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I hope his lawyer recommends that his client asks for a panel that includes enlisted court members. More likely than not, he'll ask for a Military judge alone.
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Bad move. I've found the enlisted members to be among the least sympathetic among boards. Most sympathetic were actually senior officers who the defense usually used their one free challenge to remove from the boards.
[AlAhram] The United States and its allies conducted 15 air strikes in Iraq and seven in Syria 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.... (ISIS) group on Saturday, the coalition leading the operations said.
Six strikes in Ramadi hit multiple ISIS targets, the Combined Joint Task Force said on Sunday, as Iraqi forces attempt to retake the city from the bully boys.
Other air strikes in Iraq hit near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... Sinjar, Tal Afar, Sultan Abdallah, Rawah and Qayyarah, the coalition said in a statement.
In Syria, the air strikes hit near five cities including the bully boy stronghold of Raqqa, the Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement.
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Again with the haphazard, half-hearted, half-assed air strikes. What are we trying to prove? That we're not serious? I think that's already been established.
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An amazing PC-free wartime video starring none other than Donald Duck. Lots of overt symbolism. And some subtle for those observant enough to pick it out. I think even the folks at Pixar would be proud. ;-)
Hostages serve multiple purposes for jihadis, all of them evil...
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It is not clear if Hamas was genuinely trying to have Shaul’s family believe he was still alive, or if the letter was simply a sadistic ploy; in either case, it is likely that it was meant to spur greater willingness on Israel’s part to negotiate.
The Paleostinian terrorist Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, organization told The Times of Israel on Sunday evening that it is willing to reveal information about two IDF soldiers, whose bodies it is believed to be holding, if Israel releases some of its operatives currently being held in prison.
Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul fell during last summer's 50-day military campaign, Operation Protective Edge, against Hamas in Gazoo. Neither body was recovered and Israel has classed both soldiers as "killed in action."
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Yup, I only trade like-for-like. If they provide info on KIAs, I provide info on dead terrorists. They want info on live terrorists? They have to provide info on live prisoners.
Same rule for exchanges: if they trade the bodies of Israeli soldiers I give them the bodies of dead terrorists. If I don't have any dead terrorists to trade, I make some.
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Set their 'souls' free.
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[IsraelTimes] Army says it targeted 2 Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, posts in the Strip, hours after projectile explodes in south of country
Israeli aircraft struck in the Gazoo Strip Sunday night, hours after a rocket fired from the territory went kaboom! in Israel. The army said it targeted two Hamas military posts in northern and central Gazoo. There were no immediate reports of Paleostinian casualties.
The IDF noted that it holds Hamas rulers responsible for any attacks emanating from the Strip.
The rocket prompted air-raid sirens in multiple communities in the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council, the IDF said. Residents of Sha'ar HaNegev, a group of communities bordering the Gazoo Strip, said they heard a loud kaboom, but no injuries or damage were reported. The military said the rocket landed in an open area.
Israel regularly carries out limited air strikes on Hamas targets in response to sporadic rocket-fire, though it is believed that the rockets are fired by fringe groups inside Gazoo, rather than by Hamas.
The latest attack came as Hamas demanded the release of prisoners held in Israeli jails in exchange for information on the fate of two IDF soldiers declared killed in action during last summer's Gazoo war.
[NEWSINFO.INQUIRER.NET] The United States on Sunday ordered non-emergency US government personnel and dependents to leave violence-torn Burundi and warned other Americans to get out "as soon as it is feasible to do so."
The State Department warning followed some of the worst violence in months of political unrest in the capital Bujumbura on Friday that left nearly 90 people dead.
"The US Department of State warns US citizens against all travel to Burundi and recommends that US citizens currently in Burundi depart as soon as it is feasible to do so," it said in a statement.
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Seventy workers at Paris airports suspected of being radical Islamists have had their security passes revoked since the deadly attacks in the city a month ago. Security agents have also examined the contents of around 4,000 workers' lockers at Charles de Gaulle and Orly as the airports authority attempts to weed out any potential terrorists working at the busy transport hubs.
French security sources have said that Islamist militants killed in a police raid in a Paris suburb five days after the November 13 attacks were planning to attack Charles de Gaulle, France’s biggest international airport.
The radicalisation of airport personnel
'Radicalization'? They were radicalized before they arrived in France...
sparked concern after the crash in October of a Russian passenger plane in Egypt which Western intelligence officials believe was brought down by a bomb smuggled on board by an airport worker.
Augustin de Romanet, chief executive officer of ADP, the company that runs the two Paris airports, said the state authority which issues security passes had carried out a screening after the attacks on Paris, in which 130 people were killed and 350 injured.
"Nearly 70 red badges were withdrawn after the attacks, mainly for cases of radicalisation," he said in an interview with French media.
He said around 85,000 people had secure-zone clearance in the two airports, most of them working for airlines or for several hundred subcontractors.
So-called red badges are issued to people employed in the secure zone of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports, working for instance as baggage handlers, aircraft cleaners and suppliers.
"To be issued with a red badge, you have to be cleared by police, and if you work for a company that carries out security checks of in-flight luggage, you need three police checks," De Romanet said.
Some airport workers suspected of links to radical Islam were placed under house arrest under state of emergency powers implemented after the attacks a month ago.
It emerged after the November 13 massacre that dozens of airport staff had their security passes revoked after the terror attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris in January, but others continued to work despite being on an intelligence watchlist as potential Islamist extremists.
There has also been concern about radicalism among bus, metro and rail employees in the Paris region. Samy Amimour, one of the attackers who blew himself up in the Bataclan rock venue in Paris, had worked as a bus driver despite being on an intelligence watchlist.
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Revoked? Perhaps they were not State Dept sponsored and economic-zone, tax subsidized employees.
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Unless the badges were actually take (In hand) they'll be used and duplicated without end.
Far better to change the badges.
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[REUTERS] A blast killed 24 people and injured 70 in the northwestern Pak city of Parachinar on Sunday, officials said, and a banned Sunni Islamist group grabbed credit for the attack.
"This is Dire Revenge for the killing of Muslims by the Syrian president and Iran," said Ali bin Sufyan, front man for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... (LeJ), an Islamist group whose sectarian ideology is closely aligned with 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.... . He was speaking to Rooters by phone.
Earlier this week Rooters reported that a Shi'ite unit of Pak fighters known as the Zeinabiyoun were joining the war against Islamic State in Syria. Many come from Parachinar, which has a large Shi'ite population, unusual in Sunni-majority Pakistain.
Regional sources said there were hundreds of Paks fighting in Syria.
Sufyan said Parachinar residents should not travel to Iran or Syria to fight in the war there on behalf of the Shi'ites.
The explicit linkage of the Pakistain bombing to the war in Syria will alarm Pak officials, who are keen to play down reports that Islamic State is seeking to establish a foothold in their country.
A couple of small Lion of Islam groups who splintered from the Pak Taliban pledged allegiance to Islamic State, but they have not had much impact.
But across the border in Afghanistan, murderous Moslems who split from the Taliban and pledged allegiance to IS have established training camps, taken over territory and clashed with the Taliban.
Like Islamic State, which set up a cross-border caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria, the LeJ wants to kill or expel Pakistain's minority Shi'ites and establish a Sunni theocracy.
The LeJ had once enjoyed the open support of Pakistain's powerful spy agency, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence ...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir... , but the group suffered a series of setbacks this year.
The leader of LeJ, his two sons and several brass hats were rubbed out in police custody this July; police say they were trying to escape. Last month another top LeJ commander was shot by police while in jug.
But Sunday's bombing, if carried out by the LeJ, is proof that the group can still mount devastating attacks.
Parachinar local government official Riaz Hussain said Sunday's blast targeted crowds at a market.
"The corpse count has reached 24 and 70 are maimed," said Amjad Ali Khan, the political head of Kurram Agency ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... . Parachinar is the capital of Kurram.
"Some of the injured are at death's door," said Shafiq Hussain, a health worker at the Agency Headquarters Hospital Parachinar.
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(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – A source in Anbar Operations Command said on Sunday, that 11 ISIS elements had been killed during military operations in the northern and southern axes of the city of Ramadi.
The source reported for IraqiNews.com, “The security forces, with support from the international coalition, had managed to kill 11 ISIS elements and inflict material and human losses upon ISIS ranks during military operations in the northern and southern axes in the city of Ramadi.”
The source, who requested to remain anonymous, added, “The international coalition aviation and a joint force from the army and other security forces were able to shell and destroy three booby-trapped vehicles driven by suicide bombers in the same axes.”
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At least 17 people were killed and around 30 others injured in bloody tribal clashes in Sudan's South Darfur State, Xinhua reported with the reference to Sudan Tribune.
Not WoT but just a reminder that the Darfur region, a big part of the WoT in the past, is still a hell-hole...
"Violent clashes broke out between Rizeigat and Miseria tribes in South Darfur state which resulted in the killing of at least 17 people and injuring of around 30 others, some of them in serious conditions," the report said.
The main hospital in Nyala, the capital city of South Darfur state, has received people injured in the clashes which took place at Um Zi'aifa area of the state's Bilail locality, according to the report.
"The security authorities have sent military reinforcements to Bilail locality to prevent renewal of the clashes, particularly after the two tribes mobilized their fighters for a probable battle," the report added.
The two tribes have been disputing over land ownership and pastures. Local authorities previously held several reconciliation conferences between the two sides, but all agreements reached have not sustained. During the past three years, clashes repeatedly erupted between the Rizeigat and Miseria tribes in East and South Darfur states, leaving dozens killed and injured.
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Wonderful news. The two Arab tribes are the most despicable, disreputable and dangerous tribes in all the Sahel. Cattle nomads who have run out of space, they usually save their bullets for the African tribes. One can only hope that the struggle will continue with improved results.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Air and missile strikes on a school district and other areas in bully boy-held Damascus suburbs killed at least 28 people on Sunday, including two children and a school principal, a group monitoring the Syrian war said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said unidentified war planes hit the town of Douma, 15 km northeast of the capital, and surface-to-surface missiles fired by the Syrian army also hit the surrounding areas, including Eastern Ghouta.
The areas have been under heavy bombardment in recent months. The Syrian army has said its strikes target forces of Evil that have launched attacks on government-held areas.
The Observatory, which gathers information from a network of contacts on the ground, said at least 40 mortar bombs fired by forces of Evil in the eastern suburbs hit Damascus on Sunday, killing at least one child and wounding several.
State news agency SANA said three civilians had been killed and at least 30 maimed, in mortar attacks targeting residential neighborhoods of Damascus. Most of the victims were school students, it said, citing its news hound in the area.
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[AMERICANTHINKER] Madness has gripped a segment of the Republican Party that embraces a war on its own voters as unworthy. Instead of blaming himself for a presidential campaign mired at the one percent level of support, failing to make a ripple even in his home state of South Carolina, Senator Lindsey Graham ... the endangered South Carolina RINO... blames the GOP voters who are too driven by irrational, probably racist beliefs. Caitlin Yilek of The Hill reports:
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says GOP front-runner Donald Trump is doing so well in the polls because nearly half of Republican primary voters think President B.O. is a Kenyan-born Muslim.
"Well there's about 40 percent of the Republican primary voter who believes that Obama was born in Kenya and is a Muslim," Graham told Boston Herald Radio on Friday, according to BuzzFeed News.
"There's just a dislike for President B.O. that is visceral. It's almost irrational," Graham added.
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That's alright Lenny... We have an almost irrational dislike for you too you fking RINO.
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I know everyone is supposed to want a big tent with more voters but at what point can the party decide someone like Graham is a net negative and boot him out of the party.
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70% of the people believe the country is going in the wrong direction and only 25% of the people believe the country is going in the right direction. It's been that way for a long time. These numbers must include independents as well as some Donks as well. Irrational---I don't think so. I agree with the above comment about Graham--"shut your pie hole". There is also a rational reason why Lindsey Graham has never gotten any traction in the primaries or is not POTUS. BTW, the feeling is both visceral and rational.
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Lindsey,
I wouldn't worry about it. Obama has visceral almost irrational hatred for the American middle class.
Anyone who does not realize this is delusional.
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Lindsey, crawl back under your rock and slither back into your den. YOU are part of the problem in America! You want it business as usual for DC, the rape and pillage of our national treasure, the destruction of our values, the dividing of the people and the continuation of blaming everyone else for your problems. GO AWAY!
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Having a balanced budget, or even a budget......is so......yesterday. Right Lindsay?
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No to be confused with Lindsey Graham's visceral and irrational dislike of 'his' party's base and their fundamental principles (to include following the Constitution).
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"I'm Senator John McCain, and I authorized this message"
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His stuff needs to be taken away and given to deserving proletariat.
The Big Problem with Obama Socialism is that guys like Lindsay and Zuckerberg and Gates get to keep their stashes and their trust funds while the Little People just keep getting nickel-and-dimed to death. If there were a real Mao capable of taking away their stuff like they were little people, they'd actually bother trying to fight socialism.
I notice the country Mao shaped for forty years doesn't go in for all this Deindustrialization crap.
SHEIKHUPURA: A terrorist was killed while a policeman injured in an alleged encounter in Sheikhupura on Sunday, officials said.
The encounter took place when police and secret agencies conducted raids in Safdarabad area of Sheikhupura on a tip-off of terrorists’ presence in the area. The terrorists opened fire on the law enforcers, leaving policeman injured.
On retaliation from police, a terrorist, who is affiliated with Tehreek-e-Taliban Afghanistan, was killed, while three of his aides managed to flee. A suicide jacket, 2 hand grenades and a huge cache of arms were recovered from the possession of the deceased. Police launched search operation in the area to arrest remaining terrorists.
[The Nation] A concealed bomb exploded at a graveyard in Yala province as a paramilitary ranger and his father prayed at the grave of his mother yesterday morning. The blast immediately killed Saikh Jehdoma and wounded his 63-year-old father. The corpse of Saikh's mother was blown out of the grave.
Saikh's mother died on December 10.
A police spokesman said, "We believe the bombers might have been hiding nearby and detonated the hidden bomb when they saw the victims praying unsuspectingly."
Police have identified a suspect, Rorki Dorloh, who has previously been accused of other bombings, perhaps being behind the attack that targeted Saikh.
(IraqiNews.com) Dohuk – On Saturday, witnesses said that Turkish warplanes had bombarded sites belonging to the PKK north of Dohuk province.
The leader of the border village of Nazdour, Khalil Nazdouri, announced in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “Turkish warplanes conducted a violent raid on sites belonging to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party on the Iraqi-Turkish border,” pointing out that, “The raid included the areas of Kabseta, Kara Mountains and Matin in the district of al-Emadiyah.”
“The attack lasted for more than an hour without knowing the losses which were inflicted by it,” the statement added.
[ARA News] HASAKAH – The Kurdish-Arab alliance of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Sunday bombed a main stronghold for the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) in the northeastern province of Hasakah, local sources reported.
The SDF shelled the ISIS-held town of Arisha with heavy artillery and mortar fire.
“ISIS militants are heavily deployed in Arisha town. The SDF’s bombardment on the town was aimed at destroying ISIS major headquarters there in a bid to storm Arisha and retake it from the militants,” local media activist Ali Farraj told ARA News.
At least four ISIS vehicles were destroyed and some 15 militants were killed in the attack, according to a spokesman for the SDF.
Arisha, located some 33km south of Hasakah, is considered one of the strategic strongholds for ISIS extremists in northeastern Syria.
“Retaking Arisha town in southern Hasakah would enable our (SDF) troops to continue their advance against Daesh terrorists towards Shaddadi city,” the source said, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS.
The western-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance of the SDF has regained more than 220 villages and towns in Hasakah province from ISIS over nearly two months of military operations.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) include Kurdish units of the YPG and YPJ, the Syriac Military Council, the Arab tribal group of al-Sanadeed, al-Jazeera brigades, Jaish al-Thuwar group and Burkan al-Furat battalion.
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Yemeni tribes, buoyed by military victories of the national army and the resistance in many areas, on Saturday declared the creation of a higher resistance council in the Western Dhama governorate, nearly 130 km south of the capital Sanaa.
Dhamar has been under the control of the Iranian-backed Houthis and their allies since late 2014 following a coup they launched against the legitimate government of President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
The coup prompted Saudi Arabia, the UAE and seven other Arab countries to launch a coalition at the request of the Yemeni regime to restore legitimacy.
The coalition and their national allies in Yemen have liberated Aden, Marib and other areas and their eyes are now set on Taiz and Sanaa.
The new council in Dhamar is headed by Sheikh Ali Mohammed Al Qawsi and it comprises 40 members. Sheikh Ali Al Qawsi is its deputy chairman while Bakr Al Dhibyani is the council’s spokesman, according to Yemen’s news website Marib Press.
Afghan national security forces have rebuffed a coordinated attack by the affiliates of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which also goes by its Arabic name Daesh, on security posts in eastern Nangarhar province.
Nangarhar police spokesperson says a group of armed militants attacked security posts in Pandola and Girdi areas of Achin District yesterday.
Colonel Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal writes in a statement released to media this morning that police gave befitting response to the militants and they were pushed back.
“One armed opponent was killed and two others wounded in the retaliatory attack,” Col. Mashriqiwal has said in the press release.
There were no casualties to police and civilians, the statement adds.
Although, Col. Mashriqiwal has not specified what group the militants belonged to but Achin District is a stronghold Daesh in Nangarhar.
HARGEISA, Somaliland -- omaliland police forces have detained a poet known for his vocal support for Islamic movements in the capital, Hargeisa on Saturday, Garowe Online reports. Abdirashid Gamadid was captured after security forces raided his home according to intelligence officials.
The detained pro-Al Shabaab poet previously lauded terror attack on upscale Westgate mall in Kenyan capital of Nairobi in late 2013. Gamadid moved to Puntland where he was apprehended by security forces for possible links with Somali militant group in February 2014 after his release from a prison in breakaway Somaliland.
Puntland President Abdiweli Mohamed Ali freed Gamadid on pardon following meet with Somaliland traditional leaders in July this year.
Ali is being chided for mass release of convicted Al Shabaab members without writs or official clearances.
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Yemen’s national army and resistance fighters killed 12 Houthi rebels and captured five others during heavy fighting in the Southwestern Al Dale governorate.
The fighters also captured Yaees village in the governorate after clashes with the Iranian-backed coup insurgents on Saturday, Yemen’s ‘Masdar Online’ said.
It quoted resistance sources as saying the 12 were killed during fighting outside the village following an offensive launched by the army and resistance.
“Five rebels were captured while five resistance men fell as martyrs.
“Our men succeeded in seizing the village,” a source said.
The report said a resistance unit attacked the house of Houthi field commander Ahmed Mutahar in the village, adding that heavy clashes were raging late Saturday in the area.
In other areas, the army and resistance units kept up the pressure on the Houthis and their allies in Taiz and other areas as the coalition continued their raids on rebel targets.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] China commemorated victims of a historic massacre by Japanese troops in the city of Nanjing for the second time on Sunday, holding a sober official memorial that contrasted with a much grander ceremony last year.
Beijing says 300,000 people were killed during the "Rape of Nanking," a period of mass murder and rape committed after the city fell to soldiers in 1937 following Japan's invasion of China.
Hundreds of soldiers, schoolchildren and survivors gathered in the eastern city to pay their respects on the massacre's 78th anniversary, according to footage broadcast by state-run news channel CCTV, which also aired victims' testimonies.
In February 2014 the National People's Congress made the anniversary an official day of remembrance as tensions with Japan over a maritime territorial dispute and rows over history intensified. Ten thousand people attended the December ceremony later that year, where President Xi Jinping told the crowd anyone who tried to deny the massacre would "not be allowed by history."
Xi was absent for Sunday's ceremony, which was officiated by mid-ranking party cadre Li Jianguo, vice chairman of the NPC's standing committee, who struck a more conciliatory tone.
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There are those in Japan who will tell you that those who were "massacred" were Chiang Kai-shek's boys in civilian clothes, having ditched their uniforms in a cowardly attempt to avoid fighting.
A proposal to give the European Union executive the power to send forces unbidden into member states to defend the common European frontier will face resistance from some countries when it is published this week.
The European Commission wants to be able to deploy personnel from a new European Border and Coastguard Agency without, as currently required, the consent of the state concerned, EU officials told Reuters in early December, reflecting frustration with Greek reluctance to seek help with migrants. EU officials call the plan a largely theoretical "nuclear option" and stress that any infringement of national sovereignty would be balanced by the power of a majority of member states to block Commission intervention - similar to checks agreed during the euro debt crisis.
Sure. EU military and paramilitary forces could just go into a member state without its consent. But fortunately there are checks and balances. What could go wrong?
The Commission will set out the plan on Tuesday to reinforce its Frontex agency with up to six times more staff, EU officials said, following a commitment to an EU border guard in September by President Jean-Claude Juncker.
Thus providing more employment opportunities for junior apparatchiks and their over-educated children...
"We think the current situation justifies a certain ambition," the Commission's chief spokesman said on Friday, expressing confidence about backing from member states.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Interior Ministry announced on Friday, that eight people had been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast near a popular market northeast of Baghdad.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “A bomb exploded this morning in a market near al-Shaab area northeast of the capital Baghdad, killing two people and injuring six others.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added: “Ambulances rushed to the scene and transported the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment and the bodies of the dead to the forensic medicine department.”
(IraqiNews.com) Diyali – An informed security source in Diyali Province said, that a special force had managed to detain an ISIS leader during a security operation northeast of Baqubah.
The source, who requested anonymity, reported for IraqiNews.com, “A special force had carried out a proactive operation in the depth of Hamrin Mountains (75 km northeast of Baqubah), resulting in the arrest of an ISIS leader after chasing him for about an hour.”
The source added, “The detainee is from the residents of al-Hawija and he was tasked with managing a camp that is under construction in Hamrin,” indicating that, “The aim of the camp was to capture former ISIS elements who fled from the provinces of Diyali and Salahuddin.”
TAGSDIYALI
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A large part of the administrative block at Zawia University has been burnt down today in an attack by armed gunmen.
The attack gutted of a number of offices, including those of the president, the senior administrator and the finance and records departments.
Some reports say that the arson attack was mounted by individuals who had threatened to torch the university if they were not hired.
Blockades, particularly of oil facilities around the country by those demanding work have not been unusual. Zawia itself has seen its refinery besieged several times by locals who stopped workers and trucks moving in and out. However generally the blockades have been peaceful.
The town’s university, however, is not a stranger to violence. Buildings were hit by rocket fire earlier this year.
This May gunmen shot dead a student in front of his classmates. The young man, Malik Ibrahim Zagruba, was the son on a prominent opponent of Libya Dawn.
There have also been student protests. In March, the university was closed for a week, following demonstrations by students. Administrators explained that the shut-down was on the grounds of security.
LAHORE: Information Minister Pevaiz Rashid said here on Saturday that no-one would create hurdles in the ongoing efforts for peace in Karachi through the Rangers operation, which would continue.
Replying to a reporter’s question after addressing a seminar, he said a fresh conference of political parties was not needed because all of them had not only endorsed the Karachi operation but were still favouring it.
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement and the PPP, despite expressing some reservations, did not oppose the operation and were supporting its continuation, he said.
When asked whether the National Accountability Bureau would hold impartial investigations against some federal and provincial ministers, he said NAB was already fulfilling its obligations and injustice with anyone would be avoided.
“NAB should take steps which lead to irrefutable evidence so that nobody can raise a finger against it.” He said if NAB had got strong evidence then it should pursue the cases.
About Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan’s meeting with the Indian prime minister in New Delhi, the minister said the PTI chief had adopted the philosophy of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif with respect to the foreign policy.
“Let’s pray that he also begins following the doctrine of the prime minister about internal policies of the country.”
He said Mr Khan had mainly presented himself in India as a sportsman. “I wished the PTI chairman would show courage and raise burning issues like Kashmir, Sir Creek and Siachen in front of Indian leaders.”
[THEREGISTER.CO.UK] The US House of Representatives has approved a bill that will permanently bar states from collecting taxes on internet sales.
The House on Friday gave its approval for HR 644, a trade bill that has been amended to include a permanent renewal of the Internet Tax Freedom Act. Part of the Trade Facilitation and Enforcement Act of 2015, the bill won the approval of the House by a vote of 156-158.
In passing the bill, the House also approved the renewal of the act that bars state and local governments from taxing internet access. First passed in 1998, the Internet Tax Freedom Act has been renewed several times since.
The most controversial element of the act includes the limit on the collection of sales tax, barring states from collecting tax for online transactions made out-of-state. The law, credited with helping online giants including Amazon to become retail powerhouses, has been criticized by state governments and retailers for giving internet sellers an unfair advantage over brick-and-mortar stores that have to pay tax.
The bill will now move on to the Senate for consideration. Should it pass, the bill would then go to the President for approval.
Backers of the law, including Congressman Ron Wyden (D-OR), hailed the passage and asked voters to prod members of the Senate to keep the Internet Tax Freedom Act permanent.
"The ban on internet access taxes expires in just a few days, and there's a good chance this fight over sales taxes could sink the law that has helped the internet grow and thrive," Wyden said.
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Wow. Somebody got something right.
Whadaya know, guess elections do have positive consequences as well.
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The 'who bought it' and 'bought from' states couldn't agree on a distribution ration. When the web gets nationalized by the FCC the use tax will go to the feds.
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It's easy for the feds to tell the states what the states cannot tax. Not so easy for the feds to rein in their own spending.
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Where do you tax? The seller's location, the server farm where the transaction was processed, the warehouse from which it was sent, the residence of where it was delivered*? Too many greedy hands in play.
Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, 504 U.S. 298 (1992), was a United States Supreme Court ruling concerning use tax. Quill Corporation is an office supply retailer. Quill had no physical presence in North Dakota (neither a sales force, nor a retail outlet),[1] but it had a licensed computer software program that some of its North Dakota customers used for checking Quill's current inventories and placing orders directly. North Dakota attempted to impose a use tax on Quill, which was struck down by the Supreme Court.... - wiki
The states understand that as they expose their own claim of taxation on interstate commerce, the Feds may well step in and hog it all. The states that are willing to provide cover for interstate commerce will get the business and employment taxes rather than any form of sales tax other than products sold within the state via Quill.
* if I buy product x in the neighboring state and carry it back home, should I have to pay my local tax on it? Or if I had a friend buy it for me and deliver it to me, should I still have to pay local tax on it? If not a friend, any interstate carriers?
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No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.
Section 10, Article I, (of the late) Constitution.
Yes. It's what Adam Smith would do. Of course the tax raised wouldn't be very much as warehouses are in low cost locations, but that's great for consumers.
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I'm in NH, which has no sales tax on transactions of this kind (we do have a meals tax.)
But if I were running a business in Massachusetts, I'd be dismayed that Amazon's effective prices are lower by the amount of the tax - 6.25% - than mine.
Amazon sells most anything these days, with free shipping. I don't even have to drive to the local store and lug the stuff home.
So, they already have the advantage, and this legislation increases it.
I guess Amazon gives a better Beltway lube job than the US Chamber of Commerce lobby.
Yes, collecting multi-state sales tax is a pain in the tail for small internet businesses. But Amazon can afford the infrastructure, they support collecting tax. It increases their advantage over smaller competitors.
In the end, this is good for small internet businesses, neutral for Amazon, and bad for brick and mortar businesses in sales tax states.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Turkish army has banned personnel from taking holidays in Russia, with which Ankara is embroiled in a bitter dispute over the shooting down of a Russian warplane, state-run media said Sunday.
The prohibition, which applies to both personnel and military academy students, was described as a "precautionary measure after the Russian warplane, which violated (The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's) borders, was downed in accordance with the rules of engagement," Anatolia news agency said.
Army personnel are expected to behave in a way that is "worthy" of the Turkish military while on vacation, Anatolia added.
Russia and Turkey have been plunged in their worst crisis since the Cold War over Turkey's downing of a Russian warplane on the border with Syria on November 24.
Moscow has since then unleashed a raft of sanctions against Ankara, including banning imports of some Turkish foods, stopping the sale of package holidays to the country and reintroducing visas for Turkish visitors.
The Turkish foreign ministry in November warned its citizens against non-urgent travel to Russia, but Ankara has so far has not hit back with sanctions measures of its own.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A 16-year-old Paleostinian attempted to carry out a stabbing attack near the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba in the occupied West Bank Sunday before she was shot, Israeli and Paleostinian authorities said. If somebody's trying to stab you, you kinda look at the knife, not at his ID card...
Paleostinian security sources named her as 16-year-old Hebron resident Lama al-Bakri.
"A stabbing attempt was thwarted," the Israeli army said in a statement, without providing her condition.
A spokeswoman for the Hadassah hospital said the assailant was being transferred to the Jerusalem facility, with her condition unknown.
Further details on the incident were not immediately available.
The Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba is located in the southern West Bank outside the flashpoint city of Hebron, where much of the recent violence has been focused.
Tensions have been high between several hundred Israeli settlers who live in the heart of Hebron under heavy military guard and Paleostinian residents.
Since October 1, almost daily attacks by Paleostinians and festivities with Israeli soldiers have killed 116 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.
Many of the Paleostinians killed have been attackers, while others have been rubbed out by Israeli security forces during festivities.
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[EXPRESS.CO.UK] A HERO SAS sniper has foiled a terror attack by killing three jihadis and two ISIS guards - using just three bullets. Judging from the other content on the site, the report could be up 100 percent bullshit.
The sharp-shooter took out three terrorists, at least two of whom were wearing explosive vests, as they made their way to carry out a suicide mission.
The unnamed veteran, who joined the SAS a decade ago, saved potentially hundreds of lives by unleashing three well-aimed shots from a distance of 800m.
The operation took place two weeks ago at a bomb factory around 10km outside the ISIS-occupied city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... .
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[MIRROR.CO.UK] Vile ISIS terror thugs have issued a fatwa to kill babies and children with Down's Syndrome, it has been reported.
Iraqi activist group djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... Eye says the ISIS Shar'ia Board issued a savage "oral fatwa (an Islamic term for a religious decree)" to its members authorising them to "kill newborn babies with Down's Syndrome and congenital deformities and disabled children".
Interesting. Not all that much close-cousin marriage there, one would think, so why is this suddenly a concern?
If true - and reports from the war-torn region are difficult to verify - it means ISIS has taken a leaf from the Nazis, who murdered disabled children it perceived to be a "burden on the state".
Also, for accuracy, the ancient Greeks, though likely they are not the inspiration.
Mosul Eye monitored the deaths of children with Down's Syndrome and other congenital deformities and discovered the fatwa was issued by one of 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.... s's Shar'ia judges, a Saudi judge named " Abu Said Aljazrawi.
A Saudi? Perhaps this was inspired by recollection of the high level of birth defects back home, rather than a result of the drugs the Lions of ISIS take.
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Y'know, ISIS - Planned Parenthood could offer "technical support" and remove that touchy little newborn/postborn issue...
Given the current plunge in the global supply of oil, energy analysts expect demand will outstrip supply as early as April 2016, leading to a recovery in oil prices that have been plummeting as much as 60 per cent over the past several months. Energy experts at the Euromoney Qatar Conference argued that oil supply continued to fall as less economically viable projects are postponed and cancelled.
For example, the US rig count (the number of rigs searching for oil and gas) declined to the lowest level since 1999 in December, with 737 rigs engaged in exploration and production - less than half the 2014 level of 1,920. Given the current dip on the supply side, global oil demand will outstrip supply as early as April 2016, leading to a recovery in oil prices, analysts predicted.
In the Energy Strategy session, speakers focused on falling demand from industrial powerhouses around the world, such as China and the Brics, which has driven oil prices down in 2015.
According to experts, global investment in exploration and production has fallen from $700 billion last year to $550 billion this year. With US crude prices having slid below $40 per barrel again, investment will sink even further in 2016. US shale output declines are projected to account for 400,000 barrels per day of an anticipated 500,000 bpd drop in non-Opec production.
The International Energy Agency, or IEA, expects oil prices to remain low through 2016, but forecasts a rebound to begin in 2017 as the current oil glut recedes and demand rises.
The low price of oil has led the energy industry to slash investments in drilling and exploration, which could lead to a tighter supply. Oil companies have cut such spending by about 20 per cent so far this year, and may spend even less in 2016. The spending decline, combined with continued growth in demand, eventually could lead to "some surprises" in pricing, the IEA said.
However, with global demand expected to remain weak in the first half of next year, senior executives from leading asset managers and energy companies agreed that the disruption of the last 15 months is likely to continue.
Experts predicted that the gas market would also likely to begin to recover in 2016, as nations around the world look to reduce emissions and introduce cleaner energy sources. Gas demand globally has grown at a better rate than oil in recent years - averaging 2.5 per cent - and is likely to increase as more nations look to phase out coal and other "dirty" fossil fuels.
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Now we get to test the theory that fracked shale oil puts a price ceiling on the price of oil- and indirectly on gasoline at the pump.
Guess the saudi oil ticks need some new limos, or jihadi armies or something.
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I'd wager that, rather than US shale, it will be lower cost overseas projects (H/T to the Citi analyst who compiled that chart) that cap oil prices for the foreseeable future. It's tough to imagine the finance crowd, having been so recently burned by US shale, coming back while there are much lower cost alternatives that can supply the world's needs for a few years overseas. Financial instability or political instability, pick your poison.
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The surplus supply still exists but it has been shrinking the last three months. The surplus seems to have been driven as much by decreased Chinese demand as by increased fracked supply. Historically, the faster prices fall - and they have fallen at record rates - the harder the bounceback once the supply is short of the demand.
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as of this post, WTI is at $35 and Brent is a $37
I doubt that many fracking operations are profitable at these prices.
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Time to add to the strategic petroleum reserve?
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I wonder, Is there a "Fix" In on the gallons used by CHEVROET, A "PRICE FIX', for yeas now I've wondered about the miles driven per gallon.
My Toyota gets 39MPG and for years the standard was 20, I'm a master mechanic, and I wonder about collusion, between "BIG OIL' and the "BIG THREE ' carmakers.
It seems easy to add overdrives to the cars, and slow the engines (Buns less per mile) with the interstates you have flatter (Smother) travel.
I hear (Rumor) Caddy is testing 7 and 8 speeds (YES overdrives) bet we never hear of these again.
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redneck jim
the next big thing in vehicle gas mileage is in hybrid trucks, VIA Motors will likely be going IPO in Feb or March and will probably sell 30k to 60k in 2016 -- vehicles will get 40+ mpg and the ones used for local delivery will probably use only electricity
of course electricity isn't free either and the tax expenditure is high ($7k to $10k per vehicle)
within a few years, this will actually make a difference in the total US consumption
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If you calculate the Fed and Treasury printing a lot more money without backing, the subsequent resultant inflation will be reflected in higher prices.
Ultimately, Turkey will have to leave Iraqi territory, Michael Rubin, the former Pentagon advisor on Middle East, and scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) told Trend.
“Iraq was willing to turn a blind eye to the presence of Turkish forces so long as the Turks were discreet but, by increasing their presence, Turkey is giving Iraq little choice but to increase the confrontation,” Rubin said.
Nevertheless, he doesn’t believe that there will be an outright war between the two sides.
“Many Iraqis believe that Erdogan is all bluster, but will ultimately back down,” said the former Pentagon advisor.
Turkey earlier deployed a group of its armed forces, including around 130 servicemen, tanks and artillery in the camp of Kurdish Peshmerga military forces where Ankara trains Kurdish fighters for attacking Mosul city captured by the IS terrorist group (ISIL, ISIS, or Daesh). The Turkish side states that there was reached an agreement with Iraqi authorities on this issue.
This is while previously, the Iraqi authorities accused Turkey of military invasion and demanded the Turkish troops to leave the country. In addition, a number of Iraqi MPs demanded from the authorities to launch a military operation against the Turkish troops.
Rubin believes that ultimately, Iraq will be able to stand up to Turkish military forces.
“Firstly, there is a widespread belief that Turkey is sympathetic to Daesh, and so if Iraqi forces use their artillery or air force in the fight against Daesh, they might target whom Turkey trains,” he said.
“If Turkish advisors get killed [in this operation], I don’t believe the Iraqis will mourn,” Rubin added.
Further, he said that Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi may be forced to take some action just to prove that he is not as weak as his detractors claim.
Rubin said that one of the main allies of Turkey is Masoud Barzani, head of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Northern Iraq and the basis for that relationship is the financial aspect.
In the best of the old Ottoman traditions -- the Iraqi Kurds have been bought...
Moreover, Turkey’s allies in Iraq are Sunni Arabs, according to the former Pentagon advisor.
“Turkey might say it’s the Turkmen, but many of the Turkmen are Shiite and embrace their sectarian identity above their ethnic identity,” he added.
Earlier, Turkish Foreign Ministry said that Ankara intends neither to deploy its new military units to Iraq nor withdraw the existing ones.
It was previously reported that Iraq will impose economic sanctions on Ankara in response to Turkey’s refusal to withdraw its tank battalion from Iraq’s Nineveh province. As part of the economic sanctions, Iraqi companies can be prohibited from signing any agreement with Turkish firms.
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Sorry, Mr. Rubin, don't think so - IMO, de facto or wannbe "Neo-Ottoman" Turkey won't leave Iraq or other in the ME widout a fight.
Ditto as per Co-Superpowers IRAN + PUTINIST RUSSIA.
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"By increasing their presence, Turkey is giving Iraq little choice but to increase the confrontation" - Yeeeeuuup.
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Yet another non-NATO approved or coordinated action was it? Well then, perhaps it's time to say goodbye. I was ready 12 years ago.
Iraq: Turkey, the Deployment of U.S. Forces, and Related Issues
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On March 1, 2003, the Turkish parliament rejected a resolution authorizing the
deployment of U.S. forces to Turkey to open a northern front in a war against Iraq.
The rejection resulted from strains within the ruling Justice and Development Party
(AKP), an inexperienced leadership, competing influences, and the overwhelming
opposition of Turkish public opinion. Moreover, the powerful Turkish military had
not actively supported the government’s position before the vote, and the President
had suggested that the resolution would be unconstitutional.
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According to Rudaw, it was the Iraqi government itself that had asked Turkey to come in and train army troops, volunteers, snd Peshmerga, with which the Ninevah provincial government agrees most heartily.
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De latest this nice Guam AM ...
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Twitter] TURKEY SAYS HAS WITHDRAWN ["re-arranged" = re-aligned"] "SOME TROOPS" FROM NORTHERN IRAQ [Mosul], + WILL BE DEPLOY TO DOHUK AS PART OF NEW AGREEMENT WID IRAQ.
* RELATED WORLD NEWS, TOPIX > TURKEY PARTIALLY WITHDRAWS TROOPS FROM IRAQ.
versus
* OTOH WORLD MILITARY FORUM ARTIC = Pert-Blogger alleges that TURKEY DEPLOYED ITS TROOPS TO IRAQ AS PART OF A US-TURKEY SCHEME TO BLOCK FURTHER IRANIAN EXPANSION + TROOP MOVEMENTS INTO SYRIA???
And so It = Turkey-vs-Iran, OWG-Co-Superpower-Wannbe-vs-OWG-Co-Superpower confrontation for control of the ME + ME Global Federal Union(s)begins???
[SEXY SLINKY BARBARA EDEN = "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" here].
[NEWSOBSERVER] State Rep. Cecil Brockman says state troopers accused him of driving a stolen car during a traffic stop, and he suspects the questioning was because he's black.
Brockman, a High Point Democrat, is now facing criticism from Republicans after Charlotte TV station WBTV broadcast video of the incident.
In the video, Brockman tells the troopers he's a state representative and that he's "pissed off" about being stopped. His BMW sedan has a special license plate identifying him as a member of the state House.
Neither Brockman nor the troopers mention accusations of a stolen car in the video.
But one segment of the troopers' conversation with Brockman, totaling about two minutes, isn't audible in the video. That portion carries in-car audio instead of picking up audio from Brockman's car. Brockman says that is when questioning about a stolen vehicle occurred.
The audio does later record Brockman suggesting that his race is a factor in the stop, and the trooper replies "that has absolutely nothing to do with it."
The officers check Brockman's vehicle identification number after he tells them he doesn't have his vehicle registration with him. The trooper says he stopped Brockman because he wasn't wearing a seat belt, and the video ends with the trooper handing him a ticket for that violation.
After the traffic stop, Brockman complained to the State Highway Patrol's liaison at the legislature, Jarrett Burr, and he requested dashcam video of the incident. He says he also contacted the director of the Highway Patrol. Brockman said he never received a reply, and he thinks that the video was "leaked" to WBTV. The station reported that it obtained the video through a public records request.
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[ARA News] DAMASCUS – Syrian air force launched a deadly airstrike on the rebel-held city of Douma in the suburb of Damascus, killing and wounding dozens of civilians, activists reported on Sunday.
More than 40 civilians were killed and some 75 others wounded in an airstrike by pro-Assad air force in Douma.
“The airstrike hit a building where a large number of civil rights activists and residents of Douma were gathered to discuss the humanitarian crisis in the city,” local media activist Ali Hassan told ARA News.
“There was no single armed person in the targeted building. All casualties are civilians,” the source reported.
Hassan added that local rescue teams have pulled dozens of victims from the rubble, pointing our that many others could still be trapped under the ruins of the bombed building.
“This is an apparent massacre against innocent people. The international community has done nothing to stop this bloodbath,” he said.
In the meantime, a local medical team installed a field hospital in central Douma to treat the wounded.
“There is a sharp shortage of medicines and staff. The number of victims could increase in the coming hours,” a nurse told ARA News on the condition of anonymity.
The rebel-held city of Douma has been under regime siege for more than two years. According to locals, Syrian warplanes have repeatedly bombed the city, causing large numbers of casualties, mostly civilians.
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rockets fired by regime forces rained down on the towns of Douma, Harasta, Saqba and Arbin in the opposition-held Eastern Ghouta region.
Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said air strikes also hit the towns, but it was unclear whether they were carried out by Syrian or Russian warplanes.
Government forces regularly bombard Eastern Ghouta, and rebels there fire rockets and mortar shells into the capital.
On Sunday, three people, including two children, were killed in rebel mortar fire on Damascus, according to the state news agency SANA. Three more people were killed and dozens maimed in mortar fire on a Damascus suburb controlled by government forces, SANA reported.
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Marjah district in southern Helmand province will fall to the Taliban if reinforcement troops and more military hardware is not sent in to help locally-based security forces, said local officials on Sunday.
The officials raised their concerns over the deteriorating security situation in the district – which follows on the heels of the recent falling of Khanshin district to the Taliban.
"Khanshin district fell to Taliban, Marjah is under threat of collapse and Garmser [district] is a target for them [militants]," said Mohammad Hashim Alokozay, a senator from Helmand.
"If the security situation prevails, Helmand will soon witness major attacks by the Taliban," he added.
The head of Helmand provincial council Mohammad Karim Atal also raised the same concerns over the security situation in the district.
"Marjah [district] is under serious threat. If it is not supported it will soon fall to anti-government militants," he said.
Meanwhile, the mother of a soldier in Helmand claims that her son, along with several of his colleagues, have been under siege by militants for the past few days.
"My son is under siege with several other troops. They have been promised help but no attention has been paid to them so far. What are air force planes for - that they are not going to their help," asked the woman.
However, Defense Ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri said militants have been defeated in Marjah and that the security situation is improving there.
"There is no problem in Marjah. A militant attack occurred yesterday [Saturday] but they faced serious defeat [by security forces]," the spokesman said.
Waziri added: "Currently there is no security problem in Marjah and there is nothing to worry about."
With winter having set in in the northern and eastern parts of the country, militants appear to have focused attention on southern, warmer provinces - Helmand and Zabul.
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday brushed off what a Germany magazine said was a request from the United States to provide more military help in the fight against Islamic State, Reuters reported.
"I believe Germany is fulfilling its part and we don't need to talk about new issues related to this question at the moment," Merkel told the ZDF broadcaster when asked about the Der Spiegel magazine report of the US request.
Besides, she'll shortly need her military at home...
Der Spiegel reported on Saturday that US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter had sent a letter asking for a bigger military contribution from Germany, a week after parliament approved a plan to join the campaign in Syria. A German Defense Ministry spokesman confirmed a letter had been received from the United States and its content was under consideration, giving no further details. Der Spiegel said the letter did not make specific demands and was similar to requests sent to other US partners.
Germany's mission includes six Tornado reconnaissance jets, a frigate to protect the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, refueling aircraft and up to 1,200 troops. The deployment is a direct response to a French appeal for solidarity after militant attacks in Paris killed 130 people. Germany does not plan to carry out air strikes in Syria.
Germany has over the past two years shown a growing readiness to commit troops to foreign missions.
Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said last week Germany might need bigger armed forces to cope with the more assertive role. More than 3,000 personnel are currently deployed overseas and the Syria mission will raise that by up to 1,200. Von der Leyen also wants to send 650 troops to Mali to help the French campaign against Islamist militants there.
Germany last year started arming Iraqi Kurds fighting Islamic State.
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[NYPOST] Santa Claus is banned. The Pledge of Allegiance is no longer recited. "Harvest festival" has replaced Thanksgiving, and "winter celebrations" substitute for Christmas parties.
New principal Eujin Jaela Kim has given PS 169 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, a politically correct scrub-down, to the dismay of teachers and parents.
"We definitely can't say Christmas, nothing with Christmas on it, nothing with Santa," PTA president Mimi Ferrer said administrators told her. "No angels. We can't even have a star because it can represent a religious system, like the Star of David."
Kim, 33, did not return a call or e-mail seeking comment.
A memo last month from assistant principal Jose Chaparro suggested a "harvest festival instead of Thanksgiving or a winter celebration instead of a Christmas party." He urged staff to "be sensitive of the diversity of our families. Not all children celebrate the same holidays."
So what? A holiday is a holiday. Consider it a learning experience for all the tykes, and an excuse to party...
Ninety-five percent of the 1,600 kids at PS 169 are Asian or Hispanic.
In a recent directive to all schools, the city Department of Education said it permits holiday symbols including Christmas trees, kinaras (candleholders for Kwanzaa), dreidels, Hanukkah menorahs and the Islamic star-and- crescent. Displays that "depict images of deities, religious figures or religious texts" are prohibited.
In a memo to staff this month, PS 169 business manager Johanna Bjorken added: "In case you are wondering about grey areas: Santa Claus is considered an 'other religious figure.'"
But a DOE front man told The Post that Santa is allowed as a secular figure.
Santa was a part of the holidays at PS 169 for years. Joseph Iorio, a longtime assistant principal and the acting principal who preceded Kim, recalled state Assemblyman Felix Ortiz visiting the school dressed as Santa "many times."
Iorio also said he tapped student leaders to lead the Pledge of Allegiance every Monday morning. When Kim arrived, the school-wide pledge ended. A DOE front man said classrooms can recite the pledge "at the teacher's discretion." But PS 169 teachers said that Kim never told them they could do so.
Kim has other wacky priorities, school sources say. Soon after joining PS 169 in May 2014, her first time as a principal, she ordered the faculty to clear their classrooms of "clutter." She moved hundreds of books and loads of supplies into the gym, where parents and other community members took what they wanted. The rest was tossed in the trash. She also dumped boxes of newly purchased reading books in the basement because she preferred another curriculum, staffers said.
Kim bought seven 70-to-80-inch Sharp flat-screen smart TVs, which retail at about $3,000 each. After painting over and removing historic murals, she had the TVs mounted in the auditorium -- three over the stage and two on each side.
"It was ridiculous," Ferrer said. "They have never been used."
I think I could find a use for a couple of them...
Kim holds a lottery for students to get academic assistance after school or on Saturdays. She also started a "professional learning period" in which teachers observe each other in class, but it eliminates one period of core instruction a week for students, staffers said.
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little progressive tyrants learn the hard way when exposed to sunlight. Fire this bitch
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And so many of her ink can't understand why Trump is so high in the polls.
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I thought Hispanics were mostly Christian, as are some (?) Asians, but not Principal Kim, I guess.
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So they'll have class on Thanksgiving and Christmas and Kwanzaa, and Eid (whatever), too?
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I could be wrong but I think Santa are not actually in the Bible. So now they are banning non-religious messages of giving and being nice to each other?
I can't wait for the day when we Progressives get us to the point of Government Issued Late December presents. I'm sure they'll be a hoot. Probably an extra food ration of veggies.
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Students saying "merry Christmas" or "happy Hanukkah" is protected as both freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Banning it is a violation of both. So I say "lucrative lawsuit" to that principle.
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No, from the South Korea that would have wound up as protein supplements in the North Korea if there weren't a USA that didn't follow her value system to keep it free.
[ARABNEWS] With battles still raging at the Saudi-Yemeni border, the enemy is forcing large numbers of its fighters to pass through in a bid to penetrate the border, promising their fighters they are near a big victory, but incurring more human losses, equivalent to half of these large forces during each battle.
At the same time, the joint military force is still in control in every area of the border, deterring any attempts to infiltrate Saudi territory.
Al Ekhbariya satellite TV channel, the Ministry of Culture and Information-operated Arabic channel, featured an extensive detailed news report on the battles. This past Friday, the channel's news news hound was there on the battlefield describing some of the details of the happenings on the ground, near Wadi Almoghaialh in Jazan, where a surveillance tower for the joint military forces is keeping a close eye on the area. The tower witnessed one of the biggest attacks from the enemy side on Friday.
"About 200 fighters of the enemy forces advanced with weaponry close to the border. The joint military force saw them and engaged them in a four-hour battle, killing more than 50 of the enemy fighters. Two soldiers of the joint force were martyred and one injured during the battle," said news hound Khalid Al-Janahi.
Brig. Abdullah Al-Juaid, a commander of the joint force who was one of the fighters at the front, described the situation as reassuring. He said: "The valley is full of the bodies of the Lion of Islam and we are in full control."
The enemy was showering Almoghaialh center with weapons including Katyusha rockets, mortar shells, artillery and tanks. Also during Friday's operations, hostile elements were seen in separate locations moving on the border, but the Saudi soldiers dealt with them opening direct fire, killing 12 of them, and destroying two vehicles and one rocket launcher.
News reports by the TV channel explained that the Houthis and the supporting battalions of the Republican Guard, in addition to the forces loyal to 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... , tried to launch more attacks on the border in the Jazan sector to achieve results and occupy locations to acquire favorable positions ahead of the Geneva negotiations.
Khalid Rashid, the channel's cameraman, said: "I honestly feel that my camera is helpless in transmitting the facts and realities lived by the Saudi soldier on the battlefield while protecting his country. It is not easy at all to show viewers how the Saudi soldier, standing on the border, protecting the country, is very outstanding and different in everything, in his rationale and thinking, in his actions and behavior. He is a true hero indeed. I wish I could roam with my camera the city of Sanaa to register the joy of the Yemeni people for liberating their country."
Another member of the news team, Imad Al-Ameer said: "What these soldiers do makes me feel small and falling short of doing anything for my country. Their actions actually say 'My soul is a mere sacrifice for my country.' They are brave men, loyal to each other and to their country."
He added that Saudi soldiers possess, in addition to their bravery and good physical strength, high combat skills, knowledge of technical and technological sciences.
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(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – Khalidiya District Council in Anbar province announced, that the joint forces were able to cleanse al-Aramil neighborhood south of the city of Ramadi (110 km west of Baghdad) from the control of the ISIS organization.
The Head of Khalidiya Council Ali Dawood said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “The security forces backed by police and tribal elements, with support from the coalition warplanes, were able to cleanse al-Aramil neighborhood (6 km south of Ramadi) from the control of the ISIS,” noting that, “The battles resulted in killing of 22 elements of the organization.”
Dawood added, “The security forces are working to dismantle the explosive devices and booby-trapped houses in al-Aramil neighborhood to ensure progress to the depth of the other regions in Ramadi.”
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Arrest 515 suspects have been rounded up during separate raids of security forces in eastern Nangarhar province.
Officials say three suspects have identified themselves as Pakistani nationals while the others, which include a woman and two children, have said they are Tajik and Uzbek nationals.
Spokesperson for the governor of Nangarhar province says the three suspects who identify themselves as residents of Kuram Agency and Swat areas of Pakistan were arrested from Ghanikhil District and the 12 others were detained from Ghazi Amanullah Khan City of Rodat District on Saturday.
It is yet unknown what the suspects planned to do but Ataullah Khogyanai said the investigation is still open to find out more about them.
Nangarhar which shares a long border with Pakistan has turned into a hot spot of terrorists in the eastern part of the country.
It was predominantly a Taliban and Hizb-e-Islami area of insurgency but now the affiliates of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or Daesh and other militant groups have also established a foothold in parts of it.
A high-ranking Chinese military delegation met with Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari in Tehran Dec. 13. During the meeting the parties discussed broadening naval cooperation and boosting bilateral military relations, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported.
Iran needs equipment and China needs money. Simple as that...
Back in October Sun Jianguo, deputy chief of staff of China's army visited Tehran and held separate meetings with senior Iranian military officials including Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan and Habibollah Sayyari during which both sides underlined the necessity for the development of the two countries' military cooperation.
Earlier in October 2014, Sayyari paid an official visit to china at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart. Providing Iran’s navy with some technical requirements by Chinese side were discussed during the visit.
Previously, Iran’s defense minister visited China and discussed military cooperation issues with Chinese officials. The two sides stressed expansion of mutual military and security cooperation between the two countries.
Tehran and Beijing have close diplomatic, economic, trade and energy ties, and in recent years have developed their military relations as well. China is believed to have helped Iran in various military fields including training of high-level officials on advanced systems, providing technical support, supplying steel for missile construction, providing control technology for missile development, building a missile factory and a test range.
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Iran needs equipment and China needs money. Simple as that...
The heathen Chinee need money? And here I thought they had more than they knew WTF to do with. Guess it goes fast when yer thousand year plans go awry.
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Maintaining an arms industry is expensive; you have to keep production going. Any half-assed country with a machine shop can build small arms. It gets a bit more difficult when you graduate to armor, ships, and aircraft.
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JHH: I'm sure China has lots of starving peasants stowed away somewhere to grab by the ankles and swing against us during whatever Climate Payoff Negotiations are taking place.
[Hurriyet Daily News] The new Turkish party-state has proven to be no different to the "ancien regime" regarding its Kurdish policy, despite all the fanfare in the name of democratization, dialogue, negotiations and the so-called grinding of the peace processor. Now, the situation has returned to a fully-fledged "war on terror," military operations, long curfews, and suspension of the order of law in the name of the law of order. The infamous Sri Lanka model has replaced the aspired IRA model.
From the beginning, the grinding of the peace processor was essentially an attempt to make peace with Kurds in the name of religious - and indeed sectarian (Sunni) - brotherhood. The Justice and Development Party (AKP) started negotiations with the leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to achieve a call for the PKK's disarmament. Ultimately, the AKP expected to make a deal with Kurds in return for their support for the presidential system. This plan was doomed to fail and indeed it did; still, the regression back to war could have been avoided.
As for the Kurds, it seems there was no clear policy other than oscillation between two extremes: A strategy of overconfident optimism and pragmatism and a strategy of over-skepticism and war. At the beginning of the grinding of the peace processor, the Kurdish political movement and especially their leader chose to turn a blind eye to democratic regression in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , paradoxically in the name of securing their deal for peace. Some even flirted with the idea of supporting the presidential system, despite the fact that the idea created a rift within the Kurdish political movement.
The Kurdish democratic wing, the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), later decided to transform itself into an opposition party for all, declaring its opposition to the presidential system and to any deal with the AKP. It was supported by some Turkish left-liberals and democrats as a positive idea, and its sympathetic young leader Selahattin Demirtas was portrayed as an opposition leader. Foreign observers also liked what they saw.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... the worst outcome of this delusion turned out to be the deterioration of the Kurdish democratic political experiment - and its leader's loss of credibility -- after the PKK decided to return to military confrontation last July.
The Kurdish movement's regional success in securing free enclaves in northern Syria, as well as the legitimacy given by the Western powers regarding the Democratic Union Party's (PYD) fight against 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.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), could have been political assets for Kurdish politics in Turkey. But in fact the "Rojava revolution" turned out to be a delusion fed by overconfidence. As for Turkey, the Kurds' successes provoked extreme skepticism, giving new impetus to Turkey's further intervention into the Syrian war in order to counter Kurdish moves, using the so-called "Turkmen forces."
The result is that the Kurdish predicament has turned into a messy drama, while the Turkish predicament has turned into a tragedy. It is a tragedy for Turkey, as the country will only be able to survive its political and social crises by reforming itself through democratization and striking peace with Kurds. The return of dark politics is not only a matter of liberties and peace; it is now a matter of survival for our troubled country in terms of domestic, regional and international politics, which are all closely intertwined.
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The far-Right Front National was thwarted in its bid to clinch a historical electoral victory in France on Sunday after failing to secure power in any of the country’s 13 regions, early results suggested. The ruling Socialists of President François Hollande appeared to have fared better than expected, taking five regions, while the opposition centre-Right took seven, including the Paris region for the first time since 1997.
Voting had taken place under high security with France still under a state of emergency exactly a month on from the jihadist attacks in Paris that claimed 130 lives – a climate that helped the FN reap historic gains in round one a week ago.
But in a major upset, Marine Le Pen, the FN leader, failed to take power in the northern region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais, losing heavily to Xavier Bertrand, the candidate of Nicolas Sarkozy's centre-Right party The Republicans (formerly the UMP). She had hoped to use a regional win as a “foundation stone” for a run at the presidency in 2017, where she is polled to reach round two. In the event, Mr Bertrand won almost 58 per cent to Ms Le Pen’s 42 per cent.
“History will remember that it was here in that we stopped the advance of the Front National,” said Mr Bertrand, a former labour minister, who had laid into “the English” in the tail end of his campaign, blaming David Cameron for the migrant crisis in Calais.
The same fate befell Marion-Maréchal Le Pen, Marine’s niece, who failed in her battle for the southern Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, losing out to Christian Estrosi, the mayor of Nice, by 45 per cent to his 55 per cent.
The FN had high hopes of clinching at least three regions after the first round vote coming top in six and taking the largest slice of the national ballot – some six million votes. But it fell foul of higher than expected turnout – more than 50 per cent - and tactical voting by Socialist sympathisers who plumped en masse for the mainstream Right to keep out the FN.
Ms Le Pen placed a positive spin on her defeat, saying the FN had maintained political momentum by winning a historically high number of votes, and was now “the first opposition force in many regional councils of France” – tripling its number of councillors. She added that the result would not stop the "inexorable rise, election after election, of a national movement" behind her party.
But analysts suggested the outcome suggested that the “glass ceiling” preventing the FN winning in major elections when the mainstream Right and Left cooperate still holds – even if the cracks in that strategy are increasingly wide.
The analysts, of course, are terrified of the National Front and of course will say this.
The outcome was relatively disappointing for Mr Sarkozy, whose party only won four regions without the support of Left-wing voters. A landslide victory would have boosted his chances in upcoming party primaries. Critics said his hard-Right line failed to woo FN supporters, a sizeable chunk of whom had voted for him in 2012.
But Mr Sarkozy reportedly told aides: “My strategy was the right one. The results have shown that France has never been so Right-wing. And when I see that it is in regions where we fielded centrist candidates that we fared the worse, you’d have to be mad to think centrism is the way forward.”
The results will come as a major relief to the Socialists, who had controlled all but one of France’s regions before the elections and had expected a pendulum swing to the opposition.
President Hollande clearly hopes his party’s decision to pull out of two regions where the FN stood a chance of winning will give it the moral high ground ahead of 2017 presidential elections and bolster its claim to being the “only rampart against the far-Right”.
Manuel Valls, the prime minister, who had warned of future “civil war” should the FN take power, said: “Tonight there is no relief, no triumphalism. The extreme-Right threat has not been averted. I have not forgotten the first round results.”
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The left is terrified of the conservatives but not so much of the jihadists.
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Well, too over simplify, it looks like the left did a "cross over vote" and used technicalities of election laws to screw The National Front, that had the popular majority. Of course this will piss off the National Front and the left may not like the reprisal coming their way. Burn Baby.
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Looks like the two brands one party cartel "choice" the french people were allowed is going to backfire.
ISLAMABAD: As per latest statistics collected by the Ministry of Interior, Sindh has over the past five years led in sending terrorists to gallows, followed by the three other provinces and independent administrative regions.
The PPP-ruled province, according to the ministry’s figures, also has more terrorists awaiting execution than the rest of the country.
Until the last week of November Sindh carried out capital punishment in 106 cases, followed by Punjab with 64 terrorists.
The Islamabad Capital Territory, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan each have sent one terrorist to the gallows. Not a single death punishment has been carried out in the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (Fata), Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) and Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) during this period.
Same is the case regarding the number of terrorists awaiting execution. Here, Sindh stands out with 98, Punjab 81 and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 25. Balochistan and Islamabad each have one condemned prisoner. There is no terrorist on death row in Fata, AJK and GB.
During the PPP government at the centre (from 2008 to 2013) there was an unannounced moratorium on the death penalty. Though the figures are of the past five years, most of these executions have been carried out after the terrorist attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar in December last year.
With 11 military courts set up under the 21st Amendment in January this year, the number of terrorists facing death penalty is likely to go up in coming days.
The latest figures released by ISPR (Inter-Services Public Relations) over the weekend said that of the 142 cases of terrorism heard by military courts 55 had been finalised and 87 were in process.
Military courts convicted 31 terrorists, 27 of them have been executed and four sentenced to life imprisonment.
On Dec 8, Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif signed the death warrants of another four terrorists.
In the category of terrorists killed in actions carried out by law-enforcement agencies, Fata leads with 2,530, followed by Balochistan with 435, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 351, Sindh 342, Punjab 90, Islamabad 7, AJK 3 and GB 1.
The marked difference in the number of terrorists killed in Fata is largely because of the ongoing military operations in tribal areas.
KP and Fata are on top of the list of law-enforcement personnel and civilians killed and injured in terrorist attacks.
In KP, 872 security personnel lost their lives and 1,696 suffered injuries. It suffered death of its 2,422 civilians while 2,725 people were injured.
In Fata, 1,487 personnel were killed and 2,224 injured. The number of civilian deaths is 1,470 and of those injured 2,761.
In Punjab, 107 security personnel lost their lives and 582 suffered injuries. Terrorist attacks in the province have claimed 152 civilian lives and left 1,827 people injured.
In Sindh, 64 security personnel were killed in terrorist attacks and 84 injured while 313 civilians lost their lives and 1,045 suffered injuries.
Though only one security man lost his live in a terrorist attack in Islamabad, the number of civilian deaths in such attacks is 61 with 211 others suffered injuries.
In GB, 17 security personnel lost their lives and 32 suffered injuries in terrorist attacks. The number of civilian deaths in such attacks in GB is 63.
An official says the army soldiers have shot and killed a colleague suspected to be an Al shabaab secret agent in the western town of Waajid, the regional district of Bakool,
Confirming the incident, Col Abdirahman Tima-adde who is the chief of Somali army in Bakool region said the soldiers have killed the officer after they suspected him collaborating with Al shabaab as ‘an undercover agent.
On the other hand, Tima-adde added that Somali national army (SNA) and African Union troops (AMISOM) have pushed the Al shabaab militants out their remaining pockets in Bakool region.
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[BOSTONHERALD] Sen. Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... has a dream for America -- his dream, our nightmare.
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Lest we fergit, the "American Dream" is now the "Amerikan Dream" or the "North Amerikan Dream", where Canada + Mexico + Greenland's values-beliefs, etc. are now to be integrated wid that of the US.
Aren't we glad we voted for [US-led Anti-US] OWG-NWO + US-Global Socialist Order!
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Until such time that OWG-NWO = aka Sapce govt-Order is permanently + irrevocably achieved + entrenched, EXPECT THINGS TO GET MUCH WORSE BEFORE THEY GET BETTER.
E.g. the Bammer's mighty defense of his own "red lines" vee Russia, China, + Iran, Etal.
Whatever the Bammer fails to achieve before jan. 2017, in whole or in part, EXPECT ANY SIMILAR ANTI-US US OWG GLOBALIST SUCCESSOR(S) TO DO SO.
DON'T FEAR ANTI-US GLOBALIST OBAMA - FEAR MORE THE ANTI-US GLOBALIST POTUS(ES) WHOM FOLLOW HIM.
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"Here's my favorite: "A new fuel-efficiency standard (for cars) of 65 miles per gallon by 2025."
To get to 65 mpg, the vehicles would have to weigh about as much as that empty aluminum soda...
I'm sorry, but that's nonsense. Those cars already exist, for example the Audi A1 1.6 TDI, the Toyota Yaris Hybrid, the Peugeot 208, the Renault Twingo dCi 85, the VW Polo 1.2 TDI Bluemotion, the Ford Fiesta Econetic 1.6 TDCi, the Smart Fortwo Coupé cdi and a few more.
Sure, these are small city cars, but definitely no tin cans. In ten years we should be able to build bigger cars, which should run fin with one gallon per mile.
That's not a socialist pipe dream, but makes a lot of sense.
Less gas, less dependency on Middle Eastern oil.
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The only openly Socialist member The key word is "openly." The other Donks mask what they are to get elected. They are thus "covertly" or "clandestine" socialists--(or if you like a member of a Fifth Column effort.)
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And even if Bernie's dream comes true and we are all biking 20+ miles to (and back from) work... Oh scratch that - there won't be any jobs and we will all be on government dole using up those freshly printed billion-dollar bills...
Anyway even of Bernie's dream comes true - it wouldn't make a scratch in GloBull Worming. Because it's not man-caused.
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The only openly Socialist member The key word is "openly." The other Donks mask what they are to get elected. They are thus "covertly" or "clandestine" socialists--(or if you like a member of a Fifth Column effort.)
And so Bernie's candidacy could be regarded as a trial balloon so the rest of them can see how far to the left they can go and still get away with it.
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European Conservative, I think you might need to take European diesels off of that list. I suspect (and I'm not alone) that there has been a lot of fudging the numbers the way VW did.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] At least five Saudi women have won seats on local municipal councils a day after women voted and ran in elections for the first time in the country's history, according to initial results released Sunday.
The five women hail from vastly different parts of the country, ranging from Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's second largest and most cosmopolitan city to a small village near Islam's holiest sites.
Though not many women are expected to win seats, even limited gains are seen as a step forward for women who had previously been completely shut out of elections.
The mayor of Mecca, Osama al-Bar, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Sunday that candidate Salma al-Oteibi won in a village called Madrakah, about 150 kilometers north of the city which houses the cube-shaped Kaaba to which Muslims around the world pray.
Al-Bar also confirmed through election officials in Saudi Arabia's second largest city of Jeddah that another female candidate, Lama al-Suleiman, had won a seat there.
The official Saudi Press Agency, meanwhile, quoted the head of the election committee in the northern region of al-Jawf as saying that female candidate Hinuwf al-Hazmi won along with 13 men in that district. The news agency also reported that Mona el-Emery and Fadhila al-Attawy had won in the northwestern region of Tabuk.
Overall results from the capital Riyadh and other major regions were expected to be announced Sunday by the General Election Commission.
Many women candidates ran on platforms that promised more nurseries to offer longer daycare hours for working mothers, the creation of youth centers with sports and cultural activities, improved roads, better garbage collection and overall greener cities.
In October, the Saudi Gazette reported that harsh road conditions and long distances to the nearest hospital had forced some women in the village of Madrakah, where one female candidate was elected, to give birth in cars. The local newspaper reported that the closest hospital and the nearest university were in Mecca, prompting some students to forgo attending classes. The article said residents were also frustrated with the lack of parks in the village.
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QUETTA: Three suspected militants were killed and many others injured in a gunbattle with security forces in Mashkay tehsil of Awaran district on Sunday.
Officials said that security personnel were on a patrol in Nagkour area when some militants attacked them.
They said the personnel returned fire and an exchange of fire between them continued for some time before the attackers fled taking with them their injured.
The attackers left behind bodies of their three aides and a huge quantity of arms and ammunitions.
After the gunbattle, the personnel launched a search operation in the area which was continuing till late night.
A Kenyan official says Somalia’s Islamic extremist insurgents al-Shabab have ambushed an army truck killing one soldier and wounding two. Mandera County Commissioner Fredrick Shisia said Sunday the soldiers were travelling to Mandera town, in Kenya’s north, from Nairobi when they were ambushed by al-Shabab fighters between Elwak and Lafey towns.
Shesia said the area of attack is close to Kenya’s border with Somalia making it easy for the attackers to move back into Somalia before Kenyan military reinforcements arrived at the scene.
Kenya has experienced a wave of retaliatory attacks by al-Shabab since it sent its troop to Somalia to fight the extremists in 2011. Al-Shabab militants were responsible for attack on a university in eastern Kenya this year which killed 147 people, many of them students.
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[ARA News] ERBIL – Fierce clashes took place between Kurdish Peshmerga troops and militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) in the western suburb of Mosul, military sources reported on Sunday.
The clashes broke out after ISIS militants tried to attack Peshmerga headquarters west of Mosul, in northwestern Iraq, with two car bombs.
“Our forces targeted the cars before they reach their targets,” Peshmerga officer Saeed Fadil told ARA News. “Huge explosions took place after hitting the cars with machine guns, which indicates those have been loaded with large amounts of explosives.”
The Peshmerga officer pointed out that the clashes centered near the Kesk sub-district (25km west of Mosul).
At least five ISIS militants were killed in the clashes, while one Peshmerga fighter lost his life shortly after being injured.
“The Peshmerga has also repelled an attack by Daesh terrorists in Mashouq village,” Fadil told ARA News, using another acronym for ISIS.
In the meantime, the US.-led coalition conducted a series of airstrikes on ISIS positions in the vicinity of Mosul
“More than 50 Daesh terrorists were killed in Sunday’s airstrikes near al-Haytham village on the outskirts of Mosul city,” the Peshmerga officer reported.
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Two people were killed Sunday as heavy-weapons fire and clashes broke out in the Muslim district of the Central African Republic capital marring a referendum on a new constitution aimed at ending years of sectarian strife.
An AFP journalist saw the bodies of two people lying in a mosque in Bangui's PK5 Muslim district, while a dozen others were wounded there, in clashes between supporters and opponents of the closely-watched referendum. Fire from heavy machine-guns and rocket launchers raged around a PK5 school where voters were waiting to cast their ballots, prompting UN peacekeepers to move in to protect residents.
The vote was seen as a test run for presidential and parliamentary elections due to take place December 27 to end more than two years of conflict between Muslim and Christian militias.
The proposed constitution would limit presidential tenure to two terms, fight institutional corruption and crimp the power of armed militias, blamed for years of chaos and terror. If adopted, it would usher in the sixth republic since independence from France in 1960 and mark the 13th political regime -- underlining the chronic instability undermining the country.
Some factions of the mainly Muslim Seleka force had threatened to block the vote, as had some "anti-balaka" (anti-machete) Christian and animist militia supporters. Among the latter were backers of ousted president Francois Bozize, whose candidacy for the upcoming presidential election has been rejected by the constitutional court.
General Balla Keita, chief of the UN peacekeeping force MINUSCA, vowed to protect voters. The UN representative in Bangui, Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, in a statement hailed the "courage" of Central Africans, who "braved every fear and threat" and went to the polls.
Voting in other parts of Bangui got under way, albeit a couple of hours late, because staff and voting material were late to arrive. In other parts of the country, several incidents were also reported, said an unnamed source in MINUSCA, sent in to quell fighting that has forced 10 percent of the population to flee the country.
Almost two million Central Africans had registered to vote in a population of 4.8 million, a clear sign of the widespread desire to return to a life of peace and normalcy. The international community, which has been pouring aid into the country for over two years, was keen for the referendum as well as the follow-up elections to take place.
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Meanwhile, Panetta counter-manded General Ham’s order, and returned C-110 to the authority of EUCOM.
It went a bit further than a counter-manded order. General Hamm assumed command of AFRICOM in March of 2011. Benghazi happened on September 11, 2012. Obama appointed General David M. Rodriguez to replace Hamm on October 18th, 2012. Hamm was reportedly notified of his relief by his second in command.
A rather abbreviated command tenure and somewhat peculiar notification I'd say.
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So, it is as we thought, the big lie was never true. Panetta and others in the administration said there were no forces that could respond in time to prevent this clusterfVck that cost 4 good people their lives.
In another time, this would be enough to impeach Obama and dump Hillary out of the presidential candidate.
[ARABNEWS] Kuwait's appeals court Sunday upheld the death penalty for the main organizer of the bombing of a Shiite mosque claimed by the Daesh [Islamic State] group that killed 26 people.
The court however reduced the death sentence handed out to the alleged leader of Daesh [Islamic State] in Kuwait, Fahad Farraj Muhareb, to 15 years in prison.
A lower court in September issued the death penalty to Muhareb and Abdulrahman Sabah Saud, who drove the jacket wallah to the mosque site on June 26.
It also handed out jail terms of between two and 15 years to eight others, including five women, and acquitted 14 others.
In Sunday's ruling, the appeals court acquitted one of the five women.
There was tight security for the hearing, with armored vehicles outside the Kuwait City court complex and helicopters patrolling overhead.
Judge Hani Al-Hamdan said the cases of five men sentenced to death in absentia for their role in the bombing were not reviewed because they remained on the lam.
Under Kuwaiti law, sentences issued in absentia are not reviewed by higher courts until convicts appear.
Four of the men on the lam are Saudis, including two brothers who smuggled the explosives belt used in the attack into Kuwait from Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... . The fifth is a stateless Arab.
A total of 29 defendants, seven of them women, had been on trial on charges of helping the Saudi suicide bomber carry out the attack on a Shiite mosque in the capital, which was the bloodiest in Kuwait's history.
During the initial trial, Saud confessed to most charges but he denied all of them in the appeals court.
Among those acquitted Sunday was Jarrah Nimer, owner of the car used to drop off the bomber.
A Daesh [Islamic State]-affiliated group calling itself Najd Province claimed the Kuwait City bombing as well as suicide kabooms at two Shiite mosques in Saudi Arabia in May.
Kuwaiti courts have already issued several verdicts on Daesh [Islamic State] supporters and financiers.
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QUETTA: Security forces on Sunday arrested five suspected militants of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Ziarat.
Official sources said that the arrests were made during a search operation launched by Frontier Corps personnel in Aghbarg area of Ziarat district on an intelligence report about the presence of TTP suspects.
FC spokesman Khan Wasey claimed that all five suspects belonged to TTP. He said a huge quantity of automatic weapons and ammunition was found in their possession.
[NYPOST] A Texas plumber who was flooded with threats after his old truck — still emblazoned with his company’s name — was seen driven by ISIS thugs in Syria has armed himself and is suing a Ford dealer.
Mark Oberholtzer of Mark-1 Plumbing said a jihadi tweeted a photo of a fighter shooting an anti-aircraft gun on the Ford 2005 F-250 in December 2014 with the company logo and phone number still visible.
The nasty calls started pouring in, up to 200 a day.
“They were calling us ‘terrorists’ or ‘traitors,’ [threatening], ‘We’re going to come down there and do this.’ We had numerous death threats,” the 52-year-old from Galveston County told The Post.
In December 2013, Oberholtzer’s son went to AutoNation Ford Golf Freeway in Houston to trade in the 2005 truck for the 2012 model.
As he began peeling the company decals off the door, the salesman told him that it ruins the paint and to “let them handle it,” claims the lawsuit, filed Wednesday against AutoNation.
He was hunting in South Texas when his secretary called to say reporters wanted to know why his truck was being driven by ISIS terrorists.
Homeland Security officials questioned Oberholtzer and the FBI warned him to “protect himself.” He now always carries a gun.
“I lost work out of it,” he said, noting that while his regular clients knew he was a good guy, he has struggled to get new business.
Now the plumber wants $1 million in damages from the dealer, who sold the truck to a company in Turkey in 2013, records show.
“Yesterday I ran into a guy I used to work with, for the first time in five years. ‘Sell any trucks to Syria lately?’ he asked. Everybody thinks it’s funny, but it’s not,” he said.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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[The Nation] A concealed bomb exploded at a graveyard in Yala province as a paramilitary ranger and his father prayed at the grave of his mother yesterday morning. The blast immediately killed Saikh Jehdoma and wounded his 63-year-old father. The corpse of Saikh's mother was blown out of the grave.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] China commemorated victims of a historic massacre by Japanese troops in the city of Nanjing for the second time on Sunday, holding a sober official memorial that contrasted with a much grander ceremony last year.
Given the current plunge in the global supply of oil, energy analysts expect demand will outstrip supply as early as April 2016, leading to a recovery in oil prices that have been plummeting as much as 60 per cent over the past several months. Energy experts at the Euromoney Qatar Conference argued that oil supply continued to fall as less economically viable projects are postponed and cancelled.
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday brushed off what a Germany magazine said was a request from the United States to provide more military help in the fight against Islamic State, Reuters reported.
