[Pak Daily Times] According to Oxfam International, some 87 percent of Afghan women have experienced violence in the form of forced marriages, physical, sexual or psychological abuse.
Last year, a former Afghan warlord told me that women were treated like dogs in his province. Being an Afghan journalist, I have authored two books about the mistreatment of women in my country. Violence against women and teenaged girls in Afghanistan is growing. A UN report recently claimed that there was a 20 percent increase in violence and mistreatment. The annual report on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict says more than 300 women and girls were brutally killed and 560 injured by their husbands and parents in 2012.
On December 14, 2013, the BBC reported that an Afghan official confirmed that a man had incised the nose and lips of his 30-year-old wife, Setara, in Herat
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They fear independent women with a mind of their own.They want submissive slaves.
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Women are for children only young boys are for pleasure.
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More like treating everyone other than the males in the tribe occupying their proper hierarchical positions as animals, unless 'they' are heavily armed and extremely lethal, at which time you take a skulking attitude till they leave the area to reassert your dominance over the others.
[WORLDSTAGEGROUP] The saddening, terrifying and horrifying news of Boko- Haram gunnies again last Friday morning attacking and bombarding army barracks in Bama 78 kilometers from Maiduguri Borno State with reckless abandon and in the trail freely suing rocket- propelled guns all these on the wake of an earlier one at an air force base also in Borno State where about 30 air force officers were reported killed and four highly expensive aircrafts destroyed must be enough to tell all those who cared to listen that Nigeria is at war with itself.
That 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... could own up agreeing that the scenario "is a very challenging moment " although an undercurrent statement but enough to tell us all that he must not only be feeling terribly concerned but unsafe.
The House of Representatives members in tandem with CBN Governor currently having running battle with Coordinating Minister of the economy and Finance Minister Dr. Mrs Ngozi Okonjo -- Iweala over the glaring poor state of the economy must be conclusive of the fact that the mad man hears only its own voice otherwise the ranting by Okonjo- Iweala over a spill can of milk. Only a fool will fail to see that the economy fastly drawing down on its Foreign Exchange Account deposit is not only ailing but terribly roaming on the cliff of disaster.
That APC the newly formed and registered political party is not only creating waves but forcing the ruling party PDP to its seeming end and irrelevancy rather than constituting a laughing matter must be seen a dangerous signal for the political future of Nigeria.
Unfortunately PDP the political party of Mr. President that is at its senseless war with and within itself must be said lacking good cause to curry public pity.
Hidden however from the public glare is the fact that President Goodluck Jonathan's kin's men and women rather than be nationalistic in the thoughts and planning have resorted to subterranean method employing their old tactics going back to creeks to sabotage Nigeria's economic interest using oil to fight the nation. It was part of this game plan that of recent landed Alhaji Asari Dokubo in trouble in Benin Republic a bad situation which President Goodluck Jonathan unexpectedly saved.
The warning must therefore hereby be sounded that Nigeria and Jonathan are at war on three dangerous fronts that if not timely checked and addressed could consume all of us. The nations statesmen and women have it a duty calling on them to meet soonest possible convoking a National Peace Conference to address our currency of parlous situations before they are blown out into non controllable.
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[Pak Daily Times] The uphill struggle we are facing in our battle against polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... has entered a new dimension of savagery and hopelessness. On Friday yet another anti-polio healthcare worker was bumped off by those elements that think protecting ourselves against this vicious disease is an act against Islam or is a ploy of western countries to eliminate Mohammedans. The target was an anti-polio vaccination centre in the tribal areas, the victim a mere statistic in the ever rising frequency of fatal attacks against all those humane souls working for the good of the country and its people. The murder has had the desired effect: anti-polio groups have pulled out of the troubled tribal region, leaving hundreds of thousands of children without having been administered the necessary anti-polio vaccination. This will have a disastrous effect on our efforts to wipe out this debilitating illness, one that has the potential to spread the polio catastrophe to the rest of the country.
Focus on polio has gotten extremely intense these last few weeks. The international community is raising its guard -- the World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced 2015 as the cut-off date for Pakistain to get its polio problem under control or face international travel bans. This has led to a somewhat quickening of pace by the authorities on trying to curb this disease. Imran Khan Continued on Page 49
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[Pak Daily Times] Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... 's (IK's) PTI took out rallies in Lahore, Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and Quetta on Sunday against inflation and the state of the economy. Whereas the Lahore rally was sizeable, it was nowhere near the 'tsunami' the PTI had promised. The rallies in the other cities were even smaller. In his speech at the rally in Lahore, IK spelt out a nine-point 'formula' for righting the wrongs of the economy. IK's 'economics' could be boiled down to declaring war on drone attacks and the NATO
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[Ynet] Analysis: Rising tensions, frequent incitement in West Bank, motivated by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,' growing involvement, is possible explanation of bus bombing attack. Increase in number of festivities between IDF, Paleostinians in West Bank bodes poorly for possible calm. Source: Paleostinians not interested in intifada
The Shin Bet and the police's working hypothesis is that the Bat Yam bombing was executed due to nationalistic motives. Or in other words, it was presumably perpetrated by a Paleostinian terrorist. However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... caution is advised: This assessment is based on a preliminary investigation.
Michael Yagur ordered the dozen people on bus no. 240 to safety moments before bomb hidden in knapsack exploded by sappers
Security forces did not receive any intelligence regarding the possibility of a looming terror attack -- not on public transportation or anywhere. Lacking any advance warning, a specific and detailed investigation now needs to be conducted, with small bits of intelligence information being cross-checked in a bid to find the perpetrators.
Despite the lack of prior warning, it is impossible to ignore the fact that in recent months there has been a surge in anti-Israel incitement and nationalistic sentiment among Paleostinians in the West Bank, which have already resulted in the deaths of Israelis. The number of violent festivities between the IDF and Paleostinians has also been on the rise in recent months, resulting in preventive fire on the part of the IDF.
A security bigshot told Ynet that "the Paleostinian public is not interested in a third intifada and a deterioration of the security situation," but we must not forget that Hamas is also trying to put terror attacks into motion using West Bank operatives to compensate for the restrain it has shown and lack of terror attacks it has launched from Gazoo. Some of these West Bank based activities are being led by released Paleostinians prisoners and even by some still serving time in jail. Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... as well as other radical jihadists and Salafist groups have also been growing increasingly active in the West Bank.
Feeding desire for vengeance
As a result of these activities and the Shin Bet and the IDF's terror prevention operations some 16 Paleostinians have been killed in the West Bank and Gazoo during the last year. Only this week four Paleostinians were killed, two in the West Bank and two in Gazoo. These numbers feed the desire for vengeance among Death Eaters and could be the driving force behind Sunday's bus bombing.
The speed with which Hamas and other Gazoo-based Paleostinian terrorist groups responded to the incident strengthens suspicions according to which they had an either direct or indirect hand in the bombing.
Nonetheless, we should remember that it is also possible the attack is not nationalistically motivated. The decision to treat the incident as a terror attack stems from the manner and style in which the attack was undertaken. An bomb placed on a bus is intended to indiscriminately harm the largest amount of people possible. This type of attack is rarely the form of a criminally motivated attack, which usually targets specific individuals or groups in an attempt to exact Dire Revenge™ or send a message.
Luckily, the quick evacuation of bus travelers and the driver prevented massive loss of life. The blast was small, but if the bus had been full the shock could have caused serious damage to bus-riders, including deafening them and causing internal bleeding or worse.
Nonetheless, it is worth noting that the bus driver and passengers who opened the bag and found it crawling with wires acted carelessly and irresponsibly.
Just opening the bag could have detonated the explosive. In these cases, the right course of action is to report the existence of the abandoned bag, evacuate the scene as fast as possible and then wait for the police to arrive.
[Ynet] US, EU seen as enablers to long-lasting Iranian expansion in Middle East, Central Asia and Southern Caucasus
On December 16, an article published on the New Yorker quoted Ayatollah Khamenei as follows: "If our centrifuges do not continue to turn, no other wheel shall turn for our dignity, independence, power and security."
Such a stance has to be understood as part of the Persian wider revolutionary strategic positioning. While many analysts argue that Tehran is not a rational player due to the apocalyptic messages a majority of its leaders have been pronouncing since 1979, it may be possible to speculate that the Islamic Theocratic Republic has a set of clear foreign policy objectives.
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Where matters stand is anyone's guess at the moment. Readers at the National Review want him gone. Writers and readers at other conservative publications are laughing their asses off at National Review. There is a hint from Steyn himself that the editor in question is already gone. It is unclear what the National Review management response will be in time.
Mr. Steyn's article last week was his usual work: direct, passionate and merciless against liberals. Steyn does this sort of thing week in and week out. He doesn't get a pass if he turns in shoddy work, but he has never needed one that I have seen.
If you follow Mark Steyn, you will know that the man has been a staunch advocate of free speech for a long, long time, even placing himself in legal jeopardy in Canada and Great Britain, winning in all cases against those who would prefer some things not get talked about.
The article in question makes fun of the pro gay group and the larger pro gay political lobby that wound up getting Phil Robertson suspended, but does so by addressing their totalitarian tendencies such as the suppression of free speech, not the act that defines their very lives. The tone of the article was erudite, direct, classy and smooth: everything every writer would want to be even if you disagreed with Steyn.
The response of the editor, identified as Jason Lee Steorts, was to complain about a "slur" against gay folks, as he put it, in the original article Steyn wrote. In his response, he made a cleverly disguised threat that he has say so on whether Steyn continues to write for the National Review, because in his response he separates criticizing speech from state coercion and cultural coercion, what A&E did. To wit:
By way of criticizing speech, I'll say that I found the derogatory language in this column, and especially the slur in its borrowed concluding joke, both puerile in its own right and disappointing coming from a writer of such talent.
I have seen this sort of thing before. A non conservative based on his talents gets a gig at a conservative publication and dutifully does his work until one day he comes "out", and his real agenda is revealed to all.
David Horowitz had a similar problem with a young gay writer about four years ago. The man was brilliant, fresh out of school, gay, and a good writer. The man had insinuated himself in a number of online publications, Breitbart et seq, and was writing at a furious rate. The problem that arose was because the writer had a thing for illegal male flesh, my words. So when the man was relieved of his duties not only did Horowitz's editor write about it, he conducted an online campaign against the kid that stretched on for weeks.
Other publications quietly removed him, or quietly let him go, but not Horowitz. The problem for Horowitz was that they obviously wanted to burnish their pro-gay bonifides and press the laughable case that he and his editor were traditional conservatives, except when to comes to gay marriage. I wrote at the time that Horowitz had a personnel problem that if allowed to fester could destroy the whole organization. Personnel problems are not dealt with by publicly dressing down offenders, but by introducing the problem to the door with good wishes for the future.
The problem with removing Jason Lee Steorts is that Steorts has been walking down this road for a long, long time, and the management at NRO has not even blinked at his views. One writer characterized liberals as making a mess of things, and conservatives refusing to fix them because now those mistakes are part of the past. Cute, but wrong.
What does the National Review do at this point? Do you allow a loose cannon on your deck on the fear that releasing him will make you look less than enlightened, or do you do to him what A&E did to Phil Robertson: chuck him out the window.
Admittedly, I am not enlightened, nor as smart as the folks at National Review. But I do know that as a writer, I would not want to be associated with National Review by having this liberal at the controls of my organization.
Call it a firing, or a drumhead, or even call it cultural coercion, as Steorts so famously put it. Call me a bigot, or call me a redneck. I'll take the hit. I'm brave that way.
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Thanks for explaining this. I was wondering what in the heck was going on. I think I'll go with Steyn -- he's proven himself.
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National Review Steps In It, Big Time. Again.
NR is the same publication that fired John Derbyshire for a piece he wrote for Taki's Magazine entitled The Talk: Nonblack Version. Derbyshire had the bad manners to make some politically incorrect, but demonstrably true statements regarding certain ethnic populations.
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Quite a while back it had become obvious to all but the unread that NR has slipped its moorings and gone adrift from Conservatism, into "establishment-ism", and kowtowing to the northeastern big-city cocktail party set.
Now we know part of the reason why. To alter a phrase from Forrest Gump: Quisling is as Quisling does.
Fire him. Period. And get back to standing athwart history and shouting STOP, as founder Wm. F. Buckley recommended.
One great example: Andrew Sullivan. As a young man he wrote great speeches for Ronald Reagan, for whom his attraction was, as he later admitted, sexual and not ideological. After ingratiating himself to conservatives during the post 9/11 period, he attempted to use his large audience share to advocate for the radical gay agenda. Sleeper cell all along? You be the judge.
Charles Johnson at Little Greeen Footballs? I'd have to say that the same dynamic is at work.
Remember Heidi Cullen, high priestess of global warming at the Weather Channel, who started out as a regular weather babe only to parlay her position into advocating that anyone who disagreed with her views should lose their licensure and their means to make a living? Similar dynamic. Insinuate yourself into place and go off like a human time bomb when the time is right.
Look, in any organization you are going to have people who differ on some issue. But it becomes obvious at some point when somebody has insinuated themselves into a situation to, ah, not let a crisis go to waste. This guy is a recent college grad (by my standards, anyways, I'm no spring chicken). His thought process is marinated in the methodology of the academy as it exists in the high water mark of the politically correct movement; shouting down, speech codes, grading people upon their politics and not their inherent skill, and hiring/promoting based upon the same.
None of us can tell NR what to do. The best thing for them to do going forward is proper vetting to prevent any other Manchurian cadidate types from coming on board in the first place.
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...I like NRO, but if it comes down to a choice I will unreservedly stand next to Mark Steyn. He may be of a different tribe, but in his heart, he is an American...in the finest possible sense of what that used to mean.
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When it comes to the legal restriction of speech, or the legal coercion of dissenters, Ill storm the barricade with Mark. It amazes me that any soi-disant free people tolerate that sort of thing.
You fart, that is what Mr. Steyn is doing. I'd fire him for being an editor who contradicts himself in his own opinion piece, and proving his opponents point to boot.
I don't know what is going on here, or who Stoerts is. Ever watch a sports broadcast and it becomes painfully obvious that one of the announcers doesn't know a damn thing about the game? Perhaps Stoerts had a bad outing, but that is the first thought which popped into my head after reading his piece. Boring indeed, but as an editor a person is expected the ability of judgement, which his article also lacks.
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Haven't read NR for years. Nothing that has happened since then has changed my mind. Endorsing Romney certainly didn't boost their conservative bona fides. It is no loner the magazine which WFB founded - not by a long shot.
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The Robertson statements on both homosexuality and race have relevance because they rattle the grievance industry at its very core. Not in terms of judgment but of definition. Hate the sin but love the sinner is the essence of tolerance. Witness to perseverance in the face of injustice is counter to privilege. The secular progressive understands those traditional beliefs nullify their agenda. That is why they have to silence dissenting views with claims of bigotry.
Is Maureen Dowd Obsolete?The Evidence Speaks, Loudly
"Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing"
--Federicius Aurelius Superomnem, 345 B.C.
Oh god, oh god. Death, taxes, migraine, sinus drainage, beriberi, and Maureen Dowd, the resentment columnist at the New York Times. On the web I find her at some feminist bitch-in, called Are Men Obsolete? She has this to say to men: She seems to be devoid of feelings like love. But spite, that she has...
"So now that women don't need men to reproduce and refinance, the question is, will we keep you around? And the answer is, 'You know we need you in the way we need ice cream....you'll be more ornamental."
I know some men who really are just ornamental. Lumping all men in that category seems very short-sighted and bigoted to me.
I was delighted to think that I might be ornamental, no one having suggested the concept until now. I could have used it in high school. Maureen herself is beyond being ornamental, having that injection-molded look that follows the seventh face-lift, probably accomplished by the surgical use of a construction crane.
The endless glasses of chardonnay haven't helped much either.
Fred does have a way with words.
But I will say this to her:
Listen, Corn Flower. Let's think over this business of obsolete men. Reflect. You live in New York, in which every building was designed and built by men. You perhaps use the subway, designed, built, and maintained by men. You travel at in a car, invented, designed, and built by men--a vehicle that you don't understand (what is a cam lobe?) and couldn't maintain (have you ever changed a tire? Could you even find the tires?), and you do this on roads designed, built, and maintained by men. You fly in aircraft designed, built, and maintained by men, which you do not understand (what, Moon Pie, is a high-bypass turbofan?)
In short, as you run from convention to convention, peeing on hydrants, you depend utterly on men to keep you fed (via tractors designed by men, guided by GPS invented, designed, and launched by men, on farms run by men), and comfy (air conditioning invented...but need I repeat myself?)
I do not want to be unjust. It is not in my nature. While men may be obsolete (unless you want to eat) I cannot say, Apple Cheeks, that feminists are obsolete. They are not. Obsoleteness implies having passed through a period of usefulness.
I do get tired of your hissing and fizzing about the noble sex to which I belong. Mercy, I cry. It is not my fault that Michael Douglas didn't marry you. He didn't marry me either, but I don't hate men because of it. (In fact I am grateful to him, and doubtless he to me).
Don't misunderstand me. I have nothing against ill-bred viragos--feminism has its place, though I'm not sure where. But let' me be clear, Buttercup. I don't want to seem rude--nothing could be more alien to my character--but I do think that you and your littermates might essay a civility exceeding that of menopausing catamounts. In fact, Sweet Potato, if it were not for my innate courtesy I might say that being at once useless and insupportable is stretching things. There's more tasty invective at the site.
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Pardon my English for a minute. Maureen Dowd is that slimy slut you would never dare dip your wick in for fear that the cooties would kill it and you.
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They are unlikely to breed. And their long term viability is not naturally insured. It is a passing Fad...limited to their lifetime.
A thousand years from now. Young ladies will still be having babies and making the bed about this time of the morning. And they will love their children and their husbands will love them.
And no one will remember this bitch every existed.
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Typical progressive liberal mentality; once a certain comfortable level of living is achieved throw all thoughts of progress out the window and live life on someone else's accomplishments. Instead of the rich this time it is all men.
I suspect she may keep the pajama boy types around since every women needs a man to look down upon once in a while.
lastly I have witnessed how women tend to treat other women when men are not involved. They can be brutal, petty and vicious while calling each other sisters and friends.
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Urbanist Fish Bowl mentality. Cut the power, energy, food, clean water, block the refuge removal, they'll last at best about a week before anarchy breaks out (see New Orleans post Katrina).
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those ovaries dried up into bitter stone raisins a long time ago
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Oh, I've loved Fred Reed (in a fangirly way) ever since he had a stint (the deity only knows how THAT happened) as a columnist for the Army/Navy/AF Times organization. His pieces were frank, funny and biting - kind of a bush-league Steyn or PJ O'Rourke. Of course it didn't last too long - he was either fired or stomped off in a huff.
On another note, and if I can beg the indulgence of the Rantburgundians ... I have a sale on, of my Kindle and Nook format e-books from now until the 29th. All of my eBooks which are also in print editions are now 25% off the usual price on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
And being that this is now Christmas Eve, and the sun has gone down and all - a Merry Christmas and the happiest of New Years to all Rantburgundians. I sense that it will be a challenging year - but there may be great things in store for us who hold fast to our core beliefs.
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"While men may be obsolete (unless you want to eat) I cannot say, Apple Cheeks, that feminists are obsolete. They are not. Obsoleteness implies having passed through a period of usefulness."
This guy is a scream! (And correct, too.)
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Merry Christmas, Sgt. Mom!
And Merry Christmas to all the 'Burgers.
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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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Pak Daily Times] According to Oxfam International, some 87 percent of Afghan women have experienced violence in the form of forced marriages, physical, sexual or psychological abuse.
Goodluck Jonathan
