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Obama, Family Confirm Death of IS Hostage Kayla Mueller
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India-Pakistan
Hope springs eternal?
[DAWN] PAKISTAN is going downhill. This means nothing to the corrupt who rule it. They fight tooth and claw against any attempt to save Pakistain. There is one exception. He raised expectations to fever pitch. He is honest and sincere, but politically naive. He wasted opportunities. He could still become prime minister. Unfortunately, he might not deliver much. Nevertheless, his social contributions have been very significant and politically unmotivated.

There is a long list of challenges threatening the country. None of them are being seriously tackled. Atrocities show no sign of ending. They are certain to get worse with the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
hovering in the wings while the exit plans of the thieving elite are constantly updated. The roots of our national condition are carefully nourished. They sustain our ruling establishment.

Elected offices of public trust are generally considered God's beneficence for personal and family enrichment. Grateful beneficiaries offer nawafil, qurbani and sadaqaat instead of performing their bounden duties with due diligence. Unsurprisingly, Pakistain is the worst governed country in South Asia which is one of the poorest governed regions of the world. It is caught in a fatally corrupt institutional and political trap.

Few may starve in Pakistain. Those who do in faraway places like Thar or Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
generally do so quietly and invisibly. Many thousands drown in floods and die in earthquakes without their devastated families creating too much fuss. Having voted for energy promises the people put up without fans in summer or heating in winter. They get agitated when they see their children suffer and die from a plethora of preventable causes. But they do not unduly disturb their uncaring leaders. They keep voting for them.
Posted by: Fred || 02/10/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Olde Tyme Religion
The Truth About the Crusades
[Moonbattery] Traitors against Western Civilization reflexively side with its historic enemy, Islam. Those who are ignorant or assume their audience to be ignorant of history will often evoke the Crusades as a great sin against the peaceful Muslim world. Last week Obama appalled descent people when he attempted to justify the Islamic State’s atrocities by denouncing Christianity. Naturally he mentioned the Crusades, as Bill Clinton did right after 9/11 for the same malign purpose.

In reality, the Crusaders were heroes who fought a defensive war against the same menace of expansionist Islam that is on horrific display today. Dr. Bill Warner provides some visual perspective:
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp15042 || 02/10/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sensei: "I prefer simpler definitions".
Chela: "Good vs. Evil?"
Sensei: "No. Us vs. them."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/10/2015 3:12 Comments || Top||

#2  They seem to focus on the sack of Jerusalem, sort of ignoring that's how they, the Europeans, behaved at home to everyone else they dealt with. Missed in their selective history is the contemporary campaigns of the Mongols who didn't sack as much as level and kill everyone in any village, town, or city they took to. Then would go back a week or more later and catch anyone who hid in the first obliteration for the same treatment.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/10/2015 11:00 Comments || Top||

#3  The Truth About the Crusades didn't last long enough. They should have wiped'm out while they had the chance. Now look at the mess we are in.

Posted by: Thraper Snosing3361 || 02/10/2015 12:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Imagine how much better the world would be if the French and British avoided the 100 years war and instead sent those troops across Muslim Spain and North Africa. They could have rolled by the conquesta fairly easily. They were some hard core fighting bastards during the 100 years war. Shakespeare could have written about King Henry V and his great speech at the battle of Tobruk.

Imagine if the Spanish, flush with gold from the new world avoided fighting the heretic protestants and instead hired them as troops. Avoided the 30 years war and rolled back Islam.

By the time teh west finally conquered North Africa to end the slave trade they were too civilized to force conversions and really change the cultures. And we still get grief for all that.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/10/2015 14:37 Comments || Top||

#5 

During the third crusade, Richard the Lionhearted of England informs Philip of France, Frederic of Germany, and Leopold of Austria that he agreed to do an interview with someone named "Brian Williams" and that he will return shortly...

The lies about the crusades are breath-taking. I agree about the comment about the English and French fighting one another when their energies would have been better put to use elsewhere...
Posted by: BigEdLB || 02/10/2015 15:03 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
To defeat ISIS, check Iran and Israel
Yesterday the Medes and the Persians said it was Israel and Soddy Arabia.
Everyone knows Israel is the root of all evil. If only the country had no Joooooooooos, how much better things would be! (yes, /sarcasm, if anyone wondered.)
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The latest crime committed by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) - and I do not expect it to be the last - barely adds anything new to the criminal record of this kind of terrorism, which brings together the worst manifestations of the crimes committed by the Crusaders under the pretext of Christianity and the zest felt by sadists for killing and torture. After their acts of mass and individual slaughter, and their broadcast around the world, we now see ISIS executing people by burning them alive. Who knows, perhaps these killers will think up even more inventive and disgusting crimes in the future.

The perpetrators seem to be keen to associate this "carnival" of savagery exclusively with Islam, although most religions have experience at one point or another in their history with bloody violence and internal strife, before accepting and valuing differences of opinion. There is no need to revisit all the religious wars and atrocities that have been committed throughout human history - not to mention the sectarian conflicts that have broken out between followers of the same religion. However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
the eyes of the world, thanks to the finest media and social networking outlets, are now firmly focused on Islam, while Moslems stand idly by, incapable of coming up with a new logic to confront those who are putting forward a false image of their religion in the name of their own exclusionary faith.
Posted by: Fred || 02/10/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Home Front: Culture Wars
University of CA: Divest Now, from America
h/t Gates of Vienna
One of the pieces of evidence I offer to bolster my arguments from American Betrayal that "we" -- the US-led West -- lost the Cold War (World War II, also, but that argument requires more space than I wish to use here, or total immersion in the book) is the fact that our college campuses, private and taxpayer-funded, are outposts of Marx.

How can a nation claim victory in an epic "battle of ideas" -- classicial liberalism vs. Marxist ideology -- when its institutions of "higher learning," its incubators of leaders, continue to churn out a hardened "nomenklatura" whose allegiance is to the pillars of Marxism-Leninism: collectivism, moral relativism, globalism?

Now this: "UC Student Government Passes Resolution to Divest -- From America."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/10/2015 03:26 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  these petulant ungrateful assholes need to have their scholarships removed and be beaten with reality
Posted by: Frank G || 02/10/2015 7:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Show solidarity -- invest in Greek government bonds.
Posted by: Matt || 02/10/2015 7:45 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm betting divesting doesn't include American produced products like electricity, water supply, garbage service, etc...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/10/2015 8:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Most of the school runs on US investment, from US student loans to research grants. Maybe we should immediately stop all payments to the students for loans, grants, and scholarships. Then move to pull the federal grants from the school and finally remove its tax exempt status.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 02/10/2015 9:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Long past time for America to divest in the UC (et al) system.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/10/2015 9:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Sounds good to me. Yank all funding for them and watch the whole system collapse as they can't pay for shit. (the students sure as fuck won't pay)

Posted by: DarthVader || 02/10/2015 10:04 Comments || Top||

#7  It isn't a school. It is a day care for mommy's little tax deductions.

So this is what it felt like to be a roman during the Fall.
Posted by: Nguard || 02/10/2015 10:16 Comments || Top||

#8  I don't get where Californians think like this and can rationalize their way to this. Its not just the Colleges. Remember back a year ago when the state decided to boycott Arizona because of our immigrant issues. They wanted to boycott all Arizona businesses. This was all grand and self gratifying until Jan Brewer, the AZ Gov, stood up and made a snark comment that she would be happy to shut off the AZ water and electricity going to CA and direct it elsewhere. Then their little reality crashed.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 02/10/2015 10:26 Comments || Top||

#9  these petulant ungrateful assholes need to have their scholarships removed and be beaten with reality

A lot of them do get beaten with reality when they finally graduate and start looking for jobs.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 02/10/2015 11:40 Comments || Top||

#10  Okay, strip them of their citizenship, kick them out under pain of death if they return. Seize the university and all it's assets, donate it to the military and give them what they want, to be out of America, forever.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 02/10/2015 11:42 Comments || Top||

#11  Divest? Check the symbol, there's a 'Q' at the end. We're already in receivership to China.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/10/2015 11:48 Comments || Top||

#12  Ah yes, more nitwit ideas, brought to you from the epicenter of Nitwitadom aka California

Posted by: Thraper Snosing3361 || 02/10/2015 12:13 Comments || Top||

#13  No student loans for UC system students until they shape up!
Posted by: 3dc || 02/10/2015 12:58 Comments || Top||

#14  Also end all Federal projects and aid with the U of C system.
Posted by: 3dc || 02/10/2015 12:59 Comments || Top||

#15  Divestment can work both ways!
Posted by: 3dc || 02/10/2015 13:04 Comments || Top||

#16  Is there a list of sane Educational Institutions out there?

I sure would remove UC from it.

Kids pay alot of money for this insanity and end up stupider than when they went in these schools.
Posted by: newc || 02/10/2015 13:12 Comments || Top||

#17  It's a very short list, newc. UC hasn't been on it for a long time. Cal Tech & maybe Pepperdine may still be on it, but beyond that....
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/10/2015 13:17 Comments || Top||

#18  "UC student groups staged a vocal protest during the UCSA meeting, chanting, ‘stop the hate, against the only Jewish state,’ and holding signs telling the UCSA to ‘stop dividing the UCs for an unjust cause,'” StandWithUs reported in a news release."

There is some sanity in the article.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/10/2015 14:33 Comments || Top||

#19  Independence from Amerika but NOT from Uncle Sugar's $$$???

May happen sooner-than-later iff ...

* IIRC FREEREPUBLIC > [Want China Times] CHINA SUGGESTS [it may] ARMING HAWAIIAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT.

Ditto for GUAM-CNMI-WESTPAC???

* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > CHINA STARTS ANOTHER RECLAMATION PROJECT IN SOUTH CHINA SEA, NEW LAND NOW 150,000 SQUARE METERS IN AREA. PHILIPPINES COMPLAINS PROJECT IS WELL WITHIN PHILIPPINES' EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE [EEZ].

As said or inferred times before, WHAT PHIL or VIETNAM, ETC. SEZ-EEZ ARE THE PHIL + VIETNAM, ETC. REFERRING TO IFF THEY CANNOT UNILATERALLY DEFEND THEIR INTERESTS OR SOVEREIGNTY FROM CHINA, EVEN WITH "RED-LINE" LOVIN', ANTI-US US GLOBALIST POTUS OBAMA'S = US SUPPORT OR BACKUP???

20TH Century, Cold War-era "Peace thru Strength" is now 21st Century, post-9-11, OWG-NWO Globalist, US-n-Only-US "Retreat/Pullback is [World]Peace".

* SAME > VIDEO: CHINA'S LOW-KEY STRATEGIC PUSH IN FIRST ISLAND CHAIN, SOUTH CHINA SEA LAYS THE FOUNDATION FOR CHINA TO BE THE DE FACTO
"GUARDIAN" OF THE REGION, NOT THE USA.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/10/2015 22:17 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2015-02-10
  Obama, Family Confirm Death of IS Hostage Kayla Mueller
Mon 2015-02-09
  Top Pakistani Taliban leader injured in Afghanistan
Sun 2015-02-08
  '109 Boko Haram Fighters Dead' after First Attack on Niger Friday
Sat 2015-02-07
  Yemen rebels dissolve parliament, assume power
Fri 2015-02-06
  Al-Qaeda holy man killed in Yemen drone strike, AQAP says
Thu 2015-02-05
  Jordanian King Personally Participating in Sorties Against ISIS
Wed 2015-02-04
  Jordan hangs two Iraqi militants in response to pilot's death
Tue 2015-02-03
  ISIS burns Jordanian Pilot Alive
Mon 2015-02-02
  Nigeria's Military Repels Boko Haram's Attack on Maiduguri
Sun 2015-02-01
  Drone Attack Kills Four Qaida Suspects in Yemen
Sat 2015-01-31
  Al-Nusra Launches Assault on Western-Backed Syria Rebels
Fri 2015-01-30
  Today's Pakaboom: 49 dead in bomb blast at Shiite mosque
Thu 2015-01-29
  US drone strike kills seven in North Waziristan
Wed 2015-01-28
  Nigeria Loses City Of 100,000 To Boko Haram
Tue 2015-01-27
  Official: Eight dead, including five foreigners, in Tripoli hotel attack


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