Rumsfeld: But he’s up in years, and he obviously comes from a totally different
cut than Donald Trump. He gets his choice and if that’s true, he’s made his choice,
then that’s fine, he can go do what he wants to do.
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from TFA: Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.
That just cracks me up. Go, HuffPo! Get them licks in, just in case anyone forgot TrumpHitler really *is* Hitler.
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It's not at all unusual for the RINO wing of the party to vote Democrat when they don't get their way. The irony is that Trump now *is* the establishment, and a lifelong Democrat himself. Guess pouty children don't see any need for consistency.
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I spotted another Huffpo article that claimed Trump's 13 racist statements / incidents. It is amazing how watered down the definition of 'racism' is to those on the left, since that's the only card they're able to play, debate and refutation of policy positions being completely beyond them.
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The bipartisan vote came despite lobbying from Obama to uphold his veto. Obama said he objects to the bill because it could damage U.S. relations with Saudi Arabia and could undermine America's own sovereign immunity against lawsuits.
The Senate voted 97-1 to override Obama's veto, and the only no vote was from Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
The legislation now heads to the House, where lawmakers are expected to vote as early as Wednesday afternoon. If the House follows, it would be the first time Congress has overridden one of his vetoes. ?????????????
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Augusto Pinochet was no longer head of state when he was prosecuted.
That doesn't matter. This was violation of Chilean sovereignty.
Most EUropean countries have global "human rights" laws that allow them violate other countries sovereignty. I know that because, at one time or another, all of them threatened IDF personnel.
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And what about Slobodan Milosovic? And, as far as relations with the Soddies, What kind of a relationship is it if they can bomb us with impunity?
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It'd be really funny if Q'daffy's heirs sued Obama.
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Or if Saddam's heirs sued Bush. And then there's Assad... Lawyer up, folks.
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"That doesn't matter."
Of course it does. Sovereign immunity doesn't apply to former heads of state (like Pinochet, Milosevic etc.)
"What kind of a relationship is it if they can bomb us with impunity?"
You are right but the response is not a civil lawsuit, but war.
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Of course it does. Sovereign immunity doesn't apply to former heads of state (like Pinochet, Milosevic etc.)
So claiming that official of other country is subject to your courts --- meaning your laws supercede theirs --- is not violation of that country sovereignty? Where did you EUropeans got this idea? Who the Hell told you you're morally superior to a dog?
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The ICC may be located in The Hague, but it's not a European Court. It's a creation of the United Nation and only states which ratified membership have legal obligations towards the ICC.
The United States has none.
Individuals can only be prosecuted for crimes that are listed in the Statute: currently genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Saudi Arabia is a non-signatory state. If it were a signatory state victims of 9/11 could go to the ICC to have Saudi citizens responsible for 9/11 prosecuted (if Saudi Arabia fails to do so). The ICC can't prosecute states though, only individuals.
This is one of the rare occasions Obama is right. It sets a precedent that may really hurt the U.S. in the future.
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Groovy, even. And a 'sense of the public'. These rat bastards would never dare do this unless the alternative was unbearable.
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EC, I hear you, understand, and do not care. It is DUE. You make rational arguments though. Me, I am at the point of turning the entire region to over-lapping glassy circles.
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Oh, Germany can have whatever oil is left, we will shortly need it no more.
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An air strike in northern Somalia left as many as 22 soldiers dead overnight, local officials said on Wednesday, and one region said the United States had been duped into attacking its troops.
Galmudug's Security Minister Osman Issa said 22 of his region's soldiers had been killed in the strike, adding that the rival neighboring region of Puntland had requested it on the pretext that the men were al Shabaab Islamist militants. words fail
...In 2008, during election night, my husband Glenn and I did some commentary for PJTV and I remember PJTV host Bill Whittle asking me if the election of Obama would reduce the anger of liberals to which I said, "no, it would probably enhance it because now they feel entitled and emboldened to be even nastier." If one thinks of liberal bias and anger in behavioral terms, winning the presidential election would reinforce the self-entitled behavior of liberals even further:
In operant conditioning, positive reinforcement involves the addition of a reinforcing stimulus following a behavior that makes it more likely that the behavior will occur again in the future. When a favorable outcome, event, or reward occurs after an action, that particular response or behavior will be strengthened.
So, what does all this psychological jargon mean for the individual in regards to politics? It means that liberal bias and anger against those of us who do not go along with the liberal agenda could increase and in ways that cost people their jobs, livelihoods, relationships etc. A Trump election means that people (mostly liberal) will stop to think about the consequences of their acts more with the other side in power. The fact is, the media, schools, universities and much of society in general these days is driven by liberal thought and with a liberal president and Justice Department at the helm, people feel very free to engage in acts against dissidents without as much restraint.
...And for those who are not conservative and think you are safe if liberal, not so fast. Fewer conservatives in the liberal crosshairs means fewer targets; then they start picking off their own.
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"no, it would probably enhance it because now they feel entitled and emboldened to be even nastier."
Yup. DJT has to find a way to overcome the latest iterations of "Have you quit beating your wife yet." setups by Clinton, Reid and Dean III, et al, without losing it.
The sort of people who set off class wars as a hobby have very particular classless societies in mind. The average left-wing revolutionary is not poor. He is a homicidal dilettante from the upper classes with a burning conviction of his own importance that he is unwilling to realize through disciplined labor. His revolution climaxes with a classless society in which he is at the very top.
Not near the top, not adjacent to the top, as he usually was before, but at the very top.
Utopia has a class system. At the top are the thinkers, the philosopher kings who develop plans based on how things ought to be and then turn them over to lesser men to actually implement. They are the priestly class of an ideological movement whose deity is politics and whose priests are politicians.
In a planned economy, they are the titans of industry and finance, they are the heads of banks and the men who move millions and billions around the board, and they are utterly unfit for the job. But they also make decisions in matters of war and science. And in all things. They measure political heresy in all things and all the activities of man are measured against their dogma and rewarded or punished.
This is the way it was in the Soviet Union or Communist China. But take a closer glance at the White House and see if you don't spot the occasional similarity. That's why they hate Russia, who gave it up - reversing the "inevitable historical progress", so much.
In the middle of Utopia's class system is the middle class. This is not the middle class you are familiar with. There are no small business owners here. No one striving to make it up the ladder. Utopia's middle class is the bureaucracy, the interlinked hive mind of government and non-profits.
At the top of Utopia's class system are the philosopher-planners who issue the regulations. Or rather they offer objectives. The bureaucracy filters them through successive layers, transforming grandiose ideas into stultifying regulations and each successive layers expands them into further microcosms of unnecessary detail. This expansion of regulations also expands the bureaucracy. One feeds off the other. Ever wondered what'd happen to Obama's "pen & phone" if the bureaucracy just ignored him?
Utopia has no lower class. That would be dystopian. Instead it has a client class. The client class is what used to be known as the working class. Utopia however transforms it into the welfare class.
...The client class justifies the existence of Utopia's upper and middle class which are, in theory, dedicated to public service, to remedying the ills of an unfair society, which has been made fair by eliminating all free will and individual choice. But the client class exists to be subsidized. And its subsidies justify the subsidizing of the upper and middle classes of the planners and the bureaucrats.
This is Utopia's crisis.
Its upper class of philosopher kings expect to live like kings. They want to vacation in Aspen and New England. They want Bernie's summer home and Hillary's flat broke houses. And that does not come cheap. Utopia's middle class expects to live the way that our middle class does. And yet none of them actually produce anything. They will, in Obama and Elizabeth Warren's "You didn't build that" formula, claim that their public service makes the condition of productivity possible.
There is one problem with that. Their public service actually inhibits production. Whatever the rhetoric, they spend all their days killing the geese that lay the golden eggs. And then they are insulted when the goose doesn't recognize their contribution to her golden egg-laying. Interestingly Codevilla (whom I posted earlier) and Greenfield, reasoning from entirely different directions, reach essentially the same conclusion --- the Republic is dead.
Me, I'm more optimistic. Because I put my faith not in peoples' goodness but in their badness. If Trump wants to rule, and he wants to rule, he has to castrate the bureaucracy and restore the powers of the electorate.
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I watched them give Yugo Chavez a huge blank check over a fifteen year period because he was cont rt uniting to Hampton by crippling Venezuela's oil production.
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The remarkable thing is how much the utopia of left wing intellectual resembles the ancien regime.
The King ruled, with the assistance of the aristocracy, who were his high level civil and military servants. The upper classes consisted of lower level government employees (mostly poor relatives of the ruling class) Everyone else was one of the riff-raff.
The dream of our revolutionaries is this same system with them at the top, as in Cuba today.
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At the top of Utopia's class system are the philosopher-planners who issue the regulations. Or rather they offer objectives. The bureaucracy filters them through successive layers,
The Emperor, as Son of Heaven, gives his decrees to the mandarins of the Imperial Bureaucracy... Does this mean that The Imperial Dynasties of China are Utopia ...or... that the left wing intellectuals are full of bovine excrement?
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Is it just me, or does it seem that all proponents of their version of "Utopia" fancy themselves as "...the thinkers, the philosopher kings..." and never the fast-food clerk.
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Over the past half century, the Reagan years notwithstanding, our ruling class’s changing preferences and habits have transformed public and private life in America. As John Marini shows in his essay, "Donald Trump and the American Crisis," this has resulted in citizens morphing into either this class’s "stakeholders" or its subjects. And, as Publius Decius Mus argues, "America and the West" now are so firmly "on a trajectory toward something very bad" that it is no longer reasonable to hope that "all human outcomes are still possible," by which he means restoration of the public and private practices that made the American republic. In fact, the 2016 election is sealing the United States’s transition from that republic to some kind of empire.
Electing either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump cannot change that trajectory. Because each candidate represents constituencies hostile to republicanism, each in its own way, these individuals are not what this election is about. This election is about whether the Democratic Party, the ruling class’s enforcer, will impose its tastes more strongly and arbitrarily than ever, or whether constituencies opposed to that rule will get some ill-defined chance to strike back. Regardless of the election’s outcome, the republic established by America’s Founders is probably gone. But since the Democratic Party’s constituencies differ radically from their opponents’, and since the character of imperial governance depends inherently on the emperor, the election’s result will make a big difference in our lives.
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Executive orders, phone calls, and the right judge mean a lot more than laws. They even trump state referenda. Over the past half-century, presidents have ruled not by enforcing laws but increasingly through agencies that write their own rules, interpret them, and punish unaccountably—the administrative state.
I don't see a good end this. The elites don't understand the notion of unintended consequences. Once the rock is tossed off the cliff, one cannot be certain what it might hit.
[AnNahar] One soldier and a civilian were killed in Mali's ancient city of Timbuktu in a suspected jihadist attack, military sources told Agence La Belle France Presse Monday.
The killers arrived in the town in a vehicle and lay in wait for the victims outside their house before gunning them down with an automatic weapon, a Malian army officer told AFP.
Over the course of the last few months, three people, including an army officer accused of sharing the movements of jihadist groups in the Timbuktu region with Mali's army and its allies, have been killed.
Northern Mali has seen repeated violence since it fell under the control of Tuareg-led rebels who allied with jihadist groups linked to al-Qaeda in 2012.
Attacks are now becoming more frequent further south, in the country's centre, close to its borders with Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... and Niger.
Ongoing international military intervention since January 2013 has driven Islamist fighters away from major urban centres which they had briefly controlled.
But despite a peace accord last year, large tracts of Mali are still not controlled by domestic or foreign troops, and jihadist groups have over the past year carried out attacks in central Mali as well as back in the long-troubled north.
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[Ynet] The US State Department said on Tuesday it was providing nearly $400 million in additional humanitarian funding to help Syrians caught up in the country's civil war, bring total U.S. humanitarian spending for Syria to about $5.9 billion.
So generous we are, to be sure. Was this an initiative by the House of Representatives, as required by the U.S. Constitution, or has President Obama whipped out his pen and his phone again?
Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration Anne Richard said the United States has now admitted about 12,500 Syrian refugees in the past year, exceeding the administration's goal of 10,000.
[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has dismissed 87 staff from its spy agency over alleged links to the failed July 15 coup, state media said Tuesday, in the first purge of one of the country's most powerful institutions.
The National Intelligence Organisation (MIT) has suspended 141 personnel in an internal probe over links to US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... who Ankara alleges was behind the coup.
Of these, 87 have now been expelled. They will no longer be able to work in another state institution after their dismissal, the Anadolu news agency reported. Criminal complaints have been lodged against 52 of them, it added.
Turkey has fired tens of thousands of people from state institutions following the attempted putsch but this was the first announcement of dismissals from the powerful spy agency.
Turkey's secret service was widely criticised for not warning authorities about the coup bid and the government has acknowledged a vacuum in gathering intelligence.
There had been intense speculation over the future of spy chief Hakan Fidan after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... publicly said intelligence lapses had helped the coup. The Turkish strongman had admitted he himself found about the coup not from the intelligence service but from his brother-in-law, and that he had been unable to reach Fidan on the night of the putsch.
Fidan was named to head MIT by Erdogan in May 2010 after serving as his foreign policy adviser for three years. Erdogan, who described Fidan as his "secret keeper", had made no secret of his discontent when the spy chief in February 2015 resigned as head of MIT with the aim of becoming an MP from the president's ruling party. But Fidan later withdrew his candidacy and remained at the top of the intelligence service.
In a picture that sparked a frenzy on social media, the previously clean-shaven Fidan was shown in a meeting with the president in the aftermath of the coup in July with a moustache. Several top ministers, including Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, have grown facial hair in recent months in what is widely seen as a sign of loyalty to the moustachioed head of state.
The MIT is one of Turkey's most secretive but powerful organizations, handling issues ranging from internal security to the sensitive areas of foreign policy.
In a separate development, Turkish police carried out operations in 18 provinces including in the mega city Istanbul in search of 121 suspects linked to the charity organization Kimse Yok Mu?, which had been shut down by authorities after the coup along with other Gulen-linked groups, Anadolu reported. They detained 41 suspects while 77 were abroad, two jugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! as part of unrelated probes, and one was still on the lam.
The suspects stand accused of several charges including "membership of an gang" and "financing terror."
On a key visit to Turkey, Britannia's colourful foreign minister Boris Johnson condemned the July coup bid as a "deeply sinister" attack on Turkish democracy. He said the Gulen community "seems to me to have many aspects of a cult" and vowed to take action if necessary against affiliated groups in Britannia.
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who's left?
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Selected Excerpt: [PJ] Now we find out that 1,000 emails between Clinton and General Petraeus were not turned over. This should be a bigger story. Petraeus started out as the leader of U.S. Central Command and then became the director of the CIA during Clinton's tenure as secretary of State, so not only were those emails obviously work related, they very likely were highly classified. The implications here are staggering.
Thinking at the time that it was utterly inconceivable that a man of the stature and professionalism of General Patraeus would store 'classified documents' at his private residence, I've often wondered about the content of the alleged classified documents which he later shared with biographer Paula Broadwell.
As best I can determine from the timeline, Law Enforcement's awareness of the Petraeus hidden documents surfaced only after his sharing them with Broadwell. And as we know, she too likes to share. Oh well, probably little more than a coincidence, for those who believe in coincidences.
Do the Periwinkle cups match the saucers? Could the documents kept by Petraeus possibly have been copies of the 'homebrew server' emails to and from HRC? Did Petreaus retain copies as insurance ?
Among the secret information contained in the "black books" were the names of covert operatives, the coalition war strategy and notes about Petraeus' discussions with President Barack Obama and the National Security Council, prosecutors said. Link
Interesting to note, the Secretary of State is near the very top of the National Security Council food chain. As I recall, some of the emails deemed classified in the HRC communiques also contained names of alledged 'operatives.'
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I recall that HRC severely criticized Petraeus in a Senate hearing. She said at the time: “The reports that you provide to us really require the willing suspension of disbelief.” About this time, MoveOn.Org had an ad calling Petraeus, General "Betray Us" which Hillary did not renounce as did many other Donks. So they (Hillary & Petraeus) later got chummy, kissed and made up and destroyed emails together. Somehow, I don't think these emails discussed yoga, grandchildren, weddings, etc. Are these emails captured by NSA?
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JohnQC: why do you think Champ and his team made sure Petraeus was prosecuted and then "let off"? He's not going to say anything, anything at all today, because he knows what will happen if he does.
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The attack on Benghazi too place on 9/11/2012. Due to his affair with Broadwell, Petraeus was relived as DCI on 11/09/2012, less than 90 days after Benghazi.
Following the revelations about her relationship with Petraeus, Broadwell has retained the services of former Clinton Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers with the public relations firm The Glover Park Group. The founders of The Glover Park Group have previously served as officials in the Clinton White House and on the presidential campaign of former vice president Al Gore. The firm's services include public relations, advertising, marketing, government relations and policy counsel, crisis management and opinion research. Link
Out of the scores of legal and PR groups in D.C., Broadwell stumbled upon Clinton action agents at 'The Glover Park Group.' Interesting PR/laundry team choice I'd say.
[WND] NEW YORK ‐ FBI Director James Comey has a long history of involvement in Department of Justice actions that arguably ended up favorable to the Clintons.
In 2004, Comey, then serving as a deputy attorney general in the Justice Department, apparently limited the scope of the criminal investigation of Sandy Berger, which left out former Clinton administration officials who may have coordinated with Berger in his removal and destruction of classified records from the National Archives. The documents were relevant to accusations that the Clinton administration was negligent in the build-up to the 9/11 terrorist attack.
On Tuesday, Comey announced that despite evidence of "extreme negligence by Hillary Clinton and her top aides regarding the handling of classified information through a private email server, the FBI would not refer criminal charges to Attorney General Loretta Lynch and the Justice Department.
Curiously, Berger, Lynch and Cheryl Mills all worked as partners in the Washington law firm Hogan & Hartson, which prepared tax returns for the Clintons and did patent work for a software firm that played a role in the private email server Hillary Clinton used when she was secretary of state.
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For entertainment today we have James Comey testifying before the House Oversight Committee at 9:00 a.m. on CSPAN--a little Kabuki theater for your enjoyment.
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The House Oversight Committee should order Comey to preserve all documents pertaining to the Clinton Investigations. In the event Trump is elected President he may decide to prosecute Clinton and her staff, and maybe Comey too.
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Wonder of wonders, we now learn that post immunity search of Cheryl Mills computer found classified information. I wonder if some of the sleuths at the Feckless Blockhead Institution have though to compare texts with the Hildabeest emails?
The level of utter corruption of the most fundamental issues of trust in our national institutions is toxic. Public outrage is muted by cluelessness of the vast majority and disinterest by the media elites who have seats on the imperial councils of allies. God save the Republic......
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Well Grom, the Donks are trying to make a case for that. They claim Carter Page was directed to go to Russia to negotiate backdoor deals with Russia which violates the Logan Act. They are displaying self-righteous indignation. KellyAnne Conway claims Page is not a part of Trump's campaign staff. It is all bullllshhitt. ,the Donks are getting desperate with the possibility the Clinton crime syndicate may come toppling down--should have happened long ago.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The commander of the Anbar military operations Genenal Ismail al-Mahalawi announced Monday that 350 houses were cleared of explosive devices in the city of Fallujah, al-Sumaria news reported.
“Engineering unit of the army was able to clear 350 houses in different areas of the city after mines and improvised explosive devices found were dismantled,” said Mahalawi in a press statement
Mahalawi also explained that 12 explosive devices were safely detonated by another engineering unit belongs to the Iraqi forces without causing any losses.
the new website also mentioned that Security forces continue to clear areas south and west to Fallujah as well as the city center from mines and explosive devices after the city was entirely liberated from the grip of ISIS months ago.
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Ruritanian Unknown fighter jets have bombed Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab targets in Kismayo town, lies about 328 miles (528 km) southwest of Somali capital Mogadishu, witness said.
F-16? Salmon, green and periwinkle roundel? Purple ostrich feather painted on the vertical stabilizer?
The warplanes struck Kanjaron area, according to local residents. It is too early to say the figure of the casualty.
The warplanes dropped several troops on the ground and arrested at least 4 people on suspicion of Al Shabaab members.
So must be Ruritanian UH-60s...
Somalia army backed by African Union (AMISOM) troops and US especial forces launched several attacks on militant-held areas in south of Somalia in the past months.
The US military says it has killed four al-Shabab extremists in Somalia in what it calls airstrikes in self-defense.
A US Africa Command statement on Tuesday says the extremists launched attacks on Somali troops and their US advisers on Monday in a village near the port city of Kismayo.
Generally speaking, not a good idea...
The statement says Somali forces returned fire, killing several extremists, but the attack continued. The US then conducted its strike, killing four fighters.
US forces have carried out several airstrikes in Somalia in recent years, killing many al-Shabab leaders.
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[DAWN] India has decided to pull out of the upcoming Saarc summit in Islamabad, said the official spokesperson for the India's Ministry for External Affairs (MEA) Vikas Swarup in a tweet on Tuesday.
The announcement comes amid growing tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours following the attack on an Indian army base in held Kashmire.
"India has conveyed to the current Saarc Chair in Nepal that increasing cross-border turbans attacks in the region and increasing interference in the internal matters of member states by one country has created an environment that is not conducive to the successful holding of the Saarc summit," said the statement released from the Indian foreign ministry.
The statement added that India, under the prevailing circumstances, is unable to participate in the proposed summit in Islamabad.
India also claims in the statement that it remains steadfast in its commitment for regional cooperation.
Pakistain had offered dialogue to India for the resolution of the Kashmire issue, but the offer was rejected.
"Regional cooperation and terror don't go together," said Swarup.
The 19th Saarc summit is due to be held in November this year.
Pakistain had formally extended an invitation to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend the Pakistain-hosted 19th Saarc summit.
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It basically is a copy as China stole TERAbytes of F-35 data and they pieced together the basic tenets of stealth technology and apply them to its modern aircraft designs.
the J-20 is that it is a single seat, twin engine, canard/delta design, stealthy fighter platform. There are just four copies being tested right now, with fully operational fighters predicted to be ready by 2018.
Go back to strategy page and you'll find postings of the Chinese having problems perfecting modern aircraft engines for their military aircraft and having to still buy Russian equipment. Got to have power to fly and maintainability to stay aloft.
[WashingtonPost] The history of slavery in the United States justifies reparations for African Americans, argues a recent report by a U.N.-affiliated group based in Geneva.
This conclusion was part of a study by the United Nations' Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, a body that reports to the international organization's High Commissioner on Human Rights. The group of experts, which includes leading human rights lawyers from around the world, presented its findings to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday, pointing to the continuing link between present injustices and the dark chapters of American history. The Perps:
Ricardo A. Sunga III - (Chairperson, Philippines)
Ms. Mireille Fanon-Mendes France - (France)
Mr. Sabelo Gumedze - (South Africa)
Mr. Michal Balcerzak - (Poland)
Mr. Ahmed Reid - (Jamaica)
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Who's paying reparations to the widows of over 250,000* white Northerns who died to put the 13th Amendment in the Constitution. Reparations in blood was already paid.
*That was in a population of 30 million. Today we're over 300 million. Simple extrapolation shows that would be 2.5 million casualties in today's numbers. Anyone in their rational mind can think of going to war at that cost today? Although we probably will do so in the next civil war.
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well get reparations from all the countries comprising the old Caliphate in return for taking European, British and US citizens as slaves until Jefferson bombed them into submission
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FYVM UN; otherwise what DarthVader said in #1. The UN has no moral high ground in anything. A bunch of jackasses in an organization who the U.S. supports to the tune of about 70% or more wants to do what? The UN (made up of people who are hostile to the U.S. and hate us) is trying to enslave us by demanding reparations to be paid to black Americans? Molon Labe ya all and good luck in the endeavor.
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SteveS: I was in Africa at the time. The Africans didn't want them.
Americans are rich, so their money was welcome, but the American blacks were not related to any local tribes. There was a lot of disillusion; American blacks were used to thinking in black and white terms (so to speak), and didn't realize that those categories weren't universal.
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[DAWN] Chief of the Army Staff General Raheel Sharif ..Pak chief of army staff, meaning he pulls the strings on the Nawaz Sharif puppet to make it dance and sing and not do much at all.... has said India is not willing to address historical disputes like Kashmire that have directly fanned misunderstanding and fed into persistent regional culture of conflict.
Gen Raheel stated this while addressing a conference of armed forces chiefs being held in Germany under the auspices of the US Centcom. He highlighted the ongoing atrocities being committed by Indian armed forces in held Kashmire, regional security environment, common challenges and the way forward for the participating countries.
According to a blurb issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations here on Monday, besides the host, US Centcom Commander Gen Joseph Votel, the army chiefs of Pakistain, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are participating in the conference.
They expressed their desire to improve multilateral military cooperation among their countries in order to coherently meet the emerging security challenges and jointly defeat the menace of terrorism.
In his address, Gen Raheel said the porous western border and existence of some exploitable spaces, inadequate border management allowing forces of Evil movement, lack of synergy, coordination and institutionalised mechanism of intelligence sharing still remained challenges. Those challenges, he added, were being exploited through confrontational and subversive approaches by hostile intelligence agencies like RAW ... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man... that spilled blood of innocent people through indirect strategy.
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Yea, and Israel is unwilling to resolve the Palestinian issue. And Eastern Europeans say "nuts" to refugees.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Minutes ago, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), backed by Hezbollah, captured the Farafira District in east Aleppo after a short battle with the jihadist rebels of Fatah Halab.
According to a military source in Aleppo, the Syrian Armed Forces and Hezbollah seized the Farafira District after advancing from the northeastern axis of the Aleppo Citadel in the Old Aleppo Quarter this morning.
The military source added that the Syrian Arab Army's sappers are now demining the area before allowing soldiers to enter the buildings in the Farafira District.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the enormous newt was trying to decide if Gloria was edible... southeast the Aleppo Citadel, the Syrian Armed Forces and Hezbollah are attempting to enter the Bab al-Nayrab District; however, there have been no reports of any advance there.
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[DAWN] Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... president Nawabzada Shahzain Bugti on Sunday said Bugti rustics were fully prepared to fight against India in the hills of the Kashmire valley.
"Bugti rustics would fight against Indian troops ahead of Pakistain Army," said the grandson of Nawab Akbar Bugti.
The statement from the chief of JWP comes at a time when Indian rhetoric against Pakistain has reached a fever pitch following the attack on an Indian army camp in India-held Kashmire, with the valley going through a period of great turmoil.
Shahzain said Indian forces are involved in atrocities against the defenceless and voiceless Kashmiris, and added that the "sacrifices of the Kashmiris will not go unnoticed".
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Foster Brooks Granpaw Bugti must be rolling over in his grave over this Pak tool whore
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"What use do I have for a god that needs me to fight for him - Grandpa Bugti on jihad.
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[AlManar] A number of Saudi soldiers were killed or injured in a rocketry attack launched by the Yemeni army and popular committees into a military camp in KSA’s Jizan city.
Military sources reported that weapons and several military vehicles were destroyed in the attack which also burnt the camp.
Yemen has been since March 26, 2015 under brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition.
Thousands have been martyred and injured in the attack, with the vast majority of them are civilians.
Riyadh launched the attack on Yemen in a bid to restore power to fugitive ex-president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi who is a close ally to Saudi Arabia.
[Manila Bulletin] Two Abu Sayyaf militants were killed during a raid conducted by Philippine troops yesterday morning in the town of Pata in Sulu province while another rebel facing seven counts of kidnapping was arrested in Zamboanga City.
Military spokesman Filemon Tan, Jr. identified the slain miltants as Nixon Muktadil and Brown Muktadil - more notoriously known as the Muktadil brothers. Tan said the soldiers raided Tambulian Island early yesterday morning after receiving reports about their presence. When the troops arrived, a gun battle broke out with the militant pair being killed in the clash.
According to Tan, the brothers were involved in the kidnappings of 26 Indonesian and Malaysian nationals, mostly tugboat crewmen in the last five months.
On Monday, police in the city also arrested an Abu Sayyaf militant who was facing seven counts of kidnapping and serious illegal detention charges in Isabela City, Basilan province. Chief Inspector Elmer Solon identified the arrested rebel as Abdul Baliyung, alias Majula Gani.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Talibs group in Afghanistan has claimed to capture a surveillance drone in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
The group’s front man Zabiullah Mujahid said the drone was downed in Merano village of Behsud district of Nangarhar province.
He claimed that the drone which seems to be of ScanEagle type belongs to the US forces in Afghanistan but the Afghan army also uses the same drone for the surveillance operations.
The Afghan forces received several ScanEagle drones under a contract from the US government worth $70 million.
The US Department of Defense (DoD) announced in November last year that a contract worth $70 million ha sbeen awarded to a US-based company for the procurement of the ScanEagle drones.
A statement by DoD said the systems include 65 ScanEagle drones in total, along with spare parts, support equipment, field service support, as well as an in-theatre training facility.
The United States started the delivery of the surveillance drones as part of the coalition forces efforts to enhance the capabilities of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), specifically the Afghan Air Force.
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[AlManar] Six people were killed when a helicopter chartered by US oil giant Chevron crashed off the coast of Angola, security forces confirmed Tuesday.
The accident happened late Monday near the oil-rich enclave of Cabinda, Captain Armando Nzawisa of the Angolan armed forces, who is heading emergency operations, told AFP.
Four Angolans and two expatriates were killed.
“The helicopter crashed in bad weather en route to a Chevron platform,” Nzawisa said.
The bodies of the four Angolans have been recovered but search operations for the two foreigners was still underway, with 19 vessels and three helicopters deployed.
Five of the people killed were Chevron employees. The sixth was the pilot, employed by Angolan company Heli Malongo, whose nationality has not been disclosed.
“We have opened an internal enquiry into the causes of the accident,” John Baltz, head of Chevron’s Angolan subsidiary, told a press conference.
The helicopter was used as a shuttle between oil platforms and Chevron’s onshore facilities in Cabinda, public broadcaster TPA reported.
Cabinda borders the Republic of Congo to the north, and is separated from the rest of Angola to the south by a sliver of territory belonging to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The province produces 60 percent of Angola’s oil, making the country Africa’s top oil producer.
[DAWN] Eleven people, including six coppers suffered injuries in a kaboom in Saro Kalley area of Shabqadar here on Monday morning.
The police told Dawn that Death Eaters went kaboom! a bomb, which was planted on a road under construction in Maasam Korona area near Qila Shah Bag, by remote control when the Saro Kalley cop shoppe’s patrol van reached there.
They said the blast injured Saro Kalay cop shoppe SHO Wilayat Khan, head constables Ayayaz Khan and Mohammad Fawad and constables Zakir Ali, Shah Faqir and Asif Khan. The police said the kaboom also damaged a school van passing by and thus, injuring five people, including driver, two students and two people.
They said the injured were shifted to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Shabqadar from where those at death's door were referred to hospitals in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. The personnel of bomb disposal unit inspected the blast site and collected evidence.
They later told news hounds that the bomb weighed from seven to eight kilogrammes and was went kaboom! by remote control.
The police said they had begun investigation after registering a case against miscreants.
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[DAWN] Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... on Tuesday told the Senate that revocation of the Indus Waters Treaty by India "can be taken as an act of war" against Pakistain. "I suppose you realize this means war!"
"The Indus Waters Treaty is quoted as perhaps the most successful water treaty ever conducted between the two countries. Its revocation can be taken as an act of war or a hostile act against Pakistain," Aziz told politicians.
"If India tries to interrupt water flow into Pakistain, it will not only violate the Indus Water Treaty, but also set a regional state practice under which international law can be serve as a precedent. It will provide China, for example, a justification to consider of suspension of waters of the Brahmaputra river," he said.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday decided to suspend Indus Water Commission talks until "Pakistain-sponsored terror" in India ends, according to Indian media reports.
Aziz's statements come amidst reports that India plans to accelerate building of new hydro-power plants along three rivers that flow into Pakistain. Modi told officials on Monday that India should use more of the rivers' resources, Rooters reported, quoting sources familiar with the plans.
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In the land of the Switzers, as elsewhere in Dar al Harb, public sentiment is hardening.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... 's lower house of parliament narrowly backed a ban on face veils on Tuesday, echoing moves by neighboring La Belle France and other European nations to tighten controls in the wake of Islamist bully boy attacks.
The plan by right-wing politician Walter Wobmann - who led a successful campaign to outlaw new minarets in 2009 - still has to pass through the upper house and the government before it becomes law.
But it joins a list of measures championed by populist and right-wing movements that have polarised the Alpine nation, and drawn some criticism from abroad, including most recently a referendum ordering curbs on immigration from the EU.
Wobmann, from the anti-immigration Swiss People's Party, has said the veil ban will preserve Swiss culture and curb radical Islam. He is also pushing for a referendum on the issue.
His party, the most powerful in Swiss parliament after winning about 30 percent of seats in a 2015 election, pushed the measure through with help from politicians from the center-right.
It may have a tougher time passing the upper house, where parties that opposed the ban, including the Social Democrats, have a stronger presence.
A poll in August found that 71 percent of Swiss favour a nationwide burqa ban along the lines of one that went into effect in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino this year, covering locals and visitors alike.
About 5 percent of Swiss residents are Moslem and very few wear the face-covering niqab or burqa.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A splinter group of the Taliban led by Mullah Rasool welcomed the signing of a draft peace agreement between the Afghan government and Hezb-e-Islami led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... Sources close to Hezb-e-Islami have said Mullah Rasool has endorsed the party’s stance and signing of the draft peace agreement with the Afghan government.
The sources further added that the endorsement by Mullah Rasool faction of the Taliban is based on the stance of Hezb-e-Islami to work for the withdrawal of the foreign forces from the country.
The Mullah Rasool has also called on other krazed killer groups including the main Taliban group to adopt a similar stance as Hezb-e-Islami and work for the liberty of the country, the sources added.
The endorsement by Mullah Rasool group comes as the Taliban slammed Hekmatyar for signing of the draft peace agreement, calling his move as ’a major crime’.
"Not only will he face the wrath of Allah for leaving jihad, but he has committed a major crime," the group said in an article published in its website.
Hezb-e-Islami is the first krazed killer group to sign a draft peace agreement with the Afghan government following a call made by the government to join grinding of the peace processor in a bid to end the ongoing violence through reconciliation process.
The Taliban group however rejected the plea and announced its spring offensive in April this year forcing the Afghan government to give up peace efforts and respond to Taliban’s insurgency with military option.
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[UPI] Philippine police confiscated $125,000 worth of high-powered firearms destined for the Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... separatist group, law enforcement said.
The cache of weapons and ammunition was displayed Tuesday by National Police Chief Ronald Dela Rosa. He said the ammunition was traced to a government arsenal and the serial numbers of the weapons are being researched under the assumption they are of the same origin.
He added Abu Sayyaf members have been in the Manila area since August, purchasing the weapons, which include grenade launchers and automatic rifles.
"I have directed the director of [Criminal Investigation and Detection Group] to trace these seized arms and ammunition," he said.
The weapons were seized from four tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! suspects in San Juan City, Mindanao, on Sept. 24. The island of Mindanao includes a Moslem enclave and is the focus of Abu Sayyaf terrorist activity.
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[DAWN] Pakistain on Tuesday promptly rejected Indian allegations of its involvement in the Uri army base attack, soon after Indian authorities said they had shared "evidence" with Pakistain High Commissioner to New Delhi Abdul Basit.
Pakistain envoy Abdul Basit told Indian Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar that India is trying to divert the world’s attention from atrocities being committed by Indian forces in India-held Kashmire (IHK) by blaming the Uri attack on Pakistain.
If India is sincere in carrying out an investigation of the Uri attack then it should not run away from it. India should allow independent Sherlocks to carry out an investigation into the attack, Basit told Jaishankar.
The Indian foreign secretary summoned Basit to hand over the evidence, Ministry of External Affairs Spokesman Vikas Swarup tweeted.
Jaishankar alleged that local villagers apprehended two Muzaffarabad-based 'guides' that India claims facilitated the Uri army base attackers.
Swarup tweeted details of the guides, identifying them as Faizal Hussain Awan, 20, son of Gul Akbar and a resident of Potha Jahangir, Muzaffarabad, and Yasin Khurshid, 19, son of Muhammad Khurshid and a resident of Khiliana Kalan, Muzaffarabad.
"Preliminary interrogation reveals identity of one of the slain Uri attackers as Hafiz Ahmed, son of Feroz and a resident of Dharbang Muzaffarabad," he alleged.
"Details of the handlers were also obtained," Swarup alleged. The Indian foreign ministry front man identified the alleged handlers as Mohammad Kabir Awan and Basharat.
"The foreign secretary terms continuing cross-border terrorist attacks from Pakistain against India as unacceptable," Swarup said.
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[RFE/RL] A deputy imam in Russia's southern Stavropol region in the North Caucasus has been killed. Mukhammad Rakhimov, the grand mufti of the Stavropol region, said the deputy imam of a mosque in the village of Kara-Tyube, Ravil Kaibaliyev, was gunned down by unknown assailants on September 26.
In August 2015, Kaibaliyev's predecessor as deputy imam of the mosque, Zamirbek Makhmutov, was also gunned down by unknown assailants. Kaibaliyev is the seventh imam killed by unidentified attackers in the Stavropol region since 2012.
Imams appointed by the official Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Russia usually support government policies and propagate moderate Islam. They are often attacked by radical Islamist groups that call for separation from Russia and the establishment of an Islamic state in the region.
The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday began representing a man accused of setting off bombs in New York and New Jersey and injuring more than 30 people. After judges in both states denied attempts by public defenders to represent Ahmed Khan Rahami, a lawyer for the organization's New Jersey chapter entered a notice of appearance in his case in federal court in Newark on Monday.
I have no problem with this. Every indicted person in America has the right to a competent defense in court. As they say in Texas: try him fair and then hang him fair.
Rahami has been hospitalized since he was caught following a shootout with police in Linden last week. He has not made an initial court appearance.
Prosecutors said in a filing last week that he had been incapacitated and intubated since undergoing surgery for his wounds.
As we've said here in the past, pray for sepsis...
A spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office did not have an updated condition available on Monday.
Rahami's family spoke with his doctors on Monday for the first time after numerous requests since the ACLU got involved, said Udi Ofer, the New Jersey chapter's executive director. Ofer didn't disclose Rahami's condition, but ACLU attorney Alexander Shalom said law enforcement officials have informed the ACLU he remains unconscious.
Federal judges last week denied requests by public defenders to be appointed to represent Rahami, agreeing with prosecutors' arguments that he had not officially been arrested by federal authorities.
That sounds a little ... fishy. I want Federal prosecutors do things by the book. I'm tired of watching the DoJ go off the reservation.
Shalom said in a filing that Rahami's father and wife requested the ACLU represent him until he is appointed a federal public defender or other lawyer.
Ofer said denying Rahami's right to a lawyer "violates the Constitution and needlessly sacrifices civil liberties in the name of national security."
"It is outrageous that Mr. Rahami has been in custody for a week yet has been denied the right to have an attorney visit him to confirm his condition and protect his constitutional rights," Ofer said.
Rahami, an Afghan-born U.S. citizen, has been accused of detonating a pipe bomb in a New Jersey shore town and a pressure cooker bomb in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood on Sept. 17. No one was injured in the Jersey blast, and 31 people were injured in the New York blast. A second pressure cooker bomb didn't explode.
Rahami was charged by federal prosecutors in both states and faces state charges in New Jersey in connection with the shootout. The charges against Rahami include federal terror crimes and state charges of attempting to murder police officers.
So he was charged? In that case he gets a lawyer...
According to nj.com a few days ago, he was still unconscious, intubated and sedated in critical condition while recovering from gunshots and subsequent surgery. He faces federal and state charges, so he will need a number of lawyers after they figure out who has priority -- but he can't agree to representation or assist in his defence until he wakes up.
Described is a brawl in which he suddenly attacked his sister and mother, and it took the whole family to hold him down. Is this normal Afghan behaviour?
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He was just turning his life around, attending cooking classes...
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 12 soldiers of the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces bit the dust in an insider attack involving fellow soldiers in northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan.
A security official in north of the country confirmed that the incident took place late on Monday night after two soldiers opened fire on comrades in a security post.
The source further added that the outpost was located in the outskirts of Kunduz city.
The anti-government armed krazed killer groups including the Taliban murderous Moslems have not commented regarding the report so far.
Kunduz is among the relatively volatile provinces in northern Afghanistan where the anti-government armed krazed killer groups are actively operating in a number of its districts.
The Talibs managed to briefly take control of the strategic Kunduz city last year but the Afghan forces managed to retake by launching a major offensive.
The group also launched numerous attacks by announcing their spring offensive in mid-April this year but failed to take control of any strategic area.
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There has been a marked drop in US air strikes on IS positions in Sirte, which may reflect a reduction in the number viable targets.
Yesterday there were no US attacks at all, with only one, on what was described as a terrorist supply point, during Saturday, after four air attacks on Friday. The U.S. Africa Command has reported that as of yesterday it had launched 175 airstrikes in and around Sirte.
There was limited fighting today as Bunyan Marsous forces appeared to be preparing for another large assault. Four fighters have died in the last 24 hours and at least four more were injured. The BM operations room said that two terrorists also died.
The official death toll among the predominantly Misratan militias is now approaching 600 with more than 2,000 men injured. Some observers believe that the cost in lives and wounded may in fact be higher.
Despite being surrounded in the town’s Third District in an area of around a square kilometre, and being blockaded by sea, the terrorists still do not seem short of ammunition and explosives. Two car bombs were destroyed on Thursday while they were still leaving IS lines.
Though not confirmed by the BM operations room, there have been media reports that women have been seen fighting with the terrorists.
Italian troops are now guarding a 12-bed Italian army field hospital at Misrata airport. The paratroopers arrived by sea in Misrata in a low key operation. They were met by members of a small contingent of Italian soldiers who came by air two weeks ago.
The field hospital is to be expanded shortly to accommodate 50 injured. According to a spokesman in Rome, a C-130 Italian air force transport has been stationed at Misrata airport to evacuate seriously wounded cases.
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The deputy general manager of the Libyan Foreign Bank has been kidnapped in Tripoli. Amr Alhgag who is in charge of banking operations was seized by an armed gang in front of his house in the capital’s Gargaresh district yesterday evening.
His family say they have not heard from the kidnappers and do not know if he was abducted for ransom or some other reason.
Kidnapping of people regarded as either wealthy or working for a company that will pay for their freedom has become dangerously common in Tripoli and has is one of the reasons many residents have left the country.
It is thought that a small number of gangs are responsible for much of the wave of kidnappings. They also appear to enjoy using extreme violence in their activities. There equally appears to be links between kidnapping for money and extremism.
One family now based in the UK have reported how their 65-year-old uncle, retired teacher Saeid Soleman Shriha who was seized in July in Tripoli, was tortured and murdered by kidnappers who claimed they were supporters of the so-called Islamic State. They had demanded LD 800,000 and later sent the family a photo of his dead body.
The family, however, also believe that racism may have played a part, noting that they are Amazigh and stating that anti-Amazigh abuse continues in Libya.
Amazigh, it turns out, is what the Berbers of North Africa call themselves.
Banker Alhgag, from Zuwara, is also believed to be Amazigh.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Nineveh Police announced on Tuesday that three car bombs belong to ISIS were destroyed in an air strike carried out by the international coalition in al-Houd village, south of Mosul.
“The international coalition launched an air strike on al-Houd village, south of Mosul, destroying three car bombs belong to ISIS. The car bombs were prepared to attack Iraqi security forces in Qayyarah area, south of Mosul,” The Police Command said in a press statement.
“The airstrike completely destroyed the vehicles and killed the people inside,” the statement explained. “The international coalition also targeted gatherings of ISIS near Qayyarah and killed dozens of ISIS militants south of Mosul,” the statement added.
Iraqi military forces are getting ready to recapture the city of Mosul next month after air strikes of the US-led coalition weakened ISIS defenses in the city.
[ARA News] DUHOK – Warplanes of the US-led coalition on Tuesday bombed ISIS headquarters in the vicinity of Mosul city, in Iraq’s northwestern Nineveh Governorate, killing and wounding dozens of militants.
“A key stronghold for ISIS on the road between Mosul and Khazir District was hit with a coalition airstrike. At least 28 ISIS fighters were killed and three armoured vehicles were destroyed in the air raid,” the head of Nineveh Media Centre Raafat al-Zarari told ARA News.
“14 other militants were injured in the airstrike,” al-Zarari reported, citing an ISIS member.
Also on Tuesday, the Kurdish Peshmerga forces launched an artillery attack on ISIS strongholds in the Bashiqa District north of Mosul.
“The Peshmerga hit Daesh fighting positions in Bashiqa with heavy artillery, killing at least 11 militants,” Kurdish officer Bilind Shekaki told ARA News, using another acronym for ISIS.
This comes as the Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Iraqi army troops, backed by the US-led coalition, continue preparations for a major offensive to retake the city of Mosul from ISIS.
Mosul, which has been under ISIS control since June 2014, is considered the main bastion for the radical group in Iraq.
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[ARA News] DEIR EZZOR – Militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) radical group stormed civilian houses in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor Governorate and confiscated dozens of satellite receivers, activists reported on Tuesday.
The campaign reached the cities of al-Mayadin and al-Bukamal in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, where the ISIS-linked al-Hisba police broke into houses in search for satellite devices.
“After collecting the devices, ISIS militants destroyed them in public,” local media activist Samer al-Khalaf told ARA News.
The radical group has also arrested dozens of people for trying to hide their satellite receivers during the raid.
“ISIS has tightened security measures in al-Bukamal and its surroundings. Nobody is allowed to leave the city under any circumstances,” al-Khalaf reported.
Also, ISIS has shut down the internet network in the city of al-Bukamal, local sources told ARA News.
[ARA News] RAQQA – Extremists of the Islamic State (ISIS) publicly flogged six Syrian women on Tuesday for violating the Sharia dress code, activists and eyewitnesses reported.
The ISIS-led Islamic Police, also known as al-Hisba, arrested and flogged the six women in Syria’s northeastern Raqqa city–which is deemed a de facto capital for the ISIS self-declared Caliphate.
“Al-Hisba forces arrested six women near the central marketplace in Raqqa on Tuesday morning under the pretext that they have violated the Sharia dress,” an eyewitness told ARA News, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“The group has publicly flogged the women, with 50 lashes each,” media activist Salim al-Raqawi told ARA News. “They vowed that any woman violating the regulations would face an even harsher punishment.”
According to local sources, those public punishments take place on a daily basis in ISIS-held areas as the group tries to show off that it’s still in power.
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MUSCAT: A court in Oman on Monday ordered the permanent closure of a newspaper which had reported on alleged corruption within the judiciary, and jailed three of its journalists on charges that included undermining the prestige of the state.
Witnesses at the court said Ibrahim Al-Mamari, editor-in-chief of the privately owned Azamn newspaper, and his deputy and managing editor Youssef Al-Balushi, were jailed for three years and fined 3,000 rials ($7,800) each. A third journalist was jailed for a year. Azamn had extensively covered a series of corruption cases in 2014 in which several company executives were convicted.
Omani authorities suspended the newspaper in August for a month after detaining the three journalists. In a statement which did not mention Azamn by name, they said it had exceeded the limits of free speech and “drifted into ... harming one of the pillars of the state, the judiciary.”
The Muscat Court of First Instance found Mamari and Balushi guilty on four charges, including undermining the prestige of the state, disturbing public order, misusing the Internet, and publishing details of a personal status case.
It also convicted Balushi of slander and of publishing a report in violation of a ban imposed by the Information Ministry on any reporting related to Mamari’s arrest.
The third journalist, Zaher Al-Abri, was sentenced to one year in jail and fined 1,000 rials.
The court set a bail of 50,000 rials for Mamari and Balushi in case they decided to appeal the rulings, while Abri’s bail was set at 5,000 rials.
Five years ago a court ordered the newspaper closed down for one month and Mamari and a reporter were given five-month suspended jail sentences for insulting the justice minister and other officials.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A jacket wallah detonated his explosive vest in a predominately Shiite Moslem district of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least nine people and wounding 30, police and medical sources said.
The blast targeted a commercial street in the eastern Baghdad al-Jadida area of the Iraqi capital, they said, adding that the corpse count could climb further.
ISIS has intensified kabooms in government-held areas of Iraq this year as it loses territory to US-backed Iraqi government forces and Iranian-backed Shiite militias.
The ultra-hardline group claimed a truck bombing in July that killed at least 324 people in the Karrada shopping area of Baghdad - the deadliest single attack in Iraq since the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.
The group continues to control vast areas in northern and western Iraq, including the city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , captured in 2014.
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[AlManar] Lebanese army killed the terrorist Mustafa Mohamad Al Ahmad on Tuesday during an exchange of fire as he was trying to escape, Army Command – Orientation Directorate said in a statement.
“On Tuesday at 6:20 a.m. in the al-Kneisseh town in Akkar and while the army was trying to arrest Mustafa Mohamad al-Ahmad, aka Moustafa Awad, for belonging to the ISIL terrorist group, the assailant opened gunfire at the army troops,” said the statement.
“The army was compelled to fire back at the militant which caused his death,” it added.
Ahmad belonged to the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group and operated in the north eastern region of Lebanon.
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[The Nation] A regiment of Thai rangers seized explosives and bomb-making components from a forest in Narathiwat province Tuesday morning. It is suspected that the munitions belonged to a group led by wanted man Arong Deuramae. The two-hour search in a forest in Ra Ngae district followed a tipoff by locals, who reported they spotted a group of suspicious men hiding in the woods.
Although the men had fled by the time the officers arrived, the officers found a blacked-painted Honda motorcycle - later identified as the motorbike of Wannapa Phromka who was gunned down on July 29 - along with two already-assembled bombs, a grenade, some electrical circuit boards, a shotgun with ammunition, AK47 magazines and three communication radios.
[UPI] One of the United States' top national security officials has decided to step down from his post next month and go into the private sector, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
John P. Carlin, the head of the department's National Security Division, will resign effective Oct. 16.
Carlin, 43, oversaw numerous prosecutions involving matters of national security, including that of 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He also presided over espionage charges against Chinese military hackers.
"For the better part of two decades at the Department of Justice, John distinguished himself as a leader who skillfully used all the tools at his disposal to enhance our public safety and uphold our national security," U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch said in a statement Tuesday.
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When Carlin [a tool of the Left] was named to "The new position at the Justice Department, dubbed the 'Domestic Terrorism Counsel,' [it was to] serve as the main point of contact for U.S. attorney offices nationwide...' ... Yet, as Leo Hohmann of World Net Daily writes, 'while the FBI has confirmed it has active ISIS investigations in all 50 states and Islamic-inspired attacks have occurred in recent years in Chattanooga, Tennessee; Garland, Texas, and Fort Hood, the Justice Department sees Islamic jihadists as no more dangerous than mentally ill actors such as Dylann Roof, the Charleston, South Carolina, church shooter who killed nine black Christians.' In fact, Hohmann notes, “Justice officials have indicated that home-grown ‘right wingers’ are possibly more numerous and dangerous than the jihadists. In announcing the new position, Carlin referred to a study by the [Soros-funded] New America Foundation that found nearly twice as many Americans have been killed by ‘right-wing’ extremists since Sept. 11 than by Islamic terrorists.”
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Soros report? nearly twice as many Americans have been killed by ‘right-wing’ extremists since Sept. 11 than by Islamic terrorists.” He must be throwing in Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, etc. gang shootings and some traffic accidents as well. More bullshit spoutings from a very dangerous man, senile, evil, murderous, hateful of America.
[UPI] FBI Director James Comey told U.S. Senators on Tuesday that intelligence and law enforcement agencies are concerned a "terrorist diaspora" will occur globally in a few years after 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.... loses control.
Comey testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on global terror threats 15 years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. But who can believe a word he sez? If he says it's raining, stick your hand outside-- if you give it that much credence.
"The so-called caliphate will be crushed," he said, referring to the bully boy group also identified as ISIS, ISIS and ISIS. "The challenge will be: Through the fingers of that crush are going to come hundreds of very, very dangerous people. They will not all die on the battlefield in Syria and Iraq. There will be a terrorist diaspora sometime in the next two to five years like we've never seen before."
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Comey says Terrorist diaspora after they are crushed? What do we have now? So they wouldn't really be crushed then? What the hell are you talking about?
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FBI Director James Comey told U.S. Senators on Tuesday that..... Honorable Senator, clearly the FBI needs more funds to tell you why that guy just shot up and killed - fill in the blank - and why our three (or more) previous investigations of him didn't prevent it...and why we suppressed evidence collected by the local police where the bad guy told us he was "triggered" by drone strikes, or BLM stuff...and why our agents won't stay deployed downrange to investigate this stuff after the sexy wears off... "insert squirrel here" But, we will use them to enforce Future President Hillary's demands that we Feds train the poor hapless inherently biased local law enforcement fools on diversity.
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One must keep in mind that what the New Class treasures most of all is stability. Hence the toleration of 'acceptable losses' and the diminuation of large losses. Money and influence made in maintaining that stability are also motivators.
[IN.REUTERS] A decision to slash ministerial pay by a fifth reflects 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 resolve to nudge its citizens into tolerating a fall in living standards at a time of low oil prices.
Along with reductions unveiled on Monday that will affect all public sector workers, the cuts also flag to financial markets before a debut sovereign bond issue that the oil exporter is committed to budget discipline.
The measures appear largely to formalise savings introduced ad hoc in parts of the state apparatus since last year, but their announcement on state media, which gave an official start date of Oct 1., is not without political risk.
In a country that has no elections and where political legitimacy rests partly on distribution of oil revenue, the ability of citizens to adapt to reforms aimed at reducing oil dependence and improving self-reliance is crucial for stability.
Some Saudis appeared prepared to accept austerity following the signal that ministers would share the pain.
"Most of my colleagues are furious, but I see it as normal at such times," said Fahad, 27, a post office worker, who said his monthly take-home pay, including benefits, would fall to 4,800 riyals ($1,280) from 6,000. "The country has given us a lot in the past and it is our duty to show solidarity now."
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... with about two thirds of working Saudis employed by the state, scepticism surfaced on social media. "The beginning of the end!" tweeted a writer using the name Nashat Haider. "Not a rise in efficiency, it's a rise in poverty" wrote Alsheikhah Madawi.
The ruling Al Saud family has often hesitated to enact reforms that may stir unrest among Saudis, but with oil prices stubbornly low, it is now pushing changes to revitalise the private sector, slim the state, and get more Saudis into work.
A lack of taxes, a big public sector, subsidised fuel and abundant government spending are benefits that officials have long cautioned are unaffordable, yet are seen as a right by many citizens because of the kingdom's high oil output.
But energy prices have plummeted since mid-2014, causing steep declines in income and putting economic growth at risk.
It was unclear how far the steps will trim a budget deficit that reached a record $98 billion last year.
In any case the wage cuts for ministers and others "of ministerial rank", while unlikely to win big savings by themselves, appear specifically aimed at deflecting public anger by targetting those at the apex of society, economists said.
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Dear Saudi Arabia - please start dumping your Treasury bills & bonds now, ok?
[REUTERS] German police are stepping up protection of Moslem institutions in Dresden after two improvised bombs went kaboom! in the eastern city on Monday evening, one at a mosque and one at an international conference centre.
No one was hurt by the blasts although the imam of the mosque was inside the building with his wife and sons.
"Even if we so far have no claim of responsibility, we must go on the basis that the motive was xenophobic," Horst Kretzschmar, president of Dresden police, said in a statement.
He said police believed there was a link to celebrations planned for the coming weekend in the city to mark the anniversary of German reunification on Oct. 3, 1990.
Kretzschmar said three mosques, a Moslem social centre and a prayer room would be given protection immediately.
Soon after the mosque kaboom, Dresden's International Congress Center was also damaged by a home-made device and the bar of a nearby hotel was evacuated.
Mehmet Demirbas, founder of the mosque that was hit, said the Moslem community had been expecting some kind of attack for a long time.
"Glass panes have been broken in the past, or graffiti on the wall. But this is the first time something like this happens. Hopefully it will be the last time and we carry on happily living in Dresden," he said.
Dresden was the cradle of the anti-Islam PEGIDA grassroots movement whose weekly rallies attracted around 20,000 supporters at the height of its popularity at the start of 2015.
The influx of about 1 million migrants colonists, mostly Moslems, to Germany last year has increased social tensions, especially in eastern Germany where there have been some high-profile attacks on refugee shelters.
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the mosque attack was "all the more scandalous" because it happened on the eve of the 10th annual meeting of the dialogue forum the German Islam Conference.
Saxony state saw far-right hate crimes targeting shelters for asylum seekers rise to 106 in 2015, with another 50 recorded in the first half of this year.
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"Even if we so far have no claim of responsibility, we must go on the basis that the motive was xenophobic,"
But when a terrorist attack occurs in Europe, politicians fall all over themselves to say Islam had nothing to do with it. Nice application of 'logic' there.
QUETTA: Security forces seized a large quantity of arms and ammunition from the Pak-Afghan border area of Panjpai, claimed Frontier Corps (FC) on Tuesday.
"The forces conducted a raid in Nullah and recovered 1800 kilogrammes of explosives, 150 Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) and other weapons," said Frontier Corps Spokesperson Khan Wasy.
Frontier Corps officials added that each IED weighed 20 kilogrammes.
"The terrorists were trying to shift the weapons and explosive materials to interior parts of Balochistan to carry out subversive activities," Wasy said, adding, "security forces conducted the raid on a tip-off."
No arrests were made as the terrorists fled from the spot.
Bomb disposal squad was also called in later to defuse the IEDs.
In August, the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed to have foiled a terror bid and arrested two men allegedly working for Afghan intelligence.
The men were planning to bomb densely populated areas of the provincial capital in order to cause widespread destruction.
[BBC] Former Israeli PM and president Shimon Peres has died aged 93.
He suffered a stroke two weeks ago and his condition improved before a sudden deterioration on Tuesday.
Mr Peres, who was one of the last of a generation of Israeli politicians present at the new nation's birth in 1948, served twice as the country's prime minister and once as president.
He won the Nobel Peace prize in 1994 for his role negotiating peace accords with the Palestinians a year earlier.
He once said the Palestinians were Israel's "closest neighbours" and might become its "closest friends".
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He was the first foreign dignitary I protected back in 1998. A true gentleman. Sat across the table from him at lunch and we talked like friends for an hour.
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If he hadn't offered so much up for a real peace, Israelis might still believe the Paleos could be legitimate partners for peace
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Father of the Israeli Nuclear bomb
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[DAWN] A grenade kaboom killed a teenager in Shaheen Colony area here on Monday afternoon.
Police identified the teenager as Ishaq, 13, a resident of the colony situated on the Bara Road. Police said the incident took place at around 2pm.
A police official told Dawn that the bomb went off inside the house, when the child pulled the grenade’s pin.
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... he said it was not clear how the child managed to get hold of the bomb. "It is not clear whether someone gave the bomb to him or he found it or it was inside a rickshaw which they found parked inside the house," he said.
The official said the family had no enmity. The slain teenager was a 3rd grade student at a local school.
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[All Africa] The International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... (ICC) has sentenced a former Malian fighter to nine years in prison for destroying shrines and historic sites in Timbuktu during Mali's 2012 conflict.
In a landmark judgement experts hope will send a strong message to safeguard the world's ancient monuments, Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi become on Tuesday the first person to be convicted of cultural destruction as a war crime by the ICC.
"The chamber unanimously finds that Mr al-Mahdi is guilty of the crime of attacking protected sites as a war crime," judge Raul Pangalangan said at the tribunal in the Hague.
During a two-day trial in August Mahdi asked for forgiveness, urged all Moslems to not follow his example and said he had been swept up in an "evil wave" by al-Qaeda and the Ansar Dine ...a mainly Tuareg group that controlled areas of Mali's northern desert together with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and MUJAO in early 2012... gangs that briefly seized control of the ancient sites in the city of Timbuktu.
As part of a plea agreement, the prosecution and the defence requested a sentence of between nine and 11 years in prison. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... the judges were free to ignore the recommendation and hand down a sentence of up to 30 years.
Mahdi had admitted to charges of involvement in the destruction of historic mausoleums in the North African city. Prosecutors said he led a group of inquisitors religious police using pick-axes and crowbars to destroy nine mausoleums and the door of a mosque, and at times took part himself.
Despite Timbuktu's reverence as the epicentre of Islamic learning during Mali's 14th-century golden age, armed fighters condemned the land as idolatrous.
During the trial, prosecutor Fatou Bensouda compared the attacks to the smashing of monuments in the Syrian city of Palmyra by 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 (ISIS, also known as ISIS) and the 2001 destruction of the Afghan Bamiyan ...a place in Afghanistan that used to have some historically interesting statues of the Buddha carved into a mountainside. Then the holy men showed up and now all they have is some big holes... Buddha statues by the Taliban.
Archaeologists hope, in light of the prevalent war on art, that the trial will send a hard-hitting message to groups that wrecking culturally cherished artefacts will not go unpunished.
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[VOX] If there were any doubt as to just how toxic sectarian politics has become in the Middle East, the latest statement from the leader of the Iran-backed Lebanese Shia holy warrior group Hezbollah should clear things right up.
Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of a group that has been fighting Israel for decades, declared on Tuesday that "Wahhabism is more evil than Israel," Leb’s Al Akhbar newspaper reported.
Wahhabism is the ultra-fundamentalist strain of Sunni Islam that 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 government promotes and that strongly influences the ideology of Sunni jihadist groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS.
In other words, things have gotten so bad that Hezbollah, Israel’s mortal enemy, now considers Wahhabis -- that is, fellow Moslems -- to be worse than Israel. Bear in mind, this is coming from the same man who has described Israel as "a cancerous entity and the root of all the crises and wars" and pledged that Israel’s destiny "is manifested in our motto: 'Death to Israel.’"
It’s also coming from a man at the helm of a group that has engaged in numerous conflicts with Israel, including a horrifically bloody all-out war in 2006 that resulted in the deaths of around 1,300 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and 165 Israelis, 121 of whom were soldiers. Israeli security officials say the group now has the capacity to batter their country with more than 1,000 rockets a day.
But despite how it may seem, Nasrallah’s statement is not, at its base, a conflict about religion. Though there are certainly strong religious disagreements between Sunni and Shia -- and especially between extreme fundamentalist Sunnis and extreme fundamentalist Shia -- the conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia has little to do with dogma. It’s actually about something far less exotic: power and influence.
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"...the conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia has little to do with dogma..."
VOX describes its work as explanatory journalism but on this issue they are woefully ignorant of the sectarian history of the region. Until the 16th century Persia was Sunni but a ruler at the time converted the country to Shia by force. Saudi Arabia is a relatively modern country that was created out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire but which has been predominantly Sunni the whole time (btw, Egypt was mostly Shia until the 13th century when it was converted to Sunnism by the sword).
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Iraqi Shiite militias of harakat al- Nujaba has via a video surface on the internet shown its leader Akram al-Kaabi in his trip to Aleppo via the airport, and his visit to his members fighting by al-Assad.
Al-Nujaba TV channel has broadcasted a song prior to al-Kaabi speech which says: "Aleppo is Shiite, and calls for its people"
Al-kaabi explained in his speech that his visit to Aleppo is part of his participation in the war against occupation and suppressive powers supported by the Wahabi and expiatory forces.
Members of the militias welcomed al-Kaabi with songs and poem with sectarian background, lie mentioning they were the soldiers of al-Mahdi.
Al-Kaabi justified the advance of Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... in southern Aleppo by holding a truce and abiding by it, while they withdrew to fight the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Khanaser.
Harakat al-Nujaba emerged from the Iraqi paramilitary Asaib Ahl al-Haq in 2013, its leader is Sheikh Akram al-Kaabi, who claimed that after a period of krazed killer inactivity, the Syrian civil war motivated him to form the militia.
Regime forces are backed by Russian air power and Lebanese and Iraqi Shiite militia fighters under supervision by Iranians.
Hashim al-Moussawi, a front man for the Iraqi Shiite militia Harakat al-Nujaba said its fighters would reinforce areas captured from the rebels in southern Aleppo.
Rebel commanders said they are preparing to launch their own battle aimed at breaking the siege of the city.
Aleppo has been divided since 2012 into government and rebel sectors, regime forces have besieged the opposition areas they aim to capture the whole city.
After 5 years of multi-sided war, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and 11 million, half of Syria's pre-war population, have been displaced.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Syrian regime forces launched new offensive on the western suburbs of the capital, saying it wants to clear rebel pockets in area close to an Alawite-dominated district, activist said Tuesday.
The local rebels of Qudsaya and al-Hama clashed with regime ground troops as they press to seize the strategic suburbs, 7 km (5 miles) west of Damascus.
Pro-regime social media pages said regime has encircled the area, making it in complete isolation.
Bashir al-Assad's forces have brutally pounded the rebel-held areas that surrounding Damascus and have also reached fragile truces in other ares to make its 'safe zone'.
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So, this would be like "regime" forces launching an offensive to re-take Alexandria and Arlington VA.
Somehow I don't think most people understand what's going on over there.
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Not surprising, given that there's a dearth of major-league Western-news-agencies' correspondents in Syria (and Iraq, and Yemen, and Somalia, and Libya, and Ukraine, and Venezuela, and...)
A brutally honest account of Soviet malfeasence and incompetence in handling the Famine of 1921 in the Volga Region. Even if you viscerally hate Russia, which I s'pect most Rantburgers do, you should read over this account. If you go to the link, the author has posted several harrowing fotos of the calamity. Posting this for Dr. Steve.
Long, so get a cup of coffee or your favourite equivalent and get comfortable before you start.
Thank you Badanov. Indeed harrowing, and the photos are heart-wrenching. We shouldn't forget this bit of history.
95 years ago, Russia asked to help the starving Volga
Svetlana Shapovalova , 26 September 2016 , 00:07
[Regnum.ru] 1921-1922 years, entered the Russian history as a period of famine. Another insidious enemy, named a natural disaster, the Cold War and the actions themselves leaders of the young republic, had just gone through the period of the Civil War, killed about 5 million people. In the fight against famine, the Bolshevik government first took care of the capitalist countries.
In 1921, Russia called on the world to help the starving Volga. Prodrazvyorstka, the pursuit of so-called kulaks and termination of circulation of money in the village destroyed any incentives not only to the development of agriculture, but also to maintain it at the previous level. The mass famine that occurred after a severe drought, covered 35 provinces (the Volga region, Southern Ukraine, Crimea, Bashkiria, partially Kazakhstan, Urals and Western Siberia) with a total population of 90 million people, of whom starved for at least 40 million. In the province of Samara, Bashkortostan and Tatarstan mortality increased from 2.4 to 13.9 per 100 souls per year.
Rumors of rampant famine in the Volga region leaked to Moscow and Petrograd in December 1920. Well-known sociologist P. Sorokin, who visited the villages of Samara and Saratov provinces in the winter of 1921, in an autobiographical article "The Long Road", wrote: "The huts were abandoned, roofless, with empty eye sockets of windows and doorways. Thatched roof huts long since been removed and eaten. In the village, of course, there was no animals - no cows or horses or sheep, goats, dogs, cats, or even crows. Everyone already ate. Dead silence was over the snow-covered streets. " Who died of hunger exhausted villagers piled in empty barn. "
"My dear Semashko ..."
The content of private conversations about the unprecedented famine in the Volga region was made public on June 22 joint meeting of the All-Russian Congress on Agricultural Research and the case of the Moscow Society of Agriculture report on the unprecedented famine in the Volga region. The information voiced "suspicious bunch of bourgeois intellectuals" (Dzerzhinsky words of the chairman of the Cheka): data presented by Professor Saratov Agricultural Institute, A .A. Rybnikov and cooperators MI Kuhovarenko, stunned those present. Society President Professor AI Ugrimov offered the audience immediately to establish a Committee to help the starving, but the well-known economist, a former minister of the Provisional Government Food SN Prokopovich advised first to send a delegation to Lenin - wrote in his book, "Month" compromise "E. Kuskova .
"My dear Semashko! Do not be fancy, my dear! - I wrote to the Politburo meeting on July 12 the leader of the world proletariat, changing emotion floor loyal comrade. - From Lump take the name, signature, a couple of cars from those who have it (and that kind) sympathizes. More no-Th-th "(VI Lenin Full. Cit. Cit., Vol. 53. pp 24-25).
On the boundless generosity of the Political Bureau, committed the conception of the public committee, it was stated at the plenary session of the Moscow Council of 19 July as the day before, on July 18 Kalinin sealed by a decree of the Central Executive Committee of the transformation existed hitherto obscure committee into a new Commission under the Central Executive Committee for Famine Relief. The Commission, named CC Pomgol subsequently received "the right of association and coordination of activities of all Soviet institutions in the fight against hunger both in the center and in the field."
On the day of the birth of the Committee on July 21, 1921, dignitaries authorized by higher authorities in the fight against hunger, and representatives of the "rotten intellectuals", who defended starving for reasons of conscience, met at the White Hall of the Moscow Council of the preliminary meeting.
A doctor by profession, and in the past, one of the leaders of the Cadet Party and Minister of the Provisional Government of the state charity NM Kishkin read a prepared declaration of the initiative group:
"Events taking place in Russia created between the citizens of one country insurmountable obstacles and scattered them to different irreconcilable camps. But it can not be, there should be animosity and turmoil where death devours his victims, where fertile fields converted into the wilderness, where work stops and there is no life-giving breath of life. The matter should help the hungry to unite everyone. It should be placed under the banner of peace of the Red Cross. Krasnokrestnaya work, devoid of any element of political struggle, must take place publicly, openly, under the sign of broad public scrutiny and sympathy. <...> We must have the right to say, not only domestically, but also there, abroad, in the countries where we are forced to seek temporary assistance that the authorities understood the problem the time that it accepted all its dependent measures to ensure that workers on hunger legitimate protection of their activities, promoting a speedy and complete safety of all goods and donations intended for the hungry ", - quotes the writer Victor Topolyansky article in the newspaper" Izvestia "for 1921.
From the same issue of the newspaper is known that in his response, the representative of the Soviet regime Lev Kamenev stressed the apolitical nature of the Committee and said on behalf of the Soviet government: "We guarantee all conditions of business operation of the Committee, which may make its successful practical results." Then Prokopovich has formulated the main purpose of the Committee: "Help from abroad. When you create urgency for direct government appeal is unlikely to be considered convenient. Treatment should be based on Russian society. And we hope that it will resonate. " Kamenev did not mind; Moreover, the next day he informed the readers of national newspapers: "This committee has the task to collect and acquire the necessary funds to the starving in Russia and mainly abroad. He can count on the sympathy and support of communities that have not responded to the call of the Communists. "
As soon as the newspaper with the decision of the Central Executive Committee of 21 July plastered around Moscow, the inhabitants of the capital have called babbler list of persons brought before the Committee, "the list of all-Russian idiots" (Sabashnikov MV op. Cit, pp. 462). He himself, the Committee received from the Bolsheviks sarcastic nickname "FICO" (or "Prokukish") in the initial syllables of names of representatives of his most energetic (Prokopovich, Sod and Kishkin).
Recall that if in 1891, 1906 and 1911. all possible assistance to the starving peasants provided various social organizations and the government itself, that this time the aid is not only followed, but even on the contrary: the hunger, which began in 1920, exacerbated carried out according to the plan surplus repeated requisition foodstuffs.
Even very low-key description of the disaster in the Volga region, resembling involuntarily biblical tradition of the ten plagues, caused in Moscow inhabitants, seasoned red terror, and all sorts of hardships, feeling a shudder.
On MA Osorgin lasting impression produced information about starving diets. "The best bread was considered a green entirely of quinoa; worse - with a dash of manure, even worse - the whole dung. Even eating clay, and it was then made a great discovery "nutrient clay", gray and greasy, which vodilas only happy places and was pointed out to eat some saints. This clay is saturated with a short time, but it can pass through the intestine, and so man could live for a whole week, but gradually weakening. Plain clay, even if you select from it the pebbles and sand, saturating all, from her man is not freed, and took her, along with a bitter complaint to the light for the presentation of the great pursued, "- he wrote in his book" The Times "(M ., 1989, pp 130).
The also were fasted menu meat dishes (from cats, dogs, turtles, gophers, rats, crows, frogs, locusts and fall, as well as boiled skins, belts and ground bones) and vegetarian concoction (grass, straw, quinoa, currant leaves and blackberries, acorns, flour horseradish, lime bark, bark, moss, chaff, sawdust and mill dust). A special place is occupied by mineral foods from peat, silt, and various debris (modern note. 1921. T. 7. S. 286-325). In this situation, fasted often perceive death as a deliverance from suffering.
"Who does not work shall not eat"
In Kostroma, Penza, Samara, Tsaritsyn and a number of other provinces winter faded by drought; Kuban on crops struck locusts. In the Volga Military District, the population was fed grass and leaves with a dash of flour, in Tatarstan - one only grass. In Ryazan province stopped victual hospitals and orphanages. Across the Volga region, in the Kursk and Voronezh provinces, cases of starvation, especially among children.
"In fact, the children -" the country's future "," flowers of life "," the hope of the State ", as they called them in Soviet Russia - on the brink of extinction. In particular, in the Chuvash region from January to September 1921 he died 29 526 children under the age of 14 years.
According to the head of Kalmykia regional health department, in November 1922 in the district of Erketenevskom 1322 children died 1090. Especially high was the mortality of children up to three years, in some areas, it reached 90-95%, "- writes in his article" The evacuation of starving children Soviet Russia abroad. 1921 "Doctor of Historical Sciences, Tatiana Smirnova.
It also results in a statement the executive secretary of the Central Executive Committee Detkomissii made by the spring of 1922: "The mortality rate of the child population has reached dangerous heights. Suffice it to say that the child population up to three years, almost all died. <...> It is no exaggeration to say that 30% of the child population of the Volga region and Crimea struck by hunger and epidemics from the list of the living. "
The initiators of the Committee for Famine Relief understand that the starving could only save foreign organizations and foreign states only. In May and June 1921, Lenin ordered the food purchases abroad, but its amount was not enough even for food workers, not to mention the kids and the peasantry. June 26, 1921 the newspaper "Pravda" published an article about the famine in the Volga region, pointing out that it is even stronger than a severe famine in 1891.
In July (no later than 9th) it was even invented a simple and quick way to neizbity stabilize the situation in the country. According to the plan predsovnarkoma V. Ulyanov (Lenin), it was necessary to call on the army half a million (or more) of young men hungry provinces and to house them in Ukraine, where the expected good harvest, and in the fall the task put in front of recruits maximum withdrawal from the peasants (in particular through "special requisitions") grain surpluses.
"If the area covered by crop failure and hungry, embraces a territory with 25 million people, is it not a series of measures to be the most revolutionary is to take this area of ??youth into the army in the amount of 500 thousand men? (And even, perhaps, to 1 million?). Objective: To help the public to a certain extent, because of the feed our hungry, and maybe bread parcels home will help to a certain extent hungry. This is the first. And the second: put these ½ million in the Ukraine, so that they have helped to strengthen prodraboty being especially interested in it, particularly clearly recognizing and feeling the injustice of gluttony of the rich peasants in the Ukraine ", - wrote the leader of the world proletariat (Lenin VI Complete Works. Ed. T. 5. 44. M., 1974, pp 67).
The difficult economic situation is exacerbated by the poor organization of the supply, transport problems, red tape and theft, flourish at all levels: from canteens to Snabupra Narcompros childcare. Huge size reaches theft in transport. So, for example, sent in autumn 1921 in Chuvashia 1000 pounds of beans region received about 400 pounds, and fish and 2,500 pounds of potatoes disappeared completely.
"We will not give a penny to guys from Moscow ..."
"Received from foreign governments and foreign non-governmental organizations offer to take the education of Soviet starving children, at first glance, appear to be most cost effective and easiest way to save millions of children's lives. However, over the border it was evacuated only about two thousand children, while the offer of foreign powers (the US, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Bulgaria, Turkey) totaled tens of thousands. What is it? The indifference of politicians, whose own political interests were more important than the lives of millions of helpless children? A superficial acquaintance just such an impression with this problem. However, in reality, the reasons for the failure in 1921, the evacuation of Soviet children from famine-stricken provinces campaign abroad is much deeper and more complex, "- he writes in his article" The evacuation of the starving children of Soviet Russia abroad. 1921 "Doctor of Historical Sciences, Tatiana Smirnova.
According to historical documents, it is found that the agreement to send hungry children to grow up in a family of British and German workers did not meet with any response from the governments of Britain and Germany. Detkomissiya Central Executive Committee as a result was forced to seek help from the Central Committee of the United Communist Party of Germany.
In a joint radiogram RCP (b) and Detkomissii Central Executive Committee on September 13, 1921 stated:
"Dear comrades!
With deep gratitude Comradely taking your offer to help the starving children of the workers and peasants of the Volga, the Russian Communist Party hereby notifies you that some time ago we had received an offer of English and German workers of their acceptance of its software on 1,000 children. This proposal was made by us and by Radio ... [sic - TS] in September this year It invited authorized representatives of Soviet Russia in London and Berlin to find out from the relevant Governments as well as the conditions under which they conceive the implementation of the desires of their workers on the evacuation of children from Russia. On the received response is sent to RADIO, and we would be extremely grateful if you could with his hand to take the necessary measures to accelerate clarify the issues raised. "
A Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany in the collections of the Central Executive Committee and Central Committee Detkomissii Pomgol, unfortunately, has not survived. The idea of ??its content can be formed only on the cover letter Detkomissii in the foreign section of the Central Committee Pomgol.
In this letter dated September 26, 1921 it states that the Central Committee Pomgol "response is transmitted to the Central Committee of the German Communist Party, indicating the number of children that can be brought to the port of Petrograd." However, no evidence that the Soviet children were indeed evacuated to Germany or England, could not be found in the materials of the Central Committee and Pomgol Detkomissii Central Executive Committee, - says Tatiana Smirnova.
However, she suggested that the initiative of the British and German workers at that time did not support the governments of these countries.
After reviewing the state archive documents, the historian believes that the indirect confirmation of this is the London bureau forwarded the motion to the secretariat of the International Christian International in Pomgol CC in February 1922 the British government's response to the request to accept the Christian International in England starving children from Russia. The answer, signed by Harold Scott stated: "At your request lead of 250 Russian children starving to inform you that I have been authorized by the Secretary of state to express my regret that at this moment he is not able to take them to England." Thus, the first attempt of Soviet Russia to evacuate the children starving provinces abroad were unsuccessful.
September 30, 1921 at a meeting of the League of Nations in Geneva made Fridtjof Nansen. In it, he accused the governments - members of the League of wanting to solve the problem of Bolshevism in Russia by means of starvation and death of 20 million people. He noted that multiple and repeated requests for £ 5 million (half the cost of the battleship) to the governments of European countries remained unanswered. And now, when the League of Nations adopted a resolution - the resolution says only what you need to do something for Russia, but denies this.
Moreover, the representative of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia Spalaykovichem was proposed resolution lays the responsibility for the famine in the Soviet government. Commenting on this, he said: "We will not give a penny guys from Moscow ... of two evils - hunger and Bolshevism - I think the last the worst."
Nixon, "FICO score" and Lenin's fury
Authorities are reluctant to travel abroad, not only children, but also members of the Central Committee Pomgol. The last of its initiative to help the starving Volga paid prison and exile that followed immediately after because of foreign aid first arrived in Russia.
Nansen, a famous polar explorer, appointed August 15 Glavnoupolnomochennym the International Red Cross to assist Russia, rushed to Moscow on August 24, accompanied by the Secretary and five advisers. In the evening, August 24 Chicherin Politburo informed about the purpose of the visit of an important guest: "We are, first, have to conclude an agreement with him about the way the transfer of aid received by philanthropic; Secondly, it considers it possible to obtain for us from the various governments and organizations of the loan of 10 million pounds sterling for 6 per cent for 10 years. " It is worth noting that Wikipedia said Fridtjof Nansen was the High Commissioner for Refugees for the League of Nations and it was in this capacity he visited Moskva. Also worth noting that Nansen was no Marxist
Poor understanding in the political situation of the country mysterious Soviets, straightforward Nansen ( "Viking", by definition, Gorky) wanted to enter in the number of its employees representative of the Public Committee.
"This intention has caused Lenin lingering rage. Head of the Soviet Government seemed as if as a result of communication with the Moscow intelligentsia Nansen distribution of food supplies and favorable credit could swim away from the hands of the Bolsheviks at the disposal of accidentally revived the public ", - he said in the article" The Year 1921 First: Punishment for hunger "Victor Topolyansky.
Long kopivshiysya Lenin's anger, he said, "broke out as a subcutaneous abscess, on Friday August 26," when the leader got acquainted with the resolution of the Committee meeting of August 23, where, in particular, said that the fruitful work of the Committee is not possible without the work delegations abroad.
Finally osvirepev by "brazenly offers Nansen" and unprecedented boldness "FICO score", the leader of the world proletariat thirsted exemplary punishment.
August 26 Lenin in a lengthy note to Stalin demanded to put on the Politburo Immediate dissolution Pomgol and arrest or exile of its leaders, on the basis as if they "do not want to work." He also demanded that the press were given "hundreds frets" "ridicule and persecute at least once a week for two months" of its members.
The government's message on the Elimination Committee issued national press 30 August, contained tiresome lie about "a group of so-called public figures," which supposedly took sometime "actively participated in the struggle against Soviet power", then established the aforesaid Committee, and now all of a sudden put forward an ultimatum: or their delegation be released across the border, or they stop working. Since the Committee itself has become "an instrument of" political games "Whites overseas and inspired by their government groups in Europe", but most of its members were captured "political calculations that have nothing to do with the interests of hungry people," the Soviet leadership considered it expedient to dissolve the organization.
September 26, the Soviet government appealed to the international community for assistance in the fight against hunger. "The Russian government, - stated in the note - will take any help from whatever source it may entered, it is not linking it with the existing political relations." On the same day, Lenin wrote an appeal to the world proletariat, and even earlier (13 July), Maxim Gorky, with the knowledge of the West called the country's leadership community to prevent massive loss of life in Russia.
And the next day, when the first batch of food on the ARA entered the Russian Pomgol and members gathered for a meeting with Kamenev, all public figures, with the exception of two people were arrested Cheka. Through the press they were accused of counterrevolutionary acts. Everyone expected the death penalty, but the intervention of the Nansen saved; released from prison, were expelled: someone abroad who in remote places of Russia.
Price of hunger
Closely monitor the situation in the Soviet Union last Russian Ambassador to France Maklakov September 6, 1920 wrote last Russian ambassador to the United States BA Bakhmetev: "By reaching up from Russian sources, there is a huge nedos, a huge crop failure, the band fires etc. Any government that would be based on the sympathy and confidence of the country, of course, this would not have survived. But to think that this will inevitably lead to the collapse of Bolshevism at the demoralization and depression of Russian society, which unanimously testify to all the data would be to be too hasty in the conclusions. Hunger at this time will affect not only cities but entire villages and provinces that do not have bread and who will not feed anybody. Russia will die from hunger and disease, but in order to feed the communist centers or those on which is based the Bolshevik regime in Russia, perhaps, grain and there. "
Indeed, seeing the care of sustenance starving Soviet citizens took the foreign organizations, the Soviet government turned its resources for other purposes.
In the book by Richard Pipes' " The Russian Revolution. 3. The Book of Russia under the Bolsheviks, 1918-1924 "states that for 25 August, three days after signing the contract with Hoover, an old Bolshevik and the Deputy Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinov reported to Moscow that he sold jewelry in England at 20 million gold rubles and that the buyer is willing to purchase another 20 million pounds ($ 100 million) - means excess donations from abroad starving Russia.
"At the beginning of October 1921, Trotsky gave strict instructions to the Soviet secret agent in Germany Viktor Tropp place orders for rifles and machine guns in the amount of 10 million gold rubles. It became known in the autumn of 1922, which caused a strong surprise in American charitable circles - information that the Soviet government came to pass their own products abroad during the famine in their own country shocked public opinion in the West. Soviet authorities explained this by the fact that they need the money for the purchase of industrial and agricultural equipment. Hoover expressed his protest against the "brutal policy of the government, comes off a starving people of food in exchange for imports of equipment and raw materials, for the sake of a successful economic activity of those who are lucky enough to survive," - writes the American author.
But because the worst was already behind the Bolshevik authorities have ignored the opinion of the West. on the export of grain News from Russia made it impossible to raise funds in its favor, and in June 1923, foreign social activists ceased their activities in Russia. (Richard Pipes. Russian Revolution. Book 3. Russia under the Bolsheviks, 1918-1924)
Meanwhile, only on hunger, on Estimates Commissariat and the CSB, for in 1921-1922. died more than five million people (from 5053 up to 5 .000 .200 000 Soviet citizens). For comparison, on all fronts of the First World War in Russia killed 664 890 people from 15 million mobilized. The total losses of the Russian army (killed or died of wounds, disease or gassing) from August 1914 to December 1917 inclusive amounted to 1,661,804 rights. Thus, the death toll from the epidemic of hunger three times higher than the amount of irrecoverable losses during the First World War.
Soviet sources 1920 - mid-1930s famine was ranked as "the last message from the tsarist and the Civil War."
At the height of the Cold War, when both parties were active in propaganda against each other, a book by Robert Conquest "Terror Famine," in which the author states that "terrible famine occurred in 1921, not because someone has decided to destroy the farmers such a method. According to him, to believe that it occurred spontaneously, is also incorrect. The weather was bad, but it was not enough to cause such a disaster. The main factor was the method of starvation of the Soviet government to produce bread by using the requisition. "
This idea finds support among some publicists and historians in the USSR era of perestroika, is gradually transforming itself with the statements that "famine of the early 1920s. It was inspired by the Bolsheviks "and even" the Bolsheviks have invented a myth that the famine in the early 20s was caused by drought ... "
Fold in the 1920s. notions of "natural disaster in the Volga region" have undergone radical revision until many years later. Thus, in the article "Hunger", published in the first edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1930, Vol. 17), it was noted that the famine of 1921-1922. They hit 35 provinces and killed 5 million people out of 40 million starving, the author of a similar article published in the second edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1952, Vol. 11), was limited to a mean of information on drought-induced famine that engulfed the 35 provinces, but not a word I mention of the victims of hunger.
But in an article on the same subject, placed in the third edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1972, Vol. 7), it was only about "the catastrophic drought" of 1921, which "did not cause the usual heavy consequences" due to effective measures of the Soviet state.
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after the 1921 famine, the 1932-33 Holodomer famine hit the Ukraine and nearby areas - 5-8 million people died in that event (Walter Duranty won the Pulitzer for his pro soviet progaganda covering that).
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The photos are just brutal.
Interesting are the posters and the early art style of the soviet propagandists.
I guess I do not have an opinion one way or the other about the Russians as a people, mainly through seer ignorance. Sure seems like they have a lot of bad luck though.
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Of course I don't hate Russia. Visited it several times and have great friends there.
Communism and communists are responsible for this. just like Mao and his ilk killed millions of Chinese by starvation.
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I don't hate the Russians. Not even during the Cold War. Hate is an expensive luxury.
Every Hillary's voter should read this.
Wouldn't do any good.The Western Left adored the Russians Soviets. Not so much the Chinese (which I blame on that much-abused term, 'racism'.) Which is why the average Westerner knows more about Chinese Communist 'disasters' than Russian Soviet ones.
Deadspin's assumed the mantle of New Gawker, with every third post that's not an advertisement looking a lot like this self-righteous bullshit. Allow me the time and space to take a nice, steaming shit on the lot of them:
Today I asked my 18 year old nephew (to be clear he’s black) to drive me to my meetings so I can work on my phone #safteyfirst. In the distance I saw cop on the side of the road. I quickly checked to see if he was obliging by the speed limit. Than I remembered that horrible video of the woman in the car when a cop shot her boyfriend. All of this went through my mind in a matter of seconds. I even regretted not driving myself. I would never forgive myself if something happened to my nephew. He’s so innocent. So were all "the others"
I am a total believer that not "everyone" is bad It is just the ones that are ignorant, afraid, uneducated, and insensitive that is affecting millions and millions of lives.
Why did I have to think about this in 2016? Have we not gone through enough, opened so many doors, impacted billions of lives? But I realized we must stride on- for it’s not how far we have come but how much further still we have to go.
I than wondered than have I spoken up? I had to take a look at me. What about my nephews? What if I have a son and what about my daughters?
As Dr. Martin Luther King said " There comes a time when silence is betrayal".
I
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Serena In other words, not a god damn thing happened to her on this occasion; indeed, the worst outcome would have been a speeding ticket. Yet the logically deficient do not let the mere lack of facts dissuade them from making a grandiose public declaration that we have to do something to fight 'racial inequality and police violence'. It bears repeating - nothing of the sort happened here, so it is now only speculation and conjecture that are required to allow yourself to pronounce your moral superiority to others who didn't do a god damned thing to you to cause harm, and let the rest of the dumb fucks like the hateful, smug hipster leftists at Deadspin (but I repeat myself) that dutifully reprint this fucking garbage without the slightest bit of reading comprehension (it's clear that none of them are actual journalists; they might have picked up on this point, no?), since it fits their hateful, smug hipster leftist agenda, who can't see through this ruse and expect everybody (read - WHITE FOLK!) to drop to their knees and grovel before them and beg for forgiveness before your morally superior set of comped Nikes. The equally moronic trained seals that comprise Deadspin's commenting section? Out of 28 comments, not one of them made this point that nothing happened, yet they hold themselves out to be quite the clever bunch. Yeah, like I'm convinced...
You know one area where Serena will stay silent? Ask her about steroid use.
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It is just the ones that are ignorant, afraid, uneducated, and insensitive that is affecting millions and millions of lives.
You don't say.
I am quite certain that if I posted the exact same thing, fewer people would see it then there are sets in women's tennis.
And here is the rub. If she honestly, truly believed this grammar wreck of navel gazing, then why did she purposefully have her nephew drive if the danger is so great?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Kuwait’s Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al Jarallah has confirmed his country’s willingness to receive delegations from all Yemeni sides in the future if and when peace talks are agreed on.
Jarrallah also spoke against allegations made by Iranian FARS news agency that Kuwait was differing with 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... on the situation in Yemen, saying the Kuwait has not shifted its stance and solidly supports neighboring Riyadh.
As Kuwait celebrated the 26th anniversary of its liberation earlier this year, all of us remember the sacrifices offered by Saudi Arabia since the first day of the liberation war," Acting Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Khaled al-Hamed al-Sabah said on Monday.
Three months of UN-brokered talks - which were hosted in Kuwait - failed to make headway, with the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias and President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s government both holding firm to their positions.
Following the 2011 uprising against Yemen’s then-President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , several events occurred that led to the country’s political turmoil. As factions fought for control of Yemen, the power vacuum led Houthi militias to take advantage of instability and rising fuel prices to oust Hadi’s government in Sept. 2014.
Hadi and his cabinet fled to Saudi Arabia, which led an Arab coalition against the Houthis in March 2015. After 18 months of fighting, the Houthis and their allies control most of the north - including the capital Sanaa - while forces loyal to Hadi and the popular resistance control the south.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A former imam who rubbed out writer Nahed Hattar on the steps of the palace of justice on Sunday, faces execution after confessing to the shooting.
Riyad Abdullah, 49 years old, gave himself up to police
...no, two of the victim's brothers and a friend chased down the miscreant and captured him, then held him until the police arrived. At that point they turned him over to the police. Any surrendering he may have done afterward was merely posturing to pretend a Moslem murderer was not subject to citizen's arrest by lowly Christians...
after he killed the writer who was facing prosecution for insulting Islam. Abdullah performed the Hajj pilgrimage, a week before the crime.
Now it has been revealed that the killer was the imam of one of Amman mosques six years ago before being dismissed by the Ministry of Religious affairs. It is understood that he is not a member of any terrorist organizations.
Abdullah was remanded for 15 days and charged with premeditated murder, a crime that is punishable by death in Jordan. He recognized his victim, he told police, through a search for his image on the Internet after the caricature of God was published on a Facebook page.
He admitted to the killing and said he did not regret what he did, adding: "Any person misrepresents the Divine Entity must be killed".
It is understood the defendant bought the gun last week, he walked, Sunday morning to the justice palace located in the region of the Abdal, and waited the victim one hour before the writer was to stand a trial.
Hattar, a Christian and an anti-Islamist activist who was a supporter of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... , was placed in durance vile Please don't kill me! last month after he shared a caricature that depicted a bearded man in heaven smoking in bed with women and asking God to bring him wine and cashews.
Many conservative Moslem Jordanians considered Hattar’s move offensive and against their religion. The authorities said he violated the law by sharing the caricature.
[AnNahar] Jordanian authorities vowed Tuesday to crack down on incitement to violence on social media, two days after the murder of a writer over which the government has faced public anger.
Justice Minister Bassam Talhuni, quoted by official news agency Petra, said that "anyone who uses social media to spread hate speech" would face charges.
"Certain acts of incitement to hatred could be defined as terrorist crimes... and we will deal with them in accordance with anti-terrorist laws," he said.
On Monday, hundreds of protesters erupted into the streets calling on the government to resign over its failure to prevent the murder of Christian writer Nahed Hattar.
Hattar's family says the authorities were warned of threats to Hattar's life, including from his assailant, and of personal attacks on social media but had failed to take action.
The interior ministry said Tuesday an unspecified number of arrests had been made in connection with incitement to "hatred and confessional discord" on social networking sites. They included a social media user who set up a Facebook page campaigning for the release of Hattar's killer, who gave himself up to police at the scene and faces a charge of premeditated murder.
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Betcha no execution. After a proper quieting period he'll walk.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] It’s easy to feel lost in a nation of 320 million. But it’s the strength and glory of the American way that the least among us has a say, no smaller and no bigger than anyone else, with a vote on Election Day. The stakes for charting the future have rarely been higher, as the face-off between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on Monday night demonstrated. Vote fraud dilutes the value of the ballots cast by the eligible, and that should disturb and anger us all. If elections aren’t fair, the democratic process is a sham.
Colorado has uncovered a “very serious” pattern of ballots filed by mail in the name of the dead. Mail-in balloting makes voting more convenient but early voting distorts the decision and risks making the result a fraud. Numbers of fraudulent votes cast are undetermined thus far, but officials in El Paso County, Colorado, acknowledge that an investigation by television reporters turned up legitimate examples of illegal activity.
“We do believe there were several instances of potential vote fraud that occurred,” says Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams. “It shows there is the potential for fraud.” County election officials say they removed the names of 448 dead people from voter rolls before the news report was aired, and found an additional 78 names while rechecking.
Illicit ballots — even if discovered at a tiny portion of the thousands of polling stations across the country — could add up to number large enough to alter an outcome. Researchers at Old Dominion University in Virginia, studying a sample portion of the 2010 voting in the midterm elections, estimated that 2.2 percent of ballots were cast by voters who are not citizens. With Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton running neck and neck nationwide, a single percentage point swing in key states could mean the difference between a President Clinton and a President Trump.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson vowed earlier this month to “leave no stone unturned” in protecting the security of the election process. We applaud his determination. The FBI says that hackers, likely from Russia, penetrated state election systems in Arizona and Illinois, but Mr. Johnson says his department has the resources to help election officials detect and halt cyber-attacks.
Threats to ballot integrity don’t all originate in faraway places, as Colorado’s graveyard electorate demonstrates, and the Homeland Security Department that promises to protect the process could have an unintended hand in subverting it. The department’s inspector general reported last week that 858 illegal immigrants should have been deported but were instead granted citizenship because officials failed to fingerprint them to detect their real identities. Only 2 of the 858 were prosecuted. “This situation created opportunities for individuals to gain the rights and privileges of U.S. citizenship through fraud,” says Inspector General John Roth.
One of the privileges of American citizenship is the right to vote. Whether illegal immigrants who were granted citizenship under false pretenses have yet cast ballots, or intend to in November, is not known, but guarantees of protecting ballot integrity by Jeh Johnson’s Homeland Security because someone “forgot” to check fingerprints are not altogether reassuring. It’s not unreasonable to wonder what other surprises lie ahead. Americans go to the polls in six weeks. A fair outcome should be underpinned by more than hope.
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the Homeland Security Department that promises to protect the process Fox-henhouse parable. Why does this give me an uneasy feeling?
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DOJ has been politicized corrupted by the Clintons. The only saving grace about DHS is that it displays some incompetence; otherwise it is probably in the tank too.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The military chief of the Taliban group for northeastern Badakhshan province was killed during a brief clash with the Afghan forces in this province.
According to the local security officials, Mullah Hafiz was killed along with six other forces of Evil after launching a coordinated attack on security posts in Jurm district.
A front man for the 808th Spinzar Corps Mahfuzullah Akbari said the attack was launched late on Monday night from different angles but the Afghan forces managed to repulse it without sustaining any casualties.
Akbari further added that the local residents also did not suffer any casualties during the clash.
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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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'Staggering implicatons' indeed.
[WashingtonPost] The history of slavery in the United States justifies reparations for African Americans, argues a recent report by a U.N.-affiliated group based in Geneva.
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[Manila Bulletin] Two Abu Sayyaf militants were killed during a raid conducted by Philippine troops yesterday morning in the town of Pata in Sulu province while another rebel facing seven counts of kidnapping was arrested in Zamboanga City.
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The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday began representing a man accused of setting off bombs in New York and New Jersey and injuring more than 30 people. After judges in both states denied attempts by public defenders to represent Ahmed Khan Rahami, a lawyer for the organization's New Jersey chapter entered a notice of appearance in his case in federal court in Newark on Monday.
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