[NYPOST] Even teenage Nobel Peace Prize winners get the blues.
Malala Yousafzai ...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She is esteemed as an ambassador of international good will, even though she can't go home lest some fellow in a turban shoots her in the head again... , the youngest Peace Prize winner in history (at 17), education activist, author of "I Am Malala" and founder of the Malala Fund, devoted to raising money for education programs, revealed to Teen Vogue that she has struggled with depression and other mental health issues.
But her internal battles are understandable. After all, the 22-year-old Oxford University sophomore first hit the international spotlight after suffering a near-fatal gunshot to the head delivered by a Taliban ...Arabic for students... terrorist who was upset with her exposing political issues in her home country of Pakistain when she was 14.
"There are so many things in the world; a lot of them are really depressing," Yousafzai told Teen Vogue, adding that she deals with downers by discussing them with friends and her parents. "What we need to do is remain positive because our sadness can’t change the world."
And changing the world is what the social-media firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... is all about. Most prominently, Yousafzai relentlessly campaigns for girls to be properly educated. Besides ranking as a pure and simple human right, she pointed out to Teen Vogue schooling for females makes financial sense as well.
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She's not fooling anybody. The taliban may've shot her but the proper reaction of such a victim would have been to denounce islam. It has been argued that she remains muslim to influence an reform her society from within, and greatly helps the cause of women. But all her talk of the 'right islam' and 'extremist islam' has only helped lawfarers and infiltrators in western society. Her best friends are still hard core muslims and activists and she's been known to speak for paleos and rohingyas. Also see this :
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Her father was a student activist and now works for the groups seeking to bring moderate thinking to Pakistain. A voice of reason really. A lot of the revolutionary zeal required to shrug off the current system can be found in marxist ideas, so the Pakhtun Students' Union and others may use that. Also, he may lean left only because from the Pakistan State's perspective, it is itself a right-wing state. One man's left is another man's right and all that.
She may not be a villain, but whatever force seeks to establish islam as a religion of peace in the public eye, equating its ethic with feminism and modernity, is unwittingly dangerous.
She represents the insane feminist that says 'It's my right to wear a hijab and submit to sharia !'
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Algeria’s constitutional council Monday released final presidential election results, confirming victory for Abdelmadjid Tebboune, albeit on a low turnout.
Tebboune, once a prime minister under Abdelaziz Bouteflika ...10th president-for-life of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and served on his third or four terms. When he announced for the fifth, or maybe it was the sixth, visibly doddering, a grateful nation rose up in its wrath and threw him out... -- who resigned under huge pressure from protests in April -- officially won 58.13 percent in Thursday’s election.
The figure was little changed from the 58.15 percent in the provisional results, which had already negated any need for a second round.
His nearest challenger, Abdelkader Bengrina, won 17.4 percent of the vote.
The turnout was 39.88 percent, according to the constitutional council, the lowest since the advent of pluralism.
Huge demonstrations have continued since Bouteflika stepped down, with protesters staunchly oppposing the poll, which they saw as a ploy by the establishment to shore up its waning power.
All five candidates approved by authorities to run had links to the former president, including another of his former prime ministers, Ali Benflis.
Maghreb expert and historian Karima Direche told AFP at the weekend she believed turnout may have been less than 20 percent.
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The United States imposes sanctions on two South Sudanese officials it accused of fomenting conflict, in its latest move to pressure the country's politicians to form a unity government.https://t.co/NoWgesEAHP
Minister of Cabinet Affairs Martin Elia Lomuro and Minister of Defense and Veteran Affairs Kuol Manyang Juuk were blacklisted for their role in perpetuating the conflict by obstructing the peace process, Treasury said in a statement.
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Boris Johnson to pass anti-BDS law - “#BDS is antisemitic and should be treated as such," Lord @EricPickles said, explaining that the new law will not allow public bodies to work with those who boycott, divest from or sanction Israel in any way.” https://t.co/izggnesvKK
[KhaamaPress] A soldier of the Australian Special Operations Forces has reportedly died three years after raising Afghanistan war crime allegations, it has been reported.
The 45-year-old soldier, Sergeant Kevin Frost went public in 2016, admitting his involvement in an alleged war crime in Afghanistan.
"The particular incident that I was involved in resulted in the POW that I had captured actually being executed, murdered," he told ABC during a television interview.
Sergeant Frost further added "I can’t remember if he cut the cuffs off first or if he cut the cuffs off after he shot him. That’s the one point I can’t remember there, cause I wasn’t looking.
"I didn’t want to look. I turned around and the guy was dead. He’d been shot through the forehead," he added.
The family of Sergeant Frost confirmed over the weekend that he tragically passed away after going missing near his Busselton home last week.
The friends of Sergeant Frost described him as ’fearless, proud and witty man’ while paying tribute to him, according to The NEWDAILY.
The death of Sergeant Frost comes as Prime Minister Scott Morrison says his government will consider calling a royal commission next year into veterans’ suicides.
[Jpost] Finland will try to repatriate children of Finnish mothers who travelled to Syria to join Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... "as soon as possible", Prime Minister Sanna Marin said on Monday.
Finland is one of a number of Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union member states facing a decision over whether to bring home citizens with IS links who are trapped at the al-Hol camp displacement camp controlled by Kurds in northeastern Syria.
More than 30 children born to 11 Finnish women are at al-Hol, according to Finnish media, and the fate of the mothers has caused divisions in Finland's five-party coalition government that took office last week.
The Centre Party, a coalition ally of Marin's Social Democrats, opposes letting the wives of IS fighters back into Finland but supports repatriating their children.
The Centre Party is worried by the rise in the polls of the opposition nationalist Finns Party, which says repatriating Islamic State detainees could endanger Finland's security.
Marin said that, in an attempt to resolve the dispute in the coalition, the government had decided each case should be judged on its own merits.
"The aim of the authorities' actions is to protect the interests of the child in all circumstances," Marin said, leaving the door open for the repatriation of some of the mothers with their children.
"There is no obligation to assist adults who went to the region of their own accord," she said.
Repatriating children without their mothers is unlikely to happen as Syrian Kurdish forces, who control the territory that includes al-Hol, oppose separating children from their mothers.
Marin's government faces questioning on the issue in parliament on Tuesday.
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Re-integration through an appropriate Sami Lapp tribe (really) up north, one could hope.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... is firing back against the U.S. congress for their recent bill that recognized the 1915 Genocide of Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman authorities.
According to The Independent, Erdogan threatened to recognize the mass killing of Native Americans by Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an settlers as genocide in a tit-for-tat move against the U.S. congress resolution.
Speaking on the pro-government A Haber news channel, he said: "We should oppose [the US] by reciprocating such decisions in parliament. And that is what we will do.
"Can we speak about America without mentioning [Native Americans]? It is a shameful moment in US history."
Erdogan, who has not backed down to U.S. threats of sanctions, has vowed to not remain silent over this recent move by Capitol Hill.
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I suppose you can't be a ruler of Muslims without acquiring megalomania.
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ummmm... somebody should tell him that 98% of Americans have no idea who he is nor care about native Americans, past or present. (...benefits of our educational system and media???)
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Gee Tippy, you seem to have missed this is preached openly in every college and university in America. Do your universities and colleges do the same on the Armenian genocide? /rhet question
[BBC] General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's former military leader, has been sentenced to death at a special court hearing in Islamabad.
The three-member court sentenced him over a high treason charge that has been pending since 2013.
Gen Musharraf seized power in a military coup in 1999 and served as the country's president from 2001 to 2008.
He is currently in Dubai after being allowed to leave the country for medical treatment in 2016. Time to cash in that return flight ticket, if he's smart
The charge relates to Gen Musharraf's suspension of the constitution in 2007, when he imposed emergency rule in a move intended to extend his tenure.
The 76-year-old issued a video statement from a hospital bed earlier this month, describing the case against him as "baseless".
Gen Musharraf is the first military ruler to ever stand trial in Pakistan for overruling the constitution.
The verdict was announced Tuesday with a 2-1 majority.
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I hope the Paki's initiate a stay. There may be others involved.
[DAWN] Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa on Monday said that the tragedy of Dhaka's fall provides the lesson that the state should take care of its citizens' rights.
Addressing a ceremony in Islamabad, the outgoing chief justice noted that December 16 reminds the nation of two tragedies ‐ the 1971 secession of then East Pakistain and the 2014 Army Public School attack. "There are some lessons for us in both the tragedies," he remarked.
The chief justice said that the freedom movement of Pakistain had taken roots in West Bengal but later the territory separated itself from the rest of the country because the state failed to take care of the people.
"The fall of Dhaka reflected that the social contract between the state and its citizens was weak."
A state is comprised of the government and the people, and is responsible for ensuring the basic rights of the citizens, the top judge said.
"A lack of provision of basic rights jeopardises the integrity of a state," Justice Khosa emphasised, adding: "The supremacy of the Constitution and the law guarantees the basic rights of citizens."
He noted that governance should be in accordance with the Constitution and the state should ensure that the results of the governance are being delivered to the masses.
Stressing the role of police in the protection of citizens and establishing peace in society, the chief justice said that an impression unfortunately prevailed that police, instead of protecting, violate citizens' rights. "Police are not masters; their duty is to serve the masses," he added, expressing the hope that police reforms will continue.
Talking about the APS tragedy, Justice Khosa said that the National Action Plan (NAP) was devised in the aftermath of the carnage and the entire nation had adopted the plan.
"We can perform the best and achieve best results if we get united on the same agenda," he observed.
The chief justice said that reforms in the criminal justice system were a part of the plan and the judiciary took several measures in this regard.
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[Rudaw] The United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Mine Action Service (UNMAS) said Monday that the Netherlands has contributed an additional $3.5 million to clear mines laid by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) since 2014, particularly in the Shingal district on the Iraqi-Syrian border.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] In the wake of a series of attacks on US military bases in Iraq that prompted Washington to blame Iran, Baghdad has warned against "an escalation."
On Friday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed in a statement that Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... was providing "lethal aid and support to third parties in Iraq and throughout the region."
The White House, however, has offered no evidence to support its charge against Tehran.
According to a statement from the office of Iraq’s prime minister, US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper on Monday "expressed his concern" over the strikes in a telephone call with outgoing Prime Minister Adel Abdel-Mahdi.
In response, the Iraqi premier "called on everyone to spare no effort to prevent an escalation that will threaten all parties," the statement added.
"Unilateral decisions will trigger negative reactions that will make it more difficult to control the situation and will threaten Iraq’s security, illusory sovereignty and independence," Abdel-Mahdi said.
"If the Iraqi government or state weakens, this will exacerbate escalation and chaos," Abdel Mahdi told Esper.
Two Katyusha rockets targeted a compound near the Baghdad International Airport, which houses US troops, on Thursday. It was the 10th such assault since late October.
Another attack on December 9 on the same base maimed five members of Iraqi counterterrorism forces.
The United States has recently reinforced its security at the embassy in Baghdad, according to an Iraqi security source, who said "a convoy of 15 American vehicles each transporting armored trucks and weapons entered the Green Zone."
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So they attack you, and then warn against "escalation" - sounds familiar.
[Jpost] Israel is ready to stop a potential Hezbollah invasion, including from tunnels that the IDF has not yet destroyed, an IDF commander for fighting Hezbollah's underground warfare in the north said.
Israel is ready to stop a potential Hezbollah invasion, including from tunnels that the IDF has yet to destroy, the head of the IDF's Underground Warfare Department in the North revealed on Monday.
"If there is any [Hezbollah] tunnel near the border, we will know about them," said Lt. Col. Aviv Amir, an Engineering Corps officer who oversees IDF efforts to to detect and destroy tunnels, whether from Leb or the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip.
In late 2018, the IDF destroyed six Hezbollah cross-border tunnels and proclaimed the tunnel threat from Hezbollah vanquished.
In his presentation on Monday, Amir said that in 2018 the IDF also meant to demolish a Hezbollah tunnel near the Israeli town of Misgav Am.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... when the IDF counter-tunnel units found that the tunnel came up to Israel’s border, but did not cross it, the military decided to leave it alone.
Hezbollah is believed to have additional tunnels similar to the one discovered last year near Misgav Am that end close to the Israeli border but do not cross it.
Amir said that Israel has "no plan to get into the Lebanese side," absent Hezbollah starting a new conflict.
At the same time, he said that the IDF knows about tunnels it did not destroy which still exist on the Lebanese side and maintains constant readiness to address any potential Hezbollah invasion.
[Jpost] The donation brings this year's total up to $40 million, to be spent on education and health services. After the Hamasniks dip their beaks
The Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... Fund For Development (QFFD) and the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Relief and Works Agency for Paleostine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) have signed an agreement which will see Qatar contribute $20.7 million toward providing basic services to Paleostinians in Syria.
The amount brings the total contributed by the Qatar Fund up to $40m. this year, representing a 20% drop on last year’s total figure of $50m. The figure made Qatar one of the top ten donors last year, providing materials for 711 UNRWA schools, and reaching 530,000 students.
The agreement was signed by QFFD director-general Khalifa bin Jassim al-Kuwari, and acting UNRWA commissioner-general Christian Saunders.
"The State of Qatar and the Qatar Fund for Development are demonstrating once again their commitment to supporting Paleostine refugees," said Saunders. "This generous donation to the UNRWA operations and activities in Syria comes at a time of intense financial challenge for the Agency. We are truly grateful for this additional funding and look forward to further expanding the cooperation between UNRWA, the QFFD and the State of Qatar in 2020 and beyond."
This year’s funds will once again go toward education for Paleostinians, in particular vocational and technical education and training. It will also fund basic health services for 445,000 Paleostinians in Syria.
Kuwari, said, "This agreement is an affirmation of the steadfast and firm position of the State of Qatar regarding the Paleostinian issue and the State of Qatar’s special interest in the education and health sector, believing in their importance and their role in building a decent life for brothers in Paleostine.
He added: "Furthermore, the leadership of the State of Qatar has exerted significant efforts in development and humanitarian aid sectors in order to serve the Paleostinian people in a sustainable manner. We support the pivotal role played by UNRWA and we are confident that UNRWA will use these resources in the optimally."
[ALMASDARNEWS] Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... may acquire the Russian Su-57 stealth fighter jet in the future to bolster their air force’s capabilities and increase their military’s overall strength, a new report from Bulgarian Military News read on Monday.
"Acquiring small numbers of elite fighters, possibly coupled with retiring of multiple older squadrons, could provide the most cost effective means for Iran to modernise its aerial warfare capabilities. Such an approach would be far from unprecedented. Russia and Vietnam both cut the size of their fighter fleets in the Cold War’s aftermath due to budgetary constraints, but invested in small numbers of elite air superiority fighters to provide a qualitative deterrent rather than a quantitative one," the publication said.
The website said the Su-57 could be a possibility at this juncture because Iran is facing heavy financial burdens due to the ongoing sanctions that have been imposed on the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
"Perhaps the only fighter on offer for export which is capable of providing the capabilities Iran will require is the Russian Su-57 next generation air superiority fighter, which entered serial production in July 2019 and is currently being marketed to clients worldwide," they continued.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... according to the publication, if they were to order a full strength squadron, this could set the Iranian government back at least $3 billion, not including the operational costs for maintaining these new warplanes.
In the past few months, several reports have surfaced about Iran’s flirtation with the S-400 system, which is comparable in costs with the Su-57.
"The cost would be similar to that of three S-400 regiments, but the contribution two dozen Su-57 fighters could make to Iran’s defences ‐ equipped with hypersonic air to air missiles and next generation avionics and electric warfare systems ‐ would arguably be greater," the website said.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Leb’s possible pursuit of assistance from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank is credit positive and reduces the risk of extreme macroeconomic instability, Moody’s said on Monday.
"Without technical and financial support from the IMF, World Bank and international donors, a scenario of extreme macroeconomic instability - in which a debt restructuring occurs with an abrupt destabilization of the currency peg, resulting in very large losses for private investors - is increasingly likely," the ratings agency said in a note.
Caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri ...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.... discussed on Thursday the possibility of technical assistance from the IMF and World Bank in drawing up a plan to rescue the economy from a worsening crisis.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She is esteemed as an ambassador of international good will, even though she can't go home lest some fellow in a turban shoots her in the head again...
...10th president-for-life of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and served on his third or four terms. When he announced for the fifth, or maybe it was the sixth, visibly doddering, a grateful nation rose up in its wrath and threw him out...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
I hope the Paki's initiate a stay. There may be others involved. 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too....
