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The problem is that they already overload the soldier. The adverse casualty requirement has them packed with armor and gear never carried before. They are mules. And someone bright person up on staff has twenty more pounds of crap they want loaded on'em.
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In WWI my Grandfather used Mules to move their artillery. At some point they ran out of supplies so they ate the mules and spiked the guns. Just like bayonets and steel canteen cups, sometimes old school works best.
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Rct. Aseel Salman, who was born into an all-female family in Baghdad, Iraq,
What? No men? How was she born?
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Step up to the dizzying precipice
And contemplate parthenogenesis:
"She says that her brother
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I think we should call in a specialist!"
APOLOGIES TO THE RECRUIT! THE DRILL INSTRUCTOR HAS NOT READ THE FREAKING ARTICLE!
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — Garbage is piling up on streets around the mosque housing the burial site of the Prophet Muhammad. Grocery stores have shut their doors and almost half of Saudi Arabia’s small construction firms have stopped working on projects.
The mess is because foreign workers on which many businesses rely are fleeing, have gone into hiding or are under arrest amid a crackdown launched Nov. 4 targeting the kingdomÂ’s 9 million migrant laborers. Decades of lax immigration enforcement allowed migrants to take low-wage manual, clerical and service jobs that the kingdomÂ’s own citizens shunned for better paying, more comfortable work.
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Is it halal to hold up my dishdash
On the hajj if the Kaaba's amidst trash?
My thobe's nice and white,
But my calves might incite
Rum doings, inviting the whiplash
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China just dropped an absolute bombshell, but it was almost entirely ignored by the mainstream media in the United States. The central bank of China has decided that it is "no longer in ChinaÂ’s favor to accumulate foreign-exchange reserves". During the third quarter of 2013, China's foreign-exchange reserves were valued at approximately $3.66 trillion. And of course the biggest chunk of that was made up of U.S. dollars. For years, China has been accumulating dollars and working hard to keep the value of the dollar up and the value of the yuan down. One of the goals has been to make Chinese products less expensive in the international marketplace. But now China has announced that the time has come for it to stop stockpiling U.S. dollars. And if that does indeed turn out to be the case, than many U.S. analysts are suggesting that China could also soon stop buying any more U.S debt..
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The finally figured out that the paper they're getting from the Americans has inflated itself beyond the cost of production (to include the welfare effect of keeping their masses employed). They're losing value on each unit shipped, but even they figured out they're not making it up in volume.
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China is not the smart economic powerhouse people think that it is. There are lots of shaky business loans out there. A drop in demand for Chinese goods could make things ugly and unstable in China.
The US and China are two partners on a boat with little freeboard, and the wind is picking up.
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I understand they stopped buying US debt a while back.
So some of this is old news.
I have to figure out how to get the lathe stuff worked out before the economy locks up. This news item indicates I may lose the race.
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China has also been buying up gold like crazy. Some suspect the want to create an new reserve currency, not the Yaun, backed by gold. Being Chinese gold it will of course be 1/2 lead alloy, with some asbestos thrown in.
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If they do that, Chinese industry will collapse(already running on a 1% margin) and these "huge" reserves will last them three months...then you'll see the rise of "warlords" with new names...as it happened in the past countless times...And epic massacres, again, like in the past...
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The Obama presidency has had very little legislative success. Even the signature Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is imploding, and was dubbed a "train wreck" by one of its own Senatorial authors. The lead-from-behind retrenchment abroad from America's traditional leadership role has won few adherents. The Benghazi tragedy and the series of alphabet-soup debacles involving the IRS, the NSA, and the AP journalists are the most disturbing political scandals we've seen since the Nixon administration.
What, then, is the Obama legacy? An insidious politicization of almost everything. Obamism has become a holistic concept of "fundamentally transforming America" that, like all ideologies, cannot be assessed solely by concrete laws and policies, but rather through a change in the mentality and spirit of Americans and those who govern them.
...What energizes this effort at holistic transformation is real anger at the perceived unfairness of the current democratic capitalist state--what Michelle Obama once referred to when she characterized America as "just downright mean." Most of us unfortunately are unaware of these tensions in our otherwise "uninvolved, uninformed" lives. Indeed, in the words of former Energy Secretary Steven Chu, we are mere adolescents "just like your teenage kids" who "aren't acting in a way that they should act." The government defines "should"; the people do not.
The antidote has been for Obama administration technocrats to reexamine the way Americans go to the doctor, borrow money, pay their taxes, secure their borders, protect their country, explore space, and contemplate the weather. In each case, it turns out that someone wealthier and more privileged than the majority has done something wrong. The remedy is to provide more power and money to an all-knowing government elite who alone has the wisdom and morality to make things fairer by making them more equal. In our present landscape where everything must be political, the government's hunt for victims and their oppressors has become ceaseless. Personally, I hope his legacy won't include Iranian nuke.
Me too. But I'd be surprised if it doesn't. It will be far easier to tally up the short list of things that turned out ok, than to enumerate the hundreds, thousands of things that could not have gone any worse.
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His blind followers thought he did, we all knew better. But like every fraud known to man they all fail in the end, their ego and self absorbed beliefs leave them no choice but to fail...
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The question is, how much lasting damage they do before they fail.
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I'm not sure why everyone gets so excited about people who walk on water. I used to do it all the time growing up. I lived in northern Pennsylvania, and every winter I would walk across the creek behind our house.
Of course I had to be sure that the ice was thick enough, but still I did walk on water.
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[Weekly Standard] Minnesota senator Al Franken, a Democrat, opens the door to a delay of the Obamacare individual mandate in an interview with Minnesota Public Radio. Here Franken, make sure this gets to the MSM. Yea, anytime on Friday will be fine. WAPO Reports:
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) says he would be open to a brief delay in the individual mandate if the problems with HealthCare.gov aren't fixed by the end of the month, according to Minnesota Public Radio. Brief delay as in... just following the upcoming election.
"I think then we have to consider extending the deadline for the mandate, but letÂ’s hope that doesn't happen," Franken told MPR. Regime expectation management at it's very best.
Franken has so far been relatively quiet about potential changes to the health-care law, but he now joins a growing group of Senate Democrats in seats that could be targeted by the GOP in 2014 who are speaking up on the issue. Others need help! Not everyone can win an election by using votes found in the boot of a car.
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Whoa whoa whoa Mr. Franken, calm down that rhetoric. Why, its that sort of crazy whacko bird gun to your head rhetoric which will make people think you are a racist, and a dang near worse than the Taliban of politics.
[Bangla Daily Star] President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... triggered uncertainty about a vital security pact with the United States on Thursday by saying it should not be signed until after Afghanistan's presidential election next April, prompting the White House to insist on a year-end deadline.
Karzai's surprise move, which came just a day after US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
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See also TOPIX > [AFP = The Hindu] AFGHAN PACT [US-Afgan BSA] SEES ROLE FOR 15,000 WESTERN TROOPS.
Pragmatically, iff Rising Iran is now SSSHHH ... CCCCCCC Bammer Amerika's BFF in Syria, + Iraq? Lebanon?, what kind of behaviors or activities will the US accept or tolerate from new best bud Iran = Tehran Govt. as per AFPAK???
[CNSNEWS] The price of electricity hit a record for the month of October, according to data released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That made October the eleventh straight month when the average price of electricity hit or matched the record level for that month.
The average price of electricity in October was 13.2 cents per kilowatt hour (KWH), up from 12.8 cents per KWH in October 2012--and up from 9.3 cents per KWH in October 2003.
Americans now pay 42 percent more for electricity than they did a decade ago.
In November 2012, electricity was 12.7 cents per KWH, which was down from the 12.8 cents per KWH price of November 2011. But, in December 2012, the price of electricity stayed at 12.7 cents per KWH, matching the record monthly price of 12.7 cents per KWH that had been reached in December 2011.
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"Americans now pay 42 percent more for electricity than they did a decade ago."
[An Nahar] President Michel Djotodia of the strife-torn Central African Republic on Friday announced that he will shortly renew a curfew on the capital Bangui because of a surge of armed crime.
"I am imminently going to issue a decree to restore the curfew from 10:00 pm until 6:00 am," Djotodia said at a meeting of civic leaders in the presidential palace, after a similar measure was lifted last month.
"During this period, patrols will be stepped up" and "any individual" wearing uniform or carrying weapons at night will if necessary be "disarmed by force", he added, blaming "bandidos" for the disturbances.
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[An Nahar] Twin bomb kabooms killed at least five people and injured 18 others in Pakistain's port city of 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... on Friday, police said.
The two blasts took place within minutes of each other in the city's bustling, predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Ancholi.
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" Karachi, a city of 18 million people, which contributes 42 percent of Pakistain's GDP, is rife with murder, kidnappings and has been plagued with sectarian, ethnic, and political violence for years."
It has something to do with the amount of Peace in the Religion of Peace ( you may have already noticed.)
Moslem Values...that sort of thing.
And , hey, what is 5 dead Moslems. Are we short of Moslems. I mean, really. Wake me up when there are some real numbers.
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Actually, it's "I could care less."
A bit pedantic? Yes. And I sort-of apologize.
But if one is going to post in the same thread as our resident Hemingway-in-a-flaming-tutu, one really should try to raise the quality level of the overall commentary.
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Hummm.....
Where I come from it's a longer form.
As in "I find it difficult to care any less about your situation". *
So I think correctly it would be, "I couldn't care less". "I could care less" implies an certain amount of caring, which I don't think the statement is trying to convey.
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Mitch McConnell - Worthless traitor who needs to get replaced by an actual human being with a spine.
RNC, if you ready this, you get nothing from me moneywise cause you're not conservative Americans. You have become Demonrats and I see no difference between you two.
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Y'all don't know that the TEA party simply means "Taxed Enough Already".
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The only conscience the senator has is how much of his reelection fund he can convert to his personal use and the kind of paying gig he can get on K street when he does.
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The Tea Party opposes the wild out-of-control spending of establishment Washington and they all go ape $hit? The Tea Party tries to put the power and control back in the hands of Americans and the Donks and Rinos go ballistic. Gimme a break.
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Before there was a Tea Party, there was the Porkbusters. People saw that every 'emergency' ended up with tremendous bloat in the funding to buy votes with. Under the guise of 'conscience' was outright fiduciary criminal looting of the public treasury.
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Oops! Another right-winger with a conscience. Hilarious
Once again JA your commentary is flat out absurd. Senator McConnell is an Establishment politician in a leadership position. This, by definition, means his decisions are driven primarily by strategy – not ideology. Therefore, he is neither a “right-winger” nor is he particularly conscientious. So follow along here junior. He’s not challenged by Tea Party policies. He’s threatened by their very existence. Hilarious.
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Who are you supposing to punch these people in the nose Mitch? You?
No? Are you advocating for others to go and punch people in the nose for you?
There is a nice corner at Boot Hill in Dodge City Mitch, you give me 15 minutes on that corner and I could point out everything which is right and wrong in America, then you can punch me in the nose - but I bet that bloody nose that I will convert you.
Why? Because four out of five things I say will be a positive story, with 10% wrong being government funded gangsterism and the other 10% being gangster influenced government.
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One has to forgive the Honorable Senator from Kentucky. He's been under a lot of strain recently, what with his poll numbers, viable opponents in both the primary and general election, and backlash from the filibuster nuke.
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..well, when you make deals based upon your future needs to 'make friends and influence people' as a K street lobbyist rather than the people you're suppose to represent, it does get a little nasty back home. Can't blame yourself now can you? /rhet question
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Yup. That's the corner bman. There are a few who work, but a whole bunch who don't seem to. The corner I'm talking about includes the parking lot they have come to dominate, chasing off business from a Chinese/Thai restaurant, a Mexican shoe store, another Chinese restaurant, and a tourist gift shop. Double park, park in the throughway, loitering in front of entrences.
My point: its the paid to not work culture, and how it affects those who are working. The sales, property, payroll taxes those business pay go into encouraging people to not only not work, but how that hurts the very businesses which fund those programs. Paying people to hurt your business.
Its also a story about paying taxes for police, and them not making sure this plaza, and businesses on the main tourist route through town is functional.
I pull into the lot to get my Panang Gai and food for the fam, and a van stuffed with people double parks right in front of my store. They park, unload, go into some store with blacked out windows for five minutes, come back with no merchandise, and leave. Meanwhile, three guys are squatting on the sidewalk not talking to each other and have the 100 yard stare. I tip well because when they opened they were so busy they talked family into moving to Dodge to help out, then this pod of no workers showed up in their parking lot. I'd be pissed.
And its not the ethnicity, pretty frustrating watching toothless white meth heads get houses and dudes straight from the campos getting into brand new trucks with a bed full of groceries.
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Senator John McCain's office in Arizona got a call from me when he went after Senator Ted Cruz, (if you read this article you will see that Mitch also is going after Ted Cruz and the Tea Party) for him trying to prevent the federal debt ceiling from being raised. I told the sanctimonious sounding female voice on the other end of the line what John McCain needs to do, but doesn't have the guts to do.
Come to Dallas, Houston, San Antone, Abilene, and try spewing his spit at the people who sent the messenger to DC instead of trying to punch our messenger in the face. He obviously was too cowardly to follow through.
Sounds like I will be making the same call to Senator Mitchel's Office in Kentucky, 859-224-8286, come Monday morning, and then calling Senator Rand Paul's Kentucky office to offer my congratulations for standing up to the Senate Rhinos who are just as against Tea Party reps filibustering as Senator Reid and company.
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The problem is that the pub leadership is not much different than the dem leadership.
The dems are evil and greedy.
The pubs are greedy and stupid.
I just do not think that either the dems or the pubs are reformable. The tea party wants less government and taxes lowered. For this they got the most vicious ad hominem attacks. They hardly ever got an intense discussion of the merits of the ideas they put forward.
So these dinosaurs are unreformable. Let's put our energy into what can be positive and can be accomplished. I like the idea of independents working together on the merits of the issue. Vote trading works when there is plenty of money to throw around.
Well, there is no money to throw around any more.
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I think Mitch is speaking figuratively about the campaign contributions he will receive as opposed to any Tea Party candidate who dares to oppose him in the Republican primary. Unfortunately, he is probably right. But the RNC will never get another penny from me. This is also the same reason I didn't vote for Carly Fiorina when she ran for Senate against Barbara Boxer. Fiorina would have been the same kind of senator as McConnell.
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And the RNC wonders why contributions keep dropping.
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We got something. Definitely not a Constitutional Republic at the moment.
Not when the pseudo king can change law with a presser and a wave of his hand.
Not when we have an imperial city whereto all the wealth is drained; the richest counties now surround the capital; the economic malaise seen by the rest of the country is absent here.
Not when we have a kings court populated by arrogant beltway aristocracy and their lobbyist courtiers.
Not when we have unelected panels (EPA, etc) surpassing the Constitutional Process and thereby Congress and debate to make mandates that we vassals are forced to obey.
[An Nahar] Up to 6,000 children have been enrolled by warring militias in the Central African Republic, a senior U.N. official said Friday, issuing a stark warning about the country's spiraling crisis.
"Roughly today, we're talking about 5,000-6,000 children, so the number has roughly doubled from our previous estimate," made in March, said Souleymane Diabate, UNICEF's country representative in the CAR.
The U.N. children's agency has repeatedly sounded the alarm about the way in which youngsters are being forced into the raft of gangs in the conflict-ravaged country.
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[Al Ahram] Egyptian security forces incarcerated Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! a senior Moslem Brüderbund figure in Sinai on Thursday night, reported Rooters website Aswat Masriya.
Brotherhood Guidance Bureau member Ezzat Abdel-Hamid Gharib was arrested in the North Sinai city of Sheikh Zuweid -- the site of numerous armed attacks against security forces since the 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 -- and flown to Cairo for investigation.
Security forces have been combing local areas since Wednesday when a bus carrying off-duty soldiers was hit by a bomb-laden car. Eleven soldiers were killed and another 37 injured in the incident near Rafah city, also in North Sinai.
Twenty-nine suspects have been rounded up by authorities and are currently being investigated for links to the attack.
Most high profile Brotherhood members have been arrested since Morsi was removed by the army after mass protests against him, including Supreme Guide Mohammed Badie and his deputy Khairat El-Shater. Most now face charges related to incitement to violence.
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[LATIMES] A local Pak government handed down murder charges this week against a doctor who helped the CIA track down the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now beyond all cares and woe... , a move that could worsen already strained ties between Washington and Islamabad.
Dr. Shakil Afridi was hailed as a hero by U.S. officials for organizing a fake vaccination campaign in Abbottabad
[Pak Daily Times] Thousands of religious activists held protest rallies on Friday following sectarian violence last week which killed at least 11 people, amid tight security across major cities.
Clashes erupted in Rawalpindi a week ago when a procession of Shias marking Ashura coincided with a sermon at a nearby Sunni mosque. The groups attacked each other, TV cameramen and security forces, firing gunshots.
Schools, shops and restaurants were closed in the city on Friday while roads were deserted in both Rawalpindi and Islamabad.
A heavy contingent of police, paramilitary rangers and soldiers was deployed in major cities, including Lahore, Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , Quetta and Multan.
In Rawalpindi, Maulana Ahmad Ludhianvi, who leads 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) organization, said, "We know how to fight against enemies of Islam and we are fighting against them."
He said that the Raja Bazaar tragedy took place due to irresponsibility of the administration. He demanded that the Punjab government immediately arrest the culprits involved in the Rawalpindi incident.
Difa-e-Pakistain Council and traders bodies also carried out a peaceful rally.
In Islamabad, a rally was taken out from Lal Masjid to National Press Club on the call of Wafaqul Madaras and ASWJ. It was led by Maulana Masoodur Rehmani and attended by about 4,000 people, mostly students of seminaries of Islamabad and surrounding areas.
The rally was also attended by JI central leader Mian Aslam, Maulana Tayyab Mehmood, Maulana Zahoor Alvi, Maulana Nazir Ahmad Farooqi and other holy mans.
Addressing the rally participants, ASWJ Deputy Secretary General Maulana Masoodur Rehman condemned the Rawalpindi incident.
He said Maulana Ahmad Ludhianvi, Maulana Samiul Haq ...the Godfather of the Taliban, leader of his own faction of the JUI. Known as Mullah Sandwich for his habit of having two young boys at a time... , Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... and others, during meetings with government officials, have presented their demands according to the aspirations of people.
He said that according to the decision of ASWJ, they would remain peaceful. He said the "government has deployed the army, which is a respectable institution, to hide its failures". He demanded arrest of those responsible for festivities in Rawalpindi, imposition of ban on all mourning processions and compensation for the losses suffered by traders.
He warned that if the government did not fulfil their demands at the earliest, the holy mans "would not care for the army and peaceful rallies will turn violent".
Police used shipping containers to block certain roads in the capital Islamabad and Rawalpindi, while the approaches to the diplomatic enclave, which houses foreign embassies, were sealed.
Umar Hayat Lalika, regional police chief for Rawalpindi, told news hounds that gatherings in the city have been banned and police would stop any attempts to hold rallies.
He said police had tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! 24 suspects including a few police officials, adding they were being interrogated.
In Quetta, up to 2,000 activists gathered to record protest. Local ASWJ leader Ramzan Mengal addressed the protesters on the occasion.
Similar scenes were seen in Peshawar, where some 4,000 people answered ASWJ's call at the city's Shobha Bazaar, while protests were also held in Lahore.
In Karachi, 15,000 people attended an ASWJ rally, shouting anti-Shia slogans.
All shops, restaurants and petrol stations in the city remained closed and roads were deserted amid a heavy deployment of police and paramilitary troops, an AFP news hound said.
A curfew was imposed in Rawalpindi and army called in following festivities between Shia mourners and students of a Sunni seminary during an Ashura procession on November 15.
Violence had also erupted in southern Punjab cities of Multan and Chishtian where civil authorities sought troops' help to maintain law and order.
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[An Nahar] A series of bombings and shootings, mostly in Sunni-majority areas of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... and northern Iraq, killed nine people Friday as security forces struggle to stem a protracted surge in bloodshed.
The attacks, which followed consecutive days in which more than 100 people were killed overall, are the latest in a flare-up that has prompted Storied Baghdad to appeal for international help combating militancy just months before Iraq's first general election in four years.
Officials have voiced concern over a resurgent al-Qaeda emboldened by the civil war in neighboring Syria which has provided the jihadist network's front groups with increased room to plan operations in Iraq.
Attacks on Thursday struck in and around Storied Baghdad and the main northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... .
Explosions in the capital and the predominantly Sunni Arab town of Tarmiyah just to the north left five people dead, including two anti-Qaeda Sunni militiamen, security and medical officials said.
Further attacks near Mosul killed four people -- two soldiers and two coppers.
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[BREITBART] 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 ( http://bit.ly/17yCP4z) 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 cop shoppe themselves.
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[Libya Herald] Derna is tense this evening after the murder last night of a respected local figure as he left a mosque. This saw a large day-long demonstration today, protesting the presence of militias and demanding that the police and army take back control of the city.
Fowzy Al-Zowki, the secretary for Derna's council of elders was bumped off as he left the Al-Sahaba mosque last night. Zowki died at Al-Hareesh hospital. At around 4:30am today a bomb went kaboom! outside the Aum El-Mominee girl's school, which also houses the local 60 committee election office.
Zowki had recently given an interview in which he condemned the deteriorating security in the city. Islamist groups have maintained that some decisions made by the council of elders were un-Islamic.
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[Tolo News] TOLOnews was given a recording of a phone conversation allegedly taken place between Jabhe Wahdat Milli front man Waheed Muzhda and a leader of the Afghan Taliban, in which information and advise is shared regarding the disrupting the Kabul-Washingotn Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA).
The recording was given to TOLOnews by an Afghan security official who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter.
During the conversation, Mr. Muzhda criticizes the security pact and asks the Taliban to support the protest of Jabhe Wahdat Milli against the BSA as the Loya Jirga convenes in Kabul to discuss it.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Algerian troops killed five armed forces of Evil at the borders with Libya and Tunisia, Tunisie Numerique reported on Thursday (November 21st).
The men reportedly tried to infiltrate Algerian territory during the World Cup qualifier against Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... on Tuesday.
Documents found in their all-terrain vehicles identified the forces of Evil as Tunisian, Libyan, and Malian nationals.
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[An Nahar] Thousands of Shiites in Bahrain erupted into the streets south of the capital Manama on Friday to protest against what they called repression of the opposition, witnesses said.
They marched in the Shiite area of Bilad al-Qadim, waving the flag of the Gulf state and chanting slogans calling for tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! members of the opposition to be released.
The opposition led by the Shiite al-Wefaq movement in a statement charged that the government had not implemented the recommendations of a commission of inquiry into violence in the spring of 2011.
The investigation concluded that excessive force had been used by security personnel in the Sunni-ruled kingdom against mostly Shiite protesters.
Friday's statement deplored "the continuing arrests, political trial and discrimination" against the majority Shiite community.
The judicial authorities have stepped up the number of trials of Shiites charged with attacking the police.
In the latest case, an appeals court on Monday upheld jail terms of up to 15 years for 17 Shiites convicted of attacks on the police.
A Shiite-led uprising to demand a democratic reforms in Bahrain was crushed in March 2011.
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[Al Ahram] North Korea on Friday marked the anniversary of its shelling of a South Korean border island with a threat to turn South Korea's presidential office into a "sea of fire".
The threat came as the South's army, navy, air force and marine corps launched an intensive military drill on and around Yeonpyeong Island in memory of the incident in which four people were killed in November 2010.
"Three years ago the baptism of retaliatory fire was limited to Yeonpyeong, but next time the presidential Blue House and all headquarters of the puppet regime will be targeted," the North's Korean People's Army said in a statement.
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[Al Ahram] An Egyptian cleric kidnapped from Milan in 2003 as part of the CIA's extraordinary renditions program is facing trial in absentia in Italy on terrorism charges stemming from a decade-old investigation. Prosecutors on Friday requested a prison sentence of six years and eight months for Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, known as Abu Omar, who is in Egypt and unlikely to be handed over if convicted.
A verdict is expected next month in the closed-door fast-track trial, which included only one day of evidence on Friday.
Italy was investigating the former Milan imam when he was kidnapped from a Milan street on Feb. 17, 2003.
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[Libya Herald] The handover of militia bases continues in the wake of the Gharghour tragedy.
Following yesterday's handover of five bases, Camp 27, held by Libya Shield Western Brigade was today handed over to military police this afternoon. Representatives from the militia were not, however, in attendance at the brief ceremony which saw members of Wirshafana Shura Council hand over the base to security forces.
The chiefs of staff for the army, navy and air force -- Mansour Bohajar, Hassan Bushnaf and Jumaa Al-Abani -- travelled to the empty barracks, officially renamed Abdul Fattah Younis Camp, to receive custody of it.
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Philippine soldiers killed a communist militant in a clash in the southern province of Compostela Valley. The fighting erupted in the village called Bagong Silang where troops cornered the New People's Army gunman and shot him. Officials said local villagers tipped off the military about presence of the gunman.
[Libya Herald] Speaking at yesterday's handover ceremony by the Sawaiq militia, based at the Islamic Call Society, Justice Minister, Salah Maraghni stressed that both Laws 27 and 53 applied equally to prisons or sites holding prisons currently under the control of militias.
The Justice Minister said that this was especially so if Libya is to become a state of law, fairness and justice.
Laws 27 and 53 stipulate that militias must by 31 December 2013, vacate their Tripoli
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[An Nahar] Jihadists cut down a 150-year-old oak tree in Atme, on Syria's border with Turkey, after they accused locals of worshiping it, a pro-jihadist source said.
"Thank God almighty, the tree... aged more than 150 years has been removed, after people were worshiping it instead of God," said the source on Thursday via his Twitter account named "our call is our jihad."
He also posted pictures of a man in a black mask using an electric saw to cut down the tree. A black al-Qaeda-style flag bearing the Islamic profession of faith had been planted on top of the tree.
The jihadist sympathizer used the hashtag used by supporters of the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed the tree had been cut down, adding that it stood next to an ancient shrine in Atme.
After jihadists took over the shrine and prevented people from going to pray there, prayers were held by the tree instead.
The reports came hours after ISIL took over the town of Atme in northwestern Syria's Idlib on Thursday, according to the Observatory and a local rebel source.
ISIL "have taken over Atme... They have set up checkpoints across the town," said Abu Leila, a rebel from Idlib who was angered by the capture.
He saw it as a strategic loss for mainstream opposition fighters, many of who have been at loggerheads with the jihadists.
"Atme was oxygen for the (rebel) Free Syrian Army" fighting to topple Syria's Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... , he told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The rebels had been using Atme "as an entry point for everything from weapons to food, and as an exit point for the maimed" into Turkey's hospitals, said Abu Leila.
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Could've been the tree where Texas won its independence from Santa Anna ...
[An Nahar] An MP who represented Zaidi Iranian catspaws known as Huthis at a national dialogue was assassinated on Friday in the Yemeni capital, an official from his group told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"Two gunnies opened fire on MP Abdel Karim Jadban as he was leaving a Sanaa mosque," said Abdel Karim al-Khaywani from the Ansarullah (Partisans of God) group.
He said Jadban died of his wounds before reaching hospital.
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when my son was stationed there, they were told to NOT confront (but report) the smugglers as they were better armed than the Army units (unarmed and no ammo)
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[Al Ahram] Egypt's ambulance authority head Ahmed El-Ansary announced on Friday that at least nine were maimed after a tram in Cairo's Nasr City crashed into two cars.
The accident occurred after supporters 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... allegedly threw Molotov cocktails at a tram line near Al-Nozha street in Nasr City, setting a train carriage and a nearby kiosk on fire.
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[An Nahar] The army circulated on Friday evening the picture of a "dangerous runaway" without revealing the crime he committed, while media reports said it might belong to one of the Iranian embassy suicide kaboomers.
The army urged in a released communique anyone that recognizes the person in the picture to contact the caretaker Defense Ministry by dialing 1701, or using the military institution's smart phone application LAF Shield.
Later on Friday, OTV said "the second suicide attacker is Lebanese national Omar Sobha," adding that he hails from Akkar's Dbaybiyeh.
The army had made public on Thursday the picture of another runaway, and as a result, Adnan Abu Dahr contacted the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau, claiming that it belongs to his son Moein.
DNA samples have been taken from Adnan Abu Dahr to compare them with the bodies found at the scene of the kabooms.
OTV had aired on Thursday evening the fake identity cards used by the suicide attackers behind the blasts in Beirut's Bir Hassan neighborhood.
One of the IDs had the same picture circulated by the army on Friday, but the name on it was Issa al-Ghawi, who's a citizen from the Beirut neighborhood of Tariq al-Jadideh.
Al-Ghawi denied to Future TV having any links to Tuesday's bombings.
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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[Al Ahram] Security forces fired tear gas at supporters 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... on Friday after they attacked the United Arab Emirates embassy in Cairo's Heliopolis.
Protesters assaulted the embassy's guards, according to Al-Ahram's Arabic website.
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[MAGHAREBIA] A Grombalia prosecutor ordered an investigation into illegal imams in Nabeul governorate, Shems FM reported on Thursday (November 21st). According to a report from the religious affairs ministry, the salafists had proclaimed themselves imams of the Al Taoufik, Al Kbir, Al Aitha, Ibn Abi kaab and Al Rahma mosques.
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I know of a number of Illegal Preachers too, Jesse Jackson, for one, Where's his church?
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Sounds like they should be tied to big rocks and dumped overboard a mile off shore. If they float and can swim back they're Imams, if not, they're fish food.
[DAILYCALLER] Some parents in Dupo, Ill. are not happy that a biography of President Barack Obama I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody... is required reading for fourth-graders. They say the book contains a host of controversial elements, not least of which is that it casts white Americans who disagree with Obama's politics as racist.
Fourth-grade students at Bluffview Elementary School were instructed that they would be tested and graded on the book's contents, reports EAGnews.org.
The book, called simply "Barack Obama," is published by Lerner Publications. The author, Jane Sutcliffe, appears to specialize in these kinds of biographies. She has written similar titles about Jesse Owens, Ronald Reagan, Sacagawea and Milton Hershey. I'll just bet that her bio on Reagan reads a tad differently...
The kerfuffle about the book originally bubbled up through a Facebook page called Moms Against Duncan (MAD). The group actively opposes implementation of the Common Core curriculum.
EAGNews notes that the Obama book is part of Scholastic's "Reading Counts" program and an acceptable title under the Common Core State Standards Initiative, which attempts to standardize various K-12 curricula around the country.
You can view a sample of the bio on Google ...contributed $814,540 to the 2008 Obama campaign... Books.
The book continually identifies Obama on a first-name basis. It bizarrely blames the evils of television for learning ways "to be black" that are hilariously caricatured, stereotypical and negative.
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Crystal Mangum lied, and unlike our President was caught and punished.
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Crystal Magnum wasn't 'punished' for ruining the lives of those 4 innocent lacrosse players - she got off scott free for that. She was later convicted for 2nd degree murder of her 'boyfriend'.
Personally I think she (along with Nifong, Racist Jesse Jackson and Racist Al Sharpton) should have been forced to serve the time for 4 rape charges - consecutively.
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To be entirely accurate in the protrayal of Brak, Jane had somebody else wright her book, then ate a dog.
There is a lot wrong with the common corpse method. Mathematics is horrible, forcusing on rote memorization. If I can try to explain, the traditional count fingers method of 3 + 2 would have three items, in this case fingers, combined with a group of two, to make 5. What they are being taught is to see 3 + 2 and just say 5. Seeing 2 + 3 is a seperate thing to memorize rather than seeing the question and thinking, "Oh, same question just different order."
I expect to see interest, participation, and success in Algebra to suffer tremendously. Imagine a generation unable to figure how to get the most tacos (A) and burritos (B) with (<=) $20 (C) without resorting to a computer.
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My wife teaches K and is being forced (along with her peers) kicking and screaming into using this $hit. I read her one of the problems going the rounds yesterday and she recognized it after 4 words. Then she explained it to me......
They are NOT allowed to teach kids how to count anymore!! Everything is groups of 5 or ten and these are kids that can't do 2+1 = 3 or 3+1 = 4.
The book shown, the one she's got, is the cheap one and not even understandable for the teachers it's such crap. She figures that the teachers will revert to their own methods next year after the Trolls stop looking over their shoulders.
[CHRON] Lebanese Sherlocks likely have identified one of the jacket wallahs who targeted the Iranian Embassy ...You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy!... in Beirut in an attack that killed 23 people, a senior judicial official said Friday.
The official said the suspected bomber, Mouin Abu Daher, is from the southern Lebanese city of Sidon. The official said authorities suspect Daher as his father told Sherlocks his son was involved.
The official said Sherlocks took DNA samples from Daher's father Friday to compare to remains of one of the suspected bombers.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't allowed to release the information.
An al-Qaeda-linked group, the Lebanese Abdullah Azzam Brigades, grabbed credit for the attack Tuesday. They said it was payback for the military support that Iran and the Shiite Lebanese militia Hezbollah provide against the mainly Sunni rebels fighting the government of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia...
The Syrian conflict, in its third year, also has become a confrontation between regional powers. It has exacerbated tensions between Leb's Sunnis and Shiites as well. The embassy bombing was one of the deadliest in a series of attacks targeting Hezbollah and Shiite strongholds in Leb in recent months.
The judicial official said Sherlocks believe Abu Daher was a follower of a charismatic Sunni preacher in Sidon, Ahmad al-Assir. Assir and his hard-line supporters battled Lebanese soldiers, supported by Hezbollah fighters, in days of festivities in July.
Among those who died in the Iranian Embassy was Ibrahim Ansari, a 54-year-old Iranian diplomat who took up his post a month ago and was overseeing regional cultural activities. On Friday, Iranians in Tehran escorted his body through the streets after prayers. They carried posters of his image, chanted and mobbed his coffin, draped in the Iranian flag.
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"Cultural attache?" And I thought only Langley and Moscow was into that sort of thing.
[An Nahar] Lebanese army experts defused at dawn Friday a car rigged with hundreds of kilograms of explosives in the eastern Bekaa Valley but failed to arrest its driver.
The army took over the vehicle between the towns of Maqne and Younine after armed gangs engaged in a gunbattle following midnight, said Voice of Leb radio (93.3).
The state-run National News Agency said the black car had been rigged with around 500 kilograms of TNT.
The army also found two mortars and a high-tech remote control to set off the explosives in the Buick carrying the license plate G/401907.
NNA said bullets had pierced the car's front window and tires.
The incident came three days after jacket wallahs struck the Iranian embassy in Beirut's southern suburbs, leaving 25 people dead and 147 maimed.
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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... on Friday stressed the need for speedy justice in the country and said that all cases, particularly those related to terrorism, should be heard and decided within 14 days.
Addressing participants of 'Vision 2025 - Stakeholders Conference', he said there must not be any bail for those who were involved in cases of heinous crimes.
The prime minister regretted that court cases in the country drag on for decades, denying justice and causing suffering for people. He said that judges could wear masks and hold trial of forces of Evil through video link.
"It is my sincere wish to make Pakistain a citadel of peace where its citizens feel secure and there are no threats to life and property."
Nawaz also regretted misuse use of loudspeakers at worship places as it fanned extremism, sectarianism and terrorism. He said that misuse of loudspeakers must be stopped and steps should be taken against hate speech.
"All the four provinces need to take strict measures and if there is need they must undertake necessary legislation in this regard," the prime minister said. He added that if all provinces award exemplary punishment to those responsible for fanning sectarianism, the situation could improve significantly.
Nawaz said averting sectarianism and countering terrorism was vital for Pakistain as the country's very existence depended on it. He said Pakistain was currently at the lowest tier in terms of security issues and extraordinary measures were needed to bring peace at all costs.
"If needed we will take revolutionary steps to bring peace to Pakistain." the prime minister said.
He said his government would not indulge in any politics on issues of national importance, including economy and security, and it would work selflessly to remove all the ills afflicting the country.
"Our vision aims at building a strong, enlightened, prosperous, and peaceful Pakistain that ensures a sustained improvement in the quality of life of all of its citizens."
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[Libya Herald] Speaking at the presser held yesterday evening at the end of the Sawaiq militia handover of the Islamic Call Society complex located in Jibs-Gate on the Swani Road, the Prime Minister warned "opportunists" against moving into public property.
"Only the state had the right to be a custodian over public or contested property", he stated. "Public property does not need anyone else to act as its custodian on the public's behalf.".
With regards to the attempt to demolish the series of large Gharghour villas that had been occupied by the Misratan militia and used as their base, Zeidan confirmed that it was he who had intervened to stop the demolition.
The Prime Minister said that such an act was "destructive" at a time when the nation suffered "a housing shortage".
"We must construct not destroy", he added. "Destruction was such a regressive act. We must safeguard our heritage and our building, not destroy them".
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the Prime Minister warned “opportunists” against moving into public property.
"We Mined Them".
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[Libya Herald] Speaking Thursday at the presser at the end of the Sawaiq militia's base handover ceremony on, Prime Minister Ali Zeidan confirmed that the deadline given to Ibrahim Jadhran had passed.
Amidst all of the euphoria generated by the multiple handover of bases and pullout from 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... by various militias in the last week, there was a danger that either the public or the government might forget the other threat looming to Libya's security -- its financial security, caused by the oil terminal blockade.
Zeidan was brief in his response to the question which injected a sense of reality into the euphoric mood at the handover ceremony.
"We set a deadline and we are about to take action", he quipped. "You will know what that is when we carry it out", he said without even a hint of what that action might possibly be.
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[BREITBART] A Colorado mom woke up recently to find a missed a call from the number 1-666-666-666. To make matters worse, she then received 48 text messages from "Satan."
The woman, Jenn Vest. was really freaked out. In fact, she said, "It really freaked me out because I was half asleep feeding my son and it woke me up. I thought maybe I was dreaming at first, and then I stayed up the rest of the night praying and hoping nothing would happen."
Each text message came from a different number but Satan was ID'd on all of them.
If you call back the Devil, apparently there is a recording saying the number is no longer in service. Google ...contributed $814,540 to the 2008 Obama campaign... search results reveal that the phone number has been used to prank more than just the young mother.
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#AB: Peeps I be looking at some serious strange
#Crater: I see it 2, froot Loops?
#Coop: Shit yeah, it's Coca Puffs!
#BostonC: Ummmmm roach shit
#TheDiesel: Ummmmmmm roachs
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We The People Need To Make These Scammers Pay, how about a button that fries their telephone, permanently.
I'm sire ATT has one, but doesn't want US to hear about it, the Police HAVE a button that prevents hanging up making it disconnect, It's nice Trapping the thieves that way.
"Mam, does this sound like the Perp".
"Why YES it DOES".
"Thank you Mam, you've helped bust these scammers".
Changed to BEEEEP, (Dead silence)
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[MAGHAREBIA] The top aide to terrorist Mokhtar Belmokhtar was killed by French forces in northern Mali, ANI reported on Thursday (November 21st).
Yet another job opening for a bright, ambitious, hard-working, beheading number three...
Mauritanian national Hacene Ould Khalil (aka Jouleibib) and two other jihadists were reportedly killed last week some 220 kilometres west of Tessalit.
Jouleibib was the deputy commander of the "Signed in Blood" battalion, which grabbed credit for the deadly siege at Algeria's In Amenas gas complex and the twin suicide boom-mobileings in Niger in May.
La Belle France's chief of defence staff in Gay Paree last Thursday said only that French forces had "neutralised" several al-Qaeda members in northern Mali. A regional security source in Mali, however, confirmed to AFP the death of Belmokhtar's "right-hand man".
"He was responsible for the management of the group. It is truly a blow to Belmokhtar," the source added.
French forces also reportedly seized a cell phone and a computer belonging to Jouleibib.
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deputy commander of the "Signed in Blood" battalion
"looks like he wrote a novel there...all over the sidewalk"
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[Pak Daily Times] The 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) is all set to stage a sit-in 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. today (Saturday) in protest against US drone attacks on Pak soil.
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) has also confirmed its participation in the protest and said the party would stand by PTI in its protest against NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... supply lines and drone strikes in Pakistain.
Political workers of different parties, including PTI and JI, have arrived in Peshawar from across the country to participate in today's sit-in.
The call for sit-in was given by PTI-led Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... (KP) government.
The provincial cabinet on Friday 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... over Thursday's drone strike in Hangu and decided to hold protest demonstrations and rallies outside UN offices, US Consulate and Parliament House.
A cabinet meeting was held with Chief Minister Pervez Khattak in the chair.
The cabinet also constituted a three-member committee, comprising provincial ministers Shah Farman, Inayaullah and Sharam Tarakzai, to contact leadership of various political parties for participation in the protest rallies.
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[An Nahar] A young boy and a man were killed on Friday as supporters and opponents of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... clashed in Egypt, officials said.
The confrontations came as pro-Morsi groups called for a week of anti-military protests under the slogan "Massacre of the Century".
That is a reference to the August 14 crackdown by security forces on Morsi supporters in Cairo's Rabaa al-Adawiya Square where at least 627 people died on that day.
The boy, aged 10, was hit in the head by a bullet when pro-Morsi marchers clashed with his opponents after Friday prayers in the city of Suez, security officials said.
A man was killed in similar festivities in the central city of Minya.
Khaled al-Khatib, a senior health ministry official, confirmed the two deaths to state news agency MENA, adding that another 15 people were maimed nationwide.
Disturbances were also reported in some districts of the capital and in other towns.
Police fired tear gas as pro- and anti-Morsi students pelted each other with rocks at Cairo's al-Azhar University, security officials said.
An interior ministry statement said that some students linked to the Moslem Brüderbund torched a tram carriage in the Heliopolis district of the city.
On Thursday, Egypt's interim rulers gave police the power to enter university campuses to quell protests without seeking prior permission from the prosecutor general or university authorities as previously required.
On Friday, police also used tear gas grenades against demonstrators trying to reach Rabaa al-Adawiya Square.
Fighting also erupted in the oasis city of Fayoum some 100 kilometers (60 miles) south of Cairo, and was later broken up by police using tear gas.
At least 27 people were tossed in the clink You have the right to remain silent... nationwide, MENA reported.
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[Pak Daily Times] The government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... on Friday lodged an FIR over Thursday's drone strike at a seminary in Hangu in which six people, including a big shot of Haqqani network, were killed.
The FIR was lodged in Thall Police Station, according to local administration sources.
They said the FIR was lodged against "unidentified people" charging them with murder. SHO Thall Farid Khan was the complainant, sources added.
"No one was directly nominated in the FIR... there was no mention of the United States," they said.
Thursday's drone strike was only the second such attack outside the country's lawless tribal districts.
The missile attack hit a religious seminary that forces of Evil and security officials said belonged to the bad turban outfit blamed for some of the deadliest attacks in neighbouring Afghanistan.
Haqqani sources said that the network's spiritual leader, Maulana Ahmad Jan, was among those killed at the seminary, which they said was a rest base for forces of Evil fighting NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... forces in Afghanistan.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The Central African president yesterday insisted he was negotiating with Joseph Kony ... The Lords Resistance Army is a religious and military group formed in 1987. It is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, and who is periodically possessed by demons, Beelzebub and Legion prominent among them. Kony advises his soldiers to draw crosses on their chests as a protection against bullets. This does't work, but nobody outside the LRA minds. The group is based on a hodge podge of apocalyptic Christianity, mysticism, and traditional Acholi religion, and claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on an odd interpretation of the Ten Commandments. The LRA is famous for systematic criminal conduct, including murder, abduction, mutilation, sexual enslavement of women and children, forcing children to participate in hostilities, and occasional cannibalism. The LRA operates mainly in northern Uganda and also in parts of Sudan, Central African Republic and DR Congo... after Washington rubbished claims the wanted Ugandan militia boss was personally involved in any talks.
Michel Djotodia is in contact with Kony, one of the world's most elusive war criminals, over the fate of the children and women enslaved by his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), presidency front man Guy-Simplice Kodegue said.
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[NEWS.YAHOO] Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro exercised new emergency powers for the first time Thursday, signing decrees limiting business profit margins and tightening regulation of imports.
He acted as part of a so-called "economic war" against a crisis for which he blames the opposition "bourgeoisie" and imperialism.
Under new powers granted to Maduro on Tuesday, the two new laws aim to control prices and profits in the business sector and closely monitor imports and exports and hard currency that comes in from oil sales, Venezuela's main source of revenue.
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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 dirigible, Cynthia backed into the galley, the barbecue fork held in front of her. Jack! she called. Where the hell are you?... 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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[DAILYCALLER] Happy Thanksgiving from the B.O. regime. The Energy Department has sold off its $192 million loan guarantee to Fisker Automotive to Chinese billionaire Richard Li for $25 million -- the biggest taxpayer loss on a green loan since the failure of Solyndra. ...a green technological winner picked by the Obama administration that cost the taxpayers a half billion dollars, with the added benefit of the campaign contributors who put money into the project getting paid before the taxpayers when the wreckage went up for sale...
The Energy Department will announce the "selling of the promissory note" to Hybrid Tech, which is owned by Chinese billionaire Richard Li, according to sources familiar with the sale. The DOE sold the loan to Li for $25 million after lending the financially troubled green automaker a total of $192 million since 2009. I guess this is how a Chinese billionaire got to be a Chinese billionaire... Continued on Page 49
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It wasn't lost, it was just 'redistributed'. How much over the period of the loan was laundered 'redistributed' to various reelection funds and PACs we can guess.
[An Nahar] An alleged list containing details about "seven booby-trapped cars" that have entered Leb has surfaced on social networking websites, only a few days after the deadly twin bombing that targeted the Iranian embassy in Bir Hassan.
The document being circulated is supposedly a copy of a cable that was sent by the General Directorate of State Security to the Directorate General of Internal Security Forces.
The list details the types, colors and others details pertaining to the vehicles
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Note to self: lay in popcorn/condiments supplies.
[An Nahar] Hizbullah MP Nawwaf al-Moussawi stated on Friday that the resistance has never asked for national consensus since its establishment, noting also that there would have not been Independence Day if it weren't for the party's sacrifices.
"If it weren't for the resistance, no one would have thought about celebrating Independence Day and if it weren't for the resistance, the land would have been still under occupation and most of the people in prisons," al-Moussawi said in a speech he gave at a funeral in Deir Amass town.
He added: "If we waited for national consensus in 1982, the resistance would have not been founded because a large group of Lebanese adopted policies that made them strategic allies to Israel."
"What is known historically is that the resistance since its establishment and through its work, it never sought national consensus and if it did, we wouldn't have liberated the land."
Therefore, waiting for national accord as a requirement to face dangerous threats is a condition that has no basis, according to the Hizbullah official.
"When we perceive a threat we cannot wait for national consensus over confronting it."
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... al-Moussawi pointed out that independence is incomplete because "a country is dictating a group of Lebanese and confiscating national decision."
"By this, this country is obstructing the work in the constitutional institutions, preventing the formation of a new cabinet and the convening of the parliament."
Al-Moussawi was hinting at Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... in his speech.
He stressed that what protects Leb is eliminating Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... s in Syria to preserve diversity in the country.
"If the Takfiris triumph in Syria, Leb will not longer exist," he warned.
Leb celebrated on Friday 70 years of independence amid the growing threat of terrorism, the widening gap between Leb's political parties and the huge burden of the Syrian refugees.
A string of deadly bombings and sectarian gunbattles linked to Syria has left hundreds of casualties in several areas, mainly Hizbullah strongholds - Beirut's southern suburbs and the Bekaa - and the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
The latest bombings targeted the Iranian embassy in the Beirut neighborhood of Bir Hassan, a Hizbullah stronghold, on Tuesday. An al-Qaeda-linked group claimed it carried out the twin suicide kabooms, raising fears of Iraqi-style attacks in the country.
Also, there has been no functioning government since premier-designate Tammam Salam's appointment in April because of divisions between the March 8 and March 14 alliances over Syria.
Moreover, for the past 2 and a half years, Hizbullah has been involved in the fighting alongside Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... 's forces in the neighboring country's war, amid wide local and international opposition to its interfering in Syria's turmoil.
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[An Nahar] Attacks mostly targeting Sunni-majority areas of Iraq killed 13 people on Friday as the minority community shuttered countless mosques nationwide, complaining that security forces were failing to provide adequate protection.
The move follows a months-long surge in bloodshed, with the latest wave of violence leaving nearly 200 people dead in just the past week, that has forced Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... to appeal for international help in combating militancy just months before its first general election in four years.
Officials have also voiced concern over a resurgent al-Qaeda emboldened by the civil war in neighboring Syria which has provided the jihadist network's front groups with increased room to plan operations in Iraq.
Attacks on Friday struck Sunni-majority areas in and around Storied Baghdad, and the main northern city of djinn-infested Mosul, leaving at least 13 dead and 25 others maimed, security and medical officials said.
Four separate shootings and bombings in the capital, including one adjacent to a Sunni mosque, killed at least six people, while blasts in the nearby Sunni towns of Abu Ghraib and Tarmiyah left three others dead.
Further attacks near djinn-infested Mosul, a mostly Sunni city in restive Nineveh province, killed four people -- two soldiers and two coppers.
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[An Nahar] A suspect linked to Tuesday's Bir Hassan bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut has been arrested, reported An Nahar daily on Friday.
It said that investigations are underway with him in order to reveal all details of the attack and the identity of the suicide bombers.
The existence of the suspect was uncovered after the discovery of telephone calls that he made soon after the blasts.
The daily added that the investigations are on the verge of uncovering the identity of one of the bombers, seeing as images of him were captured by surveillance cameras at the scene of the crime.
Investigators are facing difficulties however in identifying the second attacker, who was driving the explosives-laden car, because he was not caught on any of the cameras.
Meanwhile, a security source told As Safir newspaper Friday that investigators are almost certain that the suicide bombers are not Lebanese.
Some leads have said that they may have arrived to Lebanon from Jordan, but that does not necessarily mean they are Jordanian.
Investigations are currently focusing on how they entered Lebanon, whether by land or plane.
OTV aired on Thursday evening the fake identity cards used by the suicide attackers behind the blasts in Bir Hassan as security forces embarked on searching the hotel where they stayed on their last night.
Also on Thursday, 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 security source told As Safir that the attackers left their hotel room 70 minutes before carrying out the bombing.
They likely left their rooms to obtain the vehicle used in the attack, but the investigations have not yet pinpointed the location from where they received their car.
Other security sources said that the assailants arrived at their hotel three days prior to the attack.
On they day of the bombing, they headed to the Tallet al-Khayyat area near Verdun, but the details of their actions in that neighborhood have yet to be uncovered.
Investigations are not ruling out the possibility that they may have received the vehicle used in the attack.
They then left the area and headed towards Bir Hassan to carry out the attack.
Investigations are also focusing on the sides that may have aided the assailants in preparing the attack, starting from how they arrived to Lebanon, booked their hotel room, and obtained the explosives-laden car.
As Safir said that the car was rented by a local company before being stolen and taken to the Bekaa.
It was then taken to a region between the northern Bekaa and Syria's al-Qalamoun region.
At least 23 people were killed and more than 145 others were wounded in twin blasts that took place on Tuesday morning near the Iranian Embassy in the neighborhood of Bir Hassan in Beirut's southern suburbs.
A security official said the first suicide attacker was on a motorcycle that carried two kilograms of explosives. He blew himself up 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-Qaida-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades claimed responsibility for the bombings, according to the Twitter page of a cleric linked to the group.
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"SULEMAN",
"Yes Inspector"
"ROUND UP THE USUAL USPECTS",
"Yes inspector"
"AND BRING ME THE NUMBER NINE TRUNCHEON",
"The number nine, Inspector"
"YES, THE NUMBER NINE, AND HURRY""
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[THEHILL] After the Senate voted to change filibuster rules Thursday, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) called for more reforms.
"This has been escalating for a long period of time and it was time to stop it and that's what we did this morning," Harkin said. "Now we need to take it a step farther and change the filibuster rules on legislation."
I agree: eliminate the filibuster completely. It's an anachronism and ill-suited to our times. Let 50% + 1 be the rule, especially after the Pubs take the Senate back in 2015...
Fifty-two Democratic senators voted to limit the minority party's right to filibuster executive branch and judicial nominees. Under the old rules, 60 votes were necessary to end debate on nominees, but Democrats changed the rules to require a simple majority.
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Harkin calls for more rule changes
Like pushing back election dates just like, mandated by law, Obamacare enrollment?
[An Nahar] Seven key Islamist groups fighting Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... 's regime in Syria announced a merger to form an "Islamic Front" on Friday, pledging to work towards an Islamic state.
"The Islamic Front is an independent military and social force that is aimed at bringing down Assad's regime in Syria and at replacing it with a just Islamic state," it said in a statement.
The statement was published after a rebel front man, Abu Firas, announced on Facebook "the complete merger of the major military factions fighting in Syria".
Among the groups joining the merger are Aleppo's biggest fighting force Liwa al-Tawhid, the Salafist Ahrar al-Sham and the Army of Islam, which is concentrated around Damascus.
The Kurdish Islamic Front also joined the front.
The creation of the joint force follows major regime advances on key battlegrounds around Damascus and Aleppo in northern Syria.
Opposition sources and experts have attributed the regime's successes in part to rebel disunity.
While Salafist tough guys from different groupings have in the past formed alliances, Friday's was the first merger.
The announcement came days after the death of Liwa al-Tawhid's charismatic military chief Abdel Qader Saleh, who had reportedly made calls for unity.
All the groups are Islamist and merged "under the banner of 'There is no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet'," said Abu Firas of Liwa al-Tawhid, citing the Islamic profession of faith.
Speaking to Agence La Belle France Presse over the Internet, Abu Firas said "the doors are open to all the military factions, and a committee is working to study the entrance of all groups that also want to join" the merger.
"It has been decided that all the factions' military, media, humanitarian and administrative offices will merge over a transitional period of three months," he added.
News of the merger came as anti-Assad protesters in Syria erupted into the streets for their weekly demonstrations, this time under the rallying cry "The blood of the martyr (Abdel Qader Saleh) unites us."
Saleh died from his wounds Monday, after an air strike hit the building in Aleppo where he and other faction leaders were meeting days earlier.
Activists on the ground welcomed the merger as "bad news" both for Assad's regime and for the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which has fought against some rebel brigades in opposition-held areas.
"The news will terrorize the regime and ISIL at the same time," said an activist group.
Also welcoming the merger, Aleppo-based activist Abu Omar told AFP it "will help bring control to all the liberated (opposition-held) areas in Syria, and prevent the emergence of divided statelets."
Apart from daily violence, rebel areas are racked with insecurity and criminality that flourish with the lack of a centralized authority.
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[An Nahar] Rebels in Syria seized a key town Friday in Qalamoun province that has been under army control since the outbreak of the conflict, a monitoring group and the opposition said.
Hundreds of rebels now control most of Deir Attiyeh, with the exception of the Bassel hospital and a small hill, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The majority Christian town north of Damascus is home to 10,000 people and is situated on the strategic route linking the capital to Homs in central Syria.
It was seized by the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and al-Nusra Front, as well as other Islamist fighters, said the Observatory, which relies on a network of activists, doctors and lawyers on the ground for its reports.
The opposition National Coalition welcomed the capture of Deir Attiyeh.
"After fierce fighting lasting several days, the (mainstream rebel) Free Syrian Army in Damascus province has successfully liberated the town of Deir Attiyeh in the Qalamoun area," the Coalition said in a statement.
"It is a success that exposes the lies of 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... ) about fictitious victories," the opposition added.
The rebel advance comes three days after the army took Qara, which for many months had been under opposition control.
A Syrian security source told Agence La Belle France Presse "the Death Eaters that were expelled from Qara have found refuge in... buildings on the edges of Deir Attiyeh and the army is currently handling the problem."
Assad's regime refers to the armed opposition as "terrorists."
His army, backed by fighters from Leb's Hizbullah, has fought rebels all week in several areas of Qalamoun, which is strategic because it is near the Lebanese border.
Regime warplanes on Friday staged 16 air strikes on Qalamoun, the Observatory said.
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[MCCLATCHYDC] The nation's largest news organizations lodged a complaint Thursday against the White House for imposing unprecedented limitations on photojournalists covering President Barack Obama, which they say have harmed the public's ability to monitor its own government.
Why doesn't the MSM just ask for official White House photos of the events? It would save everyone time and the coverage is going to be the same regardless from the credentialed wing of the Democratic Party...
The organizations accuse the White House of banning photojournalists from covering Obama at some events, and then later releasing its own photos and videos of the same events.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest defended the release of photos and videos, saying the practice helps Obama live up to his pledge of transparency by allowing the public to have greater access to the inner workings of the administration when it's not feasible for news media to be in the room.
"Journalists are routinely being denied the right to photograph or videotape the president while he is performing his official duties," according to a letter the organizations sent to the White House. "As surely as if they were placing a hand over a journalist's camera lens, officials in this administration are blocking the public from having an independent view of important functions of the executive branch of government."
Presidents often look for ways to get their own messages out. But media experts say Obama's administration has developed an aggressive strategy to use social media, including government-sponsored websites and blogs, as well as Twitter, Instagram and Flickr accounts, to circumvent the media's constitutional duty more than its predecessors have.
"You are only seeing what they want you to see," said Lucy Dalglish, the dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest defended the release of photos and videos, saying the practice helps Obama live up to his pledge of transparency by allowing the public to have greater access to the inner workings of the administration when it's not feasible for news media to be in the room.
"What we've done is we've taken advantage of new technology to give the American public even greater access to behind-the-scenes footage or photographs of the president doing his job," Earnest said. "To the American public, that's a clear win."
He said the news organizations' protests were just part of the natural tension between journalists and those they covered.
"The fact that there is a little bit of a disagreement between the press corps and the White House press office about how much access the press corps should have to the president is built into the system," he said at the daily White House news briefing. "If that tension didn't exist, then either you or we aren't doing our jobs."
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Why doesn't the MSM just ask for official White House photos of the events? It would save everyone time and the coverage is going to be the same regardless from the credentialed wing of the Democratic Party...
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Actually I have noticed that since the Obamacare rollout fiasco, the exact same photos have been used over and over again for many different articles.
Also every single one of them appear to have been Photoshopped in some way or the other to enhance the main stream media's point of view.
The art of photography/photojournalism, today, is a lost art.
Most photographers today don't even try (or know how) to take quality images. They simply snap a bunch of snapshots, download the entire batch DIRECTLY from their cameras into a Photoshop application, and the Photoshop artists take over from there.
In a great many cases I doubt that the images we see posted on the MSM are any more real than the one I posted above.
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JI, yours take time, effort, creativity, imagination.
Too many photographers have taken on the mindset of being tripods. Well dressed and snotty tripods, but tripods nonetheless. I'm afraid that the same thing that is happening with people not being able to retain phone numbers is happening with the mass recording of anything, that people are sacrificing the be here now for hours of stale video footage.
Going through that digital video, picking the frame where el pres has the best smile and wink combo, adjusting bright/contrast, hue, saturation to make the most pleasing effective picture is not photography in the sense they pass it off as, the happened to catch the moment they sell it as. Its really advanced 21st century poster agit prop.
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"You are only seeing what they want you to see," said Lucy Dalglish, the dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.
How is that different from ABC?
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"What we've done is we've taken advantage of new technology to give the American public even greater access to behind-the-scenes footage or photographs of the president doing his job," Earnest said.
Evidently, a WH photographer was a bit overzealous carrying out Earnest's mandate...
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"What we've done is we've taken advantage of new technology to give the American public even greater access to behind-the-scenes footage or photographs of the president doing his job,"
And in honor of that tragic day on November 22, 1963, see the last item (Rantburg gun of the week)
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Pistol ammunition prices were mixed, while rifle ammunition prices were mixed to lower.
Prices for all classes of firearms were mixed.
Pistol Ammo
.45 caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: + .01 each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Selway Armory, Wolf Polyformance, .33 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Jack Ross Ammunition, round nose reloaded, .32 per round (Unchanged from last week)
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Selway Armory, reloaded, .28 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Freedom Munitions, reloaded, .25 per round (-.02 Each, -.05 Each over previous four weeks)
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each (after -.06 Each over previous four weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Munirel, Prvi Partizan Monarch, .26 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Blu Core Shooting Center, P&G, reloaded, .23 per round (-.01 each from last week, -.02 last two weeks)
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: -.02 (+.14 each over five of the previous six weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Bangit Ammo, Precision One, .44 per round
Cheapest Bulk 250 rounds: LAX Ammo, reloaded, .42 per round (Unchanged)
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: -.02 each (+.03 over previous three weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munirel USA, Tulammo, steel cased, .30 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo Supply Warehouse, Wolf, steel cased, .31 per round (-.01 each, Over previous three Weeks: +.02 each )
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Goose Island Sales, No Label, steel cased, .60 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1000 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Prvi Partizan, .60 per round (Unchanged)
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (Unchanged previous eight weeks, but two, +.01 and -.01)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammo Supply Warehouse, Wolf Polyformance, steel core and case, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1000 rounds: Wideners, Wolf Polyformance, steel case, .23 per round (-.01 each of the last two weeks)
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: +.05 each (Unchanged in previous four of seven Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Smokey Mountains Munitions, CCI, .15 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 5,000 rounds: Ammo Fast, Aguila, .12 per round (Unchanged, two weeks)
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $788 Last Week Avg: $843
California: Bushmaster patrolman carbine: $800
Texas: Bushmaster Carbon Fiber: $620
New York: Andersen (Mixed Build): $930
Virgina: Palmetto State Armory: $789
Florida: RedX Arms (Mixed Build): $800
.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,300 Last Week Avg: $1,549
California: DPMS: $1,400 (Same Gun)
Texas: Patriot Ordnance Factory $1,300
New York: None available
Virginia: DPMS: $1,000
Florida: DSA: $1,499 (Same Gun)
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A little Birthday Treat Last Month for GolfBravoUSMC
A July 54 Harrington & Richardson. After putting on 6 coats of hand rubbed Tung Oil I took her to the range to break her in. She had never fired a shot down range so I put round 3-14 through her since manufacture.
The first three rounds were low right. Changed windage and elevation, next two high left and pulled one shot right. Right windage one click and lowered elevation 4 clicks and fired 6 rounds for effect. Should have only dropped two clicks. Got to work on that elevation thingy.
It's been fifty years since I fired a M1 Garand and I don't remember them being this heavy and kicking this hard.
Click on the picture to see my Birthday present arriving and the opening. (8 days late) Who cares, it's easy to make a guy happy.
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Thanks for the remainder on maintenance, I really need to put oil on my M-1's stock. It does kick, but even so, as much as I love my .308 AR, there's just something to the Garand. Even my wife likes it more. Mine's an International Harvester, I doubt it even made it to Korea, but holding it still makes you feel like you have history in your hands.
I think the feeling is like the difference between getting that nifty store bought toy, and the hunk of wood your Dad turned into your new favorite toy.
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Absolutely right about heavy. Makes you respect those who carried it in battle.
Fun gun to shoot. So many better guns today, in particular for carrying up and down canyons chasing after antlered and horned critters. But for going to the range and shooting, what's not to like?
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Nice GB - you've inspired me to take the kids shooting over the holidays. Of all of our weapons, they all like my Springfield M1 the best.
The family that shoots together. . . .well, you know the rest.
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Sen. Evie Redak's gun control supporter threatened to go get a gun and kill you mother....s? There's a statement in contradiction between beliefs and actions. Do you think the guy ought to get some treatment or up his meds?
The M1 Garand is a nice firearm and a nice piece of history. Are they still available through the CMP (Civilian Marksmanship Program)?
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Last I heard this administration is blocking the import of that warehouse of M1s found in Korea. It was enough to make me want to join the CMP. Piece of history, exactly why I am interested.
My M1 Garand is from the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP). It is classified as a HRA Service Grade "Special" and came in a lot from Greece. It seems that the Greeks had a bunch of crated Harrington and Richardson M1s in a warehouse that were only used to scavenge the stocks and hand guards, the rifles were unused.
CMP brought them back, cleaned off the cosmoline, test fired them and added a CMP stock set.
I sent in my order paperwork including copies of Birth Certificate, DD-214, CMP Qualified Gun Club Membership Card and Kalifornia Gun Safety Card on 09/09 and received the weapon on 10/28. My credit card was charged $950 plus shipping around 10/23.
Most people believe that because CMP was a Government program until the 90s and still has some affiliation, Champ's import ban does not affect them. You can see the availability of CMP M1s here.
I just ordered some 30 Cal Carbine Ammo from Cheaper than Dirt. It was about $21 a box of 50 rounds. That's about $15 a box cheaper than anything around here.
[NY Times] 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... planned to fly to Geneva on Friday to join the talks on imposing a temporary freeze on Iran's nuclear program, a sign that the negotiations are edging close to an agreement.
Jen Psaki, the State Department spokeswoman, said in a statement that Mr. Kerry had decided to go after having consulted with Catherine Ashton, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's top foreign policy official and lead negotiator for the big powers in the talks with Iran.
Ms. Psaki said his goal was to "help narrow the differences and move closer to an agreement."
The aim of the accord is to halt much of Iran's nuclear program for six months so negotiators have time to pursue a more comprehensive accord.
The current round of negotiations began on Wednesday amid heightened expectations that the interim accord would be sealed this week.
The top diplomats from the six world powers that are negotiating with Iran--the United States, La Belle France, Britannia, Russia, China and Germany--had been expected to go to Geneva if an accord appeared to be at hand and their involvement was needed to push it over the finish line.
Russia's foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, was the first to go to Geneva and arrived Friday afternoon.
Earlier on Friday, Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said that a major stumbling block involved what constraints to impose on Iran's effort to build a heavy water reactor near the town of Arak that would produce plutonium.
"We still disagree on three or four points, the most important of which seems to be the heavy-water reactor in Arak," Mr. Zarif said, according to Tasnim, an Iranian news agency.
A senior European diplomat also said this afternoon that Arak was a sticking point and that some issues also remained pertaining to enrichment.
"They made some good progress this afternoon but not enough to guarantee a deal," the European official said. "There are many options on the table for the Iranians that would allow them to claim a measure of victory. The issue is do the Iranians feel that at home this looks all right."
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Next up - Immigration reform, Cuba, + of course new QES + Debt Ceiling.
At the rate the Bammer is going, the POTUS Candidates won't have any issues to diatribe about come 2016 Elex.
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Wouldn't you feel just a little queasy if Kerry was your squad leader in combat? Be honest.
And he is going to "negotiate" with Iran for all of us. What do we have to gain by negotiating with Iran ? I mean,really. Iran has to pay 37,000 rials for a loaf of bread. Why don't we stand back, keep the sanctions in place and watch them strangle to death. They only have one gasoline refinery in the whole country. Think about that.
Their military is bled white and they don't invent anything. Keep up the pressure and they will implode sooner or later. Can you say Syria, just like Syria. Then the Azeris will start car bombing Persians and vice versa. We can watch. Keep shipping the Afghan heroin crop to Tehran and keep the price cheaper than a pint of milk. 16 million Heroin addicts in Iran...Prostitution is whoopee. And Allah can take it on his knees.
Yeah, then Kerry wants to "negotiate". But then look who he works for...wussie boy. Kerry is brilliant, right? Yeah.
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B - Why am I not shocked? Like most hard core liberals, Champ has an innate fear and loathing of the military. The military are men (and women) of gravitas, purpose, honor and bravery. They represent a threat to his planned domination over personal freedom.
[BREITBART] A California ordinance that prohibits smoking in residences with shared walls may be the strictest anti-smoking law in the United States, city officials say.
The ban, passed by the city of San Rafael, applies to both owners and renters, ABC News reported Thursday.
It covers any multi-family residence with three or more units, including condominiums, co-ops and apartments. The ban took effect Nov. 14.
"I'm not aware of any ordinance that's stronger," said Rebecca Woodbury, an analyst in the San Rafael's city manager's office who helped write the ordinance.
She cited studies that found secondhand smoke seeps through walls, ventilation ducts and even cracks as justification for the ordinance. Nicophobe...
Critics jumped on Woodbury's reasoning and the ordinance itself.
"The science for that is spurious at best," said George Koodray, the state coordinator for Citizens Freedom Alliance and the Smoker's Club in New Jersey.
Steve Stanek, a research fellow at the free-market oriented policy group Heartland Institute in Chicago, supported the rights of smokers. Stanek, a non-smoker, said, "My sympathies aren't with smokers because I am one, it's because of the huge growth in laws and punishments and government restricting people more and more."
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...another example of liberal fascism at work.
South Pasadena has a similar ordinance as well, which even covers people smoking in their cars while traveling through the city.
A recent local news article claimed that retail sales were off by 30% YTD.
And they can't seem to figure out why.
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Of course they could just ban cigarettes et al from sale in the state (leaving a monopoly to Indian reservations and other federal lands), but then where would they make up all that tax revenue?
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
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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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[An Nahar] Up to 6,000 children have been enrolled by warring militias in the Central African Republic, a senior U.N. official said Friday, issuing a stark warning about the country's spiraling crisis.
[Al Ahram] Egyptian security forces 
Maulana Fazlur Rehman
[Tolo News] TOLOnews was given a recording of a phone conversation allegedly taken place between Jabhe Wahdat Milli 
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[An Nahar] Jihadists cut down a 150-year-old oak tree in Atme, on Syria's border with Turkey, after they accused locals of worshiping it, a pro-jihadist source said.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[DAILYCALLER] Some parents in Dupo, Ill. are not happy that a biography of President 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Nawaz Sharif
[BREITBART] A Colorado mom woke up recently to find a missed a call from the number 1-666-666-666. To make matters worse, she then received 48 text messages from "Satan." 
[MAGHAREBIA] The top aide to terrorist Mokhtar Belmokhtar was killed by French forces in northern Mali, ANI reported on Thursday (November 21st).
[NEWS.YAHOO] Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro exercised new emergency powers for the first time Thursday, signing decrees limiting business profit margins and tightening regulation of imports.
[DAILYCALLER] Happy Thanksgiving from the 
A string of deadly bombings and sectarian gunbattles linked to Syria has left hundreds of casualties in several areas, mainly Hizbullah strongholds - Beirut's southern suburbs and the Bekaa - and the northern city of 
[THEHILL] After the Senate voted to change filibuster rules Thursday, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) called for more reforms.
[An Nahar] Rebels in Syria seized a key town Friday in Qalamoun province that has been under army control since the outbreak of the conflict, a monitoring group and the opposition said.
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[MCCLATCHYDC] The nation's largest news organizations lodged a complaint Thursday against the White House for imposing unprecedented limitations on photojournalists covering President Barack Obama, which they say have harmed the public's ability to monitor its own government.
[NY Times] Secretary of State 
[BREITBART] A California ordinance that prohibits smoking in residences with shared walls may be the strictest anti-smoking law in the United States, city officials say.
