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Iran has times said that any attack by Israel will be deemed as an attack by the USA, justifying full Iranian military andor proxy terror retaliation anywhere + everywhere as Iran deems fit.
I suspect the good Commander means or infers the latter [proxy terror].
* WAFF [rehash] > HEZBOLLAH PLAN TO BLOW UP THE USA THWARTED | [Haaretz] SURINAME'S PRESIDENT'S SON INVITED HEZBOLLAH TO SET UP BASE IN SOUTH AMERICA, US SAYS.
See my post yesterday about the desires or plans of British Jihadis fighting in SYRIA to "bleed the US" dry = to the death, to include also flying the Islamic flag over Washington DC, etc. once the Syria fight is over.
h/t Instapundit
Last month, China and Russia announced an $85 billion equity deal to jointly develop Russias east Siberian oil resources for export to China in an unprecedented agreement between the two countries.
This comes on the heels of Chinese president Xi Jinpings tour of Central Asia to forge closer trade ties with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan. Promoting a New Silk Road of regional commerce, he spoke illustriously of camel bells echoing in the mountains and wisps of smoke rising in the desert as in the days of yore.
Although much less romantic, Hydrocarbon Highway more aptly describes Xis vision. In recent weeks, China has signed nearly $100 billion in energy contracts to increase Chinese access to the abundant petroleum resources of Central Asia. A major advantage of obtaining oil from Siberia and Central Asia is that it could travel to China overlandand thus beyond the reach of U.S. naval power. As long as it doesn't come from oil ticks
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A major advantage of obtaining oil from Siberia and Central Asia is that it could travel to China overland--and thus beyond the reach of U.S. naval power.
..and the bulk of the Russian land forces which are farther west.
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The real reason is to lower the dependence on oil from ME sources. The US interrupting China's oil would be basically an act of war. I think China is getting weary of dealing with the likes of Saudi Arabia and Iran. They are a bit.....psychotic?
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But this should make the eco-nuts giddy as they can point to this as the reason to quit mining and shipping Powder River Basin coal to China through the Northwest and not need to build any coal terminals for the BNSF to deliver to. Won't stop them from creating a vast could of pollutants that will eventually drift our way, but it won't be U.S. coal that done it!
California's workplace safety guardians have proposed an amendment to a bill that would require porn stars to wear protective goggles while filming.
I was thinking of Googling a humorous cartoon or image to illustrate this post. Then I realized, I'm at work, my access is likely monitoring, and even I don't want to see the images that Google might return...
The bill, which has so far stalled in the state senate, establishes numerous mandates for the porn industry to follow with the goal of curbing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Among these mandates is the requirement that "personal protective equipment" be used to "prevent contact of an employee's eye, skin, mucous membranes, or genitals with the blood or OPIM-STI of another." (OPIM-STI includes pre-ejaculate, semen, vaginal secretions, and fecal matter.)
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People getting paid for participating in sex acts...isn't that kinda like, well, the oldest profession? Dunno if I can use that word on Rantburg. So are they gonna regulate the oldest profession? No, because that'd mean they'd have to legalized it and we haven't declined that far...yet. But somehow pr0n is different. Must be something to do with money and where it's going.
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The project has the backing of U.S. Special Operations Command chief Adm. William McRaven.
Is he promoting it because its sexy, or funded?
Enough emission signature to be a ARM target.
Cellphones, team radios and night vision are bad enough.
[An Nahar] An Egyptian court ordered an end to a state of emergency Tuesday, two days ahead of schedule and three months after it was imposed during a crackdown on Islamist protesters.
The cabinet said in a statement it would respect the ruling but would wait for official notification from the court before implementing it.
The state of emergency, accompanied by a night time curfew, had been scheduled to expire on Thursday.
"The government is committed to implement judicial rulings...the government is waiting for the text of the ruling," it said in a statement.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hoedown, the fiddler suddenly struck a sour note. The dancing stopped abruptly. Everyone looked at Bob... the United States welcomed the lifting Tuesday of the state of emergency in Egypt.
"We welcome the formal lifting of the state of emergency including the curfew," said State Department spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki. "However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... we would also note that the government is considering other legislation regarding security. We urge the government to respect the rights of all Egyptians."
U.S. officials had repeatedly called for the state of emergency to be lifted.
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[An Nahar] Arab Democratic Party leader Ali Eid on Tuesday evaded a summons to undergo questioning by a military tribunal judge over his alleged aid to a suspect in the mosque bombings of the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
Eid's attorney handed First Military Investigation Judge Riyad Abu Ghida a report claiming that the suspect cannot attend the questioning session for medical reasons.
Lawyer Huyam Eid submitted the alibi to Abu Ghida, who referred it to the military prosecutor, Judge Saqr Saqr, for the appropriate response.
On Thursday, Abu Ghida issued a subpoena against Eid, a former MP who is from Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... 's Alawite sect.
He has been charged along with his driver Ahmed Ali, who is under arrest, with helping Ahmed Merhi escape justice by smuggling him to Syria.
Merhi is the suspected driver of the explosive-laden vehicle that blew up near al-Taqwa mosque.
Huyam Eid called on Tuesday for Ali's release and said the military tribunal should withdraw the arrest warrant issued against the Arab Democratic Party leader.
The twin boom-mobileings that targeted the Sunni al-Taqwa and al-Salam mosques on August 23 have left hundreds of casualties.
Separately, General Prosecutor Samir Hammoud tasked on Monday the head of the Criminal Investigation Department to question Eid's son, Arab Democratic Party Secretary-General Rifaat Eid ...secretary general of the Leb Arab Democratic Party, a Pencilneck regime front organization... over his recent threats against the Internal Security Forces.
On Saturday, Eid slammed the ISF Intelligence Bureau as a "spy agency working against Leb's interests."
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[An Nahar] The Syrian opposition's provisional prime minister said Tuesday that civil order, security and basic human needs are to be the top priorities in zones under rebel control.
Ahmed Tomeh said his government would be one of "work and not words... and will have as its top priorities establishing security and civil order in the liberated zones of Syria and to respond to vital needs."
He was speaking in Istanbul following the announcement of a transitional government composed of nine ministers.
Insisting that security was "at the top of priorities," he confirmed his team's commitment to the "general policies of the (National) Coalition," the main opposition alliance.
He said his people would work to "activate the role of local councils to administer cities, towns and villages and respond to the needs of citizens."
He said they would also set up a special agency to provide aid to Paleostinian refugees inside Syria and abroad.
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[Pak Daily Times] Pakistain People's Party (PPP) General Secretary Sardar Latif Khan Khosa reiterated on Tuesday that his party stood with the army on the Taliban issue, and termed the ongoing differences between two politicians as to whether the slain Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is a martyr or not "poisonous for democracy".
The PPP leader issued a statement, reaffirming his party's support for the army against the Taliban and said it had rendered countless services in defending the country.
Khosa appreciated the armed forces for defending solidarity of the country from the internal as well as external aggression and said, "Such poisonous views of the leaders would not weaken army's resolve in defending the motherland." He also lamented the controversy created by the two leaders of religious/political parties. He added that this controversy has created division among political parties and religious-political parties which was not good for democracy.
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[An Nahar] Sudanese rebels on Tuesday claimed their first major attack of the new fighting season, even as the country's defense minister vowed to crush them in coming months.
There were "many, many casualties, many dead bodies" in the afternoon ambush which destroyed three tanks near Dilling town in South Kordofan state, said Arnu Ngutulu Lodi, front man for the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army-North (SPLA-N).
"As I'm speaking to you, our forces are controlling the road."
Fighting typically intensifies in the region when roads again become passable after the rainy season.
Sudan's army front man could not be reached for comment.
Lodi said the government convoy had traveled from Khartoum and through El Obeid, the North Kordofan capital, before it was hit on the road to the South Kordofan capital Kadugli.
"We were monitoring them," he said, adding that a rescue convoy was also attacked.
SPLA-N fighters conducted the operation alongside the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) from Darfur, Lodi said.
The two groups belong to the Sudan Revolutionary Front which seeks to topple the Khartoum regime and install a government more representative of the country's diversity.
JEM said several dozen government troops were killed and 10 taken prisoner.
"In another battle, we captured a government compound," 25 kilometers (15 miles) east of Dilling, JEM front man Gibril Adam Bilal said.
"We lost three of our colleagues as deaders."
Analysts say casualty figures from either side in the war should be treated with caution.
JEM has been supporting the SPLA-N in South Kordofan since shortly after rebellion began there two years ago, analysts say.
The claimed attacks came as Defense Minister Abdelrahim Mohammed Hussein told parliament that his forces were commencing an operation to crush the snuffies over the next few months.
"This summer will see an end to the rebellion, and after that stability will return to South Kordofan and Darfur," he said.
Sudan had long accused South Sudan of backing rebels in the north, but relations between the two countries have improved since a September summit between President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. and his southern counterpart Salva Kiir.
They agreed, among other measures, to set up a demilitarized buffer zone designed to prevent cross-border rebel support.
Hussein told politicians that the rebels have 8,000 fighters in South Kordofan, alongside 1,000 from the Revolutionary Front.
Analyst reports issued early this year said there were 30,000 or more SPLA-N fighters in South Kordofan, while government forces numbered 40,000-70,000.
Nuba Reports, a website of "citizen news hounds" in South Kordofan, reported on November 4 that it had observed both an increase in government air strikes and rebel troop movements during October, at the end of the rainy season.
Military helicopter traffic into Khartoum has also been stepped up in recent days, Agence La Belle France Presse correspondents reported.
The government and rebels are both refusing to allow U.N. workers to vaccinate children against polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... in rebel zones of South Kordofan and Blue Nile, where SPLA-N is also fighting, U.N. humanitarian operations director John Ging said Monday.
A broader internationally-backed plan to get food and other aid into rebel-held areas collapsed last year despite months of talks.
As a result, 800,000 people in the war-zone have had no outside assistance for 18 months, Ging said.
In separate comments earlier this year he said people were surviving on "roots and leaves."
Defence Minister Hussein also told parliament that tribal violence has eclipsed rebel activity as the major security threat to Sudan's Darfur region.
Battles between Arab tribal militias have killed hundreds this year.
"The tribal festivities are the biggest challenge and threat to security in Darfur, more than rebel movements," Hussein said.
Non-Arab rebels rose up 10 years ago in Darfur, seeking an end to what they viewed as Arab elites' domination of Sudan's power and wealth.
In response, government-backed Janjaweed faceless myrmidons recruited among the Arab tribes shocked the world with atrocities against non-Arab civilians.
Analysts say the cash-starved government can no longer control its former Arab tribal allies and violent competition for resources has intensified.
Hussein is wanted internationally for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur.
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A liberal doing what liberals do: Sh*t on everything decent. This fella, Justin Dolittle, is anti war, sorta like Joan Baez without the tits and or talent. Justin Doolittle is a freelance writer based on Long Island, New York. You can follow him on Twitter @JD1871.
The millions of Americans who regularly watch nationally televised NBA games are, by now, familiar with the "NBA Cares" commercials that run quite frequently during the season. The series of promos is meant to illustrate the league's commitment to serving the community in a variety of ways. One particularly touching example involves a collaboration between the NBA, the V Foundation and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital; in the spot, several prominent players are shown visiting children stricken with cancer, many of whom look genuinely thrilled to be meeting their heroes. The league deserves credit for encouraging its players to put their fame to good use by bringing some badly needed joy to these children's lives. Wait for it... Here it comes... Continued on Page 49
The military is not a gracious and beneficial ruler who is receiving praise for granting privileges to its subjects. It is an instrument of defense against other powers who might aspire to become not so gracious rulers.
In an ideal world there would be no need for a military. But this is the real world and there IS a bear in the woods.
That said, let's not forget that Western military institutions have officially condemned the exercise of fundamental rights and freedoms in the West, like freedom of religion and freedom of political speech.
See e.g. this and this.
These words really do not inspire confidence in the institutions' willingness to protect our freedoms.
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Just place him in the wild cold word and film it. This guy can s.t on the military because just by living in the territory of the United Staes he gets the protection afforded by its military.
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He should try being more critical of his own profession (lots more to be critcal of) but then again I do not see any commercials on TV or in print thanking freelance writers.
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Aren't you just dying to go read all his other thought-provoking articles?
Justin Doolittle's Publications
America's Most Beloved War Criminals
Truthout |October 27, 2013
The American Public's Shocking Lack of Policy Knowledge is a Threat to Progress and Democracy
Truthout |October 12, 2013
Thanks, Warmongers! Idealism is Now a Meaningless Concept
Salon |August 21, 2013
After al, this guy has been out of college for a whole year; I'm sure he has many valuable lessons to share. I especially want to go find out about this "Truthout" thingy!
Yes, I am being sarcastic. Does it show?
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Ummm, what comes "After al"?
Another "l".
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Why do I get the feeling that without the troops protecting his ungrateful little ass he would be one of the ones to be hoisted up by a crane under sharia law?
[Pak Daily Times] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... on Tuesday used his maiden visit to the headquarters of the armed forces to express his gratitude to those who sacrificed their lives fighting against the Taliban, amid a controversy triggered by Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... chief Munawar Hasan over who is a martyr.
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Unlike the reference in West's book, I doubt we'll see the Champ arriving at the train station from a fishing trip and hearing the Marine Band play FDR's favorite tune, "Happy Days Are Here Again" ......anytime soon. :-(
[Pak Daily Times] Swabi police have apprehended 45 suspects in a search operation that was launched in the wake of recent bomb kabooms. This was stated by Swabi District Police Officer (DPO) Sajjad Khan while addressing a meeting of coppers. Besides all DSPs, the meeting was also attended by SP Investigation, SHOs, investigation officers, traffic police officials and others. The suspects include Afghan refugees, residents of Mohmand and Bajaur agencies, Buner, 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. , Charsadda and Muzaffargarh. Interrogation of the suspects is in progress.
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[Al Ahram] A debate around a political seminar at Tanta University brings to the surface concerns borne of a new decree aiming to control on-campus activism and potential dissent
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[Bangla Daily Star] Police on Monday enjugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! a youth in connection with the attacks on the Hindu community at Bonogram in Pabna on November 02.
Police arrested Johurul Islam, 20, son of Amin Driver, from the Bonogram Bazaar area on Monday morning.
When produced before the Pabna judicial magistrate's court the same day, Johurul confessed to his role in inciting the attacks that ravaged over 100 Hindu houses in two villages, leaving trails of looting, arson and vandalism.
In his confessional statement, Johurul said he had printed a faked Facebook page slandering Prophet Mohammad (PTUI!) from his own computer and, along with some other people, distributed it in the bazar. During the distribution of the photocopies of the page, the gang members told people that Rajib Saha, son of local businessman Babul Saha, maligned the prophet on Facebook, Assistant Superintendent of Police of Pabna Abu Bakar Siddik said.
Soon after the distribution of the page, groups of people attacked the Hindu houses for about two and a half hours in Sahapara and Ghoshpara, close to Bonogram bazaar.
Johurul, who runs a computer shop in Bonogram bazaar, also mentioned the names of a few others who were with him during the distribution of the photocopies, the ASP added.
Police seized his computer.
A total of 12 suspects have so far been arrested in connection with the attacks.
Local Hindu families, however, are hardly relieved as most of the attackers are still on the lam.
"Although some people have been arrested, most of the culprits are walking free. This is our biggest concern at the moment," Haripada Saha, a resident of Sahapara village, said.
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We will be seeing a lot of these reports in days to come as leftist pukes like this female realizes that sometimes a leftist agenda means you will pay out the nose for it, with your own money.
From the The Other Perfesser...
THE Anthem Blue Cross representative who answered my call told me that there was a silver lining in the cancellation of my individual P.P.O. policy and the $5,400 annual increase that I would have to pay for the Affordable Care Act-compliant option: now if I have Stage 4 cancer or need a sex-change operation, I'd be covered regardless of pre-existing conditions. Never mind that the new provider network would eliminate coverage for my and my son's long-term doctors and hospitals.
The Anthem rep cheerily explained that despite the company's -- I paraphrase -- draconian rates and limited network, my benefits, which also include maternity coverage (handy for a 46-year-old), would "be actually much richer."
I, of course, would be actually much poorer. And it was this aspect of the bum deal that, to my surprise, turned out to be a very unpopular thing to gripe about.
"Obamacare or Kafkacare?" I posted on Facebook as soon as I hung up with Anthem. I vented about the call and wrote that the president should be protecting the middle class, not making our lives substantially harder. For extra sympathy, I may have thrown in the fact that I'm a single mom. (O.K., I did.)
Then I sat back and waited for the love to pour in. Or at least the "like." Lots of likes. After all, I have 1,037 Facebook friends. Surely, they'd commiserate.
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What if I don't want a sex change operation? What if my wife doesn't need pregnancy benefits because she has had a hysterectomy? Suppose my daughter only needs a policy covering catastrophic situations because she is young and healthy?
Abortion coverage? Can we choose to abort this healthcare law and choose something else; something reasonable?
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#5 What if I don't want a sex change operation?
I paid $125,000 for her son's gender reassignment.
I paid $ 55,000 for the new Lexus she asked for.
I spent $35,000 on her new kitchen.
I spent $17,000 on her boob job.
I want to spend $100. for a BJ, and she goes ballistic.
[APNEWS.MYWAY] The nation's newest state, if rural Colorado residents had their way, would be about the size of Vermont but with the population of a small town spread across miles of farmland. There wouldn't be civil unions for gay couples, legal recreational marijuana, new renewable energy standards, or limits on ammunition magazines.
After all, those were some of the reasons five counties on the state's Eastern Plains voted on Election Day to approve the creation of a 51st state in the first place.
Secession supporters know the votes were symbolic, designed to grab the attention of a Democratic-controlled Legislature. They say the vote results emphasize a growing frustration in conservative prairie towns with the more populous and liberal urban Front Range, which has helped solidify the Democrats' power.
"We can't outvote the metropolitan areas anymore, and the rural areas don't have a voice anymore," said Perk Odell, 80, a lifelong resident of Akron in Washington County, which voted to secede.
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Meanwhile, not to be outdone by Long Island, or twas it Manhattan ...???
* NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO [NPR.org] > FORGET THE 50 STATES [57 States?], THE US IS REALLY ELEVEN NATIONS, AUTHOR SAYS.
To include most of upper Mexico = "EL NORTE", + CENTRAL CANADA TO HUDSON BAY.
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* FREEREPUBLIC > [Lee Martell] FORGET PUERTO RICO [aka Castroite Cuba/Quba-lite]- ITS CLEAR THE PHILIPPINES SHOULD BECOME OUR 51ST STATE. OH YEAH!
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* OTOH WORLD MILITARY FORUM > GLOBAL TIMES: PHILIPPINES' "MANILA TIMES": SCHOLAR SAYS PHILIPPINES SEAS + LUZON STRAITS CRUX/CENTER FOR CHINA'S NUCLEAR AMBITIONS IN EAST ASIA. PHILIPPINES HAS NO ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE [ASW] CAPABILITY, WHILE TAIWAN'S IS LIMITED.
* IIRC MARIANAS VARIETY > OP-ED: REUNIFICATION AND STATEHOOD FOR MARIANAS IS THE [final = ultimate] GOAL.-
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The Urban party that can't create its own food, energy, reduce its own waste, and somehow moves all the icky stuff elsewhere (NIMBY). Katrina showed, it can't last more than two or three days without starting to implode when them rural thingies don't show up regularly.
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Secession will most likely not succeed but the effort certainly does make a statement about large blue liberal urban areas that dictate to the rest of us.
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80% of Colorado's Ag production is in those counties, as well as a majority of the petroleum production (including Nat Gas) in the state. They leave, all of a sudden they don't have liberals in Boulder and Denver tying their hands on enviro restrictions that are worse than Fed ones.
But the real change here is water rights - the Platte river feeds a lot of Denver's suburbs. And it gets diverted from Ag to do that. If this becomes a state, the Denver metro area will have to go hunting for water.
I hope they find a way to follow through on and leave the mob rule behind and put forth a government that is a republic.
[LATIMES] Interior Secretary Sally Jewell says she will recommend that President B.O. act alone if necessary to create new national monuments and sidestep a gridlocked Congress that has failed to address dozens of public lands bills.
Jewell said the logjam on Capitol Hill has created a conservation backlog, and she warned that the B.O. regime would not "hold its breath forever" waiting for politicians to act.
"The president will not hesitate," Jewell said in an interview in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
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Picking the next groups of parks to nationalize so he can close them too???/
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"I can tell you that there are places that are ripe for setting aside, with a tremendous groundswell of public support."
First will be the Keystone pipeline right-of-way I expect. Can't continue to have gas prices continue to drop.
Then coalmine sites with the promise that tourism will offset the lost wages.
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Your car, home, or farm.... really are not yours, you didn't make them. These things should all be seen as part of the collective and be available for everyone.
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Your car, home, or farm.... really are not yours, you didn't make them.
No, I didn't, I BOUGHT THEM, with the sweat of my brow (Through exchange with Your Cash), they ARE mine, and you have no right to take them.
As for my solar system, I Built that, so there.
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Even in Alabama, so called off-grid homeowner solar systems create a nondependent footprint, contribute to global warming, and represent unfair tax loopholes. Your estimated energy tax savings should be immediately reported to the IRS as earned income for appropriate collection action. This is your last warning !
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I can see them nationalizing private lands that are producing natural gas via fracking.
Just another avenue to try and provoke the confrontation he so desperately desires. So he can declare marshal law.
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Like he needs any opinions from a mere Interior Secretary Czar! He's been issuing Executive Orders for some time now, Sally, did you just wake up from a long nap?
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Moonshine? Hummm, sounds tasty.
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Obama didn't make those monuments, did he?
So he doesn't own them and can't do squat about managing them.
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[Pak Daily Times] The United States stepped up its criticism of the embattled Maldives on Tuesday, warning caretaker president Mohammed Waheed that a decision to remain in office after his mandate expired was endangering democracy.
The US State Department said Waheed's move to continue to govern after his time in office lapsed at midnight Sunday was unprecedented, after the tourism-reliant Indian Ocean nation failed to hold elections for the third time in two months.
"The US government is deeply concerned by President Waheed's unprecedented decision to remain past the legal mandate of his presidency, which ended on November 10," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement issued by the US embassy in Colombo.
"This action has endangered the Maldivian people's right to elect a leader of their choice," she said.
And it's giving Champ ideas...
Waheed announced Sunday he would remain in office until a rescheduled run-off vote to elect a president is held on November 16, five days after the constitution mandates that his term should have ended.
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Great Britain should just give it back to Argentina. Wait....what?
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[Al Ahram] A suspected Islamist myrmidon was killed in festivities in southern Tunisia on Tuesday that also left two coppersmaimed during a "huge" security sweep, the interior ministry said.
"Since yesterday (Monday), specialist army units have been carrying out a huge security operation in the province of Kebili," the ministry said.
"At dawn today, during a successful raid and in an exchange of fire with a terrorist group, a terrorist was killed and eight others nabbed." Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
The interior ministry said other gunnies had fled, and that two coppers were maimed by shots to their legs.
During the operation, the security forces seized grenades, a truck that was being fitted with a bomb, five cars, large sums of money, IT equipment and 30 mobile phones.
Tunisia has been rocked by jihadist violence since the mass uprising that toppled former strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011, and has witnessed a surge in deadly attacks this year.
Since January, two opposition MPs have been killed by suspected Islamist gunnies, while some 30 coppers and soldiers have died in operations targeting jihadist groups believed to have ties to Al-Qaeda.
Late last month, two botched suicide kabooms at nearby coastal resorts heightened fears for the country's battered tourism sector.
The violence has fuelled a major political crisis in the birthplace of the Arab Spring, with the secular opposition accusing the ruling Islamist party Ennahda of failing to rein in bad boy groups.
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[Pak Daily Times] Nigeria requires more regional help to tackle Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... faceless myrmidons in its restive northeast but the country is likely to have to shoulder most of the burden on its own for now, according to analysts.
A senior Nigerian military official last week urged neighbouring Cameroon to do more to help tackle the Islamist insurgency, which has claimed thousands of lives since 2009 and caused international concern over its potential to spread.
The multi-national force enforcing emergency rule in Nigeria's extreme northeast and tasked with hunting down faceless myrmidons is currently made up of Nigerian troops, assisted by soldiers from Chad and Niger.
"Cameroon has not contributed troops. Cameroon ought to be on board and it is seen as the weak link in the fight against Boko Haram," said Kyari Mohammed, a Boko Haram specialist at the Modibbo Adama University in Yola, Adamawa state.
"If Cameroon decides to close its borders, it would help," Mohammed, who is director of the university's Centre for Peace Studies, told AFP. Emergency rule, backed for extension by politicians in Nigeria's upper house of parliament last week, has largely pushed Boko Haram fighters from urban areas into the countryside over the last six months but attacks have continued unabated.
The three states under special measures -- Yobe, Borno and Adamawa -- share frontiers with Niger, Chad and Cameroon and the military has said that hard boyz have struck in Nigeria then fled across the mostly non-existent borders.
As such, regional co-operation was vital to tackle the issue, said Marc-Antoine Perouse de Montclos, a Nigeria specialist at the Institute of Development Research (IRD) in Gay Paree.
Elizabeth Donnelly, assistant head of the Africa programme at the Chatham House international affairs think-tank in London, agreed but both said that more help was unlikely to be forthcoming.
"Cameroon, Niger and Chad... have competing pressures. Niger and Chad are very concerned about the fall-out from (the conflicts in) Mali and Libya. They certainly don't want another problem from another border," said Donnelly.
Relations between Abuja and Yaounde have also been strained because of a drawn-out border dispute over the territory of Bakassi, which was only formally resolved in August when Cameroon took complete illusory sovereignty of the area, which is thought to have major untapped oil reserves.
Cameroon's reluctance can further be explained because it also wants to avoid Boko Haram attacks within its own borders, said Mohammed.
"It (the fight against Boko Haram) needs a regional resolution of the problem," said Perouse de Montclos.
"It's not the first time that Nigeria has asked for the help of its neighbours. But there's a problem of capacity."
"Nigeria is the biggest regional power," added Donnelly. "The expectation will be that Nigeria resolves its own problem."
As a result attention will focus on the effectiveness of six more months of emergency rule, given that civilian deaths remain high -- both from Boko Haram strikes and military action -- and the frequency of bloody violence.
Donnelly said improving civilian protection was key in the coming months, as was better intelligence to find active Boko Haram members, while suspects needed to be put on trial in court to enforce the rule of law.
Perouse de Montclos, who likened Boko Haram to a "wild, dangerous beast trying to bite everyone", said it was vital to ensure that members of civilian vigilante groups, encouraged by the military, did not become disaffected.
Previous experience had shown that to do so would make them ripe for recruitment by the likes of Boko Haram, he added.
But Mohammed suggested that the Nigerian government needed to identify moderate elements within the myrmidon group who are willing to talk.
"Emergency rule has not worked... Boko Haram have boxed the government into a situation where they are like Boko Haram," carrying out indiscriminate attacks that have caused scores of civilian deaths.
"We have to open a window of opportunity," he added. "We need some people to break ranks."
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GAROWE, Somalia -- Political infighting continues at Villa Somalia Presidential Compound in Mogadishu after the Somali Federal Government Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon refused to step down, Garowe Online reports.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud reportedly asked Shirdon to vacate his post following suggestions from, Mohamud's right hand man, a Kenyan citizen and the State Minister for Presidency Farah Abdulkadir, according to sources close to Villa Somalia who spoke to Garowe Online on condition of anonymity.
Last Friday, President Hassan held a private meeting with Shirdon blaming him for being ineffective in the job and lurching the weak central government backward.
Shirdon himself admitted Tuesday in statement that they disagreed over the constitution alone, a move that could lead to a bitter feud and plunge the war-ravaged horn of Africa nation deeper into political crisis.
"Despite achievements and visible progress, it is disheartening to inform you that I and the president have disagreed over the constitution, not the political issues and the only solution to the problem is adhering to the national constitution," said Shirdon.
Shirdon whose wife Asho Haji Elmi is a Member of Parliament and an influential player in Villa Somalia has been struggling for authority within the confines of law for the past four months but critics say, Hassan remains defiant to share the power with Shirdon.
Shirdon was preparing his cabinet for reshuffle when the political bickering emerged.
President Mohamud is accused of failing to fairly uphold the Federal constitution whose clauses and articles have been tampered with according to Somalia's Puntland government, a crucial autonomous state and a leading pioneer which withdrew cooperation from the Mogadishu-based government in August.
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[Bangla Daily Star] At least 10 people, including a girl, were maimed when hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... supporters set a bus alight at Rayerbagh in the capital's Jatrabari yesterday.
Victims and police suspect the perpetrators were inside the bus posing as passengers and they used gun powder to torch the bus around 1:00pm. The bus was carrying about 50 passengers.
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[Pak Daily Times] Sindh government has imposed a ban on riding double during the 9th and 10th Muharram across the province, whereas cellular services in five provincial cities including Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... are likely to be banned. A notification in this regard will also be issued as higher authorities have sent a formal request to the provincial home minister to do so. The ban would be effective immediately after its release while the elderly, women, children, journalists and security officials would be exempted from the ban. According to sources, district Khairpur has been declared "highly sensitive" in terms of possible threats of terrorism. Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the entire 614th quadrant searched. The Green Lensman must be found!... the provincial government has sent a communiqué to the federal government requesting suspension of cellular services in five cities of Sindh on Muharram 9 and 10, which include Karachi, Hyderabad, Khairpur, Larkana and Sukkar, sources said.
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[NationalReview] James O'Keefe reveals corruption at the heart of the president's signature program.
Video at link.
Aaaaaand, the consequences followed. It has been learnt that not responding immediately only makes it worse when further videos are released:
[FoxNews]The Urban League of Greater Dallas fired one person and suspended three others after a video from a conservative activist reportedly showed the workers encouraging health care applicants to lie.
An edited video was released Monday that seemingly shows so-called health care Navigators encouraging people to lie on forms signing up for health care to get better rates.
The video was released by Project Veritas, which was started by conservative activist James O'Keefe. O'Keefe gained notoriety for videos in 2009 that eventually brought down ACORN and was also tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in 2010 for attempting to bug the phones in the office of Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu for a different project.
The Urban League said in a statement on Tuesday it "does not condone, nor would we ever sanction, misleading the public or any individual who seeks our assistance about any issue, and particularly in this case, an issue as critical as health care."
The Urban League said the person fired was a "part-time receptionist trainee" who was not authorized to speak on behalf of The Urban League or act as a Navigator and said it supports decertifying three "Navigators-in-training" in the video.
The Urban League also called for the unedited video of the incidents to be released. It said the undercover applicants were told the people they were speaking to were Navigators-in-training and "the full context of these comments is not reflected in the video."
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One fired, three suspended after undercover health care video
And what about those whom they actually helped defraud the government? Would this not be defined as criminal conspiracy? Criminal charges....? No, just as I thought.
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WHy the mention of the "bugging" which was ultimately dropped? Good ol NR, seems to have completely abandoned any pretense at conservatism that isn't of the east coast elites - the Beltway-Broadway cocktail party crowd who likes to get approval from the press leftists
The United Nations Security Council has authorized more than 4,000 new troops for the African Union force battling militants in Somalia. This will bring the force's strength to slightly more than 22,000.
Who's paying the tab -- Uncle Sugar?
The Council also authorized the U.N. to supply Somalia's national army with food, water, fuel and other assets when it conducts joint operations with the AU force, known as AMISOM.
Britain sponsored the resolution authorizing these latest moves. London's ambassador to the U.N., Mark Lyall Grant, said AMISOM has played a huge role in weakening Somali militant group al-Shabab.
"But as recent attacks show, al-Shabab continue to pose a threat not just to Somalia but to the wider region, and now is the right time for the Security Council to act," said Grant.
Grant said the extra troop strength will give AMISOM the ability to "regain the momentum against al-Shabab" and give greater protection to Somali civilians. He added that for long-term stability in Somalia, Somalis must take greater control of their own security.
Over the last two years AMISOM, Ethiopian and Somali government forces drove al-Shabab out of Mogadishu and other major cities. The militant group still carries out periodic suicide attacks, and a new government formed last year remains fragile, as evidenced by reports this week that the president has asked the prime minister to resign.
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[An Nahar] Police in Nigeria's capital on Tuesday blocked an anti-corruption meeting by sealing off the hotel conference room where activists had planned to gather, a rights group and a hotel employee said.
Crackdowns on civil society organizations, common in some African countries, have become rare in Nigeria in recent years.
The meeting scheduled at Nicon Luxury Hotel in Abuja had been partly organized by Dino Melaye, a former politician turned activist who has called for the resignation of a cabinet member accused of illegally procuring two armored vehicles worth $1.4 million (870,000 euros).
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), one of Nigeria's leading rights groups, condemned "reports that a detachment of heavily armed Nigerian coppers were today sent to seal off the Nicon Luxury Hotel" suite where the meeting had been scheduled.
An AFP news hound saw roughly a dozen officers and two police vehicles positioned outside the venue on Tuesday afternoon.
A hotel employee, who requested anonymity, said the police made clear when they arrived that they were instructed to break up the meeting.
National police front man Frank Mba and Abuja police spokeswoman Altine Daniel said they had no knowledge of the operation.
SERAP said the meeting's theme was Nigeria's freedom of information law and had scheduled speakers from Europe, the United States and Nigeria.
Melaye's Anti-Corruption Network last month staged a protest in Abuja calling for the resignation of Aviation Minister Stella Oduah, who has been accused of illegally purchasing armored vehicles with public money.
There was no indication that Tuesday's move by the police was linked to Melaye's campaign against Oduah, a close ally of President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... .
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[POLITICO] Incumbent Sen. Kay Hagan ...Niece of former senator and Florida governor Lawton Chiles, married to a transaction lawyer, who has a net worth between $10.7 million and $40 million. He is a former Democrat ward heeler, which explains a lot. She defeated the listless Elizabeth Dole in 2008... (D-N.C.) is near the top of national Republicans' target list for 2014 -- and a new poll shows her lead over her potential GOP challengers has all but evaporated.
Against state House Speaker Thom Tillis, Hagan leads by only 2 points, 44 percent to 42 percent, according to the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling. She leads Rev. Mark Harris by 2 points as well, 43 percent to 41 percent, and nurse Heather Grant by 3 points, 43 percent to 40 percent.
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He is a former Democrat ward heeler, which explains a lot.
Yup, it does.
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Hagan trails physician Greg Brannon, the Rand Paul-endorsed candidate in the race, by 1 point: he leads 44 percent to 43 percent.
Voters are starting to become aware of being had when it comes to Obamacare. They are starting to turn other rocks over to see what crawls out?
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Key here is to figure out how to tie the hands of George Will and the rest of that bunch. They created and supported the spoiler candidate in VA that gave the VA Gov to the socialist economy believer McAullife, the ultimate Dem crony insider. Someone needs to take a Buford Pusser approach and pay them a visit with a bit of lumber.
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Legendary American Women
An occasional feature.
(A rising Tejano, Spanish for Texan, star that died way too young, actually knew no Spanish and had to get friends to teach her so that she could target her audience of heritage.) Selena was born in Lake Jackson, Texas, as the youngest of three children born to a Mexican American father, Abraham Quintanilla, Jr. and a half-Cherokee Native American mother, Marcella Ofelia (née Samora). She was raised as a Jehovah's Witness. Selena began singing at age three. When she was nine years old, her father launched a vocal group consisting of several of his children, Selena y Los Dinos. They initially performed at a restaurant the family operated,[5] but went bankrupt soon thereafter. They moved to Corpus Christi, Texas, where they performed wherever they could - street corners, weddings, quinceañeras, and fairs. As Selena grew more popular, the demands of her performance and travel schedule began to interfere with her education. Her father took her out of school when she was in the eighth grade. At seventeen, she earned a high school diploma by the American School Program.
Selena was murdered at the age of 23 on March 31, 1995 by Yolanda Saldívar, the former president of her fan club. On April 12, 1995, two weeks after her death, George W. Bush, governor of Texas at the time, declared her birthday "Selena Day" in Texas. Warner Bros. produced Selena, a film based on her life starring Jennifer Lopez, in 1997. Selena's life was also the basis of the musical Selena Forever starring Veronica Vazquez as Selena. In June 2006 Selena was commemorated with a life-sized bronze statue (Mirador de la Flor in Corpus Christi, Texas) and a Selena museum opened there. She has sold over 60 million albums worldwide, making her one of the best-selling artists of all time. She is also the only female artist to have five albums in U.S. Billboard 200 at the same time. (Wikipedia) (Hat Iip www.gringoranch.blogspot.com}
[Pak Daily Times] Pakistain must know who is about to challenge the writ of the state and why. The challenger will be a former chairlift operator who also used to sell firewood to make both ends meet. A manual worker, Mullah Fazlullah ...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan... , has now become powerful enough to threaten the lives of Paks by becoming the head of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP). There are many lessons hidden in this episode. For instance, people who are made irrelevant to the mainstream of society Dire Revenge™ themselves on society that does not listen to a chairlift operator and give any respect to a firewood seller.
Fazlullah obtained religious education (it is not known to what extent), which might have enabled him secure just the job of a chairlift operator. This means that the kind of education he obtained was not enough to offer him social recognition outside the ambit of religion. As a firewood seller, he was also unrelated to societal mainstream. Through his actions, he is now trying to prove himself relevant. When it is told that Fazlullah is a ruthless commander, the strength of his being reactionary is understood. He must be resorting to bringing about a change in society through his reactions. Similarly, if it is told that he is prepared to do anything to enforce his uncompromising interpretation of Islamic law, as he did by launching the FM radio in Swat
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[An Nahar] Syrian Kurds in the country's northeast announced the formation of a transitional autonomous administration on Tuesday after making key territorial gains against jihadists in recent weeks.
But several major Kurdish groups have not signed on to the declaration, which had originally been mooted in July.
The latest announcement comes amid a general strengthening of Kurdish rights in neighboring Turkey, and increasing moves towards independence by Iraq's own autonomous Kurdish region.
"Today is an important day in the history of the Kurdish people," said Shirzad Izidi, a front man for the People's Council of Western Kurdistan, a Syrian Kurdish group.
"What has been announced today is the beginning of implementing an interim administration in the ares of West Kurdistan," he continued, referring to the commonly used name for Syria's Kurdish areas.
The announcement was made after talks in the mostly Kurdish town of Qamishli days earlier and involves the division of Syria's Kurdish region into three areas, each with its own local assembly, as well as representatives to a regional executive body.
The administration has been tasked with preparing local and general elections, along with handling an array of political, military, security and economic issues.
But the fact that the newly formed authority lacks the backing of several key parties has raised questions over whether it will be long-lasting.
Currently, the transitional authority is formed by the powerful Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and several other smaller groupings, but not the Kurdish National Council, which includes a broad spectrum of parties.
"I think that such a rushed, one-sided move will be seen as... an obstacle to the Syrian opposition," said Nuri Brimo, a member of the KNC.
"I think the (PYD) is moving in the wrong direction by individually announcing the local administration."
Kurdish regions of northern Syria have been administered by local Kurdish councils since forces loyal to Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... withdrew in the middle of 2012.
The redeployment was seen as a tactical move by the regime, one which freed up forces to battle rebels elsewhere, and encouraged the Kurds to avoid allying with the opposition.
More recently, Kurds have battled with jihadist groups keen to secure a wider corridor between Syria and Iraq to ensure more regular supplies and reinforcements.
Last month Kurdish forces seized control of a crucial border point with Iraq.
Fighting between Kurdish bully boyz and jihadists ostensibly battling to topple Assad has added another level of complexity to the civil war, which has claimed an estimated 120,000 lives since 2011.
Kurds represent about 15 percent of the Syrian population, and are mostly concentrated in the northern part of the country.
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well congrats to the Kurds.
How long until a unified Kurdistan?
[MIAMIHERALD] Politics aside, a president's gotta eat. Just ask Barack Obama, who was feted with a few fundraisers Friday. At the Pinecrest home of businesswoman/philanthropist Leslie Miller Saiontz, a 30-person dinner was catered by Chef David Catering, whose menu included Kobe hot dogs and tenderloin filet. Then there was the one at the Coral Gables home of personal injury attorney Ralph Patino, catered by Caffe Abbracci, where restaurant owner Nino Pernetti witnessed the Commander in Chief munching on pumpkin tartlette with crumbled amarettini cookies and miniature chocolate ganache cake. We're sure the fitness-conscious first lady has the treadmill all warmed up.
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Crumbled amarettini cookies for a crumbling president. Nice touch Nino. Hopefully someone in the background was softly strumming Apollonia.
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I read somewhere that real authentic 'Kobe' beef cannot be had outside of Japan. It's export outside of Japan is flat out illegal. If you get 'Kobe' beef in the U.S. it is probably not authentic - unless it was illegally obtained.
Not that that matters to Zero - he's about 'legalities'...
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Obama walks out of the deli with a roast beef sandwich, large chips, ear of corn & a jumbo sausage. A poor homeless man sits near the door and says..... 'I've not eaten for two days.' Obama tells him, 'I wish I had your will power.'
[An Nahar] Rebel mortar fire on several government-held districts of the Syrian capital maimed at least 16 people on Tuesday, state media reported.
"Mortar rounds fired by forces of Evil struck around Shallal Square in the Mazraa neighborhood, wounding 10 people and damaging cars," the official SANA news agency said.
A hardline Paleostinian bully boy group allied to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... 's government said five of its members were among those maimed in Mazraa.
Mortar fire struck a Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine-General Command office near the Central Bank of Syria, PFLP-GC front man Anwar Rajah said.
Elsewhere in the capital, mortar fire maimed six people near a Red Islamic Thingy hospital and a market, SANA reported.
The new casualties came a day after rebel mortar fire killed nine children and maimed more than 20 other people in two districts of the capital.
The rounds hit a school and a school vehicle in two majority-Christian neighborhoods, state media said.
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[Al Ahram] Egypt's public prosecutor ordered on Tuesday that 30 complaints filed against Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef be referred to Judge Zakaria Abdel-Aziz, the general attorney for Cairo appeals prosecution, for further investigation.
The complaints include accusations that Youssef offended Egypt's army chief Abdel-Fatah El-Sisi during the third season's first episode of his popular show 'Al-Bernameg.'
Youssef's first episode, which came after an almost three month hiatus, stirred controversy when the popular satirist poked fun at supporters of El-Sisi, whose popularity soared following the ouster of Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... on 3 July.
The weekly show, which airs on Fridays, was suspended on 1 November minutes before the second episode was due to air on host channel CBC. The channel claimed that Youssef and his producer had "violated what had been agreed upon" with the channel, as well as CBC's "editorial policies."
Following the incident, Al-Bernameg staff immediately issued a statement denying that they had violated the contract. The statement added that Youssef had not been notified of the ban in advance, learning his show was suspended at the same time as viewers.
In an article entitled "Treason on Tango," published on Tuesday in the Egyptian daily Al-Shorouk, Youssef gave examples of artists and intellectuals who had been falsely accused by authoritarian regimes of "treason" for "refusing to follow the herd." Youssef further accused religious, military and fascist states of using nationalism as an excuse to frame dissenters.
Following the banning of Al-Bernameg's second episode, many pointed blame at state institutions. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... the presidency issued a statement asserting that the suspension was an internal matter between Youssef and CBC.
"Whether you're a Moslem scholar, a Hollywood writer, or a composer of the most beautiful Tango melodies, history will maybe remember you for your work and creativity, but most probably you'll live as an outcast, hated and accused of treason, spying or blasphemy," wrote Youssef in his article.
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[BREITBART] The Restaurant Opportunities Center in New York has abruptly withdrawn as an Obamacare Navigator for New York state. In documents obtained by ROC Exposed under NY's Freedom of Information Act, ROC provides no explanation for suddenly pulling out of the program it had signed on to in April.
Curiously, ROC NY continues to advertise itself as a navigator on its website, telling site visitors even today that ROC is "here to help you navigate the options" and "help you and your family enroll" in a "low-cost or free health insurance plan through the Affordable Care Act."
ROC is a labor union front group established as a nonprofit "worker center," which allows it to skirt federal labor laws in its disruptive protests of non-union restaurants.
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[Pak Daily Times] Afghan authorities on Tuesday destroyed more than 10 tonnes of drugs and thousands of bottles of alcohol as part of their fight against narcotics amid a fresh surge in opium cultivation.
Government officials, ambassadors and military commanders gathered on a mountainside outside Kabul to burn the drugs which were seized from smugglers in recent months.
About 2,000 kilograms of opium, 400 kg of heroine and about 1,200 kg of morphine were burned during the ceremony. More than 10,000 kg of hashish and thousands of bottles of beer and other alcohol were also destroyed.
Baz Mohammad Ahmadi, the deputy interior minister for counter-narcotic programmes, told a ceremony the drugs were seized over the past 10 months in and around Kabul. "This event shows our increased capabilities fighting drugs," he said. Ahmadi said Kabul had become a key route for drug smugglers in recent years.
Afghanistan produces more than 90 percent of the world's opium, the key ingredient of heroin.
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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 the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. 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. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. yesterday warned that opposition leader Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... would have to face trial for killing more than 20 people during hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... hours.
"By the grace of Allah, the trial of those killings will be held," she said, adding that the opposition leader has to take the responsibility for the killings.
Addressing a mammoth rally at Kotalipara in Gopalganj, the premier also expressed her apprehension that the opposition leader might try again to kill her.
"She [Khaleda] wants a Hasina-free Bangladesh, she failed to kill me earlier ... she might try again to kill me," Hasina said.
The opposition leader killed more than 24 Awami League leaders and activists through grenade attacks on August 21, 2004, and she is now killing people by imposing shutdowns and setting fire to vehicles, the premier said.
"We came to power with a majority and then we amended the constitution ... We have sealed the scope of grabbing power illegally," she told the rally at Bhangarhat Talimpur Telihati High School ground.
Hasina also said the opposition leader did not want to participate in the election as she would not be able to rig polls this time. She [Khaleda] never liked free, fair and neutral elections.
Referring to her recent phone conversation with the opposition leader, the Awami League chief said she made the phone call thinking about people's welfare.
"I invited her [Khaleda], but she rejected. She enforced hartals instead and killed 20 people during the shutdowns," the premier said.
She also sought vote for the Awami League (AL) in the next election to complete the unfinished development works of her government.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Alleged Al-Badr commander of Rangpur ATM Azharul Islam was indicted yesterday on six charges of murder, genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War in 1971.
The former president of Rangpur district unit Islami Chhatra Sangha, the then student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... , was charged with two acts of genocide that left more than 1,200 people dead.
The 61-year-old Jamaat assistant secretary general was also charged with torture, loot, arson, abduction, rape, mass killing and conspiracy to kill unarmed civilians at different parts of Rangpur.
Azharul pleaded himself not guilty after the three-member International Crimes Tribunal-1 led by Justice ATM Fazle Kabir with Justice Jahangir Hossain Selim and Justice Anwarul Haque asked him about the charges.
His trial is set to begin on December 5 with an opening statement from the prosecution.
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[Pak Daily Times] A Khasadar force official was injured when a roadside kaboom went off on the Pak-Afghan highway in Khyber area of Landikotal on Tuesday, official and local sources said. Sources said that unidentified hard boyz had planted two remote-controlled bombs on the highway to target NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... supply vehicles. One of the planted bombs, the sources added, went off when the convoy of NATO trucks passed by. As a result, a Khasadar man, who was deployed to guard the highway, was maimed. The injured, identified as Hussain Ahmad, was moved to Landikotal hospital, from where he was referred to a hospital 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. . Landikotal Assistant Political Agent Muhammad Tayyib Abdullah and Frontier Corps operational in-charge, Lt Colonel Ejaz, along with Bomb Disposal Unite (BDU) rushed to the site of the kaboom. They cordoned off the area and defused another bomb planted near the first one. A search operation was later launched in the area. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... no arrest was made.
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[An Nahar] The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday approved a 4,400-troop boost to the African force in Somalia, taking it to more than 22,100 troops deployed to tackle resurgent Islamist bad boys.
The 15-member council voted unanimously to allow the increase while renewing the mandate of the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... force.
The maximum size of the AU Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) will increase from just over 17,700 to 22,126. The extra troops are expected to start arriving in early 2014, diplomats said.
AMISOM backs Somali government forces who have forced Shabaab fighters out of key cities over the past 18 months.
But the al-Qaeda linked bully boyz have proved they can still stage major attacks on soft targets such as the Nairobi mall strike in September, which left at least 67 dead.
The Æthiopian government warned on Tuesday that Shabaab is planning more high profile attacks.
On top of the troop increase, the Security Council resolution also allowed the deployment of a special guard force to protect the U.N. mission in Somalia, which has been the target of several suicide kabooms.
"As recent attacks show, Shabaab continue to pose a threat not just to Somalia, but tot the wider region," said Mark Lyall Grant, U.N. ambassador for Britannia, which has taken a leading role in international efforts to rebuild a functioning state in the lawless East African country.
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[Pak Daily Times] Former president Gen (r) Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... on Tuesday asked a court to let him leave the country to visit his sick mother in Dubai, legal sources said.
Musharraf is facing four major criminal cases dating back to his 1999-2008 rule of the nuclear-armed nation, including one related to the liquidation of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto
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[An Nahar] Hizbullah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... condemned on Tuesday the liquidation of Islamic Action Front ...Jordan's branch of the Moslem Brüderbund... official Saadeddine Ghiyyeh in the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , calling for dealing with this case in the same manner the mosques' bombings issue was handled.
"We urge the state to deal with the liquidation of Ghiyyeh similarly to its treatment of the Tripoli and (the Beirut neighborhood of) Dahieh's bombings," Nasrallah said in a speech he gave on the ninth night of Ashura.
The Hizbullah leader considered the killing "an attack against the resistance and its supporters."
He stated: "This is an indication of the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... s' targeting of those with whom they disagree." Not that Hezbollah would know anything about doing that...
Nasrallah also questioned "some political factions' overlooking of this dangerous incident."
"This liquidation is a dangerous turn of events in Tripoli and could expand to other Lebanese regions," he warned.
Pro-Syrian regime figure Ghiyyeh was killed on Tuesday after sustaining gunshots wounds to his head when masked men shot up him in al-Bahsa in Tripoli. The state-run National News Agency reported that two men on a cycle of violence shot Ghiyyeh, who was in his car, in the head. That had to hurt. Briefly...
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The North Korean regime has been pouring huge sums into the construction of exclusive sports and recreational facilities for the rich in Pyongyang and major cities in the provinces.
There's just no place like North Korea for a spa vacation...
Leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-un has inspected sports-related facilities 25 times so far this year, including the new Mirim Riding Club that opened in Pyongyang on Oct. 20. That was more than three times the visits he made to similar facilities last year. An outdoor ice rink and a roller skating rink in Pyongyang last year was completed last year, and the Rungna People's Sports Park, Pyongyang Gymnasium, and Mirim Riding Club this year.
Back in July, two new hotels opened in Wonsan, Kangwon Province. The Kalma Hotel has 58 bedrooms and the Saenal Hotel accommodates about 200 guests on 18 floors. A ski resort is still under construction in Masikryong in Wonsan.
Since Pudgy Kim took power, the regime has focused on recreational facilities with an eye on earning hard currency from tourism.
In April, the regime hawked a four-day tour program to watch a marathon as part of anniversary celebrations for nation founder Kim Il-sung. There were also a cycling tour around the border region of Rajin-Sonbong for two days for 1,500 yuan, and a three-day amateur golf championship for foreigners for 999 euros.
Koryo Tour, the Chinese travel agency specializing in North Korea tours, is selling a package that includes a night at the notorious mass calisthenics performance "Arirang," tours of downtown Pyongyang including the Kumsusan Palace; trips to the truce village of Panmunjom and the demilitarized zone, Mts. Baekdu and Chilbo.
"The North is promoting sports to boost a dynamic image of the young leader and make him popular among the new moneyed elite as well as to earn hard currency," a South Korean government official speculated.
But defectors say many ordinary North Koreans are angry that the regime is squandering money on frivolities while failing to end chronic food shortages.
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In other news, there are rich people in North Korea...
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Will there be golf courses that guarantee a hole in one on every hole like Fat Boy shoots routinely? if not, I'm not going.
(but if the object of golf is to get a low score, why even start? can't beat zero)
[Pak Daily Times] Talks over a peace deal between the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... and defeated M23 rebels have failed, in a setback to international efforts to stabilise the African nation's conflict-prone east.
The peace negotiations failed after Kinshasa demanded changes to the agreement, officials said.
The "DRC delegation has aborted the signing of agreement with M23," Ugandan government front man Ofwono Opondo said Monday, adding that their meeting in Uganda was adjourned without a new date being scheduled.
The M23 rebels, one of many gangs operating in the mineral-rich but impoverished east of the DR Congo, have been routed by the national army, who are backed by a 3,000-strong special UN intervention brigade.
Seemingly abandoned by their sponsors due to international pressure, the M23 announced last week that their 18-month insurgency was over.
Despite the failure of the talks, DR Congo Foreign Affairs Minister Raymond Tshibanda said Kinshasa was committed to peace.
"We have been engaged in this process for several months now... We have encountered some difficulties over issues important to us, and we think that these difficulties can be removed before finalising the process," he said.
The failure to sign a deal will disappoint many, with the UN special envoy to the Great Lakes, Mary Robinson, telling AFP that signing the accord would be "a very important step for peace".
A joint statement released by Robinson and Martin Kobler, the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative in the DRC, voiced regret that Kampala Dialogue had not been concluded but noted that the parties involved "expressed no differences on substantive points within the draft document".
The statement, also signed by African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... and EU officials, urged all involved to resolve their differences and " remain committed to a peaceful settlement of the conflict."
The signatories emphasised that any solution must allow the pursuit of war criminals.
Delegations from both Kinshasa's government and the rebels arrived Monday evening at Uganda's State House in Entebbe, a town close to Kampala on the shores of Lake Victoria, where the rebels had been expected to formalise the end of their rebellion in writing.
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[An Nahar] A Yemeni court on Tuesday reduced from six years to three the sentences of two Albanian sailors convicted earlier this year of arms trafficking, the official Saba news agency said.
A third Albanian was acquitted for lack of proof by the court in Mukalla, capital of Hadramawt province, where the three were sentenced in February for smuggling arms and explosives into the country.
The three were locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in December as they smuggled 179.5 tonnes of arms and ammunition aboard a ship in Mukalla harbor.
The defendants said they had put in at Mukalla for refueling.
The Kenya and Moldova-flagged ship had arrived from Montenegro.
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[Pak Daily Times] While the Pak government routinely denounces US drone strikes, locals say that a sizeable number of people in the country's tribal areas support them -- but the threat of Taliban reprisals makes them too terrified to speak out.
Pakistain's lawless tribal areas along the Afghan border have borne the brunt of the US drone campaign since 2004, with hundreds of missile strikes targeting suspected al Qaeda and Talibs. Islamabad condemns them as a violation of illusory sovereignty and counterproductive to efforts to combat militancy, while rights campaigners -- and the Pak public -- rail against them for killing civilians. Anyone who does speak out in favour of the drones in the tribal areas runs the risk of being kidnapped, tortured and murdered by gunnies -- their agonising last moments captured on camera.
"Anybody who supports drone strikes, they will try to kill him. They will say that person is pro-American, a friend of the Jews," Gul Wali Wazir -- not his real name -- from South Wazoo tribal area told AFP. "They will cut his throat or shoot him. They will film his false confession, kill him and leave the body on the road with a DVD and a note saying that anybody who supports America and drones will face the same fate. "I have seen a dozen such dead bodies." "US spies" are targeted by a special bully boy unit, the Ittehad-e-Mujahideen Khorasan, and grisly DVDs of their last moments distributed. In one seen by AFP, a young man admits planting a bugging chip in a car in return for $200. After a decade of the CIA-run programme, no region in the world has been hit by more strikes than Pakistain's tribal areas -- a rugged, dirt-poor region roughly the size of Belgium. Ten days ago, one of the remote-controlled missiles eliminated the feared Hakimullah Mehsud, leader of the Pak Taliban. The area is off-limits to foreign journalists and aid groups, so the precise number and identity of those killed by drones is difficult to establish with certainty.
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[An Nahar] Thousands of Sudanese demanded the removal of a local police chief on Tuesday, witnesses said, on the third day of unrest sparked by an attack on a female student.
Crowds in Abu Hamad, about 500 kilometers (300 miles) north of Khartoum, "started a sit-in near the main court," one witness told AFP.
They were demanding that the town's top police officer and the head of the local government resign, residents said, adding that they community was fed up with what they perceived as a lack of action against migrants from other parts of Sudan who commit crimes in the area.
The migrants are working in the area's wildcat gold mines.
Unrest began after Sunday's attack on the young woman, which led crowds to burn the local market, the residents said.
Police said the woman was the victim of a beating and attempted rape at the campus residence of Nile State University.
They fired tear gas on Sunday, and again on Monday when about 2,000 people held a further protest as officials tried to negotiate, said the witnesses.
Production from wildcat gold mines has become a key revenue source for the cash-strapped Sudanese government.
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[BALTIMORESUN] Baltimore experienced a nearly 5 percent increase in traffic accidents from 2009 to 2012 -- a four-year span during which the city rolled out and ramped up its network of now-idle speed cameras, according to state police.
Accidents rose from 19,792 in 2009 to 20,718 in 2012, the city's highest total in nine years. Over those four years the city issued more than 1.5 million of the $40 tickets, with a stated purpose of improving safety by getting drivers to slow down in areas around schools.
City transportation spokeswoman Adrienne Barnes played down the increase. She noted that crashes fell from 2009 to 2010 (by almost 4 percent), before rising. Speed camera enforcement began in November 2009, making 2010 the first full year with cameras. Barnes also said yearly city figures have not fluctuated much over the past 10 years.
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You'd like to change the results, wouldn't you, doesn't meet your plan.
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Current speed laws are like any other "zero tolerance" law - zero common sense.
Used to be the cop had to pace you, make a determination. Meant that good drivers rarely got tickets. Now they point their stupid little toy and get a max reading, which punishes good drivers disproportionately. Mousy 5 miles under scared of their own shadow driving is what current enforcement protocols reward. It's also the kind of driving that causes accidents.
And it doesn't help that police personnel policies prohibit hiring anyone with an above average IQ!
[An Nahar] A Pak living legally in the United States has been charged with attempting to join an al-Qaeda linked hard boy group after falling for an FBI sting, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
Basit Javed Sheikh, 29, contacted an undercover FBI agent, believing him to be a member of Jabhat al-Nusrah, which the State Department identifies as a Syrian al-Qaeda affiliate.
According to the U.S. attorney's office in North Carolina, where Sheikh was charged last week, he expressed his wish to go to Syria "to help the mujahideen...in any way I can."
Asked how he planned to help, Sheikh responded "logistics, media, fight too, God willing," according to the statement.
According to a 25-page affidavit from FBI agent Jason Maslow, Sheikh told him in an online voice call that he was ready to "be a martyr" for the struggle.
The agent also described how, starting in April 2013, the Pak posted several times on Facebook in support of Jabhat al-Nusrah, one of Syria's most prominent armed Islamist groups.
Sheikh was placed in durance vile Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! on November 2 at the Raleigh-Durham airport in North Carolina just before boarding a plane.
The destination on his one-way ticket was Beirut, Leb, and he allegedly planned to cross the border into Syria, believing that the undercover FBI agent would be able to help.
If he is found guilty, he faces a maximum penalty of up to 15 years in prison, a fine of $250,000 and three years supervised release.
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[Al Ahram] Three Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... n military officers have asked for political asylum in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... after Saudi air force jets forced their aircraft to land in the southern part of the kingdom, the local news website Sabq reported on Tuesday. Sabq quoted Yassin bin Ahmed al-Qassem, a front man for the Jazan Emirate, as saying that F-15 planes were deployed when the Eritrean aircraft entered Saudi airspace without permission.
"The aircraft forced to land in the King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz airport was carrying three Eritrean officers seeking political asylum," Sabq quoted Yassin as saying.
The Eritrean aircraft were military but used to carry equipment and not fighters, Yassin added.
Eritrea, which split from Æthiopia in 1991, is one of Africa's most secretive states and dissent is dealt with harshly.
Located on the opposite side of the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia, it has long been at odds with the United States and is accused of human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... abuses by international monitors.
In January, dissident soldiers backed by tanks briefly took over the Information Ministry in Asmara, demanding all political prisoners be freed. Calm soon returned to the capital but Eritrean opposition activists in neighbouring Æthiopia cite growing dissent within the army over economic hardships.
With a population of about 5.5 million, mass defections have become more common in recent years.
In February, 18 Eritreans who disappeared from their hotel during a football tournament in Kampala were granted political asylum by Uganda.
In April, Saudi media said an Eritrean military pilot sent by Asmara to reclaim a jet stolen by two fellow officers when sought asylum in the kingdom had herself defected.
The U.N. refugee agency says more than 250,000 Eritrean refugees and nearly 15,000 asylum seekers live across the Horn of Africa.
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[An Nahar] Libya's top jihadist group, blamed for deadly unrest that includes attacking a U.S. mission, said Tuesday there will only be security in the increasingly lawless country if Islamic law is introduced.
"Stability and security are dependent on the application of sharia (Islamic law)," Ansar Al-Sharia said, explaining that this was its position in light of the "political bickering" in Libya.
At the same time, it said it does not recognize state institutions, including the security services, accusing them of apostasy and of being "taghuts," or evil forces at the service of tyranny.
But it said its weapons "will not be aimed at Moslems and children."
The heavily gang of ex-rebels is based in Libya's second city, Benghazi, cradle of the 2011 uprising that toppled veteran dictator Muammar Qadaffy ... who had more funny outfits than Louis XIV... .
Its fighters command the western access to Benghazi as well as several neighborhoods in the city according to local sources.
Ex-rebels have become a thorn in the side of the government, which is struggling to impose its authority in the oil-rich North African nation.
Their militias and other groups have carved their own fiefdoms in a country flooded with weapons looted from Qadaffy's arsenal.
On Monday, Prime Minister Ali Zeidan pledged to beef up the security forces to combat the unrest plaguing the country, particularly Benghazi, which has been hit by a string of deadly attacks in the past week.
"There are those who want to sow chaos in the country to prevent the development of the state, to govern Libya in their own way and make it like Somalia," he said.
Zeidan, who was briefly kidnapped by gunnies in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... last month, said weapons, ammunition and other resources will be provided to security forces in Benghazi.
Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Tunisia and Yemen, with the Tunisian version currently most active... has been blamed for a spate of deadly unrest in Benghazi, including the September 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
The group has denied any involvement in that incident.
In its statement, it defended its fighters, saying "they are now considered criminals and bad boys" after Libya's war "turned against them."
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[An Nahar] The Paleostine Liberation Organization is in talks with the Syrian government about ending a Paleostinian refugee camp siege that has prompted tens of thousands to flee, Paleostinian officials said Tuesday.
Pro-Damascus Paleostinian groups have lain siege for months to pro-rebel groups inside the Yarmuk camp in the southern outskirts of Damascus, prompting the exodus of at least 135,000 of its 170,000 residents.
"Negotiations are underway for the withdrawal of the gunnies from the camp, the opening of the entrance points and the return of services," the PLO's ambassador to Damascus, Anwar Abdel Hadi told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"If they succeed and the gunnies withdraw, the Syrian police will take control of the camp, as it was before the fighting, and the Syrian army will remain on the outskirts," he added.
"We're trying to reach a solution."
The fighting around the camp pits pro-Damascus Paleostinian factions, such as Al-Saiqa and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine-General Command, against groups like Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, that support the Syrian rebels.
The pro-Damascus groups have pushed a few hundred meters (yards) inside the camp, but the pro-rebel groups, who are backed by al-Qaeda loyalists, remain holed up inside.
Their position has become increasingly difficult in recent weeks, however, as advances by the Syrian army in Damascus province have threatened to cut their supply lines.
Living conditions for the camp's remaining civilian residents have become dire, as supplies of food and medicines have run out.
The PLO delegation, led by executive committee member Zakaria al-Agha, arrived from the West Bank town of Ramallah on Sunday to discuss the Paleostinian proposal for ending the siege.
A member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Paleostine ... a breakaway faction of the Pöpular Frönt för the Liberation of Paleostine. The are regarded as the most intellectual of Paleostinian fedayeen groups, smoking cheap cigarettes and drawing heavily on Marxist-Leninist theory to explain their crappy lives. They can occasionally be seen strutting through the streets of Paleostine, dressed up like soldiers and lugging firearms, though they seldom manage to hit anything and then usually by accident. This may be because of their habit of wearing black masks that cut off most of their vision. That would also explain their habit of occasionally walking into walls, which is a well-known attribute of those immersed in true understanding of the dialectic... , a PLO faction which is not party to the fighting, said the proposal called for the return of the camp's resident.
"It stipulates the withdrawal of the gunnies, the return of the camp's residents to their homes and the provision of support for their return to normal life," said DFLP member Rashid Kweidar, who is close to the negotiations.
The PLO ambassador said an aid convoy was "outside the camp right now," waiting to enter to deliver relief supplies.
Abu Bassel Fuad, a member of the pro-Damascus Paleostine Liberation Front, told AFP the priority was "the entry of food, medicines and vaccines for children."
He said the aim was to open "humanitarian corridors to allow the transport of the maimed and the safe movement of residents."
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[An Nahar] Islamic Action Front ...Jordan's branch of the Moslem Brüderbund... official Saadeddine Ghiyyeh was killed on Tuesday after sustaining gunshots wounds to his head.
According to state-run National News Agency, masked men shot up Ghiyyeh in al-Bahsa in the northern city of Tripoli. ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
The news agency reported that two men on a cycle of violence shot Ghiyyeh, who was in his car, in the head.
He was submitted to the hospital in a critical condition with media outlets reporting his death later on.
Voice of Leb radio (93.3) reported that the Lebanese army swiftly cordoned off and deployed in the area to halt any negative repercussions to the incident.
In September, a bomb went kaboom! in the car of the 43-year-old Ghiyyeh after he parked it in al-Qobba area in the northern city.
The kaboom only caused material damage.
The Islamic Action Front is an umbrella grouping of pro-Syrian regime Sunni groups in Leb.
Head of Islamic Tawhid Movement-Command Council ...The Tawhid party is divided into two parts, one led by Sheikh Bilal Shaaban, a close ally of Hezbollah who is said to be financed by Iran, while the other is headed by Sheikh Hashem Minkara, a staunch Syria supporter... Sheikh Hashem Minkara, who is close to Ghiyyeh, denounced the Islamic official's death.
He called on the Lebanese state to reveal those who are responsible for the attack and end the security chaos in Tripoli.
"The assaults against Islamic figures and Ulemas in the north were enough... The killing of Ghiyyeh was on the hands of mercenaries, who don't have a religion," Minkara told news hounds.
He considered that the incident comes as a result of the strong rhetoric of some figures.
"Ghiyyeh's fate will become the fate of all those who are pro or anti (Syria)," Minkara added.
"We should all realize the critical stage that the country is passing through," he stressed, urging all sides "to return to the voice of reason."
Later on Tuesday, caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel told radio Voice of Leb that concerned authorities have started investigating the incident.
"We have questioned several detainees over Ghiyyeh's liquidation and we gathered some clues that can be used in investigation," he said.
Charbel pointed out, however, that the killing of the Tripoli figure has political links and "is not an liquidation."
Tripoli is regularly the scene of violence between its Sunni majority and a minority of Alawites -- the religious community from which Syria's Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... hails.
Violence has usually pitted the Sunni neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh, which backs the Syrian uprising, against the neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen, which is populated by Alawites.
The Syrian uprising, which pits a Sunni-dominated rebellion against the Assad government, has inflamed existing sectarian tensions in Leb.
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[An Nahar] An Egyptian court ordered an end to a state of emergency Tuesday, two days ahead of schedule and three months after it was imposed during a crackdown on Islamist protesters.
The cabinet said in a statement it would respect the ruling but would wait for official notification from the court before implementing it.
The state of emergency, accompanied by a night time curfew, had been scheduled to expire on Thursday.
"The government is committed to implement judicial rulings...the government is waiting for the text of the ruling," it said in a statement.
Interim president Adly Mansour declared the state of emergency on August 14, as violence gripped Egypt after police dispersed two large protest camps in Cairo set up by supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... .
Hundreds of people, mainly Morsi supporters, were killed in the crackdown, while Islamists elsewhere in the country retaliated by attacking security forces and Coptic Christian churches and homes.
The administrative court said in its ruling, which had dismissed an appeal against the state of emergency, that it ended on Tuesday according to its calculation, the official MENA news agency reported.
Both the interior ministry and the military said they would implement the curfew until they received official notification.
"The armed forces have not been officially notified of any court rulings, and are committed to implementing the curfew within designated hours," it said in a statement.
Before Monday's court ruling the curfew was being imposed between 2300 GMT and 0300 GMT.
The military said it will continue enforcing it until it receives the court decision or until the state of emergency ends officially ends on Thursday, said the statement posted on its front man's Facebook page.
According to an interim constitution decreed by Mansour, extending the state of emergency any longer would have required a referendum.
The state of emergency granted broad powers of arrest to soldiers deployed on the streets, especially during curfew hours.
"In practice, the state of emergency was only being used for the curfew and arrest powers for the military," said Heba Morayef, head of Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... in Egypt.
"It was the symbolism. The interior ministry seems to have this belief that repressive laws are a deterrent."
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[Pak Daily Times] The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has been moved for restraining Syed Munawar Hassan ... The funny-looking leader-for-life of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. He joined the National Students Federation (NSF), a lefty student body, and was elected its President in 1959. He came into contact with the Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba (IJT) Pakistan and studied the writings of Mawlana Syed Abul Ala Maududi, The Great Apostasizer. As a result, he joined IJT in 1960 and soon he was elected as President of its University of Karachi Unit and member of the Central Executive Council. He was Assistant Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistain in 1992-93, and became Secretary General in 1993. After years of holding Qazi's camel he was named Amir when the old man stepped down in 2009... from acting as amir of Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... (JI) for "ridiculing armed forces of Pakistain".
Shahid Orakzai, through a petition filed on Tuesday, pleaded that statements given by Syed Munawar Hassan and silence of the government on this count can jeopardise national security. The court was told that Munawar Hassan was among the three persons who were nominated as guarantors by a private militia which accepts the responsibility for attacks on armed forces with pride. The respondent, he said, paid tribute to this militia and has dubbed violence committed by it as acts meant for safeguarding the ideological and geographical frontiers of the country.
The petitioner questioned whether any political party or its head is entitled to make religious announcements in connection with a war on their own. "If the high court accepts such right of any party then it should issue a certificate in this regard," he added.
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[Pak Daily Times] The liquidation of the eldest son, Nasiruddin Haqqani, of the Haqqani Network (HN) leader Jalaluddin Haqqani in Bhara Kahu on the outskirts of Islamabad on Sunday night comes barely a week after Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) leader Hakeemullah Mehsud's death in a drone strike in North Wazoo. He is reported to be the fourth Haqqani brother to have been rubbed out by one means or the other. Two gunnies opened fire on Nasiruddin, the chief financier and front man of the HN, as he was buying bread in the bazaar, stopped to make sure he was dead and then fled. Nasiruddin's driver picked up the body and transported it to the Haqqani home near Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... , North Waziristan, where he is reported to have been buried. No claim of responsibility has surfaced so far, feeding the rumour mills fulltime. The TTP was quick to react, blaming the ISI for the liquidation because they said, of Nasiruddin's close support to Hakeemullah Mehsud. They also vowed to avenge his death. Other speculation centres on the usual cast of suspects, headed first and foremost by the US, which had declared the HN a terrorist group in 2012, in an ironic twist on the HN's once blue-eyed boys status in the eyes of Washington during the anti-Soviet struggle in Afghanistan. Former US Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mullen had categorised the HN in 2011 in testimony before Congress as a "veritable arm" of the Pak ISI. HN is considered one of the most deadly groups fighting the US, NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... and the Karzai Afghan government, with links to al Qaeda, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, and a string of bad turban groups in Pakistain, including the TTP. The Pakistain army's ISPR refused to comment on the liquidation. The local police appeared clueless about whether the murder had actually occurred, and if it had, who was the victim, since the body was whisked away long before the police lumbered onto the scene. The local SHO has been suspended, but what good does that do when the incident is clearly a 'black ops' targeting by whoever was responsible.
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[An Nahar] Colombia accused the leftist FARC guerrilla group Tuesday of plotting to kill former president Alvaro Uribe, a vehement critic of peace talks with the rebels.
The accusation comes as the present Colombian government is engaged in delicate peace talks with the rebels, and it was not immediately clear what effect it would have on negotiations.
Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon said he had met with Uribe "to inform him of the detection of a plan by the FARC's Teofilo Forero Mobile Column to make an attempt on his life."
Pinzon said President Juan Manuel Santos ordered authorities "to guarantee the security and integrity of the former head of state and protect him, as well as to get those responsible for these threats."
Uribe told news hounds in Bogota he would be more careful about his movements in the future, but added: "You have to stay in the fight."
Uribe, now 61, waged a fierce war against the FARC during his presidency from 2002 to 2010, reducing Colombia's largest leftist rebel group by half and confining it to remote areas of the country.
After leaving office, he split bitterly with Santos, his former defense minister and successor, for trying to make peace with the rebel group and for mending relations with neighboring Venezuela.
Details of the plot against Uribe were not disclosed and it was not immediately apparent what impact they might have on the peace talks, which mark their first anniversary on November 19.
The president of the Congress, Juan Fernando Cristo, said the news was "very serious" but reserved judgment on the fallout.
"We have to await the details, what kind of attack or plot was involved. But if it is confirmed, we have to demand that the (FARC) negotiators in Havana explain it to the country," he said.
The Teofilo Forero Column is considered one of the FARC's most active units.
The Colombian army created a special task force November 1 to go after it and capture its leader, a guerrilla known as "El Paisa" who has a $700,000 bounty on his head.
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[Al Ahram] Fierce festivities broke out on Tuesday afternoon at a Nile Delta university, Al-Ahram's Arabic website reported, as political turmoil continues to spread to Egypt's campuses.
As violence flared at Mansoura University in the governorate of Daqahliya, a guard office on campus was set on fire, shop windows were smashed, and some parked vehicles in the vicinity were destroyed.
Police fired teargas at students who were holding a demonstration in support of ousted president Morsi after stones, fireworks and Molotov cocktails had been thrown. Dozens were maimed in the festivities.
Egyptian universities have become a hub of protests in support of Morsi after the Moslem Brüderbund was hit hard by a sustained crackdown campaign by security forces. Protests have repeatedly spiralled into violence while dozens of students have been jugged You have the right to remain silent... since the start of the new academic year in September.
Students at the prestigious Islamic Al-Azhar University raided the main administrative building almost two weeks ago, prompting police to enter campus for the first time since a 2010 court ruling barring interior ministry guards from university campuses.
Hundreds of people, mostly Islamists, have been killed since the military overthrew Morsi on 3 July amid massive protests calling on him to step down after a troubled year in power. Thousands of others, including big shots of Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund movement, have been rounded up and incarcerated. Please don't kill me!
Morsi himself is facing trial over charges of incitement to murder protesters and is now behind bars at a heavily fortified prison near the Mediterranean city of Alexandria.
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[Al Ahram] The mainstream rebel Free Syrian Army has laid out the conditions for its participation in Geneva peace talks, including the demand that a transitional authority be given full powers.
The international community has been seeking for months to convene a Syria peace conference in Geneva, but proposed dates have come and gone with no progress towards talks.
In a statement issued on Monday night, the FSA's military command high council welcomed "any political solution (to the conflict) based on clear objectives".
The so-called Geneva II conference, it said, should "announce precisely that its objective is the formation of a transitional national government with full powers".
It called for an "agreement in principle on the abdication of (President Bashar al-) Assad".
The Free Syrian Army also sought a "specific timetable" for negotiations under Chapter VII of the UN Charter which authorises use of force.
It demanded the formation of an "independent judiciary charged with bringing to justice the perpetrators of crimes against the Syrian people" and the release of prisoners.
In addition, it called for an end to "killings and bombings" carried out by the Assad regime and the "opening of humanitarian corridors" to areas besieged by government forces.
It also said that fighters from neighbouring countries that back Assad's forces should leave Syria, including those from Iran, Iraq and the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah.
And it said the opposition should be represented in Geneva by a "single delegation" made up of the National Coalition and the FSA's military council.
The announcement coincides with a similar declaration by the umbrella opposition National Coalition, which has threatened to spurn the conference to end Syria's 32-month conflict unless the FSA backs the initiative.
Opposition figures have long demanded that Assad should step down and have no role in any political transition, but the regime insists his departure is not up for discussion.
Rebels fighting Assad's forces are split between the FSA and guerrillas linked to Al-Qaeda.
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[Bangla Daily Star] At least 15 people including three copperswere maimed in a clash between Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... and police at East area of Bangabandhu bridge in Tangail this morning, on the third day of 84-hour hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... enforced by BNP-led 18-party alliance.
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[An Nahar] The White House warned U.S. politicians Tuesday that tightening sanctions on Iran could box America into a "march to war" and derail a diplomatic push to limit Tehran's atomic program.
The warning marked a significant toughening of President Barack Obama I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody... 's stance towards skeptical U.S. politicians as he prepares to resume high-stakes nuclear diplomacy with Iran later this month.
"The American people do not want a march to war," White House front man Jay Carney told news hounds.
Obama has vowed he will not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon, but last week intense negotiations between Iran and six world powers failed to reach an interim deal to halt its program.
This setback fueled skepticism in Congress about the administration's plans to freeze planned new economic sanctions.
Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... heads to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to make the case for continued diplomacy.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck in the tree roots and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber... the White House prepared the ground by warning that limiting Obama's scope to negotiate could leave him little option but a recourse to military force against Tehran's nuclear operations.
Key senators, some responding to Israel's denunciation of the proposed agreement, are framing plans to stiffen sanctions or to curtail Obama's power to ease current measures.
But the White House implicitly warned that new sanctions could embolden hardliners in Tehran who oppose talks, and force Obama to begin preparations for military action.
Carney said Americans "justifiably and understandably prefer a peaceful solution that prevents Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, and this agreement, if it's achieved, has the potential to do that.
"The alternative is military action," Carney warned.
"It is important to understand that if pursuing a resolution diplomatically is disallowed or ruled out, what options then do we and our allies have to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon?"
White House aides privately say that once war-weary Americans understand the alternative to a deal with Iran means another Middle East conflict, they will will warm to Obama's approach.
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#1
Unilateral milaction by Israel aside, Baby Assad + Iran are effec safe thru next Summer or EOY Fall 2014.
That means the ball is in CHINA's court + Ambassador Caroline Kennedy as per preventing China-versus-Japan, Everybody East-South Asia wide military conflict, which Perts believe could easily rise to the level of NUCLEAR WAR, ESPEC LIMITED NUCLEAR WAR OR LIMITED TACTICAL NUCLEAR WAR.
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > PLA DONGFENG 21D ANTI-CARRIER ASBM CAN COVER MOST OF WESTPAC [Western Pacific], BUT CANNOT YET HIT STRIKE US BASE ON GUAM.
* SAME > POLARIZED WORLD IS INEVITABLE: SCHOLAR [Yan Xuetong] SAYS TWO SUPERPOWERS WILL APPEAR IN THE WORLD IN YEAR 2023, OF WHICH CHINA WILL BE ONE + US LIKELY(???) TO BE THE OTHER.
* SAME > US WORRIES ABOUT REPORTS OF CHINA HEAVY/STRATEGIC BOMBER THAT CAN HIT GUAM + HAWAII.
Espec via much-improved LR ALCMS.
* SAME > EXPERTS: PLA SUBMARINES TO DEVELOP THE LONG-RANGE CAPABILITY TO TRANSPORT ELITE COMMANDO UNITS + EQUIPMENT AFTER 2015.
Reminds me of 1980', 1990's "ITS CALLED THE OSCAR-CLASS".
#3
Obama's still searching for a war he can start.
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Obama's toughening reminds me of Neville Chamberlain appeasement policy (Munich Agreement, 1938) with Adolph Hitler. The appeasement policy culminated in WWII.
But not to worry, John F. Kerry in his stentorian voice reassuringly said "we are neither blind nor stupid" (Lesser voices in the peanut gallery here expressed some doubt).
Meanwhile, Bibi Netanyahu, who lives in a very tough neighborhood, said the Iran deal is a very bad deal.
Many in the U.S. have been distracted by shiny objects as they try to sign up for "pig-in-a-poke" healthcare insurance policies.
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Sticking point appears to be Iran's heavy water reactor at Arak. The White House, along with the rest of the Euros (outside of the French) thinks it's something that can be dealt with later.
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Yeah, but Arak won't be able to make plutonium for a couple of years, so it can wait until after Champ's next election. Gotta get the Legacy thing goin'!
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John F. Kerry in his stentorian voice reassuringly said "we are neither blind nor stupid"
Methinks the esteemed Mr. Secretary has his eyes on 2016.
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...IMHO, W-war is coming - it's in the cards. The only questions are (1) When (I'm guessing within 10 years, more likely 5-to-7); and (2) How successful the Donks will be in finding a way to push it as a 'Pub responsibility...
[THECOLLEGEFIX] A public university in President Abraham Lincoln's home state of Illinois is adorned with a plaque that states Lincoln -- arguably the most famous and influential president in American history -- was a Democrat.
Lincoln was a Republican.
The plaque, located on a historic building that's part of Northeastern Illinois University in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
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One of the key tenets of Progressive Socialism is 'thou shalt bear false witness' to advance the cause.
Their pseudo intellectual explanation ignores -
"Republicanism is the ideology of governing a society or state as a republic, where the head of state is appointed by means other than heredity, often through elections." - wiki
#6
If "democrat" refers to his fondness for democracy, it could just as easily be "republican" for his fondness for the Republic.
So maybe it'd be easier to just leave the name, without any added adjectives.
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The hard part will be changing all the history books. I figure they'll avoid his political affiliation for awhile before making him a Dem in schoolbooks.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Police on Monday 
[LATIMES] Interior Secretary Sally Jewell says she will recommend that 
GAROWE, Somalia -- Political infighting continues at Villa Somalia Presidential Compound in Mogadishu after the Somali Federal Government Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon refused to step down, Garowe Online reports.
[Bangla Daily Star] At least 10 people, including a girl, 
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...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. 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. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as 
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[An Nahar] Libya's top jihadist group, blamed for deadly unrest that includes attacking a U.S. mission, said Tuesday there will only be security in the increasingly lawless country if Islamic law is introduced.
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[An Nahar] An Egyptian court ordered an end to a state of emergency Tuesday, two days ahead of schedule and three months after it was imposed during a crackdown on Islamist protesters.
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Shahid Orakzai, through a petition filed on Tuesday, pleaded that statements given by Syed Munawar Hassan and silence of the government on this count can jeopardise national security. The court was told that Munawar Hassan was among the three persons who were nominated as guarantors by a private militia which accepts the responsibility for attacks on armed forces with pride. The respondent, he said, paid tribute to this militia and has dubbed violence committed by it as acts meant for safeguarding the ideological and geographical frontiers of the country.
[Pak Daily Times] The 
[An Nahar] Colombia accused the leftist FARC guerrilla group Tuesday of plotting to kill former president Alvaro Uribe, a vehement critic of peace talks with the rebels.
[Bangla Daily Star] At least 15 people including three 
