The Kuwait-based International Islamic Charitable Organization (IICO) and Social Reform Society (SRS) have launched a campaign to provide Yemeni refugees in Somalia and Djibouti with their basic needs.
"They're going to stay in Somalia, right?"
In a press statement, IICO Director General Salem Hamada said that campaign would offer hundreds of Yemeni refugees and even poor Somalis relief aid at a total cost of USD 350,000.
Head of the joint relief delegation to Somalia and Djibouti Bader Burhamah said that the campaign is carried out in Djibouti in cooperation with several Kuwaiti philanthropist organizations namely: the IICO, SRS, Al-Najat Charitable Organization and Al-Bunian. But in Somalia, the campaign is conducted by the IICO and the SRS.
Burhamah added that the relief delegation would also attend the launching of a program for free Iftar (fast-breaking) meals
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[AlAhram] Gazoo's only gateway to the outside world not controlled by Israel, Rafah has been largely closed for two years with Cairo citing security concerns
Egyptian authorities closed late Friday Rafah Crossing after it was open in both directions for a week, the border crossing authority in Gazoo told AFP.
Paleostinian border official Maher Abu Sabha reported in a statement that, "3,819 citizens were able to travel from Gazoo through the crossing during the week and that 1,012 stranded passengers arrived in Gazoo."
Abu Sabha added there are "12,000 citizens registered on the lists of the interior ministry in Gazoo still waiting for their turn to travel," expressing hope that the crossing would "re-open in both directions permanently" to end the suffering of Gazoo citizens.
This was the first time that the crossing, which is the only way not controlled by Israel for Paleostinians to move in and out of Gazoo, has been opened for people travelling in both directions since March.
Gazoo, with a population of over 1.5 million, has been under Israeli blockade since 2007 following the victory of the Islamist Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in legislative elections in the occupied Paleostinian territories in 2006.
Egypt has kept Rafah Crossing closed to Paleostinians for most of the past two years, citing security concerns. Cairo has repeatedly accused Hamas, the de facto rulers of the Gazoo Strip, of involvement in terrorist activities in the Sinai Peninsula.
Hamas leaders have distanced themselves from Islamist hard boy attacks in Egypt, insisting that they have no armed presence outside Paleostinian areas.
In 2014, the Egyptian army also created a wide buffer zone along the border with Gazoo aimed at preventing infiltration by hard boys.
[AnNahar] Mali's Tuareg-led rebel alliance signed a landmark deal on Saturday to end years of unrest in a nation riven by ethnic divisions and in the grip of a jihadist insurgency.
Any bets on how long this will hold before the peace is broken, dear Reader?
The Algiers Accord aims to bring stability to the country's vast northern desert, cradle of several Tuareg uprisings since the 1960s and a sanctuary for Islamist fighters linked to al-Qaeda.
The document had already been signed in May by the government and loyalist militias but the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), a coalition of rebel groups, had been holding out until amendments were agreed two weeks ago.
Well then. Shipman, the house accepts your fiver, and will use it to buy you a drink (Clamato and tomato juice, yes?) when we finally get to your part of the world.
Sanaa - Yemen’s exiled government and Houthi rebels who control the capital failed to agree on even a temporary ceasefire on Friday as they wrapped up UN-brokered talks aimed at ending a conflict that has killed over 1,000 civilians and displaced more than a million since March.
Wow. A UN-led negotiation failed. Has that ever happened before?
The collapse of the talks came as Saudi-led airstrikes continued to pound the Iran-backed rebels and their allies, killing at least 10 civilians in a northern rebel stronghold, witnesses said. The UN meanwhile called for $1.6 billion to help millions of Yemenis avoid a “looming humanitarian catastrophe.”
UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, who mediated the talks in Geneva, told reporters that the two sides broadly favour a ceasefire that would have rebels withdraw from cities and towns seized in recent months and the coalition halt its air campaign against them.
“We didn’t reach a final agreement. We have to be clear and transparent,” he said, adding that a deal “will require further consultation.”
“I come out with a certain degree of optimism,” he added. “It’s a matter of time.”
The exiled government had demanded the implementation of a UN Security Council resolution requiring the rebels to withdraw from cities and towns, including the capital.
The Houthis had called for a temporary ceasefire, but the government rejected it, saying the rebels had used a previous humanitarian pause to grab more land.
It's a traditional negotiating tactic in that part of the world...
Mediators had hoped to broker at least a temporary ceasefire for Ramadan, which began on Thursday.
Ould Cheikh Ahmed said the Houthis had signaled their willingness to implement the UN resolution in a proposal presented to him on Thursday, without elaborating on its contents. Another proposal called for deploying civilian observers to verify a ceasefire, he said.
“There is no doubt that there is ground for reaching a ceasefire accompanied by withdrawal. What is important is that we all remember that there is a miserable humanitarian situation in Yemen,” he said.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said there has been no date set for a second round of talks but that “discussions can still happen without people meeting in Geneva.”
“We’re taking this day-by-day, step-by-step,” Dujarric told reporters at UN headquarters in New York. He said Ould Cheikh Ahmed would return to New York to brief the Security Council before likely embarking on another trip to the region for further consultations.
Yemen’s Foreign Minister Riad Yassin had earlier told the Al Jazeera network that international partners are “frustrated,” and said the Houthis would bear the blame if the talks failed.
UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Stephen O’Brien meanwhile warned of a “looming humanitarian catastrophe,” with at least 11.7 million people affected by the conflict. He requested $1.6 billion dollars in emergency aid.
“People across the country are struggling to feed their families. Basic services are collapsing in all regions. Millions of families no longer have access to clean water, proper sanitation or basic healthcare. Deadly diseases such as dengue and malaria have broken out, and supplies for acute trauma care are running dangerously low,” he said in Geneva.
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A couple weeks old but worth the read. Wait until North Korea gets MDR and XDR tuberculosis...
Malnutrition is a major cause of disease and ill health in North Korea. Tuberculosis, among others, is a widespread disease. In comparison to other groups inside North Korea, tuberculosis is regarded as especially prevalent in the military. Sources inside North Korea informed New Focus that, “The number of North Korean soldiers who die as a result of tuberculosis has increased. When malnutrition is more severe, cases of tuberculosis become frequent.
“Tuberculosis can spread rapidly as it is a contagious disease. Even the strongest soldiers, once infected, can die from severe internal bleeding. Women are more susceptible to dying from the disease than men,” they report.
Chae Young-Hee, who served in the headquarters of the Pyongyang anti-aircraft artillery of the Korean People’s Army, and who escaped from North Korea in October 2014, says, “For people serving in the military, the most fortunate thing to happen to you is to avoid getting ill. If you get sick, treatment is almost impossible. You don’t even have cold medicines when you’re in the military.
“T he medicine that is rationed to the army is embezzled by medical officers, and the only medicine that is left are ones that are so old that they are covered in mold. In North Korea, the most common disease among soldiers is known as tuberculosis. Society considers tuberculosis medicine to be extremely valuable, and the price of tuberculosis medicine in North Korea is high.
“Those in North Korea who get tuberculosis prepare for death, rather than prepare for treatment. From mid-2007, the Korean People’s Army enlarged the scope of quarantine measures in order to prevent the spread of tuberculosis among soldiers.”
This is one indicator that cases of tuberculosis among the military has been increasing. Regardless of one’s ranking or military post, those infected with tuberculosis will be relocated to a special ward in a military hospital. The patients are placed in isolation, and contact with outsiders is strictly forbidden.
Besides such measures, however, no other treatment is provided, nor available. With the increasing number of tuberculosis patients, there is a lack of hospital beds to accommodate all of them. To solve this problem, the North Korean government discharges tuberculosis patients closest to death and sends them home, which they assert is the best option.
Patients who are able to return home are considered lucky. Many soldiers die before the situation can be controlled in even such a manner. Among the soldiers who succumb to death quickly, many are female. Tuberculosis causes their skin to become whiter, as the disease gradually worsens. And a brighter skin tone is considered to be a sign of beauty in North Korea, even though tuberculosis eventually causes death.
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Good Lord, in the army? Doc, can this be right?
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Who moves in to the empty territory when the population drops by 75%?
It certainly won't be the South Koreans. According to the CIA World Factbook, they have a total fertility rate of 1.25 (well below replacement), mother's mean age at first birth of 30.3, and the median population age is 40.2. The Chinese, perhaps?
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I agree wid #3 - it'll be the Chinese in such a scenario.
Chinese security forces are already there to help protect the Kim Regime, + China-NOKOR SEZS-EEZS, + TB or no TB, China is unlikely to accept or allow any de facto formal NOKOR-SOKOR reunification or post-NOKOR/Kim Collapse International Govt. until China de facto GETS BACK TAIWAN.
NO RETURN OF TAIWAN TO BEJING = US-ALLIES + SOKOR + UNO GET NUTHIN', PERIOD.
[AlAhram] A recent report urged the US president to change US strategy in the Middle East in order to stay abreast with rapid and dramatic changes in the region.
The report was written by a team that included former officials who served in both Republican and Democrat administrations, such as former National Security Adviser Samuel Berger (under Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is... ); Steven Hadley (under George Bush), former US ambassador to Baghdad and Ankara James Jeffrey; Dennis Ross, former US negotiator in the Arab-Israeli conflict; and Bob Satloff, the director of the Washington Institute for Near East Studies which issued the report and is known for its close ties with the Jewish lobby in the US.
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[IsraelTimes] Annual report, released as nuclear deal deadline looms, highlights Revolutionary Guards as primary terror mechanism; hails Abbas for reducing incitement
Less than two weeks before the deadline for a comprehensive nuclear agreement with Iran, the US State Department's annual report on terror activity noted that Iran's "state sponsorship of terrorism worldwide remained undiminished."
The lengthy report, released Friday morning, also discussed Paleostinian terrorism and attacks launched by Jewish Israelis against Paleostinians and Christian and Moslem houses of worship.
[AnNahar] Islamic jihadists fuelled a major spike in terror attacks last year, with the global corpse count soaring 81 percent in more than 1,100 assaults a month, the United States said Friday.
There were 13,463 attacks in 95 countries in 2014 -- up by a third from 9,700 the year before -- with Iraq, Pakistain and Afghanistan bearing the brunt of murderous Moslem violence, the State Department said in a report.
[DAWN] LANDI KOTAL: Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif has said that all turbans and their controllers, abettors and financiers will soon be apprehended and brought to justice.
During a visit to the front positions of security forces in Tirah valley on Friday, he said terrorists' strongholds in the agency had been reduced and now the fight was in progress in the remaining few pockets, close to the Pakistain-Afghan border. The noose, he added, had been tightened around turbans and they would not be allowed to regroup.
The army chief said the area where the operation was being carried out was heavily infested with IEDs, mostly of foreign make. After the North Wazoo Agency, turbans in Khyber Agency are also using the most rugged terrain as their strongholds.
Gen Raheel Sharif spent the entire day with troops and met tribal elders before visiting Jawaro, an area near the Afghan border, to review the progress of operation in its concluding phase.
He praised the troops for their professional commitment and sacrifices rendered to restore peace and normality in the troubled Khyber Agency.
On his arrival in the agency, the army chief was received by Corps Commander 11 Corps Lt Gen Hidayatur Rehman. He also visited a de-radicalisation centre in Bara, where rustics who surrendered during the Operation Khyber are getting education and vocational training.
The army chief praised tribal people for their support to the campaign to cleanse the agency of turbans and for their resolve not to allow turbans to return to the area. He paid rich tributes to troops and tribal people who sacrificed their lives and those who were maimed.
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[DAWN] Five suspected gangwar criminals were killed in two separate pre-dawn shootouts in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... Town on Saturday, Sindh Rangers claimed in a blurb issued today.
According to the blurb, the Rangers in collaboration with police conducted a targeted operation in Lyari Town's Chakiwara area against criminals associated with the gangwar in the locality.
When law enforcement personnel reached near the suspected criminals' hideout, they started indiscriminate firing and tried to escape. During the encounter, three of them were killed and few others managed to escape under the cover of darkness.
Those killed have been identified as Majid alias Rickshaw Wala, Abdul Samad alias Mulla and Imam Bux alias Khairo. The three were reportedly associated with the Uzair Baloch group of Lyari gangwar, the Rangers said in the blurb.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results... another encounter took place during a separate joint operation in Lyari's Behar Colony area. Two suspected criminals Arslan alias Mulla and Junaid alias Kaka were killed during the encounter.
Both were reportedly associated with the Baba Ladla group, a rival gang of the Uzair Baloch group.
All five killed were reportedly involved in heinous crimes including, murders, kidnapping for ransom, robberies and extortion.
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[Rudaw] It was a heart-racing moment. The cigarette smuggler was stuck in line at a checkpoint as, up ahead, 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.... bully boyz were searching cars. He was running a big risk: The bully boyz have banned smoking and lighting up is punishable with a fine or broken finger. Selling cigarettes can be a death sentence.
Falah Abdullah Jamil, 30, relied on his quick wits and silver tongue.
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A man could make a fortune with hand rolled dominican's in such an environment.
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Funny the the Nazis, NannyMayor Bloomberg of NYC, and ISIS all have the same stand on cigarettes, and the latter two are having problems with smugglers.
[RUDAW.NET] Parading across a desert base, hundreds of Sunni rustics who graduated a crash training course stood ready to take on 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.... group on behalf of a government that many believed left them to die at the hands of the murderous Moslems.
Among them were rustics who watched as Iraqi forces abandoned Ramadi a month ago to the Islamic State group. Their suspicions toward the Shiite-led government in Baghdad could be seen as they pushed forward to receive their first government salary in 18 months, with one brandishing a Kalashnikov assault rifle as he neared the front.
"For a year and a half we told them we need weapons, we need salaries, we need food, we need protection, but our requests were ignored until the disaster of Ramadi happened," said Sheikh Rafa al-Fahdawi, one of the leaders of the Al Bu Fahad tribe of Anbar province.
But money and weapons alone won't be enough to repair the mistrust between Baghdad and the Sunni tribes it now needs to battle the Islamic State group, which holds about a third of the country and neighboring Syria in its self-declared "caliphate." After Iraqi forces abandoned Ramadi and then turned to Shiite militias for help, both sides remain suspicious of each other, threatening any effort to work together.
Iraq's Sunnis long have complained of discrimination and abuse since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein's Sunni-led dictatorship and replaced it with a government dominated by the country's Shiite majority. But the collapse of Iraqi forces in Ramadi on May 17 crystalized the fears many Sunni rustics had when their pleas for help went unanswered.
That night, silence fell over Ramadi after weeks of Islamic State-launched suicide car kabooms and shootouts, said Sunni rustics who spoke to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. The Iraqi forces there, including its vaunted special forces units, slipped out of the city, leaving Sunni rustics armed only with light weapons and their personal vehicles to battle the murderous Moslems, they said. The city quickly fell, forcing the rustics to flee.
"We felt there was no hope when the military left," said Omar al-Fahdawi, a member of the Al Bu Fahad tribe from Ramadi. "For a year and a half we have been begging for government support, for weapons, for help. But we were forgotten."
A senior Iraqi intelligence official and operations commander in Anbar province confirmed that counterterrorism forces were the first to pull out of Ramadi, abandoning 89 Humvees and armored cars, as well as rifles and mortars. The official said that the counterterrorism units were ambushed by some 200 Death Eater fighters, breaking their line of defense and forcing them to withdraw, leaving the army and tribal fighters outnumbered and outgunned. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he wasn't authorized to brief journalists. Iraq's Defense Ministry refused to comment.
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Israel Air Force chief Major-General Amir Eshel warned Hezbollah and Hamas in a recent interview with German newspaper Die Zeit that if the situation required, Israel would not hesitate to attack its military command centers situated in civilian buildings in Gaza or Lebanon.
"The strategy of these two organizations [Hezbollah and Hamas] is to wage war on Israel as a way to question our legitimacy," Eshel said, continuing, "so years ago they began to transfer military infrastructure to residential areas thereby turning the population into a human shield." Time to introduce some ethics into the Arab-Israeli conflict.
[Ynet] The United Arab Emirates is paying tens of millions of dollars to support Paleostinian war victims in Gazoo, but the aid is also giving a boost to an exiled Fatah leader of the impoverished enclave.
Mohammed Dahlan headed the Paleostinian security services in Gazoo before it was overrun by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,snuffies in 2007. He moved to the West Bank where he got into a bitter power struggle with Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... before fleeing to Abu Dhabi. There, he has been pushing for funds from the United Arab Emirates, which has been reticent to aid an area ruled by Hamas, which grew out of the Moslem Brüderbund movement, which the Emirati government opposes. The latest grant of $12 million credited to Dahlan was dispersed Wednesday.
[RUDAW.NET] Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman told Rudaw in a New York interview he believes ISIS' behavior contradicts Islamic codes, and that the group is tarnishing Islam's world image.
Speaking exclusively to Rudaw correspondent Majeed Gly at the UN Headquarters following a Security Council meeting Thursday, Aman called on Moslem countries "to come together and find a way to solve this problem" to stop ISIS.
"We have to correct--not even this perception--but we have to correct the image that has been portrayed by ISIS," he said, condemning the murder and brutal acts of the radical group.
Although the Malaysian government has condemned ISIS, Malaysian nationals are known to have joined the jihadi group in Iraq and Syria. The International Business Times reported in April that 70 Malaysian military personnel had defected to the group's so-called caliphate.
Aman's full comments can be found in the above video.
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Not sure ISIS destroyed Islam's image, but they sure have damaged it worse that it already was. Refreshing to hear a Muslim leader saying it though.
[Ynet] Dozens of Syrian opposition fighters have refused to join the US military training program against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, according to a report in Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat. The refusal was reportedly the result of the US demand that the fighters agree not to attack Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... 's army.
[National Interest] However, it goes much deeper than that--namely, while Iran's military is greatly inferior to the U.S. armed forces, the U.S. military would not be able to conquer Iran swiftly and cheaply like it did in Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, Tehran would be able to impose prohibitive costs against the U.S. military, even before the difficult occupation began.
Iran's ability to defend itself against a U.S. invasion begins with its formidable geography. As Stratfor, a private intelligence firm, has explained, "Iran is a fortress. Surrounded on three sides by mountains and on the fourth by the ocean, with a wasteland at its center, Iran is extremely difficult to conquer."
While the "stopping power of water" has always made land invasions far more preferable for the invading party, the age of precision-guided munitions has made amphibious invasions particularly challenging. As such, the United States would strongly prefer to invade Iran through one of its land borders, just as it did when it invading Iraq in 2003.
Unfortunately, there are few options in this regard. On first glance, commencing an invasion from western Afghanistan would seem the most plausible route, given that the U.S. military already has troops stationed in that country. Alas, that would not be much of an option at all.
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Someone alert Barksdale to these problems and copy the memo To Malstrom.
#6
Linear thinking misses the obvious concurrent undercurrent of revolution that a land invasion taking place methodically against the oppressive government would create. Teheran would be a hotbed of Warsaw-like uprising in a week. The suppression by the clerictocracy would spread dissent like the plague. Think how many Shia states would help, and keeping the Sunni states out would be simple by showing them the end of their nemesis.
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My suggestion is to have the men ware burkas as they seem to like to ware women's clothing anyway. Like here they have a politically corrupted power elite. Remove the ayatollahs and they will fall apart. I still say they are far more occult oriented than religious, like the Nazi leadership.
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IRAN = PHILIPPINES, VIETNAM = IN A WORSE-CASE SCENARIO, ALLOW THE US [China + PLA] TO INVADE THEIR COUNTRIES DIRECTLY + THEN WAGE "PEOPLE'S WAR/GUERILLA WAR" AGZ SAME???
The above being said, Iran is now the Bammer + aligned OWG Globalists' BFF or Best Frenemy Forever agz AQ Affiliates + the ISIS - in the Globie view or agenda, THERE IS NO NEED FOR WAR between the US + Iran.
Thus far, Iran on its part has been making "all the right moves" to deter US Milaction(s) agz it + its NucProgs. IN THE CONTRARY, THE BAMMER = USA WANTS + NEEDS IRAN TO HELP FIGHT AQ + THE ISIS/ISIL IN THE ME, IN LIEU OF US TROOPS = MIL ACTION.
* FUBAR/SNAFU > IRAN ASIDE, ANTI-US US GLOBALIST POTUS OBAMA + ALIGNED HAVE NOT YET ANSWERED THE QUESTION ON JUST HOW MANY ARAB-MUSLIM NATIONS ARE DESIRED ANDOR ACCEPTED TO GO NUCLEAR VEE ISRAEL OR EVEN IRAN???
SUNNI-VS-SHIA RIVALRY, NATIONAL + GEOPOL INEQUITY INCLUDING NUCLEAR INEQUITY may be what finally drags Anti-US OWG Globalist Amerika into a war agz its OWG Globalist Co-Superpower sibling Iran in defense of its traditional ME Sunni allies agz Iran.
Rising Iran = Rising China = similarly needs to get the US or US-Allies out of USN Fifth Fleet HQ Bahrain + also Qatar to achieve its Anti-US "Manifest Destiny" as a OWG Co-Superpower.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > HOW CHINA CAN BECOME A TWO-OCEAN POWER [THANKS TO PAKISTAN)!?
AFPAK + CPEC "to the Sea".
* JAPAN TIMES > OPINION: NOEL FELDMAN: CHINA THE REASON WHY THE US NEEDS THE TPP.
In this Age of US-vs-China [Iran?] "COOL WAR", NOT "COLD WAR" OR "NEW COLD WAR"???
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Again, IRAN = CHINA = RUSSIA, Other? = GREATEST SINGLE ADVANTAGE OR "ACE" AGZ THE US IS HAVING A DEDICATED ANTI-AMERICAN AMERIKAN = US-N-ONLY-US [strategic = self/unilateral/asymmetric]
"RETREAT/PULLBACK IS OWG + WORLD PEACE" ANTI-US US GLOBALIST IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
Again II, POTUS Obama = #1 on the National Command Authority heiarchy - as such the Bammer is the Man + US National-POlitical Leader MOST RESPONSIBLE FOR ORDERING ANY + ALL US MILITARY RESPONSES TO ANY CRISIS OR CONTINGENCY AROUND THE WORLD, OR IN THE ALTERNATE THE LACK OF SAME TO SAME.
[OBAMA'S MSM-NET, PERT-VERIFIED "MINIMALIST" APPROACH TO US FOREIGN POLICY here].
"NONE DARE TO CALL IT TREASON", CORRECT?
DON'T FEAR GLOBALIST POTUS OBAMA - FEAR MORE HIS GLOBALIST POTUS SUCCESSOR!
[Ynet] The young people trying to cross over to Syria and Iraq from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... don't need Amazon in order to read Dabiq. Its latest issue offers them free health services at an international level, higher education programs, a great salary and an 'excellent' life at the prophet's expense.
Online sales giant Amazon experienced an embarrassing mishap: Users were invited to purchase the glossy copies of the Dabiq magazine.
It's safe to assume that Amazon's managers had no idea what black hole they were getting themselves into when they put Dabiq on sale for $12 a copy in its English, German, French and Spanish versions. Over the weekend, following a series of complaints, Amazon removed the problematic item without any explanation.
Dabiq is a town in northern Syria. The tradition adopted by the Islamic terror organizations insists that this is where the apocalypse will take place and that this will be the last stop before the caliphate. This is where the name of the magazine published 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.... comes from. Nine issues have been published so far, each dedicated to a an issue aimed at serving the murderers in the name of Islam.
Here are a few facts: Although it is translated into five languages, this magazine is not directed at the Western reader. Its editors did not sit down in front of their computers in order to improve their image. Dabiq is for propaganda "among the hesitant" and for recruiting purposes in the Persian Gulf, in North Africa and in the Moslem exile communities in the United States and Europe.
The production and writing team are located far from the ISIS fighting zones. They sit comfortably in front of the computer screens, know how to communicate without exposing themselves, order articles, receive reports from the ground, and publish pictures in expensive professional printing, because there are no budget restrictions.
In the two latest issues, thousands of words were dedicated to the case of women who have been taken captive by ISIS and turned into the sex slaves of the "holy war fighters." Are these miserable women hookers, or could they have saved themselves had they converted to the strict Islam?
ISIS has intentionally chosen women writers. With the help of Koran verses, they are attempting to prove that the hundreds of women kidnapped from their homes received the "appropriate punishment" after their spouses refused to move to "the right Islam."
A woman is merely an object, we learn from Dabiq, and her job is to produce the next generation of fighters and preserve the values of the "right" family. If it turns out that her conduct is "wrong," she will be abandoned, and it will be recommended to sell her to slavery, turn her into a "sex toy," and maybe even get rid of her when her price in the market drops below the value of the Iraqi dinar.
And speaking of the dinar, US First Lady Michelle Obama has received a burning insult from the Dabiq editors, who will agree to pay only one third of a dinar for her in the best-case scenario, and "even that is too much."
And there is the article of John Cantlie, the British photographer who was kidnapped by ISIS, released and kidnapped again, and is being held as Dabiq's "correspondent on the ground." This is his temporary insurance policy. Unfortunately for him, the last issue no longer includes his article, which always ends with the words "despite being a prisoner, I've been shown respect and kindness, which I haven't seen from my own government."
Dabiq doesn't provide training on fighting methods or on beheading hostages. The shocking photos reveal elementary school children, who were invited to participate in a "punishment." They received guns and orders to shoot to death the heads of prisoners dressed in the orange uniform. The Dabiq editors didn't bother to remove the photos showing the frightened, shocked children. They will still learn, they explain.
And it appears to be working. Turkey has only now woken up to block young people landing in Istanbul from crossing over to Syria and Iraq. They don't need Amazon in order to read Dabiq. In the latest issue they are offered free health services at an international level, higher education programs, a great salary and an "excellent" life at the expense of "the prophet, who knows how to ward off the plots against him and who ordered the establishment of the Islamic caliphate's capital in Dabiq, ahead of taking over the heretics' world."
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"ISIS magazine preparing young Muslims for an apocalypse"
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Sanaa - Yemen’s exiled government and Houthi rebels who control the capital failed to agree on even a temporary ceasefire on Friday as they wrapped up UN-brokered talks aimed at ending a conflict that has killed over 1,000 civilians and displaced more than a million since March.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
