[DAWN] THE Supreme Court’s decision to ban hunting of the houbara bustard is the right step which should ideally have come much earlier, and without opposition from any quarters in the country. But the hunting of same was prohibited when the Pak bigshots granted the permits to continue the extermination to the Arabians' even bigger shots.
In a ruling on Wednesday the court cancelled all hunting permits, fulfilling a long-voiced demand that has been calling for saving the bird whose numbers have by some recent counts decreased to less than 100,000 globally.
The endangered species was left without protection and at the mercy of visiting royalty from the Gulf states in defiance of good sense and knowledge.
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[DAWN] THE country's Independence Day was celebrated with unusual fervour this Aug 14 -- after a lapse of years. A wave of optimism appears to be sweeping the country, stemming largely from the military's campaign of 'clean-up' from Wazoo and Fata to 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... and 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... . A veil of gloom that had settled on the country with ever-increasing corruption, loot and plunder has suddenly lifted, though 'ifs' and 'buts' remain whether the perpetrators and hidden actors will truly face justice or not.
Enemies of Pakistain are exhibiting their discomfort, and have publicly announced their intentions to intensify efforts to destabilise our country. These efforts have been going on for decades, but have reached alarming proportions since the mid- to late-2000s with infiltration of different segments of society by those following inimical external agendas. The breadth and scale of infiltration appears to span political parties, media, TV anchors, op-ed columnists -- and even the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain and different bully boy outfits.
One effort of non-friendly actors is to breed a psychosis of despondency and fear within a target population. This serves multiple purposes, among them breeding anti-nationalistic feelings among marginalised and vulnerable groups, as well as a lowering of a population's will and capacity to fight. Even patriotic commentators -- and I count myself as one of them -- have perhaps unwittingly contributed by focusing exclusively on the negatives in Pakistain's situation.
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if you left your neighbours alone you would be able to work.
Hamid Gul and Mulah Omar dying is a start of a new beginning maybe?
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There still exists a fractious military and its ISI.
[PJMedia] A recent New York Times/CBS News poll [1] just revealed that about 60% of Americans feel race relations are not good. Some 40% think that they will become even worse. Yet when Obama was elected, 66% of those polled felt race relations were generally OK. All racial groups, according to recent polling, believe that Obama's handling of racial relations has made things worse since 2009. Another recent Pew poll confirms these tensions, and suggests whites are now about as pessimistic as blacks.
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95% of blacks who voted, voted for the man. If 95% of whites had voted solely for the white candidate they would have all screamed racists!
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
"One set of rules for me, another set of rules for thee."
#2
Eventually the 'Great Society' pay-off's will have to come to an end. When this happens, all hell will break lose. The collapse of civil society and the family, the return to tribalism, make such an outcome inevitable. Yes, the sale of infant body parts is also an indicator. Apologies to Gaius.
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The republic died before then. The success of the 2nd Punic War laid the seeds of its end. It's constitution was for a city state. It could handle Italy by stretching it, but overseas commitments meant that the executive derived more and more power to make it work. The importation of 'cheap labor' displaced the yeomen/populi while the oligarchs who gained wealth through capital/property acquisition (at the expense of those populi) consolidated power via factions and graft. All undermined the cohesion and somewhat balance of the old republic. The practice of legionnaires being loyal to their paymasters rather than the state/Rome had already been established. Sulla was the end state not the beginning of the end of the remains of the old republic.
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Race relation bad because president and henchmen like Holder view everything Race First, and seldom look any further, screaming racism even when it's simply not the case. The press amplifies this,and spreads outright lies like My hands are up don't shoot. Black racists repeat the lie and black people react as they have been taught by generations of liberals: unthinkingly, and as a group, parroting what they have been told to say.
Race relations are a wreck because black people see everything as racism, and refuse to think.
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Want to fix race relations? Dr King had it right: judge people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. This works for all races
[Jpost] The banning of rapper Matisyahu by the Sunsplash reggae festival in Spain -- subsequently rescinded after protests -- was an "aha!" moment.
After pressure from the Israel-bashing Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement, the festival organizers disinvited the singer because he refused to support "the right of Palestinians to have their own state."
Matisyahu is, however, not an Israeli but a Jewish American. Aha! people exclaimed; now BDS stands exposed as demonstrably anti-Jew.
Well yes; and so too is the wider anti-Israel obsession which shares the unique characteristics of Jew-hatred down the ages: a frenzied agenda of lies and libels, grotesque fantasies of covert global conspiracy and accusations of behavior of which its targets are not only innocent but are in fact the victims.
However, there's rather more to the demonization of Israel than just Jew-hatred.
Across the Western world old-fashioned liberalism, based on reason and truth, is disappearing. It has been hijacked by hardleft attitudes based on eradicating the difference between right and wrong, truth and lies, tyrant and victim, in favor of the only distinction that matters: the powerless versus the "imperialist" West.
Through that distorted prism, it inverts reality and punishes any who disagree.
This has bent the minds of millions of "progressives" as effectively as the brainwashing by the Spanish Inquisition, Soviet communism or modern-day Islamism. And just as under those closed thought-systems, today's progressives are inherently unable to perceive how twisted they have become.
...So if you point out that Palestinian identity is a fiction invented solely to mask the fact that the Jews are the only people for whom Israel was ever their national kingdom; or that the world's climate patterns have not changed significantly over time; or that President Obama is enabling Iran to develop nuclear weapons, you are smeared as a Zionist warmonger, stooge of Big Oil or traitor to America.
Truth has become a "right-wing" heresy. And if you point out "The Bell Curve", or the extensive body of rigorous scientific evidence detailing profound psychological differences between men and women...
[Breitbart] Thursday on Fox News Channel's "America's Newsroom," former CIA Director Ambassador James Woolsey punched a hole in Hillary Clinton's latest email claims that she did not send or receive documents marked "classified," by explaining, "The word classified doesn't appear on the document. The word would be confidential, secret or top secret and it may have a code word attached to it because it comes from say, a photo reconnaissance satellite. But anybody who has been at senior levels of government knows that."
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Breitbart does its readers no favor by loading up its site with ads and other crapola. Trying to scan the site for articles is time consuming, and rarely successful.
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#2 Maybe for you, but not for me! And it is interesting to note that Woosley [sic] is aware that if Clinton escapes the punishment that results from the appearance of SI/TK on her material, people like me will no longer feel compelled to maintain that closed compartment in the mind which houses secrets that the American public would love to know.
BLUF:
[Breitbart] "Anybody born in the United States, even if they're there for 15 minutes, not only is a citizen but has a right to run for president in the United States," he added. "Whereas a person who came when he or she was six months old and is one of the most loyal possible Americans -- Madeleine Albright comes to mind -- can't run for president of the United States, there is something quite bizarre about that but history, the accidents of history are often quite bizarre." Set aside what happened one hundred fifty or two hundred years ago. Things happen. Reality has changed.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
It doesn't get any clearer than that boys and girls. It was written as such to prohibit states from treating former slaves as non-citizens. I'm sure the 'progressives' out there would like to reinterpret that, but if you are a textual reader of the old Constitution, you can't get away from it.
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I believe the missing word is 'law'.
Today, it's all about power. For the Left, the ends justify the means which usually involves the absence of law and the application of power.
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"Whereas a person who came when he or she was six months old and is one of the most loyal possible Americans -- Madeleine Albright comes to mind -- can't run for president of the United States, there is something quite bizarre about that but history, the accidents of history are often quite bizarre."
A Macedonian led the Greeks into a series of bloody wars of conquest. A Corsican ran France into a series of bloody wars of conquest. An Austrian ran the Germans into a series of bloody wars of conquest. I don't think the rule about forbidding non-foreign borns to be President is so outlandish.
But illegals are not subject to the jursidiction - they are alines, and illegally here, therefor not subject to US jurisdiction except for that which deals with their deportation. Dont think so? try putting Mexican in for a Death Penalty crime - and watch the Mexicans claim the US doesnt have Jurisdiction and demand their return to Mexico.
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.
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