[American Thinker] Inbreeding is common in Islamic culture. It's been going on since Mohammed sanctioned first-cousin marriages 1,400 years ago. I guess there's nothing like getting marriage advice handed down from one generation to the next that originated with a lunatic pedophile.
PJ Media reports that because Mohammed encouraged inbreeding, many Muslims regard intermarriage as part of their religion. First-cousin marriages are also viewed as a source of social status, as a means of keeping wealth within the family, and as a form of control. In addition, it is a vehicle to safeguard families against the influence of non-Muslim outsiders, which contributes to insular communities that do not integrate into Western society.
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in Quran 33:37, Allah specifically authorizes Mo to take his cousin to wife
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When you combine an Islamic “holy book” that teaches hate with rampant inbreeding, there is no doubt that Islamic culture is sub-par (to put it mildly) and not compatible with Western values and modernity.
I can hear the multicultural heads exploding from here...
Cousin marriage was also practiced by English landed gentry (Charles Darwin comes to mind) and the old families of Boston. But that's not quite the same as preferentially marrying daughters to paternal uncles and their sons, even if some of those paternal uncles had different mothers thanks to polygamous marriages.
h/t Gates of Vienna
In these grim times, I am afforded light relief by CNN--the only news channel offered by the treadmill of my Tokyo apartment house--as its presenters and pundits gravely debate the motives behind Putin's investment in Syria.
His own version is that he is fighting "extremism," which oddly enough is the same dark threat that President Barack Obama also recognizes while rigorously avoiding the qualifiers Islamic, Islamist, or Muslim--although he will refer to Isol, prompting the thought that it is impossible to defeat an enemy one is afraid to name. There is no Isol or even Isis anymore, because the good old ad-Dawlah al-Islamiyah fi'l-ĘżIraq wa-sh-Sham--the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria--has long since become the Islamic State of everywhere from Nigeria to Afghanistan, no doubt also including the British Isles and Michigan.
Ignoring earnest declarations of its un-Islamic character solemnly issued by non-Muslim presidents, premiers, and prelates, volunteers who recognize the authenticity of the Islamic State keep pouring into its still-expanding borders, easily offsetting the casualties inflicted by the very expensive U.S. bombing campaign, now joined by the British, French, ... and Putin, whose air force already claims dozens of air strikes against the common foe.
Putin's enthusiasm for the great cause might be expected to earn him some gratitude. Instead, the Russian leader is criticized by wise CNN pundits--and by the Obama Administration--for seeking to defend his client Assad by bombing his other enemies as well, i.e., the dozens of quarreling Islamist bands that grandly call themselves Jaysh al-Fatah, "the army of conquest," the several quarreling factions of Syrian Army defectors that call themselves al-Jaysh as-Suri al-Ḥurr, "the free Syrian army," the unabashedly extremist al-Qaida affiliate Jabhat an-Nuᚣrah, which is much stronger than both, and, above all, the brave "pro-democracy" warriors armed and trained by the United States itself, under a $500 million program.
...So, yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, the aforementioned accused, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is guilty of a very great crime: He defends his allies and attacks his enemies--conduct particularly reprehensible in the eyes of the Obama Administration, which does the exact opposite.
...Side with the Americans and you will be promptly abandoned if troublemakers force the police to shoot. Side with Putin's Russia and you will be supported no matter what.
...Putin is also different in his understanding of the business of diplomacy. The Obama version is that the practicalities of any actual transaction are much less important than their decoration with fashionably modish principles and procedures, including genuflections to the forever useless United Nations. Hence none can expect to exchange X for Y in dealing with the Obama White House and Administration--it all has to go through its indecision machine that delays everything inordinately, at the very least.
By contrast, when Netanyahu heard that Putin was sending fighter-bombers to Syria, over which Israeli fight-bombers must operate from time to time to destroy trucks carrying Iran-supplied missiles to Hezbollah, thus opening the very real possibility of deadly aerial encounters, there were no lengthy pre-negotiation palavers to arrange for preparatory meetings that might one day lead to a meeting of the principals, in the manner of the Obama Administration. Instead Netanyahu asked for a quick meeting, Putin responded by inviting him to come to Moscow right away, where the two right away agreed that the Russians would telephone Cohen ... Bibi's National Security Advisor ... Israeli flights would be announced to Nikolai Patrushev, Putin's national security adviser ... the operating rule being that when one side does any bombing, the other side must stay on the ground.
...Many Americans view Putin simply as a thug but public opinion polls show that Russians disagree. His popularity is bound to decline as Putin's own counter-sanctions are needlessly intensifying the shortages caused by Western sanctions, and by the fall in the value of the ruble, yet a majority of Russians are likely to remains responsive to his fundamental message: "You are Russian. Sanctions or no sanctions, you will never eat as well as the Italians nor dress as elegantly as the French, and you will never be rich as the Americans--but you Russians are an imperial people, masters of the largest state in the world, equally ready to rule benevolently two dozen obedient nationalities and to punish the lawless. I, Putin, for my part, will not give away parts of your empire as my feckless predecessors Gorbachev and Yeltsin did, and I will strive to recover what I can, not just Crimea but as much of the Ukraine as possible, with more gains to come elsewhere."
Such primitive notions are no doubt incomprehensible to Obama and his officials, as well as to their intellectual milieu, for which empire can only be an embarrassment, power cannot be purposeful, peace is obtained by good will and not by assured security, war is purposeless destruction (and all warriors are merely future PTSD cases), and diplomacy should be a multilateral pursuit, having to do with Global Warming if at all possible. These are all useful stances for rank-and-file Obama officials as they prepare their future with Bill and Melinda, Bill and Chelsea, and the rest of the PC foundation universe with its light lifting and ceaseless conferencing travel to yammy destinations, but to conduct the foreign policy of the United States they are hopelessly off-target. Putin and Netanyahu, by contrast, are determined to hit their targets hard.
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He defends his allies and attacks his enemies--conduct particularly reprehensible in the eyes of the Obama Administration, which does the exact opposite.
Not quite. If you haven't figured out by now, Fundamental Transformation is newspeak for destruction. He's pushing the temp on the cooking pot as fast as he can but low enough for the [domestic] frog not to jump out. When you're raised by two generations of 'hate America' lefties and indoctrinated in the same by your educators and associates, America's allies are also your enemies and America's enemies are your friends. So, on the foreign relations and actions front, the WH pursues that which is the opposite of America's traditional interest.
Headline rewritten
Please, if you are going to put such opinion pieces as this in Rantburg, try to find some other source than WND and Political Insider.
Moved to Opinion Dunno'. She could have at least credited the Burg as a source. We've only been writing about this topic for 7 years. I prefer Weekly World News as my go-to news source. Best damned reporting on the planet... The quote's a mere expression of opinion (not an intel leak or revelation) carried on a crackpot site -- other heads: Jenna Bush Has a Huge Announcement, Tears Up After MAJOR SURPRISE! (MUST WATCH) and BREAKING: The Biggest News Possible for Donald Trump Just Happened - This Changes EVERYTHING!
The pull quotes are sourced to World Net Daily, which we don't usually use. She worked in the Reagan White House, which by my count was about thirty years ago, which meant she was either a political appointee who ended up with CIA or a CIA GS-7 who did the morning intel briefing, back at the beginning of her career.
In fact most if not all of us here share her opinion. B.O.'s a product of the trendy leftoid political stream that is generically "on the other side." He's been trying to reverse the course we've been following as a nation, which has paved the way for the 47 percent's love of Bernie Sanders.
I saw a "Bernie 2016" bumper sticker on a car at an antique show today. The Comrade Driver was about Bernie's age, too.
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As she told WND earlier this month, Lopez believed the Muslim Brotherhood has thoroughly infiltrated the Obama administration and other branches of the federal government.
A chance for Fred to share how he evaluates articles, for one thing, dear Blossom Unains5562. This is not something that was intuitively obvious to me when I started submitting articles, and I still seek guidance in some cases to this day. Most of us are not trained intelligence analysts, after all.
The second part of Fred's response is also important. He wrote
In fact most if not all of us here share her opinion.
So your instinct was not wrong. It's just that the article you submitted doesn't meet Rantburg standards for the reasons Fred stated. Your own yellow highlighted "Dunno," suggests you were a bit tentative about the thing as well, yes?
You'll have noticed, I hope, that a respectable percentage of the articles you submit here get published. Now you know why some of the others have not been. Carry on, please!
[FreeBeacon] What to do? The time has come for a revised strategy towards Russia, the greatest military and ideological threat to the United States and to the world order it has built over decades as guarantor of international security. We've faced a similar problem before. To create a freer and richer world, not the United States but Russia must be knocked back on its heels.
That is exactly what Ronald Reagan did in the final years of the Cold War. What is required today is a Reagan Doctrine for the twenty-first century--a comprehensive military, diplomatic, and cultural approach that elevates America's stature and diminishes Russia's.
I can hear liberals already: Reagan, they'll say, was not a warrior but a peacemaker. Didn't he negotiate with Gorbachev, didn't he offer at Reykjavik to eliminate all ICBMs in exchange for the right of strategic defense? And so he did. But to focus only on Reagan's diplomacy is to suffer from historical myopia. It is to ignore Reagan's first term in favor of his second.
The hawkish policies Reagan enacted between 1981 and 1985 gave him the economic, political, and military leverage to become friends with Gorbachev later. And only with Gorbachev: During Reagan's first term, three Soviet leaders preceded the author of glasnost and perestroika. The president didn't meet with any of them. "They keep dying on me," he liked to say.
In their moral disapproval of force, in their fallacious belief that human beings of every nation and every government share the same values and interests, liberals forget that every diplomatic solution is based on the balance or preponderance of military power. It is the weaker party that seeks negotiations--just as Europe and the United States, consumed by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, did after Russia's invasion of Georgia. Just as President Obama, preoccupied with ending the Middle Eastern wars and resolving the financial crisis, attempted his reset with Russia. Just as Europe and the United States, in the grip of anomie and malaise, have sought to freeze the conflict in Ukraine and "de-conflict" the escalating war in Syria.
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Personally, I think that USA's era as "sole superpower" was a disaster---both foreign & domestic. The sooner we're back to bi-polar world (and these arrogant degenerates of EU are taught their place) the better.
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The USSR was moribund by 1980 but the Reagan era defense buildup pushed the end of the regime much faster than it would have happened in the absence of the buildup.
The Reagan defense buildup is also something which got amoral guys who cared about a guaranteed paycheck more than anything else in the universe to vote for Republicans for the first time since the New Deal (Reagan Democrats) by replacing the union jobs they lost under Carter with de facto government jobs in the defense industry. Unfortunately, they weren't voting on principle and weren't authentic conservatives and as soon as the Cold War was over and their defense jobs went away they went back to voting for Democrats.
I liked Reagan and voted for him. But I sometimes wonder. He got elected promising to a) put the Soviets out of business and b) shrink government. He hastened the former for sure, but failed utterly at the second. History shows the Soviets were gone anyways. In retrospect, he should have spent more political capital getting rid of the Dept. of Education and other agencies, and trimmed those agencies he couldn't eliminate. In 1982 it may not have looked that way but in 2015 it looks like he concentrated on the wrong monster to kill.
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The EUSSR politburo wants Europe to be a superpower but noone else wants them to be.
The following is an article published by Press TV and verified by NBC News. There are a few ways to take the re-positioning of the USS Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group.
1. As they say - Scheduled maintenance - But I find this a little too coincidental.
2. Retreating to allow Russia full play in the Gulf. Nah.
3. Moving to a strategic position in preparation of an order for hostilities against Russia. Bingo.
The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), commanded by Capt. Daniel Grieco, is joined with the guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60), and the guided-missile destroyers USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) and USS Forrest Sherman (DDG 98), while the guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut (DDG 99).
Commanded by Rear Adm. Andrew "Woody" Lewis, Carrier Strike Group 12 also includes Destroyer Squadron 2 and nine embarked aircraft squadrons of Carrier Air Wing 1: strike fighter squadrons VFA-11 "Red Rippers," VMFA-251 "Thunderbolts," VFA-136 "Knighthawks," and VFA-211 "Checkmates;" electronic attack squadron VAQ-137 "Rooks;" carrier airborne early warning squadron VAW-125 "Tigertails;" fleet logistics support squadron VRC-40 "Rawhides;" helicopter maritime strike squadron HSM-46 "Grandmasters;" and helicopter sea combat squadron HS-11 "Dragonslayers."Call Sign for the Roosevelt is "Rough Rider".
Press TV - The United States has pulled the USS Theodore Roosevelt -- a massive, nuclear-powered aircraft carrier -- out of the Persian Gulf as Russian warships have entered the area.
For the first time since 2007, the US Navy has now no aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf.
The warship was withdrawn from the Persian Gulf on Thursday, a day after Russia fired 26 long-range cruise missiles from its Caspian Flotilla against terrorists in Syria, Pentagon officials said.
US military officials claimed that the aircraft carrier, which houses about 5,000 sailors and 65 fighter jets, was withdrawn because it needed to undergo maintenance.
Tensions between the United States and Russia escalated after Moscow began its military campaign on September 30 against Daesh (ISIL) terrorists wreaking havoc in Syria.
Russia has carried out more than 110 airstrikes against terrorists in Syria so far, killing hundreds of militants.
The Pentagon announced on Wednesday that the United States had adopted measures to ensure a safe distance from Russian fighter jets flying over Syria.
Republican Senator John McCain, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said on Thursday that Washington should "just leave" Syria "if all of your [US] actions are dictated by the risk of confrontation with Russia."
Peter Daly, a retired Navy vice admiral, noted that the absence of a US aircraft carrier is being noticed by Russians.
"The most important thing you need a carrier for is for what you don't know is going to happen next," Daly told NBC News.
Three unnamed US military officials claimed on Thursday that some cruise missiles fired from Russian ships at targets in Syria landed in Iran.
Russian navy ship launches a cruise missile in the Caspian Sea on Wednesday. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service)
The officials stated that four Russian cruise missiles went off course and crashed in Iran, adding that they don't know if the errant missiles caused any damage.
Iranian Officials were unaware of any reported explosions on their territory.
In response, the Russian Defense Ministry statement said that the new Kalibr-NK cruise missiles all struck within nine feet of their intended targets in Syria.
"No matter how unpleasant and unexpected it is for our colleagues in the Pentagon and Langley, our strike yesterday with precision-guided weapons at ISIS (Daesh/ISIL) infrastructure in Syria hit its targets," the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
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"US Retreats as China invades Northern Luzon, advances in Pacific/WESTPAC" [Bombs Japan?] > OOOOOPPPSSSSIES, MY BAD.
As per LUCIANNE + Investors Business Daily [IBD.com], the Bammer says that RUSSIA = VLAD PUTIN is N-O-T "Leading" or being a "Good Leader" in Syria iff doing so MAKES RUSSIA'S ECONOMY WORSE + GETTING RUSSIAN TROOPS INVOLVED OR MIRED IN SYRIAN + MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS VEE GWOT = FIGHT AGZ ISIS/ISIL.
True enuff, BUT OHHH-SOOOO-PCORRECT/DENIABLE AS THE BAMMER COULD SAY THE SAME THINGS TO PLACATE OR APPEASE MAINSTREAM/ORDINARY AMERIKA IFF A MAJOR US WAR BROKE OUT AGZ RISING CHINA ANDOR RISING IRAN IN EAST ASIA-WESTPAC + PERSIAN GULF, AS TO WHY THE US CAN'T DEFEND ITS ALLIES OR LIVE UP TO BINDING TREATY OBLIGATIONS WID SAME.
* TOPIX > [Washington Times} ISIS GROWS IN AFGHANISTAN, ENCROACHES ON KABUL AS US REMAINS A "PASSIVE OBSERVER".
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > US MEDIAS: US CONFRONTATION WID CHINA MORE WORRISOME THREAT THAN RUSSIA'S INTERVENTION IN SYRIA.
TOLD YA [again again] - Sorry, but this time I'm going to have to demand ArrozCaldo wid my AM Donuts + Coffee.
* WASHINGTON POST > US NAVY TO CHINA: "WE WILL SEND OUR WARSHIPS ANYWHERE NEAR YOUR MAN-MADE ISLANDS [South China Sea] WHENEVER WE WANT".
Again, unfortunately for the USN's bravado, + US Regional Allies, its Anti-US US OWG Globalist POTUS Obama that will give the USN + USDOD any marching orders to go head-to-head = "butt horns" agz OWG Co-Superpowers China, Russia, + Iran, Etal.
OR, IN ALTERNATE, THE [Intentional = Deliberate]LACK OF MARCHING ORDERS AGZ SAME.
* WAFF > TURKEY IS NOW A THEATER [of Milpol/Geopol Confrontation] OF [between]THE WEST AND RUSSIA DISPUTE OVER SYRIA.
How many "Red Lines" can Amerika get for XMAS 2015 = New Year 2016 from the Bammer + Globalists???
* SPUTNIK > OBAMA'S TPP IS A GEO-STRATEGIC DEAL BETWEEN THE US + JAPAN TO CONTAIN CHINA.
* RELATED LUCIANNE >[IBD] OBAMA: TRUST ME - THE TPP AGREEMENT IS BETTER FOR THE US THAN PAST TRADE DEALS.
* Also from LUCIANNE, DRUDGEREPORT > LOUIS FARRAKHAN: AMERICA IS NOW UNDER THE DIVINE JUDGEMENT OF GOD, CALAMITIES ARE GOING TO GET STRONGER.
Iff what POTUS Obama says is true, then why did GOD + Madonna + Guam Taotamonas show the US in dark geopol retreat across East Asia-WESTPAC + World, + having to sink Guam + other strategic Pacific Isles vee Super-MilTech, etc. to deny their utility to China + Nuclear Islam, espec CHINA, "GUAM WILL CAPSIZE" = USN PEARL HARBOR BB USS "OKLAHOMA" WILL CAPSIZE AFTER THE JAPANESE - YOU KNOW, AMERICAN - ATTACK ON ITS OWN MILBASE [9-11 = NYC] BACK IN NOT-9-11 1941???
Ironically, PRO-"ANTI-WHITEY"-JIHAD-AGZ-AMERIKA LOUIS FARRKHAN may be more correct or realistic per Allan + DIvine Judgement, than the Bammer + No-Popular-Vote, Anti-Sovereign TPP.
* Lastly, TOPIX + LUCIANNE > THE NEXT GENERATION: ISIS PUSHES "BABY BOOM" TO SECURE CALIPHATE FUTURE.
Wehell, it is true that the future MUSLIM/ISLAMIC NUCLEAR NAPOLEON 2030-2050, from NOSTRADAMUS'
"Deepest part of the West", was a Baby himself once.
GOD = DEVIL'S ADVOCATE AL "LUCIFER/SATAN" PACINO
= "I DON'T DO THAT, KEVIN!", I.E. HE DOESN'T NEED TO TRICK PEOPLE TO GET THEM TO ENTRAP THEMSELVES OR TO DESTROY THEMSELVES.
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Ah yes, the Movie "PEARL HARBOR" wid Ben Affleck, Etal. where 1941 Amerika was Young, Dumb, + Communist but just didn't know it until the US tricked Japan into attacking the US' own Naval Base at Pearl.
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Regarding options 1, 2, and 3 in the article it seems to me 3 is the least likely. The US tends to send multiple carriers when they expect action.
Obama has given up on the ground so why bother having carriers. The chance of an 'accident' only goes up if we're in the area with no intent to seriously fight. O doesn't want the American people crying for blood when he has no intent of putting American troops into the middle east again.
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Obama knows he has lost on the world stage, but being the narcissist he is would never admit it. Let Putin do his thing in the middle east, the US isnt willing to do it under this administration , not to mention can't really afford it. Let someone else take the role an go back to isolationalism andet the shit take care of themselves. That goes with taking away all aid.
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Tis Tuesday ...
* TOPIX > [Instapundit = PJ Media] BRAVE SIR BARACK RAN AWAY:HAS THE WHITE HOUSE [POTUS Obama]GIVEN UP ON CONFRONTING RUSSIA?
Ditto as per agz CHINA in SCS-ECS, IRAN in Persian Gulf + ME???
FULL OF SUPER-PC/DENIABLE SOUND-N-FURY, BUT ULTIMATELY TO STILL DO NOTHING + ALLOW PUTIN, CHINA, + IRAN TO HAVE THEIR WAY???
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > US PLANS TO PREVENT CHINA FROM HELPING RUSSIA TO FIGHT ISIL IN MIDDL EAST | WASHINGTON IS SAID TO BE PLANNING TO SEND [US Navy] WARSHIPS CLOSE TO THE DISPUTED SPRATLY ISLANDS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA, WHICH CHINA CALIMS AS ITS OWN, AS A MEANS TO PREVENTING OR STOPPING CHINA FROM ASSISTNING RUSSIA IN ITS CAMPAIGN AGZ THE ISLAMIC STTAE + OTHER TERRORIST GROUPS IN SYRIA, MARCO MAIER WRITES FOR "CONTRA MAGAZIN".
* THANH NIEN NEWS [Vietnam] SAUDIS WARN RUSSIA ITS ACTIONS IN SYRIA WILL HAVE "DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCES" [for Russia + Russian Interests] | SYRIA AIR STRIKES PUT RUSSIA AT RISK OF REVENGE ATTACKS.
KSA WARNING TO PUTIN = US/POTUS OMAMA'S WARNING TO PUTIN = RUSSIA IS GETTING ITSELF INVOLVED IN A BLODDY SECTARIAN WAR + ISLAMIST JIHADIS ALL AROUND THE WORLD MAY BECOME INSPIRED TO COME TO SYRIA + ME TO FIGHT RUSSIA.
versus
* TOPIX > [Australia] MALCOLM: OBAMA ASSERTS PUTIN IS WEAK AND NO CHALLENGE.
* FREEREPUBLIC > [Zero Hedge = WSJ] US PATROLS TO TEST CHINA'S RESOLVE ON SOUTH SEA ISLANDS [SCS], "A MATTER OF TIME" [Days?] AS TO WHEN OPERATIONS WILL START DESPITE XI JINPING'S SURPRISE COMITMENT IN WASHINGTON [China to NOT Militarize the Islands] + OBAMA WON'T BACK DOWN AFTER CHINESE THREAT, SENDS US WARSHIPS TO CONTESTED SILANDS IN "MATTER OF DAYS".
* SAME > [Free Thought Project] US TO SEND WARSHIPS TO SOUTH CHINA SEA IN AN APPARENT ATTEMPT TO KICK OFF [start] WORLD WAR III.
* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > AMERICA'S FADING FOOTPRINT IN THE MIDDLE EAST: AS RUSSIA BOMBS + PLOTS [in Syria, Other?] THE US ROLE IS [OWG Globalist POTUS Obama = Intentionally] SHRINKING, + THE REGION'S MAJOR PLAYERS ARE LOOKING FOR NEW WAYS TO ADVANCE THEIR OWN INTERESTS.
Ditto EVERY EACH + ALL US REGIONAL ALLIES IN WEST-EAST-SOUTH-SE ASIA???
* JAPAN TIMES > AL-NUSRA LEADER [Abu Mohammad Al-Golani = YT Video Msg] VOWS TO LAUNCH ATTACKS ON ASSAD'S ALAWITE SECT TO AVENGE RUSSIAN BOMBING.
The best way for liberals to advance their various causes would be to take a pledge to live the rather progressive lives that they advocate. Here are a modest Ten Commandments to lend them credibility in the eyes of the American people.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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