Texas employers added 56,400 jobs in May, the most in the nation, figures from the Labor Department showed today.
Payrolls climbed in 36 U.S. states in May and the unemployment rate fell in 20, showing the labor market continued to strengthen across the nation. What about California, New York, and Illinois? Michigan? Oregon?
Texas led all gainers followed by Pennsylvania with 24,700 more jobs, the Labor Department reported.
A total of 383,100 jobs were added in Texas in the past 12 months, making it the largest such job increase in the state in nearly 17 years. The state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to 5.1 percent in May, down from 5.2 percent in April.
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Jobs are racist because they contribute to income inequality.
Gov. Rick Perry on Friday wrote to one of his greatest political foes, President Barack Obama, inviting him to Texas to see what he called the humanitarian crisis unfolding as unaccompanied children pour across the border with Mexico illegally. I wonder why they waited until now? Maybe they want to sign up for free O-care?
The missive came as the Obama administration announced it will open new detention facilities to house immigrant families. The federal government has been overwhelmed by waves of unaccompanied minors mostly from Central America who have been entering the United States in recent months. An estimated 47,000 unaccompanied children so far this budget year have crossed the border from Texas to Arizona in what Obama has himself called an urgent humanitarian situation. Wossamateer, Champ? Throw a billion or two at the problem. More Dem voters!
There is no doubt that I have disagreed with you and your administration on many polices over the years, Perry wrote. This crisis, however, transcends any political differences we may have. He added that the situation along the border is deteriorating and getting worse by the day.
Perry urged modifying federal policies that he called a magnet for people crossing the border illegally, imploring immediate and decisive action from the president.
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Through the long era of the "Nehruvian consensus", Indian policymakers enjoyed a favourite occupation: introspection.
Every problem needed introspection. Every setback called for introspection. Every initiative required introspection.
After over 60 years of introspection, we have policymakers who still advise — yes — further introspection.
The new Indian government has laid the Nehruvian consensus to rest. Action and outcomes count. Introspection is fine. But too much of it can lead to sclerotic inertia.
Can an outcome-focused government lose sight of first principles? The Nehruvian consensus had three guiding dictums: socialism, secularism and non-alignment.
Socialism fell apart under Narasimha Rao, Manmohan Singh (when he was finance minister) and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. It was revived by Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh (when he was Prime Minister).
Instead of growing the economy and then distributing its benefits inclusively, the Sonia Gandhi-Manmohan Singh government did the exact opposite. The fiscal crisis is the result of failed economic socialism.
The Nehruvian consensus on secularism (introduced into the Constitution along with socialism by Indira Gandhi during the Emergency in 1976) descended into farce under Rajiv Gandhi following the Shah Bano case in 1985-86.
Muslims have since become poorer than even Dalits. Communal polarization began not with LK Advani's rath yatra in 1990 but with Rajiv's terrible blunder over Shah Bano five years earlier.
The third pillar of the Nehruvian consensus, non-alignment, fell with the Berlin wall 25 years ago. In a unipolar world dominated by the United States, strategic policy requires India to be a regional leader, not part of an amorphous non-aligned bloc.
Jairam Ramesh recently compared Narendra Modi to Richard Nixon — the US President who opened up China to American blandishments at the height of the Cold War.
Weaning China away from the Soviet Union into a position of equidistance with the US was achieved by both Nixon and Henry Kissinger.
Can Modi do the same with China over Pakistan?
Modi's visit to Bhutan was calibrated to achieve several key ends. Bhutan has conducted over 25 rounds of border talks with China since 1986. The next round of talks between the two countries is scheduled in July/August.
India sought and got an assurance in Thimpu that vulnerable border areas in the north and the east will not be compromised during the China-Bhutan talks.
India's own border dispute with China in Arunachal and Ladakh can then progress without unnecessary impediments.
China's growing concern over Islamist militancy in its northwestern Xinjiang province is a lever India will use to focus Chinese minds on restraining terrorism bred in Pakistan's fertile jihadi soil.
As events in Karachi have shown terrorism, like water, is fungible. It can drown its creators and damage its neighbours. China has no wish to allow further Islamist radicalization of Xinjiang, where Muslim Uighars speak a Turkic dialect. China earlier this week executed 13 terrorists for a series of attacks by Uighars in Xinjiang.
The emergence of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) has further underscored the dangers Sunni jihadism poses to the world.
ISIS was initially funded by wealthy individual donors in Sunni Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states to weaken Shia-majority Iran and Iraq (which is 60% Shia, 20% Sunni and 20% Kurd).
Like all Frankensteins — including Pakistan's Tehreek-e-Taliban — ISIS has now become a menace to its sponsors. It could in future threaten the Saudi Wahhabi princelings and spread its brand of unspeakable brutality from the Middle-East to north-west India.
ISIS will eventually be defeated by moderate Sunni rebel factions in Syria and Iraq once Iraq's blundering Shia prime minister Nouri al-Maliki gives minority Sunnis a role in his government. ISIS's lightning advance towards Baghdad has warned the world against allowing the culture of jihadism free rein. A rattlesnake has to be defanged before it spreads its poison.
India has long punched below its geopolitical weight. A colonial inferiority complex, corrupt governments and chronic misgovernance since, especially, 2004 have eroded India's ability to influence events outside its own sphere.
The new government must change that. How?
The three Abrahamic religions — Christianity, Islam and Judaism — have been the fount of global conflict for centuries. India's post-Nehruvian consensus must deal with the embers of that conflict by evolving a robust strategic doctrine. A future article will expand on that and more.
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Mohd. Ahmed Khan v. Shah Bano Begum (1985 SCR (3) 844), commonly referred to as the Shah Bano case, was a controversial maintenance lawsuit in India, in which Shah Bano, a 62-year-old Muslim, daughter of a police constable[1] and mother of five from Indore, Madhya Pradesh, was divorced by her husband in 1978 but even after winning the case at the Supreme court of India was subsequently denied alimony because the Indian Parliament reversed the judgement under pressure of Islamic orthodoxy.[2][3][4][5][6] The judgement in favour of the woman in this case evoked criticisms[7][8][9] among Muslims some of whom cited Qur'an to show that the judgement was in conflict with Islamic law.[8] It triggered controversy about the extent of having different civil codes for different religions, especially for Muslims in India.
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...When I came into this field I was told two things by older and more experienced colleagues. One of them was that for all its glitzy innovation and its very real new ways of doing business, the publishing business remained at heart a nineteenth century business: contracts weren't as important as a hand shake; who you were as someone for people to work with was more important than cold hard sales; your publisher would take care of you. All of these things -- except for one publisher in the field (Baen Books) -- were a lie by the time I started in the late nineties. Well, maybe not the first. If your book was a year late in being published, and technically out of contract (my very first published book, Ill Met By Moonlight, now indie) the contract meant nothing.
This was my first experience with the fact that the book business was in fact not a nineteenth century business, but a fourteenth century one. You came in and you were an indentured serf. No matter how badly you were treated, you had to be nice to the Lord, because he held your life in his hands. And no matter how badly you were treated, the other Lords would side with each other and conspire to keep you in servitude and destroy you if you spoke out against it.
The second thing I was told when I came in was "the publishing business is in crisis. And it's always been."
This was meant to imply that for all the moaning and bitching from publishers about how bad things were (usually when making an offer for a book) things went on and the publishers continued being paid their salaries and their pensions and writers had both the security of knowing the business would continue and the awful certainty it would continue the same way -- with them as peons.
...And then this week, I saw the walls tumble down. I saw the statue of Lenin dragged through the streets.
I saw Hillary's book tank.
Oh, sure, they spin it. They're publishers. They know how to spin. They've been doing it for decades. They say it's selling well enough. They say it's the "changing book market." But it's not.
""The rollout was touted as the best planned book tour ever, meticulously crafted by the smartest Hillary aides, publishing PR gurus, and the savviest superagents," writes another publishing source.
"The book will probably debut on the bestseller list at number one and then fall like a rock. After the smoke clears, with tens of thousands of books sitting in warehouses collecting dust, there'll be a lot of handwringing and probably a few people without jobs."
The book will debut on the bestseller list, because that's determined not by books bought but by "laydown", i.e. how many books the publisher shipped. (Bet you didn't know a book can be a "bestseller" without selling a single book).
What you might not appreciate from the outside is how amazing, how impossible this is. They still have control over what ships (and therefore gets on the bestseller list for at least one week), they have control over the figures they show, they have control over publicity, they can strong-arm bookstores to stock a book and to push it. And you bet your bottom dollar they deployed all this in favor of Hillary.
And it tanked. It tanked so publicly, so visibly, it can't be denied.
Even five years ago, they could push Obama to bestsellerdom, whether that was true or Memorex. (Those of us with experience saw a lot of discounted Obama merchandise, but never mind.)
Now they can't. And if they can't do it for Hillary! having pulled all the stops, then they certainly can no longer do it for the industry darlings, those politically correct parrots they've been pushing up readers' noses for years. They can still probably lie about those. They're not as public a flop as Hillary. But all the lies and all the gloss won't save them from losing their shirts.
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Meanwhile the oligarchs that own and operate the companies will continue to embezzle redistribute 'generously' in signing bonuses to their friends and political blood rather than practice fiduciary responsibilities owed a company.
The United States continued to offer its support for efforts to locate the three Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped in the West Bank last week and reiterated its call for all sides to exercise restraint, US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Friday.
"We urge all parties to exercise restraint and avoid steps that could destabilize the situation," Psaki said, adding that Washington has been in contact with both the Israelis and Palestinians.
[FoxNews] The terrorist army, which seeks to establish a caliphate, or nation under strict Muslim law, in northern Iraq and Syria, is flush with stolen cash and seized U.S. weaponry after its recent conquests. Peshmerga soldiers said their weapons include a handful of tanks and many AK-47s, although they are older models and in many cases unworkable. Given the tenuous relationship Kurds have with the central government in Baghdad -- as well as that city's own needs -- no weapons are forthcoming from the Iraqi government. And foreign nations are hesitant to provide weapons to the army of a semi-autonomous government in an unstable region. B. O. can send weapons to the Kurds. There has to be some M198 155mm howitzers laying about.
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Reports coming from #Mosul state that dozens of local girls have been forcibly married to #ISIS fighters. #TwitterKurds #Iraq #USA #Syria
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3 Sunni girls have committed suicide after being forced to marry #ISIS fighters in #Mosul. #TwitterKurds #Iraq #Syria #USA #KDP #PUK #Iran
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If Kurdish peshmerga "don't receive real support & weapons, #ISIS will gain more territory, Kurds will be abandoned again." #TwitterKurds
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Two weeks ago there were reports that the first shipment of Kurdistan oil had been loaded at Ceyhan port, Turkey. Ostensibly, the oil was bound for the USA. In midshipment the vessel was turned around, docked in Morocco and continued to Israel where it has been unloaded and will be refined there. It seems the USA is putting pressure on the intl community to reject Kurd oil because it wants nothing to interfere with a failed policy to maintain a unified Iraq. The USA military already knows that it is impossible to put the Iraq Humpty Dumpty together again. Meanwhile, Foggy Bottom employs a policy to screw the Kurds. This will soon change as Washington will realize it needs the Kurds support as badly as the Kurds need Washington's.
[AFRICA-TIMES-NEWS] Nigerian security forces discovered a senior member of the myrmidon Islamist group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... among a convoy of nearly 500 travellers placed in durance vile Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! this week in the southern state of Abia, a military front man said on Wednesday.
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Boko Haram is indeed peculiar in that they seem to spend most of their time killing fellow Muslims...
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[Iraq Sun] La Belle France will not consider a military option to stop Death Eaters' offensive in Iraq until it receives the UN green light, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Friday.
Asked by the news channel BFMTV about a possible French military intervention in the strife-torn oil-rich nation, the country's top diplomat said: "We have a principle: we could intervene if there was a request from the Iraqi government and with UN authorisation."
"Western intervention can be effective if it is backed up by a unity government. With or without Maliki, what Iraq needs is a government of national unity," Fabius stressed.
Fabius also warned that "the situation in Iraq is extremely serious," as "it is the first time that terrorist group threatens to take control of a state", Xinhua reported
US President Barack Obama I am the change that you seek... has announced he was sending up to 300 US military advisors to the Arab country after gunnies captured two northern cities and sectarian violence rocked the already fragile political stability.
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Ask yourself Fabius, "What would de Gaulle do?" Yeah, that is right, make France's actions contingent on others.~
Perhaps bowing to the dysfunctional UN is easier than saying "Too many rats on that sinking ship".
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The French seem to do fine without the UN when it seems in their best interests. Frankly (u c wut i did thar?) what in the hell can they gain in the cesspool of Modern Messopotamia?
[Iraq Sun] As Islamist hard boyz continued the lightning advance in northern Iraq, overrunning large swathes of area, US President Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... announced Thursday that he is sending 300 military advisors to Iraq but would not send combat troops back to that country again.
In a statement from the White House Briefing Room, Obama said: "American forces will not be returning to combat in Iraq, but we will help Iraqis as they take the fight to gunnies who threaten the Iraqi people, the region and American interests as well."
He said the contingent he is sending would operate as "advisers."
"We do not have the ability to simply solve this problem by sending in tens of thousands of troops and committing the kinds of blood and treasure that has already been expended in Iraq," he said. "Ultimately, this is something that is going to have to be solved by the Iraqis."
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[DAWN] Gullu Butt, the baton-wielding man seen damaging vehicles in Lahore, was presented in a court for the second time on Thursday and was sent on a 14-day judicial remand.
Butt appeared in court for the second time today under heavy police security and was sent on a 14-day judicial remand by the judicial magistrate, before who he was presented, after a request was submitted by the police.
Later he was shifted to a hospital to undergo medical tests for the wounds received during the thrashing earlier during the day.
Hospital authorities released Butt's medico-legal certificate according to which none of his bones were fractured.
Earlier during the day, on his first appearance in court, Butt had fallen unconscious after being mobbed and assaulted in police custody by a crowd outside the court.
Handcuffed Butt was on his way to be presented in court regarding the Model Town incident when the scuffle broke leaving unconscious.
CCPO Lahore told Dawn that Butt had only sustained minor injuries and after provision of medical treatment had been shifted to some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location due to security concerns.
Moreover, lawyers said that Butt should have been charged under anti-terror clauses and the 'bailable charges' filed against home were not acceptable.
Butt, also known as Sher-e-Lahore, came into the limelight after he was caught on cameras brazenly damaging several vehicles in the presence of police, during the clash between Pakistain Awami Tehrik workers and police in Lahore's Model Town on Tuesday.
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In Pakistan's courts, all disputants
Of some school of fighting were students,
Cutting Contracts or Torts
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But from Wager of Battle, no truants!
[DFW.CBSLOCAL] The Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson's arrival in Texas is being met with mixed feelings by some law enforcement officials along the border.
Don Reay, the Executive Director of the Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition, says a visit by Johnson may have had more of an impact before plans were put into effect to transport and house the thousands of unaccompanied minors that have come into Texas through Mexico illegally.
"I would wish that this would have been done prior to all of this action so that there had been some advance knowledge of all of these actions passed onto local governments rather than — here it is folks," says Reay. "The first I've heard of this trip is through the news media. None of my Sheriffs have contacted us to let them know that they've been contacted."
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Jeh Johnson's arrival ANYWHERE on behalf of the current regime should be met with "mixed feeling."
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The time to address this was a dozen years ago after 9/11. That meant a barrier fence and a defended zone behind it, with internal enforcement aimed at businesses who employ illegals, and making illegals ineligible for social welfare.
Had we done that then, we should not be facing this now.
[WaTimes]The administrators at the Veterans Administration have apparently been busy while old soldiers waited to see a doctor, after all. Serving those who served is not necessarily a priority, but saving the planet is Job 1. Solar panels and windmills can be more important than the touch of a healing hand.
The department early on set up an Office of Green Management Programs designed to "help VA facilities nationwide recognize opportunities to green VA, and to reward innovative 'green' practices and efforts by individual facilities and staff within the VA." This sometimes means paying more attention to greening the department and saving the polar ice caps than to health care.
In the department's words, it adopted a far more important mission to "become more energy efficient and sustainable, focusing primarily on renewable energy, energy and water efficiency, [carbon-dioxide] emissions reduction, and sustainable buildings." Let's see, NASA's job 1 is Muslim outreach, State's is Gay rights, and the VA is green energy. I guess dereliction of duty is everybody's job 2 in the Obama administration.
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Not much different than the State Department spending millions on Volt electric vehicle recharging stations, while blaming Congress for not funding security measures at the Benghazi consulate.
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Don't forget they are also spending money on a person to find locally sourced and organic food. Which is of completely dubious health value in terms of actual scientific evidence. Its a waste of money that should be spent elsewhere.
[Iran Press TV] The United States says it will not tolerate Russian troops in eastern Ukraine, as tensions between Washington and Moscow escalate over the Ukraine crisis.
We seem to have been tolerating it so far...
The White House said on Friday that the Kremlin had redeployed "significant" military forces near the Ukraine border.
"We are monitoring the situation carefully. We will not accept the use, under any pretext, of any Russian military forces in eastern Ukraine," White House press secretary Josh Earnest said.
"Reports from Moscow that the Russian defense ministry is considering creating military cordons in eastern Ukraine are also troubling," he added.
According to a Russian defense ministry source, Russian troops were prepared to enter Ukraine's troubled regions to "put up barriers between the civilian population and the Ukrainian army."
Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... Jen Psaki, the spokeswoman of the US State Department, said on Friday, "We have our own information that Russia has redeployed military forces to its border with Ukraine."
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"We are monitoring the situation carefully. We will not accept the use, under any pretext, of any Russian military forces in eastern Ukraine," White House press secretary Josh Earnest said.
Must take some very specialized training to make a statement like that and keep a straight face.
[Iran Press TV] Yemeni protesters have taken to the streets of the capital Sana'a to condemn the army's latest Arclight airstrikes against Shia Houthis in the province of Amran.
The protesters staged a demonstration and demanded an immediate halt to all army operations on Friday.
The latest attack on Houthis began on Sunday with Yemeni warplanes launching Arclight airstrikes in Amran.
According to the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... , around 20,000 people have been forced to flee the province since early June.
Many had to leave because shells hit their houses, reports said earlier.
"The number has ... increased and the displaced people are living in bad conditions," said Saddam al-Edeini, the head of the non-governmental Islamic Relief Organization, on Thursday.
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[NIGERIANBULLETIN] The Rivers state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has accused the state Governor, Rotimi Amaechi of inviting the 486 nabbed Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! boko haram suspect to South-South Nigeria through his calls for revolution.
A blurb by Jerry Needam, special adviser on media to the state Felix Obuah, PDP state chairman, said, "PDP wonders why the mass movement of 486 suspected hard boyz into the South three days after the National Convention of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abuja, during which Governor Amaechi took time to address his fellow party members, as it was beamed live on national television, calling for revolution, charging them to be fully involved in the revolutionary movement which the APC is poised to carry out against the government in power".
"The PDP believes there cannot be any explanation other than the fact that these suspects, who apparently had Port Harcourt as their final destination and discharge point, were brought in not without the consent of the Governor and enemies of the federal government".
"To us as a Party, what all of these portend is a situation of war declared by the governor against the federal government and the masses, as well as a prelude to the anticipated total insecurity and wanton destruction of lives and properties by the Governor and the APC forces during the coming elections in the country. The PDP however believes that the voice of the people is the voice of God and that a single voice (Amaechi and the APC) calling for anarchy in the land will definitely fail".
"May we again urge all security agencies in the country to strictly place the Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi and his allies in the APC under serious surveillance, as doing that will help in forestalling further movements of undocumented Democrats and violent elements, as well as strengthen peace and security in the state and the country", the statement concluded.
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[NAIJAFEED] The extradition process of Aminu Ogwuche, the suspected criminal mastermind of the bus station bombings in the capital city of Abuja that killed over 70 and injured many others, would be completed soon, an official said on Wednesday.
The Sudanese Ambassador to Nigeria Tagelsir Ali told news hounds in Abuja, the West African country's capital city that both Sudan and Nigeria had similar standards guiding an extradition process.
Ogwuche was tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in Sudan in May following the joint efforts of the Nigerian Army, Department of State Services, the National Bureau of Interpol based at the Nigerian Police Force Headquarters, and the Sudanese security operatives.
According to him, there is an agreement between Sudan and Nigeria, adding that it was supposed to be revisited in the last bilateral meeting that took place in Khartoum.
The envoy said the extradition treaties always got a sequence of procedures that has to be taken care of, about 17 or 18 procedures that have to be dealt with before a person can go back to his or her country.
Ali acknowledged that the extradition process was delayed at the initial stage.
He gave the assurance that the authorities involved in the process were working hard to ensure that the requirements for the repatriation of Ogwuche were fully met.
He also noted that both parties shared cooperation in the areas of security adding that the head of security here in Nigeria is scheduled to visit the head of security in Sudan.
He said both countries shared similar experiences and expressed the willingness of the Sudanese Government to assist where necessary.
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[BREITBART] The 440-pound body of a man was rejected from a morgue at an Australian hospital for being "too fat" after a funeral director had driven more than two hours with the dear departed in her hearse.
Joanne Cummings drove the body to the Hedland Health Campus in Port Hedland while blasting her air conditioning to keep the corpse cool and then had to go right back.
"I actually had to turn around and drive two hours home to Roebourne and keep him in my car overnight," Cummings told Australia's ABC.
According to Cummings, Hedland Health Campus rejected a 550-pound body last year. HHC staff apparently don't mince their words.
"(A member of staff) walked out and looked at this gentleman in the back of the car and said: 'He's too fat, he can't go in the fridge'," Cummings told the North West Telegraph.
"I could probably put a baby elephant in one of those fridges and it'd fit through the door, and they're refusing entry for a human being. My issue is if that was your father, mother, partner... you wouldn't want them refused entry into the mortuary."
WA Country Health Service regional director Ron Wynn said the hospital may look into installing equipment that can store larger bodies.
"It is imperative that at all times a deceased person is treated with the utmost care and respect and viewings are arranged so as not to cause distress and inconvenience to grieving families," Wynn said in a statement.
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I kinda dig this Joanne Cummings babe, takes her job seriously. Hope the wagon had good GM AC.
There's a song, somewhere out there in the US Midwest, in Oklahoma! maybe? That describes this situation in a similar climate.
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So what happens if you have a 550 lb murder victim? How would you handle that one? Enquiring minds in Fort William, Scotland want to know.
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The A/C part of this story is utterly ridiculous. Apparently Oz doesn't know about the existence of this exotic material called ICE - pack enough of that around a dead body & it will be preserved. Maybe there was no room left in the hearse for ICE. In that case, they could have rented a flat bed truck. Can't anyone THINK there?
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Back in pre-modern days, hospital scales couldn't weigh patients over 350 lb. I sent those patients to our hospital loading dock, where they had a freight scale that would measure 1000 lb - we never had a patient we couldn't at least weigh. I did once have a teenager weighing 350 lb come into the ER, who needed a brain CT scan - the trolley part of our scanner couldn't tolerate anyone over 300. "Child" was transferred to a children's hospital downstate. They couldn't do a CT on anyone over 300 either, but they had an arrangement with a nearby veterinary hospital to use their animal scanner for people between 300-500 lb. Now & then I guess EMS still has to cut through the walls of some dwellings when it is impossible to remove a patient through existing doorways.
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Srsly? A large animal facility? I am not kidding. This is what the kid's hospital ER doc told me over the phone. Of course, that was over 20 years ago. Since then they have devised CT scanners that don't need trolleys and are only limited by what will fit within their circular Xray emitter rings (and how intense the Xrays are).
[SEATTLE.CBSLOCAL] A U.S. Navy sailor from Washington State is currently serving on a submarine thousands of miles away in the Pacific Ocean, but a judge has ordered him into an impossible custody scenario: Appear in a Michigan courtroom Monday or risk losing custody of his 6-year-old daughter.
Navy submariner Matthew Hindes was given permanent custody of his daughter Kaylee in 2010, after she was reportedly removed from the home of his ex-wife, Angela, by child protective services. But now a judge has ordered him to appear in court Monday, or risk losing his daughter to his ex-wife in addition to a bench warrant being issued for his arrest, ABC News reports.
Hindes' lawyers argue he should be protected by the Service Members Civil Relief Act, which states courts in jug cases may "grant a stay of proceedings for a minimum period of 90 days to defendants serving their country."
But the Michigan judge hearing the case, circuit court judge Margaret Noe, disagrees, stating: "If the child is not in the care and custody of the father, the child should be in the care and custody of the mother."
The judge reiterated that regardless of Hindes' assignment under the Pacific Ocean, he will appear in court or face contempt of court.
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No phone numbers, dear OldSpook. Polite and unthreatening letters will adequately send the message that attention is being paid. However misguided, this person is also serving our country, or at least her state.
A totally defanged fig leaf. It carries only civil penalties. It requires the servicemember to spend his/her dime to enforce the provisions. Given in this case, it's a judge violating it's words and intents and the judicial class has granted itself (without any Constitutional basis) immunity from such actions. He's screwed. The cowards in Congress could have alter that a long time ago by making it criminal rather than civil violation and classifying uniform military as a 'protected class'. Those are real legal teeth.
Does Washington State have any provisions to impeach or recall judges like her?
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sounds like she went to the same law school as one of our local judges who put a father on probation for child abuse, The crime - he made his kid walk home from school as punishment for some unacceptable behavior - it was less than a mile.....
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Michigan judge. Mom trying to use a local court to get back at the sailor and new wife - and get a hefty child support check in the process -- despite the child having been take from her due to abuse, and permanent custody awarded to the father.
Petty vindictive shit, supported by an apparently petty and vindictive Femnist judge who apparently thinks she can force a submarine on patrol to magically go to a port of call and the Navy to then magically let that sailor loose, then he can somehow, ithin a matter of hours, fly to Michigan just to make her dictatorial ass satisfied.
FYI, this judge is up for reelection in January. Find out whoever is running the opposition campaign and fund them.
Also, call the courthouse, and leave a voice message for the court voicing your dismay at her arbitrary and capricious flouting of federal law, as well as the fundamental disrespect for US Service Members who are deployed protecting this nation.
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I disagree with that censorship - that is a PUBLIC number, of a PUBLIC official in a PUBLIC facility. Not a private one. And its for the court, precisely so people can call to address the court. So its should be freely available here, as it is on the web.
This is no different than posting the congressional office number of a representative for similar feedback.
And letters? WRONG - the trial is MONDAY - letters would get there far too late to be of any good.
Get the phone number here http://www.lenawee.mi.us/contact-us
Or here if I don't get unjustifiably censored again (Feel free mods, but know that you are WRONG on this)
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NOTICE: Tempted to leave an abusive, harassing or threatening message directly TO that judge (as opposed to ranting or venting here)? Think again: personally leaving a threatening message on a government phone is going result in a visit from the FBI pretty quick for threatening an officer of the court on an interstate line. SO if you call, be succinct, direct and to the point about your belief that the judge is breaking the law, being disrespectful to service member, and being wrong, and that you will help to see she is ousted from the bench. But don't threaten her with anything that you would not say to her face with a law enforcement officer standing there.
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Allegedly this is a letter to the county courts, commissioners and the local news rag from a Navy CPO Paralegal. Unverified and unvetted, so granis salis until you can Snopes it yourself.
I am writing to share my dismay and disgust at the recent actions and statements made by one of your local judges, the Honorable Margaret Noe. It is my understanding that she is not familiar with the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. The link to the text of the federal law (in PDF form directly from the U.S. Department of Justice website) can be found at http://www.justice.gov/crt/spec_topics/military/scratext.pdf
If you refer to Section 512(a), you will find this law is applicable to each of the States, including the political subdivisions thereof. In Section 522, you will see that the law specifically includes child custody proceedings. In addition, the law MANDATES that Judge Noe shall, upon application by the servicemember, stay the action for a period of not less than 90 days if the conditions in paragraph (2) or the section are met (which have been met, as required). Perhaps she was not aware that the law now includes the language including any child custody proceeding, since this language was added by P.L. 110-181, and was made effective on January 28, 2008.
The fact that she would blatantly violate Federal law is appalling. Even worse, she would do so in a manner that would violate the rights of a Servicemember and stripping a young child from the only home she has truly ever known, after a judge granted full custody to the father four years ago. Petty Officer Hindes is not shirking his responsibility as a parent due to his military service. Hundreds of thousands of brave men and women are at this very moment enduring the great challenge of being separated from their families and loved ones, while serving our great country and protecting the very freedoms and system this judge vowed to uphold.
I encourage the citizens of your community to educate themselves on the law and stand up against this outrageous violation. Military members cannot be punished for following orders. And as a submariner, Petty Officer Hindes is not so easily expendable that he can just leave his appointed place of duty. Judge Noe s actions are abhorrent to those of us who have proudly served in the military. She is an embarrassment to your community. Please let her know that her position is required to uphold the law, not violate it. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Very Respectfully,
Rachel B. Allen
Chief Petty Officer, U.S. Navy Military Paralegal
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By the way if you are looking to directly express yourself to this judge you would be hard pressed to do a lot better than the alleged letter above.
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Revell and Testors would be proud of the flattop pictured in the article. David Axe is a clown, and should not be allowed to write anything covering the military or one's capabilities.
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Let me get this right, the critics in the West have been harping for decades that the big carriers are Doomed(tm) and that they're just big lumbering targets. So, why are the Chinese building these very same vessels? /rhetorical question
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Wonder what they got going for underway replenishment stuff. They will need to be good eating size pretty good sized and expensive, to maintain a CVN centered fleet.
We need to set up a bet, where's the PLAN CV first going to visit? Rangoon maybe? Singapore? Vladivostok? Does Hong Kong Kount?
First, this particular bird farm doesn't look that big - maybe about the size of La Belle France's Charles DeGaulle. Which, I might note, took TWELVE YEARS to build and commission. If you're going to challenge the USN's carriers, this ain't the design to do it with, unless you're going to build enough to keep seven or eight at sea at any one time....and I don't care how much money the PRC has, they ain't doing that any time in the remotely foreseeable future.
Second, you know what I don't see on that deck? No AEW capability - think E-2 Hawkeye. You could, of course, jury-rig a radar on a helo the way the RN did after the Falklands, but it ain't the same thing. We've not seen them demonstrate any AEW capability yet, and you are not going to run any kind of carrier war without it. It's possible that they're going to use shore-based assets to to handle that - but it kind of defeats the purpose of having a deep-water carrier fleet if it can't go outside of the range of land-based air.
Third, we still have not seen the PRC navy show anything even close to the kind of at-sea replenishment capability that is going to be MANDATORY to keep the CVs at sea and fighting. that includes a COD (Carrier On-Board Delivery) capability like the C-2 Greyhound. Yes, you can run 'em back to port for supplies and parts...but if they're transiting back home at that point, they're nothing but a chance for our guys to get a SINKEX of legendary proportions.
Summary: Yes, a threat. Yes, something we need to keep an eye on. The end of the USN's dominance at sea? We're more likely to do it to ourselves than at the hands of the PRC's carriers.
Mike
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A NUCLEAR-powered Littoral Aircraft Carrier!
Yeah, that's the ticket
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Considering that China has yet to conduct successful carrier operations on the one they do have....
I'm not too worried. Give 'em 50 years and they might be up to it.
Then again, knowing our idiot Commander in Chief he just might give them our carriers.
Not likely, but another possibility is that Champ will send some of our Sailors TAD to 'assist.' That would be world wide community organizing....
Yet another decommissioned "supercarrier" is coming to the Port of Brownsville for scrapping, and it's the biggest one yet.
In fact, the dismantling of the former aircraft carrier USS Constellation by International Shipbreaking Ltd. will be the largest ship-recycling job to take place in the United States.
Until the Constellation contract, the former USS Forrestal and the former USS Saratoga were the largest ships slated for salvaging by a U.S. ship breaker. The Forrestal arrived in Brownsville to much fanfare in February after being towed from Philadelphia, and is now being dismantled by All Star Metals.
The Saratoga, decommissioned in 1994, is expected to depart under tow from Naval Air Station at Newport, Rhode Island, this summer and will be recycled by ESCO Marine at the Port of Brownsville.
Construction began on the Constellation, the second of the Kitty Hawk-class of carriers, in 1957 at New York Naval Shipyard in Brooklyn. It was commissioned in October 1961. The vessel was decommissioned in August 2003 at the Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego, then towed to the inactive ship facility at Bremerton, Wash.
International Shipbreaking is expected to begin towing the 62,000-ton carrier -- nicknamed "Connie" -- from Washington in late summer.
Unlike the Navy's contracts for the Forrestal and the Saratoga, in which each ship breaker received the symbolic sum of $0.01, the Navy is paying International Shipbreakers $3 million to take apart the Constellation.
Robert Berry, vice president of the company, said that's because the towing distance is much longer -- all the way down around the Horn of South America and up the other side -- compared to the other two carriers.
Berry said the trip would take 110 to 125 days and guessed that the Constellation could dock in Brownsville sometime in December. In contrast, the Forrestal took only two weeks to get here from Philadelphia.
Berry said the company had just won the contract and was preparing to visit the ship soon to determine what will be required in terms of rigging and other matters related to towing.
"We'll probably have some information to release as we get moving here," Berry said.
The Constellation job will take roughly two years to complete, he said, while declining to estimate how much money the company expects to make from the salvaged metal. The steel salvaged from the ship may go to mills in Texas, Mexico or elsewhere around the world, depending on demand, he said.
"We don't know," Berry said. "The market changes month to month."
The recent spike in large vessels coming to the port for dismantling has led, naturally, to a boost in hiring of workers good with a cutting torch. Fortunately, such people aren't hard to come by in Brownsville, Berry said.
"There are quite a few experienced people," he said. "We've been doing this in the area since the mid- to late '60s. A lot of people have gotten experience at it over the years."
Berry said the Navy prefers to work with more than one recycling company, which is why it has contracts with three ship breakers at the port. And with plenty of other decommissioned carriers awaiting the scrapper's torch, the sight of rusty, fading giants gliding down the Brownsville Ship Channel on the last leg of their final voyage could become increasingly common.
Now that initial recycling contracts have been awarded to each of the three ship breakers, the Navy said it's in a position to award additional contracts for scrapping non-nuclear-powered carriers over a five-year period, with All Star, ESCO and International Shipbreaking competing against each other for the work.
After the Constellation is dismantled, the Navy will have four conventionally powered carriers left: the Kitty Hawk, the Independence and the Ranger, all at Bremerton; and the John F. Kennedy, moored in Philadelphia.
While the Kitty Hawk is being kept in reserve and the John F. Kennedy available for donation as a museum/memorial, the Independence and the Ranger are designated for scrapping.
"They'll be more carriers coming," Berry said.
Still, even if they do become a more common sight in Brownsville, he thinks their arrival will continue to be a pretty big deal -- filled with history and loved by their former crews as they are.
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Besides the AEW , UNREP and COD that Mike pointed out, the other thing that makes the US carrier force so powerful is the concept of a carrier battle group. A carrier never travels alone. It is surrounded by other ships that form protective rings around it. The US Navy uses defense in depth. And not all of thee assets are on the surface.
Developing and implementing these doctrines takes time and experience.
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And we couldn't give the carrier's to India? Or better yet, give one to Isreal?
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What would Israel do with an old-style aircraft carrier?
The JFK note is kind of interesting - she was scheduled for a SINKEX, but my understanding is that the Kennedy family raised holy hell, and she was instead designated for a museum donation...which is never gonna happen. Once they named the next Ford class JFK, that mollified the family and I think you'll see her sent for scrap soon.
Mike
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Need to do a SINKEX on it with robotic damage control units, fully fueled and moving.
[DAWN] Nadeem F. Paracha in classic form. Some pieces shouldn't just be read, they should be memorized. Just a sample or two:
Jatt and his wife moved to Lahore in 1975 and earned a meagre living by selling old spare-parts of the cars and bikes that Jatt would smash and dismantle just for the heck of it. Jatt's antics in this regard got him arrested and he was sentenced to 10 years hard labour in a Lahore jail.
Meanwhile, Nuri Nutt gave birth to their first child whom she named Gullu Butt (Rosy Butt- cheeks). Two years later Jatt was paroled and gained an early release from jail, thanks to the government of General Ziaul Haq who had taken over power in July 1977. The Zia regime considered Jatt to be a political prisoner, arrested by the fallen ZA Bhutto regime.
Meanwhile, Jatt had acquired some basic education in jail and re-discovered faith. After he was released in 2001, he first set-up a madrassah in Lahore (which was a huge spiritual, ideological and commercial success), and then joined a TV news channel as an anchor and talk-show host.
Jeera rose to become an ASI in the police (only because his tummy was the biggest the precent) and Nutt went nuts, now claiming she was Madam Noor Jehan. She was recruited by PTI trolls.
Gullu continued to smash cars (still just for the heck of it), but from 2005 onward he tried to give a semblance of meaning to his art by smashing cars and bikes during anti-US/India/Rwanda rallies and during protests against Pakistan's gazillion enemies - especially Godzilla nurtured by famous Zionist scientist, Amrish Puri.
But, alas, this great artiste's luck finally ran out when in June 2014, while he was in the process of smashing his 5,000th car (to set a new Shahbaz Sharif-backed Guinness World Record), some jealous folks claimed that he was one of the instigators of violence against the supporters of Canadian Moose-breeder, Tahir-ul-Kennedy.
Gullu was arrested and booked for injuring a Toyota car and then he was himself injured when he was attacked by a group of lawyers who were otherwise famous for showering rose petals on heroic killers.
Gullu's fan-club, 'Gullu Kay Pathey', at once initiated a powerful campaign on Twitter against Gullu's arrest with such hashtags: #JusticeForGullu; #WeAreAllGulluToday; #ButtHe'sInnocent; and #JustinBieberForPresident.
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Well, what does it do you ask? Why this single simple tool can slice, dice, educate the y00f in the way of the Profit. It can wham and slam and bring CASH money to your 'ville. It's cheap and legal in all 1200 states comes with a warranty and easy inastruction. Any man, child or woman (properly) escorted by a clansman can use this simple tool to enrich their life. It's simple, cheap and effective. Better than a new wife, cheaper than a cow, it's everymans route to power.
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Crackers and Nazi Islamic garbage killing each other and Russia is helping them realize their dream Ukraine is over done ancient history get it a waste of resources a Trap for the United States!
Kenya’s Interior Ministry says security forces have shot and killed five people suspected of killing 60 residents in two nighttime attacks on a coastal town this week.
The ministry said Friday that Kenya’s police inspector general was on the country’s Indian Ocean coast to oversee the process of taking fingerprints from the dead suspects to help identify them. The ministry said three AK-47 assault rifles and ammunition were also recovered.
Attackers killed about 50 people in Mpeketoni, a coastal town, on Sunday night as World Cup matches were playing on TV. Ten more people were killed in a second night of attacks.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has blamed political forces inside Kenya for the attack, despite the fact that the Somali militant group al-Shabab claimed responsibility.
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[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Australia has formally listed Nigerian bully boy group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... as a terrorist organization.
The move makes it illegal to fund, train with, recruit for or become a member of the group that became notorious when it kidnapped 250 schoolgirls in April.
Australia has joined with the US, UK, Canada and Nigeria in their decision to list the group.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced plans to list Boko Haram last month, saying the world was transfixed and horrified by the group's hostage taking.
They are also responsible for the deaths of another 300 people in recent bombings.
People found to be associated with the group could face up to 25 years in jail.
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[Nigerian Tribune] Reports reaching the Nigerian Tribune in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, revealed that there was ongoing battle between the Nigerian forces and the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... forces of Evil who had vowed to overrun Borno State, in a recent report.
Adamu Chiwar, a resident of Maiduguri, from Lassa in Askira/Uba Local Government Area of Borno state, told the Nigerian Tribune that he received a massage from his relations at home that they should pray for their safety as the Islamic bad boys, Boko Haram had launched an attack on the people of Lassa, while security forces were fighting hard to repel them.
It will be recalled that the sect members in a recent report, had vowed to kidnap the Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima for shuning them and therefore resolved to overrun Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
Nigerian Tribune also learnt that security forces in Maiduguri had remained on the alert today, Wednesday, as they had fortified their positions within the city centre and its environs, over rumour of possible attacks by the krazed killers.
The sect members, it will be recalled, were tossed in the slammer Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! in Maiduguri last week for sneaking into the city to launch fresh on the residents.
As of the time of going to press, there was no update on the ongoing battle in Lassa as attempts made by the Nigerian Tribune to contact the military as well as the police yielded no positive result.
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[DAWN] PRIVATELY and largely away from the public gaze, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... has cultivated PkMap leader Mehmood Khan Achakzai as an interlocutor between Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... and the Pak political government. While such private channels can sometimes backfire and raise the suspicions of unelected powers-that-be in both countries, Mr Achakzai's personal standing and reputation appear to have given him some leeway to use his unofficial role for positive influence.
In addition, where PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari tried and failed to build a rapport with Mr Karzai, Mr Sharif appears to have been somewhat more successful, leading to opportunities even at this very late stage of the Afghan president's stay in office for working together on issues of mutual security interest between the two countries. With the recently held two-stage Afghan election and now a military operation in North Wazoo under way, there have certainly been immediate and practical grounds for security and intelligence cooperation between Afghanistan and Pakistain. And yet, in true Pak-Afghan relationship fashion, perhaps the biggest challenges lie ahead.
To begin with, even at this late stage, there is little certainty about how and on what terms the Afghan government and the Afghan Taliban will be able to achieve reconciliation — meaning the post-2014 stability and the gains of the last decade still very much hang in the balance. Two factors above all else will determine whether Afghanistan remains relatively stable or plunges into chaos again: the line the Afghan Taliban take on reconciliation as foreign troops pour towards the exit door and the degree to which the incoming Afghan administration is able to establish a better, more legitimate and more credible government.
Here, the jury is still out on whether Pakistain — the sum of the army and civilian power matrix — is doing as much as it could to nudge those two goals along or whether the state's public pledge to adopt non-interference and non-intervention in Afghan affairs has meant not doing as much as it can. And while Mr Sharif has remained troublingly quiet on articulating a distinct, civilian-run policy on Afghanistan, how the prime minister's wider relationship with the army leadership develops in the months and years ahead will also surely affect what is and isn't achievable in the context of Pakistain's overall posture towards Afghanistan.
To be sure, not all the cards are in Pakistain's hands. Who wins the election in Afghanistan, whether an exiting American force means evaporating American influence in Afghanistan, how the TTP and the Afghan Taliban's relationship develops or deteriorates, whether the nexus between the TTP and the Afghan security establishment deepens, how the ongoing and deepening strife in the Middle East will shape Iran-Saudi-US ties — much is unknown and even unknowable. But as Mehmood Khan Achazkai and Prime Minister Sharif have demonstrated, whatever happens, it's better to talk than not to.
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how and on what terms the Afghan government and the Afghan Taliban will be able to achieve reconciliation
Will the Taliban accept the rule of law? If no then they remain criminals and what can reconciliation really mean?
[Iraq Sun] Sunni gunnies surrounded large parts of Iraq's biggest refinery in Baiji and the airport at Tal Afar as the violence-torn country's highest Shia authority called for a new government that can command respect across sectarian lines.
The fighting at Baiji and Tal Afar comes a day after the US said it would send some 300 military advisers to help the Iraqi government in its fight against the krazed killers.
US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... is expected to travel to Iraq soon to press for a more representative government in a move to ease tensions between the rival Shia and Sunni sects.
Iraq's top Shiite holy man, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, added to U.S. pressure on Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... and his political allies to form a new government that would command wider support.
Sistani, who has played a key role in calming sectarian tensions earlier, Friday called for the creation of a new "effective" government in a message delivered by his representative Ahmed al-Safi in the holy city of Karbala.
Prime Minister Maliki has been accused of pursuing anti-Sunni policies, angering the community.
The first of the 300 U.S. military advisers are set to arrive in Iraq Saturday, a senior defense official told CNN.
The first group is expected to be very small, the official said.
In addition, some U.S. military personnel already in Iraq at the security cooperation office in the U.S. Embassy in Storied Baghdad may be reassigned to work with them.
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The first group is expected to be very small, the official said.
The Jawn Kerry preferred size, almost unnoticeable.
[Tolo News] At least 10 civilians were maimed in a missile attack in southern Zabul province on Thursday night, according to local officials on Friday.
The incident took place in Shahjoy district of the province when a missile hit a civilian house in the district and injured 10 civilias, said Ghulam Sakhi Rogh Lewanai, Zabul police chief.
The victims have been taken to a nearby hospital.
Lewanai says that some of the victims are at death's door.
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[WaPo]The recently-released National Climate Assessment (NCA) from the U.S. government offers considerable cause for concern for climate calamity, but downplays the decelerating trend in global surface temperature in the 2000s, which I document here.
Many climate scientists are currently working to figure out what is causing the slowdown, because if it continues, it would call into question the legitimacy of many climate model projections (and inversely offer some good news for our planet). 17+ years of no global warming. A WaPo editor published this? The sky is failing! (Because cold air sinks)
Not editor-published -- this is one of their bloggers, a meteorologist with an MBA who at first glance appears to be in the consulting business.
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I like the idea that convection currents under the crust warm the surface from time to time, much like the bubbles in a lava lamp, I suppose. Then you have sunspots and the fact that "scientists"have been strategically placing measuring equipment next to runways and other places that are subject to localized sources of heat. It's just a matter of time before it unravels. And politicians deciding that it's not a good excuse for a new type of taxation.
But we don't need to be collecting data to support global warming from stations that are close to places that are going to generate lots of heat. Perhaps the apparent global warming is going away because airplane travel is declining and those weather stations aren't getting hit as hard as originally planned?
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But we don't need to be collecting data to support global warming from stations that are close to places that are going to generate lots of heat.
Agreed. Anthony Watts has documented errors in the land-based weather station based temperature measurements. Urbanization has grown and so has urban heating. Weather stations next to blacktop will show higher temperatures.
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Exactly has Squinty says, and Mr. Watts is a national treasure. What we need are more data points, but even then, you gotta have measurement devices to monitor the micro-climate of airfields. More and more and scattered all over the place. I'll put one on the roof if you want.
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It's not just urban island. They are moving the stations closer to buildings because they are 110V powered, instead of walking to them to take a reading. Also, they have been systematically eliminating remote (colder) stations because they are harder to service and therefore more expensive.
Two Philippine troops were wounded after an improvised bomb exploded in southern Philippines early on Friday. The bomb believed planted by communist New People's Army guerrillas went off as an army vehicle traveled down a road in Mindanao's Compostela Valley province.
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, arrived in Cairo late on Friday, state television reported, for a symbolic visit underlining the strong support the ageing monarch is showing for new President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi.
Abdullah landed in Cairo on his way home from Morocco, and is the first foreign leader to visit Sisi since he took office less than two weeks ago. It is the 90-year-old king’s first visit to Cairo since the 2011 revolt that ousted autocrat President Hosni Mubarak, a key ally of Saudi Arabia and the United States.
Did he come for the medical care or the fleshpots...
His delegation included the Saudi ministers of foreign affairs and finance as well as security officials and former intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Al Arabiya television reported.
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[Iran Press TV] Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... has expressed support for the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... in its war against the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL) terrorist group.
According to a statement released by the Kremlin, the two leaders spoke on the phone on Friday as Maliki informed Putin about the measures of his government to drive out the snuffies from the northern parts of the country.
"Putin confirmed Russia's complete support for the efforts of the Iraqi government to speedily liberate the territory of the republic from terrorists," the statement read.
"It was noted that the activities of bully boyz conducting military operations on the territory of Syria has taken on a cross-border character and now threaten the security of the whole region," the statement added.
On June 10, the ISIL snuffies took control of the Nineveh lovely provincial capitaldjinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... . They later took control of the city of Tikrit, located some 140 kilometers (87 miles) northwest of the capital Storied Baghdad.
Iraqi armed forces have managed to regain control of the Abu Tayban region in the city of Ramadi and almost all parts of the strategic town of Tal Afar in Nineveh province.
Iraqi soldiers have also regained control of the Baiji oil refinery in the strategic Salahuddin province after the ISIL snuffies attacked the oil facility earlier this week.
The ISIL snuffies have vowed to continue their raid towards Storied Baghdad.
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[LongWarJournal] FBI agents working with the agency's Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested a suspected al Qaeda supporter in late May for plotting to kill newly returning American soldiers in the greater Rochester area. The media first reported on the foiled terrorist plot in early June.
The suspect, Mufid A. Elfgeeh, a US citizen who was born in Yemen, had written on his Twitter feed: "al Qaeda said it loud and clear, we are fighting the American invasion and their hegemony over the earth and people." According to Time Warner Cable Buffalo, Elfgeeh used his Twitter micro-blog to promote funds for "jihadists and for weapons in Syria." Elfgeeh "expressed on numerous occasions his interest in killing American servicemen" returning from war zones, according to Rochester law enforcement authorities.
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How come these guys never get shot by accident when the SWAT team hits the house?
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In an appearance Monday before a federal magistrate, Elfgeeh was appointed a lawyer from the Federal Public Defender's Office and was sent to Monroe County Jail.
I wonder were terrorist rank in the prison hierarchy? Before or after pedophiles?
[Times of India] ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's leading Geo TV network on Tuesday apologized to the country's armed forces for accusing ISI of being involved in an attack on journalist Hamid Mir in Karachi last month. Notice, this was not a retraction.
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Allegedly this is a letter to the county courts, commissioners and the local news rag from a Navy CPO Paralegal. Unverified and unvetted, so granis salis until you can Snopes it yourself.
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I am writing to share my dismay and disgust at the recent actions and statements made by one of your local judges, the Honorable Margaret Noe. It is my understanding that she is not familiar with the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. The link to the text of the federal law (in PDF form directly from the U.S. Department of Justice website) can be found at http://www.justice.gov/crt/spec_topics/military/scratext.pdf
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If you refer to Section 512(a), you will find this law is applicable to each of the States, including the political subdivisions thereof. In Section 522, you will see that the law specifically includes child custody proceedings. In addition, the law MANDATES that Judge Noe shall, upon application by the servicemember, stay the action for a period of not less than 90 days if the conditions in paragraph (2) or the section are met (which have been met, as required). Perhaps she was not aware that the law now includes the language including any child custody proceeding, since this language was added by P.L. 110-181, and was made effective on January 28, 2008.
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The fact that she would blatantly violate Federal law is appalling. Even worse, she would do so in a manner that would violate the rights of a Servicemember and stripping a young child from the only home she has truly ever known, after a judge granted full custody to the father four years ago. Petty Officer Hindes is not shirking his responsibility as a parent due to his military service. Hundreds of thousands of brave men and women are at this very moment enduring the great challenge of being separated from their families and loved ones, while serving our great country and protecting the very freedoms and system this judge vowed to uphold.
News reports from Galkacyo indicate that armed assailants attacked a police base in Garsoor town in the provincial capital of Mudug region. The fighters threw IED bombs and it detonated near the station where officers from Puntland State police station were stationed.
The IED bomb caused severe fatalities to Puntland police officers at their town police base.
"What kind of fatalities?"
"Severe fatalities!"
After the explosion, Puntland police officers and soldiers conducted thorough search crackdowns in Galkacyo and arrested several youngsters they believe were responsible for the bomb attack.
No comment or statement has been made or released by Puntland state officials in Galkacyo regarding the explosion.
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[News India Times]Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai said on Friday that he was in favour of the United Nations intervening in the presidential election after one of the candidates dropped out of the process over allegations of mass fraud.
Former opposition leader Abdullah Abdullah withdrew his monitors and demanded the vote count be halted, potentially derailing what is seen as a make-or-break vote before most foreign troops leave. He also called for the United Nations to intervene to salvage the process.
"Pointing to Dr Abdullah's suggestion about the U.N. role ... Karzai said that not only he agreed with this suggestion but he counts it a positive step for tackling this problem," a statement from his office said. The Obama of Southeast Asia.
A bomb explosion in Pattani province yesterday wounded two soldiers providing security for teachers. The blast occurred near Khlong Bukae bridge.
A wood-processing plant near Raman police station and district office in Yala province, was torched and badly damaged early yesterday. There were no injuries. At least 10 fire engines were sent to fight the blaze, which spread quickly. Firefighters managed to bring it under control, but the plant was nearly destroyed. Witnesses said five attackers entered the plant and tied up the security guard before setting the building on fire.
Banners with messages attacking Southern Border Provinces Administrative Center (SBPAC) secretary-general Panu Uthairat were found displayed across the three insurgency-hit southernmost provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat yesterday morning. The cloth banners, with messages written in Thai, were found in 17 locations, mostly along main roads, and at intersections and bridges. The signs warned of possible "incidents as a result of the return of Mr Panu" and criticized his performance as SBPAC chief. The warnings raised fears among residents over further violence in the region.
MOGADISHU -- A bomb blast in a car ended up missing the target in volatile Mogadishu on Wednesday, Garowe Online reports. Unknown assailants attached a bomb beneath the seat of well know medical doctor at Mogadishu's Keyseney hospital Dr. Abdulkadir Hussein Jim'alle (Hoga).
According to witnesses, a nurse identified as Mahad Abdihafid died while Dr. Hoga sustained minor injuries. Shortly after the attempt on his life, Hoga said he had no falling out with any group noting that he has been working at Keyseney hospital for many years.
No group claimed responsibility for the botched attack but as has been the case Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab group remains persistent threat to civilians and government officials.
Located in northern edge of Mogadishu, Kenseney hospital has since been one of few hospitals that served for hundreds suffering from recurrent insecurity and famine.
They do good, therefore they must be killed...
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Eyewitnesses told DawnNews that the explosion took place when food was being distributed amongst devotees.
[DAWN] A powerful kaboom at a shrine in the federal capital on Friday night injured at least 61 people, seven of whom are said to be at death's door, DawnNews reported.
Chief Commissioner Islamabad Jawad Paul told Dawn.com that 54 people were maimed in the blast. He said 34 were taken to Pakistain Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) hospital where four are at death's door, Nine are being treated in Benazir Hospital and 11 are shifted to Poly Clinic Hospital.
Number of injured increased to 61after seven more maimed persons were admitted in Pims hospital.
Locals, however, put the number of injured much higher at 70 to 80.
The blast took place at the shine of Nange Badshah next to the famous Chan Pir Badsah shrine in Pindorian neighbourhood on the outskirts of Islamabad.
The likely terrorist attack took place on second day of the three-day annual Mela (festival).
The nature of the blast could not yet be verified but Chief Commissioner Paul told Dawn.com that initial probe into the incident suggests it was carried out through a time device as the bomb was likely planted inside a tree at the shrine.
Eyewitnesses told DawnNews that the kaboom took place when food was being distributed amongst devotees.
An emergency has been imposed at Pims and Poly Clinic hospitals of the city where injured were taken to after the incident.
Dr Aisha of Pims hospital said earlier that 31 people were brought to the hospital out of whom four were critically injured.
Dr Khurram, an official at Poly Clinic Hospital, said that there were three critically injured people among the eight brought to the hospital.
According to a front man of Islamabad Police, security has been put on red alert at all entry and exit routes of the capital.
He said that after cordoning off the site of the incident, police, Rangers and Army commandos have launched a search operation to nab the culprits.
Palestinian foreign minister Riyad Al Malki on Friday accused Israel of overreacting in its response to three missing teenagers and said it had yet to prove Hamas was behind their disappearance.
But Malki said if it is shown that the Islamist movement abducted the teens, that would threaten the Palestinian unity government formed this month.
You'd think it would strengthen it since many Paleos approve of this kind of thing...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accuses Hamas of last week’s abduction of the two 16-year-olds and a 19-year-old from a hitch-hiking stop in the West Bank.
Israel has launched a massive military operation to hunt for the teens, arresting 330 Palestinians and searching more than 1,000 locations.
Hamas dismissed the allegation it abducted the teens as “stupid” and Malki said Netanyahu had no right to make the claim without proof.
“He cannot keep blaming one side without showing evidence. When you go to court if you don’t show evidence you lose your case,” Malki told AFP on the sidelines of a conference at the French Senate in Paris.
“Three kids have disappeared, but in exchange for that the Israeli army has taken 300 Palestinians... they have destroyed more than 150 Palestinian homes since last week,” he said. “Their reaction went beyond logic and what infuriates me the most is the lack of reaction from the international community.”
Perhaps the international community isn't interested in siding with kidnappers...
He described Israel’s reaction as “exaggerated” and suggested it may be “dragging” on the search for political purposes.
So produce the kids and the Israelis will back off...
“If it comes to be known that Hamas is behind it (the kidnapping), then of course the unity government will be at risk. We are not going to tolerate and accept the fact that Hamas uses and abuses this kind of reconciliation government just to blow the national interests of the Palestinian people,” Malki said. “But if Netanyahu has any evidence, he has to put it on the table.”
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He truly can't understand what all the fuss about---it isn't like their parents were important, or something.
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Hey how about another round of arrests, maybe dick with the water supply a bit more? eh? The odd raid? Hell sure why not. Unexplained deaths in Europe? Sure, hell, no sweat. And then get very serious.
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#8 appears to be someone's not-totally-successful attempt to make a JoeBot.
As for the Old Testament thing, if I were to wake up tomorrow and read that a line of armored D-9s had scraped Gaza flat and pushed the debris into the Med, my reaction would be total non-surprise. And maybe a little what-took-you-so-long?
I heard the Champ use the term ISR (Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance) in his recent speech. I was curious when I heard it, as to where he might have picked up the [non-sports related] term.
Sharing photo reconnaissance imagery or other types of more advanced special intelligence does not necessarily require an in-country 'fusion center.' Furthermore, collection need not be limited to platforms requiring host nation permission slips or the divulging of technical sources.
Example: //On Thursday a convoy of ten technical vehicles were seen proceeding west on MSR Tampa in the vicinity of the village of Blue Lagoon.//
There are actually two stories here. The first story is of course the "fizzled and distrust" story, which in my view is painfully weak. The reporting of shipments of men and supplies from Iran across Iraq to Syria appears to have not violated any security protocols. Why would the reporting of men and materials going Syria to Iraq present a security issue ?
The second story, and possibly the more revealing and troubling is the apparent lack of regional ISR coverage for our own situational awareness. Forget the Iraqi's for a moment, what about our own regional situational awareness, our own regional indications and warnings (I&W), and our own prevention of 'strategic surprise.' This represents the potential of an astonishing intelligence gap. A gap that I personal cannot believe was permitted to happen.
With a background of repeated urgings from the Iraqi gov't regarding their perceived Syrian border threat, and with all that is going on within Syria, I simply cannot believe that the US intelligence community would permit [unless directed otherwise] such a gap to exist. Not sharing and spitefully setting the Iraqis up for failure [fizzled and distrust], I can believe.
In the final analysis, I am left to believe we knew about ISIS intent and activities on the ground and elected to do nothing until the situation got completely out of hand.
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More like "until the situation became politically untenable."
As far as an intelligence gap: it's not a surprise, if one takes into account the petulant passive-aggressive attitude by the administration that "the war is long over." Hence, aside from some specific missions (like strikes in NW Pakistan and ops in Africa,) the focus of IC assets were re-directed elsewhere.
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The current administration seems to think that if they ignore a situation, it will go away.
In their reality, Al Qaeda/ISIS has been defeated so the intel is exaggerated. If it doesn't fit the narrative, ignore it.
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ISR is a specific term inside the IC (Intelligence Community). It came into vogue in the early part of the GWOT. ITs part of the old C3I doctrine, basically a spelling out of the "I" (intelligence) component. ISR encapsulates a lot, including NSA (Surveillance) and NRO (Reconnaissance) assets and their products, as well as the typical Intelligence community assets - in the case of ISR, I stands in form much of the intelligence production and analysis activity, thus the S and R to differentiate the gathering of data form the production of Intel. Also, S and R have HUMINT and Military counterparts, like police work (think stakeout) for the surveillance component, and good old fashioned scouts (Cavalrey) or recon (USMC Force Recon) for the Reconnaissance component.
So its a buzzword acronym that a lot of high ranking civilian types (and some military people) like because it encompasses so much that they don't know a damned thing about, yet they can sound smart discussing it.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has called unacceptable the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro signed by the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) because it failed to incorporate the Tripoli and Jakarta agreements brokered by the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) led by its founding chairman Nur Misuari. The OIC instead proposed a linkage of the government’s peace agreements with the MILF and the MNLF.
At the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers Session of Exploring Areas of Islamic Cooperation held in Saudi Arabia, OIC secretary-general Iyad Ameen Madani said, "The support of the rapprochement on both fronts and legal follow up of the implementation of the new agreement and the compliance of the Philippine government to its text and soul is unavoidable if we want Bangsamoro Muslim people in the Philippines to obtain their most basic rights."
Madani said that there was a need to do this because "all factions" of the MNLF opposed the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) and the declared texts of the new pact "do not mention or build explicitly" on the Tripoli and Jakarta Agreements of 1976 and 1997 with the MNLF.
The MILF negotiating panel led by Mohaqer Iqbal attended the conference to personally seek recognition of the CAB from the OIC.
MNLF Spokesman Absalom Cerveza claimed to have no knowledge of who from the OIC invited the MILF panel at the conference, but said that the Nur Misuari faction of the MNLF was invited to attend the event by Madani himself. But the OIC, according to Cerveza, did not recognize the government’s MNLF faction after it discovered that it did not have the imprimatur of Misuari, prompting the government’s MNLF faction to walk out of the conference after the meeting with Madani.
Cerveza said, "What I learned is that the OIC turned down the MILF’s plea for the OIC to recognize CAB because the OIC wants the synchronization of the MILF and MNLF agreements into one agreement."
Cerveza said Iqbal had refused OIC synchronization efforts because the former claimed that the two agreements "will never meet". Cerveza also alleged that the Philippine government was pressuring the OIC to recognize the CAB.
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India is expanding a covert uranium enrichment plant that could potentially support the development of thermonuclear weapons, a defence research group said on Friday, raising the stakes in an arms race with China and Pakistan. New units at the Indian Rare Metals Plant would increase India's ability to produce weapons-grade uranium beyond what is needed for its planned nuclear-powered submarine fleet, IHS Janes said.
The facility, located near Mysore in southern India, could be operational by mid-2015.
"Taking into account all the enriched uranium likely to be needed by the Indian nuclear submarine fleet, there is likely to be a significant excess," Matthew Clements, editor of IHS Jane's Intelligence Review, told Reuters. "One potential use of this would be for the development of thermonuclear weapons."
No comment was immediately available from the Indian government press office or the foreign ministry.
India, which is not a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, tested its first nuclear weapon in 1974, leading to the imposition of international sanctions that barred it from importing nuclear technology and materials. It conducted tests again in 1998 that were followed by a similar set of tests by Pakistan.
A civil nuclear cooperation deal with the United States, sealed in 2008, gave India access to know-how and fuel in return for a pledge - so far unfulfilled - to bring in U.S. firms to build nuclear power stations.
Based on analysis of commercial satellite images, IHS Janes has identified what appears to be a new uranium hexafluoride plant that would increase the uranium enrichment capacity of the Mysore facility.
Its capacity to produce uranium enriched to 90 per cent purity, or weapons grade, would be roughly double the needs of India's nuclear submarine fleet that is being developed to complement its land-based arsenal. The facility would produce a surplus of around 160 kilos a year of weapons-grade uranium, IHS Janes reckons.
"We aren't suggesting that this action alone will create an immediate standoff, but it's going to create a further level of complexity in an already difficult situation," said Clements of the regional security implications.
IHS's findings have been corroborated by other analysts, with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute writing in a report this week that the Mysore facility could signify India's intent to move towards thermonuclear weapons.
The enriched uranium produced from the facility could be blended with India's existing stock of plutonium to expand an existing arsenal that is estimated to hold 90-110 nuclear weapons, SIPRI said.
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There is nothing covert about the RMP in Mysore. It has been producing Uranium for decades. It's status as a nuclear weapons facility is well known.
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And the current fleet is just the start. India isn't stopping with the Arihant and her two sisters. Uranium for the next generation of vessels will be needed.
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[Tolo News] A clash between the bodyguards of Juma Khan Hamdard, the governor of Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... , and police in Balkh province, claimed the lives of four of Hamdard's bodyguards and two coppers on Friday. Another two bodyguards were maimed.
The clash is said to have occurred at a police check-point when Hamdard's bodyguards refused to allow the police to search their vehicles. Reports indicate that the fire exchange lasted for over an hour, but the reason behind the attack is not yet entirely clear.
Hamdard's front man, Rohullah Samoon, denies the clash occured with Afghan National Police and said that gunnies dressed as coppers attacked Hamdard's vehicles.
"Today when we were returning from Mazar-e-Sharif to Kabul, a number of people dressed as coppers attacked our vehicles," Samoon said.
On the other hand, Ahmad, an eye witness, said that Hamdard's people came out of their vehicle and "assaulted the police, which resulted in the clash."
Balkh Police Chief, Abdul Rahmand Rahimi, confirmed the clash but refrained from giving details.
"The case is under investigation," he said. "Four of Mr. Hamdard's bodyguards have been killed and two others are maimed."
Juma Khan Hamdard, the governor of Pakitka province, is a prominent member of presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani-Ahmadzai's campaign team.
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Seems to be a prima facie case of conspiring to violate the laws of the United States.
Last time I checked, parents who abandon their children are usually charged with child abuse and/or endangerment. Those are state and local laws, not subject to federal pardons.
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Strictly a faux crisis created by this administration to leverage amnesty for illegals. We basically have a run-away criminal conspiracy in DC. One begins to lose track of all the high crimes and misdemeanors that have been committed by our Constitutional lawyer-in chief and his minions.
Some of the fallout from the shooting of two police officers in Las Vegas included a bulletin released by the New York State Intelligence Center, which warned about "far right violence" and the need to prepare for such an eventuality. This was published only days after the Las Vegas murder, and during the time in which several major news outlets said the same thing: that the Las Vegas shooting was symptomatic of the violence perpetrated by "liberty groups". Cited amongst those groups were Threepers, Patriots and militia members, those who went to Bundyville in Nevada last spring. The nexus was established because the mug of Jerad Miller appeared on television talking, out of turn as it turned out, about the Bundy Ranch incident.
Were Jerad and his lovely bride, Amanda sent to Bundyville at the behest of the Las Vegas police department, or was he sent there by a federal operative? Vanderbough, who was there at the time to give a speech, immediately and accurately pegged Miller as trouble, prevailing on the Bundy Ranch leadership to send Miller packing.
If Miller was a police informant, why was he packing to begin with? Does being a police informant, one of the requisites of which is likely a pending felony conviction, confer a special status in Las Vegas to enjoy the blessings of liberty that the average citizen must jump through hoops to have?
Now that I am writing this column, I read a lot of news reports and official documents concerning guns. It seems the focus of the federal police agencies is on "straw purchases". Straw purchases are gun purchases made by a person who can pass a background check for one who cannot. Up until last week it wasn't even codified in USC 18. But after the Supreme Court ruled it was a crime inasmuch as it was an unwritten law, an individual can now be convicted for that crime.
Think about that for a minute: as federal law is currently implemented, if a federal law enforcement agency says you committed a crime inasmuch as it is not actually codified as a crime, the courts now have the legal right to send you to prison.
So, what to do? If you insist on buying through the federal transfer system, and doing the dog and pony show to show you are a good serf, use cash, always. Everyone else: don't use the federal transfer system, build your own and always, always use cash.
Speaking of using cash, but using the federal firearms transfer system, last week a Florida man, Martin Winters, was goaded into committing a straw purchase by an unnamed federal informant, presumably a felon, just like the cop killing Millers. Chief among his crimes was building a "destructive device", which it turns out was shotgun shells with fishhooks as shrapnel, to be prosecuted under the 1930 National Firearms Act, one of the new laws that old the government will enforce.
The federal search warrant affidavit, which can be read here, details the numerous times (three to be exact) Winters and two others had acquired weapons through the federal firearms transfer system. One of the other suspects named in the affidavit was previously convicted of robbery and the other of burglary. Winters turned himself in Wednesday and was denied bond.
Prices for pistol and rifle ammunition prices were mostly lower.
Prices for used rifles were mixed. Prices for used pistol were lower across the board.
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Straw purchases are gun purchases made by a person who can pass a background check for one who cannot.
It is worse than that. The case, known as Abramski v. United States, centered on a former police officer who sought to buy a Glock 19 handgun for his uncle. Though both men were allowed to own guns.
A suicide bomber killed one person and wounded 37 in an attack at a security checkpoint in Lebanon on Friday that narrowly missed a top security official who said he had been told militants wanted to assassinate him.
The explosion occurred in the country's Bekaa Valley near the Syrian border, an area where Lebanese militants opposed to Syrian President Bashar Al Assad have been targeting his key Lebanese ally, the Hezbollah movement.
The security official, Major General Abbas Ibrahim, said he passed through the checkpoint on the main highway between Beirut and Damascus minutes before the bomber blew himself up, just 200 metres away from his convoy.
"We miraculously escaped," Ibrahim said, adding that many officials in Lebanon were being targeted by the reactivation of "terrorist sleeper cells".
"But the security services are ready and on alert to stop them and we won't become another Iraq," he said.
Ibrahim, who heads Lebanon's Directorate of General Security (DGS), said security officials had information that militants were aiming to assassinate him.
"We were suspicious of the (bomber's) car when we were on our way and when the car stopped at the Dahr Al Baydar checkpoint, the explosion went off," he said.
The dead man was a police officer at the checkpoint. The wounded were mainly police, as well as civilians, in the area.
On Friday security forces closed a number of roads in Beirut and Tripoli in anticipation of a security risk.
"Since this morning we have had strict security measures in Beirut and all areas because we had particular information," the head of Lebanon's internal security forces, Major General Ibrahim Basbous, said on Lebanese television.
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[NY Times] Israeli troops killed a Paleostinian youth before dawn Friday and seriously maimed several adults as their sweeping West Bank arrest campaign following last week's disappearance of three Israeli teenagers both slowed and encountered more resistance.
About 25 Paleostinians were rounded up overnight, the Israeli military said in a statement, less than half the typical daily number earlier this week. The arrests bring the total detained since Saturday to 330, 240 of them leaders of the krazed killer Islamic movement Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,. Troops confiscated material from nine Hamas-affiliated institutions, according to the military, among a total of 1,150 locations scoured in the past week.
Israel isn't playing around anymore, guys. Once again, y'all missed the opportunity. #nobody cares.
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Maybe if he weren't protesting with stones or molotov cocktails?
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.
[WaTimes]The administrators at the Veterans Administration have apparently been busy while old soldiers waited to see a doctor, after all. Serving those who served is not necessarily a priority, but saving the planet is Job 1. Solar panels and windmills can be more important than the touch of a healing hand.
[NAIJAFEED] The extradition process of Aminu Ogwuche, the suspected 
Kenya’s Interior Ministry says security forces have shot and killed five people suspected of killing 60 residents in two nighttime attacks on a coastal town this week.
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Australia has formally listed Nigerian
Wazoo
Nouri al-Maliki
[WaPo]The recently-released National Climate Assessment (NCA) from the U.S. government offers considerable cause for concern for climate calamity, but downplays the decelerating trend in global surface temperature in the 2000s, which I document here.
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
[Times of India] ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's leading Geo TV network on Tuesday apologized to the country's armed forces for accusing ISI of being involved in an attack on journalist Hamid Mir in Karachi last month. 
[News India Times]Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai said on Friday that he was in favour of the United Nations intervening in the presidential election after one of the candidates dropped out of the process over allegations of mass fraud.
By Chris Covert
