Russia is battening down the hatches for a Biblical collapse in oil revenues, warning that crude prices could stay as low as $40 a barrel for another seven years.
Maxim Oreshkin, the deputy finance minister, said the country is drawing up plans based on a price band fluctuating between $40 to $60 as far out as 2022, a scenario that would have devastating implications for Opec.
It would also spell disaster for the North Sea producers, Brazil's off-shore projects, and heavily indebted Western producers. "We will live in a different reality," he told a breakfast forum hosted by Russian newspaper Vedomosti.
The cold blast from Moscow came as US crude plunged to $35.56, pummelled by continuing fall-out from the acrimonious Organisaton of Petrol Exporting Countries meeting last week. Record short positions by hedge funds have amplified the effect.
Bank of America said there was now the risk of "full-blown price war" within Opec itself as Saudi Arabia and Iran fight out a bitter strategic rivalry through the oil market.
Brent crude fell to $37.41, even though demand is growing briskly. It is the lowest since the depths of the Lehman crisis in early 2009. But this time it is a 'positive supply shock', and therefore beneficial for the world economy as a whole.
The International Energy Agency said in its monthly market report that Opec has stopped operating as a cartel and is "pumping at will", aiming to drive out rivals at whatever cost to its own members. Opec revenues will fall to $400bn (ÂŁ263bn) this year if current prices persist, down from $1.2 trillion in 2012. This is a massive shift in global wealth.
The IEA said global oil stocks were already at nose-bleed levels of 2,971m barrels, and were likely to increase by another 300m over the next six months as "free-wheeling Opec policy" floods the market.
The watchdog played down fears that the world was running out of sites to store the glut, citing 230m barrels of new storage coming on stream. Inventories in the US are still only at 70pc capacity. But this could change once Iranian crude comes on stream later next year.
Russia's $40 warning is the latest escalation in a game of strategic brinkmanship between the Kremlin and Saudi Arabia, already at daggers drawn over Syria.
The Russian contingency plans convey a clear message to Riyadh and to Opec's high command that the country can withstand very low oil prices indefinitely, thanks to a floating rouble that protects the internal budget.
Saudi Arabia is trapped by a fixed exchange peg, forcing it to bleed foreign reserves to cover a budget deficit running at 20pc of GDP.
Russia claims to have the strategic depth to sit out a long siege. It is pursuing an import-substitution policy to revive its industrial and engineering core. It can ultimately feed itself. The Gulf Opec states are one-trick ponies by comparison.
The deputy premier, Arkady Dvorkovich, told The Telegraph in September that Opec will be forced to change tack. "At some point it is likely that they are going to have to change policy. They can last a few months, to a couple of years," he said.
Kremlin officials suspect that the aim of Saudi policy is to force Russia to the negotiating table, compelling it join Opec in a super-cartel controlling half the world's production.
Abdallah Salem el-Badri, Opec's chief, came close to admitting this last week, saying the cartel is no longer big enough to act alone and will not cut output unless non-Opec producers chip in.
"We are looking for negotiations with non-Opec, and trying to reach a collective effort. Everybody is trying to digest how they can do it," he said
Russia is in effect calling Opec's bluff, gambling that it has the greater staying power. It cannot easily cut output since its main producers are listed companies, answerable to shareholders. Any arrangement would have to be subtle.
Mr Dvorkovich gave an oblique answer when asked whether Russia would ever do a deal. "We are not going to cut supply artificially. Oil companies will act on their own. They will look at market forces and decide whether to invest more or less. If prices stay low, it is in the nature of oil companies to stabilize production, or even to cut production," he said.
Whether Russia really can withstand the strain for years is an open question. The economy is in deep recession. Output has contracted by 4pc over the last year. Real incomes have fallen by 9pc. The latest gambit may in reality be a negotiating ploy.
Mr Oreshkin said oil prices of $40 would force the government to bleed its reserve fund by 1.5 trillion roubles next year, or 2pc of GDP.
Standard & Poor's says the budget deficit has reached 4.4pc of GDP, including local government shortfalls. A further $40bn is needed to bail out the banking system.
"They just don't have the money. The deficit is heading for 5pc of GDP," said Lubomir Mitov from Unicredit.
"The biggest danger is that the reserve fund will be exhausted by the end of 2016. They will then have to monetise the deficit or cut real spending by another 10pc. They can't cut defence so that leaves social welfare," he said.
Bond markets in Russia are shallow. The country cannot hope to borrow abroad on any scale as long as it is under Western sanctions.
Saudi Arabia's leaders are fully aware of the Kremlin's painful predicament. They appear certain that they can outlast Russia in a long duel. By the time we find out which of these two petro-giants is stronger, both may be on their knees. Check out the original article. There are a number of interesting and revealing graphs. Interesting times we live in.
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[Political Calculations] More or Less is a BBC 4 radio program, hosted by Undercover Economist Tim Harford, dedicated to explaining and sometimes debunking the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life. It's a fascinating program and we often play the podcasts as we toil behind the scenes here at Political Calculations.
We bring that up because we've noticed a pattern developing in this past week, where we find ourselves treading on their territory, as we've explored a better measure of the economic well-being of the people of a nation, debunked a key assertion of a team of climate scientists and used U.S. soybean exports to explain why China's economy may not be performing as dismally as it appears.
Today, we're back in debunking mode, thanks to the release of a report by the Pew Research Center on Wednesday, 10 December 2015, which finds that the United States has reached a kind of tipping point, as middle class households in the U.S. are no longer in the majority. The Washington Post describes the report's key findings:
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They're not disappearing, they're just more selective...
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The middle classes are almost non existant. Who outside rentier jobs can afford to employ one assistant full time? (that's the typical entry level middle class).
Collapse in Land affordability has ruined the youth too.
[Legal Insurrection] White House spokesman Josh Earnest called it "ironic and tragic" Thursday that a spike in American gun sales has occurred in the wake of mass shootings in places like San Bernardino and Colorado Springs. The usual regime response; the bemoaning of common sense and logic in favour of continued government ineptitude and failure.
On Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, the FBI did 175,754 background checks, part of the seventh consecutive record-breaking month in gun purchases. Gun rights experts told the Free Beacon that recent terrorist attacks and the Democratic push for more gun control have fueled this surge.
"I wonder if the president feels as if what's happened may actually be giving motivation or momentum to gun rights advocates rather than his position?" NBC reporter Chris Jansing asked.
"Well, I guess there is some evidence to indicate this," Earnest said. "The FBI put out information a week or so ago that [on] Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving when many people go shopping, they actually processed the largest number of background checks for gun purchases in history. I described this, I think, at a briefing earlier this week as a tragic irony, that the more that we see this kind of violence on our streets, the more people go out and buy guns, and that is both ironic and tragic.
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It is a fundamental responsibility of any government to provide security in one's person, one's family, and one's property. When government demonstrates it no longer is willing or able to do so, it is no longer legitimate no matter what rituals it performs to justify its existence.
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This was so well stated that it needs repeating.
"It is a fundamental responsibility of any government to provide security in one's person, one's family, and one's property. When government demonstrates it no longer is willing or able to do so, it is no longer legitimate no matter what rituals it performs to justify its existence. "
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Guns sales are a reflection of the public trust in GIVERnment. The folks in charge want to take away the 2nd amendment rights of innocent American people because of a few mental cases. Yet at the same time want to give non constitutional rights to immigrate to non-Americans while ignoring the behavior of the few terrorist immigrants. A little consistency would go a long way in building trust.
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If we each are focused on some local, fragmented social issue like this or the education bill,...we are distracted from the US open border policy, the collapse of the US economy and shift of world order. Don't be manipulated.
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Don't overthink it, Josh. It's really very simple. You don't trust us. We don't trust you.
[Daily Caller] The Food and Drug Administration has approved an incredibly innovative syringe that can seal a deadly gunshot wound in seconds for civilian use.
The military has already benefited greatly from the use of the syringe, called XStat, which works to stop bleeding in situations where tourniquets don't, reported Tech Insider.
The device works by injecting about 92 tiny sponges into the target area that immediately expand and quickly stops the bleeding. The sponges are made from wood pulp, ensuing they don't dissolve inside the body, and are coated in antimicrobial material. If they get stuck inside, X-rays can easily identify them.
This lifesaving invention, manufactured by a company in Oregon called RevMedx, was quickly approved for use by the military in 2014. Bleeding or hemorrhaging is the single most prominent cause of death among troops in the battlefield.
[Daily Mail] Police say seven Lehigh University football players have been charged in an off-campus break-in meant as revenge, but they targeted the wrong northeastern Pennsylvania home.
Bethlehem police said two men in the house, who are also Lehigh students, used a university football roster to identify the suspects in the intrusion which occurred around 3am on November 8.
They told police the men kicked in the doors as they slept and one suffered a concussion and a busted lip and was treated at St. Luke's University Hospital after he was punched in the face.
Six were arraigned on Wednesday on a count of felony criminal trespass and then released.
They were identified as Jacob Scott, 19, Maxwell Frankel, 18, Dylan Parsons, 20, Noah Scott Robb, 21, Michael Gies, 19, and Mark Walker, 19, according to Lehigh Valley Live.
A seventh player, Brian Githens, is accused of punching the man and was charged in November with simple assault. The day after the incident, Githens admitted what he and the other players had done and also confessed that they had targeted the wrong house, court records show.
[Ynet] The United States and its allies conducted 23 strikes against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Iraq and Syria on Wednesday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement on Thursday.
Twenty air strikes in Iraq near nine cities hit numerous tactical units linked to the hard boy group as well as fighting positions, vehicles, weapons caches and other targets, the Combined Joint Task Force said.
In Syria, three strikes near three cities also hit two tactical units, among other targets, the coalition statement said.
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Wonder if there are BDA and strategic goal reports as well as 'seat miles'?
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Two courts have made separate rulings to prevent a far-right group from holding a rally in Sydney to mark 10 years since the Cronulla riots.
The New South Wales Supreme Court has banned Party for Freedom chairman Nicholas Folkes from holding the "memorial" event at Cronulla on Saturday on the grounds it would stir up racial hatred.
Separately, the Federal Court has ruled in favour of an application to prevent any other groups or individuals from commemorating the anniversary.
This weekend marks a decade since the racially-motivated violence that erupted in the Sydney suburb in 2005.
In the Supreme Court today, the judge ruled the holding of the public assembly was prohibited.
Sydney GP and Muslim community leader Jamal Rifi and the Sutherland Shire Council together applied for the Federal Court ruling. Dr Rifi said the group's right to freedom of speech "should not impinge on our rights as citizens".
"They have every right to express their view but their right is not absolute," he said. "We also have a right as a citizen of this country not to be insulted, not to be humiliated and not to be intimidated." Australia has NO constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech. We are becoming less free by the day. Hizb ut=Tahrir is able to hold rallies celebrating the murder of charlie hebdo cartoonists but these people cannot have their hate rally. I do not approve of either group -- but freedom of speech is important especially for views you do not like. And selectively applying it will only result in a terrible society
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They are apparently identical twins who were videotaped doing another IS mass murder. Since they didn't wear masks in the video, they were easy to ID when they showed up in Finland.
U.S. government sources told Reuters on Thursday that Malik tried in vain to contact multiple Islamic militant groups in the months before she and Farook staged their attack, but her overtures were ignored.
The organizations Malik sought out likely shied away out of extreme caution in communicating with individuals unknown to them and a fear of being caught up in a law-enforcement "sting" operation, sources said.
The number of organizations that Malik attempted to approach and how she sought to reach them were unclear, though the groups almost certainly included al Qaeda's Syria-based official affiliate, the Nusrah Front, the government sources said.
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U.S. government sources told Reuters on Thursday that Malik tried in vain to contact multiple Islamic militant groups in the months before she and Farook staged their attack, but her overtures were ignored.
How can they be sure? Obama, Kerry, and Hillary have often said "Move on, nothing to see here. no Muslim involvement; afterall they are the Religion of Peace." and we only find out later, there was plenty to see here.
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The source article doesn't speculate on attempted contacts that succeeded (if any). The sowing of FUD among prospective militant groups has apparently helped a bit.
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I sense a list, all these are now on it, and banned from travel outside their home country forever. (Better change your names, NOT mohammed something. (Or a different spelling))
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Somehow I'm thinking the guys at the mosque could have made the introductions. I suspect a couple of keywords on your online dating profile would get you noticed by the right folks who would then contact you and perhaps hook you up with Jihadi Jane so she can provide in person guidance.
Will resonate with those here who've served in a Sandbox, and those who've heard stories.
There will be no doubt some hand-wringing about “Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... ” and further calls to continue the American elite’s fourteen-year track record of whitewashing Islamic beliefs and culture, but I wonder if the media is missing a powerful, largely-uncovered influence on America’s hearts and minds — the experience and testimony of the more than two million Americans who’ve served overseas since 9/11 and have experienced Islamic cultures up-close. "Experiencing them up close" is also known as "empirical observation." It's not considered evidence in university or government circles.
Yes, they were in the middle of a war — but speaking from my own experience — the war was conducted from within a culture that was shockingly broken. I expected the jihadists to be evil, but even I couldn’t fathom the depths of their depravity. You mean the culture was the reason for the war? They weren't just casually connected?
And it was all occurring against the backdrop of a brutally violent and intolerant culture. Women were beaten almost as an afterthought, there was a near-total lack of empathy for even friends and neighbors, lying was endemic, and sexual abuse was rampant. Even more disturbingly, it seemed that every problem was exacerbated the more religious and pious a person (or village) became. Yeah, but if you read the Koran you can find just as many verses saying it ain't so as you do saying it is so. So it must not be so, right?
I spent enough time outside the wire and interacting with tribal leaders to get a sense of the reality around me, but the younger guys on the line spent weeks at a time living in the heart of the local community. I remember one young soldier, after describing the things he’d seen since the start of the deployment, gestured towards the village around us and said — in perfect Army English — “Sir, this s**t is f**ked up.” That's Army technical jargon, of course. And really, "fucked up" is still one step before FUBAR, so thetroops were obviously confused on the level of fuckeduppery.
It is indeed. While it’s certainly unfair to judge Indonesia or Malaysia by the standards of Iraq or Afghanistan, Even though they're trying to get there. q.v. Aceh, southern Thailand, etc.
it’s very hard to shake the power of lived experience, nor should we necessarily try. After all, when we hear stories from Syria, Yemen, Gaza, the Sinai, Libya, Nigeria, Somalia, Mali, Pakistan, and elsewhere they all fit the same depressing template of the American conflict zones. Nor is the dazzlingly wealthy veneer of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, or the other Gulf States all that impressive. Tens of thousands of soldiers have seen the veritable slave labor that toils within the oil empires and have witnessed first-hand their casual disregard for “lesser” life. If you're a member of the Master Religion all other religions are vermin. If you're a holy man or a princeling those beneath you are vermin. Those on your level are potential vermin, the scheming murderous bastards.
But this same experience has caused us to treasure the Muslim friends we do have — in part because we recognize the extreme risks of their loyalty and defiance of jihad. Humanity, it seems, can strike anyone.
That’s why American officers fiercely champion the immigration of local interpreters, even to the point of welcoming them into their own home. Back home they'd be three feet under...
That’s why there’s often an intense connection with our Kurdish allies, the single-most effective ground fighting force against ISIS. Kurds: The guys the Obummer regime either can't stand or claims does't exist...
Two million Americans have been downrange, Which is a fair hefty number...
and they’ve come home and told families and friends stories the media rarely tells. If you're ever in Bethesda at Walter Reed+, have a meal in one of the food courts that have somehow replaced the mess hall and the officers' club. Don't say anything. Just listen. If you can't drive that far, go to your nearest VA hospital. If you've really got guts, volunteer to work with the PTSD groups.
Those stories have an impact, but because of the cultural distance between America’s warriors and its media, academic, and political aristocracy, it’s an impact the aristocracy hasn’t been tracking. The aristocracy doesn't do mud, nor live ammunition. Dicky Chapelle remains dead. There is no Bernard Fall. Ernie Pyle's not even a memory.
Experience trumps idealistic rhetoric, and I can’t help but think that polls like YouGov’s are at least partly registering the results of a uniquely grim American experience. People aren't blind. Even without reading Rantburg you can make out at least the murky outlines of the truth, and the outlines usually aren't even within the same frame as the version emanating from Politiciansville.
But when an Iowa man broke into her riff with a question about how the country could confront a new wave of fear, her response sounded less like that of a commander in chief than of a soothing self-help guru. "We've got to do everything we can to weed out hate and plant love and kindness," she told a crowd of several hundred.
The lovey-dovey message seems surprising coming from a Washington veteran who frequently references women in public life needing "skin like a rhinoceros." But as she grapples with Donald Trump's prominence in the Republican race, she's embraced "love and kindness" as a campaign refrain.
In Alabama, she told lawyers that justice means "standing beside love." In Atlanta, Clinton promised black ministers she'd run on a "love and kindness platform." And after Trump said he'd block Muslims from entering the country, her campaign quickly churned out a new catch phrase: "Love trumps hate."
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"Women were beaten almost as an afterthought, there was a near-total lack of empathy for even friends and neighbors, lying was endemic, and sexual abuse was rampant."
I always wondered why the left seems to identify so closely with Muslims and why they tend to give them a pass on immigration--probably view them as potential future voters.
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Hillary talking about love and kindness? It's yet another failed attempt by HillaryBot to pass the Turing Test. Who is writing this code?
As for the hidden reasons Americans dislike Islam, I'm gonna go with how Sharia Law is incompatible Western values in general and with the US Constitution in particular.
[IsraelTimes] 25-year-old Muslim man crossed Turkish border to join ranks of jihadist group, Arab intelligence sources say
Muslim Israeli citizen who formerly served in the IDF has joined the ranks of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Syria, Arab intelligence sources told The Times of Israel on Thursday.
Identified only by the initials H.B., the man is 25 years old and a resident of a village in northern Israel, the sources said. He traveled from Israel to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and then crossed the border into Syria.
According to his military identification card, which was seen by a Times of Israel news hound, he was slated to complete his military service in January 2014 and brought his IDF dog tags with him to Syria.
Darwin always wins, but sometimes idiots feel the need to assist.
It wasn't immediately clear when the man traveled to Syria, where he crossed the border, or his current whereabouts.
I'm betting Syria...
Last month, Israel security services tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! five men from the northern city of Jaljuliya, charging them with attempting to join IS in Syria. A relative of one of the men made headlines in October when he flew a paraglider into southern Syria from the Golan heights to join jihadis fighting there.
Arab intelligence sources told The Times of Israel that between 100 and 150 Israeli Arabs are either serving in or detained by the Islamic State, but this is the first case involving an IDF veteran.
In March, East Jerusalemite Muhammad Musallam, who had gone to Syria join IS, was executed after the group claimed he was a Mossad agent. A video of the execution released by the jihadi group showed Musallam shot repeatedly by a teenage boy, after which a second jihadi vowed that IS would "liberate Jerusalem from you filth, by Allah's permission."
Any bets on how soon our latest fashion victim Israeli soldier of Islam will find himself in exactly the same position?
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He's Jewish by citizenship but not by religion. When I first saw this, I thought this guy isn't too bright if he's Jewish by religion and joined ISIS--in fact, I thought it unlikely. I still think he's not too bright.
[Ynet] U.S. Arclight airstrikes in recent days killed an estimated 350 Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... fighters holed up in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi, an American military front man said Thursday, suggesting the holy warriors lost as much as half of their defending force.
Col. Steve Warren, front man for the U.S. military command in Baghdad, told news hounds at the Pentagon that there had been an estimated 600 to 1,000 Islamic State fighters inside Ramadi, which the holy warrior group captured in May. Despite this depletion of Islamic State forces, U.S. officials are reluctant to predict how long it will take to reclaim the city, which is the capital of Anbar province and a key to the Iraqi government's hopes of restoring its borders.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter, speaking separately Thursday, said Iraqi progress in retaking Ramadi has been "disappointingly slow."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran's health minister says an outbreak of swine flu has killed at least 42 people in the country over the past month.
Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi says 33 of the deaths from the H1N1 virus occurred in southeastern Kerman province. He says 600 people who contracted the virus there have been hospitalized, but that the outbreak is now under control.
He says other fatalities occurred in southeastern and southwestern Iran and one person died in Karaj, 30 kilometers (18 miles) west of the capital, Tehran.
Last year, swine flu claimed at least 89 lives in Iran.
The 2009 H1N1 outbreak started a global pandemic that killed as many as half a million people. The strain has been lethal mostly to those with complicating circumstances and is now considered a seasonal flu.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Gulf Arab leaders condemned "hostile, racist" remarks against Muslims and Syrian refugees in a statement issued on Thursday, days after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called for a ban on the entry of Muslims into the United States.
"The supreme council expressed its deep concern at the increase of hostile, racist and inhumane rhetoric against refugees in general and Muslims in particular," the Gulf Cooperation Council said, referring to a GCC heads of state meeting in Riyadh.
Gulf Arab states also called for an international reconstruction conference for Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... after any peace deal to end the country's civil war.
The call came in a statement by Gulf Cooperation Council leaders at the conclusion of their summit meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh, which was read out by GCC Secretary-General Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani.
"The council (GCC) members called for an international conference for Yemen reconstruction after the parties reach the aspired political solution," Zayani said in the statement broadcast on Saudi state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
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He said such a programme would be done in accordance with a "practical programme to rehabilitate the Yemeni economy and to ease its merger into the Gulf economies".
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Read an interesting bit on Instapundit suggesting American opinions on Islam may be linked to how many American military folks have first hand experience with their culture. Something that wasn't so true in the days when they were all Noble Arabs helping Peter O'Toule defeat the Turk.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – A security source in Anbar said on Wednesday, that the ISIS has imposed house detention on families inside Ramadi.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “The ISIS has prevented the people of Ramadi from leaving the city and imposed the home detention on them to use them as human shields against the security forces.”
The source, who asked not to be named, added: “The organization threatened with death all those who try to get out of Ramadi.”
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[CNN] State media indicated Thursday that North Korea has added the hydrogen bomb to its arsenal, a development that, if true, would represent a major leap in its nuclear weapons capabilities.
But outside observers were skeptical, saying that such an advance in the country's nuclear technology seemed unlikely.
Analysts in recent years have believed that North Korea may have been working toward -- but didn't yet have the capability to produce -- a thermonuclear bomb, which can be hundreds of times more powerful than an atomic bomb.
North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... made the claim, according to state media outlet KCNA, while touring a historic weapons industry site in the reclusive communist country.
Will China protect North Korea?
North Korea had become "a powerful nuclear weapons state ready to detonate [a] self-reliant A-bomb and H-bomb to reliably defend its illusory sovereignty and the dignity of the nation," Kim said, according to the KCNA report.
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You just add a little hydrogen oxide to the bomb, and it makes it a Hydrogen Bomb. Right?
I suppose you could even use H2SO4, or even better - CH4, with it's powerful climate-changing properties! Mega-Mass Destruction!
CH4 - a.k.a. methane
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If you start thinking of North Korea as China's way of launching hydrogen bombs at people while maintaining plausible deniability, this possibility makes sense.
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When a West Coat city vanishes, wake me. Otherwise all they (North Korea) Is , is a loudmouth braggart with godlike asperations.
If one DOES vanish, North Korea Will assume ass high and face down, and swear, I didn't do it.
(Whine, whine, grovel, grovel)
They'll be blasted anyway.
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If you start thinking of North Korea as China's way of launching hydrogen bombs at people while maintaining plausible deniability, this possibility makes sense.
That's why I'd tell the Chinese that if the Norks let loose with a nuke we'll hit China.
(Iraqinews.com) Anbar – A security source in Anbar announced Thursday, that the Iraqi warplanes have destroyed four ISIS vehicles north of Ramadi, while also pointed out to the killing of 10 members of the ISIS.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com “The Iraqi Air Forc, in coordination with Anbar Operations managed to destroy four vehicles driven by suicide bombers in the regions of Albu Dyab and Albu Farj north of Ramadi.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added: “The Iraqi Air Force destroyed those booby-trapped vehicles before reaching near the army, without material damage or human losses,” pointing out to “The killing of 10 members of ISIS in Albu Dyab and Albu Farj.”
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I keep wondering what people would have said during WWII to a report that a multi-plane strike had killed 10.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Israeli emergency medical services say three Israelis have been injured after a Paleostinian driver rammed into them near the West Bank settlement of Beit Arieh.
Emergency services front man Yonatan Yagodovsky said on Thursday that one Israeli was badly injured in the attack.
It's the latest incident in nearly three months of Paleostinian shootings, stabbings and attacks using cars.
Police spokeswoman Luba Samri says Israeli forces are searching for the attacker, who escaped into the nearby Paleostinian village of Luban. The village is close to the border between Israel and the West Bank.
Since October 1, almost daily attacks and festivities between Paleostinians and Israeli soldiers have killed 113 on the Paleostinian side, 17 Israelis, an American and an Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... n.
On Wednesday, four Israelis were maimed in two attacks in the occupied West Bank, including a soldier and a civilian stabbed in Hebron by a Paleostinian who was later rubbed out.
In the other incident, assailants shot at a car near the West Bank town of Tulkarem, wounding two Israelis.
The attacker expeditiously departed at a goodly pace in a black Isuzu, according to initial reports Security forces were searching the area for the driver.
They later found the car abandoned in the nearby village of Rantis. They recovered an IDF-issued weapon inside the car, the army said.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thursday sent divers to search a lake in San Bernardino, Calif., for a computer hard drive missing from the home of the suspects in the recent deadly shooting, according to people familiar with the matter. Dive photos! Great media release, great for Bureau PR. Let's get the entire office certified.
David Bowdich, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles office, told reporters the search of the lake could take days, and they were searching it because there were reports that the suspects had been seen at the lake the day of the shooting.
“We would be remiss not to go into this lake and conduct a thorough search,” said Mr. Bowdich, who declined to say what items were being sought in the lake, but vowed the investigation would leave “no stone unturned.”
The search of the lake is the latest move by the FBI to discover details about the suspects’ activity before the shooting. The lake search came as members of Congress briefed on the shootings Thursday said they were disturbed that neighbors and co-workers had seen signs that the suspects had been radicalized but failed to notify authorities.
They declined to give details, but said Ms. Malik and Mr. Farook had behaved in ways that raised suspicions. That contrasts with early reports suggesting the married couple gave no outward signs of radicalization.
Pro'ly didn't want to get sued for $15 million...
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the married couple gave no outward signs of radicalization
Other than funny hats, sack dresses and rugs with compasses.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thursday sent divers to search a lake
Gotta get those training hours in before they can requisition new equipment.
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[Dhaka Tribune] The BNP has decided to let grassroots leaders of the BNP-Jamaat alliance sort out how they would share mayoral seats among themselves for the December 30 municipal polls.
If they fail to decide themselves, BNP sources said that party Chairperson the loathesome Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... -- as a backup -- has a list prepared with names of finalised candidates.
The decisions were made at a BNP Standing Committee meeting at Khaleda's Gulshan office last night.
Taking to news hounds following the meeting, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleged that the government has been pressuring BNP candidates to withdraw from the municipality polls race. Leaders and activists of the BNP-led alliance were also being tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! indiscriminately, Fakhrul alleged.
The BNP will create divisional committees which will work alongside a central monitoring committee to observe the election, Fakhrul said.
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[Tolo News] President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. appointed the deputy head of the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), Massoud Andarabi, as acting chief of the spy agency following the surprise resignation of Rahmatullah Nabil on Thursday afternoon.
At an emergency meeting Thursday evening, which was attended by Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... among others, Ghani said Andarabi will take over.
In a statement issued by the Presidential Palace, Ghani said: "On the basis of consultations we agreed upon, Massoud Andarabi will take charge of the National Directorate of Security going forward."
Ghani did however pay homage to the authorities who serve in the NDS - for their efforts to provide security to the people, said the statement.
"The president, by accepting the resignation of Engineer Rahmatullah Nabil from the chairmanship of the National Directorate of Security, expressed his gratitude to him for maintaining security in the country," the statement read.
"The president announced the role of NDS at thwarting and detecting the security threats as important and expressed hope over more achievements by the NDS in the future," the statement added.
The meeting was also attended by deputies of the National Directorate Security (NDS).
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[WASHINGTONPOST] The super PAC supporting Jeb Bush is racing through its massive war chest much faster than money is coming in, spending close to $50 million in a record blitz that has so far failed to lift the former Florida governor's sputtering presidential candidacy.
The group, Right to Rise, has already gone through nearly half of the $103 million it brought in during the first half of the year, records show. It raised only about $13 million in the five months that followed, according to a person familiar with the figure.
That leaves the super PAC with about $67 million heading into the first 2016 GOP nominating contests. The sum still surpasses the resources of rival groups, but it is not clear whether Right to Rise's financial might -- viewed earlier this year as Bush's distinct advantage -- will be enough to help separate him from the pack.
The group's muted impact so far represents a confounding reality of this year's unconventional campaign: Money is no longer a clear barometer of success.
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so far failed to lift the former Florida governor's sputtering presidential candidacy.
and why is that? Could it be that Bush represents all of the negatives that Trump is feeding off? Could it be that Bush comes across as an establishment flunky?
Could it be that the voters think he's lying in the style of Obama?
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His inability to connect with the base is a real mystery, alright...
Of course, it might just be that the base has noticed he's a sock puppet for the crony capitalist Establishment and has the personality of a dead fish.
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It's not going to happen for JEB, as yawls know I am a fan. He was a TLH neighbor for. 8 years and is good smart people. But the times are shifting rapidly and frankly (can I say that) he is poor on the stump and wears his heart on his sleeve. I like Marco, the anti-Bush, hell of a stump speech, good life story, well read on FA, but still untried, VP material. Cruz is unelectable beCause, thin lips and smirkery.
[WASHINGTONPOST] An unrepentant Donald Trump responded Thursday to the backlash in the U.K. over his controversial statements on Muslims by saying that British politicians should be grateful that he has stated "what needed to be said." "Hoot, mon!"
Writing in the Press and Journal, one of Scotland's oldest newspapers, the leading U.S. Republican presidential candidate accused them of pandering to political correctness when instead they "should be thanking me."
Trump has faced widespread outrage in the U.K. -- and indeed around the world -- over his calls for a complete ban on Muslims entering the United States. But while Trump has only doubled down since first making his incendiary remarks, he did appear to be put off by the reaction from Scotland.
On Wednesday, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon dropped him as a business ambassador, revoking his membership in the GlobalScot business network. The Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Aberdeen also stripped the billionaire developer of his honorary degree for statements it said were "wholly incompatible" with the values of the university.
"If they -- Nicola Sturgeon and RGU -- were going to do this, they should have informed me prior to my major investment in this £200million development, which will totally revitalise that vast region of Scotland," Trump wrote in the Press and Journal.
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On Wednesday, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon dropped him as a business ambassador, revoking his membership in the GlobalScot business network. The Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Aberdeen also stripped the billionaire developer of his honorary degree for statements it said were "wholly incompatible" with the values of the university.
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Scotland and the UK are not voting in our election. They can screw up their country however they want but leave ours alone. Unrestricted immigration has not worked out so well in Europe. Now they are reaping the results from bad immigration decisions.
[FOXNEWS] The father of one of the three bully boyz who attacked the Bataclan concert hall in Gay Paree last month says he would have killed his son had he found out what he was going to do.
The Le Gay Pareeien newspaper identified the third attacker Wednesday as 23-year-old Foued Mohammed-Aggad, a native of the eastern French city of Strasbourg. It emerged that his mother received a text message in English about 10 days ago announcing her son's death "as a martyr" on Nov. 13 -- a typical way that ISIS notifies families of casualties.
"What kind of human being could do what he did?" the man's father, Said, told the newspaper. "If I had known he would do something like this, I would have killed him."
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported that Mohammed-Aggad and a group of about a dozen young men left Strasbourg for Syria in late 2013. Some chose to return -- including Mohammed-Aggad's brother Karim -- telling Sherlocks they were disgusted by what they had seen. The Frenchie believed to have recruited them, Mourad Fares, is also under arrest. All are charged with terror-related offenses and face trial.
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"If I had known he would do something like this
Too busy watching Futball, Dad?
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[PEOPLE] Australian authorities charged five people, including a 15-year-old boy, with conspiracy to plan a terrorist attack on a government building, according to multiple reports.
The teen and a 20-year-old western Sydney man were tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... and charged with "conspiracy to conduct an act in preparation for a terrorist act, " on Thursday the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reports. The three other men -- one 21-year-old and two aged 22 -- were already in jug on separate terror charges, but were later charged with the additional offense.
Authorities say the planned attack stemmed from a broader investigation into a now-uncovered terror plot that prompted a series of raids in December 2014, Rooters reports. Evidence seized in those raids contributed to Thursday's arrests.
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[Dhaka Tribune] At least two people were maimed as miscreants opened fire on the Hindu devotees gathered at a temple for a religious conference in Dinajpur's Kaharole area.
Locals chased the attackers and held one Shariful Islam, 25, when they were fleeing the scene, said OC Monsur Ali Sarker of Kaharole police. He hails from Polashbari of Gaibandha.
Bullet injured Ranjit Chandra Roy, 45, and Mithun Chandra Roy, 27, were taken to Dinajpur Medical College Hospital.
The attack took place around 8:30pm outside Dohuchi Iskcon Temple, located near Joynanda Bazar of Dabor at Kaharole upazila. Locals said three youths had blasted hand bombs and then opened fire on the people.
Dinajpur Superintendent of Police Md Ruhul Amin confirmed the incident but could not give any detail about the attackers or the motive.
On December 5, at least 10 people were maimed in kabooms during Raash Mela at Kantaji temple in Kaharole. Police claimed that it was a result of conflict between two leaders of the Awami League centring the lease of the festival venue.
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miscreants opened fire
Was this a act of gun violence OUTSIDE of the United States?
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[Tolo News] Local officials in Baghlan province voiced their concerns on Thursday over reports that Daesh [Islamic State]faceless myrmidons are trying to recruit in the area, warning that if government does not do something quickly this move will further escalate violence in the region.
According to some residents, faceless myrmidons apparently associated with Daesh [Islamic State] have in recent weeks tried to forge a foothold in the province and settle their families in the area in a bid to recruit fighters.
Residents believe this could pose enormous security threats to the people in future.
Up to 70 Daesh [Islamic State] families have reportedly been deployed to one district in Baghlan and are recruiting, members of Baghlan provincial council were quoted on Thursday as saying.
"I have information that 70 Daesh [Islamic State] families were deployed in Barkah district and are recruiting; they force the residents to provide them with food. Government is aware of the development, but it hasn't taken any action," a member of Baghlan provincial council Mohammad Hanif said.
"Taliban and Jandallah groups are already operating in Baghlan, but now Daesh [Islamic State] has added to these groups. The government is not taking action against them and faceless myrmidons freely recruit. So government must act," a Baghlan resident Zikrullah said.
"Daesh [Islamic State] and Talibs are recruiting in Baghlan. Government must act and suppress them during the winter," another resident Nasir said, adding that if action is not taken against them now, faceless myrmidons will pose a major threat come next spring.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do... Baghlan police department has confirmed Daesh [Islamic State]faceless myrmidons were in the area. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... police reject rumors over the deployment of holy warriors' families in Baghlan's Barkah district.
"Recently Daesh [Islamic State] planned to establish a center in Barkah district, but the group faced a major backlash from the people and they fled the area," acting police chief of Baghlan Abdul Rashid Bashir said.
This comes just a few months after rumors surfaced that Taliban and Jandallah groups were trying to recruit in Baghlan.
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seems pretty easy to identify them - and their families. Bag em and dispose of them
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According to some residents, Daesh have in recent weeks tried to forge a foothold in the province and settle their families in the area in a bid to recruit fighters.
Residents believe this could pose enormous security threats to the people in future.
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] President Barack Obama I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go... 's advisers are finalizing a proposal that would expand background checks on gun sales without congressional approval.
White House adviser Valerie Jarrett ...reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... political hack, now senior advisor to President B.O.... says the president has asked his team to complete a proposal and submit it for his review "in short order." She says the recommendations will include measures to expand background checks.
Jarrett spoke Wednesday night at a vigil for the victims of the Newtown shooting, according to a summary provided by the White House.
After the mass shooting in Roseburg, Oregon, Obama said his team was looking for ways to tighten gun laws without a vote in Congress. White House officials have said they're exploring closing the so-called "gun show loophole" that allows people to buy weapons at gun shows and online without a background check.
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Most guns sold without background checks happen in the 'hood', not the gun shows.
We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately!
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perhaps ValJar would subject herself to a background check. You know Zero waived that for her with the Secret Service
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The article, and presumably Jarrett, mentioned the Roseburg and Oregon shootings. There is no mention of the frequent shootings in Chicago, or the Muslim-inspired shootings such as Chattanooga, Ft. Hood, Garland, TX, and more recently San Bernadino. There are others too. I'm sure it was just an oversight (sarc). No mention of the Muslim-inspired bombings and attempted bombings as well. Or the ax and knife attacks and the Moore, OK beheading. So GGF Val as well as whomever wrote this piece of dreck.
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Most gun show organizers prohibit or strongly discourage parking lot sales as the parking lot salesmen did not pay the vendor fee. The vendors and the organizers therefore loose money. A lot of states also prohibit parking lot sales at gun shows. There is no loophole.
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Since when do facts and reality get in the way of the people wanting to enslave us by taking away our firearms.
SAHIWAL: Nineteen losing candidates of the second phase of local elections and their 300 supporters on Wednesday dared police to arrest them after marching on the city police station to protest registration of a case.
Having lost elections for the slots of chairman, vice chairman and councillor, they had arranged a gathering at Jogi Chowk on Sunday last to protest what they said rigging. Police registered a case against 22 losing candidates of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, the Jamaat-i-Islami and some independents and their supporters under 16 MPO.
As the protesters besieged the police station, officials arrested the 19 candidates and detained them in lock-up. They refused to arrest 300 supporters on the plea that such an arrest could be made only after identification through videos.
City police station SHO Masood Ahmed is the complainant in the FIR and interestingly he was not present at the time of arrests.
These candidates blamed the PML-N district leadership, Punjab Minster for Ushr and Zakat Malik Nadeem Kamran, MPA Malik Arshad and MNA Pir Imran Shah for political victimisation through police action.
Sheikh Ijaz, president of Tahaffuz-i-Sahiwal Forum, told the media that “we have been politically victimised for questioning rigging in urban union councils of Sahiwal city.”
DSP Ziaul Haq, along with a heavy contingent of police and Elite Force, remained alert at the police station and had to resort to baton-charge of the crowd to disperse it. Police registered case against nine of the protesters and the DSP said more cases would be instituted if they refused to disperse.
It merits mention that the returning officer of Union Council 6 has already written to the DRO that two bags of rejected votes had been misplaced at polling stations 64 and 69. Shafqat and Sheikh Ijaz contested election in the UC as independent candidates and they both challenged incomplete consolidation of final results by RO Khalid Khan on Nov 23.
The Lahore High Court’s Multan Bench has already asked the Election Commission of Pakistan to stop the gazette notification of UC 6 chairman result which was won by Haji Latif of the PML-N with one vote.
Sarmad Shafqat alleged that the RO consolidated results without counting 85 votes misplaced in two polling stations.
Meanwhile, the opposition parties condemned police action and the Bar Council and different wings of the Anjuman-i-Tajran announced protest.
The Yemeni army and popular committees managed on Thursday to control Al-Arous camp in Taiz provinces, clashing with the Saudi-led mercenaries, according to Yemeni sources.
The Yemeni forces also struck various Saudi military sites ad gatherings in Jizan, Najran and Assir.
A former British army officer and an Australian are among eight foreign mercenaries killed in Yemen this week fighting Ansarullah movement and the Yemeni people, the British newspaper The Times reported.
The two were leading a team of Colombian soldiers secretly employed by the United Arab Emirates to contribute to the Saudi-led aggression against Yemen, military sources told The Times.
The British Cornel Arthur Kingstone and the Australian Philip Stateman were ambushed while they were leading a group of mercenaries towards al-Omari military camp in Aden.
Kingstone and Stateman used to work for the International Black Water company which offers security services and is entitled to protect UAE from terrorist attacks.
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"Vince Ricardo: Are you interested in joining? The benefits are terrific. The trick is not to get killed. That's really the key to the benefit program."
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fighting Ansarullah movement and the Yemeni people
yep, Almanar
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A former British army officer and an Australian...were leading a team of Colombian soldiers secretly employed by the United Arab Emirates to contribute to the Saudi-led aggression against Yemen, military sources told The Times.
Yep, multihemispherians.
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Using Weapons made by our Germans whilst the Houthi used weapons designed by Russia, copied by their Chinees and shipped to Iran.
Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday said it was “out of the question for the moment” that Turkish troops would withdraw from Iraq, after Baghdad accused Ankara of sending them in without permission.
The row has badly soured relations and saw the Turkish ambassador to Iraq summoned on Saturday to demand that Turkey immediately withdraw hundreds of troops deployed in recent days in northern Iraq, near the Islamic State-controlled city of Mosul.
Iraq’s foreign ministry said Turkish forces had entered Iraqi territory without the knowledge of Baghdad, which viewed their presence as a “hostile act”.
Speaking at a news conference, Erdogan said the troops were there to train Kurdish peshmerga fighters and not for combat purposes. He reiterated an earlier statement that they had been deployed following an invitation by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi last year.
“The number of our soldiers (in northern Iraq) might increase or decrease depending on the number of peshmerga being trained,” Erdogan stated.
“Withdrawing our soldiers is out of the question for the moment.”
There is no credible Iraqi force that can move into Mosul, kick out ISIS, and occupy the city, and there probably won’t be for a long time. But the siege of Mosul has begun. Clearly, Turkey, which has boxed itself out of a solution in Syria, wants to be a part of whatever happens in northern Iraq. The Turkish troops that rolled across the border last week took up positions in the town of Bashiqa, a few miles outside of Mosul. The public reason given by the Turks is that the troops were sent to bolster a contingent of forces that was already there to train a Sunni militia. But no one really believes that.
The Iraqi government may not have invited the Turks, but it seems pretty clear that the Kurdish Regional Government, which oversees the autonomous region of northern Iraq, did not protest when they arrived. In any case, the Iraqi Kurds can’t say no to the Turks: the thing that all Kurdish hopes of independence rest on is the oil pipeline that sends Kurdish oil to the Mediterranean every day. It runs through Turkey, and Erdoğan could turn it off at any moment if he wanted to. On Wednesday, the Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani, whom I Profiled in the magazine last year, met with Erdoğan in Ankara.
So, finally, why did the Turks go into northern Iraq? It seems pretty clear that Erdoğan, whose policy has failed in Syria, is trying to be relevant again. “Erdoğan wants to be part of whatever happens in Mosul, and putting troops there guarantees that,’’ a senior Iraqi official told me.
Is it going to work? Maybe. But the danger, increasingly, is that with so many major countries jockeying for power in Syria and Iraq events will spin out of control. The Russian cruise missiles flying over northern Iraq are just one example. Several have already crashed in northwestern Iran; just wait until that happens in Iraq.
Turkish troops in Iraq; Russians, Iranians, and Hezbollah fighters in Syria: the Middle East is a very busy place. The longer the war goes on in Syria, the greater the risk that it turns into something much worse.
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Any chance Turkey is hoping to divide good Kurds from bad Kurds?
I've always felt it was in Turkeys best interests to get their own Kurds to move south before they demographically take over Turkey. Perhaps facing Putin has caused them to fine-tune their Kurdish thinking a bit.
Golly. How many millions marched against the American invasion of Iraq in 2003?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] More than a quarter of a million Britons have signed an online petition to ban Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump from the country following his proposal to stop Muslims from entering the United States.
Trump, who owns two golf courses in Scotland which he visited earlier this year, called for a complete shutdown of Muslims entering the U.S. "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on". His comments followed last week's deadly shooting spree by two Muslims in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,.
The number of signatories to the petition was growing fast but Britannia's finance minister George Osborne said on Wednesday that Trump should not be banned from the country.
In the past, people have been banned from entering Britannia for fostering hatred that might provoke inter-community violence.
The petition says: "If the United Kingdom is to continue applying the 'unacceptable behavior' criteria to those who wish to enter its borders, it must be fairly applied to the rich as well as poor, and the weak as well as the powerful."
It was launched by Suzanne Kelly, a Scottish-based campaigner and longtime critic of Trump's latest golf course in Aberdeenshire.
Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University said on Twitter on Wednesday it was revoking an honorary degree awarded to Trump in 2010 because he had "made a number of statements that are wholly incompatible with the ethos and values of the university".
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon also stripped Trump of his role as a business ambassador for Scotland, a spokeswoman for her Edinburgh-based government said in a statement.
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They are so behind the times. They will learn the hard way. They have done this before with other Americans.
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Better to be respected than loved, and if not respected, feared. And if you don't 'believe' that, just look how the Islamists are operating in the West and all the accommodation paid to them by the ruling caste.
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Are there 350,000 Muslims in the UK who signed this petition? From what I heard, not so many Brits are too enthused about multiculturalism and the Muslim home invasion. If Hitler were not opposed during WWII, the Brits would be speaking German today. In some ways the present Islamic threat is more insidious and dangerous.
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It would be easy enough to get a quarter million digital signatures for almost anything. Just appeal to the emotions of uninformed teams and top it off with Muslims. I'm surprised they couldn't whip up higher numbers to be honest.
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If Trump did indeed ban all muslims from entering the US that would send a powerful message that the US is not going to tolerate any more sh*t from that quarter.
however, would he be able to actually do it?
no.
The reason is it would violate the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of religion
So activists would fight him in the courts, and even if he was able to pass the legislation it could not be enforced - every single case would have a volunteer pro bono lawyer to fight it all the way up to the supreme
Trump knows this unless he is stupid - and you do not make a pile of wealth by being stupid. So he knows.
my question is -- why did he say what he did?
Not to win voters... although there is a large swell of anger against Islamist terror attacks, even if it did get him over the line it would hobble his presidency and those same people that voted him in to ban muslims from entering would turn on him and hate him for not being able to.
So that is not what it is about.
my guess is he is doing it to create a buffoon persona that draws the idiot bigots away from the GOP
It gives the democrats, liberals and the moderate and reasonable republicans a figure to hate.
Then, when it is time to run against Hilary for real, the republicans will bring forth Jeb Bush
the reasonable candidate
who will look much better compared to Trump -- hopefully neutralising some of the hate-Bush-left.
That should help them run against Hillary
However be prepared for disappointment - that means Jeb Bush is going to do nothing about the real war on terror, which is the war on Islamist fascism
i think Trump is all about triangulation and setting the boundaries to help the real candidate in positioning
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true. without strong borders a country cannot stand
perhaps he is a bit about shifting the goal posts so that the left can move a little bit away from their unrealistic idiocy in that regard without losing their core vote
maybe Trump is thus a Hillary plant? Does she have enough money to buy him?
[DAWN] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... Chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... on Thursday said that he would seek compensation for victims of a controversial US drone strike programme, vowing to take their cases to the parliament and the courts.
Imran, whose party opposes US drone attacks, was speaking at the launch of a report demanding compensation for drone victims, organised by the independent foundation for fundamental rights and international legal aid charity Reprieve.
He was speaking at the closing plenary of 8th Sustainable Development Conference, which concluded under the auspices of Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) on Thursday.
Drone attacks are meant to target Death Eaters but are controversial among rights groups because of the high reported numbers of civilian casualties and lack of transparency over targets.
Islamabad officially opposes US strikes in its territory, calling them a violation of its illusory sovereignty, though leaked documents in the past have shown the two countries worked together on the campaign.
"PTI will raise this issue in parliament and also go to court to get compensation for the drone victims," Imran said.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The ARG Presidential Palace confirmed President Ghani has accepted the resignation of National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) Chief Rahmatullah Nabil's resignation.
A statement by the Palace said "Mr. Nabil presented his resignation to the President of Afghanistan for approval today. Despite the President was not in favor of changes in this security department during the current situation, but he respected Mr. Nabil's demand and approved it."
President Ghani will call for a meeting this evening to appoint the acting chief from within the National Directorate of Security, the statement said.
Reports regarding the resignation of Nabil emerged this afternoon and followed an unusual statement posted on his official Facebook page late last night.
Nabil harshly criticized the Pak leadership's stance regarding the ongoing situation in Afghanistan and efforts to bring the Taliban group to negotiation table.
Nabil said the innocent Afghan civilians were martyred and beheaded in Kandahar airfield, Khanshin district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , Takhar and Badakhshan at the same 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... was delivering his speech, once calling the enemy of Afghanistan as Pakistain's enemy.
In an apparent gesture towards the Afghan leadership's approach towards Pakistain, Nabil said "At least 1,000 litres blood of our innocent people spilled which was similar to the red carpet where we did a cat walk. But the one who was present with us in the gathering and made an announcement from Quetta city of Pakistain under the name of Taliban, using the ISI computer to claim the glory. And we became so much apprehended and excited with 21 artillery gun salute that we agreed regarding the execution of 40 assaults/operations against the enemies of Pakistain and promised to soon launch a large operation against 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... in a bid to keep our 60-year-old friend glad."
Frustrated with the growing interference of Pakistain in internal affairs of Afghanistan and President Ghani's approach, Nabil questioned regarding the 5000-year-old history of Afghanistan saying it has kneeled to a 60-year-old history.
Nabil also added that the Pak Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah has been residing in Pakistain and ISI guesthouses during the past several months and years, insisting that Mullah Fazlullah is part of ISI projects.
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(Iraqinews.com) Anbar – A security source in Anbar province announced on Thursday, that the security forces have liberated the southern part of al-Malaab area south of Ramadi.
The source said in an interview for Iraqinews.com, “The security forces have been able today to liberate al-Aramil District which represents the southern part of al-Malaab area south of Ramadi.”
The source, who asked not to be named, added “ISIS elements suffered great losses during the operation.” From about Ramadi
[FOXNEWS] This year's Nobel Peace Prize winners, the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet ... The Quartet are the UN (xylophone), the United States (alto), the European Union (soprano), and Russia (shortstop). The group was established in Madrid in 2002 by former Spanish Prime Minister Aznar, as a result of the escalating conflict in the Middle East. Tony Blair is the Quartet's current Special Envoy.... , collected their award in Norway on Thursday, appealing for international cooperation to make the global fight against terrorism a top priority.
Speaking at the awards ceremony in Oslo City Hall, Tunisian labor union leader Houcine Abassi expressed the group's sorrow and anger at recent "terrorist acts" that killed and injured hundreds. This year, two major assaults on tourists in Tunisia killed 22 people at the Bardo Museum in the capital, Tunis, and 38 at a resort near Sousse.
He said the quartet's "feeling of euphoria and pride does not obscure the grief, sorrow and anger" they feel about recent violent events, including "Sousse, the Bardo Museum, Beirut, Gay Paree, Sharm el-Sheikh and Bamako (with) scenes of barbaric and heinous terrorist acts."
Abassi said the world was "most in need to make the fight against terrorism an absolute priority, which means perseverance on the coordination and cooperation between all nations."
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[POLITICO] A prominent Democratic congresswoman and Senate candidate said Thursday that up to 20 percent of Muslims want to establish an Islamic caliphate and would use "terrorism" to achieve that goal.
Rep. Loretta Sanchez said Muslims seeking a caliphate are willing to use terrorism and violence to impose their views on the Western world.
"We know that there is a small group, and we don't know how big that is -- it can be anywhere between 5 and 20 percent, from the people that I speak to -- that Islam is their religion and who have a desire for a caliphate and to institute that in any way possible," Sanchez said on "PoliticKING with Larry King."
"They are not content enough to have their way of looking at the world, they want to put their way on everybody in the world," she said. "And again, I don't know how big that is, and depending on who you talk to, but they are certainly -- they are willing to go to extremes. They are willing to use and they do use terrorism."
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one of the lowest IQs in congress actually understands it better than 95% of the faculty at Berkeley
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....."We know that there is a small group, and we don't know how big that is -- it can be anywhere between 5 and 20 percent,
What if airliner engine fires averaged "btwn 5 & 20 percent" upon takeoff .......?
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Many on the left and some on the right seem O.K. with supporting the Islamics in their quest. According to them global warming/climate change is the major threat. They are also blaming guns as a threat and not those whose hands they are in such as the crazies, the Islamics and a corrupted government. They want all the guns and they believe then, we will all live in their left-wing socialist utopia. Sounds like a friggin nightmare.
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#1 is right. She's a dipshit. Broken clocks and all that
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Loretta doesn't want any challenges to her people. I'll give her credit for having good survival instincts but I'm afraid she remains a socialist at heart who would turn America into a Third World country, just not a Muslim Third World country.
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Global Communism or Global Caliphate, the future OWG-NWO aka Space Govt-Order than no American = Amerikan has voted for can fergit about going into deep space for trade and colonization, let alone escaping Solar-led GWCC.
Muslim Perts-Clerics themselves have said Islam andor Radical Islam doesn't believe Humanity should leave Earth to explore Space - Humanity perhaps has a better chance wid Communism, but given Communism's histoire wid massive bureacratic entanglements resulting in shoddy products-n-services going into Space is likely going to involve protractively long timelines + too-slow key tech improvements or innovations that won't satisfy many, + may still end up cutting too close to Solar variances for comfort.
[WASHINGTONPOST] After slipping away alone from his tiny base in Afghanistan under cover of darkness in 2009, Army Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl had a sinking thought: His plan to draw attention to himself by spawning a massive manhunt was going to lead to a "hurricane of wrath" from his commanders.
Bergdahl decided then to deviate from his plan to head straight from his platoon's base, Observation Post Mest, to the larger headquarters 20 miles away, Forward Operating Base Sharana, he said on an episode of the podcast "Serial" published Thursday. It marked his first media interview since he was released in May 2014 after being held in captivity for five years by a group affiliated with the Taliban.
Bergdahl, comparing himself to a fictional action hero, said he decided to collect intelligence and look for the Taliban before turning himself in as a way of limiting the amount of trouble he faced.
"Doing what I did is me saying that I am like, I don't know, Jason Bourne.... I had this fantastic idea that I was going to prove to the world that I was the real thing," Bergdahl said. "You know, that I could be what it is that all those guys out there that go to the movies and watch those movies, they all want to be that, but I wanted to prove that I was that."
The plan fell apart quickly, however. He got lost in some hills and was taken prisoner by bad boy on cycle of violences who found him in open desert, he said. Military officials have said previously that he was captured June 30, 2009, just hours after disappearing.
"I don't know what it was, but there I was in the open desert, and I'm not about to outrun a bunch of cycle of violences, so I couldn't do anything against, you know, six or seven guys with AK-47s," Bergdahl said. "And they pulled up and just.... That was it."
Bergdahl's comments aired in the first episode of a new season of "Serial," the hugely popular weekly podcast spun off from the public radio show "This American Life." The show's host and creator, Sarah Koenig, said in the episode (available here) that the new season of "Serial" will draw heavily from 25 hours of recorded phone calls between Bergdahl and Mark Boal, a filmmaker who began interviewing the soldier after he was released. His previous film credits include "The Hurt Locker" and "Zero Dark Thirty."
The focus of "Serial" on the case promises to draw even more attention to Bergdahl, a controversial figure who faces military charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. It also will offer even more fodder in a case that already was heavily politicized, with many Republicans angry that the B.O. regime opted to recover the soldier in a swap in which five Taliban officials were released last year from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. They remain under supervised release in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... .
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After the capture it was "Lawrence & the six Turks"?
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So he was going to the go to another base to report 'leadership problems' and cause a massive manhunt but decidled to single handily defeat the Taliban along the way. He just got lost along the way, not his fault.
Not delusional - he's Lying.
And since he purposely caused the manhunt he should be held responsible for the deaths that were a result
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In courts martial he has the option to issue a statement on his own behalf and not testify, which would make him subject to cross examination (not just from the prosecutor but also members of the board).
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I noted with some interest the tricksy lawyer technique of having MG Dahl testify about this ridiculous story so there could be no cross exam and Bergdahl never took the stand at the Article 32 hearing. I also just read that Dahl is now LTG Dahl. What a coincidence!
[Dhaka Tribune] At least eight members of an organised gang of robbers were beaten to death by a mob who caught them red handed when they were trying to steal rice sacks from a store at Purundi Bazar of Araihazar in Narayanganj early yesterday.
Four of them were killed before the police reached the spot near the Dhaka-Sylhet highway around 6am. Witnesses said two robbers died in presence of police, the body of another was recovered from a ditch around 7am while another died in a local hospital around 1pm.
Police have identified four of the dear departed from the mobile phones found on their bodies. They are truck driver Rony, 35, of Noakhali; Jewel alias Titu, 32; Shawkat, 30; and Rubel, 28, from Mymensingh.
Four other robbers were placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! from the spot. They are Lokman, 28, Sajib, 27, Manik, 25, and Sabbir, 22. Of them, all but Lokman hail from different areas of Mymensingh.
Three of them are currently undergoing treatment at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital at death's door.
Law enforcers have also recovered the truck onto which the robbers were loading the sacks stolen from Bhai Bhai Store, owned by one Gafur Bhuiyan.
Two cases were filed over the incident last night -- one for robbery and the other for murder against several thousand people.
According to local people, there have been several incidents of robbery and theft in the area in recent times, but law enforcers have not been able to solve any of the cases. One of the robberies took place at Bagbari Bazar around 20 days ago during which robbers snatched around 180 sacks of rice from a store.
National Human Rights Commission Chairman Mizanur Rahman 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... s over the death of the eight robbers in mob beating.
According to the statistics compiled by rights group Ain o Salish Kendra, at least 104 people were reportedly killed in mob beating in different areas between January and September this year. Of them, 50 were killed in Dhaka and 17 in Chittagong.
Police said the gang comprised 18-20 members who rented the truck from the capital's Tejgaon area on Wednesday.
OC (investigation) Arifur Rahman of the Araihazar police said the robbers went to the Purinda Bazar with the truck -- numbered Dhaka Metro Ta-18 4311 -- around 4am and asked the on-duty security guards about the location of Bhai Bhai Store.
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What, they purloined 180 sacks of rice? How long did that take? "Are you happy to see me or...."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Egypt on Thursday ordered nine coppers to stand trial for the beating to death of a man in jug, prosecutors said, after authorities vowed a crackdown on police abuses.
The nine, including three lieutenants and a captain, were jugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! last week as part of a probe into the death of the 47-year-old at a cop shoppe in the southern city of Luxor in November.
Their arrests came amid at least two investigations into deaths in police custody, and after President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi last week warned that coppers found guilty of "committing mistakes" would be punished.
"The prosecutor general ordered the nine coppers to face a criminal trial," an official at Luxor prosecutor's office told AFP.
He said the start date had yet to be fixed.
The coppers are accused of either participating in the beating, approving it or not preventing it, a judicial official said.
If found guilty, they face a prison term of up to 15 years.
The man had been arrested on November 26 at a cafe in Luxor and taken to the cop shoppe where he died an hour later.
A forensic report revealed that he had been beaten on his neck and back, the official MENA news agency reported last week.
Another police officer has been detained in a separate case of a veterinarian who died in police custody last month in the Suez Canal city of Ismailiya.
Rights groups regularly accuse Egyptian police and members of the secret police of abusing and torturing detainees.
Police abuses under former president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... were a key factor for the 2011 uprising that led to his ouster.
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Years before he met his rifle-toting Pakistani bride, San Bernardino terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook plotted jihad with his boyhood next-door neighbor in 2012, it was revealed Wednesday.
Farook’s pal, Islam convert Enrique Marquez, had by then purchased the firepower to pull off an attack: the very same two AR-15s that Farook and wife Tashfeen Malik would use last week in slaughtering 14 people at the Inland Regional Center. A specific target was weighed, CNN reported, citing two US officials, though they did not identify it.
But Marquez, who is cooperating with the FBI, has told investigators that he got cold feet and the 2012 plot fell through, the network reported. Marquez, 24, has also told investigators that he had no advance knowledge of last week’s massacre.
So he says now...
But a Marquez pal told ABC News that at a party months ago, the glasses-wearing Walmart employee made a remark that in hindsight was prophetic.
“He said something along the lines of, ‘There’s a lot of Muslims in our own back yard, just ready to go haywire and attack,’ ” the friend, Michael G. Stone, told ABC. “And we didn’t think nothing of it. We just brushed it aside, you know. He was drunk, so I don’t know.”
Immediately after last week’s shooting, Marquez took to Facebook to apologize. “I’m. Very sorry guys. It was a pleasure.”
Marquez then checked himself into a mental institution, delaying the investigation. Federal agents raided Marquez’s home Saturday, but were only able to interview him Tuesday. He so far has not been charged.
The FBI couldn't drag him out of the mental institution for questioning because...
Marquez and Farook lived side by side in Riverside, Calif., from childhood until only a few months ago, when Farook and new bride Malik took their infant daughter and moved 17 miles northeast to his mom’s townhouse in Redlands.
As a teen, Marquez attended a nearby mosque with the Farook family and, by 2011, the two were radicalized, sources told CNN.
The two friends would also wind up related by marriage. Marquez on Nov. 29, 2014, married Mariya Chernykh, the sister of Farook’s sister-in-law, Reuters reported, citing marriage documents.
Gasser Shehati, Farook’s friend from a mosque, said Farook told him several years ago that Marquez had converted to Islam.
Employees at a Walmart in Corona, Calif., said Marquez worked there as an asset protection and customer specialist for about six months, and was last seen there on Nov. 29.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A joint team of Syria's political and armed opposition will meet the government next month for talks seeking a political solution to nearly five years of conflict, the chairman of a Saudi-hosted opposition conference said on Friday.
More than 100 members of Syria's opposition parties and rebel fighting groups agreed at the end of two days of talks in Riyadh to work together to prepare for peace talks with Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... 's government.
But the final hours of the meeting, which excluded Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... and Nusra Front fighters as well as the main Kurdish force controlling large parts of northern Syria, were overshadowed by protest from the powerful Death Eater group Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... .
In a statement, it said it had withdrawn from the Riyadh meeting, objecting to what it said was a prominent role given to the mainly Damascus-based political opposition group, the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change, which it said was closer to Assad than to the opposition.
It also said rebel fighters had been under-represented at the talks and their voices largely ignored. However a copy of the final statement, seen by Rooters, had been signed by the Ahrar al-Sham delegate.
Nevertheless, its withdrawal - however brief - highlighted enduring rifts among Assad's enemies which have bedevilled Western and Gulf Arab efforts to rally enough political and military pressure on the president to force him to step down.
Abdulaziz al-Sager, a Saudi academic who chaired the Riyadh talks, said the opposition would meet government officials in the first 10 days of January, the first such talks in two years
aimed at ending a bloody civil war which has drawn in forces from the United States, Russia, Europe and the Arab world.
"There will be a meeting decided by (United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... envoy Staffan) de Mistura in January. A meeting between the opposition and the Syrian regime to go to a transitional period," he said, in comments translated at a news conference.
"This will take place in the first 10 days of January."
A statement at the end of the two-day conference said Assad should leave power at the start of a transitional period, and called for an all-inclusive, democratic civic state. It also committed to preserving state institutions.
The opposition was willing to enter talks with Syrian government representatives and to accept a U.N.-supervised ceasefire, the statement said.
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Checkpoints appeared in Sabratha today allegedly manned by supporters of the so-called Islamic State (IS) although there are competing claims that those involved are members of Ansar al-Sharia.
The checkpoints and the presence of some 30 vehicles with black flags followed an incident last night in which two men were arrested in neighbouring Sorman. It is claimed that one of them is related to a member of IS in Sabratha.
“The police in Sorman were suspicious about two strangers renting a small house in the town and after storming it, they have found weapons in the place, including explosives,” Mohamed Al-Balili a local Sorman journalist told the Libya Herald. “One of the two is Tunisian and the other a Libyan who just returned back from Syria recently.”
The two were handed over by the Sorman police to the Security Directorate this morning. However, fearing a revenge attack from IS supporters, the Sorman police station was given added protection of sand wall around it this morning.
However, Sabratha’s mayor, Hussein Dawadi, has a somewhat different version of events. According to him, only one person was arrested who was suspected of being a member of IS. He had, moreover, been arrested in Sabratha, not Sorman. His family and friends then set up the checkpoints. As a result the mayor had met the man’s brother whom he said might be a member of IS, there had been negotiations and the man had been released.
Dawadi, himself an Islamist whose arrest at Tunis airport in October resulted in at least a hundred Tunisians being seized in Libya, admitted there might be some IS supporters in the town, but claimed they were not like those in Sirte and Derna. They were Libyan and peaceful, he said. There were, however, no foreigner fighters at all in Sabratha, he insisted, and none would be allowed.
A third version of the events has the two arrested men being members of Ansar Al-Sharia rather than IS, and their arrest in Sorman the result of rivalry between the militia in there and Islamists in Sabratha.
Meanwhile, residents in Sabratha say tensions rose this afternoon between an IS group in the town and its security directorate, itself headed headed by Islamist Taher Al-Ghrabli, after IS fighters fired shots against a woman’s perfume shop owned by Al-Ghrabli’s brother. The IS fighters were in a a small military convoy protesting over the arrest of the two men in Sorman.
To try and resolve the situation, Sabratha municipal council and its military council plus representatives from some “revolutionary militias” held an urgent meeting this afternoon. Among measures agreed was a register of foreigners in the town and a ban on any large-scale gatherings.
Allegations that IS has a presence in Sabratha in the form of at last one training camp have been rife for some months. The municipal authorities and other local official have consistently denied this, at least until now.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Police in Chittagong incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! 56 people, including the district unit Ameer 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... Professor Ahsan Ullah and two top Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... leaders, in different parts of the district on various charges yesterday.
Kotwali cop shoppe Inspector (investigation) Nur Ahmed told the Dhaka Tribune Jamaat Ameer Ahsan Ullah and central Shibir leaders Enamul Kabir and Golam Mostafa were detained from Chittagong Central Jail gate area.
"They walked out of jail on bail in the morning. But they were detained again in several other cases filed on subversion charges. They were shown arrested in those cases," he said.
The 53 others were detained from several areas of the port city during overnight raids, and 44 of them face warrants.
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[NewRepublic] Ban guns. All guns. Get rid of guns in homes, and on the streets, and, as much as possible, on police. Not just because of San Bernardino, or whichever mass shooting may pop up next, but also not not because of those.
...not not because...? Already it can be seen the wordsmith is not thinking deeply on the subject.
Don’t sort the population into those who might do something evil or foolish or self-destructive with a gun and those who surely will not. As if this could be known—as if it could be assessed without massively violating civil liberties and stigmatizing the mentally ill. Ban guns! Not just gun violence. Not just certain guns. Not just already-technically-illegal guns. All of them.
I used to refer to my position on this issue as being in favor of gun control. Which is true, except that “gun control” at its most radical still tends to refer to bans on certain weapons and closing loopholes. The recent New York Times front-page editorial, as much as it infuriated some, was still too tentative. “Certain kinds of weapons, like the slightly modified combat rifles used in California, and certain kinds of ammunition, must be outlawed for civilian ownership,” the paper argued, making the case for “reasonable regulation,” nothing more. Even the rare ban-guns arguments involve prefacing and hedging and disclaimers. “We shouldn’t ‘take them away’ from people who currently own them, necessarily,” writes Hollis Phelps in Salon. Oh, but we should.
I say this not to win some sort of ideological purity contest, but because banning guns urgently needs to become a rhetorical and conceptual possibility. The national conversation needs to shift from one extreme—an acceptance, ranging from complacent to enthusiastic, of an individual right to own guns—to another, which requires people who are not politicians to speak their minds. And this will only happen if the Americans who are quietly convinced that guns are terrible speak out. All we have been hearing from the promoters of theft and murder have been "Americans" (even Canadians such as this individual) speaking out about the "evils" of gunz.
Their wariness, as far as I can tell, comes from two issues: a readiness to accept the Second Amendment as a refutation, and a reluctance to impose “elite” culture on parts of the country where guns are popular. (There are other reasons as well, not least a fear of getting shot.) And there’s the extent to which it’s just so ingrained that banning guns is impossible, legislatively and pragmatically, which dramatically weakens the anti-gun position. Your prize example, Australia was a massive failure in confiscation, and spoke more to English speaking people's unwillingness to part with the one means of protection available to the average individual, than to any leftist dream of placing fellow citizens and political opponents in mortal danger from the security apparatus of the state because of gun ownership.
The first issue shouldn’t be so complicated. It doesn’t take specialized expertise in constitutional law to understand that current U.S. gun law gets its parameters from Supreme Court interpretations of the Second Amendment. But it’s right there in the First Amendment that we don’t have to simply nod along with what follows. That the Second Amendment has been liberally interpreted doesn’t prevent any of us from saying it’s been misinterpreted, or that it should be repealed. Dunno which cave you have been living in, but in several states the 2nd Amendment has been effectively gutted by local laws, all with the approval of a wrong headed Supreme Court. But the 2nd Amendment can't be repealed. It can only be amended by the several states, not by legislative fiat from which most guns law originated.
When you find yourself assuming that everyone who has a more nuanced (or just pro-gun) argument is simply better read on the topic, remember that opponents of abortion aren’t wondering whether they should have a more nuanced view of abortion because of Roe v. Wade. They’re not keeping their opinions to themselves until they’ve got a term paper’s worth of material proving that they’ve studied the relevant case law. You should pause to show your readers that icky abortion amendment in the Constitution. And as we all know living and dying by courts and the majestic and ongoing misinterpreation of the Constitution's plain language is a bad way for a civil society to conduct itself. This nation is supposed to be free with as few rules and regulations over individual lives as possible, but instead we have robed and elected Mandarins whose only role is to pander to whatever initiative the left can conceive, all the while ignoring basic civil liberties.
Then there is the privilege argument. If you grew up somewhere in America where gun culture wasn’t a thing (as is my situation; I’m an American living in Canada), or even just in a family that would have never considered gun ownership, you’ll probably be accused of looking down your nose at gun culture. As if gun ownership were simply a cultural tradition to be respected, and not, you know, about owning guns. Guns… I mean, must it really be spelled out what’s different? It’s absurd to reduce an anti-gun position to a snooty aesthetic preference. Whut?
There’s also a more progressive version of this argument, and a more contrarian one, which involves suggesting that an anti-gun position is racist, because crackdowns on guns are criminal-justice interventions. Progressives who might have been able to brush off accusations of anti-rural-white classism may have a tougher time confronting arguments about the disparate impact gun control policies can have on marginalized communities. Yeah, right: gun owners can be easily convinced to give up their weapons by your using Marxist terms and concepts. Sweetie, you need to get out more. You hate your political opponents enough to set the raw power of the state against them all because they own firearms, at least learn about them before you do that.
These, however, are criticisms of certain tentative, insufficient gun control measures—the ones that would leave small-town white families with legally-acquired guns well enough alone, allowing them to shoot themselves or one another and to let their guns enter the general population. If you'll look, which you obviously didn't, the great bulk of criminal gun violence is committed not by "white gun owning families" but by those of other races. Most including nonwhites own guns for protection because the state doesn't protect anyone but itself, and often creates conditions in which violent crimes with guns flourish.
Ban Guns, meanwhile, is not discriminatory in this way. It’s not about dividing society into “good” and “bad” gun owners. It’s about placing gun ownership itself in the “bad” category. It’s worth adding that the anti-gun position is ultimately about police not carrying guns, either. That could never happen, right? Well, certainly not if we keep on insisting on its impossibility. IOW: It's about the advocacy of setting the raw power of the government against individuals, your political opponents because they own guns. And all the while expecting no backlash against those who would carry out the dictates of government officials, the officials themselves and those who moved gun confiscation to policy, and the inevitable violence that will accompany it.
Ask yourself this: Is the pro-gun side concerned with how it comes across? More to the point: Does the fact that someone opposes gun control demonstrate that they’re culturally sensitive to the concerns of small-town whites, as well as deeply committed to fighting police brutality against blacks nationwide? I’m going to go with no and no on these. (The NRA exists!) Gotta get a dig in at the nation's oldest civil rights group, Sweetie?
On the pro-gun-control side of things, there’s far too much timidity. What’s needed to stop all gun violence is a vocal ban guns contingent. Getting bogged down in discussions of what’s feasible is keeps what needs to happen—no more guns—from entering the realm of possibility. Public opinion needs to shift. The no-guns stance needs to be an identifiable place on the spectrum, embraced unapologetically, if it’s to be reckoned with. You go right ahead with all your polls and votes, but be mindful of one concept: I get a veto, and my vote, if any of this is implemented will come from the rooftops. At 2,810 feet per second.
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We're going to have a real civil war, maybe later than sooner, but it certainly has reached a place were it inevitable.
"Stand your ground; don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here."
The Left in their fantasy world believes the Army will duly carry out their orders to grab the guns ignoring they aren't the ones in the ranks and never have been. It'll break the Army just as it did in 1861. Then again, they have no history to learn from.
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The liberals would not like the Mad Max scenario that would ensue if all guns were banned. These people are naive, unhinged and dangerous to say the least. Criminals and jihadists would still have guns, axes, knives, etc. As is said the only thing that stops a bad man or woman with a gun is a good man or woman with a gun.
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Seems to me you have two kinds of Gun Grabbing liberals. (1) The kind like this yahoo that live in a utopian world and really want the guns grabbed (2) Opportunists who tell the first group what they want to hear in order to get keep their votes from straying farther left, they will occasionally pass some marginal law about fantasy guns to look like they are doing something but know that taking guns away is impossible without a civil war. They also don't particularly like the debate because it drives up Republican attendance at elections and could easily cost them battleground states.
(1) Is not smart enough to realize they are being played.
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If people like this really were afraid of people with guns, they wouldn't dare say such things. Only the fact that they are 100% certain we are harmless allows them to utter such nastiness.
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If she wants to be a slave, I own and shoot guns, I'm also handicapped, be mine, I promise no whippings, only that you be my willing man Friday for the rest of my life.(Her"s Too)
In return I'll protect you.
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In the next world, you are on your own.
/channeling Firesign Theatre
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gun control should never have been linked to San Bernadino as an issue
San Bernadino was an Islamist fascist terror attack. They had a pipe bomb factory in their garage.
They would simply use bombs instead of guns if guns were banned.
This was a cynical attempt by the political lying class who want to separate the concept of Islam from terrorism even though it is the motivating factor
It is dishonest in the extreme
if they really are campaigning on gun control then they hurt their own cause by cynically using as a poster child an issue that should not even have been linked.
It is like using the dead toddler on a beach in Turkey as propaganda to say Europe should open its borders. Why has it got anything to do with Europe?
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having said that, gun control actually does work well in Australia.
per capita we have a lot less random shootings than the US
this is because there are not many guns around, so people who are on drugs, or have a mental illness do not have the opportunity to pick one up and start shooting at random
we also do not get accidental shootings where children find them in their parents houses and think they are a toy.
So most australians are very happy there are gun control laws. The only people here that campaign for less gun control are hobby shooters and farmers - but farmers who need them have a license and have them
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anon, I would bet you don't have the gang problem we do here. Most gunshot victims are gang related.
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Murder is against the law but somehow it still happens. No guns and we will see more stabbings, more people run over, blunt force trauma, poisonings, and the bill ayers favorite -- bombings....... Some folks have no respect for other people and some have no respect for the constitution and the author of this article has respect for neither.
[Dhaka Tribune] Thailand's former chief police investigator into human trafficking said on Thursday he is seeking political asylum in Australia, saying he fears for his life if he go home.
Former Major General Paween Pongsirin arrived in Melbourne a few days ago on a tourist visa and said he planned to seek political refuge, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
"There must be some place, some safe place for me," he said in an interview with the broadcaster. "I came here because Australia is a safe place."
Paween quit the police in November saying an order to transfer him to Thailand's south would expose him to Dire Revenge by members of trafficking syndicates still on the lam.
National police chief Jakthip Chaijinda said at the time Paween could have asked for protection but chose to resign instead.
"We issued 153 warrants across all areas and that included government officials ... I had to do just my duty, not to think of danger or trouble, but now I realise how dangerous it was," Paween said.
Thailand has indicted 88 people suspected of involvement in human trafficking since launching a nationwide investigation into gangs following the discovery in May of 30 bodies in graves buried near the Thailand-Malaysian border, which prompted an international outcry.
They were the sites of trafficking camps where victims -- mainly from Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya minority and Bangladeshi economic migrants -- were held in appalling conditions, many awaiting ransom payments from relatives for their release.
The kingdom's pivotal role in the trade emerged in May as people-smugglers abandoned thousands of migrants at sea or in jungle camps after a Thai crackdown.
Thai officials are accused of orchestrating smuggling routes through the south of their country to neighbouring Malaysia, raking in huge sums of money over several years.
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seeking political asylum in Australia, saying he fears for his life if he go home
Somewhere, sometime, somebody must standup and be badder than the banditos or we are lost.
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[LONGWARJOURNAL.ORG] Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... (AQAP) released a new video featuring a former Guantanamo detainee, Ibrahim Qosi, who is also known as Sheikh Khubayb al Sudani.
In July 2010, Qosi plead guilty to charges of conspiracy and material support for terrorism before a military commission. His plea was part of a deal in which he agreed to cooperate with prosecutors during his remaining time in US custody. Qosi was transferred to his home country of Sudan two years later, in July 2012.
Qosi joined AQAP in 2014 and became one of its leaders. Qosi and other AQAP commanders discussed their time waging jihad at length in the video, entitled "Guardians of Sharia."
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But he's out of Gitmo - and that's what counts, right?
Can there be any further doubt that we have now come to a time when the rightward half of the country perceives much of the mainstream media (the broadcast networks, big city newspapers, etc.) to be carriers of Democratic and/or left-leaning news and opinion?
The media deny this, but their denials — indeed, the very idea that the way to address this matter is to deny or contest it — change nothing. The bottom line is that perhaps one-half of the potential audience for these media outlets holds negative opinions about them.
This practice confounds most people's understanding of the marketing of mass products. Were millions of people, for example, to complain to automakers that the standard radios provided don't work well enough, the manufacturers would endeavor to fix it to the critics' satisfaction — not, as the media have done, simply deny that anything's wrong. So that's an important difference between car companies and the legacy media, but what explains it, and what does the future hold for such media?
Understand what's meant by the first of these questions. It's not what explains why the reporters and editors don't care that they are perceived as biased. They don't care because the overwhelming majority of them are Democrats and/or liberals, and they think their point of view is both objective and correct.
Rather, the question is why their employers — the publishers and corporate CEOs — don't care. It is, after all, those people, not the reporters or editors, who are responsible for the growth and prosperity of their media properties.
Lots of theories are plausible. One is that the so-called firewall separating the editorial from the business side of media companies makes it very difficult, as a practical matter, for corporate leaders to exercise control over the editorial policies of their media outlets. Another theory is that the corporate CEOs share the political mindset of their reporters, and therefore don't see anything wrong with the journalism they're practicing, and are willing to live with reduced viewership and readership for that reason.
Perhaps the most difficult theory is that, at a time when the very existence of newspapers and TV is threatened by the Internet and social media, the CEOs don't much care to spend a lot of time dealing with issues as thorny and intractable as the editorial slant of their news and opinion reporting.
Whatever the explanation, it's unlikely that this state of affairs will go on much longer without notable consequences for the mainstream media. The reasons: the explosive growth, courtesy of the Internet, of conservative and libertarian studies, investigative news reports and commentary; and the alignment, by the leadership of the Republican Party, with the claims of media bias being made by all the right-of-center media and conservative journalists within the mainstream media.
Indeed, and as suggested in a recent piece in RealClearPolitics, a diminution of the influence of the mainstream media may "explain the gravity-defying trajectory of the Trump campaign."
To be sure, it can be argued that the amount of coverage Trump has received in media of all kinds has enabled his dominance among Republicans polled, but this argument ignores the extraordinarily negative coverage the gentleman has received, even by (one might say especially by) conservatives.
At a time when so much of the mainstream media display a politically monochromatic view of the world, they are being ignored by large numbers of people who no longer see them as objective chroniclers of anything.
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Freedom of the Press was about the technology not the modern institution that calls itself the 'Press'. The internet is the closest entity to what that freedom was about. It's also why so many in power want to control it. Place the libel law covering the MSM in line with the 14th Amendment of equal protection before the law with serious $$$ consequences and you'll end up with a legion of real fact checkers and editors rather than party operatives.
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I think three strands are necessary: the Democrat Party (marxist/islamist), the main stream media, and the Uniparty/Globalists, the dominant faction in the Republican Party (who, along with the Saudis and the globists' SuperPacs fund the main stream media and all elections) for way too many years.
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Trump has done a great deal to neuter the lame stream media. He doesn't give a flip about PC. It is refreshing. People are tired of debates that are stifled by PC. The MSM senses the danger of a guy like Trump to their influence. The MSM sold their trustworthiness to the Democratic Party and they are paying the price. They abdicated a free press that had been a part of our society. This election year is payback for forgetting that the voters elect Presidents rather than the elites of both parties and the media. It is payback for all the PC horseshit. It is payback for all the stuff that got rammed down our throats without our consent. It is payback for not listening to the electorate. It is a reminder that we elect our represents and by God they'd better represent us. We tried to tell them in 2010 and 2014 and they did not listen.
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Says it all. I read it maybe five years ago. Bias
broadcast journalist Bernard Goldberg reveals a corporate news culture in which the close-mindedness is breathtaking, journalistic integrity has been pawned to liberal opinion, and "entertainment" trumps hard news every time.\
I believe the author was Danny Rather's producer for a number of years.
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They're all insignifigant, maye they'll fade away, (No more advertisements.)
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It's encouraging, but before we get cocky, let's remember leftwingers largely controls social media and entertainment, and pump out the agitprop via those channels, while suppressing anti-Narrative thoughts.
In fact, as fewer and fewer people pay attention to the old media, the left will ramp up their efforts direct the new media to their advantage.
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The lame stream media and talking heads will never get this right. Trump is pulling support from many quarters, Democrats, Conservatives and moderates. Major kick in the pants for DC establishment, Elites in the Republican party and Democratic party. We are seeing a major shift with Trump leading this shift. Take him out will cause a major denial of service to any party or candidate. Perot was a hint of what could happen. He was taken out. Trump plays this game much better. The Art of the Deal in action. Hillary is everything that is wrong with the political establishment. Perhaps the fix is in again. We will see.
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The elites of both parties and the liberal media are all getting unhinged and desperate about Trump. The more they attack him, the stronger he gets--and the more the voters begin to think maybe he is should be the candidate. They have no idea of the depths of discontent across the land. Obama has poisoned the well for lying establishment politicians.
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The article takes the point of view that Hillary is the inevitable candidate and winner because of something Trump says. Suppose that's not true. Potential voters seem to be taking the attitude that Trump is an authentic candidate who speaks his mind without what he says being programmed on a teleprompter or scripted by speech writers who are trying to put across party talking points. Moreover, they are fed up with being lied to by sleezy politicians. Romney and McCain didn't do so well as establishment politicians. Let's see how this process unfolds. We need to pick a reasonably good POTUS and not one that fits some preconceived mold of the press or the Beltway Party. In the meantime, the Republican Party needs to cool it and let the candidate emerge from the process. You can be certain the Donks and their propaganda arm, the press are going to beat up on whoever the Pubs put up--the National Republican Party and its leadership should lighten up and relax about Trump. Let the voters decide who will emerge. Often what Trump says turns out to be right.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] German authorities will not to press charges against nine men who preached radical Islamist views in the street while wearing jackets marked 'sharia police', a court ruled on Thursday.
According to the ruling handed down in the western city of Wuppertal, the men's orange jackets did not constitute a breach of rules on wearing uniforms.
The men, followers of the ultra-conservative Salafist form of Islam, had patrolled the streets of Wuppertal in the summer of 2014, demanding that nightclub revellers stop drinking alcohol and listening to music, and called for an end to gambling.
Sven Lau, a German Salafist convert who acted as the leader of the so-called "sharia patrol", is the only member of the group who could still potentially face charges -- for organising a public meeting without notifying authorities.
It's now acceptable in Germany to harass members of the general public, lawfully going about their business, because they were not obeying the rules of a fringe cult to which they did not belng? That is carrying societal tolerance entirely too far.
The incident sparked controversy in Germany, with Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... responding that no one has a right to do the police's work for them.
What they were doing was most decidedly not the work of the German police, but contrary to it.
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THIS is the enemy -- this is what we need to be fighting
Declare the caliphate the enemy and sharia the ideology
Ban sharia
Deport or lock up for treason all those who try to enforce sharia in any way
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It's now acceptable in Germany to harass members of the general public, lawfully going about their business, because they were not obeying the rules of a fringe cult to which they did not belong? That is carrying societal tolerance entirely too far.
I remember when you could hit the orange sack wearing bald men at airports.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Arab coalition forces have captured a Yemeni Red Sea archipelago used by Iran-allied Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias for storing and smuggling weapons into Yemen, the Saudi-led alliance and local fishermen said on Thursday.
The Saudi-led coalition has been trying to dislodge the Houthis and forces loyal to their ally, former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , from areas captured since September last year and to restore President Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi to power.
The Houthis control most of the former north Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... from Taiz in the south to Saada in the north, giving them control of Yemen's Red Sea coast.
The coalition said its forces "cleansed Greater Hanish", the biggest island in the archipelago in the Red Sea's main shipping lanes, Saudi state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said.
The islands, it said, were controlled by Yemeni militias loyal to Saleh and used by the Houthis to store weapons and smuggle them into Hodeida, Yemen's main Red Sea port.
The archipelago was the subject of a territorial dispute between Yemen and Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... , which seized the archipelago in the 1990s, until a London-based international arbitration court granted Yemen illusory sovereignty in 1998.
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[DAWN] A young mother who attended a religious school for women in Pakistain weds a conservative man. Months later, the two are accused of murdering 14 and injuring many more in an unprovoked attack in San Bernardino, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,.
What made her leave diapers for rifles?
Tashfeen Malik, the young mother and the co-accused in last week's massacre in California, attended the religious teaching centre Al-Huda's regional branch in Multan. Though, Ms. Malik left before completing her studies, acquaintances report her becoming religiously conservative after enrolling at Al-Huda.
The Al-Huda International Welfare Foundation has distanced itself from Ms Malik by posting an official statement on their website:
Tashfeen Malik had studied at Al-Huda International's Multan branch for a brief period between 2013 and 2014. She left without completing the Diploma course. No organization can be held responsible for personal acts of any of its students.
While there has been no publicised connection as yet between the institute and the shooting, the Canadian branch of Al-Huda abruptly shut down Tuesday citing security concerns.
The Centre has been controversial from the very beginning -- in 2014, three of the Centre's former students of Somali heritage, aged 15 to 18, left homes for Syria to join the bad boyIslamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) group. The Turkish authorities intercepted the girls and returned them to their parents in Canada.
The Canadian authorities are concerned about the extent to which the teaching at Al-Huda Centre inspired the teenage girls to leave their parents for IS snuffies in Syria.
Oscar winning documentary producer, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy expressed similar concerns 10 years ago in an op-ed in The Globe and Mail, titled: 'Islamic school for women faithful or fundamental?'
Ms Obaid-Chinoy interviewed the matriarch running the Al-Huda enterprise, Dr. Farhat Hashmi, in October 2005 soon after a devastating earthquake killed 85,000 and destroyed entire cities in northern Pakistain. Dr. Hashmi was lecturing her students in Mississauga, a suburb of Toronto, about what caused the devastating earthquake in the country.
"The people in the area where the earthquake hit were involved in immoral activities, and God has said that he will punish those who do not follow his path," she told her Canadian audience comprising entirely of young women.
Such thinking would suggest that perhaps Dr. Hashmi is not very well-educated. Quite the contrary.
Both she and her husband earned doctorates in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Glasgow in 1989. Their dissertations (both titles start with "A critical edition of ...") were supervised by Professor John Mattock and focussed on the sources of Hadiths.
The government of Pakistain funded Dr. Hashmi's studies.
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[DAWN] THE problems of the child healthcare sector in Pakistain are extensive and, in the main, well known. Apart from the high infant and under-five mortality rates, perhaps the most talked about globally and of greatest concern domestically is the fact that this is one of the world's last two 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... -endemic countries. All the focus on polio, however, has perhaps shifted attention away from the even more grave threats to health, especially in terms of numbers, faced by the country's children: diarrhoea, typhoid, pneumonia, and many others, which kill often because of either the unavailability of medical attention, or the child's unvaccinated status.
Depressingly, in recent days, a new illness has been added to this list, which has shockingly killed on the premises of a medical facility and despite there being a remedy. A probe into several diphtheria-related deaths at the Children's Hospital, Lahore, has found two glaring causes: one, the number of boosters of the diphtheria vaccine administered to children under the Expanded Programme on Immunisation may not be enough to provide full coverage, and, two, delays in the procurement of the diphtheria antitoxin (DAT) and its delivery to hospitals. This was concluded by the inquiry committee constituted on the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... chief minister's direction, which was presided over by the King Edward Medical University vice chancellor. These factors were behind the deaths of 14 children at the Children's Hospital alone, with the figure going up to perhaps 20 over the last two months when hospitals did not receive DAT. To say that the situation is unacceptable would be a gross understatement. The responsibility rests solely on the shoulders of the state and its subsidiaries, and rectification has to be undertaken on an urgent basis. This must include large-scale immunisation and timely treatment of this bacterial disease which involves the proper use of antibiotics. There can be no more striking example of an uncaring government than when a country's most vulnerable segment -- its children -- contract illnesses that are preventable.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry announced on Thursday, that eight people had been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast southeast of Baghdad.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “This afternoon, a bomb exploded near shops at the Institute Street in Zaafaraniya area southeast of Baghdad, resulting in the death of one person and wounding seven others.”
The source, who asked not to be named, added: “A security force rushed to the area and transported the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment and the body of the dead man to the forensic medicine department.”
[THEHILL] Three candidates for the Republican nomination have broken away from the rest of the pack, and two of them -- businessman Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz -- give the GOP establishment nightmares.
That leaves the third member of the trio, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, potentially well placed to pick up the support of center-right Republican voters who are looking for someone to stop Trump and Cruz at almost any cost.
But Rubio is behind both of his top-tier rivals in national polling averages and is even further back in Iowa, home to the first-in-the-nation caucuses, where he holds fourth place, albeit behind the fast-fading Ben Carson ... a neurosurgeon who is under the delusion that being brilliant qualifies him to be president.... .
An even deeper problem for the Florida senator is that other candidates who are competing for the same voters are unlikely to drop out before the New Hampshire primary. That means votes that might otherwise go to Rubio could instead be won by contenders such as former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
Add all these factors together and it becomes clear why establishment Republicans are so concerned, especially in the wake of Trump's inflammatory call to ban Muslims from entering the United States. Cruz, meanwhile, has been enjoying a rapid rise in the polls.
"Listen, I think both Cruz and Trump would have a similar impact on the party, neither of which would be very good. I am actually more concerned about Cruz than I am about Trump," said GOP strategist John Feehery, a former big shotship aide who is a columnist for The Hill.
Feehery added, "I think Cruz has made a reputation of relentless mendacity ... I think he's a demagogue and I think he'll destroy the party. I think Trump is much more of a blowhard. But there's not really a dime's worth of difference between Trump and Cruz."
As of Wednesday afternoon, Trump sat atop the RealClearPolitics national polling average, with the backing of 29.3 percent of GOP voters, with Cruz in second, at 15.5 percent. Rubio was just behind, with 14.8 percent. In Iowa, where the first caucuses will be held on Feb. 1, Cruz runs much closer, with 22.3 percent average support to Trump's 25.7 percent. Rubio is farther behind in the Hawkeye State than nationally, drawing 13.7 percent backing.
Trump's comments calling for a "shutdown" of Muslims entering the U.S. have been condemned by many Republicans, as well as Democrats and unaligned observers. Included among his critics are Speaker Paul Ryan ...U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, serving since 1999. He is a member of the Republican Party. He proposed an alternative to President Obama's 2011 budget and made himself the target of both Democrat and Republican verbal pies... (R-Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who both lambasted him on Tuesday. The condemnation of a party's presidential front-runner by that same party's most senior members of Congress is without precedent, at least in modern times.
The opprobrium from on high will not necessarily doom Trump. A Bloomberg Politics poll released Wednesday indicated that 64 percent of likely Republican primary voters supported the idea of temporarily banning Muslims from coming to America.
But Washington Republicans shake their heads at the damage they believe the real estate tycoon is inflicting on the party's image. They are also enraged about his suggestion that he could mount a third-party run if he is not treated in a way that he deems fair during the GOP primary process.
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looks like you will be stuck with Hilary unless you can get Jeb Bush to lead the republicans
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Political establishment, its our game so we play by our rules. Like they said about Kennedy. " Its my football so we play by my rules". This will be a sham election. Like Obama the fix is in.
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Well, it's only fair. The Trunks had two Bushes, now the Donks will have two Clintons.
I wish it was sarcasm.
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GOPe abandoned its base and now worries about these two? Bush II and Romney were classical liberals. McCain was about as honest as Hillary, say or do anything to retain power. If you have no base, how can you be an establishment?
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If one pays close attention, the progressives will tell you who they fear. It is clear that Trump and Cruz fit that description. If neither receives the nomination the base will stay home and Clinton will win. It will also set the stage for the emergance of a new political party.
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I read Cruz's book and he's my favorite in the pack. I sort of loath Rubio and the others in the Senate (except Mike Lee) for the games they went along regarding the debt ceiling.
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This is just the tail wagging the dog. They want you to believe that Trump or Cruz can't beat Hillary--that doesn't magically make it so. Hillary is extremely unlikable to a lot of the country. She's not a shoe-in against either of them.
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Actually, I think the "Establishment" is beginning to dimly understand one aspect of trump. For some of us, Trump is not our candidate. He is our murder weapon.
If not Trump, then Gasoline & Matches 2016. Burn it all down.
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I like Cruz, I can live with Trump. Read his book to and liked what I read. The fear is he says what has to be said rather than what he really thinks but he says so much on the fly that that appears unlikely at this point.
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The problem with Trump is not what he says, but what kind of loose cannon / closet liberal / egomaniac narcissist (and haven't we had enough of that already?) he would be in office.
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Trump is an outlet.
He is risking his business for this.
I think Americans want a revolution and he seems to be the closet thing to it because both parties are yucky.
Also, he forces the hard conversations to the forefront, the media eats it effortlessly, they misquote and mis-characterize him, he gets more support because we hate our media more than we hate out politicians.
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I am not a Trumpalo. I do, however, appreciate how he has destroyed the Donk/MSM/GOPe influence. Every time they try and take him down, he, like Obi-Wan, becomes stronger. People are soooo tired of getting lied to, manipulated, and forced to pick the least-worst. He's not a serious POTUS ...yet. Watch
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If he could only hire the right people. He must prove that and thus far, I don't see genius smartest guys who don't suck behind him.
Does he know whom to bring on to THIS show to get results?
Superb and eye-opening Powerpoint presentation at Scribd. I just spent an hour going through it -- it's long. Worth every minute. Go through this and you'll know more about ISIS than 97% of your fellow citizens.
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DAMASCUS – Clashes broke out on Thursday between Syrian government troops and militant fighters of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Damascus suburb.
Subsequent to heavy clashes, ISIS militants seized control of al-Hawrin village and eastern parts of Maheen town in the countryside of Damascus, media activists and military sources reported.
“Syrian regime’s army forces were obliged to evacuate their headquarters in al-Hawrin and eastern Maheen under heavy blows by ISIS,” media activist Ayham Shami told ARA News in Damascus.
“Several army vehicles were seen entering Damascus city, carrying wounded soldiers and some weapons. They have withdrawn from the clashes’ area to avoid further losses among soldiers,” Shami reported.
At least 20 Syrian army soldiers were killed in the clashes, according to an ISIS-linked military source.
“The mujahideen (ISIS jihadists) have also seized a large deal of ammunition and weapons from pro-Assad troops in the clashes, beside a tank and several heavy machine guns,” the source said.
Militants of the Islamic State are already in control of several districts in the southern countryside of Damascus, including al-Hajar al-Aswad and parts of al-Yarmouk.
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ISLAMABAD: Four men allegedly involved in incidents of target killings in Karachi and robberies in the federal capital have been arrested here, Dawn has learnt through reliable sources.
Though the Capital police have kept quiet over the matter, some senior officials, who do not want to be named, have confirmed the arrests.
“The Capital police’s investigation wing made the arrests on Wednesday,” they said, adding that the suspects were affiliated to a Karachi-based political party.
The arrests were made during an investigation into some incidents of robbery in Islamabad, most of them taking place outside banks and involving people who had drawn cash from banks,” the officials said.
During preliminarily investigation, they said, it transpired that the four had been hiding in Islamabad for 15 months. During this period, they regularly visited Karachi to accomplish ‘tasks’ assigned to them and then returned to Islamabad. Usually they were asked to kill some specified people.
The officials said that the four had committed over 45 robberies in Islamabad, killed a person and injured three others in four of the incidents.
During interrogation, they said, the four had revealed their activities in Karachi. “They have confessed to having killed several people in the city, particularly Korangi.”
The suspects said that they had committed over 50 robberies in the city and also collected extortion money and deposited it in the office of their political party, according to the officials.
They said that the investigators had been asked to contact Karachi police to obtain details/record of the crimes the four had committed in the city and proof of their affiliation with the political party.
[NYPOST] RUTLAND, Vt. — A New York woman was arrested after she allegedly bit an employee of a Vermont store after he attempted to retrieve underwear she had allegedly stolen from the store.
The Rutland Herald reports the 33-year-old woman from White Plains, New York, will be arraigned on Dec. 14 on misdemeanor charges of retail theft and simple assault. Her hearing had been scheduled for Monday, but has since been rescheduled.
Loss prevention officer Richard Durham, of the TJ Maxx store in Rutland, told police the woman kicked him, slapped his glasses off his face and bit his thumb after he had taken her purse to check for the stolen underwear.
Police say Durham retrieved the $21.50 underwear from the woman’s bag.
If convicted, the woman faces a maximum sentence of more than a year in prison.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... mission in Afghanistan condemned a coordinated attack on Kandahar airfield in southern Afghanistan as the corpse count has climbed to at least 54 people.
"The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) condemns the Taliban's attack at Kandahar Airport, which reportedly killed 39 civilians, including four children, and injured at least 23 civilians," UNAMA said in a statement.
The statement further added "The Taliban initiated the complex attack on 8 December with fighting continuing over a 24-hour period, during which time they intentionally targeted civilian areas of the base. Initial reports indicate that Taliban fighters dismounted their vehicles in the bazaar and opened fire, killing and injuring civilian shopkeepers and customers. The fighting reportedly continued in the residential areas of the base accommodating the families of Afghan cops and airport staff."
"UNAMA has documented preliminary findings of 54 deaths and 42 injured. Those killed in the attack include 39 civilian males, of whom at least four were boys, 13 Afghan National Army and two Afghan National Police," the statement said, adding that "The majority of the dear departed appeared to be civilian shopkeepers working at the bazaar and civilian customers. Of the 42 injured, at least 23 are civilian, including a woman and a girl."
The UN mission reiterated that international humanitarian law, which applies to all parties to the conflict in Afghanistan, including the Taliban, prohibits attacks against civilians at any time and in any place.
"This includes families of Afghan cops and other civilians not participating in the conduct of hostilities. Additionally, parties to the conflict must take all feasible precautions to protect the civilian population against the effects of attacks," the statement said.
The Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan earlier said at least ten Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers and 2 Afghan National Police (ANP) members were martyred in the attack.
The Talibs group grabbed credit behind the attack which was carried out by a group of at least 14 heavily armed Lion of Islams.
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Going to be a few more of these as the Talibs jockey each other for leadership positions.
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The UN mission reiterated that international humanitarian law, which applies to all parties to the conflict in Afghanistan, including the Taliban, prohibits attacks against civilians at any time and in any place.
"This includes families of Afghan cops and other civilians not participating in the conduct of hostilities. Additionally, parties to the conflict must take all feasible precautions to protect the civilian population against the effects of attacks," the statement said.
Not gang, terror or gun violence I guess. Just inhumanity.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has vowed to "fight to protect the rights" of Muslims on Facebook following a week of 'hate'.
The remarks by Zuckerberg followed by sustained attacks from the US Presidential runner Donald Trump who called for a total ban on Muslim immigration to the United States.
Through a short message on his page on Wednesday to support the Muslim community, Zuckerberg said "I want to add my voice in support of Muslims in our community and around the world."
He said it is important to support Muslims in the face of rising Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... because "attacks on freedom for anyone will hurt everyone".
Zuckerberg further added "After the Gay Paree attacks and hate this week, I can only imagine the fear Muslims feel that they will be persecuted for the actions of others. As a Jew, my parents taught me that we must stand up against attacks on all communities. Even if an attack isn't against you today, in time attacks on freedom for anyone will hurt everyone."
"If you're a Muslim in this community, as the leader of Facebook I want you to know that you are always welcome here and that we will fight to protect your rights and create a peaceful and safe environment for you. Having a child has given us so much hope, but the hate of some can make it easy to succumb to cynicism. We must not lose hope. As long as we stand together and see the good in each other, we can build a better world for all people," the Facebook founder said.
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"I want to add my voice in support of Muslims in our community and around the world."
Unqualified support for "Muslims around the world" is support for brutal, murderous intolerance and totalitarian theocracy.
"stand up against attacks on all communities."
The Nazis, Soviet Communists, Khmer Rouge, People's Temple, Aum Shinrikyo, Heaven's Gate, etc all are or were 'communities.'
The world would be a better place and many, many lives would have been saved if these 'communities' had been attacked and stopped before they could claim human lives.
Zuckerberg is promoting morally indifferent rubbish.
Where were these words every time some Muslims mass murdered a bunch of people in my Christian community?
You were silent. I therefore conclude that you were OK with attacks on MY community, and that you had no fear that attacks on the Christian community will result in attacks on your community.
Why is that, I wonder?
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Mark Zuckerberg = #Christianlivesdontmatter
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How about protecting the rights of normal Human Beings?
Ohh, that would mean rejecting Moslem supremacy. Cant have that MR facewreck, can we?
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One thing I like about Facebook, its interface allows me to post Farsi characters for "Death to America" as a sarcastic response to mush like the source article. Very few get it, most don't even examine it using Google Translate.
TEL TEMIR – Three car bomb attacks hit Kurdish security checkpoints in the town of Tel Temir in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah, local sources reported on Thursday.
One of the explosions hit a checkpoint for the Kurdish forces of the People’ Protection Units (YPG) at the southern entrance of Tel Temir. The other two car bomb attacks took place near checkpoints of the Kurdish Asayish security units downtown.
Dozens of casualties were reported among the Kurdish forces and civilians.
“Tel Temir is in a state of alert subsequent to the deadly terror attacks that killed and injured dozens of people,” local civil rights activist Fakhri Hussein told ARA News.
“Amid the large numbers of casualties, ambulances and private cars started transferring some of the injured to Hasakah city for treatment.”
In the meantime, the Kurdish forces blamed the radical group of the Islaimc State (ISIS) for Thursday’s attacks. However, the group has not claimed responsibility for the car bomb attacks yet.
Eyewitnesses said that rescue teams have pulled dozens of victims from the rabble subsequent to the explosions. It was not immediately clear how many people have died in the terror attacks.
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"I'm feelin' better!"
No, you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment.
ERBIL – The Islamic State’s (ISIS) finance minister was killed in a recent airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition, the Pentagon confirmed on Thursday. Abu Saleh, known for his senior position in the ranks of the radical group as finance minister, was killed in an airstrike in northern Iraq two weeks ago.
Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren confirmed in a statement on Thursday the death of Abu Saleh and two other senior militants of ISIS in the recent U.S.-led airstrikes in Iraq.
Warren described Abu Saleh as “one of the most senior and experienced members” of ISIS’s financial network. He added that another senior ISIS leader, who coordinated the group’s extortion efforts, was killed at the end of November.
Warren also confirmed the death of a third prominent member of ISIS “who coordinated the transfer of information, people and weapons”.
“Their removal will degrade ISIL’s ability to command and control troops, and it disrupts their ability to finance their efforts,” Warren said, using another acronym for ISIS.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Russia is battening down the hatches for a Biblical collapse in oil revenues, warning that crude prices could stay as low as $40 a barrel for another seven years.
[Political Calculations] More or Less is a BBC 4 radio program, hosted by Undercover Economist Tim Harford, dedicated to explaining and sometimes debunking the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life. It's a fascinating program and we often play the podcasts as we toil behind the scenes here at Political Calculations.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran's health minister says an outbreak of swine flu has killed at least 42 people in the country over the past month.
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[WASHINGTONPOST] An unrepentant Donald Trump responded Thursday to the backlash in the U.K. over his controversial statements on Muslims by saying that British politicians should be grateful that he has stated "what needed to be said."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] German authorities will not to press charges against nine men who preached radical Islamist views in the street while wearing jackets marked 'sharia police', a court ruled on Thursday.
TEL TEMIR – Three car bomb attacks hit Kurdish security checkpoints in the town of Tel Temir in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah, local sources reported on Thursday.
