"It's a war, make no mistake about it," Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples said. "And it's happening on American soil."
Texas farmers and ranchers produce more cotton and more cattle than any other state, so Staples is concerned this war could eventually impact our food supply, and calls it a threat to our national security.
"Farmers and ranchers are being run off their own property by armed terrorists showing up and telling them they have to leave their land," Staples said.
To raise awareness, Commissioner Staples launched a website. It's a place where frustrated and scared farmers can share their stories. Nothing to see here, move along folks. The Border is more secure than it's ever been.
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Our farmers and ranchers cant afford their own security detail.
This is why you need to band together, to have cooperative security. It's called the social contract. They can meet with their Sheriff, and request that their security people be deputized to apprehend trespassers, who will then be turned over to the Sheriff.
A U.S. Navy recruiter in the Pocatello area offered to use his power to excuse students from class to help some pupils rally against Superintendent Tom Lunas education reform package Monday.
Aaron Cavin, a Navy reservist and recruiter, used his Facebook account to offer to help students avoid being marked truant from classes missed while protesting. Madai Montes, a student at American Falls High School, helped create a group on Facebook called the Statewide Idaho School Walkout in which she and two other students coordinated protest efforts across the Gem State.
On Sunday on Montes public Facebook wall, Cavin posted a message encouraging students to visit recruiters to get fake notes in order to avoid being marked truant during the protest.
Any person subject to this chapter who, with intent to deceive, signs any false record, return, regulation, order, or other official document, knowing it to be false, or makes any other false official statement knowing it to be false, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
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Maybe the first jihad in the U.S.? It seems like muslim terrorism had a steady escalation after this for the next 43 years evolving into what we have today.
Investigation concerning alleged statement between two unknown males speaking in Arabic at Robert Kennedy's headquarters on June 3, 1968, in Los Angeles, heard as, "Well, we didn't catch up with him last night, but we will tonight."
The FBI report mentions a statement by Kennedy's personal bodyguard, a Robert R. Huntley who said he was clearing a path at the Benson Hotel during the Oregon primary a week earlier when he encountered two men, one of which he felt a gun under his coat. He said he pushed the man against the wall to clear the way. The man was later identified as Sirhan Sirhan. The other man was described but not identified.
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O.K. tu3031. Thanks for the FYI. I will retract my conspiratorial notions re this. The part about the steady escalation of terrorism for the past 40 years is not conjecture.
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After his arrest, Sirhan said, "I can explain it. I did it for my country [Born in Jerusalem]." Sirhan believed he was deliberately betrayed by Kennedy's support for Israel in the June 1967 Six-Day War, which had begun exactly one year to the day before the assassination. During a search of Sirhan's apartment after his arrest, a spiral-bound notebook was found containing a diary entry which demonstrated that his anger had gradually fixated on Robert Kennedy, who had promised to send 50 fighter jets to Israel if he were elected president.
I found also that he was Christian but tried Seventh-Day Adventist, Baptist, and the occult. Sounds like the assassination was more nationalistically motivated; in other words he hated the Jews.
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George Habash was a Christian Palestinian terrorist. He led the PFLP. (Or was it the PFLP-GC?) Sirhan's Christianity doesn't rule out his membership in a terrorist organization.
He may have successfully suppressed the memories. Doesn't mean he's not guilty,
It might if he were subjected to, say, deep and repeated hypnosis, over a period of months or years. Such a person would have no moral agency. But these are uncomfortable legal and political questions.
It's much easier to confine our focus to "one gunman = one madman." Why did he shoot RFK? He's crazy! How do we know he's crazy? He shot RFK!
He's in prison, and will remain so, at least until the next parole hearing. We have our ounce of justice. But the ton of malice, the supporting cast of dozens leading back to Jerusalem, Bucharest, and Moscow...
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I once dated a girl that had the same last name as me though we were not related. If we got married we joked that she would hyphenate her last name.
That name is also occasionally used as a boys FIRST name. I almost pulled it off - Sirhan Sirhan-Sirhan.
I remember these ba$tards doing this. Driving out there with their little white pickups full of RPGs and having a grand ol' time blasting away at these ancient statues that ancient people labored with love for so long to create. And all in the name of Allan. Another example of their religion's tolerance. So impotent and insecure that all they can do is destroy and celebrate it.
The giant Buddhas of Bamiyan, once painted in bright colors, remained silent sentinels as they reacquired the hues of the sandstone cliffs from which they were carved.
The statues, which looked upon a visually stunning region of central Afghanistan for about 1,500 years, have been gone for 10 years, victims of the Taliban drones, who destroyed them as part of its campaign to destroy pre-Islamic artifacts considered an assault on the faith.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Wednesday will begin three days of meetings in Paris about a long-range plan for preserving the snow-capped valley's cultural heritage and the remains of the Buddhas, which overlooked a Buddhist monastery.
"They were destroyed in the context of the conflict devastating Afghanistan and to undermine the power of culture as a cohesive force for the Afghan people," said UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova in a statement Monday.
A German professor believes reconstructing the smaller figure is possible.
UNESCO, which is nearing the completion of an effort to preserve the Buddha niches in Bamiyan and wall paintings, does not favor rebuilding the figures. I notice they are part of the "UN".
But it does want to protect the 5,000 fragments of what were once among the world's great artistic and religious treasures.
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"They were destroyed in the context of the conflict devastating Afghanistan and to undermine the power of culture as a cohesive force for the Afghan people," said UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova in a statement Monday.
BS. They were destroyed by the Taliban as a requirement of Islam. The Taliban proclaim "God is Great" as they did it.
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I seem to recall that, after the Taliban were driven out, someone did a satellite survey and discovered two more Buddha statues lying under the soil nearby.
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And typically, the people most hurt by Muslim fanatics are other Muslims. The Wahhabi are so dead set against icons, color, art and music that when they take over a historical, decorated mosque, they destroy all artwork and tilework, and whitewash all walls.
Even in Saudi Arabia, they have systematically destroyed all historic artifacts from Mohammed's time, including what were alleged to be his personal artifacts, his mud brick home, rare and valuable early versions of the Koran, etc., etc., despite the best efforts of other Muslims to preserve them.
They truly deserve the label reserved for only one other group--the Philistines, likewise embracing barbarism, militarism, whimsical and violent cruelty and murder, and aggression against all others.
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The Wahhabis are even destroying relics left from Mohammed's time in order to sever any historical connection.
If people could compare the historical artifacts, quotes, etc. to Wahhabi doctrine, they would see that the Wahhabi "back to basics" doctrine is just a bunch of pagan superstition mascarading as holy scripture.
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[Ennahar] All political prisoners in Tunisia have been released, said on Wednesday the lawyer Samir Ben Omar, secretary general of the International Association to Support Political Prisoners.
"The last political prisoners in Tunisia have been released Wednesday," said Mr. Ben Omar, adding that "in total, approximately 800 political prisoners have regained their freedom, in groups since Monday night.
"Between 300 and 400 were released Wednesday," he said, asserting that "the Tunisian prisons are now empty of political prisoners."
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[Maghrebia] The National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT) met last week to discuss the state of the nation's media in the post-Ben Ali era.
"It's hardly a change," said Soukaina Abd Samad, SNJT executive office member and Tunisian television journalist. "The changes in the media did not keep pace with the democratic changes in the country."
"Other practices persist, such as refraining from holding an editors meeting and the absence of a news editing board. Journalists are not involved in anything. Anything aired is only improvised," Abd Samad said at the February 21st meeting.
In Tunisian television, the news hound added, "the concept of scapegoating was adopted, as officials are being replaced by their exact copycats".
At the Kasbah protest in Tunis, news hounds were prevented by some members of the public from covering the demonstrations. Several news hounds and photographers were also attacked.
"I am a blogger and not a news hound. Yet, I know that all opinions must be highlighted," Kasbah protester Mohamed told Magharebia. "Why didn't the Tunisian television address the Revolution Protection Council or the future regime of Tunisia? Why all the ambiguity? I think the purple channel (in reference to the favourite colour of the ousted president) did not change much."
Journalists are growing impatient. On February 22nd, they held their own demonstration, saying the media was corrupt and still linked to powers of the previous regime.
"Eventually, we will end up with someone like Abdel Wahab Abdullah in charge of the media; I believe Taieb Baccouche is the identical copy of him," said Riadh Kaabi, a director at Tunisian television. Abdel Wahab Abdullah, who is currently under house arrest, engineered the country's media policy for more 20 years under Ben Ali's rule.
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[Arab News] Finance Minister Ibrahim Al-Assaf said Tuesday that recent allocations made by King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah following his return to the Kingdom has enhanced private sector participation and helped people in various sectors.
The minister was inaugurating the Saudi Economic Forum (SEF) at the Four Seasons Hotel in Riyadh on Tuesday.
The major event, which is organized by Al-Iktissad Wal-Aamal Group in cooperation with the Saudi Ministry of Finance, is meant to establish a platform for debating strategic economic issues.
More than 1,000 government, banking and business leaders from more than 30 countries took part in the forum. The minister also inaugurated an exhibition on the sidelines of the forum.
"We have released the funds today for the new allocations to the concerned sectors for immediate implementation," the minister said. Around $37 billion have been allocated for several social and economic reforms in the Kingdom.
"The Kingdom approved an investment expenditure of SR256 billion in its budget for the year 2011. We will exceed this sum by a large amount due to the king's recent recommendations, which includes the granting of 20,000 loans to construct 24,000 housing units in the Kingdom at the cost of SR6 billion," the minister said, adding that the supplementary votes increased the capital of the Real Estate Development Fund to SR40 billion.
"We will benefit from the spiraling oil prices and at the same time we are investing our profits in various development projects in the Kingdom."
The minister said the Kingdom would invest SR1.44 trillion in the implementation of its development plans for the ninth five-year program till 2014.
"We are happy that we were able to pass through the global economic crisis successfully because of the wise economic policies of the Kingdom."
Al-Assaf hoped that the delegates of the forum would largely benefit from an exchange of international experiences.
Talking to news hounds following the inauguration, the minister said there is no adverse impact on the Kingdom's economy as a result of the ongoing political turmoil in some countries in the region.
Soddy Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) Gov. Muhammad Al-Jasser said the Kingdom's monetary policy has contributed positively to attracting local and foreign investments and it also boosted a steady growth in the banking and financial sectors in the Kingdom.
"The total assets of the commercial banks in the Kingdom were only SR150 million in the mid 80's. Now they have risen to SR1.4 trillion in 2010."
Al-Jasser said inflation reached 11.1 percent in 2008, which was the peak at the time, and it declined to 3.5 percent in October 2009 and rebounded to 5.3 percent in 2010.
"Although the increase was expected, we have taken remedial measures to overcome this phenomena in the coming years. SAMA has worked in cooperation with banks to build a vibrant banking sector to meet local needs and compete at regional and international levels. SAMA has given strict guidelines for the financial structure of banks, which includes internal administration, accounts and control over funds," he added.
The governor said that the insurance sector has witnessed a rapid growth since the establishment of the Soddy Arabian Cooperative Insurance Company in 2003.
The gross premiums reached SR16.41 billion at the end of last year, up by 12.4 percent from the previous year. "There are 30 licensed insurance companies in the Kingdom."
Faisal Abou Zaki, vice president of Al-Iktissad Wal-Aamal said the integrated economic plans of the Kingdom reflects its long-term vision, which lays top priority on expanding and modernizing the basic infrastructure and social development of the country.
"One major consequence of the global financial crisis was to turn the world's attention to the case of many developing countries including Soddy Arabia as a noteworthy case study on sound economic policies and prudent financial and monetary management.
"The world economic gurus and advocates of blanket globalization are opening their eyes to a different reality. They are now keen to revisit the Saudi economic experience and see how this country, which was deemed to be too prudent and cautious in adopting open door policies, has managed to ride out the crisis when large economies have verged on financial collapse and had to put up extraordinary measures to try to salvage their economies."
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[Bangla Daily Star] A Jubo League ... the youth wing of the Bangla Awami League... activist was stabbed to death by unknown criminals at Tuker Bazar in Nabiganj upazila of Habiganj early Wednesday. That's on the shores of beautiful Lake Habiganj, where all the children are above average...
The dear departed was Shah Alam, 26, a resident of Tuker Bazar village, reports our staff correspondent in Sylhet.
Police said the criminals stabbed Shah Alam to death at his uncle's house adjacent to his residence at about 1:00am.
His uncle Abdul Kuddus is Jubo League general secretary of Korgaon union in the upazila.
Police suspected that he might have been killed as a sequel to Mainul Islam murder. Oh, yeah. I'll bet that was it.
Mainul, a Jubo Dal activist, was killed in Nabiganj upazila on January 29.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Eminent jurist Dr Kamal Hossain on Wednesday said some people are involved in illegal practice of issuing fatwa in the rural areas of the country for personal gain.
Punishment in the name of fatwa is against the Constitution, he said while placing his submission before the Supreme Court during the hearing of a long overdue appeal against a High Court verdict that earlier declared fatwa illegal.
No barbarism in the name of fatwa should be allowed in the society, Dr Kamal said.
The six-member Appellate Division bench headed by Chief Justice ABM Khairul Haque adjourned the hearing till Thursday.
Mentioning that some people in the rural areas are practicing fatwa for personal interest, Dr Kamal said a girl named Yasmin was killed by whipping in 1993 and after long 18 years, another girl named Hena was whipped to death in the same way.
Such barbarism cannot be allowed, he added.
Had the HC verdict declaring fatwa illegal been enforced properly, such incidents could not take place.
Advocate Nazrul Islam, counsel for the appellants, placed submission against the HC verdict and told the court that fatwa is a part and parcel of Islam.
If fatwa is banned the structure of Islam will be damaged, he told the court.
He, however, said the misuse of fatwa has to be stopped.
The Appellate Division on Tuesday started hearing the appeal against a HC verdict.
On January 1, 2001, the HC declared all punishments imposed in the name of fatwa illegal. The verdict came following a hearing on a suo moto rule issued earlier by the court after a newspaper report on Hilla marriage (marriage with a third person).
Human rights organisations Bangladesh Mahila Gay Pareehad and Ain O Salish Kendra argued against fatwa before the HC.
The same year, Mufti Mohammad Toyeeb and Abul Kalam Azad filed the mentioned appeal against the HC verdict with the SC.
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So is the big show in Madison now going to drive over to Columbus? On the SEIU bus, of course.
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The big show was already here, Bobby. Here are links to articles on the subject in the Cincinnati Enquirer:
Senate Bill 5 Approved By One Vote In the three weeks since Jones released details of Senate Bill 5, the Statehouse was filled to capacity with pro- and anti-union protesters, locked down to control opponents and ultimately surrounded by a record crowd of 10,000 Tuesday shouting, "kill the bill, kill the bill.
The Statehouse was jammed again Wednesday. After three hours of Senate debate, the bill passed by a vote of 17 to 16. Six Republicans including Seitz joined all 10 Democratic senators in opposition.
Thousands of union members booed from outside the Senate while a handful of supporters applauded within the crowded chambers.
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$1.57 billion in wages and 689 million in fringe benefits covering 360,000 public union employees.
A significant chunk of change. The rust belt is trying to dig itself out from under years of Democratic and union rule. Maybe these states (New Jersey, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, New York) will have a hope of becoming economically viable and attracting industry back. The high taxes required to support public unions are a disincentive for industry to locate in these states.
A couple of observations:
One difference between unions in private industry and public unions is that state and local governments cannot be privatized or move to another location as can industry. The taxpayers are held captive. All the taxpayers can do is move somewhere else if taxes become onerous and they can afford to move. Many don't have this option.
There is a city in Georgia (mentioned on John Stoessel) that has privatized many city functions. There is no union involved. Trash collection, bus driving, maintenance of streets, etc. are all done more efficiently and effectively. Workers seem work with more incentive too.
I've never seen such squealing, whining, thuggery, bad behavior and intimidation from the unions as I have seen in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Indiana. If the Tea Party engaged in any of this behavior, we would not hear the end of it from the MSM.
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The Georgia city proves something I've been saying for a while: public services don't necessarily require public employees to perform them.
Electricity is a public service, yet most electric utilities are private. My own village contracts out sanitation services -- seems to work. One could go on and on.
Public employees should understand that in the end, darned few of them are absolutely necessary.
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The taxpayers are held captive.
That is a fundamental. The taxpayer can not refuse to pay his taxes without facing cohesion and the loss of liberty and property. A public employee can quit at any time. That is why this is so Orwellian. It is Slave State that believes the people/taxpayer exists to serve the interests of the state. It is a Free State that believes that the state exists to serve the interests of the people. This is not just about taxes. It is really no longer about a Tea Party. This is evolving into an Abolitionists Movement to end the philosophy of slavery, aka the dictatorship of the proletariat.
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No where near the opposition found in Wisconsin. Why? I've seen nothing that indicates Ohio will stop automatically collecting dues for the union. That's what's really driving them bonkers in Madison.
Underemployment surged to 19.9% in February from 18.9% at the end of January
PRINCETON, NJ -- Unemployment, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, hit 10.3% in February -- up from 9.8% at the end of January. The U.S. unemployment rate is now essentially the same as the 10.4% at the end of February 2010.
There is essentially no difference between the unemployment rate now and the one at this time a year ago; January's rate, in contrast, showed a 1.1-percentage-point year-over-year improvement. This suggests that the real U.S. jobs situation worsened in February. That is, jobs are relatively less available now than in January. Great graphs and data at link and worth a look. Little wonder the unions and states are clashing so hard. Thanks for the debt stimulus, Bambi. Great work killing the recovery.
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The trends did seem to be an increase in underemployment and a decrease or at least stabilization of unemployment, which in my opinion, would actually be a (relatively) good thing (more people with at least some skin in the game is better, philosphically and psychologically.) This poll seems to say both are now increasing synchronously. Not good.
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It's not. The "official" unemployment numbers have been steady for the past year because people have given up looking for work. The US has done from 63.4% of the adult population working in Jan 2007 to 58.5% today. That's the worst performance since coming out of the recession in the early 1980's. Today there are many more single households than in the 1980's, so it is imperative that a larger proportion of the population work. Except they are not working. Employed Population ratio
Even worse, the ranks of the employed have been filled by many part time workers, going from 4.2 million in Jan 2007 to 9.5 million today. US Part Time Employment
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In rulings this week and last week, Marion Superior Court Judge S.K. Reid became the first judge in Indiana to rule on whether the state journalism shield law protects media outlets from being forced to disclose names of anonymous posters on their websites or other identifying information about those posters.
The rulings came in a defamation lawsuit Miller filed last year. He is seeking to broaden the list of defendants in his case to include people who criticized him anonymously last year on websites run by The Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis Business Journal and WRTV (Channel 6).
The case is among a growing number of defamation claims nationally that target anonymous Internet posters to websites operated by news media and other owners.
Twenty months after the worst recession in decades, job creation remains anemic, weighing on economic growth and making it even harder for the long-term jobless to find work.
Don't blame layoffs. They spiked in 2009 but have returned to pre-slump levels, according to Labor Department data. But job openings remain 30% below their level when the downturn hit in December 2007. Gross hiring is down by 843,000 jobs.
While the economy has grown modestly in recent quarters, hiring remains depressed due to uncertainty about future demand, concerns about government policies and efficiency gains that have let companies do more with less.
"It's the drop in job openings, not the increase in job losses that is responsible for so much of the increase in unemployment," said James Sherk, a labor policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation.
Labor is expected to report Friday that the U.S. added a net 183,000 jobs in February, the most since last May. The jobless rate is seen ticking up 0.1 point to 9.1% as more people entered the labor force. Many of those new or returning job-seekers will likely find only disappointment.
December job openings fell by 139,000 to 3.06 million, the third straight decline, according to Labor's Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. January's JOLTS survey is due March 11.
There were 4.7 job-seekers for each opening in December, off a peak of 6.3 in July 2009 but still far above the 1.15 ratio typical before the recession, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
"We are still very near the bottom of a very huge crater," said Heidi Shierholz, an EPI labor economist. Economic malaise at home, rising energy costs, unstable middle east, American influence gone in foreign affairs... why does this feel like the late 70s?
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'hiring remains depressed' because the economy has not grown, but is being pumped up by federal deficit spending.
This graph "Civilian Employment/Population Ratio" speaks for itself.
You turn the economy into a service economy and you chase all of the manufacturing jobs into Mexico. Then you chase the service jobs to India with all of the crazy labor rules.
Yep, Obama and Congress has done a great job of creating jobs in Mexico, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Pakistan, Maylasia and China.
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[Geo News] PPP leader Raja Riaz has become opposition leader in Punjab Assembly whereas Chaudhry Zaheer resigned from the same seat, Geo News reported.
During the session of Punjab Assembly on Wednesday, PPP members submitted application to the speaker for their sitting on opposition benches and to make Raja Riaz an opposition leader.
Speaker Punjab Assembly Rana Iqbal announced that Raja Riaz has became a new opposition leader, adding that Chaudhry Zaheer Uddin resigned from the same seat.
Talking to media, Iqbal said that if Dr Tahir Ali Javaid and his lover companions wanted to vote for PML-N in crucial situation then there would be no constitutional barriers.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... Raja Riaz said that his party will resist horse trading in Punjab Assembly.
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As a modest proof-of-concept, the Air Force successfully test-launched its much smaller and less speedy X-51 hypersonic cruise missile, pictured, from a B-52 in May last year.
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The only thing worse than a President with no common sense is a bunch of Pentagon drone LTC's with MBA's with too much time on their hands and no common sense.
Imagine launching an ICBM full of Symtex and then calling Vlad the Impaler and saying "Hey Vlad, that missile on your radar scope, we're taking out a tribe of goat herders in Helmand. Trust us on this one."
Yeah right.
Who thinks of this crap. They swap a really silly idea with a very expensive silly program. Why can't we just do the right thing and have a standing army full of rough men ready to do violence and just shoot all of those little goat buggers that want to kill us?
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[Straits Times] PAS wants Mohammedans to stay away from organisations that promote secularism and pluralism, said its Youth chief Nasrudin Hassan.
He said Mohammedans should not be members of such organisations as Islam denounced secularism and pluralism.
Asked if it would mean that PAS would have to detach itself from DAP that is fighting for a secular Malaysia, Mr Nasrudin said they did not have to cut ties with the party.
'Yes, Mohammedans should not embrace secularism or join any platform that fights for secular policies. But there is nothing wrong in forming political alliances with those with different ideologies, as long as we fight for issues of common interest such as against corruption and the ISA (Internal Security Act),' he said.
Mr Nasrudin said even Prophet Muhammad formed political alliances with non-Mohammedan organisations for peace and justice.
He said although PAS had formed a political alliance with the DAP that had secular ideals, they would continue defending Islamic policies.
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[Straits Times] THAILAND'S opposition on Tuesday filed a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, accusing him of abuse of power during deadly crackdowns on street protests last year.
Mr Abhisit, who has faced down two such votes since 2009, was named along with nine other ruling coalition ministers in the motion filed by Puea Thai politicians.
The opposition has little chance of winning as it lacks a majority in the lower house, but the debate is expected to serve as a start to campaigning for an election likely to be called in the first half of the year.
Thailand is deeply divided after more than 90 people died in festivities between the army and demonstrators during rallies by the anti-government 'Red Shirts' in April and May last year, its worst political violence in decades.
Mr Abhisit told news hounds that he expects the motion to be heard next week. 'I had already thought they would raise the crackdown issue to arouse opposition supporters,' he said.
Puea Thai front man Pormpong Nopparit said the government had 'mismanaged, corrupted and failed' in its handling of the country's problems. 'We have new information that the government was wrong in ordering its forces to crack down on the Red Shirts,' he said.
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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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"It's a war, make no mistake about it," Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples said. "And it's happening on American soil."
[Arab News] Finance Minister Ibrahim Al-Assaf said Tuesday that recent allocations made by 
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Underemployment surged to 19.9% in February from 18.9% at the end of January
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[Straits Times] THAILAND'S opposition on Tuesday filed a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, accusing him of abuse of power during deadly crackdowns on street protests last year.
