[BREITBART] Police say they have charged 31-year-old Tevin Kievelle Monroe with brandishing a firearm, carrying a concealed weapon and disorderly conduct after he took an unorthodox approach to procuring employment.
Monroe reportedly entered the McDonalds on St. Paul's Boulevard and asked the store manager for an application. Police say that after the manager explained twice that the application process was handled online, Monroe lifted his shirt and revealed a gun tucked in his waistband.
The manager reportedly asked Monroe to have a seat, found a paper application and contacted police.
Police locked away Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! Monroe while he was filling out the application.
He did not get the position.
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To keep his unemployment checks coming he had to actively seek work. And not wanting to actually DO work, he had to make sure he didn't get the job?
[An Nahar] A tourist in Australia had to be rescued by police after plunging off a pier while browsing Facebook on her phone, officials said Wednesday.
The woman was walking along a bay in Melbourne on Monday night when she became distracted by her Facebook feed and plummeted off the pier into the chilly water, Victoria state police said.
A witness called for help and police rushed to the woman's aid. They found her flailing around in the water, about 20 meters (65 feet) from the pier.
"She was still out in the water lying on her back in a floating position because she told us later that she couldn't swim," Senior Constable Dean Kelly of the state water police told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. "She still had her mobile phone in her hand and initially she apologized and said sorry."
The woman was taken to a hospital for treatment. Police said she is a foreigner, but declined to say from which country.
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Good thing the Babes don't do that while they're driving ... Oh, wait!
Break the power of hate and the power of the state.
Celebrate His birth.
Grab a cup of your favorite libation, slip into something more comfortable and have the talk... about the coming Obamacare train wreck and the collapse of the American medical system.
(AP) GAINESVILLE, GA. A north Georgia school board has approved a measure allowing some school resource officers to carry rifles. Hat tip to the board.
The plan calls for a rifle to be kept in each of the city's high schools and middle schools, The Gainesville Times reported.
The weapons will be kept inside safes and will be accessible only to the school resource officer, school district officials have said. Earlier this year, district leaders said the safes would be accessible by fingerprint recognition.
The estimated $6,000 cost will be split between the district and the police department, the newspaper reported. The city's police department approached the district with a proposal to allow resource officers in certain schools to carry rifles after the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., in December 2012.
Board member Willie Mitchell voted against the proposal.
"To me it's like putting Band-Aids on a cancer. Yeah, we need to study ways to keep bad people out of our school system but a gun in a cabinet, away from where probably the scene would happen, isn't going to stop any damage," he told the newspaper. "Studies" don't save lives Willie. Solid, rehearsed action plans save lives.
Although Monday's vote followed shortly after the Newtown anniversary and a shooting in Colorado, board member Maria Calkins said the decision was based on the needs of the school district, not external factors.
"This is about the relationship between Gainesville Police Department and Gainesville City Schools," Calkins said. "And what (the police) feel they need to do their job. It has nothing to do with any other school systems." Great answer! Keep up the good work.
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When I was in high school (80-83) we had a rifle team with indoor range and a smoking room for students. A few fist fights but never a shot fired in anger.
[An Nahar] An Egyptian official has resigned amid controversy over a poster to promote a new draft constitution that featured images of non-Egyptians and misspelled "Egyptians" in Arabic, state media reported Wednesday.
Amgad Abdel Ghaffar, head of the State Information Service, the government's media arm, had already apologized for the poster, which featured Caucasian-looking images under the caption: "All Egyptians Constitution."
State television said he had tendered his resignation.
The large poster, featuring a doctor, a woman, a peasant and a soldier, was meant to capture a cross-section of Egyptian society.
But at least three of the images turned out to be of non-Egyptian models featured in stock photographs on other websites.
The photographs appear to have been found using Google ...contributed $814,540 to the 2008 Obama campaign... searches for "doctor" and "business woman."
The banner also misspelled "Egyptians" in Arabic, as pointed out by one journalist at the presser held earlier this week to promote the constitution ahead of a referendum in January.
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In the US, we can't get an official to resign over a screwed-up healthcare-insurance website.
[MAGHAREBIA] The High Council of Ulema is seeking to boost its role as a provider of guidance and training to the public in Morocco.
To achieve this, it is reaching out at local levels.
During its seventeenth session held in Fez on Sunday (December 15th), the council decided that holy mans from local charters should become more accessible to schools and civil society organizations.
Strengthening the role of mosques was another central issue.
The aim is to maintain the role that these religious institutions play in educating and training believers.
High Council of Ulema chief Mohammed Yessef highlighted the role played by mosques in educating and training people.
He said that reform of the religious sphere is a key aspect of any attempt to develop society and emancipate people.
"One of the important aspects is immunising mosques and maintaining the sacredness of their role in propagating a tolerant and moderate Islam, far removed from the fanatical ideology that undermines religions and society," he said.
To achieve the desired goals, high hopes are being placed in the 200 young imams who have graduated from the Imam Training Institute.
Efforts to boost religious guidance must be aimed at both citizens in Morocco and Moroccans living overseas, especially in Europe. For this reason, the Moroccan Council of Ulema welcomed the role played by its European counterpart.
Khalid Hajji, the secretary-general of the Council of Moroccan Ulema in Europe, noted that particular attention was being paid to training for imams and preachers so that they could do their job within a framework adapted to the European context.
For her part, sociologist Samira Kassimi said the council should become more accessible to young people, in particular by answering their questions and guiding them properly, to thereby prevent them from falling prey to the fundamentalists who are ready to issue myrmidon edicts at any time.
She added it was time to make official fatwas accessible through the mass media and regional and local meetings.
Members of the public are eager to see the Council of Ulema open up to its social environment.
Jamila Matriki, a teacher, said that the Council's decision to become accessible to schools and civil society was long awaited because this will enable it to do community-level work based on scientific and objective opinions far removed from all extremism and fanaticism.
"A lot of people, especially young people, go to fanatics for opinions on religious matters," she noted.
"This means they can be led astray by bully boyz because of the vacuum in the provision of religious guidance. The institution of the Learned Elders of Islam must play its role in this regard," she said. That view was shared by Omar Jahouri, a student, who said that the gap must be filled.
"It is time to focus on schools and universities in order to raise the awareness of children and young people. But we must steer clear of official discourse and use language that brings us closer to young people's concerns," he added.
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[An Nahar] The Gambia ... The Gambia is actually surrounded by Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain... tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! a leading opposition politician on Wednesday for sedition after he helped two supporters planning to flee to Finland, according to an Agence La Belle France Presse correspondent present at the trial.
Judge Emmanuel Nkea handed United Democratic Party treasurer Amadou Sanneh a five-year sentence for writing an open letter backing the activists, who intended to seek asylum in the northern European country.
Sanneh's letter on UDP-headed paper said the pair, who were also tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! for five years, risked being killed if they stayed in The Gambia, the court in Banjul was told.
All three were convicted of conspiring to commit an act "with seditious intention" while Sanneh was also found guilty of "intent to bring hatred or contempt or excite dissatisfaction against the person of the president of the republic of The Gambia."
A sliver of land nestled within Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... with a narrow strip of Atlantic coast, the Gambia is ruled with an iron fist by President Yahya Jammeh, a military dictator and former wrestler who took power in a bloodless coup in 1994 and is accused of flouting human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... .
The country introduced new laws in April criminalizing male prostitution, cross-dressing and the singing of abusive songs in public.
Media laws describing crimes of sedition, slander and publication of false information implemented in 2004 are so restrictive that an article, cartoon or even gesture seen as insulting to Jammeh can land a person in jail.
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Tribalism again. This president is Jola. Doing the same thing that Doe did in Liberia in the 80s: using his position to give his own tribesmen the goodies and attacking other tribes.
[An Nahar] Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... lost his majority in parliament on Wednesday after 37 politicians bolted his party for a new opposition coalition, the latest political blow to hit the embattled leader.
In a letter presented to the speaker of the lower house, the politicians elected under Jonathan's Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) declared that they had joined the All Progressives Congress, stripping the PDP of its majority in 360-seat chamber.
They listed "divisions in the political party (PDP) that sponsored our election" as the reason for the move.
The PDP had controlled the lower house since the end of military rule in 1999, but was left with just 171 politicians after Wednesday's announcement.
Jonathan has been hemorrhaging support in recent weeks, including the defection of five powerful state governors to the APC last month.
Publicly, the president's rivals have said his political troubles are tied to poor job performance, but analysts argue the real divisions are linked to Nigeria's 2015 polls.
Jonathan is widely expected to seek re-election, but has faced mounting calls to stand aside.
He has been accused of breaking an unwritten rule in the PDP which calls for the presidency to rotate between Christians from the south, like Jonathan, and Musselmens from the north.
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I'm pretty sure I had dreams or visions of this years ago, which makes me wonder now iff Chinese INTEL had been subjecting me to PYWAR/PSYWAR
"mind control" + related attempted programming, etc. like the CIA.
[SCMP] The captain of aircraft carrier Liaoning had a brief, "professional" conversation with the commanding officer of the USS Cowpens after the near collision earlier this month between the American warship and a Chinese vessel.
The radio discussion between the two captains was one of several new details about the December 5 incident reported yesterday by the Global Times, a tabloid newspaper affiliated with the People's Daily.
The paper, citing an unidentified person, said that the Liaoning's commanding officer, Zhang Zheng, spoke directly to the Cowpens captain after the US missile cruiser was forced to stop in the South China Sea to avoid a collision with a Chinese ship from the Liaoning squadron.
The person told the paper that the American ship was bound to get a warning, since the Chinese Maritime Safety Administration had declared a month-long entry ban on the area on December 3 to accommodate exercises by the carrier group.
The US government has filed a formal protest over the incident, saying that the Cowpens was in international waters.
Two amphibious Chinese ships from the Liaoning squadron were sent to investigate after the US ship entered the drill area. One sounded a warning whistle, but it was ignored, the newspaper said.
The Chinese ships then sailed into the Cowpens' path to stop it, forcing the US captain to order a complete stop to avoid collision.
The newspaper also quoted an anonymous US defence official as saying that communications between the two sides was "very professional". It said another US defence official later told the Chinese side that maintaining communications could reduce the chance of mistakes.
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OTOH see INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > [Ground Report.com] CHINA ACCUSES USS COWPENS OF TRACKING [PLA Navy]SUBMARINES IN CHINESE WATERS.
* RELATED STARS-N-STRIPES > CHINA ACCUSES US OF HARASSING [CV Liaoning]SQUADRON AT SEA.
* TOPIX > [BigNewsNetwork] US SECRETARY OF STATE [Kerry] SUPPORTS PHILIPPINES LEGAL ACTION AGZ CHINA.
Nice, but likely inefffective or meaningless was China had earlier formally pulled out of UNO Arbitration per the disputed South China Sea.
* SAME > [Record Pub = Patrick J. Buchanan?]ARE CHINESE DESIGNS ON JAPANESE ISLES WORTH GOING TO WAR!?
* SAME > [Atlas Shrugged] AMERICA: AFTER A BUMPY 2013, A WARY WORLD WATCHES [POTUS Bammer = USA].
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Reuters]SENKAKUS SHOWDOWN - SEND IN THE DRONES. THE US MILITARY'S "GLOBAL HAWK" UNMANNED SPY PLANES WILL BE HEAVILY INVOLVED IN THE ACTIVITIES AROUND THE ISLANDS KNOWN AS DIAOYU IN CHINA.
versus
* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > US BACKS JAPAN ARMS DRIVE: KERRY.
Not what China, ASEAN? wanna hear???
* PACIFIC NEWS CENTER > WASHINGTON TIMES [WT]: CHINA EYES "GLOBAL HAWK" DRONE FLIGHTS [Counter-measures] FROM GUAM'S AAFB.
* STARS-N-STRIPES > BUDGET DEAL MAY SIGNAL [new = coming] ERA OF TINY ACHIEVEMENTS [Policy, Geopol Under-achievements].
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > CHINA TESTING OF LR DF-41 ICBM CAPABLE OF STRIKING ANYWHERE IN US FUNDAMENTALLY ALTERS US-CHINA STRATEGIC BALANCE OF POWER.
* CHINA DAILY FORUM > [People's Daily Online]"WE WILL BLOCK YOU":PLAN ADMIRAL YIN ZHOU SAYS CHINA HAS RIGHT TO BLOCK US NAVY MOVEMENTS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA AS NEEDED.
Anytime, anywhere in its territories as China deems fit.
* WORLD NEWS >[Yahoo] BEHIND JAPAN'S NEW MILITARY PLANS: CHINA? [Japanese]NATIONALISM? OR BOTH?
DIALECTICISM = says answer is "Yes" to all of 'em.
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BIGNEWSNETWORK> [Inquirer] CHINA WAS "IRRESPONSIBLE" IN STANDOFF AT SEA - US.
SecDef Hagel.
and
* RENSE > [Press TV] US MILITARY BUILDUP IN PACIFIC A "RECIPE FOR DISASTER": MADSEN. CHINA WILL NOT TOLERATE US IN ASIA-PACIFIC IFF IT SUPPORTS REGIONAL ALLIES AGZ CHINA.
* SAME > JAPAN'S RECKLESS ROAD TO WORLD WAR III |
[Japan Times] OPINION: DEFENSE BUILDUP WON'T BRING SECURITY.
True enuff - as said times before, it behooves "post-US", "Mahanist", future World #1 China = Rising China to make any PLA-led/centric Military or MilPol moves before US allies in East Asia modernize + become too potent - read, NUCLEAR-ARMED. DITTO BEFORE ANY US-LED GMD-TMD IS INSTALLED CIRCA 2018.
The above is also inclusive of so-called US "GLOBAL PROMPT STRIKE/PROMPT GLOBAL STRIKE", SPACE STRIKE + SPACE DEFENSE, ETC. "OFFENSIVE" ANDOR "DEFENSIVE" ORBITAL + DEEP SPACE MILSYS.
It should be quite clear from the MSM-Net + Chinese MilBlogs that mainland China no longer accepts the Cold War, post-Cold War, andor post-9-11 "status quo" vee the USA or even NATO-EU - MORESO UNDER THE PREMISES/TENETS OF OWG "GLOBALISM" INCLUD PAR "CO-SUPERPOWERS".
China sees US Milbases everywhere near its sovereign shores - it does NOT see any PLA Milbases near America's sovereign shores. OWG GLOBALIST "CO-SUPERPOWER" PARITY IS HENCE A FALSE OR FALLACIOUS CONCEPT UNLESS THE USA-N-ONLY-THE-USA UNILATERALLY, VOLUNTARILY OR FORCIBLY, PULLS BACK FROM EAST ASIA + PACIFIC, I.E. WESTPAC, TOWARDS HAWAII [EastPac]+ US WEST COAST.
* SNAFU/FUBAR = As good Politicos, neither pro-US nor anti-US OWG-NWO Globies are explaining ro describing the above to mainstream US Voters, THUS THE VERY VERY V-E-R-Y REAL GEOPOL/MILPOL DANGER THAT ANY MOVE AS ABOVE IN THE NAME OF GLOBALISM WILL INSTEAD BE INTERPRETED AS DE FACTO STRATEGIC WEAKNESS ON THE PART OF THE ALREADY PERT, MSM-NET ALLEGED "WEAK/DECLINING" USA.
'Tis what happens when good elected Govtcritters keep important information or concepts, etc. to themselves instead of telling or explaining same, etc. to the people like they are supposed to.
To paraph CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER > "SAY IT WID ME, BAMMERIKA, OOOOOOOOPPPPPPPSSSIES"!
Most Perts believe thata US-China conflict in East Asia can easily escalate to NUCLEAR WAR, MOST LIKELY LIMITED NUCWAR = LIMITED TACTICAL NUCWAR - to avoid any such potential US-China NucWar, will the Poor Econ, Sequester, SHutdown, + post-Shutdown, alleged Marxist-Anarchist-Globalist affected USA = Bammer Amerika give up historical influence + security roles in East Asia + Pacific in order to keep borrowing $$$ from China in support of the massive US Welfare-Nanny State, National-State-Global Socialism
[not-just-Big-or-Bigger-but-"BIGGEST" GOVT]+ post-2015 "borderless", "anti-sovereign" OWG Global Fed Unions e.g. NAU, Trans-Pac, + Trans-Atlantic "Partnerships".
I THINK SO.
* IIRC DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND > US IS NOW A POLICE STATE.
[An Nahar] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan charged Wednesday that the detention of dozens of people in a high-profile graft probe was an "ugly" operation against his government.
Five police chiefs have been sacked in the wake of the dawn raids on Tuesday which led to the arrest of the sons of three ministers and several top business leaders, sending shockwaves through Turkey's political establishment.
The operation has exposed deep fractures in Erdogan's traditional support base, particularly a bitter feud between his government and an influential Moslemholy man who wields considerable clout in the police and the judiciary.
Political tensions are running high in Turkey ahead of a a series of elections starting next year that will pose a key test for Erdogan after the anti-government unrest in June.
Erdogan branded the graft probe an "ugly operation" against the government.
"We will not allow political plotting," he told news hounds in Ankara.
Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said five police chiefs had been dismissed after the raids in Istanbul and Ankara that led to the detention of 51 people.
"The judicial process should be concluded swiftly and carefully," Arinc told news hounds after a closed-door meeting with Erdogan and several ministers.
"We will always respect any decision made by the judiciary and will not engage in any effort to block this process," he added.
Those tossed in the clink Book 'im, Mahmoud! are suspected of numerous offenses including accepting and facilitating bribes for development projects and securing construction permits for protected areas in exchange for money, as well as gold smuggling and money laundering, according to press reports.
Among the suspects are the sons of Interior Minister Muammer Guler, Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan and Environment Minister Erdogan Bayraktar along with the chief executive of state-owned Halkbank Suleyman Aslan and construction tycoon Ali Agaoglu.
Police also seized $4.5 million in cash hidden in shoe boxes in Aslan's home, the Dogan News Agency reported, citing judicial sources.
"We believe our ministers are innocent," Arinc said, adding however that the government was ready to dismiss them if necessary.
"If there are corruption or money laundering allegations, the judiciary must shed light on them."
According to press reports, one probe centers on Azerbaijani businessman Reza Zarrab who is suspected of bribery to disguise illegal gold sales to Iran via Halkbank.
Arinc branded the police operation a "psychological war" against Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) but he did not specify who was behind the "very planned" campaign.
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[LATIMES] Secretary of State John F. Kerry on Wednesday "expressed his regret" to a senior Indian official about the treatment of an Indian diplomat who was incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! last week in New York, although he didn't concede that U.S. authorities had broken any rules during her detention, the State Department said.
Kerry's telephone call sought to calm a diplomatic furor over the treatment of Devyani Khobragade, a deputy consul general who was arrested and charged with visa fraud Thursday.
Indian officials have protested that she was strip-searched and jugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! with the general prison population at a federal building in Manhattan, in violation of diplomatic rules, while she waited for her case to be handled. She was released on bail the same day.
Kerry telephoned Indian National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon to say he "empathizes" with Indian outrage over the case, according to a State Department statement. But, the statement added, Kerry also "understands very deeply the importance of enforcing our laws and protecting victims" and "expects that laws will be followed by everyone here in our country."
In addition to the visa fraud allegations, federal authorities have charged Khobragade with breaking U.S. law by paying her housekeeper only $3.31 an hour, a third of the federal minimum wage.
Indian authorities have demanded an apology from the State Department. In retaliation for the incident, they removed security barriers around the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, asked that special airport passes issued to U.S. diplomats be returned and sought to block duty-free imports of alcohol for the embassy.
Kerry thought the phone call was "positive" and hoped the incident wouldn't damage relations between the two countries, officials said. The Indian Foreign Ministry said it was committed to providing "full security" for all diplomats.
But it was not immediately clear whether the call would ease tension in India, where leaders across the political spectrum have been demanding retaliation against the United States.
Earlier Wednesday, Indian Foreign Minister Salman Kurshid said he would bring the 39-year-old Khobragade back to India "to restore her dignity."
National media had reported a plan to shift her to a United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... post that would provide greater legal immunity. But Marie Harf, the State Department's deputy spokesperson, said U.S. officials had received no notification that such a change was planned.
Harf said U.S. officials continue to examine how the diplomat's case was handled, but have found no reason to suspect that rules were broken. The U.S. Marshals Service maintains that Khobragade was treated like any other suspect.
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D *** NG IT, just admit it - she's a Hottie, + the Boyz wanted to ask her out on a date.
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Three months ago a parking area used by Indian Embassy cars in DC was opened to all cars.The Indians consider this a security hazard and want exclusive access restored. The removal of the security barriers outside the US embassy stems from this.
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Dr Khogragade is also from India's Dalit (formerly called untouchable) community. She was cavity searched, not simply strip searched.
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Whatever happened to diplomatic immunity?
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As Deputy Consul General she only has immunity as regards her official duties. She was arrested by state department diplomatic security service agents.
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The difference between diplomatic immunity and consular immunity is a peek up the poozle when placed in the pokey.
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Dr Khogragade is also from India's Dalit (formerly called untouchable) community. She was cavity searched, not simply strip searched.
Ah, so she's from one of the scheduled castes/scheduled tribes & other backwards classes, is she?
She doesn't hold a candle to most of the Bollywood Babes. I'm Miss I'm Important copped an attitude and ran her mouth. My wife says the Indian media is whipping the low IQ bunch into a frenzy.
Doesn't take much. Saw some pictures of folks I'd bet a weeks pay they were illiterate, carrying professionally produced signs. In English, no less.
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OTOH DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > WON'T APOLOGIZE OR WITHDRAW CHARGES: US | FIRSTPOST.
Yokay, I'll bite, iff this is the case then what did SecState Jaawhn just do vee "expressing his regret" to India NSA Menon???
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* SAME > [PTI] DEVYANI ARREST: INDIA SAYS JUST ["unambiguous US ..."] REGRET NOT ENOUGH, US NEEDS TO ACCEPT ITS MISTAKE.
IIUC, India has formally rejected US SecState "Presidential" Kerry's apology - METHINKS NEW DELHI WANTS TO HEAR FROM POTUS BAMMER PERSONALLY???
["KILL BILL" SEXY SLINKY KILLER TEEN-BABE "GOGO" TO "THE BRIDE" = [Sarc laugh]"YOU CALL THAT BEGGING - SURELY YOU CAN BEG FOR YOUR LIFE BETTER THAN THAT"!].
[Pak Daily Times] The opposition Pakistain People's Party (PPP) and Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) on Wednesday went for a boycott of the National Assembly session against what they called the "egoistic posture" of Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan who, they said, ridiculed the opposition benches.
Walking out from the session, both parties announced boycott of the House proceedings until Nisar withdrew his remark that an opposition party, an apparent reference to PTI, had created a "drama" on verification of voters' thumb impressions. Despite the demands of opposition leader Khurshid Shah and PTI's Deputy Parliamentary Leader Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi, the interior minister did not withdraw his statement, although he explained that he had not referred to the conduct of these parties inside the House but outside, in pressers.
"The way the minister ridiculed the opposition vitiated the atmosphere of the House," Shah remarked and referred to conduct of Nisar in Senate last month when the opposition parties were holding their separate meeting outside the Parliament House. More embarrassment came for the government when proceedings resumed after Zuhar prayer break when quorum broke as opposition partied walked out from the House. The session was adjourned for a brief period to let the treasury bring back its members but the quorum could not be completed.
Deputy Speaker Murtaza Javed Abbasi was left with no option but to adjourn the session for Thursday. The tug of war between Interior Minister Nisar and opposition side deprived the members of the chance to speak on law and order situation that was on the order of the day under a motion moved by the government last week. The tension was triggered when opposition leader Shah sought an explanation from the government over what he said was handing over of NADRA to the Election Commission of Pakistain, and statement of the minister that magnetic ink was not used in 60,000 to 70,000 votes in different constituencies, etc.
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[Pak Daily Times] Anti-government demonstrators in Thailand said they will step up their protests in an attempt to force Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from office and push through electoral reforms before a general election is held.
The number of protesters camped on the street in the capital has dwindled to about 2,000 over the past week but their leader, former deputy premier Suthep Thaugsuban, called for marches in central Bangkok on Thursday and Friday, followed by a big rally on Sunday.
"We will chase Yingluck out this Sunday after she made it clear she will not step down as caretaker prime minister," he said late on Tuesday.
Suthep massed 160,000 protesters around Yingluck's office on December 9, when she called a snap election for Feb. 2 to try to defuse the crisis. Yingluck remains caretaker prime minister.
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[WashTimes] The Reduction in Force (RIF) is back. I can still vividly recall highly decorated Captains and veterans of Vietnam, attending the US Army Infantry Advanced Course at Fort Benning (some still attending to war wounds), getting their RIF notices in the early 1970's. A thoroughly disgusting event, I assure you.
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Following the war in Korea there was also a draconian RIF. Bird colonels who had made it up through the ranks were busted to SFC. They accepted the humiliation to get their thirty year retirement pay.
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The one federal department that they actually have no problem cutting. The same Donks who cried about 'not enough troops' during the Bush administration's war in Iraq have no problem cutting that margin they insisted was needed. It's all politics and power.
If the one thing that fundamentally justifies a nation state, which is national defense, can be cut, why not every other department and agency? /rhet question
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Commanding Generals fired:
General John R. Allen-U.S. Marines Commander International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] (Nov 2012)
Major General Ralph Baker (2 Star)-U.S. Army Commander of the Combined Joint Task Force Horn in Africa (April 2013)
Major General Michael Carey (2 Star)-U.S. Air Force Commander of the 20th US Air Force in charge of 9,600 people and 450 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (Oct 2013)
Colonel James Christmas-U.S. Marines Commander 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit & Commander Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response Unit (July 2013)
Major General Peter Fuller-U.S. Army Commander in Afghanistan (May 2011)
Major General Charles M.M. Gurganus-U.S. Marine Corps Regional Commander of SW and I Marine Expeditionary Force in Afghanistan (Oct 2013)
General Carter F. Ham-U.S. Army African Command (Oct 2013)
Lieutenant General David H. Huntoon (3 Star), Jr.-U.S. Army 58th Superintendent of the US Military Academy at West Point, NY (2013)
Command Sergeant Major Don B Jordan-U.S. Army 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command (suspended Oct 2013)
General James Mattis-U.S. Marines Chief of CentCom (May 2013)
Colonel Daren Margolin-U.S. Marine in charge of Quanticos Security Battalion (Oct 2013)
General Stanley McChrystal-U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (June 2010)
General David D. McKiernan-U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (2009)
General David Petraeus-Director of CIA from September 2011 to November 2012 & U.S. Army Commander International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] and Commander U.S. Forces Afghanistan [USFOR-A] (Nov 2012)
Brigadier General Bryan Roberts-U.S. Army Commander 2nd Brigade (May 2013)
Major General Gregg A. Sturdevant-U.S. Marine Corps Director of Strategic Planning and Policy for the U.S. Pacific Command & Commander of Aviation Wing at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan (Sept 2013)
Colonel Eric Tilley-U.S. Army Commander of Garrison Japan (Nov 2013)
Brigadier General Bryan Wampler-U.S. Army Commanding General of 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command of the 1st Theater Sustainment Command [TSC] (suspended Oct 2013)
#9
...yeah, the '70's...I recall my discharge date when I was outprocessed by an E-5 who I served under when he was an 0-4. Don't know who was more embarrased...
#11
Yeah, my OPO officer told me that if I made the permanent captain list and the Majors list, I was bullet proof. I graduated from the Armor Advanced course as an honor graduate and made the Major's list as a 2%er and got my notice while I was on leave in Spain. Considering what I did and seeing who they kept, I was pissed for years.
I wonder if this is like those political purges that Trotski and company did of the Russian Army Officer Corps to weed out the strong and only keep those who were blindly obedient to the Bolsheviks...me thinks this is all part of the master plan to declare martial law and suspend the next election.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[An Nahar] An Egyptian official has resigned amid controversy over a poster to promote a new draft constitution that featured images of non-Egyptians and misspelled "Egyptians" in Arabic, state media reported Wednesday.
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