A burrito caused a minor scare at an Oklahoma City police briefing station after a man brought the foil-wrapped object in for analysis.
Oklahoma City Police Capt. Dexter Nelson says a man discovered a Thermos-type container in his lawn Thursday afternoon and brought it to a police briefing station. Nelson says the container was heavy and had tinfoil protruding from the lid, so the man considered it suspicious.
The Oklahoman reports that officers told the man to leave the container outside and the police bomb squad X-rayed the item. The analysis determined that it was only a burrito.
Although it was harmless, police aren't laughing at the incident. Nelson says anyone who finds a suspicious object should call authorities _ not bring it to a police station themselves.
Did you know that eating or even talking about a peanut butter and jelly sandwich could be considered racist?
Thats right.
Apparently, its because people in some cultures dont eat sandwich bread. Verenice Gutierrez, principal of Harvey Scott K-8 School in Portland explained in and interview with the Portland Tribune: Time for Macdonough's Song?
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But, but, some places don't know what peanut butter is! And in some places bread is offensive somehow? Or maybe the kids are too stupid to figure out what bread is? Or is their self-esteem harmed because they don't have bread? Are we teaching anybody that they should be hypersensitive to . . . the existence of bread? Help. I must be missing something.
Shh! Don't tell any of these idiots that peanut butter was invented by a black guy! That would give them all heart attacks!
Oh, I just had an idea on how to make the world a better place . . . .
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#1 Shh! Don't tell any of these idiots that peanut butter was invented by a black guy! That would give them all heart attacks!
Also, jelly is practically jam. You wanna take the jam out of schools? Saint Michael, pray for us! And bread? Who talks about bread? Jesus. Okay, skip that, even if he was black. Who else? Hippies, who got it from beatniks [beep], who got it from Cab Calloway. Some brother, anyway. So you got some jammin-ass pumpernickel [beepbeep] jellyroll peanut butter sandwitches [beepbeepbeep], and you wanna take 'em away from schoolkids? Uh. Huh. Feel like I'm back at a school board meeting.
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Who knew that a peanut butter and jelly sammich has more IQ points that a Portland principal.
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Another thing I love that makes me a racist. Soon they will say only extremists eat PB&J. Then my racist/extremist monicer will be complete....
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Another way would be to say: Americans eat peanut butter and jelly, do you have anything like that? Let them tell you. Maybe they eat torta. Or pita.
I think kids are capable of grasping the similarity between pita and sandwich bread.
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On the third day of Creation, God created peanut butter.
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George Washington Carver was often credited with the invention of peanut butter. While he may have made peanut butter, the preparation arose in other cultures independently. The Aztecs were known to have made it from ground peanuts in the 15th century, and Marcellus Gilmore Edson was awarded U.S. Patent 306,727 (for its manufacture) in 1884, when Carver was 20.
Marcellus Gilmore Edson ...... George Washington Carver
except Obamacare
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Racism is one of the Left's holy religious sacraments. Notice how, like the Medieval period when everything from daily life to any functional action of society or culture revolved around the Church, everything today for the Left revolves around racism.
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We have to admit McCarthy was right about the infiltration of the media and the universities by communists and leftists (is there a difference?)
The reason McCarthy was demonized was because he exposed them and the media turned on him in fear of being exposed for what they are.
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I actually like almond butter instead of peanut butter on my sammiches, using Dave's Killer Bread.
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What (I think) I remember from way back, Au Auric (#10), was Carver found a zillion uses for the peanut. I suppose it's a short hop from that to the "invention" of peanut putter. He would've been my guess, so I 'ppreciate the lesson.
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The Department of Justice in late September announced a plea agreement with John C. Beale, until recently a senior career employee at EPA's Office of Air and Radiation. Beale, 64, has admitted to devoting most of his 23-year career to bilking taxpayers of some $900,000 in pay and expenses.
Prosecutors estimate that from 2000 to 2013 Beale was absent from his EPA duties for a total of 2.5 years, claiming to be working for "Langley" or on a special EPA "research project."
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Beale lived his EPA cover for 23 years, never missed a step increase, never wrote a book, never leaked a secret, was never involved in any shady foreign weapons transfers or murders, and only cost the taxpayer $900,000.
[Al Ahram] A senior member of Turkey's ruling party stirred up a new furore on Thursday over the imposition of Islamic values in the country, saying it was a "big mistake" to allow boys and girls to study together.
The comments by deputy parliament speaker Sadik Yakut followed a storm of controversy over a push by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier this month to do away with mixed-sex dorms at universities.
Erdogan's Islamist-leaning government has increasingly come under fire over what critics see as attempts to enforce Islamic norms in the predominantly Moslem but staunchly secular country.
"Having girls and boys educated at the same schools in the name of a pro-West approach is unfortunately a mistake that has been made from the past up until now," Yakut told a parliamentary gathering.
Yakut, a member of Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP), said the situation would be "corrected" soon, without elaborating.
Yakut's comments drew criticism from the main opposition secular Republican People's Party (CHP), with women politicians accusing him of being backward minded.
"It is complete nonsense to talk about these things in the 21st century," CHP deputy head Perihan Sari said in parliament.
Another CHP politician, Aylin Nazliaka, asked: "When will you make women sit behind curtains?"
Erdogan earlier this month said the government would act to stop male and female students living together in university dorms, ordering governors of the country's 81 provinces to monitor student residences and speak out against immoral behaviour.
Critics say that Erdogan's 11-year rule has left Turkish society more polarised than ever, with opponents of the government openly voicing concerns that Turkey is sliding toward conservative Islam.
Last month, four female AKP politicians wore headscarves in parliament for the first time, breaking a long taboo.
And this week, Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc angered Greece when he voiced hope that Hagia Sophia, an ancient Byzantine complex in Istanbul, be converted into a mosque.
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[Nigerian Tribune] Terrorists, suspected to be members of the dreaded 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... sect, were said to have launched attacks on farmers, killing nine people and setting ablaze over 20 farms about to be harvested in Konduga Local Government Area of Borno State.
Konduga is about 40 kilometres away from Maiduguri, the state capital. It had witnessed series of attacks and bombings by the myrmidons. The most deadly of the attacks in the last three months was when about 50 worshippers were killed in a mosque during morning prayers.
Speaking with the Nigerian Tribune at the Government House in Maiduguri, Alhaji Umar Baganin Laifinka, who accompanied the Caretaker Chairman of Konduga, Alhaji Ali Abbari, to see the deputy governor on the matter lamented the rate at which Boko Haram bully boyz are wrecking havoc in communities in Konduga, saying it calls for urgent government intervention.
Laifinka stated that: "In the last seven days, Boko Haram bully boyz have killed over nine people and set ablaze over 20 farmlands about to be harvested. As I am talking to you now, our people living in Balge and Umba villages behind Kwatan Yobe, have been displaced as gunnies have not only set their farmlands ablaze, but their residential houses."
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[Pak Daily Times] At least seven people, including a policeman, were killed and over 40 others maimed in kabooms in various towns of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... on Thursday. At least five people were killed and 23 others maimed in a powerful kaboom in Quetta. The injured included three personnel of Frontier Corps (FC), five policeman, women and kiddies. Police said unidentified people had fitted explosives with a cycle of violence and parked it at Sirki Road. The bomb went kaboom! soon after a security vehicle passed by.
"The blast badly damaged over seven vehicles, including that of the security forces, and shattered windowpanes of nearby markets and a bank," a police official said, adding that 7 to 8 kilogrammes of explosive was used in the bomb that exploded remotely.
He said that the vehicle of security forces was the main target of the bomb. Most of the injured were passersby. The rescue workers shifted the dead and injured to Civil Hospital Quetta.
Later, the seriously injured people were shifted to CMH. One policeman and a scavenger were among the dead. The condition of three of the injured was said to be serious.
Balochistan Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch strongly condemned the kaboom and said that those who are committing such acts are not well-wishers of anybody. Meanwhikle, three people were maimed in a kaboom in Chaman town which borders Afghanistan.
Chaman Assistant Commissioner Ismail Ibrahim said that the explosives were rigged to a motorbike which was parked at Eidgah Chowk.
"The explosives were detonated remotely," Ibrahim said.
The injured were moved to a local hospital for medical aid and later shifted to Quetta where condition of one of them was said to be serious.
Also, four corpses dead bodies were discovered from Grog area in Nal Tehsil of Khuzdar and Panjgur districts. According to a local levies official, two of the victims were kidnapped by a group of gunnies from Nal and their bodies were found on Thursday.
The spokesperson of Balochistan National Party (BNP) said the victims were their activists and had been targeted because of the party's political views. Similarly, two dead bodies were recovered from Panjgur District.
The victims had been rubbed out. In another incident, armed bikers hurled a hand grenade in Turbat town of Kech District, killing two men who were said to be labourers hailing from Gilgit-Baltistan.
Moreover, three women were maimed in a landmine blast in Dera Bugti.
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[An Nahar] An al-Qaeda front group fighting in Iraq and Syria has called for jihadist groups to join forces under its banner, according to an audio message posted Thursday on the Internet.
In remarks purportedly made by Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) front man said bully boy groups should close ranks against Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... .
"We call for all jihadist leaders and soldiers and people to accelerate in joining the project of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant," Adnani said.
The authenticity of the audio message and the identity of the speaker could not be independently verified.
Adnani cautioned against judging ISIL on the basis of "what the media portrays or through what our enemies say, such as false charges and lies, but by what you see and feel by yourselves."
His remarks come weeks after al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri ... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area. That is not a horn growing from the middle of his forehead, but a prayer bump, attesting to how devout he is... ordered ISIL to shut down in Syria and instead anointed Al-Nusra Front, another group affiliated with al-Qaeda, to carry the network's banner in the Syrian conflict.
Zawahiri's November 8 demand confirmed a written order issued in June that has so far gone unheeded.
ISIL has instead defied Zawahiri's orders and continued to operate in Syria, where opposition activists have accused the group of escalating abuses against Syrian rebels and civilians.
When the Islamic State of Iraq originally announced it had become ISIL in April 2013, the group's chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi said Al-Nusra Front was its branch in Syria.
But Al-Nusra commander Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani rejected that assertion and instead affirmed his allegiance to Zawahiri.
This article starring:
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
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HHHHMMMM, HHHHMMMM, intehwesting, Baby Assad versus the new "Islamic Front" coalition versus a new pro-Qaeda coalition - IS THERE NO LOVE FOR THE KURDS???
* FYI DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > VIDEO: A ARMY OF 70,000 MUJAHIDEENS MERGE TO FORM THE NEW "ISLAMIC FRONT" ALLIANCE.
[An Nahar] Authorities have jugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! four female al-Qaeda suspects in southeastern Yemen as they attempted to flee the scene of deadly festivities between police and jihadists, a security official said Thursday.
The women, three of them Saudis, were arrested Wednesday as they tried to flee a house in Shahr, in the bad boy stronghold of Hadramawt province, the source said.
Al-Qaeda suspects hiding in two houses had shot up police searching the area, and three people from each side were killed, police said Wednesday.
Witnesses confirmed the arrest of four veiled women, who they said were leaving one of the houses with a child through the back door.
The women, who "were cooperating with al-Qaeda," were later flown by helicopter to Sanaa, the official said, without providing further details.
Tension prevailed in Shahr Thursday as government forces set up roadblocks and beefed up security, residents said.
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[Al Ahram] Saudi inquisitors religious policeincarcerated I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! two young men offering a "free hug" to passers-by in the ultra-conservative Moslem kingdom's capital, local media reported Thursday.
The arrests were made in the main Tahlia Street where the two men were waving banners marked "Free Hug" in English, according to news website Sabq.org.
Free Hugs Campaign is a movement for individuals to offer hugs to strangers in public places, especially in big cities, "to brighten up their lives".
The initiative prompted surprise and controversy in Saudi society.
"It's a free hug, not a free drug for God's sake!" wrote one Tweeter in support of the campaign.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... another user slammed the move. "Today it's one hug, tomorrow it's a free kiss, and the next day it'll be free sex!"
The inquisitors religious police, or Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, is charged with ensuring compliance with the kingdom's strict interpretation of Islamic morality.
But it is often accused of abuses.
Religious police ensure women obey Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's ban on women drivers, implement a ban on public entertainment and force all businesses to close for prayers five times a day.
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Man Hunting in the Field
I just love Hanky Panky Arab style, after all its in the book.
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he above is in refernce to the practice of Nikâḥ al-Mutʿah "pleasure marriage".
Both Shias and Sunnis agree that Mut'ah was legal in the beginning. Ibn Kathir writes:
"There's no doubt that in the outset of Islam, Mut'ah was allowed under the Shari'ah".
While the practice is now considered an arrangement of a permanent marriage by Sunnis, Shias consider the practice as a method for valid temporary marriage. Shia also give list hadith regarding the use of Nikah Mut'ah after Muhammad from salaf in favor of Nikah Mut'ah after Muhammad.
Since KSA is a Sunni country, the religious police have a valid arguement, in that they may see this as "creeping Shia forces' at work.
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[Libya Herald] Five militia bases have been formally handed over to the national army in a series of ceremonies today. They were vacated by brigades that already fell under Interior or Defense ministries but had kept their internal command structure intact. Prime Minister Ali Zeidan attended two of the handovers and commended the brigades for taking the right step.
The five ceremonies featured the handover of the headquarters of Nawasi, Qaaqaa, Al-Madani and Al-Sawaq brigades and the anti-drug unity, Quwat Al-Rada.
The ceremonies took place during the day with many bigwigs from government and military attending the events. Members of the General National Congress and 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... Local Council were also present.
The two attended by Prime Minister Ali Zeidan were at the headquarters of Al-Sawaq Brigade at the Islamic Call Society centre and of Quwat Al-Rada in Mitiga airbase. Zeidan thanked the revolutionaries for doing a "very big job for the 17 February revolution".
"It is time to take the big step of making Libya a state with the complete rule of law. The only people carrying weapons should be army and police. It is a call for everyone anywhere in the country to take note of today and handover their weapons and bases to the national army. There will be no exceptions," announced Zeidan.
Earlier today, the Qaaqaa Brigade handed over their base in the capital's Fallah district to the Border and Facilities Guard, which comes under the Chief of Staff's office. The brigade evacuated the base with all their weapons to some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location in compliance with GNC Law Nos. 27 and 53.
Jemal Al-Bakai, one of the unit commanders told the Libya Herald that the pull-out would be total, but also said he did not how many fighters were being evacuated. In the event, news hounds saw no more than 30 technicals withdrawing through the main gate. "We aren't leaving any weapons," Bakai said, "We earned them during the war." He added that 60 percent of the brigade were from from Tripoli.
"We are disbanding, " said Bakai,"and some of us are going to join the army. Former army officers in the brigade have negotiated with the Ministry of Defence and will be allowed to rejoin the army with their former ranks. Those who were civilians and became rebels will join the army as training cadets".
The Al-Medani Brigade, already under Ministry of Defense, was the second brigade to withdraw its forces todayand hand over the Yarmouk base in Salahadeen district to the Chief of Staff's forces.
Brigade commander Ibrahim Al-Medani told the Libya Herald that there had been between "four and five thousand" fighters at the base, one of the largest in Libya, but that a lot of them had gone back to their jobs. He said that others might now be joining the army on an individual basis.
Asked why the brigade had only chosen to hand over the facility now, Medani said: "Gharghour was the biggest reason for our decision. We don't want to be involved in the same sort of violence. We have been trying for over a year with the Ministry of Defence , the Chief of Staff and the government to organise the handover without jeopardising the base, by having it taken over by another militia...There was no pressure to move before -- no one could have forced us out". He added that he very much hoped that all other militias would now get out of Tripoli as well.
The headquarters of Quwat Al-Rada (the anti-drugs SWAT unit) inside the Mitiga base was also handed over to the Chief of Staff's forces. The members of the unit have been told to individually join the Interior or Defense Ministries' forces. The commander of the 3rd Infantry Regiment (Liwa Al-Thalat), Colonel Wanis Sahili, confirmed that the army was taking over the unit's weapons and equipment. He also thanked the unit for its extraordinary work in the past few months.
The Nawasi Brigade of Suq Al-Juma also quit its base this evening at an event attended by officials. Here Colonel Sahili asserted that the Nawasi was non-functional from today. He also said that his men had received the weapons from Nawasi and the members willing to continue a security career "would now join the forces individually in a professional way".
The Al-Sawaq Brigade based in Islamic Call Society buildings also announced it was quitting the capital today. Speaking at the handover ceremony there, Zeidan said that he wished a speedy recovery to the maimed.
"After so many people died we had to intervene," he said.
Referring to the general strike protesting the militias that has gripped the city for a week, Zeidan said that since the evacuation of all the brigades from the capital was becoming a reality, everyone should return to work. Addressing his comments to public servants, he said that if they did not end their strike, there would be consequences -- but did not spell them out.
He stressed that no local authorities could make any "sovereign decisions for the country" -- a clear reference to Tripoli Local Council's continuing strike in the capital in a bid to force out all the militias there.
The evacuations meant that the state could assert its illusory sovereignty and start to take control of weapons, the Prime Minister claimed. He revealed that he was going to ask Congress to pass new legislation which would dissolve every militia in the country and forbid anyone without a military ID number from holding a weapon, unless they had obtained a licence.
"Weapons have been at the heart of our problems," Zeidan said. " I assure you that if we stop the widespread holding of weapons, security will improve substantially." He warned, however, that there were "powers" that did not want Libyans to enjoy freedom and security and that people needed to beware of them. He urged Libyans to support and cooperate with the police and army.
The enforcement of the GNC law Nos. 27 and 53 has surprised many in the city. The pressure generated by the calls for protest and civil disobedience by Tripoli Local Council (TLC) leader, Sadat Elbadri, gave a much-needed boost to the government, enabling it to pressure the brigades into disbanding or at least moving out of the capital. The tough stance of the TLC against brigades found much public support and Zeidan seized the chance by calling in the national army.
The departures by the brigades have pleased many in the capital but it remains to be seen if there will any real change on the ground. There are reports already circulating that brigades have simply moved out to farms outside the capital.
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[Al Ahram] Militias from a string of Libyan cities have left the capital, Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , nearly a week after more than 40 people protesting their presence in the city were killed by militiamen.
Thursday's withdrawal is a triumph for the residents of Tripoli, who on Nov. 15 held a mass protest against the militias, which have fueled lawlessness nationwide since the 2011 fall of longtime leader Muammar Qadaffy ... who had more funny outfits than Louis XIV... .
The heavily gangs, some of them led by Islamic Death Eaters, have defied control by the weak central government, carving out fiefdoms and acting as a law unto themselves.
Witnesses said the Death Eaters gave their bases to army troops in handover ceremonies before they headed out of the city with their weapons, mostly assault rifles, anti-aircraft guns mounted on pickup trucks and rocket-propelled grenades.
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[Libya Herald] A Benghazi police officer was the target of an liquidation attempt yesterday and his brother, who was driving, was maimed, when an bomb planted in his vehicle exploded.
A spokesperson for the Benghazi Medical Centre, where the colonel's brother is being treated, told the Libyan news agency LANA that he was maimed in the blast. He would now face surgery to both his legs and one of his hands, the spokesperson said.
The device went kaboom! when the vehicle was driven across a bridge near the Benghazi Medical Centre. The colonel, who has not been named for safety reasons, works at Benghazi's Sabri cop shoppe.
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[FREEBEACON] The term "Obamacare" has largely disappeared from the mouths of Democrats as the president's health care reform law has gone from a rallying cry to a political grenade.
President B.O. once said he embraced the phrase on the 2012 campaign trail, telling supporters, "I do care." As recently as Nov. 8, Obama predicted to a laughing crowd in New Orleans that his political opponents would stop using the term once the law became popular.
"I know health care is controversial, so there's only going to be so much support we get on that on a bipartisan basis -- until it's working really well, and then they're going to stop calling it Obamacare," he said. "They're going to call it something else."
However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... it has seemed to change names with the Democrats instead as the law's popularity has slumped to new lows in the wake of Obama's broken promises, rising premiums, insurance cancellations and a disastrous rollout. Obama's approval rating has also plummeted as a result.
During an apologetic presser Nov. 14, Obama referred to his law as the Affordable Care Act 12 times but did not say "Obamacare" once. House Minority 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... , who has referred to the law as Obamacare in the past, told Meet the Press host David Gregory that she "always" referred to it as the Affordable Care Act during an interview Sunday, and other Democrats are backing off the term as well.
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Well, it'll never be called Hillary-Care. Like its (dead) predecessor, that it.
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You can put lipstick on a pig, but he's still a pig.
- Can't remember who said that :-)
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Can't remember who said that :-) Besoeker this will jog your memory
Pigs have long featured in proverbial expressions: a "pig's ear," a "pig in a poke," as well as the Biblical expressions "pearls before swine" and "ring of gold in a swine's snout." Indeed, whereas the phrase "lipstick on a pig" seems to have been coined in the 20th century, the concept of the phrase may not be particularly recent. The similar expression, "You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear" seems to have been in use by the middle of the 16th century or earlier. Thomas Fuller, the British physician, noted the use of the phrase "A hog in armour is still but a hog" in 1732, here, as the Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1796) later noted "hog in armour" alludes to "an awkward or mean looking man or woman, finely dressed." The Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon (18341892) recorded the variation "A hog in a silk waistcoat is still a hog" in his book of proverbs The Salt-Cellars (published 1887).
The "lipstick" variant of the phrase is more modern (the word "lipstick" itself was only coined in 1880). The rhetorical effect of linking pigs with lipstick was explored in 1926 by Charles F. Lummis, in the Los Angeles Times, when he wrote "Most of us know as much of history as a pig does of lipsticks." However, the first recorded uses of "putting lipstick on a pig" are later. In an article in the Quad-City Herald (Brewster, Washington) from Jan. 31 1980, it was observed that "You can clean up a pig, put a ribbon on it's [sic] tail, spray it with perfume, but it is still a pig." The phrase was also reported in 1985 when The Washington Post quoted a San Francisco radio host from KNBR-AM remarking "That would be like putting lipstick on a pig" in reference to plans to refurbish Candlestick Park (rather than constructing a new stadium for the San Francisco Giants).
Besoeker, give us a kiss....
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For any program to work, be it overhauling a bicycle or overhauling a national health care plan that is 1/5th of the nations economy, it all has to start with a solid plan. Obama and all of his "Community Activists" have never planned, organized, staffed, or directed a program of any size through completion. All they ever do is intimidate a city into implementing their ideas, leaving it all for someone else to figure out. What I believe we are seeing is the classic failures of an activist at a global level.
The issue now becomes of fixing the issue at hand. We cant go back, they have poisoned the well so to speak. We have to now figure out how to rebuild 1/5th of our economic structure and not totally destroy this nation in the process.
This is not an obumble sized failure, its bigger than his normal screw ups and will take the very best we have to save the health care in America.
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Dems know they may be screwed in the next election. They just nuked Senate filibusters so they can pack as many liberal judges in the Judicial Branch, the branch they have always had trouble with, before they head out the door.
[An Nahar] Five pro-Assad Jordanian trade unionists were maimed by a roadside kaboom in Syria Thursday as they were returning home after meeting officials in Damascus, one of them said.
Members of the Jordan Writers' Association and other unionists who support the regime of 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... were aboard a bus that "was targeted by a roadside kaboom near the border," Hussein Motawea, head of the delegation, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"Five people, including myself, were maimed," he added, saying the group had met various Syrian officials during their four-day visit.
"I blame terrorist groups for the attack. The Jordanian government is also responsible because it supports Syrian terrorists," he added, without elaborating.
Officials were not immediately available for comment.
Jordanians generally sympathize with rebels fighting the Syrian government, but some nationalists back the Assad regime.
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Incidents like this will help to measure how well, or NOT, the AFL-CIO + aligned are transforming + reacting, etc. to the extra/post-Nationalism-Sovereignty-Constitutional Age of Globalism + OWG-NWO = SPACE GOVT-ORDER.
[An Nahar] Madagascar's military-backed government sacked a third of the country's regional administrators and replaced them with army brass ahead of a second round of presidential elections, prompting allegations of a partial coup Thursday.
Andry Rajoelina's government appointed five colonels and three generals to run the eight provinces, predominantly in the lawless south of the country where cattle rustling is common.
Rajoelina seized power from former president Marc Ravalomanana in 2009 in a military-backed coup.
The government said in a statement Wednesday that the move affecting about a third of the country's 22 regions was made because of "the candidacy of some regional leaders to legislative elections, recent insecurity and the national political context".
National newspapers accused Rajoelina of forming a military junta.
It is the second round of such sackings. In August the government dismissed seven regional leaders, replacing them with civilian appointees.
On December 20 voters are expected to choose a new president, with many hoping it will put an end to years of political turmoil.
Former defense minister and retired General Desire Ramakavelo told Agence La Belle France Presse the decision could foreshadow a state of emergency being declared.
"Such a decision is not ideal given the context, on the eve of the second round."
Amid international pressure, former Ravalomanana and Rajoelina are not candidates in this year's presidential elections, but their surrogates are in the run-off.
Jean Louis Robinson, Ravalomanana's candidate and Hery Rajaonarimampianina backed by Rajoelina, collected respectively 21 and 16 percent of the vote in the first round.
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Not just coup, but the Govt-Army's general response to Hard Boyz trying to set up camps in Madagascar in order to strike at southern Africa.
[Al Ahram] An Egyptian police officer was killed in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia after two assailants fired at him from a moving cycle of violence on Thursday.
Captain Ahmed Abu Doma died from a bullet wound near his heart after being transferred to the hospital.
Police forces were able to arrest one of the perpetrators, Saad Gaber, who is now under investigation.
Since the popularly-backed military ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... in July, attacks against army and police personnel have skyrocketed.
The Egyptian government passed a number of "anti-terrorism" decrees on Thursday, among them a request to create special prosecution units concerned specifically with crimes of "terrorism."
Eleven soldiers were killed when a boom-mobile detonated near their bus in the Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday. On Monday, a police officer responsible for investigating charges against Morsi was rubbed out near his home in Cairo.
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[Al Ahram] A boom-mobile in a packed food market north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... killed 30 people on Thursday as a surge in violence nationwide pushed Iraq's corpse count for 2013 above 5,800. The rise in unrest has forced officials to appeal for international help in fighting the country's worst bloodshed since 2008, just months before Iraq's first elections in four years.
Thursday's attack comes a day after a spate of violence across the country, including a wave of bombings in the capital, killed 59 people and left more than 100 maimed, marking Iraq's deadliest day this month.
The latest kaboom went off at around noon (0900 GMT) near a cafe in a food market in the town of Saadiyah, which lies northest of Storied Baghdad in restive ethnically-mixed Diyala province.
At least 30 people were killed and 40 others maimed in the blast, according to a police colonel and a doctor, both of whom spoke on condition of anonymity.
Saadiyah is populated mostly by Faylis, or Shiite Kurds, and lies within a tract of disputed territory that is claimed by both the central government and Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region.
Militants frequently exploit poor communication between the two sides' security forces in order to carry out attacks.
Most recently, a jacket wallah targeting a group of Shiite pilgrims in the town on November 14, the anniversary of the death of a venerated figure in Shiite Islam, killed 32 people.
Thursday's attack came after a series of boom-mobileings in Storied Baghdad, along with several other attacks nationwide, killed 59.
No group has grabbed credit for the violence, but Sunni Death Eaters linked to Al-Qaeda often carry out bloody attacks ostensibly in a bid to undermine confidence in the Shiite-led government and security forces.
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You would have to wear a turban to truly understand.
But then the bright side is that all the dead were wearing turbans too.
[POST-GAZETTE] A federal judge today granted a preliminary injunction to organizations associated with the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh and the Diocese of Erie against Affordable Care Act requirements that their insurers cover contraception and similar services.
The decision is almost certain to be appealed to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but it marks an important early win for the church groups in their case against federal officials and agencies.
The Affordable Care Act requires that most employers provide coverage for their employees starting Jan. 1 that includes contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs. Churches are exempt, but church-related nonprofit organizations like Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pittsburgh are not.
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At least someone is refusing the, as the Supreme Court called it, Obamacare tax. Societies are taxed into poverty in the name of "Great" Socialist Government Works.
Individualism creats wealth and prosperity. Faith can be a strong cornerstone of individualism. Now the leftists will truly be pissed at the Christian faith. Watch for escalation of retribution.
[Pak Daily Times] With allegations of sorcery and featuring a feared autocratic ruler and the downfall of an ambitious daughter, it could be one of those mediaeval verse epics for which Central Asia is famed.
But it is the very contemporary medium of Twitter that has exposed the extraordinary rift at the heart of Uzbekistan's ruling family and the sudden fall from grace of the once all-powerful first daughter Gulnara Karimova. Until this autumn, little information seeped out over splits within the elite of the tightly-controlled nation which has been run by Gulnara's father, President Islam Karimov, since before the fall of the Soviet Union.
Gulnara, who managed to combine politics with a career as a pop star, fashion designer and head of charitable funds, was one of Uzbekistan's key powerbrokers and seen as a potential successor to her 75-year-old father.
But that changed in October when Gulnara unleashed a broadside of tweets lamenting her fate and attacking enemies, showing she had fallen from her perch.
The latest twist came Thursday when Gulnara tweeted that police had jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... several of her supporters. She said she had gone to the cop shoppe to have them freed but was not detained herself.
"What we are seeing now is that the main financial-industrial clans are joining together against Gulnara Karimova," said Andrei Grozin, head of Central Asia studies at the CIS institute in Moscow.
"The main figures in Uzbek politics were dissatisfied with her. They saw a dangerous opponent who should be eliminated and the circumstances coincided to launch an attack against her."
Gulnara has long embraced Twitter, tirelessly plugging the songs she performs under the name Googoosha, promoting her businesses, and posting sometimes bizarre aspects of her daily life such as pictures of herself in a sequence of yoga positions.
But it was on Twitter that she revealed in late October that her media empire -- including the TV channels TV Markaz and Forum TV -- was being shut down by the authorities. In an apparent all-out crackdown on her interests, more than a dozen boutiques selling Western clothes in Tashkent, believed to belong to Gulnara or her business partners were closed down on allegations of tax evasion and other charges.
She said her business associate Rustam Madumarov was locked away You have the right to remain silent... and the authorities raided the Nirvana music stores that he owns and have been linked to her own business empire. She then took aim at one of the most powerful figures in the country, the shadowy head of the Uzbek security service Rustam Inoyatov, whom she accused of plotting against her and seeking the presidency. Gulnara also claimed to have been the victim of poisoning attempts "with heavy metals like mercury".
Gulnara then renounced her presidential ambitions on Twitter, saying she wanted to be a "painter, poet and photographer".
And in an astonishing change of image for a woman who just months before posted pictures of herself in skimpy shorts doing contortionist yoga positions, Gulnara showed herself in a Moslem dress.
While Inoyatov has emerged as Karimova's clear arch foe, it remains unclear exactly what role her father has played in her fall from grace. But in the authoritarian state, it seems impossible without his approval.
"It is possible that Karimov is disappointed in her and has decided she is not capable or loyal enough. It is possible that Inoyatov put a dossier against her on Karimov's desk," said Grozin.
"Distrust has emerged between father and daughter and this is now being used by everyone who is against her."
Inoyatov would likely not be short of compromising information to denounce Gulnara, who has been dogged for years by allegations of money laundering in Europe that have already prompted an investigation in La Belle France.
In her Tweets, she has said enigmatically: "Papa has nothing to do with it... He is not VERY aware of what is going on."
She also wrote cryptically about her mother Tatyana Karimova: "There, on the threshold, my mother is sitting and guarding."
After her younger sister Lola Karimova Tillayeva revealed they had not spoken for 12 years, Gulnara accused her sibling of being "friends with sorcerers".
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[An Nahar] The president of war-torn Central African Republic said on Thursday he no longer enjoys the power he seized in a bloody March coup as ruling the country has affected his sleep.
In a public meeting with representatives from political parties, Michel Djotodia complained that the assembled group could sleep easy while he lay awake worrying about national security, sometimes even forgetting about his wife lying next to him.
"If you don't sleep, would you cling on to the very thing that stopped you from sleeping?" he asked the group.
"Sometimes you don't even have thoughts about your wife! Sometimes, I wake up suddenly to ask the security minister what is happening!" he said, describing how ruling a country wracked by sectarian conflict had played havoc with his nocturnal routine.
The former leader of the Seleka rebels added he hoped "things changed for the better, so that I can go," despite having proclaimed himself president on March 24 in a coup that overthrew then head of state Francois Bozize.
In principle, general elections will be held in 2015 in the Central African Republic, but Djotodia and his supporters are not expected to participate.
Djotodia is the first Mohammedan president in the Christian-majority country, and some of the recent deadly violence has had religious undertones, with both churches and mosques being burnt.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius described the country as in "total disorder" on Thursday.
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Thus Michel Djotodia rebuts John Milton, Lucifer and Khan Noonien Singh: Perhaps tis not'Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.'
[An Nahar] Fighting for a key military base outside Syria's main northern city of Aleppo killed at least 15 pro-government bully boyz on Thursday, a monitoring group said.
"Fifteen members of the National Defense Forces were killed in fighting against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Al-Nusra Front and Islamist groups in the east of Aleppo province and near Base 80," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Both ISIL and Al-Nusra are loyal to al-Qaeda and have played a major role in fighting on the ground, to the concern of the opposition's Western supporters.
The army recaptured Base 80, which had provided the garrison for Aleppo's military and civilian airports, at the weekend after months of fighting.
It was one of a series of setbacks for the rebels in recent weeks around the big cities of Aleppo and Damascus.
North of the capital on Wednesday, fighting raged in the Qalamoun mountains near the Lebanese border, where a flare-up of violence has sparked a new exodus of refugees.
The mixed Christian-Sunni Musselmen area is strategic because it provides a key supply line for rebels around both Damascus and the third city of Homs to its north.
"The humanitarian situation is very bad," an opposition activist in the area told Agence La Belle France Presse by Internet.
"Because of the density of the population here, we fear a real catastrophe."
Thousands of refugees have fled Qalamoun for neighboring Leb in recent days, swamping the small border town of Arsal.
A Syrian military source said there had been fighting in the Qalamoun town of Deir Attiyeh with rebel fighters who had fled the army's recapture this week of nearby Qara.
Troops meanwhile pressed an offensive against the last rebel-held districts of Homs. At least 12 people were killed in the exchange of fire in the central city, the Observatory said.
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[Pak Daily Times] 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.... (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... Thursday strongly condemned the US drone attack in Hangu and said his party would stage a huge protest demonstration in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. on Saturday (tomorrow) to block NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... supplies forever. Imran urged Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... to take a firm stand against US Predator attacks, saying the time to play on "both sides of the wicket is over". Speaking at a presser, he said that after the Hangu attack the US can undertake such attacks in any part of the country, including the federal capital, due to the "cowardice of the Pak government". "All these attacks are happening because the government has no guts to tell the US that it must stop this madness...you never know after Hangu the next target could be a seminary in Islamabad's posh E7 sector," he cautioned. About his party's scheduled plan to block NATO supply route on November 23, the PTI chief said that a huge protest demonstration would be staged in Peshawar on Saturday. He appealed to the nation to participate in the protest if they want to get rid of US hegemony. Imran said that drone attacks are war crimes and the Peshawar High Court has already given its verdict in this regard. He vowed to block NATO supplies on official level, saying that Thursday's drone attack was carried out in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , therefore the provincial government has the right to halt these supplies officially. The PTI chairman also expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... that lives of people are at risk as the US has now expanded its missile attacks to the settled areas. "Nawaz Sharif has not bothered to condemn Thursday's US drone attack in the country's settled area (Hangu), which shows that he has no interest in issues confronting Pakistain (and) his only priority is his foreign trips," Imran regretted.
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[Al Ahram] Two Yemeni soldiers were killed on Thursday as they deployed to police a truce between Iranian catspaws and hardline Sunnis in the north, a military official said.
"A mine went kaboom! as a military vehicle passed by, killing one soldier instantly and grievously wounding another who died later," the source told AFP.
The kaboom came as the soldiers were moving in to place themselves between Zaidi Iranian catspaws and Salafist fighters in the town of Dammaj, the official said.
The deployment was taking place under a ceasefire obtained by the presidency and parliament to separate the two groups that have battled sporadically since the end of last month.
Fighting has centred on a Salafist mosque and Koranic school in Dammaj that has been besieged by the rebels, known as Huthis after their leading family.
Huthis have been battling the central government for nearly a decade in remote Saada province, but the latest fighting between the rebels and the Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... has given an added sectarian dimension to the festivities.
Under the ceasefire -- the third since the fighting erupted -- supplies would be sent in to the surrounded Salafists, one mediator, MP Mohammed Ali Mekhlafi, said.
UN special envoy Jamal Benomar has warned that the fighting in Dammaj "threatens the security of Yemen".
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For a map click here. For a map of Michoacan state, click here.
Latest reports are three more bodies were found. And the digging continues.
A total of 12 more dead were found at the mass grave in La Barca in the Mexican state of Jalisco, Thursday, according to Mexican new reports. The additional bodies bring the total dead to 33, so far.
Late last week a Mexican federal search operation aimed at finding two missing Procuraduria General de la Republica (PGR) ministerial police agents, Rene Rojas Marquez and Gabriel Quijadas Santiago, came to La Barca municipality on the extreme southern part of Jalisco state where police found the bodies of 19 unidentified dead.
The dead are said to be members of the Templarios Caballero and Jalisco Nueva Generacion drug cartels which both operate in Michoacan and Jalisco state.
According to the news report which appeared on the online edition of El Diario de Coahuila new daily, officials at the site continue excavation operations, and may find even more dead.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
[Al Ahram] The humanitarian situation in Gaza has deteriorated one year after a truce that ended fighting between Israel and the Hamas rulers of the Palestinian enclave, UN officials said Thursday. Running out of food before they run out of ammunition? It happens.
"After 12 months the initial hopes for a significant improvement on the ground have not been realised," said James Rawley, the United Nations' humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinian territories.
"In fact I am sorry to report that situations for Gaza's 1.7 million people is worse than it was before the hostilities a year ago" between November 14 and 21, he said.
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Perhaps they are not aware of how nice it is in Brazil this time of year. Start up a fund to buy boat tickets for Palestinians....to Brazil. The upper Orinoco comes to mind.Tell them they get a free headbag with ever ticket.
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They have had sixty five f.g years to build an economy and get jobs and we are suppo=ed to be concerned about well fed people while there are places in Africa where people starve and are subject to murdering, raping and enslaving by bands of Arabs?
Seven alleged members of the Runda Kumpulan Kecil (RKK) terrorist militant organization were arrested when security officers raided a house in Narathiwat province yesterday.
A combined military and police force raided the house at 2 a.m. after receiving a tip-off that the RKK terrorists militants were holed up there. As the officers called for the suspects to surrender, they fled the house and hid in a nearby rubber plantation. All of the men were eventually rounded up.
After searching the house, the authorities found and seized guns and ammunition, military uniforms, 11 mobile phones, and a motorcycle.
[An Nahar] The Lebanese Army Intelligence was on Thursday analyzing the tapes of security cameras that the Iranian embassy had handed it over after the twin suicide kabooms that targeted the mission in Beirut's southern suburbs.
The probe was ongoing under the supervision of the military prosecutor Judge Saqr Saqr.
Al-Joumhouria newspaper quoted high-ranking security sources as saying that the Army Intelligence is seeking to identify the jacket wallahs as a first lead as to who stood behind Tuesday's blasts that left at least 23 people dead in the neighborhood of Bir Hassan.
The bombing was the latest in a series of attacks that have struck Hizbullah strongholds.
An al-Qaeda-linked myrmidon group, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, grabbed credit for the attack -- the deadliest targeting Iranian interests since the uprising against Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... began in March 2013.
Iran has been a staunch supporter of Assad's government, and the Iranian-backed Hizbullah has been instrumental in helping his troops flush out bully boyz from key areas near the Lebanese border.
Al-Akhbar daily said Thursday that the suicide bombers had been in Beirut only a few days before the blast. They stayed at the Sheraton Four Points hotel in the neighborhood of Verdun with fake Lebanese IDs.
Investigators lifted their finger prints from their hotel rooms and got copies of the identity cards they used, it said.
The newspaper added that the army also began analyzing the hotel's security cameras.
An eyewitness at the hotel said that the two men were not Lebanese and they neither had a Gulf nor a Syrian accent, security sources told LBCI TV.
On Wednesday, hundreds of Hizbullah supporters chanted "Death to America™, Israel and the takfir ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... is!" as they mourned four of the blasts' victims, in the Ghobeiri district.
Women wept as Hizbullah pallbearers carried the coffins of the four victims, including Radwan Fares, a Lebanese who headed the Iranian Embassy ...You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy!... 's security. Women threw flower petals and rice from balconies at the coffins below, wrapped in yellow Hizbullah flags.
"At your service Hizbullah," shouted the men on the streets, fists thrusting in a rhythmic salute.
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On Wednesday, hundreds of Hizbullah supporters chanted "Death to America, Israel and the takfirOn Wednesday, hundreds of Hizbullah supporters chanted "Death to America, Israel and the takfiris!" as they mourned four of the blasts' victims, in the Ghobeiri district.
And the Abdullah Azzam Brigades missed an opportunity.
[Ynet] After agreeing to cooperate with Israeli counterpart two months ago, chairman of Paleostinian Football Association slams 'occupation of fascism ...a political system developed in Italy symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about... and Nazism,' calls for 'escalation in popular activity.' Israel Football Association: This is incitement
Paleostinian Football Association Chairman Jibril Rajoub has called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a "liar" and accused Israel of "taking advantage of the negotiations in order to play for time and create facts on the ground, which proves that this is an occupation in the form of fascism and Nazism."
Rajoub made the scathing remarks several days ago in a television interview in honor of the Paleostinian National Youth Week events.
Friend or Foe?
Rajoub: Israel should beware, we are enemies / Elior Levy
Paleostinian official, interviewed on Lebanese television network, breaks from moderate tone of most PA leaders, states, 'Paleostinians are enemies of Israel; if we had nuclear weapons, we would use them against Israel'
Such a charming man.
The Paleostinian official, who was photographed holding a small child with an M16 rifle, openly called for a resumption of the violence against Israel and an "escalation in the popular activity against the occupation."
He added that the Paleostinian Authority must cut its cultural, economic and sports ties with Israel -- the exact opposite of public statements he made in meetings with FIFA President Sepp Blatter and Israel Football Association Chairman Avi Luzon.
The coordinator of government activities in the territories, Brigadier-General Eitan Dangot, met Sunday with Israel Football Association officials and with a senior representative of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), who appeared to be shocked by Rajoub's remarks and promised to look into the incident immediately.
In the past two years, Rajoub and his representatives have been complaining that Israel is imposing restrictions on the movement of athletes from the Gazoo Strip to the West Bank and preventing the entry of sports delegations from different countries, including Iraq and Syria.
About two weeks ago, Rajoub participated in a meeting with Blatter and Luzon in Zurich, in which the parties agreed to "cooperate in favor of soccer on both sides."
It wasn't the first time Rajoub discussed such cooperation. In an interview to Yedioth Ahronoth in May 2012, he said that "soccer is the key. We want to convey a message against violence and bloodshed."
The Israel Football Association offered the following statement in response: "We are disgusted by these wretched statements and reject them. It's unfortunate that Rajoub is using sports for political purposes and is failing to contribute to the creation of a better reality.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Association Chairman Avi Luzon and the heads of the IDF are trying constantly to help the Paleostinian Authority maintain a life of sports as long as it does not put the security of the State of Israel and its citizens in danger.
" Accusing Israel of fascism and Nazism and calling for an armed uprising by Rajoub can be seen as incitement, and it's hard to see how this can help improve the situation."
[An Nahar] Syria's authorities have tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! Rajaa Nasser, a dissident whose National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change is tolerated by Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... 's regime, a party official said Thursday.
Top NCCDC official Nasser "was arrested on Wednesday" in the Baramkeh district in the heart of Damascus by a security patrol, party chief Hassan Abdel Azim told AFP.
Abdel Azim said he does not know the reasons behind Nasser's arrest.
But, he added, both he and Nasser were preparing to travel to Geneva to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
"We have been invited by the Russian ambassador in Damascus to meet with Lavrov on November 26 in Geneva," Abdel Azim said.
Key Damascus ally Russia is doubling its efforts to ensure a peace conference dubbed Geneva II is held in mid-December.
Such a conference would bring regime and opposition representatives to the negotiating table, in a bid to end a brutal war that has killed 120,000 people in Syria since March 2011.
Another NCCDC member, Abdel Aziz Khair, has been in detention since September 2012.
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[Al Ahram] An Iraqi Shiite group claimed Thursday it had fired six mortar rounds that hit a remote area of northeastern Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... a day earlier as a warning to the Sunni-dominated kingdom.
Wathiq al-Battat, head of the pro-Iranian Shiite group Jaish al-Mukhtar, told AFP by telephone from Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... that the attack was "a warning strike" to Saudi Arabia over its stance towards Shiites.
"We did not mean for our missile to reach a residential area because we value people's blood," said Battat. "But next time, if Saudi Arabia continues the same course, we will go farther, little by little."
Battat also said his men had entered entered Hafr al-Batin, "an oil-rich area and vital to the Saudis" that was the target of the mortar fire.
Diplomats and Iraqi security officials routinely say they do not believe Jaish al-Mukhtar to be a capable militia and do not regard Battat as a credible figure.
But the incident comes amid regional turmoil fuelled by the Syrian conflict.
Riyadh backs the mostly Sunni rebels fighting to overthrow Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... , who is strongly supported by predominantly Shiite Iran and Shiite militias in Iraq and Leb.
Earlier Thursday, Saudi state news agency SPA quoted border guard General Mohammed al-Ghamidi as saying six mortar rounds hit Wednesday "in an uninhabited area near Al-Awja border crossing... in Hafr al-Batin in Eastern Province, and no damage was caused."
Residents said Saudi warplanes were flying over the area early on Thursday and Ghamidi said Saudi authorities were in "direct contact" with their neighbours to identify the source of the shelling and to prevent a repetition.
Okaz newspaper's website said the mortar fire came "from the Iraqi side of the border."
Hafr al-Batin, which also borders Kuwait, was a command headquarters for US forces during the 1991 Gulf War, which expelled Iraqi occupation forces from the emirate.
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The Iraq-based Muktar Army is repor threatening to launch terror ops widin the KSA, + also foster routine insurgency agz Riyadh.
[Al Ahram] The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... in Somalia called Thursday for a "proper investigation" after police again incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... an alleged rape victim and journalists who reported her story. Rape, and reporting on sexual assault, is one of the most sensitive topics in Somalia, and the case is the latest in a series of arrests of victims and the journalists who aired their story.
The alleged victim, a 19-year old news hound, spoke to the independent Radio Shabelle about how she was attacked and raped at gunpoint, claiming that two fellow journalists carried out the attack.
"One of the men threatened me with a pistol, and took me to the bedroom by force...both of them raped me several times, destroying my pride and dignity," she said, in a video interview broadcast on Somalia's Radio Shabelle website earlier this week.
"I am appealing to the government to take legal action against the rapists, they might have done the same to other poor girls," she added.
Police in the capital Mogadishu have arrested the woman, as well as Mohammed Bashir Hashi, the male news hound who interviewed her, and Shabelle's manager Abdulmalik Yusuf.
Nicholas Kay, UN special representative for Somalia, said in a message Thursday the UN was monitoring the "new rape allegation in Mogadishu" and warning that "legal representation, proper investigation and media freedom (are) important issues."
Last month the Somali security forces shut down Shabelle's radio broadcasts after accusing it of illegally occupying a government building.
The victim and Hashi remain in police custody, but the station manager has been released on bail.
In February, a Somali journalist and a rape victim he interviewed were both sentenced to a year in prison, but they were released after two months in jail after the case sparked widespread international criticism.
In August, a Somali woman who alleged she was gang-raped by African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... soldiers was also held by police for questioning.
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[CONTENT.TIME] A good President needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights. But humility doesn't come naturally to those who decide they are qualified to run the free world. So the sign that the Obama presidency had reached a turning point came not when his poll numbers sank or his allies shuddered or the commentariat went hunting for the right degree of debacle to compare to the rollout of Obamacare.
It happened when he started apologizing. In triplicate. For not knowing what was going on in his own Administration. For failing to prevent his signature achievement from detonating in prime time. For not telling the whole truth when he promised people that Obamacare would not touch them without permission: "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."
Obama's supporters can decry a "feeding frenzy," but this is a critical moment for a President whose agenda for a second term amounted to little more than being not as lame as the other guy. The HealthCare.gov website may or may not get fixed on deadline, the senior staff may be booted and rebooted, but it is already too late to avoid a pageant of media scrutiny, Republican merriment, a rebuke even from Bill Clinton and a host of existential questions: Can this policy be saved? What is left of Obama's second term if it is consumed by fixing an unpopular policy from the first? How could a White House appear so confident and incompetent at the same time?
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Please, no dancing in the End Zone. This imposter could still create a great deal of mischief before he is gone.
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There's no cure for ObamaCare other than to scuttle it and start over.
Fixed it for ya.
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There is no need to start Ocare over. All we need do is let the market work things out with a few tweaks to allow interstate insurance sales, tort reform to control the monster that is malpractice and the ability of people to keep their insurance despite job changes.
The gov't needs only to enforce contracts and get the hell out of the way.
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The interesting thing to me is the nuclear option. I read that as the Dems knowing they are going to be out of power for awhile and are hoping to pack the courts beforehand.
It is also a gamble that the Republicans will be too nice to use such power against them when the time comes and that the media can make any Republican use seem partisan and unique rather than it being turn about.
"There's no way to make the federal law work without this transition to ACA-compliant plans," board member Susan Kennedy said. "Delaying the transition isn't going to help anyone; it just delays the problems. I actually think that it's going to make a bad situation worse if we complicate it further."
[Al Ahram] Cairo Misdemeanor Court sentenced Thursday 38 Al-Azhar University students to one year and a half in jail for stirring riots. The students were jugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! during festivities with security forces in October, in Cairo's eastern neighbourhood of Nasr City.
The sentence came as dozens of Al-Azhar engineering students demonstrated to denounce the death of a colleague, killed Wednesday in festivities with security forces.
The students gathered in front of the Faculty of Engineering building, chanting against the military, as security was strengthened outside the university campus.
The student rubbed out by birdshot pellet Wednesday in festivities with security forces at Al-Azhar University was a supporter of deposed president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... . Police stormed the campus and violence flared as students threw petrol bombs, bricks and stones at security forces who replied with teargas and birdshot. Sixteen students were also arrested.
The violence came hours after the university administration banned protests on campus and suspended student union activity in response to the turmoil sweeping the university. It also called on the police to guard its buildings and quell student unrest.
Since the start of the university year, Morsi supporters have been organising near-daily demonstrations on university campuses -- particularly Al-Azhar University -- to protest the ouster of Morsi at the hands of the military 3 July, following mass protests against his rule.
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Wonder if they'll request remote-learning access?
[The Hindu] The Union government began a fresh round of negotiations with leaders of the largest Naga hard boy group on Thursday, hoping to hammer out a political settlement to the decades-old conflict ahead of Lok Sabha elections next year
Former Petroleum Secretary and Nagaland Chief Secretary R.S. Pandey, the Union government's interlocutor, met with the top leadership of the National Socialist Council of Nagland -- Isak-Muviah, or NSCN-IM, represented by its chairman Isak Chishi Swu and general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah -- the latest in a series of closed-door negotiations that have continued for more than fifteen years.
Neither side made statements after today's talks, which are expected to continue for several days. Prior to leaving Kohima, Mr. Swu refused to speculate on the outcome of the negotiations. Mr. Muviah said that "we want a solution as soon as possible."
The talks, have been shrouded in secrecy, but a senior government official told The Hindu, centred around a deal which would give Naga communities in both Nagaland and Manipur similar substantial rights across State lines -- but without territorial concessions from Manipur on Naga-inhabited areas in the districts of Tamenlong, Senapati, Ukhrul and Chandel.
"In essence," the official said, "the best-case outcome would be a deal which created a institutional mechanism to give Naga communities across the region full recognition and rights, but without redrawing state boundaries."
"There is no immediate prospect of a breakthrough, but the government is optimistic," he added.
PRESSURE ON NSCN FACTIONS
Pressure has been mounting on the NSCN-IM since early this year, which some experts believe could bring a deal within reach. Notably, there have been growing protests in Nagaland against the parallel taxation structure gunnies use to fund their operations. Thousands defied NSCN-IM calls to rally in Dimapur on November 1 under the banner of the Action Committee Against Unabated Taxation to protest against taxes imposed on underground organizations on salaries, businesses and contractors.
Former Indian Administrative Service officer and social activist K.K. Sema said the protests were organised "not to fight with any underground faction but to reason with them that there has to be the rule of law."
"Take tax but through rules," Mr. Sema said, calling for "one government, one tax."
Formations like the NSCN-IM came under further pressure in May, when the Nagaland government was reported to be considering granting tribal status to the Mao Nagas -- a legal decision that brings with opportunities for government employment and benefits. The Maos already have tribal status in Manipur.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the move encountered resistance from some Naga tribal groups within Nagaland--a development with direct repercussions for the NSCN-IM, whose leadership are made up of Tangkhul Nagas, whose lands are mainly in Manipur.
Though the State government later denied it was granting the Mao tribal status, the issue led to friction between the Naga Tribal Alliance, a newly-formed association of tribes within Nagaland, and the Naga Hoho, which claims to speak for all Nagas.
Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh have passed resolutions in their assemblies that no territory will be given up for a Greater Nagland, and New Delhi fears it could stoke the ethnic-Meitei insurgency in Manipur.
Frequent festivities have taken place over the issue. In 2011, Mr. Muivah was forced to defer a visit to his ancestral village of Somdal in Manipur's Ukhrul district, after it generated a standoff at the Mao Gate on the Nagaland-Manipur border.
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[Pak Daily Times] The Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous banned extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... (ASWJ) has given a countrywide protest call for Friday (today) against the Rawalpindi sectarian riots that killed 11 people and left many others injured.
Religious organizations have assured support to the ASWJ leadership for making the protest a success.
A statement issued by the ASWJ Islamabad office said the protest would be peaceful and called upon the government to take action against the perpetrators of the Rawalpindi incident.
The statement said the protest would be led by holy mans and the ASWJ leaders. In Islamabad it would be held after the Friday prayers, raising fear among the people for a possible violent incident.
The Difa-e-Pakistain Council (DPC), the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... (Sami) and the Sunni Wahdatul Musselmeneen (SWM) have announced their support for the protest call to express their solidarity with the families of the victims.
ASWJ head Maulana Ahmed Ludhianvi said the tragic incident was a well-planned conspiracy and called to punish those involved in the violence. He held the Rawalpindi administration responsible for the tragedy and urged the nation to remain peaceful.
The JUI (Sami), in its statement, said the SWM would observe a countrywide strike to condemn the Rawalpindi incident. The SWM central general council announced that a demonstration would be held on The Mall in front of the Masjid-e-Shuhada, in Lahore.
SWM leader Allama Mohammad Younis Hassan, in a statement, alleged the attacks on ASWJ and Deobandi seminaries all over the country were the result of a conspiracy. He accused the government of taking sides and not taking any action.
The situation in Rawalpindi remained tense after riots erupted in Rawal Town following festivities between two groups. At least 11 people were killed in the riots, which later spread to other cities.
On the other hand, the Islamabad police have beefed up security in the capital ahead of the rally by religious activists against the Rawalpindi unrest.
According to Inspector General of Police's Personal Secretary Zia Qamar, about 3,500 police personnel and Rangers would be deployed in areas adjacent to imambargahs, seminaries and mosques in the capital. Additional check-posts had been set up at entry points of Islamabad, he said.
He said the police and Rangers were directed to remain high alert, while they would also patrol areas near 32 madrassas and 12 imambargahs. He said the Anti-terrorist Squad of the Security Division had been put on high alert and it would also carry out patrolling to ensure security in and around the capital.
The officials said the Special Force would be deployed at all mosques during the Friday prayers. He said the deputy superintendents of police and station house officers of all cop shoppes were instructed to patrol in their respective jurisdictions.
He said the Red Zone would be cordoned off, while a large number of educational institutions in Islamabad had announced a holiday on Friday.
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[Pak Daily Times] A US drone strike in the tribal areas killed six people including a big shot of the Haqqani network, officials said, in only the second such strike outside the country's lawless tribal districts.
The missile attack hit a religious seminary that Death Eaters and security officials said belonged to the hard boy outfit -- blamed for some of the deadliest attacks in neighbouring Afghanistan -- in the Hangu district ... Hangu is famous for its greenery, hills, beauty and water. Most of the people of this area are Bangash & Orakzai Pashtuns. Part of the Bangash are Shia. The Orakzai and the Sunni Bangash are determined to kill them... of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... . Haqqani sources told AFP that the network's spiritual leader, Maulana Ahmad Jan, was among those killed at the seminary, which they said was a rest base for Death Eaters fighting NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... forces in Afghanistan.
Earlier this month, the network's chief financier, Nasirudddin Haqqani, was bumped off in mysterious circumstances in a village on the edge of Islamabad. As it usually does after drone strikes, the government condemned the attack as a violation of illusory sovereignty and counterproductive to efforts to end militancy. Thursday's strike was the first time a US drone hit a district inside Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The only previous strike outside the tribal areas came in Bannu district, a so-called "frontier region".
It was also the first in Pakistain since Pak Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud was killed in a similar strike in the North Wazoo tribal district on November 1. That attack prompted a furious response from Pakistain, with the interior minister accusing Washington of sabotaging fledgling peace efforts with the Taliban and opposition parties calling for a blockade of NATO supply lines to Afghanistan. "The drone strike targeting the seminary killed six people," police official Farid Khan told AFP.
Two local security officials identified two of the dead as Jan and Mufti Hameedullah and said they were both members of the Haqqani network. Several senior Haqqani sources confirmed the death of Jan, aged in his 60s. "He was the spiritual leader and head teacher of the Haqqani network," one source told AFP, adding that Jan was a member of the group's ruling council. "He was receiving people who were coming to condole the death of Nasiruddin Haqqani because followers of were not able to meet any other member of Haqqani family."
Pakistain strongly condemned the US drone strike. Foreign Office Spokesman Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry in a statement Thursday said that these strikes are violation of Pakistain's illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity. He said there is an across-the-board consensus in Pakistain that these drone strikes must end. The front man said the government of Pakistain has been raising its concern over the drone strikes with the US administration and at the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... . He said the prime minister, during his recent visit to the US, had raised the issue with President Barack Obama I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money... and other senior US leaders.
Opposition leader in the National Assembly Khurshid Shah came down hard on the government over the drone attack. "The latest drone strike was on Sartaz Aziz, not Hangu," Shah said while referring to the statement of prime minister's national security adviser in the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs on Wednesday that the US has assured Pakistain that drone strikes will not be carried out during talks with the Taliban. Talking to media, Shah said a drone strike after such a tall claim by the foreign affairs adviser was a challenge for the government as it has cast doubt over the foreign policy being adopted by the PML-N-led government. He doubted if the Taliban would trust the government's efforts for peace talks in the current circumstances.
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[Pak Daily Times] Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah on Thursday said an investigation team probing the Raja Bazaar incident had so far identified 28 men involved in the violence on 10th of Muharram.
"The Sherlocks have complete information of the 28 accused, out of which 16 are in their custody," he said, while addressing a news conference at the Punjab House.
He said the accused had been identified through the closed-circuit TV camera footage, forensic and other evidences. He said there was no doubt about their identities and involvement in violence, which took the lives of 11 innocent persons and injured 56 others.
He said the team was continuing its investigations in an independent manner and added that no one would be tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! without evidence.
He said keeping in view the sensitivity of the incident, the Ulema and Mashaikh from all schools of thought should limit their Friday protest to worship places as 'anti-state elements' were out to take advantage of the situation.
Sanaullah said the local administration had been directed to ensure foolproof security at all mosques and imambargahs on Friday.
"The Punjab government requests Ulema to limit their protests within worship places and another opportunity should not be provided to anti-state elements to attack the national unity," he added. Terming the Rawalpindi incident condemnable, the minister said the culprits involved in the heinous crime had nothing to do with Islam and had no association with any school of thought.
Sanaullah said the provincial government had allocated Rs 240 million for the reconstruction of shops and the seminary damaged in the Raja Bazaar incident.
"It is an initial allocation and more will be provided after the report of the Damage Assessment Committee," he said. He said a highly professional team of the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) would carry out the reconstruction work, which would commence after lifting the debris from the site.
The shopkeepers of the Madina Market had requested to stop the debris lifting process, as they wanted to visit their gutted shops first.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... he said the site would be cleared within a few days. He said whosoever suffered financial loss in the incident should approach the Damage Assessment Committee for compensation.
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[Pak Daily Times] Depending upon which side of the divide they are, people comment differently on Hakeemullah Mehsud's elimination from the terror stage. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... all agree on the fact that the event has brought into public notice the fact that 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... (JI) is the most outspoken ally of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), beating Fazlur Rehman's JUI-F by quite a margin. By aligning itself with the man who is responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians and the orchestration of numerous attacks on the armed forces of Pakistain, the JI has assumed for itself the role of TTP's Sinn Féin, which started supporting the Irish Republican Army (IRA) way back in 1919. It has chosen to move up from its vigilante role by providing the TTP with the hardcore ideology that forms the basis of a violent political movement, the aim of which is to seize power in order to establish its own version of theocracy. While initially the JUI was the ideological mentor of the TTP, people have failed to realise that the ever increasing influence of al Qaeda on this outfit and the Taliban's close association with the Saudis, Uzbeks and Chechens has meant that the ideological basis has shifted towards the Salafi school of thought. This has meant that the utility of JUI representing the Deobandi school is fading day by day. The JI, with its strong Salafi credentials, has taken the lead role.
The ideological basis of the JI and the Taliban of today is not much different. Never hiding his opinion about violent struggle, the JI's founder, Maulana Maududi, writes in his book Jihad in Islam: "But the most important -- indeed the most basic -- ideal of the revolutionary doctrines of that 'Revolutionary Party' known as Mohammedans is to expand all the powers of the body and soul, life and possessions, in the fight against the evil forces of the world; not so that, having annihilated them, we should step into their shoes, but so that evil and contumacy may be eradicated and Allah's law enforced on earth. This is the significance of jihad fi sabilillah, Jihad for the cause of Allah."
He then writes, in the same book: "The terms 'offensive' and 'defensive', which are usually applied to definitions of warfare, are not at all applicable in the case of Islamic jihad. These terms are relevant only in the context of wars between nations and countries, for technically speaking, the terms 'attack' and 'defence' can only be used with reference to a country or a nation." He further elaborates his point: "The division of Islamic jihad into 'offensive' and 'defensive' is not permissible. Islamic jihad is both offensive and defensive at one and the same time. It is offensive because the Mohammedan party attacks the rule of an opposing ideology, and it is defensive because the Mohammedan party is constrained to capture state power in order to protect the principles of Islam in space-time forces."
In his tract, 'Let us be Mohammedans', he says: "Whoever really wants to root out mischief and chaos from God's earth and is genuinely anxious to ameliorate the condition of God's creation, it is useless for him to work as a mere preacher. He should stand up to finish the government run on wrong principles, snatch power from wrongdoers and establish a government based on correct principles and following a proper system."
The TTP is doing just what Maulana Maududi advocated and has seized power wherever and however it can. The only deterrent to the TTP's mad desire to seize state power and advance its repressive ideology and influence beyond the tribal belt are the gallant operations of the nation's army working to protect the country's illusory sovereignty. The naive consider the TTP's agenda to be restricted to Afghanistan and Pakistain, and turn a blind eye to the TTP's alliances with al Qaeda and Jandullah, which points towards its desire to be a global player and a threat to overall regional security, with implications for China, Russia and Iran. Nation states were never Maududi's favourite and he opposed the creation of Pakistain -- "the state for Musalmans" -- under the All India Mohammedan League.
The ideology of the JI promotes violent political struggle beyond national boundaries. Similarly, the TTP also does not believe in the concept of a nation state and does not acknowledge the constitution of Pakistain, which recognises the illusory sovereignty of others. It did not come as a surprise that the recently booked al Qaeda members from educational institutions in Punjab were associated in the past with the Islami Jamaat-e-Talaba ...The Islamic Students' Organization: the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami, where young Moslems are trained into the arts of street fighting... (IJT), the student wing of the JI. In the context of the TTP's ever-closer association with Arabs and Chechens, which points towards the ideological shift within the outfit, these hardliners from local institutions may have a role to play. Undoubtedly, with so much in common, it must have become difficult for the JI to continue putting up a neutral face.
The JI's ownership of foreign issues has never been based on Pakistain's national interests but on its own global agenda. The fervour it tried to create in Pakistain in support of ousted Egyptian President Morsi had nothing to do with love for democracy; it was because of Morsi's association with the Moslem Brüderbund. People will recall that the leaderships of the two parties made their covert association public two years ago when a blurb by the JI was carried in the local press announcing the meeting between the leaderships of the two brotherly entities at the Brotherhood's headquarters in Cairo. It is not surprising that the JI remained silent when freedom fighters were killed in Bahrain just because they belonged to the Shia community. Ironically, when democratic governments were packed up in Pakistain, the power hungry JI always sided with those usurping power.
Hakeemullah, the murderer, has been labelled by the JI leadership as a shaheed (a martyr). The JI has, in a way, owned Mehsud. This insult to people and the army has not gone down well with the armed forces and they have rightfully demanded an apology in a very dignified manner. The hardline leadership of the Jamaat has not even come up with that. The people of Pakistain demand more than this. It is time that the JI be asked to accept civil liability of this stance and, through due legal process, allow its funds and assets to be utilized for payment to the victims and families of those effected by Mehsud's campaign so that the ideological base for violent political struggle loses its operational capability and is neutralised for Pakistain's long-term good.
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[Al Ahram] La Belle France said on Thursday that Central African Republic was "on the verge of genocide" and it expected the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... to give Gay Paree and the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... permission to intervene.
Central African Republic, a landlocked nation of 4.6 million people, has descended into violence and chaos since Seleka rebels, many of them from neighbouring Chad and Sudan, ousted President Francois Bozize in March.
The U.S. State Department estimates that nearly 400,000 people have been displaced and 68,000 have fled to neighbouring countries since Seleka leader and interim president Michel Djotodia has lost control of his loose coalition of warlords.
The violence has increasingly pitted Seleka's mainly Moslem fighters against Christian militias. Christians make up half the population and Moslems 15 percent, the CIA World Factbook says.
"The country is on the verge of genocide," French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told French television station La Belle France 2. "La Belle France, CAR's neighbours and the international community are worried. The United Nations will give permission to African forces, the African Union and La Belle France to intervene."
While U.N. Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... said on Monday he may be prepared to deploy U.N. peacekeepers, U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... has made it plain Washington favours an African peacekeeping force.
Ban said further tension "might well lead to uncontrollable sectarian violence with untold consequences for the country, the sub-region and beyond".
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I believe it was also Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis who first identified what we now know as natural selection as a mechanism involved in the 'struggle for life'.
[An Nahar] President Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... stated on Thursday that there is no independence in the country when gangs get involved in a neighboring country's war.
"There is no independence when some Lebanese factions disregard national consensus, risk Leb's stability and get involved in the fighting in a neighboring country's war," Suleiman said in a speech he gave on the eve of Independence Day.
He added: "There is also no independence if security forces were not the only groups authorized to carry arms in the country."
Suleiman considered that the national crisis that is paralyzing the work of the state's institutions "draws question marks around the meaning of independence, of democratic practices and of the Lebanese system and whether it serves the national interests."
He urged politicians not to allow vacuum in the states' institutions, stressing also on the importance of holding the presidential election on time.
"The coming months must not be a waste of time but an opportunity to reach consensus over an electoral law, to withdraw from Syria, to start national dialogue sessions, to adopt administrative decentralization and to form a committee to follow up on the issue of those missing in the war."
He called for "returning to the rule of law, abiding by the constitutions and becoming under the authority of the state and its institutions in order to avoid strife."
He said: "We stress on our national unity and on religious coexistence. I call on you to contribute to the building of a just and capable state that the younger generations aspire to have."
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[An Nahar] OTV aired on Thursday evening the fake identity cards used by the suicide kaboomers behind the blasts in Beirut's Bir Hassan neighborhood as security forces embarked on searching the hotel where they stayed on their last night.
"Security forces are trying to examine the pictures on the IDs to determine whether they are real or fake," OTV said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a hurried meeting of his closest advisors. It was to be his last. They discussed the officers's efficiency rating system... LBCI television reported also on Thursday evening that State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr ordered the army intelligence to inspect the Sheraton Four Seasons Hotel in the Beirut neighborhood of Verdun, as reports said it was where the attackers spent their last night before their deadly operation.
"The army intelligence searched one room in the hotel and confiscated several possessions of two people that stayed there," LBCI said.
The same source noted that the hotel's administration gave Sherlocks all the information it has about the two men, as well as the recorded footage of the Sheraton's security cameras.
An eyewitness at the hotel remarked that the two men's accent was not that of Syrians or of people who hail from the Gulf, according to the television channel.
LBCI added: "The suspects resided there for four days and they had fake Lebanese IDs, one of them belonged to a person who hails from Beirut, and the other to a person from the Iqlim al-Kharroub town of Barja."
"Investigation is now focused on trying to reveal how the suicide attackers, who are not from Leb, were able to enter Lebanese territories as well as attempting to identify to which group they belonged. The probe is also working on uncovering information about the car that was used in the operation, which was taken from Beirut to the Bekaa and later to Syria."
At least 23 people were killed and more than 145 others were maimed in a twin blast that took place on Tuesday morning near the Iranian Embassy ...You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy!... in the neighborhood of Bir Hassan in Beirut's southern suburbs.
A security official said the first suicide attacker was on a cycle of violence that carried two kilograms of explosives. He went kaboom! at the large black main gate of the Iranian mission, damaging the three-story facility.
Less than two minutes later, the second suicide attacker driving a car rigged with 50 kilograms of explosives struck about 10 meters away, the official said.
The al-Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades grabbed credit for the bombings, according to the Twitter page of a holy man linked to the group.
"The Abdullah Azzam brigades - the Hussein bin Ali cells - are behind the attack on the Iranian embassy in Beirut," Sheikh Sirajeddine Zuraiqat, the group's religious guide, posted on Twitter.
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[Libya Herald] The head 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... Local Council, Sadat Elbadri, has said that the strike in the capital that started after last Friday's massacre in Gharghour will continue until GNC decisions Nos. 27 and 53 are implemented and all militias had left the capital.
Speaking at a presser this evening, he said that, despite today's departures, over a thousand military formations remained in the capital. These all had to go, he said. Tripoli militias too had to cease to operate. The only acceptable security forces were the army and police.
"These are hard times. We need support and confidence from the people," he added.
Also at the presser were a number of civil society leaders in the capital who backed his call.
Mohammed Al-Qwaif, representing the Greater Tripoli Area Residents Group, said that locals would continue peaceful protests "until the last militia leaves".
He attacked the government which, he claimed, had until the massacre ignored Law 27 ordering militias out of the capital. He also criticised the Prime Minister's initial attack on Elbadri after the massacre when he accused him of organising the protest. The government had been well aware of it in advance, Qwaif said; the Interior Ministry had authorised it.
The government had to investigate the massacre and punish the criminals responsible, he insisted.
Mohammed Drah, President of the Students' Union at Tripoli University, said that the strike there would continue until all militias left the capital -- "with no exceptions". He said the big brigades had left because the government had put pressure on them. But there were plenty of small ones remaining. There were 100 formations in Janzour and more than 80 in Busleem. All had to go.
Moreover, he asked, where was that pressure to force the brigades to leave before last Friday.
He demanded to know why the government had not protected the protestors and why had it initially accused them of carrying weapons.
There was a lot of pressure on the students to give up their strike, he stated. The Prime Minister had been to visit the university to ask them to return to work. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... he accused Ali Zeidan of "just talking".
"We're not going back," he said. The students union had met with deans and other student representatives and there would be a further meeting on Saturday to see if Law 27 was being implemented. "We even don't have security in the university", he said. "How can we study in such a situation?".
He said he was confident the militias would go, he told the Libya Herald. There were signs too, he said, that the lead being taken by Tripoli against the militias was being copied elsewhere. There had been consultations with civil groups in Benghazi, he said. "They're going to protest there."
The head of the Dawa Islamiya (the Islamic Call Society), whose Tripoli headquarters was handed over by Zintan's Sawaq Brigade today, complained that that his organization had not been party to any negotiations and that the premises had not been given back to it.
The presser was broadcast live on a screen in Algeria square. Around 200 protestors had gathered to hear Elbadri's speech after the much talked withdrawal of some brigades from Tripoli. The response to the statements by officials was very emotional as people waited to hear official reports on the developments.
The crowd watching the presser responded with Takbir (Allahu Akbar) when Mohammed Drah spoke of his clear cut message to the Prime Minister. "We will not stand with anyone that doesn't stand for the country", Drah said.
There were arguments between protestors as some tried to defend the actions of the Prime Minister. One protestor who lost his brother last Friday had to be taken away as he broke down when Al-Qwaif demanded an inquiry into the killing of protestors. Some protestors were unhappy with others criticising Ali Zeidan and loudly complained that the event was turning into an attack on him.
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[An Nahar] Venezuela accused the United States of "interference" in its internal affairs Thursday after Washington expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... that President Nicolas Maduro had been granted powers to rule by decree.
In a statement, the Foreign Ministry declared its "most profound, categorical and energetic rejection" of Wednesday's comments by State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki.
"These statements are a new demonstration of the interference by the authorities of the United States in the internal affairs of our country and constitute an act that shows how the Venezuelan opposition executes, shamelessly, the agenda set down by the State Department to destabilize our homeland," it said.
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Yo, Nicky - I got some nice, soft bumwad for you & your comrades!
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Does Venezuela HAVE flush toilets? I didn't know that.
Don't you wish you lived in Venezayapyapuela?
Scenic full of people who look like Mexicans except they wear more grease on their hair. Women with big breasts and parrots...don't forget the parrots.
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Interference? If we had a ___ worthy of the name... Navy and Coast Guard folks would be throwing bales out of boats and helicopters tomorrow night. Picture the bales floating ashore. Picture the laughter and tears, the agony and the ecstasy, as Venezuelans cut open the bales and find... toilet paper. Picture the relevant iconic faces printed on the sheets. Picture the authorities rampaging around. Picture millions of youtube views. Picture the liveliest imps in the devil's workshop busy sputtering and handwringing for weeks. It wouldn't end socialism on the planet, but it would be fun. Of course it can never, ever, EVAR happen: too cheap and too subversive of everything the current regime stands for.
The writer is a religious scholar and president of Al-Mawrid, a foundation for Islamic Research and Education
[Pak Daily Times] Man, by nature, is a being who lives by setting up a government for himself. The first manifestation of this instinct took place when, in ancient times, people decided that they would select the chiefs of their tribes. After that, when these chiefs were able to establish their hegemony by conquering other tribes, they became the owners of conquered lands. This gradually took the shape of ancestral kingdoms governed by kings. In later periods, these kings, in their capacity as great conquerors, laid the foundations of empires consisting of several countries. This brought into existence governments, which included the Sassanid and the Roman empires. These empires have now become extinct but many kingdoms are still among us and have taken the place of constitutional monarchies. Except for some countries, this is the case everywhere. Among these exceptions is the kingdom of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... . It still exists in its original glory and majesty. The laws of such kingdoms are enacted by the king and his nobles.
The Saudi government was established with the reformist movement of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. Thus, on the very first day of its inception, it decided that the law of the land would be the Islamic sharia. A great majority of Sunni scholars do not regard kingdoms to be governments, which is against sharia but they more or less agree to the interpretation of sharia made by the Saudi government. This is because they think that it is an Islamic government and, on this basis, they show allegiance to it.
The ideology of Islamic revolution, which has sprung up in recent times, can be summarised as follows: it is only the disciplined minority of the righteous (salihin) that has the right to rule; if godless people are rulers, then they are in fact embezzlers. It is the responsibility of the righteous to launch an effort to take back what belongs to them. Among the Shias, this ideology already existed under the concepts of 'government of the infallibles' (ma'sumin) and 'guardianship of the jurist' (wilayat-i faqih). Consequently, Sunni and Shia scholars have instituted religious parties in various places to achieve this very objective of bringing about an Islamic revolution. Moreover, the intellectual class is expending its efforts in various countries to realise this objective by trying to bring into existence a disciplined minority of the righteous. In some places, these efforts have been successful. For example, in Iran, religious scholars, under the leadership of Imam Khumini, were able to take the reins of political authority into their own hands. They have been ruling Iran with full power for a quarter of a century. Another example is Afghanistan where, through the support and help of the Pak government, the students of religious scholars were able to set up a government that succumbed to 9/11 and is now trying to revive itself by waging war against the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... forces.
The question arises: what does Islam want? A deep deliberation on the Koran and Hadith shows that the real addressee of Islam is the individual. It wants to rule the heart and mind of a person. Thus, it makes it mandatory upon him to submit his whole self to the illusory sovereignty of God. Just as the God of Islam is the Lord and worshipped deity of people, He is also their King. Hence, it is necessary that, besides worshipping Him, obedience also be shown to Him and, if He has prescribed some law or principle in some matter, then people must totally surrender to it. No doubt, Islam also addresses society but only when the individuals of a society accept its rule over themselves. At that time, no effort or struggle is needed to achieve the supremacy of Islam at the collective level; Islam automatically manifests itself through social, cultural and political mannerisms and attitudes of the people. Thus, if in the sharia of God, there is any directive related to society, they are prepared to implement it without any hesitation.
This is an Islamic government. When it comes into existence in this way, it becomes a manifestation of God's mercy on earth; however, if it does not come into existence, even then one should not be worried because the objective of Islam is not the formation of an Islamic government but the attainment of tazkiyah (self-purification). Its call is to the kingdom of God, which people will attain on the Day of Judgment as a result of attaining this tazkiyah. Islam calls upon people to save themselves from Hell and enter this eternal kingdom of God. It does not call upon people to establish an Islamic government. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... people who are anxious for this -- and which in Koranic terms may be called ukhra tuhibbunaha (the second thing which you desire, (61:13)) -- have seen for themselves the experimentation that has taken place in this regard in the last one and a half centuries.
In my opinion, they should now accept the reality that an Islamic government is neither established through a royal decree nor through the autocratic rule of religious scholars and nor by a self-appointed army of divine soldiers. This is not an objective but should emanate from the inner conviction of people on Islam and the Islamic sharia. If this happens, then the government that is established as a result can be called an Islamic government in every sense of the word. If the objective is to set up such a government, then instead of wasting one's time in frivolous political stratagems, and instead of killing oneself and killing innocent people in the name of jihad, all force should be directed towards two things.
First of all, through reminding and exhortation, knowledge and reasoning, education and instruction, efforts should be made to establish the rule of this government on the hearts of the people. This effort should continue until the ruling elite of the Moslems has as strong a conviction in Islam and Islamic sharia as the one possessed by those who takes up the task of calling people towards Islam.
Secondly, at every level, democracy and democratic values should be promoted so that if people are prepared to fulfill the requirements of their religion related to the political and economic spheres, no form of despotism can cause any hindrance for them. Launching a struggle against despotic forces is, in fact, a struggle against fitnah (temptation) and fitnah, according to the Koran, is a greater sin than murder. Hence, the institution of monarchy and dictatorship deserve to be sent packing from the stage of this world forever.
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[Pak Daily Times] PESHAWAR: Bodies of two persons were found wrapped in sacks in Regi area on the outskirt of the city on Thursday. According to police, the deceased were identified as Abdur Rahim and Abdul Wahab and both hailed from a suburb area of Daudzai. They were tortured to death.
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I feel very bad for the Paks
Who must read these incompetent hacks
Imagine the wails
Over missing details:
"Could they please tell us what kind of sacks?"
[Libya Herald] At Tuesday's GNC questioning of the Ali Zeidan government over the Gharghour incident, the government revealed that it will present its full report on the bloody incident within 10 days.
Acting Minister of Interior and Deputy Prime Minister, Sadiq Abdelkarim, refused to give any more details beyond general replies and preferred not to anticipate what the report will say on the incident.
When asked if he could confirm if some protestors were armed and opened fire first on the Gharghour-based Misratan militia, he declined to answer.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... at the questioning, various government officials confirmed that permission had been granted for the demonstration, but only in the Abu Harida/Al Quds mosque square and roundabout. No permission was granted for a march on the Gharghour militia base.
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[Pak Daily Times] KARACHI: Law enforcers claimed to have held around 106 suspected criminals during ongoing-targeted raids and operations across the metropolis on Thursday.
As per details, Pakistain Rangers Sindh apprehended around 27 criminals during different targeted raids across the city.
The raids were conducted in various parts of the metropolis,including Lyari, Abul Hassan Ispahani Road area, 100 Quarters, Gulshan-e-Mazdoor, North 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... , Nazimabad, Frontier Colony, Fawara Chowk, Shah Faisal Colony, Morio Khan Goth and Dak Khana Chowrangi; while snap checking was carried out near Karachi University and Kamran Chowrangi areas. The official also recovered a heavy calibre machine gun, SMGs and huge quantity of mixed ammunitions from the custody of suspects.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the entire 614th quadrant searched. The Green Lensman must be found!... Karachi police nabbed around 79 suspected criminals during 71 raids conducted in various parts of the city. The officials also recovered 30 weapons of different calibres and hand grenades from their possession.
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[POSTANDCOURIER] A day after S.C. Sen. Tim Scott avoided a question on whether he was backing fellow Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham ... the endangered South Carolina RINO... , Gov. Nikki Haley ...first woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley is the youngest current governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... chimed in.
Answering a question in Arizona where she is attending a National Governor's Association event, she said she was not getting involved in the race but praised what Graham has done for the state.
"I have made it very clear I am not going to be involved in any South Carolina races," she said.
"But I want to say this, on any issue that I have had to deal with Lindsey on, whether it was the NLRB issue, whether it was voter ID, whether it's been on the fight that we've had with Obamacare or whether it's been fighting for our businesses in South Carolina, Lindsey has dropped everything to help with those fights. And so for that I'm very grateful for him."
Scott on CNN this week avoided the Graham endorsement question by saying he was focusing on his own race next year.
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there is an unspoken "... but, I will not shed a tear if the Tea Party puts another Jim Demint up and they replace his john-mccain asskissing hide."
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Now to get id of the mail-in elections, and go back to "be there on election day" as the standard, with anything else treated as an exception that needs to be applied for, except perhaps limited location early voting no more than 2 weeks prior..
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Add ID, rerregistration and ten years of forced labor in Alaska tpo anyone cheating with his own vote like trying to vote twice. Thirty years in case it is votes of other people he is trying to tamper with.
And make "get out the vote" initiatives illegal. It is an open door for fraud and anyway people who need someone knowcks at their door in order to go to vote aren't interested enough by the faet of thge country to cast sensible ballots. Let them sip beers and watch sports.
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With out paper ballots it is hard to be a faithful Democrat, recently....
Democrats have apparently been uniquely blessed by Providence in being able to find just that right amount of extra uncounted ballots to upend a close race in their direction amazing isnt it? And interestingly enough, they always find them in the most innocent and miraculous of places, like union boss car trunks and Democrat operative closets.
We remember what helped Al Franken become a U.S. Senator from Minnesota.... Why it was paper ballots found where ?
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Forgot it. In France try just try to add ballots who have been out of the chain of custody. You are going to be laughed out of court quicker faster than you can run. That is if the judge doesn't cgharge you with contempt of court.
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I get mail-in ballots for people who haven't lived at the house for years, despite marking them with, "Return to sender, no longer at this residence."
Only to receive another ballot two years later.
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[Libya Herald] As Misrata local council announced that it plans to question the city's faceless myrmidons involved in the Gharghour massacre last Friday, it was also alleged that local Gharghour leaders had agreed five days beforehand with the Misrata faceless myrmidons that there would be no provocative demonstration at the base.
The 90 faceless myrmidons involved in the killing did not receive the same rapturous welcome as the main body of Misratan fighters when they returned to the city on Monday night.
Indeed dozens of city residents held a vigil in which they expressed their regrets for the events in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... and invoked mercy on the souls of those who had bit the dust. The sense of sadness was palpable and one man at the vigil called the Gharghour slayings "a terrible crime".
They shared however the general pride in the performance on their city's fighters who, they said, had defended Tripoli and then withdrawn as required under the GNC Law No. 27. They praised their dedication to national unity.
This evening allegations surfaced that as plans for the peaceful mass protest at Gharghour were getting under way, the fighters occupying the ten-villa base reached a deal on either Monday or Tuesday that the protest would not in fact go ahead. The agreement made with Gharghour locals was allegedly that the demonstration would be switched to Martyrs Square.
Today also saw the visit of a 12-man delegation of elders from the Jebel Nafusa and nearby towns, including Sabratha. Talks with Misratan officials looked at ways of solving the differences between Misrata and Tajoura and Suq Al-Juma through arbitration involving Congress.
One sign of lessening tension was the exchange of prisoners last night in Tajoura. The Misratans handed over 17 people taken from Tajoura as they pulled out through the town, while in their turn the Tajourans released 22 Misratans.
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[An Nahar] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's embassy in Beirut has called on citizens to leave Leb because of the dangerous situation, its ambassador said Thursday, after some media linked the kingdom to deadly blasts.
"The Saudi embassy sent a text message to (Saudi) citizens in Leb advising them to leave, considering the danger of the situation and out of concern for their safety," the ambassador Ali Awadh Asiri, told AFP.
The warning comes two days after a twin suicide kabooms killed 25 people near the Beirut embassy of Saudi's regional rival Iran, which is located in the stronghold of Tehran ally Hizbullah.
The text messages sent to Saudis in Leb read: "Considering the security situation at the moment and the media campaign, the embassy advises citizens to return home, and advises caution."
Tuesday's attack outside the Iranian embassy were followed by a stinging campaign in some pro-Hizbullah media outlets against Saudi Arabia, accusing the Gulf monarchy of being behind the blasts.
"Saudi Arabia: losses in Syria and suicide in Leb," read a headline on Wednesday in pro-Hizbullah daily al-Akhbar.
On Thursday, al-Akhbar said Leb had "entered into the era of suicide kabooms," adding that the attackers had "resorted to the takfir ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... i (extremist Sunni) heritage sponsored by the Saudi kingdom with millions of dollars".
Twenty-five people were killed and nearly 150 people maimed in Tuesday's attack on the embassy of Iran, which supports Hizbullah and backs Syria's Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... .
Saudi Arabia supports the rebels fighting to topple Assad.
An al-Qaeda-affiliated group, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, grabbed credit for the attack, saying it is aimed at pressuring Hizbullah to withdraw its fighters from Syria.
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[Pak Daily Times] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... Thursday said Pakistain supports an Afghan-led grinding of the peace processor and will continue to extend all possible facilitation to the reconciliation process.
Talking to a delegation of Afghan High Peace Council (HPC) headed by Chairman Salahuddin Rabani at the Prime Minister's House, he reiterated the importance that Pakistain attaches to a peaceful and stable Afghanistan. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met the high-ranking delegation from Kabul tasked with pushing forward Afghanistan's grinding of the peace processor, according to a statement from his office.
The three-member group representing the High Peace Council (HPC) arrived in Pakistain a day earlier on a mission that, according to Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... , was meant to include a meeting with Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's former deputy freed from jail in September. Reports that the meeting had taken place could not be confirmed. Nawaz told the group: "Pakistain has always supported a peaceful, stable and united Afghanistan and... Pakistain is playing a constructive and positive role to facilitate an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned reconciliation process," according to a statement released by his office.
The statement said that the visiting delegation thanked the prime minister for his efforts. A member of the group earlier told AFP that the present visit and meetings had been agreed during last month's summit between Afghanistan, Pakistain and Britannia in London. The group was headed by Salahuddin Rabbani, son of slain former president Burhanuddin Rabbani ... the gentlemanly murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan... , and also comprised its secretary general Masoom Stanekzai and Asadullah Wafa. A statement from the office of Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Karzai at the end of October said: "It was agreed on that a High Peace Council delegation will visit Pakistain and meet with Mullah Baradar in the near future."
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[Al Ahram] Egypt's cabinet ruled on Thursday that police may enter university campuses without prior permission if facilities or students are under threat.
The decision -- which reverses previous regulations requiring that police receive permission from the university president or judicial authorities before entering campuses -- comes amidst a wave of violent festivities in universities across the country.
In a Thursday presser, cabinet front man Hany Salah El-Din also announced that the cabinet's protest law would soon be approved.
He added that the cabinet has demanded the formation of special prosecution units tasked specifically with investigating "terrorism."
Egypt has witnessed a volatile security situation since the July ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... , with a surge in attacks on security personnel, namely in northern Sinai. Suspected Islamist gunnies are largely blamed for the attacks.
Morsi supporters have held near-daily protests since the president's ouster. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... their numbers have fallen sharply, and protests are increasingly restricted to university campuses. Demonstrations often turn violent as protesters clash with security or Morsi opponents.
Al-Azhar University, Egypt's leading authority of Sunni Islam, has seen some of the most violent protests over the past weeks.
A protest at Al-Azhar on Wednesday left one student dead and 16 others incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... , following festivities between students and the police.
Last week, a court sentenced 12 pro-Morsi students to 17 years in prison for attacking the Al-Azhar headquarters in October.
"There is no immunity for anyone who breaks the law," Salah El-Din stated.
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[Tolo News] In his opening speech on the first day of Advisory Jirga, President Karzai said that if the Jirga agrees to BSA between Kabul and the United States, this agreement will be signed after the Presidential Elections.
Although, one of conflicting issues between Kabul and Washington were American troops operations in villages of Afghanistan, but in written guarantee from the President of the United States of America to the government of Afghanistan, this issue has been resolved. President Karzai read part of the written guarantee.
President Karzai asked the participants of the Jirga to think of future while making decisions.
"Whatever decision you make, must have political mechanization and must think of future, because the decisions that you will make will set the right or wrong for the future generation of Afghanistan" Hamed Karzai, President of Afghanistan.
Karzai further asked the participants to not listen to anyone and should make independent decisions and based on the national interests of Afghanistan.
"Whoever they are, from government, non-government, my relatives, or my friends, if they come to you and tell you or to the commission and say that this is how President thinks, don't accept. I don't have any other representatives but you", Hamed Karzai, President of Afghanistan.
One of the members of the Senate, criticized the statement of President Karzai and left. But President Karzai calmly stated that views of everyone should be respected.
"Everyone has the right to raise to their voice, so did this sister" Hamed Karzai, President of Afghanistan.
President Karzai has reported of consultation with all the countries of world in regards to BSA. All the countries, especially China, India and Russia have agreed, but Iran.
"Iran said it's not alright. Turkey is in favor, Islamic countries are in favor, I consulted with the King of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and he told me that anything that is in favor of Afghanistan. International Community and especially powerful countries of the world have also favored it. These countries are also supporter of our demands from America and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... " Karzai.
President Karzai added that Afghanistan's main demand was peace and equipment of Afghanistan Security Forces with latest armory.
Towards the end, President Karzai apologized to students and residents of Kabul for the blocked routes.
Based on this agreement, fifteen thousand security forces will stay in Afghanistan for ten years in 9 military bases located in 9 provinces. NATO and troops from other countries also depends on this agreement with the United States of America.
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#1 Its difficult to think of a scenario that results in something other than disaster here.
I logged on with eyes that were bleary
On Rantburg all stories were cheery
I smiled, then I cursed:
Of course, April first!
Oh well, it was lovely in theory
[Libya Herald] In the aftermath of the bloody Gharghour incident which left nearly 50 dead and 500 injured, many 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... tanians were pleased to see so many official security forces dispersed across the city, manning major crossroads and checkpoints.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... skeptical Libyans have been wondering whether these forces were official security personnel, or whether they were militias in new uniforms.
Regular security personnel are those who have individually joined either the army or the police. They take and implement orders from their ranking superiors and abide by strict rules and regulations, including not participating in politics, strikes or demonstrations.
They are not groups of former thuwar that had taken part in the fighting to overthrow of the Qadaffy regime who had formed a regionally or tribally-based military unit. Former fighters are allowed to join the regular forces as individuals, but not as part of their whole militia.
At Tuesday's questioning of the government, both the Interior Minister and Defence Minister confirmed that all individuals now providing security to the capital were members of the official army.
Asked by a GNC member whether regular security officials that had not turned up to work had been reprimanded, the government said that such procedures would be implemented in January 2014. It is thought that some were not going to work fearing confrontations with militias.
The government had previously warned all official security personnel to turn up to work or face wage cuts or job losses.
The GNC also asked why insufficient security had been provided for the demonstrators at Ghargour -- as is proscribed by Demonstration Law No. 65. The government response was that it had, in its view, provided enough security for the demonstration it had permitted, which was in the Abu Harida/Al Aqsa mosque square and rundabout, and not beyond.
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[Pak Daily Times] US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... expressed a lack of confidence on Wednesday in the Central African government to contain an "increasingly sectarian" crisis, and pledged aid to a peacekeeping force.
Rebels overthrew the Central African Republic's (CAR) president in March, and a transitional government has lost all grip on the huge but impoverished country of 4.5 million people with retaliatory attacks between Mohammedans and Christians. "I am deeply concerned by the ongoing crisis in the Central African Republic and the deplorable levels of violence and lawlessness that affect millions of people every day," Kerry said in a statement. "At this moment, the United States sees no evidence that the CAR transitional government has the capacity or political will to end the violence, especially the abuses committed by elements of the Seleka rebel alliance that are affiliated with the government."
Violence is worsening in the resource-rich country where a coalition of rebels, known as Seleka, forced president Francois Bozize to flee in March. Kerry's comments came just a day after his deputy for African affairs, Robert Jackson, warned that the crisis had devolved into a "pre-genocidal situation." Kerry said the State Department plans to provide $40 million in funding to the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... -led peacekeeping mission known as MISCA to "help protect civilians and provide security throughout the country."
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In other news, Mafeking relieved as Baden-Powell swears off horse meat.
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Having failed to produce any important or lasting results in the Middle East, Jaahhn Kaarey moves on to additional attempts for success in Africa...
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[Osun Defender] The State Security Service (SSS) today in Abuja paraded five suspected 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... members alleged to have planned deadly attacks on Igala, Kogi State.
Among the suspects were Dr. Mohammad Nazeef Yunus, an Assistant Lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Kogi State University. He was said to be the Spiritual Leader and Coordinator for Boko Haram in the State, and the leader of the gang.
Nazeef, who was born in Idah, Kogi State, attended the Arabic Central Primary School in that town, and El-Kanemi College, Maiduguri. He also studied at the Islamic School, University of Medina, in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and served in the National Youth Service Corp in 1995 at Al-Iman Secondary School, Dogon Dutse, in Jos.
Nazeef earned a Masters Degree in Arabic from the University of Jos. Just last year, he earned a Ph.D in Islamic Studies from Kogi State University.
Also tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! by the SSS were Umar Musa (Instructor), Mustapha Yusuf, Ismaila Yunusa, Mohammed Nasir, and Ibrahim Isa.
SSS spokesperson Marilyn Ogar said the suspects were planning to carry out an attack on Igala Land but were arrested at Zuba white mosque near Abuja on their way to Zambisa in Maiduguri for training. They were also going to install Sharia in Kogi State.
Umar Musa (Head of Operations/Instructor) confessed publicly that he was employed by Boko Haram as Instructor after he lost his job with the state teaching hospital, and was taken to the Sambisa camp of the sect for a week's training on handling weapons. He said he was deployed to the education unit of the camp as Munzi (instructor) and placed on a monthly salary of N50,000. He further stated that he and Yusuf later returned from Sambisa and re-united with Nazeef in Kogi State where they plotted to carry out violent attacks in Igala land. He maintained that Nazeef appointed him the Head of Operations and munzir.
Mustapha Yusuf (Armourer/Chief Courier) and Ismaila Abdulazeez (Foot soldier) confessed that that Nazeef was their teacher who teaches them Jihad and Islamic Sharia.
Ogar told newsmen that the suspects will soon be charged to court.
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[Al Ahram] British police on Thursday rescued three women from a London home where they were believed held as slaves for at least 30 years by a couple who were incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
Officials identified the victims as a 69-year-old Malaysian woman, a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 30-year-old Briton.
Police described the women as "highly traumatised".
Detectives arrested a 67-year-old man and a 67-year-old woman at their home in south London.
Police swooped after being contacted last month by the Freedom Charity, which received a call from a woman stating she had been held against her will in a house in London for more than 30 years, Scotland Yard said.
Police said the woman had contacted the charity -- which helps young people to understand forced marriage and honour-based violence -- after seeing a TV documentary featuring the group's work.
Detective Inspector Kevin Hyland, from Scotland Yard's Human Trafficking Unit, said: "A television documentary on forced marriages relating to the work of Freedom Charity was the catalyst that prompted one of the victims to call for help and led to their rescue."
Police inquiries established the location of the house and with the help of "sensitive negotiations" conducted by the charity, the three women were rescued.
"We applaud the actions of Freedom Charity and are working in partnership to support these victims who appear to have been held for over 30 years," Hyland said.
"We have launched an extensive investigation to establish the facts surrounding these very serious allegations."
Earlier this year, three women who were imprisoned in a house in Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone, ...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then when back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ... , Ohio, for more than a decade were freed.
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An "elderly couple" from London,
Just "non-British" folks with a dungeon:
From whence do they hail,
And are they in jail?
Lor lumme, it's such a conundrum!
It doesn't sound quite like the Tower
The captives were held by willpower,
Then saved by a charity
From vague insularity --
This story is weak beer gone sour
Of course we're not peeling the onions!
Why should journalists labor as scullions?
When we show you the moon
In the court Picayune
Concentrate on the view, not the mullions
The press is our sword and our shield:
Weasels on an orwellian field
In sunshine or shower
They speak truth to power --
From everyone else it's concealed
Some limmies for Threater and Redder
That should've gone into the shredder
Those skeptics prodigious
Won't buy any bridges
That aren't specified to the letter
Oops. I see this story, unlike something I read earlier, does mention an arrest. Never mind.
Such sympathetic reading, and lord knows this stuff needs it! Not that your spiny shell isn't totally convincing, but I suddenly suspect you of sneaking around visiting hospitals and tutoring Pal prodigies and whatnot. ;-)
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Zawahiri
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[Pak Daily Times] With allegations of sorcery and featuring a feared autocratic ruler and the downfall of an ambitious daughter, it could be one of those mediaeval verse epics for which Central Asia is famed.
[An Nahar] Fighting for a key military base outside Syria's main northern city of Aleppo killed at least 15 pro-government 
Nawaz Sharif
[Al Ahram] The humanitarian situation in Gaza has deteriorated one year after a truce that ended fighting between Israel and the Hamas rulers of the Palestinian enclave, UN officials said Thursday.
Seven alleged members of the Runda Kumpulan Kecil (RKK) 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[Pak Daily Times] A US drone strike in the tribal areas killed six people including a 
Wazoo
[Pak Daily Times] Depending upon which side of the divide they are, people comment differently on Hakeemullah Mehsud's elimination from the terror stage. 
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
[An Nahar] President 
[Pak Daily Times] Man, by nature, is a being who lives by setting up a government for himself. The first manifestation of this instinct took place when, in ancient times, people decided that they would select the chiefs of their tribes. After that, when these chiefs were able to establish their hegemony by conquering other tribes, they became the owners of conquered lands. This gradually took the shape of ancestral kingdoms governed by kings. In later periods, these kings, in their capacity as great conquerors, laid the foundations of empires consisting of several countries. This brought into existence governments, which included the Sassanid and the Roman empires. These empires have now become extinct but many kingdoms are still among us and have taken the place of constitutional monarchies. Except for some countries, this is the case everywhere. Among these exceptions is the kingdom of 
[Pak Daily Times] KARACHI: Law enforcers claimed to have held around 106 suspected criminals during ongoing-targeted raids and operations across the metropolis on Thursday.
Lindsey Graham
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[Tolo News] In his opening speech on the first day of Advisory Jirga, President Karzai said that if the Jirga agrees to BSA between Kabul and the United States, this agreement will be signed after the Presidential Elections.
[Pak Daily Times] US Secretary of State 
