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Government
President Obama is sinking in quicksand - PJMedia
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2013 16:30 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...a President with a failing legacy can be a very dangerous thing...
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 11/16/2013 18:49 Comments || Top||

#2  So they are finally starting to figure it out . . . .
Posted by: gorb || 11/16/2013 18:57 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: junkiron || 11/16/2013 22:10 Comments || Top||

#4  That's hilarious, junkiron!
Posted by: SteveS || 11/16/2013 22:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Harvard.
Posted by: Guillibaldo McCoy1948 || 11/16/2013 23:33 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Chicago Tribune calls for Obamacare repeal.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2013 14:46 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Even Mrs. Bobby's WaPo editorial page had three mocking Obamacare cartoons out of four. Usually they are all four bashing us right-wing loonies.

The fourth was suggesting Shrillary better watch out for newly-elected Sen. Martha Whatserface. [snigger - the dumb one]
Posted by: Bobby || 11/16/2013 15:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Obviously the Tribune is operated by Racists(tm) and Terrorists(tm)

/sarc off
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/16/2013 16:10 Comments || Top||

#3  ...This is the big one..! <LINK>
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 11/16/2013 16:27 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
WOWZA!!! The Pres Wants to Talk to Me Directly!
From an e-mail. I'm sure no more that 250 million of Champ's best friends got it.
Robert --

I want to cut through the noise and talk with you directly about where we're headed in the fight for change.

That's why I'm getting on the phone with OFA supporters this Monday, November 18th.

Will you join me?

I have just over three years left as president -- and there's a lot left on my to-do list.

That's why I want to talk with you. You're the ones putting in the time and effort to achieve real progress, and fighting to make the agenda Americans voted for last fall a reality.

I know we all care about what we can get done together these next few years, so let's talk about how to make it happen.

Make sure you join Monday's call:

http://my.barackobama.com/Join-the-Call-on-Monday

Thanks -- I can't wait to catch up.
BWAHAHAHAhahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaa [gasp, wheeze]
Barack

P.S. -- It's been a while since I've been able to do something like this -- I hope you can join the call.
I certainly hope it works better than the roll-out of Obamacare! And if it does, what does that tell us?
Posted by: Bobby || 11/16/2013 11:31 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  On-line Federal Communications Complaint (FCC) linkie.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2013 11:58 Comments || Top||

#2  So now he is pitching for OFA - Old Farmers Almanac ?

Posted by: Chesney Whelet1782 || 11/16/2013 12:02 Comments || Top||

#3  My media has betrayed me! Steiner nicht kommt! But there's still time for you to join me here in the bunker.
Posted by: Matt || 11/16/2013 12:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Obama For Amnesia
Ostriches For Autocracy

I thought they had to at least pretend to be non-partisan. This looks a bit...vulger. Too bad there isn't a government agency in charge of making sure PACs comply with tax law.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/16/2013 12:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Bobby you and the Mrs. are on all the good Mailing Lists. Sadly I get naught but a beggar letter from SpaceMan Nelson from time to time.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/16/2013 15:39 Comments || Top||

#6  Obama sucks so bad that the press will have to start calling him a Republican.
Posted by: Iblis || 11/16/2013 16:27 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Making corn-based ethanol badly hurting environment
[Aypee] Shocking! Bushitler is to blame as well? Somehow I knew it.
CORYDON, Iowa The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America's push for green energy: The brown gashes where rain has washed away the soil. The polluted streams that dump fertilizer into the water supply.

Even the cemetery that disappeared like an apparition into a cornfield.

It wasn't supposed to be this way.
Where have we heard that before ?
With the Iowa political caucuses on the horizon in 2007, presidential candidate Barack Obama made homegrown corn a centerpiece of his plan to slow global warming. And when President George W. Bush signed a law that year requiring oil companies to add billions of gallons of ethanol to their gasoline each year, Mr. Bush predicted it would make the country "stronger, cleaner and more secure."

But the ethanol era has proven far more damaging to the environment than politicians promised and much worse than the government admits today.
It's been a highly successful vote getter however.
As farmers rushed to find new places to plant corn, they wiped out millions of acres of conservation land, destroyed habitat and polluted water supplies, an Associated Press investigation found.

Five million acres of land set aside for conservation - more than Yellowstone, Everglades and Yosemite National Parks combined - have vanished on Mr. Obama's watch.
Yellowstone, Everglades, and Yosemite..... also owned by the gummit.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2013 11:20 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
How to Make Moonshine Automobile fuel in 21 Easy Steps using a Pressure Cooker Still

Posted by: Phusoger Prince of the Lichtensteiners7911 || 11/16/2013 13:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Green Energy Poo
Posted by: Dale || 11/16/2013 16:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Not to mention the millions worldwide who have been pushed to the brink of starvation due to rising food prices.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 11/16/2013 17:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Who pushed this PoS idea? I recall W suggesting using switchgrass. Do the libtards think it's been long enough that people will forget and they can pretend once again that they are cleaning up a mess made by Bushitler?
Posted by: gorb || 11/16/2013 18:56 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
If you like your monster, you can keep it
“Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel..."

-- The creature, to Victor Frankenstein; Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly

Like Frankenstein's creature, Obamacare woke up a few weeks ago, jumped off the slab, and started a chain of political devastation which can only end in its destruction.

Victor Frankenstein spent years laboring, largely in secret (“You have to assemble the monster to see what's in it.”) over his creation, but knew the moment it came to life that this horror would end in catastrophe.

And it did. Tragedy mounted on tragedy, resulting in the utter destruction of everything the brilliant, driven Dr. Frankenstein sought. The creature destroyed his beloved, his family, his friends, his sanity, his reputation, and finally, his life. It wasn't the beginning of a new species that would, as Frankenstein hoped, worship him as a god; it was destruction and envy and wrath coupled with superhuman strength.

The Democrats are now trapped inside the castle watching the line of torches slowly snake up toward Capitol Hill in the gathering darkness. They embraced Baron Von Obama's repeated lies about Obamacare and his inept handling of every aspect of its launch and all the terror of the Obamacare creature, and they're beginning to sense there is no escape.

They know that 5 million peasants have lost their health insurance. They know millions more will see steep premium increases during the 2014 election year. They know the promise of “You can keep your doctor” is as false as that about keeping one's health plan. They know yesterday's “transitional fix” humble-pie press conference won't slow the crash. They also know Barack Obama is nearly a spent force, his credibility and competence now in increasing doubt.

Just a few weeks ago, it was confidently declared that not only would Democrats recapture the House in 2014, but they would hold and increase their Senate majority. The GOP might as well pack up, because they would never hold power again. Obamacare would be the political wind beneath the wings of Democrats for a hundred years. “Of course Democrats would run on it!”

Odd that we're not hearing much of that triumphalism today. The monster of Obamacare isn't just dysfunctional, it's destructive. Americans know it.

Republicans should let the creature rage. Strategic patience takes discipline, because the natural instinct is to stop the monster from tearing down the village. I know you're repulsed by the idea of doing nothing. You feel for the millions of Americans losing their coverage. You want to do something, anything to put points on the board. Most of all, you all want repeal. You sense that it's close.

But I want something else, and so should you. I'd like repeal served in the ruins of the Obama Administration and the Democrats' 2014 hopes. I'd like the Democrats and the media to be stuck talking about this disaster for a year, instead of being able to move on to immigration or ENDA or whatever is bugging Sandra Fluke this week.

If you drag it out long enough, you can make 2010 look like a cakewalk. If you have patience and smarts, you'll see countless YouTube videos of screaming townspeople confronting their Democratic members: angry, pitchfork-and-torches videos of peasants who lost their coverage and who are saddled with enormous premium increases.

We can get there if we avoid doing two stupid things. I'm going to irk the Ted Cruz cadre, but another shutdown will wreck the best political advantage we have ever had against Barack Obama. Another shutdown is the one thing - arguably theonlything - that will revive the media frame of “Evil Republicans vs. St. Obama” effectively. The post hoc ergo propter hoc belief that the shutdown caused Obamacare's troubles is delusional. Obamacare was always going to be an in-your-face stinker that ordinary Americas understood, and for which there was no emotionally effective response by Obama. We just delayed the beatings by a couple of weeks.

Shutdown 2.0 is precisely what Obama needs now. If you pursue it in hopes of repeal, or to build a bigger email list, or for a 2016 primary strategy, then you're responsible for letting the Democrats slip the trap. Oh, and Harry Reid still has the votes to beat you on a shutdown.

We also need to avoid another strategic error: the irrational desire to legislate fixes for Obamacare. The Upton bill is done, and dead in the Senate, but if the GOP starts tweaking Obamacare, Republicans will be responsible for reanimating the monster.

Don't tweak. Offer them full repeal only. Over and over. Upton showed a crack in their coalition. The tension and fear is building. Build a plan to pressure vulnerable red state Democrats. Hang the stories of the victims of Obamacare around their necks. Make them bleed. Make them own it. Stretch out the pain until consumer and voter pressure does your work for you.

It's important to not allow them to make an easy, one-time vote and then run home saying, “I know we built the monster. I know, I was there in the lab. I know I popped champagne when it came to life. But now I'm with you, friends! I voted to fix it! I'm a Blue-Dog centrist! Damn, I wish Baron von Obama had done this better! No one could foresee the creature's murderous rampage!”

No issue has the potential to cause more damage to the Democrats in 2014 and beyond than Obamacare. Let the Democrats' monster rage.
Posted by: Beavis || 11/16/2013 10:30 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

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Posted by: Chesney Whelet1782 || 11/16/2013 12:06 Comments || Top||

#2  It's Obama's Monster, It'll kill him eventually.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 11/16/2013 13:13 Comments || Top||

#3  O' Lord Ima know now what this makes Hillary.


From here to comment #213 evaporated at 1700 CT in response to Shipman's sticky return key.

AoS
Posted by: Shipman || 11/16/2013 15:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Um ruh oh.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/16/2013 15:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Cleanup on aisles 2 to 213!
Posted by: Raj || 11/16/2013 15:52 Comments || Top||

#6  Ohhhhhh mannnnn. You're gonna get IT!
Posted by: Frank G || 11/16/2013 15:57 Comments || Top||

#7  Oh, Ship... you are SOOOOO busted!!!!!
Posted by: Dave D. || 11/16/2013 16:22 Comments || Top||

#8  "The Democrats are now trapped inside the castle watching the line of torches slowly snake up toward Capitol Hill in the gathering darkness."

...but the MSM will, undoubtedly, find a way to re-direct traffic over a cliff...
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 11/16/2013 16:29 Comments || Top||

#9  It's OK, Ship. Here, have some springrolls.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 11/16/2013 16:54 Comments || Top||

#10  Was thinking based on comment count that this would be the thread to end all Rantburg threads.
Posted by: Classical_Liberal || 11/16/2013 17:23 Comments || Top||

#11  you don't remember Aris in the .com days?
Posted by: Frank G || 11/16/2013 17:25 Comments || Top||

#12  I shall now commence a little clean up.

Fred, if I'm not out in two hours send TW with the lavender scent and Pappy with a bottle of booze. And Badanov with a .45 so I can finish it off...
Posted by: Steve White || 11/16/2013 17:39 Comments || Top||

#13  Posted by Shipman 2013-11-16 15:24|| 2013-11-16 15:24||

Let the record show, Shipman was caught in the "O' Lord, I may know now, what this makes Hillary" the shock of this Epiphany or Theophany (Ancient Greek (ἡ) ÈåïöÜíåéá, Ôheophaneia meaning "vision of God",literally made his index finger catatonic.

Yes Shipman's epiphany/visualized

Posted by: Phusoger Prince of the Lichtensteiners7911 || 11/16/2013 17:48 Comments || Top||

#14  Maybe Ship was just doing practice sessions from the Mel Tillis Typppp ing Schoo oo oool l
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 11/16/2013 20:11 Comments || Top||

#15  "That's ObamaSTEEN!"
Posted by: Perfesser || 11/16/2013 21:04 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
UnitedHealth Drops Thousands of Doctors from Insurance Plans
UnitedHealth Group dropped thousands of doctors from its networks in recent weeks, leaving many elderly patients unsure whether they need to switch plans to continue seeing their doctors, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

The insurer said in October that underfunding of Medicare Advantage plans for the elderly could not be fully offset by the company's other healthcare business. The company also reported spending more healthcare premiums on medical claims in the third quarter, due mainly to government cuts to payments for Medicare Advantage services.
1. AARP Supports ObamaCare
2. ObamaCare cuts Medicare Senior Advantage Secondary Insurance Money
3. UnitedHealth cuts Medicare Senior Advantage Doctors
4. AARP sells more expensive UnitedHealth Medicare Secondary Insurance plans
5. AARP makes $1 Billion

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 11/16/2013 10:07 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Right Wing propaganda. Don't believe your lying eyes, listen to A. Barry Rand, CEO of AARP. No worries, it's all ready to GO !
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2013 11:48 Comments || Top||

#2  I have been throwing AARP post office delivered propaganda away for years. They can FOAD.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/16/2013 14:03 Comments || Top||

#3  You know,
Those Government Suppliments will dry up whenever "They" Want.

Don't be fooled.

Then YOU pay, and a hell of a lot more than you wanted to.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 11/16/2013 14:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Alaska Paul, me too. On both thoughts.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 11/16/2013 14:18 Comments || Top||

#5  ..instead of throwing away AARP j-mail, wrap it around a brick and mark it "Return To Sender." They have to pay return postage...
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 11/16/2013 19:03 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Kerry to Senators: Ignore what Israelis are telling you about Iran
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 11/16/2013 08:37 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Shades of Jan Karski.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2013 12:24 Comments || Top||

#2  After all, they live in the region, and they deal with those Arabs daily, (example, the Homemade Missiles they have to defend against)

So Don't listen, you Might learn, and we can't have that now.

Just listen to the wanna be president, Jawn Karry.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 11/16/2013 14:09 Comments || Top||

#3  what are a few Jews when you have a Legacy™ to build, right, John?
Posted by: Frank G || 11/16/2013 14:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Me to Senators: Ignore what John Kerry is telling you about Iran.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 11/16/2013 14:24 Comments || Top||

#5  First: Thank you Besoeker for the Link to Jan Karski. This is never taught to students here.

Second: It is too bad that people don't know about how that many of the 100 mm diameter sewer pipes given to Palestinians by Israel were fabricated by Palestinians in Gaza into missiles and shot at Sderot.

Kerry is showing what a fool and a tool he is to the world. Keep talking, Jawhn. Dig yourself a hole and sit in it. Best, SoS, evah!
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/16/2013 14:32 Comments || Top||

#6  #5 First: Thank you Besoeker for the Link to Jan Karski. This is never taught to students here.

Yes, FDR was canonized just like the Champ will be. Had he lived, FDR would have been 131 this past January and still POTUS.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2013 14:39 Comments || Top||

#7  But he didn't live, he bleed to death thru his ears. So have faith in justice.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/16/2013 15:19 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Poll: Most Israelis Believe IDF Can Strike Iran On Its Own
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 11/16/2013 08:23 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:


Government
If schadenfreude had calorie, I'd weigh 300 pounds

As Obamacare continues its spectacular public impersonation of the LZ Hindenburg, dropping flaming wreckage across the politico-economic landscape, I am still just utterly gobsmacked at the dazed bafflement on the face of the true believers in government.

"How could this be going so spectacularly wrong?" goes the hand-wringing lament.

How could it not? Seriously! You think a bunch of people can sit down and... Lux Fiat! ...re-write the rules for how 15% of the economy works in one fell swoop, in what amounts to a giant bong-fueled bull session, and have nothing go wrong? You might as well try to change the spark plugs on your car while the engine's running.

Then again, these are people who think that the efficiency of internal combustion engines or the amount of water it takes to carry off a turd are governed by legislative magic and not the laws of physics.

The naive credulity these people have towards the power of government, their blind faith that they can tamper with the machinery without it hurting anybody, differs in kind nor quality not one lick from the most snake-handlin' Pentecostal's faith that Jesus will keep the serpent from biting.

(As an aside, I'll note that stuff like this happens in microcosm all the time, when government decides to meddle with one industry or another, but rarely does it meddle on such high profile with an economic sector that affects everybody all at once, and on such short notice, to boot.

This isn't trying to gradually phase out gas guzzlers over ten years; this is making all cars that don't get >30MPG illegal to drive in January. But don't worry! If your cars don't meet the standard, the government will have a new car ready for you on the 1st. Promise! They've almost got the car factory finished!)
Posted by: Beavis || 11/16/2013 08:10 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Chesney Whelet1782 || 11/16/2013 12:17 Comments || Top||

#2  You know, copy-pasting the entire article is tacky as hell.
Posted by: Ho Chi Poodle4334 || 11/16/2013 12:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Yeah, no one's ever done that before this article...
Posted by: Raj || 11/16/2013 12:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Without fail every news article posted by the left wing media blames the failure of the ACA on a single disfunctional web site.

To suggest that thousands of the best IT professionals in this country could not fix a failed web site in just a matter of days is ridicules.

What the ACA has is a gigantic lumbering, stumbling, morphing, slobbering example of a failed business model.

The management module appears to be layer upon layer upon layer of other content management systems of mind–boggling complexity.

The main database system is reported to be a virtual myriad of sub-database systems all drawing from and interacting with the database systems of the IRS, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Judicial, Welfare, insurance, and who knows how many other private or governmental entitys.

The whole priority of repair to the Obamacare system must absolutely be to prevent contamination of the other normally functioning government systems. Try to imagine the chaos that would ensue if the ACA system caused the entire IRS database system to collapse.

The purpose of the Obamacare web site is simply to interact with the viewers and display information sent to or retrieved from the massive Obamacare system itself.

To simply suggest that Obama has a web site problem is probably the understatement of the century.
Posted by: junkiron || 11/16/2013 18:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Ladies and Gentlemen, we have created a monster.
frankenstein photo: frankenstein frankenstein.jpg
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/16/2013 19:39 Comments || Top||

#6  Now that is an insult to Frankenstein:

1) He wasn't intended to become a monster. Obamacare was designed from top to bottom to fail and cause as much damage to the healthcare system as possible.

2) Frankenstein is much more caring. Just ask that old fiddler. Obumblecare is much more harsh and cruel. Just ask that Cancer victim who lost her insurance.

3) Frankenstein can be killed. The jury's still out on Obumblecare.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/16/2013 22:11 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
The demise of Pax Americana
By CAROLINE B. GLICK

[Jpost] What happened in Geneva last week was the most significant international event since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The collapse of the Soviet Union signaled the rise of the United States as the sole global superpower. The developments in the six-party nuclear talks with Iran in Geneva last week signaled the end of American world leadership.

Global leadership is based on two things -- power and credibility. The United States remains the most powerful actor in the world. But last week, American credibility was shattered.

...Any US ally is now on notice that US promises -- even if based on US interests -- are not reliable. American commitments can expire the next time America elects a radical to the White House.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/16/2013 06:53 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Han Solo: You said you wanted to be around when I made a mistake, well, this could be it, sweetheart.
Princess Leia: I take it back.


This is for all the two bit world politicians who sat back to avoid the stain of association with America they depended upon for their security and economy while playing cheap local politics to appease their own frothing constituents whose agitation was financed and aided by Moscow for a couple generations. Yankee Go Home indeed. See you all.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/16/2013 7:22 Comments || Top||

#2  I guess Obama has another convert.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/16/2013 8:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Prepare the Mobile Fleet to protect the homeland.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/16/2013 9:02 Comments || Top||

#4  I don't believe the USS Alabama is seaworthy, but perhaps the guns could be restored to working condition?
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/16/2013 10:55 Comments || Top||

#5  But last week, American credibility was shattered.

All part of the fundamental transformation, move along, nothing to see here.
Posted by: Secret Asian Man || 11/16/2013 11:48 Comments || Top||

#6  Comment:
I don't believe the USS Alabama is seaworthy, but perhaps the guns could be restored to working condition?

The Guns work, I suppose shore power could be used.
What are you going to aim them at? (Remember it must be less than 15 miles away) And you don't get a second shot, either you'll sink the ship, or it'll be destroyed. (She rests on the bottom now, no dodging)

And dodging is what she's designed for.
Shoot and move.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 11/16/2013 13:38 Comments || Top||

#7  Glenmore: I speak of Dai-ichi KōKū Kantai the Japanese carrier strike force.

Bad Boys.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/16/2013 15:34 Comments || Top||

#8  But Shipman, though the Alabama isn't floating anymore, it is kind of unsinkable too. And while no longer mobile, it is in Mobile. And it's well-located to defend Mobile from attack from the sea if those 16" guns wouldn't blow up when fired.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/16/2013 18:22 Comments || Top||

#9 
USS ALABAMA (BB60) in Mobile Alabama

Posted by: Phusoger Prince of the Lichtensteiners7911 || 11/16/2013 18:30 Comments || Top||

#10  Wait wait wait, let me get this straight:
That is the immobile Alabama in Mobile, Alabama?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/16/2013 21:15 Comments || Top||

#11  Yep, you got that right, SIFF.

If I remember correctly there are some immobile ground pounding bombers that are not air worthy there in Mobile, Alabama too.
Posted by: BA || 11/16/2013 21:27 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
First aid flights arrive in Puntland
GAROWE, Somalia Nov.15, 2013 (Garowe Online)-First planes carrying humanitarian aid to survivors of a severe cyclonic storm that hit Somalia’s northeastern region of Puntland at the weekend landed at an airport in Puntland capital of Garowe on Friday, Garowe Online reports.

The chartered Ethiopian and Djiboutian planes, with food and medicines were received by Puntland President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole before the Disaster Management and Rescue Committee dispatched the aid to the flood-hit areas.

President Farole thanked the neighbouring countries for standing with the Somali people at this difficult time and appealed for more help as hundreds of people are stranded in remote areas where the rescue teams can only reach by air.

“We await other humanitarian assistances from the international aid agencies and the government is committed to distributing all aids on the ground,” added Farole.
I'm sure the U.N., Arab League and Live Aid are all over this...
The president warned of water-borne diseases and stressed the need for precautionary measures to prevent the health problems ahead.

Asmalesh Walda-Mirad, Head of the Ethiopia’s Consulate General Office in Puntland said “Ethiopian government is very delighted to help those who are in need” noting that other Ethiopian aid flight will land in Puntland tomorrow.

On his side, Antonia Michele a Djiboutian representatives whose government loaded plane with 30 tonnes of food and medicine pledged more assistance from Djibouti for the cyclone-affected people and sent his condolences to the families of the victims.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/16/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Ashura observed in Pakistan, cellphone services resumption begins
[Dawn] Cellphone services began resumption on Friday in Multan, Gilgit, Quetta, 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...
, 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.
, Lahore and various other areas of the country after Ashura was observed in most cities and small towns across the country.

The main procession in Karachi ended on Friday. Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah visited and reviewed the security arrangements of the final procession and lauded the efforts of Sindh Police and Rangers for maintaining the law and order situation.

Moreover, the provincial government of Sindh extended for two days the province wide ban imposed on riding double.

The Ashura processions also concluded in other cities of the country.

Authorities have also decided that cellphone services would remain suspended in Rawalpindi until Sunday keeping in view the tense situation prevailing in the city.
Posted by: Fred || 11/16/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Watchdog Adopts Syria Chemical Arsenal Destruction Plan
[An Nahar] The world's chemical watchdog on Friday adopted a final roadmap for ridding Syria of its arsenal by mid-2014, hours before a deadline expired, a front man said.

"The plan is adopted," Christian Chartier, a front man for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), told Agence La Belle France Presse after a meeting of its 41-member Executive Council in The Hague.

Friday was the deadline for the OPCW to agree "destruction milestones" for the more than 1,000 tonnes of dangerous chemicals in Syria, according to the terms of a U.S.-Russian deal that headed off U.S. military strikes on Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now...
's regime.

The talks at OPCW headquarters in The Hague broke off twice before agreement was reached, as delegates thrashed out the final draft.

A team of U.N.-OPCW inspectors has been on the ground since October checking Syria's weapons and facilities.

Destruction of declared chemical weapons production facilities was completed last month and all chemicals and precursors placed under seal, the OPCW said last month ahead of a November 1 deadline backed by a U.N. Security Council resolution.

Inspectors are working "in an active war zone, in an extreme security situation," Sigrid Kaag, the joint OPCW-U.N. mission coordinator, told Friday's OPCW meeting.
Posted by: Fred || 11/16/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Southeast Asia
Roadside bomb kills two policemen in southern Thailand
Two police officers were killed and another seriously wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in Narathiwat province yesterday evening. The body of Pol L/C Vorawut Wongjarut was found near the blast scene. Two other officers sustained serious wounds. One of them was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.

The three officers had been assigned to escort teachers to school. They were traveling in a pickup truck on their way back to Rangae police station when the roadside bomb was detonated.

Meanwhile, three military rangers providing security for teachers were wounded in a bomb explosion on a road in Pattani province yesterday afternoon. Witnesses said six rangers were on foot patrol when the bomb went off.

In another development, Thailand's Supreme Court yesterday upheld a life sentence given to a key figure in a southern separatist movement who was convicted of rebellion for raiding and stealing weapons froma military camp in 2004. Rosdi Mayama was a member of the separatist Barisan Revolusi Nasional group. He was charged with rebellion, using force in the cause of separatism, procuring weapons, assault, robbery and receiving stolen items.

Prosecutors in 2008 accused him of leading the separatist group that attempted to form an independent state of Patani or Patani Darussalam. He was originally given the death sentence in 2009, which was later commuted to life in prison due to his cooperation during the investigation.
Posted by: ryuge || 11/16/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Home Front: Politix
Is Obama Done?
"Worship has turned to anger for some. No one likes to be duped by a charlatan."

...heh...
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 11/16/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: junkiron || 11/16/2013 1:00 Comments || Top||

#2  In his article Monty Pelerin cites the lead paragraph from an excellent and interesting article By Fouad Ajami that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Nov. 14, 2013

Rule by personal charisma has met its proper fate. The spell has been broken, and the magician stands exposed. We need no pollsters to tell us of the loss of faith in Mr. Obama’s policies—and, more significantly, in the man himself. Charisma is like that. Crowds come together and they project their needs onto an imagined redeemer. The redeemer leaves the crowd to its imagination: For as long as the charismatic moment lasts—a year, an era—the redeemer is above and beyond judgment. He glides through crises, he knits together groups of varied, often clashing, interests. Always there is that magical moment, and its beauty, as a reference point.

For those who may be interested in reading the entire article the link is here:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304243904579196440800552408?mod=trending_now_2
Posted by: junkiron || 11/16/2013 1:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Ye all sing a different song when the 22nd amendment is repealed by executive degree.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/16/2013 4:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Well g(r)rom, he's certainly proven he doesn't need the Congress for a damn thing now hasn't he? I'd put nothing beyond this bugger and his shadow communist cadre. It's those appointed, sitting behind the curtains that I fear.

I just hope we can survive the next 3 years without a major regional conflict or national calamity. Given the opportunity, he would definitely declare himself the king. I have little doubt about that.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2013 5:08 Comments || Top||

#5  I think he will outlaw boy's bikes.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/16/2013 9:00 Comments || Top||

#6  When enough Donks think its far better he take one for the team rather than they do. He's provided enough material to allow the Donks to be rid of him when they come to that conclusion. Remember they got Capone on income tax evasion rather than racketeering.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/16/2013 10:18 Comments || Top||

#7  No, he is not done yet...



the Dems have not yet flushed.
Posted by: Chesney Whelet1782 || 11/16/2013 11:35 Comments || Top||

#8  In my leadership classes, yes they teach leadership in Doctoral programs now, we had a lengthy reading about charismatic leaders.

Most of them are toxic as hell and are the worst form of narcissists on the planet, turning from caring and inspirational to mean spirited, evil, and vindictive in the snap of a finger.

Given that, I would love to be a bug on the wall of a cabinet meeting as this barking dog mad narcissist goes ape-shit about the ACA.

Somewhere in all of this is a moral.

First never write legislation more than 200 pages long nor one that requires three years to write the implementing regulations.

Second require everyone to read the damn thing before it is even brought to the floor.

Third, never propose legislation that is intended to help the middle class which increases taxes on the middle class.

Lastly, never let the social engineers write implementing regulations more stringent than the law.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 11/16/2013 12:29 Comments || Top||

#9  Rule Second point five: After legislators read the proposals, give them a detailed test on its contents to verify their reading comprehension. Them that fails, can't vote on it.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/16/2013 12:51 Comments || Top||

#10  Anguper, the problem with doing that is that Congress would never pass any laws, other than to declare National Rutabaga Day.

Actually, that might be a good thing.

It also might smoke out some congresscritters who are too stupid to understand anything that they read.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 11/16/2013 13:10 Comments || Top||

#11  Whether he stays or goes, the damage he has done is everlasting.

The Democrats have destroyed the United States of America - We won the lengthy battle with the Soviet Union, then lost the war.

Congrats, Demos. Now enjoy the misery that you have wrought.

Orion
Posted by: Orion || 11/16/2013 13:40 Comments || Top||

#12  You want my ammo,? Come and get it.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 11/16/2013 13:47 Comments || Top||

#13  Yeah, but they feel. Our leftist trolls feel. We rational people don't. That's what makes them better! [snort]
Posted by: Bobby || 11/16/2013 13:57 Comments || Top||

#14  ...This will make you feel better 'soeker /sarc: <LINK>
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 11/16/2013 15:50 Comments || Top||

#15  Whether or not he is done personally, the cause will move forward at an ever increasing pace. I fear Orion is correct.
Posted by: Lowspark || 11/16/2013 16:25 Comments || Top||

#16  Its bad enough to have lived through the last years of this administration and his party calling me a racist, extremist, terrorist, tea bagger and other demeaning names. To live through a president and wife that hold the highest post in "Serving" our nation and they wont even put their hands over their hearts during our national anthem. He has destroyed our economy, destroyed our health care system, destroyed our foreign relations with all of our allies. He has supported the very people who killed 3,000 Americans on 9/11, and he is completely unapologetic for it. He has the charisma of Adolph Hitler and he is doing exactly what his charismatic ass set out to do, bring our nation down to that of a second or third world standing. The train called America is sliding off its rails. It can be fixed but first we have to rid Washington of his blind followers and calculating coconspirators.
Now we will have to live through the next two years of the democrats power struggle and who will lead them for the next ten years.
Oh, the Tea Party said the health care plan would screw America, they tried their very best to stop it. They were vilified by both parties. But in the end, the Tea Party was right! They are patriots willing to suffer attacks and slanders in an effort to keep America on the rails. In the end both the republicans and democrats let America down. Every dollar we waste trying to fix what has been done is a dollar of shame against these two parties. Shame on them, every last one!
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/16/2013 17:21 Comments || Top||

#17  I fear he is not done yet. Other programs with his strong support: Employment Non-discrimination Act, Agenda 21, executive order setting up the new Climate Change Task Force, Common Core, Trans Pacific Partnership, Islamic infiltration of the government, secret deals with Iran, NSA privacy abuse, regulation and elimination of ammunition production, more executive orders on gun control, and Obama’s purge of the officer corps.
Posted by: SR-71 || 11/16/2013 18:29 Comments || Top||

#18  Stop it SR71!!!! My head will explode! I can only take the traitor one crime at a time! So lets do a lottery on what is next. Not immigration, probably more Islam and race baiting. Working up the fervor for riots.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/16/2013 19:02 Comments || Top||

#19  I can only take the traitor one crime at a time!

That is what they are depending on.
Posted by: SR-71 || 11/16/2013 20:28 Comments || Top||

#20  I would love to be a bug on the wall of a cabinet meeting as this barking dog mad narcissist goes ape-shit about the ACA.

I suspect if you have seen any of the Downfall parodies on the Interwebs (or worked at a startup), you know exactly what goes on.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/16/2013 21:48 Comments || Top||

#21  Not sure about done, but I bet he could use a toke.
Posted by: Guillibaldo McCoy1948 || 11/16/2013 23:37 Comments || Top||


Dozens of Democrats Vote for U.S. House Bill Cutting 'Obamacare'
[An Nahar] Several Democrats defected Friday to vote for legislation that would gut significant portions of the new U.S. health care law, the strongest sign yet of party anger over "Obamacare."

Even if the Democrat-run Senate took up the House measure, the White House has already said President Barack Obama
I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go...
would veto it if it reaches his desk.

But the broad bipartisan vote, even if just a political messaging bill, marked a blow to a president under heavy fire for his largely discredited pledge that all Americans who liked their health plans could keep them.

Added to that is the flawed rollout of the HealthCare.gov website through which millions of Americans are expected to sign up for insurance.

"Today, the House made a big, bipartisan statement about the need to make things right," Speaker John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner
... the occasionally weepy leader of House Republicans...
said in a statement.

"The Keep Your Health Plan Act represents an important step toward providing relief to those who have lost their plans and face much higher premiums, but the real solution is to scrap the president's fundamentally-flawed health care law" altogether, he added.

The controversial measure, which passed 261-157, addresses what has emerged as a major sticking point in the law known as "Obamacare" -- millions being notified that the insurance plans they purchased on the open individual market are being cancelled, apparently because the coverage is sub-standard.

The bill is different from the "fix" proposed by Obama Thursday, which would allow insurers to keep offering such coverage only to those consumers who already are enrolled in the insurance in question.

New consumers would be required to obtain insurance that meets the law's standards. The House measure, however, opens the sub-standard plans to anyone.

Democrat Nick Rahall broke ranks and voted for the bill, saying Americans were disgusted with the "very bad, rotten" rollout of Obamacare.

House and Senate Democrats are offering several fixes of their own, suggesting the unity among Obama and members of his party has begun to fray.

But Rahall downplayed any tension between Obama and congressional members of his party.

"I don't think he should see it as a growing rift between the two but rather as a need to call everybody together to fix the problem," Rahall told news hounds.

Senator Mary Landrieu, also a Democrat, is proposing a "permanent" solution that allows consumers with sub-standard plans to keep them for as long as they wish.

But she envisioned that under her bill, those Americans would gradually shift to the more comprehensive plans, whereas the House bill introduced by Republican Fred Upton would essentially kill Obamacare.

House Democratic leader Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace...
said Upton's bill was a "Trojan horse" that would "essentially pull the plug on the Affordable Care Act."
Posted by: Fred || 11/16/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  39 dems voted with Upton.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2013 5:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Self preservation is the first rule.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/16/2013 7:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Democrat Nick Rahall broke ranks and voted for the bill, saying Americans were disgusted with the "very bad, rotten" rollout of Obamacare

It's NOT the rollout that's rotten, it's the whole thing!!!!

If the lame brains in the Democrat party had actually READ the damn thing they would have seen/smelled that this was totally rotten from day 1.

A pile of putrefaction this evil had a stench that only the most foul and vile of people could not see/smell. If there is any justice in the universe every Democrat that voted for this will be stricken with shingles, plague, gout, abcessed teeth and worms for the rest of their miserable stinking lives.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/16/2013 10:36 Comments || Top||

#4  AlanC, you forgot piles.
Posted by: Chesney Whelet1782 || 11/16/2013 11:13 Comments || Top||

#5  Site Budget: $292,000.000.00 ($292 Million)

Number of Developers: 10

Company Ties: Owners had Ties To Moochelle Obama.

Summary: Pockets Lined with piles of cash. Typical Obama scam.
Posted by: Guillibaldo McCoy1948 || 11/16/2013 13:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Company Ties: Owners had Ties To Moochelle Obama.

Still nothing on that from the MSM or even Fox. She's been keeping a rather low profile of late however.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2013 14:31 Comments || Top||

#7  ...not the best strategy for the 'pubs, unless they were looking for a way to build "goodwill" with the Dems. If so, good luck with that (lookin' at you McCain, Graham, McConnell, etc.)....
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 11/16/2013 16:36 Comments || Top||

#8  If the lame brains in the Democrat party had actually READ the damn thing they would have seen/smelled that this was totally rotten from day 1.

Now, you remember San Fran Nan said they had to pass it before they could read it. So they passed it. Then they've read it. Or maybe they didn't. Maybe they just waited for the implementation in which Obama could no longer hide the truth...could no longer cover up the stench. Now they're having regrets.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/16/2013 18:21 Comments || Top||

#9  ...most of the literature seems to indicate when people sale their souls like that, they too have regrets later.
Posted by: Procopiu2k || 11/16/2013 20:58 Comments || Top||

#10  I dunno, guyz - don't you have to have a soul before you can sell it?
Posted by: Barbara || 11/16/2013 21:01 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iranian ICBM threat to U.S. a distant prospect, think tank says
...a "Think Tank." Now I feel better...
"How distant a prospect?"
"About eight thousand nautical miles."
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 11/16/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hell, load it on a boat and bring it in about 12 miles off New Jersey and launch,

Think. ( like a nutjob Moslem )
Posted by: Spereting Tingle4064 || 11/16/2013 8:05 Comments || Top||

#2  #1 Hell, load it on a boat and bring it in about 12 miles off New Jersey and launch,

Think. ( like a nutjob Moslem )


...ya' mean like these...?: <LINK>

Posted by: Uncle Phester || 11/16/2013 8:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Don't even have to launch. Hijack a container ship and sail it into New York Harbor or San Francisco Bay.

Stick it in a truck in Mexico and simply drive it across our wide open southern border right into downtown LA or Houston.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/16/2013 8:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Damn, why have we spent so much money on SLBMs, we need to find what kinda rate DLH or FedEx will charge to deliver the end of the world to specific cities in the Eurasian land mass. Must be inside delivery, will prepay freight of course.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/16/2013 8:53 Comments || Top||

#5  IIRC, Bill Gertz wrote about this in 2000 in his book, The China Threat. He talked about the Chinese company Hutchison Wampoa getting contracts for port management at both ends of the Panama Canal. Perfect place for storing missiles in 40 ft ocean containers to be used against the US.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/16/2013 16:54 Comments || Top||

#6  No effn way, Jumpin' Joe Biden told me that this is impossible.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/16/2013 18:37 Comments || Top||

#7  Is this so-called think tank thinking about the Norks?
Posted by: gorb || 11/16/2013 18:51 Comments || Top||

#8  Same think tank who were consulted for the 2007 Intelligence Estimate?
Posted by: mossomo || 11/16/2013 20:01 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Oprah: Americans Disrespect Obama Because He Is Black
Breitbart] Look out! Here comes the card. Asking Oprah to weigh in, they really are desperate.
Oprah will make weight, easy.
Fred Reed had the best description of her: "five hundred pounds of bear liver in a two hundred pound bag."
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sorry Opera - your race card is overdrawn.

I disrespect Obumbles because he is a liar, a socialist, and wanna-be dictator.

I disrespect you because you are a racist - just like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/16/2013 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  ...and a beach ball.
Posted by: Raj || 11/16/2013 0:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Ah, Billionaire Black Woman lecturing about racist America. Let's all listen...
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/16/2013 2:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Americans elected Obama because he's black. Found out it was a mistake. Now, they're founding out it isn't a mistake they can easily correct.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/16/2013 4:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Sorry, it's not about color. This guy is a combination of the 'Shamwow Man' and Eddie Haskell. Six months or so of that might be entertaining to some, but 5 years is phueching over the top.

Put down the dagga, klik'r, and Golf Digest and get your indolent arse to work! By the way, fire every bastid on your SS detail and bring in contractors from Blackwater or Blue Mountain.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2013 5:02 Comments || Top||

#6  A Black beachball zillionaire. It must be hard. But "only in America."
Posted by: Spereting Tingle4064 || 11/16/2013 6:51 Comments || Top||

#7  Always the victim.Its never your fault.
Posted by: Ulusoth Shereter7931 || 11/16/2013 7:06 Comments || Top||

#8  She sits through the classes but learns nothing again and again. She needs to look into her own blind racism before projecting it on others.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/16/2013 7:56 Comments || Top||

#9  Her theory might hold some potential validity, if not for the collective admiration and respect many of us have for gifted Americans such as Thomas, West, Carson, Rice, Sowell, Parker, Keyes, and Cain, to name a few.

Add to that list 'Charles' the fellow who runs my favorite buffet, the dentist that treated me in Kuwait, and my last anesthesiologist.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2013 8:15 Comments || Top||

#10  ...when black libs "make it," it is despite racism. When blacks don't "make it," it is because of racism. It becomes tiresome...

Posted by: Uncle Phester || 11/16/2013 8:41 Comments || Top||

#11  I hate his white half equally
Posted by: Frank G || 11/16/2013 9:52 Comments || Top||

#12  Well Frank, at least you have one thing in common with Obama.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2013 9:54 Comments || Top||

#13  Bes - I believe you have moved into the lead for "Snark o' the Day".

Nicely played.
Posted by: GORT || 11/16/2013 10:26 Comments || Top||

#14  saw a quote in the instapundit comments this am; words to the effect:

"Obama is an affirmative-action hire and they Are NEVER supposed to be held accountable because they are symbolic. His job description is: "First Black President", period. To criticize him is therefor racist by definition."
Posted by: Bugs Tingle7560 || 11/16/2013 12:48 Comments || Top||

#15  I watched part of the video (Can't stand Oshit Windbag)

It sounds suspiciously like Obama.
Lie
Worm their way in
Gain your trust, etcetera.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 11/16/2013 13:45 Comments || Top||

#16  ...Newsbusters analysis... <LINK>
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 11/16/2013 15:55 Comments || Top||

#17  Sorry Harpo, I disrespect Obama for the same reason I disrespect you, Sean Penn, Jenny McCarthy, Nancy Pelosi, and a host of others: Because you are f'ing morons who are wrecking the country with their stupidity and narcissism.
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/16/2013 18:49 Comments || Top||

#18  I think Bugs nailed it. He's a figurehead symbolic figure. The real power is held by ValJar and his handlers...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/16/2013 22:03 Comments || Top||

#19  Thought he was also white (mom).
Posted by: Guillibaldo McCoy1948 || 11/16/2013 23:34 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Nigerian Troops Claim Nine Boko Haram Members Waxed
[An Nahar] Nigerian troops said Friday they had killed nine suspected members of Islamist terrorist group 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...
in a shootout in the country's northeast.

"In a midnight encounter with Boko Haram bully boys, troops of the 7 division Nigerian Army killed nine Boko Haram Death Eaters while others fled with various degrees of injuries," army front man Colonel Muhammad Dole said in a statement.

One soldier was maimed late Thursday in the festivities in Damboa area of Borno state, he said.

"During the encounter, arms and ammunitions were recovered and two pick-up vehicles were destroyed."

His claim could not be independently verified.

He said that troops had intensified patrols inside the forest areas of Damboa and nearby Gwoza with a view to preventing further attacks by the bully boys.

The United States designated Boko Haram and an offshoot known as Ansaru as terror groups on Wednesday following four years of horrific attacks that have claimed thousands of lives.

On Friday the group said it was holding a French priest kidnapped in northern Cameroon.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio wondered: Where the hell was Chumbaloni? And where was his $600?...
the Nigerian government said Friday in a statement by the foreign affairs ministry in Abuja that the United States' designation of Boko Haram and Ansaru as foreign terrorist organizations would strengthen ties between the two nations.

"It will strengthen cooperation between Nigeria and the United States in the fight against international terror, enhance the capacity and legal basis for concerted actions against both groups," the statement said.

The designation would also "enable the two countries to work more closely towards reducing the capability and capacity of the groups to unleash terror," it added.
Posted by: Fred || 11/16/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram


Africa Horn
Ethiopian police crackdown on anti-Saudi protest
Ethiopian police have used force to disperse hundreds of people protesting against targeted attacks on Ethiopians in Saudi Arabia.

Police units Friday blocked roads to prevent the protest at Saudi Arabia Embassy from growing. Some two dozen people were detained. The police forced some journalists to delete photos. The government’s spokesman, Shimelis Kemal, wasn’t immediately available for comment.

One protester, Asfaw Michael, who was beaten, said he didn’t understand why Ethiopia wanted to shield Saudi Arabia from the protest.

Many foreign workers in Saudi Arabia are fleeing or are under arrest amid a crackdown on the kingdom’s 9 million migrant laborers. Close to 500 Ethiopians have been repatriated. Last weekend, Saudi residents fought with Ethiopians. Video emerged of a crowd dragging an Ethiopian from his house and beating him.
He deserved it, pro'ly looked funny to a member of the Master Race™...
Posted by: Steve White || 11/16/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hizbullah Warns Sunni Allies in Tripoli from New Wave of Assassinations
[An Nahar] Hizbullah warned its allies 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...
from a new wave of liquidations targeting them, the Kuwaiti al-Seyassah newspaper reported on Friday.

According to the newspaper, Hizbullah urged all Sunni leaders, who are close to the party, to take all the necessary precautions after receiving information on a scheme to assassinate them.

The report comes in light of the liquidation of pro-Hizbullah Sunni Sheikh Saadeddine Ghiyye in the head.

On Tuesday, two masked men on a cycle of violence shot Islamic Action Front
...Jordan's branch of the Moslem Brüderbund...
official Ghiyyeh in Tripoli's al-Bahsa area.

Hizbullah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
considered the killing "an attack against the resistance and its supporters."

Ghiyyeh was close to Sheikh Hashem Minkara, the head of the Islamic Tawhid Movement, who is an ally of the regime of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...

However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel ruled out on Wednesday that the murder of a Ghiyyeh would lead to a new round of liquidations in Leb.
Posted by: Fred || 11/16/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  Giggle.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/16/2013 4:27 Comments || Top||


Syria Air Strike Hits Islamist Brigade Leadership
[An Nahar] A Syrian air strike has killed a senior commander of the Islamist Liwa Al-Tawhid rebel brigade in Aleppo and maimed its chief and another leader, a watchdog said Friday.

Four more rebel chiefs were killed in other incidents, three in the northern Aleppo province and the fourth in Homs to its south, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Yussef al-Abbas, known as Abu al-Tayyeb, was intelligence chief for Liwa al-Tawhid and was killed in a strike Thursday on an army base captured by the rebels a year ago, the Britannia-based Observatory said.

The brigade's top commander, Abdelkader Saleh, and another senior figure of the group, Abdelaziz Salameh, were maimed.

Following the attack, Liwa al-Tawhid tossed in the clink
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
30 people accusing them of being informers for the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...

The powerful brigade is among a number of Islamist units that have rejected the mainstream opposition Syrian National Coalition.

Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Slats grabbed his rosco...
two chiefs of rebel battalions were killed in fighting with loyalist forces near the international airport outside Aleppo. A security source in Damascus confirmed that there were still rebel pockets of resistance around the airport.

Elsewhere in the province, a former army colonel who commanded another rebel brigade was killed in fighting in the Maarat al-Artiq area. For three weeks, the army has been pressing a campaign to retake rebel-held areas in Aleppo, particularly east of the country's second city, and jihadist fighters have called for mass mobilization to counter regime advances.

Syria expert Fabrice Balanche told Agence La Belle France Presse the regime is aiming to progressively fragment rebel territory in the north of the country.

"The army is trying to cut off eastern parts of Aleppo held by rebels from (their bases) in the countryside," he said. "At the same time, it is trying to open an approach to Idlib and Jisr al-Shughur (both southwest of Aleppo) to break up rebel territory, taking it bit by bit."

Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Slats grabbed his rosco...
in Homs province, to the south of Aleppo, a rebel chief was killed in Mahine, which the army said it had captured, along with a large cache of arms there that had been seized by the myrmidons. The Observatory says, however, that fighting is still underway.

The group also reported heavy fighting on the main highway linking Homs to the capital Damascus, in the strategic Qalamun mountain range that spreads to Leb where regime forces can rely on allies from the Shiite movement Hezbollah for support.

Government troops also raided the Wadi al-Mawla village in the Homs countryside on Friday, the Observatory said, adding that two soldiers and nine men were killed in the attack.

The Observatory, which relies on medics and activists for its information, said that according to unconfirmed reports a number of women were also killed when the army entered the village.

The opposition Syrian Revolution General Commission, meanwhile, spoke of a "massacre" in Wadi al-Mawla in which "entire families" were killed and homes set on fire. The report could not be independently verified.
Posted by: Fred || 11/16/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  Or maybe they hit a school and hospital and killed a bunch of little kids and sick people. Depends on who is telling ofttimes.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/16/2013 9:31 Comments || Top||

#2  In war, truth is the first casualty. Aeschylus Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC - 456 BC)
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2013 9:40 Comments || Top||


Africa North
One Killed in Clashes as Thousands Protest in Egypt
[An Nahar] A teenager was killed Friday when supporters and opponents 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...
clashed in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, officials said, as backers of the ousted president rallied in and around Cairo.

The pro-Morsi demonstrations came just a day after the government lifted on Thursday a state of emergency and curfew that had been imposed in August after a deadly crackdown on Islamists in Cairo.

The interior ministry said the 16-year-old boy was hit by birdshot during festivities with supporters and opponents of the Islamist leader in the center of Alexandria and died on his way to hospital.

Without elaborating, it said in a statement that demonstrators from the banned Moslem Brüderbund had fired on their opponents during the festivities in the Mediterranean city.

In Cairo, more than 10,000 Morsi supporters gathered in the Nasr City district after the weekly Friday Mohammedan prayers and then marched towards the Ittihadiya presidential palace, an Agence La Belle France Presse news hound said.

The marchers rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud hostile to General Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, the military chief who overthrew Morsi in July after millions of Egyptians erupted into the streets demanding the Islamist president's resignation.

After Egypt's first democratically elected president was deposed his Moslem Brüderbund movement staged rallies and set up protest camps in Cairo to demand his reinstatement.

The security forces dispersed them in August in a bloody crackdown that left hundreds dead, and more than 2,000 Islamists have been nabbed
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
since then.

Following that bloodshed the new interim authorities imposed a three-month state of emergency and curfew in Cairo and 13 other provinces which ended on Thursday.

State news agency MENA reported that thousands of pro-Morsi supporters also demonstrated in the city of Fayyum, south of Cairo.
Posted by: Fred || 11/16/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


U.S. Offering $10 mln Reward for Benghazi Attackers
[An Nahar] The State Department revealed Friday it has been quietly offering a $10 million reward to help track down the forces of Evil behind last year's deadly attack on a U.S. mission in Libya.

The brazen assault in Benghazi cost the lives of four Americans, including ambassador Chris Stevens, with the fatalities and disputes about what unfolded at the diplomatic base causing fury in Washington.

A State Department front man told Agence La Belle France Presse that its Rewards for Justice program has since January been offering up to $10 million "for information leading to the arrest or conviction of anyone who was involved in the September 2012 Benghazi attacks."

The reward was not widely publicized when it was first made available, because of what the Department called "security issues and sensitivities surrounding the investigation."

"Since this event happened... we've made it clear that we are committed to bringing the people who conducted this attack to justice. And we're using all the appropriate tools we have to do that," the front man said.

The reward on offer "was for anyone who was involved, not for any particular individual," added the official, who asked not to be named.

Hordes of heavily armed forces of Evil stormed the mission on September 11 last year and then attacked a nearby CIA compound with mortar shells and rockets.
Posted by: Fred || 11/16/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  What took you so long?
Posted by: Raj || 11/16/2013 1:25 Comments || Top||

#2  How about the people that told the reaction force to stand down? They are accessories to this, too.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/16/2013 2:26 Comments || Top||

#3  But wait, what about the evil video maker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula? Surely he knows something.

[sarc off]
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2013 5:39 Comments || Top||

#4  ...shhhhhh....we're hunting wabbits...
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 11/16/2013 8:12 Comments || Top||

#5  The reward was not widely publicized when it was first made available, because of what the Department called "security issues and sensitivities surrounding the investigation."

Somebody needed to assure the CIA contractors signed new NDAs.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/16/2013 8:41 Comments || Top||

#6  This implies that those who should know have already been removed to inhibit revealing embarrassing information. It's pro forma now for cover.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/16/2013 10:33 Comments || Top||

#7  Not that any of the participants fingered by reward seekers will be taken alive...it would be too inconvenient and too dangerous to the enlightened leadership of the ONE
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 11/16/2013 12:13 Comments || Top||

#8  Lotsa Luck, we can't get anybody to talk, so theyre not named.(Yet)
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 11/16/2013 14:10 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Boko Haram Holding Kidnapped French Priest
[An Nahar] 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...
is holding a French priest who was kidnapped in northern Cameroon, a source in the banned Nigerian Islamist group said on Friday, rejecting claims of a rift among the bad turbans.

"I can confirm that the French priest is in the hands of mujahideen (fighters) from Jamaat Ahl al-Sunna Li Da'wat al-Jihad, who carried out the operation that was coordinated with Ansaru," he told Agence La Belle France Presse.

Boko Haram prefers to go by the Arabic name, which translates as "People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet's Teachings and Jihad" (holy war).

Ansaru is an offshoot of the bad boy group and has previously claimed kidnappings of foreign nationals.

The United States on Wednesday listed both Boko Haram and Ansaru as terror groups, bowing to months of pressure to act after years of bloody violence in northeast and central Nigeria that has left thousands dead.

Hours after the declaration, heavily gunnies kidnapped Roman Catholic priest Georges Vandenbeusch from his home near the town of Koza in northern Cameroon, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the Nigerian border.

He was seized by about 15 people, who burst into his Nguetchewe parish base, according to the bishop of the Nanterre diocese near Gay Paree, which has authority over the holy man.

The Boko Haram source, who did not want to be identified, declined also to say where the 42-year-old priest was being held, after the Cameroon authorities said they feared he had been taken across the border into Nigeria.

Speaking in Gay Paree after talks with Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe, French President Francois Hollande
...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist...
said Vandenbeusch had "most likely" been taken to Nigeria.

"We are checking all the information that we can get," he told news hounds, adding that he would speak with his counterpart in Cameroon, Paul Biya, and vowing that La Belle France was doing "all it could to find... and free" the priest.

"The fight against terrorism is still our main concern and common purpose," he added.

Vatican front man Federico Lombardi described the kidnapping as "an extremely serious and horrible case, reflected the spread of hatred and violence in the region."

The Boko Haram source promised to reveal more details about the kidnapping "at the appropriate time".

But he added that claims of rifts within the ranks of the bad turban group, which has been linked to al-Qaeda's operations in north and western Africa, were exaggerated.

Boko Haram originally claimed to be fighting for the creation of an Islamic state in northern Nigeria and has made suicide kaboom and gun attacks its trademark.

Ansaru has been linked to at least three hostage-takings of foreigners since 2011 and has mentioned French intervention in Mali and European nations' "atrocities done to the religion of Allah" when claiming kidnappings.

"There is a deliberate attempt by the enemies of Islam to portray Jamaat Ahl al-Sunna Li Da'wat al-Jihad as sharply divided," the source said.

"What they don't know or ignore is that the two groups work closely together and most of the operations by the mujahideen are jointly carried out by the mujahideen from both sides."
Posted by: Fred || 11/16/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram

#1  So they aren't going to eat him Well, that's nice. Now all we need is for John Kerry to get on the case and we should then begin to see " Light at the end of the Tunnel."

Perhaps Jawn can come to "an accomodation" After all Jown ( I never could get that name right )and Boko Harum Scarum are men of the world.
Posted by: Spereting Tingle4064 || 11/16/2013 6:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Dont you love this hateful religion?
Posted by: Ulusoth Shereter7931 || 11/16/2013 6:53 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Albania rejects request to destroy Syrian weapons
Albania Friday rejected a US request to host the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons, in a new setback for the internationally-backed disarmament plan three weeks after Norway also said no.
As John E. at Ace notes, Albania loves the U.S. It loved George Bush. For a while it wanted to be the 51st state. Wonder what changed?
“It is impossible for Albania to take part in such an operation... as it has no capacity” to carry out such a task, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama told reporters.

More than 4,000 people opposed to the destruction of the chemical arsenal on Albanian soil cheered Rama’s announcement, which was broadcast live on giant screens on Tirana’s main square.

Rama said that the United States had asked Albania to “contribute to the destruction of chemical weapons”.

“Our response was ‘yes, in principle’. We are ready to engage in this mission, but we do not have the capacity,” Rama said. He said the decision was “very difficult”.

In a statement issued immediately after Rama’s press conference, the US embassy said Washington “appreciates that the government of Albania gave serious consideration” to the issue.

“We respect the Prime Minister’s decision... We remain confident that we will complete elimination of the program within the timeline agreed upon,” the embassy said.

NATO member Albania, along with France and Belgium, had been mooted as a possible host for site for the dismantling of Syria’s entire chemical arsenal, estimated at about 1,000 tonnes.
Let the Belgians do it. Ship the stuff to Antwerp.
Rama’s Socialist-led government, in office since September, had over the past week faced growing street protests over the prospect. Protestors dispersed in Tirana and other Albanian towns after Rama’s announcement.

Hundreds of people spent the night outside Albania’s seat of government, while thousands of protesters gathered in towns across the country. Protesters carried placards saying “No to chemical weapons”, “We love the United States, but we prefer Albania” and “We want oxygen, not sarin gas”.

Protest organisers, the non-governmental Alliance Against Waste Import, said some 35,000 people had signed a petition urging the authorities to reject the US request.

Analyst Lutfi Dervishi said Albania had so far done “everything the United States wants”.

“Albania is a small country that has always needed US support. In turn, Washington sees Albania as its closest strategic ally in the region,” Dervishi told AFP. But Dervishi warned that the country, although “indebted” to Washington for its support for Albania’s NATO entry in 2009, public pressure on Rama’s two-month-old government was very strong.

“Albania has never said no to the United States but this time the load is too large for a small country and its capabilities,” said Dervishi.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/16/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "This time the load is too large for a small counry" > ... + the Jihadis + ME Refugees trying to enter it + Balkans, Eastern Europe legally or illegally by any means necessary.

IMO Albania is trying hard not to say it wants $$$ REfugee Aid + anti-Terror US-NATO SPECOPS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/16/2013 0:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Ship it to the Hague. They have all the answers, and they think that they are big shots.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/16/2013 2:29 Comments || Top||

#3  LOL, AP.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/16/2013 4:32 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
This Week in Guns, November 16th, 2013
By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com

Actor Brent Spiner, who played the android Data in the Star Trek: The Next Generation throws his lot in with the statists, by saying all people with a gun in their hand are dangerous.
That's nice, dear. But we're paying you to pretend to be someone else. Go do that, there's a good lad.
But phasers apparently aren't a problem...
EX SAS squaddie Max Velocity discusses counter-ambush techniques, here called the Drake Method or Rhodesian Cover Shooting.

Kurt Hoffman
claims that a new 3-d printing process using a metal printer effectively make gun control a moot issue. A gun company has been working on the technology, while Congressfolks have been honing their prior restraint legislative skills. They want to kill the 1st and 2nd Amendments simultaneously, long a goal of our glorious democratic left. My money is on the printers, but your mileage may vary.

Speaking of hostile statists, an antigun town councilman in Swampscott, Massachusetts wants the right to enter homes to check on weapons. Hijinx and hilarity ensues.

Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:

Rifle and pistol ammunition prices were mixed to lower.

Prices for all classes of firearms were mixed.

Pistol Ammo

.45 caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ventura Munitions, Wolf Polyformance, .32 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Jack Ross Ammunition, round nose reloaded, .32 per round (-.05 each from last week after +.05 previous three weeks)

.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ventura Munitions, Hunting Shack Ammunition, .28 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, store brand, reloaded, .27 per round (-.01 Each, -.04 Each over previous three weeks)

9mm Parabellum, 115 grain, From Last Week: -.03 Each (-.06 Each over previous three weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Alamo Ammo, Remington Flatnose Leadless, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LV Ammo, Store brand, reloaded, .24 per round (-.01 each from last week)

.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged ( +.14 each over previous six weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Federal CCI Blazer, .46 per round
Cheapest Bulk 250 rounds: LAX Ammo, reloaded, .42 per round ( -.17 Each from last week(!))

Rifle Ammunition

.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: +.01 each (+.02 over previous two weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munirel USA, Tulammo, steel cased, .32 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Sportsman Guide, Wolf, steel cased, .32 per round (-.02 each, Previous two Weeks: +.03 each )

.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (+.10 over previous two weeks) (After -.21 over seven previous weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Goose Island Sales, No Label, steel cased, .60 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1000 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Prvi Partizan, .60 per round (+.04 each from last week)

7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each (Unchanged previous seven weeks, but one, +.01)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammo Supply Warehouse, Wolf Polyformance, steel core and case, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1000 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Brown Bear, steel case, .24 per round (-.01 from last week)

.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: +.02 each (Unchanged in previous five of six Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo Fast, Federal American Eagle, .10 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 5,000 rounds: Ammo Fast, Aguila, .12 per round (Unchanged)

Guns for Private Sale
Rifles


.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $843 Last Week Avg: $918
California: Del-Ton: $900
Texas: Smith & Wesson M&P15: $675
New York: Daniel Defense DDM4: $1,240 (Same Gun)
Virgina: Smith & Wesson M&P15: $650
Florida: Bushmaster (Carbon Fiber): $720

.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,549 Last Week Avg: $1,372
California: Noveske: $2,300 (Same Gun)
Texas: Patriot Ordnance Factory $1,300
New York: None available
Virginia: DPMS: $1,100
Florida: DPMS, Stainless barrel: $1,495 (Same Gun)

7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $767 Last Week Avg: $755
California: Centurion 39 Sporter $900
Texas: WASR 10: $750
New York: WASR: $950 (Same Gun)
Virginia: MAK90: $850
Florida: AK-47 Sporter (Chinese made): $385

7.62x54mm (Dragunov Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,167 Last Week Avg: $1,192 (Unchanged from last week)
California: Romak PSL: $1,350 (Same Gun)
Texas: Romak PSL: $1,300
New York: None
Virginia: NODAK (Custom Build): $817 (Same Gun)
Florida: Romak: $1,200 (Same Gun)

Pistols

.45 caliber ACP (M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic Pistol) Average Price: $480 Last Week Avg: $440
California: Rock Island Armory: $475 (Prolly Same Gun)
Texas: Rock Island Armory (Nickel plated: $450
New York: Regent R200SS (Stainless): $400 (Same Gun)
Virginia: Rock Island Armory: $600
Florida: Springfield (Stainless): $475

9mm Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic Average Price: $413 Last Week Avg: $447
California: Steyr: $400
Texas: Ruger P95: $410
New York: Glock 19: $405 (Same Gun)
Virginia: Glock 26: $450
Florida: Smith & Wesson SW9VE: $399

.40 caliber S&W (Glock and other semiautomatic) Average Price: $435 Last Week Avg: $415
California: Glock 27: $450
Texas: Glock 22: $450
New York: Walther PPS: $425 (Same Gun)
Virginia: Beretta 96D: $450
Florida: Glock 23: $400

Used Gun of the Week: (From Minnesota)

Mixed Build AR-57 chambered in 5.7x28mm

Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
Posted by: badanov || 11/16/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Personal hat tip goes to Atlanta gunshop owner last week. As I walked in the door to browse:

LIV asks proprietor: How much to use your range ?

Proprietor: Have you fired here before? Do you know how to operate your handgun? Have you attended a weapons training session? Are you familiar with it's safety features?

LIV patron: Comments unintelligible.

Proprietor: (Just loud enough that all the other salespeople and everyone else in the store could hear) I'm sorry sir, I cannot let you fire on our range unless you are trained and fully familiar with the functioning and safety of your weapon.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2013 0:16 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Dagestani children record militant-style threatening videos
Children in Dagestan have found a new form of entertainment: making threatening videos and sending them to adults. Armed with toy weapons, the kids imitate the behavior of militants while making demands.

In one of the videos, a boy who appears to be around 12 years old demands good grades in school. He states that he should have only "A" grades in both the school register and his student record within five days of the video's receipt. Without smiling, the child says, "If you don't do that, I'll first kill Khalimat and Nurmagomed and then come at you. Insha'allah.

Another child of about the same age is armed with a plastic machine gun and demands money. The boy says that "when he was a kid," he was beaten up by someone named Mohammed. He then demands that Mohammed give him two million rubles and his motorcycle. The young "racketeer" says that if his request is not fulfilled, Mohammed's "son and a couple of other people" will be killed. The boy gives the man five days to make payment.

Several of the videos have been circulating on the internet, but police say they are just a joke and pose no real danger. Indira Aganyeva, a police officer in Makhachkala said, "We know that such records appeared on the internet. It's so painful, such a shame that children take part in them. But it's a mistake of adults who set an example."

Sending videos on flash drives is a common practice among illegal militant groups in Dagestan. Gunmen typically send these videos to businessmen and officials, threatening them and their relatives unless they give money to jihad.
Posted by: ryuge || 11/16/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkey Warns against Syrian Kurd Autonomy
[An Nahar] Turkey on Friday warned that it would not accept this week's declaration of provisional self-rule by Kurds in neighboring war-torn Syria.

"Turkey cannot permit a fait accompli, there is no question of accepting such a thing in Syria," Turkish President Abdullah Gul said in televised comments in eastern Turkey.

"We cannot allow Syria, which is faced with major chaos, to disintegrate," Gul said.

For three decades, Turkey has been embroiled in a deadly Kurdish insurgency on its soil.

It shares a border with Syria and fears a de facto Kurdish state there -- similar to one already established in neighboring Iraq -- could provide a rear base of operations for Turkish Kurd guerrillas.

On Monday, Kurdish militia dominated by a party close to Turkey's main Kurdish grouping declared provisional self-rule in Syrian areas under their control.

The move raised alarm in Ankara, whose campaign against the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has left more than 40,000 people dead. It is currently involved in the latest attempt to strike a peace deal with the outlawed group.

The Syrian Kurdish militia, dominated by a PKK sister party, the Democratic Union Party, hold large chunks of northwestern Syria near the Turkish border.

The Syrian Kurd declaration was blasted by the main Syrian opposition alliance, which dubbed the Kurdish groups "hostile" forces.

The opposition Syrian National Coalition is dominated by Sunni Arabs. It has been at pains to keep the Kurds on its side in the two-and-a-half-year uprising against the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Light of the Alawites...

Its main faction, the Syrian National Council, even named secular Kurdish dissident Abdulbaset Sayda as its leader last year.

But mounting violence between the Kurds and al-Qaeda loyalists -- who form a major battlefield force in the rebellion -- has sparked a deepening rift between the Kurds and the mainstream opposition.
Posted by: Fred || 11/16/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  Maybe Kurdistan is on the horizon?

But there will be a lot of blood spilled before that happens. Too bad Champ would never lift a finger to help the downtrodden Kurdish people achieve their right of self-determination.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/16/2013 11:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Pardon my rather bare language, but... Fuck the Turks. They have been repressing the Kurds for a long time. Kurds have been among the best friend US forces had in that region. They let the 173rd land unopposed when the Turks denied the 3rd ID access to their ports back when OIF started. Kurdistan would be a valuable ally if it were carved out of parts of Turjey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. And because of those neighbors they would naturally gravitate towards Jordan as an Arab ally, and definitely want the US as an ally - from the no-fly zone through OIF, the US has helped the kurds,and vice versa. If we had a any sense, the intelligence services and diplomatic folks would have been laying the groundwork for this for a decade. Bush and Obama have both missed a great opportunity at reshaping the central middle east.
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/16/2013 17:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Note: this is not an endorsement of the Peshmerga and other communist style guerillas. But one should note well that the Kurds despise Al Qaeda nearly as much as we do. and have a serious axe to grind with Baathists (Syria, formerly Iraq as well), and Persians (Iran), and the Turks for the severe discrimination and active repression of Kurds inside their borders.

Kurdistan scares the crap out of the Turks, and for good reason -- a large portion of Turkey in the south and west is majority Kurd, and has been systematically repressed for decades. These folks have seen how liberty works with their cousins in Iraq, and if Kurdistan comes into existence in Syria, that means even more pressure in Turkey and Iran.
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/16/2013 17:54 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/16/2013 17:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Oil and gas wells in Turkey

Posted by: OldSpook || 11/16/2013 18:03 Comments || Top||

#6  And there you have it: Why Turks dont want the Kurds to have independance, and why the repress them: The Turks are taking the gas and oil, keeping the money, and repressing the Kurds to do so.
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/16/2013 18:04 Comments || Top||

#7  Excellent Briefing OldSpook, reminds me of my Morning Briefing days back in the company.

Dobra, Dobra, Ochin Harasho !


Posted by: Phusoger Prince of the Lichtensteiners7911 || 11/16/2013 18:13 Comments || Top||

#8  If we had a any sense, the intelligence services and diplomatic folks would have been laying the groundwork for this for a decade.

A big 'if' at anytime, and an impossible one now.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/16/2013 18:32 Comments || Top||

#9  Без проблем
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/16/2013 18:35 Comments || Top||

#10  Glenmore, I was beating this drum back before OIF started, in the codeword/compartmentalized world I was living in at the time. For whatever reason, there was top-down resistance to even hearing this message.

I've experienced resistance to intel due to "thats not how I think" (but is is how THEY think!), "thats not what I want to hear" (but its what the facts are), "That doesnt fit my plan" (so change the plan to fit reality), and "Your jsut an analyst" (I do this job because Im damned good at it - better than you are - so why are you ignoring my work product that you ordered me to produce) .

But resistance of this sort "Sorry, we don't even want you to give the brief, go away and do not mention this again" stinks of politics, payoffs and other stupidities that cause wars and cost military (and civilian) lives.
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/16/2013 18:44 Comments || Top||

#11  Thank you for the excellent information, OS.
Posted by: Barbara || 11/16/2013 20:52 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Cops: Man fired cannon during dispute
...but who hasn't..?
HT: Drudge

Authorities say a western New York man has been charged with harassment for repeatedly firing an unloaded Civil War cannon at the homes of his neighbors.

The Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office says 52-year-old Brian Malta fired the cannon at neighboring homes in the rural town of Kiantone, on the Pennsylvania border 60 miles south of Buffalo.

Deputies say the cannon was fired with only a powder charge and wadding. Police confiscated the cannon.

Officials say Malta had an ongoing dispute with his neighbors, but no details were released.

Malta was arrested Wednesday and charged with three counts of harassment and three counts of menacing. He was released from the county jail after posting $2,500 bail.
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 11/16/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Likely with good reason, he probably received notice that his health insurance plan had been cancelled and that he was faced with enrolling into Obamacare.

Posted by: Chesney Whelet1782 || 11/16/2013 11:54 Comments || Top||

#2  DEACON!!!!
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/16/2013 16:42 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Four Suspected Syria Jihadists Arrested in France
[An Nahar] Four men aged between 22 and 35 have been locked away
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
in the Gay Paree region for allegedly belonging to a jihadist network sending fighters to Syria, informed sources said Friday.

The arrests by Sherlocks from La Belle France's intelligence agency DCRI took place on Tuesday and the presumed leader of the network is a 24-year-old man, according to sources close to the case.

At least two of the other men went to Syria to fight for the Al-Nusra Front battling Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs...
's regime. A woman was also arrested but released later.

Three of the men were born in La Belle France and one in Morocco.

An informed source said about 440 people from La Belle France were either currently fighting in Syria's civil war, planning to go and fight or had recently returned.

Half this number were there at present, about 10 had been killed and between 50 and 60 had returned,the source said.
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#1  What we need to ask is what are they fighting for?

To me its a holy war against shiites/disbelievers in their eyes.
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Home Front: Politix
Understanding and Forgiveness
From Jonah Goldberg's G-File email, too much fun not to share. As penance, I shall ask all of you to subscribe to his work and buy his latest book, which you should do anyway.
There's something almost poignant in jihadis asking for "understanding and forgiveness" for beheading a fellow jihadi by mistake. This reminded me of the al-Qaeda letter from a few months ago that everyone was comparing to Office Space (Apparently Khaled Abu Abbas wouldn't return calls or file his expense reports on time. No word on whether he obsessively clung to his red stapler).

Anyway, I kind of like the idea of the interoffice e-mail explaining to staff what happened with the beheading.

Hi Everyone,

First let me say that sign-ups for dead-goat polo are almost complete. Practices will be every Thursday after evening prayers. I really feel good about our prospects to go all the way this year. And, if you can, please bring your own dead goat. We can always use extras.

Also, please people, can you please remember that we empty out the cool-food cave every Friday. Sometimes the hummus really piles up in there. And label your containers, people! And not just your first name, otherwise almost everything will be marked "Property of Mohammed! Do not eat."

Anyway, the reason I'm writing should be obvious. Last week we got our signals crossed and beheaded Mohammed Fares. Now I understand that Omar and Mohammed (that is "Fat Mohammed" -- see what I mean, guys? So many Mohammeds!) didn't know Fares. But he was a good guy. He hated all the right people. Always talked about wanting to kill the Jews, the Christians, the atheists, etc.

Anyway, let me say this clearly: Please check IDs before cutting off someone's head. I understand mistakes happen, but c'mon. You know how awkward this is going to make the next inter-agency meeting? He was supposed to bring the doughnuts.

Oh, but there is some good news. Fares was the best player on Ahrar al-Sham's dead-goat polo team. Playoffs, here we come!
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India-Pakistan
Jamaat all the more important in KP
[Dawn] Qaumi Watan Party is hurt, while Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
is uncompromising.

The abrupt end to their apparently ill-conceived political bonhomie has bolstered 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 why should not JI feel emboldened? It has already been patted on the back by the man in full control of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
's politics.

PTI chief Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight...
in his brief communiqué on Wednesday last through which he announced his decision of pulling out of alliance with QWP, appreciated the JI-backed provincial ministers' 'exemplary' commitment to 'anti-corruption' endeavour of the PTI-led provincial government.

After QWP's departure from the coalition government in a manner with no precedent in Pakistain's political history, JI has got doubled up its significance for the coalition government, becoming all important for PTI to continue its reign of power in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

JI's numerical strength in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly may not be very impressive for many, but its eight-member parliamentary group in the 124-strong legislature forms an important lifeline for PTI's rule in the province.

The last time JI enjoyed this formidable political stature was in Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal's rule in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa during the first half of the last decade.
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Africa North
Hundreds Protest in Tunis, Call on Government to Quit
[An Nahar] Some 250 Tunisian protesters gathered Friday outside the government's headquarters demanding the resignation of the Islamist-led ruling coalition, with no end in sight for a months-old political crisis plaguing the country.

At the demonstration, called by the leftists Popular Front, the activists slammed the ruling Islamist party Ennahda, shouting slogans such as: "Government of failure, leave!" and "Poor people you've been had, in the name of religion."

"This government which led the national dialogue to failure by its lack of commitment, should hand in its resignation as soon as possible," said Abdelmajid Belaid, whose brother Chokri was rubbed out by suspected Islamist gunnies in Tunis in February.

He accused the ruling coalition, and Ennahda in particular, of "doing nothing but impoverishing and terrorizing Tunisians."

Tunisia has been rocked by violence this year, and a second political liquidation by suspected jihadists in July has caused political deadlock. The Islamists have refused the opposition's demands to step down until key political objectives have been reached.

Under an ambitious roadmap agreed to last month, the two sides pledged to end the crisis by negotiating an interim government of independents, drafting a much-delayed constitution and preparing for elections.

But the dialogue quickly unraveled when they failed to agree on a new prime minister, and talks were suspended.

Mongi Rahoui, another leader of the Popular Front, said the opposition would continue to protest until its demands were met.
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Home Front: Politix
Thus Spake Obama -Steyn
Still, as historian Michael Beschloss pronounced the day after his election, he’s “probably the smartest guy ever to become president.” Naturally, Obama shares this assessment. As he assured us five years ago, “I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors.” Well, apart from his signature health-care policy. That’s a mystery to him. “I was not informed directly that the website would not be working,” he told us. The buck stops with something called “the executive branch,” which is apparently nothing to do with him. As evidence that he was entirely out of the loop, he offered this:

Had I been I informed, I wouldn’t be going out saying, “Boy, this is going to be great.” You know, I’m accused of a lot of things, but I don’t think I’m stupid enough to go around saying, “This is going to be like shopping on Amazon or Travelocity,” a week before the website opens, if I thought that it wasn’t going to work.

Ooooo-kay. So, if I follow correctly, the smartest president ever is not smart enough to ensure that his website works; he’s not smart enough to inquire of others as to whether his website works; he’s not smart enough to check that his website works before he goes out and tells people what a great website experience they’re in for. But he is smart enough to know that he’s not stupid enough to go around bragging about how well it works if he’d already been informed that it doesn’t work. So he’s smart enough to know that if he’d known what he didn’t know he’d know enough not to let it be known that he knew nothing. The country’s in the very best of hands.

Michael Beschloss is right: This is what it means to be smart in a neo-monarchical America. Obama spake, and it shall be so. And, if it turns out not to be so, why pick on him? He talks a good Royal Proclamation; why get hung up on details?
Posted by: Beavis || 11/16/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Smartest guy ever to become president? I've not seen his reading list, papers or articles penned (books written by others with his name as author do not count), college Alumni speaking engagements, professional mentors, foreign leader chums and associates (perhaps they too, all hate him because his is half-white).

Not to mention his teleprompter style, pregnant pauses, mouth-breathing, mishandling of geography, lack of understanding of international economies, meaningless repetitive utterances, unprofessional perp limp to the presidential podium, or tiring sports metaphors.

Smartest guy ever to become president, hardly. Dear God help me get through these next 3 years.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2013 5:33 Comments || Top||

#2  You are not the most trusting of people B. have a little faith. It's only three yea....... Ummmmm..... Here, try this shit, I just got from a cousin traveling thru Colorado.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/16/2013 8:57 Comments || Top||

#3  You got me Ship. In God We Trust. All others pay cash !
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2013 9:37 Comments || Top||

#4  But B, this is GOD you're speaking of. He's the one that will cause the sea to stop rising and bring forth the light of goodness on all humanity, no?

Okay, I've got to go puke now. I think that may be a morning routine for the next 3 years....um Ship, you got a little (lot) extra of that shit?
Posted by: AlanC || 11/16/2013 10:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Besoeker his pregnant pauses are aborted by his actions, and with his "fix" for ACA, the abortions are getting messier.
Posted by: Chesney Whelet1782 || 11/16/2013 11:20 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Two policemen killed in Dagestan shootout
Two police officers were killed on Thursday when unknown assailants opened fire on them in the Russian republic of Dagestan, a regional Interior Ministry spokesman said. The attack occurred on a road in northern Dagestan. One policeman died at the scene, and the other died later in a hospital.
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Europe
Man who attacked US Embassy in Bosnia apologizes
A man being retried for attacking the American Embassy in Sarajevo in 2011 has apologized for what he now calls his "stupid act".

Mevlid Jasarevic seriously injured a police officer when he fired at the embassy for more than 40 minutes using an automatic rifle. On November 13, he told the court that he had been manipulated and then abandoned by his Islamist mentors.

Jasarevic was found guilty of terrorism and sentenced to 18 years in prison by Bosnia's state court in December 2012. The verdict was revoked on appeal in July and a new trial ordered after judges said the original trial was flawed. Defense attorneys had argued they did not have access to witness testimony and evidence.

The court will give its verdict next week.
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#1  "and I want my gun back"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/16/2013 9:24 Comments || Top||

#2  You are forgiven, go and sin no more.....

Just watch your six from now on.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/16/2013 14:00 Comments || Top||

#3  #2 You are forgiven, go and sin no more.....

Just watch your six from now on.


AP - Doubt he has much to worry about until Jan '17, if then...
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 11/16/2013 16:39 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
The Affordable Boat Act of 2014
...note to Jerkface, etal.: This is linked to what is called "Satire" which, without a core of truth, would be pointless...
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 11/16/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The blackest of black satire. :-(
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2013 5:35 Comments || Top||

#2  I saw this in an e-mail a few days ago, but the link has better graphics.

I don't think I'd ever heard the term "black satire", Besoeker, but I surely do understand it now!
Posted by: Bobby || 11/16/2013 11:39 Comments || Top||

#3  The big O watches from afar as the USS Obamacare takes the Democrat party to its final resting place, proving you can loose both the ACA of 2009 and the ABA of 2014 at the same time.

Posted by: Chesney Whelet1782 || 11/16/2013 11:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Bill Clinton took Chesney's picture.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/16/2013 15:28 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
19 found dead in Jalisco state

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A total of 19 unidentified individuals were found shot to death and buried in a mass grave in the Mexican state of Jalisco Thursday, according to Mexican news accounts.

A news report which appeared in the online edition of Vanguardia news daily said that all but two of the bodies were identified as males. All were bound by their hands and shot to death. A number of the dead had been tortured.

The news account said that some of the victims sported tattoos which is a sign that the victims were members of a cartel or a local drug or criminal gang.

The find was made near La Barca municipality near the state border with Michoacan.

Last Saturday, 25 unidentified suspects were detained by police in Villa Hermosa municipality at a warehouse used as a safehouse, presumably for kidnapping operations. Among the detainees were two municipal police agents. Interrogations revealed the location of the mass grave, the work on which was completed Friday afternoon.

The Mexican federal government has been searching for two Procuraduria General de la Republica (PGR) agents, who went missing November 3rd. The arrests last Saturday were part of that search operation.

Currently Michocan, on Mexico's west coast, rivals Tamaulipas as one of Mexico's most violent. Since last year a number of indigenous communities have formed self defense groups, permitted under Mexican law, to enforce laws their own communities. The rise of those groups, called autodefensas, have threatened Caballero Templarios and Jalisco Nueva Generacion drug cartels dominance in the state, so much so that violence has escalated.

In fact, the violence has been so bad, the Mexican federal government has taken over the port city of Lazaro Cardenas in Michoacan.

Caballeros Templarios comprises remnants of La Familia, which was destroyed by concerted Mexican federal government action in early 2011. Their chief rival in the region, Los Zetas, appear not to be much of a factor in regional violence since the cartel was for all intents and purposes beheaded two years ago.

Mexican law permits indigenous communities to form their own police forces outside the normal top-down system imposed by Mexico's strong central government. Those groups are permitted to carry, and to use, weapons usually only permitted to security forces including Mexico's military.

Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
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Africa Horn
Last of Somali pirates sentenced in murders of Americans
The last of the Somali pirates convicted of killing four Americans aboard a yacht sailing off the Horn of Africa in 2011 have been sentenced in federal court to multiple life sentences, authorities said on Thursday. Prosecutors originally sought the death penalty, but the jury that found the men guilty in July of piracy, hijacking and murder recommended life sentences instead.
So long as it's full natural life...
The victims were retiree Scott Adam, 70, of Marina del Rey, California, with his wife Jean Adam, and two friends, Phyllis Macay and Robert Riggle of Seattle. They were sailing around the world distributing Bibles.

Pirates boarded the yacht on February 18, 2011. Prosecutors said the hijackers intended to take their hostages to Somalia and hold them for ransom.

After getting a distress signal from the craft, the U.S. Navy dispatched vessels to the Americans’ aid. After four days, during which negotiations between the Navy and the pirates broke down, the pirates fired a rocket-propelled grenade toward one of the Navy vessels, the USS Sterett. Gunfire broke out on the yacht, and Navy SEALs went aboard in an unsuccessful attempt to save the hostages. They died on February 22, 2011.

In U.S. District Court, Abukar Osman Beyle, 33, and Shani Nurani Shiekh Abrar, 31, and Ahmed Muse Salad, 27, were each given 21 life prison sentences, plus 30 years, this week, according to a statement from Dana Boente, acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

“The multiple, consecutive life sentences imposed today send a clear message that piracy, hostage-taking, and murder on the high seas will not be tolerated,” Boente said in the statement.

Besides the three Somali men sentenced this week, 11 others who were captured aboard the sailboat have pleaded guilty and are serving life sentences as well.
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Africa North
Militias attack Libyan protesters, killing 31
Libyan militiamen opened fire Friday on white-flag-waving protesters demanding their disbandment, killing at least 31 people and wounding more than 200 in a barrage of heavy machine gun and rocket-propelled grenade fire, the Associated Press reported.

Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan blamed the protesters and the militia alike for the violence, though witnesses said they saw no protesters carrying weapons ahead of the shooting Friday afternoon. By Friday night, however, some protesters joined by other militias had armed themselves and heavy gunfire rang out in the Tripoli neighborhood where the attack happened.
Can't let the festivities be all one-sided...
Armed groups set up checkpoints across the Libyan capital, hoping to stop other militias from entering the city. Ambulance sirens wailed into the night.

The march in Tripoli by thousands of protesters was the biggest show of public anger at militias in months. Since the 2011 fall of dictator Moammar Gadhafi, hundreds of militias - many of them on government payroll - have run out of control in Libya, carving out zones of power, defying state authority and launching violent attacks.

The protesters marched from a downtown mosque to a neighborhood called Gharghour, home to the headquarters of a militia originally from the city of Misrata that has a powerful presence in Tripoli. Many militias have turned villas and residential compounds of former Gadhafi-era officials into camps where they stash weapons.

The demonstrators waved Libyan and white flags and chanted, "We want an army, we want police," referring to demands that the country's weak security forces take the place of militias.
When they neared the building, militiamen in civilian clothes and military uniforms came out of the headquarters, opening fire. Protesters ran from gunfire while carrying others covered in blood.

Libyan state television put the death toll at 31, with 235 people wounded.

Witnesses all said the protesters carried no weapons. Al-Taher Basha Agha, commander of Misrata-based militia, told Libya's private al-Ahrar television station that their rivals used the protesters as a cover to attack. Asked if he would leave Tripoli, the commander said that his men will leave only "dead bodies."

"Tripoli has not seen a war yet, it will see it soon," he said.

Prime Minister Ali Zidan also blamed both protesters and the militiamen for the violence in a televised news conference. "You can't open fire at people who are exchanging fire," Zidan said.

Protesters said they were shocked by the prime minister's comments, pointing to an image of a bleeding elderly man shared on social media.

"This is delusional," protester Abdel-Karim al-Beriki said. "The first martyr was a man in his seventies. How could he be carrying a weapon?"

Many said that they will hold a sit-in until militias leave, while others called for civil disobedience. Saturday, grieving families will start burying their dead, setting up the possibility of more violence.

The government has put a December deadline on groups to join state security forces or face losing their government paychecks - though it is not clear if the government will cut them off. It has made similar threats in the past.
And will get a similar response...
Eastern militias also have seized control of oil exporting terminals, sending production plunging from 1.4 million barrels a day to around few hundred thousand.

Zidan, who was briefly kidnapped by militiamen himself last month, said his embattled government was working on a plan to drive out all militias from Tripoli.

"There will be no exception," he said. "All militias - including those in Tripoli - will be out."

Friday's march was prompted by a string of incidents involving militias - most recently, street clashes between the Misrata militia and one from Tripoli. The fight was sparked by the killing of one of the Misrata group's commanders, and the gun battles in the street panicked residents.

"We are afraid of more blood and more violence," said lawmaker Tawfiq Breik, from the liberal-leaning National Forces Alliance bloc in parliament. "This could drag on and descend from protesters versus militias to militias versus militias."
At some point bringing an Italian-led EU force in to stabilize the country should be appealing .. to everyone except the EU...
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Home Front: Politix
Kerry Positioning for a VP Slot?: Kerry's advice on how to marry women like Clinton
...HT: AoS...
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 11/16/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm not convinced - Kerry has seriously long- desired to be POTUS. I highly doubt Teresa Heinz would've married him iff he was otherwise.

The scenario is for the Young'uns to be on the GOP side, gray/silver-haired Old Guard on the Democrat side for 2016.

No matter whom or which Party, the anti-US OWG Globalists will be putting out another maximum effort - IMO ANOTHER ANTI-US GLOBALIST POTUS COME JAN. 2017 IS THE ONLY REASON FOR NUKE-WANNABE IRAN + "POST-US", "MAHANIST" CHINA TO
N-O-T BE GOING TO WAR NOW IN AGZ THE OBAMA ADMIN.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/16/2013 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  "For all the men...who sat in or who sit in classrooms where Bill Clinton sat so many years ago, my advice to you is this: Study hard, go to Oxford, become governor of your state, and then maybe you can marry one of the country's remarkable Secretaries of State,"

You sure he wasn't soliciting?
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/16/2013 8:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe it was a hint to Madeline Half-bright.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/16/2013 11:18 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
EU to re-impose Iran sanctions quashed by court
The European Union will re-impose asset freezes on several Iranian companies, annulled this year by court order, even as world powers appear close to a breakthrough deal with Tehran over its contested nuclear programme, Reuters reported.

EU diplomats said the move was to re-establish sanctions already imposed, rather than increasing pressure on Iran. Any new sanctions could risk scuppering a deal that global powers hope to reach with Iran at talks that start next Wednesday.

The EU decision, taken by senior officials on Thursday, must still be approved by EU governments later this week, diplomats told Reuters. It covers Persia International Bank, Export Development Bank of Iran and Bank Refah Karagan, among others. It aims to counter mounting litigation by hundreds of people and companies from Iran after several legal challenges succeeded in quashing sanctions this year.

It is the first time the EU has sought to address legal challenges by imposing new measures against previously listed targets, instead of trying to win appeals, and reflects growing concern that sanctions can be difficult to defend in court.

"We are maintaining the current sanctions regime, not broadening it. The relistings amount to keeping the current system," one EU diplomat told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.

In striking down sanctions, Europe's second-highest court has said EU governments have failed to provide sufficient evidence to link targeted companies with Tehran's nuclear work.
Because it only looks, quacks, walks, and has feathers like a duck...
The EU has in the past appealed against sanctions being quashed, for example after the court overturned sanctions on Bank Mellat and Bank Saderat, among the biggest private banks in Iran, earlier this year.

Diplomats now say a growing body of litigation makes it difficult to find legal bases for appeals. They say it is impossible to provide detailed proof of the targeted companies' links to Iran's atomic programme because doing so could expose confidential intelligence.
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Africa Horn
U.S. military faces Africa cuts, sees Somalia, Mali successes
U.S. military forces in Africa may lose well over a tenth – or some $40 million – from their 2014 budget, the U.S. Africa Command said on Thursday, although it saw success against militants in Somalia and Mali. The bulk of such cuts will fall on headquarters and training programmes, AFRICOM commander General David Rodriguez said, most likely forcing smaller exercises.

The size of AFRICOM headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany, is to be reduced by some 20 percent. The planned cuts are part of broader across-the-board U.S. spending restrictions dubbed “sequestration” and imposed after Congress failed to agree deficit reduction measures.

AFRICOM – set up in 2007 to coordinate U.S. military activity on the continent – retains some 5,000 troops in Africa at any time, primarily in Djibouti. Much of their focus is on building local military capability and training forces for missions such as the African Union mission AMISOM in Somalia and its U.N. counterpart in Mali.

“The budget is going to be reduced … although I would expect that the number of places where we have exercises will remain approximately the same,” Rodriguez told a press briefing in London. “We’ve had to reduce the size of some of these exercises and change the nature of some … to involve fewer troops.”

After the September 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, however, Rodriguez said AFRICOM and the State Department had stepped up security at some embassies and improved its information sharing and emergency protocols.

Rodriguez said he believed AMISOM had begun to push back Islamist al Shabaab militants in Somalia and that U.N. forces in Mali had significantly disrupted al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Analysts say French and Chadian troops did much of the work in curbing AQIM before the mission became part of a U.N. peacekeeping force in June, and operations now still primarily involve French and Malian troops.

Rodriguez said the just over 100 special forces operators supporting regional militaries in the hunt for Ugandan former Lord’s Resistance Army chief Joseph Kony had also markedly reduced LRA operations, even if Kony himself remained elusive.

Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea remained a serious worry, Rodriguez said, with U.S. forces working to train local navies and coastguards. AFRICOM was also working on training and information-sharing with Nigeria’s military as it battles a growing insurgency by Islamist group Boko Haram. Despite rumours to the contrary, however, he said Washington had no plans to deploy troops or drones in Nigeria despite listing Boko Haram as a banned terror group.
That's a shame, I think Boko Haram has earned the same high priority for drone zaps as the Taliban given the same propensity to murder wimmins and children...
The United States will continue to take its own occasional direct action in Somalia, he said. Although it rarely comments on specifics, Washington has been widely suspected of being behind several drone strikes on al Qaeda and al Shabaab.

“The effort in Somalia has dislocated al Shabaab,” Rodriguez said, adding that the group had been pushed from the capital Mogadishu in some other areas.

“AMISOM have to keep the pressure up – and that’s just the military picture. A model of things have to be done as well.” That included making Somalia’s transitional government more effective, he said.

In Mali, where Washington has also provided airlift and intelligence to French, U.N. and Malian troops, Rodriguez said AQIM fighters had been dispersed and less effective, even though their overall numbers had likely not fallen.
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#1  some $40 million
Isn't that just about the cost of maintaining the Stuttgart facility? Shouldn't AFRICOM be in AFRICA!
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/16/2013 8:49 Comments || Top||

#2  None of our African 'friends' would permit AFRICOM to be set up in..... Africa Skid.

AFRICOM also has problems keeping top bosses. Generals Kip Ward, Baker, and Ham.....all relieved from command. The Ward relief was very, very quiet. He was cloistered away in a pentagon closet for over 60 days while his investigation was conducted. Once the investigation was completed (something to do with unauthorized perks) he was quietly retired a poor, two star black man. I believe Title-10 of the US Code only permits a four star general to remain a four star in "F Troop" status for 60 days, then his rank must revert to two star.

A more cynical analyst might conclude the AFRICOM command billet and anyone who follows General Kip Ward might be in for tough sledding.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2013 9:25 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Abu Sayyaf militant involved in missionary kidnappings nabbed
Philippine authorities are holding an Abu Sayyaf militant identified as one of those who kidnapped a group of Filipino evangelists in 2002 in the southern town of Patikul.

Security forces on Thursday captured Ustadz Nijal Pajiran alias Abu Kudama, in the village of Tictapul. Chief Inspector Ariel Huesca said Pajiran is facing a number of criminal charges in connection with the ransom kidnappings of 6 members of the Jehovah's Witnesses -- two of them were later decapitated by the Abu Sayyaf after their family failed to pay the ransoms and the rest freed during a military rescue operation. He said,"Pajiran will be immediately flown to Manila for subsequent turnover to the court."

No further details were made available, but Huesca said Pajiran's capture was the result of lengthy intelligence operations by various law enforcement agencies and the military.
This article starring:
USTADZ NIJAL PAJIRAN ALIAS ABU KUDAMAAbu Sayyaf
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India-Pakistan
Curfew imposed in Rawalpindi as violence claims eight lives
[Dawn] A curfew was imposed in Rawalpindi after eight persons were killed and a market was burnt on Friday during a clash between two groups in relation to the harassment of an Ashura procession in Rawalpindi's Raja Bazar area, DawnNews reported.

Spokesperson for the Punjab government was quoted by TV news channels as saying that keeping in view the tense situation in Rawalpindi a curfew was imposed in the city.

Authorities also decided that cellphone services would remain suspended in the city until Sunday.

The Jaffria Alliance condemned the violence in Rawalpindi and demanded from the Punjab government to bring to justice those who had resorted to gunfire.

A cloth market situated in Rawalpindi's Raja Bazaar was set on fire by unknown persons while members of the rival groups resorted to stone-pelting and firing.

"The festivities started when a sermon was being delivered from a Sunni mosque which was on the procession route." Waseem Ahmed, a police official told AFP.

The clash triggered a stampede in the procession which caused more casualties.

"The corpse count from the festivities have reached to eight people and 44 others are injured," Qasim Khan, a doctor at Rawalpindi's district hospital, told AFP.

"Among 44 maimed people brought to our hospital, 13 had gunshot wounds," Khan said.

He said five maimed people were shifted to another hospital.

The violence prompted Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif to take notice of the incident and also seek a report from officials.

Police officer Afzal Hussain told AP earlier that participants of a procession beat to death three men in Rawalpindi, belonging to a seminary, for insulting them as their procession passed the seminary.

The procession members dragged the harassers out of the seminary after hearing the shouted insults and beat them to death, Hussain said.

They also set several shops outside the seminary on fire, he said.

Police tried to stop the clash, but officers were maimed as the two sides threw stones at each other, Hussain said.

All fire brigades in the city were deployed to put out the fire.

An army unit based in Rawalpindi was called in which eventually reached the scene and took control of the situation.
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TTP 'backing out of Manazra challenge'
[Dawn] The Sunni Ittehad Council said on Thursday that the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain was now backing out of its Manazra challenge on jihad and martyrdom.

The TTP had pledged to cease its activities in Pakistain if its representatives lost the debate.

Accepting the challenge, the SIC had asked the Taliban to either visit Lahore, 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.
, 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...
or Islamabad for the debate.

The TTP, however, refused to visit these cities, saying its activists couldn't afford to come out of their hidings.

It also criticized the SIC for setting tough conditions for the debate.

In a statement, the SIC said a panel of judges headed by the CJP and comprising non-political holy mans/scholars and chief justices of high courts could be constituted to watch the manazra.

The SIC rejected the Taliban proposal to hold the debate outside Pakistain. It also urged country's top holy mans and religious parties' leaders to unite to make the Taliban surrender.
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The Grand Turk
PKK terrorists fire on Turkish military convoy despite cease-fire
Terrorists from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fired on a Turkish military convoy on Friday in the southeastern province of Mardin despite an eight-month cease-fire, Today`s Zaman reported. The attack is the biggest assault by PKK terrorists since March this year, when jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan announced the cease-fire.
Terrorists are terrorists. The Turks should hunt down and extirpate the PKK...
The Turkish army said in a statement that a group of terrorists ambushed a four-vehicle army convoy and two units of gendarmerie special forces near Eskihisar village in the Nusaybin district and fired 100-150 rounds of ammunition with automatic rifles.

The statement added that one rocket propelled grenade was also fired from an RPG-7 launcher at an armored vehicle, but missed. The army said the troops immediately returned fire with automatic rifles in "legitimate defense." It said the terrorist fire stopped after the troops returned fire.

The statement said when the units returned to Üçköy Gendarmerie Command, inspections showed that two armored vehicles had been hit by 30 and 40 bullets each. The statement noted that no army personnel were injured in the incident.

The Turkish government has been holding talks with Öcalan as part of a settlement process launched October last year to find a peaceful and political solution to the decades-old Kurdish dispute and the armed conflict. Öcalan called on PKK militants to withdraw from Turkish soil to northern Iraq in a message on March 21.
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India-Pakistan
Old partners split 'formally'
[Dawn] WHEN did the Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
have it so good on the national stage the last time?

Perhaps in the old ideological days when this country was divided across the left and the right. Or before the days it resigned to playing second fiddle to the PML of Nawaz Sharif.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 11/16/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami


Government
EPA scales back enthanol mandate
[Daily Caller] You have to take it away before you can give it back.... just before the mid-term election.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Looks once again that the Democrats or DemoLeft aren't waiting after the EOY 2013-2014 holiday season + session breaks to hit the GOP-Right hard.

Unless Boehner can effec maintain GOP unity, I predict that the GOP will panic again + Dems will prevail as per ObamaCare, Immigration, Debt Ceiling, etc.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/16/2013 0:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Ethanol isn't as green as it's cracked up to be.
http://host.madison.com/news/prairies-vanish-in-the-us-push-for-green-energy/article_a5b754dd-80e6-504b-a035-83745d7dd447.html
Posted by: mom || 11/16/2013 0:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Burning perfectly drinkable ethanol while the land gushes with oil and natural gas? Beware the wrath of Dionysus!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/16/2013 7:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Need some PAC money from Big Oil for the 2014 election campaigning?
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/16/2013 8:24 Comments || Top||

#5  A quote from this article: the ethanol mandate is "a fundamentally flawed program that limps along year after year, wreaking havoc on those required to participate, including the American consumer."
This could be just as well applied to Obamacare, and the remedy is the same: congressional repeal of legislation authorizing the program.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/16/2013 12:55 Comments || Top||

#6  ALCOHOL BURNS, NOT AS GOOD AS gasoline, BUT IT BURNS, that's the whole ethanol practice, now get a burning substance that burns as well as Gasoline, and use it.

At present there is none.

This mandate (Filthy word) Is the best available (And the cheapest, which is part of the calculation) and it's "Weighted" as such.(It's favored BECAUSE it's cheap)
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 11/16/2013 13:10 Comments || Top||

#7  So tell me ageen, hows a man sposta make a livin, if he ain't doin squeezens?

Posted by: Phusoger Prince of the Lichtensteiners7911 || 11/16/2013 13:15 Comments || Top||

#8  As much as I despise Obama, he is not the one who created the ethanol mandate - it was Congress, before Obama's time. It was a buyoff for the critters from corn states.

Because so much corn is turned into ethanol, worldwide food prices have risen. This means that poor people are less able to buy the food they need.

Luckily for the US government, the poor people are in other countries, so we don't see them.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 11/16/2013 13:17 Comments || Top||

#9  http://www.eutimes.net/2013/11/us-ethanol-revolution-causes-ecological-disaster/
Posted by: Dale || 11/16/2013 16:39 Comments || Top||

#10  Rambler raises an interesting point. Grain belt farmers won't be so happy about this. Guess they just don't contribute as much as oil men.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/16/2013 18:12 Comments || Top||



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