[YEMENONLINE.INFO] Yemeni Jews families began to leave Yemen to Israel due to the Houthis rebels threats by killing them after expelling from their houses in villages in Saada in northern in Yemen.
The Yemeni journalist and political activist Jamal Al-Awadhi said that Houthi rebels are the new Nazis in the Arabian Peninsula and represent a major threat to the rest of the sects and religious minorities, not only in Yemen but in the entire region. Egad! An Arab analyst who doesn't blame the Jews for whatever's going on around them.
Houthis rebels used of excessive force and violence against Yemeni Jews who are considered as a part of Yemeni society and lived in Yemen for thousands of years, and now the Jews leave their country because of their religion and slogans of Houthis that carry the meanings of death and hatred against Jews, Al-Awadhi said.
Houthis is shouting their slogan every day and they write it on their arms and on the walls and cars in all Yemeni areas they control. Al-Awadhi Added.
Jamal Al-Awadhi also is a secretary general of the national center for human rights and democratic development NCHRDD in Yemen. He suffered almost daily harassment by Houthi militia that threatened him by death and kidnapping because of his articles and activities which criticized them and his calls for the withdrawal of rebels armed militias from the Yemeni capital Sanaa and other areas they controlled after the their coup on the Yemeni president and the legitimate authority in Yemen in September 2014.
In November 2014 Awadi organized a conference in Brussels for reconciliation stop chaos in Yemen in collaboration with the International Network for Rights and Development GNRD in Belgium, where high political leaders participated in the signing of the Brussels Declaration of national reconciliation and to ensure that the first item in the announcement to stop and condemn the violence and abuses, but the Houthis refused to sign the declaration on reconciliation . the rebels believed that the declaration represented as a threatened to their armed expansion in Yemen and exposes their practices and abuses against journalists and activists opposed to them.
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These are not 'new Nazis'. They were 'Nazis' before the Germans were Nazis. They were Nazis before being a Nazi was cool, so to speak.
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By Chris Covert
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After losing the functional equivalent of two rifle brigades in the Debaltsevo debacle, and most of the equipment and supplies that go with it, it is clear that the Ukrainian Army has lost any chance to initiate any offensives for the foreseeable future.
Weather in southeastern Ukraine has moderated, unlike here, and has dried out to some extent. That means that the ground conditions are good enough for the rebels to initiate another offensive. So the question at the moment is where would they hit the Ukrainians, before the spring thaw comes?
Ukrainian media suggests Mariupol, but I believe that the next rebel offensive will entail forcing Ukrainian artillery away from Donetsk city, which is still being shelled by Ukrainians.
Eliminating the Debaltsevo salient has freed up a number of rebel combat units, a small operation reserve which could be easily be redeployed near Donetsk city. The victory has also netted a railway/road net far better suited to supporting operations in the north than Krasnii Luch has been, which is about 30 kilometers southeast of Debaltsevo.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com. Click here for a list of stories in the The 2014 War in Ukraina category.
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I dont know - perhaps they might have additional "volunteers" ready to push forward from Rostov and the major Russian military command there.
These Russian "volunteers" are about as voluntary as were the Wehrmacht's Heer and Luftwaffe "volunteers" in the Spanish civil war. And just like then, the west does nothing to oppose a would be psychopath, Putin. On the good news side, Putin has not yet begun the typical Russian pogroms against the Jews, at least not yet. But when his adventurism falters, he will need an internal enemy - and guess what Jews, its you.
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He is balding and frankly -- even his supporters would concede -- a little bit boring. So how has Scott Walker, the governor of the Midwestern state of Wisconsin, suddenly pulled into the front rank of Republican candidates for president?
With neither an instantly recognisable name -- like Jeb Bush -- nor a balloon-sized ego that craves media attention -- like Chris Christie -- Mr Walker reached near-parity with Mr Bush in the polls this week in the electorally pacesetting states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
In an era where politics has become increasingly intertwined with celebrity, Mr Walker, the 47-year-old son of a bookkeeper and a Baptist minister, has ploughed a very different furrow, earning his stripes in the bare-knuckled world of state-level politics, far away from a detached and deadlocked Washington.
While rivals like Ted Cruz, the Texas senator and Tea Party darling, were grandstanding around the capital shutting down the Federal government, Mr Walker's pitch is that he was workin' in Wisconsin, bashing the unions, balancing budgets and slashing nearly $2 billion-worth (ÂŁ1.3 billion) of taxes.
"If you are not afraid to go big and bold, you can actually get results," Mr Walker told the audience at a major conservative conference in Iowa last month, noting his three election victories in Wisconsin had come in a state that has voted Democrat for president for more than 30 years.
[USAToday] Last week, Rudy Giuliani mused about whether President Obama loves America, musings that produced immediate media backlash as beyond the pale. Some thought this was proof of Republican racism. (Never mind that Obama had accused President Bush of being "unpatriotic" back in 2008).
...Perhaps we need to pay closer attention to these questions where presidents are concerned, but perhaps we should go a step farther: In a country like ours, where voters reign supreme, it seems as if concern about the patriotism of rulers ought to also apply to voters.
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Patriotism involves the 'willingness to give the last full measure of devotion'. The looters are only concerned about what they can make off with and will run at the first sign of a threat. Thus the need for commissars to beat them into the lines to keep the oligarchy in power. If and when the proverbial crap hits the fan, we'll quickly find out that votes do not equal real power. And that is why the oligarchs desperately want to grab your guns.
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To echo P2K's comments on guns, note the strategic actions by the EPA on ammunition and DoJ on banking for Gun Dealers being a "high risk" for banks and discouraging it. If you choke of availability and escalate the cost of learning and enjoying/skills sustainment, you kill off future generations who embrace the 2nd amendment. Anyone who doesn't think this is a strategy of the well-entrenched "civil servants" of these agencies is naïve.
In 1994, Reagan, in his last public statement, announced in a handwritten note that he had Alzheimer's disease--and of course he mentioned the United States.
"In closing let me thank you, the American people for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your President. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future." I cannot imagine those words being seriously considered by this guy: Neither can I, but I'll take 'Chemically induced memory loss' for $300.
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At least in this picture Champ is not riding a girls bike. Other than that brief allusion to his gender, what has this jackass done in his Presidency that inspires confidence in his fortitude and leadership?
Hisham Melhem The writer is Washington bureau chief of al-Arabiya.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] President Obama is a wordsmith. His relatively short political life has been chiseled and shaped by the possibilities and the limits of his language. He bursts on the national stage when he delivered a memorable keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. In fact, he defined his campaigns and his presidency by few pivotal speeches that tried to explain his vision of America, domestic decisions, and how he sees the world. Obama the wordsmith struggled with his language the way Obama the president struggled with his decisions. And just as his leadership style and some of his decisions were characterized by tentativeness, excessive caution and deliberation, his language can also oscillate between that which is inspirational and that which is deliberately ambiguous, deceptive and downright Orwellian. His framing of the Syrian conflict and his claims that his options were the extremes of doing nothing or invade Syria are a case in point.
[DAWN] PERHAPS it was a camera and microphone too many for the voluble interior minister. After avoiding controversy and speaking relatively forthrightly in his many engagements in the US, Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan has ended his trip on a most peculiar note.
He told the media that Abdul Aziz, the Death Eater leader of Lal Masjid ...literally the Red Mosque, located in Islamabad and frequented by all sorts of high govt officials. The proprietors, Ghazi Abdul Rasheed and Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi, unleashed their Islamic storm troopers on the city, shutting down whorehouses and beating people up who weren't devout enough. The Musharraf govt put an end to the nonsense by besieging the place. Abdul Aziz Ghazi was nabbed while he was trying to escape dressed up like a girl. BBC reported that the corpse count at 173, but other claims, usually hysterical, say there were up to 1000 titzup. Among their number was Abdul Rashid Ghazi. Everyone then said tut-tut and what a nice guy he had been... in Islamabad, has submitted a written apology to the capital police for his implied defence of the Dec 16 school attack in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
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[DAWN] POST-Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. the need to rethink our national security policy and terminate the state's patronage of jihadists has been under focus. Also under spotlight has been the state's capacity deficit that partly explains the gap between law and its implementation (obsession with military courts being a misconceived response to this issue). But what is not being acknowledged or debated candidly is the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Pakistain's religion problem: terror is being preached, justified or tolerated in the name of religion and we are doing little about it.
President B.O. was both right and being smart when he argued during the anti-terrorism summit convened at the White House last week that, "we are not at war with Islam, we are at war with those who have perverted Islam." Imagine the outrage across the Moslem world had the American president insinuated that there is something intrinsic about Islam that encourages violence and extremism or even that our religion lends itself more readily to abuse by terrorists.
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Debbie Turrentine is a 35 year day care veteran in the Springfield area. And she's upset! And the reason she's upset is because the State of Illinois is likely to cut not give as much money as they did last year to the Child Outsourcing Industry.
But what is the Child Outsourcing Industry you ask?
And why should we care?
Well young lieutenants, aspiring economists, and agents in the field, pour yourself a cocktail and let Uncie Cappy explain.
It all started long ago in the late 60's and early 70's when two variables or trends were taking place. One was the 2nd wave of feminism that was educating (then) young girls about independence, equality, and (for some of the more extreme elements) how they did not need a man. Women could do anything men could do. And not only could they do that, they could "Have It All" (TM) - a career, an education, a retirement, a husband, and children. Of course even though this was a trebling of the amount of work that would be required to technically have "everything," the number of hours sadly, did not treble. Which meant an increase in one of these "things" would necessitate a decrease in another.
The second thing was no-fault divorce. This allowed husbands and wives to divorce without there being any wrong doing by one of the parties. In other words, you could divorce for any reason. So frivolous could the reasons be, people often called it "frivorce." This resulted in a BOOM in divorce for the first generation to be married under it - the baby boomers. And just as Jackie Robinson made baseball a hallmark of black athletes, the baby boomer generation made divorce an Olympic event. Divorce rates skyrocketed to where 1 in 2 marriages ended in divorce, and worse, it now seems this "All American Pastime" has passed onto Gen X and Gen Y.
Now these two trends or "variables" at the time were likely well-intentioned. Why wouldn't you want women to have all the opportunities and successes of men? Who wouldn't want to have it all? And why ruin or even inconvenience your life if your marriage is no longer working? On the face of it, they seem very logical, even libertinely American. But sadly they were quite myopic. For there was one insy, winsy, teeny, weeny, nearly borderline microscopic problem.
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I have been saying for years that a woman could fairly easily have any two of three: a marriage, a career, a family. Any two out of the three.
Any one claiming that you can have all three is, as this author says, liable to run out of hours in the day.
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Children - potential future taxpayers. Potential not being a given. The problem arose when pols forgot that votes do not equate to taxpayers anymore. Consequently, you start to run out of resources (money and particularly what backs it) eventually. See - Venezuela or Detroit
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.
In 1994, Reagan, in his last public statement, announced in a handwritten note that he had Alzheimer's disease--and of course he mentioned the United States.
