfew was also imposed in the area, compelling the residents to remain inside their homes.
Security forces took over Pakka Tarrha, Hakim Shah and Spin Dhand bases of Amr Bil Maroof Wa Nahi Anil Munkir, the banned gang, and later destroyed those with explosives. They cooled for a few years Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Haji Wajid Khan and Niaz Amin on suspension of having links with the banned group.
Sources said that security forces also bulldozed the houses of Haji Namdar, the late founder of the banned group, and his close associate Haji Sher Gul in two separate localities.
Raids were also conducted to apprehend some of the wanted activists of the banned group. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... according to sources, most of the sympathisers of the group and desperados had fled the area long ago. They had reportedly crossed over to Afghanistan.
A source close to the group said that they had no intention to resist the security forces so they vacated the area long ago.
Sources said that a group of Bar Qambarkhel elders was still engaged in negotiations with the local political administration to lift the siege of their area. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... these reports could not be confirmed.
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[Dawn] Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira on Thursday said that the government formed in 1990 was fake, assembly was bogus and termed all the decisions taken by that parliament illegal and unconstitutional.
Speaking to state-run Pakistan Television (PTV), Kaira said that all the unconstitutional decisions of the government formed through fraudulent elections are needed to be revisited.
He said that the Supreme Court verdict in the Asghar Khan case has proved that the 1990 government was formed as a result of stolen mandate.
The interim government set-up, which conducted the 1990 elections, rigged the elections through various tactics, he added.
The information minister said that the removal of elected governments through unconstitutional steps in the past had affected the national institutions.
However, the present government is trying its best to strengthen the democratic system, which had been weakened by the dictatorial regimes, he added.
Replying to a question, the minister said that the government had made the constitutional changes through the parliament and now the democracy can not be derailed.
Moreover, speaking to media representatives on the sidelines of a mass marriage ceremony in Kharian, the minister said that only people had the right to decide who would form the governments at center and provinces through their elected representatives and the judiciary had nothing to do with this process.
"General elections are due soon and the masses will hold the accountability of present rulers and elect their representatives for next five years", he added.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since 1981. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide... yesterday said a vested quarter was out to thwart the trial of war criminals, and urged people to remain alert about their evil designs.
"I request all to remain alert so that the vested quarter cannot commit any destructive activities in the country," she said while inaugurating a conference at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the capital.
Mentioning about the recent violence carried out by the activists of Jamaat and Shibir across the country, the premier regretted that they even did not spare the law enforcers.
Hasina said the defeated force of the 1971 Liberation War was patronised by those who had killed Bangabandhu on August 15, 1975.
She mentioned that a particular person of the defeated force also got Bangladesh passport after he had been awarded Bangladesh citizenship.
"So, it is normal that someone will be there to save the war criminals who had committed crimes against humanity during the Liberation War," she told her audience.
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[Jerusalem Post] Retired Turkish military commanders expressed fury that a former top Kurdish rebel was allowed to testify against them in a coup trial, citing it as proof the proceedings were meant only to intimidate and undermine the armed forces.
Semdin Sakik, known as "Fingerless Zeki" when number two in the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), waived his anonymity this week at the 'Ergenekon' conspiracy trial at which hundreds, including military, academics, businessmen and journalists, are accused of plotting to overthrow the Islamist-rooted government.
Opponents of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan say the trial of the alleged nationalist Ergenekon network and another plot for which hundreds of army officers were convicted in September are designed to silence the secularist opposition.
The appearance of Sakik, known as "Fingerless Zeki" since losing a thumb while firing a rocket, was a disturbing revelation for military leaders, who have fought for 28 years against the PKK - designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and European Union.
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I'm glad I got to see Istanbul before this got too far.
I wish there were a way to get the contents of the Turkish Archaeological Museum out of the way of the inevitable Salafist take-over. If I had the cash, I'd offer to buy what I suspect was the sarcophagus of Julian the Apostate.
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A group of college students chanted "Karl Marx" and "socialism" while celebrating President Obama's electoral victory in front of the White House late Tuesday night, a video shot by Campus Reform reveals.
The raucous group of students chanted "Karl Marx, Karl Marx, Karl Marx," and cited abortion, socialism, and "Obama phones" as reasons for their support of President Obama's second term.
Thousands of college students from across Washington D.C. spontaneously gathered in front of the White House to celebrate President Obama's reelection.
Those students were among thousands from colleges across Washington, D.C. who spontaneously gathered in front of fences around the north lawn of the White House to celebrate President Obama's election victory.
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I trust this will be widely reported by the mainstream media...
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At least the Marxists came out of the closet for all to see....
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Almlthose perfyumed hbpuiregois shjould be sent not to Gulag but to a recreation of the Russain worler: rthe low level of life, the appalling levels of pollution whokilled themandleft their childen crippled, the total lack of safety ùmeasuires. Allwhile the CVommunists. And once they have expermimented these for ten or twenty years then havce themexperiment allwhjat is describ ed ointhe Gulaag archuipelego.
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Could be a bunch of college kids messing with the camera person/news organization or it could be they really believe their own BS. If they had seen communism up close, it would not be attractive to them.
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Oh, please. These kids were saying whatever they thought would fire up the vid-maker the most... I've been guilty of the same on one or two occasions. The sad thing is that such basically unserious people actually get to vote. We don't think they're old enough to drink- but we let them vote. Serious disconnect there IMHO.
[Sun Times] U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who handily won re-election Tuesday despite a lengthy stay at Mayo Clinic for depression and bipolar disorder, is in the midst of plea discussions with the feds probing his alleged misuse of campaign funds.
"No one has pled guilty, but plea discussions are ongoing," said a top Sneed source, who said Jackson is still undergoing treatment at Mayo Clinic.
Sneed is also told Jackson, who returned to Mayo Clinic after undergoing outpatient treatment in the seclusion of his home in Washington, D.C., is not only being investigated for allegedly using campaign funds to decorate his Washington home -- but also Sneed hears he may also have used campaign funds to buy a $40,000 Rolex watch as a gift for a female friend.
An heir apparent to the beneficence and largesse of the Jackson dynasty, Jackson has been immersed in a cloud of federal scrutiny for the past three years.
In late 2008, Jackson, who desired the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us... when he became president, was also mentioned in connection with the "pay to play" sale of that Senate slot that led to the conviction of former Illinois Gov. Rod Y'gotta pay to play! Blagojevich Who was tried and eventually convicted on federal corruption charges that he tried to sell or trade Obama's old U.S. Senate seat. . Jackson has always denied involvement and was never charged.
"This has been an ongoing nightmare for the Jackson family, particularly his wife, Ald. Sandi Jackson, and the Reverend [his father, Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.]," added the source, who is familiar with the campaign funds probe.
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Investing in Swiss watches? Sounds like he has pretty good understanding of current economics. One must wonder if he's also been watching RGR stock and dividends as well?
At least nine people, including a policeman and a woman, were killed in different incidents of violence in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... on Thursday, DawnNews reported.
A man died in firing incident in Surjani town's 'Khuda ki Basti' area.
A head constable of police, Nazeer Ahmed, was killed near Bloody Karachi's Al-Aasif square area when an unidentified person shot up police mobile.
In another incident, an unidentified person opened fire in Orangi No. 4 area of Bloody Karachi killing two relatives Nisar Mehdi and Najam Abbas.
A man was killed in Keemari's Sikanderabad area.
Three men was rubbed out in the areas of Sohrab Goth's Super Market, Dalmia and Baldia town.
A woman died of gunshot wounds in Rehri Goth situated in Landhi area of Bloody Karachi.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Philly] Some Philadelphia neighborhoods outdid themselves in Tuesday's presidential election.
John 
[Tolo News] The Jihadi Council led by Afghanistan's Energy and Water Minister Mohammad Ismail Khan has started distributing weapons to its members in western 
[Al Ahram] In her first official presentation to the U.N. security council, top persecutor Fatou Bensouda said Libya shouldn't grant amnesty for war crimes committed during the uprising against Gaddafi regardless of who committed them
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[Al Ahram] Islamist groups - excluding Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Nour Party - to protest at Tahrir Square demanding the inclusion of Sharia as the main source of legislation in Egypt's new constitution
[Dawn] The roars celebrating the re-election of US President 
[Dawn] Pakistain Foreign Office (FO) said Thursday that a dossier has been sent to the Afghan officials and International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) on the issue of Maulvi Fazlullah. The foreign office has also received response from them; it would be soon shared with the people, the FO added.
[Jerusalem Post] No one was injured by the blast, but a jeep which was in the area was blown sideways by the force of the blast.
After a successful small surgery in Saudi Arabia, Sudan's president Bashir says he is in good health and his country's reaction to Israel will be painful after Khartoum accused it of bombing a military factory on 23 October
Nouri al-Maliki
[Dawn] President of Quami Wattan Party and former federal minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao on Thursday said that the Awami National Party (ANP) and the 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
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[NY Post] Looks as if FEMA is just a fair- weather friend.
[An Nahar] A New Zealand judge on Thursday threw out an attempt to prosecute a dead South Korean fisherman, comparing the case to a Monty Python sketch, reports said.
[Tampa.CBSLocal] A failure to understand English at a Chinese restaurant has led to a botched robbery attempt.
[Al Ahram] A mortar bomb fired from Syria hit the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Thursday, the Israeli military said, with spill-over from the conflict in the Arab country on the rise.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[Al Ahram] In a report published Thursday by pan-Arab daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, a military source in North Sinai claimed that well-planned attacks are being carried out in North Sinai against senior officers who have been leading a campaign against jihadist elements in the peninsula.
Jerry 
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since 1981. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide...
[Jerusalem Post] Retired Turkish military commanders expressed fury that a former top Kurdish rebel was allowed to testify against them in a coup trial, citing it as proof the proceedings were meant only to intimidate and undermine the armed forces.
[Sun Times] U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who handily won re-election Tuesday despite a lengthy stay at Mayo Clinic for depression and bipolar disorder, is in the midst of plea discussions with the feds probing his alleged misuse of campaign funds.
At least nine people, including a policeman and a woman, were killed in different incidents of violence in 
