Four House Republicans are accusing a Muslim advocacy group of trying to plant spies.
Republican members of the Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus say the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), tried to plant "spies" within key national security committees to shape legislative policy in its favor.
Reps. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.), John Shadegg (R-Ariz.), Paul Broun (R-Ga.) and Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), citing the recently released book Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that's Conspiring to Islamize America, called for the House sergeant at arms to investigate whether CAIR had been successful in placing interns on key committees. The lawmakers are specifically focused on the House Homeland Security Committee, Intelligence Committee and Judiciary Committee.
"If an organization is connected to or supports terrorists [and] is running influence operations or planting spies in key national security-related offices I think this needs to be made known," Broun said. "So I join my colleagues here today in calling for action."
The book, which was written by P. David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry with a forward by Myrick, is scheduled to be released Thursday.
A representative of CAIR called the accusations unfounded and worried that they would tarnish the improving relations between Muslim and non-Muslim Americans.
"God forbid American Muslims take part in the political process and exercise their rights," said Ibrahim Hooper, a CAIR spokesman, in a telephone interview. "I suppose they're going to investigate the Muslim Staffers Association next. "If these people weren't so hate-filled, it would be laughable, but unfortunately they have an audience and given their positions, it's going to get picked up by the hate blogs." This is not a job for the sergeant at arms. This is a job for the FBI, the NSA, and especially the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive.
Internal CAIR documents uncovered in Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America show that despite its high cost and the continued success of Savage's show, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad believed the campaign was "worth every penny," because, he says, the radio star lost at least $1 million in advertising.
Authors P. David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry recount how CAIR ran out of money before it could crack Savage's most loyal sponsors. In their new book, Gaubatz, a counter-terrorism investigator and former federal agent with vast experience in the Middle East, and Sperry, a veteran reporter on the war on terror and author of "Infiltration," document CAIR's role as a U.S. front for the Muslim Brotherhood's plan to transform America into an Islamic nation under the authority of the Quran.
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"Improving relations"? Annual PEW polls reveal an increasing distrust for Muslims. Those people CANNOT treat a secular, pluralist state as anything but a usurpatious political entity that seizes sovereignty from the nominal islamic deity ("allah"). You can trust a muslim as far as you can spit against a hurricane.
Summary: The president sent troops in to take over the facility and dismissed its 40,000 workers. Workers are protesting the government decision. The president said said the company had been "losing one-third of the electricity it distributed because of theft, technical failures, corruption, or inefficiency." There was no other option but to liquidate the company, he said, "because time and resources were running out." The president is planning to pay $1.5 billion in severance to the employees -- nearly twice the amount required by law -- in order to encourage the workers to walk away without a fight. BTW, the firm has always been government-owned & operated, the president is Calderon, and the government is Mexico's.
The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy are at the centre of a health scare following an outbreak of scabies at the Elysée palace in Paris. Oh, noze! Not crotch crickets!
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scabies are not "crotch crickets". They are mites. The generally get you around the belt line ... sort of like chiggers. I got them once when I was a kid. I used to trap raccoons for hides in winter for some spending money. One had the hair all falling off of it and a few days later I thought I had poison ivy on my butt and around the belt line. But it didn't go away and the doctor said it was scabies. A bath with Kwell cleared it right up.
My guess is they have a dog who brought them in from contact with an animal outside.
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Lindane, makes em go away almost instantly.got em everyday visiting the orphans in Zamboanga but got over em every night with a healthy application of Lindane.
When James Andrews opened a hot-dog stand on this city's rough West Side, he thought he was doing a community service by hiring ex-convicts. But some in the neighborhood think the name he chose - Felony Franks - is a crime...
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Not to nit pic, but that is most decidedly NOT a Chicago style hot dog in the picture.
Is someone planning to eat that or have they already?
My money is that that is a Cincinatti monstrosity.
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In the old kingdom of Hawaii, the Hawaiian religion had become so "nanny state", yet so murderous, that the king had to create a special estate, so that if someone violated some small rule, and had a death penalty put against them, if they made it to the sanctuary alive, they would be given amnesty.
I mention this because there are an enormous number of felons in the US that "society doesn't want back", yet would like nothing better than to go straight.
So a State could create a "sanctuary city" way out in the sticks, designed to be as self sufficient as possible. The ex-cons would grow their own food, raise their own animals, all designed to minimize the cost of the city to the State.
It would be strictly "good behavior", and the worst non-criminal infractions would result in expulsion back to the regular world. Essentially it is a "sub-minimum security" prison for trustees who can't hack it in the real world, and cannot fit in there.
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Street hot-dog vendors have been caught on tape handling food after touching dirty body parts. They don't change the water in which they boil franks. As for relieving themselves, I recall a story of a witness claiming to have seen a food-preparer urinating in a bottle, rather than seeking out a rest-room. Cook your own food folks.
With the peak of the season -- late August to mid-October -- now behind, the Atlantic-Caribbean basin has seen just two hurricanes and a total of eight tropical storms.
El Nino, the Pacific warm-water phenomenon that can produce destructive weather in other parts of the world, played a big role in suppressing Atlantic cyclones this year, experts said.
If the full season, which runs from June through November, ended today, it would be the lowest number of storms since 1997. The last time an Atlantic season produced only two hurricanes was 1982.
After a 2008 season that produced Hurricane Ike, one of the most destructive in U.S. history, the cyclones of 2009 have had virtually no impact on the populous U.S. coasts, the vulnerable islands of the Caribbean or the Gulf of Mexico oil patch.
"There was for all intents and purposes no hurricane damage in the United States this year," Robert Hartwig, president of the Insurance Information Institute, told Reuters.
Although the peak has passed, the six-month season still has nearly seven weeks to run. It officially ends on November 30.
"It's not over," said meteorologist Jill Hasling, president of Houston's Weather Research Center, which monitors weather for the offshore oil industry.
"There's pretty warm water in the Gulf still," she said. "If we get enough cold fronts in here and cool the water off, we'll be clear for this season. But it hasn't happened yet."
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Just so that Al Goracle doesn't go near the Gulf coast then we won't have to worry about cold fronts getting close to the gulf waters.
Jes' pointin' out the obvious!
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Importantly, this years' El Nino is weak, and that is typically associated with a LOT of storms, snow and cold temps on the East Coast and Midwest. So already, home heating oil futures are jumping.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi has presented his son Seif al-Islam as a commanding head of state with powers second only to those of the long-ruling colonel, a report says.
What's it say about hereditary monarchies in Qadaffy's Green Book?
An online newspaper, Korina, reported on Tuesday that Qaddafi has named his son Seif al-Islam as second-in-command, with the authority to supervise the parliament and the government.
The long-time ruler, who recently celebrated 40 years in power, bestowed on his second son the authority equivalent to that of a head of state, designating him as the "general coordinator of social and popular committees," the report said.
Qaddafi had previously asked senior officials to find a position for his son to allow him to implement reforms, AFP reported citing a 'well-informed' source.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Two factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League exchanged at least 20 shots during a clash over giving shelter to a BCL activist at Haji Muhammad Mohsin Hall of Dhaka University early yesterday.
BCL activist Mohibullah was critically wounded in the incident and was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital with injuries to his head and hands.
Mohsin Hall sources said the shots were fired within 10 to 15 minutes after the clash ensued at 1:45am creating panic among resident students.
Such an incident had occurred on the university campus after quite a long time, they added.
"Stern actions will be taken against the students involved. None of them will be spared," he added.
DU Proctor Dr KM Saiful Islam told The Daily Star that they have taken the matter very seriously. "Stern actions will be taken against the students involved. None of them will be spared," he added.
Sources said the clash between followers of BCL Mohsin Hall unit President Mohammad Ali and its General Secretary Mohiuddin broke out after the latter's men beat up Mohibullah, a 2nd year student of sociology, loyal to the hall unit president.
Mohibullah, who had been involved with the activities of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, had been staying at room no-219 at the hall since Monday under shelter of Mohammad Ali, sources added.
The members of the two factions armed with sharp weapons got engaged in chase and counter chase in hall corridors for about half an hour.
Top BCL leaders of DU unit and the university authorities had to intervene to bring the situation under control.
Later, police raided the hall at around 2:30am and recovered four rounds of bullet and a few machetes.
BCL DU unit issued show cause notices to the Mohsin hall unit president and its general secretary. It also expelled five BCL activists -- Riyad, Amin, Faruk, Dipu and Rana -- for their involvement in the clash.
BCL has also formed a probe committee to identify the persons involved in the incident, said BCL DU unit President Sohel Rana Tipu.
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The first time I read that headline I thought it said "BCS factions." I mean, big college football is awfully competitive, and the rankings are sort of subjective, so it wouldn't surprise me, but still....
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this was posted today 10-14 - this is a continuing story - first the Muslim team said it wouldn't play, then they said they would, then they said they wouldn't again and then the clock ran out on the decision bouncing
- Amateur soccer club was banned from the French amateur league on Wednesday after refusing to play a match against a gay team.
Last week, Paris Foot Gay said its members were victims of homophobia when Creteil Bebel, a team of Muslim players, refused to play them this month.
The French amateur league said it excluded Creteil for "refusing the match on discriminatory grounds."
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"Now go a-way, or I will taunt you a second time-a!"
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I'm not exactly an History buff, nor a very well-educated fellow, but I thought this was already known, I remember it being mentioned back in my high scholl daze History lessons, as part of Benito's pre-politician career, along with being IIRC a journalo, a construction worker, a would-be teacher,...
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Soldier of the Great War is written by Mark Helprin. He is an amazing author. Another of his books, The Pacific and Other Stories, is a wonderful short story compilation. I give Helprin's work my highest reccomendation to all Rantburgers.
ALBANY, Ore. - At the Oaks Apartments in Albany, the management can fly their own flag advertising one and two bedroom apartments - but residents have been told they can't fly any flags at all.
Jim Clausen flies the American flag from the back of his motorcycle. He has a son in the military heading back to Iraq, and the flag - he said - is his way of showing support.
"This flag stands for all those people," said Clausen, an Oaks Apartment resident. "It stands for the people that can no longer stand - who died in wars. That's why I fly this flag."
But to Oaks Apartment management, Clausen said, the American flag symbolizes problems. He was told to remove the red, white and blue from both of his rides, or face eviction.
"It floored me," he said. "I can't believe she was saying what she was saying."
Even long-time residents like Sharron White, who has flown a flag on her car for eight years, has been told to take it down. White said management told her that "someone might get offended."
"I just said to her 'They'll just have to get over it,'" White said.
Atta girl, cousin!
Resident we talked to who had been approached to take down their flags all told us the same thing: that management told them the flags could be offensive because they live in a diverse community.
Attempts to find out for ourselves why management would ban flags were unsuccessful. KATU wanted to talk to management at Oaks Apartments, but no one has returned our calls. The woman we were told had made the decision said she was "not going to answer any questions."
The mother of one soldier fighting in Iraq put up a poster in her son's apartment window when she learned of the ban. Her son's roommate said he'll risk eviction to make sure it stays.
Another Oaks Apartment resident, Judith Sherer, doesn't have a car. Instead she carries an American flag around the complex to protest the ban, and wonders if the flag pin she wears is next to be "singled out."
"If I put it on and I walk outside, what's going to happen?" Sherer muses. "Am I going to be confronted by a manager about this?"
We're told the ban includes sports flags and even flag stickers on cars.
Amazing. I heard there was a cultural split in the Northwest Territories.
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Take them up on their eviction threat. Maybe NOT flying flags will offend more people than flying them will.
Whenever I hear that I know that the management is not really worried about someone possibly being offended. I mean, so they are willing to lose renters who ARE paying rent for fear they MIGHT lose one at some point in the future because they saw a flag on someone's private property?
Evict me for displaying an American flag on my personal property? I would challenge them on it and I would be handing out flag stickers to every single resident of the place.
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there is a cultural split in the northwest, tons of clueless, coddled, entitled liberals whose favorite pastimes are finding things to be offended by, esp. in western oregon and washington.
If I lived there I would fly a flag every day, and ask management to sue me. Then I'd call the ACLU and get them to defend me, since this is a civil liberties issue.
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First off, it's spectacularly hard to evict people even when they're late on their rent. This is pretty chickenshit grounds to kick somebody out. Wonder if their premises are septic or they're terminally late on rent or something like that and they're trying to kick up dust with a bogus flag-persecution claim?
Secondly, the article is talking about flags on cars. What goddamn business is it of a rental business what's flying on their renters' personal vehicles?
Thirdly, if chuckledicks would concentrate on flying American flags from their pickups instead of those goddamn CBFs, I'd be jake with the world.
Fourthly, if old Glory is pissing 'em off, find yourself a Gadsden.
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Then I'd call the ACLU and get them to defend me, since this is a civil liberties issue.
It is my understanding in Oregon that an owner of private property can apply those types of restrictions, said Jann Carson, the associate director of the ACLU of Oregon.
Hit the link to read about a case in Indiana where the ACLU had a different opinion.
If true this is despicable. Odds are the manager does not own the property and unless a relative of the owner will be looking for a new job soon. Even if the owner originally instigated this you have a really bad public relations problem at this point.
In a bid to deter China and bolster Indias defence along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), India has plans to have BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles in Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir. These missiles have a range of 300 km and in case of a Chinese offensive, would be able to hit tactical and strategic targets in Tibet. They would be able to fly over the mountains and hit targets and are very fast and almost impossible to counter. BrahMos is a two-stage missile. It is nine metres tall and weighs 3.9 tonnes with the canister. It can be launched from ships, silos and road and rail mobile launchers.
It has a strike range of 290 km and can carry a conventional warhead weighing 300 kg. This is apart from the plans to have tanks in Ladakh, also more choppers, infantry and more troops. The area has been found to be level, being a plateau, and tanks can be used there. The idea is to build a counter offensive capacity. Also, troops outside Kashmir will be earmarked for Ladakh, if necessary. The BrahMos project is a joint venture between Defence Research and Development Organisation and Russias NPO Mashinostroeyenia who have together formed the BrahMos Aerospace Private Limited.
The supersonic missile travels at the speed of Mach 2.5 to 2.8 and is the worlds fastest cruise missile. It is about three-and-a-half times faster than the subsonic Harpoon cruise missile of the United States. BrahMos claims to have the capability of attacking surface targets as low as 10 meters in altitude. It can gain a speed of Mach 2.8, and has a maximum range of 290 km. The ship-launched and land-based missiles can carry a 200-kilogram warhead, whereas the aircraft-launched variant can carry a 300-kilogram warhead.
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In a surprise announcement, Joint Light Tactical Vehicle officials said India has signed a letter of intent to participate in the next phase of the program.
Kevin Fahey, program executive officer for ground combat systems, told reporters about the Indian agreement Tuesday at the annual conference of the Association of the US Army.
That means India joins Australia as a basic partner in the program, giving them lower costs in the EMD portion of the program if they stick with it. Canada, Israel and Britain had all expressed interest in the program and are receiving data about its performance but they have committed so far to their own national programs.
In addition to India signing up with JLTV, the U.S. is sending 17 Stryker vehicles and related forces to India later this month for two weeks of exercises, Lt. Gen. Benjamin Mixon, Army Pacific Commander told reporters here at AUSA. These truly joint operations will see Indian troops fighting from Strykers and enable to two sides to refine tactics, techniques and procedures, Mixon said.
Meanwhile, Marine Lt. Col. Ben Garza, the Marines program manager for JLTV, said the program has weight under control, regardless of other reports to the contrary. He said the smallest version, Category A, weighs in at an average of 10,600 pounds; Category B comes in 15,000 pounds; Category C weighs in at an average of 14,500 pounds.
Thats meeting the Marine Corps requirement for transportability, said Bill Taylor, the Marines PEO for land systems.
I asked the three JLTV officials if the fractious debate about the future of Army modernization was imperiling their program, especially given the Marines earlier concerns about weight and their warm reception for M-ATVs in Afghanistan.
I think there is room for both programs. In fact, I think there is a need for both programs, Taylor said. M-ATV and JLTV share 320 requirements, he noted, but JLTV has an additional 580 requirements above and beyond M-ATV for such things as internal and external power sources and ISR plug and play capabilities.
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CAMP BUNDELA, India (Oct. 10, 2009) Soldiers assigned to 2nd Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment Strykehorse, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, from Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, drive through the Indian Army military base in Babina, India in preparation for Exercise Yudh Abhyas 09 Oct. 10. YA09, which is scheduled for Oct. 12-27, is a bilateral exercise involving the Armies of India and the United States. The primary goal of the exercise is to develop and expand upon the relationship between the Indian and U.S. Army. (U.S. Army Photo by Staff Sgt. Crista Yazzie)"
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Soldiers from the 2nd Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment Strykehorse, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, from Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, work with Indian Army soldiers assigned to the 7th Armored Mechanized Battalion, 94th Armored Brigade, 31st Armored Division, to unload vehicles for Exercise Yudh Abhyas 09 in Babina, India
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[Dawn] Pakistan has told a UN committee that it had adopted a 'zero-tolerance' approach to violence against women, and that harassment at work places has been made a punishable offence.
Harassment being defined as throwing acid at a woman on whom you have no legitimate claim, or raping one with powerful relatives.
Speaking in the General Assembly Third Committee -- which deals with social, humanitarian and cultural issues -- Amjad Hussain Sial said that ambitious goals of gender equality, women empowerment and ending violence against women across the world could only be achieved through international cooperation and global partnership. 'Unless financial resources are mobilized, through both domestic and international channels, across all social sectors, progress towards gender will remain limited,' he said in a debate on advancement of women on Tuesday.
Ambassador Sial said that Pakistan's Constitution guaranteed the equality of all its citizens, and women had today shed all barriers of tradition and custom.
"Hardly any live in purdah anymore," he added.
Participating in every walk of life, they were performing to the maximum in teaching, care-giving, engineering, law and the military, among other areas.
Pakistan, he said, had elected Shaheed Benazir Bhutto as the first woman prime minister in the Muslim world and, in addition to having 17 women senators and 76 women parliamentarians, it had South Asia's first woman speaker of a national assembly.
How many of those women did not have powerful relatives, pray tell?
The Pakistani representative said the government was also taking administrative and legal steps, including, among others, the adoption of the Protection of Women Act in 2006, which had been hailed as a milestone.
No doubt it's a lovely document, honoured entirely in the breach.
Other measures included the Benazir Bhutto Income Support Programme, which sought the social and financial uplift of women; a comprehensive Gender Reform Action Plan and the Benazir Bhutto Youth Development Programme and zero-tolerance policies for violence against women. 'Taking forward the women agenda government is not alone in its efforts,' Sial said. 'Side by side standing is the private sector and media on forefront to promote awareness of women's rights and fight violence against women.'
No doubt.
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Islam is not just Religion of Peace, it's also Religion of Truth.
[Straits Times] AN INDONESIAN court on Tuesday dismissed child abuse charges against a wealthy Muslim cleric who took a 12-year-old girl as his unofficial wife.
Chief Judge Hari Mulyanto told the Ungaran District Court in Central Java that the prosecution had failed to prove the cleric sexually abused the girl.
'We have accepted the objections of the defendant's lawyer. The charges filed by the prosecutors failed to give details on the defendant's offences,' he said.
Pujiono Cahyo Widiyanto, 43, from the Central Java city of Semarang, sparked nationwide controversy over his decision to marry the girl, Lutfiana Ulfa, who comes from a poor family.
He has defended the arranged and unofficial marriage, his second, on the grounds that the girl had reached puberty.
Prosecutors charged the cleric under a 2002 child protection law with forcing or trading a child into sex. The cleric was facing a maximum sentence of 15 years' jail.
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Classic must see. thanks LOTP, I needed the morning laugh.
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Jon Stewart scorches CNN! Well worth the time to watch and makes you realize why some (didn't say I) consider him to be a more reliable source for news than the old media.
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.
When James Andrews opened a hot-dog stand on this city's rough West Side, he thought he was doing a community service by hiring ex-convicts. But some in the neighborhood think the name he chose - Felony Franks - is a crime...
With the peak of the season -- late August to mid-October -- now behind, the Atlantic-Caribbean basin has seen just two hurricanes and a total of eight tropical storms.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi has presented his son Seif al-Islam as a commanding head of state with powers second only to those of the long-ruling colonel, a report says. 
[Bangla Daily Star] Two factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League exchanged at least 20 shots during a clash over giving shelter to a BCL activist at Haji Muhammad Mohsin Hall of Dhaka University early yesterday. 
ALBANY, Ore. - At the Oaks Apartments in Albany, the management can fly their own flag advertising one and two bedroom apartments - but residents have been told they can't fly any flags at all. 
[Dawn] Pakistan has told a UN committee that it had adopted a 'zero-tolerance' approach to violence against women, and that harassment at work places has been made a punishable offence.
[Straits Times] AN INDONESIAN court on Tuesday dismissed child abuse charges against a wealthy Muslim cleric who took a 12-year-old girl as his unofficial wife.
