BEIRUT Two suicide bombers detonated explosions outside the Iranian Embassy in a mainly Shiite district of the Lebanese capital on Tuesday, killing 23 people, including the Iranian cultural attache, apparently in retaliation for the Lebanese group Hezbollah's support of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The bombings appeared to be another strike in an intensifying proxy battle over Syria's civil war that is rattling its smaller neighbor Lebanon. An al Qaeda-linked Sunni extremist group claimed responsibility for the attack, saying more would follow unless the Iranian-backed Shiite Hezbollah withdraws fighters that have helped Assad's military score key victories over Syrian rebels.
The midmorning blasts hit the upscale neighborhood of Janah, a Hezbollah stronghold, leaving bodies and pools of blood on the glass-strewn street amid burning cars. More than 140 people were wounded, officials said.
A Lebanese security official said the first suicide attacker was on a motorcycle that carried two kilograms (4.4 pounds) of explosives. He blew himself up at the large black main gate of the Iranian mission, damaging the three-story facility, the official said.
Less than two minutes later, a second suicide attacker driving a car rigged with 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of explosives struck about 10 meters (yards) away, the official said.
First one scrambles everything and everyone, including the disaster response; second one is the killer.
The bombing was one of the deadliest in a string of attacks that have targeted Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon in recent months in a campaign of retaliation by Sunni radicals over its backing of Assad in Syria's bloody conflict, now in its third year.
At the scene of the blasts, blood was puddled on the ground, and debris and tree limbs torn off by the blasts were scattered over the streets. AP video showed firefighters extinguishing flames from burning vehicles, blood-spattered streets and bodies covered with sheets on the ground. A charred motorcycle stood outside the embassy gate.
A woman in a black robe and headscarf, unable to stand, clutched a man, pleading with security forces for help.
"Nader," she wailed, crying out a man's name. "Nader is missing." Another man ran from the area, carrying a South Asian migrant worker limp in his arms.
"People aren't sacred anymore. We aren't safe," said a mechanic whose store windows were shattered by the blasts. "People fight outside (Lebanon), but send their messages through Lebanon. With bombs. It's their SMS service," he added.
Lebanese Health Minister Ali Hassan Khalil said the twin explosions killed 23 people and wounded 146.
Iranian Ambassador Ghazanfar Roknabadi identified the dead diplomat as Sheik Ibrahim Ansari. Speaking to Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV from inside the embassy compound, he said Ansari took his post in Lebanon a month ago and was overseeing all regional cultural activities. Al-Manar reported that the street targeted by the suicide bombers includes a building where some of the Iranian diplomats and their families live.
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"People fight outside (Lebanon), but send their messages through Lebanon. With bombs. It's their SMS service," he added.
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Iran + Hezbollah are repor blaming Israel + US-West for the bombings, all the while Al-Qaeda affiliate "Abdullah Azzam Brigades" is formally claiming responsibility.
* TOPIX > [ABC News] SUICIDE BOMBING IN BEIRUT HIGHLIGHTS FEAR LEBANON WILL BE SUCKED INTO SYRIA'S CIVIL WAR.
Hacktivists allegedly affiliated with Anonymous have been covertly breaking into US government systems and pilfering sensitive information for nearly a year, the FBI warned last week.
The attacks (which began last December and are thought to be ongoing) exploit flaws in Adobe's ColdFusion web app development software to plant backdoors on compromised systems, according to an FBI memo seen by Reuters. The memo said the US army, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, and others had all been targeted.
Officials told the news agency that the warning was linked to attacks allegedly carried out by Lauri Love, 28, of Stradishall, England and others. Love alone was indicted in New Jersey last month over a string of attacks that matches that latest warnings.
A DoJ statement on the indictment lists 10 attacks against US government systems, eight of which are blamed on ColdFusion exploits1. The remaining two attacks were blamed on SQL injection-style assaults.
Some of the breaches have been publicised by Anonymous under the a campaign dubbed Operation Last Resort (#OpLastResort), which aims to protest against the overzealous prosecution of computer crime suspects including Aaron Swartz, a programmer who committed suicide under the shadow of a prosecution for computer crimes after he systematically downloaded academic journal articles from the JSTOR digital library.
The FBI is urging government sysadmins and website administrators to take urgent remedial action to contain the problem, which it warns is more serious than recent press reports of hack against US government systems might suggest.
"The majority of the intrusions have not yet been made publicly known," the Feds warned, Reuters reports. "It is unknown exactly how many systems have been compromised, but it is a widespread problem that should be addressed."
News of the warning broke late last week shortly after Anonymous affiliated hacker Jeremy Hammond was jailed for 10 years for hacking into the systems of private intelligence firm Stratfor and stealing credit card details and emails.
Hammond claimed in court that LulzSec suspect turned super-snitch Hector "Sabu" Monseigneur had encouraged him to hack into the websites of various governments under the AntiSec banner. An earlier (more concise) statement from Hammond along the same lines can be found on the FreeJeremy support website here.
The harsh sentence against Hammond prompted elements of Anonymous to re-launch OpLastResort, with a video about the ongoing Edward Snowden revelations that refers to "Global Cyberwar II". Apparently Global Cyberwar I happened two years ago. ®
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1 Separately security firm Hold Security has linked attacks against ColdFusion version 8 to the recent high-profile theft of Adobe source code as well as attacks against LexisNexis and others.
[TIMESDISPATCH] Sen. Creigh Deeds, D-Bath, was stabbed multiple times early today at his Bath County home and his son, Gus, is dead from a gunshot wound, authorities said. Gus Deeds had been released Monday following a mental health evaluation performed under an emergency custody order.
At a news conference in Charlottesville, a Virginia State Police spokeswoman said Deeds was stabbed numerous times in the head and torso but was alert and had given statements to authorities. She said Deeds, who was being treated at the University of Virginia Medical Center, had been seriously maimed.
A source told the Richmond Times-Dispatch that the emergency custody order, or ECO, allowed Gus Deeds to be held as long as four hours to determine whether he should be held longer, up to 72 hours, under a temporary detention order.
The son was evaluated Monday by the Rockbridge Area Community Services Board in Lexington. An emergency custody order can be issued by any magistrate.
A source said no psychiatric bed was available, which is why Gus Deeds was released
At the news conference, state police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said Gus Deeds was found inside the family's residence in rural Millboro with a gunshot wound, and died at the scene. Police did not say whether the son's wound was self-inflicted. Geller said authorities are not looking for other suspects. No one else was at the home at the time of the attack.
Authorities said they were still working to determine the sequence of events that they said took place around 7:25 a.m.
Deeds was stabbed numerous times before walking down a private drive and out to state Route 42, where he was picked up by a cousin who lives nearby, state police Sgt. Mike King told The Roanoke Times. Deeds was flown to the hospital from the cousin's farm, King added.
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Robert Creigh Deeds, born January 4, 1958, is an American politician..
He is a member of the Senate of Virginia representing the 25th district since 2001. Previously, he was the Democratic nominee for Attorney General of Virginia in 2005 and Governor of Virginia in 2009. He was defeated in both of those races by Bob McDonnell. Deeds lost by just 323 votes in 2005, but was defeated by a wide margin of almost 18 percentage points in 2009. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1992 to 2001.
-- Hope he recovers from his wounds quickly and without complications.
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Why would someone with a gun use a knife on someone else?
In its preliminary evaluation resume, NHTSA said it is "aware of two incidents occurring on U.S. public highways in which the subject vehicles caught fire after an undercarriage strike with metallic roadway debris. The resulting impact damage to the propulsion battery tray (baseplate) initiated thermal runaway. In each incident, the vehicle's battery monitoring system provided escalating visible and audible warnings, allowing the driver to execute a controlled stop and exit the vehicle before the battery emitted smoke and fire.
“Based on these incidents, NHTSA is opening this preliminary evaluation to examine the potential risks associated with undercarriage strikes on model year 2013 Tesla Model S vehicles."
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No word yet if Tesla has asked the Boeing 787 Easybake Airliner battery 'experts' to assist......
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how is this any different from a rupture gas tank with road sparks to ignite it?
Statistically similar to regular vehicle fires. Of course, this is new technology which means major media interest (read hysteria) and WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!.
They are all alather about green technology panting after every environmentally friendly save us from global warming gizmo. And then when something like this happens...they blast the news everywhere as if it is a major problem with Teslas exploding like napalm. If you aren't paying attention to the news, you would think it was several fires when it has been TWO.
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I believe the old coin of the Left is 'institutional bigotry', the inherit culture of the place makes it OK to behave this way (see Lefty rants about 'male white culture'). Of course for the Left it's always been - one set of rules for me, another set of rules for thee.
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One has to wonder what the talk around the water-cooler at MSNBC is that he feels he can say such things.
Because you have to figure that what is said on the air is probably quite tame compared to what they say among themselves in private.
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So Bashir gets off with an apology which is most likely most insincere while Alec Baldwin gets fired for his slurs. I'm not trying to defend Baldwin but it seems there are different levels of punishment depending on who one slurs.
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... While all animals are equal, some animals are more equal than others. Got to have an official 'Social Justice' scoring card to know the hierarchical ranking of special interest groups.
The constrained defense budgets, ending of the Iraq war and forthcoming troop withdrawal from Afghanistan have led to soul searching among senior defense leaders about what missions and capabilities the U.S. military should pursue. The Pentagon has tried to do this in a structured way with the Defense Strategic Guidance of January 2012, the Strategic Choices and Management Review of August 2013, and the Quadrennial Defense Review process currently underway.
Defense planning for a relative peacetime environment is difficult enough, but doing so with uncertain budget scenarios is especially challenging. As Jamie Morin, the nominee to become director of the Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation office, told a Senate hearing last month, the military is doing future years defense planning "with absolutely no idea what we're going to be doing in 2014." And yet, senior defense leaders seem to have few problems articulating a vision for what sort of military the United States requires for the future.
A careful review of their recent comments reveals five particular assumptions that are rarely questioned by Congress, the media or many defense analysts. These assumptions about the military's future are worth bearing in mind during upcoming congressional hearings, and as Congress and the White House agree upon the latest overdue defense budget.
The Earth has reached peak uncertainty. Earlier this year, chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Martin Dempsey declared "the fact that (the world is) more dangerous than it has ever been." Dempsey has since tweaked this absolutist characterization to a world of an "even more uncertain and dangerous security landscape." Last week, General Ray Odierno (b. 1954) further declared: "I believe that this is the most uncertain I've ever seen the international security environment."
Meanwhile, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has even gone so far as to claim: "We are living in a world of complete uncertainty." This goes too far, for if there is really no ground truth or predictability in the world, how can the Pentagon begin to develop the concepts, scenarios or force planning constructs that defense planning is based upon?
The military's future is in the Asia-Pacific. Although military leaders recognize they have a terrible record at predicting future instability and conflicts, they are gambling that they will get it right this time. During his confirmation hearings, Hagel forecasted: "as we look at future threats and challenges . . . that's why DOD is rebalancing its resources toward the Asia-Pacific region."
The secretary recently elaborated that the rebalance "was exactly the right thing for all the reasons that anybody who knows anything about Asia -- the demographics, the people, the markets, the economies." Hagel's deputy Ashton Carter has described that region as "so obviously a part of the world that will be central to America's future," and "the part of the world that is going to more than any other define the American future."
The Asia pivot or rebalance has become the preeminent rhetorical feature of the Obama administration's foreign policy, even as its specific lines of effort remain underdeveloped.
Future fights will be cyber, drone and special operations-centric. Defense planning documents and senior civilian or military officials emphasize that warfighting will primarily be conducted by packets of data and robots, or by special operators when humans are absolutely necessary. In his farewell address in February, then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta stressed: "Cybersecurity is something we've got to really be concerned about, because it is the weapon of the future."
Hagel has similarly termed cyber as "probably the most insidious, dangerous threat to this country," which "will require that we continue to place the highest priority on cyber defense and cyber capabilities." Likewise, Carter described this suite of stand-off capabilities as "so important to our future operations." It is remarkable that defense leaders, who acknowledge an inability to forecast future conflicts, claim to hold a remarkable prescience about what weapons will be required to fight unidentifiable foes.
The military is largely done with land wars. Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Adm. James Winnefeld asserted that while the military will need ground forces, "if nothing more than as a deterrent . . . we don't see (land wars) as being a long fight. We can't afford it." Another senior defense official stated at a Pentagon briefing: "We don't envision doing large-scale, multi-year stability operations."
Meanwhile, Gen. Odierno has repeatedly emphasized that those claiming land wars are obsolete are fooling themselves: "I see nothing on the horizon yet that tells me that we don't need ground forces."
Given that every president since Ronald Reagan has deployed several thousand ground troops for regime change or multi-year stability operations, it would be accepting tremendous risk to discount Odierno's prescient warning.
Partners and allies will pick up the slack. It has become a matter of faith that reductions in U.S. defense commitments abroad will be met by allies willing to "share the responsibilities of global leadership," as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict Michael Sheehan put it. Through the rotational presence of U.S. troops and joint exercises, and the military's "building partnership capacity" activities, there is an assumption that U.S. allies will shoulder more of the burden for their own security and that of their regions.
This, of course, assumes that U.S. partners will remain partners, and continue to act in alignment with U.S. national interests. Moreover, it assumes that they will foot the bill for collective security, when in reality the percentage of American and its allies' military spending is projected to continue falling.
What is perhaps most unsettling the Pentagon's defense planning process is not only the absence of budget predictability from Congress, but also the lack of an updated National Security Strategy from the White House. That document serves as the reference point for national security priorities for all U.S. government agencies.
Spend time with military officials and their staffs and they can all quote from memory those sections that guide the offices where they work. The five assumptions detailed above require further scrutiny from interested citizens, but they also deserve clarifying guidance from the Hill and White House.
The present confusion in the civilian mind and the true military mind respecting the purposes of armies and limits of warfare is attributable to many circumstances. Among them, no doubt, is the character of military history as it has commonly been written. Ordinary citizens are lacking in the raw experience of combat, or deficient in technical knowledge, and inclined to leave the compilation of military records to “experts” in such affairs. Writers on general history have tended to neglect the broader aspects of military issues; confining themselves to accounts of campaigns and battles, handled often in a cursory fashion, they have usually written on the wars of their respective countries in order to glorify their prowess, with little or no reference to the question whether these wars were conducted in the military way of high efficiency or in the militaristic way, which wastes blood and treasure.
Even more often, in recent times, general historians have neglected military affairs and restricted their reflections to what they are pleased to call “the causes and consequences of wars”; or they have even omitted them altogether. This neglect may be ascribed to many sources. The first is, perhaps, a recognition of the brutal fact that the old descriptions of campaigns are actually of so little value civilian and military alike. Another has been the growing emphasis on economic and social fields deemed “normal” and the distaste of economic and social historians for war, which appears so disturbing to the normal course of events. Although Adam Smith included a chapter on the subject of military defense in his Wealth of Nations as a regular part of the subject, modern economists concentrate on capital, wages, interest, rent, and other features of peaceful pursuits, largely forgetting war as a phase of all economy, ancient or modern. When the mention the subject of armies and military defense, these are commonly referred to as institutions and actions which interrupt the regular balance of economic life. And the third source of indifference is the effort of pacifists and peace advocates to exclude wars and military affairs from general histories, with the view to uprooting any military or militaristic tendencies from the public mind, on the curious assumption that by ignoring realties the realties themselves will disappear.
This lack of a general fund of widely disseminated military information is perilous to the maintenance of civilian power in government. The civilian mind, presumably concerned with the maintenance of peace and the shaping of policies by the limits of efficient military defense, can derive no instruction from acrimonious disputes between militarists, limitless in their demands, and pacifists, lost in utopian visions. Where the civilians fail to comprehend and guide military policy, the true military men, distinguished from the militarists, are also imperiled. For these the executioners of civilian will, dedicated to the preparation of defense and war with the utmost regard for efficiency, are dependent upon the former.
Again, and again, the military men have seen themselves hurled into war by ambitions, passions, and blunders of civilian governments, almost wholly uninformed as to the limits of their military potentials and almost recklessly indifferent to the military requirements of the wars they let loose. Aware that they may again be thrown by civilians into an unforeseen conflict, perhaps with a foe they have not envisaged, these realistic military men find themselves unable to do anything save demand all the men, guns, and supplies they can possibly wring from the civilians, in the hope that they may be prepared or half prepared for whatever may befall them. In so doing they inevitably find themselves associated with militaristic military men who demand all they can get merely for the sake of having it without reference to ends.
Vagts, Alfred, History of Militarism, rev. 1959, Free Press, NY, pp 33-34.
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Hagel has similarly termed cyber as "probably the most insidious, dangerous threat to this country," which "will require that we continue to place the highest priority on cyber defense and cyber capabilities."
And yet we buy all of our computers from the enemy.
1) Win wars.
2) Win battles. It is possible to win a war while losing battles, but it cost a lot of blood and material.
3) Win battles with as few casualties as possible.
Everything else is superfluous.
Future fights will be cyber, drone and special operations-centric.
Future fights will be whatever the enemy thinks gives the best chance of victory.
I remember pilots stopped training for dogfights in the 1950's. Then came Vietnam. We need to make sure we don't lose the skills we developed to win wars.
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* "Partners and Allies will pick up the slack" > that's what the US thought before WW1 + WW2 + Cold War.
Just sayin.
* "The Military is largely done wid Land Wars" > thusly, CHINA-VS-JAPAN,PHIL/ASEAN SEA WAR(S).
China + short war.
VERSUS
* "We [USA] can't afford it" > thusly, CHINA-VS-INDIA LIMITED OR FULL CONVENTIONAL = NUCLEAR? WAR.
PROTRACTIVE = MUTUALLY DESTRUCTIVE???
China + long war.
In case thingys don't go smoothly initially for China + PLA agz the US-Allies over in NE Asia/ECS + SCS.
THe ABOVE IS CALLED BEING MILPOL "DIALECTIC/
DIALECTICAL", + is why the US is wrong to presume that no more major or protractive wars will ever be fought again.
[Sowetan] "I am not British, I am not a colonial product because I am a complete Zimbabwean," he told graduates at Great Zimbabwe University near the remains of the 13th Century walled city, for which Zimbabwe, the former colony of Rhodesia, is named. Someone, please fetch me my matching diamond studded flywhisks with the Royal Doulton Periwinkle pattern.
Two explosions targeting the Iranian embassy hit the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, security sources said, killing at least eighteen people and damaging buildings in the embassy compound.
It was not immediately clear whether the ambassador or any diplomatic staff were among the victims. No one at the embassy was reachable by phone.
Live footage from local news channels showed charred bodies on the ground as flames rose from the remains of several vehicles. Aid workers and residents carried away some of the victims on blankets.
It was not immediately clear what caused the blasts. A security source said the blasts were caused by two rockets fired on the area, in the southern part of the city, but a second security source said there was a car bomb explosion. The loss of life is tragic and no decent person bwahaha, bwahaha, bwahaha
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next thing you know people will be violating Iranian embassy sovereignty and taking hostages. When will it end?
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Iran is blaming the Israelis, which is a really poor cheap gratuitous shot.
I would be more inclined to think our "buddies" on whichever side is fighting against Hezbollah in the Syrian "rebellion" are to blame. The Israelis are never quite this heavy handed.
Chickens are starting to come home to roost in the ME.
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subsequent news reports indicate
- deaths will be above 30
- al Q is taking credit for a suicide bomber in the area and warning of more attacks to come
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al Q is taking credit for a suicide bomber in the area and warning of more attacks to come
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“Here’s how it’s going to work,” Biden gushed in a Sept. 29 op-ed.
“Starting Tuesday, you can go to HealthCare.gov, where you’ll be able to comparison shop for health insurance plans. It’s simple… Pick the option that works best for you, sign up, and you’re done,” he wrote.
“It used to be that buying insurance was a nightmare… After Tuesday, it’ll never be that way again,” he declared.
And Joe was right! It became a non-stop, never ending, mega-disaster, not just a nightmare.
I hope someone has bookmarked that quote for 2015, if he starts to run for O's spot.
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When is that delayed employer mandate going to kick in?
We've seen what the individual mandate did to individuals. Let's see what the employer mandate will do to employers....and the employed.
How much will premiums go up? And, the big one to me, how much will deductibles go up?
Oh yeah, how many doctors will get cut from networks?
I fear that the explosion coming next year will make this years disturbance look like a damp fire-cracker.
[Politico] A federal judge has refused Attorney General Eric Holder's request that he be allowed to proceed now with an appeal in a case where the House of Representatives is seeking to enforce subpoenas for documents related to the controversial Operation F&F gun investigation.
In a ruling Monday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson said her September 30 ruling rejecting Holder's request to dismiss the lawsuit was not such a close call that it deserved immediate review from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
"While the Court agrees with defendantÂ’s characterization of the matter as significant, that is not the test," Jackson wrote in her new four-page decision posted here.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Twenty hours after Mr. Obama's depressing presser, 39 Democrats joined Republicans to support the "Keep Your Health Plan Act of 2013." And just like that, No. 44 became a lame duck, eviscerated and emasculated. The shutdown? Ancient history. The fractured Republican Party? Gone with the wind.
Instead, the headlines are suddenly focused on dissension in the Democratic Party, in Mr. Obama's Cabinet, and in Congress, where lawmakers are running for cover over Obamacare, abandoning the party's standard-bearer to save their own political skins. In the blink of an eye, Mr. Obama's approval rating plunged to 39 percent -- exactly where George W. Bush found himself after weeks of dire Katrina coverage.
"When you take a look at history, when presidents in their second terms drop on credibility, trust and approval, they never come back from that," former Bush campaign strategist Matthew Dowd said last week. "When we look back three years from now at the end of his presidency, we're going to all say this was the tipping point of his relevancy."
And the president knows it. In his funereal news conference, he sought to once again sow division and dissension -- his go-to M.O. In a desperate gambit, he suggested that insurers re-offer the plans they have been canceling because of Obamacare. The intent: If Americans pay more for health care under his program now, it's not his fault -- it's those heartless insurance companies! He hopes the discord will help in 2014.
But deep down, he knows it won't. And by Sunday, the president was back on the golf course, in a thick fog, on a cold and drizzly day. This time, though, the outing didn't have the aura of a powerful man taking a break from his powerful post.
Instead, it felt more like a newly retired guy just looking to get out of the house for a bit.
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And by Sunday, the president was back on the golf course, in a thick fog, on a cold and drizzly day.>
As we have instructed here on the Burg. For best taxpayer results, a daily regimen. Nine before noon, a two hour lunch & nap, then another 9 following. Lots of smoke breaks in between.
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...and the difference between that an Biden being in the seat is? Joe's smart enough to know not to touch a third rail. Reid has about as much power that the rules of the Senate allow and yet not too much to tempt a coup by some other Senator (its an old Roman tradition).
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His failure to go to Gettysburg indicates that he is afraid of the reception he will receive. Look for more and more of his "public" appearances to be before controlled audiences. He may become known as the education president because the only group he could speak to was union teachers.
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His reading of the Gettysburg Address was horrible. It reminded me of some of the readers at church haven't bothered to read the material beforehand, seemingly emphasizing words at random. I thought he was supposed to be a great orator. Not so much.
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I woke up in the middle of the night with a Captain Obvious moment. Perhaps on the anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination, my conspiracy theorist credentials are working in high gear.
Various agencies of the federal government, not normally connected with law enforcement, guns, bullets and bombs have been purchasing weapons, ammunition, and equipment by the truck load.
Obama has been purging the ranks of our General Officer corps of anyone not a true believer
While I believe in Heinlein's Law ("Never attribute to malice that which could be more easily explained by stupidity"), no one in the inner circle of true believers surrounding Obama is THAT stupid and our foreign policy is just BEGGING for some catastrophic event to occur.
NSA is tracking everyone of us in email, websites, bank transactions, cell phones, heck I think they even have my fleet of stealth carrier pigeons wired.
Taken in isolation, all of this odd and near keystone cop behavior by our government is symptomatic of an administration in self destruct sequence and counting.
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I have to admit having thoughts along the same line as Bill's; but mine switch gears when you get to the part about where Obama "...orders his sycophant generals out into the streets with their troops ..." At that point, my thoughts go more to ; the general may order but the trops will not act; and in fact may turn their weapons into another direction.
But I do not rule out Barry doing something world class stupid to (tyr to) save his own sorry ass.
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Bill, USN Ret. and Bobby, do not assume that US troops will not fire on US Citizens. It has happened before (and no, I don't mean the Kent State shootings).
On the other hand, there are reports that Obama has been asking the military brass if they are willing to shoot US citizens if ordered.
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Gettuysburg is not a haooy memory for the Democrats
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Iff one believes that the Bammer is an anti-US Marxist-Anarchist-Globalists whom sees only opportunity in a deadlocked US Congress to continually wreak Systemic, anti-Establishment + anti-Sovereign-Constitutional-Electoral National, Geopol havoc wid his POTUS-led EXECUTIVE PRIVELEGE/ACTION AUTHORITY, THEN ONE SHOULD BELIEVE THAT OBAMA HAS A VERY LONG WAY TO GO YET BEFORE HE'S ACTUALLY FINISHED.
Lest we fergit, OWG "GLOBALISM" = Smaller or lessor Nation-States are risen up to share International or Global burdens or obligations, etc. IN [imperfect = rough?] PARITY WID GREAT POWERS, NOT FROM THEIR HISTORICAL OR TRADITIONAL POSITION(S) OF INFERIORITY = WEAKNESS.
The scope of the above means or infers that the US must voluntarily or forcibly lose something(s) that it normally wouldn't iff it had a choice.
AS A GOOD POLITICIAN, THE JOB OF THE BAMMER + OTHER ALIGNED, ETAL. IS SEE THAT THE US "LOSES" OR "GIVES UP" ITS "SOLE" SUPERPOWER POWER-N-INFLUENCE/AUTHORITY WID THE FULL SUPPORT + BACKING OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION.
* E.g. CHINA-VS-JAPAN/PHIL/INDIA, ETC. = the Bad Econ, Sequester, Shutdown + post-Shutdown,
....@etc. US can't intervene in moral or treaty obligation to its overseas Allies because it can no longer econ or $$$ afford to do so. In addition, its not in the US interest to risk fighting either a major Conventional War andor a major Nuclear War in East Asia-Pacific agz China.
OBAMA US of AMERIKA = 1945 PRE-SURRENDER EMPEROR HIROHITO = AMERIKA [Post-Hiroshima, Nagasaki Japan] "MUST ACCEPT THE UNACCEPTABLE, BEAR THE UNBEARABLE, TOLERATE THE INTOLERABLE" ... ... IN THE NAME OF PEACE + COUNTRY'S FUTURE.
POTUS BAMMER = ONE HELLUVA LOUSY PRO-US NATIONALIST, SOVEREIGNTYIST, + AMERICAN, BUT ONE HELLUVA OUTSTANDING ANTI-AMERICAN, ANTI-SOVEREIGNTY, GLOBALIST AMERIKAN!
D *** NG IT, ... AND DON'T YOUSE EVER E-V-A-R! FORGET WHAT WE NEVER TOLD YOU!
[Pak Daily Times] Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali pulled another rabbit out of his hat of 'tricks' to announce in a presser on Sunday that ex-president General (retd) Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... would be tried for treason under Article 6 for the Emergency he clamped on the country on November 3, 2007. For this purpose, the government would have recourse to the Supreme Court (SC) with a request to set up a trial court (not a 'commission' as the minister erroneously said) comprising judges of the high courts. The government also committed to appointing a special prosecutor to conduct the trial. On Monday, the Ministry of Interior reportedly sent a letter to the Ministry of Law to implement the government's decision. These moves followed the receipt by the government of the investigation by the FIA into the matter, a report Chaudhry Nisar said would be submitted to the SC along with its application.
The announcement set off a virtual storm of comment and speculation as to the procedure adopted by the government and its intent. Some rejected the path being taken as unconstitutional, unnecessary, an attempted distraction from the fraught sectarian situation in Rawalpindi and elsewhere in the country, and an attempt to shift the responsibility from the executive (where it belongs) to the judiciary to avoid any adverse fallout from the military.
There were also questions raised about why only the November 3, 2007 Emergency charge was to be pursued and not the (arguably more serious) October 12, 1999 coup in which an elected government was tossed. To the response to this by some circles that the coup was endorsed by parliament and therefore was a closed matter, the objection could legitimately be raised that a parliament packed with the King's Party and Musharraf's political collaborators lacked the inherent legitimacy to provide immunity on the treason charge to the coup maker, apart from such an endorsement falling foul of the constitution.
While Musharraf's front man expectedly trashed the move as vengeful (denied at some length by Chaudhry Nisar earlier), a distraction, and likely to annoy the military, at the time of writing these lines an interesting development was expected in the Sindh High Court (SHC), which had ordered the institution of a treason charge on Musharraf, and where the latter's application for his name to be taken off the Exit Control List (ECL) was up for hearing on Monday. A contempt of court petition had also been filed against the prime minister and the government for their failure to implement the SHC's order to file a treason case against the ex-dictator.
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Speechless I am. On yesterday's news, however... disregard this evil verse, for I was surely possessed by a Shaitan.
Forty-eight million Pakistanis do without a loo
Allah's mercy provides a spot for every one to poo
A modest shepherdess of Swat whose years were very few
When nature called in random spots would duck behind a ewe.
Outside the imambargha gate, the imam took his cue:
"Inshallah, some Sunni dog will wear this on his shoe!"
On a Karachi cricket pitch, the ball the bowler threw
Escaped the bat, which struck a turd -- good heavens, how it flew!
The Generals at the big parade, as troops passed in review,
Upheld their salutes, undid their belts, and squatted in situ.
The soldiers, not to be outdone, and all to the drums' tattoo,
With stony faces, halted, shat, and wiped their mates' wazoo.
The President asked, "Ambassador, however do you do?"
"Does protocol permit a shit right here in public view?"
His Exellency didn't know, but one thing's not at issue:
Though short of loos, these Muslims pure don't lack for toilet tissue.
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Just to clarify: Not that I did vote for him. I should have said: Strangely, I was having trouble thinking of any reasons why anyone would have voted for him.
[Pak Daily Times] Pakistain People's Party (PPP) Patron-in-chief Bilawal Baby Bhutto Zardari ...Pak dynastic politician, son of Benazir Bhutto and grandon of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. As far as is known, Bilawal has no particular talents other than being pretty and being able to memorize political slogans, but he had the good luck to be born into the right family and he hasn't been assassinated yet... has asked the government to launch a crackdown on "hatemongering elements" and invoke the concerned laws to curb hate speeches, hate crimes and incitement to violence before the violence spreads in other parts of the country.
Condemning the violence in Kohat and elsewhere, Bilawal said, "Hatemongers have started operations to sow the seeds of hatred and fuel the fire thus every citizen of Pakistain should play their role and defeat the followers of Goebbels in sectarian colours."
"If hate speech, hate crimes and incitement to violence laws are not implemented across the board, authorities will be held responsible for the spread of violence."
The PPP leader said bully boyz "want us to fight against ourselves" and the spate of current infighting seems to have served the agenda of krazed killers. "They want to divide us and hate each other but we won't let them succeed," he pledged. "My prime minister should do what he was elected to do. He should return to the country and lead the nation with a strong message of unity. Opposition will support him."
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why do muslim countries hate freedom of religion?
[Libya Herald] The head of the military intelligence in Ajilat, Yusef Abdennabi Al-Atrash, was rubbed out yesterday evening. centre. Two which of his colleagues were also injured in the attack which occurred at his office in the town around 9 pm.
Azem Shalgham, a close friend of the murdered man, told the Libya Herald that Atrash had received several death threats recently. Two weeks ago, he said, the intelligence chief's office had been attacked.
"He was locked away I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! by Qadaffy and he actively participated in the Libyan Revolution," Shalgham explained. Prior to become head of military intelligence, Atrash was head of Ajiat Military Council.
An official funeral took place in Ajilat this afternoon.
It is the first time that an official has been assassinated in the town.
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[Pak Daily Times] After the killing of Hakeemullah Mehsud in a drone strike, a council of Taliban leaders belonging to different tribal agencies and parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... (KP) selected Mullah Fazlullah ...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan... as the head of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP). By elevating Fazlullah to the top position, the TTP has not only marked a break with its past but it has also sent signals that bode ill for peace in Pakistain and beyond its borders too.
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Former President George W. Bush said building the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline is a "no-brainer" for economic growth.
"I think the goal of the country ought to be, 'How do we grow the private sector?' " Bush said at a Pittsburgh luncheon with energy executives, according to DeSmog Blog.
"If private-sector growth is the goal and Keystone pipeline creates 20,000 new private-sector jobs, build the damn thing," Bush said.
The State Department says the proposed Canada-to-Texas pipeline would create 42,100 direct and indirect positions -- about 3,900 of them being construction jobs -- during the two-year construction phase. The agency says it would contribute 35 permanent jobs after construction.
President B.O., who has questioned Keystone's jobs potential, has said he won't approve the pipeline if it "significantly exacerbates" carbon emissions.
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"I think the goal of the country ought to be, 'How do we grow the private sector?' "
Strangely opposite of the current regime I might add.
[Pak Daily Times] The Interior Ministry has formed a committee, headed by a Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) assistant director general (ADG), over the Supreme Court's directives to probe alleged funding of politicians by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
The four-member committee was formed on Monday, following Asghar Khan's allegations about ISI's funding of politicians. The committee will be chaired by FIA ADG Muhammad Ghalib Bandeesha, and comprises three director-level officials, including Qudratullah Khan, Najaf Kalli Mir and Dr Usman Anwar. The committee would begin its regular investigations from today (Tuesday) and submit its final report to the Interior Ministry. ISI's former DG Mehmood Durrani had last year told the SC that funds were distributed among politicians upon directives of Aiwan-e-Sadr cell head Ajlal Haidar Zaidi.
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[An Nahar] South Sudan said Monday that it "deeply regrets" dozens of cases of harassment and threats against United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... staff by its army and police.
The government of the world's youngest country has faced pressure from the U.N. Security Council and the United States over beatings of U.N. staff and other incidents in recent months.
U.N. leader the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... complained in a report last week of 67 cases of "harassment, threats, physical assault, arrest and detention of United Nations staff" and seizure of U.N. vehicles between May 7 and November 5.
In one case on October 19, a female U.N. staff member was "severely beaten" in the capital, Juba, and then placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! following "a traffic encounter with a military pickup carrying armed uniformed men," said Ban's report.
Diplomats said the case involved a convoy of South Sudan's president, Salva Kiir.
"We deeply regret both the character and the number of incidents that have occurred," South Sudan's U.N. Ambassador Francis Deng told a Security Council meeting on his country.
"The government is seriously committed to ending these violations. Orders have indeed been given toward that end and to hold those responsible accountable," Deng said, adding that the country's young army needed more training and "sensitization."
The United States approached South Sudan's U.N. mission last week and China made a similar complaint on behalf of the Security Council.
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[Pak Daily Times] Seven schoolchildren were killed and three maimed by a roadside kaboom in southeastern Afghanistan on Monday, an official said. The bomb was planted on the side of a main road in the Khairkot district of Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province, and went kaboom! when the children stepped on it while playing. "This afternoon as a result of the mine kaboom in Khairkot, seven children from one family bit the dust," provincial front man Mokhlis Afghan told AFP. He said they were aged 7-12 and were in elementary school. The injured children were taken to a hospital. No one has yet grabbed credit for the incident, but roadside kabooms are the Taliban's weapon of choice in their 12-year war against US-led and Afghan cops.
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Adele's latest film, "Strippers vs. Werewolves" sounds like a timeless classic of good taste.
Al
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I think we can pass on the Birthday Gam Shot for Larry King, mmmmkay?
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Had to look that up...
Strippers vs Werewolves is a 2012 comedy-horror film directed by Jonathan Glendening.
In its first week of release in the UK, the film took a total of £38 at the box office.
When Mickey, the member of a werewolf gang is accidentally killed in a strip club, the girls who work there have until the next full moon before his bloodthirsty wolfpack seek murderous retribution.
The JI reserves the right to initiate legal proceedings against the anchorperson, Paracha said.
In a rejoinder issued on Monday, the JI leader said that "so called intellectuals are trying to create unrest and anarchy in the country to fulfil foreign agenda".
He said the JI's struggle for restoration of democracy was a matter of record and it had offered huge sacrifices against dictatorial rule.
Paracha said that Najam Sethi was "out of his senses most of the time" and did not know what he was saying.
He added that it was the Pakistain National Alliance (PNA) and not the JI which had joined Zia ul Haq's government and "therefore blaming JI alone for joining Zia ul Haq is a clear act of dishonesty".
He also pointed out that during Zia ul Haq rule, the JI had suffered the most as the party mayor of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... was unlawfully removed and JI student's wing, Islami Jamait-e-Talaba, was penalised the most.
Paracha said that the JI had repeatedly denied having receiving funds from the ISI. He said Najam Sethi's allegations that former JI leader Qazi Hussain Ahmad ... third president (1987--2009) of the PakJamaat-e-Islami. Qazi was also head of the Muttahidah Majlis-e-Amal until his ego became bigger than the organization. Qazi is what is known as a fiery preacher, which means he has lots of volume, a good delivery, and not a lot of reverence for coherence. He was the patron of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Rasool Sayyaf and Osama bin Laden during the war against the Soviets. He used to recommend drinking camel's urine to maintain good health before his kidneys started to go... had confessed to receiving ISI funds were "frivolous and concocted".
"In fact, Qazi sahib himself had filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging this allegation."
He said the JI had challenged political parties to produce any proof in this regard but no such evidence was ever produced before the court.
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... told a climate change conference in Poland Monday that global warming is the biggest challenge to the world.
"Fulfilling our responsibility to the future inhabitants of our planet is an ambitious goal, yes, but there isn't a more important one out there right now," he said in a video shown at the conference.
Kerry also urged immediate action by world leaders to curb emissions. Climate change, he said, "is happening now."
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Climate change is always happening. Just watch your wallet when Kerry starts banging the pans. Nice little diversion it is. Just ask what's his name....oh, yes, Al Gore.
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Jawn is a fool who dances on whatever string Zero and VJ pull.
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Hmmm...humans have been dealing with climate change for several 10s of thousands of years. Since the retreat of the last big ice age, humans have expanded their territorial adaptivity from the arctic to the equator, from mountain ranges to deserts, from vast continents to isolated islands. Seems we don't need much in the way of 'governmental' solutions, particularly from a group that has no problem with surrendering sovereign borders. Or does that just apply to the US?
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Any kind of nonsense to get Obamacare off the front page.
I look for us to bomb Iran next...a good war will make up for Obamacare...how's about driving up and down the streets throwing money and bread at the homeless...Caligula did that.
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..ah...'Bill Clinton' mentioning Caligula. Heh. O has far more in common with Nero, another grand narcissus. I'm not looking forward to the 'year of the four emperors' coming up next in the currents and tides of repetitive human behaviors.
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I'm not looking forward to the 'year of the four emperors'
Me either Procopius2k but, it is better than the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
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O.K. I agree with "remoteman" from another thread. Kerry is as big a fool as Susan Rice if he is pushing climate change. The world's biggest threat is the present regime.
[BREITBART] Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was caught on video Monday bum-rushing a female Councillor as the council voted to strip the admitted crack smoker of most of his mayoral powers. After admitting to smoking crack and drinking excessively, the embattled mayor had hoped his 44% approval rating might keep him in office.
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Whoa, "Carlos Danger" moved to Canada + changed his Name - who knew???
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Looked to me like he ran her down on his way to attack someone else. Because after her knocked her over, he caught her and helped her stand up again.
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[Pak Daily Times] Egyptian authorities blamed Islamist Death Eaters for the high-profile shooting death of an Interior Ministry lieutenant colonel, heightening security fears on Monday in a country on the edge with mass protests looming.
Police and army sealed off Cairo's Tahrir Square on the eve of a planned major rally to commemorate bloody festivities two years ago between demonstrators and security forces on nearby Mohammed Mahmoud Street. Security forces killed 42 people opposed to the military council ruling Egypt at the time.
[MEDIAITE] Meet the Press host David Gregory played for House Minority Leader Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace... her now-infamous statement on the Affordable Care Act that "We have to pass the bill to find out what's in it," and asked if the alleged hurry to pass health care reform in 2009-2010 had led to the current quagmire over its rollout.
"Isn't that really the problem, as you look back on it?" Gregory said. "That there was such a rush to get this done--no Republicans voting for it--and now there are unintended effects of this that were foreseen at the time, that you couldn't know the impact of, and that now this is coming home to roost?"
"I stand by what I said there: when people see what's in the bill, they will like it, and they will," Pelosi said. "It took a great deal for us to pass the bill. I said, if we go up to the gate and the gate is locked, we'll unlock the gate. If we can't do that we'll climb the fence. If the fence is too high, we'll pole vault in. We had to pass the test of the courts, and we did."
"This was never thought to be easy," Pelosi continued. "It doesn't matter what we're saying here. What matters is what happens at the kitchen table of the American people, and how they will more affordability, more accessibility, better quality care, prevention, wellness, and a healthier nation."
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Baghdad Bobette.
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I always thought of her as Mrs. Skeletor myself.
And what Mrs. Skeletor isn't saying is that at the time Americans around the dinner table were yelling 'NO!' - and they still are. But in plain ole liberal fashion she insists she knows what's good for us better than we do.
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Winston Churchill once said "Facts to a liberal are like garlic to a vampire."
Never argue with a true believer of an irrational idea. As long as you remain rational in the argument you will, to the true believer lose the argument and thus validate their irrational idea.
What do you suppose they are saying about ObamaCare and San Fran Nan in the SF Comical and the MSM 6 pm news up there in that liberal pesthole?
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What do you suppose they are saying about ObamaCare and San Fran Nan in the SF Comical and the MSM
Don't know about S.F., but last night in Seattle CNN was drooling over the Dems, 2016, Hillary and Obamacare as if those were the greatest things to come down the road since sliced bread. Surprisingly, all the chairs in front of the monitor ( at the airport) were empty. i was close by only to charge my phone before flying away.
And couldn't turn the volume down.
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Having CNN on at the airport is like walking into the dentist's office and the only table rag is a sports mag back from August, talking about how the Cinci Reds are going to run away with the World Series.
[An Nahar] The United States will keep two Patriot missile batteries in Turkey for another year to help bolster the country's air defenses against threats from Syria's civil war, the Pentagon said Monday.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu of Washington's decision in talks at the Pentagon that focused on the conflict in Syria, a front man said.
Hagel "conveyed to Minister Davutoglu that the United States has decided to continue its contribution of two Patriot batteries under NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... command and control for up to one additional year," Pentagon front man Carl Woog said in a statement.
Turkey had made a formal request to NATO to extend the deployment of the surface-to-air Patriot missiles, which are designed to counter aircraft and short-range missiles.
The United States, the Netherlands and Germany have provided a total of six Patriots along the Turkish border with Syria.
Turkey was once an ally of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... but now backs the opposition fighting to topple the embattled leader.
At Monday's talks, Hagel and Davutoglu also discussed "the imperative to eliminate the regime's chemical weapons and achieve a political transition" in Syria, Woog said.
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[An Nahar] U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... on Monday declared that a nearly 200-year-old policy which had governed Washington's relations with Latin America was finally dead.
Known as the Monroe Doctrine after it was adopted in 1823 by former U.S. president James Monroe, the policy had stated that any efforts by European countries to colonize land in North or South America would be views as aggressive acts and could require U.S. intervention.
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Its not clear at this time iff Brazil or a Brazil Argentina bloc can come to control or dominate the post/extra-Mercusor, future OWG South American Global Fed Union.
The Falklands are still British, + AFAIK Brasilia' thus far hasn't done anything to stop or hinder Iran + Hezbollah from penetrating into the lower Americas.
D *** NG IT, PAULA "DELILAH/BATHSHEBA" ABDUL, YA SEE WHAT HAPPENED AFTER YOU KICKED THE COCONUT - DADDY-O ALMOST HAD A HEART ATTACK + THE MONROE DOCTRINE COLLAPSED - I'M TELLING MOM!
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As there is no chance of a European country "colonizing" parts of Latin America anymore this is really a moot point. There has not been any real point to this for many years. Now, if we want to apply similar conditions on increasing economic and political clout from "ferners" like China, Iran, Russia et. al. then that's another pigmented horse.
This seems to me to be just another squirrel from the lamest regime ever as it attempts to destroy the US.
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I think the Monroe Doctrine might have come into play when the Soviets were supporting Castro. Might be applicable now if the Chinese get too heavily involved in the Panama Canal. I see no reason to publicly abandon it unless the goal is to project weakness.
[Pak Daily Times] Up to 12,000 Afghan Taliban fighters have been killed, maimed or captured this year, according to a UN report, which said violence in the wartorn nation was at a three-year high.
Hurrah!
US-led NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... forces are to withdraw the bulk of their 75,000 troops from Afghanistan by the end of next year after 13 years fighting the Taliban.
The paper for the UN Security Council warned that the bad boys' homemade bombs, which accounted for 80 percent of casualties among Afghan cops, were becoming increasingly sophisticated.
A particular concern was Afghanistan's developing mining industry, which uses large quantities of high explosives and detonating equipment.
The report warned that the Afghan authorities must strengthen regulatory measures to stop these explosives falling into the hands of the bad boys.
Afghan tribal elders are to meet for a grand assembly or "loya jigra" on Thursday to decide on the future of US troops in the country after 2014.
A similar deal between the US and Iraq collapsed, leading to a complete pullout of American forces and there are fears a repeat in Afghanistan could lead to chaos and violence if local forces are unable to cope with the Taliban.
The UN report said the government of 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... was facing "elevated levels of violence not seen since 2010".
Despite this, the report said, the Taliban had not made major gains or won significant popular support, and had suffered substantial losses.
"Losses on the bad boy side are difficult to estimate, but government sources and Taliban internal statistics alike estimate them at between 10,000 and 12,000," the report said.
A UN official clarified that "losses" include killed, maimed and captured Taliban. There was no independent confirmation of the figures and NATO does not give casualty counts for the Taliban.
Afghanistan has substantial mineral deposits -- up to $1 trillion worth according to a US survey -- and this wealth is seen as key to the country's prosperity after more than 30 years of war.
The report, submitted to the UN Security Council's committee on sanctions, called for a better regulatory framework for mining explosives and detonators to stop them being misused by the Taliban.
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How do you tell the difference from a Afghan and Pak Talibunny? On which side of the border they croak?
[An Nahar] Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... leader Samir Geagea ... Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005 ... noted on Monday that Leb's constitution and National Pact make no reference to resistance movements.
He declared during a presser: "The lack of reference renders Hizbullah an unconstitutional and illegitimate gang and we will never recognize its legitimacy."
"It is not a resistance, but an organized gang that does not abide by the law," he added.
"I challenge anyone to prove to me where the National Pact makes a reference to a resistance movement in Leb," he continued.
"Anyone who claims otherwise is altering historic facts and treaties," he stated.
Moreover, Geagea said that Hizbullah's actions over the past eight years had not served Leb, but only itself and Iran.
He refuted claims by Hizbullah members that they seek partnership with other Lebanese factions, saying that the party had disregarded and is still disregarding the country's interests by fighting in Syria alongside the Syrian regime.
Commenting on Hizbullah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... 's recent remarks that the party does not need the support of all Lebanese parties, Geagea asked: "What then is left of the Lebanese people's ties among each other? This party exists in Leb and anything it does will affect all of us, so why shouldn't it need our support?"
"Nasrallah has not been officially tasked by anyone to administer Leb's strategic affairs," he continued.
In addition, the LF leader said that over the past eight years, Hizbullah has acted as an illegitimate gang, not a resistance, giving the example of the events of May 7, 2008, among others.
"Hizbullah's illegitimate actions have led to lawlessness in Leb where several regions are not subject to the law," he said.
"Hizbullah has been linked to terrorist activities abroad, such as Bulgaria and Thailand. Are these acts of a resistance or an illegitimate gang?" he wondered.
"Leb can no longer exist as a state and it can never enjoy any peace and prosperity as long as Hizbullah continues to conduct itself as it is," he stressed.
Addressing Nasrallah's remarks on the Syrian crisis, Geagea said: "It is unacceptable for him to alter historic facts linked to the unrest."
"He is trying to make the people believe that the Syrian regime, which is the example of innocence, is being attacked by the United States, other countries, and takfir ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... is. This vision of the Syrian conflict is very far from the truth," he added.
"It is unacceptable for Nasrallah to alter historic facts to suit his interests," he stated.
"Poisoning the people's thoughts is more dangerous than bombings that had taken place in Leb in recent months and he should not undermine the people's intelligence," he declared.
Turning to some Lebanese powers that are fearful over the fate of Christians in the East, Geagea said: "It is very unfortunate that some sides are exploiting this issue for the sake of the Syrian regime."
"Some sides are portraying the conflict in Syria as being that of the regime against takfiris, while completely disregarding the Syrian people," he remarked in an indirect reference to Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... MP Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... .
"These sides have forgotten the fate of former Presidents Bashir Gemayel and Rene Mouawad and other figures who have been assassinated," he added.
Addressing the dispute over the formation of a new government, the LF leader suggested the formation of a cabinet that does not include the March 8 and 14 camps because they are in disagreement over all pending issues.
A government that includes both of these sides will render it ineffective because their disputes will cripple it, he explained.
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[THESTAR] An unprecedented council meeting descended temporarily into chaos on Monday, when Mayor Rob Ford and Councillor Doug Ford got into a screaming match with spectators.
The dispute was ignited about two hours into the meeting, when Ford rose from his seat and walked toward the back of chambers with a member of his staff, who appeared to be filming members of the public seated there.
While some spectators expressed their support, others chanted: "Shame! Shame! Shame!"
Doug Ford got into a stand off with one man, calling him a "punk." The councillor, who earlier accused the members of the public gathered for the meeting of being union supporters, told the crowd, "Why don't we get the real people of Toronto here?"
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Saw a little film clip this morning where Rob rushed toward the front of the room, barreling right over an old lady.
He did help her back to her feet...
Unfortunately, he makes the US gubbamint look good by comparison.
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We'll all laugh until this poor fellow shows up at a council meeting with a pistol. He needs serious help.
[Pak Daily Times] Two alleged members of a banned outfit were killed during an encounter with law enforcers in a bid to recover the kidnapped trader on Monday.
Police and Rangers conducted a joint raid at the kidnappers' hideout in Qaimkhani Colony in Baldia Town, and as the law enforcers reached the spot, they opened fired. In retaliation, two alleged kidnappers were killed while an kidnapped trader was safely recovered.
The 40-year-old Amanullah, who used to run a medical store near his residence and was also associated with the transport business, was kidnapped from his residence in Bilal Colony area of Korangi Industrial Area on October 25. The kidnappers made a demand of Rs 25 million as ransom, while the family was warned of dire consequences if the demands were not met. After long negotiations, a settlement was reached on Rs 6 million.
The CPLC was in touch with the family to trace the kidnappers' hideout.
The kidnappers called the trader's family to collect ransom money on Monday evening; however, the law enforcers managed to intervene before that.
According to Rangers spokesperson, the dear departed kidnappers were affiliated with a banned outfit and were identified as Shah Bakht and Akbar Khan. Their bodies were shifted to the Edhi morgue after medico-legal formalities completed at the Civil Hospital, Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... . A .222 rifle and a pistol were also recovered from deceased kidnappers' possession.
Separately, an alleged extortionist, Riazuddin aka Rajuddin alias Bholu Qureshi, was killed in an "encounter" with the police. According to officials of the Special Investigation Unit chief SP Farooq Awan, SIU team on a tip-off conducted a raid at the said place.
Bholu along with his lover companion was on his way to Hub on a cycle of violence and was passing through the Northern Bypass, where the encounter took place, resulting in Riazuddin getting killed while his lover companion managed to escape from the scene.
According to the police, Bholu was wanted to the police in more than 50 cases of crime including extortion, murders and kidnapping for ransom. "He hailed from the Qureshi community and several of family members including his nephews were his gang members," said SP Awan. "He killed around half a dozen people of his community over non-payment of extortion money and also kidnapped several others in this regard."
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[Al Ahram] Mauritanian police on Monday crushed a protest by hundreds of youths demanding a boycott of upcoming elections, wounding several.
An AFP news hound saw police beat the activists and spray them with tear gas as they waved placards and rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud outside the offices of the election commission in the capital Nouakchott, calling for a boycott of Saturday's parliamentary and local elections.
"The police violently attacked the demonstrators despite the peaceful nature of their movement, using tear gas and batons," said Idoumou Ould Mohammed Lemine, front man for the Coordination of Democratic Opposition (COD) that organised the protest.
"Many people, mostly women, were maimed and transported to hospitals in Nouakchott," he added, condemning "these acts of violence which are contrary to democracy and the free expression that the government prides itself on".
The injuries appeared to be minor, according to the AFP journalist at the scene.
Mauritania, a mainly Musselmen republic and a former French colony, is seen by Western leaders as strategically important in the fight against Al-Qaeda-linked groups within its own borders, in neighbouring Mali and across Africa's Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... .
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[Pak Daily Times] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... on Monday invited foreign investment in the upcoming spectrum auction for next generation mobile services (3G) and establishment of technology parks.
"We invite foreign companies to be our partners in harnessing the rich potential of our country that is open for business and keen on working with international investors," the prime minister said in his key-note address at the Connect Asia Pacific Summit 2013, which began in Bangkok on Monday morning. Prime Minister Nawaz said the government of Pakistain was committed to accelerated digitisation of the country to enable socio-economic development, creating a knowledge-based economy and promoting economic growth.
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"we're relatively safer than Venezuela!"
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It's crazy I know Frank... but if you have any racehorse money, Vz bonds nearing maturity are interesting.
Of course, now if I had racehorse money I'd buy, well um a racehorse.
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LOL usually that's what it means. But the damn things are yielding near 16% and their payment record is pretty good.... well except for the Sincor um... deferment.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Sen. Bernard Sanders, Vermont independent, says anybody who really wants to be president is "slightly crazy" -- but that he would be open to a run in 2016 if a suitably progressive candidate does not emerge.
"Under normal times, it's fine, you have a moderate Democrat running, a moderate Republican running," Mr. Sanders told the Burlington Free Press. "These are not normal times. The United States right now is in the middle of a severe crisis and you have to call it what it is."
Mr. Sanders told the paper he probably would run as an independent -- he currently caucuses with Democrats -- but that he would be at an immediate disadvantage because he wouldn't be getting any money from Wall Street or corporate America.
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"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist
program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."
- Norman Mattoon Thomas
[Pak Daily Times] The PML-N government has decided to try Parvez Musharraf for imposing Emergency in November 2007, thereby ignoring the ones who took over the country through military takeovers.
A press statement was issued on Monday.
He said the aim and purpose of Article 6 was to stop unconstitutional takeovers, and the 18th Amendment to the Constitution made abetment and validation of takeovers acts of high treason as well. "It is obvious that the current development of trying Musharraf for treason is a tactic to divert public attention from the meticulously planned sectarian killings," said the statement. "These killings themselves were an attempt to unleash mad religious frenzy to divide the working classes who are protesting on serious issues like inflation, unemployment and unconstitutional privatisation."
Trial of Musharraf for the military takeover of October 12, 1999 would have exposed the back channel diplomacy between the military, 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... and foreign countries, said the statement.
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[Al Ahram] Small group of protesters take over monument-under-construction to slain revolutionaries in Tahrir Square, and chant slogans against the military, Mubarak supporters and the Moslem Brüderbund
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[An Nahar] Gunmen ambushed and killed eight coppers on Monday near a gas terminal in southern Yemen, a security official told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The attack took place as the officers were driving to a security checkpoint near the Balhaf terminal, in the southern province of Shabwa, the official said.
"Armed men in two cars opened fire on the coppers, killing them on the spot," he said. He was unable to identify the assailants or explain their motives.
Earlier Monday, a special forces officer was kidnapped by gunnies northeast of Balhaf, and his body was later found to the west. He had been shot three times.
The corpse was found not far from where the eight coppers were killed, another security source said.
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[Pak Daily Times] The district health authorities on Monday postponed the anti-polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... drive in the city and Cantonment areas, keeping in view the situation emerged after the Raja Bazaar tragedy.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... the five-day campaign scheduled to start from November 18, would continue in the remaining parts of the district.
Talking to APP, District Health Officer Dr Javaid Hayat said the drive was still on in all tehsils.
He expressed the confidence that the health teams would commence the anti-polio drive in Rawalpindi and Cantonment areas by tomorrow (Wednesday).
He said the health officials had been directed to remain vigilant, particularly in areas where polio virus was found during last year's campaign. He said that all possible steps had been taken by the Health Department to make the campaign a success.
Javaid said that as many as 1,365 mobile teams had been constituted for the door-to door vaccination of children. "Besides, 350 special centres have been set up to facilitate parents so that their children can be vaccinated in nearby areas."
To a question, he said that sufficient quantity of vaccine was available, and that no stone would be left unturned in efforts to make the campaign a success.
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They Murder Polio workers, let their children die.
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[The Hindu] The suspected sympathisers of the banned outfit, Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), who were enjugged Please don't kill me! in Chhattisgarh for allegedly providing logistical support and shelter to the four Indian Mujahideen A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor... members wanted in connection with the Bihar blasts, had close links with a person arrested in Andhra Pradesh a few months ago for alleged involvement in naxal activities, said the police.
Naxal... Aren't they the Maoist terrorists?
"During interrogation, the accused disclosed that they were in contact with one Mujeeb who was recently arrested at Konta in Andhra Pradesh for his role in naxal operations," said a senior Chhattisgarh police officer on Monday, adding that a National Investigation Agency team was in Raipur to interrogate the suspects.
Among those arrested is Omer Siddiqui (35) who has allegedly been associated with SIMI since 2001.
"He had been raising funds, recruiting people and organising meetings for the outfit. He was in regular touch with those wanted in connection with the Bodh Gaya and Patna blasts, including Hyder Ali. He disclosed that in 2011, he had organised a meeting at a resort near Raipur and it was attended by around 30 people," said the officer, claiming that Omer has been under surveillance for the past two years.
The officer said some phone calls made to Pakistain, allegedly by Omer and his accomplices, are also being examined for clues.
"Their interrogation has revealed yet another startling fact that to raise funds, some of the SIMI activists committed robberies and targeted financial institutions lending loans against gold," said the officer.
Criminal behaviour by jihadis? No, that is not at all startling.
Omer has purportedly disclosed that some of the SIMI activists who recently beat feet from Khandwa jail in Madhya Pradesh had also stayed in the Raipur hideouts earlier.
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...I used to think Bitcoin was a quirky and somewhat positive thing. Now, not so much... Pretty stoopid idea. States are the ones with the heavy artillery. A price on Putin's head could result in those controlling and using the "bitcoin assassination market" being hunted down and rubbed out like the blotches on humanity they are. Some people never think beyond Step 2.
[MIAMIHERALD] A rebel commander who built the most effective faction in northern Syria of the U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army has died of wounds he suffered last week in an Arclight airstrike on a meeting of high-level rebel and opposition figures, his unit announced Monday.
Abdul-Qadir Saleh had been taken to Turkey for treatment of the injuries he'd suffered Thursday when forces loyal to Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... targeted the building where he was meeting with other key rebel leaders outside the contested city of Aleppo. His unit, the Liwa Tahid brigade, initially reported that his injuries weren't serious, but he died shortly after arriving at a medical facility in Gaziantep, Turkey. His body was returned to his hometown in Syria for burial over the weekend, the group said Monday.
Three other high-ranking commanders were killed and the group's political director was maimed, the group said.
Saleh's death was seen as a massive setback for the future of moderate Islamist rebel factions, which have suffered a series of defeats recently at the hands of the Assad government and al Qaeda-affiliated rebel groups with which they've clashed. Widely seen as the U.S.-backed rebellion's most effective military leader, Saleh had a reputation not only for driving his group's battlefield prowess but also for being able to work effectively with the broad range of anti-Assad groups, from Western donors to al Qaeda-inspired Death Eaters.
"The martyr leader Abdul-Qadir Saleh was one of the bravest men of the Syrian revolution," said Salar al Kurdi, a rebel activist from Idlib. "He had an excellent reputation and he was well mannered. It is a loss to us because we lost a gentleman and an honest fighter, someone from whom we never heard any lies or betrayal."
Western officials appeared to agree.
"It's a real blow that probably puts an end to the question of whether there are moderate rebel factions effective enough to do business with," said a Western military attache posted to Beirut, who regularly visits southern Turkey to meet with the rebels. The attache, lacking permission to speak on the record to news hounds, spoke only on the condition of anonymity.
"He was backed by Qatar, at least until recently, and knew how to make Western figures comfortable with his goals for Syria, while at the same time commanding the same sort of battlefield respect from (ordinary) Syrians usually reserved for the more radical factions," the attache said. "The rebels and the West just lost the one commander who might be willing to talk to the regime about a sort of peace and actually be able to deliver some sense of it."
Saleh, who was said to be 33, had worked as a trader and smuggler before the civil war. His skill at organizing factions throughout the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria's largest city and the country's economic capital, helped him become one of the best-known faces of the insurgency and his group became one of its largest, with an estimated 10,000 fighters. He was a charter member of the American-backed Supreme Military Command, a Free Syrian Army umbrella group, but in September he joined with more than a dozen other rebel factions to renounce any ties to the Syrian Opposition Coalition, the civilian group that the United States has declared to be the sole representative of the Syrian people.
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The secretary doesn't agree with Obama's team, especially Susan "the Benghazi attack was a film protest" Rice , on how to deal with Egypt. Unfortunately for Rice, Kerry is the one on the ground--and he's doing things his way.
Before Secretary of State John "I was in Vietnam" Kerry's recent trip to Cairo, National Security Adviser Susan Rice told him to make strong statements in public and private about the trial of deposed President Mohamed Morsi. On his own, Kerry I am not taking orders from that woman
decided to disregard the White House's instructions. Obama or Valerie Jarret?
The tension between the national security adviser and the secretary of state spilled over into public view in the past week, when Rice laid out her critical appraisal of the Egyptian government, which contradicted Kerry's assessment that Egypt was "on the path to democracy." The now public rift has been simmering behind the scenes for months and illustrates the strikingly divergent Egypt policies the White House and the State Department are pursuing.
The turf battles and internal confusion are hampering the administration's approach to Egypt, say lawmakers, experts, and officials inside both governments.
"John Kerry doesn't agree with Susan Rice on big portions of our Egypt policy, and he made a deliberate and conscious decision not to mention Morsi in his Cairo meetings," an administration official told The Daily Beast. "Susan Rice wasn't happy about it." Who is the Secretary of State? Susan Rice or John Kerry? Valerie Jarret is most likely Susan's puppet master.
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One has to figure that the traditional upper crust of Egypt (those with whom Kerry would feel personal affinity) have told Kerry, in no uncertain terms, that the whole Morsi/Broderbund adventure was an unmitigated disaster. Perhaps, and I know that I'm reaching here, even Kerry is smart enough to pick up on their message.
Rice is a fool. She is a bigger fool than Kerry. She is far more easily controlled than Kerry. Rice will, defacto, revert to the "viva la revolution" mindset, thus her shout out for Morsi.
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Secretary of State Jawn F'n Kerry to Not Secretary Of State Susan Rice: "I won"
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Rice is a sycophant of Obama. Although I don't have much respect for Kerry, I doubt that he is a fawning parasite. The WH is sinking. Kerry might be hedging his bets in case there is opportunity down the road.
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All I'm saying is he's got to be stoopid or knows something to buck ValJar.
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All I'm saying is he's got to be stoopid or knows something to buck ValJar. Posted by Deacon Blues
That is my take as well. Insiders know the deal, that's why nobody ever gets fired. Robert Gibbs was let go shabbily, and look what they're facing now with him now.
[Bangla Daily Star] The Razakar force was only formed to ensure law and order during the war, claimed the defence for war crimes accused Motiur Rahman Nizami ...During the liberation war of 1971, Nizami formed the Al-Badr Force and acted as its supreme commander. The Al-Badr militia took active part in rape, extortion, looting and killing of Bangladeshis who supported the liberation, including a pre-planned massacre on December 14, 1971, when the Al-Badr militia along with Pakistan Army rounded up hundreds of doctors, professors, writers, and other Bengali intellectuals, and executed them... yesterday before the International Crimes Tribunal-1.
The defence compared Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's March 7 speech with a speech Nizami delivered in Chittagong during the war where he said, "Pakistain is the house of Allah."
To the surprise of most in the courtroom, defence counsel Tajul Islam made the comment about the Razakar force, historically known as one of the vicious auxiliary forces of the Mighty Pak Army.
His statement was in response to the prosecution argument that Nizami's speech on September 10, 1971, incited Razakars to commit war crimes.
Tajul also said Jamaat chief Nizami was a "patriot" who had called upon his follower to restore peace in the country.
One of the charges against Nizami was that he incited people to commit war crimes through a speech he delivered at the Mohammedan Institute of Chittagong on August 3, 1971 during a meeting of the Chittagong City unit of the Islami Chhatra Sangha, then student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
Nizami in the speech had said, "Pakistain is the house of Allah."
Tajul yesterday argued that "Pakistain is the house of Allah" was a rhetoric and it revealed Nizami's love for the country. "He did not incite people to commit crimes with his speech."
He then went on to compare Bangabandhu's March 7 speech with Nizami's. He said Bangabandhu's speech caused a national upsurge and he had made the speech against his own country but we do not call it incitement.
Tajul yesterday claimed that the charge against Nizami that he used religion to incite Razakars and young men to commit war crimes was vague.
Tajul said the prosecution had not brought in any witnesses to prove the four charges of inciting people to commit crimes against humanity, rather it relied solely upon four documents.
The defence counsel claimed that incitement to commit crimes against humanity was not an offence under customary international law and that incitement to commit genocide was an offence.
If the prosecution could prove that Nizami's was an incitement to commit genocide then it would be an offence but it did not mention that.
He claimed that to consider an incident an act of genocide, the victims have to be of one of four groups, based on religion, nationality, ethnicity and race.
He said, "There is no mention of the said four groups in the documents upon which the prosecution relied."
According to historical documents, three million people were killed and nearly a quarter of a million women were raped by the Pakistain army and its auxiliary forces, including the Razakar and Al-Badr forces, during the nine-month-long Liberation War.
Nizami is facing 16 war crimes charges for his alleged involvement in crimes against humanity and genocide during the Liberation War in 1971.
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[Pak Daily Times] The Muharram 10 sectarian violence in Rawalpindi spread to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Monday where two persons, including a policeman, were killed when fire reported outside a holy manbargah in Kohat District on Monday, officials said.
Authorities imposed curfew in Kohat to keep situation under control while neighbouring Hangu District was also reported tense after a brief curfew. "A group of people have taken out protest demonstration against the Rawalpindi violence while firing was reported near (an) imambargah where two persons were killed, including a cop," official sources said wishing not to be named. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... unofficial reports said three persons were killed, including two cops, who were guarding the imambargah in Zargaran bazaar.
After the firing incident, a mob set several shops on fire in Tirah bazaar, local police said. Both Kohat and Hangu district ... Hangu is famous for its greenery, hills, beauty and water. Most of the people of this area are Bangash & Orakzai Pashtuns. Part of the Bangash are Shia. The Orakzai and the Sunni Bangash are determined to kill them... s have a long history of sectarian violence and reaction to what happened in Rawalpindi was expected, and local authorities were warned to stay alert. "Army has been called out in aid of civil authorities in both Kohat and Hangu districts," a military source 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. told Daily Times. Improvement in situation in Hangu allowed local administration to lift the curfew with announcements urging residents to come out of their homes, a local journalist said.
The curfew was imposed after two people were killed at a rally in Kohat to protest against sectarian festivities on Friday that left Rawalpindi under curfew all weekend. "Curfew has been imposed in Kohat with immediate effect and the army called in," a security bigshot in Peshawar told AFP. Salim Khan Marwat, the police chief in Kohat, a garrison city in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, confirmed the curfew. Violence erupted when activists from the Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamat (ASWJ) were demonstrating against the Rawalpindi festivities which left at least nine people dead.
"The activists were rallying against the Rawalpindi violence when unidentified gunnies opened fire on the procession from near a Shia mosque in the area, killing two people," Saleem Khan Marwat told AFP. Marwat said the ASWJ activists retaliated by firing bullets in the air, which sparked tension in the area. Police and troops later cordoned off the area and ordered markets closed.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck in the tree roots and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber... army was recalled in Rawalpindi after protesters resorted to stone pelting and forced traders to close markets. The authorities imposed a curfew on Rawalpindi, which was only lifted on Monday morning. A ban on gatherings of more than five people remains in force. Troops were also deployed in Rawalpindi as well as Multan to keep the peace.
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[Pak Daily Times] Attacks across Iraq killed eight people on Monday as authorities announced they have executed a dozen men convicted of "terrorism" in the face of the country's worst bloodshed in five years.
The violence was the latest in a months-long surge in unrest that has forced Iraq to appeal for international help in combating a surge in Death Eater attacks.
It comes just months before Iraq's first general election in four years and amid fears the country is on the brink of falling back into all-out sectarian war.
Monday's violence struck across Iraq, from the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul to the town of Hilla, south of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , as well as in and around the capital.
But the deadliest attacks came near Baquba, which lies north of Storied Baghdad and is one of Iraq's most violent cities, with shootings in the city and nearby towns killing four people, including a Sunni anti-al Qaeda militiaman.
Violence in Hilla, Storied Baghdad, and the towns of Madain and Abu Ghraib near the capital left four others dead.
A series of coordinated bombings, apparently targeting a top police chief in djinn-infested Mosul, maimed 13 people, although the officer himself was unharmed, and another bombing in Tikrit maimed a city council chief.
Security officials, meanwhile, claimed to have killed seven bully boyz near the town of Qaim along Iraq's border with Syria.
Officials have warned of spillover from Syria's ongoing civil war affecting Iraqi security, and said Sunni bully boyz opposed to Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... , as well as those against Storied Baghdad's Shia-led government, cross the border in both directions to launch attacks.
Monday's violence comes a day after nationwide unrest, including a spate of bombings in Storied Baghdad against markets and cafes, killed 26 people.
No group immediately grabbed credit for the bloodshed, but Sunni bully boyz linked to al Qaeda often set off coordinated bombings across Storied Baghdad, ostensibly in a bid to undermine public confidence in the authorities.
Also on Sunday, Iraqi authorities executed a dozen "terrorism" convicts, defying widespread international condemnation of Storied Baghdad's use of the death penalty.
The latest executions bring to at least 144 the number of people put to death in Iraq this year, compared with 129 for all of 2012, according to an AFP tally based on reports from the justice ministry and officials.
"Yesterday (Sunday), we executed 12 convicts," a senior justice ministry official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... .
"All of them were Iraqi men accused of terrorism."
The official gave no further details about the men or the crimes they were convicted of.
Executions in Iraq, usually carried out by hanging, have increased this year despite persistent international criticism from the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... and human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... groups urging Storied Baghdad to issue a moratorium on capital punishment.
Justice Minister Hassan al-Shammari has insisted that the executions are carried out only after an exhaustive legal process.
The growing use of the death penalty comes with violence in Iraq at a level not seen since 2008, when the country was just emerging from a brutal sectarian conflict.
More than 5,700 people have died so far this year, with the government facing criticism from diplomats and analysts saying it has not done enough to address the root causes of the bloodshed.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has called for Washington's help in the form of greater intelligence sharing and the timely delivery of new weapons systems in an effort to curb the bloodshed.
In addition to failing to stem the bloodshed, authorities have also struggled to provide adequate basic services such as electricity and clean water, and corruption is widespread.
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More than 5,700 people have died so far this year, with the government facing criticism from diplomats and analysts saying it has not done enough to address the root causes of the bloodshed.
But, ...you can't rationally address the Sunnah without becoming a target yourself.
[Pak Daily Times] Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... 's forces fired rocket and artillery barrages on a besieged mountain town near Leb on Monday in a push to capture the strategic area following advances against rebels in Damascus and in the north of Syria.
In a separate setback for the fighters, a prominent rebel leader died overnight in a Turkish hospital of wounds suffered in an air raid on Aleppo. Abdelqader Saleh, head of the Qatar-backed Sunni Islamist al-Tawhid Brigades, had been working on regrouping fighters in Aleppo before he was killed.
Heavy bombardments hit Qara, 80km north of Damascus in the Qalamoun mountains, as rebels hid in the rocky terrain, refugees and opposition activists said. Located near the highway linking the capital to Aleppo, Syria's biggest city, the region has been used by rebels to cross from Leb.
The Danish Refugee Council, which operates on the Lebanese frontier, said there were preliminary estimates that 10,000 to 12,000 Syrians had fled the bombardment since Friday. Hundreds of them lined up for shelter in bleak winter rain in the Lebanese border town of Arsal on Monday.
Imposing control over the area would help link Damascus with the Mediterranean coast, potentially an important route for chemical weapons to be removed from Syria under an October deal that spared Syria from US attacks.
Diplomats have identified the road as the preferred route for the chemical arms, which pose an unprecedented challenge to dismantle in the midst of an all-out civil war.
Assad's forces have been on the offensive this year after setbacks earlier in the conflict begun in 2011 that has killed 100,000. His troops have made further gains and his diplomatic position has improved markedly in the weeks since the Russian-US chemical weapons deal, which averted US air strikes.
Just a year ago, Western countries were predicting he would be tossed soon. Now, the West has effectively erased rebel hopes for military aid like the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... warplanes that helped bring down Libya's Muammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years until he was ejected from the gene pool by his indignant citizens... in 2011. Since then, Assad's forces, backed by Shia militia allies from Iraq and Leb's Hezbollah movement, have captured key rebel areas on the edge of Damascus and in Aleppo.
Western countries' support for the rebels has also waned as Sunni Islamist bully boys, many of them foreign jihadists, have gained prominence among them, changing the diplomatic calculus ahead of a long delayed international peace conference.
UN General Secretary the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... said he now hoped the conference could be convened in mid-December.
Rebel group Tawhid announced the killing of its leader Saleh in a statement. Locals described Saleh, a former merchant, as a popular figure and a moderate Islamist who had sought to reconcile other rebel groups with a hard-line al Qaeda offshoot, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
An opposition figure from Aleppo, who did not want to be named, said: "Saleh was a charismatic moderate Islamist with popularity in Aleppo. His killing is a gift to the ISIL."
Abu Abdallah al-Hamwi, head of Ahrar al-Sham, a hard-line Islamist brigade that works with ISIL, said Saleh had sought his help to heal a rift between the ISIL and other groups. "He wanted a solution to stop Mohammedans fighting Mohammedans," Hamwi said in a statement.
Another opposition group, the Syrian Revolution General Commission, said there was heavy fighting on Monday in Aleppo's Suleiman al-Halabi neighbourhood, where four loyalist troops were killed, and on the Naqqarin front in the east of the city.
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[Pak Daily Times] Gunmen in Nasirabad killed the driver of a truck carrying NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... equipment out of Afghanistan before setting the vehicle on fire on Monday, police said. The attack took place around 400 kilometres southeast of Quetta. Hafiz Hidayatullah, a police official in the area, said four gunnies on cycle of violences shot up two trucks, killing the driver of one vehicle. "The attackers then sprinkled petrol on (that) truck and set it on fire," Hidayatullah told AFP. "The dead body of the driver had already been taken out by his helper," he said. Another senior police official, Farooq Ahmad, confirmed the incident and told AFP that the attackers expeditiously departed at a goodly pace. The NATO combat mission is due to end next year and most of the hardware will be flown out of land-locked Afghanistan or taken by road to Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , despite complications with the route.
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[WSJ] Blackwater's [now XE]
Founder Blames U.S. for Its Troubles Erik Prince Releases Memoir as He Writes His Next Chapter as Investor.
MIDDLEBURG, Va.--Blackwater founder Erik Prince personifies the hidden hand in America's terror wars. His company secretly armed and maintained drones in Pakistan, trained CIA hit teams, and collected $2billion as a government security contractor. Mr. Prince said he looks back on that adventure as "13 lost years." The billions of dollars are gone now, and he blames the U.S. government. Lay down with the dog, wake up with the....
After a series of federal investigations, government contract battles and critical congressional hearings, Mr. Prince sold Blackwater in 2010. Following continued controversy over his most recent pursuits while based in Abu Dhabi, Mr. Prince has returned to Virginia to write a new chapter of his life--as an entrepreneur buying oil, land and minerals in Africa. On Monday, he is also releasing a memoir, "Civilian Warriors: The Inside Story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of the War on Terror." It is his attempt to defend his work, challenge public perceptions of Blackwater and settle scores with a government he says made him a scapegoat when things went badly overseas. We should all be so lucky as to return to Middleburg, VA.
After years of controversy, Erik Prince feels betrayed by the Obama administration -- and he's looking to start a new chapter. Join the club. Continued on Page 49
[An Nahar] The U.S. military said Monday it hopes to train 5,000 to 8,000 Libyan army troops as Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... struggles to contain violence from heavily armed militias.
The training, requested by Libya's prime minister, would be carried out by the military's Africa Command at a base in Bulgaria, Pentagon front man Colonel Steve Warren told news hounds.
"We're in discussions with the Libyans on the exact number, but we're prepared to provide training for 5,000 to 8,000 personnel," Warren said.
"This hasn't been finalized yet, but that's the plan we're working towards," he said.
The program would focus on basic combat training for conventional Libyan troops, he added.
The duration and cost of the training remained unclear as well as whether the Pentagon would provide weapons or equipment to Libyan forces.
There were also plans to train a separate counter-terrorism unit, Admiral William McRaven, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, said over the weekend.
Training government forces in a country plagued by volatile divisions and militias with shifting loyalties will carry some dangers, McRaven acknowledged.
"There is probably some risk that some of the people we will be training with do not have the most clean record," McRaven said Saturday at a defense forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,.
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The US left Libya un-determined. Solidify it or have another camp o roaches there. Libyans are quite peaceful people, unless there are militias.
[An Nahar] The U.S. Supreme Court Monday blocked a challenge to the National Security Agency's vast email and telephone surveillance program.
Without giving any explanation, the country's top court rejected the appeal filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, asking the justices to halt the spy program.
"The ongoing collection of the domestic telephone records of millions of Americans by the NSA, untethered to any particular investigation, is beyond the authority granted by Congress to the FISC," EPIC said, referring to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
The government had asked the Supreme Court to reject the appeal, saying the surveillance program, in place since 2006, had been authorized by the FISC.
This is the first appeal to the communications surveillance directly filed to the Supreme Court since former contracter Edward Snowden leaked details about it to the media.
Other lawsuits on the NSA program could reach the Supreme Court, after being heard by lower courts in Washington and New York.
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#2 given that he's put on the bench those who interpret the piece of paper formerly known as the Constitution as a living breathing document rather than with strict construction, why should there be any reason to believe that which gives the government ever more power and the citizenry ever less liberty would be the result? /rhet question
[Pak Daily Times] Israel has secretly locked away Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! a suspected al Qaeda biological weapons expert for more than three years, court documents disclosed on Monday, after the man appealed to the Israeli Supreme Court to free him.
Samer al Baraq studied microbiology in Pakistain, underwent military training in Afghanistan and was recruited in 2001 to al Qaeda by Ayman al-Zawahri, who is the group's leader today, Israeli prosecutors said in documents seen by Rooters. They said he was planning attacks against Israelis. But Al Baraq, 39, has not been charged and has been held since 2010 in administrative detention, a policy by which Israel jails suspected hard boyz without trial, based on evidence presented in a closed military court.
Israel says the practice pre-empts bad boy attacks against it while keeping its counter-intelligence sources and tactics secret. In October, Al Baraq appealed to Israel's Supreme Court to end his military detention. Asked if his client denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! against him, al Baraq's lawyer, Mahmid Saleh, told Army Radio: "If he is such a senior terrorist, then why hasn't he been prosecuted? There is no evidence against him." According to a court document al Baraq was once detained and questioned in the United States and was later tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! in Jordan for five years. He was tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! in 2010 when trying to enter Israel from neighbouring Jordan.
In its response to al Baraq's appeal, Israel's prosecution said letting the detainee go would endanger the entire region. The Supreme Court was due to hold a hearing in the case later on Monday. According to court documents seen by AFP, the Israeli security establishment told the high court ahead of a Monday hearing it believed that Samer Al-Barq is "an activist in the global terror group al Qaeda, with extensive knowledge in non-conventional arms, especially biological weapons". His petition to be released from administrative detention should be rejected by the court, since he would significantly boost the development of "global jihad" infrastructure in the region if freed, the documents said.
Under what Israel calls "administrative detention", suspects can be imprisoned without trial by order of a military court. Such orders can be renewed indefinitely for up to six months at a time. "We petitioned the court because in three days the Israeli authorities will be renewing his administrative detention order," Barq's attorney Mahmid Saleh told AFP ahead of Monday's hearing. Mahameed said his client's family originated in the northern West Bank village of Jayyus, while Barq himself was born in Kuwait 39 years ago, and studied microbiology in Pakistain in 1997.
According to the court documents, Barq received military training in Afghanistan in 1998, and in 2001 was recruited by al Qaeda and acquired "knowledge and experience" in non-conventional weaponry. Barq was involved in planning attacks on Israeli and Jewish tourists in Jordan during 2001, and agreed to train Paleostinians to manufacture poison to use against Israelis, the document said.
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Way more prudent than certain US presidents I might mention.
[Pak Daily Times] Anti-Terrorism Court-II on Monday remanded two accused, Mohammad Asim and Azhar Mahmmood, to jail custody till November 26, 2013 in the murder case of Station House Officer (SHO) Syed Irfan Haider. The police brought the accused in an armoured personnel carrier (APC) to court and produced them before ATC-II Judge under tight security.
According to details, SHO of Sir Syed cop shoppe Irfan Haider and Station Investigation Officer (SIO) of New Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... cop shoppe Sub-Inspector Shahbaz Ali were targeted in North Karachi locality. Both had died in the attack near Anda Morr while they were snap checking vehicles. According to the police, four men riding two cycle of violences stopped near the police checkpoint and shot up the cops. After the incident police incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! accused Azhar, while the other accused, Asim, was arrested on October 28, 2013 and police recovered two hand-grenades from his possession.
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[An Nahar] Internal Security Forces units began deploying in the neighborhoods of the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... on Monday to implement phase two of a security plan that aims at maintaining stability in the city.
Units will be deployed in various neighborhoods of the city, including the rival neighborhoods of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen.
According to the state-run National News Agency police chief of the northern city of Tripoli Brig. Gen. Bassam al-Ayyoubi supervised the deployment of the forces, which will be accompanied by armored personnel carriers.
"We will establish fixed checkpoints in Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh and mobile patrols between the two neighborhoods," Ayyoubi said.
He also pointed out that all parties welcomed the security plan.
On Saturday the caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel launched stage-two of a security plan to be implemented in the inflamed city of Tripoli that has been witnessing frequent Syria-linked battles, that pits Sunnis from Bab al-Tabbaneh against Alawites in Jabal Mohsen.
He called on the resident of the northern city of Tripoli to cooperate with security forces to maintain security in the city, urging officials to resolve their political disputes during a national dialogue session.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... hours after Charbel's conference festivities flared up between gunnies and a security checkpoint in the Old Saraya vicinity in Tripoli.
Most Sunnis support Syria's revolt against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... , while Alawites, who belong to the same Shiite-offshoot sect as Assad, support his regime.
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[An Nahar] EU foreign ministers on Monday expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... over the "significant deterioration" in Libya as troops deployed and militias were ordered out of the capital following deadly festivities.
"The EU is concerned by the significant deterioration of both the political and security situation in Libya and condemns the violence in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... on 15 November," the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... ministers said in a joint statement.
The unrest erupted Friday when former rebels from Misrata fired on protesters, triggering festivities that killed 43 people and maimed 450.
"The EU urges all parties to avoid further bloodshed and refrain from further violence," the statement said.
It urged authorities to continue efforts to integrate forces of Evil by disarming them and blending them into official security forces.
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But, but, but, the theory says that People are naturally good and, once you remove the tyrants oppressing them, will happily line up in front of McDonalds.
When Marshall Tito died, the power that kept the lid on all of the petty ancient blood feuds and rivalries was taken away and all hell broke loose.
Unfortunately for Libya, the country never really had a chance to develop the social glue to become a functioning society. The 40 years under Kaddafi short-circuited that development.
Now the country is the Christopher Hitchens "Tribes with Flags" with centers of power everywhere. The central government has done a SNL imitation of our Congress when firm decisive leadership was needed.
While most Libyan just want to get on with their lives, the power hungry are poised to turn Libya into Somalia or the Sudan. I would venture a protectorate or a coalition of EU countries could help put the pieces back together.
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Why do we listen to Bill?
He's an EX president and a very poor one, we don't like him, or Hillary as an office holder.
Yup he's better than Obama, but you measure the difference with a micrometer, not a yardstick.
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Yup he's better than Obama, but you measure the difference with a micrometer, not a yardstick.
RJ, if one looking in from outside can be permitted an observation: Bill Clinton was/is an American crook---meaning he knew the red lines and where they pass.
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RJ, I am fairly certain that the commentator is not really former President Clinton. It's what they call a pseudonym, sort of like your real Christian name isn't Redneck, because redneck isn't in the Bible, so your folks wouldn't have used it. Altho Nimrod is in the Bible which is cool.
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Ms. Shipman, I don't care what they say about your jawbone or your ass; I have always thought you a mighty handsome woman. And "Claire" is a perfectly good Republican cloth cloak, yet you choose not to use it in this august forum. Why, oh why? Please clarify.
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I imagine that if you use your pseudonym long enough and people recognize you by that name, well you are Red Neck Jim or you are just kin, and your daughter calls you Uncle Daddy. Well just sayin, got to go check my mailbox and go turkey huntin,Thanksgiving is nextt week.
[Libya Herald] The head of the Benghazi Joint Security Room (BJSR) Colonel Abdullah Al-Saiti's convoy was targeted in a car-kaboom this morning that left one of his bodyguards dead and another seriously injured.
"One of Saiti's bodyguards, Wisam Saed Al-Faisi, was killed in the blast and another was maimed," spokesperson for the BJSR Abdullah Zaidi told the Libya Herald. "Saiti himself was not injured in the kaboom and is now back at work."
The car-bomb was a stationary vehicle packed with 45 kilos of heavy-duty explosives parked by the side of Dubai Street near the Magoury district of Benghazi, Zaidi said. He added that this appeared to have remotely detonated as Saiti's convoy of four vehicles drove past.
Saiti always took the same route to work, he said, and was clearly the intended target of the attack.
Other vehicles nearby were apparently damaged in the blast.
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[Pak Daily Times] The Muharram 10 sectarian violence in Rawalpindi spread to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Monday where two persons, including a policeman, were killed when fire reported outside a holy manbargah in Kohat District on Monday, officials said.
Authorities imposed curfew in Kohat to keep situation under control while neighbouring Hangu District was also reported tense after a brief curfew. "A group of people have taken out protest demonstration against the Rawalpindi violence while firing was reported near (an) imambargah where two persons were killed, including a cop," official sources said wishing not to be named. However,
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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BEIRUT Two suicide bombers detonated explosions outside the Iranian Embassy in a mainly Shiite district of the Lebanese capital on Tuesday, killing 23 people, including the Iranian cultural attache, apparently in retaliation for the Lebanese group Hezbollah's support of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Pervez 
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
...the creepy-looking former dictator of Pakistain. Zia was an Islamic nutball who imposed his nutballery on the rest of the country with the enthusiastic assistance of the nation's religious parties, which are populated by other nutballs. He was appointed Chief of Army Staff in 1976 by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, whom he hanged when he seized power. His time in office was a period of repression, with hundreds of thousands of political rivals, minorities, and journalists executed or tortured, including senior general officers convicted in coup-d'état plots, who would normally be above the law. As part of his alliance with the religious parties, his government helped run the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, providing safe havens, American equipiment, Saudi money, and Pak handlers to selected mujaheddin. Zia died along with several of his top generals and admirals and the then United States Ambassador to Pakistain Arnold Lewis Raphel when he was assassinated in a suspicious air crash near Bahawalpur in 1988...
Nancy 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[Pak Daily Times] Up to 12,000 Afghan Taliban fighters have been killed, 
Samir Geagea
Michel Aoun
Nawaz Sharif
[Pak Daily Times] The PML-N government has decided to try Parvez Musharraf for imposing Emergency in November 2007, thereby ignoring the ones who took over the country through military takeovers.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Rebel group Tawhid announced the killing of its leader Saleh in a statement. Locals described Saleh, a former merchant, as a popular figure and a moderate Islamist who had sought to reconcile other rebel groups with a hard-line al Qaeda offshoot, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
