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Rodney Booker said, I stood in line for four hours. They better give me a Wal-Mart gift card, or something.
They don't owe you shit, asshole. You are there to present a reason of why the hiring agency should devote resources for you. Progressive viewpoints at its worst.
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the end of the article tells you much of what you need to know about Chicago
"...Despite the complaints, the mayors office said the job fair was a success, and another would be held next year."
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Normally I'd be in full agreement with your sentiment, Darth. But - Mr. Booker's evident sense of entitlement aside - the folks who came to this "city job fair" appear to have damn good reason to be frustrated:
About 3,000 people lined up for the citys first-ever jobs fair on Friday some of them waiting in line for up to six hours hoping to apply for work with the city, but many left frustrated after learning the only way to apply for a job was to go online.
Anthony Rodgers was the first person in line at Kennedy-King College on Friday, showing up at 3 a.m. for a job fair that didnt open until 9 a.m. By the time it started, a line of people hoping to land a job with the city, or one of its sister agencies, had snaked around the block.
I need a job. I need a job, thats the bottom line. The best way to get a job? Be there before your employers there, Rodgers said.
His goal was the same as everyone else in line to get a job. But many said the job fair wasnt what they were expecting a chance to sit down and apply for or interview for a job, not simply meet a few city officials and be told they had to apply online.
Not all of the folks there have the proverbial "liberal view of work." Look at Anthony Rodgers' quote from above..."The best way to get a job? Be there before your employers there." I've never, ever seen a job fair where you didn't at least have the opportunity to start the application process for something that looked promising. They stood in line in cold-ass Chicago weather for hours, only to find out it was a mainly a grip-and-grin session with Godfather Rahmbo, some other city-machine mooks, and of course the media.
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This wasn't a job fair - it was a photo op for Rahmbo, meant to grease his path to the White House. All too amusing...
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"Rahmbo in 2016" > I dunno - a fellow Restaurant patron here on Guam believes that as a closet Marxist or Commie, perhaps even closet Islamo-Communist, that Obama may attempt to stay on as POTUS after 2016.
We both knew that Perts believe the US-World economy will likely remain bad for a long time to come, which IMO is being done deliberately to covertly justify OWG + OWG-focused "Global Federal Unions" e.g. NAU, EU, ... @etc. NOTHING FOSTERS STATE INTER-DEPENDENCY, "SHARING", + "COMMUNAL/COMMUNITARIANISM" THAN SHARED/COMMON CHAOS + CATASTROPHISM, ETC. CORRECT???
Anyhoo, I told my fellow patron that it would take a act of Congress to de facto suspend the normal POTUS electoral process as due to the occurrence of major war, e.g. US-Iran or China-Japan [US-China]; andor major natural disaster e.g. Solar Storm or Asteroid, etc. Either one, solely or in parallel, could easily devol oer time into a MAJOR WAR INVOL MOST OR ALL OF THE WORLD'S NUCLEAR POWERS. A China-Japan shooting war oer the Senkakus can easily devol into another SINO-INDIAN MAINLAND WAR SAVE THIS TIME WID NUKES. As per the Great Depression, however protractive a bad econ by itself is unlikely to result in a formal suspension of the POTUS electoral process.
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This wasn't a job fair - it was a photo op for Rahmbo, meant to grease his path to the White House. All too amusing...
I dunno, Zhang. If I had to make a bet right now, I'd place a few bucks on the MSM starting to promote Deval Patrick as the god-king in waiting, beginning sometime in the next 6 to 12 months.
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Mexican Army units since October 19th have seized 11,888.741 kilograms of marijuana, 40.4 kilograms of power cocaine, 2.5 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, 2.3 kilograms of heroin, and MX $91,050.00 (USD $6903.11) and USD $40 dollars (MX $527.59) in cash, according to official Mexican government reports.
Units with the Mexican 34th Military Zone seized a small quantity of marijuana and illegal cigars in Quintana Roo state October 19th. The seizing of the marijuana was incident to traffic stop in Cancun city. Soldiers detained one unidentified individuals and seized a vehicle. The illegal cigars were found in an abandoned vehicle in the village of Caobas in Othan P. Blanco municipality. A total of 110,000 cigars in 11 boxes were seized.
A Mexican army unit with the 8th Military Zone exchanged gunfire with an undetermined number of armed suspects killing three in Ciudad Victoria in Tamaulipas state October 20th. The encounter took place in Tomas Yarrington colony of the city while the unit was on patrol when it came under small arms fire. A total of three rifles, an undisclosed number of weapons magazines and one vehicle were seized in the aftermath.
An army unit with the Mexican 22nd Military Zone seized and dismantled a hidden drug lab in Mexico state October 23rd. The unit was on patrol in Temascaltepec municipality when the discovery was made. Soldiers found one 150 liter capacity metallic reactor, one 200 liter dairy container, 30 liters of acetic anhydride, three 73 liter drums filled with hydrochloric acid, nine kilograms sacks of sodium acetate, six burners and other materiel.
A Mexican Army unit with the 9th Military Zone seized quantities of diesel and gasoline in Sinaloa state October 22nd. The site was located in the village of Mauto in Salvador Alvarado municipality. A total of 11,000 liters of gasline and 7,000 liters of diesel fuel were found, along with eight 1,000 liter plastic containers and nine vehicles.
An army unit with the Mexican 22nd Military Zone located and dismantled an illegal drug lab in Mexico state October 23rd. The lab was found in the village of La Trampa in Santa Ana Jilotzingo municipality where the unit had been on patrol. The chemicals and equipment found were inside of two warehouses and included 20 bags of soda, eight bags of acid, 20 drums of isopropyl alcohol, 20 plastic drums of acetic anhydrone, 600 kilowatt generator, 23 30 kilograms gas tanks, eight clothes driers, 30 gages, seven gas masks and one bulletproof vest.
A Mexican Army unit with the 8th Military Zone encountered armed suspects October 23rd in Tamaulipas state when soldiers were fired on by an indeterminate number of armed suspects. The gunfight took place as the unit was on patrol in Anahuac colony in Nuevo Laredo municipality. No one was reported killed or hurt in the encounter arms and munitions were seized in the aftermath, including six rifles, 36 weapons magazines, 950 rounds of ammunition, one grenade launcher, two fragmentation grenades and two vehicles.
An army unit with the Mexican 8th Military Zone encountered armed suspects in Ciudad Nueva Guerrero municipality killing one unidentified armed suspect October 23rd. The unit had been on patrol on the Nuevo Laredo to Ciudad Mier highway at the 171 kilometer mark when the gunfight took place. Four rifles, weapons magazines and ammunition as well as one vehicle were seized by soldiers after the gunfight.
A Mexican Army unit with the 8th Military Zone came under small arms fire October 24th in Tamaulipas state, returning fire and killing one unidentified armed suspect. The unit had been on patrol near the 109 kilometer marker on the San Fernando to Reynosa highway when it came under attack. Materiel seized following the conclusion of the gunfight included five rifles, three vehicles, weapons magazines and ammunition, and one vehicle.
Five unidentified suspects were detained and one kidnapping victim was released by a unit with the Mexican 12th Military Zone in San Luis Potosi state October 24th. The army unit with security forces from state and local governments conducted patrols in San Luis Potosi city when the rescue took place. In addition to the five detainees Mexican security forces also seized 13 rifles, one grenade launcher, five 40mm grenades, 43 weapons magazines, 879 rounds of ammunition and one car reported as stolen.
A Mexican Army unit with the 8th Military Zone seized more than eight metric tons of marijuana in Tamauipas state October 22nd. The unit has established a checkpojnt on the Reynosa, Tamaulipas to Monterrey, Nuevo Leon highway at about the 30 kilometer mark. A tractor trailer rig was stopped and searched, and the drugs were found. The total seized was 8,206.2 kilograms of marijuana. The truck driver was detained at the scene.
Troops with the Mexican 9th Military Zone seized more than 400 kilograms of marijuana and an aircraft in Sinaloa state October 23rd. The army unit was on patrol near the village of La Brecha in Guasave municipality when the discovery was made. A total of 407.2 kilograms of marijuana were seized along with a Cessna brand Cessna 206 aircraft.
An army unit with the 2nd Military Zone seized more than 300 kilograms of marijuana in Baja California state October 23rd. While on patrol the unit found an abandoned vehicle in Alamitos colony in Mexicali municipality which had the drugs inside, 39 packages totalling 320.4 kilograms.
Mexican Army troops with the 6th Military Zone exchanged gunfire with armed suspects October 26th. The unit was on patrol in Allende municipality when the gunfight took place. Army counterfire killed two unidentified armed suspects. Materiel seized in the aftermath included drugs in 166 packages for retail sale, two handguns, one weapons magazine, 16 rounds of ammunition, MX $91,050.00 (USD $6903.11), USD $40 dollars (MX $527.59) in cash and one vehicle.
An army patrol with the 6th Military Zone came under small arms fire in Coahuila state. The encounter took place in Nava municlaity October 25th when the army unit came under small arms fire. Army return fire killed three armed suspects. Materiel seized included four rifles, 43 weapons magazines, ammunition and one vehicle.
A pursuit in Baja California state October 26th ended with one unidentified individual detained and almost one metric ton of marijuana seized. A Mexican army unit with the 2nd Military Zone had been dispatched to Lucio Blanco colony in Playas de Rosarito municipality based on an anonymous complaint. When the driver of a vehicle attempted to flee the road patrol, the driver crashed the vehicle. Inside soldiers found 997.7 kilograms of marijuana in 142 packages. The driver was detained at the scene.
An army road patrol with the Mexican 29th Military Zone seized quantities of drugs at a presumed traffic stop in Veracruz state October 26th. The stop took place in Coatzacoalcos municipality. Soldiers found quantities of marijuana and crack cocaine, as well as 9,508 packages of powdered cocaine totalling 40.4 kilograms. A total of MX $1,000 (USD $75.82), a radio and a vehicle were also seized. The driver of the vehicle was detained at the scene.
Troops with the Mexican 28th Military Zone rescued one kidnap victim in an armed encounter in Veracruz state October 26th. The patrol had been dispatched to Villa Azueta municipality based on an anonymous complaint, when it came under small arms fire. Army return fire killed one armed suspect. Three suspects were also detained at the scene. Soldiers also seized three rifles, two handguns and one vehicle following the rescue.
An army unit with the Mexican 41st Military Zone located almost 50,000 liters of gasoline in Jalisco state October 25th. The fuel was discovered in Villa Purification municipality. A total of 49,600 liters were found along with a 10,000 liter tanker and three vehicles.
Soldiers with the Mexican 45th military Zone located weapons in Caborca el Arenoso in Sonora state October 25th. Weapons seized included two rifles, one handgun, 14 weapons magazines, 314 rounds of ammunition, a quantity of marijuana, tactical gear and one vehicle.
On October 26th army units with the Mexican 45th Military Zone seized weapons in Nogales municipality in Sonora state. Weapons seized included four rifles, one fragmentation grenade, two smoke grenades, 646 rounds of ammunition, 36 weapons magazines and one vehicle. In a second incident soldiers located and seized four rifles, one handgun, two smoke grenades, one car, 72 weapons magazines, 430 rounds of ammunition and tactical gear.
Army units with the Mexican 34th Military Zone located a quantity of marijuana, presumably in the water along the coast of Cozumel municipality in Quntana Roo state October 26th. The drugs were found between Mezcalitos to Punta Chiqueros and totalled 17.535 kilograms.
Mexican Army units with the 4th Military Zone seized a quantity of methamphetamine in Sonora state October 27th. The unit had established a military checkpoint in Opodepe municipality and stopped a vehicle with two unidentified individuals aboard. A total of 2.5 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine were found inside two wooden tortilla presses. The driver and passenger were detained at the scene.
A Mexican Army unit with the 4th Military Zone seized a quantity of heroin in Sonora state October 27th. The unit has set up a checkpoint on kilometer 73 of Mexico Federal Highway 15 in Navojoa municipality, and stopped and searched a passenger bus. The search turned up a briefcase with 2.3 kilograms of heroin. One passenger was detained at the scene.
Mexican Army units with the 8th Military Zone seized more than three metric tons of marijuana in Tamaulipas state October 26th in two separate raids. The first raid was undertaken in ejido Echeverria ejido in Diaz Ordaz municipality where soldiers located 839.4 kilograms of marijuana in a vacant lot. In the second raid in the village of Valadeces, an army unit located 2,458.5 kilograms of marijuana, also in Diaz Ordaz municipality.
Army units with the Mexican 35th Military Zone exchanged gunfire with armed suspects in Guerrero state October 28th. The encounter took place in the village of Zacapuato in Cutzamala de Pinzo municipality where a road patrol came under small arms fire. Army return fire killed four armed suspects. Also seized after the encounter were five rifles, one fragmentation grenade, 30 weapons magazines, 810 rounds of ammunition, tactical gear and one vehicle.
Mexican Army units with the 44th Military Zone seized more than one metric tons of marijuana in Oaxaca state October 27th. The unit has been dispatched to a location near the village of Miahuatlan in Porfirio Diaz municipality based on an anonymous complaint where 1,100 kilograms of unprocessed marijuana were found in several packages.
An army unit with the 45th Military Zone in coordination with Sonora state police agents located and seized more than 2 metric tons of marijuana in Sonora state October 29th. The raid took place at a ranch in Nogales municipality where security forces located 2,260.7 kilograms of marijuana in 273 packages.
Badanov's Burnt Blunt Special
Army units with the 2nd Military Zone incinerated more than 7 metric tons of marijuana at an army base in Aguaje de la Tuna in Baja California state. In addition to the 7,551.58 kilograms of marijuana destroyed, also destroyed by fire were 6 grams of methamphetamine, 20 marijuana plants, 15.550 grams of acetone, 23.7978 kilograms of chemicals.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
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Think the Mexican Army will still be confiscating/burning mary-joo-wanna now that it's legal for recreation in Colorado and (I think) Washington state?
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A good question, Barbara. And do they stand down wind while they do it?
"During a question-and-answer session, Broadwell was asked about this years Sept. 11 attacks against the U.S. mission in Benghazi.
She stated: Now I dont know if a lot of you heard this, but the CIA annex had actually had taken a couple of Libya militia members prisoner. And they think that the attack on the consulate was an effort to try to get these prisoners back. So thats still being vetted.
The existence of a U.S. prison or CIA detention center in Benghazi would be a new development in the debate surrounding the attacks there.
I did not know this. One more possible complication to this story.
[Washington Times] According to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), which tracks party representation in the countrys 50 state governments, Democrats now control all three bases of power the governorship and both houses of the state legislature in 14 states and Republicans in 23, with only 12 states sharing power. (Nebraskas unicameral legislature is considered nonpartisan.)
Regional power bases are also emerging, with Democrats increasingly dominating state governments across New England.
Conversely, after last weeks vote, the GOP for the first time since 1872 now controls the Arkansas House and Senate. Just 20 years ago, Republicans didnt have a majority in a single legislative house in the states of the old Confederacy now they control all 11.
The number of states with divided government is down from 31 just 16 years ago to 12 today, prompting speculation on the countrys evolving partisan geography.
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Why continute to fund failure? I recommend a confederation of the 23. When the others come to their senses, they can petition for inclusion, pay the back-taxes and rejoin the union.
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Take CA for example - There are only a handful of Republicans left. It is pretty much a Democratic supermajority plus Moonbeam as guv. If the remaining Republicans were smart vs egotistic they would resign and let the chips fall where they may, let the inevitable destruction happen faster, 5 years instead of 10 maybe? Then CA could lick her wounds and IF, very big IF, the lesson has been learned, CA would have the potential to be the Phoenix that rises from the ash heap of liberalism. Probably just a pipe dream.
[Chicago.CBSLocal] A former U.S. attorney representing embattled Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is negotiating a plea deal with the federal government, CBS 2 has learned.
CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine has the exclusive details.
The plea deal would end Jacksons 17-year career as a congressman representing Chicagos South Side and suburbs.
At the center of negotiations is white-collar criminal defense attorney Dan Webb, who served as Chicagos top federal prosecutor in the 1980s, when several Cook County judges were indicted for public corruption under the Operation Greylord investigation.
Webb, the chairman of Winston & Strawn LLP in Chicago, has been the point person for Jackson in talks with the U.S. Justice Department in Washington.
The tentative deal includes:
Jackson resigning for health reasons.
His pleading guilty to charges involving misuse of campaign funds.
The congressmans repayment of any contributions that were converted to personal use, such as home furnishings, improper travel or gifts.
At least some jail time would appear to be inevitable for Jackson.
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should be a family jail cell.
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Governors? All you need to know about Illinois politics is this district: the disgraced Jackson who replaced the disgraced Mel Reynolds who replaced the disgraced Gus Savage...
[AFP] Denmark said Saturday it would scrap a fat tax it introduced a little over a year ago in a world first, saying the measure was costly and failed to change Danes' eating habits.
"The fat tax and the extension of the chocolate tax -- the so-called sugar tax -- has been criticised for increasing prices for consumers, increasing companies' administrative costs and putting Danish jobs at risk," the Danish tax ministry said in a statement.
"At the same time it is believed that the fat tax has, to a lesser extent, contributed to Danes travelling across the border to make purchases," it added.
"Against this background, the government and the (far-left) Red Green Party have agreed to abolish the fat tax and cancel the planned sugar tax," the ministry said.
Denmark's centre-left minority government is made up of the Social Democrats, Social Liberals and Socialist People's Party, and requires support from other parties to pass legislation in parliament.
The government and the Red Greens reached the agreement as part of their negotiations on the 2013 budget bill.
The previous right-wing government introduced the fat tax in October 2011 to limit the population's intake of fatty foods.
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soon to be policy in NYC
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Don't bet on it Frank. With Bloomberg and his ilk running the show I will bet money they will double down on stupid.
[Atlanta.CBSLocal] A new study finds that people who live close to a bar tend to drink more.
A group of Finnish researchers collected data from nearly 55,000 participants from 2000 to 2009. The study found that heavy and extreme drinking occurred when people lived about a half-mile away from the bar.
The Boston Globe reports that the chances a person will drink too much jumped to 17 percent living near a bar.
Conversely, the farther away a participant was from the bar, the less likely they would be heavy drinkers.
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Another way to put it, heavy drinkers move nearer to bars (and thus avoid DUIs).
Effect/cause, cause/effect, what's the difference when you've got a narrative to form to justify a study that nobody should have paid a dime for in the first place.
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I love New Orleans.... only place where you can politely ask a cop to hold your beer while you tie your shoes. But yeah, there's something to the argument. I love New Orleans, yeah it's 9 am on Sunday, is there a 2 for one?
[Canada.com] Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore will try to make the case next week that "dirty energy" is contributing to what he calls "dirty weather" events around the world.
"Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come," Gore wrote in a recent opinion piece in the Huffington Post. "We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather."
Gore will deliver his message on Nov. 15 through a new presentation in New York as part of his Climate Reality Project, to be broadcast on the Internet. The initiative was launched last year as a 24-hour event with slide-show presentations from around the world, highlighting the latest news about human influence on global warming.
Maggie Fox, the CEO of the project, said that although scientists cannot link global warming to specific storms, there is evidence warmer temperatures and oceans make storm systems stronger, leading to devastating impacts such as those caused by Sandy in the United States and Canada.
According to a 2010 analysis published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science in the U.S., nearly 98 per cent of the most-active climate change scientists in peer-reviewed journals support evidence that human activity is causing global warming.
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Well, if he wants, he can get on the Chinese about this. Maybe we can even build a gunboat, name it the San Pueblo, and he can go over and shell some coal plants there. Lotsa luck!
[An Nahar] Leading bishops have voiced alarm at a rise in anti-Islamic sentiment in La Belle France and admitted that hardening attitudes within the Roman Catholic church are fueling the trend. Any concern from the leading bishops about hardening attitudes within Islam?
In comments that will add to pressure on President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, and a fine job he's doing of it... to respond to demands from La Belle France's large Moslem community to speak out on the issue, the Bishop of Angouleme, Claude Dagens, said he was profoundly concerned by recent developments.
"It is with much pain that I notice the emergence of a Catholic Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... , in the same way that there has been a Catholic anti-semitism for centuries," Dagens told Agence La Belle France Presse in an interview on the sidelines of an assembly of French bishops here.
Dagens said his concerns had been heightened by the controversial "Moslem demographics" presentation made at the Vatican last month in which Cardinal Peter Turkson predicted that Islam would eventually become the dominant religion in Europe.
The Vatican subsequently distanced itself from a film which included a claim that La Belle France could have a majority of Moslems within four decades, but Dagens acknowledged that the episode reflected a worrying shift in attitudes.
"We are living in a society where fear is seeping into every corner. That's true for Moslems but also for Catholics."
Dagens comments, echoed by a number of his colleagues here, came in the wake of a call by La Belle France's Moslem Council, the main representative body for the country's estimated five million Moslems, for the President to publicly condemn Islamophobia.
Behind the call lies resentment based on a perception that Hollande and his ministers have given greater priority to combating a recent rise in anti-semitism than they have to defending the Moslem community in the face of a parallel trend.
Earlier this month, Hollande vowed that La Belle France would wage a relentless fight to eradicate anti-semitism from society, describing it as a "national cause."
Abdellah Zekri, one of the leaders of the Moslem Council, called for La Belle France's Islamic community to be offered similar support.
"Given the rise in the number of Islamophobic acts and anti-Moslem racism, we want a formal declaration from the President of the Republic that includes the Moslems of La Belle France in this national cause," Zekri said.
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The world is pretty much divvied up between those who want to cancel themselves out and those ready and willing to do the cancelling...
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I'd be pretty pissed about Islam every time I got my French Car Insurance bill
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I get so confused about whether people are being xenophobic or islamophobic? Suppose, we forget all the PC $hit (merde, kak, gowno, dritt, skit, mala etc.) and just say the citizens of France are being realistic. John F. Kerry will help straighten things out.
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Anti-Islamic sentiment comes from the muslims being anti-west dumbasses. Just either convert and get it over with, or join the call against barbarians.
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For crying out loud, we have three different timelines: the CIA, the military, and the State Dept. There are messages going back and forth. There is drone surveillance in real-time. Look at the videos. These people are acting liking Inspector Clouseau only more incompetent.
Inspector Jacques Clouseau: And now since we are becoming so chummy, perhaps you can tell me about the Great Train Robbery.
Addison Steele: I don't know nothing!
Inspector Jacques Clouseau: He who don't know nothing, must know something, eh?
But not Fridays; that would be religious (Progressivism IS a religion.) Besides Monday has a catchier alliteration.
Under a resolution unanimously approved by the city council this week, all future Mondays in the City of Angels have been declared "Meatless Mondays."
It's part of an international campaign to cut down on meat consumption for health and environmental reasons. Of course there are a number of studies showing high meat protein diets are actually healthier.
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Robert Heinlein called this sort of thing years ago. It costs more money to raise animals (and farm in general) than it did years ago, farmers don't get the respect they once did, so fewer people go into farming and those who do work increasingly for Sovkhoz agribusiness. Add to that the fact that we're increasingly squeamish as a society when not murdering each other or playing computer games, and we find butchers and meat cutters becoming rarer. Mostly they've been replaced by machines, but somebody's got to herd the animals in to be slaughtered and it ain't gonna be Peace Studies majors.
Probably because of its increasing cost, paradoxically, people look increasingly for prime, rather than choice or grade A. The culture's pushing 'Angus beef,' implying it's better than prime. So what meat's sold is simply mislabeled.
You can't buy mutton anymore, and you have to search for a couple days to find lamb. Rabbit's almost gone from the meat locker, despite the fact that they're as easy to raise as chickens. Fishermen are admired from a distance but up close you can smell the fish and see the fish heads and scales and guts so proper liberal artists don't want to go into commercial fishing, or even go fishing because how would you feel with a hook through your cheek, being dragged away from all your fishy friends?
We now eat abominations like 'turkey bacon' and veggie burgers and substitute portobello mushrooms and tofu for real meat. Yeast vats and soylent green aren't too far in the future.
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It's part of an international campaign to cut down on meat consumption for health and environmental reasons
..or as inflation starts to bite, rationing. Let's make it that secular pseudo religious thingy to cover the failure of government policies.
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"Remember, Friday is Soylent Green Day"
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Me to LA city council: F.U.
I guaran-goddam-tee you that the city council members will be chowing down on meat on Mondays.
Laws/resoluation are for the little people. >:-(
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Probably because of its increasing cost, paradoxically, people look increasingly for prime, rather than choice or grade A. The culture's pushing 'Angus beef,' implying it's better than prime. So what meat's sold is simply mislabeled.
It's not a paradox, it's simple economics. The best Florida Oranges are not eaten in Florida, they are sent north, the freight & handling being the same for good or average oranges. The same holds true for tomatoes and shrimp :(
I guess we good the good Idaho potatoes here, but it's not much consolation really.
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At what point do they pass an ordinance that fast food must close on Monday. Probably a decade away but I imagine its coming.
Of course California may collapse and everything turn sane as we dig our way through the economic rubble and try to put the place back together again. With a corrupt politician on every lamp post we might not have time to worry about meat mondays.
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Part of me wonders why the environmentalists haven't pushed for more mutton and less cattle. They could then push to have more land given over to mutton production and curtail the growth of suburbs. I could be wrong but I think sheep do far less environmental damage.
We could then have shepherds bring flocks in to trim the grass on golf courses and in parks (the way they do on levees in Germany) and such to avoid the horrible power mowers. Yes, sheep droppings will be everywhere, but that is the cost of the environment.
Since mutton is somewhat tasteless the conversion to soy mutton would be easier for people to make when the time comes.
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How about this: "Sacrifice a politician to Baal Day" on Tuesday?
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rjschwarz, sheep can actually do more damage. If they aren't kept moving from pasture to pasture, they will clip the grass down so low that it dies and then you have erosion to deal with as well. There is a reason beef is more popular in this country than sheep. Cattle are easier to raise with less land here.
Now in a country like Greece with those hills, sheep makes a lot more sense.
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Time for civil disobedience. Eat meat on Mondays. Follow city councilmen and take pictures of them at local restaurants. Or, do guerilla theater: if a councilman is at a public event on a Monday, purchase a steak for him and have it delivered, "Compliments of the chef." If you run a food truck or hot dog stand, show up at City Hall at lunch time with your Sabrett's or Hebrew Nationals'. Gift your favorite councilman with a salami from Katz's. You know: "Send a salami to your boy in the Army."
Next, if you own a restaurant, ask the Institute for Justice to help you with a lawsuit, alleging restraint of trade. Start recall petitions. If you're a parent of a school-age child, pack a corned beef sandwich for his lunch. Drive the foodies nuts: add a Twinkie. After all, Twinkies are only illegal in San francisco.
If you're a kid, buy some brownies or cookies from the grocery or Costco. Package them for individual sale, and sell them to your fellow students. After all, capitalism is good. Tell your fellow students that you're not charging any sales tax.
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What if I don't eat meat on Mondays, but shoot all my deer and ducks and turkeys on Mondays? Is that OK?
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#16 Posted by: Eric Jablow. That is funny. We are a rebellious people from the time of our founders. We may have to stoke our rebellious nature again.
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I don't eat meat every day. But I certainly wouldn't allow a city council to tell me what I can eat and when.
Ah I forgot beer. Beer is classified as staple food in Bavaria.
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Because sending people to Gulags + Death Camps for opposing the State + State Socialism is less horrible to the Lefties than raising and later killing a cow for tasty steaks-n-burgers, aka CHEAP FOOD - D *** NG IT, YOU'RE HURTING THE COW'S FEELINGS BY FIRST ENSLAVING IT, AND THEN LATER AGAIN BY KILLING IT!
ZOOOMG, ZOOOMG!
As per #18 + "rebellious natures", AT FREE REPUBLIC > looks like Petitions have been drawn to allow the US States of Lousiana + now Texas to formally withdraw or secede from the Union???
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Pravda means Truth. How sad that it is the only truth in media now.
The Democrats and Republicans are notorious for wanting to stay in power. Their worshipers get their education from TV and their friends. In the future, after it becomes obvious that their plan failed, these "useful idiots" will still blame Bush for the economy, overlook Obama as they overlooked Clinton's mistakes or think their vote counts and they actually have freedom
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Tuesday at 11:51 pm, the President thanked me for all my help!
Robert --
I'm about to go speak to the crowd here in Chicago, but I wanted to thank you first.
I want you to know that this wasn't fate, and it wasn't an accident. You made this happen.
You organized yourselves block by block. You took ownership of this campaign five and ten dollars at a time. And when it wasn't easy, you pressed forward.
I will spend the rest of my presidency honoring your support, and doing what I can to finish what we started.
But I want you to take real pride, as I do, in how we got the chance in the first place.
Today is the clearest proof yet that, against the odds, ordinary Americans can overcome powerful interests.
There's a lot more work to do.
But for right now: Thank you.
Barack
All I ever did was sign up for Harry Ried's newsletter!
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Geez....who'da thunk that Pravda, with exception of the drugs bashing, would pretty much champion the Libertarian Party...?
The IDF fired a warning shot at the Syrian military on Sunday, after a Syrian shell landed in the Golan Heights for the second time in recent days.
Israel has not fired at Syria since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
"In the midst of Syrian infighting, a mortar shell fired by the Syrian army struck near an outpost at Tel Hazeka," IDF spokesman Brig.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai said. The shell failed to cause injuries or damages.
"In light of the policy instituted by IDF Chief of Staff, Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz, a warning round was fired back into Syria. We don't believe it caused injuries or damages," Mordechai added.
At the same time, Israel sent a warning message to the UN, saying that any further firing into Israel will result "in a real response," sources added.
Israel limited its return fire, since its policy is to only fire intensively in response to coming under major Syrian fire. "We didn't continue firing because this was one mortar we were responding to," the source said.
"We will not accept any firing into our territory," he added. "This was a signal to the Syrians, that we will not be so forgiving of everything that lands in a territory." The source stressed that as of now, Israel and Syria were not a in a conflict situation.
The IDF is currently on standby for a security deterioration on both the northern front and the border with Gaza.
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Fortunately, the IDF is capable and ready. Fortunately also, the enemies surrounding Israel would have trouble getting a one person parade together because of the chaos in these failed countries.
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Darth I kinda think the IDF wants to keep Pencil just strong enough to continue. If he ever gets dangerous they got that caustic belly deal and will use it to rub-him-out.
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Yes, they got they got the cover to rub him out now, a shell here, a shell there pretty soon you got motive and where's there's motive there's caustic belly, in which case pencil-neck goes swimming. If you catch muh drift. But the Jooooos are overly merciful, I expect the gang war to go on for a long time.
Hundreds of French nationalists have demonstrated in Paris against Islamist extremism, chanting the French anthem and saying the religion has no place in the country.
Protester Romain Cyiril says, "France was always a welcoming country, but for the first time we have to deal with a religion which can't and doesn't want to integrate itself."
Three weeks ago, dozens of far-right French activists stormed an unfinished mosque to protest immigration policies that have made France home to Western Europe's largest population of Muslims. There are an estimated 5 million or more Muslims in this nation of 65 million, although under French law the government does not track religion.
The French government has denounced anti-Islam extremists.
Saturday's protest was organized by a nationalist group called the Republican Resistance.
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No it's not, was it too late in July 1989? Was it too late on Dee Day when France invaded Spain? Hell no! It's never too late. Are you with me? Aiiiiiiiiiiiii no akerbar.
Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired at least 35 rockets and mortars into Israel since midnight Saturday night, according to the Southern District Police, injuring three civilians. The barrage continued a serious escalation that began Saturday evening, and continued overnight, with two IAF air strikes targeting a weapons manufacturing site, two weapons storage facilities and two rocket launching sites in the northern part of the territory.
Municipalities near the southern border canceled school on Sunday amid the ongoing rocket fire.
German schadenfreude knows no bounds, particularly when it comes to the United States. The country loves to feel superior to a superpower like America. Yet Germany also harbors a childish infatuation with Obama -- one which has little political grounding. The reasons are psychological.
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fully 93 percent of the country (Germany) would have voted for him (Obama) in this election
We weren't quite as foolish here in the U.S. Nearly half of the voters in the U.S. did not vote for Obama. There are some 94 million eligible voters in the U.S. who did not vote. One couldn't say either party has a mandate. A no vote may mean that neither candidate was suitable.
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Germany needs those exports. No money in US no Audis exported. Enjoy bailing out the PIIGS, German Taxpayers.
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The article is an exaggeration. While it's true that most Germans prefer Obama over Romney, the "crush" on him is long gone. Romney has given Germans no reasons to like him, he didn't visit the country and frankly, he has given nobody much reason to like him except for being a Republican.
I've seen Obama in Berlin 2008 and was utterly unimpressed by his empty phrases. Since then I've been joined by many sane Germans. For many Obama has shown to be a disappointment. They only mention his Nobel Prize with a snark. But they still don't like Romney.
But then again, nobody has to now. He's fading away.
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EU, I appreciate reading your views from across the pond. You are more perceptive than many of our voters in the US.
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Thank you JohnQC
Let me just add that there is no need to go into a depressive mood now. Obama's incompetence will become more obvious in the next two years. Republicans still control the House so they can and hopefully will prevent any nonsense he might try.
In two years take back the Senate, chose a candidate who appeals to a wide diversity of Americans. Don't buy that demographic crap of "angry old white males". A charismatic, steadfast, principled Republican can and will appeal to a majority of Americans. This country was not built on entitlements, it was built on freedom and justice for all.
Even Romney could have won this. A better Republican certainly will. I don't think that after four more years of Obama people will be waiting for Hillary.
Obama was (and still is) popular because of his speeches. Let's face it: His speech after winning was excellent. It was a speech a Republican could have given, too.
The difference? A Republican would have meant it. And followed through. Obama had promised to unite Americans in 2008. That didn't happen of course.
Ronald Reagan could.
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I'm sorry EC, but there will never be a mythical "better Republican." The problem is perceptions. If the guy pointing at the freight train barreling down the tracks and frantically waving us off, has to be morally flawless and also "charismatic" before we'll listen to him, we'll get smashed to bits, and we'll deserve it.
Cluper Cloluque8056 pointed us to this article, but the title he gave it -- 'No, Obama wasn't in discussion w/Iran' -- is at substantial variance with the content. I've re-purposed it, and Cluper, perhaps you can tell me what your thoughts are in the comments.
VIENNA -- Attempts to find Arab-Israeli common ground on banning weapons of mass destruction from the Mideast have failed, and high-profile talks on the issue have been called off, diplomats said Saturday.
The two diplomats said the United States, one of the organizers, would likely make a formal announcement soon saying that with tensions in the region remaining high, "time is not opportune" for such a gathering. The diplomats spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to divulge the cancellation ahead of the formal announcement.
The meeting -- to be held in Helsinki, Finland, by year's end -- was on shaky ground since it was agreed to in 2010 by the 189 member nations of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Its key sponsors were the U.S., Russia and Britain, but they said such as meeting was only possible if all countries -- especially Israel --agreed to attend.
The decision to postpone, if not to scrap it, will cast doubt on the significance of the NPT and its attempts every five years to advance nonproliferation. Any new attempt is unlikely until the NPT conference meets again in 2015.
Hopes for such a meeting were alive as recently as Tuesday, when Iran joined Arab nations in saying that it planned to attend, leaving Israel as the only undecided country. Tehran's announcement came at a Brussels seminar on a Mideast nuclear-free zone also attended by Israel and the Arab countries, and described as largely free of regional tensions. But the two diplomats said the decision to call off the Helsinki meeting had already been made by the time Iran declared Tuesday that it would attend.
But a decision to give up on staging such a gathering after it was approved by the NPT is more than a reflection of Mideast realities. It also is bound to weaken efforts at future NPT conferences to reconcile clashing visions of disarmament and nonproliferation efforts.
Daryl Kimball, head of the Washington-based Arms Control Association, warned that "an indefinite cancellation of the long-awaited conference on a Middle Eastern WMD-free zone will only worsen the proliferation risks in the future and undermine the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty."
Kimball and his ilk make the most basic mistake: countries don't have tension and conflict because we have nuclear weapons. Countries have nuclear weapons because they live in a world of tension and conflict.
Iran, the Arab nations and most other developing countries say the emphasis should on the U.S. and other nuclear-armed states that are NPT members to disarm.
The international version of 'if everyone is special then no one will be special'...
Such nations also castigate the West for supporting Israel and its widely suspected nuclear weapons program. Washington and its allies say Iran, North Korea and Syria are the greatest proliferation threats, even though Tehran and Damascus deny allegations of secret nuclear activities linked to weapons.
The Arab proposal to create a weapons-of-mass-destruction-free zone in the Mideast and to pressure Israel to give up its undeclared arsenal of perhaps 80 nuclear warheads, was endorsed by the 1995 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty conference but never acted on. The conference meets every five years.
While Syria's civil war, nuclear tensions with Iran and other Mideast frictions will be cited as the official reason for the cancellation, one of the diplomats acknowledged that the decision is mainly being taken because Israel has decided not to attend. The diplomat -- from a Western nation sympathetic to Israel-- said Arabs countries have refused to budge from positions that made it impossible for the Jewish state to participate.
Israel has long said that a full Arab-Israeli peace plan must precede any creation of a Mideast zone free of weapons of mass destruction.
Eliminate the conflict and tension and you don't need nuclear weapons...
The region's Muslim neighbors in turn have asserted that Israel's undeclared nuclear arsenal presents the greatest threat to peace in the region. They insist that Israel declare its arsenal and join the NPT as part of any peace talks.
The diplomat said that while the announcement that the Helsinki meeting has been canceled might be made in the name of all three co-sponsors -- the U.S, Russia and Britain -- it would likely be delivered only by the United States, reflecting tensions between Moscow and Washington on the issue. He said the Russians have opposed declaring the meeting dead at this point.
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Israel (and the US) should give up nuclear weapons; then they would not be tempted to use them if attacked (nuclear or otherwise). Kind of like the situation with firearms in Chicago but on a grand scale. Better Red Than Dead morphs to Better Allah Than Nuclear Fire.
Even before the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate, diplomats from other nations and Libyan security officials had questioned the wisdom of a U.S. decision to rely primarily on members of a local militia to protect its compound here. Diplomats here say: Don't expect local forces to protect you when they can't even protect themselves against local extremists and terrorists groups in a city now defined by reprisal attacks. Others have suggested that the U.S. officials may have felt such a step was unnecessary because the CIA had established offices about a mile away and had promised to send security officers to the consulate, if needed. All of the diplomats interviewed for this story said they were unaware of the CIA station's existence.
Who was responsible for determining how the United States protected its consulate here remains unclear two months after Stevens' death. According to the State Department, the ambassador makes all security decisions, though they can be overruled from Washington. The chief security officer at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli from September 2011 until July testified that he had requested additional security. Charlene Lamb, the deputy assistant secretary for diplomatic security, defended the security procedures that had been taken in Benghazi, telling the hearing that there were five American security guards -- the number recommended -- along with Libyans in Benghazi when the attack took place.
It is unknown what Stevens' own position on security in Benghazi was. A Western diplomat here said the trip was Stevens' first extensive visit to Benghazi since he'd assumed the ambassador's post in May. The diplomat expressed surprise that Stevens hadn't been evacuated at the first sign of trouble. "We used to take training from the Americans" on diplomatic security, he said.
One last thing: Note this time-stamp:
Published: Friday, November 9, 2012 at 11:22 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, November 9, 2012 at 11:22 p.m.
To convince voters things were getting better, the Obama campaign pointed to the millions of jobs that have been created since the recession officially ended in June 2009. Household employment data for the 50 states and Washington, D.C., do show an overall net gain of 2.59 million jobs through this September.
Ironically, the bulk of the increase occurred in the 22 states that have had Right to Work laws on the books since June 2009. Their aggregate household employment grew by 1.86 million, or 3.4%. (Since Indiana did not adopt its Right to Work law until this February, the 19,000 jobs it added are not included.) Because Right to Work laws protect employees from being fired for refusal to pay union dues or fees, Big Labor bosses hate them. And the union hierarchy's massive, forced dues-fueled campaign support is the single most important reason the President was reelected.
At the same time, Right to Work states (again excluding Indiana) were responsible for 72% of all net household job growth across the U.S. from June 2009 through September 2012 (see chart above). If these states' job increase had been no better than the 0.85% experienced by forced-unionism states as a group, the nationwide job increase would have been less than half as great. And the President wouldn't have been able even to pretend the economy was in recovery.
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Big Labor bosses hate them. Must be a good thing then. I don't see California, NY, Illinois or the eastern seaboard blue states passing a state RTWL. I don't see a way out of continuing budget crunches and increasing debt for the blue states unless a National Right-to-Work Law is passed. That is not going to happen during this administration. Too many IOUs. RTW would be a good issue for the Pubs if they could sell it on its merits and if the leadership of the party would get behind it.
[An Nahar] Two aides to a tribal chief with alleged al-Qaeda links were killed in a clash with pro-army snuffies in the troubled southern province of Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... on Saturday, a local militia official said.
"Two aides of (Tareq al-Fadhli) were killed and another man was maimed" when the snuffies fired on Fadhli's house in Abyan's capital Zinjibar, the official said.
On November 5, hundreds of the militiamen, known as the Popular Resistance Committees and who fought alongside the Yemeni army to oust al-Qaeda from southern towns last May, surrounded Fadhli's home.
They want the known warlord, who has fought in Afghanistan, to turn himself into the police.
Last week, tribal chief Hussein al-Waheshi said the local security committee agreed that Fadhli should "surrender to the public prosecutor who issued an arrest warrant last month over threats to kill leaders of the (southern) Socialist Party."
The snuffies threatened to storm the house if he refused to surrender.
The militia official said Saturday that tribal mediators had secured an agreement "for (Fadhli's) departure from Zinjibar" to the nearby southern port city of Aden, but did not specify if he planned to surrender.
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The proposal discussed by foreign and defence ministers from the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States could see the bloc commit 3,200 troops and other countries a further 2,300, said a source familiar with the talks
Attempts at dialogue are ongoing to resolve the Mali crisis, which analysts have warned poses potential problems to other countries in West Africa at risk of violence from Islamist extremists
On Thursday, UN special envoy for the Sahel Romano Prodi, the former Italian prime minister and ex-president of the European Commission, said every effort would be made to avoid military intervention
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[Dawn] THE Hizbul Mujahideen leader Syed Salahuddin's comments on panchayat institutions in Kashmire have caused disquiet in that region.
He told Riyaz Wani of Tehelka: "Panchayat institutions are meant to take care of local affairs. But this is not their role in Kashmire, where they are exploited to serve pro-India political parties and build vote banks. What is of real concern for us is that panchayats are projected as a referendum on Kashmire. New Delhi advertises the participation in panchayat polls as yet another instance of Kashmiris reposing their faith in India." India hopes "to declare things normal in Kashmire by holding panchayat polls in the state".
These remarks fall into three parts. First comes a fair recognition of the role of panchayat members to take care of local problems. Kashmiris sorely need attention to their mounting problems near their very homes.
Secondly, Syed Salahuddin fears their exploitation by New Delhi "as a referendum on Kashmire. This is far from the truth. For decades New Delhi did cite rigged elections to the Kashmire assembly as proof of popular ratification of accession to India. But beginning with the PDP (Peoples Democratic Party) government's assumption of power in 2002, that myth has been buried.
The PDP's Mufti Mohammed Sayeed made it plain that the polls were no substitute for a political settlement of the Kashmire dispute with the consent of India, Pakistain and the people of Kashmire. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah of the National Conference has said the same thing repeatedly. If assembly polls cannot be cited as a ratification, surely still less can polls to local bodies; whether municipalities or panchayats.
During the campaigns for elections to the assembly in 1996, 2002 and 2008, correspondents from New Delhi noted with some dismay that voters in the queues were shouting "azadi". In the voters' eyes there was no contradiction between that cry and their vote. The cry represented their abiding commitment; the vote gave them a right to demand the local MLA's response to their grievances.
Lastly and unfortunately, Syed Salahuddin also said: "Panches (village council members) and sarpanches (village council heads) are exploited by India to project Kashmire as pro-India, and as such, they will continue to be targeted. No matter how much the government tries to secure them, they will still be attacked."
Only a few days earlier Syed Ali Shah Geelani, whom Syed Salahuddin respects, denounced on Sept 15 the killings of panchayat members. "It is our longstanding policy that we have always condemned innocent killings," he said, adding, "no person should be killed for his political ideology".
Syed Salahuddin's remarks reflect both impatience and distrust. These sentiments are widely shared by separatists in Kashmire. They fear that the lapse of time would induce 'normality' which would end the Kashmire dispute.
This reflects a profound distrust of the people. It is widely accepted that even if militancy were to end altogether popular alienation from New Delhi would survive; so deep is their alienation.
I was present at a convention of elected sarpanches at Yusmarg in the Badgan district of Kashmire on June 23 and 24 this year. They clamoured for real power from an insensitive Kashmire government. Engineer Abdul Rashid was lustily cheered when he demanded azadi. This independent MLA has made a mark in the assembly with his brave speeches. Can you imagine the impact of a score of such MLAs backed by the Hurriyat leaders?
The separatist leaders do not realise that their tactics of hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... s impose a heavy toll on the people's patience and economic costs which they find increasingly hard to bear. But such is the mindlessly negative approach of some of the leaders that they begin to tremble whenever there is some movement in other fields.
We are constantly treated to inane cries such as 'LoC trade is no solution', 'cultural exchanges give a false impression of normality', etc.
Can the 65-year-old Kashmire dispute be resolved immediately under pressure from such negative assertions? These leaders and, for that matter, the academia also, do not take even a brief holiday from the shouting of old sterile slogans and instead devote themselves to devising creatively new approaches which will chip away at the deadlock by gradual degrees.
Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, who staunchly opposed British rule, won an election to the Bombay Municipal Corporation on March 10, 1904. The stalwarts of old first excelled in municipal bodies. Both the two major political parties, the Congress and the Mohammedan League, participated in the general elections of 1937 and 1946 under the British dispensation and ran ministries in different provinces.
Would independence have been won if the League and the Congress had boycotted the polls and demanded a solution first? More to the point. Would the Quaid-e-Azam have achieved his goal, Pakistain, if he had not shown a spirit of compromise by accepting the Cabinet Mission's Plan of May 16, 1946? The Congress wrecked it.
No power can deprive Kashmiris of their rights, provided only that they close their ranks and adopt realistic politics. History has been unkind to them.
Their future is to be decided by an agreement between India and Pakistain -- subject of course to the Kashmiris' approval. They must raise their voice to force these states to stop wasting time and finalise the elements of the five-year-old consensus. The best must not be made enemy of the good.
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[Dawn] Two beturbanned goons and a security man were killed after a cut-thoat group attacked Thowikhula Scouts Fort in South Wazoo Agency early on Friday.
Intelligence and local sources said a group of cut-thoat attacked Thowikhula Scouts Fort on Wana-Zobe Road at 3:00am on Friday with heavy and light weapons.
The security forces retaliated and the ensuing fighting continued for several hours. Rockets, missiles, mortars, cannon and other weapons were excessively used in the fighting.
Independent sources said one soldier was killed and two injured in the fighting, but the government officials and beturbanned goons denied it.
Spokesman for Taliban's local chapter Asim Mehsud told news hounds from Qazi's guesthouse an undisclosed location that beturbanned goons attacked Thowikhula Waziristan Scouts Fort early on Friday.
He said first one of Taliban fidayeen (jacket wallah) went kaboom!" at the main gate and then, the rest entered the fort.
The front man claimed that the beturbanned goons killed 48 soldiers and captured three, two of them in injured condition.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... security forces and political authorities denied the Taliban claim, saying one soldier was killed and two injured. They said from two to six beturbanned goons were killed in retaliatory firing.
Locals said Wana-Zobe Road remained closed to traffic of all kinds in Thowikhula area until late night.
Security forces later cordoned off the entire area and began search operation. The closer of the road restricted the movement of the rustics.
Three cops injured 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. Suspected beturbanned goons on Friday fired gunshots at a police van in the limits of Badbher cop shoppe of Peshawar evening injuring three police constables.
An official of the cop shoppe said coppers led by sub inspector Tajamul Khan was on a routine patrol in Shahabdkhel area when faceless myrmidonsshot up them from a nearby graveyard at 7:20pm.
He said three constables, including Tamash Khan, driver Raz Mohammad and Yousaf Khan, suffered injuries and were shifted to Lady Reading Hospital.
The official said the constables belong to the special force.
He said police also retaliated and made attackers flee.
In the meantime, additional force was called for backup. Police later began search for beturbanned goons in the area. However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... no arrest was made until late night.
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[Shabelle] At least two have been killed in a fierce battle between Somali National Army (SNA) and Al shabab snuffies in Gedo province, the latest in surge of attacks in the southwestern region.
The violence reportedly erupted after heavily armed fighters from Al shabab launched a surprise assault on Somali forces at a checkpoint located on the outskirts of Garbaharey, a town largely controlled by Somali government.
A Military source, who declined to be named, told Shabelle Media by phone that At least two combatants from both sides bit the dust in the fighting while untold number of soldiers sustained variety of wounds.
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[Al Ahram] The BBC admitted on Saturday it faced a "crisis of trust" after being forced to apologise for wrongly implicating a politician in child sex abuse, just weeks after the Jimmy Savile scandal broke.
The British public broadcaster suspended all investigations by its flagship current affairs programme Newsnight after it alleged that a senior Conservative party figure repeatedly abused a teenage resident of a children's home in the 1970s.
Although the Newsnight programme did not identify the politician in last week's report, former Conservative treasurer Alistair McAlpine was widely named on social networking sites as the alleged perpetrator.
McAlpine publicly denied the claims on Friday -- and hours later his accuser, Steve Messham, a former resident of the Bryn Estyn children's home in Wales, said McAlpine was not his abuser and had been a victim of mistaken identity.
"We should not have put out a film that was so fundamentally wrong. What happened here is completely unacceptable. In my view the film should not have gone out," BBC Director-General George Entwistle told BBC radio on Saturday.
He said he had not been aware of the programme until it had gone out, but said it was signed off by lawyers and senior management.
He confirmed he had suspended all Newsnight investigations and had asked for a review into what had happened to be on his desk by Sunday.
Closing Friday's edition of the programme, anchor Eddie Mair summed up the grim mood with the sign-off: "Newsnight will be back on Monday. Probably."
Entwistle said it would be "absolutely disproportionate" to consider closing down the 32-year-old programme.
But he admitted the damage the latest row had caused the corporation as it came on the heels of allegations that Savile, one of the BBC's top presenters before his death last year, sexually abused hundreds of children over a 40-year period.
"This is a bad crisis of trust," Entwistle said, while adding: "It would be absolutely wrong to slur by extension the rest of the amazing work that is going on across the rest of BBC News."
The BBC has already launched three investigations into the Savile scandal, including one into why Newsnight shelved an investigation into some of the claims against Savile last December.
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[An Nahar] Syria's Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi on Saturday called for a national dialogue to resolve the country's crisis and said the army was fighting to protect the chances for talks.
"The only way to succeed in Syria is to sit down at the table to launch a national dialogue," Zohbi said in an interview with state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
"The opposition must accept the choice of dialogue and... the army, by facing down terrorism, is protecting this dialogue," he said.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... 's regime consistently refers to the armed rebels fighting against his regime as "terrorists".
Syria's main opposition factions have refused to negotiate with the regime as long as Assad remains in power.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] The main Tuareg rebel group in northern Mali warned on Saturday that any foreign military intervention to remove the Islamists would fail without its support.
The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) -- a secular separatist group -- conquered northern Mali early this year but was soon overpowered by groups with ties to Al-Qaeda and regional drug-trafficking.
"Any military intervention by the sub-region or the international community is doomed if it does not rely on the MNLA," said an open letter posted on the group's website.
The document was signed by MNLA officials Hamma Ag Mahmoud and Moussa Ag Assarid and addressed to the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... , European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... and regional bloc ECOWAS.
The warning comes as ECOWAS leaders meet in an emergency summit in Nigeria to plot a military strategy for the reconquest of northern Mali.
Islamist groups affiliated to the regional branch of Al-Qaeda have implemented an extreme form of sharia in northern Mali, amputating, whipping or lynching offenders.
The West has expressed growing concern that the vast region -- larger than La Belle France or Texas -- now under Islamist control could become what Afghanistan was to Al-Qaeda a decade ago.
ECOWAS says it has more than 3,000 troops ready to enter Mali and help the embattled interim government in Bamako wrest back control of the country's northern half.
The MNLA, which briefly proclaimed the independence of Azawad before being overpowered by the Islamists earlier this year, argues any foreign force needs its expertise to claim the upper hand.
"The MNLA has a perfect command of desert warfare and local sociological realities. It has knowledge of the terrain and enjoys the support of the local population," the letter said.
Another Tuareg official, Moussa Ag Attaher, told an Algerian newspaper that he MNLA "supported all dialogue channels to solve the Malian conflict and therefore opposed the supporters of an intervention."
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[Dawn] fghan President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... on Saturday promised to hunt for the Taliban attackers who shot Pak teenage activist Malala Yousafzai for speaking up for girls' rights to education.
The Pak Taliban has admitted shooting Malala in the head on a school bus a month ago to punish her for the "crime" of campaigning for girls' rights to go to school in the jihad boys' former Pak stronghold of Swat.
"Afghanistan will hunt for Malala's attackers," Karzai said in an interview with India's CNN-IBN television network, aired as he began a four-day visit to the South Asian nation and as the world marked "Malala Day".
Miraculously the 15-year-old survived the shooting and her courage, which won the hearts of millions around the world, prompted the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... to declare Saturday a "global day of action" for her.
Speaking about Malala, who is recovering in a British hospital, Karzai accused Islamabad of having armed and trained the teenager's assailants.
"Terrorism is a snake and when you train a snake, you can't expect it will only go in the neighbour's house," he said. "When the attack on Malala happened, this proved our point," he added.
"The earlier they (the Paks) accept it and fight radicalism, the better for us, the better for Pakistain and the better for India," Karzai said.
The Afghanistan's Caped President regularly accuses Pakistain of supporting Taliban Islamist gunnies trying to topple his government -- a charge Islamabad denies.
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[Dawn] Gunmen rubbed out three Shia Mohammedans and maimed three others on Saturday in a fresh sectarian attack in Quetta, police said.
"Six persons from the Shia Hazara community were passing from the Jinnah road in a taxicab when they were targeted by two gunnies waiting for them at a traffic signal," Anwar Ali, a senior police official, told AFP.
"Two persons were killed at the spot while one departed this vale of tears in the hospital. The gunnies fled the scene of the crime on a cycle of violence," he said.
Another local police official who reached the scene of the crime soon after the incident confirmed the toll.
Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... is rife with religious militancy, sectarian violence between majority Sunnis and minority Shia Mohammedans and a regional insurgency waged by separatists.
On Tuesday gunniesrubbed out three Shia Mohammedans from the Hazara community in a similar attack in Quetta which also left two others maimed.
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Many businesses are not even feasible at all in this economic environment. Many small businesses had been holding out hope that somehow this election might turn things around and make it possible for them to keep going, but when Obama won it was kind of like the straw that broke the camel's back.
You can't do what the federal government and the state governments are doing to us and expect to have a thriving economy. They are choking the life out of us.
New businesses and small businesses are supposed to be at the heart of our economic system. Unfortunately, the environment that has been created is absolutely killing them. This is a recipe for disaster.
Over 30,000 jobs lost are listed on this page.
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Owners pouting and taking vengeance because they lost. Just proves Republicans are meanies who don't care about the workers.
I wish I was being sarcastic but I have seen this stated by more than one liberal.
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...who can't do simple math.
When it costs 'x' to provide a service or make a product and 'y' is the return on that effort, if x>y then [unlike government] the company goes out of business. If government makes rules that mean 'x' raises beyond 'y', the company goes out of business. Their only alternative to stay in business is to reduce 'x' which usually is done by reducing expenses associated with costs. In this case the associated cost per employee that has been government mandated/taxed to raise early next year.
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I'm sorry that people will lose their jobs. I think it was inevitable. Obama is not a business-friendly president. In fact, he knows nothing about business as is evidenced by all his boneheaded decisions regarding "green" jobs and the frittering away of stimulus monies (other peoples money). It does not seem like anyone around him knows much about business. He chose to back (payback) the unions for their help (money and votes). Unions do not create jobs. The GM buyout was not such a great decision. The bondholders got screwed; the unions made out. Obama had better get a better attitude towards business instead of demonizing them. No businesses creating wealth for themselves, employees and others; no economy. There is so much uncertainty in this economy that it makes any planning extremely difficult. It ends up that they plan for the worst case rather than for a healthy growing economy. Business and the marketplace is not stupid. I read some of the comments over at Drudge in response to Applebee's potential layoffs and they are absolutely uninformed, reactive, and stupid. Most of the comments were calling for a boycott of Applebees--no matter that Applebees are individual franchises usually owned locally.
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liberals start from the assumption that businesses exist to provide great-paying jobs, not to make money. After all, profit is a four-letter word for those who can't do math
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Next step will be to take enterprises to court to force them not to lay off.
Not too sure what they'll do when the businesses start going belly up. Probably bailouts, followed by some sort of nationalization disguised as co-ops.
The point after that will be when people simply stop going into white market business. Actual commerce will be gray and black market.
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"Owners pouting and taking vengeance because they lost"
it's more practical than that. it's the same reason that the Dow Jones has been dropping. People don't realize the profound impact that the oncoming Fiscal Cliff is having on business planning. Everything related to the defense industry has been more-or-less frozen for most of this year. Many other businesses that get follow-on orders are also frozen. Hiring is practically non-existent. When Congress sets in motion a future plan that could hike taxes and fire many talented people - the whole country goes on HOLD.
With the elction of Obama ... and especially because the whole leadership of the USA is being tight-lipped about this process .. business owners must plan for the worst. It looks very much like a full-fledged recession will hit in 2013. Hence the acceleration of layoffs is perfectly logical.
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Actual commerce will be gray and black market...
Dope dealers and moonshiners will prosper. They already know how to hide their money, hide their operations and fly below the radar.
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"They already know how to hide their money, hide their operations "
an increasing problem for the US Gov't. as families become cash-starved (due to a decline in real buying power), more people resort to cash transactions. unreported income ... unreported sales. hence tax receipts go into a steady decline.
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Yes, JohnQC. "Most of the comments were calling for a boycott of Applebees--no matter that Applebees are individual franchises usually owned locally". I read that also. Didn't bother to post a comment. Waist of time. Go ahead and boycott and more people will lose their jobs. I wanted to say- and go on welfare like the rest of you. Raise taxes and get lower revenue. When the money is gone, who are you gonna blame. Just have to suck it up. That's what the corperations are doing now and for months ahead of this disaster.
MANILA: Canada and the Philippines signed a deal yesterday to help Manila buy military equipment to defend its territory, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Filipino President Benigno Aquino said.
The Philippine defense department and state-run Canadian Commercial Corp. signed the agreement as Harper met Aquino at Malacanang Palace in Manila, the two leaders announced at a joint news conference. The deal was inked amid a territorial dispute between the Philippines and China over islands and waters in the South China Sea.
"This memorandum of understanding will enable the Philippines to acquire the equipment and expertise it needs to fulfil the country's defense and security agenda," Harper said.
Under the deal, Filipino purchases of equipment and expertise from Canada's $12.6 billion (US$12.6 billion) defense industry are guaranteed by the Ottawa government, according to a Canadian government statement.
"This will help us in our efforts to build our defense and security capabilities," Aquino said, declining to elaborate. "I cannot go into specifics lest they be observed by less friendly individuals."
I can say no more!
Faced with insurgencies and an increasingly assertive China, Aquino noted that the military had just two transport aircraft, no fighter jets and just 132 mainly World War II-era ships.
"The fundamental issue is that we have a lot of outmoded equipment," he said.
Buying new equipment is one thing, knowing how to use it is another...
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Haha I thought it was from the onion. Canada helping the PI!
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[Dawn] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... says he is ready to quit politics if someone proves that he has taken funds from the ISI.
He was talking to the media at 11th International Cancer Symposium organised by Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital here on Friday.
"I reject the allegations of getting money from the ISI and am ready to quit politics if it is proved that I've taken money from the ISI," he told a questioner.
He said PML-N President 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... should quit politics following the apex court judgment in the Asghar Khan case. "After the Supreme Court's ruling on Asghar Khan's petition, Nawaz is left with no moral ground to continue staying in politics."
He asserted that the party which was formed with the support of ISI would face the public wrath in the elections.
He claimed the PML-N would not be able to form its government as the PTI tsunami was all set to purge the country of corrupt elements in the next elections. He said the PTI would contest the polls no matter who would be there in the Presidency during the elections.
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[Dawn] At least fifteen people died and several injured on Saturday as the menace of assassinations continues to spread havoc in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , DawnNews reported.
In Gulshan-e-Iqbal block 2, unidentified gunnies opened fie at a local tea restaurant killing five and injuring two people. Four of the dear departed were identified as Abdul Khailq, Imran, Shamsur Rehman and Abdullah.
The incident took place near a seminary of Deobandi Sunni sect where the students had gathered for some refreshments. The school is for pupils aged 18-22.
"The unidentified gunnies on cycle of violences specifically targeted the students of a nearby religious seminary and escaped after the shooting," Shahid Hayat, a senior police official told AFP.
"The initial investigations reveal that the killings were part of the ongoing wave of murder in the city," he said referring to Bloody Karachi's sectarian, political and ethnic violence which have killed at least 1,100 people this year.
Another local police official Mohammad Hafeez told AFP that police were looking into why the students of this particular seminary were targeted.
In North Nazimabad, near Saifi College, three people bit the dust when an unidentified gunman shot up them. The bodies were shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital later.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... three people were killed in two different incidents in Korangi area.
Earlier, in Old Golimar's locality of Pak Colony, four people were rubbed out when unknown gunnies opened fire on them near the Rexer Bridge area.
Subsequently, police and rescue teams reached the site and transferred the bodies to Civil Hospital.
Police said the killing was the result of a personal dispute and the dear departed were involved in gang warfare.
In a separate incident, a man was bumped off in the Jumma Goth area of Korangi.
Moreover, funeral prayer of Saeed Haider was offered at Rizvia Imam Bargah. Haider was targeted killed on Friday--
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I don't like conspiracy theories, I may be totally wrong, but the timing of this, again, right after the election and right before Petraeus is supposed to get grilled on Capitol Hill, it's really smells.
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The purpose of Patreus' resignation in this fashion is to suck up the news cycle. It gets the ones focused on Benghazi off track and provides "blocking" for all the other dopes in America that voted for the guy. The blocking is critical. He is impeachable over this, but to impeach you will need popular support. You can't get that support if Benghazi is kept out of the news cycle because the population you need to reach with the facts will not receive them. The first tactic was Attack, the issue is being politicized, the next was downplay, it's really not an issue, now it is misdirect, pay attention to something else, you will continue to get misdirect along with a "little bomb", some aspect of vague truth which gets some media attention but can not be used later as lying or hiding the truth because "remember, we already told you this". Look for another cycle sucker in a few days.
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I forgot, whoever is pursuing this had better get in front of the camera (not on fox news!) and define themselves and their purpose. They need to get bi-partisan. Because if they don't in about two weeks they will start to be called, racist sore losing republicans trying to drum up a controversy. If that sticks, the ones on the other side you need to pay attention and care, won't. And that is a little drop in the pond with ripples to 2014 and 2016.
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Well it looks like she was crazy too, threatening another woman. So she may be beautiful athletic, and smart, but the General hooked up with an insane bitch.
My God I just hope he wasn't with her during the Bengahzi attack.
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The Vernon Loeb co-author connection is very suspecious. If you look at the General Stan McChrystal resignation and the recent and very troubling rash of flag officer firings, one cannot help but examine a potentially hostile administration angle. I have no trust at all for the current FBI/DoJ.
Follows is a Ricky bin Ricardo post from yesterday. His bottom line is at least worthy of close scrutiny:
#24 From a Chicago Tribune story about Ms. Broadwell:
The book began as research for her dissertation, a case study of Petraeus' leadership. It evolved into an authorized biography written with Washington Post editor Vernon Loeb after President Barack Obama put Petraeus in charge of Afghanistan in 2010.
Hmmm. MSM involvement. Does anyone else smell a media-directed honey trap here?
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#3 Well it looks like she was crazy too, threatening another woman. So she may be beautiful athletic, and smart, but the General hooked up with an insane bitch.
My God I just hope he wasn't with her during the Bengahzi attack. Posted by Penguin
Broadwell....fly-over prom queen, valedictorian, USAMA [I too will be a GO someday] grad, gym rat, Harvard grad student, Ph.D candidate, reserve Military Intelligence officer, SOF/SMU wanna-bee, potentially bored, prime-of-life doctor's wife and mother, networks herself to the ultimate mentor Alpha-male, wants her piece of history, mates with Ph.D Alpha-male.
Insane? Not at all. Highly achieved reproductive selection, isolation, and speciation practitioner? Yes. Identifiable and exploitable by others? Yes of course.
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Petraeus is so tied into Benghazi as the head of the CIA that this won't go offline and disappear. The sex angle will help keep the story alive and in the forefront. The MSM might even be interested this time around since they are not busy electing O.
Was Obama sitting in the WH, a detached and uninterested President to what was going on in Benghazi or is he a guy who is handicapped to make a decision? Is this just another example of kicking things down the road hoping they will go away?
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Politicians who have the media in their pocket (or is it the other way round?) get to do pretty much what they want. You don't want somebody testifying about how incompetent you are.
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"Petraeus is so tied into Benghazi as the head of the CIA that this won't go offline and disappear"
The thing to remember about Petraeus is this - he was loyal to his own guys. When the CIA surfaced the story that they had requested help 3 times in Benghazi - Patraeus did not tell them to can it. He didn't come down on his own people. He bucked it up to a higher level. Good for him.
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Au Auric:
One interesting thing about the photos in the article is how much happier Ms. Broadwell seems with Gen. Petraeus than with her husband.
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In 48 hours, we've learned from the MSM more info about Ms Broadway than after two months, they have reported on Woods, Doherty and Benghazi. As Krauthammer stated, "There's sex involved so now they have to report it."
Wonder how many of their readers/watchers are wondering, "What the heck is this Benghazi?" Well, I know, but I can dream.....
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in the end ... it's another example of the "death of dignity" on Capitol Hill and the Washington clique. that seems to be one of the new catch phrases for the 21'st century.
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Fox News is breaking a Sunday exclusive that the lid was blown off Petraeus' career by a threatening emails from one Petraeus mistriss, Broadwell, to another now disclosed Petraeus mistress, Kelley.
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IF that's true - and who knows once these cr** reporters start playing their games - then Petraeus has kore to worry about from his women than the Gov't. The CIA and FBI can only fire him. Multiple mistresses ... will probably kill him :-)
I wouldn't take this too seriously unless he confirms.
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Getting tired of conspiracies that don't turn out true either....I'll listen but I haven't seen anything to indicate a anything yet...looks like he had an affair....who has time for an affair these days....especially him.
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Multiple mistresses? When did he have time? As I recall he had a bout with prostate cancer a few years ago. That's about a year of time out. After radiation sometimes the libido goes although it doesn't seem so in this case. Petraeus deserves some slack. He's served his country well and has been at war for nearly a dozen years. On this veteran's day, I'd say thanks!
No. It was all ego for her. She worshiped him and got involved with him because she wanted to BE him. That's why she looks happier with him, and didn't give a rat's patoot about her family, which she probably came to regard as a mistake. Her whole identity hinged on his approval. If he eats a bullet, I bet she will too.
[Dawn] Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira on Saturday said Malala Yousufzai was symbolic of the school of thought followed by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ...9th PM of Pakistain from 1973 to 1977, and 4th President of Pakistain from 1971 to 1973. He was the founder of the Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP). His eldest daughter, Benazir Bhutto, would also serve as hereditary PM. In a coup led by General Zia-ul-Haq, Bhutto was removed from office and was executed in 1979 for authorizing the murder of a political opponent... and Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... , adding that, the Pakistain Moslem League -- Nawaz (PML-N) followed the school of thought of the Taliban, DawnNews reported.
Speaking at a presser in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , Kaira said PML-N chief 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... had also been accused of taking funds from the late Osama bin Laden ... who has made the transition back to dust... .
The minister added that in the wake of the Supreme Court's verdict in the Asghar Khan case, the government elected as a result of the 1990 elections had lost its legal standing.
He said both governments headed by Benazir Bhutto were tossed through bogus mandate.
Kaira added that advertising campaigns using fake names had also been run against the PPP.
The minister added that Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi was used during the campaign for the creation of the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI) and was later discarded in order to bring in Nawaz Sharif as the prime minister.
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[Al Ahram] The families of more than 3 million poor children in Pakistain will receive cash stipends if their children go to school, the government said as officials prepared to mark "Malala Day" on Saturday in support of a schoolgirl shot by the Taliban.
UN officials declared Malala Day one month after 15-year-old Malala Yousufzai and two of her classmates were shot by the Pakistain Taliban. She had been targeted for speaking out against the insurgency.
In the days following the shooting, Yousufzai became an international icon and world leaders pledged to support her campaign for girls' education. She is now recovering in a British hospital.
On Friday, Pak president Asif Ali Zardari added his signature to petitions signed by more than a million people urging Pakistain to pay stipends to families who put their girls in school in honour of Malala.
"Malala's dreams represent what is best about Pakistain," said former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown ... the hapless former British PM ... as he presented the petitions to President Zardari.
Tens of thousands of Britons have called on the government to nominate Malala Yousufzai for a Nobel Peace Prize for her work promoting girls' education.
On Friday, the government announced that poor families will now receive $2 a month per child in primary school.
The programme will be funded by the World Bank and Britannia and distributed through the government's Benazir Income Support Programme, designed to give small cash payments to needy families. The families in the programme already receive $10 a month for basic expenditure.
After a stipend programme was put in place in Pakistain's Punjab province, a World Bank study found a nine per cent increase in girls' enrolment over two years, said Alaphia Zoyab, the South Asia campaigner for internet activist group Avaaz.
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She is now recovering in a British hospital.
Any questions?
[Al Ahram] Sudanese rebels on Saturday said they captured one government armoured vehicle and destroyed others in a battle near the capital of North Darfur state, which has seen an upsurge in violence.
The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) said forces of Evil on Friday afternoon attacked a large government convoy travelling north from Shangil Tobay, which is about 50 kilometres (30 miles) south of El Fasher, the state capital. Sudan's army front man could not be reached for comment.
Along with the armoured vehicle, rebels seized trucks and cars as well as equipment, weapons and ammunition, JEM said in a statement. It said its forces worked with the Sudan Liberation Army's Minni Minnawi faction in the attack which "captured a number of government troops" and inflicted heavy losses. The statement gave no specifics about casualties.
Darfur rebels are allied with forces of Evil from South Kordofan and Blue Nile states in a Revolutionary Front which aims to overthrow the government. The Sudanese Armed Forces began using using armoured fighting vehicles in Darfur ground combat last year, the Small Arms Survey, a Swiss-based independent research project, said in a July report.
Sudan has accused South Sudan of working with the JEM, a charge denied by the South. But suspected JEM fighters were seen alongside South Sudanese troops during border fighting between Sudan and South Sudan in April. In September, the two nations signed in Addis Ababa agreements on border security and other issues which they hailed as ending their conflict.
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[Al Ahram] Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... cancelled a $4.2 billion (3.3 billion euro) weapons package with Russia on Saturday citing graft concerns, torpedoing a deal that would have made Moscow Iraq's biggest arms supplier after the US.
Cancellation of the deal, which had been announced when Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki led a delegation to Russia last month, is a setback for Moscow's attempts to firm up its slipping foothold in the Middle East and also throws into doubt efforts by Iraq to equip its armed forces.
"The deal was cancelled," Maliki's front man Ali Mussawi said. "When Maliki returned from his trip to Russia, he had some suspicions of corruption, so he decided to review the whole deal... There is an investigation going on, on this."
Mussawi declined to say who specifically was being investigated, or if Iraq would begin new negotiations with Moscow.
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ABUJA: African nations on Friday plotted a military force to retake rebel-occupied northern Mali as ministers met on a strategy that included a possible expanded mission of 5,500 troops.
How much is Uncle Sugar going to have to kick in?
The proposal discussed by foreign and defense ministers from the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States could see the bloc commit 3,200 troops and other countries a further 2,300, said a source familiar with the talks.
Representatives from South Africa, Mauritania, Morocco, Libya, Algeria and Chad would also be invited to participate in a regional summit on the military strategy set for today in the Nigerian capital Abuja, the source said.
With all these meetings the intervention should take place in about ... oh, 2015 or so...
ECOWAS defense chiefs have proposed a change in the composition of the troops to be deployed, the source from the bloc said. They are recommending to the summit 5,500 troops as against the initial proposition of 3,200 by ECOWAS. The difference is expected to be contributed by non-ECOWAS states which have signified interest to contribute troops.
The ministers meeting ended late Friday after adopting a report ahead of Sundays summit. A portion of the report seen by an AFP journalist stressed that talks were the preferred means to resolve the crisis, but warned dialogue was not open-ended.
It spoke of a leading role for Mali in military and diplomatic efforts as well as the leadership role of ECOWAS in the deployment of an African-led international force.
The leader of a Malian militia meanwhile said that local people were ready to rise up against the rebels.
The local population is ready to go to war against these people because theyve finally understood that theyre not dealing with terrorists, Seydou Cisse, the leader of the Ganda-Iso self-protection militia in northern Mali, told AFP from Nigers capital Niamey.
Cisse, whose militia was defeated by the militants when they seized control of the region, said he was in advanced talks with authorities in Niger and Mali for his troops to take part in a military intervention.
We have 2,000 young hard boyz men assembled in Mopti (central Mali) and ready to fight. The sons of the territory must liberate their area, he said, calling war inevitable.
The military plan discussed at the meeting in Abuja on Friday would eventually be sent for approval at the UN Security Council, which on Oct. 12 set a 45-day timeframe for ECOWAS to come up with a blueprint for intervention. It would be delivered through the African Unions Peace and Security Council.
At the same time, attempts at dialogue are ongoing to resolve the Mali crisis,
Preferably with everyone keeping their cash...
which analysts have warned poses potential problems to other countries in West Africa at risk of violence from militants.
The urgent need to halt the mafia and criminal practices of terrorist groups and the atrocities committed with impunity by the extremists requires a strong mobilization on behalf of Mali, ECOWAS Commission President Kadre Desire Ouedraogo said at the opening of Fridays talks.
He said ECOWAS should pursue a dual approach of dialogue and military pressure allowing it to stand by Mali... and help her regain her territorial integrity (and) dismantle terrorist networks.
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How much is Uncle Sugar going to have to kick in?
You think the Lame Stream Media will ask the Nobel PEACE Prize winner? /rhet question
[Al Ahram] Kurdish residents have taken control of three towns in northeastern Syria near the border with Turkey after convincing pro-government forces to leave, a watchdog said on Saturday.
The region's Hasakeh province has seen heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or desultory fighting... in recent days between forces loyal to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... and rebels, with 46 combatants killed in two days as the opposition seized the border town of Ras al-Ain on Friday.
The Kurds took control of the towns of Derbassiye and Tall Tamr late on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
They were backed by militia from the Democratic Union Party (PYD), which has links with Turkey's rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), it said.
The residents and hard boyz surrounded government and security offices in both towns and convinced pro-government forces to abandon their posts, said the Britannia-based Observatory, which relies on a network of activists and residents on the ground.
It said the residents had feared the same kind of violence that saw 9,000 Syrians flee to Turkey in 24 hours in the face of the fighting in Ras al-Ain.
Derbassiye, northeast of Ras al-Ain, sits on the border with Turkey and is home to a small border crossing.
Tall Tamr is located at a strategic crossroads. The road from picturesque provincial capital Hasakeh to Ras al-Ain meets the region's main east-west highway at the town.
On Saturday, regime forces also abandoned the town of Amuda, northeast of Derbassiye on the Turkish border, following demonstrations urging them to go, the Observatory said.
Government forces control just two major cities in the province, Hasakeh itself and the far northeastern border town of Qamishli, the Observatory said.
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This is pretty significant, I think. The hard part for guerrilla warfare comes when they actually occupy territory. That's when the govt can come in and root them out and kill them all, or at least most of them, if the regime's not weakened enough. See Somalia, Islamic Courts, for a recent example.
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Good for them. Hope they're like the Iraqi Kurds.
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Election shenanigans surface in Allen West's congressional race
Florida just can't seem to count votes properly. After the embarrassing "hanging chad" debacle of the 2000 presidential election, similar games are now being played in the contest between Republican Rep. Allen West and Democratic challenger Patrick Murphy over the 18th Congressional District seat. Mr. Murphy claims 160,328 votes to Mr. West's 157,872, but the GOP is questioning the integrity of the vote count, particularly in St. Lucie County.
On election night, Mr. West had maintained a district-wide lead of nearly 2,000 votes until the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections inexplicably "recounted" thousands of early ballots, resulting in an awfully convenient 4,400-vote shift in favor of the challenger. Observers on the scene charged incompetence, intimidation and possible fraud on the part of local election officials. Mr. West has asked a judge to impound the ballots and order a recount to set things straight.
Lawyers for the West campaign have been overseeing the process at the Riviera Beach vote tabulation center, and they told The Washington Times that they're concerned about what they have been seeing. Temporary workers are helping the local staff oversee the count of absentee ballots, those damaged by voting machines and ballots in which the three pages have become separated. They are making new ballots to replace the damaged ones, and are required to mark them with the same votes. Florida law allows observers to be present during this process, however, election officials are effectively denying poll watchers an opportunity to keep tabs on what's going on.
The local bureaucrats erected a physical barrier making it impossible for the observers to see the counting process. After repeated objections, observers were allowed to stand behind the people reproducing the ballots, but then the ballot workers blocked their view. The Republicans had no way to verify whether ballots were being accurately reproduced because they couldn't see what was happening. In fact, an elderly man who stood up to try to get a better look was ordered to sit down. When he asked why, elections supervisor Susan Bucher called a sheriff's deputy to have him escorted out of the building. Team West volunteer Ellen Snyder has also faced the wrath of the supervisory staff. "They screamed at me twice," she said, because she asked questions. They threatened to have her removed as well.
Mrs. Bucher, a hyperpartisan Democrat, has infuriated the GOP. When responding to a court order to open polls to early voters on the Sunday before the election, she only informed local Democrats, not Republicans. During the week she told Republican observers that counting has ceased and they did not have to show up. Observers who came anyway saw the count continuing. On Friday, she ordered ballot workers to reproduce some ballots that were already reproduced and would not explain why.
The tactics being employed in the Sunshine State undermine the credibility of the final result. It's hard to see how anything legitimate could come out of such a tainted counting procedure. It will be up to the State of Florida, or the House of Representatives, to determine who truly won the right to represent Floridians in the 18th District.
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Unfortunately, economy, events, and performance driven voting is history. We have begun to devolve to the African political model. Demographic voting is the new norm. The sooner the pubs get on board with demographic voting, the sooner they start winning. Civilization as we have know it will lose, but the pubs will win.
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Would not have mattered g(r)om. Critical thinking as an element of decision making no longer applies. The Champ had/has only one issue, one mantra; "the rich should pay a little more". Valid issues are no longer in play. Demographic voting is the new norm.
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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
― Alexis de Tocqueville
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I'm guessing West will 'lose' again on the re-recount. Or the re-re-recount. There's lots of uncounted votes tucked away in the corners of the union hall. And you know most of the people in the morgue managed to vote before deceasing and their votes have to be counted.
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I'm sure the media will get right on with reporting this.
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I'm hoping this last election was more about Obama and less about the tribal patterns people are predicting.
Having said that I accept the results but wouldn't be surprised if a death-bed confession a decade from now indicates some kind of wide spread theft on this one. Two many things just don't sit right.
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I worked the polls (in FL) on election day. One thing I noticed is that alot of registered democrats showed up to vote in the last 2 hours. The Republicans were MIA.
I am convinced the dems won the state on the evening of 11/06 due to their "get out the vote"
effort.
Romney's GOTV effort (project ORCA) was so mismanaged that he would have been better served if he had taken the money he spent on ORCA it in a parking lot. It was worse than useless: it actually cost him votes.
Al
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death-bed confession
Only works for those that actually believe in a God. For secular socialist, they are their own god. No need to ask for pardon for achieving the ultimate goal of their religion - Power.
ORCA could also simply be shoddy code that works under test conditions but crashes under heavier workload. If that shoddiness was intentional said intention would be plausibly deniable of course.
Whatever the cause of ORCA's malfunction might be, the Romney campaign apparently was organized in such a way that failure at a single point would massively cripple their efforts on election day.
This lack of redundancy does not speak well of Romney's touted managerial skills.
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Frozen Al's pegged it - Ogabe's turnout machine was just better organized. The bad guys had been working to set up their 2012 GOTV efforts ever since Ogabe took office. Where the hell was the comparable GOP effort? Why was it left up to Romney's campaign to cobble together its ORCAbortion in a few months leading up to the election, when it should have been the RNC getting a GOTV infrastructure set up, tested and in place over a period of YEARS, ready for the use of whoever wound up as the Trunks' nominee?
Reince Priebus underperformed the sad lump of clay Michael Steele as RNC chair to the tune of over 2 million votes - votes that would have given us President Romney, possibly a Trunk Senate and at least a chance to start reversing what now looks like an inevitable national collapse. I'd call for Priebus to walk the plank in favor of someone who knows what they're doing (my dream team would have been Newt and Sarah as RNC co-chairs). But now that the Quislingrats and their media sockpuppets have figured out how to exploit and expand election-day tribalism, I don't think it makes a damn bit of difference anymore. Alinsky, Ayers, Cloward, Piven and the rest of the long-march crowd have won.
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I've been tied up, but I find it amazing that this is apparently the first time Orca has hit the 'Burg (though I may have missed it). We lost FL by about 75,000 votes, and similar in the other contested states.
I think most of the missing votes (less than McCain) were due to Orca. Don't ascribe to veniality what can be explained by stupidity. Incredible incompetence! Anyone who has developed systems like this expects the issues they hit and plans for them. And stress tests. And has an independent Plan B.
The rest (this time) were due to Sandy (thanks Christie, you're dead to me) and, of course, the MSM.
But the Republican party is a sure loser from here on, unless we take it over and change its direction.
[Al Ahram] The newly elected leader of Syria's main opposition bloc in exile struck a combative tone Saturday, saying international inaction rather than divisions among anti-regime groups are to blame for the inability to end the bloodshed in Syria.
George Sabra, the new head of the Syrian National Council, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named in an interview that the international community should support those trying to topple Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... without strings attached, rather than linking aid to an overhaul of the opposition leadership.
Sabra, a Christian and a veteran left-wing dissident who was repeatedly imprisoned by the regime, said he and others in the opposition feel let down by their Western and Arab allies.
The Syrian opposition may have many foreign friends, he said, "but unfortunately we get nothing from them, except some statements, some encouragement." The regime "has few friends, but these friends give the regime everything," he added, referring to Assad allies Russia, China and Iran.
The U.S. has become increasingly frustrated with the SNC's failure to forge a cohesive and more representative leadership, which would provide a single conduit for future foreign support. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Tallyrand ... harshly criticized the group late last month.
Sabra, 65, headed an SNC delegation Saturday in talks with rival opposition groups on forging a new, broader opposition leadership.
The SNC has been reluctant to join such a group, fearing it would lose influence within a larger platform. Under the reform plan presented by another veteran dissident, Riad Seif, the SNC would receive only about one-third of 60 seats to make room for more activists from inside Syria.
Sabra said the SNC agrees that unity within opposition ranks is important, but suggested it would not accept a deal that could lead to its demise.
Senior SNC members portrayed the meeting as the beginning of what could be days of negotiations over the size and mission of such a group.
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The continued spillover of the fighting in Syria into Israel has caused the IDF to change the rules of engagement along the Syrian border.
According to a Channel 2 News report on Friday, the new orders instruct soldiers to respond if fire from Syria is dangerous and persistent.
The report noted that while Israel wants to avoid such confrontation with Syria as much as possible, the main concern is that Islamist elements are contained along the Syrian border.
At the beginning of the week, IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz warned that Syria's civil war might soon become "an Israeli matter" if military spillover continues. Gantz made the comments during a visit to the northern border, and Channel 2 News noted that during his visit he could hear cries of "Allahu Akbar" coming from the Syrian side of the border.
There have been several instances over the past few days of the Syrian civil war spilling over into Israel.
On Thursday morning, three mortar shells were fired into Israel, with one of them hitting a neighborhood in the religious Zionist town of Alonei Habashan, which is less than a kilometer from the border. None of the shells exploded.
IDF sappers rushed to the scene to neutralize the shells. No one was injured, and there was no damage.
Also on Thursday, IDF soldiers from the "Oketz" canine unit arrested a 17-year-old Syrian teen after he crossed the Israeli-Syrian border in the southern Golan Heights.
As the unit chased after the teen, one of the unit's dogs caught him and bit him. A search of the teen revealed that he was not armed. He was taken for questioning by security forces and was then given medical treatment at the Ziv Hospital in Tzfat (Safed).
A military source said that the incident does not appear to be a terrorist act, but rather an attempt to escape the fighting in Syria.
On Wednesday, an IDF position near the border with Syria was hit by stray bullets. No one was hurt and no damage was caused.
The IDF said that the bullets appear to be strays from light weapons used in internal fighting in Syria.
On Monday, an Israeli military jeep was hit by Syrian gunfire on the Golan Heights. IDF soldiers were patrolling near the northern border when they came under gunfire from the Syrian side of the border. No one was hurt.
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[Dawn] Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain on Saturday said that regardless of ethnic identity, those who engaged in terrorist activities were terrorists, DawnNews reported.
He said gunnies had no national affiliations, adding that, the army should eliminate them, adding that, he was not afraid of gunnies and had exposed them.
The minister said the country's previous governments were afraid of speaking to the international community on Pakistain's terrorism problem.
He said 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. was not only celebrating Malala Day on Saturday, it was, in fact, celebrating all those brave men and women who had given sacrifices against the scourge of terrorism.
The minister thanked the international community for standing up for Malala.
He said Pakistain, Afghanistan and the United States would have to fight terrorism through a joint strategy, adding that, whether the decision would be to launch an operation or to engage in talks, the three countries should remain united.
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Well surely they're not really Paks or Pashtuns. If they were somebody might blame Paks and Pashtuns for the ceaseless carnage taking place in the area between Iran and India.
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Ethnic or national affiliation may be all over the map, but terrorists do seem to have a rather narrow religious demographic.
The beginning of the end came for CIA Director David Petraeus when Paula Broadwell, a younger married woman with whom he was having an affair, "or someone close to her had sought access to his email," according to the Wall Street Journal's description of an FBI probe. Associates of Petraeus had received "anonymous harassing emails" that were then traced to Broadwell, ABC's Martha Raddatz reported, suggesting she may have found their names or addresses in his e-mail.
The e-mail account was apparently Petraeus's personal Gmail, not his official CIA e-mail, according to the Wall Street Journal. That's a big deal: Some of the most powerful foreign spy agencies in the world would love to have an opening, however small, into the personal e-mail account of the man who runs the United States' spy service. The information could have proved of enormous value to foreign hackers, who already maintain a near-constant effort to access sensitive U.S. data.
If Petraeus allowed his Gmail security to be compromised even slightly, by widening access, sharing passwords or logging in from multiple addresses, it would have brought foreign spy agencies that much closer to a treasure trove of information. As the Wall Street Journal hints, Sherlocks were concerned about Petraeus's Gmail access precisely because of the history of foreign attempts to access just such accounts:
Security officials are sensitive to misuse of personal email accounts--not only official accounts--because there have been multiple instances of foreign hackers targeting personal emails.
A personal e-mail account like Petraeus's almost certainly would not have contained any high-level intelligence; he probably didn't keep a list of secret drone-base coordinates on his Google ...contributed $814,540 to the 2008 Obama campaign... docs account. But access to the account could have provided telling information on, for example, Petraeus's travel schedule, his foreign contacts, even personal information about himself or other senior U.S. officials.
Private e-mail services like Google's, though considered significantly more secure than most, still have susceptibilities to foreign intrusion. And it happens. Technology writers have sometimes discussed what one writer called the "password fallacy," the false sense of safety created by access systems such as Google's that balance security against ease of use.
Even with Google's extra security features, the company must also avoid making security so onerous as to drive away customers, making it an easier target for foreign hackers even before Petraeus possibly started sharing access and thus diluting the account's integrity. And, as a Wired magazine investigation demonstrated in August, personal e-mail accounts often allow hackers access to other personal accounts, worsening both the infiltration and the damage.
All of this might sound a little overly apprehensive -- really, U.S. national security is compromised because the CIA director's personal Gmail account might have been a little easier to hack? -- until you start looking at the scale and sophistication of foreign attempts to infiltrate U.S. data sources. Chinese hacking efforts, perhaps the best-known but nowhere near the only threat to U.S. networks and computers, suggest the enormous scope and ferocious drive of foreign government hackers.
Some Americans who have access to sensitive information and who travel to China describe going to tremendous lengths to minimize government efforts to seize their data. Some copy and paste their passwords from USB thumb drives rather than type them out, for fear of key-logging software. They carry "loaner" laptops and cellphones and pull out cellphone batteries during sensitive meetings, worried that the microphone could be switched on remotely. The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... called such extreme measures, which also apply in other countries, "standard operating procedure for officials at American government agencies."
Even still, the publicly reported incidents of successful Chinese hacking -- such as a March intrusion that stole a $1 billion, 10-year research project overnight -- suggest that the efforts might be near-continuous and the successes rampant. A 2010 Chinese infiltration of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ended up funneling weeks of corporate data; even after the chamber thought it had reestablished security, it discovered that an office printer and a corporate apartment thermostat were still sending data -- who knows what kind? -- back to China. You have to wonder what a similar infiltration into the private e-mail account of the director of the Central Intelligence Agency might have turned up.
Of course, the CIA director is not the Chamber of Commerce, which may explain why the FBI's counter-intelligence monitoring is so sensitive that just Broadwell's access to his Gmail account triggered an investigation. But the fact that the FBI looked so hard and so carefully -- and that Petraeus lost his directorship of the CIA over an intrusion that many of us might consider minor or even routine -- underscores the potential risk to U.S. intelligence entailed in Petraeus's, or Broadwell's, alleged misuse of his personal account.
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Petraeus is not the kind of guy to say anything about his work on a personal email - he knows better than that. Likewise, there's no way I'd believe that the man would ever allow himself to be blackmailed. It's not happening. There is zero evidence that he did anything wrong - in terms of disclosing national secrets. Did he make some bad judgments about personal relationships - sure. But he could have been allowed to retire and keep his dignity.
This incident has the stench of political reprisals to it.
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and pull out cellphone batteries during sensitive meetings, Ahem, I seem to remember reading something about re-energizing units by bathing the conference room with microwaves of the right frequency. 3DC?
Or not.
[Al Ahram] International Criminal Court's former prosecutor suggests issuing arrest warrant for embattled Syrian president to pressure him into negotiations
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[Al Ahram] The Syrian army has destroyed a ship carrying armed rebels on the Euphrates River in the northeast of the country, state news agency SANA reported on Saturday.
"An armed forces unit destroyed a ship on the Euphrates carrying forces of Evil with arms and ammunition," SANA reported, without providing further details. In Syria the river passes through the cities of Deir Ezzor, Raqa and Albu Kamal, all of which have seen regime air strikes or festivities between rebels and troops loyal to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad. Despoiler of Deraa...
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[An Nahar] Twin car booms at a military officers' club in southern Syria killed at least 20 soldiers on Saturday, a watchdog said.
The two bombs went kaboom! minutes apart in the back garden of the club in the city of Daraa, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
State news agency SANA reported that two car kabooms had hit the city, causing casualties and significant damage, but provided no further details.
A third kaboom later hit another military post in the city, but did not cause any casualties, the Observatory said. The cause of the third kaboom was not immediately known.
Daraa was the birthplace of the Syrian uprising against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... , which erupted in March 2011. The conflict began largely with peaceful protests against Assad's rule but turned bloody after rebels took up arms in response to the regime's crackdown.
State news agency SANA reported three car boomings hit the city, killing seven people and wounding many, but did not confirm the attacks were on a military position.
It also reported a car boom had maimed three people in the southern Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... neighborhood of Daf al-Shawk, while state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said a rocket maimed two maidens of tender years in the capital's Christian district of George Khoury.
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[An Nahar] Al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... parliamentary bloc MP Khaled al-Daher said on Saturday that he received new death threats after several March 14-led opposition politicians received similar threats recently.
"I received new death threats via a telephone call to my bodyguard," al-Daher told LBCI.
He pointed out that his bodyguard telephoned him around 4:40 p.m. saying that he received a telephone call from an unknown person telling him to "convey a message to me."
"Tell your boss that he will be (shattered) like his friend was... You will get the same fate,"al-Daher said.
He noted that his bodyguard said that the accent of the caller is "Syrian."
"They are using a new method to intimidate us," al-Daher added, confirming that he informed Internal Security Forces chief Ashraf Rifi about the incident.
In October, March 14 alliance MPs Ammar Houri, Ahmed Fatfat, Hadi Hbeish, Khaled al-Daher and Nuhad al-Mashnouq said that they were texted death threats from a Syrian telephone number before and after Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau head Wissam al-Hasan's liquidation.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[AFP] Denmark said Saturday it would scrap a fat tax it introduced a little over a year ago in a world first, saying the measure was costly and failed to change Danes' eating habits.
[Atlanta.CBSLocal] A new study finds that people who live close to a bar tend to drink more.
[Canada.com] Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore will try to make the case next week that "dirty energy" is contributing to what he calls "dirty weather" events around the world.
[An Nahar] Two aides to a tribal chief with alleged al-Qaeda links were killed in a clash with pro-army 
[Dawn] THE Hizbul Mujahideen leader Syed Salahuddin's comments on panchayat institutions in 
Secondly, Syed Salahuddin fears their exploitation by New Delhi "as a referendum on 
Wazoo
[Shabelle] At least two have been killed in a fierce battle between Somali National Army (SNA) and Al shabab 
[Al Ahram] The BBC admitted on Saturday it faced a "crisis of trust" after being forced to apologise for wrongly implicating a politician in child sex abuse, just weeks after the Jimmy Savile scandal broke.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] The main Tuareg rebel group in northern Mali warned on Saturday that any foreign military intervention to remove the Islamists would fail without its support.
[Dawn] fghan President 
[Dawn] Gunmen 
Nawaz Sharif
[Dawn] At least fifteen people died and several injured on Saturday as the menace of 
[Al Ahram] The families of more than 3 million poor children in Pakistain will receive cash stipends if their children go to school, the government said as officials prepared to mark "Malala Day" on Saturday in support of a schoolgirl shot by the Taliban.
[Al Ahram] Sudanese rebels on Saturday said they captured one government armoured vehicle and destroyed others in a battle near the capital of North Darfur state, which has seen an upsurge in violence.
[Al Ahram] Storied 
[Al Ahram] Kurdish residents have taken control of three towns in northeastern Syria near the border with Turkey after convincing pro-government forces to leave, a watchdog said on Saturday.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Florida just can't seem to count votes properly. After the embarrassing "hanging chad" debacle of the 2000 presidential election, similar games are now being played in the contest between Republican Rep. Allen West and Democratic challenger Patrick Murphy over the 18th Congressional District seat. Mr. Murphy claims 160,328 votes to Mr. West's 157,872, but the GOP is questioning the integrity of the vote count, particularly in St. Lucie County.
The local bureaucrats erected a physical barrier making it impossible for the observers to see the counting process. After repeated objections, observers were allowed to stand behind the people reproducing the ballots, but then the ballot workers blocked their view. The Republicans had no way to verify whether ballots were being accurately reproduced because they couldn't see what was happening. In fact, an elderly man who stood up to try to get a better look was ordered to sit down. When he asked why, elections supervisor Susan Bucher called a sheriff's deputy to have him escorted out of the building. Team West volunteer Ellen Snyder has also faced the wrath of the supervisory staff. "They screamed at me twice," she said, because she asked questions. They threatened to have her removed as well.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
The beginning of the end came for CIA Director David Petraeus when Paula Broadwell, a younger married woman with whom he was having an affair, "or someone close to her had sought access to his email," according to the Wall Street Journal's description of an FBI probe. Associates of Petraeus had received "anonymous harassing emails" that were then traced to Broadwell, ABC's Martha Raddatz reported, suggesting she may have found their names or addresses in his e-mail.
[Al Ahram] The Syrian army has destroyed a ship carrying armed rebels on the Euphrates River in the northeast of the country, state news agency SANA reported on Saturday.
