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Breaking: IDF tanks attack terror targets in Gaza in response to rocket fire
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Dinesh DSouza on the 'element of compulsion' and Obamacare.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/12/2014 09:02 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If you haven't seen it, it really is worth a few minutes.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/12/2014 21:37 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Alan Dershowitz: Bladerunner backdrop - "South Africa is a failed country."
[Channel-24] Cape Town – South Africans are outraged after an American lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, called South Africa a "failed country" during an interview with Piers Morgan on CNN.
Ja dis regs "Outraged"....but turning their Boerboel's out in the garden, bolting the door, and placing their loaded Kommando on the night stand before turning in.
"Oh please, Mr Doucheshowitz - maybe look at your own miserable country before calling other's a failing country you pompous self-righteous prick!" one YouTube user wrote in reaction to the interview.
The YouTube user is clearly kak yapping. They'd be queuing up at Smuts to come here tomorrow if they had airfare.
Dershowitz, a well-known criminal lawyer who has been involved in several high-profile legal cases, lashed out at South Africa during an interview with Piers Morgan regarding the Oscar Pistorius case.

In the controversial video clip, Dershowitz says he has spent time in South Africa and it is a “failed and lawless” country.
Broken clock theory must certainly apply. However painful, give the man credit for telling the truth. The greater tragedy is HOW the country failed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/12/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Didn't used to be, but then neither was Rhodesia...
Posted by: Iblis || 03/12/2014 0:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Forced to give the keys to the looters, thats what happens.
Posted by: OldSpook || 03/12/2014 1:17 Comments || Top||

#3  The greater tragedy is HOW the country failed.

I think you know the answer, Besoeker.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/12/2014 6:56 Comments || Top||

#4  OldSpook you are too kind.

They were forced to give the keys, open the safe and carry out the loot.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/12/2014 8:19 Comments || Top||

#5  But what would you know of western betrayal and the backing and funding of racist, terrorist ideologues ?

[sarc off]
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/12/2014 8:23 Comments || Top||

#6  Cape Town Press Club speaker appears to agree with Dershowitz.

The political DNA and inescapable outcomes are eerily similar to our own.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/12/2014 8:33 Comments || Top||

#7  Democracy is a rare animal. History is replete with various 'cracies in which the benefits go to the few. The absurd notion is that real democracy (vs 'Peoples Democracies') is natural and would flourish given with a nudge in the right direction. The only complaint of the usual suspects is not about freedoms and liberties, but who'll exercise the power as determined by some color, race, or creed factor.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/12/2014 10:48 Comments || Top||

#8  What is more amazing is that someone was watching Piers Morgan and actually heard the remark.
If a tree falls in the forest and all that...
Posted by: Capsu78 || 03/12/2014 13:03 Comments || Top||


Europe
It Begins to Begin?: Chairman Of Joint Chiefs: US Ready For "Military Response" In Ukraine
First, moments ago, the US DOE announced in a shocking announcement that it would proceed with the first draw down and sale of crude from the US strategic petroleum reserve, the first since June 2011, in what it said was a "test sale to check the operational capabilities of system infrastructure", but is really just a shot across the bow at Putin for whom high commodity prices are orders of magnitude more important than how the Russian stock market performs.
..do I hear a faint rattle in the background.?

Caution: Nervousness Alert: ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge gives Debka a run for the salt pic...
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 03/12/2014 12:25 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Chairman Of Joint Chiefs: US Ready For "Military Response" In Ukraine

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Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/12/2014 15:30 Comments || Top||

#2  The US will be ready for a "Military Response" just as soon as a Commander In Chief can be located. The current one, and his image making minions seem to think that "standing up, while talking to Putin" is the same as "standing up to Putin".
Posted by: Capsu78 || 03/12/2014 16:26 Comments || Top||

#3  They're trying hard to make him look like Gary Cooper.

And to be fair, they don't want a Bossy Barry.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/12/2014 17:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Time for a Syria 2 letter writing campaign or is he going to ignore congress this time?
Posted by: 3dc || 03/12/2014 18:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Sshh! He's lining up his putt.
Posted by: Jumbo Uliling8650 || 03/12/2014 19:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Dempsey + the other Chiefs, + US Allies, are prolly NOT going to be too inspired by the Bammer saying for the THIRD? TIME on national media that Russia will pay a "cost" for invading the Crimea.

Historically, by attempting to isolate the Russian-held Crimea wid military forces Kiev is doing what Uncle Fidel did to the US base at GITMO before + after the Cuban Missle Crisis.
HOPEFULLY, ALL THE US-WORLD IS HEARING IS A LOT OF PCORRECT-DENIABLE MEDIA, DIPLOMATIC RHETORIC, I.E. "GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS" "FULL OF SOUND-N-FURY" = KHRUSCHEVIAN SHOE-SLAMMING BUT SIGNIFYING NOTHING.

As a reminder, ... ...

* TOPIX, WORLD NEWS, DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > RUSSIAN MILITARY EXPANDS PRESENCE IN CENTRAL ASIA TO KEEP AFGHAN MILITANT THREAT [Afghan = AFPAK? Post-2014?]FROM SPREADING.

As per Russia's world view, WHATS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF CENTRAL ASIA TO CONTAIN RADICAL ISLAM'S HARD BOYZ + SOON-TO-BE-NUCLEAR OWG GLOBAL JIHAD IS THE CRIMEA.

Its in Russia's interests to keep a watchful MilPol eye on Islamist-pressured TURKEY, NUKE-WANNABE RISING IRAN = GLOBALIST-DESIRED OWG CO-SUPERPOWER IRAN, + COUNT DOOKU'S EMIRATE/CALIPHATE-HAPPY CAUCASUS BOYZ - THE CRIMEA IS RIGHT NEXT TO ALL OF 'EM.

And, ironically, ITS IN THE US + EUROPE'S = JUDEOCHRISTIAN WEST'S INTERSTS TO LET HARDLINE, SMASH-ALL-ENEMIES-TO-PIECES-LOVING RUSSIA TO DO SO.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/12/2014 20:14 Comments || Top||

#7  When the media said that Zero and Putin talked for 2 hours (1 hour once, then 1 hour again), I immediately sensed Zero and Putin where just going over the Socialist Game Plan for this situation.
Posted by: Omavising Ebbemp9815 || 03/12/2014 20:45 Comments || Top||

#8  Napoleon and Hitler both have fond memories of their forays into Mother Russia.

For some reason, I am reminded of the of old saying "every ship can be a minesweeper - once."
Posted by: Lone Ranger || 03/12/2014 20:48 Comments || Top||

#9  Obama's a Putz. He'll NEVER fight, Russia or someone (Anyone) else.

Folks say "He wants a War", Bullshit, he's too cowardly,and It won't help HIM stay in office.

Unless (Of course) He could LIE one up?
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 03/12/2014 23:39 Comments || Top||

#10  See also WORLD NEWS > [New York Daily News] PRSISENT OBAMA TELLS UKRAINE PRIME MINISTER ARSENIY YATSENYUK THAT THE US REJECTS ANY RUSSIAN MOVE TO ANNEX CRIMEA.

D *** NG THE RED LINES, MAN - FULL SPEED IN REVERSE???

* RELATED SAME = ...
> [Deccan Chronicle] UKRAINE LOOKS TO THE US [read, POTUS Obama] ON CRIMEA ISSUE.
> [Al-Jazeera] US TO STAND BY UKRAINE IN CRIMEA ANNEXATION.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/12/2014 23:39 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iranian lawmaker blames U.S. for disappearance of Malaysian airliner
[Jihad Watch] Hossein Naghavi Hosseini says that the disappearance of the plane was an attempt to “sabotage the relationship between Iran and China and South East Asia.” Interestingly enough, he doesn’t seem to have blamed the Zionists. Hossein Naghavi Hosseini must be a moderate.
That didn't take long.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/12/2014 07:11 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Perhaps he was thinking of 1988, when Iran Air Flight 655 was shot down by the US Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes on 3 July 1988.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/12/2014 15:44 Comments || Top||



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